After negotiating the price with the boatman, the three of them stood on the bamboo raft and began to make their way towards the floating town.

"You're also here to see the lotus flowers bloom at night, right?"

The boatman was a middle-aged man over half a hundred years old, very talkative, and had been chattering since before he got on the boat, and I listened curiously, and involuntarily asked, "Why, is the city still open at night?" ”

"If you open it, you won't open it, but if you go into the city during the day and go up to the city tower at night to see the lotus flowers bloom, it is allowed in the city.

The lotus dock is in the middle of the entire weak water river, surrounded by the tumbling and turbulent weak water, the boat was almost overturned by the protruding waves several times when it was driving in it, Rao me and Wei Junyao were inevitably a little frightened, but the number of bamboo rafts coming and going was still a lot, and most of the people standing on the raft were women who looked weak and couldn't help the wind, I couldn't help but be curious: "That is to say, this lotus dock is now a scenic spot?" ”

"Of course." The boatman raised his head and said: "How many ladies and talented women come here from far and wide, just to see the scene of lotus flowers emerging from the water and blooming colorful lotus flowers at night, full of green fireflies flying on the river surface, and the colorful mist that will cover the whole river, not to mention the lotus flowers that will shine, tsk, it is simply a miracle!" ”

With the nagging of the boatman, the boat rowed through the city gate, which was only guarded by dozens of soldiers, and looked lazy, and did not even stop at the passing pedestrians for a second, just laughing and chatting with each other, as if the war on the entire ancient road had been in full swing, and it had nothing to do with their ferry town.

"Full of warmth and lust, hunger and cold steal hearts, maybe it's too quiet here, after all, even if there is a large army pressing the border, this kind of opening and closing of the city gate will be closed in 5 seconds, as long as the city gate is closed, no matter how many troops and horses in the outside world can take here." Wei Junyao said on the side.

"Yo, look at what you said, even if the sky falls and it is to be smashed, this lotus dock must be the last place to be smashed, besides, with this weak water, without our help, no matter how many people he comes, can he cross this river?" The boatman hurriedly answered.

I nodded thoughtfully, weak water is not suitable for large armies at all, the water is monstrous during the day, foggy at night, and only the slightest big movement outside, the city gate can be closed in time, the whole town can be completely isolated from the world, and I looked at the boatman's smug appearance, and speculated in my heart that these boatmen ferrying boats on the pier across the river should also be from the lotus dock.

The boat passed through the city gate, and when you entered the line of sight, you would find a leisurely and quiet town with red bricks and green tiles.

The buildings of the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, if the water river flows into the city, it will scatter countless direct streams in the town, the green water lingers around the white wall, the red flowers fall on the green tiles, the trickling river sings in the water town, the river is full of boathouses covered with red and green, the cabin covered by the curtain floats out from time to time bursts of guqin and soft nong minor combined music, there are one tea shop and restaurant after another on the riverbank, the eyes can be seen everywhere The woman in Tsing Yi holding an umbrella walks by, the eyes are full of poetry and comfort and stability, as if you have arrived here, All strife and war were completely cut off, and my body began to doubt myself, is it really appropriate to lead the flames of war to such a place?

The bamboo raft slowly stopped at the edge of a lotus bush on the shore, and the boatman pointed to the flower bush and said: "If the weak water passes through the lotus bush, it will become normal river water, if you are interested, I can recommend you a few restaurants and painting boats that have a good reputation in the lotus dock......

"No need."

I waved my hand to interrupt him, and then took Wei Junyao's hand and walked ashore.

"Why not?" Wei Junyao's face was gloomy, "Anyway, it's okay during the day, let's go and have a look." ”

"He's afraid that you'll be pitted, so let's just turn around by ourselves." The owl explained with a smirk.

But Wei Junyao snorted, "I'm not short of money, what are I afraid of." ”

I knew that she had been infected by the environment here, so I smiled helplessly: "Turn around first, and when there is something you don't understand, let's find someone to introduce you, okay?" ”

The three of them walked in the lotus dock, their minds were full of poetry, and they seemed to have completely forgotten the purpose of this trip, drinking tea, listening to books, listening to small songs, and it was already dark in a casual flash.

"The southeast and northwest quadrangular city, except for the west city closed to prohibit tourists from approaching, the other three places are free to enter and exit."

After finding a teahouse, the three of them sat down, and after asking for a pot of fragrant tea, the owl whispered.

"Xicheng is likely to be the camp of the Lotus Dock soldiers." I watched as night fell, someone had already begun to pass by with oil-paper lamps and said: "If you want to get to the city gate from the camp in Xicheng, it will only take less than ten minutes, but it is relatively far away from the city lord's mansion in the east city, there is only one guard camp near the city lord's mansion, and the number of people will not exceed two thousand in terms of scale, once there is any change in the city lord's mansion, you can rush to support and control the scene in 2 minutes at the earliest, so we have to have a plan, the city lord's mansion, the city gate, and the garrison camp, Whether the three flowers bloom together, or the only one stands, you have to consider the speed of response and support between the three of them, otherwise, out of this city is a vast amount of weak water, and there is no place to run when you want to. ”

"It's a pity that there are still not enough people." Wei Junyao frowned slightly, looked at me and said, "How is the soul power recovering?" ”

"Almost." I nodded, "I can sense the Bai family army in the spirit flag, it shouldn't be a problem to summon it, but now the enemy situation is still unknown, although this lotus dock is not too big, but it is no problem to hide an army of one or two hundred thousand in Xicheng, the Bai family army must be used on the blade, just like a sharp sword, if it is not sheathed, it is enough, once it is out of the sheath, it must be sealed with a sword!" ”

The owl still didn't know anything about the Bai family's army, and after listening to the conversation between the two of us, he was full of doubts at any time, but he didn't ask too much, just pondered for a moment and said: "I'll leave the matter of the Xicheng garrison to me, you two will go and do something else first, and I'll give you news at dawn tomorrow at the latest, and we'll meet in this place at that time." ”

The owl left in a hurry, Wei Junyao and I glanced at each other and asked her, "Are you familiar with the city lord of the Lotus Dock?" ”

"The city lord of Lotus Dock is named Kite Shuang, who used to be a female general with great achievements, led the army from the southeast to the southwest after the ancient road catastrophe, and began to build a city after discovering this place, and was named the city lord by the Dragon King of the Ghost Gate, and never left." Wei Junyao groaned.

"Is it a woman?" I was slightly stunned, and then asked, "How is the strength?" ”

"I don't know." Wei Junyao shook her head, "Her situation is also known from a report from Wu Qingshan's previous news about the major ferry towns of the Ancient Road, Wu Qingshan spoke highly of her in the letter, and summed it up in one word. ”

"What word?"

"Wise and courageous."

I sighed lightly when I heard this: "To be able to get such a high evaluation from General Wu, it seems that this woman is not simple." ”

While the two were talking, there were more and more lantern people passing by, men and women, speaking with different accents, but running in the same direction, the city gate.

"The lotus flowers on the weak water river are about to bloom."

I looked at Wei Junyao and said, "Let's go, it's all here, maybe tomorrow after the Twintou Eagle finishes investigating the news of the Xicheng garrison, things may not take a turn for the better." ”

Wei Junyao nodded, paid for the tea, and the two followed the crowd hand in hand and walked in the direction of the city gate.

There were more people enjoying the flowers at night than I had expected, basically they were a combination of men and women, the men were dressed gracefully and luxuriously, and the women were all in excellent shape, with excitement on their faces.

Wei Junyao and I finally managed to squeeze into the first row in the angry scolding, standing on the edge of the battlement, at this time although the sky has been dark, but the moon has not yet risen, you can see the river surface that is still surging during the day I don't know when it returned to calm, and the originally empty water surface also emerged a cluster of turquoise lotus leaves, the lotus leaves are clustered with pink flower bones, only wait for the moon to break the dark clouds, when the moonlight falls, it will bloom the lotus beauty of the famous ancient road. ()

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