The humble carriage twisted and wound through the large circle of houses. Finally, not far from the lake at the foot of the iceberg, a group of buildings with different styles and materials from the surrounding ones stop in front of the door.

"Get out of the car." The old man said in a tone of urgency.

Su Xuan obediently jumped out of the carriage, the old man didn't like him a little, he could still see this.

This is a sacrificial hall, although the style is different, but the cold atmosphere is not bad at all with the town where Su Xuan lives, and it even makes people a little panicked.

Could it be that this is where the patriarch lived every day, although it was a little special, but didn't the king live in the palace?

Su Xuan still asked with some doubts: "Does the old gentleman live in this kind of place?" ”

There is another sentence that has not been asked, that is, in such a cold place, you are always afraid of rheumatism and soft bones?

The old man turned the head of the car and raised his whip, he turned back to Su Xuan and said, "No, it's just that you live here." My family is not here, so I naturally want to go back to my house. ”

"At the very least, you can give a kennel." Su Xuan glanced at the sacrificial hall, and there were bursts of cold air emitting from the stone door, which made people feel cold down their spine. In their words, it's this kind of place, it's not very clean. Although I don't believe in this, it doesn't mean that I am not afraid.

The essence of human belief lies in fear and awe.

"I have a lot of things to do, I don't have time to keep an eye on you, as long as you don't get out of this ancestral house, we have guards to watch day and night, if you are still killed by those things that are not human or ghost, it is your bad luck."

The old man's eyes kept staring at the dark box in Su Xuan's hand as he spoke, and it felt like he was being kept as some treasure, not a person.

Hide your stuff in the box, and you don't have to worry about anything.

The old man played with the whip and walked away.

"You're that, fifty years later, the guest?"

The old man had just left, and in the threshold of the sacrifice hall, an old man in gray clothes suddenly stood out, judging by his age, he should not be younger than the patriarch just now, and even a circle older.

The body is rickety, the face is dry, and it lives like an old tree that can walk.

If it weren't for his kind tone, Su Xuan would have been so frightened that he would have fled at that time.

"Hello senior, I am an unexpected guest of the Luohe clan, and the boy's name is Su Xuan." Naturally, I didn't forget the etiquette of entering the township, and after coming back to my senses, Su Xuan was polite.

"Well, unexpectedly. Very unexpected. ”

The old man was instead interested in the two words he said casually, and generally speaking, the elders should give the names of the juniors who would meet for the first time.

Now that I think about it, it's actually cheesy and polite.

The old man's polished face really revealed a look of surprise, "You are the first legitimate guest of our Luohe clan. Although I dare not say that there are no ancients, in the history of the clan that I know, there is none. ”

"That's an honor." Su Xuan scratched her head.

The first guest in the known river of time is indeed of epochal significance.

However, who knows what happened before the endless time and space, after the endless time and space.

Su Xuan said, "What about the guest fifty years ago? Did he never come back to see you? ”

The old man led him along the stone walls carved with the traces of time, and passed through one very low and wide door after another.

The old man said as he walked, "Businessmen from outside, uninvited guests, and friends from outside are not counted. You're the first to live in your ancestral home, a stranger. The most important thing is that it is justified, as early as 50 years ago, we knew that a young man surnamed Chen would visit here. ”

Su Xuan said, "However, my name is Su Xuan. ”

"Who knows, and who gave you your name."

Su Xuan said with a smile: "There is a place called Su Geyi, and there is a place called Xuanzhou, on the border of these two places, there are two garbage cans, one with Su written in red letters, and the other with red words written Xuan. So Old Man Lin said that they raised me and named me Su Xuan. ”

"Well, there is no afterlife, there is no afterlife, and that's exactly what we foresaw at the time."

The old man didn't explain anything to him, but led him to an old-fashioned house that had been cleaned up, and gave him the key to the door.

"After 6 p.m., you can come to the courtyard and have dinner with us. Until your friends find you, you can stay here in peace. If you're bored, take advantage of the day to take a walk outside, and remember to come back before nightfall, and don't go too far or enter the holy mountain. Inside the ancestral house, it is the safest. ”

The old man did not enter the house, but after a few words of advice, he left.

Su Xuan closed the door and inspected the room, and only after he felt that there was nothing suspicious with his ability, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Walked over to the table and poured himself a glass of cold water. Drink it all and extinguish the inexplicable restlessness in my heart.

"Shatak, Shatak?!"

The mobile terminal still did not respond to the server, and seemed to be in a state of no signal. It's a pity that he can't read the text on the panel, otherwise, how can he slightly exploit the potential of this machine.

By a cold and clear stream, there was a young man in brocade, with his trouser sleeves rolled up high, standing in the middle of the water like a white crane.

It is said that the water is clear and there are no fish. However, at the feet of the young man, countless cyan carp competed past.

Every time the boy lifted and landed his feet, he did not alarm the fish, and the stream was calm and could not make waves.

On the rocky bank of the stream, a hairy boy pointed to the stream and shouted, "That, bluestone, palm-sized!" ”

He shouted, and the startled fish scattered, but the brocade-clothed young man shot very quickly, and with a hula, he scooped up a fresh tail carp from the water, the size of a palm, and threw it on the shore.

The hairy boy shouted, "Be careful, be careful, what if I die, I have to take it home and raise it." ”

The young man in brocade smiled and said, "If you die, roast and eat it tonight, this kind of small-tailed carp is best roasted, and the meat is the most fragrant!" ”

The boy did not prick his hand with the fin, but pounced on the live tail carp, picked it up, and put it into a wooden bucket with aquatic plants. It was a very drifting tail carp, with a dorsal fin like a white cloud and jade-like scales, and in the clean barrel, it was quiet again. The child smiled, "I can't eat it, I can't eat it, this time I'm going to hide him under the rhubarb bed, so that my father and mother won't see the vegetables." ”

"That's to add vegetables to rhubarb." Su Xuan squatted on the shore and pushed the bonfire that had just been set up, staring at the big and small, and secretly laughing.

He was sometimes very bad at heart, thinking that when the child woke up the next day and found that the baby carp was only left with its head, he wondered if he would cry on the spot. Or the next day, the belly is upside down, and it is no longer fresh to eat.

Su Xuan was idle and panicked in the ancestral house, so according to what the old man said, he took advantage of the white sky to walk around and familiarize himself with the environment.

I went around the ancestral house and walked towards the big lake that melted at the foot of the mountain that day, so I met these two people halfway.

I wanted to go further to Tiantian Lake to take a look, but the iceberg was cold, and the more Su Xuan walked, the more cold her hands and feet felt, so she stayed by this bonfire.

"You're what the patriarch said, the new guest? Brother Chen! The young man sent the child ashore, carrying two crucian carp in his hands, and walked towards Su Xuan.

Su Xuan asked, "Chen Qingxing?" ”

The brocade-clothed young man squatted down and threw the crucian carp into the big bucket on the side, "Sure enough, Brother Chen has arrived." How about a good meal at my place tonight. ”

He pointed to the five or six crucian carp in the barrel.

"This ...... Big brother! Su Xuan said, "Are you also the guard?" ”

"My surname is Lu, Lu Yu." He patted Su Xuan on the shoulder, "Just trust me to call me Brother Lu, don't believe it, ask Xiao Tao if I live in the ancestral house." ”

The child just now stood in front of the big wooden barrel, padding his feet, his eyes followed the fish in the barrel, "He is not a guard, Brother Yu has no guards in this period, but he does live in the ancestral house, and his status is extremely low!" ”

"Little Taozi, believe it or not, the meat in the mouth is not long legs, and the small fish in your hand will slip away by itself?"

"No, no, Brother Fisherman is the most powerful guard!"

Lu Yu, a young man in brocade, nodded with satisfaction, looked at Su Xuan, and said with his eyes: Look, I didn't lie to you.

Su Xuan smiled and no longer doubted them.

Su Xuan asked, "But, didn't the ancestral house say that there is a public meal?" ”

"The food there is very regular, it is all old people's food, I advise Brother Chen not to suffer." The young man in brocade shook his head, looking like he had palpitations.

"When I go down to the river to catch a few more, my dinner with Brother Chen will be settled."

The boy pulled up his trouser sleeves and went into the water again barefoot.

Su Xuan walked closer this time and could see clearly, the brocade-clothed young man took a step and slowly tread the water, and the water surface did not roll up the slightest ripple.

Although, this way of fishing is a bit backward, but this skill is really powerful.

In the distance of the woods, a white shadow fluttered and blinked.

It was the head of the Dragon Gate that Su Xuan had met on the side of the wooden bridge before.

The two looked at each other and recognized each other.

Just glanced at Su Xuan, and the head of the Dragon Gate stayed on the young man in the stream, and never looked at Su Xuan again.

"Excuse me, how do you go on the path of the Holy Mountain?"

The brocade-clothed young man raised his head, looked at the strange white-robed man, and said, "The road of the holy mountain cannot be walked, Your Excellency, please go back." ”

"Go around the mountain, see the cold water of the Tianshan Mountains, let's do it."

"Your Excellency, please go back, you are not a clansman, you can't cross the bridge."

The brocade-clothed boy lowered his head and continued to track the crucian carp in the water.

The white-robed man looked at the snow-capped mountains and the big lake behind them, and as if he had lost interest, he turned and left.

There was another plopping sound, and the hairy child Xiao Tao clapped his hands and shouted, "Okay, Brother Fisher is very skilled." ”

I saw a big carp more than a foot in the hands of the young man in brocade clothes from the water, and if he boiled a pot of soup, it was just right.

It seems that the boy had a plan in his heart, so he caught such one.

This freewheeling, Su Xuan admires it very much.

"But what if I want to go there?"

I don't know when, the white-robed man who left suddenly stood back on the other side of the stream.

This time, his jaw was slightly open, his head was lowered, and a smile that made Su Xuan feel terrified appeared under the hood.

This smile seemed to be deliberately shown to him.

"Why did you go and return?"

"Because I'm going to cross the lake, how?"

He also stepped into the stream, bent his robe, and approached step by step, "Why, do you have to agree to go?" ”

The young man in brocade turned his head and said to the two people on the shore, "You two go first, you don't have to look back, you can go as fast as you can." ”

Xiao Tao picked up his small wooden bucket and ran away, in their words, walking, which means running.

Su Xuan could vaguely guess why this head of the Dragon Sect went and returned, perhaps because he saw him fleeing in front of the patriarch, so this time he came to save face.

Su Xuan couldn't ignore it even more, he said out loud, "Hey, I said why are you like this." If it's me, you'll come to me. ”

However, the other party didn't listen to him, the sleeve robe soared, and the white dragon ascended to the punch!

"Unfortunately, if you can catch fish and be silent when you come out of the water, then I am not your opponent......"

In a lively yard where chickens and ducks are raised, there is a group of children standing under the light sun, stepping and practicing boxing.

They stand in pairs, complementing each other, one move at a time, one move at a time, and the cycle repeats itself.

Sitting at the tea table, an old man with a yellow face and thin muscles yawned, looking at the sun, it was only two or three fingers away from the West Mountain, and it was almost hour.

"By the way, what about A-Li's little girl?" The old man with obscene eyes suddenly whispered to the middle-aged man across the table.

Maybe his actual age is not as old as he looks, and in fact, he is also the youngest in this generation.

The middle-aged man sighed, "Don't let your eldest brother hear this, otherwise he will break your leg, and I won't stop you." ”

The obscene old man immediately straightened his face and said unhappily, "I said second, what do you mean by this, don't you just ask, what do you think of me?" ”

"It's not good to see you for a long time, I saw each other a few days ago, but I didn't expect them to grow so big, and then I ran away without a trace. said that the first time I saw that girl was seven years ago. I, as the eighth master, don't I just care about it? ”

"Don't think that you dirty big brother doesn't know, it's okay to pick wildflowers outside, it's better not to pay attention to that child."

The middle-aged man's eyes looked at the road outside the courtyard, except for the sound of fists and breathing when the group of children were boxing, it was cold and silent, and no one came.

The obscene old man's eyes were sneaky, "What the hell did the eldest brother do, why is there only one person in this issue?" ”

"When the eldest brother comes back, you can ask yourself, I don't know." The middle-aged man waved his hand to chase people away, a little impatient.

"You're the second child, the closest person to the eldest brother, how can you not know? If you don't want to tell me, forget it. ”

The lewd old man began to curse, picked up the back knife under the bench, clamped it under his armpit, and hurried away.

The middle-aged man secretly said badly, he was in the way of this kid, and when he saw that he was about to get off work, the eldest brother had not come back yet, so he deliberately found words to provoke conflicts, disagreed with each other, and got out easily.

He shook his head and took a sip of stuffy tea to himself, this youngest junior brother has been clever since he was a child.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a series of anxious footsteps outside the courtyard, and was just about to stand up, when he saw a child with red eyes crying, running outside the courtyard gate, holding a wooden barrel, crying and shouting, "Oh no, second master, Brother Yu, Brother Yu, he was beaten ......."

The middle-aged man's teacup fell to the ground, he jumped up from the stool, walked quickly to the door, and asked angrily, "What did you say?" ”