Everyone followed the riverside path, walked for two or three miles, and a ferry port appeared, and there was a post station near the ferry, and next to the post station, it was an inn.

At this time, the boats near the ferry port are endless, and the ferry port is also full of people, some boarding and some unloading, which seems to be very busy. Draft, revised tomorrow.

When passing by the post station, Xiao Laodao and the grandfather glanced inside, the post station compound was brightly lit, the room was even more noisy, on both sides of the courtyard, there were more than a dozen military horses tied to them, and swords, guns, swords, and halberds were immediately hung, and it seemed that a team of passing officers and soldiers were resting in the post station.

In the past, post stations were owned by official families, and most of them were used to transmit government information, military information, etc., and rarely received ordinary people.

Walking through the post station, everyone walked towards the inn next to them, walked into the inn, the inn was actually deserted, the ferry was full of people, and the inn should be very lively.

Xiao Laodao glanced at the inn, greeted the master, turned around and left, at this time, the shopkeeper chased out of the store, "A few masters, are you going to hit the tip or live in the hotel?" ”

Xiao Laodao glanced back at the shopkeeper, and beckoned a few masters, "Let's go, don't pay attention to him......"

The crowd did not look back, followed the riverside path, left the ferry, and continued to walk forward. After walking a short distance, a small village appeared by the river, and at this time, the master asked Xiao Laodao, "Was there anything wrong with the inn just now?" ”

Xiao Laodao said: "Now is the time to eat, but there is no guest in their inn, not quite right, and the shopkeeper, there is a waist knife hidden under his clothes, what is he doing with a shopkeeper hiding a knife." ”

"Is it a black shop?" The grandfather asked.

Xiao Laodao shook his head, "How dare the black shop open next to the post station of the official mansion?" I think there's something else going on. After a pause, Xiao Laodao continued: "Since we came out of the mountains and forests, I have always felt that something is wrong, but I can't see anything wrong. As he spoke, the group walked into the village, "All in all, let's be careful." ”

The village by the river is quite big, there can be hundreds of families, the village is surrounded by mountains, at this time, every household is lit up, Xiao Laodao knocked on the door of a house, and a middle-aged man walked out of it, Xiao Laodao explained to him that he wanted to spend a night and eat something, of course, the silver is indispensable to them.

The middle-aged man looked at the grandfather, didn't say a word, closed the door directly, and then, through the door panel, said to the grandfather, go east for more than two miles, there is a ferry, there is an inn at the ferry, go there to stay.

The ferry that the middle-aged man said was the place where the grandfather and the others came just now, and when the grandfather heard this, they glanced at each other, Xiao Laodao showed a suspicious face, and waved his hand at the grandfather.

Later, they shouted to open the door of a house in the village, and the family actually did the same as the middle-aged man said, not to stay overnight, and let them go to the ferry. This made the grandfather feel that the people in this village seemed to be in collusion with the inn at the ferry. However, the inn at the ferry must not be visited again.

Everyone had no choice but to leave the village and go forward, and they didn't know how far they had to go, everyone was sleepy, and looked at the large and small peaks not far from the river, and in desperation, they climbed a hill and set up camp on the top of the mountain.

Early the next morning, pack up and continue to hurry, walk can have more than ten miles, the road by the river is blocked by the mountain, at the foot of the mountain, there is another ferry, this ferry is much smaller than before, it seems to be built by the people nearby, there are no merchant ships on the river, all are passenger boats of ferrymen, at this time, the people of the ferry are not too many.

When the grandfather and a few people came to the ferry, a passenger boat had just left, and there was no one on the shore, only a few grandfathers were left, but they saw that in the distance on the river, another passenger boat was slowly heading towards the ferry.

A few people waited for a while, and the passenger boat in the distance sailed to the shore, and saw two swarthy boatmen standing one after the other on the boat. ”

The master was just about to agree, but Xiao Laodao hurriedly replied loudly: "It's just Jiang, I'm just here to give it away." ”

When the master heard this, they all looked at Xiao Laodao in amazement, but Xiao Laodao gave everyone a look and turned to leave. Seeing this, everyone had no choice but to leave with Xiao Laodao.

The boatman at the bow of the boat shouted at this time: "Some, if you want to cross the river, I will give a few cheaper, otherwise, if you want to get to the next ferry, you will have to climb over this mountain and walk dozens of miles." ”

Xiao Laodao took the lead and walked in front, without looking back, and after walking away, the master asked Xiao Laodao: "Brother Xiao, aren't we going to cross the river, why don't we get on the boat?" ”

Xiao Laodao replied: "Didn't you find that the draft of the hull is very deep, an empty boat, two boatmen, the boat can't have such a deep draft, there must be a dark cabin in the boat, there are many people hidden, or there are a lot of stones and ropes, and when the boat sails to the middle of the river, the boatman kills people and crosses the goods, and then ties the body to the stone and sinks to the bottom of the river, without knowing it." ”

"Really?" When Xiaoqing heard this, he looked a little incredulous.

Xiao Laodao said: "Poor Dao has been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and he will never be mistaken. ”

The master frowned and said, "I didn't expect there to be so many dangers here. ”

Xiao Laodao shook his head, "There weren't so many in the past, there must be something strange, I'm worried that these are related to the appearance of strange treasures." ”

"So what to do? Shall we not go looking for exotic treasures? Xiaoqing on the side asked.

Xiao Laodao glanced at Xiaoqing, "If you come, you will be safe, we have all come here, how can we give up halfway, but we need to be more careful." ”

Further on, the ferry was blocked by the mountain, so everyone had to leave the river and walk north along the foot of the mountain, looking for a way up the mountain.

After walking for more than a mile, the mountain gradually slowed down, and a little torch light appeared in front of them, and everyone stopped, and saw that there was a road up the mountain in front of them, but it was guarded by the officers and soldiers, and it seemed that going up the mountain would be investigated.

Xiao Laodao didn't let everyone go forward anymore, because everyone was carrying grave diggers and grave diggers, and they couldn't be checked by these officers and soldiers.

Everyone bypassed the officers and soldiers at the intersection in front of them and continued to walk forward, this time, not far away, a small village appeared in front of them, built against the mountain.

When everyone came to the entrance of the village, they found that there were a lot of horses in the village, and when they looked closely, they seemed to be all military horses, and some of them were still hanging with knives and guns.

I had seen officers and soldiers at the post station before, but I didn't expect to meet more officers and soldiers in the village, what are so many officers and soldiers doing here?

Everyone did not dare to enter the village, but fortunately there was a path up the mountain at the head of the village, which was unguarded, and several people quietly followed the path into the mountain.

This path may be the path taken by the villagers to herd sheep on the mountain, it is very narrow, and the road is gone halfway up the mountain, and the night is dark, and it feels like it can't reach the sky or the ground.

Everyone searched in the steep mountains, and barely found a piece of flat land, there was no road on the mountain, and it was not a good thing to walk around on the roadless mountain at night, so everyone stopped on the flat land, huddled together and dealt with it all night, digging graves, walking the rivers and lakes, and that's it, there was wind and rain, bitter and sweet.

After dawn, Xiao Chujiu took the lead, opened the road in front with a big knife, and everyone continued to climb the mountain. At noon, I arrived at the top of the mountain, condescendingly looked around, on one side is the verdant mountains, on the other side is the rolling Yangtze River like a white jade belt, at this time you can see the other side of the river, the opposite bank is also a mountain peak, the Yangtze River water is like flowing through the middle of two mountains.

Xiao Laodao greeted everyone, don't look at it, continue to hurry, this place is still far from the place where the strange treasure appears.

Over the mountains and mountains, everyone walked in the mountains by the river and walked for several days, and when the dry food was almost finished, there was no road on the mountain, a straight and steep mountain peak came and went, looked up, the master seemed to be under the cliff, but then looked down, there was also a cliff below, two high and low cliffs, like two huge steps.

However, under the cliff where they were, they actually saw a thatched house, which seemed to be a small village, and a few people seemed to be fishing by the river.

Xiao Laodao hurriedly beckoned Xiao Chujiu, picked up all the ropes in the baggage, and went down the cliff.

After the rope was connected, it was tied to a big tree on the edge of the cliff, and the rope was thrown down the cliff, which was not bad, just on the ground.

A few people went down the rope to the bottom of the cliff, the small village is not big, more than a dozen families, the villagers heard that the master climbed down from the cliff, very surprised, said that no one has ever come down from the cliff, and asked a few people what they were doing in their village.

Xiao Laodao said that he originally wanted to cross the river, but he encountered a few gangsters, so he had to venture into the mountains, hoping to find ferries and boats again.

When all the villagers heard this, they all dispersed, and no one paid attention to the grandfather and a few people, and the grandfather grabbed a villager and asked what was going on?

It doesn't matter, dozens of people in the whole village, large and small, all copied the guys, and it seemed that they were going to play with the grandfather, Xiao Laodao hurriedly asked the grandfather to let go of the villagers and apologize to the villagers.

An old man in the village pointed to a broken boat by the river, saying that the people in their village did not welcome the grandfather and a few outsiders, and if they wanted to leave, they would either climb back to the cliff along the rope or row the broken boat to leave, or they would arrest the grandfather and report to the official. However, if you row away and get caught, don't say that the boat is for you.

In the face of the sudden abnormal behavior of the villagers, the grandfather felt very strange, but he didn't want to hurt the innocent, let alone climb back to the cliff along the rope, so he had to walk on the broken boat by the river.

According to Xiao Laodao, a boat is stronger than nothing, and it is better than those black ships.

The master was at the helm, Xiao Chujiu and Xiao 11 rowed, and soon, the boat left the village.

However, not long after walking towards the river, there was a whirlpool on the river, the boat did not dare to approach the whirlpool, seeing that the river could not pass, as long as the boat rowed, against the current, hoping to bypass the whirlpool, who would have thought, the whirlpool one after another, can only row up again.

I don't know how far I rowed out against the current, there was a click from the bottom of the boat, Xiao Laodao suddenly screamed that it was not good, and the hull of the boat cracked......