Lu Yu was stunned for a moment and sighed: "Yes, except for the sound of water and wind, there is some silence around." "On both sides of the river, there are high and low cliffs, and there are many dead and yellow bushes and shrubs hanging on the top of the cliffs, but there is no life in them, let alone apes and beasts, not even birds and insects.

Yan Xi'an asked: "Is it that there are no other living creatures around here except for a few of us, as well as the fish in the river?" ”

"I don't know, maybe there is." In fact, Lu Yu could still release his divine sense to check if there were other living creatures around, but he felt that there was no need for this.

Yan Xiding was very optimistic, and said: "I think, when the weather is warm, the grass, trees, and everything will be green, and those birds and beasts will always come back, and they will definitely not be like this forever." ”

"I hope so, otherwise there is a huge Yangshan Mountain, if there is really no living thing or anything, it will be too terrible."

Yan Xiding said gloomily this time: "If there are no beasts, then we will no longer be able to eat meat, so we can only eat fish." ”

"That's not right, we still have sheep and chickens, and we can eat chicken and mutton." Lan Shaofang doesn't seem to know that chickens can not only make people eat meat, but also lay eggs.

"Ugh." Yan Xiding shook his head.

After holding the wooden raft for a while, Lu Yu stopped supporting the penny and let the wooden raft float downstream along the flowing water by itself. The rivers in the mountains are often rapid and slow, wide and narrow, but the river where the four people are located, this long section, is always not rapid or slow, and the width is almost the same, and the change is not obvious. Lu Yu felt curious, and said, "I think this river seems to have been dug out by man. ”

Yan Xiding immediately said: "That's impossible, such a big river, who has such a big ability to dig it out?" ”

"If one person can't dig it, it's ten people, and if ten people can't dig it, it's a hundred, a thousand, or ......ten thousand," Lu Yu said, "Although manpower is weak, it can often make earth-shattering and unimaginable big causes." This kind of great event requires thousands of people, ten years and hundreds of years, and there is always a chance to accomplish it after painstaking efforts and painstaking efforts. You can see that although the two sides of the river are uneven, the side of the river is neat and gentle, and there are not many reefs in the river that are exposed to the water, so it does look like an artificial river. ”

Yan Xiding shook his head and said: "Then I still don't believe it, digging a river, a big river that is not known to be hundreds of miles long, manpower will definitely not work, unless there is a god to help." ”

Yan Xi'an said: "You don't have to dig a whole river completely, maybe this river existed before, and later people only added and repaired it, and it became what it is today." After a pause, she added, "Even so, to dig up such a big river is a great achievement." ”

"But who is it, why do you want to make such a big river in this barren mountain?"

Lu Yu thought for a while and said, "Then it's not clear, maybe in ancient times, this river was the main road for transportation." I just don't know where the upstream and downstream are connected. ”

Yan Xi'an said: "I don't know upstream, but we may be able to arrive soon." ”

Lu Yu smiled: "If we just keep paddling down, then I don't know how long it will take to row to the end of the river." ”

Yan Xiding immediately spoke: "It doesn't matter, let's just row slowly, don't teleport directly to the end, that would be too boring." He sat next to Lan Shaofang in the middle of the wooden row, and seemed to be in a good mood.

"If you don't pass it on, otherwise our wooden steak will be made in vain." Lu Yu smiled and said, "Besides, I don't know where this river flows, and I can't pass it." ”

Yan Xi'an asked: "It's getting dark that day, do we want to go back and come back tomorrow?" ”

Lu Yu looked up at the sky, it was still a while before it got dark, but the sun was indeed already in the west, and part of his figure was obscured by the peaks in the distance. He said, "Let's go back, or your parents will be worried." ”

"Okay, then let's bring some fish back, just in time to go home and cook." Yan Xi'an stood on the wooden raft and stretched her long lazy waist, showing off her slender and slender figure.

Lu Yu glanced at Yan Xi'an, and then raised his head to look at the sunset on the horizon.

Stopping the wooden raft on the shore, and feeling uneasy, Lu Yu simply moved the wooden raft to the shore and put it under a tree. The wooden raft is made of giant trees and wild vines, and after soaking in water for most of the day, these dead vines have been soaked a little loosely and can no longer be used.

Putting down the wooden raft, Lu Yu said: "Now this place, from the riverbank where we started, is probably hundreds of miles away." The steps of the four of them were already extremely fast, and after walking for half a day, they changed to a wooden raft and went downstream, and the journey was even faster.

Yan Xiding said: "It's only more than a hundred miles, and it doesn't seem to be very fast." Maybe our boat can't work, if only there was a clipper. ”

Yan Xi'an said: "Then why don't you say to get a canopy boat?" People can still live in it. ”

"Hehe, if there is, it would be better, then I won't go home at night, just stay on the boat."

……

When Lu Yu and the four of them returned home, they saw Yan Jibai and his wife, and told them about the day they had been out today. Lu Yu told Yan Jibai that the river in Yangshan has always been wide and narrow for hundreds of miles, like it was artificially trimmed.

Yan Jibai asked Lu Yu how big that river was.

Lu Yu described the scale of the river, and said, "What you said is possible. I have heard people say that in ancient times, there were seven man-made rivers under this world, each of which was thousands of miles long, connecting several countries and states, and was the most important canal in the world. It's just that after all, this legend may not be done, and the legend has been a long time, even if these big rivers are true, but after a thousand years, the world has changed many times, and the vicissitudes of life have been rotated several times, and now no one knows whether these big rivers are still there. ”

"Whatever, anyway, this river is very big, our goal is to flow to the end and see if that place is really Lan Shaofang's hometown." Yan Xiding was not in the mood to listen to the story at all.

Lan Shaofang turned her head and glanced at Yan Xiding, her expression a little complicated.

Lu Yu asked Yan Jibai, what are the names of the seven rivers.

Yan Jibai said the names of a few rivers, which Lu Yu had never heard of. In the end, Yan Jibai said: "According to the records of ancient books, according to the legend of the old people, there are three rivers that are most likely to pass through Yangshan, and I think they will be 'Wen River, Zhongtiao River, and Wudu River'. ”

Yan Xi'an said that these three names are very good, but I don't know which one in Yangshan will be "Wen River, Zhongtiao River, and Wudu River".

Yan Xiding said: "Maybe it's none of them, it doesn't matter if this one is ......" He turned his head and asked Lan Shaofang: "Shaofang, which of the three names my father said do you think is good?" ”

"'Wen River, Zhongtiao River, Wudu River' three?" Lan Shaofang's memory is good, she thought about it and said, "Wuduchuan, I like this name." Of course, Lan Shaofang probably didn't know what Wuduchuan meant.

"Then it will be done, this river will have a name in the future, called 'Wudu River'." Yan Xi waved his hand, indicating that it was decided.

Lu Yu and Yan Xi'an have no opinion, who cares if the river is Wudu River or not, since it has a name, then that's it. And Lan Shaofang's slightly dark face seemed to reveal a hint of redness.

Early the next morning, Lu Yu first went to Anding Valley, picked some newly grown vegetables in the valley vegetable field, and then brought back a few sheep inside. The seedlings in the rice fields are growing and flourishing, and the goats can no longer stay in them.

When they got home, Mrs. Yan had already made breakfast, and they were eating. Lu Yu drove the goats into the sheepfold in the backyard, and remembered that there was still no grass outside Anding Valley, and the sheep could only eat hay and soybeans when they came out.

Since the sheep were driven out, Lu Yu didn't bother to send them back, not to mention that the Bai couple didn't necessarily want to watch the sheep in the valley. So Lu Yu took a bundle of hay, carried a small bag of not very good beans, and put it into the sheepfold.

After eating in a hurry, without even wiping his mouth, Yan Xiding came over to urge Lu Yu and asked him when he would go rowing again.

Lu Yu said that it was not called rowing, it was a wooden row. He asked Yan Xiding to find a few strong ropes to come over, and he had to go and tie the wooden rafts in bundles today, otherwise he was afraid that they would fall apart.

Lu Yu's house has hemp ropes, mulberry ropes, and ropes made of tendons and skins of various beasts left when hunting in the past. Animal tendons are good things, not to mention tough and strong, but also fire and water resistant. These beast tendons are not usually used, so Lu Yu decided to use them to tie wooden rafts.