This two people rode to the edge of the Yangtze River, it was already twilight, Ling Muyun looked at the east of the big river, the white waves were surging, the four fields were endless, the upstream river was endless, never stopped, only felt that the chest was heroic and dry, the body seemed to be one with the river, and a strong urge to indulge in it suddenly surged in his heart.

After watching for a long time, Ling Muyun turned to Huang Rong and said, "Rong'er, you said that we should swim across the river?" ”

Huang Rong's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she clapped her hands and smiled: "Okay, okay, I used to swim in the sea, and I have never swam in the river, let's go into the water!" ”

"What will happen to the two of us if we go into the water? It's good to say that my horse can swim, but your white camel is a ship of the desert, not a boat on the water, and it can't enter the water. Ling Muyun patted the green horse under his crotch, glanced at the white camel that Huang Rong was riding, and said.

"I think there seems to be a ferry boat over there, let's hire a boat to cross the river with your horse and my white camel, let's swim over, won't that be fine!" Huang Rong pointed to a ferry moored on the riverbank and proposed.

Ling Muyun nodded and said, "Okay, that's it." ”

At that moment, the two of them came to the moored ferry, and told the captain about it, and the captain suddenly looked at the two with a strange look, he has been ferrying for so many years, and the number of people who have crossed it is innumerable, and even people and livestock have crossed together, but it is really the first time that they have encountered Ling Muyun and Huang Rong who ferry animals alone, but people who have gone into the water to swim across the water. However, since people are willing to play like this, he can't say anything about a ferryman, anyway, the ferryman and the livestock are all ferries, and they all give the same money, so he immediately nodded and agreed.

At that moment, Ling Muyun and Huang Rong drove the green horse and the big white camel onto the ferry, and then greeted them, jumped into the river together, and swam towards the opposite bank. Speaking of the surname Shui, although Ling Muyun also grew up in the south since he was a child, he has not been less watery, and the surname Shui is not bad, but compared with Huang Rong, who grew up on the island and has been rolling in the tide since he was a child. Fortunately, Lingyun has strong internal strength and great paddling power, but he can barely swim with Huang Rong.

Ling Muyun and Huang Rong swam side by side, swimming faster than the ferry, leaving the ferryboat far behind. When I swam to the heart of the river, I saw the stars twinkling in the sky, except for the waves in the river, there was no other sound, it seemed that there were only two of them between heaven and earth. After swimming for a while, suddenly dark clouds pressed down on the sky, and the river was pitch black, and then lightning and thunder followed, and each scorched thunder seemed to hit the top of the head. Ling Muyun shouted, "Rong'er, are you afraid? ”

Huang Rong smiled: "With you, I'm not afraid." ”

The summer rainstorm came and went faster, and when the two swam to the opposite bank, it was already raining and the sky was blue, and the moon was hanging in the air. After waiting for a while, the ferry came, Ling Muyun took the green horse and the white camel off the boat, paid for the boat, and then left the river bank with Huang Rong and found some branches to build a bonfire. Huang Rong took out the clothes of the two people in the package, changed them separately, and dried the wet clothes on the fire.

After drying their clothes, sleepiness hit, and the two immediately leaned under the tree and fell asleep back to back. In fact, although the summer night is not cold, it is still a little damp and cold, but Ling Muyun and Huang Rong have already achieved success, and they can't be invaded by the moisture, but they don't care at all.

I don't know how long I slept, the sky was getting white, and a rooster in the small yard of the farmhouse by the river was crowing. Huang Rong yawned and woke up and said, "Ah, I'm so hungry." ”

Ling Muyun also opened his eyes at this time, and when he heard this, he pointed to the small courtyard of the farmhouse where the chickens crowed, and said, "You see there is a family over there, let's go to his house to buy something to eat." ”

Huang Rong said with a smile: "No, forgive him for not being able to cook anything delicious from ordinary farmers, Brother Yun, you wait for me here for a while, I have my own way." ”

After speaking, he got up and ran to the small farm yard with light skills, and in a moment he came back with a fat rooster under his armpit, patted the rooster's head and smiled: "Let's go farther, don't let its owner see it." ”

Ling Muyun was slightly stunned and said, "What, didn't you buy this chicken?" ”

"I did leave money for their family, but I didn't consult with the host's family. Brother Yun, you don't know, like this kind of farmer family generally takes this crowing rooster more seriously, sometimes they won't sell it even if they give money, I've encountered such a thing before, it's better to keep the money and take it directly, save trouble. ”

"Alright, let's go farther." Ling Muyun nodded hurriedly when he heard this, it turned out that this chicken was forcibly bought, so it was better to stay away, so as not to be discovered by the owner's family and treat them as little thieves who stole chickens, how embarrassing it must be!

The two led the green horse and the white camel to the east for a few miles, and when they saw that the small farm yard was no longer visible, they stopped. Huang Rong cut the rooster's belly with Emei steel thorns, washed and peeled off the internal organs, but did not pluck the feathers, wrapped the chicken with water and a ball of mud, and roasted it on a fire. Roast for a while, the mud reveals a sweet fragrance, wait until the wet mud dries thoroughly, peel off the dry mud, the chicken feathers fall with the mud, the chicken is white and tender, and the fragrance is fragrant.

Huang Rong was about to tear the chicken apart, when someone suddenly said behind her: "Tear it into three parts, and leave the chicken butt for me." ”

Ling Muyun and Huang Rong were both taken aback, why did someone come behind them, they were unconscious? Huang Rong's martial arts are not deep now, but Ling Muyun has now cultivated his internal skills to the realm of the day after tomorrow, and his spiritual sense is extraordinary, even if a mouse is deceived within a few feet, he doesn't want to hide from his ears and eyes, but now that he has been touched behind his body, he is still unaware, how can he not be surprised?

The two hurriedly looked back and saw that it was a beggar in his fifties who spoke. This person has a rectangular face, a slight beard under his chin, rough hands and feet, his clothes are full of patching nails, but he is cleanly washed, holding a green bamboo cane in his hand, as clear as jade, carrying a big gourd with vermilion paint on his back, his face is salivating, and his expression is anxious, as if he doesn't give him the chicken butt, he will reach out and snatch it.

As soon as he saw the image of the person in front of him, and then thought that he could quietly touch the terrifying skills behind him, Ling Muyun had already guessed who the person in front of him was, who else could there be besides the most greedy Northern Beggar, Hong Qigong, who was the most greedy in the world?

Before Ling Muyun and Huang Rong could answer, Hong Qigong had already sat on the opposite side with a golden knife, took the gourd on his back, pulled out the stopper, and the aroma of wine overflowed. After taking a few sips, he handed the gourd to Ling Muyun and said, "Doll, you drink." ”

To say that Hong Qigong's behavior is actually a bit rude, but he has already guessed Hong Qigong's identity and knows that this beggar gang leader has always acted informally, so Ling Muyun does not blame, of course, even if he wants to blame, he doesn't have the ability. Thinking that his task had finally been settled, Ling Muyun couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and he was not polite to Hong Qigong, he reached out and took the wine gourd from his hand, and poured two sips of "Gu Du Gudu", but he felt that the wine in the gourd was mellow and fragrant, not ordinary, so he laughed, handed the wine gourd back, and said: "Good wine, the seniors invite us to drink, and we invite the seniors to eat chicken, which is fair and reasonable." ”

"Hahaha, I love to hear what you say, don't look at me as an old man called Hanako, in fact, I don't like to eat white food in my heart." Hong Qigong smiled and took the wine gourd handed by Ling Muyun, and then asked Huang Rong, "Female doll, do you want to drink?" ”

Huang Rong shook her head, and suddenly saw that his right hand holding the gourd only had four fingers, and one index finger was missing from the palm, and her heart sank, and she remembered that she had heard her father say that she had heard a person who was as famous as her father when she was on Peach Blossom Island, and said in her heart: "Could it be that by chance today, I really met a nine-fingered beggar with the same name as my father?" Let's probe his tone. ”

Seeing him looking at the fat chicken in his hand, his throat moved, and his mouth was greedy, Huang Rong laughed secretly in her heart, tore off half of it at the moment, and gave it to him with the chicken butt.

Hong Qigong was overjoyed, grabbed it with his hand, ate cleanly and cleanly, and couldn't stop praising while eating: "Wonderful, wonderful, even my ancestor can't rectify such a great chicken." ”

Hearing Hong Qigong say this, Huang Rong no longer had any doubts in her heart, except for Hong Qigong, who is the leader of the beggar gang, who dares to say so unashamedly that he is called the ancestor? smiled slightly, handed him the remaining half of the chicken in his hand, and said, "Since the seniors like to eat, let's enjoy this half of the chicken too." ”

"Hehe, what's so embarrassing, you two little dolls haven't eaten yet." Although Hong Qigong was polite, he stretched out one hand and took the half of the chicken again, and in a moment he ate only a few chicken bones. After eating, he patted his belly and exclaimed, "Belly, belly, such a delicious chicken, rarely eaten, right?" ”

Huang Rong snorted and said, "It's really an honor for the little woman to occasionally burn a chicken called Hua and get into the belly of the ancestor of Hua Hua." ”