Ling Fu was trekking west along the north bank of the Yangtze River.

When he was about to despair, an old boatman told him that his family had lived by the river for generations, and one year it was like this, and it rained heavily for ten years, and the river rose sharply.

When a merchant ship laden with tea came to the foot of the Tsuyobo Rock, it suddenly disappeared.

At that time, it was not only that boat, but also nearby fishermen who came back from fishing, and the merchant ship was on the wrong boat under the Yunyan rock, and the big ship sank, but the fishing boat was unharmed.

What's even more strange is that at dawn the next day, in a village about ten miles away in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, women get up early to pound their clothes, only to find tea leaves gushing out from under the stone slabs by the river.

I think about how urgent the river was at that time, the dense tea leaves turned in the river waves, and I couldn't wash away.

The people in the village thought it was a monster and were so frightened that they didn't dare to go to the river. reported to the official, but the government ignored it, and arrested the person who reported to the official, and did not allow him to make a noise.

After a few days, brave fishermen went to the river to see, and tea leaves surfaced intermittently. After a while, the river was completely calm.

For many years after that, nothing like that happened.

When the old boatman talked about the past, he was still puzzled: "I heard that the ship has a deep draft, and it is also strange, how can the merchant ship carrying tea be so heavy...... I said, "This man, why don't you go upstream?" If you find it, don't let people soak in the water all the time. ”

Ling Fu sat on the fishing boat and nibbled on steamed buns, and big tears rolled out.

For a few days, he was on the verge of collapse, both fearful and self-blaming, so remorseful that he couldn't kill himself.

It turned out that the thousand Buddhas took off their robes and waved their rods to send him a message, because they had realized that the situation had changed and urged him to flee for his life.

He actually really believed that Chang Qianfo would have other arrangements.

- How can you be so stupid!

More than ten miles of mountain roads are nothing at all for people like Ling Fu who practice martial arts, especially leg skills. But this is the most arduous and longest road he has walked since he had knowledge.

It rains heavily in the sky, and the water is not very peaceful, and people who are not really sad will not go down to the river to make a living, but they can't resist Ling Fu's remuneration is too high, and almost all the young and strong men in the village who know how to water jump into the river to help catch people.

Women, children, and the elderly asked the nearby villages to see who had picked up someone by the river.

The momentum was huge, attracting the surrounding people to come to watch, and I heard that the Gu'an Hall with the lower reaches of the river was a family that offered a reward for finding people, and they all took off their clothes and went down the river shirtless.

"Dr. Lin from Gu'an Hall is a good person." Someone said, "How can you collect money for this little favor." ”

Rao is so many people helped, from noon to dark, the villagers who went out to receive the reward with Ling Fu's letter have already returned with silver, and there is still no news up and down the river.

- There is no good news, and there is no bad news.

The villagers were all ordinary people who had never seen so much money in their lives, and after receiving their respective coins, they cheered in disbelief.

Someone raised his chin towards the river, and beside a raised rock, Ling Fu sat silently, the rain washed over him, and he did not move.

People were kindly silenced, and someone went home to bring food and put it behind Ling Fu.

The rainstorm kept falling, and the kind-hearted people held umbrellas and waited with Ling Fu, for fear that he would not be able to think about it and jump directly into the river under his feet.

An elderly mother-in-law stepped on a muddy mountain road, one foot deep and one foot shallow, and the wind and rain were too strong to hear her shouting.

When I got closer, I heard clearly: "Zhang Yongjia, your baby hasn't returned yet?" The babies all replied, saying that they didn't see Dachuan and Xiaozhu, and ran away. ”

The woman, who was called "Zhang Yongjia", panicked.

The villagers comforted one after another, and they were also anxious: under such a big road, the mountain road was slippery, and even a fall would be terrible. I was in a hurry to find the child.

was running in a mess, and there were sharp eyes shouting: "Isn't that Dachuan and Xiaozhu'er?" ”

Following the direction of the man's finger, I saw that in the gray and beating rain, two small shadows, one tall and one short, were jumping towards this direction.

"Found it, found it." The stocky boy named Dachuan ran ahead, was caught and beaten by his mother, and he finished his words out of breath: "Chen Erya in the next village next door, her father went to the river yesterday morning to drink cattle and picked up a person in the grass. It's a man, tall, and weirdly good-looking, I don't know if it's the son of this old man's family? ”

After saying it in one go, his speech was very sharp.

"What about people?" Someone asked eagerly.

The woman beat the child, and the panic eased, and as soon as the hand was released, Okawa fell to the mud, and did not get up immediately, panting and shaking his head, indicating that he was really tired and could not speak.

The boy named Xiaozhu was clever, and he knew that he hadn't come home after dark, and he was going to be beaten by his mother again, so Shicai deliberately slowed down.

Now that my mother had finished fighting, she should be fine, so she trotted over, turned around and pointed back: "Follow behind." The man was so badly injured that he had to leave, so he made Erya's father so angry that he tied him to the bed with a rope. When I went with my brother, Erya tricked her father out and was cutting the rope with a kitchen knife—"

The little boy was scared for a while, patted his chest and said, "Ouch, my mother, scared me and my brother, and thought that Erya was going to kill someone." ”

No one listened to what he said behind him, and they all looked at the mountains in the distance.

At this time, the sky was almost completely dark, and no matter how good my eyesight was, I couldn't see my face clearly. I saw that on the top of the mountain, which had been eroded by the twilight, a shadow of a man slowly rose, vaguely a man.

The man walked in a hurry, only limping, and he couldn't walk fast at all.

Ling Fu stood up abruptly.

He kept his ears open to listen to the two brothers named Dachuan and Xiaozhu, and he didn't dare to ask, for fear that it wasn't, and he was disappointed. Then he really can't hold on.

Although it was far away and the light was dim, he still recognized the person by the rickety shadow - that was Chang Qianfo!

It is a living thousand Buddhas, who can still walk and move.

All the qi in Ling Fu's chest seemed to be drained in an instant, and he let out a short "ah-" sound, but he didn't completely shout out, nor did he cry. He stumbled and rushed to the astonished gaze of the crowd, and rushed to the man in one breath.

"Childe-"

In the pouring rain, the old housekeeper knelt in the mud, covered his face with his hands, and cried like a child.

***

Since there is a search for people, these manpower of Guanggu Antang is obviously not enough.

Mo Yichan broke the rules, transferred nearly 50,000 taels of silver from the treasury, hired a dart bureau to escort it to the river, and spread it along the river. Prime Minister Mo Yuan, there are three taels of people in charge of each place, and they send cash to hire brave fishermen or boatmen to help salvage and find people, and offer a heavy reward of 200,000 taels.

The villagers took Ling Fu's handwritten letter, and as long as any place in Gu'an Hall distributed silver, they could receive a reward. Coincidentally, I happened to meet Mo Yuan, who was in charge of the prime minister.

Searching for people upstream sounded unbelievable, but Mo Yuan knew that Ling Fu was not a person who acted absurdly, and as soon as he finished dealing with the urgent matter at hand, he took someone to find it in a hurry according to the address left by the villagers.

The enthusiastic villagers dismantled the door panels, put on the mats, and used them as stretchers, carrying Chang Qian Buddha eastward overnight. I saw a few people carrying sheepskin lanterns from afar, and when I looked closer, was it the one who distributed wages during the day?

Mo Yichan's two sons, the youngest son Mo Cangcang was raised in the Li Ting family for a few years, and he developed an uninhibited and outgoing temperament, which was like that family; The eldest son, Mo Yuan, has followed him in office since the year of Zhixue, tossing and turning from north to south, suffering a lot of wind and rain, developing a calm and serious character, calmly encountering things, and rarely losing his temper.

But now, looking at Chang Qianfo who was lying alive on the door panel, smiling at himself, Mo Yuan's eyes were also red, he covered his eyes and turned his back, and cried fiercely.

He really didn't expect Chang Qianfo to survive, these days, he is holding a string and refusing to let go, and he doesn't dare to be sad, all he thinks about is how to salvage the body as soon as possible, don't let Chang Qianfo become a wandering water ghost, and he can't go back if he has a home.