The Urban Legends of Monsters Chapter 3: A Bride in the Water

I don’t know what happened. After three consecutive years of floods made the people’s livelihood difficult, this year’s flood just receded, and the people just had some hope in their hearts because the water receded earlier this year, and began to rectify their livelihoods and replant crops. Another rare drought began. The fiery sun hung in the sky without even a trace of clouds, emitting heat to the earth, as if it would never stop until the last part of the water vapor was squeezed out. The waterlogged land that used to accumulate water for many years has now dried up and has deep cracks. Even the river that has been flooding every year is now only a thin stream of water, flowing lazily.

At noon, no one could be seen on the road with “green smoke” as soon as I walked on it, except for a small tea stall under an old tree, and a middle-aged man sitting behind the tea stall The scholar was holding a book and reading it with relish, until the Taoist priest walked up to him and bowed before he realized that someone was coming. “Sit down, Taoist priest, drink a glass of water, it’s really hot today.” The middle-aged scholar hurriedly greeted the Taoist priest to sit down and poured him a full cup of strong tea.

The Taoist priest was a small black dwarf with a southern accent. He grabbed the tea and drank it and said, “This day is really hot, sir, you saved my anxiety. “

“Drink and drink again.” The middle-aged scholar poured tea for him again, and asked, “Is the Taoist priest coming from a distance? He sounds like a southerner?”

“My hometown is in Zhejiang, and I’ve lived in the north for decades, but I can’t change my accent.” The Taoist wiped the sweat on his sleeve and took a sip of tea.

The middle-aged scholar saw that he was only in his early twenties, and when he heard his words, he seemed to have left his hometown since he was a child and said, “As the saying goes, the local accent is hard to change. Haven’t asked for Taoism yet?”

“My name is Bai Shui, and I don’t have a Taoist title after I became a monk, so you can call me Bai Taoist.” Seeing the middle-aged scholar smiling, he said with a smile, “I was born black tomorrow, but my surname is Bai. It makes me laugh every time I say it. It’s just that the skin color is given by my parents, and the surname is given by the master, so I really can’t do it at all.”

During the casual chat between the two, Taoist Bai drank an amazing amount. He had already drank half a bucket of boiled water, and the tea pot had long since lost its taste. A whistling sound came, which caught the eyes of the two of them.

In the crowd of a group of drummers, a big red sedan chair swayed along the path. The lively joy attracted many urchins and idlers to watch, but this gorgeous and festive wedding team lacked one of the most important protagonists. One – the groom, replaced by some squires and housekeepers who were walking behind the team, and the role of the matchmaker was also replaced by a goddess dressed as a demon.

Daoist Bai suddenly stood up and said excitedly, “Isn’t this supposed to be, shouldn’t it be…”

The middle-aged scholar shook his head and sighed: “What a sin! In the past year, when there was a flood, it was said that he wanted to send the bride to ask the river **** to calm down the anger and stop the flooding. This year, when there was a drought, he said that he would ask the river **** to calm down the anger and rain – the sky won’t let it. It’s enough for people to live, but people don’t let people live for such a thing! I don’t know who will suffer again this year!”

Taoist Bai walked forward quickly, but accidentally brought down the middle-aged scholar’s tea stall. He apologized repeatedly and said, “I will clean up, I will pay, and I will come back to clean up…” He strode forward The middle-aged scholar was about to stop him and say something, but he was nowhere to be seen when he looked up.

The middle-aged scholar thought that he was also going to join in the fun, and while shaking his head and sighing, he slowly cleaned up the tea stall. After a while, the group of sending relatives and the people watching the fun all turned back in groups in groups, but there was no figure of Taoist Bai. The middle-aged scholar listened to the people who stopped at the tea stall and sipped water as they passed by, saying: “This is This is the first time I’ve done this, and it doesn’t work for me…”

“Don’t be stupid. If this kind of thing worked, we wouldn’t have flooded here every year. I really don’t know what’s going on with those gentlemen’s brains, and they’re doing this kind of thing again this year.”

“What, you don’t even know! It’s not because the girl named Yao Er, who was sent to Chang Jun, was taken in by Mrs. Xu and wanted to ask him to be the seventh room. Think about it, seventy What is the age difference between Yi and Sixteen? She is also the daughter of a serious family. His mother worked so hard to be a widow and raised her up, but of course she didn’t want to. She would offend Mrs. Xu for some reason. to…”

“Pity her old lady, she’s almost fifty, that young widow is such a sweetheart, she jumped off the sedan chair as soon as she got into the water…”

“Oh, that’s fine, the two of you also have someone to take care of you when they walk together…”

“Poor, such a handsome girl…”

“…”

The middle-aged scholar who sent these people away was still shaking his head and sighing, but when he looked up, he saw that Taoist Bai had returned. There were still water stains, as if it had just climbed up from the river. He saw that the middle-aged scholar had already cleaned up the stall by himself, and then looked at the pile of broken cups and teapots on the ground, his face flushed and said: “I’m sorry, I was in a hurry just now… I lost money, even tea The money will be paid together.” He said this, but the hand that reached out to his arms stopped moving, didn’t take it out for a long time, and said embarrassingly: “I forgot, I gave all the money to their mother and daughter just now. …I have no money on me…Sir, my master and junior brother will be here in a while, can you wait until they come…”

The middle-aged scholar laughed: “I set up this tea stall to listen to stories, not to make money. The Taoist priest must have seen and heard something extraordinary when he traveled south and north. I wonder if you can listen to it?”

“Telling stories? I, I’m the most clumsy of mouths. I really can’t. Otherwise, my junior brother will come and let him tell. He is very knowledgeable in reading.” Bai Daoshi looked even more anxious.

“Don’t worry, Taoist priest, I just like listening to stories, so I set up a tea stall here to exchange stories. It was originally for entertainment. It doesn’t matter if you want to tell it or not. Come, have another cup of tea and wait for you slowly. Master and junior brother.”

Bai Daoist sat down apologetically and drank a few more cups of tea. In fact, his demand for water is not as much as before, but under such a scorching sun, he always feels that if he doesn’t drink water all the time, he will be dried in the sun. Thinking that I drank so much water and broke their teapots and bowls, but I couldn’t give them any compensation, I felt more and more guilty, and after thinking for a long time, I said, “Sir, I will tell you a story, but Don’t laugh if you say it badly.”

“Okay, I will listen carefully.” The middle-aged scholar said, pouring tea for him.

While thinking about where to start, Taoist Bai said slowly: “There used to be a river, and there lived a loach monster…”

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Today’s sunshine is really good, even lying on the bottom can feel the warmth, it must be a good weather on the shore, right? The loach rolls in the mud at the bottom of the water and thinks: What should I do today in such a good weather? The warm water temperature makes the body very comfortable and lazy. I ate a lot of small fish yesterday and I still have a full stomach, so I don’t need to go for food anymore, but the weather is so good, I really should move. Have I become more and more lazy recently? Now… While thinking about it, I still yawned involuntarily and closed my eyes.

This loach originally lived in a semi-dry pond. The loach was raised in silt. It was an ordinary little loach. One day, a celestial fox came to the pond to clean the blood-stained inner alchemy after saving people with his inner alchemy. Fortunately, at this moment, the little loach was chased by the big fish and ran away. , collided with one end, and Tianhu’s inner alchemy just got stuck in its mouth, swallowed and couldn’t swallow it, spit and couldn’t spit it out, there was an angry Tianhu in front, and a hungry big fish in the back, poor The little loach jumped hard, hoping to escape, but it jumped to the shore, and after a few jumps, it couldn’t move. When Tianhu saw his inner alchemy entered its mouth, he was furious at first, but he couldn’t help laughing when he saw it was so embarrassed.

Tianhu retrieved his inner alchemy, but he kindly kept some mana in the loach’s body. After swallowing this little loach, he became a low-level little demon. Tianhu felt that he was also related to him, so he took the loach monster back to the cave, gave him a name, and accepted him as his apprentice.

From a loach that only rolls in the mud at night to a monster, and was accepted as a disciple by Tianhu, who already has the power of an earth immortal, everyone thinks that this loach is not ordinary luck, and the loach himself thinks so too. , In front of the other little monsters living around the master’s cave, he was quite proud, but after half a year under the master’s door, the loach didn’t think so.

Looking at other monsters, and then looking at myself, I realize that my life is really hard: other monsters are still sleeping in, so I have to get up and go to the cold spring on the top of the mountain to make tea for my master; As soon as I woke up, I had already started to meditate and practice on the top of the mountain; at three poles in the sun, other monsters were wandering and playing in the woods, but I was nibbling on books and copying in the cave (if the writing was irregular, I would be punished by a ruler); I would practice martial arts in the afternoon and at night. You have to recite the scriptures, and after the moon comes out, you have to meditate until late at night. In addition, sweeping, washing, growing vegetables and wine, delivering letters, running errands, serving tea and pouring water… There are many kinds of chores, too many to count. There are also those strange rules. When the master is sitting, he can only stand. When the master walks, he must walk behind the master. He can’t put his feet on the stool, can’t grab food with his hands, can’t roll on the mud, and can’t put the quilt on the ground. After soaking in muddy water, use it, etc… Every day, the loach dragged its tired body to the limit and climbed up to the chuang, and then was beaten up by the master while half asleep, and started a new day of life. Then the cycle…and Tianhu is a very strict teacher. If he can’t complete his homework within the specified time or violates his rules, he will be scolded, punished by kneeling, banned from ruler, and punished by copying books. The loach complains incessantly – it is better to live in a mud pond and be chased by big fish every day.

He didn’t want to be a monster by himself, and he didn’t have any lofty ideals to become a fairy, and he was lazy and unwilling to endure hardships. Not long after cultivating with Tianhu, he lost the joy and pride in his heart, and his biggest wish became that as long as he can leave this ghost place one day, it doesn’t matter if he leaves this ghost life and turns back into a loach.

Finally one day, while Tianhu was out to visit friends, Loach gathered up the courage to pack a small bag and run away.

He didn’t dare to go back to his hometown after such an escape (according to the rules of his master’s sect, the crime of absconding against his master was to be beaten back to his original state, and he would be pressed into the mountain for 100 years), and if he wandered in the world, he was afraid of someday. He was bumped into by the master, and he didn’t have any skills to make a living to survive among humans. After thinking about it, he found a remote river and lived in it. Every day, he fished and caught shrimp, slept in the mud, and ate on the beach. Putting all the practice methods and human language behind me, I lived the life of a loach in the past.

Before I knew it, ten years had passed.

In the first few years, the loach was still afraid of being found by the master every day, so he lurked in the bottom of the water and did not dare to come out. Floating to the surface, bubbling, and even daring to go to the human village on the shore to steal a chicken, touch a sheep, and beat a tooth. It’s just that he is timid and lazy by nature, so he doesn’t dare to do more damage to humans. Of course, the nearby humans don’t know that such a monster still lives in this river.

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“Hooah…”

Loach yawned again and stretched.

The weather this year is still very dry, and the river water has decreased a lot compared to the previous two years. The sun is strong and the water volume is low, and the bottom of the water is extra warm. It is really comfortable. The loach is looking forward to the whole river becoming muddy On the day of the pool, it must be very comfortable to be able to roll in so much mud…

After thinking about it for a long time, Loach finally decided on today’s schedule-sleep. And started to execute it immediately, found a piece of silt that was thick and moderate enough to bask in the sun, and burrowed into it and fell asleep. How comfortable and leisurely it is, even if you achieve a positive result, you may not be able to live such a comfortable life. He thought about it in a daze before falling asleep. Cultivation, life on the shore, human language… all are so far away…

A roar of gongs and drums woke up the loach, which was half-dreaming and half-awake. The noise was far and near, and it gradually approached the river bank.

“Why are humans always so noisy!” The loach grumbled and got up, rubbing his eyes and looking at the water.

A group of colorfully dressed human beings stood on the bank beating gongs and drums. An old witch-like woman danced and sang on the bank. At the same time, some people lit incense and burned paper and threw them into the river. After a while, several people threw a red sedan chair into the river with a burst of crying.

The loach hurriedly ducked to the side.

It’s not the first time he’s seen this kind of thing. Last year, the year before, the year before… Anyway, it happens every year in the past few years when the weather is dry. Humans gathered on the shore, and there was a commotion, and then a sedan chair was thrown into the river. When I saw it for the first time, Loach was inexperienced and looked up to watch the excitement, but it happened to be hit on the head by the sedan chair, and the big bag it picked up didn’t go down for several days. This time, while cursing the humans who had nothing to do, he lazily dragged his body away in advance.

The fiery red car curtain swayed in the water, stirring the water waves and light spots. Even the loach had to admit that it was a really beautiful sight.

A human fell out of the sedan chair, waving helplessly in the water with his hands open. The fiery red dress of the same color as the sedan chair is embroidered with beautiful patterns with golden silk threads. The fiery red hood is surrounded by various colored beads, which change into magnificent colors in the sunlight that penetrates through the water. As the human struggles, it looks like a dance in the water.

Loach looked fascinated. Although he was stupid, he still knew how to appreciate beautiful things. However, he knew that such a beautiful sight would not last long. Based on past experience, he knew that after the human being fell to the bottom of the water, he would not move very quickly, and would drown quietly. The current would wash away the hood, revealing a The pale twisted ugly and scary face, the expression in the unclosed eyes on that face is what Loach hates the most. Then the beautiful red dress will be washed and soaked by the water, lose its color and rot, and finally there is only a white bone that has been eaten by time and the fish and shrimp in the water. This is what happened to those who were thrown down with the sedan chair in the past. Loach thinks that this human being should be no exception.

“Alas, human beings are so capable, why would they drown…”

Loach sighed, ready to go back to sleep.

The woman in the water struggled in vain.

She has parents who dote on her, and her fiancé who is looking forward to marrying her. She is only sixteen years old, and she has a great time to pass. She is unwilling to die in the water like this and become a river **** to marry. the bride, she wants to go home, she wants to go home…why no one came to save me…help…

When the woman exhaled her last breath, she dimly saw a figure swimming by her side.

It’s Big Brother Qin, Big Brother Qin is here to save me! I knew he was coming…

The woman thought so gratified and stretched out her hand to the figure.

“Huh?”

The loach suddenly found himself unable to swim. He shook his body and found that his tail was firmly held in the hands of the human. “Let go, let go, what are you doing!” He unhappily pulled his tail with his hand and tug-of-war with the human.

The woman had fainted, and was still holding the “life-saving straw” tightly in her hand.

The loach was pulled several times, but the tail still remained motionless. He knew that when humans were about to drown, they would hold on to whatever they touched, but he didn’t expect his tail to become such a thing.

“If you want to die, just die, why grab my tail! Let me go! Let me go! Let me go, let me go…” The loach was not very big at first, but after becoming a human, it was even thinner. After being firmly grasped by the woman who was struggling violently, he swiped a few times but did not break free. Seeing that he was being led by the woman to sink to the bottom of the river, he couldn’t help but become anxious, and he struggled to swing his body to push the woman away.

Once a drowning person grabs an object, not only will they have great strength, but they will never let go after grabbing the object. When an experienced person rescues a drowning person, they will start from the back of the drowning person, in order to be afraid of being caught by the other party. Get to the bottom of the water together. Of course, a loach who has never been in contact with humans would never know this. He just struggled blindly. The more he struggled, the tighter he grasped the woman. She was also dragged down.

Loach really has no strength to struggle anymore. After thinking about the fate of those humans who fell into the water before, he didn’t bother to flutter anymore. He honestly lay down under the water and waited for this person to die before letting go of himself. He waited for a while, then turned his head to see if the human was dead. At first glance, he couldn’t help but let out a scream. He used both hands and feet to move forward desperately – the woman’s wide-open eyes full of resentment, pale and twisted. His face was right in front of the loach, that look really frightened him enough, he suddenly forgot to walk away tiredly, but he also led the woman who was still holding his tail at the same time, no matter how far it swam, as long as one Turning back, the woman’s face was still floating in front of her eyes. The loach scurried in the river like a headless fly, and finally hit a rock on the shore. Covering his forehead, he used his last strength to climb to the shore with both hands and feet, and he fell on the mudflat and didn’t want to move.

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I don’t know how long it took, the loach woke up in a daze, and felt that the surroundings were dry and empty, and there was something warm on his forehead. He twisted and looked around, not knowing where he was for a moment. After thinking for a while, he remembered that he had run to the shore and was too tired to swim, so he wanted to rest on the first shore, but he fell asleep in the mudflat unknowingly. So are you on the shore now? Since escaping from the master, he has never been on the shore for so long. Loach thought and looked around.

“This… this eldest brother, you are awake.” A timid voice came from beside him.

As soon as the loach raised his head, he let out a strange cry. He was all too familiar with the face in front of him. It was the loach that made him swim halfway across the river.

“Is this eldest brother better?” the woman asked cautiously. When the icy river water kept pouring into her nose, she had lost all her thoughts, thinking that she would die at the bottom of the river and become food for fish and shrimp, but when she woke up, she found that she was still alive on the shore. She saw a man lying still in the mud beside her, and she was still holding the corner of his clothes firmly, and she knew in her heart that it was this man who saved her. The benefactor had been lying there motionless, if it wasn’t for the breath in his nose, the woman would have thought he was dead. It was all for the sake of saving her benefactor. The woman was both grateful and worried. She stayed beside the loach all the time. She finally sighed in relief when he woke up, tears streaming down her face.

Loach calmed down and took a closer look. This woman is not as scary as she is in the water now. How many words does he still remember? It seems that his brain is not stupid. I can’t help but feel a little proud when I think of this place.) “What are you doing here…” After staring at the woman for a while, the loach finally spoke first. He wondered what the human woman wanted to do.

“Thank you for saving me, eldest brother,” the woman said in a low voice.

“I saved you… I…” The loach looked at himself, and after thinking for a long time, he realized that he brought this human with him when he swam ashore, and she was not dead at that time. After the land struggled to come back to life. The survivability of human beings is really amazing. If he was brought to the shore for such a long time when he was still an ordinary loach, he must have become a dried fish. Loach could not help but sigh.

“This big brother, is your body okay? You were in a coma for so long just now, but it really scared me.” The woman still said softly.

Loach blushed. He understood that when the woman said she was in a coma, she meant that he had just slept late. He must have slept too deeply, and the woman was too embarrassed to check her body, so she took it for granted that she was in a coma. . Speaking of which, sleeping on the shore is really hard work. I’ve made my body dry and my limbs weak. I’d better go back to the water and take a nap to recuperate. Thinking like this, the loach got up and left.

“Where are you going, eldest brother?” the woman asked anxiously.

“I’m going home, you should go home too.”

“This big brother…” The woman wanted to say more, but the loach already felt very sleepy and tired, so she quickened her pace. The woman stood up in a hurry, but fell on the beach with a groan.

When the loach heard the movement, he looked back and touched his head strangely: Why did he die when he came to shore?

Loach curiously came back to look at the woman, and found that she was still breathing. After squatting beside her for a while, she didn’t know what to do, so she decided to go to sleep again. He walked into the river, thought about it, and walked back. He simply dragged the woman to the river, thinking that if he took her back to his home, he would drown, and then he turned back to the shore.

What should I do? Loach desperately turned the brain that he never used to think hard.

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“Brother Bai, let’s come down to eat.” Yin Yin shouted from the bottom of the house. The loach touched the sweat and breathed a sigh of relief. She finally remembered and told herself to go down, thinking that she would do this until it was dark. Throwing the straw in his hand, he slid down the half-collapsed thatched roof along the small tree next to him.

At that time, the loach woke the woman up and urged her to go home by herself, but she cried bitterly. She said that she was chosen by the town to be the bride of the river god. If she went home like this, not only would the people in the town and village not spare herself and her family, but they were still waiting for their fate to be thrown away. into the river. Loach asked her what to do, but she knelt down and kowtowed, insisting on Loach to save people to the end. The loach had never been treated with such high etiquette, and with a feverish mind, she took her to the mountains before the inhabitants of the shore found her alive.

This is a small thatched hut in the deep mountains. It was originally a place for hunters to rest occasionally. Now Loach and the human woman named Yin Yin have lived here for three days. The dust and cobwebs in the hut had been cleaned up, and Yinyin was worried that the roof of the hut would dew in rainy days, so Loach had to find some thatch to repair according to her words. He was a lazy guy by nature, this kind of work really cost him his life, and his whole body was aching.

“Brother Bai, wipe off your sweat and drink the hot soup first. This is my stewed mushroom. Would you like to taste it first?”

It’s because she always speaks so softly that Loach really can’t say that she doesn’t want to run away with her or do such physical work. He sighed and took a sip from the wooden scoop that served as a rice bowl: Anyway, this human’s craftsmanship is really good.

“Delicious! Another bowl!”

Yin Yin was still worried that he didn’t like the simple meals that lacked oil and salt, but she smiled when she saw that he liked to eat, and filled him a bowl full of them.

Although this man surnamed Bai is a little slow and eccentric, he seems to be a good man. He saved himself, knowing that he was the bride chosen by the town to be dedicated to the river god, and without hesitation, he took himself to hide in the deep mountains (original Yin Yin was a little worried that he would take herself to the town) . He helped himself find a place to live, went to the mountains to find food, tidy up the house, and drove away insects and ants… Although he didn’t speak much, he tried his best to satisfy Yin Yin’s demands. Looking at his busy figure, Yin Yin would think of Big Brother Qin from time to time. If he was here, would he be obedient to her? Of course it will! Yin Yin thought sweetly, wondering if Brother Qin would be sad when he found out what happened to him? What is he thinking now? I have taken my life now, but what will I do in the future? When can I go back to my parents? When will I see Brother Qin again?

Thinking about it, tears could not help falling.

“Is there any more? Let’s have another bowl.” Although the loach has never been fond of activities, his appetite is not small. In addition, he has been working these days to eat more.

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This is a small thatched hut in the deep mountains. It was originally a place for hunters to rest occasionally. Now Loach and the human woman named Yin Yin have lived here for three days. The dust and cobwebs in the hut had been cleaned up, and Yinyin was worried that the roof of the hut would dew in rainy days, so Loach had to find some thatch to repair according to her words. He was a lazy guy by nature, this kind of work really cost him his life, and his whole body was aching.

“Brother Bai, wipe off your sweat and drink the hot soup first. This is my stewed mushroom. Would you like to taste it first?”

It’s because she always speaks so softly that Loach really can’t say that she doesn’t want to run away with her or do such physical work. He sighed and took a sip from the wooden scoop that served as a rice bowl: Anyway, this human’s craftsmanship is really good.

“Delicious! Another bowl!”

Yin Yin was still worried that he didn’t like the simple meals that lacked oil and salt, but she smiled when she saw that he liked to eat, and filled him a bowl full of them.

Although this man surnamed Bai is a little slow and eccentric, he seems to be a good person. He saved himself, knowing that he was the bride chosen by the town to be dedicated to the river god, and without hesitation, he took himself to hide in the deep mountains (original Yin Yin was a little worried that he would take herself to the town) . He helped himself find a place to live, went to the mountains to find food, tidy up the house, and drove away insects and ants… Although he didn’t speak much, he tried his best to satisfy Yin Yin’s demands. Looking at his busy figure, Yin Yin would think of Big Brother Qin from time to time. If he was here, would he be obedient to her? Of course it will! Yin Yin thought sweetly. Then I thought that I didn’t know if Brother Qin would be sad when he found out about what happened to him? What is he thinking now? I have taken my life now, but what will I do in the future? When can I go back to my parents? When will I see Brother Qin again?

Thinking about it, tears could not help falling.

“Is there any more? Let’s have another bowl.” Although the loach has never been fond of activities, his appetite is not small. In addition, he has been working these days to eat more. Besides, being instigated by this human woman, I must eat a few more bowls of rice to make up for it.

Yin Yin was busy filling him up again. But before she could pick up the bowl and take a few bites, the loach said vaguely with something in her mouth: “Is there any more? Another bowl.”

Yin Yin gave him three meals in total, and finally gave him the half-bowl meal she had eaten. She wiped her mouth after eating all the loach, looked at the empty pot and sighed regretfully. Putting down the rice bowl means not eating. Yin Yin smiled wryly, she had long known that Big Brother Bai could eat, so she deliberately cooked more, but no matter how much he cooked, he would have eaten it all and said that he was not full. To increase the amount of rice to cook, I have doubled it to make two large pots today, and the result is still the same. The food stored at home has almost been eaten, it seems that I have to ask Big Brother Bai to buy some more outside the mountain. She was about to say the request, but there were bursts of snoring in her ears. After a closer look, the loach had fallen asleep in the chair.

Yin Yin was stunned for a long time before she thought of bringing a blanket to cover him, looked at him and shook her head and sighed. Yin Yin’s hometown is a poor place, everyone around her is working diligently to make a living. It is the first time Yin Yin sees a person like Loach: How can there be people in the world who do nothing but eat or sleep every day? Don’t want to do it? Is this how rich people live? But Big Brother Bai may be a rich man. He even buys things with silver, and he has never seen him use copper coins.

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When the loach walked to the hillside that Yinyin could not see, he walked under a tree and lay down and started to be lazy: he had to go down the mountain to buy food, turn mana into silver, deal with humans and carry dead food to the mountain Come on, I’m tired of thinking about these things. By the way, there is one more thing, the woman wants to drop by her hometown to see if her parents and the next-door brother Qin are living well, and whether they miss her. Alas, isn’t this still a long way to go? Why doesn’t her family live in the river? Swimming is easier than walking.

The more the loach thought about it, the less willing he was to move. He curled up under the tree and slowly fell asleep while complaining to the woman.

When he woke up, he realized that he had slept for a whole day, the sun had already set, the forest was dark, the wind and the howls of animals echoed in the shadows of the trees, and even the monster, the loach, couldn’t help it. tight. Anyway, I have delayed the sale of food today. I will wait until tomorrow to buy it. He doesn’t want to go down the mountain in the dark like this. If he encounters a tiger or a wolf or something, he will not be eaten, but he will be shocked. what. So decided in my heart, I immediately looked back and walked to the mountain hut, thinking as I walked, wondering if there was any leftovers for myself to eat.

The loach is not very familiar with life on land. Although his eyesight is much better than that of humans, the dark woods are still extremely difficult for him to walk. He does not know that he has fallen under the care of vines and tree stumps. After many some somersaults, he was accustomed to the open river, and he was confused by the trees that looked similar at night, and he didn’t know where he was. When a ray of light came from a distance in the bushes, the loach rushed over there without hesitation.

“Big Brother Bai…”

“Brother Bai, you are really back! Are you alright?”

Yin Yin, who was standing in front of the hut holding up the oil lamp in her hand, saw clearly that the figure walking was indeed a loach, and cried out with a cry.

“I’m fine.” Loach rubbed the arm that hurt just now and answered weakly.

“I waited and waited and I didn’t see you coming back. I thought something had happened to you. The wild wolves in the mountains were howling all the time. I thought maybe something happened to you, but I didn’t dare to go out… Fortunately, you came back. Well, otherwise I…” He covered his mouth and cried.

“I’m fine.”

“Oh, Brother Bai, why is your hand bleeding!” Yin Yin exclaimed after seeing the loach’s appearance carefully.

Loach looked down at his hand in puzzlement, then opened his eyes and mouth wide, and fell straight down in such a posture-there was indeed a small wound on the back of his hand, which was going outward. Drenched with blood.

“Big Brother Bai! Big Brother Bai!” Yin Yin screamed loudly in panic, the oil lamp in her hand fell to the ground, and it was pitch black all around.

The days are still the same as before. The loach does chores every day, goes down the mountain to buy things, cooks and does laundry, cleans up, and lives peacefully. Seeing that winter is coming, the loach goes down the mountain and buys a lot of cotton cloth. Waiting with great anticipation for Yinyin to make the cotton-padded coat (the temperature at the bottom of the water is warmer than that on the shore, it is already unbearable cold before the loach reaches the deep winter), but Yinyin suddenly stopped the needle and thread in her hand and asked in a low voice, “Brother Bai , are we going to live in this deep mountain forever?”

“Huh?” Loach was stunned for a moment. He is a person who takes things with him. Although at the beginning he thought about going back to the river to have a comfortable life, but now he is used to the life of someone serving food and clothing every day, and thinking of breaking up with Yin Yin is really a little flustered.

“This house is fine to live in in summer, but if it snows, it may be crushed. Let’s go down the mountain and find another place to live, shall we?”

“Go down the mountain to live? Didn’t you always want others to know that you were still alive?” Loach wondered why she suddenly changed her mind.

“This…” Yin Yin lowered her head and fiddled with her belt, “The world is so big, it’s impossible for the gentlemen in the town to be able to manage everything, we just need to go a little further. Brother Bai, where is your hometown? Why haven’t I heard you mention it? Don’t you miss your family after going out for so long?”

“My home?” Loach smiled bitterly: “Where did I come from!”

“Then you don’t have…”

“Nothing? You speak louder, I can’t hear you clearly.”

“Have you…” Yin Yin’s voice turned into a whisper when she reached the back.

“What’s wrong with your throat? Can’t speak?” Loach asked with concern.

Yin Yin stomped her feet angrily: He really couldn’t hear what he meant and wanted to ask him if he had a family!

Yin Yin has been thinking a lot these days. She doesn’t want to go back home. She can’t imagine how she will face Brother Qin, who has become her brother-in-law, and her younger sister, who is married to her fiance. When Qianqian married Brother Qin, it means that they never imagined that they would go back alive, so they don’t have to go back anymore. Yin Yin started to think about her future again. A single woman with no relatives and no friends and no skills to survive, where can she go? What can I do? Do you want to live in the mountains for the rest of your life? Even if he wants to do this, Big Brother Bai can’t always be with him like this. He always has to leave and always return to his original life. What will he do then? If you live alone in the mountains, you will become a snack for tigers and wolves if you don’t starve to death. Thinking of these Yin Yin, she felt even more flustered. Although Loach was very kind to her and had been taking care of her life, what if he left? The only person Yin Yin can rely on is Loach, a kind and honest “person” in her eyes, but dull and rigid. Maybe fate is to connect herself with him.

Yin Yin made up her mind to ask: “Brother Bai, are you married?”

Loach blinked: “Me? Married?” I don’t know why he thought this question was so funny, so he couldn’t help laughing out: “I’m married? I…hahahaha…how can I get married?” I remember that when I was still at the master’s door, a few monsters had planned to betroth their daughter to a loach in order to have a little bit of a relationship with the master. No matter… they all put aside the slogan of “marriage events, parents’ life and matchmaker’s words”, and they all used the tricks of crying, making trouble, hanging themselves desperately to resist, and even a few violent women simply became a monk or committed suicide. , Of course, these marriages didn’t happen at first sight, which made Loach, who was still looking forward to starting a family and a career, gave up on marriage, and knew that no woman would take a fancy to him when he looked like this. Now Yin Yin actually asks if she is married, of course he finds it funny.

“Then you haven’t got a wife yet, Big Brother Bai?”

“Of course not, who would like me.”

Yin Yin said happily: “So, then… Brother Bai, are you willing to… marry me?”

Loach opened his mouth wide and looked at her.

“Actually, Big Brother Bai saved me over and over again, but Yin Yin couldn’t repay it. She should have promised her long ago, but she originally had a marriage contract with Big Brother Qin. Now Big Brother Qin has married someone else. Already…” Yin Yin smiled bitterly, “Yin Yin has nothing to rely on in this world, if Big Brother Bai is willing, then Yin Yin will be lucky for three lifetimes, if Big Brother Bai is not willing, it is not convenient for me to continue disturbing you. Tomorrow I’ll go down the mountain…” If Loach really rejected her, she wouldn’t have the courage and face to continue seeing him day and night, of course, she would have to flee early.

“How can I marry you? How can I marry you…” Loach tugged at his hair in a hurry. How could he, a monster, marry her? ! Although he escaped from his teacher because of laziness back then, he still kept in mind the rules taught by his teacher, and he did not dare to commit the slightest violation. Among them, those who cheat and **** human women, kill! The rules he did not forget. Besides, if Yin Yin knew the truth, she would either faint or run away screaming, how would she want to marry herself.

“Then Big Brother Bai, you don’t like Yin Yin?”

“No, no!”

“Then are you willing to marry me?”

“No! This is absolutely impossible!” Loach waved his hands again and again.

Yin Yin wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, walked quickly to the back room, and began to quickly pack up her own belongings.

“What are you doing?”

“Pack your clothes. I’ll leave tomorrow, so I won’t disturb your benefactor.”

“Where are you going down the mountain?” Loach asked stupidly without noticing that she changed her name.

Yin Yin smiled sadly: “The world is so big, there must be a place for me.”

In other words, she has no plans for anything. Loach and Yinyin have been interacting with the humans at the foot of the mountain. After these days, he has some understanding of human beings. According to his inference, it is difficult for a single woman to live alone among human beings without incident. No, it is almost impossible. possible. So what will happen to her in the future? Loach is a little reluctant to think about it. “If you go by yourself, you might be tricked into selling it, you might starve to death, maybe…” He tried his best to search for all kinds of terrifying possibilities in his mind, hoping to dispel Yin Yin’s thoughts.

“If that’s the case, it might be Yin Yin’s life.”

“But…but…” Loach was a little anxious.

Yin Yin didn’t pay any attention to Loach at all, she just kept busy living, Loach was beside her in a hurry, and finally Yin Yin couldn’t hold it anymore, she sat on the bed and bit her lip and cried: “I really let it go. Don’t you look down on it? Then why did you treat me so well before! I, I…”

“It’s not like that, it’s not… I’m not worthy of you!” Loach hurriedly explained, “Look at me like this, why would you like me? No one would ever marry me.”

Yin Yin stopped crying and looked at him. With her knowledge of loach, she knew that what loach said was the truth, at least he must think so in his heart. This man is not only honest, honest, kind-hearted, but also has a wealthy family and has no worries about food and clothing. Just because he looks “ordinary” and clumsy, he is not favored by women, and he actually makes him think that he is not worthy of any woman. Thinking that Loach was not rejecting her, Yin Yin smiled and said softly, “I just want to marry you.”

Seeing Yin Yin’s sweet, tear-stained face, Loach’s brain became hot, and he forgot the fact that he was a monster, and hurriedly nodded: “Marry, I’ll marry!”

The seven-year-old boy sat down on the side of the road and cried, “Father! Mother! I can’t walk!”

The man turned around helplessly. He carried his four-year-old daughter in his arms, his wife’s two-year-old son on his back, and all the luggage that he was carrying (maybe it’s ragged in the eyes of others, but it’s theirs All family belongings), he and his wife can’t tell the difference and then carry the child. The boy cried hoarsely: “Father, mother, I’m hungry, I can’t walk!” The wife ran back and hugged the child and started crying, and the man sat down on the side of the road. After the disaster in their hometown, the family fled from the famine, and finally came to this relatively prosperous town that was not affected by the drought. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate here did not allow the victims to enter the city for the sake of local safety. The family was mixed in the ranks of the victims and were driven away from the city gate, and they didn’t know where to go. Look at the people around who are also displaced, they are just like myself, they don’t know where they are going next, and they don’t know how long they can support themselves. Will they be like the old, weak, sick and disabled people they saw along the way? , suddenly fell down, and no longer breathed.

“Father, mother… I’m hungry too…” The little boy, drowsy by the sun and the bumps, found his parents stopped and waited hopefully to eat.

“Mother, I’m not hungry. If you have something to eat, give it to my brother first. Can you give me a drink?” The girl endured hunger and said thoughtfully.

The man took out a water bag and gave the children water to drink, and then took out the last dry food and distributed it to the three children, and then fell silent as he looked forward.

The woman sighed after feeding the youngest child: “What can we do in the future? We adults can’t stand it, let alone the children.”

“Take a step and see a step.” The man was silent for a long time and finally said a word.

The woman began to cry, and the children also cried after being infected by their mother. Even the usually strong man had his eyes dimmed.

A pair of two people carried a small sedan chair and came slowly from a distance. The girls and servants who followed the sedan chair pushed aside the victims who were blocking the road while still shouting, “Everyone, our family, Bai Dashan and Mrs. Bai are in the front ten miles. The porridge is gone, everyone will take a few steps to get there, the hot porridge is full, and the elderly and children will also give you a nest.”

When the family heard this sentence, they were as energized as the surrounding victims, and some people had already started running in that direction. It seems that this sedan chair was made by the lady who gave away the porridge. Many victims were kowtowing to the sedan chair. The family also pulled their children when the sedan chair passed by and respectfully kowtowed a few times to the good man. .

After the sedan chair passed by the family, it didn’t go far, but stopped by the side of the road. A little maid hurried back to the man and asked politely, “My wife, may I ask this eldest brother’s surname?” /

The man answered in surprise: “The villain’s surname is Qin.”

“As expected, the surname is Qin, so may I ask if this lady’s boudoir name is Qianqian?”

“How do you know the name of the jerk?”

The little girl clapped her hands, “Then it can’t be wrong!” She happily ran back to the person in the sedan chair, leaving the couple still in doubt. The husband and wife guessed who would recognize them. They don’t have such wealthy relatives. Did they recognize the wrong person? But it would be too coincidental to find someone with the same name as this lady.

The sedan chair was carried back again, and the people inside looked at them carefully through the sedan curtain: although she had recognized them just now, the careful examination now added to her suspicion. Is this really the person you have ever known the most? How could they have changed so much? How could that beautiful little girl with pink cheeks, who I had secretly envied myself, become so haggard, and seemed to be ten years older than me, how could that handsome and bold young man become so old and slow, if it wasn’t for me? Knowing that after the disaster in his hometown, he was always thinking of them. If he met them on the street out of thin air, he might have missed them.

“Do you have anything to do with us, Madam? Did we know each other before?”

“…”

“Madam…”

They called the sedan a few times before a whimpering voice came out: “Qianqian, is that you? How are you all these years?”

“You! You are!” the couple exclaimed together.

The sedan curtain was lifted, and a young woman rushed out crying and hugged Qianqian firmly. Although the hard years had made the Qin couple grow old and changed beyond recognition, on the contrary, the wealthy and comfortable life made the young woman still beautiful. She looked only in her early twenties, and her appearance when they broke up has hardly changed. recognized who she was. Qianqian grabbed her tightly and asked, “Sister, why are you here? You, you are not dead!?” The man surnamed Qin also murmured in disbelief, “Yin Yin?”

Yin Yin and Loach have been married for almost eight years, and they have been living in this county since they got married. From the beginning, they lived by turning loach into silver. Although Yin Yin did not doubt the origin of the silver, but seeing that the loach spends a lot of money, and always tries to help the poor, she began to worry that it would be a day to sit and eat, so she persuaded the loach or Buy some fields to farm, or start a small business. Loach is obedient to his wife. He doesn’t know how to farm, so he opened a shop specializing in aquatic products in the market according to his nature. Maybe because he was originally a kind of “aquatic product”, the business of this store was surprisingly good. In less than half a year, he earned another store. Yinyin hired someone to take care of it and opened it as a grocery store. After more than half a year, he opened another cloth shop… Loach has extraordinary luck in business. Over the years, as long as he has participated in the business, he has not made a lot of money. He still spends a lot of money, but no matter how much he spends, he will have a chance to send it to his door and let him earn it back. After several years of accumulation, now Loach is the richest man in this town. . The place where he and Yin Yin lived had long since been replaced by a gorgeous mansion, with hundreds of family and servants coming and going.

Yin Yin first arranged for the family to eat, and then asked the servants to bathe and change their clothes. After a while, she had a chance to sit down and chat about family affairs.

Qianqian didn’t expect that the elder sister that she missed day and night was still alive, she held her hand tightly and refused to let go: “Sister how did you survive? Have you been living here all these years? What kind of person is your brother-in-law? “

Yin Yin stroked her sister’s daughter in her hand, and put the ornaments on her head on her and replied, “It wasn’t your brother-in-law who brought me up from the river. We have lived here since we married him. Here, I miss home, but I don’t dare to go back, for fear of being known by the townspeople that I am still alive. I asked someone to deliver the letter at home, but it turned out that my parents were gone, and you moved again and lost your whereabouts. I thought this I’ll never see you again.” He started wiping tears. After she found out that her sister married Qin Yi, she didn’t want to see them anymore, but when she became a family with Loach, the days went better and better. Looking back on it, she felt funny at the time, so she sent people to look for her family several times. When it didn’t work, she even wiped her tears when she remembered it. She felt that it was because of her petty temper that she failed to take care of the second old man and found her only biological sister. Now that they finally meet, she is so happy that she doesn’t know what to do. She wipes her tears and remembers something and asks the maid, “Where’s Big Brother Bai? I already sent someone to call, why haven’t you come back yet?”—Yinyin kept going after they got married. Even calling the loach Big Brother Bai, the maids were strange at first, but now they have become accustomed to it.

The maid pursed her lips and smiled: “Madam, Mrs. Zhang was invited by Mrs. Zhang to discuss disaster relief early in the morning, and the family members who sent him said that they had gone outside the city to inspect the porridge shed for relief victims, and they couldn’t find them at the moment—slave maid I told you just now, you were busy talking to your concubine and didn’t hear you.”

“Yes, yes, you said that, look at my brain, I’m so confused.”

“My wife is not old and confused, but she is confused when she sees her happy concubine.”

“Yes, yes, I haven’t seen my wife so happy for a long time, her face is radiant, she looks like she is several years younger, and now she looks at most sixteen or seventeen.”

“Look at the clever mouth of your girl, even if I am a few years younger, I will not be sixteen or seventeen…”

The maids and wives saw that the Yinyin sisters would not come to join in the reunion, and soon they would make her and Qianqianhong happy, but Qin Yi was neither standing nor sitting in this women’s country, and was extremely cramped.

I waited until the evening for Yin Yin’s husband to come back. What surprised Qin Yi and Qianqian was that this man was not at all the same as they imagined. Not only was he not amazing, but he also looked helpless and ignored Qin Yi and Qianqian, which was nothing like what they imagined. The way a millionaire should be. Qin and his wife thought that he didn’t want to recognize poor relatives like him, and they didn’t dare to talk to him.

When the arrangements were made to send the Qin couple to rest, Yin Yin blamed the loach without complaining: “It’s really hard to see my mother’s family, why are you like this!”

“I…I…” Loach was blank-eyed and didn’t know what he was thinking. After muttering to himself for a long time, he finally said, “I saw a Taoist priest just now.”

“Taoist?”

“And he kept staring at me… He kept staring at me… Yin Yin, do you think he saw through me!” Loach grabbed Yin Yin’s hand and asked with a trembling voice.

“You’re a real person, and a Taoist priest may not necessarily be able to catch demons. Even if he could catch demons, what would he do to you for no reason? Go back to stew tofu to eat!” Yin Yin said, putting her finger on his forehead He poked his finger, “Don’t hurry up and give me a rest, and see my sister and brother-in-law tomorrow morning, don’t be so rude!”

After the two got married, Loach intended to hide the fact that he was a monster, but how could he hide the fact that he was a monster with his clumsy brain? The prototype was bathing and rolling in the mud and water, of course, it didn’t take long for him to show his power. As long as the suspicious Yin Yinluo interrogated him, he would do everything. Yin Yin was surprised when she heard that she had married a monster, but after the two got married, their relationship grew, and Loach’s obedience and thoughtfulness made Yin Yin, who had to choose to repay her kindness by herself, also deeply glad that she married such a person. Husband, the current Yinyin only cares whether her husband knows the cold and loves each other, and does not care whether he is a monster or not. After wiping her tears to make the loach panic and apologize, she only sternly told the loach not to let outsiders know the truth, and this matter became the secret of their husband and wife.

Yin Yin knew her husband’s nature very well, and was afraid that he would show his flaws in front of others, so she told him to nagging every day, telling him stories about Taoist priests catching monsters to frighten him. The tragic end of the scene was exaggerated several times, so that Loach was terrified of Taoist priests, monks, nuns and other characters. As long as he saw it, he suspected that he was here to arrest himself. It is because of this that he never refuses to give. Yin Yin was angry and funny at his character, but she had no choice but to let him be.

In the blink of an eye, Qin Yi and Qianqian have been at home for more than half a month, and they all get along well. In particular, Loach and Yin Yin have not had children for many years, and now there are a few little guys in the family, which adds a lot of anger. Loach brought Qin Yi to help in his own business, while Qianqian and Yinyin stayed with their parents at home every day, and a group of women lived happily ever after. After a few days like this, a visit from a Taoist priest broke the peace.

This is a middle-aged Taoist priest, white and chubby, more like a rich man than a loach. He pushed aside the blocking servants into the courtyard, walked straight to the loach, bowed and said, “Outside the staff, poor Dao is here to catch monsters, what do you think!” His malicious eyes looked at the loach, and he answered tremblingly: “There are no monsters in our house, no monsters!”

The Taoist priest didn’t speak anymore. He took the first few steps and looked at him up and down, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, instead of nodding his head with a beard. Under the coercion of his eyes, the loach tried to shrink his body, and his head was about to shrink into his collar.

After hearing the news, Yin Yin saw the Taoist priest, and then saw her husband’s timid appearance. She couldn’t help but get angry, rushed over and pulled the loach to the side and shouted at the Taoist priest: “Taoist priest, my family does not welcome monks, please Go somewhere else.” He said politely, but his face was icy, clearly an order to evict guests.

“The words of the female benefactor are wrong. The monks are merciful and come here to save the benefactor from disasters. How can the benefactor expel guests like this?”

“My family has no disasters or troubles. The Taoist priest sees that there are countless disaster victims outside who do not go to rescue, so what are they doing to people like us.” Yin Yin’s words were sharp, implying that the Taoist priest was talking about helping people to remove disasters and solve disasters, but he did not enter The poor and the rich come only for gold and silver.

“Does Madam know that there are evil spirits in the family?” The Taoist swept the loach who was shrugging his head behind his wife and went straight to the topic.

“What’s the matter with your Taoist priest!” Yin Yin did not deny it, but said coldly with a stern face.

“It is the duty of a monk to subdue demons and eliminate demons.”

“Come here, bring one hundred taels of silver to the Taoist priest to see off the guest.” Yin Yin waved her sleeves and pulled the loach into the house.

Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Loach Yi grabbed his wife’s hand and cried, “He knows I’m a monster! What should I do? What should I do? Let’s run away!”

“What are you afraid of? You didn’t hurt anyone and didn’t do anything wrong. You’re afraid of what he would do! Such a **** is just trying to extort some money. Now that the money is given to him, he will arrest you. Besides, you are not He also has mana, so are you afraid that he won’t succeed!” Yin Yin’s temperament is much more stubborn than Loach, and she is the least willing to accept this kind of bullying.

“But, but…”

“Don’t do it, come here…” Yin Yin beckoned her husband to her face, reached out to tidy up his messed up clothes, “Last time I said to invite a gentleman to come home to teach the children to study. What’s the matter? Where is there a good gentleman, you should ask more outside, don’t put your mind on any Taoist monks and monks.”

Loach listens to his wife. No matter what Yin Yin says, he will obediently implement it. The days are still as calm as water. After a few days, he will forget about it.

One night more than ten days later, Loach and Yin Yin were suddenly awakened from their dreams by the sound of strong wind and thunder. The wind was getting stronger and stronger, slamming against the window, and came in through the crack of the window and the door, making a piercing whimper. Yin Yin was very afraid of thunder, so she hid in the loach’s arms and said tremblingly, “Why is there thunder in this season?” After that, the sound of the wind only subsided slightly, and it started to make a big deal after a while. After repeating this over and over several times, he looked at Yin Yin, who was huddled in the quilt in fright, and finally summoned up the courage to put on his clothes and walked into the yard.

As soon as the loach emerged from the house, a flash of light hit him. The loach flickered to the side, the lightning made a hole in the steps, and the gravel splashed. “It turned out to be you!” Loach called out after seeing that the Taoist priest was standing on the eaves and waving a wooden sword to himself a few times before: “Didn’t I give you money that day!”

“Hahahaha!” The Taoist priest laughed loudly, and his face was particularly hideous in the lightning. “Bai Dashanren, you have a lot of money, do you want to get out of the way with just one hundred taels of silver!”

“You, you, you…what do you want…” Loach asked timidly.

“The Taoist temple where the poor Taoist lives has been in disrepair for a long time and needs to be rebuilt with 30,000 taels of silver. I don’t know if Bai Dashan is willing to give up this good fortune.”

“30,000 taels…” Loach’s voice trembled. Although he was rich, he had not yet reached the point where he took out 30,000 taels of silver when he heard the door slamming behind him. It turned out that Yin Yin also felt the matter Wei Wei was worried that he would follow quietly, so he asked her, “Yin Yin, how much money can we get now? Can we get 30,000 yuan after selling the manor in the west of the city?” Some people or monsters have fought, and seeing the Taoist priest’s posture has long been frightened. In the wind and thunder, he only thinks about how to save money and avoid disasters. Instead, Yinyin is bold, pointing at the Taoist priest on the steps and calling: “Taoist, you Aren’t you afraid that we will report to the officials if you go into a private house at night to make trouble!”

The Taoist sneered: “When I bring this monster’s body to the lobby, no government will condemn me.” He said that this was another slap in the face of the loach.

Loach immediately hid behind Yin Yin and called: “I have no enmity with you! I will give you 30,000 taels of silver.”

“Thirty thousand taels! Is the dignified Bai Dashan only worth this mere silver?”

“How much do you want?”

“300,000 taels!” The Taoist priest saw that the loach was a soft persimmon, so he immediately squeezed it hard. The loach just wanted to spend money to eliminate disasters, but the Taoist priest opened his mouth like a lion, and he really couldn’t take it out, revealing Difficult look. The Taoist waved his hand, and a few more thunder talismans struck the front of the steps. The loach shrank in fright and asked Yinyin in a low voice, “How much money can we give?”

“Do you really want to give him money?” Yin Yin was very angry, “He can ask for 30,000, 300,000, you gave him, tomorrow he will ask for 3 million, what will you give him.”

“But, but… Taoist priest, will I stop entanglement after I give you the money?” Loach thought that the money could be earned again, but it was only important that the Taoist priest in front of him was able to get rid of it.

“Hahahaha, Bai Dashanren’s words are outrageous, how about we make friends?” Seeing the loach’s timidity, the Taoist priest became more and more like a cat playing a mouse.

“Did you hear? He will have to take every inch and push harder!” Yin Yin looked back at her husband, “If you’re still a man, don’t let anyone bully you!”

The Taoist priest took a few more steps and said, “With such a proud wife and wealth of thousands of dollars, why are you struggling to live with me for the mere hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!”

“Ming, it’s you who can’t get along with me…”

When the Taoist priest raised his hand, it was Dao Lei again, but this time maybe the distance was too close, or maybe the Taoist priest deliberately tried to intimidate the loach, but Lei hit her against Yin Yin’s temples, scaring her so much fainted.

“How dare you hurt my wife!” The loach jumped out suddenly, and before the Taoist priest could make any move, a hose had already wrapped around the whisk in his hand, and then the loach’s body showed its original shape—a stretch of dozens of A huge loach with a length of meters, the long tail swung the Taoist priest to somersault. The Taoist priest raised his hand and put a talisman on the loach’s body. Just as he was about to be complacent, he thought that he had burnt the loach, but when the loach turned over, the “skin” on its body cracked into countless pieces and shot at the Taoist priest. It turned out that there was a thick layer of mud on the loach. The Taoist talisman only burned his “muddy skin”, but did not hurt him in the slightest. After the mud was roasted, it turned into a hard lump and hit the Taoist priest with head and face, knocking him over immediately. on the ground.

The loach rushed over and coiled the Taoist priest like a snake, causing him to scream. At this moment, Loach wanted to simply kill him to avoid future troubles, and at the same time, he was afraid that he would be punished by God for hurting human beings. In the constant change of thoughts, he loosened and tightened it, which made the Taoist toss a lot. Yin Yin woke up and saw that she was not injured and called out in time: “Don’t kill him, spare him!” Loach immediately threw the Taoist priest on the ground.

“You swear you won’t bother us again, we’ll let you go.” Yin Yin approached the Taoist priest carefully and said. The Taoist rolled his eyes and nodded again and again. Loach has returned to human form, and whispered beside Yin Yin: “Really let him go?” “What if you don’t let him go? Did he really kill him.” Yin Yin forced the Taoist priest to make an oath to see him go away in embarrassment and turned back.

“But what if he doesn’t say anything!”

Yin Yin sighed and looked up at the starry sky. After a long silence, she said, “I really miss my hometown. Shall we move?”

After experiencing repeated harassment by Taoist priests, Loach listened to his wife’s advice to purchase land in Yin Yin’s hometown, and the family moved there. After that time, the loach became more timid and fearful, and stayed behind closed doors. The business was gradually handed over to Qin Yi to help manage it. Qin Yi is honest and loyal, Loach and Yin Yin trust him very much, and he has more and more responsibilities, and he works hard all day long.

On this day, Qin Yi checked the accounts of several stores in Jinan Prefecture, and was about to hire a carriage to drive home overnight, when a voice suddenly came from behind: “Please wait a moment, this donor, listen to the poor way. Say.” When Qin Yi turned his head, a Taoist priest had stood behind him at some point, bowing to him, and Qin Yi, a man of faith, hurriedly returned the salute, took out a few copper plates and handed it over.

The Taoist priest “Gu Gu” smiled and stretched out his hand and pushed it away: “Pin Dao didn’t come here for alms, would Shizhu Qin be willing to sit down with him in the restaurant?” Qin Yi was a little surprised when he heard that he actually knew his surname. Surprised, but he is a superstitious person, and he has always followed Buddhism and Taoism. He followed him into a restaurant under the repeated invitation of Taoist priests.

As soon as the Taoist took a seat, he took a piece of silver and threw it on the table, and instructed the junior, “Just serve good wine and good food.” Then he asked Qin Yi, who was not sure why, “Does the donor know that there are monsters in the house?” Qin Yi Shaking his head in confusion. The Taoist priest raised his hand first, but Qin Yi only felt the silence in his ears, and all the noise in the restaurant disappeared. Looking at the other diners in the surrounding area, they only opened their mouths and said nothing. At this time, the Taoist priest patted the table: ” Your brother-in-law is a monster! He’s been bewildering your wife’s sister for a long time, you know!”

Qin Yi was stunned.

The Taoist priest stretched his finger to a little on the wine glass in front of Qin Yi, and the ripples rippled. The picture that appeared was the scene where the loach changed back to its original shape and rushed towards the Taoist priest that night. Qin Yi looked at the loach like a giant snake. Frightened, he fell from the chair and fell to the ground. The Taoist priest’s voice sounded in his head: “If the donor doesn’t make plans early, not only will Madam Zun’s sister escape the poisonous hands, but even your family will sooner or later become his delicacy!”

Qin Yi has been restless since returning home after dealing with business matters, pacing back and forth in the house, Qianqian frowned and kept watching him go back and forth, and finally couldn’t help asking: “What are you doing? Why did you go out and come back like this? But there was a mistake in the accounts? Your sister and brother-in-law trust you so much, you can’t be confused about other people’s money!”

“It’s not like that!” Qin Yi said impatiently, “You don’t understand.”

“That’s because you hooked up after a few days out, and now you’re still remembering that vixen, right!” Qianqian said angrily.

“No more, where did you think you’ve gone!” Qin Yi walked around impatiently.

“What the **** is that? Don’t worry about people who go there!”

Qin Yi finally told the whole story about the Taoist priest he met after going out after his wife’s repeated questioning, explained it in detail, and finally took out a small porcelain bottle and said, “The Taoist priest said that brother-in-law is by no means a human being. Just let him drink the medicine in it, and he will show his true form immediately.”

“Brother-in-law is a monster? That wild Taoist is crazy!” Qianqian exclaimed in a fuss, and Qin Yi hurried up to cover her mouth: “Don’t let people hear you! , he, he does have magic, not like a liar!”

“How do you know that he didn’t have other plans? Maybe he wanted to use this drug to poison his brother-in-law, and then you will be the murderer!” Qianqian reached out and snatched the porcelain bottle and threw it out the window, “Have a good day. It’s only been a few days and you’re still restless, so throw it away as soon as possible!”

“Wait a minute.” Qin Yi grabbed it back again, he pondered over and over again, thinking about the Taoist priest’s words, and thinking about Loach’s daily actions, it was difficult to choose, and finally thought of Yin Yin’s frown and smile, a burst of blood rushed to the mind. He and Yin Yin have been engaged since childhood and are close neighbors, so they never avoid laughing and laughing. In addition to working hard in the fields, he always doubles his efforts with the goal of marrying her in the future. Later, when the blue sky struck, Yinyin was selected by the village chief and sent into the river. Although the husband and wife have been harmonious for many years, in the middle of the night, I always dream of Yin Yin crying. Who would have thought that they would be reunited with Yin Yin after so many years, seeing her not only not old but more beautiful, Qin Yi was always ashamed and never dared to talk to her, but if she was like a Taoist priest Said, Yin Yin’s husband was the monster in the river back then, it was he who created monsters to harm one side, it was he who made countless girls become underwater ghosts, it was he who coveted Yin Yin’s beauty to confuse her with her. , occupying her as a wife, without this monster, he and Yin Yin would have become husband and wife sooner than later today.

No, I can’t let him hurt Yin Yin again!

Qin Yi gritted his teeth and held up the bottle: “Zhang Daochang said, this thing is only effective for monsters, it is harmless to mortals! I’ll take a sip first, as long as I have nothing to do, I can give it to him. , if he is a monster, he can be excepted, he is not a monster and there is nothing in the way.” After speaking, he raised the bottle and poured it into his mouth, Qianqian was shocked and rushed up to snatch: “You are crazy! Put it down!” Qin Yi has already put The contents of the bottle were half poured and swallowed.

Qin Yi saw the loach and picked up the cup in which he had put the medicine without any doubts. He couldn’t help but raise his heart, and his hands began to tremble. Afraid that the loach would find it, he hurriedly put the cup down. The loach didn’t find anything. You chatted with Qin Yi about the business one by one. After a while, he lifted the cup and took a sip. Qin Yi’s heart began to jump to his throat, and the tea in the loach’s hand had already been drunk. Most of them still didn’t respond. Qin Yi’s clothes were soaked with sweat, and he didn’t know whether he was relieved or disappointed. Maybe he hoped that Yin Yin’s husband was a monster from the bottom of his heart.

“Bang!” The cup in Loach’s hand fell to the ground at once, he yelled, knelt on the ground, grabbed the collar with both hands and called out, the servants and maids around didn’t know what happened, and immediately became a mess In a group, some came up to help the loach, some called for the doctor, and some rushed to the backyard to tell the lady.

Qin Yi looked at all this and cried out in his heart, “He’s a monster, he’s really a monster!” He knew that he should get up and ran away, but his **** seemed to grow on a chair, and he couldn’t stand up.

“What’s the matter? What’s wrong with this?” Yin Yin rushed over surrounded by a large group of girls. Seeing the loach, she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and hugged him with both hands and cried, while telling the servants: “Go and get the doctor! Go!”

Qin Yi saw Yin Yin holding a loach, fearing that the monster would hurt her with its ferocity, so he rushed over and pulled Yin Yin aside, and whispered to her, “Yin Yin, don’t touch him. , he, he is a monster!”

“Let me go!” Yin Yin was so frightened by the loach’s screams that she blurted out, “It’s none of your business if he is a monster!” She threw off Qin Yi’s hand and rushed back to the loach, hugging her tightly. He, “What’s wrong with you? What’s wrong with you? Do you monsters get sick too?”

When Qin Yi heard this, Yin Yin knew that this person was a monster, and was stunned for a while.

“I’m so sad, I’m so sad…” Loach’s abdominal pain was like agitating, sweating profusely, and the pain was endless. Yin Yin couldn’t stop crying, she didn’t know what to do.

“Hahahaha, you monster also has today!” With a clear and clear voice, a Taoist priest fell from the sky to the courtyard, waved the whisk in his hand gracefully, walked up the steps, and walked into the hall.

“It’s you!” Loach struggled to stand up and pointed at the Taoist priest, “Why did you hurt me!”

“Hahahaha, see how you are fighting against me!” The Taoist laughed wildly, took out a gourd from his sleeve, opened the lid and pointed at the loach, a white light shot at the loach, the loach resisted the pain and dodged, But before the second call came, he hit the table and fell to the ground. Yinyin hurriedly jumped on him before blocking the white light that was about to **** the loach into the gourd. At this time, the strength of the loach had been exhausted, and it slowly appeared in Yinyin’s arms, and the servants around started screaming and running around when they saw it.

With Yinyin’s protection, the Taoist priest couldn’t contain the loach for a while and was anxious, and shouted to Qin Yi: “Pull her away!”

Qin Yi was trembling at the original shape of the loach, and after listening to the Taoist priest’s rebuke, he shuddered, looked at Yinyin, then looked at the Taoist priest, he gritted his teeth and rushed over to hold Yinyin in both hands, dragging her away After the loach, only a soft sound of “chi” was heard. The loach disappeared in a white light. The Taoist laughed and covered the gourd with a stopper, shook it a few times, and threw it into his sleeve.

Yin Yin rushed over and grabbed the collar of the Taoist priest and cried, “Let me go, let me go!”

The Taoist sneered: “Who told you to be stubborn, now you know how powerful the Taoist is!”

“Money, you need money to handle it.” Yin Yin hurried into the backyard and brought a box from time to time, “My family’s business title deeds are all here, all for you, all for you, and my husband. .”

The Taoist priest’s eyes lit up, and he grabbed the box and stuffed it into his arms: “Just consider it as a reward for this Taoist master to subdue demons, hahahaha…” After speaking, he walked out. Yin Yin hurried to pull him, but when he pushed him to the ground, the Taoist burst out laughing and left.

Qin Yi stayed where he was before muttering for a long time, “How can this happen? How can this happen?”

Yin Yin chased after her into the courtyard, where there were still traces of Taoist priests in the vast sky, she stood there for a long time, turned around and pointed at Qin Yi, gritted her teeth word by word: “Our husband and wife are not mean to you, why did you harm us! “

Qin Yi stepped back when she saw it: “I, I, him, he… he is really a monster!”

Yin Yin cried out to the sky, she swayed a few times, and fell to the ground.

“Let me out, let me out…” The loach begged bitterly, slapped the wall of the gourd with all his might, this small gourd was only two steps square and very low in the eyes of the loach, even with a body like the loach. The short people can only stand inside with their heads shrunk. He just knelt inside like this, and I don’t know how long it took. At first, he kept crying and begging, but later he didn’t even have the strength to do so. He just sat on the ground, put his head on his knees, and used his hands from time to time. Slapped the gourd wall.

The passage of time could not be detected in this gourd. Loach could not imagine how long it had passed. Just as he gradually lost hope of going out, a dazzling light suddenly came from above. “Please let me out! I haven’t hurt anyone, please let me go.” Loach saw that the mouth of the gourd was opened, the Taoist priest showed a face, and immediately begged him bitterly. There was a smile on the corner of the Taoist priest’s mouth, and he listened to his pleas quietly. When the loach’s pleas were almost finished, he said lightly: “I’ll let you go…it’s not impossible…but…”

“Daoist priest, Daxian, I will never lie to others. After I go back, I will take my wife to live in the mountains, and I will give you all my wealth…”

“That’s not necessary.” The Taoist priest stroked the goatee and said, “As long as you are obedient and do a few things for me, I will naturally let you go after it’s done.”

“I’ll do it! I’ll do it! You can ask me to do anything!” Loach nodded hastily.

The Taoist priest said slowly: “The richest man in this city, surnamed Xu, has a wealth of wealth. He also has a beautiful daughter. There is a big pond in his garden, and the lady’s embroidery building is next to the pond…” Loach listened carefully, not understanding what he meant by saying these. The Taoist priest said: “If a monster lives in the pond to make trouble and kidnap the young lady…”

Loach opened his eyes wide and asked in surprise: “What kind of monster is so bold! Dao Master, you want me to help you catch it! Well, it’s my duty!”

“Hey, hey, that monster is you!”

“I!” Loach was so shocked that Pu Tong knelt down: “Xianchang, you are clear, I dare not do such a thing that hurts the world! You are clear! You are clear!”

“What if I let you go!” the Taoist priest asked with a sinister smile.

“Master…” Loach was confused.

“I want you to go to that house’s pond to make a fuss, and then confuse the young lady and send it to me, and then when I go to collect the demon, will you obediently let me catch it, understand?”

Loach opened his mouth for a long time before trying to understand what he meant: “You asked me to help you lie!”

“I didn’t tell you to ‘help’ me to deceive people! I ordered you to do it!” The Taoist priest showed his true face and said viciously, “Do you understand what will happen if you refuse to help me!” Then he slowed down his tone again: “As long as you help me, I will let you go. Think about the fact that you still have a beautiful wife waiting for you to go back, and there are thousands of family wealth waiting for you to enjoy…”

Since the loach was caught, Yinyin has always been on his mind. Why didn’t he want to agree to the Taoist priest’s request, but the words “don’t harm people” have changed from an ordinary loach to a monster. The stern exhortation in his ear has been firmly engraved in his heart, even if he is absconding with his teacher now, he does not dare to have the slightest thought of violating this discipline. The Taoist priest was still there, threatening and tempting for a while, and the loach clearly saw that freedom was in front of him, but he couldn’t do it himself, and finally couldn’t help crying: “I really can’t do it, please let me go! I kowtow to you! Please let me go!”

The Taoist snorted coldly and stuffed the gourd heavily.

Since then, the Taoist priest has opened the gourd twice again, and the requirements are similar, and the loach is also unwilling to submit.

The loach has no idea of ​​how fast or slow the time passed. He stayed in the gourd in a drowsy state. He almost gave up hope of going out. Several times he wanted to pounce on the exit and begged the Taoist priest, willing to help him. He did those things, but he couldn’t get past the last barrier in his heart, and maybe he would die of old age here—this terrible thought tormented him from time to time, making him extremely desperate.

As a bright light entered, the lid of the gourd was opened again. Loach’s heart was beating wildly with excitement at first, but then he lowered his head sadly. He knew in his heart that he would never agree to help the Taoist priest to do all kinds of evil deeds. In this case, he also rested the other party and let him go out. Heart.

The gourd swayed violently, and the loach only felt that the world was spinning, and it fell to the ground before it could figure out what happened. Facing the dazzling sunlight, he rubbed his eyes, and it took him a long time to react – he was released from the gourd. Then there were a few more noises, and several monsters fell by his side, looking around, obviously not understanding what happened just like him.

“Is that all?” A refreshing female voice came from above. Loach looked up and found that he was now in a courtyard. He saw a female Taoist priest standing on the steps, asking a question to the Taoist priest who caught him and locked him up for so long. The Taoist priest was also kneeling on the steps like the monsters. Then, with a pitiful look on his face, he waved his hands again and again and said, “No, no more.”

The female Taoist priest walked down the steps, pointed to the monsters one by one, and said, “Fox demon, you tempted women from a good family, and helped Taoist Zhang to harm others and defraud money, thinking that you have been imprisoned by him for more than ten years, I forgive you. Immortal, destroy your hundred years of Taoism, and go back to the deep mountains to practice well.” She said a spell and hit a fox demon, the fox demon howled and rolled on the spot, showing the prototype, nodding to the female Taoist again and again, swiping away. Ran.

“Hua Yao, you and a human woman were originally in love with each other, but you shouldn’t harass her family in order to form a partner. After being captured by Taoist Zhang, you helped him to do evil many times in order to escape. Thinking of you is evil. Shen, it was forced by the situation and spared you. It’s just that the woman is married and has a child, you have to swear not to disturb her again, can you do it?” Hua Yao repeatedly expressed her obedience, and the female Taoist priest waved him away.

She followed these monsters one by one, and finally came to Loach, looked him up and down and smiled slightly: “Among so many trapped monsters, you are the only one who didn’t do any bad things for Taoist Zhang, you I already know what happened to you, your wife is probably still at home waiting for you to be reunited, so go home quickly.”

Loach asked in disbelief: “You, you want to let me go? Are you also a Taoist priest and don’t want to catch me?”

“I am a Taoist priest, why should I arrest you?” The female Taoist priest laughed.

“Because, because… Taoist priests… catch demons…” Loach couldn’t say why. In his mind, Taoist priests catch demons like cats and mice, and it is only natural. Seeing that the female Taoist had no intention of being embarrassed, she tentatively asked: “Well, then, I’m leaving…”

“Go ahead and remember not to harm anyone in the future!”

The loach stood up and glanced at the Taoist Zhang without realizing it. The female Taoist said, “I’m here today for this Taoist scum. He used magic to manipulate monsters to extort money and humiliate women. He has been killed. Many people, today is his day full of evil.” Loach heard the murderous intent in her faint voice, and couldn’t help shivering, and flew away in a hurry.

He was flying in the air, the cool night wind blowing across his cheeks, the stars above his head, and the vast earth under his feet, until now he really believed that he was free, he could finally go home, and finally he could see the long-lost wife! The more the loach thought about it, the more excited it became. It shouted happily in the air, turned somersaults, and sang and danced for a long time before finding the direction and flying desperately.

The loach landed in the yard. Looking at the house in front of him, he was so excited that he could barely move, and his lips trembled, and he shouted, “Yinyin, Yinyin, I’m back! I’m back!” Finally, he ran forward quickly. go. He pushed open the door and rushed in, causing the screams of women in the room. Several maids stopped in front of him and asked, “Who are you, man? Why did you just break in like this! This is the residence of my mistress, so don’t you go out quickly!”

“Yinyin, I’m back!” Loach didn’t care much, pushed them away and rushed into the back room. When he entered the room, he could not help but let out an exclamation at the same time as the woman sitting upright. The woman in front of her was not Yin Yin. After the woman recognized the loach, she shouted: “Monster! Monster! Somebody here! Help! Help!” The loach took a long time to scrutinize the woman before recognizing this woman: although the wealthy life and gorgeous dress over the past few years have changed her A lot, but the resemblance to Yinyin still made him blurt out: “Qianqian? Are you Qianqian? Where is your sister?”

Qianqian kept yelling, but didn’t answer him at all.

The loach couldn’t wait for her to answer, so he ran out of the room to find it. He kept shouting, “Yinyin, Yinyin, where have you been? I’m back! I’m back!” He ran for most of the house and bumped into Qin Yi, who hurried over after receiving a message from the servants. . Loach grabbed him and shouted: “You ungrateful little man, why did you hurt me back then! Where did Yin Yin go?”

Qin Yi looked at the loach and was speechless. In all honesty, he had no intention of harming people, but was too worried that Yinyin and her family would drug the loach. But the development of things was beyond his expectations. Afterwards, people speculated that he did these things in order to steal people’s property. Over the years, their family has been occupying the house of the loach and spent the gold and silver of the loach. They can’t help but feel guilty, as if they really did something wrong. Same. Now I suddenly saw the loach standing in front of me, and I was speechless for a while.

“Where’s Yin Yin? Where is Yin Yin?” Loach grabbed him and yelled.

When Qin Yi saw Loach’s face was not good, he suddenly remembered his identity as a monster, and shouted in fright, “I don’t know, I don’t know!” He turned around and ran away.

The loach’s heart was getting higher and higher, and he rushed up to grab Qin Yi and swayed: “Where did Yin Yin go? What did you do to her? Explain to me!”

“It wasn’t me who killed her! It wasn’t me…” Qin Yi was so frightened that she burst into tears, “She jumped into the river and drowned herself because we didn’t pay attention. We didn’t kill her. She…” From Qin Yi’s frightened stammering narrative, we learned that when Yinyin waited hard for him to come back, she washed her face in tears all day long, and gradually began to go crazy, always saying that her husband was waiting for her in the river, One night, while the mother-in-law was asleep, she ran out of the house and jumped into the river where she had been thrown down as the bride of the river god.

The loach was dizzy and sat down on the ground all of a sudden.

Loach hugged Yinyin’s tombstone and cried loudly. There were many villagers watching the fun standing around, pointing at him to discuss whether he was a monster or not, and some children watched him as a big man crying to the death. He kept shaving his face ashamed. Qin Yi stood at the farthest with more than a dozen servants. He wanted to come forward to comfort him, but he didn’t dare to come. Suddenly, he found that the loach stopped crying and raised his head to look at him fiercely, and he was so scared that he backed away again and again.

“You killed Yin Yin, I want you to pay for it!”

With the roar of the loach, the river water not far away suddenly began to churn like a pot, and the wind was blowing, and the sky pushed up the dark clouds in a short time. The thick-mouthed trees were cut down by the middle. Not long after, a torrent of trees, stones, animal carcasses, and various sundries rushed to the village. The villagers were stunned by the sight of these people, and it was only now that they realized that the catastrophe was just around the corner, and they all screamed and ran away.

The loach stood in the waves and pushed the waves forward. His goal was the most gorgeous house in the village, which he personally supervised the construction of, and personally selected bricks and tiles, ready to live with Yinyin until the end of his life. But now it has become someone else’s house, and it was these people who killed themselves and Yinyin. The loach didn’t know what he wanted to do, but the resentment in his heart forced him to rush forward, rushing towards everything with the flood, drowning them all in the water, so that he could never see again, only in that way would he rush forward. Calm down.

The house closest to the roadside in the village had been swallowed by the water, and after shaking a few times, it was scattered in the waves. The water continued to flow towards other houses and towards the fleeing crowd. Qin Yi ran out of breath. If he was a peasant before, he would definitely run faster, but after being a rich man for a long time, his legs and feet are no longer as neat as before. He knew that the loach was coming for him, and the fear in his heart was even more unspeakable. At this time, a child fell down beside him, and the sound of crying shocked him for a while. The waves are getting closer and closer, there is probably no way to escape, right? He almost mechanically turned his head and picked up the child, and started running again sloppily. Anyway, he couldn’t sink himself without helping the child, and he couldn’t escape without helping the child, but he couldn’t do anything without helping him.

Going to catch him! The anger in the loach’s heart became more and more surging. Break him up in the waves and let him feed the fish and shrimp!

“Xianggong, Xianggong… dead loach! Where are you looking?” A gentle and angry voice sounded.

Loach raised his head to look, rubbed his eyes, and shook the water on his head vigorously to look again, and it turned out that Yin Yin was standing in front of him with a smile on his face. “Yinyin, you are not dead!” Loach opened his arms and rushed over. Unexpectedly, she fluttered in the air, Yinyin drifted away like a puff of smoke, and it took a long time to condense her body again. “You’re still so stupid!” Yin Yin scolded with a smile, “How can a living person stand in mid-air and talk to you in the waves!”

Loach tears fell: The wife in front of him is really just a ghost. He was crying and telling the feelings of parting, and it took a long time before he finished his thoughts, and said to his wife: “Yin Yin, we can’t live in the world anyway, you can go to the river with me.” His wife is a human being. Well, whether it was a ghost or not, he didn’t care, and a couple with a monster and a ghost might not be inappropriate. In a few years, Yinyin may be able to cultivate and take shape, and at that time, the two couples may be able to live more freely than in the past.

Yin Yin shook her head and interrupted his thoughts about the future: “I can’t go with you.”

“Why?”

Yin Yin looked behind her, and two impermanent forms, one black and one white, appeared: “I should have been taken to the underworld long after I died. It was I who begged them to allow me to stay and see you. You, I should go with them after we meet.”

“Where are you going with them? Why are you going with them?” Loach cried.

“People cannot escape the cycle of life and death, I am also a person.” Yin Yin also shed tears: “Actually, I should have been thrown into the river and drowned ten years ago, because of your appearance I escaped the disaster. , also let them find me for ten years, earning ten more years, earning the love of husband and wife, am I not enough? I am satisfied! Only you can’t let go of you, you don’t know what to do without me watching you What a foolish thing… Look at how you made the chickens jump around here, and don’t give me the water soon!”

“Not enough! Of course not enough! I don’t think it’s enough, we said that we will grow old!” Loach shouted, “You are not allowed to go there! No one wants to take you away! Otherwise, I will turn him upside down. !”

“You’re still so dumb! You’re just a little loach, you can fight the underworld and the reincarnation of heaven!” Yin Yin heard the impermanence behind her shaking the chain impatiently, knowing her time Not much, “I don’t regret marrying you a monster at all. A couple of years is worth a hundred years. Mrs., I have no regrets in death, so don’t make trouble for them. If you practice hard, one day you will be able to Cheng Zhengguo, my wife may be able to get the light. If there is an afterlife… I, I am willing to be a mother loach and follow you to make a home in the mud…”

“Yin Yin…” Loach cried to block the two impermanence, “Don’t try to take my wife away.”

“The little monster dares to fight with us!” Impermanence kicked him on the head, “If it weren’t for the fact that your wife’s loyalty is so pitiful and respectable, we wouldn’t waste time for you. Let’s go, it’s time to go to the underworld. It’s reported.” He said and pulled Yin Yin away.

The loach hit him without even thinking about a spell, and saw Impermanence waving the chain, and then the loach fell into the air with a dizziness, only to hear Yin Yin repeatedly instructing: “Cultivation well, one day Get it right… don’t fight against the way of heaven… don’t hurt others… don’t hurt people…” When he flew up again, the sky was vast, and Yin Yin’s figure was long gone…

“Ah…” Loach held his head and howled in the sky.

The loach lay on the bottom of the water and didn’t want to move. He recalled Yin Yin’s words and deeds every day, with a frown and a smile, and let the time go silently, as if he had returned to the previous time, and he didn’t have to do anything or think about anything. , but it seemed like a big hole had opened in the bottom of his heart, and the pain was unbearable for him. He remembered Yin Yin’s last instruction: to achieve a positive result, and to practice hard as she said, but he just didn’t want to move, and he didn’t want to move at all.

The humans on the shore would throw some fresh pigs and sheep down from time to time. The loach knew that it was sent by Qin Yi and his wife, but he didn’t want to eat them. , he doesn’t want to eat human stuff.

After many years, no more things were thrown on the shore, the loach was a little happy that they finally forgot about themselves, but after another few years, the loach who was sleeping in the mud was suddenly awakened by a drumbeat. Looking up at the lively river on the bank, after blowing and beating for a long time, the water waves swayed, and a big red sedan chair was thrown into the water.

The sedan chair sank into the water, and the sedan curtain floated in the water. A slender snow-white arm stretched out of the sedan door and grasped it weakly… Loach silently watched all this, his throat choked up, as if back to the On that day, the beautiful bride crossed the water and came to her… No, she is not Yin Yin, only Yin Yin is such a beautiful bride in the water, she is not! There was a series of whimpers in the loach’s throat, and with a wave of his hand, a series of water waves rolled up the sedan chair and lifted it back to the shore with the people.

The loach doesn’t understand why humans are so persistent. Since he threw the sedan chair on the shore that day, human beings will come to blow and beat almost every few days, throwing paper money and other things on the river, and after tossing for a while A sedan chair will be thrown down. At first, the loach threw it back to the shore without even thinking about it, but after several times, he finally got tired of it. After the sedan fell into the water, he turned to swim without even looking at it, and let the big red sedan slowly sink into the water. underwater.

The loach burrowed into the mud at one end. Let them take care of human affairs. He no longer wants to have anything to do with human beings.

Sleep, wake up, eat some water plants, miss Yin Yin, and then fall asleep again… Loach repeats this kind of life day after day. However, at this moment, a burst of water waves called his mind.

The loach was stunned by this familiar mana. Before he could react, a figure appeared in front of him, knocking him down among the grass with one palm, and the loach raised his head dazedly. Shouted in horror: “Master…Master? Why are you here!”

“You bastard!” The middle-aged man looked like a fox demon, trembling all over, and kicked the loach heavily, “How dare you do such a hurtful thing! If I knew this, I might as well have done it from the beginning. Let that big fish eat you! I’m really mad at me!” Then he rushed up to beat and scold him, but a man behind him grabbed him: “Don’t be angry, fellow Daoist Hu, ask him clearly before dealing with him. late.”

“It turned out to be you.” Loach saw that the person who interceded for him was the female Taoist priest who released him from the gourd that had been locked up for many years. He was excited and rushed over to kowtow again and again: “Thank you, Taoist priest. Thank you for your life-saving grace that day.”

The female Taoist smiled lightly: “I remember that among those monsters that day, you were the only one with a firm mind and never acted as an accomplice for that Taoist Zhang. Why are you now free, but instead of doing evil?”

“Me? I’ve been living here… well, my wife’s gone, I’m homeless, but I haven’t done anything bad.”

“He said he didn’t do anything bad!” The old fox rushed up to give him a kick again, “I have taught no less than twenty disciples, nephews and nephews in my life, all of them are of good character. The teacher escaped and harmed the world, I was going to die of anger! I’ll just beat you back to its original shape with my own hands and throw it into the river to feed the fish and shrimp.”

Loach shrank his head in fright: “I really didn’t do anything bad.”

The old fox called and scolded him endlessly. The female Taoist tried to persuade him to one side, and then asked the loach, who was rolling with his head, “Where are those women?”

“What woman?” Loach was puzzled.

The old fox shouted from the side: “You whore, you are the brides of the river gods who have been sent over the years.”

“The women in the human sedan chairs…” Loach shook his head, “Did they drown long ago?”

“Beast!” The old fox hit his head with a palm, and the loach only felt a burst of pain pulling his body out from the bone marrow. He rolled on the ground, covering his body with water and grass. When he tried to remove the water plants on his face, he found that he had no hands – he had already been beaten back to his original shape, and the loach, who was used to being human, was shocked and screamed in fright.

“You’ve killed so many innocent women, but it’s already cheap for you to get back to your original shape, so what are you calling for!” The old fox said angrily, “I’m going to put you at the bottom of the river, so that you can’t escape forever. !”

“What did I do wrong? I, how often have I hurt people!” The loach screamed hoarsely.

“You, you, you said you didn’t hurt anyone!”

“Those women were thrown down by humans themselves. I sent them back to the shore over and over again, but they still have to throw them down. What does this have to do with me!” Loach cried aggrieved. Hearing what he said, both the old fox and the female Taoist fell silent. In recent years, the custom of marrying the river gods has prevailed here. It is said that the water gods in this river are very feminine. The girls selected for him every year must be beautiful and dignified, otherwise It will be sent back to the shore by water, and then it will be either a severe drought or a major flood, and disasters will continue. Therefore, countless girls have been victimized in recent years in this neighborhood. They originally came to kill the people for this reason, but after listening to the loach, what sin would he have if the human beings were sent into the river by themselves.

“Beautiful rhetoric, it’s all the fault of human beings for saying that, but you’re innocent! It’s not you who made a big fuss in the village and sent water to the village!”

“It’s me! They occupied my property, killed my wife, and framed me for losing my freedom. Can’t I be angry! Besides, I stopped in time and didn’t hurt any of them! Why should only human beings be allowed to harm others, and I will I can’t take revenge. They have something for you to take care of, how come my poor wife died innocently and tragically!” Loach had been suppressed for a long time, and for a while he forgot to talk about his fear.

The old fox and the female Taoist looked at each other, but he didn’t know how to deal with the loach. The old fox also understood that the loach was not wrong in this matter, but how could he admit that he punished his apprentice wrongly, and sneered: “You live It’s also a fault to watch humans drown and not be saved here, and you’re talking back!”

“What’s wrong with me? Humans threw people into the water themselves. What obligation do I have to help them, and I don’t owe them anything! I don’t want to have any more contact with them at all.”

“The disciple is right,” the female Taoist said, looking up at the water. “Even if there are no monsters in this river, humans will still carry out these lewd sacrifices if they say no. I don’t know how many humans took the opportunity to make a fortune. Taking the opportunity to bully women, what does this have to do with monsters!”

The old fox was silent for a long time, then he flicked his sleeves and said coldly, “What disciple, I don’t have such a disciple anymore.” He went straight out of the water, broke through the air, and left the loach behind.

The loach originally thought that it would be doomed again, but he didn’t expect that the master would float away, and stood there for a while, and after a while he looked at the female Taoist priest, waiting for her to deal with him.

“It seems that this old fox just expelled you from his teacher’s door, and doesn’t plan to punish you. Congratulations, I was worried that this old man had a weird temper and didn’t know what he would do.” The female Taoist said with a smile.

“What about you, what do you want me to do?”

“It’s not your fault, how can I treat you.” Seeing Loach’s sluggish expression, the female Taoist thought about him being beaten by the old fox for hundreds of years of Taoism, and she worried about him, and asked, “You will be in the future. What are your plans?”

Hearing that she was no longer embarrassing herself, Loach let go of her dangling heart, but she was at a loss when she asked her what her plans were, and after thinking for a long time, she said, “Go back to sleep. .”

The female Taoist sat at the bottom of the water and quietly listened to the loach’s story. This is the first time for the loach to tell others about his half life. In the stumbling and stumbling story, he first discovered that his life was so muddled and had nothing, only Yinyin really belonged to him, but he also lost it. Now… Yin Yin, woo woo woo… He choked and cried.

“The deceased has passed away, my condolences will change…” The female Taoist comforted him softly, “Since this is the case, don’t you intend to fulfill the last wish of Mrs. Zun?”

“How can a fool like me achieve a positive result? That’s just a reason for Yinyin to comfort me and want me to live a good life.” Loach smiled bitterly, “Even if you achieve a positive result, the world is boundless, where will I go? Looking for my Yin Yin… Yin Yin is gone, so what if I don’t fix it…”

“Do you really have the heart to not fulfill her last request?”

“…” The loach was silent, and finally shook his head, “I don’t know how many years it will take for a monster like me to become a human again, and there is no positive result. Forget it, I’ll go back and be a loach.”

The female Taoist pondered for a moment. She also knew how difficult it would be for a monster to achieve some results if she didn’t want to take shortcuts. After thinking about it, she made up her mind and asked, “Would you like to learn Taoism with me?”

Loach was taken aback. He knew that if this female Taoist was friends with his former master, who had eyes above the top, he must not be an ordinary person. How could such a master easily accept him as a disciple? However, he was not enthusiastic about cultivation, and he could escape even with a master like Kunlun Mountain Laohu, which shows that he didn’t care about famous teachers. What’s more, the other party is a human being. With the lesson of Taoist Zhang, he has lingering fears for human Taoist priests.

“I’d better go back to sleep.” After speaking, the loach burrowed into the mud before the female Taoist could speak.

The female Taoist stood still for a while before flying away.

The water wave gently awakened the sleeping loach. He opened his eyes and saw the female Taoist priest standing in front of him. It has been more than 30 years since that day~IndoMTL.com~ Every year on this day Taoist priests would come to Loach, just to ask him a question: “Would you like to practice Taoism with me?” Loach would ignore her every time and go back to sleep again, but she would come again the next year.

“Would you like to practice Taoism with me?” – as expected again, Loach smiled bitterly: “You are a human, why do you care so much about me as a monster?”

The female Taoist smiled indifferently: “Do you really think so? Look closely, I’m not a human being.”

Loach opened his mouth suspiciously, looked up and down for a long time before asking, “You are, you are… I, can I worship you as my teacher?” He knelt down.

“The Taoist priest is drinking tea.” The middle-aged scholar poured a glass of water for Taoist Bai and asked, “Then what happened to Mr. Loach?”

“Afterwards, he continued to practice, and after that…” Bai Taoist muttered for some reason, when a hearty voice came: “Afterwards, it was just that he wandered around the world and cultivated hard. In the story, Why bother to ask about the results?” Following the voice, a young Taoist priest strode along the road and appeared beside them, and Taoist Bai hurriedly stood up and said, “Junior Brother, you are here.”

The younger brother of Taoist Bai is slender and handsome. He is quite different from Taoist Bai. He talks freely and in high spirits. He chats with the stall owner for a while while drinking tea. After tea, he smiled: “Then I have to tell a story according to the rules?”

“The Taoist priest travels around the world and must know many anecdotes. Can you tell me about it?”

“Okay,” the young Taoist said after a while, “I’ll tell you a story about a fox.”