On the isolated island beach, Qin Beiyang hugged Lao Jin and Zhongshan, glad that he could still see each other alive, but wiped away his tears, and said with red eyes: "Oh, the sand is just annoying, it always gets into the eyes!" ”

Regarding the story that happened at the bottom of the sea, Qin Beiyang didn't say a word, only saying that the mermaid paste had been found.

Nine Colors climbed up with heavy oak barrels strapped to them. Lao Jin twisted the switch and tried to light a drop of mermaid paste, raising a blinding flame that burned for a day and night without extinguishing.

"Master, congratulations, a mermaid can only boil out almost a jug of mermaid paste, and such a large barrel of mermaid paste may require a hundred mermaids. Not to mention ten years, even if it is another two thousand years, the light of the heavenly and earthly palaces will not be exhausted. ”

However, Hu's sailboat sank, and everyone stayed on the isolated island and decided to fish for survival. These days, there are winds and waves, and only a few small fish have been caught, which is not enough for five people to feed their hunger. The young Nakayama had to go to the reef with the girl to pick up shells, and hit the "barnacles" with hard stones, and the small shells that can be seen on all the shores look like horses' teeth at first glance, and have a strong adsorption force.

After three days of starvation, a large number of fish poured into the seashore. The beach is full of big fish running alive. Lighting a bonfire to grill fish, Lao Jin and Zhongshan were very happy. The old man said that it was not the fishing season, and he had never encountered such a situation.

Qin Beiyang knew in his heart that the female mermaid came to Yuxun at the bottom of the sea and sent him to the beach to help him survive.

Lao Jin did not give up hope and released fireworks every day. In the dark night, the town's tomb beast Nine Colors spit out a glass fireball and hung high in the night sky for help.

Time passed day by day, Qin Beiyang was anxious, carved the date on the rock, there was less than a month left On September 1, 1923, the World Congress of the Craftsmen Union was about to be held in Tokyo, Japan, and he must arrive on time.

This secret can't be known to Lao Jin and Zhongshan yet.

Finally, a Cantonese sailing ship spotted them. Lao Jin and Zhongshan boarded the boat with a large wine barrel. Qin Beiyang sat in the stern of the upturned boat, looking out at the sunset over the South China Sea.

On the sparkling golden sea, the female mermaid is chasing the ship.

Six hundred years, the next time we meet, we will wait another six hundred years, even six thousand years.

Qin Beiyang waved his hand and shouted: "Go back quickly!" Back to your home! Don't go near humans! Forever! Never! ”

He took out nineteen priceless shark beads from his bosom and threw them all into the sea, returning her tears to her.

More shark beads emerge from the corners of her eyes, scattered in the twilight of the South China Sea, and sink to the bottom of the sea.

The moon is born on the sea, and the end of the world is with her.

Her time is countless times longer than ours.

Looking at the turbid sea, Qin Beiyang couldn't help but read out a sentence of "Zhuangzi": "It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes." ”

Rather than letting the mermaids be trapped on land, or letting humans be trapped in the ocean, it is better to forget about the rivers and lakes......

Two days later, the sailboat docked in Macao. They disembarked with oak barrels and were confronted by the a-Ma Temple, which was full of incense. The Portuguese who flew the Portuguese flag at the head of the city and slaughtered the mermaid to make mermaid paste may have been the first people to occupy Macau.

The young Zhongshan and the young girl were reluctant, holding hands and looking at each other with tears in their eyes. Day and night on the isolated island, the boys and girls in the Garden of Eden naturally have private affairs.

Qin Beiyang pulled Zhongshan aside: "If you really like her, stay!" Taibai Mountain is not an ascetic society, and I will not punish you. ”

Zhongshan glanced at the poor household girl, who was sitting barefoot on the edge of the dock, and her grandfather was about to build a new ship.

"No, master, I don't want to live on a ship for the rest of my life."

The young man no longer hesitated, Qin Beiyang seemed to see himself several years ago.

The girl waved goodbye and cried into tears...... That's how it has been since the dawn, girls!

Three people and one beast, bought a wheelbarrow, escorted a big poke of mermaid paste, turned the Portuguese style of Macao streets, passed by the Ruins of St. Paul's, and returned to Xiangshan, Guangdong from Gongbei Customs.

Qin Beiyang detoured to Yashan, crossed two big rivers, in Xinhui County, the Tan River estuary, the Great Song Dynasty died here in three hundred years. The local people still worship Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, and Lu Xiufu in the Yashan Temple......

People say that "there is no China after Yashan", but Qin Beiyang did not agree. He stood on the crack of the times, and in front of him was no longer Yashan 600 years ago, Beijing in the 17th year of Jiashen Chongzhen, but the 20th century, when the sky was falling apart. This generation of Chinese, it is really going to be "no China after the Republic of China"!

Two days later, I arrived in Guangzhou by water.

Qin Beiyang was on the dock, grabbed Lao Jin's arm and said, "You and Zhongshan should go back to Taibai Mountain with the mermaid ointment!" ”

"Master, aren't you going back?"

"I will go back, but I have to deal with two things, wait until autumn and then go back to Taibai Mountain, please don't worry about it."

Lao Jin furrowed his brows: "You are the master of Taibai Mountain, the heir of Assasin, the leader of the Assassin Alliance, and the son-in-law of the Heavenly King...... You can't go it alone, a lot of people see you as a thorn in the side, a thorn in the flesh, including the damned Artisan Alliance. If you have a good one, it will be a great loss to the Assassin League. ”

"Can you say something auspicious?" Qin Beiyang lowered his face, "I'm not acting alone, I still have nine colors with me!" ”

The town's tomb beast's eyes glowed, staring at Lao Jin with fierce eyes.

"Master, where are you going?"

Qin Beiyang hesitated again and again and whispered, "Japan." ”

"Where are you going?"

"There are some private matters that are inconvenient to disclose."

When the young Zhongshan heard that he was going to Japan, he was eager to try: "Master, I will accompany you, before and after the saddle, I will never give up!" ”

"It's not enough for you to abandon other girls, do you want to spoil Japanese girls?" Qin Beiyang was rarely angry with his subordinates, "You two don't understand Japanese, it's easy to go wrong over there, it's better to escort the mermaid paste back to report safety as soon as possible, so as not to be anxious." Otherwise, I will serve in the family law! ”

Qin Beiyang touched the Tang knife behind his back and put on the majesty of the master of Taibai Mountain.

Lao Jin and Zhongshan were helpless, and stepped back and said, "Master, I wish you a safe journey!" If you need anything, please be sure to send a telegram to the liaison officer in Xi'an, and we will rush to Japan immediately to come to the rescue. ”

"It's hard to save the fire from far away! I should be careful. ”

In fact, Qin Beiyang didn't want to reveal the secret of his participation in the World Congress of the Craftsman Alliance! If it is discovered by Lao Jin and reaches the ears of the Assassin Alliance, there will be a disaster of blood and light.

Lao Jin and Zhongshan boarded the ship, and oak barrels filled with mermaid paste were consigned in the cargo hold. This trip will take the sea route to Shanghai, and then trace the Yangtze River and the Han River back to Taibai Mountain.

Part company with.

Qin Beiyang and Jiuse stayed at the dock by the Pearl River, bought a ticket to Japan, and set sail tomorrow, ending in Osaka. He sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Haneda Trading Company at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, where he agreed to meet with Taiki Haneda and then go to Tokyo together, just in time for the World Congress of the Craftsmen's Union on September 1.

Then he went to see a man.

It's raining.

The rain in Guangzhou, breaking the subtropical heat, seems to rain into autumn. He hadn't entered the ancient tomb for many days, Qin Beiyang's chest ached faintly, and the cancer seemed to be about to recur. He didn't hold an umbrella, wore a hat, and wore a robe, like a captain on the Pearl River.

One man and one beast came to the foot of Yuexiu Mountain. On the side of Yuexiu Building, which was destroyed in Chen Jiongming's mutiny last year, there is an inconspicuous courtyard with plantain and red bean trees planted in front of the door.

It was here, he took a deep breath, and was about to bang on the brass knocker, but his arm stiffened.

Crazy?

The rain hit the plantains, the rain hit the red beans, the rain hit his face, his eyes were low, and he hit the glass-colored eyes of the town's tomb beast.

Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps in the door. Qin Beiyang immediately retreated and hid in the opposite fence.

The door opened.

A woman, as if a puff of smoke floated out of the door. Misty and rainy, at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain, she was wearing a Lingnan woman's dress, in her early twenties, with her black hair curled behind her head, her fair skin was almost transparent, and she had the same glass-colored eyes as the nine colors.

Ouyang Anna.

The first time I saw her, six years ago in Hongkou, Shanghai, on the sea Dharma Mountain, in order to repair the small town tomb beast that had just been dug out of the Bailuyuan Tomb, seventeen-year-old Anna, like a light, shot into the heart of seventeen-year-old Qin Beiyang.

The encounter between people is like the dice thrown by God. It is unpredictable and calculating, once this point is cast, no matter the ends of the earth, the sun and the moon change, it can no longer be changed......

This is the reason why Qin Beiyang had to stay alone in Guangzhou.

He wanted to catch a glimpse of Anna, even if it was from a distance.

Looking through the gap in the fence wall, Ouyang Anna walked through the path in front of the door, stretched out her hand to pluck the banana leaves, and let the rain wet herself.

A man rushed out of the door, dressed in the uniform of the Guangzhou Revolutionary Army, and the cockade was the blue sky and white sun of the Kuomintang. He is only in his twenties, very tall, handsome, and really fresh and angry with this military uniform. He hurriedly pulled out an oil-paper umbrella to protect his wife from the wind and rain.

He is Qi Yuanshan.