Yuan River

"Why can't she wake up!" Miss Mi yelled anxiously, looking around in a daze, turned around and pulled out the stone knife she was wearing, and pointed it at Ah Che who was following her, "If she doesn't wake up, I'll be the first one to kill her today!" you."

Hearing this, Li Bin stepped in front of Ah Che to separate her from Ah Che, staring sharply into her eyes, and said firmly, "Mother, if you want to kill him, please kill me first."

"Bin'er, Li Xin is your younger sister." Mi's whole body trembled like a dilapidated sieve.

"But Archer is my brother."

"Hahahaha, I understand," Mrs. Mi suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed hysterically, looking quite crazy, "You did it on purpose. Xiang Zhi's son doesn't have a good thing, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked."

"You can insult me, but please don't insult the Xiang family. Otherwise, I can recognize the patriarch, but my fists can't recognize the patriarch." Li Bin gritted his teeth and squeezed out every word.

For a while, the two sides were at a stalemate, and their swords were on edge.

"Bin'er, don't make trouble. Yun'er, you don't make trouble either." The patriarch hurried over and put on the posture of a big patriarch, pretending to be calm and crossed between them, "We are all a family, why bother?"

Mi Shi was obviously more worried than angry, and immediately dropped the stone knife in his hand, as if he didn't want to participate in the fight anymore, but silently crawled back to Li Xin's side, weeping like rain.

Seeing this, the patriarch turned to Ah Che: "Ah Che, look into my eyes and tell me, what happened these days?" In the words, there was a majesty that couldn't be concealed.

Ah Che's expression was calm, calm and calm: "That day, I was learning to fish with Li Bin, and accidentally fell into the water of the Yuan River. Who would have thought that the direction of the Yuan River is strange, the surface water flows from east to west, and the bottom water flows From west to east, send me all the way back to the source. The Yuanshen picked me up from the Yuan River and gave me a new life."

"Since you have become a god, it seems that there is no need to stay in the tribe. Then you go back to the source and accompany your mother."

"I returned to the tribe because I have something important to tell. The sky doesn't follow people's wishes. Within two days, the Yuan River will inevitably flood."

"Now is the dry season."

"This is the instruction of Yuanshen."

"Okay, I'll trust you once." After a long time, the patriarch sighed, turned around and patted Li Bin's shoulder, "Bin'er, from now on, you command the tribe to relocate and retreat a hundred steps away from the river."

"Father, I'll do it now," Li Bin agreed, and couldn't help but look at Ah Che worriedly. Seeing Ah Che nodding to indicate that he was fine, he turned his head and walked straight to the people who were still standing in front of the fire, "Flood Soon, all the men of the tribe will follow me to move to the ground!"

This order was inappropriate, because the "men" Li Bin summoned obviously did not include the patriarch and Ah Che, but he didn't pay much attention to this.

As soon as the words were finished, Li Bin took the lead and came to the side of the main tent, pulling hard on the main tent, trying to tear it off.Helplessly, a corner of the main tent got stuck on the sleepers, and Li Bin failed to move it several times.

While hesitating, I saw a thin boy climbing up from the top of the sleeper.He shook lightly, and the heavy curtain fell to the ground instantly.

"Ache, you're here." Li Bin raised his head and recognized the boy at the top of the sleeper.

"Brother, thank you just now." A Che jumped down from the top of the sleeper like a clever monkey.

"Protecting you is my responsibility as the head hunter."

"If it was someone else who was in danger just now, would you have stepped forward?" A Che didn't look at Li Bin when he asked.

"I think I will, and then teach him not to put himself at risk."

"Then why don't you teach me?"

"You are different."

"What's the difference?"

"Everything you've ever done makes it hard for me to judge."

"Is that so..." Ah Che was at a loss for words for a while, and then changed the subject, "Brother, let's talk about Mrs. Xiang."

"Well, it's a long story," Li Bin paused, seemingly lost in thought, "30 years ago, the patriarch met a gentle and charming girl in the upper reaches. The patriarch fell in love at first sight.

"He married this girl on a certain day. The newlyweds, the two of them sang and zithered in harmony, and it was a good story. However, it didn't take long for this girl to be fascinated by witchcraft, and she often performed spells in the tribe.

"One day, for some reason, she practiced suicide. Everyone believed that she was dead, but she began to appear frequently in the red glow of the rising sun. In this way, according to the late old witch, she Became a god.

"She is Xiang Shi, she is Yuanshen."

"That's it." Ache shook his head thoughtfully.

Before I knew it, half a day had passed.The camp was dismantled into curtains, wooden stakes and hemp ropes by the big guys, and they were carried on their shoulders, ready to be moved away.

"What kind of flood is there? These days, the water level of the Yuan River has continued to drop." A young man stared at the dry river surface and muttered dissatisfiedly.

"Don't talk nonsense! The flood was predicted by A Che himself, how can it be false?" His brother just unloaded the heavy object and said.

It was noon when the relocation was completed.People sat down wearily and gorged themselves.After the meal, people began to set up camp again in the new place.

Li Bin suddenly patted Ah Che on the shoulder: "The tribe has no drinking water, we have to go back to the river to get some."

Archer nodded in agreement.

The two took the stone altar and returned by the same way.When they came to the river, they were horrified and inexplicably found that the water level had dropped suddenly, and the strange rocks were craggy, revealing a large and steep river bank.

"What... what's going on here?" Ah Che was startled and frightened.

"I don't know, it looks like a drought. But right now, we still need to fetch water, otherwise the tribe will have no drinking water." Li Bin was also a little uneasy, but he made a quick decision.

"We can't reach the water at all."

"Then go down from the river beach over there."

The upper part of the fan-shaped river beach is piled up with delicate and round pebbles, but the lower part exposed after the water level drops is full of sticky and abrupt mud.

Li Bin untied the stone altar from his waist, and ran straight from the river beach to the lowered river.All of a sudden, he felt a softness under his feet, as if there was a strong suction force to suck him into the abyss.

"Don't come here! It's a swamp!" He quickly made a judgment based on his experience, and hurriedly issued a warning to Ah Che.Immediately, he turned his head and found that Ah Che was following closely behind, fixed on the spot.He hurriedly lowered his head to look at the feet of the two, only to see that both of their feet had sunk into the swamp.

Li Bin didn't think too much, he gritted his teeth, and with all his strength, he threw Ah Che alive from the swamp and directly threw him back to the pebbles in the upper half of the river beach.

After this series of actions, Li Bin's legs and waist continued to sink into the swamp, completely submerged.

"Brother!" Ah Che shouted in panic.

"Don't come here! Otherwise, we're both going to die!" Li Bin yelled, and then laughed at himself, "I never thought that I would die in the Yuan River after traveling all over the world for more than ten years."

"Brother, don't say that!" Ah Che cried hoarsely, but felt that his mind was as blank as a ball of paste.He couldn't imagine how he would deal with himself one day without Li Bin in this world.

"Ache, listen, your name is Li Che. After I die, you will be the next patriarch of the Li clan. At that time, you must treat every member of the tribe equally and take care of them from the bottom of your heart. them."

"Brother, I remembered..." Ah Che's face was covered with tears, and he was in an unprecedented embarrassment.

"In a few years, you will marry Li Xin. She is my sister, and you are my brother. I believe it is worth entrusting her to you. Remember to treat her well."

"Hmm..." Ache nodded indiscriminately, and agreed indiscriminately.

"The patriarch should stop harming you, otherwise he will have no successors. So he will definitely support you with all his suspicions gone.

"Um……"

"In the end, I want to say to you: Li Che, I love you. This has nothing to do with everything I said before. I only love you alone. If I have to explain the reason clearly, it should be—— Redeem. In fact, I live a very tired life. I have to lead the way and mediate between all parties. Your pure light is the light of my life..."

"..."

Li Bin sank slowly, and the mud gradually covered his upper body...

"Brother..." Li Che was extremely anxious but at a loss, watching Li Bin sink inch by inch.

Things are getting more and more hopeless.

A slender rattan stretched out quietly.

"You two idiots. Li Bin, grab the cane quickly." At the critical moment, that resourceful Xiang Lin suddenly appeared from nowhere.

"Xiang Lin?" Li Che was overjoyed.In Li Che's impression, every time it seems that as long as this boy is around, all difficulties can be easily solved.

"Brother, come here, give him a hand, he's too heavy." Xiang Lin tugged Li Bin at the other end of the cane vigorously.

Li Che hurried over, and together with Xiang Lin, they pulled Li Bin out slowly with great effort.Looking at Li Bin again, he was lying on the river beach collapsed, his face was as pale as paper, but he was safe after all.

"Xiang Lin, why are there only droughts and no floods?" Although physically and mentally exhausted, Li Che couldn't help expressing his confusion.

"Because we lied to you." Xiang Lin looked calm.

"What?" Li Che couldn't help being furious, and he was furious, and clamped Xiang Lin's neck fiercely, "If anything happens to Li Bin or Li Xin, I want you to be buried with him."

"Brother, you can't blame me," Xiang Lin said with a hint of amusement in his calm expression, "Xiang Shi wanted to lie to you, but I confessed to you."

"What's going on? Tell me clearly!"

"Brother, think about it. The tribe already had difficulty getting water, but now they moved away from the river bank because of the unnecessary 'flood'. How do you think the tribe leader will feel?"

"The tribe's daily water shortage is extremely scarce, and he must blame me."

"That's right. So brother, don't go back, come with me."

"Go away! My sister is still unconscious, how can I just walk away?"

"It's just smoke poisoning, I woke up after two days of sleep."

"How did you know she was poisoned? Are you following me?"

"I……"

"Aren't you eloquent? Why don't you quibble now?"

"All I do is... want to be with my brother."

"Go as far as you go! I don't want to see you again!"

Li Che pulled Li Bin past him, turned his head and left, leaving Xiang Lin alone - behind him was the Yuan River whose riverbed was exposed and was drying up day by day.