The spring is cold and the wind and rain are bleak.

Happy holding an oil-paper umbrella, standing quietly on the bow deck, overlooking the rolling Yangtze River shrouded in smoke and rain by the railing, if it were not for the biting cold, this misty scene in front of him would be a little beautiful.

It is the middle of February, the time of the earth's spring, but the "inverted spring cold" weather in the Jianghuai River Basin of "unprovoked wind and rain, willing to collect all the remaining cold", is the so-called "anti-spring, frozen tendons", this weather makes people feel colder than the cold winter wax moon.

Dahe Chucai, a man from the north, at first boasted about how to resist cold and frost, but since he stepped on a merchant ship sailing up the river three days ago, he has been huddled in the cabin all day long, surrounded by a carbon basin and never dared to come out.

Some time ago, with the protection of Dahe Chucai, the four of them were spared a lot of trouble along the way, riding horses and whips all the way, trekking through mountains and rivers, and it only took five days to reach the boundary of Xuzhou.

was happy that he didn't want to let Zhang Rong and Zhang Lihua go with him to endure hardships, so he ordered Li Feng to send the two to Xuyi. He Chucai also felt that he was too ostentatious to lead a hundred fierce warriors, so he let eighty warriors accompany Li Feng, and he only brought twenty elites with him.

Gao Xing and Dahe Chucai rested in Xuzhou, then changed into gorgeous Central Plains clothes, disguised themselves as businessmen, and drove ten fully loaded cars to continue the journey.

Gao Xing and Dahe Chucai traveled all the way to the southwest, boarded the ship off the coast of Bazhou, went up the river, and went straight to Jiangling.

Although the relationship between Chen and Qi is not harmonious, even the smuggling of later generations with advanced science and technology has been repeatedly banned, not to mention the ancient times when the management was lax. It's cold, who doesn't want to have some good wine to warm up, find a beautiful woman to have a good time, get promoted and make a fortune, isn't that all the picture? In short, there was money along the way, and the happy group was quite smooth, and the scene entered the boundary of Houliang Jiangling in three days.

It didn't take long for Gangneung Pier to come into view. The pier is small, but it is very prosperous. Houliang is a strategic buffer zone between Qi and Chen, and trade is naturally much more frequent than elsewhere.

Although there was a bleak drizzle in the sky and the air was cold and damp, there were still many wrestlers on the wharf wearing thin clothes, rolling up their trousers, and pulling straw sandals, trying their best to resist the things on the cargo ship towards the warehouse on the shore, and they were so wet that they couldn't tell whether it was rain or sweat.

Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer.

Shaking his head happily and sighing, after the merchant ship docked and hired ten lean and thinly clothed wrestlers to carry the goods, he and Dahe Chucai slowly headed towards Gangneung City.

The predecessor of Jiangling City was the capital of Chu State "Ying", from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the later Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, a total of 34 emperors had built their capitals here. Although most of these imperial states are not large, after so many years of development, Jiangling is naturally very prosperous and majestic, and even the happy governance and thriving Xinghua City are much worse when it comes to cultural heritage.

In the past, the Northern Qi family was dominant, and the Northern Zhou and Southern Chen were uneasy, so they formed an alliance against the Northern Qi. Now that the Northern Qi is weak, although the relationship between the Northern Zhou and Chen is no longer as close and harmonious as before, they still have a common enemy, after all, the three-legged situation is not conducive to the hegemony of the emperor.

Jiangling City was not affected by the war, the city is full of flowers, traffic, and merchants in the past are both locals, Zhou people from the north, and Chen people on the other side of the Yangtze River.

Happy and Dahe Chucai paid the poll tax, and after entering the city, Happy asked for his leave, and Dahe Chucai did not inquire about where he wanted to go, but only made an appointment with Happy that Li Feng would be responsible for the contact between the two parties in the future.

happily said goodbye to Ohga Chucai, first bought a few changes of clothes in the shops on the street, and then came to a well-known inn. Although the inn was large in scale and not very luxurious in decoration, it was full of guests, and the noise from the street could be heard, and it was obvious that business was booming.

"This son, do you want to stay in front of you or stay in the hotel?" Happy dressed in a white Confucian shirt, holding a folding fan, with a handsome face, chic bearing, as soon as he arrived at the door of the inn, there was a little er in a green shirt and a small hat trotting forward, slightly respectful waist, his face was full of smiles.

"One upper room, and then prepare a table of wine and food, fast!" happily didn't look at the little two, took out a piece of broken silver from his sleeve and threw it to him, and walked into the inn with his head slightly held high and an arrogant expression.

"Okay! Childe, please here, please here! Xiao Er caught the broken silver thrown by him happily, and checked it, the smile on his face suddenly became thicker again, and his mouth was almost bent to the root of his ear.

The hall was almost full, except for an empty table in the corner, which was small and dimly lit. Happy immediately pulled down his face and complained, and Xiao Er's good words made Happy dissipate, frowning and sitting down in the corner.

Seeing that Happy was just a pampered, arrogant, and weak son, the guests at the dinner turned back one after another, continued to talk about it, and no longer paid attention to him.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the corners of his happy mouth couldn't help but have a faint smile, everything was deliberately done by him.

When he entered the city first, he was happy to find that there were many people wandering in this Jiangling City, and of course he knew that all this was due to the "Recipe of Eternal Life" and the treasure map. And the inn that I happily chose, most of them are Jianghu people with swords and swords, old and young, men and women, and their accents are also from all over the world, everywhere.

Happy to restrain his momentum, pretending to be an arrogant and weak son, naturally he didn't want to attract the attention of others, otherwise the future plan would not be good.

After a short time, the wine and food that he was happy to ask for were presented one after another, and he waved his hand to drive away Xiao Er on the side, and he poured himself a drink from Xingxing.

"Big brother, I heard that the red wind that got the treasure map and the "Recipe of Longevity" is in Jiangling City, why have we been here for three days, but we can't even see a ghost?"

Gao Xing had just lifted the wine bowl when a low voice suddenly came from behind him. The movements of his hands hesitated slightly, and then he drank casually, but his ears were listening intently to the conversation at the table next to him.

It was a thin man of thirty years old, with thick calluses on the palms of his hands, and it was obvious that he was working on his hands. The eldest brother was a middle-aged man of forty years old, with a fair complexion, a beard under his chin, and a long sword by his side. On the left hand side of the thin man was a large man with a dark complexion, and a large mace at his feet, which was very commensurate with his figure. On the right hand side of the thin man is a one-eyed young man, his originally handsome appearance looks a little hideous because of the one-eyed, and his eyes are gloomy, which makes people unhappy.

"What's so strange about that? That Red Wind has never shown his true face, and he doesn't know his origin, how do we find him? However, it is rumored in the rivers and lakes that his martial arts seem to come from the Heavenly Dao Sect. The eldest brother replied disappreciatively.

"What?"

"Poof-Isn't the Heavenly Dao Sect the leader of the righteous path, how could he do something to kill people and seize treasures?" The thin man and the mace exclaimed at the same time, and the latter squirted a mouthful of wine at the one-eyed dragon.

The one-eyed dragon snorted coldly, turned his head, avoided the wine spewed out by the mace, and then said gloomily: "Peerless martial arts, wealth and treasure, who in this world can really see through it?" Didn't you and my brothers come to Gangneung City because they were lucky? ”

Several people fell silent for a moment, and their faces couldn't help but be a little gloomy. The eldest brother waved his hand a little decadently and said, "Drink and drink, even if we can't get the treasure, it's better to see the excitement." ”

"Big brother is right, let's focus on watching the excitement and having fun!" The one-eyed dragon took a sip of wine and gently pursed his lips, a strange color flashing in his eyes.

"Fourth, looking at your appearance, did you find any prey?" The thin man asked with interest.

"It's the first time I've seen such a beautiful woman, so beautiful that I can't bear to do it!" The one-eyed dragon looked admiring.

"Oh?" Several other people couldn't help but be surprised, this one-eyed dragon often takes the poison king Yin Chi as an idol, and is lustful, and there are not a few good family women who are destroyed in his hands. Three years ago, he was found to be molesting other people's concubines, if it weren't for his light work, I am afraid that it would be as simple as losing an eye.

Although this fourth child is obscene, his vision is excellent, and the beauty that he is obsessed with is naturally not ordinary, and everyone is also interested.

"Fourth, you have to be careful, don't forget how blind your eyes are!" The mace urn said angrily.

"Phew! Be silent! A flash of anger flashed on the one-eyed dragon's face, a sinister look shot out of his eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The Money Gang has long since fallen apart, and the main and deputy gang leaders don't know where to go, what can they do to me?" Three months ago, Lao Tzu went to the mansion of the money gang leader, and pressed all his wives and concubines and daughters on the bed to play, what can he do to me? Ha ha! ”

"You kid will be retribution, ruthless enough!" The eldest brother shook his head and said, I don't know whether to praise or criticize.

Hearing this, he lost his interest anymore, and he even gave a death verdict to these four people in his heart. There is a wrong, there is a debtor, and there is no distinction between good and evil to the four people, and the scourge of right and wrong is unknown, and he is happy to judge in person.

"Shhhh

At this moment, the noisy inn suddenly fell silent, and a pin drop could be heard. Xing Xing couldn't help but turn his head strangely to look, and suddenly saw two more beautiful women in front of the inn.

The woman on the left hand side is slender and slender, dressed in plain white clothes, with a dreamy appearance, like a fairy who has removed dust.

On the right-hand side is a beprising, smoky girl, who is not very warm in the early spring, and she has not much clothes on her, and under the tulle is a tight-fitting fiery red bandeau with a black poppy flower blooming brightly. Who can Poppy Blossom, who is not one of the six envoys of the Hundred Flowers Palace?

"She's here too? Is that another one also an envoy of the Hundred Flowers Palace? Happy glanced at it secretly, and sure enough, he found that there was a small and slender blue fairy on the hem of the woman's clothes beside Poppy.