When the old man Gao Lao San talked about this, as a cool breeze blew, raindrops fell. I stood up and looked around and saw a straw shed in the distance to the south.

"Uncle, it's raining, go there and take a hiding place." I pointed to the straw shed and said.

The old man nodded timidly, and Xiangfeng and I helped him to the shed. There were many melon seedlings scattered in the bare fields behind the shed. It seemed that there should be a melon field before the autumn harvest, and this shed was used to protect the melon field.

We sat on the old wooden bed in the shed for a while and each of us smoked a cigarette. The cloudy outside was getting worse and worse, and the rain couldn't stop falling, and it was misty everywhere.

"Uncle, let's continue talking. Political Commissar Xu remembered something I experienced when I was a child. What was it?" I asked.

"This matter is a bit long to say," said Gao Laosan.

"It's okay, we have time, you can slowly recall..."

The old man Gao Lao San’s previous words solved many mysteries that have always been lingering in our hearts. However, this old man was a bit procrastinating and verbose, and the previous words were inconsistent, and the logic was messy. The old man was not very educated, and he was not an eyewitness. The above was all told by his father when he was alive. As for the words above, I sorted out them based on the oral narratives of the old man Gao Lao San’s at that time. After so many years, the old man had a bit of difficulty in recalling them. Under my guidance, he had to think about some details for a long time. If I had changed my previous temper, I would have been impatient. I found that the longer I practiced Qimen skills, the stronger my tolerance and patience.

Besides, there are still many things that need to be found on Gao Laosan, such as the origin of the thing in the reservoir, the whereabouts of Uncle Yang at this moment, etc. We can only follow the old man's temperament and listen to him talk slowly.

Xiang Feng handed us a cigarette to the old man. After lit it, the old man slowly took a few sips and started to tell it quietly. Listening to the sound of rain outside, the old man told us a story that was almost like a Chinese Studio...

The old man said that his father Xu Xiangqian was born in a poor family in Qingshi Town. The family's livelihood was based on Xu Xiangqian's father fishing in the Yellow River and ferrying on rafts. When he was very young, Xu Xiangqian heard the old man in the town tell him a legend, saying that when Dayu was controlling the flood, he suppressed the river god in the river in Qingshi Town. Therefore, Xu Xiangqian always twisted his father and took him to ferry together because he wanted to find the place where the legendary suppressed the river god and see what the river god was like.

As a result, the river god was not found, but Xu Xiangqian was swept into the Yellow River by the wind and waves one day. Fortunately, his father was well-watered, otherwise Xu Xiangqian would have been washed away by the flood. Since then, his father has refused to let Xu Xiangqian ferry with him. But Xu Xiangqian did not give up. He often sneaked to the river beach alone at night, kneeling down and praying to the Yellow River, hoping that he could meet the legendary river god.

I don’t remember when the year started, the Yellow River would be cut off for a period of time every year, and the riverbed would be dry. For the Xu family, who relied on ferrying and fishing to make a living, the Yellow River would be cut off, so God would force them to the dead. Whenever the Yellow River would be cut off, the family would tighten their belts and live a day without the last meal. However, in the eyes of the young Xu Xiangqian, the Yellow River would be cut off as a good opportunity to find the river god given to him by God.

The child was like a possessive demon. He endured hunger and took a small shovel to dig along the river to find the river god. On this day, Xu Xiangqian walked west along the river for about four or five miles. Seeing that the sky was getting darker and it started raining, he walked back.

There was a lot of mud on the riverbed of the Yellow River, which was hard and slippery when the rain was poured. Along the way, Xu Xiangqian fell a lot, and his nose was blue and swollen. He was also dizzy and dizzy when he was tortured by hunger. After walking, he finally couldn't walk anymore. He fell on the riverbed and fell asleep. I don't know how long it took, but Xu Xiangqian was awakened by the rain. When he opened his eyes, he saw that it was already dark and the heavy rain was pouring down. The rain gathered on the riverbed into streams of water, either wide or narrow, and looked like silver ribbons in the dark, clear and bright.

Xu Xiangqian was soaked in the rain. He struggled to get up. When he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a white thing in the river channel in the distance. Xu Xiangqian was very strange. He thought to himself, could it be the legendary river god? Xu Xiangqian was excited and nervous. He plucked up the courage to walk towards the thing. When he came to the front, he realized that it was not a river god at all, but a fox.

There have been various legends about fox fairies circulating in Qingshi Town. It is said that after the river god was suppressed by Dayu, he sent a nine-tailed fox to guard it. Many people have seen foxes in the old forest outside Qingshi Town, and Xu Xiangqian has also seen it, so it is not unusual for him to see foxes. Although it is strange that the fox in front of him appears in the river, it looks ordinary and has only one tail, not the legendary nine-tailed fox. Xu Xiangqian did not think deeper...

The fox seemed to be injured and was already dying. Xu Xiangqian carried it back to the town and hid it in a haystack not far from home. After returning home, Xu Xiangqian was scolded by his father, but he did not dare to tell his father about the fox. Xu Xiangqian's mother felt sorry for the child. Seeing that he was injured everywhere when he fell, she slaughtered the only old hen in the house the next day and stewed a small pot of soup for Xu Xiangqian. Xu Xiangqian kept a small half, secretly took it out of the house, and fed it to the fox.

Since then, Xu Xiangqian saved some of his food from his meals every day to feed the fox. Under Xu Xiangqian's care, the fox got better day by day. One day later, Xu Xiangqian's family had no food to eat. He carried the fox to the river beach with tears in his eyes, and watched the fox walk into the river reluctantly, disappearing from sight...

After the food was finished, Xu Xiangqian followed his parents to dig wild vegetables in the mountains and fields every day. Later, even the wild vegetables were almost gone. Seeing that his parents were getting hungry day by day, Xu Xiangqian decided to go out to beg for food. He thought to himself that he was young, and maybe others would give him some leftover food and bring it back for his parents to eat.

Early the next morning, Xu Xiangqian got up from the bed and was about to beg for food. However, as soon as the door opened, Xu Xiangqian saw a big fish weighing several pounds lying at the door. At first, he thought he had seen a lot of flowers, and squatted down and touched it with his hands. Xu Xiangqian woke up his parents happily. Every morning, Xu Xiangqian woke up a fish lying at the door of his house. Xu Xiangqian was still young after all, and he thought God felt pity for them, and the fish fell from the sky. Xu Xiangqian's father thought the fish was stolen by his son from another fish pond and threw it at the door, lying that it fell from the sky, so he beat his son and said that although we were poor, we had to have backbone and would rather starve to death than steal things.

That night, Xu Xiangqian cried in the quilt until midnight. When he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly saw something glowing outside. He got up and looked through the broken window paper. He saw that there was a heavy fog in the yard at some point. There was a human-shaped thing in the fog, flashing and flying to the door of the room where his parents lived, and then he stumbled into the crack of the door... Then, Xu Xiangqian knew nothing.

The next morning, Xu Xiangqian found that he had somehow slept at the window. His father hugged Xu Xiangqian and cried while asking him if he had saved a fox some time ago. Xu Xiangqian nodded blankly. His father said that the fox Xu Xiangqian rescued was a fox fairy. Last night, the fox fairy asked him to dream and told him the whole story, saying that he was wrongly blamed Xu Xiangqian. Those fish were brought up from the Yellow River channel to repay Xu Xiangqian. The fox fairy said that those fish were descendants of the river god and were protected by the river god and hid in the river channel...

I couldn't even blink my eyes. Xiang Feng was so cool, and he was stunned, opening his mouth slightly.

"According to this, the reason why Political Commissar Xu thought of looking for fish in the dry river was because of the past he experienced when he was a child?" After a while, I came to my senses and asked the third son of Gao.

"Yeah, yes..." the old man nodded.

Damn this, is there really a fox fairy in this world?...I looked at Xiang Feng.

"Who, this handsome guy, do you still have cigarettes?" Gao Laosan asked tremblingly at Feng.

Xiang Feng smiled, pulled out one casually, and threw it to him, "Uncle, I have a question."

"What?" the old man lit a cigarette.

"I want to know where Political Commissar Xu learned the Yin-Yang and Five Elements Arts from," said Xiang Feng.

The old man said that it was almost two years after the fox fairy helped Xu Xiangqian's family to survive the famine. On this day, Xu Xiangqian's father fell seriously ill and took a lot of medicine but it didn't work. Seeing that the person was about to fail, Xu Xiangqian thought of the fox fairy he had saved, so he ran to the fox fairy temple, hoping that the fox fairy would appear again and save his father. Two days later, the fox fairy did not appear. On the third night, Xu Xiangqian fell asleep leaning on the altar. In a daze, he saw a woman standing with her back to him at the entrance of the temple, slowly waving to him, so he followed the woman out. Along the way, the woman didn't say a word, and Xu Xiangqian accelerated her pace, trying to surpass the woman and see what she looked like, but no matter how fast he walked, the woman was always more than two meters away in front of him.

He followed the woman to the Yellow River. When he came to a place on the beach, the woman suddenly disappeared. Then, Xu Xiangqian woke up. He thought it must be the fox fairy who asked him to give him a dream and gave him a way to save his father. When he came to the place where the woman disappeared in the dream, he dug down about two meters deep and dug out a rusty box containing a pill. In addition, there was a turtle shell, which was engraved with dense words. After feeding the pills to his father, his father's illness was cured. Later, Xu Xiangqian cracked some of the words engraved on the turtle shell and found that it was something like the Five Elements Alchemy...

When the old man talked about this, it was almost dark. Xiang Feng and I were skeptical about this past about the fox fairy.

"Okay, uncle, next, please tell us what method Political Commissar Xu used to find the fish blessed by the river god in the Yellow River." I said.

The old man was about to start speaking, but I suddenly seemed to hear Wei Nuanniu's voice. I hurriedly waved my hand to the old man and listened carefully. It was indeed Wei Nuanniu's voice...
Chapter completed!