Xiang Meng walked alone, leading the way in front, Chongsheng and the three of them were surrounded by the green forest, and the army went up to the Tiger Leap Gorge.

Chongsheng looked at it, and there were thousands of people in his entourage.

On the Tiger Leaping Gorge, the mountain road is vertical and horizontal, the dense forest, the strange stones stand in a forest, and the danger is abnormal.

After traveling for about a few miles, the sound of the waves and water is gradually approaching, and then going forward, a big river rushes angrily, the river is more than ten zhang wide, the water flow is turbulent, and the bottom of the river is turbulent.

In the direction of the river is a cliff, which shoots down to form a waterfall.

On the other side of this bank, there is a steel cable, and there is a ferry in the middle of the river, which is connected to the steel cable.

"Lao Tzu is back!" Shouting at Xiang Meng, the boatman on the ferry made his oars and rowed along the tightrope on the river.

As soon as the boat docked, Xiang Meng and a few entourages jumped up, and Wang Zuo was also about to follow on the boat, but was stopped by Xiang Meng: "You wait for the next trip." ”

Such hospitality, Ku Rong's face showed displeasure.

The ferry slowly rowed to the opposite shore and disembarked violently, but the boat did not move.

"Hey, boatman, come and row." Wang Zuo shouted to the other side of the river, and although Chongsheng and Kurong did not speak, they did not stop Wang Zuo either.

"You think of how to cross the river!" After Xiang Meng finished speaking, he picked up a jar of wine, sat on the ground and drank it.

"Didn't you lords invite us here? If the boat doesn't come, we'll go! Wang Zuo looked at Chongsheng's face as he spoke, and only said such words with tacit consent.

"The big boss asked Lao Tzu to invite you to go up the mountain, but he didn't say that he wanted Lao Tzu to help you cross the river! If you want to go, you will go. Wine! It's really good wine. Hero with guns, do you want to have a drink! Hahaha. From the other side of the river came a fierce voice, and Kurong was furious.

"Childe, shall we go back?" Ku Rong asked Chongsheng.

Chongsheng smiled and shook his head.

"Then I'll take you there!" Ku Rong said firmly.

"I naturally believe in Kurong's light skills, but even if you want to take me two over, even if you don't make a mistake, if you accidentally wet your clothes, it will inevitably lead to jokes."

"What about us?"

"Wait!" Chongsheng finished speaking with a mysterious smile on his face.

Ku Rong and Wang Zuo naturally didn't understand what the words Chongsheng meant.

The people in the surrounding green forest did not know when they would disperse, and only Chongsheng, Kurong, and Wang Zuo were left on the riverbank.

"Childe! Son! Suddenly, an old voice came from the middle of the forest.

When Chongsheng and the three of them looked back, they saw a white-bearded old man trembling and coming on crutches.

"Childe, are the three of you going to cross the river?"

"Exactly!" Chongsheng made a bow respectfully.

"In this flying sand river, the goose feathers can't float, and the reed flowers sink to the bottom. In addition to these mountain kings, the only one who can cross is the old man, and the old man is the only boatman on the Feisha River. ”

"Uncle, how much money does it cost to cross the river?"

"No money! It's so old, it's useless to ask for money. ”

"Can the old man send me three people across the river?"

"I can cross, it's not that I have the ability, but that I have an ironclad ship, and there is no problem in sending the three of you over, but there are still a few guests in front of you who are also going to the other side!"

"We can wait." Chongsheng is still respectful and courteous.

"Wait? I'm afraid you can't afford to wait. The old man sneered.

"Childe! This old man is clearly the same person as the mountain bandit, and intends to make things difficult and mock us here, so why should we talk to him, I will send you across the river! Ku Rong saw through this trick and was furious.

Chongsheng's face did not change and continued to ask: "Uncle, why can't you afford to wait?" ”

"Look!" The old man pointed to the upper reaches of the river.

Chongsheng followed the old man's point, and there were two boys, a man and a woman, who were staring at the other side of the river in a daze.

"In front of it, Zhang Orion's family of four, there was a famine last year, and Zhang Orion wanted to cross the river to take refuge in the mountain king of the Tiger Leaping Gorge."

"Grandpa, then let them cross the river." Wang Zuo interjected.

"It's hard! This Orion's insiders are continuing, the boy was born to Zhang Orion, and the girl was brought by her insider's front room, this time there was a famine, and the two of them each had a ghost, for fear that the other party would leave themselves alone and vote for the king of the mountain. The old man sighed.

"Uncle, what's the difficulty?" Chongsheng is still smiling.

"King Xiang Meng on the mountain likes to raise wolves, and Zhang Orion bought a live wolf with me to prepare it as a name for worship. So he had to take the wolf across the river. The old man did not directly answer Chongsheng's question, and sighed one after another.

"That wolf has a fierce temperament, and only the old and tame one can be tamed. However, the old ship can only accommodate two people or one person and one wolf at a time, and the ship will sink if there are more. If I take Zhang Lihu across the river first, leaving the boy and his inner man alone, then the inner man will drown the boy, and if I take her inner man across the river and leave the girl and Zhang Orion alone, then Zhang Orion will also drown the girl. If I hadn't been with the wolf, the wolf would have killed the whole family, and the two children wouldn't be able to paddle themselves. So hard! If Childe can help Zhang Orion's family cross the river, then Lao Yu is naturally willing to help Childe cross the river. ”

After hearing this, Chongsheng immediately understood, this Xiang Mengjie coarse person would actually come up with this kind of reasoning problem and deliberately make it difficult for himself. Now that he has promised the other party to go up the mountain, if he retreats in the face of difficulties, then he must see a joke to Xiang Meng, and if he lets Ku Rong perform light skills and forcibly take everyone ashore, then he will lose the value of testing to Meng.

Chongsheng is becoming more and more interested in the big boss behind Xiang Meng, since the other party intends to test and tempt, it is better to simply solve this problem.

"Childe! This is clearly a deliberate attempt to make things difficult and tempting, your status is noble, and the other party is not qualified to test you. Why should we be led by the nose by the other? Let's go down the mountain. "Kurong was furious.

"Uncle, wait a while, I'll help you solve the mystery of crossing the river." Chongsheng didn't pay attention to Ku Rong, and after saying to the old man with a smile, he had already begun to solve the problem in his heart.

Wang Zuo was not idle, squatting on the ground and drawing a bunch of strange shapes with a wooden stick.

"Childe! It's just a bunch of green forest bandits, why should you be serious with them? Before Kurong's voice fell, Chongsheng took over the conversation.

"Uncle, this is simple, you can cross the river in six steps!"

"I want to hear about it!" The old man looked at Chongsheng with disbelief.

"The old man took the wolf to the other side first, and came back by himself; The old man took the boy to the other side, and brought the wolf back by the way; Zhang Orion and the woman rowed to the other side, and the woman rowed back alone for three; The old man took the wolf across the river and let Zhang Orion row back for four; Zhang Orion took the woman to the other side again, and the woman rowed back for five; The woman then took the girl across the river, and in six steps, Zhang Orion's family could cross the river. Uncle, what I said is feasible? ”

"Childe actually solved this problem by the way? Even if a smart person solves this problem, it will take some effort. Childe's quick thinking, the old man really admires! After speaking, the old man smiled and stroked his white beard.

"Childe! Son! I've figured it out! Wang Zuo jumped up from the ground excitedly, and both Kurong and Chongsheng laughed. It turned out that Wang Zuo was immersed in solving the problem, and he didn't hear that Chongsheng had solved it for a long time.

"Noble man crosses the river!" The old man didn't know where he got so much strength, and suddenly shouted, his voice full of strength.

On the river surface, there is a huge black iron ship, about three zhang high, about six zhang wide, there is a statue of Ying Long in the bow, across the river, mighty and domineering. The boat is not as simple as two people.

"Your Excellency, please come aboard!" The old man is polite and prosperous.

Chongsheng is not humble, and he goes straight to the boat.

In the blink of an eye, the boat had crossed to the opposite bank, Xiang Meng put down the wine jar, hurriedly wiped the wine from his beard, and said to Chongsheng with wide eyes: "Crossing the river so soon?" ”

Chongsheng nodded.

"Please! Noble man, please! ”

Xiang Meng still led the way in front, but this time he didn't have the air of showing off his might.

The mountain road is rugged and winding, about 100 steps, the front of you suddenly opens up, the ground is flat and the mountains are wide, and a road leads directly to the walled city.

"This is the seventy-two Lianyun Village General Zhai Jiegan City!" Xiang Meng pointed to the walled city and said.

This Jiegan City, built according to the mountain, rises in the middle of the mountain, and the highest layer of the walled city is higher than the peak of the Tiger Leaping Gorge. The blackened bronze wooden gate is tall and majestic.

The avenue in front of the city gate is about three miles long, and on both sides are neatly dressed green forest heroes standing high with red flags.

The stone steps of the city gate paved with white jade go up layer by layer, like a ladder.

In addition to being amazed, Chongsheng sighed that the mountain bandit city was so majestic and magnificent, which was also appalling.

Chongsheng straightened his clothes, and in front of everyone's eyes, he walked forward calmly.

This walled city stretches horizontally for dozens of miles, there are watchtowers and sentry posts distributed every few zhang, beacon fire and wolf smoke, the platform faces each other, even the crossbow machine is included, and the attack and defense hold each other. The strongest fortress of the Holy Pilgrimage is no more than that.

Entering the gate of the walled city, the stone steps are divided into eight roads, winding up, connecting the eight mountain gates respectively at different places of height and height, Chongsheng roughly sweeps, and then understands that these eight gates are arranged according to the innate eight trigrams.

The eight doors are divided into: open door, closed door, life door, injury door, Du door, Jing door, death door, and shock door.

Chongsheng was about to go to the road of life, but Xiang Meng suddenly stopped: "The noble man is wrong, the big boss tells the noble man to take this road!" ”

Xiang Meng's point is like the direction of death.

Chongsheng didn't say a word, and walked towards the door of death according to Xiang Meng's point.

As soon as the door of death opened, a bloody breath came to the nostrils.

There is an iron fence inside the gate, and there are actually two male lions in the fence, two unusual male lions.

The male lion was about two people tall, his mane was erect like a long arrow, his claws were as sharp as a steel knife, and a pair of rigid eyes were staring at Chongsheng.

"These two lion kings of the cloud country are the pets of the big bosses." Xiang Meng observed Chongsheng while speaking, and the entourage around him threw a whole sheep into the iron bar.

The two lions roared, threw the sheep under their paws, stretched out their barbed tongues and licked the sheep, and then tore the sheep in half, and in an instant there were no bones left.

A strong smell of blood immediately hit my nose.

"Second master, it's not good!" The attendant who threw the sheep wept and knelt on the ground.

"Waste, what are you panicking about?"

"I just accidentally threw the iron pill letter that the big boss wanted to give to this noble man into the lion's pen." The attendant fell to his knees and shivered.

The so-called iron pill letter is to put the letter into the iron pill with a mechanism to facilitate confidentiality.

"Rubbish! You actually lost such an important thing to Lao Tzu! Someone came and threw Wang Lao Liu into the lion cage. ”

"Slow down to the owner of the village." Chongsheng looked at the pitiful appearance of the entourage, and his heart of compassion suddenly grew. These two lion kings were so fierce that there was no chance of survival for this retinue thrown into the lion cage.

"The letter has been swallowed up by the lion, and even throwing this attendant into the lion's cage will not help, but only increase the siniquity."

As soon as Chongsheng finished speaking, the male lion happened to open his mouth and spit out an iron pill.

"Exactly! The iron pill was spit out by the lion, the letter of the big boss is extremely important, if the noble person wants to save Wang Lao Liu, it is better to take out the letter himself. That's respectful of our bosses. After Xiang Meng finished speaking, he looked at Chongsheng and laughed.

"Bold bandits! What is the identity of the childe, how dare you be so rude? After speaking, Ku Rong's hand was already stretched out to his waist.

"It's okay!" Chongsheng smiled and stopped Ku Rong, "This is simple, open the iron fence!" ”

"Childe! How dare you risk your life? Kurong was sad on his face, and said to Chongsheng anxiously.

Chongsheng didn't say a word, smiled and patted Kurong's shoulder, asking him to rest assured.

Xiang Meng gave a look, several mountain bandits opened the iron gate, and the two lion kings immediately pounced on the iron gate, but the door was too small for the lion king to even stick his head out.

Chongsheng stared at the lion king confidently, and slowly walked towards the iron gate, and the two lion kings took a step back to make way for the front of the door.

Chongsheng lowered his head and entered the door, Wang Zuo was so frightened that he covered his eyes with his hands, and then opened his fingers and looked at Chongsheng worriedly.

The strange thing is that the lion king did not pounce on Chongsheng like a sheep, but watched Chongsheng retreat step by step.

Chongsheng walked leisurely to the iron pill, smiled at the two lion kings, and bent down to pick up the iron pill from the ground.

The two lion kings yawned, ignored Chongsheng anymore, and actually fell asleep in the corner of the iron fence.

Chongsheng went out safe and sound.

"Haha! The nobleman is so bold! It's just that these two lion kings were originally pets, and they are used to seeing people, and they are fed with lean meat every day, and they never hurt people. Xiang Meng explained.

Hearing that it was another temptation and mockery, Ku Rong could no longer suppress the anger in his heart: "You traitor and thief, what is your intention to tease my son-in-law again and again?" ”

"What? Do you want to fight? Xiang glared at him and asked, "Hit, Lao Tzu can't beat you." If you are not convinced, do you have the courage to fight with Lao Tzu? ”

"Come on!" Ku Rong tore Xiang Meng's shirt.

"Slow! I didn't say I wanted to drink with you! Lao Tzu said that he wanted to fight with this nobleman. Although Xiang Meng is vulgar and contemptible, he is also cute, and his funny appearance makes Chongsheng laugh out loud.

"Nobleman, can't you fight?"

"Come on! Just come! Chongsheng changed the elegance of the noble son in the past and became arrogant.

Since arriving at the Tiger Leaping Gorge, Chongsheng's various performances are very different from the past, and Kurong is also deeply surprised by the changes in Chongsheng.

"Your Excellency, please!"

Walking dozens of steps into the door of death, there is a wide square in front of it, and a table of wine and banquets has already been prepared on the square.

"Your Excellency, please take a seat!"

Chongsheng was about to sit down, when suddenly a maid came with a plate of roast chicken, and collided with Chongsheng.

"Bold! Pull it out and kill it for me. Xiang Meng's face changed color, and he was furious all the time.

"Slave, wrong, slave, don't dare. Ask the second master to spare his life! The maidservant knelt on the ground and cried out for mercy.

"Second master, do you want to fight with me?" Chongsheng asked with a serious face.

"Of course, nobleman."

"Then don't kill innocents indiscriminately and stir up the fun." Chongsheng Jian frowned and was not angry and arrogant, and Xiang Meng didn't dare to look at him.

"Noble, it's just that your clothes are dirty."

"It's good to change your clothes when they're dirty."

"Come, present a change of clothes for your nobles!"

A maid bowed her head and presented Chongsheng with a tray of clothes.

Chongsheng looked at it, hesitated for a moment, and walked to the back hall to change the clothes.

I saw that this clothing was the coarse linen clothes worn by ordinary people, which was very different from Chongsheng's original purple and gold robes.

But Chongsheng was born with a noble temperament, and he wore ordinary coarse linen clothes on his body, without losing his demeanor at all.

Xiang Meng began to laugh again, but he could hear that there was no hint of ridicule in this laughter, but a frank and heartfelt laughter.

"Noble, I know your identity! What you say and do today is truly impressive to me! Come, I pay homage to the fierce first. As he spoke, he lifted a ten-pound altar and drank it.

Chongsheng smiled, did not show weakness at all, and also lifted a ten-pound altar and drank heavily.

This scene, Ku Rong never expected. Such a weak and noble son would actually wear a coarse cloth and a rotten shirt, and drink with the thieves, ignoring Sven. Shocked, he was more respectful of Chongsheng.

Childe is really a person who can't see through.

Chongsheng and Xiang Meng drank the wine in the altar almost at the same time.

"Good wine!" Chongsheng was happy, and without saying a word, he raised an altar.

"Noble, wait! You have not opened the letter of our great master. Why don't you take a look at it now? Xiang Meng was a little unsteady, and his eyes were full of respect.

"Good!" Chongsheng figured out the mechanism a few times and opened the iron pill letter. I saw that there were only a few short sentences written on it:

"As a king, he has wisdom, courage, compassion for the people, is anxious for the suffering of the people, and rejoices with the people, this is the king's strength. Fate has not arrived, and we will not see each other for the time being. ”