The summer sun was extremely hot on his body, Tang San hid two small black chains around his waist, and it was much cooler all of a sudden, and he was called a cold baby. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The group walked upstream along the quicksand river, the cool wind blew with a faint fishy smell, and it turned out that the smell of the sea is not necessarily really good, who smells who knows.

Eight hundred miles of quicksand river, such a distance has to be rowed over, and it will not be possible to reach it in ten days and half a month, Tang Sanzang can't fly or swim, so he can only obediently get a boat.

If someone in the town is willing to send them there, it's okay, but if they can't, they can only go up the mountain to cut wood and make boats.

Ao Xiaobai used to live in the sea and hid in the Eagle Sorrow Stream for hundreds of years, so he was naturally quite excited to see this big river, but Tang Sanzang was afraid of danger in the water, so he didn't agree to her request to go into the water to play.

But the little guy laughed and played on the beach by the river, and had a lot of fun.

Tang Sanzang still has some impressions of the quicksand river in Journey to the West, after all, Sha Wujing is hiding in this quicksand river, and he is also a little curious about what Sha Wujing will look like, is it really like the one on TV with a shawl and red hair, carrying a crescent shovel, that is too amazing.

It didn't take long for a town of considerable size to come into view.

Dozens of wooden boats are docked in the gentle bend of the harbor, the largest one is two or three zhang long, and the small one is a raft made of a few logs. The stone houses are scattered along the flat shore, and the walls of every house are lined with dried fish, fishing nets, and so on, and it is noon, and the smoke is coming out of every house, and it looks like a rather peaceful town.

Tang Sanzang's gaze fell on the three-story house in the northernmost part of the town, which was the tallest house in the town, and the only wooden house, and it was Yuan Trauncatum.

"Yo, it's coming pretty quickly. Before, the old man Wang was sitting on the stone at the entrance of the town chatting with another old man with firewood, and when he saw Tang Sanzang and them, he got up with a smile and beckoned.

Old man Wang didn't talk nonsense, he carried a basket of fish, and walked to the village with everyone, saying that he would take them to the mayor of the town first, and crossing the quicksand river was not a child's play, only the largest boat in the town could do it.

I heard the old man Wang say that this town is called Wangjia Town, and there is no new name, just because most of the people in the town are surnamed Wang.

Passing through the streets and alleys paved with smooth stones in the town, there were many fishermen in open coats on the road, their skin was tanned purple-red, most of their hair was cut short, and many of them were even directly shaved, carrying short knives and short spears around their waists, and looked at everyone curiously, it seemed that the folk customs were quite strong.

Old man Wang led everyone to a large courtyard in the center of the town, asked Tang Sanzang and them to wait in the courtyard first, and entered the backyard familiarly, and after a while, he led an old man with the same gray hair, black and red skin, and wearing a blue loose coat and walked out.

"I heard Donghua say that you want to cross the river?" the old man looked at everyone and looked at Tang Sanzang and asked straight to the point.

"Yes, the price is negotiable. Tang Sanzang nodded, he still had a lot of gold on him.

The old man glanced at Tang Sanzang deeply, nodded and said, "Okay, let's talk inside." ”

"Talk slowly, I'll take the fish home first, or the old lady of the house will talk about it again." Wang Donghua said with a smile while carrying the fish basket and walked towards the courtyard gate.

Tang Sanzang asked Sun Wukong to stay in the courtyard with Ao Xiaobai and Luo Xi, while he and Zhu Tianpeng followed the mayor towards the living room.

There were a few old chairs in the living room, which looked quite simple, and the three of them sat down separately, and after a while, an old servant brought tea.

"Old Wang Kuan, I don't know where you came from and where you are going, why do you want to cross the river? The old mayor held the tea bowl and looked at Tang Sanzang and said.

"The poor monk Tang Sanzang, from the Eastern Tang Dynasty, led the disciples to the West Heaven to learn scriptures, passing through here, blocked by the quicksand river, and came to ask for a boat that can cross the river to cross the eight hundred miles of quicksand river. Tang Sanzang put the rough tea bowl aside, looked at the old man and said.

"The eight-hundred-mile quicksand river is easy to cross, not to mention that there are river demons in the river, but the three thousand drowning goose feathers can't float, and it will be difficult to cross the river...... Wang Kuan gently stroked the tea leaves with the lid of the cup, and said unhurriedly.

"Old man, don't you talk nonsense, don't you just want to raise the price? Tell me, how much gold does it take to cross the river? Zhu Tianpeng slapped the coffee table and looked at Wang Kuan with some impatience.

Tang Sanzang looked at Wang Kuan, whose forehead was jumping, and waved his hand with a smile: "Don't mind Mayor Wang, my apprentice is not very good-tempered, but her words are what I mean, as long as the price is fair, we can still get the gold." ”

"Refreshing, the matter of not crossing the river is very important, and I can't decide it alone, I need to call the old man in the town to discuss it together, and I need the nod of the great wizard. Wang Kuan nodded, stretched out his hand to summon two family members, and asked them to invite someone.

"Okay, that's a lot of work. Tang Sanzang raised his hand to signal Zhu Tianpeng to be calm and not to be impatient, seeing Wang Kuan's solemn appearance was not like just to pit them a little more gold, there might really be some monsters in the quicksand river.

But it's strange that there are no monsters in such a big river, and this is a world where trees and flowers can become essences.

Zhu Tianpeng said that he went to the courtyard to visit the meeting, and Tang Sanzang chatted with Wang Kuan about some strange things about the quicksand river, Wang Kuan was quite talkative, although many things in Wangjiazhen were mentioned in one word, but the rumors on the quicksand river were told a lot.

"There are monsters in this quicksand river to make waves, and every once in a while they will eat one or two fishermen who fish on the river, these thousands of years, there are no less than 100 fishermen buried in the belly of my Wangjia Town, and this monster hides at the bottom of the river, and does not show up at all on weekdays, it is the great wizard witch who is through the sky, and only caught a few little demons. Wang Kuan sighed lightly, with some worry between his eyebrows.

"What does the monster in this river look like?, is it a red-haired man, with protruding eyes, a blue face, and a string of skulls hanging around his neck?" Tang Sanzang raised his eyebrows and asked with some curiosity.

"Huh, could it be that the little master has seen that monster?" Wang Kuan said with some surprise, got up and took out a yellowed ancient book from the wooden cabinet on the side, carefully blew off the dust on it, opened the first page, and handed it to Tang Sanzang, "Look, you are talking about this monster? This is handed down by my ancestors, saying that this is the leader of the monsters in the quicksand river." ”

Tang Sanzang took the ancient book, looked at the guy with blue face and red hair, a pair of dead fish eyes, a crescent shovel, and nine skulls around his neck, the corners of his mouth twitched, if this guy was Sha Wujing, it seemed that he had finally come up with a person similar to the original book.