Chapter 12 The Night Returns
Feng Linger was tremblingly helped up, patted her heart lightly, and said with lingering fear: "It's so scary. Hurry up! Close the door quickly! I won't do business tonight."
The poor guy who was stomped on his lower body with one foot was lifted out and found someone to treat him. Feng Linger asked the two of them to support him, returned to the small side hall of the back garden, sat on the chair and poured three cold cups in a row, and then he recovered.
“Huh?”
Feng Linger came to her senses and saw the clothes on the table. She suddenly remembered Ye Xiaotian: "Where is the person? Leaving? Hey! I really have a few poor bones, so tough. But what about... what about silver?"
Feng Linger stood up and looked carefully. Not only did the silver ingots disappear, but there seemed to be a missing set of clothes. The two people who helped him back saw that he was acting strangely, and couldn't help but ask, "Brother Feng Ling, what are you looking for?"
Feng Ling'er was stunned for a moment, then turned around and asked, "Well... there is a young man in this room, he looks... he looks very beautiful. Do you know what his name is and where he lives?"
The two looked at each other and then at the empty hall, and their faces changed color: "Oh! Brother Fengling, what are you saying? Don't joke at night, it's scary."
Fenglinger: "..."
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When Ye Xiaotian returned to the Tudi Temple, it was already dark. Huxian was a mountain city, half flat and half hillside. There was a river between the mountains and the plains. The Tudi Temple was on the hillside.
Ye Xiaotian had lights to illuminate when he was at the foot of the mountain. When he climbed the mountain, he looked at the distant mountains with stars, all of which were light or black ink. Fortunately, there was a big bright moon in the sky, sprinkling clear frost on the ground, and you could see clearly near it.
Ye Xiaotian stopped and looked back at the foot of the mountain. But he saw lights dotted like stars in the sky. He was in a high place and in the dark. Looking at the soft red ten feet, the world was vast, and that wonderful feeling was something he had never seen before when he was in the capital.
In such a quiet and beautiful atmosphere, Ye Xiaotian, who was optimistic, had long forgotten all his worries. He pinched the two silver ingots in his sleeves, and touched the set of women's clothes that were well-materialed in his arms. He smiled and climbed the mountain faster.
When he was about to arrive at the Mountain Temple, Ye Xiaotian suddenly stopped. There was a mountain stream next to him. The stream was not wide, but the riverbed was very wide. Perhaps when the mountain torrent broke out, there were always waves here. Now this season, the riverbed was exposed, and there were a large area of pebbles.
There are no shrubs on both sides of the riverbed, and the moonlight reflects into the flowing water, turning into thousands of flowing lights. From a distance, the river looks like a silver jade belt. On this jade belt, there is a young man carrying a bamboo basket.
The boy was only fourteen or fifteen years old and was still very young, but his body was stronger than many adults. He carried a bamboo basket on his back, held a torch made of dry reeds in his left hand, and held a two-foot-long thin bladed knife in his right hand, and stood in the stream with his trouser legs rolled up.
At such a night, in such a mountain stream, a young man holding a torch, standing in the stream like a jade belt, holding a knife in his hand. This picture made Ye Xiaotian very curious, but he immediately understood what the young man was doing.
The young man was too focused and did not notice Ye Xiaotian. He held a torch in one hand and a thin knife in the other, arched his back slightly, and slowly walked in the gurgling water. Suddenly, his arm flipped, and a cold light flashed. The straight and narrow knife slashed into the water, splashing a splash of water.
When he lifted the knife, a fat fish had already hung on it, and the blade had cut deep into the fish's body. The fat fish wagged its tail desperately, but before the fat fish could break free from the knife, the boy quickly raised the knife and threw the fat fish into the basket behind his shoulders.
Seeing this, Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but exclaim "ah". He knew how to use nets to catch fish, and he had also seen fishing with fish rods. He also knew that someone used a harpoon to fish, but it was the first time he saw fish with a knife.
The fish was panicked and wandered around in a panic by the sudden light. The fisherman stood in the flowing water, his hands were quick and his eyes were fast. He slashed the fish under the water with a knife. What a unique fishing method, what a keen eye and agile skill?
Hearing the scream, the boy turned his back quickly, and the torch in his hand was still holding it steadily, and the sharp knife was already crossing his chest.
Ye Xiaotian said hello: "Hi! My name is Ye Xiaotian, my friend, you have such a clever fishing skill."
The boy looked at him vigilantly: "In the middle of the night, what are you doing here?"
Ye Xiaotian pointed to the hillside and said, "I live there."
The boy still did not relax his vigilance: "Living in the Land Temple? Going up the mountain at this time?"
Ye Xiaotian smiled and said, "Is it very strange? You don't fish during the day and have to come to catch them at night. And you don't use a harpoon fishing net, but you just have to use a knife. I also find it strange to see it."
The boy looked at him for a moment, and a slight smile appeared in his eyes: "This method of fishing was learned from the Shanli Tribe."
He turned around and turned his eyes to the sparkling water again.
Ye Xiaotian suddenly felt his mind. Although he had money now, although there was no curfew in the mountain city, no one went out to do business at night because of the low profits. So he came all the way and didn't buy any food. Now seeing this young man catching fish, Ye Xiaotian suddenly thought of a way to barter.
Ye Xiaotian raised the clothes on his arm and said to the young man: "Little brother, I haven't eaten yet. It would be fine if I just didn't eat, but there are three mouths waiting for me in the Land Temple."
The boy straightened his waist and listened to him calmly.
Ye Xiaotian said: "How about I use this set of clothes to exchange for your fish? This is the best silk."
The boy shook his head and said, "This is not the clothes that people who work should wear."
Ye Xiaotian said: "You can give it to your bride when you get married. How can a bride wear coarse cloth clothes and wear a silky silk dress? That's beautiful."
The boy's eyes lit up. He waded on the river and walked ashore, but did not get close to Ye Xiaotian. Although he believed that Ye Xiaotian was not dangerous to him, he still instinctively kept a distance for a while, which was a unique habit of hunters.
The boy inserted a torch on the soft grass beside him and poured the bamboo basket. There were five or six fat fish inside, each of which was at least about one and a half pounds. The boy broke a few flexible weeds, quickly braided them into ropes, passed through the gills and the mouth of the fish, and skewed the four largest fish.
The boy put the remaining fish back into the fish basket, carried it, picked up the knife, and handed the fish strung up by the straw rope to Ye Xiaotian. Ye Xiaotian happily handed the clothes over. The boy shook his head and said, "I don't want the clothes. When I get married, I will earn money to buy her a few pieces of silk and make new clothes."
Speaking of this, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, looking a little stubborn and proud, but he gave people a very sincere and natural feeling, without a trace of offensive arrogance, and Ye Xiaotian suddenly developed a favorable impression of him.
Ye Xiaotian thought about it and took out a small silver ingot and spread it in his palm: "You don't want clothes, and I can't get any cheaper for you. I'll buy it with silver, borrow your knife, and split it."
The boy said lightly: "No need, I said I'll give it to you, then I'll give it to you!"
Ye Xiaotian slowly tightened his palms and nodded and said, "Okay! Today, you four fish are a favor I owe you. If you have the chance in the future, Ye will definitely repay you."
A playful smile appeared in the boy's eyes. A hungry man who lived in a temple with his whole family in a broken land even had to ask him for fish in the middle of the night to eat, and he actually talked about what to pay for every day. Isn't it funny?
Ye Xiaotian saw the smile in his eyes, and Ye Xiaotian shouted: "There is no dragon here, and there is only the skill of slaying dragons, so it is of course useless. If God can give me a place to show my skills, hehe, I will catch fish, but I don't even need a knife."
Ye Xiaotian laughed, climbed the mountain with fish, and said in a loud voice: "Little brother, have you read a book? This is called being born to me and I must be useful!"
The boy did not answer, but a smile finally appeared on his face. He smiled and waded into the stream. Ye Xiaotian walked up the mountain road and walked more than ten steps and suddenly remembered something. When he turned around, he saw that the boy was holding a torch, which was more than twenty steps away from him.
Ye Xiaotian asked loudly: "Hey, little brother, what's your name!"
"Hua Yunfei!"
From afar, the boy's voice came, and Ye Xiaotian smiled slightly and said to himself: "Hua Yunfei, it's such a good name. But... it's better than the name I chose. Even if you can fly, can you still fly out of the sky?"
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There is a temple but no monks to sweep the floor.
There is more fragrance and less candles and less moonlights.
A poetic temple couplet has completely hidden in the night, and the moonlight only makes it appear with a faint trace.
There were no monks in the temple, nor candles. But the moonlight was cold, which was not enough to make the temple bright, so a bonfire was set up inside. Shui Wu sat cross-legged beside the fire, supported her thighs with one hand, held her pink cheeks, and looked thoughtful.
Le Yao lay on her lap, as if she had fallen asleep. The red flames reflected Shui Wu's cheeks lit up, like a seductive piece of red jade. Hearing the footsteps, Shui Wu suddenly raised her head and saw Ye Xiaotian, and joy appeared in her eyes.
It was already very late at this time, but Shui Wu did not go to the temple to look around. She was like a little woman waiting for her husband to return late, sitting there quietly waiting. The ups and downs along the way, sharing the joys and sorrows had already made her completely trust in Ye Xiaotian, and she would never worry that Ye Xiaotian would abandon her.
"Yaoyao, get up quickly, Brother Xiaotian is back. Yaoyao..."
Shui Wu looked at Ye Xiaotian happily, patted Le Yao's butt, and called her up.
Yaoyao was woken up by the shooting, and got up. Before he could see Ye Xiaotian clearly, he shouted: "Brother Xiaotian, you are back."
Ye Xiaotian walked in with a fish in his arms and shouldered his palms, and smiled and said, "Well! Brother Xiaotian is back, Yaoyao is almost hungry. Come on, let's eat fish."
"Wow!" Yaoyao saw the fat fish in Ye Xiaotian's hand clearly, and suddenly widened his eyes, showing a saliva look. Her eyes were wide open, staring at the fish, and she seemed to want to pounce on them now and take a few bites.
When Shui Wu saw the woman's clothes on Ye Xiaotian's arms, she couldn't help but show a strange expression on her face, but it was obviously not the time to ask the whole story. Everyone was indeed hungry. She took the fish gently and said to Ye Xiaotian: "I'll go to the stream to clean up."
Ye Xiaotian said: "It's dark and there's nothing to clean up? Just use a stick and put it on the fire to roast it. When the fish is cooked, the scales will fall off."
Ye Xiaotian said, sitting down by the fire, suddenly feeling something was missing. He looked around and then realized that Fuwaer was missing. Ye Xiaotian said strangely: "Where is Fuwaer? It's because he was hungry that he escaped by himself, right?"
Before Shui Wu could speak, Yaoyao had already reported first: "Brother Xiaotian, Fuwaer is going to catch the mouse."
Ye Xiaotian was stunned: "Ah? Does this guy still eat mice?"
Shui Wu chuckled and said, "It turns out we didn't know either. At noon today, Fuwa was spinning around the yard, but we didn't pay attention. Later, we found that it had gnawed all the barks of the two fir trees in the yard, and later... we found that it was catching mice."
Ye Xiaotian smiled bitterly and said, "No wonder he said 'food is the most important thing for the people'. Look, there is no food for only one day. Not to mention humans, even bears are hungry as cats..."
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