Chapter 7 The Bay of the Summer Season

Taihu Lake has a curved place, its door is two precipices, dozens of hectares in it, not like a day pool, the number is Pinxia Bay, this name is selfless. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info out of "Songjiang Prefecture Chronicles. Geography.

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Li Yutang knew the ins and outs of the matter at this time, and with a suspicion, he pointed to the real picture on the table, and began to interrogate Sun Buer, who was lying on the table with a numb face, "What are those twisting lines?" ”

Sun Buer glanced at Li Yutang and them a few times, thinking that these people seemed to be much easier to deal with than Qiao Wen, and said casually: "The recent undercurrent flow in the waters of Pinxia Bay. ”

"There is also an undercurrent in the lake?" Gao Fei was the first to be suspicious.

"This bay flows into the Wujiang River, and the Wujiang River has always had a rapid water flow, and the water speed difference at the intersection can cause an undercurrent." Li Yutang is an official of one party, and he is naturally familiar with the county chronicles, so he is clear.

"What do the circles and crosses represent?" Li Yutang continued to ask.

"Naturally, it is the sun, moon and stars, and it is used to confirm the direction." Sun Fuji came casually.

Everyone felt that it made sense, and Li Yutang began to ask the point, "Tell me about your plan." ”

A strange look flashed in Sun Buer's eyes, and his numb face showed a slight embarrassment and said: "The boss only explained this matter, and told him about the time of the summer bay boat trip, and I don't know anything else." ”

"I don't know? Widow Zhou should always know, right? Li Yutang asked.

"You said that you should go to this bay with the leader of the flower thieves, and Sun Buji was afraid that everyone would not believe it, "The organization stipulates that only one-line contact with the superiors, and it is strictly forbidden to collude with each other, so it is really unclear what their specific actions are." ”

"Who is Qin Haonan?" Gao Fei said coldly.

Sun Buji saw this person scrutinizing himself on the side, and in order to eliminate his suspicions, he said truthfully: "She is a cheap maid, and she is arrogant and aggressive, you should have seen it." ”

Pang Yu and the other three heard that the lady wanted to see the bloody Fangxiu, but she was like this, and she didn't know how the master was. Hu Dianchen folded the dog master paper and handed it to Pang Yu, and told Gao Fei about it with his ear. Gao Fei thought about it after hearing this, and saw that Pang Yu and Li Yutang had seen the paper fold, and seemed to have something to say, so he even said with a smile: "Governor Li accompanied the tiger with a knife to take Sun Buer into the county prison first, and as for the trip to Pinxiawan, Brother Lao Tong will lead the way." ”

The county chronicle geography has clouds, Pinxia Bay is located in the southwest of Songjiang Province, is actually a peninsula, the county is connected to it with a quagmire swamp, so to go through the waters of Taihu Lake. On the way to "Immortal Tiredness", Li Yutang had already told Gao Fei about this. The two have already discussed, such as taking half a day by water, for fear that things will change; If you pass through the swamp, it will only take two or three hours if you are led by an acquaintance; And that acquaintance is Tong Qianjing, who came with Li Yutang. The two reached a consensus, led by Tong Qianjing to control the scene from the swamp first, and Li Yutang placed the official ship to support later.

Gao Fei had the Silver Rabbit Patrol Order in hand, so Li Yutang naturally did not disagree with him, and left with Sun Buer with the Tiger Palace.

When Qiao Wen returned to the Qinglou, he had already gone to the pavilion, and there was a wordless heavenly book left by Gao Fei on the table, which was written in the unique hidden language of the six doors: "This person is sly and false, his intentions are different, he doesn't dare to ask deeply, and he has been escorted to the county prison by Hu with a knife and Li Yutang, and will be told by Hu with a knife." Let's chase down the clues of Summer Bay first. ”

Qiao Wen thought that it would take a while for the Tiger Palaceier to come back, so he set off and walked to the backyard, there were no people in the immortal fatigue during the day, and he came to the quiet courtyard of Pinxin Pavilion very smoothly.

Although there are ninety-nine eighty-one kinds of shapes in the Nine Palaces Array, the number of five remains unchanged in the middle, and the other numbers are all paired and arranged, and there are no more than twelve kinds of formations, and the power is actually much smaller than the eight trigrams. Qiao Wen took a step forward from the left front and right front, observing the changes in the scenery, and was lucky, but the right corner of the left shoulder did not match the number of thirty-thirty-five, and there were no multiple changes. He struck and pushed the rockery trees in these two places, first heard the tinkling sound of the alarm bell like a pull, and then the rumbling sounded, and then Huo Ran opened up a bluestone path in front of him, leading to the octagonal three-pillar pavilion ten steps away, the round stone table in the pavilion was in the center, and the drum-shaped stone pier was set up, and it was quite clean and elegant.

Qiao Wen's move is to secretly break into the light, attract people to come, calmly walked into the pavilion of the center of this formation, said Tongxin, re-handed around the pillar, and looked at the words on it Su Ju chanted: "Low back to unintentional, want to talk tears first, misstep Qing pity me, think deeply about my negative Qing, the remnants of the flower work to protect the pity, the weak dare to be hypocritical, thank you for flowing water, drifting together in this life." ”

Sure enough, the Pinxin Pavilion in the distance of the corridor Jiuqu suddenly lit up brilliantly, after a while, two pairs of maids and men holding fruit plates and pastries, cups and pots of water and wine, fish along the flower gallery of the green tile and red column into the pavilion, put aside the things to entertain guests, and shuttled like flowers and butterflies into the formation, not only the scenery is the same as before, but even the people are gone.

Qiao Wen only listened to Luo Yuan's light fluttering, the green ring sounded slightly, a palace costume cloud, a woman with rich charm and elegance had already spread into the pavilion with a lotus step in her skirt, and said with a smile: "The old man is visiting, and the concubine is far away!" ”

Qiao Wen paid attention to the string of embroidered edging flowers on her placket that represented the symbol of the Goddess Sect, and heard Shengqi ask: "Forgive the old man for his clumsy eyes, I don't know the name of the lady?" ”

"Before the slave family Yunying was not born, the surname of the family was Song." The lady poured wine while holding a pot with her sleeves up, and said in a soft voice.

"Oh, it's Mrs. Song, I don't know where we meet?" Qiao shook his head.

"A few years ago, a disciple of the heart of this sect was abducted by the 'jade-faced wolf' Han Xiao, and lived with this person, and finally killed him, and the whereabouts of this person are unknown." Mrs. Song poured herself a cup, took a sip, and spoke slowly.

"Nakajo Mountain wolves, so what? You go on. Qiao Wen was still puzzled.

"A month ago, you six elites went out to sweep away the old nest in Kunshan, and your style of being famous in the capital has not diminished back then!"

When Qiao Wen heard this, he vaguely felt that it was related to the dark flower, so he said, "Could it be that this person is one of the Seven Demons of Kunshan?" ”

"Yes, it's the dark flower you are tracking, that is, the Tu Yu Prisoner of the Seven Demons."

Qiao Wen was relieved, that Seven Demon Operation was vigorous and resolute, and more than four of the seven people died from the random guns, and their skin and appearance were difficult to argue, let alone know the details of their identities. He drank all the wine in his glass and laughed, "This is a matter of duty, just don't mess with your housework." ”

Mrs. Song added wine in her red sleeves, and said in a slightly grateful tone: "Thank you, don't be in a hurry, we can't afford to mess with the background of the Dark Flower Organization!" ”

When Qiao Wen heard this, his heart moved, it seemed that the person hidden behind the dark flower was the same as he guessed, and he couldn't be offended. Realizing that the secret of the dark flower in the Accord had been revealed, he said straight to the point in front of the wind media who relied on betraying the news: "Mrs. Song has heard of blue water and warm jade? ”

"It is rumored that it can detoxify and ward off evil spirits, and maintain appearance and beauty, but it is the dream of the slave family."

"Mrs. Song, you should know what I want, right?" Qiao Wen interrupted.

Mrs. Song hesitated, put down the wine glass on her lips, and after thinking for a while, she breathed a sigh of relief and said: "A few days ago, King Dao issued a martial arts edict, saying that the noble girl is double ten, and the age is suitable for marriage, and I hope that the heroes and talents of the world will come to recruit relatives." Among them, the requirement for choosing a son-in-law is to find the clear water and warm jade. ”

"Is this news serious!?" Qiao Wen said in surprise when he heard this.

Gao Fei and the other three passed through the double cliff statue gate, just in time for the three-masted sail of the summer bay ship to sail into the dock, secretly rejoicing in their hearts, hoping that there was no change on the boat. The three of them secretly blended into the crowd of people who disembarked from the boat, looked around, there were more than 30 people on this trip, some of them gathered in groups, some of them were single, some were old and young, some were men and women, some were dressed in gorgeous clothes, some were literati and scholars dressed in simple Confucian clothes, and some were rich and noble heroes dressed in gold and silver. Everyone's attitude was very relaxed, and their expressions were very happy, as if all the troubles and sorrows in the red dust had long been isolated from this summer bay.

This is life, this is the person who really knows how to enjoy life, Gao Fei is envious in his heart, and he is worried about the crisis, seeing that there are many martial arts people, he and Pang Yutong Qianjing are relieved to be tourists.

With everyone climbing the blue and black stone steps and lake embankment, walking through the colorful Han brick path, they saw the water pavilion and flower capital they laughed about. The water pavilion flowers are introduced from the Taihu Lake into the green stream, surrounded by mountains and stones, flowers, trees, pavilions, pavilions, and pavilions, among which the four major water pavilions are the fairy gambling house, Qingping Wenxuan, Qule theater and eighteen shops.

Pang Yu and Gao Fei listened to what others said, and remembered what Dong Sanniang said about endless beautiful scenery, endless wine, endless opera, and endless gambling games, which seemed to be gathered here.

At this time, Gao Fei did not forget to secretly count the tourists and try to find out the suspicious people; Pang Yu was curious about entering the Bay Island for a long time and didn't see anyone welcoming him, while Tong Qianjing leaned on Pang Yu's back, Li Yutang was not there, but his habits remained the same, and he always explored the sense of crisis around him.

Everyone approached the capital gate, only to listen to the fairy music fluttering, suddenly open the door with two ears through the golden ring, wearing a thong leather pants Kunlun Nu turned out, spread out the scroll red carpet, rolled to the feet of everyone, and then poured out two rows of barefoot hair, bare-sleeved barbarian women's costumes of the girl, delicate lotus arm set with gold rings, slender hands holding petal flower baskets, standing on both sides of the carpet, and then the two men and women said in unison: "On the order of the lord of the capital, come to welcome distinguished guests, please enter the capital." After speaking, two rows of flower girls and girls sang a song, flowers wore butterflies and danced, holding jasmine petals in their hands and swaying on the Yuhua stone road into the capital, and the girl after the empty basket was leaning forward, tying a silk scarf in each person's clothes.

Pang Yu couldn't help but say: "This welcome etiquette is also unique. ”

Tong Qianjing snorted and said, "You are fascinated, but you still pay attention to the road to the capital?" ”

Pang Yu hurriedly looked around, and soon after entering the capital, he had not seen the capital gate, and the roads were criss-crossed, and he saw flowers everywhere in front of him, and he really couldn't identify the way he came.

Although Gao Fei has become accustomed to the welcome method of this goddess scattering flowers, he is also intoxicated by the red carp of Xiqing in the capital, the stone along the willow bank, the bridge corridor and the boat, listening to what Tong Qianjing said, only to find that the pavilions and pavilions in the flower capital are very structured, one hall and one pavilion, which seems to imply the gossip and nine palace formations. He was stunned in his heart, and hurriedly whispered, "Brother Tong, have you ever noticed?" ”

Tong Qianjing was silent.

Pang Yu knew his character, and said with shame on his face: "Okay, it's our negligence, Qilang, you can say it!" ”

Tong Qianjing snorted: "All the paths are in the shape of red flowers. The two of them were reminded by him, and noticed that there were patterns of flowers, fish, birds and grass on the Yuhua stone road, and when they walked through the forked road, Kunlun Nu also intentionally or unintentionally stepped on the uncovered shape of the petals. Gao Fei also found that many martial arts people also noticed that some pretended to squat and mark the dust of their shoes, and some simply used weapons to secretly attack and leave marks. Thinking of the flower thief jade waist slave who has not yet met, I can't help but feel a lot of pressure in my heart.

The three of them walked out of the flowers with the public and it was a stone path, passed through the rockery and went up to the bridge corridor, and finally at the head of the nine-curved bridge on the lotus pond in front of them, there was a water pavilion with green tiles of Zhulan. What everyone is looking at is not the water pavilion called "Qule Theater", but a double-storey painting boat moored on the side of the Liange Bridge. The three of them looked over, and there was a person standing solemnly on the top platform, only to see this person in a sea green eight python robe, soft boots with a foundation and cloud surface, and a turning fan in his hand. The three of them were in a daze, and someone in the crowd had already recognized this person and shouted: "Mr. Ji San, what is new today?!" ”

Mr. Ji San and the others gathered in front of him, his hand suddenly closed the folding fan, and the music of the bottom compartment came out, and he danced with his hands and sang loudly: "The eagle flies in September, and the fox hunts in the golden autumn." With a wave of arms, a few white doves flew out of the sleeves like a trick, spread their wings and flew high, and then stopped the music, at this time, the scene was still and beautiful, and everyone was in an uproar. A well-dressed middle-aged man in the crowd also sighed: "Thinking of royal hunting, eagles and pastures, rabbits and deer, hounds flying in front of horses, and servants behind horses like clouds, it is indeed a noble game, and it must be very interesting." Dare to ask Lord Jidu, what is the hunt? ”

The music resounded, Ji San ripped his clothes into the air, and the costumes suddenly turned into a rain of flowers, petals, falling on everyone's bodies and turning into pink butterflies to fly, and continued to sing: "Elegant and violent, hunters make music." Even Gao Fei saw such a miracle for the first time, and everyone was amazed and at the same time discussed: "Killing people for fun, isn't it forbidden by the government?" Why? The scene became chaotic for a while, and the middle-aged man just now high-fived and shouted: "After watching the play, how can it not be in an uproar?!" ”

The music sounded again three times to play the sound of the court, and Ji San's body on the painting boat spun in a dashing way, and when he turned around, he had turned into a person with a purple and gold jade crown and a golden spike robe. As if they had seen the appearance of the Dao King, they were suddenly silent, and Ji San's majestic chant was heard in their ears: "His Majesty the Dao King, the noble girl is double ten, and she wants to be a good son-in-law, with clear water and warm jade." At this time, Kunlun Nu also said in unison: "The lord of Bendu has reliable news, and the flower thief and jade waist slave are here in Summer Bay." In order to ensure the safety and entertainment of Ben Bay and everyone, I hope that everyone will participate in this fox hunting game and will have a reward of 100 gold. ”

Everyone began to understand from Mr. Ji San's wonderful opera that everyone in the world knows that the Taoist Mansion was stolen to the treasure, the perpetrator was a flower thief and a jade waist slave, and the stolen goods were blue water and warm jade. Hunting this person is in line with the laws of the government and the fun of the game, so why not do it.

The literati and businessmen were indifferent when they heard this, and this trip was either to eliminate punishment or to buy and sell, and they all had subordinate protectors and the protection of this bay, so they naturally sat back and relaxed, and would not cause trouble and provoke fire; Among them, the martial arts people are not, everyone thinks that if they can catch this thief, it will be an opportunity to make a name for themselves, if they get more treasures, although they dare not embrace themselves, even if they can't be recruited as sons-in-law, then the reward is only a hundred gold but more than a thousand gold. Everyone had their own scheming, and some people asked suspiciously, "I don't know where the news came from?" ”

This is exactly what Gao Fei Pang wants to know, the two look at each other, wondering, this is the information that only six doors have discovered, and it has not been reported to the headquarters, only a few people have known, why is there news leaking out here? Both of them felt that the situation was not good, and that something was going to happen.

Sure enough, Mr. Ji San, who lived in the painting boat, took out the folding fan from his belt, and then swayed the fan surface to show the "Ji San Change", but suddenly saw his strange appearance, his whole body trembled, and he fell into the pond of green wanderers uncontrollably.

People who have been to Pin Xia Wan know that Mr. Ji San, the owner, is not in vain, he has the ability to change things and clothes and faces, and everyone thinks that he has responded with the stunt of "drama and song and dance", but he knows that this person plopped, splashed and fell into the pond, and after a string of water gas beads bubbled out of the pond, a person's face was like a petal in the lotus leaf wanderer, which was Ji San, whose face was poisonous and white.

Everyone looked at Ji San, who was killed and floated corpse, and suddenly felt eerie, and someone in the crowd exclaimed: "Dark incense floating flowers make shadows!" With that, he fell to the ground. Gao Fei also smelled the smell of the fragrance of butterfly powder, and it seemed that countless figures in front of him fell one after another like fairies, and he also fainted to the ground. Pang Yu fluttered with the butterfly wings around him, his eyes closed one by one, and finally looked at Tong Qianjing, who was leaning beside him, who was still excited when he heard the hunting, and now his animal pupils were gray and dull, and finally his eyelids were heavy and he closed and fell asleep.

(To be continued in Chapter 8 Peach Blossom Three Alleys)

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