Chapter 37: The Evil Star and the More Evil Star
"Boatman, how many years have you been ferrying on this river? Did you encounter anything new? Qingyue sat on the side of the boat, feeling that the atmosphere was a little tense, so he asked the boatman.
"This sage can be regarded as asking the right person, this boatman's work, I have been doing it for six hundred years, and I have sent countless souls to and fro, if you want to say which is new, hehe, it is really not something that can be finished in one or two sentences."
"Then let's pick up two interesting ones and talk about them." Nanshan didn't like the silent atmosphere, especially the constant mournful screams of the dead souls under the river in his ears, and he felt very uncomfortable.
"Okay, then the old man will tell the girl a strange story."
While holding the boat, the old man said leisurely, "I remember that it was more than a hundred years ago, and I was going to take a break to go back, but an undead ghost on the shore shouted from afar that I had to cross the river, and gave me a large sum of money, and I had a year's income on top of the old man." As a result, after getting on the boat, this guy kept asking if people could meet in the underworld after death, where did you say it was so easy, such a big place in the underworld, and wanted to find an ordinary revenant, it was not looking for a needle in a haystack, and when he heard me say this, the guy seemed to be a little disappointed, and then he didn't say anything. ”
He paused, and then his tone became quite suspenseful, and then said, "However, when I came to the middle of the river, the undead below the water began to make waves as usual, and they all rushed up to climb into my boat, but our boat is specially made by the Hades, how can we be afraid of a group of undead, as a result, let the old man I never expect that the undead on the boat seemed to see something, and jumped off the boat without hesitation." I couldn't stop him at the time, I had never met myself jumping into the Aglon River after holding the boat for so long, and the guys below were too late to come up, but the old man couldn't save him, so he had to hold the boat and leave. ”
"Three days later, I heard other boatmen talk about this matter, and finally knew some of the ins and outs......" The boatman's expression suddenly brightened, and he laughed quite dramatically, "That dead soul is actually a supreme spirit immortal body with a ten-lifetime marriage, gave up the opportunity to go to the fairy mountain to practice, let his life is approaching, and came to the underworld, and he saw his family among the undead at the bottom of the river, so he jumped down desperately and became an immortal mandarin duck at the bottom of the Aglon River." ”
"Hmm...... Xiao Nanshan, do you think this story is interesting? Qingyue poked Nanshan, who was already stunned, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Nanshan shook his head and said, "I feel like it's a pity." ”
"How?" Qing Yue and the boat family actually asked at the same time.
"For I have heard that the people who enter this river of Aglon are those who did not worship the gods in their lives, or who did not pay the fare, but ...... In my opinion, they are just a bunch of people of independent temperament, or poor people in the world before they were born. ”
Qingyue pursed his lips, noncommittal, seeing a somewhat lonely expression on Nanshan's face, he hurriedly urged the boatman, "Boatman, is there anything else, my junior sister prefers to listen to funny." ”
"Good, good, some ......"
……
After a while, the river began to diverge in many directions, leading to the direction of extending in all directions, and in a narrow river not far away, a flat boat slowly floated out, and a heroic girl on the bow of the boat stood with her arms crossed, dressed in an ink-colored suit, frowning, and seemed to be a little sad.
As soon as he saw the girl's face, the old man suddenly changed his face, and whispered to a few people: "Hey, we have met a bad star today, if you can't get around it later, please don't open your mouth." ”
With that, the boatman quickly propped up the bamboo pole and tried to slip around the girl's boat and slip through the river on the other side. But the girl seemed to have seen the old man's boat, and turned slightly and leaned over directly, and when she was about to approach, the girl in ink pulled up an iron chain and put the two boats together.
"Zhang Laohan, what are you hiding?" The girl frowned, and her smile made people feel a little unearthly amazing.
"Hey, isn't this Lord Jasmine, what's wrong? Not happy again? What revenant is so bold as to provoke you? ”
The boatman smiled on his face, but he was secretly nervous in his heart, the one he met at this time, but the famous patrol priest on the Aglon River, the entire territory of the Upper Underworld was three thousand, and the souls of the dead were basically headaches as long as they met her, and they were unlucky.
"Alas, it's not a task arranged by the Patrol Division, the underworld has been stable all these years, where can I catch so many vicious people, but I can't complete the task, how can I keep the title of Jade-faced Rakshasa! What kind of face do I have to stay in the first game of the Patrol Division! It's better to get a ferry errand in the shipping department, so as to save yourself being laughed at by those guys who go to the underworld. ”
Dong Li listened to the conversation between the two in the cabin, tilted his ears slightly, and thought in his heart: The Patrol Department is a security agency directly under the Hades King, responsible for all kinds of security events in the entire Upper Underworld, if this girl says that there are not too many vicious people now, could it be that the hand of the evil god has not yet reached the underworld?
"Oh, how old is the old man, Lord Jasmine, you may be too worried, no one in the underworld knows who doesn't know, you have been sitting on the title of this jade-faced rakshasa for a hundred years, and I haven't heard you complain before, but year after year, every time it doesn't fall into your house."
Zhang Laohan responded casually, eager to hold her to the sky, and from time to time he held up the bamboo pole, just wanting to slip away when the girl was not paying attention.
Who knew that the girl seemed to be aware, and pulled back the old man's ship with a chain, and asked with a slight question in her tone: "Uncle Zhang, the passenger on your ship, has an extraordinary breath......
The cold sweat behind the boatman immediately rose a layer, and he said: "Old man, old man, I didn't notice anything wrong, Lord Jasmine, don't worry, these are serious and newly dead souls, this is not in a hurry to ......"
"Uncle Zhang, can I take a closer look?"
The girl suddenly smiled, her eyebrows and eyes curved like a crescent moon, but this intoxicating smile was the same as the Yaksha executed in hell in the eyes of Zhang Laohan.
"This nature, nature ......"
The boatman gave a color to the three people in the cabin, and in the dim light, he didn't know if they saw it clearly, but he only prayed that the previous advice would still be useful, and that Lord Jasmine would not really find out any clues.
The Agron River is actually very wide, and the other side cannot be seen at a glance from the place where the few people got on the boat just now, and there are no bridges on the river, so there is no other way to travel between them except to use this kind of boat unique to the underworld.
Several people in the east fence looked at each other, and were about to collect their breath to cooperate with the inspection, so as to avoid branches, but suddenly they heard a roar in the distance, from far to near.
The boatman and the girl followed the sound, and saw that there was only one man sitting in the boat that was hurrying forward, and the fellow was not using a bamboo pole, but two huge and heavy oars, and then the boat under him, as if it had wheels on both sides, splashed all the way, and the oars turned faster than a spinning top.
"Jasmine!"
When I got closer, I saw that there was a man paddling on the boat, also dressed in ink-colored clothes, and the rolling waves formed a mist, and the man's face could not be seen clearly.
However, as soon as this jasmine girl heard this call, she immediately felt a chill in her back, and her face suddenly changed greatly, and she shouted, "Zhaotai! If you dare to come, I'll stab you down with a bamboo pole! ”
As she spoke, the girl shuddered and turned the bamboo pole in her hand sideways and pointed it to the bow of the boat.
"Don't, don't, Jasmine, I'll just look at you from afar, I won't go up ......"
The man called Zhaotai really stopped the flying oars, "Today's inspection of the Water Division, I happened to pass by here, and I heard that you have been in charge of policing the Aglon River recently, so I came to see you." ”
Hearing a loud laugh from the distance, the man said again: "Jasmine, when will you rest, can I send you home?" ”
"Not good!" Jasmine refused without thinking about it, and said with disdain in her tone: "Phew, I also inspect the Water Affairs Department, and the reason is that it is high-sounding, but I don't know when a person like you will do such a serious thing?" ”
After speaking, Jasmine didn't want to say more, put away the chains and untied Zhang Laohan's boat, turned her head and propped up the bamboo pole, heading towards the waterway where she had just sailed, and the speed was more than a little faster than before.
The corners of Old Man Zhang's mouth twitched, but he was glad in his heart, fortunately, this evil star met the desperate evil star, and his skills are superior.
So Zhang Laohan watched the man dance his oars again, and chased after him cheekily.
In the waterway over there, Jasmine's vicious scolding was immediately heard, "Go away! You go away! Shameless! ”
Then there was the sound of paddles and bamboo poles fighting together, and then farther and farther away, only the sound of water could be heard, but I don't know what kind of scene it was.
At this time, Zhang Laohan was really relieved, and said to the three people in the cabin with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, it's good luck today, a few people sit down, and the front is not far away." ”
Nanshan was a little puzzled, blinked his eyes and said to Zhang Laohan: "Boat family, there should be a story here, right?" ”
Zhang Laohan shook his head, and said in a low voice with an unfathomable look, "No, no, I don't know anything, I don't know anything, I don't know anything." ”