Chapter 22 Hongjiang Water Ghosts
And Yu Wande also lived up to expectations and won the "Gongshi" in the examination, and later participated in the palace examination and was selected as the "Jinshi".
The Hua family, seeing the name of Yu Wandejin's list, will be added to the official in the future, and the wife and shadow will not be a problem.
The Yu family was afraid of being gossiped, such as abandoning the chaff or something, so they still accepted Sister Hua. Later, Yu Wande went to other counties to serve as the county magistrate, and never took Sister Hua away.
This time, the Li family couldn't tolerate her, she picked up Yu Wande, and in the name of unfilial piety in the "Seven Outs", she gave Sister Hua a break. Sister Hua used to quarrel with the Li family all day long.
A few years later, Yu Wande married a daughter of a thousand households in the county, and the second sister also got married.
Besides, Su Ning and his party wanted to help Bai Ying send the letter to "Master Zhihai", the abbot of Baolin Temple in "Yuquan Mountain" on the outskirts of Yong'an.
Therefore, after leaving Lubed Village, they set their next destination in Jingshi, "Daxing". Yong'an City.
This Yong'an City has been built for more than 500 years.Surrounded by six waters.It extends in all directions.It is a state of scenic spots.Su Ning bought a map.After discussing with Bai Xian, she decided to start from the waterway.
The group stayed overnight, and soon arrived at the Hongjiang ferry, which was in the middle of summer in May, and the ferry was full of all kinds of passenger boats, but they all returned to retract their sails.
Su Ning, accompanied by Zhiwa and Hai'e, sat under the straw hut in the waiting area of the dock to enjoy the coolness. Bai Xian shook his head outside.
Bai Xian glanced coldly, and then walked back to the grass hut as if nothing had happened.
He leaned over and whispered in Su Ning's ear: "That kid is still following ......"
Who is the "kid" in Bai Xian's mouth.Su Ning and him are both tacit.Su Ning nodded.Said:
"He didn't do anything, let him be."
She couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Childe, Miss, what are you talking about?"
Su Ning didn't want to hide it from her, she told her truthfully:
"That little brother of Qingtong in Crested Mountain has been following us."
Su Ning and Bai Xian's spiritual power is high, and their minds are also meticulous, so after leaving Fenghua County, they found out that Qingtong was following, but the other party did not do anything wrong, and they did not drive him away.
The quality baby and the hairpin were both shocked.They didn't realize it.The quality baby immediately couldn't help but look out.Bai Xian said in a low voice:
"Calm down, don't let him notice."
She asked quietly:
"Miss, what are we going to do?"
Su Ning said: "I don't know what his intentions are, let's pretend not to know."
Bai Xian snorted disapprovingly: "Forgive him, he can't make any splashes."
Huan'er inquired outside for a long time, he ran back to the waiting place sweating profusely, and said to Bai Xian and Su Ning:
"Childe, Miss, I don't know what's going on at this ferry, I see the boat but I don't see the boat."
"There are no boatmen." Bai Xian was stunned, their journey had been going well, and they had never encountered such a situation.
"yes." Huan'er pulled her sleeves to wipe her sweat and said, "I've looked around, the ferries are all empty, and there are so many people who don't know where to go."
Bai Xian felt unreasonable, and he said to Su Ning, "I'll take a look."
He left the hut and decided to inquire in person. Su Ning and Sister Zhiwa also followed. Bai Xian came to the edge of the dock.
Bai Xian searched along the pier and finally saw a few locals in the shade of a tree.
There were three people sitting under the tree, one of them was an old man wearing a hat and a coarse cloth robe, and it seemed to be a captain, and the other was a middle-aged man in short brown and a man who looked like an official.
Bai Xian asked the old man, "Boat man, can I cross the river?"
The old man glanced at him with drooping eyelids, and replied, "Childe, we won't cross the river for this month.
"It's twice as long by road." Bai Xian said: "You make a price, we can agree to any amount."
The old man waved his calloused hands: "Childe, it's not a question of price, in short, you can't cross the river within this month."
Bai Xian then asked, "Why can't you do it this month?"
The middle-aged man who was playing chess said: "Childe, we are also forced to make money, who doesn't want to, but this month to cross the river, that is the fat sheep to break into the wolf's den, the king of Hades on the table to catch the fruit, and look for death by himself."
Bai Xian and Su Ning looked at each other, and Bai Xian asked again: "How do you say this?"
The official was left behind. Originally, our village had to hold a dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, but since more than 10 years ago, there are always capsized people in the dragon boat race every year, and the people who sank can't even find the corpses.”
Bai Xian asked reluctantly: "Is it the whole of May?"
The old man said fairly: "Yes, as long as it is after May 30, it will be fine, and it will be 30 days before Hengzhi is now.
The middle-aged man also said with a lot of mouths: "Yes, Childe, I see that you look like a talent, you have to be very careful......
Bai Xian frowned: "I."
The chess officer said, "Yes, I didn't scare you, every May, not only those who crossed the river were caught by water ghosts, but even those who were near the water's edge were not at ease, especially those young and handsome young men. A few years ago, there was a scholar who was wandering on the shore in the evening, and he was swept away by the waves."
The old man also chimed in: "Yes, those water ghosts love to catch handsome sons."
The more Su Ning listened, the more she felt that something was wrong. Listening to what these boatmen said clearly, it didn't seem to be alarmist.
The boatmen replied that Su Ning was not easy to force people, and they retreated to the hut to discuss the next step.
Bai Xian asked, "What should I do, do I want to go by land or wait until after May 30."
Su Ning didn't want them to put themselves in danger, she said, "Why don't you wait until May 30 is over."
Qianwa asked, "Miss, do you also think that the water ghosts at the bottom of the river are doing the trick?"
Su Ning said: "Listen to what those boatmen say, even if they are not water ghosts, it is estimated that they must be some evil demons."
She also asked, "Miss, in that case, do we want to let these demons continue to do evil?"
Su Ning was stunned for a moment, and Qianwa also expressed her opinion according to Hai'e's words: "Miss, we were in Fenghua County before, helping Dingyuan Marquis to drive away evil spirits, so that he could turn danger into safety, and now in this Hongjiang River, if there are really demons that harm people, should we also annihilate them and eliminate harm for the people."
Su Ning was ashamed of what they said, she hadn't thought about exterminating the water ghosts and river demons that the boatman had said, because it wasn't people she knew who were being violated, so she didn't have the enthusiasm she had when facing Dingyuan Hou and Zhen Xiuli.
I didn't expect that Qianwa and Hai'e had such a warm-hearted heart, and they were still taught by "Heavenly Dao Guisheng, Helping People with Things" in Datong Mountain.
However, Su Ning still had some concerns, she said: "But, we don't know the details of the water ghost, we are only afraid that its spiritual power is strong, and it will harm you ...... damage."
This is the fundamental reason for Su Ning's hesitation, only herself, but she can't involve Tu Shan's friends in danger.
Qianwa said solemnly: "Miss, we are not afraid, the demon wolf is so terrible, we have never flinched."
Hai E also said: "Yes, miss, these water ghosts hide their heads and show their tails, and they only dare to hide under the water and harm people.
"We can definitely wipe it out if we work together."
Seeing that Su Ning was about to be moved by what they said, and when he was about to make a final decision, Bai Xian interrupted in a cold voice:
"I don't say yes."
Bai Xian poured a basin of cold water on their heads.Su Ning and the other three girls looked at him in unison.Bai Xian only stared at Su Ning.He said his reasons:
"As far as PixNing said, we don't know the details of our opponents, we can't meddle rashly, and if we don't measure ourselves, we will only put ourselves in danger."
Although Bai Xian was obedient to Su Ning, when Su Ning was also hesitant, his first consideration was Su Ning's safety.
Bai Xian was the most noble person in the group, and no one dared to say anything when he said this.
Su Ning saw that the enthusiasm of Zhiwa and Hai'e was extinguished, and she couldn't bear it, and comforted: "Although this water ghost is hateful, it only harms people in May, and as long as you stay away from the river, you can avoid it.
The hairpin was silent, and the quality baby responded and said, "What the young lady said is very true."
So, after Bai Xian and Su Ning agreed, the party decided to stay in a nearby town until after May 30 before crossing the river.
They found one of the most comfortable and spacious inns in the town, and they were disappointed that they couldn't get rid of the evil, and there was nothing to do in the town, so the sisters were much more depressed than when they first came down the mountain.
They wander around the town during the day to kill time, there is a dragon king temple in this town, called "Hongsheng Temple", dedicated to the Hongjiang water monarch "Hongsheng Dragon King".
Su Ning saw that he was idle, so he went to the temple with his friends to pay tribute to some flowers and fruits, incense and candles.