Chapter 21: Rumors of Dragons

Before he finished speaking, Deng Yong urged Ji Youtang and his party to hurry to bed to rest, picked up the oil lamp on the table and was ready to blow it out at any time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Seeing that the group went to bed, Deng Yong immediately blew out the oil lamp, and endless darkness suddenly appeared in the room to fill the entire space, only a little moonlight shone in through the paper window and sprinkled on the ground, Ji Youtang could vaguely see that Nayila sleeping in his arms was still reddish on her face by relying on the moonlight, and suddenly felt that her heartbeat was about to break through 180.

In the middle of the night, the temperature in the room became cold with the bright moonlight, and Nayila gently leaned into Ji Youtang's arms again, and put her face on Ji Youtang's chest. suddenly raised his head again, only to find that Ji Youtang was also looking at him.

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ Lao Ji, do you count the things you promised me before? ā€

"Well, make a number, go to the soup and go to the fire, and don't give up."

Ji Youtang didn't know if it was because he was in this ambiguous environment with Nayila at this time that he made such an unthinking answer, but he knew very well that he was not impulsive to make such a promise to Nayila, and he never regretted it.

Hearing Ji Youtang answer himself so categorically, Nayila didn't care whether she was sincere or not, but for a foreign woman like her, who had the experience of leaving her hometown and being forced to leave the Central Plains from the distant frontier, she may be more eager for the sense of security that can be obtained now, whether it is true or not, even a little verbal comfort is like a panacea for Nayila, which can nourish the scarred and exhausted heart in her heart.

Nayila finally fell asleep in Ji Youtang's arms slowly with Ji Youtang's promise, Ji Youtang watched Nayila sleep in his arms, and an inexplicable sense of satisfaction and stability also emerged in his heart, and he slowly fell asleep.

With a loud rooster crow, Ji Youtang was gently shaken awake by Xue Ming, only to see that Nayila in his arms was already helping everyone pack their bags, seeing Ji Youtang wake up, Nayila smiled at him slightly, her eyes were full of warmth, and Xue Ming and Ding Ling, who were gnawing on the baked cakes, showed an evil smile on their faces and squinted at Ji Youtang.

Before Ji Youtang could respond to their important man and woman, he heard Deng Yong shouting outside the door.

"Ji Gongzi Xue Gongzi! I'm all set! Are you all alright? ā€

Ji Youtang rubbed his sleepy eyes, and hurriedly ran out of the house with Xue Ming and his party.

After Deng Yong saw that the group had arrived, he grabbed a big fishing net and put it on his body, planning to go fishing on the way back after sending Ji Youtang and his party away, so that he did not waste this time to go to sea.

Xue Ming smiled, feeling that Deng Yong was really sincere.

Yes, Ji Youtang and Xue Ming and a group of people living in modern times do not understand the hardships and difficulties of people living in ancient times, for Deng Yong, a fishing net represents his home, and the burden and life pressure on his body are unimaginably heavy for Ji Youtang.

Soon, Deng Yong took Ji Youtang and his party to the shore where the boat is usually parked, Ji Youtang carefully observed Deng Yong's fishing boat, and couldn't help but sigh at the craftsmanship of the ancient people, the structure of the entire wooden boat is very firm, and the design space on the ship is also very neat.

I saw Deng Yong untie the rope of the boat, jump into the boat, push the boat out with the oars on the boat, and slowly row the boat towards the center of the sea.

Don't look at this small boat, it is not big, but it is very stable, and the swaying makes Ji Youtang and his party want to sleep comfortably.

Xue Ming stood up suddenly, touched his body over and over again, took out a pack of cigarettes from his trouser pocket after touching for a while, and was just about to open the cigarette case and take out the lighter in the cigarette case and light it, when he was slapped his hand by Ji Youtang on the side.

"What the fuck are you doing, old Ji! Smoke a cigarette! How boring it is! ā€

Ji Youtang nodded at Deng Yong, who was rowing at the stern of the boat.

"Are you stupid! Can this thing be pulled out? ā€

Seeing this, Ding Ling on the side immediately got up and snatched the cigarette case from Xue Ming's hand, and said to Xue Ming viciously.

"Don't smoke! Pump your head! Believe it or not, I won't let you smoke it when you go back! ā€

Xue Ming had no choice but to give up, and kept begging Ding Ling for mercy, and was split by Ji Youtang, but if his girlfriend made an awkward scene, it would be a big deal, and he couldn't play it.

Xue Ming had no choice but to wander to the stern of the boat and saw Deng Yong rowing hard, so he sat down at the stern, and suddenly had an idea, Xue Ming asked Deng Yong casually.

"Senior Deng, how long will it take to get to Wormsong Island here?"

Deng Yong smiled.

"I have a lot of strength, and I estimate that it will be there in an hour."

An hour is two hours, Xue Ming nodded thoughtfully.

"I have a question, I don't know if I should talk about it, I heard that this insect song island is even older, it is full of mosquitoes, rats, ants, and water ghosts!"

Xue Ming smiled, water ghost? What about the water ghost, it's not that he has been surrendered by himself and Lao Ji, thinking of this, he really thinks that he is a good man, after so many things of experience, he has never been cowardly, it seems that he is indeed a hero and a hero.

"I also heard that a while ago, there was a drought on this island, and many people on the island came to our village to beg for a living! I don't know why, suddenly one day a dragon was born and hovered on the island for a long time, and suddenly the clouds were thick, and suddenly it was stormy! This kind of place is where we people are all hiding, how can it be like you boys and buddies still running to that place. ā€

No wonder Deng Yong was reluctant to take Ji Youtang and his party to the island before, in the ancient dynasty era, drought and water ghosts represented ominousness, and the toiling people avoided it. If it weren't for the blood I gave the jade pendant, I'm afraid it would have been polished, and it wouldn't make sense.

Ji Youtang, who was attracted by Deng Yong's remarks, also walked to the stern.

"Senior Deng, I don't know if you can tell Xiao Sheng that there is really a dragon on this island?"

Deng Yong frowned, as if he was trying to remember.

"That day, because of the huge waves on the sea, the child and his mother did not let me go out to sea to fish, and I had to stay at home in peace, it was my calf who shouted outside the house that I and her mother, saying that there was a big snake in the sky, I immediately ran out and looked up at the sky, where is the snake! It's clearly a dragon, boss! A long one, with five dragon claws, I can see it very clearly! I didn't see the dragon's head, but I did see two long whiskers floating in the position of the dragon's head! I'm flying to the island! It didn't take long for it to disappear! There was lightning and thunder on the other side of the island, and it was raining heavily! ā€

This aroused the interest of Nayila on the side, and Nayila hurriedly ran to the stern of Deng Yong's side to find a seat and squatted down, planning to ask Deng Yong about the details of the dragon, but for Ji Youtang and Xue Ming, this is a little unconvincing, according to their cognition, the dragon is a creature that lives in people's legends, and they don't believe that there is a dragon in the world, at this time Ding Ling was not convinced, and also squeezed to the stern to refute Ji Youtang and Xue Ming, it turned out that Ding Ling's grandmother had also seen dragons when she was a child, It was also accompanied by the appearance of the storm, and the grandmother also told Ding Linglong that it was very bad with a thick fishy smell when he appeared. Then he moved out the Yingkou dragon falling incident uploaded on the Internet earlier and argued with Ji Youtang and them, this Deng Yong, who was rowing a boat, was stunned when he heard it, the people in this city are really good at playing, and they can't understand what they say.

Nayila glanced at Xue Ming and Ji Youtang, then ignored the two of them'Scientist', and talked about his hometown legend about the frontier, and when he was young, he also heard people in his clan say about the nine-winged phoenix, many people have seen the phoenix, how can it be fake? There must be a phoenix and a dragon, after all, this kind of thing did not come out of nowhere, presumably in ancient times dragons and phoenixes were relatively common, and in the modern era of their own lives, the city is full of high-rise buildings, and the population is gradually increasing, resulting in this creature not wanting to appear in the world anymore.

Time is a strange thing, once people are attracted to all the attention of something, it will become very fast, for a very simple example, Ji Youtang only needs one night to play lol can fall from silver to brass, it is a matter of an instant. And just as the group was discussing the rumors about the dragon and the phoenix with great interest, the boat docked.

The group got off the boat one after another under Deng Yong's greeting, and saw that the only pier on Wormsong Island for small boats to dock was full of soldiers, looking very serious and mighty.

After Deng Yong said goodbye to Ji Youtang and his party one by one, he left some copper coins to help Ji Youtang, and they could exercise convenience after they got on the island, and after Ji Youtang and Xue Ming thanked Deng Yong, Deng Yong rowed away from the dock again.

The group walked to the entrance of the pier, only to see two soldiers at the entrance who were checking the people entering the island and leaving the island one by one.

"Where's the man! What to do on the island! ā€

Ji Youtang trembled and made a gesture to the soldiers.

"If you go back to the soldier, in the next Ji Youtang Songjiang Mansion, the group behind this is the lady and his friends, who want to go to the island and talk to his old friend Yan Xiucai, and ask the soldier to give a convenience, so that the next group of people can go to the island."

The soldier glanced behind Ji Youtang, and then looked at Ji Youtang in front of him, dressed like a big family, and the woman was also beautiful, and she didn't look unusual, so he waved his hand and let Ji Youtang and his party land on the island.

The group was very strange about what kind of big incident happened on this island, and they were so heavily guarded, so they found an old woman and wanted to ask what was going on, and by the way, they would inquire about Yan Xiucai's residence.

"Old woman, dare to ask what is going on on the island here, and why is it so heavily guarded?"

The old woman looked at Ji Youtang and said.

"The young man is a foreigner, isn't he? I don't know what to do on the island. ā€

"Yes, in the next Ji Youtang is a person from Songjiang Mansion, this time I went to the island to talk to my old friend Yan Xiucai, dare to ask the old woman if you know where Yan Xiucai lives?"

The old woman shook her head and sighed again.

"Hey, it's easy for you outsiders to go to the island, but it's difficult to leave the island, I don't know if there is a talent on our island, but there are two scholars surnamed Yan on the island, I don't know which one you are looking for."

After listening to the old woman's words, Ji Youtang's glaring boss turned his head and glanced at Xue Ming, presumably he had overturned his time this time, Yan Xiucai was not a Xiucai at this time, fortunately, there were only two people surnamed Yan on the island, and it was not too much trouble to find.

"Why did the old woman say this? Why is it so difficult to leave the island? ā€

The old woman quietly put her head to Ji Youtang's ear and said softly.

"I heard that the emperor heard from nowhere that there was a dragon on the island praying for rain, and he quietly slipped out of the palace with a guard and came to the island to take a look at the legendary dragon! Later, I don't know if the little eunuch said that he missed his mouth or what, this matter was known to the minister of the court, and the minister led the guards to come to find the emperor! After the minister came a while ago, the soldiers made a fortune to check the villagers on the island one by one, and many soldiers always ate and drank our crops for nothing! It makes us miserable! This minister is afraid that our islanders will take the emperor to leave the island without permission, so he will be banned from the sea! Don't let our islanders go out to sea to fish! What is this called? ā€

Ji Youtang suddenly asked loudly.

"Is there really a dragon?!"

When the old woman saw Ji Youtang so loudly, she immediately covered Ji Youtang's mouth with her hand and signaled not to make a sound.

"Speak quiet, young man! I really haven't seen an old woman, but it was really dry for a while a few days ago, and suddenly one day it suddenly rained heavily! Many islanders said that they saw a dragon praying for rain! If you want me to say, there really is a dragon, where will it stay here! You juniors should pay attention to what you say! This dragon represents the emperor! If you commit a taboo, you will be killed! One of the two scholars surnamed Yan lived in the iron shop behind the market, and the other lived in a thatched hut at the back of the Nuwa Temple at the end of the island! That's all I know, you have to do it yourself! ā€

With that, the old woman hurried away.

Leaving Ji Youtang and his party messy in the wind, Ji Youtang learned the exact location of the Nuwa Temple after inquiry, and decided to go to the house of a scholar surnamed Yan who lived behind the Nuwa Temple to find out.

"Lao Ji, do you think the emperor is really on this island?"

Xue Ming asked without a word while hurrying on the road.

"I don't know, I'm afraid it's ninety percent there."

Ji Youtang also replied to Xue Ming without a word.

I saw Ding Ling put on a serious face that was rarely seen in ordinary life.

"I said that the big guys, our current situation is not ordinary, I think what Grandma said is right, now is not as modern as it is, if you say the wrong thing, you will be killed, we should be careful."

Nayila also nodded, but it seemed that Nayila seemed to be more interested in the dragon, and kept asking Ji Youtang if there was a record of dragons in "Yin Yang Lu", and Ji Youtang could only shake his head, because "Yin Yang Lu" only recorded the content and rumors of demons and monsters, and there was no record of dragons.

Nayila stopped talking after a disappointed sigh, which made Ji Youtang very concerned.

Ji Youtang deliberately slowed down his pace, letting Xue Ming and Ding Ling walk forward, and himself and Nayila followed behind.

"What's wrong? Nayla? ā€

Naira shook her head slightly.

"I just...... I'm just wondering if there really is a Divine Dragon, with the help of the Divine Dragon, I can return to the Yuezhao Clan and have the ability to fight against the Gu Technique of the Burning Sun Clan. ā€

Ji Youtang smiled helplessly, knowing that Nayila was eager to protect her family, but how could this divine dragon be subdued by a mortal person, and gently put his hand on Nayila's shoulder.

"It's okay, there's no dragon, you still have me."

Nayila didn't answer Ji Youtang, but just took Ji Youtang's hand and walked forward together.

After walking for a while, I walked to the thatched hut behind the Nuwa Temple, and took a lot of detours along the way to find it for a long time, and when I found this thatched hut, I saw that it was afternoon, and it was almost sunset.

Ji Youtang knocked lightly on the door of the grass house, and found that the door was not closed and left a crack, Ji Youtang saw that there was no response in the house, so he gently pushed the door open, and immediately smelled a very strong smell of wine in the house, only to see that the ground was full of wine bottles, and there was a person lying on the ground who was sleeping.

The man found that there was movement in the room and immediately sat up vigilantly, squinting at Ji Youtang and his party.

"Who's coming? Hiccup, why are you coming to my house? Hiccup......"

Ji Youtang covered his nose and fanned the room full of wine with his hand.

"In the next Ji Youtang, dare to ask Your Excellency if you are Yan Gongzi?"

I saw that the man slowly stood up and walked towards Ji Youtang.

Ji Youtang found that the person in front of him was a cripple, and he was limping when he walked, recalling what Su Yin told him about Yan Xiucai, and he didn't mention that Yan Xiucai was a cripple, thinking that he was probably looking for the wrong person.

"Yan Gongzi? Look at me, how can I be like a child! The contemptible people are full of economy but can't get famous! has a talent for governing the country, but he gambled and lost all his savings! What a jealous talent! It's cheaper for Yan Yulin's turtle son! ā€

Now it is confirmed, the drunkard and gambler in front of him is probably not the Yan Xiucai they are looking for, and the Yan Yulin in the mouth of the person in front of him is Yan Xiucai!

After that, the man picked up the wine jug in his hand and poured it into his mouth and fell to the ground, only to see that the man's clothes were ragged and shabby, and his house was in a mess.

Since it's not this person, then quickly turn the gun around and find the genuine Yan Xiucai is the most important thing!

Ji Youtang motioned to Xue Ming behind him, and quickly left this place, regardless of the drunkard who fell to the ground, closed the door and left here.

When he went out, Ji Youtang found that it was getting late, and he had to get out of this place quickly, if he wanted to say that this Nuwa Temple was really partial, he needed to go through a dense grove to find here, and he had to leave this ghost place before the sun completely set, otherwise according to the previous urine nature, there should be some demons and monsters in this woods!

Then Xue Ming took the lead in walking in the front, leading the big guy back the same way, and was about to go back to the market to find an inn to stay for a night, only to hear the sound of knock knock in front of him, and every time there was a knock sound, there would be a slight vibration on the ground, raising a cloud of dust on the ground.

The sound became louder and louder, getting closer and closer to Ji Youtang and his party, and seeing that there seemed to be a figure not far in front of him raising his hands straight, slowly jumping to this side, jumping very rhythmically, it turned out that the sound of this knock was made by this thing jumping and jumping, and the vibration on the ground was also caused by this thing jumping and landing.

Just as Ji Youtang and his party were still observing what this thing was, suddenly a teenager sprang out of the dense groves on both sides, and there was a very heroic strong man behind the boy, only to see the young man shouting softly to Ji Youtang and his party.

"Hey! Hide in! Don't let the zombies see that they're sucking blood! ā€

Then he stretched out his hand and led Ji Youtang and his party to his side and entered the woods.

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