Chapter 4 The second moon river stream

Chen Jingchou said goodbye to his master in Yongzhou, and took the road to Lei Xiaze. At this time, the two sides of the Yellow River are already at the turn of spring and summer. The weather is getting hotter, the grass is growing, and the birds are singing in the dense forest. The scenery is beautiful and full of vitality.But in Chen Jingchou's heart, he only thought about how to rescue the master, so he was in the mood to enjoy the beauty of spring.I worked tirelessly every day, and traveled all day and night. When I was thirsty, I would drink from the stream. When I was hungry, I would hunt some birds and animals for a full meal. If I was really tired, I would burrow into the grass, sleep for a while and continue on the road.

This went on for more than half a month.One day, the sun was scorching hot, Chen Jingchou was driving on the road, when he turned a dense forest, he suddenly saw a village hidden in front of him.When Chen Jingchou walked into the village, he saw that the village was built by the stream, the population of the village was small, a few houses were scattered around, and there was a well in the west of the town.After walking for half a day, Chen Jingqiu felt that his throat was so thirsty that he was about to burst into flames. He ran to the well in two or three steps, fetched half a bucket of water, and drank until he was full.I just felt a coolness penetrating my heart and spleen, and my whole body felt refreshed immediately.Wiping the sweat off his face with the lapel of his clothes, he didn't dare to wait any longer, and asked the villagers that this village was called Yuehe Village. After crossing the stream, he walked north for a few days and arrived at Lei Xiaze.Chen Jingchou groaned, and walked toward the stream.

The creek is not too far away, just a few steps away.Chen Jingchou walked to the edge of the stream, only to see that the stream was rushing, and the white waves rolled down, surpassing galloping horses. There was only a narrow wooden bridge to cross the stream. Just as he was about to get on the bridge, he suddenly saw a villager standing in the center of the bridge holding a stick and shouting, "Little brother! Please stay! No one is allowed to cross this bridge now!" Chen Jingchou had a heart attack, and said to himself: "In this world, passers-by are not allowed to cross the bridge, it's really strange!" He hurriedly asked.

The villager replied: "The village will hold a sacrifice to the river god in the past few days. According to the custom of previous years, no one is allowed to cross the bridge during the sacrifice!" Chen Jingchou wondered, "Worshiping the river god?" The villagers said: "It is to worship the Lord River God, otherwise the river will dry up and cannot be cultivated!" Chen Jingchou wandered around for a while, and said, "Brother! I have something important to do, can you accommodate me?" The villagers straddled the wooden sticks, stared at each other, and said: "If you can't pass, you can't pass. It's not a joke to anger the Lord River God!" Chen Jingchou had no choice but to turn back to the village.

Chen Jingchou caught a glimpse of a simple inn on the northeast corner of the village.I thought to myself: "Why don't you ask someone to see if there is any other way to cross the river?" Stepping into the shop, an old man in shabby clothes hurried over and asked: "This little guest officer, is he here to stay?" Is it?" Chen Jingchou stepped forward, saluted, and said: "The younger generation is a guest from Yongzhou. I have to rush to Lei Xiaze in a hurry, but the villagers in front of me have sealed off the small bridge, so I want to ask the old man, where is the place nearby?" Is there any place to cross the river?"

The old man murmured: "Oh! This matter is difficult for you!" Chen Jingchou said: "Old man, please tell me." The old man put down the ledger in his hand, and said: "In the future, the village will hold a ceremony to worship the god of the river. The villagers will pay their respects and close the bridge every year at this time. It will take five or six days." Chen Jingchou frowned, thanked the old man, and said nothing more. He turned around and walked out of the inn, walking back and forth in the open space in the village, quite anxious in his heart.At this time, a passerby came back and scolded: "It's unreasonable not to allow people to cross the bridge in broad daylight!" He went into the inn muttering.

Chen Jingchou thought in his mind, if the old man said, the detour would be farther, if so, it is better to stay in the village for two days, wait for the bridge to pass before going on the road.Chen Jingchou had no choice but to turn back to the inn.I met the old man and asked for a room.Seeing that he was hesitating, the old man went back and forth, and said: "Little brother, I see that it is not easy for you to go out, so I will give you the rent to make it cheaper!" Chen Jingchou thanked him, ate some ordinary farm meals downstairs, and went to the guest room to rest.The old man said: "Your guest room is upstairs, I will ask someone to take you upstairs." He shook the bell on his hand, turned his head, and shouted: "Xiaoxue, a guest officer is here, come and help!"

After a while, the footsteps were broken, and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl turned out from the back hall. She was wearing a blue coarse cloth skirt, with a round face, eyebrows like crescent moons, a pair of eyes, like a blue lake, and snow-white skin. She looks so beautiful.Walking in front of Chen Jingchou, his cheeks were flushed, his expression was shy, he bowed his head and said, "My lord! Your room is upstairs, please come with me." With a sweet voice, he turned and went upstairs. Chen Jingchou also walked upstairs.The girl led Chen Jingchou to the guest room, and said: "Although this room is a little rough, I have cleaned it carefully every day, and I hope you are satisfied." Chen Jingchou looked at the guest room, although there was no decoration, the bed was old, But very clean and tidy, spotless.Seeing that Chen Jingchou didn't answer, the girl blushed slightly, and said, "Guest officer, are you dissatisfied?"

Chen Jingchou hurriedly turned his head and said with a smile, "That's right, it's pretty good here!" A blush appeared on the girl's face.Chen Jingchou looked at the girl carefully, her hair was as white as snow, with two small buns, she looked like a fairy from the North Pole.Although he was born in a peasant family, he has the appearance of being out of the world, as clean as white jade.Chen Jingchou asked the girl's name, and the girl replied that her name was Yu Xiaoxue.Chen Jingchou couldn't help being curious, and said, "I would like to ask...why is your hair white?"

Yu Xiaoxue was surprised, and said: "Ah! I... I was born with this. When I was born, I already had white hair all over my head." Chen Jingchou said: "It turned out to be inborn, very special..." Just in the middle of speaking, he heard a burst of children crying from downstairs.Yu Xiaoxue hurriedly said: "I'm sorry! That's my younger brother...his feet are a little uncomfortable, he probably fell down again..." Chen Jingchou said: "Then go and have a look quickly! In case you fall seriously , that's not good!" Yu Xiaoxue apologized, bowed and said, "I'm sorry to disturb you, so I'll take my leave first!" After speaking, she hurriedly turned and went downstairs.Chen Jingchou also felt very tired, closed the door, turned over and fell on the wooden couch, and fell into a deep sleep after a while.

Chen Jingchou was very tired from running around for days, so he couldn't help sleeping for a while.When I woke up, it was already noon the next day.Turning over and going downstairs, the entire inn is empty, only a few guests staying in the inn are gathering together to chat.No one came to say hello, and the shopkeeper didn't know where he went.Chen Jingchou felt strange and hungry, so he had to fill the rice by himself and ate it alone.After dinner, I walked to the wooden bridge, but there were still villagers blocking me on the bridge, so I had to walk back to the village.Seeing a raw medicine shop at the west end of the village, the ground in front of the door was covered with newly harvested medicinal materials. The two were standing in front of the raw medicine shop, whispering.Chen Jingchou walked over slowly, took a closer look, one was dressed as an ordinary villager, and the other was an old man with white hair, but he was the old man in the inn. Chen Jingchou walked past them, and vaguely heard the old man say: "What a poor child, there is no way to get her." The villager sighed: "Hey! But if she doesn't sacrifice, the whole village will be bad." Life is over..." Chen Jingchou was puzzled, turned around and walked into the medicine shop, and saw a group of villagers gathered in the hall of the medicine shop, pointing fingers, discussing one after another.The voices were noisy, but there was a faint cry among the crowd. Chen Jingchou walked into the crowd, but saw a person dressed as a peasant woman, kneeling on the ground, with tears in his eyes, crying to the crowd: "I beg everyone...everyone...please do me a favor!" He choked and couldn't continue, took a few breaths, and cried again: "Everyone, please...we will...just this daughter..." I was so sad that I rolled my eyes and almost fainted.A middle-aged man dressed as a village doctor beside him rushed over to help him, his eyes were also tearful, and his expression was very sad.A girl threw herself into his arms and cried loudly: "Daddy! I don't want to die, I don't want to die!" All the villagers whispered to each other, the crowd was tight and noisy.The doctor hugged his daughter, his hands were trembling, and he patted her vest lightly, not knowing what to do.Suddenly a hunchbacked old woman came out of the crowd, came to the doctor, and said in a hoarse voice: "Doctor, the method of drawing lots was also proposed by you and the village chief! Everyone agrees! Now it's your children's turn. You can't go back on your word, can you?" Another village woman echoed: "Yes! Doctor... My daughter was unfortunately drawn in the lottery the year before last, and I handed her over with tears in my eyes, without saying anything..." A villager The Han yelled: "It was you who proposed the lottery at the beginning, how can you go back on your own now?" The girl knelt down, hugged the doctor's legs, and cried, "Father... mother... I don't want to die!" Still hesitating, several villagers rolled up their sleeves, stepped forward, grabbed the girl's arm, and were about to drag her away.The woman crawled on the ground, crying loudly, tightly hugging the girl's legs and not letting go.The scene suddenly became chaotic, and Chen Jingchou was squeezed out abruptly. Chen Jingchou walked out of the birth pharmacy, bowed his head to think for a while, suddenly realized, and said to himself: "Hateful! So this village finds a young girl as a sacrifice every year to worship the river god!" He said in his heart, "I have to find a way to save her. That little girl." He turned around and came to the open space in front of the village. He even asked several people, who knew that the villagers were as hard-hearted as they were either afraid of offending the river god or telling Chen Jingchou to mind his own business, but no one was willing to help.Chen Jingchou walked around for a long time, sweating profusely and feeling sullen in his heart, so he had no choice but to walk back to the inn.Just in front of the door, a ten-year-old child, wearing a cane, was mourning and crying by the door.Chen Jingchou was in a bad mood, walked into the inn, sat down by the table by the door, poured a bowl of tea and drank it.Seeing that the old man had come back, he asked, "Old man, what's the matter, the child outside the inn is crying so sad!" The old man came over, shook his head, sighed, and said, "Oh! Little guest...don't you know what happened?" Chen Jingqiu said strangely: "Oh? Please let me know, old man." The old man continued: "Her sister, that is, the white-haired girl who led you the way yesterday, suddenly ran to the village chief just now and said that she is willing to take the place of the doctor's daughter as a sacrifice to the God of the River!" Chen Jingchou was startled, put down the tea bowl, and did not answer.The child walked into the store at some point, leaning on his crutches, and cried to the old man, "It's all my fault... I had a fight with my sister last night, and I blamed her for not healing my feet well before, which made me hurt." It became like this..." The old man said: "Silly boy, how anxious your sister was when you were sick! Alas... it was not because of insufficient money, that snobbish doctor refused to treat you, that your feet became like this! " The child lowered his head and whimpered, "I know...I know everything..." The old man scolded: "Now that you know, you were talking nonsense to your sister last night! You said how could she not be sad! You broke her heart, that's why she suddenly wants to seek death!" His face was angry. The child said: "I'm sorry, Uncle He! It's all my fault, my fault..." The old man turned his head away, sighed, and fell silent. Chen Jingchou saw the child crying sadly, couldn't bear it, and made up his mind, he asked: "Old man, when is your ceremony to worship the god of the river?" The old man said: "It should be tomorrow morning..." Suddenly he thought of something, and said: "But outsiders are not allowed to go there." The child turned his head and hurriedly asked, "Big... big brother, are you willing to save my sister?" Chen Jingchou nodded. The old man said: "Little guest officer, you have a very good heart, but no one will pay attention to you. Besides, even if you rescue my Xiaoxue, the villagers will still use other children as sacrifices because they are afraid that the God of the River will be angry!" The child left the old man, struggled to walk to Chen Jingchou, and begged: "I beg you, big brother... you must save my sister no matter what!" The old man shouted: "Xiao Shuo! Don't say any more!" Turning his head, he paused, and said to Chen Jingchou: "Little guest officer, just pretend it's nothing, go back to your room and go to rest early!" Xiao Shuo cried out, "Old Man He, you've turned your back on my sister! I don't want to talk to you anymore..." Leaning on crutches, she limped and cried out the door. Old Uncle He sighed, and said: "Oh...Xiao Shuo, this silly boy, don't I have the same heartache as him, I have raised Xiaoxue for so many years, and this child is so cute and considerate, how can I not feel heartbroken! Shaking his head, he turned to the back hall. Chen Jingchou stood up, walked out of the inn, and came to the open space in front of the village. Looking around, he saw Xiao Shuo standing under the woods in the south of the village, crying alone.Chen Jingchou stepped forward and said, "Little brother, don't be sad!" When Xiao Shuo saw Chen Jingchou, he was even more sad. He knelt down and cried, "I beg you! Big brother... must save my sister..." Chen Jingchou stretched out his hand to help him up, and comforted him, "Don't worry, I had this plan in the first place, and I will definitely stop them!" Xiao Shuo wiped away tears and asked, "Big brother... is what you said true? Are you really willing to save my sister?" Chen Jingchou nodded, and replied: "Yes! Yes! But I don't know where the sacrifice is, can you tell me?" Xiao Shuo replied, "My sister was sent to the Moon River Cave—they used to hold ceremonies to worship the God of the River there!" Chen Jingchou asked, "Where is the Moon River Cave?" Xiao Shuo stretched out his hand and pointed to the west, and said, "Just walk straight along this forest! Brother, my legs and feet are not convenient, and the road there is very difficult to walk, so I can't go with you... But Big Brother, I beg you to save my sister!" Chen Jingchou said: "Don't worry, I will definitely do my best!" Chen Jingchou bid farewell to Xiao Shuo, finished his clothes, put the iron sword on his back, and rushed towards the Moon River Cave along the path in the woods.Not long after, it was already dark, and the woods were so dense that the moonlight could barely see through.The strange bird neighed and roared, and sprang out of the treetops.The black tree shadows were mottled and mottled on the ground, and the breeze passed by, like strange faces, which seemed to be grinning, and their shapes were terrifying.Suddenly, the moonlight was covered by floating clouds, and the night was hazy. There seemed to be thousands of figures in the forest, following closely behind. It was strange and even more creepy. Chen Jingchou thought to himself, he needs to catch up with them quickly, and don't miss a major event. He took a breath, let go of his pace, and rushed forward.As the bright moon slanted to the west, Chen Jingchou had already passed through the dense forest. From a distance, he could see a huge hole on the mountain wall at the end of the forest.Chen Jingchou ran to the cave, thinking: "This must be the Moon River Cave." He cut off the branches, took out the torch, made a torch, lifted his spirits, and walked into the cave.The stone cave is extremely deep, and there are many forks in the cave.Chen Jingchou held the torch in one hand and supported the rock wall with the other, and walked slowly inside.I just feel that the cave is very dark and extremely humid, and some poisonous insects can be seen from time to time, climbing on the wall. Not far away, I saw a few side roads flashing ahead.Chen Jingchou inspected it, picked up a road leading to the ground, and walked forward step by step.After walking for about an hour, I felt that the road was getting lower and lower. After a while, the stone wall above my head began to seep water, and the stone surface under my feet became more and more slippery.There were forks in the road one after another, and he lingered for a while and was delayed for some time. Going on for a while, turning a corner, suddenly saw a glimmer of light shooting out ahead.Chen Jingchou stepped forward, leaned behind the stone, and looked around.I saw a group of people gathered around a huge cave, and an altar was set up beside the cave. Through the cracks of people, a big hole could be vaguely seen in the ground, and beside the cave, a girl was tied up.Several villagers were packing up the sacrifices. It seemed that the sacrifice ceremony was over and they were preparing to return to the village.Chen Jingchou stepped forward, and several villagers held up ropes and were about to throw Yu Xiaoxue into the cave.Chen Jingchou took a stride, flew forward, and shouted: "Stop!" The group of villagers was startled, looked back and saw a young man, yelling and cursing, his hands kept on pushing Yu Xiaoxue down.Chen Jingchou was terrified, they were still far away, and there were villagers standing in the way, so they couldn't save each other.After the sacrifice, the group of villagers raised their wine and meat, and they all left in a hurry.Chen Jingchou ran to the edge of the cave, bent down, and shouted: "Miss Xiaoxue! Miss Xiaoxue!" Only the echo could be heard from afar, and apart from that, there was complete silence. Chen Jingqiu thought: "Damn it! I have to go down and save her!" He ran to the altar, tore down the banner cloth, tied it with a bamboo pole, and lit it as a torch.He raised his right hand, returned to the edge of the hole, and jumped down.The cave was extremely deep, Chen Jingchou could only hear the whistling wind in his ears.After a long while, there was a bang, and when I reached the bottom of the cave, I felt soft and muddy under my feet, and my clothes were all splashed with muddy water.Fortunately, the torch was not extinguished, and by the light of the fire, it turned out that the bottom of the cave was an underground river, the water was knee-deep, and the water was full of soft mud. Chen Jingchou collected himself and looked around, only to see Yu Xiaoxue lying in the soft mud beside the dark river.Chen Jingchou walked over, drew out his long sword, cut off the rope on her body, and asked, "Xiaoxue! Xiaoxue! Are you okay!" Yu Xiaoxue raised her head slowly, with a look of surprise on her face, and said, "Ah...why is it you?" Chen Jingchou helped her up, sat down on a high place by the river bank, and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you." Yu Xiaoxue said: "You, you jumped down from the hole...it's very dangerous here!" Chen Jingchou said: "It's okay, I have learned some martial arts anyway, I should be able to deal with that monster!" Yu Xiaoxue said: "Monster...you, are you referring to Lord River God?" Chen Jingchou raised his head and said, "What nonsense, Lord River God? I'm sure it's a monster. How can a god use a living person to sacrifice?" Yu Xiaoxue was puzzled and said, "But, but Lord River God...how could he be a monster?" Chen Jingchou was slightly angry, put his hands up, and said: "Every year in your village, a young girl is sacrificed to worship the river god, and she never returns. Don't you think it's strange? Although I am Passing by, but when encountering such a thing, you can’t sit idly by!” Yu Xiaoxue hesitated for a moment, then said in a low voice: "But... But the River God, Mr. River God...he will punish our whole village." Chen Jingchou turned around and said, "So, every year in your village, you find an innocent and poor little girl, and use her life to exchange for the temporary safety of the village, right?" Yu Xiaoxue cried softly: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry...I...I never thought of this before." Hearing this, Chen Jingchou hurriedly leaned down, and said with a smile, "Oh! What are you doing? I'm not scolding you, I'm scolding the adults in your village, and I'm not blaming you... Otherwise, why would I run away? come here to save you?" Yu Xiaoxue said: "I'm sorry...I..." Chen Jingchou said: "Okay! Don't say anything, let's get out of here quickly!" Chen Jingchou helped Yu Xiaoxue up and was about to leave, when a muffled roar came from afar from the upper reaches of the dark river.Yu Xiaoxue said in shock: "River...Master River God..." Chen Jingchou said: "Don't be afraid! I'm here!" Under the light of the fire, a big wave surged downwards and came to him in a moment.Chen Jingchou hurriedly supported Yu Xiaoxue to dodge to a higher place. The waves rolled by, and a green shark emerged from the water. It was several feet long and weighed more than a thousand catties. Its back was covered with mottled patterns, it had long beards and sharp teeth, and it was sniffing the smell of the water.Chen Jingchou drew out his long sword abruptly, and blocked it in front of Xiaoxue.The shark spirit seemed to have noticed the traces of the two, and slowly turned its head towards Chen Jingchou and Yu Xiaoxue. Chen Jingchou jumped to the opposite bank, and laughed loudly: "What a river god! It's a shark spirit!" The shark spirit turned around and faced Chen Jingchou, glaring angrily.Chen Jingchou picked up a round stone and threw it towards the shark spirit, and with a bang, it hit the shark spirit right on the head.The shark spirit shook her head, feeling angry in her heart.Chen Jingchou was another few flying stones, and with several bangs, they all hit the shark spirit.The shark spirit was in pain, hissed in rage, curled up, and gathered enough strength.Chen Jingchou didn't dare to slack off, concentrated all his attention, raised his iron sword, and set up a stance to meet the enemy.Suddenly, the shark spirit's giant tail raised a huge wave and slammed towards Chen Jingchou, with great force and viciousness.As soon as it was about to be photographed, at this critical moment, Chen Jingchou's long sword suddenly stretched forward, and with a chirping sound, it pierced straight into the shark's tail.The shark was in pain, raised its tail, and slapped wildly in the river, causing a huge wave. At the place where the waves curled up, a scream of "Ah!" was suddenly heard.Chen Jingchou was startled, and secretly shouted: "It's not good!" Seeing that Yu Xiaoxue had already been swept into the dark river by the waves. Chen Jingchou jumped and flew to save him.The shark spirit's giant tail suddenly brought up a wave and swept towards the air.Chen Jingchou's vision blurred, he couldn't dodge it in time, and with a bang, he was hit hard on his lower abdomen, flew backwards, and fell on the rock wall, his whole body ached.Shark essence swung her waist, turned around, and pounced towards Yu Xiaoxue.Chen Jingchou yelled: "Be careful!" Regardless of the pain, he rushed forward and slashed at the shark with his sword.The giant shark flicked its tail violently to fend off Chen Jingchou, and instantly entangled Xiaoxue in its long tongue, about to bite.Suddenly there was a muffled thunderous roar, the shark jerk swung its head and thrust Yu Xiaoxue several zhang away. Yu Xiaoxue fell on a piece of gravel and fainted immediately.The shark spirit was full of blood, and could not stop screaming, its long tongue was broken aside.Chen Jingchou didn't have time to think about it, he straightened his sword and rushed forward, the shadow of the sword was slanted, and the figure flew.The shark spirit couldn't resist, he was hit by swords several times, his mouth was already injured, the blood flowed continuously, the water surface was red, gradually he couldn't hold back.Chen Jingchou bullied himself in, jumped up, and pierced the shark spirit's back with a sword from top to bottom.The shark spirit was in pain, screamed, and slapped its giant tail sharply, setting off several waves and rushing downstream along the water flow in the dark river. Chen Jingchou was concerned about Yu Xiaoxue's injury, left the shark spirit behind, raised his sword, and ran to Yu Xiaoxue's side.She leaned over to have a look, but fortunately Yu Xiaoxue was not seriously injured, she just passed out.Chen Jingchou took some water from the dark river and sprinkled it on Yu Xiaoxue's face. After a while, Yu Xiaoxue woke up slowly.Chen Jingchou carefully lifted her up and asked, "Are you alright?" Yu Xiaoxue sat on the ground, looked around, and said, "What happened just now... Where is Lord River God?" Chen Jingchou put his sword back into its sheath, and said with a smile: "Lord River God, your Lord River God is actually just a mermaid - I have already beaten him away just now!" Yu Xiaoxue thought for a while, and said, "Ah... yes... I remembered!" Chen Jingchou wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, he was puzzled, and said: "However, it was really weird just now... Didn't the shark spirit want to eat you? Why did you throw you out later?" Yu Xiaoxue said: "I, I don't know, just now... I thought I was going to die." Chen Jingchou pondered for a moment, and said, "Yes! It's fine, you must be terrified! Take a good rest, and we'll leave here later." Chen Jingchou turned around to look at the surrounding terrain, remembered something, and asked, "Miss Xiaoxue, you are so nice, why do you suddenly want to seek death, what kind of sacrifice to the river god?" Yu Xiaoxue lowered her head and said, "I... I am actually quite scared." Chen Jingchou said, "If that's the case, then why do you still do this?" Yu Xiaoxue looked sad, and after a while, she said, "Because... I think my brother is so pitiful, so... I think... If I agree to replace the doctor's daughter, maybe the doctor... the doctor will be grateful... Willing to help with the treatment Brother's feet." Chen Jingchou said: "Just for this reason, are you willing to sacrifice your life?" Yu Xiaoxue said: "Last night, my younger brother was sad because he couldn't walk on both feet, and was crying secretly... I saw it and felt very sad, so sad... A few years ago, my younger brother was ill and had a high fever, because I had no money to replace her. It was only because of the medical treatment that my younger brother's feet were finally disabled, and it was all my fault!" A few teardrops rolled down from the corners of his eyes. Chen Jingchou comforted, "But, it's not your fault! Where are your parents?" Tears welled up in Yu Xiaoxue's eyes, and she said in a low voice: "When I was young, my mother fell ill and passed away... Dad was conscripted by the government to fight in the war and never came back. In the end, it was only me and my younger brother who lived together. Everyone in the village Said that it was because I was born with gray hair, which brought bad luck to the whole family! Everyone wanted to drive me away. Fortunately, the old man who opened the inn took pity on us and took us in to help in his inn. ..." Chen Jingchou said: "Don't be sad! Actually, I think your hair is like white snow, it's really pretty!" Yu Xiaoxue blushed and said, "How can my white hair look good?..." Chen Jingchou said: "It's really beautiful. It's because the people in your village think too much about it, so they made up this saying!" Yu Xiaoxue lowered her head. The two sat and rested for a while.Chen Jingchou stood up and said, "Okay! The ceiling of this cave is too high, we have to find another way to get out!" He helped Yu Xiaoxue up, held a torch, and followed the underground river to explore the way ahead, all the way downriver go.Yu Xiaoxue followed closely behind.After a while, the torch was extinguished, and the surroundings were pitch black.Chen Jingchou took Yu Xiaoxue's hand, and the two slowly groped forward along the water.After walking for half a day, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.The two walked towards the direction of the light, and then walked forward for more than ten feet, and finally a hole appeared in front of them.Most of the entrance of the cave was submerged in water, and the water from the underground river gurgled out from under the entrance of the cave.Chen Jingchou pulled Yu Xiaoxue, supported the cave wall, walked into the water, and slowly walked out of the cave step by step.There was a burst of light in front of my eyes, and the water flowing near the shore outside the cave was just beside the Moon River.Chen Jingchou and Yu Xiaoxue breathed a sigh of relief when they got ashore. Chen Jingchou lay on the grass by the bank, his clothes soaked through, basking in the sun.Sitting aside, Yu Xiaoxue caught a glimpse of a several-inch-long wound on Chen Jingchou's left arm. The red color was about to bleed, and she hurriedly asked, "Did your hand hurt?" Chen Jingchou turned his face away and said with a smile: "My name is Chen Jingchou, please don't miss me! You can just call me Ah Qiu! This little injury is nothing serious." Yu Xiaoxue blushed, and said, "Chen, brother Chen! I have learned some methods of healing -- small injuries are still okay, let me show you!" Chen Jingchou saw her sincerity and said, "Okay!" He sat up and stretched out his left arm.Yu Xiaoxue leaned over and looked down carefully for a while.He went to the bank of the stream, found some herbs, soaked them in stream water, rubbed them, and returned to Chen Jingchou.Apply the herbal medicine on the wound, tear off the corner of the clothes, and bandage a few times.Chen Jingchou only felt a burst of coolness on the wound, and most of the pain disappeared in an instant.He smiled and said, "I didn't expect your medical skills to be so miraculous. Have you also learned how to heal wounds?" Yu Xiaoxue blushed and said: "No, I have never learned any medical skills! I can only treat minor injuries, and I can't do anything about my brother's feet. I am so useless!" Chen Jingchou said: "Then let me teach you some healing methods! Maybe it will be helpful to heal your brother's feet." Yu Xiaoxue said: "You, what you said is true?...I'm afraid I won't be able to learn..." Chen Jingchou said: "It doesn't matter, I wasn't born with it either!" Then he taught Yu Xiaoxue some simple ways to heal illnesses and injuries.Unexpectedly, Yu Xiaoxue was extremely talented, and what Chen Jingchou spent nearly a month to learn, Yu Xiaoxue only took an hour to comprehend seven or eight points.Chen Jingchou was slightly surprised, and taught her some simple self-defense skills, and Yu Xiaoxue also memorized them one by one. Chen Jingchou praised: "I really can't tell, your talent is so good, it took me a long time to learn these things." Yu Xiaoxue hurriedly said: "No, Brother Chen, I don't think I understand anything, it's really useless!" Chen Jingchou said: "Don't be too modest! You are really smart!" Suddenly remembered something, said: "By the way, I still have an iron ring that my master gave me before, I will give it to you! You can Use it as a self-defense weapon." Yu Xiaoxue hesitated for a moment, then reached out to take it. Chen Jingchou and Yu Xiaoxue rested on the bank of the stream for a while, then walked slowly back to Yuehe Village.Just before arriving at the village, I heard a burst of crying from the village.Chen Jingchou didn't know what was going on, and hurried to the village, he couldn't help but gasped, he couldn't believe what he saw.Yu Xiaoxue followed, also extremely surprised, and with a sound of ah, she quickly covered her mouth with her hands.The ground was full of blood, corpses lay in disorder on the open ground in front of the village, many corpses were torn apart, hands and feet were scattered aside, extremely bloody.Chen Jingchou rushed to a corpse in a hurry, knelt down to examine it, and saw a few wounds more than an inch wide, from the head and neck to the thigh, and the blood on the wound was still wet.Yu Xiaoxue hurried back to the inn, and saw two corpses lying in front of the inn door, one old and one young, when she walked in, she found it was Uncle He and his younger brother Xiao Shuo.The whole ground was stained red with blood, and the door was also covered with spattered drops of blood.Yu Xiaoxue fell to the ground, hugged Xiao Shuo, and cried, "Xiao Shuo! Uncle He! You...what's wrong with you...don't...don't leave me alone!"Chen Jingchou came over, leaned over and unbuttoned the front of Uncle He's chest, only to see that his chest was bruised, his ribs were broken, and the entire skirt was covered in blood.Chen Jingchou was shocked, he couldn't think of anyone with such supernatural power, who could kill someone like this.Comforting Yu Xiaoxue: "Don't be too sad, be careful crying and hurt your body!" At this moment, a woman's scream suddenly came from the side of the stream.Chen Jingchou lifted the iron sword and ran over.As soon as I arrived at the stream, I couldn't help being shocked. The shark spirit had arrived at the edge of the stream at some point, lying on the grass by the bank, and was biting a village woman's right leg vigorously, biting back and forth.The village woman fell to the ground, crying, screaming, and scratching forward with both hands.A dozen or so villagers in front of him, armed with sticks, had been forced to the edge of the stream. Their faces were panic-stricken. Seeing the village woman about to die, no one dared to come forward to rescue her. Chen Jingchou shouted angrily: "Beasts! Don't harm people!" He drew out his iron sword, jumped up, handed out his long sword, and swung his horizontal sword, several streaks of silver light shot out at the same time.The shark spirit couldn't dodge it in time, and in an instant, he was stabbed seven or eight times in a row, dripping with blood, and the grass was completely red.He hurriedly let go of the woman, turned around suddenly, raised his giant tail, and swept towards the villagers like a tiger.Those villagers were stunned with fright, their legs were sore and limp, and they couldn't move. Seeing that the shark's tail swept it, they were about to be thrown into the rushing stream and died.Chen Jingchou was terrified, threw away the iron sword, shouted loudly, flew up, concentrated his right palm, and slammed forward, there was a muffled bang, the shark spirit trembled all over, flesh and blood flew all over the place, and it was broken into hundreds of pieces The meat flew in all directions and fell into the stream.The entire Yuehe River was dyed blood red. Chen Jingchou picked up the iron sword, turned around, and was about to look for Yu Xiaoxue.But I saw the group of villagers, carrying sticks, slowly gathered around to block the road, their faces were full of anger and anger.Chen Jingchou made a bow and said, "I'm sorry! Everyone...I..." An old woman walked out of the crowd, feeling indignant, and cursed: "It's all you! You killed a dozen people in the village because of your own actions!" Chen Jingchou was stunned.Another villager Hanji pointed and scolded: "You, you give back my wife! You give back my son!" As if he was about to rush forward and fight Chen Jingchou with his life.Chen Jingchou felt guilty and didn't know what to say. He said, "I...I..." The old man shouted, "Get out! Get out of our village! Don't stand here!" The villagers agreed in unison , Shouted loudly: "Yes, get out now! Get out!" When Yu Xiaoxue heard the shout, she hurriedly wiped away her tears, held back her grief, and walked over, stood beside Chen Jingchou, and begged all the villagers: "Everyone, please don't do this. Brother Chen... this Brother Chen, is it you?" In order to save our village, I went to kill monsters..." The old woman interrupted Yu Xiaoxue and shouted: "Huh! Xiaoxue! You still have the face to say such things!" The village man said: "Yes! Since you volunteered to be a sacrifice You don’t want to let Lord River God eat it obediently! It’s you who killed the people in the village!” The villagers said in unison: “Yes! Yes! It’s all your fault, you witch, you are You have killed the whole village!" Yu Xiaoxue whimpered, "I..." A villager crossed the stick and shouted, "Get rid of them! Drive them away!" The group of villagers yelled and wanted to hold the stick rushed up.Chen Jingchou was indignant, turned around, and said, "I'll go right away! Don't bother you!" Without looking back, he strode up to the bridge. Yu Xiaoxue knelt in front of the villagers, and said urgently: "Brother Chen..." The villagers shouted: "You witch! Get out too! Why are you still here! You evil spirit! Get out! Get out!" Yu Xiaoxue Xiaoxue was at a loss.The villagers raised their sticks and slowly moved forward, forcing Yu Xiaoxue to the edge of the stream, yelling in unison: "Get out! Get out! Never come back!" Yu Xiaoxue had no choice but to walk to the wooden bridge, seeing all the villagers go back to the village cursing, the cool wind blew by, her body was cold, she knelt down on the ground, she couldn't help covering her face and crying.Chen Jingchou walked back to Yu Xiaoxue, feeling guilty in his heart, and said, "I'm sorry! Xiaoxue, it's all my fault, I'm the one who got you involved!" Yu Xiaoxue cried: "No! I'm really the curse that everyone said, I caused everyone... I'm sorry! Xiao Shuo, and Old Man He... I'm the one who killed you all! I'm sorry..." Chen Jingchou said loudly: "No! No! You made a mistake, the matter is not like this at all! I am the one who made the mistake! You have nothing to do with it!" Yu Xiaoxue said: "But... I..." 陈靖仇柔声道：“你心地善良，为了你的弟弟和大夫的女儿，连自己生命都可以牺牲——是我太疏忽大意，连累了你……” 于小雪道：“可是……” 陈靖仇伸手将她扶起，道：“别自责了，小雪，你真的没有错！你今后也无家可归了，将来打算怎么办呢？” 于小雪道：“我，我也不知道……” 陈靖仇沉吟一会，道：“既然这样，你要不要跟我一起走？和我一块去救我师父？” 于小雪道：“和您……一起？” 陈靖仇点点头，道：“嗯，等救出师父后，我再求他收你为徒，这样你不就有个安身之处了！” 于小雪低头道：“可是，可是这样……可以吗？” 陈靖仇笑道：“别担心！你天份这么好，师父一定会很高兴的！” 于小雪道：“可，可是！我担心，我会给您带来恶运的……” 陈靖仇道：“恶运！恶运……那还不都是你们村里人胡思乱想出来的！我才不信这一套！” 于小雪想了一会，实在无处可去，只得点点头。 陈靖仇道：“等一会，我们就要前往西北方的雷夏泽……之后可能不会再回月河村了！我在对岸等你……等你平静一些我们再出发吧！”说着过桥而去。 于小雪跪在桥上，独自哭泣了一会。站起身，高举双手，抚在口前，喊道：“再见了……月河村！我的故乡！再见了……小朔！再见了……贺老伯！再见了……爹和娘……再见！……”