Chapter 181: Lethe River

In the morning, a team of grain boats was going up the water, heading towards the upper reaches of the Qinshui River, the left and right banks were cliffs, from time to time there were strange screams, and I didn't know whether it was birds or apes calling, Feng Ang looked at the scenery on both sides of the river with interest, which he had never seen before. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

From Panyu take a boat to trace the Qinshui to the north, to the Qujiang River and then go east to Hengpu Water to the Shixing boundary to land, over the Da Yu Ridge and then arrive at Jiangzhou Nankang County County Zhigancheng, where the boat goes down the river through Nanchang into Pengli Lake.

All the way north across the mouth of the lake into the Yangtze River, and then down the river to land in the quarry rock, turn to the land route can go directly to Jiankang, Feng An's father Feng Fu, when he went from Gaoliang to Jiankang was this route, when he was nine years old.

Thinking of this, Feng Ang was a little melancholy, after his father died more than four years ago, he left their three brothers, the eldest brother and the second brother have all gone out to take charge of local affairs, but he, the old man, was left by his grandmother's side, and he was not allowed to play around.

I haven't been to Yushui in the west of Panyu, I haven't been to Qinshui in the north, and I haven't been to Nirvana in the east, compared with the two brothers, Feng Ang has always been regarded as Xiao Langjun, he is very unconvinced, but he can only be arranged by his grandmother.

Feng Soul is now Shilong Taishou, Feng Xuan is Gao Liang Taishou, as far as he has no serious official position, he still relies on his grandmother's merits to gain a loose rank, he is not serious at all, the young and vigorous Feng Ang has always wanted to find an opportunity to make meritorious contributions to prove himself.

If it was in the past, there was no bottom when he would be able to make meritorious contributions, but now it is different, the Zhou army committed Lingnan, and the officers and soldiers were defeated and retreated, and now it is the time to employ people, so the opportunity has come.

Feng Xuan stayed behind in Shilong, and Feng Xuan led his troops to Zhenyang to support the officers and troops, while he was ordered by his grandmother to supervise the transfer of grain and grass, and followed the fleet back and forth between the lower reaches of Qinshui and the middle reaches of the river.

Although he failed to go into battle to kill the enemy, it is always good to be able to come out and do things, maybe he will encounter a small group of Zhou soldiers attacking the grain ship, then he will be able to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

The north wind was quite cool, Feng Ang came back to his senses, he looked at the cliffs on both sides of the strait again, turned his head and asked the entourage on the side: "It's been so long since you set off, it looks like you're about to reach the pass, right?" ā€

"San Lang Jun, in front of you is the entrance of a mile of water, the cliffs on both sides are like passes, called Guanqi, and more than ten miles ahead is the pass."

"Kanki? I remember there was a temple there? ā€

"Yes, there is a temple under Guanqi, which is surrounded by mountains and waters, and it is dedicated to the water god Hebo, which can ensure that the boat can safely pass through the fast-flowing Guanqi."

When Feng Ang was a child, he heard his father Feng Fu talk about strange things in the Qinshui area, and the temple of Guanqi also talked about it, and he planned to see with his own eyes what his father said about "Guanqi Water Rush", what kind of emergency method.

On the water surface in front, the mountain peaks on both sides of the bank are criss-crossed, the precipice is steep and towering like a wall, a small temple appears at the foot of the mountain a little abruptly, in the middle of the river in front of it, there are chaotic stones emerging from the water surface, and the river water that rushes down is divided into two groups.

The sound of water stirred between the cliffs on both sides of the river, like thunder deafening, bursts of water vapor rose up, looking amazing, Feng Ang saw the true face of the water surface of Guanqi with his own eyes, and finally realized how the words "Guanqi water rush" that his father said back then were understatements.

"San Lang-kun, please go back to the cabin."

The water in Guanqi was urgent, and the ship was very bumpy when it was moving, and the entourage was afraid that Feng Ang would fall into the water, so it was good to say that he had to leave the deck and enter the cabin to rest.

Feng Ang was in the cabin, continuing to look at the river view outside through the window, and in order to attract his attention and not think about going to the deck, the entourage specially told the 'story' of Guanqi:

The timber that floated down from the upper reaches of the river was swept into the water and never floated again after reaching the Kanki waters, and it is said that the timber was taken by the water god Hebo.

Isn't it just that you were swept away by the whirlpool in the water, and you must have floated up again in some corner...

Feng Ang thought so, looked out of the window absentmindedly, and after a while, his face changed, and he suddenly stood up and ran out, this action frightened the entourage and hurriedly chased him out.

"Saburo-kun, danger!"

The entourage rushed to the deck, saw Feng Anding looking at the river, and was about to persuade him to go back to the cabin, but found that something was wrong on the river.

Floating corpses, a lot of floating corpses, densely floated down from the upstream, this is not the number of ten, twenty, but almost half of the number of the river, many people think it is an illusion, rubbing their eyes and looking again, what they see is more and more floating corpses.

Bodies drifted past the boat, dead in a variety of ways, some with arrows, some with short spears, some with missing heads, and some with missing arms and legs.

The smell of blood permeated the river, and the floating corpses were blistered a little white by the water, but they were not yet visibly swollen, like dead pigs floating on the water, and it seemed that they had not been dead for long.

Some of the deceased were facing upwards, with a pair of empty eyes, as if they were looking at the people on the boat steadily, and some of the deceased had their arms bent, as if they were in a struggling posture before they died, but in the eyes of the people on the boat, it seemed as if they were about to reach out and grab themselves.

There was a thud, and there were timid boatmen slumped on the deck, wet marks overflowing from their crotches, crying and retreating into the cabin, and more people were shaking their legs and pale, and they were overwhelmed by the number of floating corpses on the water.

Looking at his clothes, it seems that he is an officer and soldier and....

"Gross!!"

Feng Ang bent over and vomited while holding the cabin, it was not that he had never seen a dead person, nor had he never seen a drowned person, but it was too exciting to see so many dead people floating on the surface of the river at once, like dense fallen leaves.

It only makes people feel like they are in the legendary underworld, on the Lethe River.

Legend has it that there is Huangquan Road in the underworld, there is the Lechuan River, there is a bridge on the Lechuan River called the Nai He Bridge, the dead people have to cross this Nai He Bridge, the good people in their lives can walk safely, when the evil people in their lives cross the bridge, they will be caught by the ghosts in the Lechuan River, tear off the bridge, and never be reincarnated.

I thought this was just an old man's joke to scare the children, but when Feng Ang and the others were 'immersed', they found that a river full of floating corpses was so terrifying.

Qinshui is now turned into the Lechuan River, and the dense floating corpses on it are the ghosts on the Lechuan River, which will pounce at any time and pull the living into the water forever.

The boatman on the grain boat was already frightened, and the other end of the Chang Yi in someone's hand was "hugged" by the floating corpse in the water, so frightened that he hurriedly threw the Chang Yi out, and some people did not dare to row the Chang Yi again, for fear that the floating corpse in the water would climb up along the Chang Yi and tear people into the water.

Shortly after the convoy crossed the Kanki water, no one rowed and the boats lost momentum and began to lose control on the turbulent water, and one ship quickly capsized, as if overturned by evil spirits.

"Quick! Row now! If you don't want to die, row quickly!! ā€

The shouts of the boats came and went, and the boatmen hurriedly rowed their long boats, barely holding on to the hull, and everyone rowed upstream.

Feng Ang vomited and vomited all the bile out, and several bold attendants tried to carry him back to the cabin, but before they could take a few steps, the master and servant fell to the deck, just sitting on the vomit of unknown people.

Regardless of the filth, Feng Ang struggled to stand up, although he vomited a mess just now, he couldn't lose the face of the Feng family, he forced himself to look at the front calmly, he had to judge how much the current situation had deteriorated.

These are the corpses of officers and soldiers who help the war... Could it be that the mouth of the river has been lost? Can... But how is this possible?

"Saburo-kun! Look ahead!! ā€

The shout sounded, Feng Ang followed the sound upstream, only to see a large floating corpse appear on the water in the distance, many crows hovering in the sky, from time to time falling to peck at the corpse, this scene made people only feel their stomachs churning.

"So many corpses... Finished... Zhenyang is over..."