Yuan River

"Brother, we have to go back and move the tribe back." Li Che turned to Li Bin, deliberately not mentioning what happened just now.It happened so suddenly that he hadn't figured out how to deal with it.

"Well, yes." Li Bin nodded stiffly, a little in a trance.

"However, how should we explain to the patriarch?" Li Che was a little worried.

"Just say that the flood has receded." Li Bin instinctively proposed countermeasures in the face of the crisis.

"It's not a bad idea." Li Che felt relieved.

The two didn't dare to stay for a long time, so they ran non-stop all the way, and finally returned to the tribe after the relocation with a few stone altars of water before dark.

"Patriarch, the flood has receded." Ache found the patriarch, deliberately putting on a happy expression.

"Ridiculous. I have lived by the Yuan River for nearly 50 years. Has there ever been a flood that came and went as soon as I said it?" The patriarch wrote with suspicion on his face.

"This flood is just a warning from Yuanshen." Li Che responded respectfully

"Warning what?"

"I don't know whether to speak properly or not."

"speak."

"You shouldn't... try to kill me."

"Haha," the patriarch smiled instead of anger, "Let me ask you: Do you know why you are able to reach the gods?"

"Because I am the Son of God."

"Li Bin is also her son, but he can't pass through the spirit; Li Xin is not her daughter, but can pass through the spirit. Do you know why?"

"Man's fate is determined by fate, and fate is determined by the heart."

"Wrong, because you and Li Xin are talking nonsense and bewitching people! I have had enough of you liars!" The patriarch's face darkened, and his voice suddenly became stern.

"Patriarch, you have no evidence." Li Che still looked neither humble nor overbearing.

"It will be soon. Tonight, I will gather everyone, tie you to a pillar and burn you. The so-called real gold is not afraid of fire, but today I want to see with my own eyes. Under the tempering of flames, you are human. , is it a god, or a ghost!" The patriarch smiled sullenly, and the laughter was creepy, "You guys, tie him up!"

"Patriarch! Father! A tiger's poison doesn't eat its offspring!" Li Che struggled, speaking in a panic.

"Huh? Father? How many things do you know? Oh, forget it, you know what you know. There are some things you don't understand, and one day you will understand. In this matter, I have to kill my relatives righteously."

The patriarch grabbed Li Che, who was tied up by five flowers, and threw him into the granary, then sat down at the door indifferently.

Li Che rolled a few times on the ground, dizzy.However, there are more piercing doubts than pain and fear.He opened his mouth cautiously, with mixed feelings: "Patriarch, are you really my father?"

"Who told you? Li Bin?" The patriarch casually played with a few pieces of dried meat at the door of the granary, without answering the question.

"Tell me the truth, I won't blame you."

"Your name is indeed Li Che, but you are not my son." The patriarch put down these words and turned to the two young men who had tied up Li Che, "You two watch him, I have other things to do."

The patriarch left in silence, and then found Li Bin: "Bin'er, go back to the Yuan River to investigate. If there is nothing wrong with Yuan River, we will move back."

"Okay, father." Li Bin respectfully agreed.

Seeing Li Bin drifting away, the patriarch's mouth rose in complacency, his goal of sending Li Bin away has been achieved.He announced loudly to the crowd: "Everyone come here, next we will use a truly effective method to verify Ah Che's identity."

The two youths guarding Li Che heard the words, and lifted the tightly bound Li Che out of the granary, and tied him to a stake.

Li Che's complexion was pale and he was out of his mind.He recalled a time before when he was accidentally roasted to his fingertips by the sacrificial fire, and there was heart-piercing pain.

Everyone was whispering and discussing.Isn't the patriarch's move disrespectful to ghosts and gods?

"Haha, set him on fire, are you worthy?" A boy with a clean face and white shirt suddenly appeared from nowhere, aggressive.

"Who are you? What do you mean?" The patriarch was secretly taken aback, but pretended to be calm.

"Xiang Lin, the second son of Yuanshen. Li Hong, you'd better not forget that every little bit of your power is endowed by God!"

"Hmph, it seems that there are endless posers."

Xiang Lin smiled noncommittally, took out an exquisite bone flute from his waist, and played it gently, showing elegance in his gestures.

The ancient music permeated the scene, like the spring of autumn water, like the flying snow in winter, like the eternal and original appearance.At that time, the jade-clean and clear Xiang's green silk was dyed with ink, and the colored fans were elegant.

"God! He is also a god!" Several old people were so excited that they bowed down.

Xiang Lin passed them proudly, and came to Li Che, as gentle as coaxing a child: "Brother, don't be afraid, I'm here."

Xiang Lin took out some red powder, poured the water down, and threw the powder into the air.In an instant, blue-green flames rose around the two of them.

"Brother, the temperature of the phosphorus fire is very low, but it is highly poisonous." Xiang Lin said softly.

"Then what should we do?" Li Che was a little surprised and flustered.

Xiang Lin took a deep breath, stood on tiptoe, and kissed Li Che's lips directly.Without extra movement, Xiang Lin sent the air in his lungs into Li Che's mouth bit by bit, and the air bubbles burst softly in Li Che's mouth.

The higher and higher blue flames blocked everyone's sight, and people could only vaguely see the two embracing each other in the fire.

"They are not afraid of fire! They are as pure as fire!"

"They are gods! After 20 years, the gods are back!"

"God! Give enlightenment to the tribe!"

The old people burst into tears.The young people also felt something when they saw this, and they were moved.

The restless flames made Li Che dizzy.He subconsciously stuck his tongue into Xiang Li's mouth, trying to get more oxygen.

"Well, bro, don't do this..." Xiang Lin said.

Xiang Lin's tongue was very soft, and seemed to have a milky fragrance, provoking crime.For a moment, Li Che was about to pinch his black-bellied younger brother under him almost the next moment.

However, the flame gradually extinguished.The two reappeared in everyone's line of sight.

"I want to take my brother away." Xiang Lin looked around and announced as a matter of course.

"Why?" The patriarch's veins burst out, furious.

"Just because I am the son of God, and he is my elder brother." Xiang Lin was confident.

"I'm not leaving." Li Che said in a low voice, tugging at the corner of Xiang Lin's clothes.

"Brother! These people are ready to frame you at any time. If you don't leave, you will be tripped one after another." Xiang Lin was burning with anxiety.

"My older brother and younger sister are here."

"Brother, have you realized that you are the most selfish! If you don't leave, Li Bin, Li Xin and I will all get into endless troubles because of you."

"I'm sorry. I... I'll go with you." Li Che faltered in a low voice, and took a step forward.

Li Bin, Li Xin, please be good, forget about me.For your happiness, I am willing to imprison myself in a cage without you.

Ah, it's snowing again.The colorful snowflakes are like the snow country elves singing and dancing in the sky, touching every inch of the vast land freely and freely.

The world is white and clean.

Like, never had.

The two left calmly one after the other.The crowd automatically lined up on both sides to make way for the two, allowing the patriarch to be furious.The two made two shallow footprints on the thin snow.

Walking towards the source of the Yuan River, the snow gradually thickened and piled up.Li Che, who was walking behind, scooped up a large handful of snow from the ground, and stuffed it quietly into the back of Xiang Lin's neck.

"Ah! It's so cold!" Xiang Lin shrank his neck from the cold, and shook off the snow stuffed in aggrievedly, "Brother, you are a villain!"

"That's not as bad as you." Li Che said quietly.

"why?"

"Didn't you trick me into going home?" Li Che approached with a smirk, and suddenly pushed Xiang Lin down in the snow, "I'm going to bury you in snow."

"do not want!"

"You can't help it!" Li Che desperately pushed Xiang Lin into the snow.

For a moment, the four eyes met, and each other's breath was blown on each other's face, crisp and itchy.

"You can do whatever you want." Xiang Lin said softly, as if coaxing a child, "Well..."

The next words were swallowed up in a series of long tongue kisses.

"Brother, don't leave me again, okay?" Xiang Lin muttered.

"I won't leave again," Li Che panted hoarsely, and gently scratched Xiang Lin's nose, "Brother, you are the fool."

……

Three years later.upstream tribe.

"Brother, go to the warehouse and get some mulberry leaves." Xiang Lin greeted, playing with the silkworms in the sieve.

"Okay, I'll go right away." Li Che agreed wholeheartedly.

In recent years, the growth of silkworm babies is gratifying, and the number has doubled one after another.

Li Che came to the warehouse full of joy and pushed back the curtain.For a moment, he suddenly felt that there was someone else in the warehouse.

"Who is it?" He subconsciously asked.

no respond.A pair of thick arms immediately locked his ankles and dragged him backwards.Just as he was about to yell, a thick big hand immediately covered his mouth.He struggled around, but the other party actually pushed him down, and a pair of familiar eyes looked at each other, which surprised him.

"Li Bin? Is it you? I'm not dreaming, am I?" Li Che used both hands to break away the hand that was covering his mouth.

Li Bin didn't speak.He rubbed Li Che's fair cheeks repeatedly with his rough fingertips, as if he was playing with some rare treasure.The three years of separation made him think badly about the person in front of him.After a long time, he said hoarsely, "Li Che, come home with me. Will you?"

"But the patriarch..." Li Che was a little embarrassed.

"The old patriarch is no longer alive."

"what?"

"Now, I am the patriarch of the tribe."

Only then did Li Che take a closer look at Li Bin in front of him.The years have engraved wind and frost on his face.There is a new scar on the forehead, telling the maturity after the vicissitudes.