I forget the river

I walked out of Luoyang and walked on the path for two days. I didn't know that I had finally arrived in Linshui Village until I saw the words engraved on the village tablet made of uncut jade at the entrance of the village.

This village used to be called 'Bangshui Village' because there was a beautiful and clear river in the village, and the crops in the village grew plump and strong under the nourishment of this river.But later a literati came here and said that Bangshui Village was out of fashion, and it would be better to call it Linshui Village, so it was renamed Linshui Village.I also heard that not only the scenery here is beautiful, there are green mountains and white waters, fertile fields and beautiful ponds, but also the folk customs are very simple, and there will never be any phenomenon of bullying and deception, so passers-by like to rest here.

In the past two days, I have been busy on my way, and I have no chance to rest and clean up. At least my clothes should look better, otherwise I would really look like a beggar.

I tidied up my clothes and patted the dust off my body before leading my aunt into the village.

The country road is flat and wide, allowing two carriages to pass side by side.On both sides of the road, there are green grasses and flowers, and jujube trees are shady.Behind the jujube tree is the farmhouse. The small yards of every household are clean and tidy. The fences are neatly lined up in a row. A group of children are playing together in the yard, imitating hens, holding each other's clothes and cooing. Call.A few women in coarse clothes gathered together. They wore headscarves and wooden hairpins on their heads. They chatted while drying the quilt, but they all watched the children playing around from time to time.There are very light and soft smiles on their lips, I think, that should be the appearance of mothers...

Until now, I haven't seen any adult men. It's still morning and the weather is very clear. They should have gone to work in the fields.

Just as I was looking at the rural scenery, suddenly a little thing jumped out of the road and shouted at me: "Hey!"

I was taken aback for a moment before I saw clearly that this little thing was a little boy.This child is about five or six years old, and he looks like a tiger, and he is very energetic.

He made a gesture of Wukong exploring the way to me, and said: "Where are you monster!"

When I was dumbfounded, a slender girl ran out. She looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, and she looked very pretty.She slapped the child's ass in embarrassment, and reprimanded in a low voice: "I called you naughty, and you're here to scare people!" Then she apologized to me, saying: "My lord, I'm sorry...you came to find me From the inn?" At this time, her fair face was already flushed with shame, and her big watery eyes didn't know where to look.

I smiled at her and said, "It's okay, I'm indeed here to stay at the hotel."

She nodded and said, "My lord, this Linshui Village is just my inn, which is very clean and convenient."

"I'm sorry, girl, lead the way."

She took the little boy's hand and walked ahead. The little boy looked back at me curiously with big grape-like eyes and asked, "Brother, your horse is so beautiful, can you pet it for me?"

The girl patted the little boy on the back of the head without waiting for my reply after hearing it: "Don't talk nonsense!"

I shook my head and smiled, "It's okay."

The inn is a small wooden two-story building with a sign on it saying 'Linshui Inn'.

She tied the horse to the stable, then took me to a room on the second floor, and told me to call her if I had anything to do, and then she went downstairs to help me prepare the bath water.

The room is not big, but it is really clean, you can say spotless.I unwrapped the package and got ready to get out the spare clothes to change out the dirty ones.But I had just changed half of my clothes, and I felt something was wrong, and when I glanced back, I suddenly saw a round little head.

Isn't this the little boy?

I was helpless and asked him: "What are you doing here?"

He blinked his big watery eyes and ran over, asking, "Brother, are you a girl?" Then he touched my back with his chubby little hands, and said, "It's smoother than my sister's skin! ..." The elder sister he mentioned should be the girl who brought me here.

I was speechless, took his hand off and said, "I am a man."

"A man's skin should be like my father's!" He lifted up his clothes, showed me his white and tender belly, and said, "Did you see the scar on my stomach?"

I put on my clothes and squatted down to take a closer look, only to see a very thin, very shallow scar.

He showed off to me: "Ah Hua caught me, but I didn't cry! Look at this scar, isn't it very majestic!"

"Yes. But who is Ah Hua?"

"It's a little chicken, it's grown so big now! It can lay eggs for me to eat!"

I couldn't help but look at him, he still insisted on letting me touch his scar.I touched it with my index finger and said, "It's really brave."

He put down his clothes, looked at me seriously, and said, "You said you could let me pet your horse, you didn't lie to me..."

"That's why you came to see me?" I took out a piece of candy from the package and gave it to him. Speaking of which, this candy was left by Wang Chuan.

He took the candy, licked it, put it in his pocket, and said, "I came to you secretly, otherwise my sister will beat me again!"

I teased him: "A brave man like you is still afraid of your sister?"

After hearing this, he was taken aback for a moment, then his neck twitched, and he said stiffly, "Who's afraid? I'm a man, I'm not afraid of anything!"

At this time, his sister came to me and told me that the water had been boiled and I could go to the bathroom to take a shower.He heard his sister's voice shrunk under the dressing table, and then whispered to me: "You said let me pet your horse..."

I smiled and nodded to him, and said softly, "It's a deal."

The girl outside the door said: "Little Fuzi, come out quickly! Don't disturb the guests all the time, we have to deliver food to Dad!"

Xiao Fuzi gave me a pitiful look, then pouted and went out the door.The moment before going out, he took a special look at me and told me not to forget to touch the horse for him.

I nodded to him to show that I understood, and he reluctantly went downstairs.

There is a hot water room in the back hall on the first floor, and next to the hot water room is a cubicle, which is probably the bathroom she mentioned.

When I opened the door, I felt a burst of water vapor rushing towards my face, with a little fragrance.Going around the screen, I took off my clothes and went into the bathtub. There were dots of deep orange petals with brown spots floating in the water. I recognized them as wild lilies in the mountains.

After two days of running around, I was really tired, but this bath made me feel very relaxed.Especially the aroma of this wild lily calms me down a lot, and I feel a sense of peace and relaxation from the inside out.

I pinched a petal and sniffed it gently, feeling very at ease.

I didn't come out of the water until I washed myself clean and the water was almost cold, put on my clothes and twisted my wet hair and walked out of the bathroom leisurely.

The siblings haven't left yet, and the lobby doesn't know what to say now, anyway, the girl is holding the food box, looking very anxious.She glanced at me inadvertently, then froze for a few seconds, finally lowered her head and said with a flushed face, "Master... finished washing?"

I rubbed my hair and said, "It's finished washing. Aren't you going to deliver food to uncle? Why haven't you left yet?"

She frowned and said, "Aunt Zhou from the opposite door just now came to tell me that my mother passed out suddenly. She has asked her daughter to help me find a doctor, and now let me take care of it. But Xiaofuzi is too young to be alone Going so far away to deliver food to my father, I can't get away..."

"If that's the case, can I help you go?"

Her face turned redder, and I didn't know what was wrong with her, so I said with concern: "Girl, I don't think your complexion is very good, why don't you go see a doctor too."

She waved her hand, bit her lip and said, "No, no need...Little Fuzi, you take the young master to find...find father, I'll take care of mother..." After finishing speaking, she stuffed the food box into my arms, Then he covered his face and ran out, leaving me and Xiao Fuzi staring wide-eyed.

I asked him, "What's wrong with your sister?"

"I don't know, maybe I'm hungry. I like to make trouble when I'm hungry."

"...Really??" I didn't think too much, and took Xiao Fuzi to the stable.

Seeing Sui, Xiao Fuzi's eyes lit up immediately, and he asked Sui with wide eyes, "Ma'er, Maer, can I touch you?"

Seeing Xiao Fuzi's chubby little hand stretched out, Suu stuck out her tongue and licked his hand with a friendly look.

Xiao Fuzi was taken aback for a moment and then smiled, two round dimples appeared on his pink and tender face.He happily took out the candy I gave him, and said to Suu: "Ma Ma Ma, I will give you candy."

I hugged him, led him onto the horse, and said to him, "Horses don't eat sugar."

He unfolded the candy wrapper, licked the candy lightly and said, "Brother, you are so amazing, you can actually fly! Can you teach me?"

I patted his head and said, "I will teach you when you grow up."

"When was that?"

"When you are as tall as me."

He nodded half understanding, then licked the candy again, then carefully wrapped the candy and put it in his pocket.I have been paying attention to his licking candy for a long time, so I asked him: "Why don't you eat this candy?"

He said: "A uncle who is not clear about his mind came to the village. He said some strange things every day, so many children bullied him, and my parents didn't let me play with him. Be happy, and the disease will be cured. But my parents won’t let me eat candy, saying that the candy will turn into worms to eat my teeth, and my teeth will hurt.” Then he looked at me again and said: “ Brother, you said that I only eat such a little, will the little bugs find my teeth??"

I drove the barn out of the stable and said, "Brother's candy doesn't contain bugs, so don't worry, little Fuzi."

He smiled sweetly: "I'm not afraid of bugs! I'm a man! A man, protect mom and sister! Why are you afraid of bugs?"

No wonder Xiaodouzi likes children, it's fun to be with them.I told him: "Hurry up, the horse is going to fly!"

The horse is very human. It knew there was a child, so it didn't run fast, but the little Fuzi was very happy, and kept shouting: "Good horse, good horse, fast horse! Show me Daddy, Daddy will play with me!"

When we reached the fork in the village road, Xiao Fuzi suddenly asked me to stop and wanted to get off my horse.

"That uncle is the one who is sick." With his fleshy little finger, he pointed at the man curled up under the fence.If Xiaofuzi hadn't pointed it out to me, I wouldn't have noticed that there were people here.When I walked in, I smelled a sour smell, and I couldn't help frowning.Xiao Fuzi didn't mind, he handed the candy to the man and said, "Uncle, you'll be fine after eating the candy."

The man slowly raised his head, looked at the candy wrapped in silver paper in his hand, and suddenly became terrified. He started to go crazy. I hugged Xiao Fuzi quickly, and the crazy man shouted as he ran, "I don't know." , I don’t know! He paid me to do this! He didn’t say anything! I don’t know! I don’t know!!”

……

this sound...

I looked at the hunched figure in front of me, who was getting further and further away, and thought: That's right, it's definitely him.

He is the host of the house where Wang Chuan and I stayed in the village.

But how did he come here?And who was the 'he' he was talking about giving himself money?

Xiao Fuzi stared wide-eyed, and said, "Why is uncle running away again... as if someone is chasing him..."

I took Xiao Fuzi on the horse, and while walking into the field, I asked him, "Where did that man come from?"

"I don't know. I heard from adults that they escaped from other villages."

I was suspicious in my heart, and I was going to investigate this matter clearly when I came back.

The spring sun hangs high, and the light clouds are like glaze.There are endless green hills in the distance, and the green water is worry-free.The cool breeze blows freely, and the moist rice seedlings sway gently with it, looking like a green ocean, and they are the waves in the sea.

"It's right in front!" Xiao Fuzi pointed to the front, and I saw four heads following the direction of his finger.

"Father!!!" Little Fuzi yelled, "Father!!!!!!"

Unsurprisingly, Su Cong was startled, and took several steps back.I was busy comforting it while hugging Xiaofuzi down.

Those four people were two to three hundred steps away from us, and when they saw us, they put down their work and walked over.

"The first one is my father, then my uncle and two elder brothers." Xiao Fuzi introduced me.

Xiao Fuzi's father came over first. This thick-eyed, dark-skinned, strong man hugged Xiao Fuzi with his muddy hands, then rubbed his bearded face against Xiao Fuzi's face, and said, "Do you miss Dad?"

"Think!" Xiao Fuzi's eyes widened, very cute.

"Eh? Where's that girl Lianxin?" Little Fuzi's father put him down, and then asked me: "I don't know if this young master is..."

I thought Lian Xin was the girl's name, so I said: "Miss Lian Xin's mother is ill, and she can't get away for a while, so I will bring Xiao Fuzi to deliver meals for her."

The big man became anxious when he heard it, and hurriedly asked me: "How is her mother?"

I shook my head: "I don't know about this."

Xiao Fuzi's uncle and brothers also came out one after another, his uncle said to the big man: "Brother, if you are worried about sister-in-law, go back first."

"This is impossible. There is so much work in the field, how can you come here so busy." He sighed, very helpless.

At this time, the youngest boy among the four asked me: "Did you come here for Xin'er?" He was about the same age as me, but he was stronger and tanned than me.

"Yes." I nodded.

He suddenly smiled mysteriously at me and said, "Xin'er is the most beautiful girl in our village."

The other three people also smiled mysteriously when they heard the words, no matter how dull I was, I could understand what it meant, so I couldn't help being at a loss for words.Thinking back to the way Lian Xin blushed again, it seemed that it really happened...

But I like men!I like Wangchuan!

Only Xiao Fuzi didn't understand, and asked what they were laughing at.The big man patted Xiao Fuzi's face lovingly, and said, "You little thing, you still don't understand anything."

I felt embarrassed and didn't know what to say. I laughed along with them a few times, but even I knew that laughing was uglier than crying.In the end, I was so embarrassed that I didn't even take my lunch box, so I got on the horse with Xiaofuzi and ran all the way back to the inn.

When she returned to the inn, Lian Xin was already there.She was doing calculations in the account book, and when she saw me coming back, she hurried over and said, "You ran out while your hair was still wet?"

Because I was embarrassed to see her, I was not ashamed to accept her concern, so I rushed upstairs after a few words of humming.

She asked me from below: "Where's the food box?"

I didn't answer, just closed the door.

I went to sleep when I got back to my room, and I didn't wake up until [-]:[-].When I woke up, I had a splitting headache, and I knew I had to dry my hair with wet hair, and then I went to bed after blowing, so I had a cold.

There were a few knocks on the door, very light and hasty.

"Who?" I put on my clothes and was about to open the door. The person outside said softly, "Master...I boiled a bowl of brown sugar water for you..."

It is lotus heart.

I'm particularly afraid of seeing her now, because I don't know how to answer her, I can't tell her: "You go, I like men with no breasts and no butt, oh no, it's Wang Chuan who is beautiful and flat-chested." Let's go!

How is this possible? !

I laughed and said, "I... am changing clothes..."

"Then I'll wait here, Young Master..." She said shyly.

"No, by the way, how is your mother?"

"It's nothing serious, it's just that I want more little brothers."

"Oh...then what do you want from me?"

"Today, the young master caught a cold in order to deliver my meal...I...I boiled a bowl of brown sugar water..."

"Ah, no need, no need, that stuff is better for you women to drink."

"Master, you... ah!!!!" Before she finished speaking, she suddenly screamed: "You!!!" Before she finished speaking, she stopped abruptly, and then I heard the sound of falling to the ground.

I didn't think it was right. I just wanted to go out to see what happened, but after thinking about it carefully, I found a place to hide and pay attention to the movement outside.Immediately afterwards, a person was photocopied on the window, and he glanced at it, which made my heart hang.My intuition tells me that this person is very powerful, if I go out, I must die.

After a while, he left first.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't open the door until I was sure there was no danger...

The first thing I saw was the dead Lian Xin.Her face was ferocious and terrified, the blood on her neck was mixed with the overturned brown sugar water, and the bowl shattered to the ground.

My heart tightened, and I hurried to the room of Lian Xin's family on the first floor and opened the door. I saw a family of three sleeping on the bed, covered tightly with quilts.I stabilized my mind, lifted the quilt, and saw that the three people were covered in blood, and the wound was at the position of the heart, and they were killed with a sword.Maybe they didn't even know how they died... How powerful martial arts is it to be able to kill three people in a row without being discovered!

In the middle is Xiao Fuzi, his face is ashen.I saw something in his hand, and I took his hand over to see that it was the candy I gave him but he was reluctant to eat...

My tears just flowed down.Everyone here is very nice, but I have the deepest affection for him. When he died, he was still holding that piece of candy, the piece of candy I gave...

This tiger-headed child, the child who likes to eat, wants to tell me about the child who learns martial arts, the child who is afraid of eating sugar, the child who has tooth decay, and the child who gives sugar to crazy people, he is dead...

He was just a child, and now the child is dead...

died……

Just won't wake up again...

I closed my eyes in pain, held his little hand and said, "Brother will avenge you."

I went to see his uncle and brothers, and sure enough they were all dead.When I left the inn, I always felt that the village was quiet, eerily quiet.

I pushed open the doors of one house after another, and all I saw were corpses that fell asleep and never woke up again...

In other words, I am the only living person left in this village...

When I came to the side of the road, I smelled a foul smell, which seemed to be the smell of the madman at noon.I looked to the side, and sure enough it was him.

He also died.

And this thing is just as it was shown to me... because he should have found me, but I'm still alive.

What does this show?

My head hurts so badly that it's about to split open, and I can't think about it anymore, but the only thing I'm sure of is that this thing has something to do with that madman.

Who is it?why?

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