It was drizzling in Gusu City, and the bluestone road was wet with water. The restaurants in the city took down the pennants that had always been hung in the gatehouse to solicit business, and even the lanterns were taken off.

The restaurant warms the wine in the tandoor, and the aroma of the wine still seeps into the drizzle. But the aroma of this wine can't suppress the shallowness and loneliness in Gusu City.

In addition to the restaurant, many people have white flowers outside the door.

Only because of Lu Yange's death, the peach blossoms on the banks of the Gusu City River have lost three points of color.

Lu Yange has never been the choice of the lord to govern the Central Plains, but no matter who the lord of the four great families is, Gusu City will only listen to Lu Yange.

Gusu City is up and down the ninth rate, and everyone has received the favor of Lu Yange.

In the wealthy family, Lu Yange released the trade road, and never monopolized the trade route because of the power of the Yuhu Palace.

In poor families, Lu Yange will open a porridge shed on the first and fifteenth days of the new year to provide disaster relief, because there are no homeless people and no beggars in Gusu City.

Now that Lu Yange has passed away suddenly, people in Gusu City will stop and bow to him when they pass by Yuhu Palace.

There was even more silence in the Yuhu Palace, except for low sobs, no one mourned and wept. Because Lu Yange doesn't like people to cry.

White paper flowers cover the glazed tile roof and gold-inlaid pillars of the Yuhu Palace. Wu Sanniang grabbed a handful of straw and threw it into the brazier. Behind her, the people of Yuhu Palace and the Green Gang knelt on the ground.

Shi Nian followed Wu Sanniang's side, although she mourned Lu Yange's death, she was more worried about Wu Sanniang's body. For three whole days, since coming down from Kunlun, Wu Sanniang has not said a word.

Shi Nian turned around and glanced at Su Lang. Su Lang understood that the two quietly withdrew from the crowd.

Shi Nian hurriedly said, "Su Lang, what did your sect master leave behind?"

Su Lang was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Shi Nian: "It's been three days, and my wife hasn't cried a word." I know her temper best, it's very sad, it's not okay to hold it like this all the time. I had to find a way to make her cry. ”

Su Lang thought about it seriously: "But what do you want?" The sect master left the entire Jade Lake Palace to his wife. Isn't that enough?"

Shi Nian twisted Su Lang's arm: "You idiot! Where does the woman want these things? Madame is the leader of the Qing Gang, what do you do with these things?"

Su Lang was even more confused by Shi Nian's training.

Shi Nian: "You have been with your sect master for so long, is there anything that your sect master has always treasured?"

Su Lang stammered, "That...... Does the Treasure Pavilion count?"

Shi Nian said angrily: "Of course the Treasure Pavilion is not counted! That courtyard is called the Treasure Pavilion, but everyone can see it and go there." What's more, the sect master is rich and rivals the country, how can he care about the treasure pavilion?"

Su Lang thought for a moment, "I thought of it, but I don't know what it is." ”

Shi Nian was about to stretch out his hand to twist Su Lang again, and Su Lang hurriedly said, "I'll take you to have a look." ”

After a while, Shi Nian and Su Lang walked back to the mourning hall, the two of them, you look at me, I look at you, they can't make up their minds. Because what the two of them are holding in their hands is really incomprehensible. The thing that Lu Yange cherished and put in the cabinet turned out to be a box of the most ordinary pebbles.

In the end, Su Lang mustered up the courage to take the box and walked up: "Madam, this is what I found when I was packing up the sect master's things. ”

Wu Sanniang took the brocade box in Su Lang's hand and gently opened the box.

Su Lang: "I don't know what it is, but the Sect Master has been carefully storing it. Once, when I was cleaning, I accidentally knocked over the box, and the stones inside rolled out, and the sect master lost his temper. After retrieving the stone, he took the box and counted it several times, and when he found that one was missing, he searched around the house, and refused to sleep all night. Saying this, Su Lang was embarrassed: "I feel sorry for the sect master, so I went to find a similar stone and put it in." Unexpectedly, I was discovered by the sect master, and he punished him for kneeling all night, and then he didn't let me touch the box. ”

Wu Sanniang's jade-white fingers brushed the stones in the box. These are common stones, and there are many of them by the river. Each of these stones is extremely ordinary, but each stone has its own pattern, if you don't look at it every day and remember the patterns of these stones, how can you find the difference?

A tear fell on the box of stones, Wu Sanniang's shoulders trembled slightly, and she seemed to see the handsome young man who was personable back then.

That year, Lu Yange was only seventeen years old, and Wu Sanniang was only fifteen years old.

Lu Yange is the most famous son in Gusu City. And Wu Sanniang is a notorious wild girl in Gusu City.

Lu Yange's father, Lu Zhizhou, began to take care of the Yuhu Palace when he was a teenager, when Lu Zhizhou went out of the East China Sea and the Western Regions, opening up the Central Plains and the Western Regions, Dongying, and Goguryeo. Gusu is even more prosperous than ever.

Because Lu Zhizhou rarely returns home, every time he goes home, he will check Lu Yange's schoolwork, and if there is a slight mistake, he will be punished for kneeling all day, and he is not even allowed to eat.

Everyone in Gusu said that Lu Yange was smart since he was a child and was a rare young genius. But Lu Yange knows where he is a genius, but he works harder than others.

Of course, Wu Sanniang also knows.

Mrs. Lu felt sorry for Lu Yange, and in order to make Lu Yange suffer less punishment, she always pretended to be very strict on the surface. Not letting Lu Yange leave Yuhu Palace at will is one thing.

Wu Sanniang is different, even if she is punished by Mrs. Wu, she dares to jump into the water and swim ashore to play by herself.

Wu Sanniang has grown up with the reckless men of the Green Gang since she was a child, and her personality is also lawless, and she is most disgusted with the fine skin and tender meat of those rich people. If you want to say who you can't get used to the most, of course, is Lu Yange, the first son of Gusu City!

When Wu Sanniang was rampant and domineering in Gusu, the most common thing she did was to pick up the wall of Yuhu Palace.

People who often have to swim in the water always like to braid their hair. Wu Sanniang is no exception, one green silk is braided into a braid, half of it is tied on the head with a silver hairpin, and the other half is on the shoulder.

Wu Sanniang has a pocket, made of shark skin, and there are always a few stones and a slingshot in the pocket. She picked up the stones from the Qingbang River.

Wu Sanniang leaned on the wall and aimed at Lu Yange, who was reading at the desk in the study. If this stone hits Lu Yange's head, it will definitely be able to bleed. But Wu Sanniang is on good time, and the stones on the slingshot are always aimed at the brush in Lu Yan's singer.

"Da", a stone shot out and missed the wolf that Lu Yange landed on the rice paper. The tip of the pen drew a long mark on the rice paper, and the page that Lu Yange plagiarized was ruined and had to be rewritten.

Lu Yange put down his pen and frowned at Wu Sanniang who was lying on the wall: "It's you again?"

Wu Sanniang sat on the wall and shook her feet while nibbling on the fruit that came from nowhere, and looked at Lu Yange mockingly: "What's the point of you reciting these things every day?"

Lu Yange frowned and stretched out his hand to close the window. Wu Sanniang shook the slingshot in her hand and threatened: "If you close the window, I will break your window this time." ”

Lu Yange thought about it and could only let the window open. He frowned and looked at Wu Sanniang: "Don't mess around." ”

Wu Sanniang pouted: "Hey, I don't have time to play with you." Saying that, Wu Sanniang jumped down from the wall of Yuhu Palace and walked away.

Lu Yange looked at the empty wall blankly, frowned again, searched around the ground, put the stone thrown in by Fang Cai Wu Sanniang into his sleeve pocket, sat back in front of the desk, and rewrote the piece of paper that Fang Cai had destroyed.

Before the paper was finished, another thing flew in and crooked the tip of Lu Yange's pen. Lu Yange raised his head impatiently, and saw Wu Sanniang lying on the wall with a hippie smile: "Your name is Lu Yange, right?"

Lu Yange nodded.

Wu Sanniang smiled slyly: "Have you ever been to see Kaihai?"

Lu Yange was stunned: "Open the sea?"

Originally, only the members of the Green Gang would go to the sea with the fishermen. Yuhu Palace never participated. But Lu Yange has also heard about the grand occasion of opening the sea.

Wu Sanniang raised her chin: "How is it? Do you want to go?"

Lu Yange lowered his head in embarrassment.

Wu Sanniang sneered: "I know you don't dare." You people are so daring. Locked up in this wall all day long, he is only worthy of reading, how can he compare to our Qinggang boys?"

Lu Yange is a teenager in the end, and he was naturally annoyed by Wu Sanniang's words: "Who do you say is cowardly?"

Wu Sanniang smiled lightly: "Then you have the ability to come to the Rakshasa River at sunrise tomorrow!

The sky had just turned white, and Lu Yange, who had always been obedient, quietly walked out of Yuhu Palace. People come and go on the streets, all going to the Rakshasa River.

Before reaching the Rakshasa River, I heard the sound of the waves like bursts of thunder, and the surface of the river was like a sunshine and a group of dragons were angry. Lu Yange has heard people talk about the grand opening of the sea since he was a child, and now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he can't hide his excitement.

The sky is not yet bright, the Rakshasa River is in a half-light and half-darkness, and the sky line is pink and purple. Incense burners were set up on the left and right banks of the Rakshasa River, and ox heads and wine were placed on the table. Twelve young gang men stood on both sides of the Rakshasa River, holding drumsticks tied with red ropes shirtless. Twelve-sided drums stand behind the censer.

One inch in the morning, the drum is beaten ten times, and two inches in the morning, the drum is beaten twenty times. Three inches in the morning, the drum beat like a war drum as if it was about to compete with the thunder of the waves.

Several fishing boats docked at the Rakshasa River wharf. At the head is the ship of the Green Gang.

On the Green Gang's boat, twelve shirtless men danced around a masked man. The masked man was dressed in red and had a slender waist.

The tide crashed on the ship, splashing like snowflakes from the sky on the deck. Every time the tide splashed, the fishing boat swayed violently from side to side as if it were about to capsize, but the cardinal dancers on the deck were on the ground.

The faster the drum, the faster the dancer will move. She stepped on the beat of the drum with every step, her slender waist and thin arms were vigorous and powerful, and she threw a pair of water sleeves high into the air. Sometimes she is like a fish swimming in water, sometimes like a seabird in the air. Lu Yange stood on the shore and looked stunned.

The drums beat like the drums of war, and finally the thunder of the waves was suppressed. The Rakshasa River was shrouded in a golden light, the waves receded, and the thunderous waves were also suppressed by the drums of war.

The sky was completely bright, and the drums of war came to an abrupt end.

The dancers on the deck took off their masks, and their bright smiles overpowered the bright golden light of the river.

Lu Yange stood on the shore and saw Wu Sanniang on the deck raising the wine glass in his hand. In the shouts of fishermen on both sides of the strait, the wine in the bowl was drunk.

Wu Sanniang had already seen Lu Yange in the crowd.

Lu Yange is outstanding among the sons of Gusu, let alone in these rough men in the sun and rain?

Wu Sanniang stepped on the deck and stretched out her hand to Lu Yange: "Lu Yange, are you coming up, I'll take you to sea." ”

When the men of the Green Gang saw Wu Sanniang stretching out her hand to Lu Yange, they whistled one after another. Wu Sanniang was not at all afraid to pull Lu Yange onto the boat, flicked the braid on the back of her head and said: "Let Lu Gongzi take a good look, how are the old men of our Green Gang!

The captain shouted, and the boat went down the river.

Dozens of fishing boats scrambled to the sea. On deck, the men of the Green Gang spilled fishing nets into the sea. Wu Sanniang glanced at Lu Yange proudly: "In addition to fishing, our Qinggang also has to go to the sea to hunt fish." Do you dare to compare?"

"Compare is compare. Lu Yange was not to be outdone.

Wu Sanniang grew up in the sea since she was a child, and she had the intention of embarrassing Lu Yange in this sea, so she smiled: "I'll let you go." You go to the sea first. ”

Lu Yange refused: "I don't need you to let me, I can win you." ”

"Oh?" Wu Sanniang smiled slyly, and suddenly grabbed Lu Yange's hand: "Then let's go to the sea together." ”

The two of them fell into the sea with a "thud".

Lu Yange was coldly dragged into the sea by Wu Sanniang, choked on a large mouthful of seawater at once, and floated on the sea coughing, which caused the green gang on the boat to burst into laughter.

Wu Sanniang smiled narrowly with a pair of eyes: "Lu Yange, you won't be a landlubber, right?"

Lu Yange wiped the water on his face: "Who wins, it's not certain!" After that, he took a deep breath and went shallow into the water.

Wu Sanniang smiled lightly, and plunged into the water with a dagger in her mouth.

Wu Sanniang in the water is the same as when she dances on the deck, her red water sleeves float in the water, like a red aquatic weed. Wu Sanniang smiled and swam past Lu Yange and pointed down.

Lu Yange kicked his legs and swam into deeper water with Wu Sanniang.

Where is Lu Yange like Wu Sanniang, who grew up in the water since childhood. At first, it was fine in a shallow place, but when you swam deeper, you felt that your chest was squeezed uncomfortably. But Wu Sanniang was beside him like a fish dragging a red tail fin, which made Lu Yange refuse to admit defeat.

The two of them swam deeper and deeper. Suddenly, Wu Sanniang stopped and stopped shallow. When Lu Yange was puzzled, he felt a shock behind him, and when he turned around, he happened to meet a pair of white eyes.

A horse-faced mackerel pounced. The mamacock is about a zhang long, covered in fine white scales, and has triangular sharp teeth in its mouth. The ordinary horse noodles are only three inches, and this one is the best.

Lu Yange subconsciously dodged, but Wu Sanniang took the opportunity to go up. I saw her swim to the side of Ma Mian with a dagger in her mouth. Just when Ma Mian Ma turned around and bit Wu Sanniang, Wu Sanniang deftly turned around in the water and took the dagger from her mouth, only to see a flash of cold light in the water, and the dagger suddenly passed under Ma Mian Ma's body.

Wu Sanniang reached out and grabbed the mamma, and sang to Lu Yan in the water.

It was when Wu Sanniang was proud, but the reef behind her slowly opened her eyes.