Youjia Inn

After returning to the village, old man Sun led the crowd to the sun-drying field.The sun-drying field has about half an mu of land, which is rammed with loess, and there is only one old camphor tree half-dried in the sun.

The entire grain drying field can basically achieve all-weather sunshine from the moment the sun rises in the morning to the moment the sun sets.

It is now the most poisonous time in the afternoon sun, and the heat on the ground has reached its peak. Even if you step on the ground through the soles of your shoes, you can still feel the burning pain. The smell of barbecue wafts out.

Old man Sun took the fish out with both hands and put it lightly on the ground: "I'm sorry, but if you really ask for rain, you will also save the old, weak, sick and disabled in this village, and your merits will be immeasurable."

Then he pasted five talismans around the fish, and said to the crowd: "Arrange a few people to watch in turn, so there won't be any accidents."

"Okay!"

The crowd dispersed, and San Wazi walked forward and watched the fish on the ground move its mouth helplessly, in a daze.

"What are you doing standing under the sun, kid, go, go!" Under the shade of the trees, Dahu fanned the wind with his straw hat, urging San Wazi to leave.

Sanwazi squinted at the venomous sun in the sky, and then at the fish on the ground, "Brother Big Tiger, watch the fish a little bit, don't let it cause trouble."

"Okay, okay, I got it, isn't it just a fish, it's okay, it's okay." Duhu urged again.

Sanwazi nodded, and walked away step by step.

"This child, when he usually went up the mountain to dig birds and go down to the pond to put fish, why didn't he see such a kind heart." Dui sat down against the camphor tree, waiting boredly.

After another day, without the direct exposure to sunlight, the temperature dropped slightly, and the village regained a little vitality.

After dinner, the villagers did not gather in front of the camphor tree at the entrance of the village as usual, but gathered in a tacit understanding at the grain drying ground, with different eyes cast on the dying fish.

There is no trace of water vapor on the ground, the sand is dry, and it flies away when the wind blows.The fish was stiff on the ground, the fish scales fell off in large areas, and the fish skin was exposed to the air. There seemed to be rust-red blood scabs and sand particles in the crevices of the wrinkled fish skin.

"Look, are you dead?"

"No, the mouth moved just now."

"It's amazing. I didn't die after being exposed to the sun for an afternoon. I don't know if it's useful. I don't know how long I can live after being exposed to the sun like this."

"Well, whether it lives or not is not the point. The important thing is that it doesn't rain."

"Oh, yes, it didn't work after an afternoon in the sun, and I don't know if Old Man Sun's folk remedy will work."

"Let me go, let me go, Mr. Sun asked me to put it in a bucket and take it back."

Duo pushed aside the crowd and picked up the fish from the ground and put it in the bucket.The fish entered the water and sank to the bottom, before the mud and sand on the fish sank quickly and muddied the surface of the water.Fortunately, the fish didn't turn over and didn't die.

"Let's rest for one night first, and then dry it tomorrow." Duhu raised his foot to go to old man Sun's house, but his sleeve was grabbed by someone.

"Brother Big Tiger, you should hurry home and have dinner. I'll take this fish to Grandpa Sun's house for you." Sanwazi said.

"Oh, you little brat." Duo rubbed Sanwazi's head, "Okay, you can send it over for brother, just be careful."

"Okay." Sanwazi hurried forward to take the bucket.

There wasn't much water in it, and the bucket wasn't heavy. Sanwazi walked very slowly. He tried to walk as steadily as possible, hoping to save the friends in the bucket from suffering.

"Xiao Hei, Xiao Hei, are you okay? Alas, why did you get sunburned like this? Alas, they said that it will not rain tomorrow, and they will continue to expose you. Can you stand it? Alas, I don't know, can you It can't rain."

Sanwazi's voice was a little choked up, and he felt distressed as he walked, even he himself didn't know what he repeated indiscriminately along the way, he came and went just worried words, and he couldn't think of any way to make Xiao Hei suffer less.Sigh...how about begging Grandpa Sun to let Xiao Hei go, and change to another fish?

"Impossible." A childish voice sounded.

Sanwazi, who was in a trance, staggered a step in fright, stopped and looked around but found no one.

It was already dark, and the outline of the scene in the shadow was blurred in the dim light, and the dark place behind the tree and beside the house was not very clear.

"Who? Which family's child is it? Come out." Sanwazi asked.

"It's me." The feeble voice seemed to ring directly in San Wazi's mind, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

"Who! Come out!" Sanwazi raised his voice in awe.

"Don't be afraid, it's okay, I'm the fish in your bucket."

"Xiao Hei? My God! How can you talk!" Sanwazi almost let go and smashed the bucket on the ground.

"Don't talk, I know what you think. To make a long story short, I don't have much spiritual power left. You continue to move forward."

"If the Dragon King forgets to rain in closed-door practice, I can indeed notify the Dragon King to rain. However, the Dragon King is already dead. It was the sky thunder that was the Dragon King's calamity. It was hacked to death, and the other fish were killed. That thunder scared away, only I wanted to stay and say goodbye to you, but I was caught by you. It is useless for you to post about me. Please let me go. If you don’t let me go, tomorrow I will There is no doubt that he must die."

Sanwazi stopped in his tracks and looked down at the fish in the bucket. The fish wagged its tail with difficulty and spat at Sanwazi.A few more fish scales fell off the fish, bringing up a few streaks of bright red blood.

Sanwazi's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and the scenes of Longtan and Xiao Heiyu getting along appeared in his mind.

"Xiao Hei, you wait, no matter what, I will beg Grandpa Sun to let you go!" Sanwazi's dark eyes flashed with determination.

"Grandpa Sun! Grandpa Sun!"

"Yo Sanwazi, why did you send it here, that boy Duhu." Old man Sun walked out of the house with a smile.

"Grandpa Sun, Grandpa Sun, please let him go!" Sanwazi said while holding the bucket tightly.

Old man Sun's smile disappeared suddenly, and his expression became serious, "Oh? Why, put down the tube first, and speak slowly."

Old man Sun held the bucket in his hand, and San Wazi let go of the bucket one by one.Old man Sun put the bucket aside, and pulled Sanwazi to the table to sit down.

"Come and tell Grandpa Sun about your reason."

"Grandpa Sun, look at this fish, it's so pitiful, most of its scales have fallen off, and it's about to die in the sun."

"But it's not sunburned, is it?"

"But you dried it, it didn't rain today!"

"Who knows, will it be released tomorrow? According to ancient books, it has been in the sun for three days. Sanwazi's fish is the hope of the whole village. We can't let it go like this. It's irresponsible to everyone."

"But one day in the sun, he's going to die!"

"Why is the harvest more important in the life of a fish than in the life of a fish?"

"It's not just a fish, it's not an ordinary fish, it can talk, and he told me that it won't rain when you dry it!"

"Oh? That fish has become a bit of a joke, ah, Sanwazi, how do you know it didn't lie to you."

"How is it possible? We played together for so long, and I brought so much food to it. It said that the Dragon King was killed by the thunder that day. Without the Dragon King, there would be no rain here!"

"Really?" Old Man Sun's eyebrows were twisted into a knot, "San Wazi, don't be in a hurry to release the fish, and don't be in a hurry to tell others. The truth of the matter will be discussed when I come back."

Old man Sun got up and walked towards the back room.

San Wazi was outside the house listening to the rummaging of boxes and cabinets in the inner room. After waiting for a long time, old man Sun came out with a big burden on his back.

"Hey, Sanwazi, why are you still here? Go back quickly, and your parents should be anxious if you go back later." Old man Sun rushed people to close the door, his movements were clean.

"Well, if the Dragon King is really dead, it will be difficult."

Sanwazi followed Old Man Sun with his eyes. Old Man Sun's back disappeared into the night and disappeared on the road leading to Nanshan.

Tonight was a difficult night for Sanwazi, who tossed and turned for a long time without falling asleep.

When I close my eyes, the scarred body of the little black fish emerges in my mind, I think of the sun hanging high above me, I think of the foam it vomited when feeding the little black fish in the past, and I think of the one that vomited today, and I think of the back view of Grandpa Sun leaving , opened his eyes and looked at the window, he seemed to see the road at the entrance of the village, saw grandpa grandpa rushing back at a brisk pace, and in a blink of an eye, there was another sky lit with stars outside the window.What are you thinking!Sanwazi closed her eyes again and turned over.

I fell asleep in a daze, and all kinds of things were mixed in the dream. Sometimes I really couldn't tell whether I was awake thinking about things, or falling asleep and dreaming.

At dawn, he hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of porridge that was obviously thin, and Sanwazi ran to Grandpa Sun's house.

If it was normal, the door of Grandpa Sun's house would have been opened earlier, but now the door is closed.Obviously, no one came back last night.

I don't know what happened to the little black fish, hey, right.Sanwazi pushed the door open a little, fumbled left and right in the crack of the door and took out a key.

Haha, sure enough, it is here. I remembered that old man Sun put the key here yesterday.Sanwazi opened the lock in a hurry, and before he took the lock off, he felt someone grabbing his collar from behind.

"San Wazi, you've been mischievous since early in the morning, no, I caught you now." Dahu said with a smile.

"You monkey skin, what are you doing at Mr. Sun's house so early in the morning?"

"No, nothing." Sanwazi turned his eyes to one side.

"There is a ghost at first glance, I will deal with you later, I will do business first." Duo took off the lock on the door, pushed the door open, and picked up the bucket placed by the wall, "Why did Mr. Sun lock the door?" , do you know what he does early in the morning?"

"I don't know, alas! Alas!" Sanwazi stopped Duhu in his way, "You can't go."

"Hey, you little brat, what are you doing, make way, it won't be good if you miss the hour."

"No, you can't take it out to dry!"

"Hey, you kid." Dahu looked at the little one who was only above his waist, and laughed angrily, "Can you stop me, get out of the way, if you make trouble again, be careful I'll tie you to your father , let him clean you up."

"Grandpa Sun told me last night, wait until he comes back, you can't dry fish!" Sanwazi stood still in front of Dug.

"He really said that, telling me not to dry the fish?" Dumb put down the iron bucket in his hand, "Then why didn't he tell me, did you lie to me, and what did he say?"

"He said, he said, let me not be in a hurry, wait until he comes back." Sanwazi said falteringly.

"Ha, then he didn't say not to dry the fish. I still remember that he told me to dry the fish for three days yesterday. If he didn't dry the fish, Mr. Sun would definitely tell me. How could it be your turn? Say." Dui picked up the bucket, "By the way, did you tell me what Mr. Sun is doing?"

Sanwazi shook his head.

"You kid, don't hurry to get out of the way, don't waste my time, be careful, I will tell your parents, you ran to Mr. Sun's house early in the morning to make trouble, you don't want to release fish, do you?" Duhu stared at San Wazi.

"No, I just want to take a look. Grandpa Sun didn't let me let it go, he said, wait for him to come back." Sanwazi felt guilty after being stared at.

"Okay, I believe you are here to come and see, get out of the way quickly, you said that Mr. Sun didn't say anything to me, it's business as usual, a fish, what's so distressing, it's not to show you, wait for there to be something in the pond It’s out of water, brother, I’ll catch ten or eight live fish for you.”

"It's different, this one is different from the others."

"Oh, yes, yes, it's different, it's different. Anyway, it was caught at this point in time and it's going to suffer. It's fine. We're going to be hungry in winter." Dahu said, "If you don't get out of the way , if you don’t get out of the way, I’m really going to tell your dad what you did this morning.”

Sanwazi moved away, Duhu nodded in satisfaction, and strode away, "Sun Xiansheng's door, Sanwazi, please lock it!"