The junction of Yunluo Mausoleum and Mo Nan Mausoleum in the south of Zhongzhou is a Nanyun River with one word in the name of the two tombs, the river is bent and bent, the water is murmuring, it is not a big river like the Dabu River, but a small river with an average width of only ten zhang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The land of Monan Mausoleum is vast and sparsely populated, there is no other town within a radius of thirty miles from Kunshan Town, and the traffic significance of this river is not so important, so there are often no ferrying boats, and there is only one ferry boat in Qinglan Gorge, three miles north of Kunshan Town, and even so, no one will cross the river for several days.

A young man in a white sweatshirt saw someone approaching at the corner of the mountain road on the south bank, and hurriedly ferried his black boat from the north shore to the south bank.

It wasn't until I entered that I really saw the people coming, it was a caravan of more than ten people. There are many peaks here, the terrain is steep, rugged and difficult to walk, the general caravan will take the avenue, and the caravan passing through this area is really rare, so that the young man looks at this caravan with a little more curiosity.

The caravan consisted of only three horses, the rest on foot, two of the three horses carrying goods, and only one horse sat a man with a hat and a scarf.

It wasn't until the young man actually walked in that he counted the number of people, thirteen in all. The afternoon sun was blazing, and the twelve faces of the caravan on foot were all burned red. And their appearance is nearly middle-aged, and the youngest looks to be in their thirties.

"How much does it cost to cross the river?" One of the vendors at the front asked.

The young man wiped the sweat from his face and said, "Two pennies for one." ”

The interrogating vendor turned his head to look at the man on the horse, as if he was the shopkeeper here.

The figure who sat immediately looked a little burly, and he was wearing silk of the same material, and he couldn't see his appearance with his face covered, but looking at his figure and temperament, the young man estimated that he was also a man of his age.

The middle-aged man who was the leader on horseback bowed slightly, and the middle-aged man who asked the question took out the money from his pocket, counted it, and handed it to the young boatman.

The rest rested in their place, drinking water and fanning themselves.

"Big brother, drink some water." A merchant took a kettle and handed it to the middle-aged man on horseback.

The middle-aged man shook his head and said, "Drink it." ”

The merchant didn't shirk either, wiped his sweat, took a big sip, looked up at the scorching sun, and couldn't open his eyes.

The southern sun is indeed too scorching.

After a while, the young boatman beckoned, "It's okay, let's get on board." ”

The leader looked up at the others, and they understood, so he led his horse and got into the boat.

Because there were not many people crossing the river in the past, this boat was not large, it could only carry seven or eight people at a time, and with three horses, it would have to carry three times.

After the first two horses and the rest of the men had been brought over, the young boatman came back to take the last one. The last one was the middle-aged man on the horse.

The horses were led to the boat, and the middle-aged man sat in the bow of the boat, and the boatman began to ferry to the other side.

The distance between the two sides of the strait is not far away, and the expressions of the 12 businessmen on the other side can all be seen clearly. The boatman withdrew his gaze and smiled at the middle-aged man sitting in front of him.

"I don't look like a local." The young boatman chatted casually as he propped up the boat.

The middle-aged man didn't answer him this question, but asked, "How long have you been holding the boat?" ”

The young shipman pondered for a while, and said, "A few months." ”

The middle-aged man raised his head, took off his hat and scarf, had short hair only an inch long, and had a big square face, looking at the young boatman quietly.

The boatman smiled, looked away, and propped up the boat.

"When did you first find me?" The middle-aged man asked suddenly.

The scorching sun shimmered on the surface of the sparkling lake, and the boatman's face was also rippling with water, and he asked with a smile, "I don't know what Mr. means?" ”

"Maybe I'm asking the wrong question." The middle-aged man changed his words and said, "What I should ask is, when did you know that I would come to Zhongzhou?" ”

The boatman's hand gradually stopped, and the boat stopped in the middle of the river, and the current was very slow, so the boat only drifted very slowly with the current downstream.

After the middle-aged man finished asking the last sentence, several profuse sweats began to roll down the young boatman's face.

He turned his cheek sideways to look at the river, not letting the middle-aged man see his cheek.

"I still don't understand what Mr. means."

"Isn't that clear enough?" The middle-aged man slowly frowned, "When did Emperor Shenwu know that I was going to enter Zhongzhou?" Are you Li Ruosi's person or Gongyi Caiyao's person? ”

The young man's pole fell into the water with a thud, undulating up and down the sparkling river.

The poles and boats that fluttered with the river soon stabilized, but the surface of the lake did not stand still, and the scales were still rippling.

This is because pieces of red ice grow from the bottom of the river like foam and then seep out, and the red ice clings to boats and bamboo poles like fast-growing red rocks, and then forms a square plane.

The red ice that grows from the bottom of the river to the surface of the river condenses rapidly, and the unlucky fish and shrimp are solidified in it, and the condensed red ice instantly converges into two red icicles that grow abruptly, connecting from the bottom of the river to the surface of the river.

From the riverbank, it looks more like two red ghost hands, firmly grasping the boat from the river.

Wisps of red gas emanated from the red icicles, encircling the two of them, making them feel as if they were in a red purgatory.

The young boatman's face was illuminated red, and his hands trembled, and he said, "How do you see that?" ”

The middle-aged man glanced at him and said, "How could such a young man be willing to be a captain here?" ”

The young man looked at him and said, "Just because of this?" ”

"Of course not." The middle-aged man shook his head, "The scorching sun is in the sky, it is so hot, not in the shade, but directly standing on the boat and waiting, proving that you already knew that we were coming, the mountain road here turns around, not to observe in advance, how do you know that we will come." ”

"I'm a boatman, and you're not very skilled, so where will the boat guild use your pole support?"

The young shipman glanced at his hands, then looked at the legendary man with a horrified gaze, and then looked at the twelve merchants on the shore, knowing that they were all the same warriors who had experienced the war of ten years ago, and no longer pretending to be stupid, he knew that there was no point in pretending to be stupid, so he bowed respectfully to them.

"You're King Gongfen, aren't you?"

"If you calculate all the way to the top, then I can barely be regarded as Dai Tao's person."

This middle-aged man with a slightly bloated figure, a square face, and short hair is Gong Conglong, the king of Nangong who fought the world with Nangong Bat ten years ago, and the peak of the powerful Yuanzun.

Hearing the word Dai Tao, Gong Conglong smiled and said, "Old opponent." ”

Then he looked up at the young shipman and said, "Are you from the military?" Who are you directly under you? When did you discover us? ”

"Directly under the Mo Nanling Ling Army, the capital is Yin Jiuhong. As for when it was discovered...... I'm just a subordinate, and I know a lot of things. The young boatman took a breath and said.

"That's right." Gong Conglong glanced up at the scorching sun and said, "You can choose to resist, or directly meet death, it's the same for me." ”

"I choose to survive."

"You don't have the capital to negotiate conditions."

"I think so." The young man was very apprehensive, and plucked up his courage to say, "The Wu Dynasty doesn't know your final destination, otherwise he wouldn't have sent someone to set up a secret tracking point all the way, and I wouldn't be able to appear here, so I still have the value of use." I will cooperate with them by lying to them, or that you are deliberately misleading, so that they do not realize that you have found out, and you can direct them in the wrong direction. ”

Gong Conglong looked at this young man who was very nervous and trying to calm himself, smiled, and said, "Do you Wu Dynasty people also like betrayal?" ”

The young man didn't know a lot of things, and he didn't have the right to know, so he didn't know who Gong Conglong's word "also" was alluding to, and he was only worried about his own safety and said: "Heroes emerge in troubled times." ”

Gong Conglong laughed and said, "In troubled times, only birds and beasts will come out. ”

"You are so upright in betraying the Wu Dynasty now, who knows if you will betray us later. The method you are talking about is not the method, but why should I take this risk? Why gamble your credit with Nanyan's future? ”

"Besides, I hate traitors in the first place."

After speaking, two water arrows stretched out from the surface of the river, turning into red ice arrows in an instant, and with Gong Conglong's eyes pointing forward like a sword, the two ice arrows also stabbed towards the young man at a vertical corner.

The young man's face changed in horror, knowing that there was no room for turning things around, his face turned horizontal, two short daggers came out of his waist, and the whole person stepped on the surface of the boat and flew back towards the shore, and the two daggers were thrown towards Gong Conglong!

As soon as he stepped on the surface of the boat, the hull of the boat jerked, and the horses neighed.

It was originally the cultivation of the Yuan Master, and the dagger tore out two waves of white mangqi out of thin air, and the tip of the dagger flashed with green light!

His flying body made two ice arrows pierce the air and hit the cliff, and the smooth and tough cliff was hit by the wind and rain in an instant, and there was a hot sound of "snort", it was hard to imagine if it stabbed a person's body, or what kind of terrible lethality.

Gong Conglong's face did not change, but just looked at the young man.

Then, clusters of water arrows flew up from the water surface, and the water splashed in front of Gong Conglong, and the dense water splash instantly condensed into a red water wall, and the water wall solidified into ice in an instant, and if you looked closely, you could see that the ice emanating from the ice wall was churning like a flame, and I don't know how terrible the temperature was!

Two daggers stuck in the ice wall, and the green light dimmed and then disappeared for a moment, and the daggers melted from the water in an instant, and fell on the ship's board with white smoke and snort.

It was as if a long-drive carriage was passing by the river, and where the wheels hit, water arrows would shoot out vertically, and the moment the red ice wall condensed, the water arrows had already covered the direction of the young man's retreat.

It was a spectacle of great spectacle, as if two rows of crossbowmen were firing arrows at terrifying intervals on either side of the river.

Water arrows flying.

"Puff puff—"

The young man's body was pierced by a water arrow in the air, and he fell into the river with a thud, and only after dozens of breaths did his body gradually float on the surface of the water.

The blood holes on his body exuded the scorching smell of being burned by the terrifying heat, but all the wounds seemed to be frozen, without a trace of blurred flesh and blood, and no trace of blood flowed out.

Gong Conglong glanced at his corpse expressionlessly.

Red ice dust covered his corpse, dragging it little by little into the river, as if a hand was pulling. The ice powder quickly wrapped around and covered it, and in an instant it solidified into a huge ice stone, locking him in it like a sarcophagus, freezing to the bottom of the river, completely sealing his body underneath.

From the beginning to the end of this battle, he didn't even move his hand, and this supposed majestic master was completely killed.

Yuan Shijing also had a good military position in the army, but at this time everything was in vain.

Gong Conglong touched the horse's head, leaned on the horse, and a three-foot-thick red ice surface froze on the surface of the river, and he stepped across the river with his horse.

"I didn't expect my whereabouts to be discovered." Back on shore, he put his hat back on.

Therefore, the merchants are also rich veterans, and the scene just now did not make them have much emotional fluctuations.

"Divide the king, what should I do?" A subordinate asked.

"Change your clothes and sneak, walk fifty miles east to Kira Castle, change everything again, and feign another caravan." Gong Conglong said lightly, "Hurry up." ”

"Yes."