After Uncle Shi left, I asked Niu Meng what he thought about this matter.

Niu Meng said, I don't have any special opinions, the demon world has been there, and he can accept whatever happens in this world. Even if Zhuge Liang suddenly came back to life, it was not unusual.

He just felt that Wan Qifeng didn't seem to be coming for Nanya, nor did he seem to be coming for me.

I asked him why he thought that?

Niu Meng shook his head, "I don't know, but I think someone like Wan Qifeng, will he tell you his intentions clearly?" Definitely not. ”

Niu Meng's ideas are sometimes quite unique, and from time to time two words that are worth pondering.

So, the question is, if Wan Qifeng is not aiming at me and Nanya, then who will he be aiming at?

On my second thought, it's true that this matter is a bit strange. Yao Mocking has nothing to do with Nan Ya, Wan Qifeng forced Nan Ya to show up by tying up Yao Mockery, which is indeed far-fetched.

At this time, I remembered what Chasing Feng said, the craftsmen who renovated the mausoleum met the cat demon in the mausoleum, this cat demon should be Yao Xiaomei, right?

That's it, since Uncle Shi is going back to Beijing to find Grandpa, Jinling has temporarily lost a strong support, I still follow what Uncle Shi said, don't act rashly.

In the afternoon, the snow was falling again.

Niu Meng and I drank soju under the eaves, and Miss Tang and the others rested in the room. In winter, they are especially able to sleep. Yao Xiaomei hasn't come back yet, and she doesn't know what happened to her in the demon world, whether she is pregnant or not.

But whether she is pregnant or not, how to deal with her when she comes back is also a problem for me.

"Brother Nine?" Niu Meng suddenly called out to me.

"What's wrong?" I looked up at Niu Meng.

"Let's go to Yongquan Lake and have a look."

I waved my hand, "Didn't Hunter send someone to guard there?" What's there to see. ”

Niu Meng explained: "I mean, go to Yongquan Lake to see how thick the ice is, didn't Uncle Shi say that Yongquan Lake has not frozen for hundreds of years?" ”

I thought about it and felt that what Niu Meng said made sense, so I confessed to Xiaoyu and rushed to Yongquan Lake with Niu Meng.

When I got out of the Jinling City Gate, I found that the snow in the suburbs had reached the knee-length level, and if it continued like this, it would not be long before the snow would reach the waist position.

Such a heavy snow can only be seen on the Manchu side of the northeast, and it will have to go north. It is said that in the Rus' Kingdom in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the snow in some places could be as thick as a house.

Some people say that the Rus country is also called the Rakshasa country, but it is not the Rakshasa country of the Tang Dynasty. He also said that the girls of the Rus' country were blonde and blue-eyed, and they were very good-looking. I haven't seen it anyway.

It is estimated that such a heavy snow can fall in Jinling, which can be regarded as making history.

Niu Meng and I came to Yongquan Lake and felt even more weird.

The lake was frozen, but the thickness of the snow remained the same, exactly the same as when we came to Yuanfu two days ago, but the snow on the shore reached knee level.

I jumped into the lake and stomped hard, but I didn't react at all. There was no shaking of the ice, and there were not even cracks in the entire lake. This shows that the thickness of the ice in Yongquan Lake has exceeded my imagination.

Niu Meng also jumped down, took out the pig-killing knife on his waist, and said, "Cut it and see, with my experience, this ice layer must be at least a zhang thick." ”

After Niu Meng finished speaking, he began to draw on the ice.

He looked very experienced, and stabbed his knife into the ice, drawing a rectangle in a proper manner. Then he smashed a few hard punches with his fist, and then used the knife to pry back and forth twice, and cut a rectangular ice cube down.

With a cut, the next step was much easier, and Niu Meng slowly cut through the ice cubes and cut out a step. This can be avoided, digging too deep and not being able to come up.

I was there to help catch the ice that Niu Meng threw at me.

When I dug about a foot deep, there was still ice underneath, and there was no water in sight. Frozen fish can already be seen in the cut ice.

I'm getting more and more curious, how thick is this ice?

Seeing that Niu Meng was digging too slowly, I went to Hunter and asked him to call a lot of people, bringing hammers and pickaxes to help dig.

Dozens of people doubled the steps they had dug to create a decent one.

I have been digging for more than two hours, and I have not seen any water.

The depth has reached about five zhang.

Hunter stood next to me, his brows furrowed, "Ninth Prince, the entire Yongquan Lake won't all be frozen, right?" ”

I shook my head, "I don't know, no one knows how deep Yongquan Lake is, let's dig it until night." By the way, you should also send some men here, and don't let anyone get near here. ”

Hunter arched his hand at me, "Got it." ”

It's weirder than I ever imagined.

The current low temperature can cause the lake to freeze, but it is absolutely impossible for the lake to form such a thick layer of ice.

What's more, freezing three feet is not a day's cold, how can it be that the entire Yongquan Lake is frozen all of a sudden?

Yongquan Lake and the Yangtze River are interconnected, and finally run east into the sea through the Yangtze River.

To set off here, to the entrance of the Yangtze River, about 300 miles. If you ride a horse from the lake, it will take you six or seven hours to go back and forth.

It's not like even the Yangtze River is frozen, right?

"Shadow hunter, you go find me a horse." I commanded.

Hunter frowned, "The Ninth Prince wants to go to Yongquan Lake to have a look?" ”

I nodded.

"I'll accompany the Ninth Prince." Hunter said.

I waved my hand, "No, I'll go by myself, you watch here, and keep digging down until you reach the ground." ”

"Understood."

After being impaled through the heart by the Devil's Foot Seven, I gained a new understanding of my body's ability to recover.

As long as it's not the kind of move that directly makes my whole person disappear, I seem to ...... Can't die?

I don't know if there will be danger on the other side of Yongquan Lake, and if you come across something dangerous, it will be a trouble to bring other people.

After Hunter brought the horse over, he wrapped a cloth around the horse's hooves to prevent the horse's hooves from slipping on the ice.

I asked him to send someone back to Yishui Pavilion to explain, and said that I would stay in Yuanfu for one night, so that they didn't have to worry.

So he mounted his horse and hurried to the other side of Yongquan Lake.

The vast surface of the lake is snow-white, and when you look at it from a distance, it forms a line with the horizon, so that you can't see the end.

I deliberately rode to the Lake Center Pavilion to take a look, and there was no surprise. didn't enter the demon world inexplicably like last time.

Seeing that there was no problem, he continued to walk forward.

On the white lake, there was nothing but the sound of the wind and the clattering hooves of horses.

The grass and trees on the shore have long been covered with snow, and from a distance, there is only a piece of silver.

I rode forward for about an hour, when I suddenly saw a blue line in the distance instead of a white patch.

And he hurried over.

When I got closer, I gradually realized that there was a lake in front of me. When you get closer, you realize that the ice has ended here.

Yongquan Lake seems to have been cut in two with a knife, with ice on one side and lake water on the other.

Such a phenomenon is absolutely impossible to happen under normal circumstances.

But in front of me was the lake, which was still surging.

Could it be that there are really people who rebel against the sky, arrange powerful Taoist techniques, change the qi of heaven and earth, and deliberately make the front half of Yongquan Lake all condense into ice?

But even so, what is the purpose of freezing the lake?

By this time it was already dark, so I hurriedly rode back. Now that we know about the freezing of Yongquan Lake, there is no need to go to the mouth of the Yangtze River again.

When I was about to return to Jinling City, it was already late. However, when it snows, the night is not particularly dark, but dusk. Even if my eyes don't have special abilities, the average person can see clearly on a snowy night.

The speed of the horses is also getting slower and slower, and they are probably tired after running for so long.

At this time, I noticed two red lanterns not far ahead, and if I remember correctly, they should be the location of the island in the middle of the lake.

I frowned, and entered the passage to the demon realm again? When I came, there was no one on the island in the middle of the lake, so who was going to light the red lantern at this time.

Sure enough, it was exactly as I guessed, and I rode towards the red lantern, but I couldn't reach the position of the red lantern.

I remember that last time I was like this with Niu Meng, no matter how I rowed the boat, I couldn't get close to the red lantern, and in the end, when we were sleeping, the boat moved on its own, and I arrived at the demon world inexplicably.

But this time I'm on horseback, what should I do?

Just as I was trying to figure out a way, there was a plop, and I fell directly into the lake with people and horses.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, I didn't have time to react and choked on a few mouthfuls of water.

The horses are fine, horses are natural swimmers, but nothing is wrong. The ice suddenly disappeared, and it seemed that he had reached the demon realm. And the temperature has suddenly risen, and it is not as cold as before.

The island in the middle of the lake is also gone, and the red lantern has become the red lantern of the ferry. The last time Niu Meng and I came to the demon world, it was from this ferry that we went ashore.

So I led my horse in the water and hurried towards the ferry.

When we arrived at the ferry, everything was exactly the same as the last time we came. The difference is that there is no one at the ferry this time.

I tied my horse to the ferry for the time being, and walked alone towards the gate of Jinling City. I don't care if the clothes on my body are all soaked, and when I enter the palace to see the emperor, she will arrange for me.

The Jinling City here is the real Jinling City, and the plaques on the city gates are engraved with the word "Jinling".

Jinling in the human world is different, and the human world is engraved with "Yingtian." ”

As soon as I reached the gates, I was stopped by the guards. However, the guards did not stop me from entering the city, but told me to wait for a while, and a carriage would come and take me directly to the palace.

I nodded, and waited for the carriage to arrive.

After a while, a carriage of luxury-looking carriage drove by, again pulled by eight horses at the same time. Isn't this the emperor's car?

I thought Mu Rong was going to get off the carriage, but it turned out that four palace maids came out, invited me into the carriage, and said that they would take me into the palace on the orders of the emperor.

I sat in the carriage, and the four maids followed, but they all knelt.

"That...... Is Yao mocking in the palace? I asked.

A palace maid replied, "Is the ninth prince talking about Princess Mulan?" ”

"Princess Mulan?"

"Well, Yao Mocking is Princess Mulan's pseudonym in the human world, and Princess Mulan's real name is Yao Mulan."

I nodded, "Oh...... I see. Is she in the palace then? ”

The palace maid shook her head, "Princess Mulan just returned to the human realm an hour ago. ”

I originally wanted to ask Yao Yimei again if she was pregnant, but after thinking about it, I didn't ask again.