On the top of a three-story pavilion, a thin middle-aged man with gray temples stood like a javelin, looking at the direction of the peach and plum orchard a mile away by the railing. Standing beside him were five young men wearing official veils and soapy leather with hanging knives, vigilantly scanning the streets and alleys below.

They are none other than Zhang Muzhi, the commander of the Secret Investigation Division, and several henchmen, while the rest of the spies pretend to be civilians and spread their nets on the ground.

The peach and plum banquet is one of the highest-level state events.

The Taoli Garden was guarded by the palace guards, and during the banquet, the adjacent streets were quickly blocked by the Criminal Department, and the second circle streets were patrolled by Baisha Prefecture officers. In addition, the secret investigation department ambushed the hidden pile, and Qingfeng Guan sent an immortal master. Efforts have been spared to defend the water.

Because it is the garden of Huawang Tianqi, it is not allowed to build a two-story house within 300 meters nearby, and it is not allowed to build a three-story building within a mile to avoid peeping.

This area is the northernmost part of White Sands City, just two and a half miles from the towering city walls.

Zhang Muzhi looked at the blossoming peach and plum orchard, recalling the past, and the corners of his mouth finally revealed a faint smile.

Twenty years ago, the eighteen-year-old eldest brother left an envelope for his father and sneaked out of the palace. With his sixteen or seventeen-year-old self and Tong San and Tie Si, he traveled to the Xiaoshui and Zhishui basins. After coming back, he almost hit the board and cut off the prince's identity.

Two years later, the spring blossomed, and he reverted to his old ways, and went out of the palace again to visit Yunshan.

At that time, Guo Xiangye's "naturalization method" had achieved initial results, and the people were not opposed. The more you go into the mountains, the more simple the folk customs are, and there is no danger along the way.

At the last stop, the four of them turned from Yunshan in the southeast to Chushan in the southwest and arrived in Xining County. At the market in the county seat, the eldest brother met the sister-in-law who crossed Ningshui to sell herbs, as if she had lost her soul. ran to the market all day long, encountered the white eyes and threats of the sister-in-law's clan, and didn't care.

My sister-in-law was only seventeen or eighteen years old at the time, and she was so ashamed that she didn't come three days later.

The eldest brother is bold, and as a prince, he knows the law and breaks the law. He even paid a high price to secretly build a wooden raft and forcibly crossed Ningshui in a remote place.

1,200 years ago, the Five Kingdoms joined forces to destroy the Western Woman Kingdom. After the goddess of Chushan came out of the customs, she slaughtered 100,000 soldiers and shed a thousand miles of blood. He also caused a heavenly thunder in the battle with the monks of the Five Kingdoms, and Xiang Xiaoyu died. Hua's ancestor Hualong took advantage of the situation to rise and sweep the southwest.

Grateful to the goddess, Hualong wants to restore the West Woman Kingdom. But the Chu people refused to go out of Chu Mountain, and the Chu women did not marry foreigners.

As a result, Huaguo set up Xining County, which would never be taxed, to strictly restrict the influx of people from other places. The ancestor Hualong himself set a strange rule, Pian Fan was not allowed to go down Ningshui, but the Chu people could cross the river to trade.

Under the noses of himself and Tong San, Tie Si and Chu people, the eldest brother and sister-in-law stumbled and communicated. Unexpectedly, feelings were generated, and confidential information was transmitted. This thing makes people feel extremely amazing when they think about it.

The four of them crossed the river at night and touched Chu Mountain. He and Tong San guarded the wooden platoon, and the eldest brother took Tie Si to find someone. By midnight the next day, the sister-in-law had escaped.

But it was still discovered, and the Chu people chased all the way. Gongs and drums were beaten, and the mountain beams were full of torches.

The five people urgently boarded the row to support the penny, and more than 30 meters from the shore, Chu chased them to the riverside. It was a scene, a scene that made people puzzled.

The Chu people do not curse, do not go into the water to pursue, and do not shoot arrows and throw stones. The shore stood in a line, quietly watching.

I was shocked to find that all men and women were in their twenties, and none of them were middle-aged or elderly.

The same is true in Xining County, where the guy is tough and the girl is delicate. At that time, I thought it was the custom of the Chu people, and all the things that showed up were done by young people.

Now it seems that there is no old man in Chu Mountain at all.

How is this possible?

About Chu Shan, Chu people, the eldest brother was later forbidden to discuss. Therefore, he and Tong San will never know what he and Tie Si saw in the mountains.

Ningshui is not wide, and the extremely narrow place is only more than 20 zhang. But both sides of the bank are mountain cliffs, hundreds of meters away, and the water is turbulent.

That night was unlucky, and the river swelled sharply and the turbidity waves were monstrous. The rafts were almost falling apart, and they couldn't get on the shore.

The four of them are all masters of the Tongyou and Ninggang realms, but they are landlubbers, and they dare not compliment their level of support. What's more, the river is too deep, and the penny that is one and a half feet long can't be explored to the end, and it can't be used hard.

The raft drifted faster and faster, like an arrow off the string, and almost crashed on the reef several times. The head of the wave stood more than two meters high, and a wave slapped down, hitting the people and sinking into the river halfway.

Say that people will win the sky, in the face of such a huge force of heaven and earth, mortals are like ants.

That night, the moonlight was bright, and after drifting for more than ten miles, I saw the Goddess Peak in the distance, and my heart was cold.

Three miles through the goddess peak, it is a trumpet-shaped mouth.

Ningshui narrowed sharply from more than 100 meters wide to 60 or 70 meters and rushed out of the canyon. The drop dropped dramatically, like a waterfall rushing down. In the middle of the river, there is a pile of lying cow-shaped reefs, which are called ghost gates by the locals. If you crash into it at such a high speed, you will inevitably be destroyed.

The eldest brother and sister-in-law quarreled.

One shouted:

"When the raft is a little to the side, I'll find a groove in the cliff and throw you on. Remember, be sure to hold on to something. Don't let go, wait for the water level to drop ......"

One said:

"You don't know water, but you have martial arts. When the wooden raft crashes into the cliff for a while, don't use the bamboo pole to prop it up. Jump forward, grasp the vines hanging from the cliff wall, and slowly climb ......"

"No, if you stay in the platoon, you'll die."

"Leave me alone, I'll swim ......"

"You can't swim either...... I deceived you out of the game, and you will die together. ”

The two of them were arguing and arguing, and suddenly stopped talking, their hands clasped tightly together, and their expressions were desperate.

The waves are too strong and the wind is wild.

The rafts were jolting violently, and everyone was soaking wet.

The eldest brother snapped his eyes, but he still wanted to risk stepping aside and throwing his sister-in-law up. The three of them, of course, can jump up and grab the vines, and die for life. And the eldest brother, who can't stand still, is destined to fall into the river and cannot survive.

I don't move, and Tong San and Tie Si don't move.

Boom......

One piece of wood fell apart, and the rest "gurgle" sounded.

The eldest brother jumped up and cursed, he had never seen him so fierce, his face was hideous, and he was crazy!

The sister-in-law squatted on the platoon, holding the rope tightly with one hand, and holding the eldest brother's leg with the other arm, afraid that he would slip.

At such times, it is useless to do anything, and you can only resign yourself to fate.

The eldest brother suddenly smiled again and said, good brother......

Suddenly, the wind and waves were calm.

The wooden platoon quickly slowed down and landed.

I looked back in surprise, only to see seven quaint long swords inserted into the river halfway through, erecting a wall of water, which was slowly rising as the water level rose.

Seven swords cut the river!

Before she could figure out what was going on, she heard the sound of "dong dong", and her sister-in-law slammed her head on the wooden raft and choked up:

"High priest, I, I...... I'll go back and let them go. ”

Looking up, the wooden raft was drifting under the Goddess Peak.

The moon is like water, and the silhouette of the goddess stands up to the sky, looking at the river with compassion.

Halfway up the mountain, seven women fluttered in white clothes and didn't say a word.

Presumably, that is the legendary seven Chu great priests who practiced in the Goddess Peak. Their magic weapons turned out to be seven wide and long bronze swords, like the blades of the battle array thousands of years ago.

What an earth-shattering power is needed to intercept the surging river! Even if the ten elders of the Xiaoshui Sword Sect joined forces, they might not be able to do it.

Did Hua protect the Chu people, or did the Chu people stabilize the border? If they go out of the mountains, who will be able to resist them?

Tong San and Tie Si completely turned into puppets at that moment, and their expressions were probably similar. The eldest brother was calmer and silently pulled up the sister-in-law.

The raft continued to float for more than a mile before it ran aground, and the water was knee-deep.

The river is full of fish jumping, turtles and snakes crawling. I actually saw a strange fish more than three meters long, with hard spines on its back, and a mouth full of fangs, which scared people to death.

The five abandoned the platoon and hurriedly climbed up the cliff. Halfway up, the sister-in-law and brother argued again.

One said that he promised the high priest that he had to go back to Chushan.

Another way:

"That's not right...... If the high priest is just to save people, he can simply take us away from the river with a flying sword, and he can't cut off the river. Obviously, they can't help you escape by disobeying the ancestral teachings, so they used a very troublesome way. looked at the wooden raft drifting away from afar, and never said a word, but acquiesced to leave. ”

In the middle of the argument, there was a loud bang in the distance.

Seven long swords flew into the Goddess Peak, smashing down a wall of water nearly 100 meters high. The water foam rose hundreds of feet into the air, like a gauze curtain covering the sky.

Oh......

Don't say anything, climb quickly!

In this way, the sister-in-law came to Baisha City and initially lived in Taoli Garden. If there had been no tragedy that happened later, I might have attended the Taoli banquet with my eldest brother today......

The little prince should be sixteen years old......