The night is silent, in the northernmost house in the alley of South Street, Jiyin County, a lamp is like a bean, Chen Youliang's face is calm, his eyes are slightly closed, he sits cross-legged on the kang, his right hand twisted a bracelet, the thumb and index finger are quickly dialed, the prayer beads on the bracelet collide with each other and make a crisp and moving sound, the bracelet is made of eighteen fish bones, white and crystalline, like beautiful jade, at a glance, it is the owner who has been stroking and twisting for many years.

"Boom! Boom! "Boom! Boom! The sound of the second watch came from outside, the door was gently pushed open, and a sturdy man flashed in, and when he saw Chen Youliang, he called in a low voice: "Brother Sijiu, I'm back." ”

Chen Youliang slowly opened his eyes, his eyes showed a fine light, his face was gloomy, there was still Bai Yue's loyalty, righteousness and benevolence, he leaned out half of his body, and asked in a low voice: "How are things going?" ”

"I found out the location of the iron stone in the Zhenhe, it is on the side of the ancient ferry, and the boat has been hired, so I will wait for Brother Sijiu."

Chen Youliang turned over and got off the kang, put on his shoes, and said: "Let's go, we must fish out the iron stone of Zhenhe today, the Taoist priest and the demon woman of the Zhengyi Sect will fight soon, we can't delay." The man replied and asked curiously, "Brother Sijiu, why are you so interested in the little sixth son brought by the mother-in-law?" You say we've done so much, can we really make it happen? ”

Chen Youliang frowned, he didn't want to pay attention to him, but now that there is only such a henchman to help him do things, he still shouldn't chill his heart, and said in a deep voice: "That little sixth son is a child's life, if we want to stir up the Yellow River and provoke the evil Jiao that is about to turn into a dragon, we must sink him into the eye of the river, and then his soul will not disperse, sucking the qi of the river eye, how can the evil Jiao be indifferent?" ”

"Brother Forty-Nine, what is a child's life?" The man listened to what Chen Youliang said, and couldn't help but ask again.

"The so-called child's life is the boys and women or disciples who serve the immortal family, some of them are "guilty of flowers", some are beaten down, some are sneaked down, and some are reincarnated in the world with all the blessings of heaven and man. The gods and ghosts enshrined in the folk temple or the gods and ghosts or the attendants were punished or stolen away, or reincarnated for other reasons. It's all a child's life. ”

"None of the children of a child's life will live long, not past the age of eighteen, and some may live to that time, but they will die at the same time at several junctures. The basic junctures are all in the third, sixth, and ninth years, and the fate is bumpy, the health is not good, and the appearance of illness is always sick, but the more such children, the more aura on the body, with fairy roots, is a good introduction to Shenhe. ”

The man is from Chen Youliang's hometown, he has been fishing with him since he was a child, and he has been afraid of him since he was a child. ”

Chen Youliang said impatiently: "If there is anything you don't understand about these things, I'll tell you when I come back, now is not the time to talk about this, don't delay the business, go quickly." ”

The two of them got out of the house, mounted their horses, and stepped out of the city to the bank of the Yellow River, and the two walked on the path, and after about half an hour they arrived at a deserted ferry. At night, the Yellow River seems very quiet, far less turbid than during the day, like a tumbling jade belt between heaven and earth.

A small boat floated on the water with a light on the lamp, and the man dismounted and waved his hand at the boat and shouted: "Lao Nie, Lao Nie, we are coming......"

Chen Youliang frowned, and asked the man softly, "Didn't I ask you to find a bigger ship?" Why did you find such a small boat, this is obviously a ghost boat for corpses. ”

The man just complained: "Brother Sijiu, no one wants to do this big night boat, that is, the old water ghost who fishes out the corpse is willing to run this trip for the sake of more silver, Brother Sijiu, there is really no way." ”

Chen Youliang hummed, didn't say much, watched the Upeng boat come to the shore slightly, and when it got close, a dry and thin black old man who seemed to have only skin and bones left walked out of the shadow of the Upeng boat. The old man wore a hat, slightly rickety, how could he be in his sixties, his face was cold, and he arched his hand at Chen Youliang and the man: "I don't care what you want to do at night, but I promised the old man a hundred taels of silver first." ”

Chen Youliang smiled slightly, took out a heavy package from the horse, and threw it onto the boat with a bang, the old man picked up the package and opened it to see, there were ten silver ingots in it dazzling, and he opened his mouth and said: "Get on the boat, no matter what you do, I just don't see the old man." ”

Chen Youliang's face was expressionless, and he said in a deep voice: "Take people's money and eliminate disasters with others, that's what you said." He casually pulled out the long knife at his waist, and when the old man saw him draw the knife, he was not afraid, and asked with a sneer: "What are you going to do?" ”

Chen Youliang also ignored him, suddenly shouted, waved the knife and slashed at the white horse he was riding, this knife was like a shock, the knife was powerful, just a knife cut off the head of a horse, the horse turned over and fell, and the four hooves twitched a few times and did not move. Chen Youliang carried the bloody horse's head, took two quick steps towards the boat, and jumped onto the boat, the boat was swayed by his leap, but Chen Youliang stood on the boat and did not move.

He showed his hand, and the old man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked with a smile: "It turns out that you also eat this bowl of rice on the water." ”

Chen Youliang glanced at him and said, "Hubei, Hubei, has been fishing for generations. After saying that, he beckoned to the man, and the man also jumped on the boat, and the old man didn't say much, and rowed towards the center of the river by boat, Chen Youliang stood at the bow of the boat, stretched out the horse's head in his hand, and the blood flowing out of the horse's cavity fell into the water one by one.

When the blood is almost gone, he throws the horse's head into the river, the horse's head floats on the river in the dark, a pair of horse's eyes are still open, Chen Youliang softly sang a very strange ballad, fast and urgent, and then took out three sticks of incense from the baggage to light it, this incense is very thick, more than three times larger than the ordinary incense of the gods.

The fireworks lit by the three incense sticks condensed and did not disperse, and all of them got into the nose of the horse's head floating on the river, and the originally clear river immediately rose in the mist, and the old Nie Tou who was on the boat, seeing this scene, showed a solemn look on his face.

The horse's head ate the incense, as if he had life, and slowly floated forward, Chen Youliang saw it and hurriedly ordered Lao Nie: "Follow the horse's head." Lao Nie responded, slid the boat, to chase the horse's head, after the time of half a pillar of incense, the Wupeng boat shook slightly, there seemed to be a wave on the river, there was a slight vibration under the feet, Chen Youliang looked at the river. We have reached the place where the water is most turbulent.

Here, the river is getting wider and wider, and the back waves push the front waves, layer upon layer. Somehow, the waves on the surface of the river became suddenly turbulent, as if an unseen hand was stirring vigorously. The boat made a rhythmic beating sound, and the horse's head on the river stopped in one place, not moving forward, but beginning to spin.

Where the water of the Yellow River is deep, some places seem to be calm on the surface, but under the river, there are many water nests, and I don't know how to form them, in short, the water flow below is turbulent, rotating downward, if people and boats accidentally enter the water nests, then they can never come up again, and they don't know where they are swept up.

The old Nie Tou, who was fishing for the corpse, saw the horse's head spinning, changed his face and said to Chen Youliang: "You can't move forward, you will die if you fall into the water nest." ”

Chen Youliang ignored him, turned his head to the man and said, "This is it, take the bait!" The man agreed, unbuttoned his shirt, and saw that he had a red rope as thick as a tail finger wrapped around him, and a golden hook around his waist, which was made of pure gold, and he was afraid that it weighed two or three pounds, so the man took off the red rope, tied it to his arm, took the golden hook and walked to the bow of the boat, and threw it towards the place where the horse's head rotated.

The gold is the heaviest, and it sinks when it encounters water, but the gold hook goes to the water nest, but it rotates around the horse's head non-stop, and there is no intention to sink the water, the old Nie Tou saw that the gold hook is not sinking, he was stunned, and then looked at the water nest, his face changed, and asked Chen Youliang in a deep voice: "You are not robbing the river tomb, who are you and what do you want to do?" ”

The Yellow River stretches for thousands of miles, the water and soil are deep, passing through nine provinces, the source is located in the Yaladazze Peak of Bayan Kala Mountain in Qinghai, the Maqu and the ancient Zongliequ of the northern foot of Bayan Kala Mountain are the positive source of the Yellow River, the Yellow River is surging all the way, sharp and unstoppable, the mighty Changhong is swept through, the waves are rushing and the momentum is magnificent; It crosses the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Loess Plateau, the Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Loess Plateau, and the North China Plain, and flows into the sea in the east, which can be regarded as the largest dragon vein in the world.

Since ancient times, the edge of the Yellow River has been a treasure of feng shui in the Azuka cave. The emperors and generals of the past dynasties and the big lords of the courtyard mostly used the surrounding area of the Yellow River as a place of rest. Over time, the area along the Yellow River is full of ancient tombs and huge mounds, and there are many palaces and mausoleums of royal nobles and big businessmen.

For thousands of years, the Yellow River has flooded many times, and the ancient tombs and mounds buried by the turbid Yellow River water, I don't know how many, these things are deeply trapped in the silt of the Yellow River bed, and have been sleeping in the darkness of not seeing the sky.

Old Nie Tou thought that Chen Youliang and the two of them were here to rob the river tomb, otherwise they would not have hired him such a broken boat at night, and he didn't care much, there were more people doing this in recent years, and in some places people in a village were doing this, it was not a big deal, and even had a thought, if these two people really have craftsmanship, when they catch something, they can share some points.

But he didn't expect that the two of them were acting strangely, they were not robbing the river tomb at all, but had another plan, and the picture was not small, he only now understood that the place where the horse's head in front of him rotated and the golden hook did not sink was not a water nest at all, but the eye of this section of the Yellow River.