Undying Body

In summer, the days are very long. Tired of playing with the lotus pond, Young Master Du decided to go out for a walk. There is a mountain not far from grandma's house. The air in the valley is cool and the scenery is much more beautiful than outside the mountain.

There is a stream deep in the valley, flowing all the way down from the top of the mountain in the distance. The water flow is very fast, and it hits the stones in the water, stirring up large sheets of white water foam.

Du Shaoyan took off his shoes and socks and threw them on the grass by the bank and stepped into the water with bare feet. The cool stream was crystal clear. He touched the pebbles at the bottom of the water while stepping on the water. After a while, he turned around and said, "I found something good!"

Xiao Xia didn't go into the water, but stood on the bank and followed him, and asked very cooperatively, "What good thing?"

"This." Du Shaoyan raised his hand from the water, holding a small crab between his two fingers, and he was waving the tongs with open teeth and claws.

Xiao Xia ran a few steps closer: "Master, be careful, don't get caught by it."

"How could it be, it's so stupid, it won't move when you clasp your hands." Du Shaoyan held the crab and walked towards the shore, and at the same time brought the crab close to Xiao Xia's face: "Look, look..."

Xiao Xia hurried to the side, Du Shaoyan ran to chase him, the cobblestones at the bottom of the stream were slippery, he just looked at the bank and forgot his feet, slipped and fell into the water without paying attention.

Du Shaoyan originally had only his legs wet, but now his whole body was wet, and he didn't know where to throw the crab. He got up from the water in embarrassment, and Xiao Xia stepped into the water to help him: "Are you okay?"

Du Shaoyan wiped his wet hair with his hands to cover up his red face. He always cares about face, so of course he couldn't tolerate making a fool of himself in front of his little attendant. He pushed Xiao Xia away with his elbow: "It's okay, I'll touch two more for fun."

While the two were talking, someone not far away said, "It's dangerous here, kids, don't play here."

Du Shaoyan turned around and found that it was the "qigong" man from the acrobatic troupe yesterday. The man was wearing a thin summer shirt that looked cheap at first sight. The hair style is fair, and the face is brighter than last night under the light of the day, and it is a little less sluggish.

In short, he is just an ordinary country man, not to mention that he was caught by himself in acrobatics yesterday and indirectly admitted that he changed the prop knife. Why should such a man teach me!Du Shaoyan was embarrassed because of his fall, and immediately became irritable when reminded by the man: "Stop meddling in your own business!"

The man was stunned for a moment, and explained: "No, the water ahead is very deep, and it's dangerous to play in the water here."

Du Shaoyan grabbed Xiao Xia's wrist as if he didn't hear it and walked aside, ignoring him.

Xiao Xia walked and said, "He has good intentions."

"Can't I see how deep the water is? The water here is so clear. How can he, an acrobat from out of town, know whether it's dangerous or not? It's alarmist!" Du Shaoyan pointed to the water and said, "And I can swim, so he doesn't need to worry about it."

The two of them walked through this valley, and the outside of the mountain suddenly became clear. The stream and other water flows outside the mountain converged to form a not-so-narrow river.

The current on the river was still very fast, so Du Shaoyan walked into the water again, the water was comfortable against his feet, the green grass on both sides of the river, and the fragrance of summer flowers and plants smelt his nostrils, his mood improved, and he said: "That man still called me Little friend, where am I a little friend, hum."

Xiao Xia walked on the shore: "He must be 30 years old, so it's okay to call us that."

"You can, but I can't." Du Shaoyan bent down to look at the water: "There are a lot of small fish in the water, much more than in grandma's pond."

A few inches below the surface of the water, small fish gathered in groups, swimming in one direction regularly, and then swimming in another direction after a while, as if someone directed them.

After all, Du Shaoyan grew up in the city and had never seen this kind of fish flow. He excitedly followed the direction of the fish flow and walked towards the center of the river step by step.

"Don't go far." Xiao Xia sat down on the bank, he felt tired after walking for so long.

Du Shaoyan just looked down at the fish, the water gradually submerged his legs, waist, and chest, so he simply got into the water and started swimming.

In the scorching summer sun, the scorching skin felt very comfortable in the cool water. Du Shaoyan buried his whole body in the water, and soon he found that he could not step on the bottom of the river.

Fortunately, this was nothing compared to his swimming skills. Schools of fish swam around him. He reached out and caught a handful of fish. The tiny fish had a slippery body and quickly slipped away from his fingers. He swam again. After catching a few times, the fish still swam mischievously away, as if playing with him.

Du Shaoyan only focused on the school of fish in front of him, and suddenly felt something grabbed his ankle.

He looked down and saw that the water plants on the bottom of the river were entangled with his right foot. He took a deep breath of air and plunged into the water, pulling those long hair-like water plants with his hands.

There has never been any aquatic plants in the swimming pool, and there are no such dense wild aquatic plants in the lotus pond. Du Shaoyan pulled the aquatic plants a few times and found that his other foot was also entangled by the aquatic plants driven by the current. The ribbon-like grass, but found that they were too tough to tear apart with his fingers. He kicked his legs hard, and the water grass sucked more tightly to his legs, becoming more and more tightly entangled.

Xiao Xia sat on the grass to rest, and the small purple wild flowers were scattered in the grass. He has always liked flowers and plants, so he watched them with interest for a long time. When he raised his head, he found that Du Shaoyan was no longer on the water.

Xiao Xia stood up, and he looked around the river hard, but there was no one within his vision.

"Master!" Xiao Xia shouted loudly, "Master!"

On the empty river, no one responded to him.

"Where did you go, don't scare me..." Xiao Xia ran along the river bank, his hands and feet felt cold.

Although his young master likes to scare him and punish him, he won't keep silent for such a long time, will he... that person just said that this place is dangerous...

Du Shaoyan heard Xiao Xia's voice above the water, and he couldn't make a sound to respond. The water plants wrapped around his body gently but tightly, not allowing him to break free a little bit. He felt that the air in his chest was exhausted, and his lungs seemed to be exploding. Stinging, water rushed into his mouth eagerly, he felt the pain of suffocation, and the sunlight on the water gradually dimmed.

Suddenly he heard the sound of someone jumping into the water, did someone save him? His head was so painful that he couldn't tell the direction, but he stretched out his hand hard.

A slightly rough hand held his hand, and then an arm came around and held his arm.

Du Shaoyan tried his best to look over, and he saw the man's face through layers of water waves.

How could it be him... He didn't have time to think more, the man swam a little closer to his face, and touched his lips to his.

The air entered his body, and the pain in his chest was instantly relieved, and he felt a little more strength.

The man backed away. He bent down and squatted at Du Shaoyan's feet. At the same time, he took out a small knife and began to cut the aquatic plants vigorously. The soft grass broke on the sharp blade. The man said, "Go upstream."

Du Shaoyan looked down at him, he only saw the hair on the back of the man's head, the man's hair was very light black, floating in the water, a red silk thread floating from the back of his neck, seemed to be something hanging from him ornaments.

Du Shaoyan suddenly felt that the binding force on his feet was suddenly reduced, he kicked his legs hard and jumped up, protruding from the water.

At this moment, he felt as if something was hooked to his foot, and he didn't have time to pay attention, the air filled his chest instantly, and the cool feeling was like a clear spring flowing to the bottom of his heart, he had never felt the importance of air so much.

The wind on the water blew over his wet cheeks, he heard Xiao Xia crying, and Du Shaoyan swam to the shore, coughing violently from the choking water just now.

"Scared me to death... Fortunately, someone came..." Xiao Xia cried and stroked his back: "How are you, young master..."

Du Shaoyan lay on the ground and coughed all the time, Xiao Xia helped him calm down, crying and saying, "How are you, young master, how are you?"

"You're not dead, don't cry!" Du Shaoyan didn't raise his head until he coughed out the choking water, and his first move was to wipe his mouth with the back of his hand: "Damn, uncle kissed me, it's so disgusting!"

"Huh? Ah!" Xiao Xia suddenly exclaimed, "Why didn't that uncle go ashore!"

Only then did Du Shaoyan realize that the man who rescued him hadn't climbed up. He turned his head and looked at the river. The water surface was flat and there was no one there.

"Oops, he won't be drowning." Du Shaoyan got up from the ground, and he looked back and forth on the surface of the water, only the water was rushing downstream.

He immediately jumped back into the water, wanting to swim to the spot just now, Xiao Xia grabbed his clothes: "Master, you just rescued..."

Du Shaoyan broke away from Xiao Xia's hand: "I have to save him."

"Can not be done……"

Du Shaoyan didn't say anything else, he swam towards the bottom of the water, he had just choked on the water, there was still a faint fishy smell of the river in his nose, and there was still pain left over from suffocation in his head, but he definitely couldn't do nothing, he searched the bottom of the water At the place where I drowned just now, there are only long water plants swaying back and forth against the current, like a woman's soft waist dancing.

The bottom of the water is clear at a glance, and there is no shadow of the man.

Du Shaoyan searched again, swam a little further, but still found nothing.

He swam back to the shore and got out of the water wetly: "He's gone." He looked at Xiao Xia: "Go back quickly and call someone from home, and a few more people will look for him near this river."

Xiao Xia panicked: "What, what do you mean?"

Du Shaoyan said as calmly as possible: "The water is so fast, there is no bottom, it may be drowned and rushed downstream, anyway, go back and bring someone to rescue."

Xiao Xia groaned, ran a few steps and turned back: "How about you, young master?"

"I'll keep looking here." Du Shaoyan said and buried himself in the water again.

Xiao Xia brought people over soon, and a dozen servants in the family spread out and groped in the river. Du Shaoyan was already exhausted, so he climbed ashore and sat on the rocks in a daze.

Seeing his gloomy face, Xiao Xia said cautiously, "Are you all right?"

Du Shaoyan shook his head and let out a sigh of relief: "I really regret it."

Xiao Xia could hear the heavy frustration in his tone, so she didn't speak any more.

Du Shaoyan didn't speak any more. Looking at the rushing water, he felt extremely annoyed.He treated the man's kind reminder badly, but the man saved him at a critical moment, and now his whereabouts are unknown. He understands the limit of time in the water, and he hasn't found it for such a long time...

"Master, I haven't found it yet." A servant came over and said.

Du Shaoyan was silent, he lowered his head.

The servant went on to say, "It's been so long, I'm afraid it's been..."

"I don't care, keep looking!" Du Shaoyan roared.

He is still a child, his voice has not changed, and his voice is still childish, but his strong tone is irresistible.

The servant nodded obediently and continued to search.

Xiao Xia stood beside Du Shaoyan and whispered, "He should be fine..."

Du Shaoyan didn't look at him, Xiaoxia said again: "Because you saw it yesterday, he knows qigong, he might be able to hold his breath for a long time and swim away by himself, I didn't pay much attention to it just now, maybe when the young master came ashore, he came from the opposite side I didn't see it when it landed."

Du Shaoyan didn't speak.The sun was slowly setting, and the golden red light of the setting sun shone on the gradually cooling river surface, which was as red as blood.