All rivers return to the sea, I return to you

Li Chuan sent Li Siyu and the others home.

Xie Qingyao was talking about Ningyuan with Li Chuan, while Li Siyu took a towel and went to the bathroom to take a shower.Huang Xiaobai sat on the sofa by himself, staring at the dead fox in the yard in a daze.

No one was going to comfort it. At this time, Huang Xiaobai obviously needs a space of his own, compared to those dispensable nonsense.

"Last time I told you that there are many little monsters in the sea who die frequently. We found teams in other fishing villages that specialize in catching these monsters. They are well-trained and extremely cruel." He took a bunch of grapes out of the basket and talked while eating.

"I know about this, and I went to other sea areas to check it out. It is true that all the active monsters are hiding, and even the jellyfish, which are usually very common, are no longer active on the sea surface." Xie Qingyao hammered the hammer Sore Legs said.

Li Chuan: "We don't know whether it was good luck or bad luck. We found a talking monster among a bunch of monsters. Guess what it said? It will definitely make you think hard."

"What time is it, and you're still playing tricks."

Li Chuan didn't spit out grape skins when he ate grapes. He swallowed what was in his mouth before saying: "The little demon said, 'There is no sea god in this world, and the sea god will not allow her people to be persecuted, so the legends on the sea are false. .'"

Xie Qingyao was taken aback, people must have faith if they want to live, monsters are no exception.Those in the sea believe in the sea god, and those on the mountain believe in the mountain god. These are the spiritual pillars of the monsters before they grow stronger.

Why do you take those gods as your beliefs?Because in their eyes, God can protect everything, hold their hands in despair, and be the lamp in darkness.

The greater the faith, the greater the power of God.Now the monsters don't believe in the Sea God, so Li Siyu...

Xie Qingyao thought a lot, and suddenly understood why Li Siyu, the God of the Sea, could only eat seafood such as crabs for so many years.

Because of the monsters living in the sea, Xie Qingyao is probably the only one who deeply believes that the Sea God is real. She always believes that the Sea God will wake up one day.

"What legend?" Xie Qingyao asked.

"It is rumored that Poseidon is sleeping in the chaotic deep sea. One day, Wu Ning flowers will bloom around her. The road leading to the sea will eventually open, and the rooster on the roadside will crow. At this time, Poseidon will break through the darkness and return to the sea." Li Chuan put down Grape in his hand took out his workbook and muttered.

"Wun Ninghua, why is it this kind of flower again?" Xie Qingyao lowered her eyes, looked at the small area of ​​the fence outside the window, and sighed deeply, she couldn't grow Wu Ninghua.

"Have you ever seen this kind of flower? It is rumored that only dragon fish can grow it." Li Chuan wrote a few strokes in his notebook.

"No, Ning Yuan said that the gray sea is dead, do you know what happened?" Xie Qingyao looked at Li Chuan and asked.

"How did the sea die? Are you kidding me? Even if you are temporarily traumatized, as long as there are monsters who believe in the sea god, they will recover slowly." Li Chuan was startled by Xie Qingyao, and quickly turned over What he wrote down earlier said.

Xie Qingyao: "How do you know so much about the sea?"

Li Chuan put the notebook back into his pocket, picked up Putao again and said: "First, I have lived longer than you, and second, I have a special job, and I can read a lot of books and documents to find anything I want to know. Thirdly, I am Jingwei Bird, do you know the story of Jingwei reclamation? Unfortunately, I live on a tree growing by the sea, not in the sea.”

Xie Qingyao shook her head, lamenting how little she knew about the Sea God.

"Then what's going on with Ning Yuan?" Xie Qingyao asked.

"You ask me, who do I ask? I know that the guy grows and looks ugly, and he is mentally abnormal. I also know that he once served as Zhao Yan's family doctor for the International Year, and then? Then who should I ask?" Li Chuan was excited, his mouth The grape juice in the bag kept spilling out, Xie Qingyao moved away from him in disgust.

Seeing Xie Qingyao's actions, Li Chuan stared with displeasure in his eyes: "What kind of eyes do you have? You despise me. I don't know who pulled you out of the dead sea and saved you.'

"Sorry, I have a slight cleanliness." Xie Qingyao frowned.

Fortunately, she had been in contact with Li Chuan a few times and knew what he was like. As expected, Li Chuan's face looked much better after hearing what Xie Qingyao said. He said, "I've sent people to investigate Ning Yuan, but his information is too normal. So there’s no way to start.”

Xie Qingyao nodded to show that she understood.

Li Chuan was about to leave because of work, he reminded Xie Qingyao to be careful, he would tell her whenever there was any progress, and keep in touch by phone if there was anything to do.

Xie Qingyao nodded again, got up and sent Li Chuan to the door, she suddenly remembered something and asked: "Where's your little apprentice? Why didn't you see him?"

Li Chuan's figure paused, his back looked a bit vicissitudes, and he didn't turn his head: "The young man can't bear this job, he is afraid of ghosts and monsters, so he can't keep going, so he turned away."

Xie Qingyao was silent, she looked at Li Chuan's back for a long time.It was the naughty Xi Nu who splashed water on her body to bring her back to her senses.

After Li Chuan left, Xie Qingyao went to look at the densely packed tablets. She took them to the innermost place, tapped her feet to take down the top tablet covered with red cloth, and lifted the white cloth with trembling hands. In correct block letters it reads:

'65, the seat of Li Siyu'

Other than that, nothing else.

Xie Qingyao guessed that Li Siyu should be one of the No. 60 five who took up the position of Sea God, and she didn't know who got this tablet for her.So that means that Li Siyu is dead now, and she is a ghost floating in the village like the villagers of Tuyuan Village, and she cannot leave Tuyuan Village at will.

Looking further down, the altar table is full of tablets of the villagers, but on the left and right, the year and month of birth and the year and month of death are written, and some of them will also engrave the names of the younger generations.

Xie Qingyao put the tablet back, turned around and went to the kitchen.No matter what happens, you will have the strength to think about how to deal with it when you are full.

The dish she cooks is very simple, that is, she stewed a large pot of chicken soup with a lot of mushrooms in it.The smell soon wafted from the yard, Xie Qingyao brought the rice and chicken soup to the dining table.Then he wiped the handle on the apron, picked up the dazed Huang Xiaobai and pressed it to the bowl where he usually eats, tore a large piece of chicken leg from the stewed chicken and said to him: "Eat, and then think about what to do after eating." If you need help with those two corpses outside, let me know, and I'll help you bury them."

"No need." With a hoarse voice, Huang Xiaobai picked up the rice spoon on the side and silently shoveled the rice into his mouth.

When Li Siyu came out of the shower, her eyes were red. She noticed that Huang Xiaobai had a short white tail in his hand. There was very little hair on the tail, but it was something that both humans and monsters wanted, and it was a good thing that could bring the dead back to life. .

She suddenly understood why someone pretended to be Hu Meimei and lived in her house, why she had to go to the fishing day, and why Hu Meimei said she married a foreigner and wanted to move out of the village.

Because only Hu Meimei, who is really a fishing day, will go to see her grandpa, and those people will have a chance to get that tail.

As soon as she sat down, Huang Xiaobai went out with that tail without saying a word.

They all knew that Huang Xiaobai was feeling uncomfortable, but they didn't know how to comfort Huang Xiaobai.

Xie Qingyao handed the bowl of chicken soup to Li Siyu, then ate with her head down.For a moment neither of them knew what to say.

After the hot chicken soup warmed her stomach, Xie Qingyao hesitated to speak.

"Are you okay?" They both asked in unison.

"I'm fine." They answered together again, and they looked at each other and smiled.Finally, Li Siyu spoke first: "Thanks to Meimei, she saved Xiaobai and me."

"Ning Yuan has an inexplicable hostility towards Sea God. I feel that he is targeting you." Xie Qingyao didn't have a single chicken bone in front of her. Digestion is powerful.

"It's targeting you." Li Siyu picked a piece of mushroom and put it in Xie Qingyao's bowl, and said with certainty.

Xie Qingyao: "Why?"

"When we were on the shore, those people were all grabbing that tail. Only he saw you and ran into the sea frantically. And his target of attack was not me." Li Siyu paused and said: "By the way, on the fishing day I saw my grandma, who was also the previous Sea God."

She was so hungry that she could eat as fast as Xie Qingyao.

"What does this have to do with your grandma? Even if the target of the attack is not you, it can't explain anything. What if it's just his trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain?" Xie Qingyao looked at the piece of shiitake mushroom left at the bottom of the bowl, and swallowed it whole with her eyes closed. down.

Li Siyu sucked his oily fingers and said: "The name on the tablet is Su Weiyu. I met him when I was a child. He used to live in our house."

Live in?Mao Shiyu once said that there was an arowana that didn't eat the food cooked by the God of Sea before. Could it be this guy named Su Weiyu?

"That doesn't mean that Su Weiyu is Ning Yuan." Xie Qingyao retorted, wiping the oil from her lips.

Li Siyu choked on Xie Qingyao, patted Xie Qingyao's head angrily and said: "When my grandma called Xiaoyu, I saw a face covered with black spots and looked back."

On the way home, I kept listening to Xie Qingyao's description to Li Chuan. Li Siyu was sure that Su Weiyu was Ning Yuan, the dragon fish who used to live in her house.

"Can you see through such a thick fog?" Xie Qingyao pouted, this was the rhythm that planned to kill Li Siyu from anger.

"Then why did he target me?" Seeing that the form was wrong, Xie Qingyao quickly changed the subject.

Li Siyu: "The person I should have invited back for dinner should also be an arowana, but I met you. It was the same situation as Mao Shiyu and him at that time. Do you understand the transfer of hatred?"

Xie Qingyao nodded. Ning Yuan's spirit was abnormal. Seeing Xie Qingyao as Li Siyu's protector, he naturally thought of himself back then, and it was reasonable to target Xie Qingyao.

"Cough, then how did you get buried in the soil?" Xie Qingyao said.

"If I can't beat it, I was buried. Fortunately, Xiaobai felt that Mao Shiyu's house was too boring and slipped out to help me." After speaking, Li Siyu fell silent.

If Huang Xiaobai hadn't sneaked out to watch the fishing day, he would not have been in danger, and Hu Meimei would not have died.But if it didn't slip out, Li Siyu would be in danger.

This is a hidden multiple-choice question, but the one who made the choice first was Hu Meimei herself.

"Meimei is actually dead a long time ago. The reason why she can live until now is because the tail that can bring the dead back to life has continued her life, but..." Li Siyu did not continue, but took a big mouthful of chicken soup and said Grimace stuck out his tongue and said, "Why does this soup become saltier the more you drink it?"

Xie Qingyao knew whether the soup was salty, but she still silently took a sip of the soup and said to Li Siyu, "Maybe the soup should be salty when it's cold. If you think it's salty, don't drink it."

It is false to say that you are not sad and guilty, but it is a bit hypocritical to really put sadness and sadness on the table.

Li Siyu grinned and said something else to Xie Qingyao, never mentioning anything about Hu Meimei, she has become a secret scar on Li Siyu's heart.

The extremely shy girl, the girl who Nuo Nuo asked her to give her buns, the girl who blushes when she mentions her lover, will only live in Li Siyu's memory from now on.

There is always a magical power at night, which will infinitely magnify people's sadness and make people breathless.

Lying on the bed, Xie Qingyao stared at her eyes and finally reached out to grab Li Siyu, who was trying to suppress her crying, into her arms, and gently patted Li Siyu's back.

She thought that Hu Meimei was a special existence to both Li Siyu and Huang Xiaobai. What Li Siyu hated was her own powerlessness, otherwise Hu Meimei would not have died.

Li Siyu whimpered at first, but finally couldn't help crying loudly.Tears drenched half of Xie Qingyao's shoulders, she didn't say a word but silently gave Li Siyu a support.

"I... made... your clothes dirty..." She cried out of breath, but she was still thinking about dirtying Xie Qingyao's clothes.

"fine."

"I made you sleep..., I... I... do it on purpose from time to time, I can't help it, she's so good... so good."

"It didn't bother me." Xie Qingyao gave her comfort, and hugged her again.

Cry, just cry out.

"If only I were a little bit stronger...it would be fine, I can protect...protect her." Li Siyu said while wiping away tears while grabbing Xie Qingyao's clothes.

Xie Qingyao was dumb, she didn't know how to answer Li Siyu's words, so she had to wipe away her tears.

No matter how much it hurts, life must go on.

Ning Yuan will come again sooner or later, instead of worrying about being afraid, it is better to eat and drink well.In terms of relaxing themselves, Li Siyu and Xie Qingyao always have a striking similarity.

If it really came to the day when the fish died and the net broke, Xie Qingyao believed that she would be able to protect Li Siyu well.

The two of them looked at the mountain every day, hoping that Huang Xiaobai could put down and go home early.

Hu Meimei (Extra)

Huang Xiaobai dragged the two fox corpses to the forest alone. He buried the white-haired fox with the unidentifiable corpse that Xie Qingyao buried before, and the other mixed-haired one was buried by it. thrown into the swamp.

Looking at the corpse slowly sinking into the swamp, Huang Xiaobai's eyes couldn't see any joy or sorrow. He leaned against the tree and said to himself: "I once said that I will send you ten miles of flowers on the day you get married. The mountains are full of flowers you like, I'm not that weak, you don't need to stand in front of me, you have grown a tail, your grandpa finally saved your life...you...how can you be so stupid..."

As it spoke, it began to cry. The tears fell on the ground and grew flowers of various colors. In a blink of an eye, Huang Xiaobai was drowned. Finally, it couldn't help crying loudly on the ground.

The surrounding trees felt its sorrow, and the wind blew, and the leaves rustled down like a heavy snowfall.

In fact, Hu Meimei died a long time ago. On the day she and Huang Xiaobai went to the mountain to dig ginseng, she was bitten by a pyroptera. Perhaps the temperature of the flame of a pyroptera was not enough, and she did not burn immediately.

After Huang Xiaobai went back, Hu Meimei returned to the forest. She was reluctant to part with this mountain because it contained too many beautiful memories.

The fire did not burn Hu Meimei's bones, but took away her four tails, and she became a wandering spirit wandering in the forest.

She was brought back by her grandfather and survived.There is a magical thing about foxes, that is, a fox with nine tails can renew the life of a dying person or monster by cutting off its tail, but the fox whose tail is cut off will die.

In order to bring Foxtail back to life, many people were looking for her grandfather, so she had to leave the village and start hiding.In order not to worry Huang Xiaobai, Hu Meimei told her that she was getting married, her lover was far away, and she was leaving the village.

When she found out that someone had replaced her and lived in Huang Xiaobai's house, she took the risk and called Li Siyu, hoping they would know that the one at home was not the real her, that she hadn't had plastic surgery, and she was still her.

On the fishing day, Hu Meimei mixed in the crowd and glanced at her grandfather from a distance. When she saw Huang Xiaobai was in danger, she ran out to block him.

In this life, apart from grandpa Huang Xiaobai, he was the first one who treated her sincerely. He never showed any disgust or sarcasm, and he never needed to repay her kindness.

He will help her fight off those monsters who bully her, take her to run wildly all over the mountains and plains, laugh together, and climb deep mountains that no one has ever been to. The knife mouth bean curd heart, it is very easy to coax when it is angry, just cook a delicious meal.

Not every white fox is beautiful and has the ability to charm people's hearts. She is considered an outlier in the fox family.She is ugly, she doesn't know how to be charming, she doesn't have a soft waist, and she doesn't have the ability to make people fall in love with her.

In addition to making delicious steamed buns, she also has a soft personality and can be bullied by anyone.Hu Meimei almost lost her life when she was young. She was taken to the edge of the mud pond and almost pushed into it.

The mud pond is the nightmare of monsters. It is the place where God made a big mistake in order to imprison monsters. Once you enter, you can never get out.Because there are a large number of fireflies living in the mud pond, those seemingly harmless red bugs inhabit the edge of the mud pond all the year round. As long as they are stained with it, they will only be burned, and even their souls may be burned clean.

So in order to protect her, her grandfather brought the young Hu Meimei to Tuyuan Village. In this strange world where monsters, humans and ghosts coexist, he hoped that Hu Meimei could live happily here without caring about other people's eyes.

For a period of time, Huang Xiaobai often used leaves to buy steamed buns. He only dared to go to Hu Meimei's place because she was easy to talk. Even if he was discovered, Huang Xiaobai was confident that he could beat Hu Meimei to the ground.

But one day, a group of troublemakers came to the shop.They said that Hu Meimei was born ugly, and the things she made must be dirty. Some of them felt dizzy and nauseated after eating it, and Hu Meimei had to pay to go to the hospital to see a doctor.

Many people are speaking for Hu Meimei, because her steamed stuffed bun shop didn't have a kitchen for making things at that time, and there were no waiters to drive, and she did everything by herself.All the steps of kneading noodles, chopping stuffing and steaming in a pot are clear at a glance, and everyone has a certain idea of ​​whether it will be clean or not.

But these people made it clear that they were here to make trouble, and they smashed Hu Meimei's stool, steamer and other things without paying them. No one dared to go up and stop them with their fierce appearance.In the end, Hu Meimei gave them a sum of money before sending them away. When they left, they even spat at Hu Meimei and said, "Bah! Ugly!"

Hu Meimei didn't cry, but she didn't sell buns for several days.Huang Xiaobai suddenly understood that it wasn't that she didn't care about what others thought of her. She was just used to pretending and ignoring those unfriendly eyes. The so-called being strong was just an illusion she pretended to deceive herself.

At that time, Huang Xiaobai was better at using illusion. He picked a handful of wild flowers on the side of the road and turned them into money, and planned to give them to Hu Meimei when she came out to sell buns again.

It knows well that there are so many leaves in the money box for no reason. Hu Meimei will definitely know who it is. She just doesn't want to pursue it. There are only a few buns and steamed buns in total. It doesn't cost much, so it passed by with one eye closed. , why bother to cause more trouble.

When sending the flowers out, Huang Xiaobai ran to lie on the roof of Hu Meimei's house, wanting to see the smile she showed when she received the flowers, but Hu Meimei cried.She wrapped herself up and cried all night.

After that, Hu Meimei plucked up the courage to say the first sentence to Huang Xiaobai: "Can you be my friend? I don't have any friends."

Only Huang Xiaobai knew how nervous and uneasy she was at that time.

"Okay, you make me steamed buns, and I won't pay for eating steamed stuffed buns in the future." Huang Xiaobai looked at Hu Meimei with a serious face.

"Be friends with me, I won't charge you money, you can just take whatever you want." Hu Meimei had a shy smile on her face after speaking, that was the best appearance of Hu Meimei in Huang Xiaobai's memory.

They became friends who talked about everything. Hu Meimei had only one friend in her life, Huang Xiaobai. She felt that Huang Xiaobai had a dazzling light with warmth, which could lead her out of the boundless darkness and give her what she needed most. warmth.