CHAPTER XVI
Suddenly, I saw Zhao Ah raise his hand and point to a raised mound not far in front of him and said; "Look, there's light ahead!"
Jin Wansheng and they looked in the direction of Zhao Ada's finger, and sure enough, not far from them, there seemed to be a fishing fire, which was flashing faintly bright, and the two messengers with waist knives saw that there was light, so they hurriedly said; "Let's go, let's go and see, if there is someone's house, maybe we can make do with it for the night."
After the two messengers finished speaking, they walked towards the light together, Jin Wansheng and Zhao Adaa followed behind them, walking cautiously, seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the mound, Jin Wansheng whispered to Zhao Ada; "Big brother, pay attention, there are a lot of water monsters and fish spirits in the river, and if you are not careful, you will catch the path of those things."
Zhao Adaa said; "It's expected that there are bad people, and we won't be plagued by those water monsters in vain."
Having said that, Jin Wansheng and Zhao Adaa were still careful, and walked towards the fishing fire with the two messengers, and when they got closer, they found that there was an old man on the mound, wearing a robe, wearing a hat, holding a fishing rod, and a fishing lantern beside him, who was fishing with his head down.
There are a lot of people fishing by the river, but most of them are in the morning or during the day, although there are occasionally people who fish at night, but after all, they are very few people, so Jin Wansheng has an extra heart, he didn't lean forward, but which two poor people have already sat next to the fishing man one by one, at this time, Jin Wansheng listened to one of the poor people ask; "Uncle, why are you fishing at night?"
Hearing the man's question, the old fisherman neither looked up at him nor replied, but let out a shush, which meant that he did not let people speak, for fear of alarming the fish in the water.
Jin Wansheng took a closer look at the old fisherman from behind, and found that his back was slightly raised, like a Luo pot, and like a hunchbacked man who couldn't straighten his waist, the most strange thing for Jin Wansheng was that the fisherman should look up at everyone, but he didn't look up, he just refused to show their face.
Zhao Ada, who has been begging for a life in the surging river for half his life, is the same as Jin Wansheng, he knows very well the mysterious and strange things in this river, and he knows a little more about the water monsters and various immortals in the river, so he did not step forward to talk to the old fisherman, but hid behind Jin Wansheng.
Maybe it's out of curiosity, maybe it's the weirdness of the old fisherman, which makes Jin Wansheng think of a legend of the fisherman, saying that there is a kind of turtle in this river that has lived for hundreds of years, and wants to cultivate the real body, ranking in the immortal class, often comes out at night, transforms into a human form, and specializes in talking to the fisherman, taking advantage of the fisherman's inattention, dragging the fisherman into the water, absorbing the blood of the fisherman, and obtaining the human yuan and the essence of the person, they can get a hundred years of practice for every time they absorb the blood of a person, if they can obtain the essence and blood of ten people, they can cultivate the mana that overturns the river and the sea, and they can compete with the Dragon King of the East China Sea, and the heavens have no way to take it.
Jin Wansheng was thinking of this, suddenly the wind suddenly rose, the wind faintly sandwiched a smell of blood, originally in this dark night with no fingers in sight, only the fishing fire of the fisherman on the riverside, everyone will feel that the fishing fire will definitely be blown out by this sudden wind, however, what is strange is that the more the wind blows, the flickering fishing fire burns more vigorously, seeing that the wind does not extinguish the fishing fire, but unexpectedly, a gap suddenly cracked in the sky, followed by a lightning, after the lightning, Suddenly, a series of thunderbolts rang out, and the lightning enveloped the thunder and exploded towards the fishing fire.
Click, a series of explosions, a fireball, exploded towards the fishing fire, the fireball exploded, the wind rolled angrily, the two poor people were shaken under the mound, the fishing old man was indifferent, the bold and careful Jin Wansheng, felt that the old man seemed familiar, he moved forward, but unexpectedly, the wind started, Jin Wansheng's body left the ground and floated up.
The thunder and lightning flashed, the sound burst, and the explosion sounded around Jin Wansheng, and the wind blew Jin Wansheng, and rolled to the river, and the fishing fire flickered and was extinguished. Suddenly, the old man quietly dived into the water, and in an instant, a water column rose in the river, catching Jin Wansheng, the water column gradually closed, Jin Wansheng was wrapped in the water column into the river, Zhao Ada, which two poor people fainted on the ground.
Brush, a white light, the river is as bright as day, after the lightning, the thunder strikes the water, it is the place where the water column rises, the river rolls, the white waves are monstrous, rumbling, woo, strange screams, after a long time, the river tends to be calm, the wind stops thundering, the lightning is far away, the river is still the same, the stars in the river sky are twinkling.
Oh oh oh, in the distance, the sound of the rooster crowing on the riverbank faintly reached Zhao Ada's ears, he opened his eyes, looked around, the sky was blue, huh, a sullen breath, gushing out of Zhao A's big chest, he turned over and sat up, through the cloudy sky, looking around, under the mound, two poor people gnawed on the ground, he walked down the mound, bent down and stretched out his hand, plucked the poor people, and shouted in his mouth; "Wake up, Lord Errand! Wake up, Lord Errand! ”
The two messengers were awakened by the shouting, they were confused, they rubbed their eyes, and it took a while to get up from the ground, the sky was bright, and the completely awake messengers looked around, and suddenly, their faces changed greatly, and they asked Zhao Adaa almost at the same time; "What about Jin Wansheng?"
Zhao Adaa replied; "I didn't see it, but when I woke up, I saw you two lying on the ground, so I went up and woke you up."
Hearing Zhao Ada's words, the two messengers looked at each other, leaning, one messenger looked down at his feet, immediately spit on the ground, and then said to the other messenger; "Brother, bad luck, bad luck, did you see it, our brothers lay on the grave all night."
The two messengers hurriedly held hands and walked to the grave, boom, bang, bang, there was an empty sound of turbid waves crashing on the shore under their feet, Zhao Ada, looking at the big river not far from his feet, couldn't help but ask the two errands; "Lord Messenger, do you know where Jin Wansheng went?"
A messenger replied; "We still want to ask you, how did that Jin Wansheng disappear, shouldn't he leave us behind and slip away alone?"
Zhao Adaa hurriedly distinguished Jin Wansheng; "How is that possible, at least, he has to go back and deal with us?"
At this time, another messenger patted his head and said; "It's strange, last night, we saw an old man fishing here with a fishing fire, and I asked him, why is he gone."
After listening to the poor man's words, the other poor man remembered what had happened last night, and he was very nervous and careful to ask the poor man who was standing with him; "Brother, I seem to remember, last night lightning and thunderbolts, for a time the wind was fierce, flying sand and stones, that scene is really scary, could it be that the old man who fished and Jin Wansheng were struck by lightning or blown into the river by the wind."
After listening to the words of the messenger, Zhao Adaa hurriedly said; "Then let's hurry up to the riverside to find out, maybe it is possible for Jin Wansheng to fall by the river."
The two poor people are secretly linked, maybe Zhao Adaa is right, they should go to find it immediately, if they can't find Jin Wansheng, how can they go back to make a difference? So, the three of them began to look for Jin Wansheng along the riverside.
Jin Wansheng was blown into the air by the wind, the old fisherman was cautious, extinguished the fishing fire, and dived into the river silently, and suddenly, a giant old turtle pushed the river to move forward, and when it came to Jin Wansheng's floating body, the giant turtle opened its big mouth, sucked the river water violently, and sprayed it on Jin Wansheng, and then, a column of water caught Jin Wansheng and swept him into the river from mid-air.
Jin Wansheng's whereabouts, the giant turtle immediately turned into a small turtle only the size of a palm, hiding under Jin Wansheng's body, another thunderbolt, pierced through the water, hit Jin Wansheng, but was bounced back, the little turtle shrunk and did not move.
A flash of lightning, a crack in the sky, a click, a series of thunderbolts, after that, the wind swept the river, stirred up the waves, the waves made an oops, and a sigh came from the sky; "Hey, Lei Gong, Electric Mother, you made a mistake, that's an innocent offspring."
So, the lightning was put away, the thunder was stopped, and the sky cleared.
In the big river, the little turtle gradually expanded, and in the blink of an eye, it was a giant turtle, it was holding Jin Wansheng who was stunned by thunder and lightning sneaking in the big river, and after a full hour, the giant turtle carried Jin Wansheng to a lonely island in the heart of the river, Jin Wansheng was still unconscious, and the giant turtle saw this, muttered; "If you save my life, I will pay you back."
After the giant turtle muttered, it writhed for a while, and gradually a human figure appeared, looking closely, wouldn't it be the blind fortune teller that Jin Wansheng met in the wine shop a few days ago, he first looked at Jin Wansheng who closed his eyes and fainted, and spit out a bead from his mouth, and then pried open Jin Wansheng's mouth with his tongue, and spit the bead in his mouth into Jin Wansheng's mouth, and then pinched his throat, and heard a grunt, Jin Wansheng swallowed the bead into his stomach.
After a while, Jin Wansheng breathed a sigh of relief, and after a while, Jin Wansheng opened his eyes and looked around, he first saw an old man wearing a hat and covering his face with a black cloth, his face was not clear, but his body shape was very familiar, Jin Wansheng turned over and sat up, clenching his fists; "Dare to ask the old man, you are the one who has just fished by the river."
The old man said angrily; "What are you doing inquiring about these things, this descendant?"
Jin Wansheng hurriedly said; "I remember that a group of four of us went to find the Peach Blossom Spring, but to no avail, came back at night, came to the riverside, saw an old man fishing by the river all night, but suddenly a whole wind blew, and then there was a thunderbolt, I was blown up in the air by the wind, unfortunately and was blown down into the river, but why did I get here?"