According to the location indicated by Huang Laohan, the marine police sent us to the Xia Xiaowan Wharf on Xishan Island in Gusu, which is also an abandoned wharf, but the time is relatively close, and it can be seen that it was abandoned in the seventies and eighties. There are also several abandoned yachts parked on the docks.

Before getting off the boat, they asked us to do a simple registration as a record, but these were all handled by Huang Laohan.

However, before leaving, the captain still specially mentioned: "I heard that recently, the Buddhist and Taoist temples in the Ethereal Peak of Xishan Island have closed their doors and no longer accept tourists. ”

As soon as we got off the boat, my sister took me to an abandoned control room on the dock and brought me some dry clothes to change, but these clothes were my sister's women's clothes, and I would rather be cold than wear her clothes, so I decisively refused and ran out to blow the cold wind.

At this time, Grandpa Gan was observing the feng shui of the entire Xishan Island, but Xishan Island was more than ten kilometers long, and he couldn't see the whole picture, which made Grandpa Gan also a little difficult.

And Huang Laohan was depressed because the only fishing boat was destroyed, and he squatted on the shore and smoked a cigarette sullenly. In a short contact, I learned that Huang Laohan has two identities, in front of ordinary people, he is a fisherman, and his real identity is a Duyin person, but no matter which identity, it is inseparable from water and boats. Now that the ship has been wrecked and there is the ferocious whirling turtle under the water, it has almost cut off his way of life, perhaps for him his livelihood is not a big problem, but the few street children who rely on him to support him will starve and freeze again.

We had stayed for less than five minutes when we heard five or six people rushing out of the road in front of us, all dressed in Taoist robes, rushing towards us with great vigour.

Since I am a Taoist priest, I must be a person in this Taoist temple, so I didn't have much vigilance, and wanted to go forward to find out, but I didn't expect Grandpa Gan to suddenly turn his head and glare at me, and then his fingers moved slightly, signaling me to hide.

I was standing outside the door of the control room, and there was a crane in front of me, so the other party didn't see me, but went straight to my godfather.

I wasn't stunned, after getting the warning from my godfather, although I didn't understand his intentions, I immediately knocked on the door of the control room, and whispered to my sister not to come out, and then I came to the back of the crane and poked my head out to look.

Each of the Taoist priests in that group was holding a flashlight, and the light was shining from afar, and the light was very bright.

Grandpa Gan and Bai Ling stood side by side, as steady as Mount Tai, and Huang Laohan threw away his cigarette butt and walked up.

The men quickly came to them, and one of them asked aloud, "Who are you?" What to do in the middle of the night on Xishan Island! ”

The three of them each reported their names, which really surprised these people, and a few people whispered, and then the person who shouted before said: "I am waiting for the seat of the Ethereal Palace on Xishan Island, and since I am a distinguished guest, please go up the mountain to talk about it." ”

However, this person's tone is not very good, with a hint of caution, and there is a feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away.

Grandpa pondered for a few seconds and said, "Okay, lead the way." ”

A few people nodded and left the dock with Grandpa Godon and the others, but they also left two people behind, holding flashlights and starting to check the dock around.

My heart jumped, these people were so alert.

I was thinking about how to avoid the search of these people, when a hand suddenly reached out from behind me and grabbed my shoulder, which really startled me.

She made a silent gesture to me, then pulled out a piece of talisman paper from her whisker and placed it in her hand

After a slight shake, he put the talisman paper on himself, and then hugged me tightly in his arms, and pressed me to the cold iron pillar of the crane, I felt my cheeks instantly buried between the two hills, and a refreshing fragrance flowed into my nose.

My sister clung to me and protected me under her, she didn't move, and I didn't dare to move.

One of the Taoist priests who was inspecting soon came to our location, but in the light of the light, he walked past us without looking back, as if he had not seen us at all.

He walked straight into the control room, took a turn in it, and then walked out and shouted at the door: "Lao Chen, there is a woman's fragrance in here!" Hey, it smells so good, it must be a pretty girl! ”

The Taoist priest known as Lao Chen hurried over, stood inside and sniffed carefully, and said: "Don't be a nymphomaniac, there is still the fishy smell of the lake, it must have just been gone, there must be someone on the island with them in addition to those three people just now, maybe hide somewhere, let's look for it again!" ”

With that, Lao Chen dispersed with another Taoist priest again and searched carefully on the dock.

After about ten minutes like this, I was so overwhelmed by my senior sister that the two Taoist priests met in the middle of the dock and said that no one had been found, so the two of them immediately decided to go back quickly to report to the palace master.

It wasn't until the two of them disappeared that the senior sister let go of her hand, sniffed her clothes, and said, "Is the smell on my body so strong?" I've never used perfume before! ”

I was embarrassed, girls have natural fragrances, and she can't smell them herself, even if she is soaked in the fishy lake water. However, it seemed to me that she had been pressing it for so long, it was indeed quite strong, a bit like a creamy taste, and it almost hooked my gluttony.

But this is not the time to think about this, I asked, "Senior sister, what method did you use just now?" That person walked past us without noticing! ”

Senior Sister smiled and said, "That's the hiding technique with a vein, Zhou Tian drew it, and gave me three of them." ”

The senior sister, who has always been at odds with her senior brother, said it at this moment, with a hint of pride on her face.

"But why didn't Grandpa Godfather let me show my head, aren't these people from the Daomen?" I asked.

"Do you remember what the captain said to us when we went ashore? Think about it, all the temples are closed, how can there be Taoist priests in this place in the middle of the night? They must have seen the marine police's boat docked and came to find out, and ordinary people don't care about a public boat, so there must be something greasy about it. Senior sister said in a low voice.

"So what do we do? Will they be in danger of godgrandpa? Do you want to keep up? "I can't help but worry about my godfather's safety.

After thinking about it, the master and the senior brother disappeared after arriving on the island, and maybe it had something to do with these Taoist priests.

Senior Sister shook her head and said, "Let's find a village to inquire about before making a decision, I just saw a dense light in front of me on the boat, and it is estimated that there is a village not far from us." ”

So we discredited and headed in the direction that my sister had said, and we kept ourselves as low as we could along the way, letting the trees around us block us.

After about half an hour, we came to the outside of a small village on the west bank.

This is a very modern village, with more than a dozen floors of hotels and several manors, all kinds of homestays, although it is close to midnight at the moment, but the streets are still full of people, the lights are bustling, than

Qihu City Fishing Boat Wharf is even more victorious.

However, I know that for the tourism development along the Taihu Lake, Gusu and Liangxi are the pioneers, and this grand occasion is also reasonable. And in such a busy street, it is like a fish in water for me and my senior sister to hide.

So we quickly merged into the brightly lit streets, turning into ordinary tourists.

We found a local food stall and asked the owner what was good to eat.

The owner was very hospitable and introduced us to some of his signature snacks, shrimp and crepe ravioli, osmanthus sweet wine, crab roe siu mai and scallion pancakes.

We didn't want to listen to his endless introduction to food, so we each ordered a bowl of shrimp and crepe wontons, because Suzhou-style snacks are widely spread in the Taihu Lake Basin, so we can all eat them on the snack street in Lake City, the taste is mainly light and sweet, with rice vinegar is the best.

After the boss made the wontons and brought them up, he couldn't help but say to his senior sister: "Girl, don't look at you looking young and beautiful, I didn't expect the children to be so old and go to elementary school, right?" ”

Senior sister rolled her eyes and said, "This is my brother, am I that old?" ”

"Haha......" The boss was also embarrassed by his recklessness, rubbed his hands, and smiled, "Then you eat." ”

With that, he turned to greet the other guests.

It was the senior sister who stopped him and said, "Boss, I have a question I want to ask you." ”

Because he almost offended his senior sister before, the boss was also humble and said, "You say." ”

"I heard that all the temples and Taoist temples on the Ethereal Peak are closed, is that the case?" Senior sister asked.

The boss nodded vigorously and said: "Yes, now the entire Ethereal Peak has been forbidden to tourists to enter, I heard that the Ethereal Palace is going to hold some kind of sacrificial conference, and the road up the mountain has always been blocked, and the number of tourists has been reduced by nearly half, these religious people can really come to things." ”

"Sacrificial assembly?" Senior Sister muttered.

The boss heard it and said, "I just heard that because the news is blocked very well, we don't know what the situation is, but all the tourists who want to go up the mountain have been driven down." ”

The boss said and pondered for a few seconds, and then said: "But I saw a group of strange people going up the mountain some time ago, but no one stopped them, so I guess they were invited to observe." ”

"Oh? What do those people look like? Senior Sister asked after that.

"Well...... I don't remember the others, but I saw a disabled person, in a wheelchair, but he seemed to have a high status, and someone pushed him up the mountain. The boss touched his forehead and recalled.

As soon as I heard the person in the wheelchair, my heart suddenly beat wildly......

The boss seemed to feel that the senior sister was asking a little carefully, so he continued: "Hey, girl, why are you asking so carefully?" Do you know any of those people? ”

Senior sister waved her hand and said: "It's nothing, it's just curious, no one else is allowed to enter, why can those people go up the mountain, it is estimated that the status is not ordinary." ”

The boss recognized the senior sister's words very much, and nodded like a chicken pecking rice: "That's right, that's right, alas...... Powerful people are different, where they want to go, how can we ordinary people compare, even those monks who have seen through the mortal world have to be next to it. ”

As soon as the boss's voice fell, my senior sister suddenly pulled me, and I looked back suddenly, only to see three people in civilian clothes walking slowly in our direction, one of them was one of the Taoist priests searching on the dock!