Dinon

I don’t know when Xiaohe began to guard this remote mountain village. According to Tuobachen’s mother, the river existed when she was young. Even people in the village who are older than Tuobachen’s mother said I don't know the origin of this river. It seems that they accompanied them all the way from birth to death.

A small river is called a small river, but in fact the water level is very deep, seven or eight feet long, and you can't see the end of it when you fall into it.There are many snail fish and shrimps in the river, and many lotus water chestnuts are planted in the lower reaches of the river. When summer comes, the lotus leaves all over the river are blown by the wind wave after wave, and there are many snow-white flowers in them. Or the fiery red lotus, shining and blooming under the sunshine, has an indescribable beauty.

Tuo Bachen's favorite since she was a child is this small river. Although her legs and feet are not good, she can't swim in the river and fish together like children of the same age, but she came here every day when she was a child. Holding the lotus, looking at the partners in the corner of Wei Zong playing in the water, her heart is filled with joy.

After being led by Yuan Shuyi to the edge of the small river, Tuobachen couldn't wait to break free from Yuan Shuyi's hand, ran to the place where he used to fish, put down many things they brought from home, Turning around and looking at Yuan Shuyi with a smile.

Her smile was so bright, as if it was shining in the sun, Yuan Shuyi couldn't help but feel amused, "It's getting late, let's prepare lunch."

"Yes." Tuoba Chen obediently agreed.

They said it was lunch, but they actually had half a grain of rice now, not to mention cooking, and they couldn't even feed the birds if they wanted to.Fortunately, they are now by the river, and they are also very close to the dense forest on the east side of the small river. The ancients said, "Eat mountains by relying on mountains, and eat water by relying on water." In this way, local materials are enough.

Yuan Shuyi took off the coat she had just put on, carefully rolled up her trouser legs, revealing a section of her fair calf, holding the long wooden stick she just picked up from the road, tentatively walked from the river to the water.

"Come back!" Tuo Bachen raised his throat when he saw her so anxious, but before she had time to pull her, she went down. "Yuan Shuyi, come back quickly. The river looks shallow, and people don't show their heads when they go down. Come back quickly!"

Tuo Bachen stomped his feet on the bank in a hurry, and was about to cry when he turned his mouth. He kept yelling for Yuan Shuyi to go ashore, but Yuan Shuyi smiled at her indifferently, "It's okay." She also measured the river that day. She dared to jump down only when it was deep or shallow, and she could hold her breath again, this river water was really nothing to her.

She walked to the middle of the river, half-floating on the water, holding a wooden stick with a sharp tip in her hand. After she spotted it, she hit a fish with a "touch", "Haha, I caught you!" Yuan Shuyi smiled happily, took the fish whose tail was still wagging from the wooden stick, and threw the fish onto the shore with a flick of air, "Go on!"

Tuobachen didn't care about the fish that were still alive and kicking on the ground, and just shouted to Yuan Shuyi, "Yuan Shuyi, come up quickly!" She shouted several times, but it was like Yuan Shuyi was trapped by a nightmare, As if I didn't hear her words, I continued walking to the depths of the creek without looking back. After a while, it was covered by many dense lotus leaves the size of a millstone, and I couldn't see anyone anymore.

The sun at this time is the most vicious of the day. Even though Tuobachen was wearing a straw hat made of wheat straw for ordinary farm work, she was still sweating profusely from the sun. She looked at the empty lotus pond , but feel cold all over.The coldness spread from a corner of her heart to her limbs and bones, spreading out, making her hands and feet weak and unable to lift up.

She still remembers that when she was seven years old, her father did the same thing, telling her to catch fish for her to replenish her body, but the river he fell into never came up again.No, it should have come up, but it was fished out from the bottom of the river by some swimmers.

She slumped on the ground, looked at the still empty river, and couldn't help crying, "Yuan Shuyi, come up quickly, didn't you say that there are snakes and water monsters in the water? Yuan Shuyi..." She She kept calling Yuan Shuyi's name like a demon, and suddenly remembered what her mother said when she was alive, "Sincerity leads to spirit", and hurriedly curled up her legs and knelt squarely on the grass, and bowed to the surroundings a few times, "Buddha!" , Avalokitesvara, you must bless and let Yuan Shuyi come back." After she finished speaking, she closed her eyes and silently recited a few words from the Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra, and then began to kowtow, saying to herself "Buddha bless you, Bring Yuan Shuyi back."

She kowtowed and prayed like this, but the Buddha did not recruit her, but she did attract a "monster".

"What are you doing?" Hearing this soft and charming voice, Tuobachen was overjoyed, thinking that the Buddha is really useful.She hurriedly raised her head, only to see a monster with blue eyes staring at her.

"Ah!" Tuo Bachen was taken aback. After all, she was a little girl who grew up in a small mountain village. It was not unusual for Yuan Shuyi to recognize her as a monster when he saw blue-eyed and brown-haired Yuan Shuyi. "Don't come here, monster, I'm not afraid of you..." Tuo Bachen leaned back, and shouted at Yuan Shuyi in a crying tone, losing is not losing, her mother told her that she met a monster You must be more fierce than the monster, then the monster will be afraid of you and will not dare to eat you.

"Pfft..." Yuan Shuyi smiled while stroking her dripping hair. She finally knew why the girl in front of her was terrified. Looking at her frightened little chick, she was teasing her mind. Together, we can't stop.Yuan Shuyi blinked, her blue eyes were full of exotic mystery, "I'm coming. Little girl, let me tell you, I haven't eaten for several days." As she spoke, she pretended to arrest someone , is about to go forward and grab Tuo Bachen.

Unexpectedly, it was so daring, not only did Tuobachen not cry and beg for mercy as she imagined, but he picked up the wooden stick she used as a crutch, and beat her in a beckoning way, and she used it with a crying voice The voice said, "You monster, you must have eaten Yuan Shuyi. Woohoo..."

"Hey, hey..." Yuan Shuyi grabbed her wooden stick as a weapon with his left hand, pulled her into his arms regardless of her struggle, and held her shoulder with his right hand and said softly, "Look carefully, am I who."

The soft voice and the clothes on her body are good for Yuan Shuyi, but her eyes and hair...

"Don't lie to me, you are a monster." After speaking, Tuo Bachen beat her hard with his hands, "You monster, monster!"

"Hey, why don't you believe me?" Yuan Shuyi looked at the little girl in her arms who was making trouble, "I am Yuan Shuyi."

"You lied, your eyes are blue, and your hair is different. Isn't this the monster in the New Year pictures!"

"Hey, take a look now, what's wrong with my eyes?" Yuan Shuyi said, shaking the girl in his arms, "Take a look?"

Tuo Bachen carefully raised his head from her embrace, and saw Yuan Shuyi's soft smiling face, at this moment her beautiful face was free of any dirt, making her more beautiful.And her eyes and hair are still black.

"Wow..." Tuobachen cried miserably, the mud on her face hadn't been washed off, and now even the mud and tears were wiped on Yuan Shuyi's clothes, "Wow... Yuan Shuyi, are you scared?" I'm dead, why are you going down?" She continued to wipe the dirt on her face onto Yuan Shuyi's freshly washed clothes as she cried, watching the veins on Yuan Shuyi's forehead twitch.

"It's okay, look, I'm okay." Resisting the thought of throwing her out, Yuan Shuyi patted her on the back reassuringly, "I just want to wash myself in the river."

Tuo Bachen was still hiccupping, but at least she stopped crying and just wiped away her tears.Yuan Shuyi let her go and let her stand still, while he went to pack the things she brought out from the river.

She just went down to the river to have a look. This river is indeed the patron saint of the village that Tuo Bachen said. Not only is it rich in aquatic products, but there are also many extremely precious herbs, including the plover that can hide her true face. Fortunately, she picked a lot just in case, otherwise wouldn't she scare that ignorant little girl Tuo Bachen to death?But how to explain it to her?

Seeing that Yuan Shuyi was packing up her things, Tuo Bachen was embarrassed to stand still. She picked up the dying fish that Yuan Shuyi had thrown ashore just now, found a stone knife from among the things they brought, and gave the knife to the one that fell. The fish is disembowelled, and the fish scales are scraped off and the floats are removed, and then they are washed downstream in the small river.Turning around, she saw Yuan Shuyi tinkering with a pile of grass, she couldn't help asking curiously, "What is that?"

"Ah," felt guilty when she asked, Yuan Shuyi began to deceive the child again, "I saw these grasses growing beautifully, and thought you should like them, so I picked some randomly."

"Oh." Tuo Bachen nodded, neither asked what happened to her eyes, nor asked what she was doing after disappearing for so long, just blindly believed what she said. "I cleaned the fish."

"Yeah." Yuan Shuyi put down the things in her hand guiltily, looked at her and said, "You wait here, I'll get some firewood." She trotted towards the small woods not far away.

Tuo Bachen looked at her back as she walked forward without hesitation, and sighed, she went to the pile of grass that Yuan Shuyi said was "beautiful" and casually flipped through it, then walked away silently pursing her pale lips He went to the side and used a wooden shovel to dig a pit where he could bury the fire, and sat on the ground with his arms folded, waiting for Yuan Shuyi to come back with firewood.