Three stories of the bride in the water

God doesn't know what happened. After three consecutive years of floods have made people miserable, this year's flood has just receded. Because the water recededed early this year, the people have begun to rectify their lives, replant crops, and began a rare drought. There is a hot sun hanging in the sky without even a trace of clouds, emitting heat to the earth, as if it will never stop without squeezing out the last water vapor here. The year-old land that used to accumulate water has now dried up with deep cracks, and even the river that has been flooded every year now has only fine water, flowing lazily.

At noon, no one could be seen far on the road with "green smoke" as soon as he walked. There was only a small tea stall under an old tree. The middle-aged scholar sitting behind the tea stall was holding a book and reading it with interest. It was not until the Taoist priest came to him to salute that he noticed that someone was coming. Taoist priest, sit down and drink a glass of water. It's really hot on this day. The middle-aged scholar quickly invited the Taoist priest to sit down and poured him a cup of strong tea.

The Taoist priest is a thin black dwarf with a southern accent. After grabbing the tea and drinking it, he said, "This day is really hot to death. Sir can save my hurry."

"Drink again and drink again." The middle-aged scholar helped him make tea again and asked, "Will the Taoist priest come from afar?" Does the accent sound like a southerner?

"My hometown is Zhejiang, and I have lived in the north for decades, but I can't change this accent." The Taoist priest touched the sweat with his sleeve and took a sip of tea.

The middle-aged scholar saw that he was in his early 20s. Hearing his words, he seemed to have left his hometown since he was a child and said, "As the saying goes, is it difficult to change the local accent? Haven't you asked the Taoist number yet?"

"My name is Baishui, and I don't have a Taoist priest since I was a monk. Just call me Bai Taoist." Seeing the middle-aged scholar, he also smiled and said, "I was born black, but my surname is white. Every time I say it, I am funny. It's just that this skin color was given by my parents, and the surname was given by the master. I really can't do it at all.

The two casually chatted with the white Taoist priest's amazing amount of drinking. They had already drunk half a bucket of boiled water, and the pot of tea had already been soaked and lost its taste. The middle-aged scholar changed the tea and was waiting to continue the water. A sound of blowing and beating in the distance attracted their attention.

Surrounded by a group of drummers, a big red sedan chair swayed along the path, and the lively joy attracted many naughty idlers to watch, but this gorgeous and festive wedding team lacked one of the most important protagonists - the groom, replaced by some of them following the team. The role of squire and family man, and matchmaker was also replaced by a god woman dressed as a demon.

White Taoist priest suddenly stood up and said excitedly, "This shouldn't be, shouldn't it be..."

The middle-aged scholar shook his head and sighed: "What an evil! In previous years, there was a flood, that is, it is said to send the bride to ask the river to stop the water. This year, when there is a drought, it is said that it will ask the river to rain - it is okay if the sky doesn't let people live. Such a thing doesn't let people live! I don't know who suffered again this year!"

The white Taoist priest walked forward quickly, but accidentally knocked down the middle-aged scholar's tea stall. He apologized repeatedly and said, "I'll clean up, I'll pay, and I'll come back to clean up..." As he strode forward to chase the family-off team, the middle-aged scholar was about to stop him, but he looked up and disappeared.

The middle-aged scholar thought he was also going to join the fun, shaking his head and sighing while slowly cleaning up the tea stall. After a while, the send-off team and the lively people turned back in three or two, but they didn't see the white Taoist priest. The middle-aged scholar listened to the people who stayed at the tea stall drinking water while passing by: "This is the first time to do this. This kind of thing doesn't work..."

"Don't be stupid. If such a thing worked a few years ago, we wouldn't have flooded every year. I really don't know what's wrong with those old men' minds. They did this kind of thing again this year."

"What, you don't know! It's not because the girl named Yao'er, who was sent this time, was liked by Mr. Xu and wanted to make a seven-room house. Think about it. How much is the age difference between 71 and 16? She is also a serious daughter. His mother worked hard to be a widow. Of course, she doesn't want to. I've sinned Mrs. Xu. Don't you give her..."

"Poor her mother, she is almost 50 years old. The young widow is such a sweetheart, and she jumped down with the sedan chair..."

"Oh, that's good. There is also a care when the two of them walk together..."

"Poor, such a handsome daughter..."

“......”

The middle-aged scholar who sent these people away was still shaking his head and sighing. As soon as he looked up, he saw that the White Taoist priest had come back. The original dusty appearance is now much cleaner, and there are still water stains on his hair under such a hot sun, as if he had just climbed up from the river. He saw that the middle-aged scholar had cleaned up the stall by himself, and then looked at the pile of broken cups and teapots on the ground. His face turned red and said, "I'm really sorry. I was in a hurry to go just now... I'll lose money and pay for the tea together." As he said this, his hand reached into his arms but stopped moving. He didn't take it out for a long time and said proudly, "I forgot that I gave all the money to their mother and daughter just now... I'm out of money... Sir, my master and brother will be there in a moment. Can you wait until they come..."

The middle-aged scholar laughed and said, "I set up this tea stall to listen to stories, not to make money. The Taoist priest must have seen and heard it. I don't know if you can come and listen to it?"

"Tear a story? I, my mouth is the most clumsy. I really can't do it. Otherwise, my brother will ask him to talk about how knowledgeable he is. The White Taoist priest looked more anxious.

"Don't worry, Taoist priest. I just like to listen to stories and set up a tea stall here to change stories. It's originally for entertainment. It doesn't matter if you don't want to talk about it. Come on, have a cup of tea and wait for your master and brother slowly."

The white Taoist priest sat down with guilt and drank a few cups of tea. His demand for water is actually not as much as before, but under such a hot sun, he always feels that if he doesn't drink water all the time, he will be dried. Thinking that I drank so much water and damaged other people's teapots and bowls, but I couldn't compensate them. I felt more and more guilty. I pondered for a long time and said, "Sir, I'll tell you a story, but if it's not good, don't laugh at me."

"Okay, listen carefully." The middle-aged scholar said and added tea for him.

While thinking about where to start, the white Taoist priest slowly said, "Once upon a time, there was a river, and there was a loach monster living in the river..."

KERUIYAOGUAICHASHEKERUI's sunshine is really good today. You can even feel the warmth lying at the bottom of the water. It must be a nice day on the shore, right? The loach rolled in the mud at the bottom of the water and thought, "What should I do today in such a nice day?" The warm water temperature makes my body very comfortable and lazy. I ate a lot of small fish yesterday, and now I am still full, and I don't need to eat anymore. However, the weather is so good that I really should move. Have I become more and more lazy recently... While thinking about this, I can't help yawning and closing my eyes.

This loach originally lived in a semi-dry pond, and the loach was raised in silt, which was the most ordinary loach. One day, a Tianhu came to the pond to clean the blood-stained Nei Dan after saving people with its own elixir. Coincidentally, the little loach was being chased by a big fish and ran away and hit it over. Tianhu's Neidan just stuck in its mouth. It couldn't swallow it, and it couldn't spit out. There was The angry sky fox, followed by a hungry big fish, the poor little loach struggled to escape, but jumped to the shore and jumped a few times without being able to move. Tianhu was furious when he saw his inner elixir entering its mouth, and couldn't help laughing when he saw that he was so embarrassed.

Tianhu took back his inner elixir, but he kindly retained some mana in the body of the loach, and after swallowing the little loach, he became a low-level demon. Tianhu felt that he was predestined with him, so he took the loach monster back to the cave, named him, and accepted him as an apprentice.

From a loach that could only roll in the mud, he became a monster, and was taken as a disciple by Tianhu, who already had the strength of the earth immortals. Anyone thought that this loach was not an ordinary luck. At first, the loach himself thought the same. He was quite proud in front of other little demons living around the master's cave, but in Half a year after the master's door, the loach didn't think so.

Look at other monsters, and then look at yourself, and suddenly find that their life is really hard: other monsters are still sleeping in, and they have to get up to make tea for the master's cold spring on the top of the mountain; the sun has just emerged, and the other monsters have already started to meditate and practice on the top of the mountain; three poles on the sun Other monsters wandered and played in the forest, but they gnawed and copied in the cave (the handwriting was irregularly and had to be punished); they had to practice martial arts in the afternoon, read scriptures in the evening, and meditated until late at night when the moon came out. In addition, sweeping the floor, washing the laundry, planting vegetables and brewing, sending letters, running errands, pouring tea and pouring water... There are countless kinds of chores. There are also those strange rules. When the master sits, he can only stand. When the master walks, he should 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, soak the bedding in mud and then use it... The loach drags to the limit every day to climb up to bed with his tired body. Then he was beaten up by the master and began a new day of life. He was so tired that he finally stayed up until the night, and then cycled... And Tianhu is an extremely strict teacher. If he can't complete the homework he assigned within the specified time or violate his rules, he will scold, kneel, discipline, and copy books... Take turns to use it, making the loach cry bitterly - it's better to live in a mud pond and be chased by big fish every day.

He is not willing to become a monster, let alone the lofty ideal of becoming an immortal. In addition, he is lazy and unwilling to endure hardships. To ask him to live this kind of life is tantamount to living in deep trouble. Not long after practicing with Tianhu, he lost After the happiness and pride in my heart, my biggest wish has become that as long as I can leave this ghost place one day, get out of this ghost day, and turn back to loach.

Finally, one day, while Tianhu was visiting friends, the loach summoned up the courage to pack up a small bag and fled.

He dares not go back to his hometown (according to the rules of the teacher he remembers, the charge of absconding the teacher is to be beaten back to its original form and pressed into the foot of the mountain for 100 years). If he wanders in the world, he is afraid that one day he will be hit by the master, and he has no skills to make a living to survive among human beings. After thinking about it, he I casually found a remote river and lived in it. Every day, I caught fish and shrimp, slept in the mud, ate on the beach, soaked all the practice methods and human language behind my mind, and lived freely the life of loach in the past.

Unconsciously, ten years have passed.

In the first few years, loach was still afraid of being found by the master every day, so he did not dare to come out easily under the water. As time went by, the master never appeared, and he slowly forgot his fear. Over the past few years, he occasionally floated to the surface and bubbled. When he was bold and greedy, he even dared to go to the human village on the shore to steal only The chicken touched a sheep and beat the teeth. It's just that they are timid and lazy that they dare not cause more damage to human beings. Of course, the nearby humans don't know that there is such a monster living in this river.

KERUIYAOGUAICHASHEKERUI "Wow..."

The loach yawned again and stretched out.

This year's weather is still very dry, and the river water has decreased a lot compared with the previous two years. The sun is fierce and the amount of water is small, and the bottom of the water is particularly warm. It's really comfortable. The loach is looking forward to the day when the whole river becomes a mud pool. It must be very comfortable to roll in so much mud...

After thinking for a long time, the loach finally decided on today's schedule - sleep. And immediately began to execute, find a piece of mud that was thick and moderate and could bask in the sun, and drilled in and fell asleep. How comfortable and leisurely it is. Even if it is cultivated, it may not be able to live such a comfortable life. He thought in a daze before falling asleep. Practice, life on the shore, human language... are all far away...

A noisy sound of gongs and drums woke up the loach between half a dream, and the noise was far and close, and gradually approached the river bank.

"Why are humans always so noisy!" The loach muttered and stood up, rubbing its eyes and looking into the water.

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

The loach hurriedly hid aside.

This is not the first time he has seen this kind of thing. Last year, the year before last, the year before last... Anyway, it will happen every year in the past few years when the weather is dry. Humans gathered on the shore, first a burst of noise, and then threw a sedan chair into the river. The first time I saw it, the loach looked up inexperiencedly to watch the bustle. As a result, it happened to be hit on the head by a sedan chair, and the big bag that didn't go down for days. This time, while cursing human beings who were full and had nothing to do, he lazily dragged his body away in advance.

The fiery red sedan chair curtain is shaking in the water, stirring the water waves and light spots. Even the loach has to admit that it is really a beautiful scene.

A human fell out of the sedan chair and waved helplessly in the water with his hands open. The fiery red dress of the same color as the sedan chair is embroidered with golden silk threads with beautiful patterns, and the fiery red hood is sprinkled with various beads, changing magnificent colors in the permeable sunlight. With this human struggle, it looks like a dance in the water.

The loach looked at it. Although he was stupid, he still knew how to appreciate beautiful things. However, he knew that such a beautiful scene would not last long. According to past experience, he knew that when the human fell to the bottom of the water, he would soon move and drown quietly. The water would wash away the cover, revealing a pale and twisted ugly and scary face. The expression in the eyes that had never been closed was the most pleasing expression of the loach. Tired. Then the beautiful red dress will be washed away and soaked in water to lose color and rot. Finally, only one left at the bottom of the water is a white bone devoured by the fish and shrimp in the water. The ending of those who were thrown down with the sedan chair before is like this, and the loach thinks that this human being will not be an exception.

"Well, human beings have such great ability, why did they drown..."

The loach sighed and was ready to go back to sleep.

The woman in the water struggled in vain.

She has parents who love her and spoils her, and her fiance son-in-law who is looking forward to marrying her. She is only 16 years old and has a good time to live. She is unwilling to die in the water and become the bride married by the river god. She wants to go home and wants to go home... Why doesn't anyone save herself... Help...

When the woman exhaled the last breath in her chest, she saw a figure swimming past her.

It's Brother Qin, and Brother Qin came to save me! I knew he would come...

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

"Ah?"

The loach suddenly found that it could not swim. He shook his body and found that his tail was firmly held in the hand by the human. Let go, what are you doing!" He unhappily pulled his tail and pulled the river with the human.

The woman had fainted and still held the "life-saving straw" tightly in her hand.

The loach was pulled out several times, but its tail still did not move. He knew that human beings would hold tightly what they came into contact with when they were about to drown, but he didn't expect his tail to become such a thing.

"If you want to die, die. Why do you grab my tail? Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go, let me go..." The loach was not big, and after becoming a human, he was even thinner. After being firmly grasped by the struggling woman, he rowed hard a few times but did not break away. Seeing that he was taken by the woman to the bottom of the river, he couldn't help but be anxious and struggled to swing his body to push the woman away.

Once a drowning person grasps an object, he is not only very powerful, but also will never let go after grasping the object. Experienced people will start from behind the drowning person when they save the water, in order to be afraid of being caught by the other party and pulled to the bottom of the water together. Of course, the loach that has never been in contact with human beings can't know this. He just struggled. The more he struggled, the tighter the woman was. The tighter the woman grabbed, the more he struggled... Finally, the woman sank to the bottom of the river, and the loach was dragged down by her.

The loach really had no strength to struggle. Thinking about the ending of those human beings who fell into the water before, he was too lazy to pounce again. He honestly lay at the bottom of the water waiting for this person to die and naturally let go of himself. He waited for a moment and turned his head to see if the human was dead. At a glance, he couldn't help screaming, using both hands and feet, and rowing forward desperately - the woman's open eyes full of resentment, and her pale and twisted face were right in front of the loach. That look really scared him. Shi forgot to swim hard, but also drove the woman who was still holding his tail. No matter how far she swam, as long as she looked back, the woman's face was still floating in front of her. The loach rushed like a headless fly in the river, and finally hit a rock on the shore. He covered his golden forehead, climbed ashore with all his last strength, and fell on the mudflat and didn't want to move.

KERUIYAOGUAICHASHEKERUI didn't know how long it took, the loach woke up in a daze and felt dry and empty, with something hot on its forehead. He twisted his body around and couldn't figure out where he was for a moment. After thinking for a long time, he remembered that he ran to the shore and was too tired to swim, so he wanted to rest on the shore first, but he fell asleep in the mudflats unconsciously. So you are on the shore now, right? Since I escaped from the master, I have never stayed on the shore for so long. The loach looked around.

"This...big brother, you're awake." A timid voice came from around.

The loach looked up and screamed in horror. He is too familiar with the face in front of him, but it chased the loach and makes him swim half of the river.

"Are you feeling better, this big brother?" The woman asked carefully. When the cold river kept pouring into her nose, she was already in despair. She thought that she would die at the bottom of the river and become food for fish and shrimp, but she didn't expect to wake up on the shore to find that she was still alive. She saw a man beside her lying motionless in the mud, and she firmly grasped the corners of his clothes, knowing that it was this man who saved her. The benefactor has been lying there motionless. If it hadn't been for the breathing woman in his nose, she would have thought he was dead. It was all to save her benefactor who would make it like this. The woman was grateful and worried and stayed by the side of the loach. Finally, she was relieved to see him wake up and tears flowed down.

The loach settled down and took a closer look. This woman is not as scary as in the water now. Her beautiful facial features and pale face look a little pitiful (he, how many words do you remember from the master's book? It seems that my brain is not stupid. Thinking of this, I can't help but be a little proud.) What are you doing here..." After staring at the woman for a while, the loach finally spoke first. He wanted to know what the human woman wanted to do.

"Big brother, thank you for saving me." The woman said softly.

"I saved you... I..." The loach looked at himself and thought for a long time before he realized that he also brought this human when he swam ashore. At that time, she was not dead. After arriving on land, she struggled to survive. Human survival is really powerful. If you have been on the shore for so long when you were an ordinary loach, you must have become dried fish. The loach couldn't help sighing.

"This big brother, your body doesn't matter, right? You were in a coma for so long just now, which really scared me. The woman still said so softly.

The loach blushed. He understood that the woman's coma meant that she had just slept too deeply, and the woman was embarrassed to check her body and took it for granted that she regarded herself as a coma. It's really hard to sleep on the shore. Now that my body is dry and my limbs are weak. I'd better go back to the water and sleep for a rest. Thinking about this, the loach got up and left.

"Where are you going, big brother?" The woman asked anxiously.

"I'm going home. Go home, too."

"This big brother..." The woman wanted to say something more, but the loach already felt very sleepy and tired. She accelerated her pace. The woman stood up anxiously and fell on the beach with a moan.

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

The loach came back curiously to see the woman and found that she was still breathing. She squatted beside her for a while and didn't know what to do, so she decided to go to bed. He went to the river, thought about it and walked back, simply dragged the woman to the river together, and thought that if he took her back to his home, she would drown again, and then turned back to the shore.

What should I do? The loach desperately turned his brain and thought hard.

KERUIYAOGUAICHASHEKERUI "Brother Bai, come down for dinner." Yinyin stood under the room and shouted. The loach touched the sweat and breathed a sigh of relief. She finally remembered to ask herself to go down, thinking that she would work like this until dark. He threw the straw in his hand and slid down the half-collapsed thatched roof along the small tree next to him.

At that time, the loach woke up the woman and urged her to go home by herself, but she cried sadly. She said that she was the bride selected by the town to be dedicated to the river god. If she went home like this, the people in the village not only would not let go of themselves and their families, but also waited for their fate to be thrown into the river. The loach asked her what to do, but she knelt down and kowtowed, trying to save people to the end. The loach had never received such a high etiquette. As soon as her head was hot, she took her residents on the shore and hid in the mountains before they found that she was still alive.

This is a small hut in the deep mountains. It used to be a place where hunters occasionally rest their feet, but now the loach and the human woman named Yinyin have lived here for three days. The dust cobwebs in the hut have been cleaned, and Yinyin is worried that the roof of the hut will be dewy in rainy days, so the loach has to find some thatched to repair according to her words. He is a guy with lazy bones. Such a job really kills him, and his whole body is faintly sore.

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

It's because she always speaks so softly that the loach really can't say that she doesn't want to run away with her and doesn't want to do these physical work. He sighed, picked up the wooden ladle that served as a rice bowl and took a sip: Anyway, this human craftsmanship is really good.

"Delicious! One more bowl!"

Yinyin was still worried that he didn't like the simple food that lacked oil and salt. Seeing that he loved it, she smiled and helped him fill a bowl.

Although this man surnamed Bai is a little slow and strange, he can be seen as a good man. He saved himself and hid in the deep mountains without hesitation after knowing that he was the bride selected by the town to dedicate to the river god (Yin Yin was a little worried that he would take her to the town). He helped him find a place to live, go to the mountains to find food, clean up the house, and drive away insects and ants... Although he didn't talk much, he tried his best to satisfy any request Yinyin made. Looking at his busy figure, Yinyin will think of Brother Qin from time to time. If he is here, will he also be obedient to himself? Of course it will! Yinyin thought sweetly, I don't know if Brother Qin will be sad after knowing what happened? What is he thinking now? I have picked up my life now, but what should I do in the future? When will I come back to my parents? When will I see Brother Qin again?

Thinking about it, tears couldn't help flowing down.

"Is there anything else? Let's have another bowl." Although loach has always been unmovable, it eats a lot. In addition, it has been working and eating more these days.

KERUIYAOGUAICHASHEKERUI is a small hut in the deep mountains. It used to be a place where hunters occasionally rest, but now the loach and the human woman named Yinyin have lived here for three days. The dust cobwebs in the hut have been cleaned, and Yinyin is worried that the roof of the hut will be dewy in rainy days, so the loach has to find some thatched to repair according to her words. He is a guy with lazy bones. Such a job really kills him, and his whole body is faintly sore.

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

It's because she always speaks so softly that the loach really can't say that she doesn't want to run away with her and doesn't want to do these physical work. He sighed, picked up the wooden ladle that served as a rice bowl and took a sip: Anyway, this human craftsmanship is really good.

"Delicious! One more bowl!"

Yin was still worried that he didn't like the simple food that lacked oil and salt. Seeing that he loved it, she smiled and helped him fill a bowl.

Although this man surnamed Bai is a little slow and strange, he can be seen as a good man. He saved himself and hid in the deep mountains without hesitation after knowing that he was the bride selected by the town to dedicate to the river god (Yin Yin was a little worried that he would take her to the town). He helped him find a place to live, go to the mountains to find food, clean up the house, and drive away insects and ants... Although he didn't talk much, he tried his best to satisfy any request Yinyin made. Looking at his busy figure, Yinyin will think of Brother Qin from time to time. If he is here, will he also be obedient to himself? Of course it will! Yinyin thought sweetly. Then I thought about whether Brother Qin would be sad after knowing what happened? What is he thinking now? I have picked up my life now, but what should I do in the future? When will I come back to my parents? When will I see Brother Qin again?

Thinking about it, tears couldn't help flowing down.

"Is there anything else? Let's have another bowl." Although loach has always been unmovable, it eats a lot. In addition, it has been working and eating more these days. Besides, if you are instructed by this human woman, you should eat a few more bowls of rice to make up for it.

Yinyin was busy and added a lot to him. But before she picked up the bowl and took a few bites, the loach said vaguely with something in her mouth, "Is there anything else? One more bowl."

Yinyin added three times, and finally poured half a bowl of food to him. After eating all the loach, she wiped her mouth. Looking at the empty pot and bowl, she sighed regretfully and put down the bowl to say that she would not eat it. Yinyin smiled bitterly. She had already known that Brother Bai could eat, so she deliberately cooked more. No matter how much she cooked, she ate it all and said that she was not full. In order to meet his appetite, Yinyin had to increase the amount of cooking every day. Today, she had doubled to two large pots, but it turned out to be like this. The grain stored in the house has almost been eaten, so it seems that I have to ask Brother Bai to buy some outside the mountain. She was about to make a request, but there was a burst of snoring in her ear. When she took a closer look, the loach fell into the chair and fell asleep.

Yinyin was stunned for a long time before she thought of taking a blanket to cover him and looked at him and shook her head and sighed. Yinyin's hometown is a poor place. Everyone around her is working hard for life. It is the first time that Yinyin has seen people like loach: How can anyone in the world who doesn't want to do anything else except eat or sleep every day? Is that how those rich people live? However, Brother Bai may be a rich man. He even took out money to buy things, and he never saw him use copper money.

KERUIYAOGUAICHASHEKERUI loach walked on the invisible hillside and lay down under a tree and began to be lazy: he had to go to the foot of the mountain to buy grain, use his power to turn silver into silver, deal with human beings and carry the dead grain to the mountain. By the way, there is one more thing. The woman wants to go to her hometown by herself to secretly see if her parents and brother Qin next door are living well and whether they miss her. Well, isn't there still a lot more to walk? Why doesn't her family live in the river? Swimming is much easier than walking.

The more the loach thought about it, the more reluctant it was to move. It curled up under the tree and slowly fell asleep in the complaints about the woman.

When he woke up, he found that he had slept for a whole day. The sun had already gone down, and the forest was dark. The sound of wind and beasts echoed among the shadows of the trees, and even the monster loach couldn't help but feel tight. Anyway, he also delayed the sale of food today, and he will wait until tomorrow to buy it. He doesn't want to go down the mountain in the dark like this. In case he meets a tiger or a wild wolf or something, he will not be eaten, but he will be shocked. After making such a decision, I immediately looked back and thought about the mountain hut. As I walked, I was thinking about whether there was any food left for myself.

The loach is not familiar with life on land. Although his eyesight is far better than that of human beings, the dark forest is still extremely difficult for him. I don't know how many he has fallen on the way under the care of vines and tree stumps. He, who is used to the frank river, looks almost the same at night. The bushes made me dizzy and didn't know where I was. When a glimmer of light came from the trees from afar, the loach rushed over there without hesitation.

"Brother White..."

"Brother Bai, you are really back! Are you all right?"

Yinyin, who was standing in front of the hut and raising the oil lamp in her hand, saw clearly that the figure was indeed a loach and shouted with a crying voice.

"I'm fine." The loach rubbed the weak answer of the arm that had just fallen.

"I waited for you to come back, and I still think something happened to you. The wolf in the mountain has been howling. I think maybe you... have something wrong, but I dare not go out... Fortunately, you come back, or I..." He covered his mouth and cried.

"I'm fine."

"Oh, Brother Bai, why is your hand bleeding!" Yinyin looked at the appearance of the loach carefully and screamed.

The loach looked down at his hand puzzledly, then opened his eyes, opened his mouth wide, and fell straight down with such a posture - there was indeed a small wound on the back of his hand, which was oozing blood.

"Brother Bai! Brother Bai!" Yinyin screamed loudly in panic, and the oil lamp in her hand fell to the ground, and it was suddenly dark around.

The days are still the same as before. Loach does chores every day, goes down the mountain to buy things, does the laundry, cleans up, and lives quietly. Seeing that winter is coming, the loach went down the mountain to buy a lot of cotton cloth, and is extremely looking forward to waiting for Yinyin to make cotton clothes (the temperature at the bottom of the water is warmer than that on the shore, which has not yet arrived. The loach was too cold to stand it), 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 mountains all the time?"

"Ah?" The loach was stunned for a moment. He is a casual person. Although he wanted to go back to the river to live a comfortable life all day at the beginning, now he is used to the life of being served with food and clothes every day. It's really a little flustered to think of breaking up with Yinyin.

"This house is nothing to live in summer, but once it snows, it may collapse. Let's go down the mountain and find another place to live."

"Go down the mountain to live? Haven't you ever wanted others to know that you are still alive? Loach wondered why she suddenly changed her mind.

"This..." Yinyin lowered her head and fiddled with her belt. "The world is so big that the old men in the town can't control it everywhere. Let's just go further. Brother Bai, where is your hometown? Why have I never heard you mention it? Don't you miss your family after going out for so long?

"My home?" The loach smiled bitterly: "Where did I come from?"

"Then you don't..."

"Nothing? You said it louder, but I didn't hear it clearly.

"Have you..." Yinyin's voice became a whisper later.

"What's wrong with your throat? Can't you speak?" The loach asked irrelevantly.

Yin's stamped his feet: He really didn't know what he meant to ask him if he had a family!

Yin has thought a lot these days, and her family doesn't want to go back. She can't imagine how she will face Brother Qin, who has become her brother-in-law, and her sister who married her fiance. As for her parents, since they married Brother Qin, they said that they had never imagined that they would go back alive, so I don't have to go back anymore. Yin began to think about her future again. A single woman, with no relatives and friends and no skills to survive, where can she go? What can I do? Do you live in the mountains like this all your life? Even if he is willing to do this, Brother Bai can't accompany himself like this all the time. He always has to leave and always has to go back to his original life. What should he do then? If you live alone in the mountains, you will become a tiger and wolf's snack if you don't starve to death. Thinking of these Yinyin, there was a greater panic in her heart. Although the loach was very good to her and had been taking care of her life, what if he left? The only thing Yinyin can rely on is loach, a kind and honest but rigid "person" in her eyes. Maybe fate is to connect herself with him.

Yin Yin made up her mind to ask, "Brother Bai, are you married?"

The loach blinked: "Me? " marriage?" I don't know why he felt that this question was so funny that he couldn't help laughing: "I'm married? I...hahaha...how can I get married?" I remember that when they were still under the master's door, several monsters had planned to marry their daughters to loach in order to get a little relationship with the master, but those monster women, regardless of beauty and ugliness, no matter how stupidity, size, no matter how big or small they... all made human beings "the words of marriage and the life matchmaker of parents" Tiantiao put it on his mind and tried his best to resist. There were even a few strong women who simply became monks or committed suicide. Of course, these marriages failed at first sight, which made the loach, who had been looking forward to getting a family and career, die for marriage and knew that he would not have a woman like this. I like myself. Now Yinyin actually asked herself if she was married. Of course, he thought it was funny.

"So Brother Bai, you haven't married yet?"

"Of course not, who will like me?"

Yinyin said happily, "So, so... Brother Bai, would you like to...marry me?"

The loach opened its mouth and looked at her.

"In fact, Yinyin didn't want to repay Brother Bai's repeated rescue of me. She should have been married a long time ago, but she originally had a marriage contract with Brother Qin. Now that Brother Qin has married someone else, I have already..." Yinyin smiled bitterly and said, "Yin has nothing to rely on in this world. If Brother Bai wants to, then Yinyin is lucky. If Brother Bai doesn't want to, it's not be convenient for me to continue to disturb you. I'll go down the mountain tomorrow..." If the loach really refuses her. I don't have the courage and face to continue to meet him day and night. Of course, I have to escape early.

"How can I marry you? How can I marry you..." The loach pulled his hair in a hurry. How can he marry her as a monster?! Although he escaped from the teacher because of laziness, he still remembered the rules taught by the master and did not dare to commit any crime. One of them: kill those who cheated human women! He hasn't forgotten the rules. Besides, if Yinyin knows the truth, she will probably either faint or scream and escape. How can she want to marry herself?

"So Brother Bai, don't you look down on Yinyin?"

"No, no!"

"Would you like to marry me?"

"No! This is impossible!" The loach waved his hands one after another.

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

"What are you doing?"

"Pack your clothes. I'll leave tomorrow and won't bother my father-in-law anymore.

"Where are you going down the mountain?" Before the loach noticed that she changed her name and asked foolishly.

Yinyin smiled miserably: "There is always a place for me to live in such a big world."

That means she has no plans. After the loach and Yinyin and the human beings at the foot of the mountain have learned something about human beings in these days. According to his inference, it is difficult for a single woman to live alone in peace among human beings. No, it is almost impossible. So what will happen to her in the future? The loach is a little reluctant to go down. If you leave, you may be cheated and sold, or you may starve to death, maybe..." He tried his best to search for all kinds of terrible possibilities in his mind, hoping to dispel Yinyin's idea.

"If that's the case, maybe it's Yinyin's life."

"But...but..." The loach was a little anxious.

Yinyin didn't pay attention to the loach at all and lived on her. The loach was so anxious that she was beside her. Finally, Yinyin finally couldn't stand it. She sat by the bedside and bit her lips and cried: "Do I really make you look down on you so much? Then why were you so kind to me before! I, I..."

"It's not like that, it's not... I don't deserve you!" The loach hurriedly explained, "Look at me like this, how can you like me? No one has ever been willing to marry me."

Yinyin stopped crying and looked at him. With her knowledge of loach, she knows that what the loach said is true, at least he must have thought so in his heart. This man is not only loyal, honest and kind-hearted, but also has a rich family and has no worries about food and clothing. He is not favored by women because he is more "ordinary" and clumsy, which makes him think that he is not worthy of any woman. Thinking that the loach was not rejecting herself, Yinyin smiled and said softly, "I just want to marry you."

Seeing Yinyin's sweet beauty with tears, the loach's brain became hot, forgot the fact that she was a monster, and nodded hurriedly: "Marry, I'll marry!"

The seven-year-old boy suddenly sat down on the roadside and cried, "Dad! Mother! I can't walk anymore!"

The man turned around helplessly. He held his four-year-old daughter in his arms, while his wife carried his two-year-old son on his back, and the burden of the burden of luggage (maybe it was tattered in the eyes of others, but that was all their belongings), he and his wife were inseparable from carrying the child. The boy cried hoarsely, "Dad, mother, I'm hungry, I can't walk!" The wife ran back and hugged the child and began to cry, and the man also sat down on the roadside. After the disaster in their hometown, the family fled to the wilderness. They finally arrived at the relatively rich town ahead without drought. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate here did not allow the victims to enter the city for the sake of local safety. The family was driven out of the gate among the victims and didn't know where to go. Looking at the people around who are also displaced, they are also like themselves. They don't know where to go next, and don't know how long they can last. Will they suddenly fall down like those old, weak, sick and disabled people they saw along the way and have no more breath.

"Dad, mother... I'm hungry too..." The little boy, who was drowsy by the sun and bumps, found that his parents stopped and waited for dinner with hope.

"Mom, I'm not hungry. If you have something to eat, give it to my brother first. Can you give me some water?" The girl endured hunger and said considerately.

The man took out a water bag to give the children water, took out the last dry food and gave it to the three children, and then looked at the way forward and fell into silence.

After feeding the youngest child, the woman sighed: "What can we do in the future? We adults can't stand it if it goes on like this, let alone the children.

"Let's take one step." The man was silent for a long time and finally said a word.

The woman cried, and the children were infected by their mother, and even the usually strong man's eyes were hazy.

Yinyin first arranged for the family to eat and asked her servants to bathe and change their clothes. After a period of hustle and bustle, she had the opportunity to sit down and chat.

Qianqian didn't expect that her sister she missed was still alive day and night. She held her hand tightly and refused to let go: "Sister, how did you survive? Have you lived here all these years? What kind of person is brother-in-law?

Yinyin stroked her sister's daughter in her hand and inserted the ornaments on her head and replied, "Isn't it just your brother-in-law who picked me up from the river? We have lived here since I married him. I miss home, but I dare not go back for fear that the old men in the countryside and town will know that I am still alive. I asked someone to deliver letters at home, but my parents were gone, and you moved home and I didn't know where to go. I thought I would never see you in my life. With that, he began to wipe his tears. She knew that her sister had married Qin Yi and didn't want to see them anymore, but when she got married with the loach, life was getting better and better. Looking back, she felt funny at that time, so she sent people to look for her family several times. After looking for it unsucceed, she wiped her tears and felt that it was because of her petty temper that she couldn't do it. The second old man died, so he couldn't find his only sister. Now that we finally met, she was so happy that she didn't know what to do. While wiping tears, she remembered something and asked the maid, "Where's Brother Bai? They have sent someone to call for a long time, why haven't they come back?" - After they got married, Yinyin has been calling the loach Brother Bai. The maids were strange at first, but now they are used to it.

The maid smiled and said, "Madam, the master was invited by Master Zhang County to discuss the disaster relief early in the morning. The family sent to say that they went out of the city to inspect the porridge shed to help the disaster victims. For a moment, they couldn't find it - the maidservant has just told you. You were busy talking to your aunt and didn't hear it."

"Yes, you said, look at my brain, I'm confused."

"Madam is not confused, but happy to see her aunt."

"Yes, yes, I haven't seen my wife so happy for a long time. She looks like she is several years younger, and now she looks at most sixteen or seven."

"Look at your clever mouth, even if I'm several years younger, I won't be 16 or 17 years old..."

The girls and women saw that the Yinyin sisters were reunited and didn't come to make fun of it. In a while, they made her and Qian Qianhong happy. However, Qin Yi was not standing or sitting in this woman's country, which was extremely cramped.

It didn't wait until the evening when Yinyin's husband came back. What surprised Qin Yi and Qianqian was that this man was not the same as they imagined. Not only was he not amazing, but he also looked weak. He also ignored Qin Yi and Qianqian, and was not like the rich man they imagined. The Qin couple thought that he did not recognize poor relatives like him, and they did not dare to talk to him more.

When arranging someone to send the Qin couple to rest, Yinyin complained and asked the loach: "It's really hard to see my mother's family. Why are you like this!"

"I...I..." The loach was ignorant and didn't know what he was thinking. He muttered to himself for a long time and finally said, "I just saw a Taoist priest."

"Taoist priest?"

"And he has been staring at me... He has been staring at me... Yinyin, do you think he can see through me!" The loach grabbed Yinyin's hand and asked in a trembling voice.

"You are really a Taoist priest, and you may not be able to catch demons. Even if he catches demons and comes to you for no reason, what? Do you want to go back and stew the tofu to eat?" Yinyin stretched out her finger and poked it on his forehead. "Why don't you go and rest for me? Don't be so rude when you see my sister and brother-in-law tomorrow morning!"

After marriage, the loach intended to hide the fact that he was a monster, but how could his clumsy brain hide it from the exquisite pillow man? What's more, he couldn't help but turn back to his original shape and take a bath and roll in the mud from time to time. Of course, it didn't take long for him to show his horse's feet, just be suspicious Yinyin. If you ask him in a brief trial, he will do everything. Yinyin was also surprised to hear that she had married a monster, but after the two got married, their feelings increased day by day. The obedientness and thoughtfulness of the loach made Yinyin, who had no choice but to repay her kindness, was also deeply glad that she had married such a husband. Now Yinyin only cares whether her husband loves each other or not. Is he a monster? After wiping tears and making the loach panic, she only strictly told the loach not to let outsiders know the truth, which became a secret for the husband and wife.

Yinyin knew her husband's nature and was afraid that he would show his flaws in front of others, so she told him to nagging every day and tell some stories of Taoist priests catching demons to scare him. In the narration, she naturally exaggerated the interests of Taoist priests and the tragic end of monsters several times, making loach afraid of characters such as Taoists, monks and nuns. To the bone, as long as you see it, you suspect that you are coming to catch yourself. The white good people help the poor and the weak, but they can only avoid the monks and never give a message from this matter. Yinyin is kind and funny about his personality, but she has no choice but to let him do it.

In a blink of an eye, Qin Yi and Qianqian have been home for more than half a month, and everyone gets along well. In particular, Loach and Yinyin have not had children for many years, and now a few more little guys at home have also added a lot of anger. Loach took Qin Yi to his business to help. Qianqian and Yinyin were short at home every day, and a group of women lived happily. A few days after such a day, the visit of a Taoist priest broke the calm.

This is a middle-aged Taoist priest, white and fat, more like a rich man than loach. He pushed away the blocked family into the courtyard, went straight to the loach, and saluted and said, "Outside, the poor road is here to catch demons. What do you think!" The loach looked at him with bad intentions and replied tremblingly, "There are no monsters in our house, no monsters!"

The Taoist priest also stopped talking and looked at him up and down in the first few steps, with a smile on the corners of his mouth, instead of nodding his head with a beard. The loach tried to shrink under the pressure of his eyes, and his head was about to shrink into his collar.

Yinyin, who came here after hearing the letter, saw the Taoist priest and looked at her husband's timid appearance. She couldn't help rushing from the middle of it and pulled the loach to the priest and shouted, "Taoist priest, my family does not welcome monks. Please go somewhere else." What he said was quite polite, but his face was cold, and he clearly issued an eviction order.

"The female donor's words are wrong. The monk is compassionate and come here to relieve the disaster for the donor. How can the donor expel the guests like this?"

"There is no disaster or difficulty in my family. The Taoist priest sees that countless disaster victims outside will not be rescued. What should we do in a family like us?" Yinyin's words are sharp, implying that this Taoist priest is saying that he is a disaster relief, but he does not enter the poor family. He specializes in picking up rich and noble households for gold and silver.

"Do you know that there are evils in your home?" The Taoist priest swept his head and shrank his head to the loach behind his wife and went straight to the topic.

"What does it have to do with your Taoist priest!" Yinyin did not deny it, but said coldly with a straight face.

"It is the duty of a monk to defeat demons and demons."

"Come on, bring a hundred taels of silver to the Taoist priest to see the guests off." Yinyin waved her sleeves and pulled the loach into the house.

When the loach saw that there were no outsiders around him, he grabbed his wife's hand and shouted, "He knows I'm a monster!" What should I do? What should I do? Why don't we run away!"

"What are you afraid of! You didn't hurt people and didn't do anything wrong. What are you afraid he will do? Such a cow's nose just wants to blackmail some money. Now that the money is given to him, he still arrests you. Besides, don't you also have magic power? Are you afraid that he won't do it!" Yinyin is much more strong than loach, and she is the most reluctant to be bullied.

"But, but..."

"Don't be, come here..." Yinyin waved her husband in front of him and reached out to sort out his messy clothes. "How about the matter of inviting a gentleman to my home to teach the children to study last time? There is no good gentleman. You can listen more outside and don't spend all your thoughts on the Taoist monk.

The loach listens to his wife. No matter what Yinyin says, he will execute it obediently. The days are still as calm as water. A few days later, he forgot about this matter.

One night more than ten days later, loach and Yinyin suddenly woke up from their dreams by the strong wind and thunder. The wind became more and more fierce, knocking on the window and getting in through the cracks in the window and making a sharp whimper. Yinyin was afraid of thunder and hid in the arms of the loach and said tremblingly, "How can there be thunder in this season?" The loach lay down at the window several times and looked out, reading something in his mouth, but every time he did this, the wind only subsided slightly, and soon he began to make a big deal again. After repeating this several times, he looked at Yin Yin, who was so scared that she huddled in the quilt, and finally summoned up his courage and walked into the yard.

As soon as the loach appeared from the house, a flash hit the head. The loach flashed to the side, and the lightning made a hole in the steps and splashed the gravel. So it's you!" The loach saw that the Taoist priest was standing on the eaves swinging a wooden sword at him a few times and shouted: "Didn't I give you silver that day?"

"Hahahaha!" The Taoist priest laughed, and his face looked particularly ferocious in the lightning. "White good man, do you have a lot of money? Do you want to make a way with a hundred taels of silver!"

"You, you, you... what do you want..." The loach asked intimidly.

"The Taoist temple where the poor Taoism has been in disrepair for a long time needs to be repaired with 30,000 taels of silver. I don't know if the white good man will give up this good money."

"Thirty taels..." The voice of the loach trembled. Although he was rich, he had not yet taken out 30,000 taels of silver. Hearing the door behind him, it turned out that Yinyin also felt that something was strange and worried that he followed him quietly, so he asked her, "Yinyin, how much money can we make now?" Can you make 30,000 yuan after selling the manor in the west of the city? The loach has always been as timid as a rat and has never fought with any person or monster. Seeing that the Taoist style has already scared him out his courage. In the wind and thunder, he only thought about how to break the money to avoid disasters. On the contrary, Yinyin was bold and pointed to the Taoist priest on the steps and shouted, "Taoist priest, you enter the people's house at night. Aren't you afraid that we will report to report to the officials!"

The Taoist priest sneered: "When I present the monster's body to the lobby, which government will condemn me." It is said that this is another palm thunderbolt hitting the loach.

The loach immediately hid behind Yinyin and shouted, "I have no grudge against you!" I'll give you 30,000 taels of silver."

"30,000 taels! Is a white and good man only worth this area of silver?"

"How much do you want?"

"300,000 taels!" When the Taoist priest saw that the loach was a soft persimmon, he immediately tried his best to pinch it. Now the loach only wanted to spend money to eliminate the disaster, but when the Taoist priest opened his mouth, he really couldn't take it out and looked embarrassed. The Taoist priest waved his hand and hit several thunder charms in front of the steps. The loach shrank in horror and asked Yinyin in a low voice, "How much silver can we take out?"

"Do you really want to give him money?" Yinyin was extremely angry, "He can ask for 30,000 or 300,000 yuan. You give it to him, and tomorrow he will ask for 3 million. What do you give him?"

"But, but... Taoist priest, will I stop pestering after I give you the money?" The loach thought that silver could be earned again, but it was important that the Taoist priest in front of him could be fired.

"Hahaha, Bai Dashanren's words are not good. Is it good for us to make friends here?" Seeing that the loach was timid, the Taoist priest showed more and more the look of cat and mouse.

"Do you hear me? He will get an inch and push hard step by step!" Yinyin looked back at her husband, "If you still want to be a man, don't let anyone bully you!"

The Taoist priest approached a few steps: "With such a proud wife and a lot of family property, why can't you fight with me for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"

"Ming, obviously you and I can't get along..."

The Taoist priest raised his hand and thunder, but this time it may be too close. Maybe the Taoist priest deliberately wanted to intimidate the loach. Lei actually hit her against Yinyin's sideburns, scaring her with a faint scream.

"How dare you hurt my wife!" The loach suddenly jumped out. Without waiting for the Taoist priest to move, a water belt had wrapped the dust in his hand, and then the body of the loach showed its original shape - a huge loach dozens of meters long, and hit the Taoist priest with a long tail. The Taoist priest raised his hand and put a charm on the body of the loach, and the body of the loach immediately seemed to be on fire. It was red and gave off a burnt smell. The Taoist priest was about to be proud and thought that he had braised the loach, but as soon as the loach turned over, the "skin" on his 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 charm only burned his "mud skin" but did not hurt him at all. After the mud was roasted by the fire, it became a hard lump, hit the Taoist priest in the face, and immediately knocked him to the ground.

The loach rushed over and coiled the Taoist priest like a snake, making him scream. At this moment, the loach wanted to kill him for a moment to avoid future trouble, and for a moment, he was afraid of hurting human beings and being punished by heaven. In the constant change of thoughts, he was loose and tight, tossed the Taoist priest. Yinyin woke up and found that she was not injured and shouted in time: "Don't kill him, spare him!" The loach immediately threw the Taoist priest on the ground.

"You swear that you won't bother us again, and we'll let you go." Yinyin carefully approached the Taoist priest and said. The Taoist priest rolled his eyes and nodded repeatedly. The loach has regained its human form and followed Yinyin and asked in a low voice, "Really let him go?" So what if you don't let it go? Did you really kill him? Yinyin forced the Taoist priest to swear to see him go away in confusion and then turned back.

"But what if he doesn't keep his word!"

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

After several harassments from the Taoist priest, the loach listened to his wife's advice to buy land in Yinyin's hometown and moved the whole family. After that, the loach became more timid and afraid, and the business everywhere was gradually handed over to Qin Yi for help. Qin Yi is honest and loyal. Loach and Yinyin trust him very much, and he has more and more responsibilities. He has been working hard and complaining all day long.

On this day, Qin Yi inspected the accounts of several stores in Jinan and was about to hire a carriage to rush home overnight. Suddenly, a voice came from behind him: "Please wait a moment and listen to the poor." Qin Yi turned around, and a Taoist priest had stood behind him and was bowing to him. Qin Yi, a believer, quickly returned the salute and took out a few copper plates and handed them over.

The Taoist priest smiled and stretched out his hand and pushed it away: "The poor Tao is not here for fate. Can Lord Qin be willing to sit in the restaurant with the poor Tao?" Qin Yi was a little surprised to hear that he actually knew his surname, but he was a superstitious person and always followed Buddhism and Taoism. At the repeated invitations of the Taoist priest, he still followed him into a restaurant.

As soon as the Taoist priest sat down, he took a piece of silver and threw it on the table, and ordered the second child to "take good wine and good dishes." Then he asked Qin Yi, who didn't know why, directly, "Does the benefactor know that there are monsters at home?" Qin Yi shook his head puzzledly. The Taoist priest first raised his hand. Qin Yi only felt a silence in his ear. The noisy voices in the restaurant all disappeared. Looking around, the other diners only opened their mouths and did not make a sound. At this time, the Taoist priest patted the table: "Your heart is a monster! You know that he has been confusing your wife's sister for a long time!"

Qin Yi was stunned.

The Taoist priest pointed a little on the glass of wine in front of Qin Yi, and the rippled. The picture that appeared was exactly the scene where the loach turned back to its original shape and rushed to the Taoist priest. Qin Yi looked at the giant snake-like loach and fell to the ground from the chair in horror. The Taoist priest's voice sounded on his head: "If the donor doesn't plan early, not only will his wife's sister escape the poison, but also your family will become his delicious food sooner or later!"

Since returning home after dealing with business matters, Qin Yi has been restless and paced back and forth in the room. Qianqian frowned and kept looking at him in circles. Finally, she couldn't help asking, "What's wrong with you? Why did it look like this when I went out and came back? But there is something wrong with the account? Your sister-in-law trusts you so much that you can't confuse other people's money!"

"That's not the case!" Qin Yi said impatiently, "You don't understand."

"That's because you hooked up with each other after going out for a few days, and you're still remembering that fox spirit, right?" Qianqian pretended to be angry and angry.

"Not to say, where do you think!" Qin Yi walked a few times impatiently.

"What are you talking about! Don't be upset with the people who go around there!"

After repeated pressure from his wife, Qin Yi finally told the story of meeting the Taoist priest after going out. Finally, he took out a small porcelain bottle and said, "The Taoist priest said that his brother-in-law is by no means a human being. As long as he drinks the medicine in it, he will immediately show his original shape."

"Is brother-in-law a monster? That wild Taoist priest is crazy!" Qianqian screamed in a panic, and the shattering Qin Yi quickly went up and covered her mouth: "Don't let anyone hear it! But the Taoist priest's words are chiseled. He, he does have magic, not like a liar!"

"How do you know that he didn't have another plan? Maybe he wants to poison his brother-in-law with this medicine. At that time, the murderer will be you!" Qianqian reached out and grabbed the porcelain bottle and was about to throw it out of the window. "It's only been a few days since you were restless. Throw it away as soon as possible!"

"Wait a minute." Qin Yi snatched it back again. He thought over and over again, thinking about the Taoist priest's words, and then thinking about the daily every move of the loach, which was difficult to choose. Finally, he thought of Yinyin's smile, and a stream of blood rushed into his mind. He has been married to Yinyin since he was a child and is a close neighbor, so he has never avoided laughing. In addition to working hard in the field, he always doubles his work with the goal of marrying her in the future. Later, Yinyin was selected by the village head of the clan and sent into the river. There was nothing he could do but to watch her die. In frustration, he married her own sister as his wife. For many years, although the husband and wife have been harmonious, they always dream of Yinyin's tears in the middle of the night. Who would have thought that she would reunite with Yinyin after many years? Seeing that she has not only not been old, but also more beautiful for so many years, Qin Yi is always ashamed and never dares not talk to talk to her more. However, if, as the Taoist priest said, Yinyin's husband is the monster in the river in those years, and it is he who caused monsters to harm one side. He made countless girls become underwater ghosts. It was he who was greedy for Yinyin's beauty that confused her and dominated her as his wife. Without this monster, he and Yinyin would not have been married today.

No, you can't let him hurt Yinyin again!

Qin Yi gritted his teeth and raised the bottle: "Zhang Daochang said that this thing is only effective for monsters and harmless to mortals! I'll take a sip first. As long as I have nothing to do, I can give him a drink. He is a monster, but he is not a monster and there is no obstacle. After saying that, he raised the bottle and poured it into his mouth. Qianqian was shocked and rushed to grab it: "You're crazy! Put it down!" Qin Yi has poured half of the contents of the bottle and swallowed it in his mouth.

Qin Yi looked at the loach and picked up the cup he had put the medicine at all. He couldn't help but raise his heart, and his hands began to tremble. He was afraid that the loach would find it and hurriedly put the cup down. The loach didn't find anything. You and I talked about business with Qin Yi. After talking for a while, he raised the cup and took a sip. Qin Yi's heart began to jump to his throat. Most of the tea in the loach's hand had been drunk and there was still no reaction. Qin Yi's clothes were soaked with sweat. I don't know whether he was relieved or disappointed. Maybe in the bottom of his heart, he hoped that Yinyin's husband was a monster.

"Bum!" The cup in the loach's hand suddenly fell on the ground. He shouted, knelt on the ground, grabbed his collar with both hands and shouted. The servants and maids around him did not know what had happened and immediately became a mess. Some came up to help the loach, some called to call the doctor, and some rushed to the backyard to tell his wife.

Qin Yi looked at all this and shouted in his heart, "He is a monster, he is really a monster!" I knew that I should get up and run away, but my buttocks are like a chair, and I can't stand up.

"What's the matter? What's going on?" Yinyin hurriedly came surrounded by a large group of maids. Seeing that the loach was so scared that she knelt on the ground and hugged him with her hands and cried, she ordered the servants, "Go and invite the doctor!" Go!"

Qin Yi saw Yinyin holding the loach, afraid that the monster would hurt her fiercely. For a moment, he rushed to pull Yinyin aside and whispered to her, "Yinyin, don't touch him, he, he is a monster!"

" Let go of me!" Yinyin was frightened by the scream of the loach and blurted out, "He is a monster. What does it matter to you!" He shook off Qin Yi's hand and rushed back to the loach and hugged him tightly. "What's wrong with you? What's wrong? Will you monsters also get sick?

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

"I'm so sad, I'm so sad..." The loach had abdominal pain, sweating profusely and screamed in pain. Yinyin couldn't stop crying and didn't know what to do.

"Hahahaha, you monster also have today!" With a clear voice, a Taoist priest fell from the empty space to the courtyard, waved the dust in his hand to pick up the steps and walked into the hall.

"It's you!" The loach struggled to stand up and point to the Taoist priest, "Why did you hurt me!"

"Hahahaha, how can you fight with me!" The Taoist priest laughed wildly, took out a gourd from his sleeve, opened the lid and pointed it at the loach. A white light shot at the loach. The loach dodged with great pain, but before he hit the second call, he hit the table and fell to the ground. Yinyin rushed to him to block the white light to suck the loach into the gourd. At this time, the power of the loach was exhausted, and it slowly appeared in Yinyin's arms. When the servants around saw it, they began to scream and run around.

With Yin's protection, the Taoist priest couldn't subdue the loach for a moment and shouted to Qin Yi: "Tang her away!"

Qin Yi was looking at the original shape of the loach and trembling. He heard the Taoist priest's scolding. He looked at Yinyin, and then at the Taoist priest. He gritted his teeth and rushed to hold Yinyin in his hands and dragged her away from the loach. He only heard a soft sound of "sneer". The loach disappeared in a white light. The Taoist priest laughed and used the gourd. The plug was covered, shook it hard, and threw it into the sleeve.

Yinyin rushed over and pulled the Taoist priest's skirt and cried: "Let go of my father-in-law, let me go!"

The Taoist priest sneered: "Who told you not to pull out a dime? Now you know how powerful Taoist master is!"

"Money, it's easy for you to have money." Yinyin hurried into the backyard and took a box. "My business deeds are all here. I'll give them all to you. I'll give them all to you. Let my father-in-law go."

The Taoist priest's eyes were shining, and he grabbed the box and stuffed it into his arms: "Just think of it as the reward for me to defeating demons, hahahaha..." After saying that, he walked out. Yinyin hurried to pull him, but was pushed to the ground by him. The Taoist priest laughed and broke through the air and left.

Qin Yi stayed in place and muttered for a long time, "How could this happen? How could this happen?"

Yin chased to the courtyard, and there was no trace of Taoist priest in the sky. She stood back and pointed to Qin Yi for a long time and gritted her teeth word by word, "Our couple are not kind to you. Why did you hurt us!"

Qin Yi retreated step by step by her: "I, I, him, he... he is really a monster!"

Yin looked up to the sky and cried. She shook her body a few times and fainted to the ground.

"Get me out, let me out..." The loach pleaded bitterly and patted the wall of the gourd. The little gourd was only two steps square and very low in the eyes of the loach. Even a short person like the loach could only stand in it with his head. He knelt in like this, and I don't know how long it took. At first, he couldn't help crying and pleading, but later he didn't even have such strength. He just sat on the ground, put his head on his knees, and patted the gourd wall with his hand from time to time.

The passage of time was not detected at all in this gourd. The loach couldn't imagine how long it had passed. Just as he gradually lost hope of going out, suddenly a dazzling light came from above. Please let me out! I haven't hurt anyone. Please let me go." When the loach saw that the mouth of the gourd was opened, the Taoist priest showed his face and immediately begged him bitterly. The Taoist priest smiled and listened to his pleading quietly. When the loach's pleading was almost finished, he said faintly, "Let you go... It's not impossible...but..."

"Taoist priest, immortal, I will never lie to others again. When I go back, I will take my wife to live in the mountains. I will give you all my wealth..."

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

"I'll do it! I do it! You can do whatever you want me to do!" The loach nodded hurriedly.

The Taoist priest said slowly, "The richest man in this city is Xu, and his family is rich. There is also a beautiful daughter. There is a big pond in his garden, and the lady's pavilion is next to the pond..." The loach listened carefully and didn't understand what he meant. The Taoist priest said, "If a monster lives in the pond to make waves and abducts the young lady..."

The loach asked in surprise, "What monster is so bold!" Taoist priest, you want me to help you catch it! OK, it's my duty!"

"Hey hey hey, that monster is you!"

"Me!" The loach was shocked and made Pu Tong kneel down: "Xianchang, you are aware of it. I dare not do such a harmful thing! Xianchang, you are aware of it! You are clear!"

"What if I let you go!" The Taoist priest asked with a treacherous smile.

"Taoist priest..." The loach was confused.

"I want you to go to the pond to make trouble, and then confuse the young lady and send it to me, and then when I go to collect the demons, you obediently let me catch her, okay?"

The loach opened his mouth for a long time before he understood what he meant: "You asked me to help you lie!"

"I'm not asking you to 'help' me lie! Instead, I order you to do this!" The Taoist priest showed his true face and said viciously, "Do you understand what will happen if you don't help me?" Then he calmed down and said, "As long as you help me, I will let you go. Think about seeing that you still have a beautiful wife waiting for you to go back and a lot of wealth waiting for you to enjoy..."

Since he was arrested, the loach has been thinking about Yinyin all the time. He doesn't want to agree to the Taoist priest's request, but the word "no harm to others" has been sternly in his ear every day since he just changed from an ordinary loach to a monster, and has been firmly engraved in his heart, even now he is absconding from the teacher. Outside, I dare not have the slightest idea of violating this discipline. The Taoist priest was still there threatening for a moment. The loach clearly saw freedom in front of him, but he couldn't do it. Finally, he couldn't help crying loudly: "I really can't do it. Please let me go!" I kowtowed to you! Please let me go!"

The Taoist priest snorted coldly and stuffed the gourd heavily.

Since then, the Taoist priest has opened the gourd twice, and his requirements are similar. The loach also insisted on refusing to submit. Later, the Taoist priest probably died of him and never looked for him again.

Time passed quickly or slowly. There was no longer a concept of loach. He stayed drowsy in the gourd and had little hope of going out. Several times he wanted to jump to the exit and begged the Taoist priest to help him do those things, but he couldn't cross the last barrier in his heart, and maybe he would die here. Inside - this terrible idea tortured him from time to time and made him extremely desperate.

As a bright light came in, the lid of the gourd was opened again. Loach's heart first beat with excitement, but then he lowered his head sadly. He knew that he absolutely could not agree to help the Taoist priest do all kinds of evil deeds. In this case, he also calmed the other party's heart to let him out.

The gourd shook violently, and the loach only felt that the sky was spinning. Before it was clear what had happened, it had actually fallen to the ground. He rubbed his eyes in front of the dazzling sunshine and realized that he had been released from the gourd for a long time. Then there were a few more sounds, and several monsters fell beside him, looking around one by one. Obviously, they didn't understand what had happened as much as him.

"Is that all?" A refreshing female voice came from above. The loach looked up and found that he was now in a courtyard. He saw a female Taoist priest standing on the steps and asking the Taoist priest who had caught him and locked himself up for so long. The Taoist priest was also kneeling under the steps like the monsters at this moment, with a gray face and a poor face. He waved his hand and said, "No more, no more."

The female Taoist priest walked down the steps and pointed to the monsters one by one and said, "Fox demon, you are a good woman, and help Taoist priest Zhang harm people and cheat money. I miss you for more than ten years. I will spare you not to die, beat your century of Taoism, and go back to the mountains to practice well." She said a spell hitting a fox demon. The fox demon howled and rolled on the ground, showing the prototype, and ran away to the female Taoist priest.

"Flower demon, you and a human woman are originally in love, but you should not harass her family in order to become a partner. After being captured by Taoist Zhang, you have been arrested to help him many times. I think you are not evil, and I am forced to forgive you by the situation. It's just that the woman is now married and has a son. You have to swear not to disturb her again, can you do it? The flower demon repeatedly expressed her order, and the female Taoist priest waved her hand to let him leave.

She put these monsters one by one and finally came to the loach and looked at him with a smile: "Among so many trapped monsters, the only thing you haven't done a bad thing for Taoist Zhang. I already know about you. Most of your wife is still waiting for you to reunite at home. Go home quickly."

The loach asked unbelievably, "You, are you going to let me go?" Are you also a Taoist priest? Don't you want to catch me?"

"Why did I arrest you if I was a Taoist priest?" The female Taoist priest is funny.

"Because... Taoist priest... catches demons..." The loach can't say why. In his mind, Taoist priests catch demons is the same as cats and mice, which is a natural thing. Seeing that the female Taoist priest was not in a dilemma, she asked tentatively, "Well, then, I'm leaving..."

"Go well and remember not to harm others in the future!"

The loach stood up and unconsciously looked at the Taoist priest Zhang. The female Taoist priest said, "I'm here today for this Taoist scum. He manipulated demons to extort money and humiliate women, and killed many people. Today is his evil day. The loach heard the murderer in her faint voice, couldn't help shivering, and hurriedly flew away as if fleeing.

He was flying in the air, the cool night wind blew through his cheeks, the stars on his head, and the vast land under his feet. It was not until this moment that he really believed in his freedom, and finally he could go home and finally see his long-lost wife! The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He shouted happily in the air, turned his head, sang and jumped for a long time before he recognized the direction and flew away desperately.

The loach fell in the yard, looked at the house in front of me and almost couldn't move. It trembled its lips and shouted, "Yinyin, Yinyin, I'm back!" I'm back!" Finally, I ran forward quickly. He pushed the door straight into the room, causing the screams of a woman in the room. Several maids stopped in front of them and asked, "Who are you? Why did you break in like this! This is my mother's residence. Why don't you go out quickly!"

"Yinyin, I'm back!" The loach couldn't take care of much, so he pushed them away and rushed into the inner room. When he entered the room, he couldn't help screaming at the same time as the woman sitting in the seat. The woman in front of her is not Yinyin. The woman recognized the loach and shouted, "Monster! Monster! Come on! Help! Help!" The loach looked carefully for a long time before she recognized the woman: although the rich life and gorgeous dress in the past few years have changed her a lot, the similarity between her eyebrows and Yinyin still made her blurt out: "Qiqian? Are you Qianqian? Where's your sister?"

Qianqian kept shouting and didn't answer him at all.

The loach couldn't wait for her to answer and ran out of the room to find it. He couldn't help shouting, "Yinyin, Yinyin, where have you been? I'm back! I'm back!" He ran to most of the house and met Qin Yi, who was in a hurry to get the news from his servants. The loach grabbed him and shouted, "You ungrateful villain, why did you hurt me back then?" Where did Yinyin go?"

Qin Yi looked at the loach and couldn't say anything. To be from the bottom of his heart, he had no intention to harm people in those years, but he was too worried that Yinyin and his family would drug the loach. But the development of the matter was beyond his expectation. Afterwards, people speculated that he did these things to seize people's property. Over the years, their family has been holding the loach's house and using loach gold and silver, and they can't help but feel guilty, as if they had indeed done something wrong. Now I suddenly saw the loach standing in front of me, and I was so scared that I couldn't speak.

"What about Yinyin? Where is Yinyin?" The loach grabbed him and shouted.

When Qin Yi saw that the loach looked bad, he suddenly remembered his identity as a monster and shouted in horror: "I don't know, I don't know!" Turn around and run away.

The loach's heart was getting higher and higher, and he jumped up and grabbed Qin Yi: "Where is Yinyin? What did you do to her? Explain it to me!"

"I didn't kill her! It's not me..." Qin Yi was so scared that she cried loudly. "She ran out inadvertently and jumped into the river and drowned. We didn't kill her..." From Qin Yi's frightened stammering narrative, Yinyin waited for him to come back. She washed her face with tears all day long and gradually began to go crazy. It is always said that her husband was waiting for her in the river. One night, when the caring woman was asleep, she ran out of the house and jumped into the river that once threw her as a river god bride.

The loach fainted and sat on the ground.

The loach cried with Yinyin's tombstone. There were many villagers standing far away, pointing out whether he was a monster or not. Some children watched him cry to death and keep shaving their faces to shame him. Qin Yi stood in the farthest place with more than a dozen family heads. He wanted to come forward to comfort him but did not dare to come. Suddenly, he found that the loach had stopped crying and looked at him viciously. He was so scared that he retreated repeatedly.

"You killed Yinyin, and I want you to pay for your life!"

As the river water not far from the roar of the loach suddenly began to stir like a pot. The wind was strong, and dark clouds were pushed up in the sky for a short time. The big waves rushed to the shore one by one in the wind and lightning, and the big trees with thick bowls were broken off. Every time a torrent of trees, stones, animal carcasses and various debris poured into the village. The villagers watched these people stunned. It was not until now that they realized that the disaster of extinction was in front of them and ran away one after another.

The loach stood in the waves and pushed the waves forward. His goal was the most gorgeous house in the village. He personally urged the construction, personally selected a brick and a tile, and was ready to live with Yinyin until his death, but now it has become someone else's house, and these people have harmed themselves and killed Yinyin. The loach didn't know what he wanted to do, but the resentment in his heart forced him to rush forward, rush to everything with the flood, and drown them all in the water so that he could no longer see it. Only then could his heart be calmer.

The house closest to the roadside in the village has been swallowed by water and scattered in the waves after a few shakes. The water continues to rush to other houses and rush to the fleeing crowds. Qin Yi ran breathlessly. If he had been a farmer before, he would have run faster, but after working for a long time, his legs and feet were no longer as neat as before. He knew that the loach was coming at him, and his fear was even more unspeakable. At this time, a child fell beside him, and the sound of crying shocked him. The waves are getting closer and closer, and there is probably no way to escape, right? He almost mechanically turned around and picked up the child and ran again. Anyway, he can't help the child by himself, and he can't escape without helping the child, but he really can't do it when he doesn't reach out his hand.

I'm going to catch him! The anger in the loach's heart surged more and more. To smash him in the waves, let him feed the fish and shrimp!

"Fang, Gong... dead loach! Where are you looking?" A gentle and anxed voice sounded.

The loach looked up, rubbed his eyes, shook the water on his head hard, and then looked at it. It turned out that Yinyin stood in front of him with a smile. Yinyin, you are not dead!" The loach rushed over with open arms. Unexpectedly, it was empty. Yinyin drifted like a puff of smoke and condensed back into shape after a long time. You are still so stupid!" Yinyin smiled and scolded, "How can a living person stand in mid-air and talk to you in the waves!"

The tears of the loach fell down: the wife in front of him was really just a ghost. He cried and talked about his separation. After a long time, he said his thoughts and said to his wife, "Yinyin, anyway, we can't live in the world. You go to the river with me." He doesn't care whether his wife is a human or a ghost, and a couple of a monster and a ghost may not be inappropriate. In a few years, Yinyin may be able to practice and take shape. At that time, maybe the couple can live a more free life than in the past.

Yinyin shook her head and interrupted his vision of the future: "I can't go with you."

"Why?"

Yinyin looked behind her, and two impermanences were showing their bodies: "I should have been taken to the underworld long after my death. It was I who begged them to allow me to stay and wait to see you. After we met, I should leave with them.

"Where are you going with them? Why did you go with them?" The loach began to cry.

"People can't escape the cycle of life and death. I'm also a person." Yinyin also shed tears: "Actually, I should have been thrown into the river and drowned ten years ago. Because of your appearance, I escaped a disaster and let them find me for ten years and earn more ten years of love between husband and wife. Am I not enough? I'm satisfied! Only I can't give up you, a nerd. You don't know how many stupid things you have to do without me looking at you... Look at what you've made here. Why don't you give me the water!"

"Not enough! Of course not enough! I don't think it's enough. We said we would grow old!" The loach shouted, "You are not allowed to go there!" No one wants to take you away! Otherwise, I will turn him upside down!"

"You are still so stupid! You are just a little loach, fighting against the hell and the reincarnation of heaven!" Yinyin heard the impermanence behind her shaking the chain in her hand impatiently and knew that she didn't have much time. "I don't regret marrying you, a monster at all. Ten years have been a couple for more than a hundred years. My father-in-law, I have no regrets of death, so don't embarras them anymore. You practice well, and one day you will achieve positive results. Maybe I, as a wife, can still be exposed to glory. If there is an afterlife... I, I would like to be a female loach and follow you to settle down in the mud..."

"Yin..." The loach cried to stop the two impermanences, "Don't take my wife away."

"The little monster dares to fight with us!" Wuchang kicked him and said, "If it hadn't been for your wife's loyalty, we wouldn't have wasted time for you. Let's go and report to hell." With that, he pulled up Yinyin and left.

The loach hit it without thinking about a spell. It saw impermanence swinging its chain, and then the loach fell down from the air as soon as it was dizzy. In his ear, it only heard Yinyin repeatedly telling: " Practice well and one day you will achieve positive results... Don't resist the way of heaven... Don't hurt others... Don't hurt others..." Wait for him When I flew up again, the sky was vast, and I hadn't seen Yinyin's figure for a long time...

"Ah..." The loach held his head and howled in the sky.

The loach lay at the bottom of the water and didn't want to move. He recalled Yinyin's words and deeds every day, smiled and let the time be quiet, as if he had returned to the previous time. He didn't have to do anything or think about anything, but the bottom of his heart seemed to have opened a big hole, which was so painful that he couldn't stand it. He remembered Yinyin's last instruction: to achieve positive results and also want to practice hard as she said, but he just didn't want to move, and he didn't want to move.

From time to time, humans on the shore will throw down some fresh pigs and sheep. The loach knows that it was sent by Qin Yi and his wife, but he doesn't want to eat them. He would rather eat small fish and shrimps in the river, water, grass and shells, and even mud. He doesn't want to eat human things.

After many years, they no longer threw things down the shore. The loach was a little happy that they finally forgot themselves, but a few years later, the loach sleeping in the mud was suddenly awakened by a drumming. Looking up at the river on the bank, there was a lot of excitement. After blowing and beating for a long time, the water wave shook and a big red sedan was thrown into the water.

The sedan chair sank into the water, and the curtain floated in the water. A snow-white slender arm stretched out the door of the sedan chair and grasped it weakly... The loach looked at all this silently, and his throat choked, as if she had returned to that day. The beautiful bride came to her through the water waves... No, she was not Yinyin, only Yinyin is such a beautiful water bride, she is not! There was a string of sobs in the throat of the loach. With a wave of his hand, a string of water waves rolled up the sedan chair and raised it back to the shore. The drums on the shore stopped, and there was a loud noise.

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

The loach drilled into the mud, and the human matter is up to them. He no longer wants to have any relationship with human beings.

Sleep, wake up, eat some water plants, miss Yinyin, and then fall asleep... The loach repeats such a life day after day. However, at this moment, a wave of water called his heart.

The loach was stunned by this familiar magic power. Before he could react, a figure appeared in front of him and knocked him in the water and grass with one palm. The loach raised his head dizzy and shouted in horror: "Master...Master? Why are you here!"

"You beast!" The middle-aged man's fox demon-like body trembled and kicked the loach heavily, "How dare you do such a harmful thing! If I had known this, I might as well let that big fish eat you at the beginning! It really pissed me off!" With that, he rushed up to beat and scold him. A man behind him grabbed him: "Hu Daoyou, don't be angry. It's not too late to ask the matter clearly before dealing with him."

"So it's you." The loach looked at the woman who spoke for herself as the female Taoist priest who had released herself from the gourd that had been locked for many years that day. He was excited and rushed over and kowtowed repeatedly: "Thank you, Taoist priest, for your life-saving kindness that day. Thank you, Taoist priest."

The female Taoist priest smiled faintly: "I remember that you were the only one among those monsters who were determined and never were an accomplice to the Taoist priest Zhang. Why did you act evil now that you are free?"

"Me? I've been living here... Alas, my wife is no longer there. I'm homeless, but I haven't done anything bad."

"You still said you didn't do anything bad!" The old fox rushed up again and gave him a foot. "There are no more than 20 apprentices and nephews I have taught in my life, and they are all good-behaved. Unexpectedly, the closed disciple who finally accepted him fled behind his back and harms the world. I will be pissed off alive! I'll just beat your animal back to its original shape and throw it into the river to feed the fish and shrimp.

The loach shrank his head in horror: "I really didn't do anything bad."

The old fox hit over and cursed endlessly. The female Taoist priest finally persuaded him aside and asked the loach rolling with his head in his arms, "What about those women?"

"What woman?" The loach is puzzled.

The old fox shouted beside him, "You ** apprentice, are those river god brides who have been sent over the years."

"Those women in the human sedan chair..." The loach shook his head, "They have been drowned long ago, haven't they?"

"Beast!" The old fox slapped his head, and the loach only felt a great pain pulling out of his body. He rolled on the ground and rolled the water grass all over his body. When the pain stopped a little, he wanted to push away the water grass on his face, but found that he had no hands - he had been beaten back to his original shape and was already used to the human loach. I screamed in horror.

"You have killed so many innocent women, but it's cheap for you to return to the original shape. What else do you call!" The old fox said angrily, "I want to keep you at the bottom of the river so that you will never escape!"

"What did I do wrong? I, when did I hurt people!" The loach screamed hoarsely.

"You, you, still said that you didn't harm anyone!"

"Those women were thrown down by human beings themselves. I sent them back to the shore again and again, but they still have to throw them down. What does this have to do with me!" The loach screamed aggrievedly. Hearing him say that both the old fox and the female Taoist priest have been silent. In recent years, there has been a flourishing custom of marrying the river god. It is said that the water god in the river is a good woman. The girl chosen for him every year must be beautiful and dignified, otherwise she will be sent back to the shore by the water. After that, there will be either a drought or a flood, and disasters will continue. Therefore, countless young girls have been victims in this area in recent years. They originally came to eliminate the harm for the people, but when they heard the loach, what is the sin of human beings sending themselves into the river?

"Wanhuayan, it's all human's fault to say so, but you are innocent! Isn't it you who once made a scene in the village and flushed the village!"

"It's me! They occupied my property, killed my wife, and framed me to lose my freedom. Can't I be angry? What's more, I didn't hurt them alone in time! Why can't I retaliate if only human beings are allowed to harm others? You have something to take care of them. Why didn't you come to my poor wife's innocent death!" The loach had been depressed for a long time and forgot to talk for a moment.

The old fox and the female Taoist priest looked at each other and didn't know how to deal with the loach. The old fox also understood that there was nothing wrong with the loach in this matter, but how could he admit that he punished his apprentice and sneered, "It's also wrong to live here and see human drown without saving, and you still talk back!"

"What's wrong with me? Human beings throw people into the water by themselves. What obligation do I have to help them? I don't owe human beings anything! I don't want to have any more contact with them."

"What the disciple said is right," the female Taoist priest raised her head and looked at the surface of the water and said, "Even if there are no monsters in this river, human beings will still carry out these ** evil sacrifices. I don't know how many human beings have taken the opportunity to make a fortune and overbearing women. What does these have to do with monsters? !"

The old fox was silent for a long time, shook his sleeves and said coldly, "What an apprentice, I don't have such an apprentice anymore." He went straight out of the water, broke through the air, and left the loach alone.

The loach thought that he could not escape again, but he didn't expect that the master would drift away. He was stunned there for a while. After a long time, he looked at the female Taoist priest and waited for her to deal with himself.

"It seems that this old fox just expelled you from the teacher's door and is not going to punish you. Congratulations, I was worried that this old man had a strange temper and didn't know what he would do." The Taoist priest said with a smile.

"What about you? What about me?"

"It's not your fault. How can I do anything to you?" Seeing that the loach looked dull, the Taoist priest thought that he had been beaten away by the old fox for hundreds of years. She was worried about him and asked, "What are you going to do in the future?"

When the loach heard her say that it was no longer difficult for him, his suspense was suddenly relieved, but he was at a loss when he heard her asking herself what his plans were. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Go back to bed."

The female Taoist priest sat at the bottom of the water and quietly listened to the loach. This was the first time that Loach told others about his life. In the stumbling story, he found that his life was so muddle-headed and had nothing. Only Yinyin really belonged to her, but she also lost herself... Yinyin, whoo-hoo... He choked and cried.

"The deceased is dead, and I'm sorry for the change..." The female Taoist priest comforted him softly, "In this case, aren't you going to fulfill your wife's last wish?"

"How can a fool like me achieve positive results? That's just a reason why Yinyin comforts me and wants me to live well." The loach smiled bitterly, "Even if the cultivation is the fruit, the world is vast, where can I find my Yinyin... Yinyin is gone, so what if I can't correct the fruit..."

"Do you really have the heart to complete her last request?"

"..." The loach was silent and finally shook his head. "I don't know how many years a monster like me wants to be. There is no positive result. Forget it, I'd better go back and be a loach."

The female Taoist priest pondered for a moment, and she also knew how difficult it was for a monster to learn a little result if he didn't want to take a shortcut. She thought about it and made up her mind and asked, "Would you like to learn Taoism from me?"

The loach was shocked. He knew that if this female Taoist priest was a friend with his former master who was above his eyes, he would not be an ordinary person. How could such a master easily accept himself as an apprentice? However, he is not enthusiastic about practice. He can escape with a master like Kunlun Mountain Old Fox, which shows that he doesn't care about any famous teachers. What's more, the other party is a human being. With the lesson of Taoist priest Zhang, he has a lingering heart for human Taoist priests.

"I'd better go back to bed." After saying that, the loach got into the mud without waiting for the female Taoist priest to open her mouth.

The female Taoist priest stood for a long time before flying away.

The water wave gently awakened the loach in his sleep. He opened his eyes and saw that the female Taoist priest had stood in front of him. It had been more than 30 years since that day. Every year on this day, the female Taoist priest came to the loach and just asked him a question: "Would you like to practice Taoism with me?" The loach will ignore her every time and go back to bed again, but she will come again the next year.

"Would you like to practice Taoism with me?" - Sure enough, it was another sentence, and the loach smiled bitterly: "You are a human. Why do you care so much about me as a monster?"

The female Taoist priest smiled indifferently: "Do you really think so? Take a closer look, I'm not a human."

The loach opened his mouth suspiciously and looked up and down for a long time before asking, "You are, you are... me, can I worship you as my teacher?" With that, he knelt down.

"The Taoist priest drinks tea." The middle-aged scholar filled the white Taoist priest with a glass of water and asked, "So what happened to this Mr. Loach?"

"Later, he kept practicing, and then..." Bai Taoist muttered and didn't know what to say. At this time, a cheerful voice came: "Later, it was just that he wandered around the world and practiced hard. Why do you have to ask the result of what happened in the story? With the sound, a young Taoist priest strode along the road and appeared beside them. Bai Taoist priest quickly stood up and said, "Brother, you're here."

The white Taoist priest is slender and handsome, which is quite different from the white Taoist priest. He is also talkative and hydrated. He talks to the stall owner for a moment while drinking tea. After hearing that he wants to change the story for tea, he smiled: "Then should I also tell a story according to the rules?"

"The Taoist priest travels around the world and must know a lot of anecdotes. Can you talk about it?"

"Okay," the young Taoist priest thought for a moment and said, "Let me tell a story about a fox."