Half blood

"Rongda? Why did you ask him?"

Li Xuan replied: "Just asking casually."

The character mustache glanced at him sideways, and said, "Rongda is a villager in the upper village by the Anqu River. Somehow this year, he strayed into the forbidden area of ​​the mountain in front of the military camp and dragged a child with him. Major General Wei is kind-hearted." Seeing that he was so pitiful that he was waiting to die when he was released from the camp, so he was allowed to stay in the camp, helping to wash clothes, cook food, and do some rough work. Here it is."

After hearing this, Li Xuan asked, "What kind of pitiful method is it?"

"It's poor, you can't speak, and you have a crazy girl with you."

"Crazy girl?" Li Xuan thought that this person should refer to the girl he was talking to just now, but that girl seemed to have no other problems except being a little messy, and she was full of bad things like Li Fei, she didn't look like a lunatic.

The character mustache said: "That girl always wears men's clothes, sits in front of the camp, and says such weird things. You'd better stay away from her..." The character mustache suddenly lowered his voice, and whispered: "unlucky."

"Unlucky?" Li Xuan couldn't help lowering his voice, and asked, "Why is it unlucky?"

The character mustache replied: "The year before last, A Dong, a hunter in the East Village, brought beaten venison to the brothers in the camp. Everyone was happy, but this crazy girl ran over and said something. A lot of messy words, what to say, what to say that the deer he killed would come to him. These words made A Dong’s wife so angry that she gave her a big-eared melon seed and beat her to the ground. On the ground, but do you know what the most evil thing is?"

Li Xuan's heart couldn't help but raised his throat, he held his breath and asked, "What?"

"The next day, Ah Dong went hunting in the mountains again, and was pierced through a hole in his stomach by a deer with big horns. The intestines splattered all over the ground, and half of them were taken away by wild wolves. This Ah Dong Dong is a good hunter. He has beaten all birds and beasts in the mountains. If he is drunk, he can knock out a bear with one fist, but he was kicked by a deer. Tell me about this... Ah Dong died Later, his daughter-in-law cried terribly. Before the first seven days were over, she went to the camp in filial piety to look for that crazy girl. She pulled her hair and said that she would burn her alive. The man kowtowed to the widow of A Dong's family and kowtowed for a long time, and then this matter continued until Major General Wei came back, and Major General Wei came forward to talk about it, and finally settled the matter." The character mustache After finishing this matter, his mouth was dry, so he took some water from a bamboo tube, gulped down a big gulp, and said to Li Xuan, "So, don't mess with that crazy girl..."

After hearing this, Li Xuan lowered his eyes, he couldn't help but think of what the girl said to him, this is a natural disaster, there is nothing human can do about it, you are only here to be buried with you.An inexplicable fear rose from his heart somehow.He didn't know if that girl really had any bad luck, but he was afraid that one word would become a prophecy, so a casual word would have predestined the ending early.

Li Xuan asked, "Has there ever been any flood in the south?"

The character mustache laid his body flat on the ground, put his arms behind his head as a pillow, and held a grass root in his mouth, and said, "Big water? There are a few days in the south every year. Counting the days, it should be flood water." It’s been a long time, it’s just that this year is a bit weird.”

"What kind of weird method?"

"It rained a little early. It rained a long time ago and flooded the seedlings in the field. Now it's raining time, and the sun is shining every day."

The character mustache said that the clouds were calm and the wind was light. Li Xuan felt that his heart was even more flustered. He felt a tendon in his brain jumping suddenly, and that ominous premonition made him shudder.

"However, 30 years ago, there was a flood that was once in a thousand years." The character mustache suddenly said leisurely. "I was only three years old at that time, and I was just able to walk. I can't remember what happened at that time. I just remember that the river flooded half of Xingchuan Mountain in that year, and tens of thousands of acres of fertile land were washed away. People never thought that there would be such a large amount of water. When they fell asleep in the house at night, the water rushed in. The water made the people in the village die, and some people still don’t know where the bones rushed. Yes... But, the dead are just gone, and the living are even more miserable. They have left their homes and been displaced for decades. They didn't die in the flood, and some died of starvation. In fact, this kind of thing is nothing It's so scary, when it's time for you to die, you can't escape no matter what, it's nothing more than a different way of dying."

Li Xuan listened silently. The fire in front of him seemed to be extinguished. Dark gray ash floated out of the fire in the evening wind. Holding Xinzi, licking the dark night bit by bit.For some reason, he was suddenly not afraid. He was going to die anyway. He might accidentally fall to his death while walking on the road tomorrow, so what was he afraid of now.

Wei Yuan came over from the night, and said, "Go back to your room to rest tonight, I should watch the night with Brother Hu." After speaking, he made the fire more prosperous, and sat down beside the fire with his legs crossed. Li Xuan had no intention of leaving, so he asked, "What? Is there something on your mind?"

Li Xuan shook his head, and Wei Yuan patted him on the shoulder, saying: "It's late at night, rest first, I'll take you to see the terrain in the south tomorrow." Li Xuan nodded, stood up, dressed Xingguang walked towards his room, he turned his head and saw a bonfire burning outside, a flute sound was blowing from a distance by the evening wind, and it blew into his ears, he turned his head and pushed open the silent door , the lights were not turned on inside, and a thin layer of moonlight shone on the tables and chairs in the room. He lay down on the bed and took a deep breath. This was his first day in the south.

On the second day at Yinshi, Li Xuan got up from the bed, tied up his hair, slobbered in his mouth, swiped it up and down with a salt-soaked brush, then spit out the water, and came from the room. out.

Wei Yuan and Mustache were already in the yard. Wei Yuan was holding a blueprint with rough edges in his hand, and was talking to Mustache. When he saw Li Xuan coming out of the room, he rolled up the blueprint and put it away. He said, "Go into Xingchuan Mountain with Brother Hu today. The road on this mountain is not easy to walk, and there are no wild animals in the daytime, so you can put that knife in the house." Li Xuan hesitated, and still took the big knife off his back. Get down and travel light.

After entering the mountain, the road becomes rugged and difficult. Layers of big trees hang down long branches. The roots of the trees protrude from the ground and twist under the paved leaves. The sound of birds that I don't know how to describe is heard from the top of the treetops from time to time. Come out of the layers of leaves.

Wei Yuan turned around and asked Li Xuan behind him, "Are you tired?" Li Xuan shook his head hurriedly, and said, "I'm in good spirits." Why do you want to come to the south?"

"Actually, there's no reason, it's just that my father... my father, he always treats me like a straw bag, he is very sad towards me, and hates iron for being weak. I am also annoyed by him talking about it every day. I want to So, then I will go out and make a living by myself, and let him know that I am not so useless."

After hearing what he said, the character mustache laughed again, and said, "So you still have such troubles."

Li Xuan made a bitter face, and said: "Isn't that right? Besides, it's much more fun here in the south. You don't need to study every day. You don't know. I'm not afraid of anything but reading. As soon as I open that book, I will Get dizzy first."

"Reading is a good thing. Reading the books of sages and sages can help you understand things and cultivate righteousness. Even if you come to the south, you should read more. You have to learn from books to build dams and measure water conditions. But From what you said, is it because you don't want to go back anymore?"

Li Xuan nodded and said, "Isn't that right, I don't want to go back at all."

But he actually still wanted to go back. He hadn't been tossed about by that girl Li Fei for several days, and he was not used to it, and he hadn't seen Li Xiuqi for four days. Where Li Xiuqi could not be seen, he could sort out his thoughts and stop thinking about it.Unexpectedly, this method completely ran counter to his original intention, the more he couldn't see it, the more he missed it.Thinking of this, Li Xuan couldn't help lowering his head, wondering if that guy Li Xiuqi was just staying in the Library Pavilion to eat ashes now, and, did he ever think about him at all?It's not that he doesn't have confidence, it's just that if he falls into the water with the Four Books and Five Classics, that guy will probably save the book first, then spread the book out in the sun to dry, and then fold it back to save him...

Li Xuan regained his composure, diverted the words, and asked, "Brother Wei, why did we go up the mountain today?"

Wei Yuan replied: "Only by standing high can you see the whole picture. The river is three thousand miles long. It flows from Xingchuan Mountain and flows forward for another thousand and seventy-four miles to Luoshui. There are millions of acres of land along the river. Tens of thousands of households are supported by the Anqu River, and the water level this year is lower than in previous years, and there should be water shortages next year."

"Lack of water?"

Wei Yuan nodded, and said: "We also don't know the weather this year. It doesn't rain when it's supposed to, and it's flooded when it's not."

Just as he was talking, the mustache suddenly stopped in front of him, waved his hand, and made Wei Yuan and Li Xuan stop, "What kind of strange noise is this?"

When Wei Yuan heard it, he held his breath and listened intently for a while. Sure enough, he heard a hissing sound coming from nowhere. The sound was not loud, but he could feel that it was not far away from them. He sang loudly, "Ah, ah, ah!" When the bird closed its beak, the strange hissing sound could not be heard.Wei Yuan couldn't help frowning, he raised his head and looked around, except for the three of them, there were only a few thousand-year-old trees in the forest, and there was no living thing.

Wei Yuan listened carefully for a while, and after confirming that there was no more movement, he said, "Go ahead first, watch as you go, and be careful."

The three of them walked a few dozen steps forward and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no abnormality.Just as the group of people's hearts hanging in their throats fell steadily, there was a loud noise, and a piece of open space in front of them was split into two pieces, and a fishy smell rushed over, only to see a huge [-]-[-]-foot-long The python suddenly jumped out from the ground.