After breakfast, Lei Zi and I rested in the stilt house of Elder Yansheng for half a day.

Those who have crossed mountains and ridges these days have not had a good rest.

I slept until dusk and felt very comfortable.

When I woke up, the sun shone in from the wooden lattice window. Outside the window was a mountain and pastoral scenery, which was refreshing and beautiful.

Elder Yansheng was originally going to take us to the reservoir in person, but I said, "Elder, the mountains are high and the road is long, so you can rest at home. Since we take on this task, we will definitely complete it!"

Lei Zi rolled up his sleeves and said, "Yes! If you follow us, we will not be able to free up our hands to deal with the water ghost! Also, if you are present, we will not be able to deal with that fat man, right?"

Elder Yansheng thought about it and felt that what we said was reasonable, so he pointed out the direction of the reservoir and told us to be more careful.

"I'm in the village, waiting for the good news of your triumphant return!" said Elder Yansheng.

"Don't worry, we'll go back to such a small matter!" Lei Zi slapped his chest loudly.

I gave Lei Zi a blank look: "Brother, you are standing and talking without any pain in your back! You can do it!"

Lei Zi laughed and said, "I'm not trying to earn face for you!"

"I'm really thankful!" I carried my shoulder bag and walked out of the stilt house first.

After leaving the village, we walked up the river for several miles. When it was getting dark, we arrived at the large reservoir that Elder Yansheng mentioned.

The reservoir is surrounded by mountains, green mountains and clear waters, and the environment is very elegant.

The lush mountains are reflected in the lake, with a jasper-colored look on the sky and on the ground, which is very beautiful.

I thought to myself: "This is a pretty good resort!"

The mountains here are high and the roads are far away, almost completely isolated from the outside world, and are not disturbed by any outside world. Perhaps in the minds of the Tujia people, this is their peach blossom land, so they do not want to go out of the mountains or destroy this tranquility.

The reservoir is very large. If you look down from the sky, the entire reservoir is like a huge jadeite, embedded in the mountains and ridges.

From afar, we saw a thatched house standing beside the reservoir, with smoke rising from the roof, and it seemed that someone was making fires and making meals.

Leizi and I looked at each other and it seemed that the thatched house was the place where the fat man lived!

Lei Zi held a cigarette: "It seems that Elder Yansheng is right. That fat man really regards this place as a resort. He has food and drink every day, enjoys life, and has a very comfortable life!"

I smiled and felt that this fat man was even more interesting: "Let's go and take a look. After walking so far in the mountain road, I'm hungry. Go and ask him for something to eat!"

Walking through a weedy path, we came to the front of the thatched house.

I stretched out my nose and sniffed it. Well, it felt quite fragrant, and immediately aroused the greed in my stomach.

I swallowed and smelled the smell, as if it was the fragrance of fish soup, but there seemed to be a hint of other strange fragrances mixed in it.

"Is anyone here?"

I was about to reach out to knock on the door, but I found that there was no door at all. The so-called door was a wooden fence half a person tall.

Pushing open the wooden fence, Leizi and I walked into the thatched house.

The environment in the thatched house is relatively simple and there will definitely be no decorations.

The roof is made of thatch, and there are a few wooden boards in the corner, which should be a bed.

There is a simple stove in the middle of the thatched house. To put it bluntly, it is a kang with firewood burning inside. A bracket is made of wood above the firewood. A small pot is hung on the bracket. Bubbles are gushes in the pot, and heat continues to rise. The fragrance just now floats out of the pot.

Leizi and I were attracted by the rich fragrance, and at the same time we came to the front of the iron pot and took a closer look.

I saw two grass carp simmering in the iron pot over low heat, and some unknown wild vegetables were floating on the soup noodles. Perhaps the strange fragrance was emitted by these wild vegetables, mixed with the aroma of fish, and became very strange and soaking the heart. The fish soup was cooked very well, thick and white, just like milk.

"It's so damn good! Jiuyizi, I'm thirsty! Where are you?" Leizi bit the cigarette in his mouth, rolled up his sleeves, picked up a broken porcelain bowl with a gap on the edge of the stove, grabbed a spoon, and filled a bowl of fish soup on his own, blowing the heat floating on the soup noodles.

"Master Jiu, I'll try it for you first to see if this soup is poisonous!" Lei Zi said, and started drinking it gurglingly.

I gave him a blank look: "Leizi, you are really my good brother!"

Lei Zi held the bowl in both hands, and didn't even raise his head. He drank all the fish soup in the bowl in one breath, almost swallowing his tongue, smacking his lips, and said unsatisfiedly: "Fresh! So fresh! This soup is so delicious, it is definitely the best fish soup I have ever tasted! No, I have to have another bowl!"

Leizi said as he went to the pot to serve soup.

I quickly looked and had quick hands. I grabbed the spoon, grabbed a bowl from the ground, and served myself a bowl first.

I couldn't wait to blow it, and I took a slight taste. Unexpectedly, the soup tasted wonderful, and the rich fragrance lingers between my lips and teeth, making me feel like my tongue is dancing.

"It's so fucking delicious!"

I sighed sincerely, held the porcelain bowl with both hands, my throat trembled, and made a gurgling sound. I poured a whole bowl of fish soup into my stomach. My stomach was warm, and I felt refreshed and very comfortable.

"Hehe, Jiujizi, see what I found?" Leizi shook a wine pot in his hand. The sound of water gurgling in the wine pot seemed to be filled with a lot of wine.

The fish soup in the iron pot was drunk in a few seconds, and Leizi and I were left with only two grass carp left in the pot.

Leizi and I were not polite either. We turned on the wine pot and started drinking and eating fish. We were feasting.

The wine in the wine pot was obviously the sake brewed by the Tujia village itself. We had tasted it last night, so the taste of the wine will be revealed at a glance.

The fish in the pot was stewed a little bit bad, but the umami flavor of the soup was all integrated into the fish. If you take a bite of the fish, the fragrance will not dissipate in your mouth for three days and three nights. It is really not an exaggeration at all.

There were no wine glasses here, Leizi and I held the wine pot, and we sipped it and quickly drank all the sake in the wine pot.

Lei Zi turned the wine pot over and shook it a few times, without a drop left.

We also ate the grass carp in the iron pot. The grass carp weighs about one pound, and only two fish skeletons are left at the bottom of the pot. Even the wild vegetables in the pot were taken out by us and eaten cleanly.

After eating and drinking, Leizi and I lazily leaned against the fire pit, holding our round belly.

Lei Zi held a grass stem in his hand and said while picking his teeth: "Well, if you could eat such delicious fish soup every day, that day would be really pleasant!"

I burped: "Yes! The green mountains and clear waters are beautiful, you can sleep when you eat, eat when you wake up, and you are carefree. No wonder the fat Taoist priest was reluctant to leave for so long!"

Speaking of the fat Taoist priest, we only remember that we have not done anything yet!

Mom, we were originally here to find the fat Taoist priest this time, but we were attracted by the fish soup. Just drinking and eating fish, I completely forgot the main business. If I hadn't mentioned the "fat Taoist priest" casually, I would have almost forgotten this person.

"Get up! Get up! Get up quickly!"

I raised my foot and kicked Lei Zi in the ass and kicked him up.

It was warm in the thatched house, and after drinking some wine, Lei Zi squinted his eyes and was already dozing off.

Lei Zi was kicked awake by me, and his face seemed a little unhappy. He yawned and said, "What are you doing? I'm almost asleep. I'm full and drink enough, and I'm so comfortable!"

"It's so comfortable! We are here to do things, not to enjoy it! Get up quickly, let's go find that fat Taoist priest!" I dragged Lei Zi up.

Lei Zi stretched: "How about... let's talk about it tomorrow..."

Before Lei Zi finished speaking, I had already dragged him out of the thatched house.

The temperature difference between inside and outside the thatched house was very large. As soon as he walked out of the thatched house, when the night wind blew, Lei Zi immediately shuddered and lost all sleepiness.

I closed my collar and the temperature in the mountains was indeed relatively low. In addition, there was a large reservoir outside, and the humidity was heavy at night, making it even colder.

Lei Zi trembled and lit a cigarette, and I asked for it, put it in my mouth. The two of them walked forward along the path covered with weeds, along the reservoir.

As I walked, I suddenly grabbed Lei Zi: "Wait! There seems to be someone in front of me!"

Lei Zi rubbed his eyes, vomited a cigarette ring and said, "Well, it seems like he is really alone! Hey, if you don't remind me, I would have thought it was a stone!"

I saw a person sitting next to the reservoir about ten meters ahead of us.

The man sat there motionlessly, like a weathered stone.

The man was round and wore a big hat, with a bamboo pocket specially used for fishing next to him, and a fishing rod in front of him.

I vomited a cigarette ring and put out the cigarette butts: "It's a cold day. This man is still fishing outside in the middle of the night. He is so motivated!"

I personally don’t like fishing very much, and I feel a little bored, but I know that some people who like fishing really fish all night long. Whether it’s spring, summer, autumn and winter, you are not afraid of mosquito bites in summer, and you are not afraid of cold winds in winter. It’s hard for me to understand why they have such a strong interest?

Leizi said: "I think I'm brain-related, I'm drinking the northwest wind here!"

"Let's go! Go and say hello to someone!" I was already worried. Who else would be fishing next to the reservoir at this late night? Only he has such leisure and elegance!

But then again, this fat Taoist priest was so brave. Even though he knew that there were water ghosts in the reservoir, he would dare to sit by the lake alone in the middle of the night, and he was not afraid of being dragged by the water ghosts?
Chapter completed!