The River of Distress stretches for thousands of miles, lying quietly in the northernmost part of the Han Dynasty, and I don't know how many years it has flowed.

Taking advantage of the night, Li Anmin and his entourage rode horses and whips, crossed the mountains and rushed to the bank of the Trouble River.

Looking at the endless water, the five people reined in the horses, all standing on the riverside.

"Put the horses in the woods, they won't be able to cross this river." Li Anmin turned over and dismounted, gently stroked the horse's back, and said softly.

Chen Fanfan and Hongying nodded when they heard this, and they all turned over and dismounted. Watching the five horses slowly walk into the forest and slowly disappear, Chen Fanfan looked at Li Anmin and asked aloud:

"Big brother, the waters of this river are extremely wide and the current is also rapid, how are we going to get there?"

"Now that Beidi is eyeing my big man, I'm afraid that the other side of the river will already be full of sentry posts." Li Anmin thought for a moment, and said to the four people with a sad face: "Monkey, you are agile, find a high position to guard." Yuan Liufanfan, the two of you go to the forest to find some suitable wood and make a raft out. Hongying, you and I will search along the River of Tribulation to find a place to hide. ”

Hearing Li Anmin's words, the four of them all showed a trace of doubt on their faces, it was understandable to be vigilant and make rafts, but the four of them didn't understand why they were looking for a place to hide?

"This reconnaissance mission is only three days, and I haven't crossed the Trouble River yet, so I don't need to prepare for the hiding place, right?" Hongying frowned, looked at Li Anmin and said softly.

"How do you know that there is no sentry post planted by the Di tribe on the south bank of the South River, and it is not trivial to sneak into Beidi, we must be more careful on this trip, and the primary goal is to ensure our safety." Li Anmin vaguely guessed that this trial might not be trivial, so he firmly believed in being careful in everything. He looked at Hongying, then at the other three, and said solemnly.

Hongying frowned when she heard this, thinking that Li Anmin was probably too careful, but it can be seen that he insisted, so Hongying did not refute again.

"Alright, let's go. We will meet again here in half an hour, so be careful. Saying that, Li Anmin handed the four of them a few arrows, and after a few more words, the five of them dispersed.

Seeing Hongying, Chen Fanfan and Yuan Liu had already left, and Li Anmin quietly followed behind Jiang Tong, patted Jiang Tong's shoulder, and whispered a few words in his ear.

A hint of surprise flashed in Jiang Tong's eyes, and then he nodded.

Just as Li Anmin was carefully arranging the actions of the five people, he didn't know that on the other side of the river, a mysterious person in a black robe sat opposite the little colt and talked secretly.

Li Anmin searched all the way along the riverbed, walked along the riverbed for about two miles, and found a dilapidated ferry.

He opened the map he had obtained from Master Huang and looked at it carefully, but he did not find the sign of this ferry on Master Huang's map.

Surprised, Li Anmin planned to go and check it out. I saw him walking slowly towards the ferry step by step. There were still about twenty or thirty steps before he could see clearly the words "Linjiangdu" written on the plaque. The boy was just about to stand up when a sigh rang in his ears. Li Anmin was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly lowered his body a few points, he quietly held the dagger pinned to his waist tightly in his hand, and slowly looked in the direction that the sigh remembered.

Li Anmin leaned down and lay down in the grass, revealing only a pair of eyes to observe the front. In front of him was an old man in a coarse cloth shirt, with dark skin and thin flesh wrapped in bones. The old man found a smooth stone and sat on the edge of the ferry with the river in his hand, holding a long rod of dried fish in his hand, and observing the drifters in the water intently. The ferry was small, and in front of the old man lay a small boat with two oars across it.

Li Anmin was amazed in his heart, he observed for a moment, and found that at this moment, whenever the drifter floated, the old man slammed a rod one by one, and the momentum was as excited as if he had caught a hundred-pound fish, but the result was often unsatisfactory, and the rod was always empty.

Looking at the old man's dress, Li Anmin guessed that he was a villager on the border who ate by the river. It was for some reason that in the dead of night, the old man was still fishing by the river. After relaxing a little, he put away the dagger, and just wanted to step forward to ask, when he suddenly heard the sound of arrows, and Li Anmin followed the prestige, which was the area where Hongying was responsible for searching. Worried in his heart, the young man turned around again and left the ferry in front of him.

Li Anmin had just withdrawn his body and left less than a hundred steps, when the old angler turned his head and glanced in the direction of Li Anmin's departure, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Li Anmin hurriedly rushed in the direction where the sound of arrows came, and after a while, he saw Hongying sitting on the ground leaning against a big tree with a pale face. Hearing the footsteps, Hongying raised her head and saw that it was Li Anmin, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

"There, there..."

Hongying's face was full of horror, and she looked at Li Anmin speechless. The boy groped in the direction of the red tassel's finger, and before he had taken a few steps, he smelled a foul odor, as if something was rotting.

After a few steps forward, Li Anmin's face also turned pale, and he only felt a surge in his chest and abdomen, and he almost vomited.

By the moonlight, Li Anmin saw four corpses scattered in front of him, the deceased were all dressed in coarse cloth clothes from poor families, and there was a knife scar on his neck. I don't know how long these people have been dead, but at the moment they all emit a foul stench, and a few vultures have landed on the corpses, eating carrion.

Li Anmin endured the nausea in his heart and checked the wounds on the corpse. Then he groped his way along the riverbank, and found a few sloppied planks that had drifted to the bank in pieces.

See these. Li Anmin had a judgment in his heart, so he turned back.

Even if Hongying was the female leader who didn't let the eyebrows, she was frightened when she saw such a scene, and her body weakened a little. Li Anmin put her on his back, and said softly while turning back towards the agreed place: "It is the technique of the white wolf cubs of the Di tribe, and the deceased should be the Han people in remote villages on the border. ”

Hongying was lying on Li Anmin's back, only feeling a little more stable in her heart, at this moment she regained a little strength, a slow anger appeared on her face, and she said sharply: "You mean to say that there is really a white wolf spy who touched the south side of the South of the Trouble River?" ”

"Yes, don't tell them about it, so as not to cause panic." Li Anmin's face was full of solemnity, and he guessed that it should be the white wolf cubs of the Di tribe who quietly touched the river, and happened to be bumped into by the people, so the killer killed the four people.

"I just don't know how many people they have infiltrated, what their intentions are, and where they are hiding at the moment." Many questions surged in Li Anmin's heart, and he couldn't help but murmur softly.

"Well, what did you say?"

Hongying looked at the north side of the Trouble River, her thoughts a little wandering. I faintly heard what Li Anmin was talking about, but he didn't hear it clearly, so he couldn't help asking.

"Well, it's nothing, remember to be safe on this trip." Li Anmin paused, suddenly guessed Hongying's thoughts, and said softly to the girl who was in a trance: "Brother Shen is definitely not a person, he will definitely be fine." If I have the chance, I will accompany you in his quest for news. ”

Hearing this, Hongying's eyes turned slightly red. Just as Li Anmin thought in her heart, the reason why she was worried and hurried now was precisely because she was worried about her poor brother, Shen Chengyue.

The wind by the river was even cooler, drying the slightly moist corners of the red tassels. Li Anmin carried the red tassel on his back and returned to the agreed place without saying a word.

Jiang Tong was the first to discover the traces of Li Anmin and Hongying, so he hurried over. He had also noticed the ringing arrow of the red tassel before, but he had no choice but to complete the task quietly arranged by Li Anmin and be responsible for guarding, so he didn't rush over. Seeing the two of them at this moment, he asked anxiously, "What's the matter?" ”

"It's nothing, can you do your business?" Li Anmin prevaricated the doubts in Jiang Tong's heart, and then asked.

Jiang Tong's face froze, and when he saw that there were some tears on Hongying's face, he stopped asking. As soon as his eyes rolled, he smiled at Li Anmin and said, "Commander, isn't it that the Commander of Wood has opened his mind and used strength on you?" ”

Li Anmin and Hongying's faces were instantly ugly, especially Hongying, who stared at Jiang Tong with wide eyes, raised the Hongtassel gun in his hand, and said angrily: "Monkey, do you want to die?" ”

Seeing this, Jiang Tong hurriedly replied with a serious look, and whispered in Li Anmin's ear: "Don't worry, don't forget that I'm from Baichangzhou." ”

"What are you talking about?" Seeing the two communicating mysteriously, Hongying was very curious, so she couldn't help but ask.

"Hehe, it's nothing, just save some back hands in case you need them." Li Anmin smiled mysteriously and said to Hongying.

Hongying has absolute trust in Li Anmin, and knows that even if the young man has a plan in private, he will never be unfavorable to herself, so she rolled her eyes, pursed the corners of her mouth and said, "Cut, don't talk about pulling down, Miss Ben doesn't want to know yet." ”

"Big brother, the raft is ready."

While the three of them were talking and laughing, they heard Chen Fanfan's voice. When I turned my head, I saw Chen Fanfan walking out of the jungle, he was tall, and he walked out with a raft with one hand.

"Fan Fan is really born with divine power, hey, what about our eldest prince Yuan?"

Seeing that Chen Fanfan had returned, but Yuan Liu's shadow had not been seen for a long time, Jiang Tong frowned and asked softly.

"Yuan Liu said that he was going to look for vines, but he didn't come to look for me again, and I thought he had returned." Chen Fanfan's face was suspicious, he was bent on making a raft, but he forgot about Yuan. He looked at Li Anmin, scratched his head and said, "Is he lost?" ”

Hearing Chen Fanfan's words, the four of them became anxious in their hearts, and their faces were a little ugly.

Li Anmin and Hongying glanced at each other, they thought of the four rotting corpses they had just found on the bank of the river, and their heads were instantly covered with cold sweat.

Yuan Liu, missing.