Guo Bin and his entourage set off from Yangzhai, traveled all the way south, passed through Runan and Jiangxia, and then went southeast along the Yangtze River.

At this time, Guo Bin's guards, who mostly grew up in the north, finally saw the dense water network in the south of the Yangtze River, and truly realized the meaning of the so-called southerners driving boats and northerners riding horses. Although the mounts of the people are extremely powerful, it is difficult to raise the speed between the large and small rivers that crisscross the country, and if it is a time of war, even if there are 100,000 iron horses, they will not be able to play their due role.

Seeing that Jiujiang is coming, Lushan is also in sight. According to Dong Xing'er, Dong Feng was originally from Fujian, and left home when he was young and came to Lushan to learn Taoism and martial arts. At that time, there were many giant pythons in rivers and streams, which often endangered people and animals, and Dong Feng tried to kill them. According to the seventh volume of the "Lushan Chronicles": "The east gate of Xunyang City leads to the bridge, there are often Jiao, which is harmful to the people. ”

Before Guo Bin was reborn, although he had heard the name of Lushan for a long time, he was a generation of dicks, and he had neither time nor money, so he had never been to this famous mountain that was on the strange and strange line of 30 degrees north latitude. However, so far, Buddhism's influence in China is still very small, and it has not yet completed the process of its sinicization, so it is too early to say that the so-called Taoist Buddha is the same respect.

However, it is rumored that Zhang Daoling, the patriarch of the Heavenly Master Taoism, once practiced in Lushan, and when he arrived in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Lu Xiujing, one of the Taoist Zen masters, built a simple meditation in Lushan, compiled 1,200 volumes of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, laid the foundation of "Taoist Tibet", and founded the Taoist Lingbao School.

If you study the traces of Zhang Daoling's cultivation again, you can find a very interesting phenomenon: whether it is Lushan Mountain or Qingcheng Mountain, which is the holy place of Heavenly Master Dao, they are all located on the 30th parallel north latitude. And if you list several mysterious and strange places in this line one by one, it seems to show its mysterious and treacherous places.

It is home to many famous natural mysteries and ancient civilizations in the world, such as the ancient Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx, the "Fire God" mural in the Sahara Desert of North Africa, the Dead Sea, the "Hanging Garden" of Babylon, the Sanxingdui site in China, the Hemudu civilization site, the Dragon Triangle in Japan, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Mayan civilization site.

And from the perspective of its geographical layout, this line has both Mount Everest, the highest peak of the Earth's mountain range, and the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean floor. Several of the world's major rivers, the Nile in Egypt, the Euphrates in Iraq, the Yangtze River in China, and the Mississippi River in the United States, all enter the sea at this latitude.

As a lover of unsolved mysteries, Guo Bin was extremely interested in these things before he was reborn, and in his opinion, Taoism, the traditional religion of ancient China, seems to have indeed broken some eternal secrets in the universe. Otherwise, why did Zhang Daoling, a descendant of Zhang Liang, who was born on the 15th day of the first month of the tenth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Panzun Village, Peiguofeng County, go all the way to Qingcheng Mountain and Lushan Mountain to practice? To say that all this is a coincidence seems a bit far-fetched.

From this point of view, Dong Feng came to Lushan to cultivate, and he was also attracted by the great reputation of the Taoist here.

On this day, the sky was about to darken, and everyone was about to find a boat from Xunyang to cross the river, but they saw smoke rising from a fishing village. Everyone was overjoyed, for fear of contracting malaria, the group did not dare to enter the city, they all camped hastily in the mountains, even occasionally saw a few villages, but also a silence, no one at all. In a village with living people, the epidemic caused by malaria seems to have long passed, and groups of people often go to the village to spend the night and buy some necessary ingredients. Of course, whether it is water or food, it has to be cooked again and again, and Guo Bin dares to make people eat. The corpses everywhere make the southern border not only have the danger of malaria, but also all kinds of breeding bacteria, viruses, and even various parasites have become killing gods.

At this time, seeing that there was smoke rising in this village, there must be villagers who came to the Yangtze River, and everyone bought a few live fish to roast and eat, which was also a kind of enjoyment on the tense and dangerous road.

Everyone was about to urge the horse forward, but Guan Yu suddenly raised his right hand and stopped everyone. Zhang Fei looked puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Guan Yu's face was solemn, and he said slowly: "In the village ahead, the situation is not right. ”

Guo Bin was about to ask, but an exclamation suddenly came from the fishing village. Everyone's complexion changed immediately, and a group of iron guards quickly rode their horses around Guo Bin reflexively.

But suddenly a group of ragged men with vegetables on their faces poured out of the fishing village, some of them were holding harpoons, some were carrying kitchen knives, some were holding bows and arrows, and some of them came out directly with wooden sticks. Looking at the complexion of these people, although they are not ruddy, wide and fat, they are much healthier and stronger than the homeless people they have seen along the way.

Guan Yu looked at the more than 100 "fully armed" people in front of him, Danfeng's eyes narrowed, and he glanced at Guo Bin, and Fang Cema came out and said: "We are merchants from Yingchuan, visiting friends in Wu County, passing by Guizhuang, wanting to buy some fish and shrimp and food to satisfy their stomachs, and there is no other meaning, please make it convenient." ”

At this time, a rough man with a horse lance, a head knife hanging from his waist, and a bearded face replied: "Since this is the case, please enter the village and rest for a good life." Between the words, there was no nervousness in the villagers, and the speech was natural and fluent, and the demeanor was quite humble and not arrogant.

Guan Yu said: "Shicai screamed, but I don't know what the reason is?" ”

The man replied, "The countryman has never seen such a magnificent horse, but he made the guests laugh. ”

Guan Yu and Guo Bin glanced at each other and said, "Since this is the case, then it will be troublesome for Guizhuang." In Xiaguan Yu, the word cloud is long, dare to ask Your Excellency's surname, is there a title? ”

The man said: "In Xia Huang Zhao'er, the country man has no words, so the distinguished guests will be invited into the village." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand sideways to invite.

Seeing this, Guan Yu stepped forward first, and Guo Bin quietly followed him into the fishing village, although Dong Xing'er was quite puzzled in her heart, seeing that Guo Bin seemed to have no scruples, she also followed in.

They rode their horses to the village, but they saw that everything was quite simple, but it was clean and tidy, the fishing nets were propped up on the poles to dry, and there was a small wooden wharf on the side of the village, on which several fishing boats were tied, and they could not help but ripple with the water in the river.

Among the unneatly arranged stone houses in the village, except for a few large houses that are apparently ancestral halls, the doors are closed, and the doors of all the houses of the residents are open. In the open space in front of the big house, there was a large cauldron, and the wood burning at the bottom crackled, and the smell of the pot seemed to be fish soup.

Everyone was amazed, this Huang Zhao'er turned out to be so extraordinary, he was able to manage this small fishing village in an orderly manner, so he was able to survive here, thinking that it was related to his concentration of villagers' strength to eat and live together, otherwise how to explain the cauldron at the entrance of the ancestral hall?

After Guan Yu stepped forward to negotiate with Huang Zhao'er, he led everyone to gather in the northwest corner of the village, occupying eight or nine empty houses, and the horses were tied to the wooden stakes temporarily nailed outside the houses. When they entered the house, everyone was stunned again, only to see that the room was very clean, not only the bedding and the like were missing, but even the pots and pans, beds and mats, there were only bamboo chopsticks, broken crockpots and other small sundries scattered on the ground.

Guo Bin and Guan Yu glanced at each other, and then ordered the sergeants to rest on the ground with military blankets, but he and Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Xing'er, and Guan Hai gathered together to discuss.

Guan Yu was the first to speak: "My lord, this small fishing village is full of strangeness, we must be careful tonight. ”

Guan Hai was curious and said, "Where did you start with this?" ”

Guan Yu said: "Isn't it strange that there are nearly 100 young people in this small fishing village?" ”

Guan Hai said: "If you say so, it is true. ”

"Isn't it strange that there are no old people, children or women in the village? Isn't it strange that the doors of these houses are open, and there is not even a table or a bed in the room? Looking at this leading Huang Zhao'er again, if he is really just a village man, in the face of our more than 50 horsemen and nearly 80 horses, he doesn't see the slightest crampedness, wouldn't it be strange? Guan Yu asked three rhetorical questions in a row, which surprised everyone.

Dong Xing'er asked, "Then who are they?" ”

Guo Bin said in a deep voice: "In troubled times, gathering in the mountains and forests, there are so many self-righteous people, these people think that they are the so-called heroes of the rivers and lakes who rob homes and houses, right?" Just looking at the fact that there is not a trace of floating dust in this house, I know that this place was originally a sleeping person, and the aborigines of this fishing village are afraid that they have been gathered in that ancestral hall. ”

Guan Yu was silent.

Zhang Fei, who had never spoken next to him, was very angry when he saw this, and immediately wanted to go out with the Zhangba snake spear to ask for clarification, but the way of asking was that he was afraid that he would come to each other with fists and feet, and the axe would be added. Fortunately, Guan Yu's eyes were quick and he grabbed it, so he didn't let him act recklessly.

This Zhang Fei is extremely smart and has an amazing understanding, but his temper is not very good, and sometimes he is too lazy to use his brain, so he wants to rely on his martial arts to play tricks. For this point, even Guo Bin has nothing to do with him.

Guo Bin glared at Zhang Fei and said, "Yide is not in a hurry, if you act so recklessly, won't you want to harm the lives of the people in the ancestral hall?" Besides, it is not beneficial to startle the grass and snakes, if we go out and ask eagerly, and those people rebel and destroy the boats on the docks, how will we cross the river? ”

These words only made Zhang Fei speechless, who was in a rage, threw away the Zhangba snake spear, and lowered his head and said: "My old Zhang just listens to the lord for everything." ”

Guo Bin nodded with satisfaction.

Dong Xing'er said to Guo Bin: "It's just that Brother Bin knows that there is something strange in this fishing village, but he still wants to come in?" "It seems that this little girl also sees that something is wrong.

Guo Bin said: "Now that we are about to arrive in Xunyang, we can't enter the city, and if we want to cross the river, we have to find a boat to cross the river from the left." If you don't get on a boat from this fishing village, where will you find enough boats? Saying that, the whole person changed his momentum, and said: "Besides, I, Guo Bin, am fighting in the south and the north, who are I afraid of?" There will be only a secret sentry left tonight, and I will see what these little thieves will do! ”

After that, everyone made a promise.