Chapter Twenty-Five: Water Ghosts
The river flows quietly, like satin. The moon and white clouds are reflected on the water, and the passenger ship seems to be sailing in the sky.
On the terrace on the second floor, a young scholar in a green shirt gently shook a folding fan and sang:
"When is the bright moon? Ask the sky for wine. I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace. I want to go back by the wind, but I am afraid of Qionglou Yuyu, and the high place is unbearable. Dance to figure out the shadow, how it seems to be in the world......"
Behind him, seven young girls stood or sat intoxicated, chanting to the beat. Two children, a man and a woman, are squatting on the deck, breaking grasshoppers with reed leaves. Compare who folds more like and is more beautiful.
At the stern of the lower deck, the old boatman who was squatting and peeling water chestnuts showed a sincere smile.
The sister and brother of the son of the letter are really cats. They were not seen during the day, but at night they were cheerful, refusing to dock their boats at the docks to rest.
The current is not fast, and night navigation only requires swinging the rudder at the bend of the river and adjusting the direction. When the son is on the third watch, he will call his son up to change shifts. This trip to the business is pure fifty taels of white money, after the run, it is time to find a house in the small town along the river. Life on the water is too hard, sons can't marry daughters-in-law, and daughters can't get married......
There was a slight rattle, like sharp nails scraping against wood.
The old boatman looked up in surprise and saw a pile of "algae" emerging from the boat's gang. When you look closely, it looks like hair.
Let's ......
The water chestnut in the hand is dropped.
The hair flew wildly, revealing a wrinkled ghost woman's face, and she opened her mouth to spew out a black gas.
The old boatman didn't have time to roar, and he fell limply.
The ghost woman staggered onto the boat and walked towards the stairs on crutches.
A man dressed as a fisherman slipped over from the bow of the boat and said:
"Mother-in-law, those three people are asleep. Lao Tzu breathed again, they couldn't wake up until dawn until they slept. ”
The ghost woman snorted:
"Ha'er, the scholar on the top of the building is very vigorous, be careful."
The fisherman smiled and said:
"It's okay, Lao Tzu learned the method of fixation."
The two stepped up the stairs without making a single "squeak" sound.
Xintianyou, who had only been singing for half a song, stopped, shook his head and smiled: "It's a rare guest." ”
The mother-in-law and the fisherman walked into the terrace, and the girl and the boy looked over. Only the scholar was unaware, spread out the folding fan in his hand, and continued to sing comfortably.
"Zhuan Pavilion ......"
"Turn around, turn your mother's head, turn Lao Tzu's head is dizzy......"
The fisherman took a step forward in annoyance, raised his hand and pointed, and shouted:
"Definitely!"
The scholar immediately opened his mouth half-open and remained motionless.
The fisherman's eyes widened and he looked closer, and involuntarily touched his skull, and said:
"Hey, it's not moving. Unexpectedly, Lao Tzu still has a little mana. “
The mother-in-law snorted:
"Ha'er, get down to business."
The fisherman hurriedly shrank back and said:
"Yes, yes, yes, it's important to get down to business."
The mother-in-law found a chair and sat down, and said:
"You pretty sisters, you've crossed the line."
Wang Jiu'er frowned slightly and asked:
"Mother-in-law, what do you mean by that?"
The fisherman glared and shouted:
"What do you mean, I don't understand this yet! You are land ghosts, and we are water ghosts. You don't stay on land, but you come out on the water. If you stretch your hand too long, is it out of bounds? “
Wang Jiu'er glanced at the man, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly:
"Mother-in-law, big brother, I'm sorry. We're just passing by by boat and won't stop. “
Ghost Woman Yin Measurement Channel:
"Hmph, a 'sorry' sentence, is it over? You detained this brother, push him into the river first, and then do one more thing. Otherwise, the old woman will tear your souls to pieces. “
Wang Jiu'er said coldly:
"What's the matter?"
……
Three minutes later, the boy, who had been looking like a wooden carving, yawned and understood.
The two ghosts have been hovering in this section of Xiaoshui for a long time, and their mana is not strong. It is urgent to suck the essence of the living, but it may not be possible to encounter a drowning person for two or three years.
It just so happened that a godsend came along.
A group of bandits slaughtered a "fat sheep", because of the spoils of the fight, no one can subdue anyone, tonight about the front of the Jiangxin Island duel. The ghost woman's plan was for Wang Jiu'er and other girls to come forward to lure the lonely injured to the water's edge and push them into the water......
The reason for the uneven distribution of the spoils by the robbers is that there is a "magic pearl" in the property. No one could figure out what it was, and they wouldn't give up.
"Hey, what's wrong with the turtle?"
When the fisherman saw the scholar yawning, he scratched his head and walked over.
Xintianyou squeezed his eyes at him and slapped the fan down.
The fisherman was so frightened that he couldn't move. From head to toe, it turned into thick smoke and was sucked into the fan raw.
The ghost woman threw away her crutches before she stood up and shouted, "Daxian spare your life." The folding fan in the young man's hand turned into a dragon shape in seconds, opened his mouth and sucked it violently, swallowing it alive. After sneezing a few times, a puff of black smoke was spewed out towards the surface of the river, and it became more and more solid and shiny.
Tong Tong and Niuniu ran over quickly, shrunk their bodies to the size of soybeans, and rode on the back of the dragon.
Sou......
The little dragon flew into the air.
Two little children hugged it tightly and let out a string of "giggle" laughter.
Xintianyou smiled at the girls, walked to the staircase, and said:
"I'll go and wrench the rudder, stay for a while, let's go to Jiangxin Island to see the strange."
……
Half an hour after the boat sailed, the river turned and washed out a large area of water. The reeds stretch as far as the eye can see, and an island rises in the middle.
The Xintian Wanderer docked, tied the cable, and shook his head with a smile.
Damn, that gang of bandits is unprofessional, and they don't even send people to stand guard. Although it is a desert island in the middle of the night, you don't have to worry about catching fast, and you have to guard against bad guys.
He quietly dived towards the center of the island.
In front of the cliff in the center of the island, a bonfire is lit in the flat.
There are three big men sitting at the top of the head, and there are more than a dozen people on the left and right sides. The sparkling blades rested at his feet, drinking and eating meat around the fire.
Except for the three men on the top who shouted and persuaded them to drink, the two groups of people opposite each other did not speak to each other, and the scene was strange and deserted.
More than 200 meters downwind from them, there were four people standing behind a rock, looking at the fire from time to time.
One of them suddenly asked in a low voice:
"Brother Zhao, you can destroy these bandits alone, but you have to find the three of us to help. That Jade Qionghua, is it really so powerful? “
Another interjected:
"Brother Qian, in the past few years, you have been traveling, but I don't know that before that girl came to our area, she killed several Huadan Immortal Masters who coveted her beauty along the way. I heard that a year ago, Lord Surveyor of the Heavens broke the 'Hehuan Sect' in the Western Regions, and she was the only saint who escaped. In this regard, there is a ballad in the rivers and lakes that says, 'Jinyun flies by, and not a single grass grows.' The sea of desire is boundless, leaving no living mouth. Brother Zhao was afraid that after the news leaked, she also rushed over to grab the treasure, so she invited me to wait. “
Someone else asked:
"What kind of treasure is it that is worthy of the hands of the four Immortal Masters?"