Summer in the south is especially long, even after more than half of October, the noon sun is still too hot to open people's eyes, if you run under the sun for a long time, you will have to sweat profusely. On this day, I heard that there was something strange on the Jinsha River, Yao Jin and Jin Liancheng rode horses together, and the two of them saw from a distance that the calm river surface was churning, and the waves were rolling from all directions irregularly, hitting each other, breaking and rising one by one, as if someone was frantically stirring up the wind and clouds at the bottom of the river, stirring up this calm and beautiful water.

Today's wind is strong, Yao Jin keenly smelled a trace of strange smell blowing with the wind, her legs couldn't help but clamp hard, and her horse took the lead to the river, "What's the matter?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, the Jinsha River has been surging in the morning, I thought it was because of today's strong wind, but at noon, the river surface churned, the river waves became more and more frightening, for safety reasons, subordinates have been guarding here, and no one has been allowed to go into the water to check. ”

Yao Jin glanced at the lieutenant of the dense forest who was standing not far away and was pulled by Zhao Sheng and was about to step forward, and asked, "Did anything happen on the river last night?"

"Back to Your Highness, it was business as usual last night. ”

"And what about around here?"

The owner of a pig farm in the vicinity went to the government early this morning to report that all the animals in his farm had been suddenly killed last night. ”

Yao Jin frowned, looking at the more churning river, the usual blue lake water was a little blue at the moment, although the sun was very strong, but when the river rolled up, she even felt that the color of the water was a little strangely red. After pondering for a moment, Yao Jin was about to call Zhao Sheng over to ask if this had happened before, but Jin Liancheng walked over quickly, he took a few steps forward past Yao Jin, stared at the situation on the lake carefully, and suddenly said: "It's almost." ”

"Almost?

Jin Liancheng didn't seem to hear Yao Jin's words, stretched out his hand to signal the lieutenant of the jungle and the others to come over, and after a few people got together and whispered a few words, the adjutant took off his shirt and jumped straight down the river amid everyone's exclamations. Yao Jin on the side was a little inexplicable and a little annoyed, and grabbed Jin Liancheng's sleeve: "What are you doing?"

"It'll be fine in a while, I'll explain to you later. Jin Liancheng pushed Yao Jin's hand away, walked to the other side and beckoned to several other people from the jungle, only to see that after he pointed to several other positions on the bank of the river, those people also jumped into the water. Seeing this, Zhao Sheng wiped the sweat on his forehead while trotting to Yao Jin's side, "Your Highness, this Jinsha River has not been so noisy for hundreds of years, and today's situation is really a bit terrifying, isn't it a river demon?"

"Where have you read all your books? Nonsense! Where are there demons in this world!" As soon as he finished spraying, Yao Jin looked at Zhao Sheng, who was stunned, and suddenly reacted, in ancient times, demons and monsters were still quite marketable. She swallowed her saliva, and didn't know what to say to Zhao Sheng for a while, but felt that the noon sun was shining, and she was about to ask him to get a glass of water, when she suddenly heard a loud noise in the river, as if something had been hit by a huge impact at the bottom of the river, and the sound came up from the bottom of the lake, and the lake water was also stirred up layers of splashes, at this time, the center of the lake suddenly seemed to have been cut open, and the water on both sides was surging higher and faster, and Zhao Sheng had not had time to say "Your Highness be careful" In four words, Jin Liancheng came over with an arrow, picked up Yao Jin and took a few steps back, and Zhao Sheng, who was not able to dodge, and other people who were closer to the river were drenched by the river that rolled up high and fell violently, and many people fell to the ground after standing unsteadily for a while. Just when everyone was in shock, a huge square stone tablet that was pitch black but shimmering like a ruby had already surfaced.

Although Yao Jin was not wet, her face and in front of her clothes were also a fine droplet, and she stared wide to see the stone tablet rise to the surface, and it was really like a huge black octopus lying on its stomach poking its head out of the bottom of the river. Or that a certain thousand-year-old water demon climbed up, and the few jungle people who jumped into the river also showed their heads from the water as if they were the little followers of the water demon, screaming one by one, the sun shining on their bronzed skin, strong muscle lines, Yao Jin couldn't help but feel that this was undoubtedly a group of ghosts.

That night, Jin Liancheng led his subordinates to carry ten boxes of gold to the Zhaofu Courtyard, and bowed seven times to Yao Jinxing according to the highest etiquette standards of the Jungle Country, thanking Xiao Nanguo for his strong support and help in retrieving the sacred relics of the Jungle Forest, and at the same time presented the Secret Forest State Letter, saying that in the next 50 years, the trade route to the north would be unconditionally opened to the Xiaonan Kingdom, and a market would be opened at the junction of the Jungle and Li Dynasty and Qingling for mutual trading.

This result made everyone very satisfied, everyone swept away all kinds of speculation and dissatisfaction with the jungle people and Jin Liancheng in the past, Zhao Sheng smiled and put ten boxes of gold into the treasury, Zhao Yu no longer had to stare at the Jinsha River every day, Wang Xiang prepared to go to the various strips of the jungle market to find Jin Liancheng, and the other party did not look at it and stamped the big seal, and finally the smiling Wang Xiang returned to the Zhao Mansion Courtyard to ask Yao Jin for the next step, but found that all over the Courtyard and Zhao Mansion, there was no shadow of His Royal Highness the Lord. Just when he was a little flustered and was about to find Zhao Sheng to find someone, he suddenly moved in his heart, called a small sedan chair and hurried to the bank of the Jinsha River. Sure enough, under the setting sun, Yao Jinzheng was standing alone on the bank of the river, not far away with her white horse on a leash, and the horse was gently wagging its tail, as if to beat the rhythm of the slight flow of the river.

There was still some distance left, and Wang Xiang stopped his steps and called softly, "Your Highness." ”

"Hmm. ”

"The rules and regulations of the exchange market with the dense forest have been prepared, and Lord Jin has already sealed on behalf of the dense forest. ”

"Hmm. ”

"Your Highness......"

"I know everybody's happy. Everyone was happy. Yao Jin raised his hand and looked up at the sky, was silent for a moment, then turned around and said calmly: "But I...... But there is unspeakable discomfort. I'm sorry, Prime Minister Wang, for worrying you. Maybe I've been too tired lately, so I've come here to be quiet. Don't worry, it's okay. ”

Wang Xiang stepped forward slowly, only took two steps but stopped, he seemed to hesitate, bowed his head and said: "Your Highness, you are ignorant, I don't know how to share your worries." ”

"It's not about you. I just wanted to come here and be quiet. ”

"The matter of the pig farm, Lord Jin said that he did it, just because the totem stele is extremely spiritual, and they observed it for a long time before they found that they needed to use blood as a guide——"

"I know, I'm not because of those pigs," Yao Jin said this, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Look what I'm talking about...... Okay, let's go back. ”

"Your Highness, it's getting late, let's send His Highness back to the courtyard. ”

Yao Jin laughed, "The horse I ride, the sedan chair you sit on, I don't know who sent whom?" Okay, you go home, I'll go back by myself." With that, Yao Jin walked to the place where the horse was tied and untied the rope, turned over the horse skillfully, and saw that Wang Xiang was still standing, waved his hand and said, "Go back quickly, Lu Taoding is waiting for you at home for dinner." ”

At this moment, the sun is setting, Yao Jin is wearing a silver-white shirt, under the golden afterglow, a little silver light turns golden, Wang Xiang seems to be unable to see Yao Jin's face, and blurts out: "I don't know if there are people waiting for you in His Highness's house?"

Yao Jin seemed to be stunned, turned his face to the other side of the sky, which was getting darker and darker, and seemed to sigh softly, and said with a smile: "It's okay, there's another one." ”