When Xie Tianning saw the two of them enter the cabin, he pulled a hemp rope horse and guarded the outside of the cabin.

When it was time for lunch, I didn't see the two of them come out, and I didn't know what they were doing in it, and they couldn't be disturbed, so they had to sit around the fireplace with a few boatmen, and ate some boiled fish with a slightly earthy smell.

"Why is this fish getting worse day by day?" He furrowed his eyebrows.

"Because the Luoshui flows in, the Luoshui is hard, so the meat quality of the boiled fish is old, and it is not as good as the upstream." The boat boss replied with a smile.

"Is the water soft and hard? How to divide it? Xie Tingning said in surprise.

The boat boss scratched his head: "This is a saying handed down from ancestors. Ning Dashao has to investigate it carefully, and I can't say a word. ”

"Yes," Xie Qianning nodded, and said thoughtfully: "It seems to me that this woman looks like she is also soft and hard, if you want to dig deeper, it is really not clear." ”

"Hahahaha! What is the hardness of a woman," a boatman laughed, "Ning Dashao is talking about himself!" ”

Several people came back to their senses, looked at Xie Tanning's legs and laughed.

Xie Qianning was stunned for a moment, stretched out his arm, and pointed at those people one by one with his index finger, "You, you, you, you, dare to make fun of Ben Dashao!" ”

As he spoke, he was smiling all over his face.

When it was time for dinner, the two were still hiding in the cabin.

The captain of the ship was afraid that something would happen, so he asked Xie to call them.

Xie Qianning said in his heart, Brother Lin's affairs about Fengyue have always been kept secret, so why not take this opportunity to secretly observe?

Thinking so, he went around to the flank, half-crouched to lift the wooden pole.

The window of the cabin was covered with a whole black tarpaulin, and a wooden pole was sewn horizontally underneath, and when it was lifted, it was snapped into the top of the window, and it was considered to be open. Dropping the wooden pole, even if you close the window, it is also convenient and easy to use.

Xie Qianning raised a wooden pole on one side, peeked in, and saw the two sitting on the edge of the low couch, eye to eye, like two stone statues.

Lin Shaoge found that someone was peeping, turned his head to look at it, and couldn't help laughing: "Ning Dashao, come in and say something." ”

Xie Qianning sighed: "I didn't understand what it meant to be beautiful and delicious before, but when I saw the two of you, one stared at the other, and I didn't even have to eat, but I understood." ”

"It's time for dinner?" Bang Yue Qi said.

When I looked sideways, the sun was a little westerly. In addition to being surprised, I only felt that a face was hot.

The boss of the boat kept the fish for them, and when Bang Yue saw that the fish was no longer fresh and tender, it was a little yellow, and it was rough and dry when chewed, so she smiled and said, "It's a pity, the river downstream can't cook fish." ”

Xie Tianning pointed to the boss of the boat: "He said that the water quality is hard, but he doesn't know what the hard method is." ”

Bang Yue smiled: "That's because the water is dissolved into minerals, and the older generation is used to saying that the water is hard." In this way, it seems that there is a section of Luoshui flowing through the ground. This kind of water is used for washing, and the hair skin will be dry and tight, and in the long run, it will be extremely damaging to the skin. Therefore, there are few beauties in the Luoshui Basin. ”

Xie Tingning applauded: "The second brother is really knowledgeable!" ”

After drinking and eating, enjoying the moon, it was the next day.

Early morning there was fog on the river.

In the distance, Wuqi Mountain is hidden in the clouds.

By noon, the sun had finally dispersed the mist.

Looking over from the water, I saw that the yellow and clear yellow on the mountainside, from the bottom to the top, a circle of crooked dark stripes divided the golden yellow into a long shape, a layer of golden yellow on top of a layer of gold.

Bang Yueqi said: "Terraces! ”

"Ladder... Field? Shaoge had a slight aftertaste, and felt that her description was very appropriate, if there was a giant as tall as a hill walking up the mountain, wouldn't it be stepping on this layer after layer of rice field stairs?

"This is Wuqi Mountain? Ah, the hill on the other side should be where the painter painted. Bang Yue pointed to the other mountain standing side by side, and then turned her head to look at Lin Shaoge suspiciously: "It looks normal, it doesn't look like there is a strange power." ”

"That's right," Shaoge said with a smile, "I don't believe it either." Ning Dashao, what do you think? ”

"Uh......" Xie Tanning put up a tent with his hand, squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, and hesitated: "That's cooking smoke, right?" In fact, more than 20 years ago, what moths have long since disappeared? ”

As he spoke, the ship was parked at a simple dock.

I got off the boat and walked south along the loess official road for half a day, and finally came to the bottom of the mountain when it was sinking westward.

The three of them only felt that the smell of dust was filled between their mouths and noses, and when they spoke, they always bit the sand between their teeth.

Bang Yue is used to it, and Shaoge doesn't see anything wrong. Xie Tanning walked all the way, "bah" all the way, and the three water bladders were emptied by him.

There is an inn at the foot of the mountain, called the Red Dust Inn.

The inn is located at the foot of Wuqi Mountain.

After dinner, Xie Qianning took out a silver ingot and put it on the high counter, and asked the fat shopkeeper: "Tell me, tell me, has anyone been in and out of this Wuqi Town recently, and what is the strange thing?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled, first put the silver in his sleeve, and replied: "There is nothing special." The people of the town don't like to go down the mountain, and they haven't seen it for many years. I've never heard of anyone going up the mountain. ”

Xie Tianning waited for him to finish, but the fat shopkeeper took out a rag and wiped the counter, then hugged his hands and began to nap.

"Hey, hey—" Xie Tingning knocked on the counter, "And then?" ”

"What?" The shopkeeper looked at him in confusion.

"That's gone?! Didn't something happen to the town of Wuqi? Isn't it impossible to go? ”

"Whew!" The shopkeeper waved his fat hand, "How many years ago did the old emperor's calendar." Where is there still a taboo about this. ”

Shaoge and Bang Yue sat a zhang away and listened clearly.

He got up slowly, paced to the counter, and said lazily, "Has the shopkeeper ever been up the mountain?" Or are there people you know well, have you ever been on the mountain? ”

The shopkeeper struggled to get up from the high stool and shook his body: "Look, guest officer, with my body, I have to gasp when I walk out of the inn gate, how can I go up the mountain?" Guy, a few days of lynx stealing food in the kitchen, one race and one fat, up the mountain? Rest! ”

"Oh?" Lin Shaoge narrowed his eyes, "Doesn't the shopkeeper know that the things in Wuqi Town are brought to Kyoto, and they are always valuable?" ”

"Shh The fat shopkeeper pouted, "It's all a trick to deceive." Well, it's actually ......."

He thought for a while, took out a big coin and slapped it on the counter, and said, "It's like, if I say to the guest officer, I will sell you this big money, as long as you tattoo a hundred taels of silver—if you sell him to the guest officer over there, it can be sold for a thousand taels." Listen, what a good deal? The fool paid a hundred taels of silver to buy this big money, the question is, where can he find the more stupid fool who is willing to spend a thousand taels? People outside don't know the word, so can I not know it? ”

Bang Yue listened from afar and couldn't help but sneer.

Isn't Xie Tian this "more stupid fool"?