Volume 2 Jackals, Tigers and Leopards Chapter 1 The Great River Goes East

Tanggula, in Tibetan, means high, very high, very high, and the eagle can't fly high.

Under the Tanggula Mountains, where eagles can't fly, thousands of streams converge and intertwine into a wide water of twenty or thirty zhang, flowing eastward.

This big water is called the Yangtze River.

The river is surging, passing through Qinghai, entering Sichuan and Shu, passing through Yunnan and Guizhou, crossing the two lakes, going around Luzhou, passing through Jinling, mighty and mighty, rushing out of the lake, going straight to the sea.

The great river goes east, the waves are exhausted, and the characters are merry through the ages.

In the past, Emperor Wu of Wei defeated Yuan Shao, fought hard and carried an army of 800,000, crossed the river, and wanted to destroy Sun Wu and pacify the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty. Defeated by the Great River, Emperor Wu of Wei ended his life, and never saw the unification of the world again.

Fu Jian, the king of the East China Sea, once boasted that I had a million troops, and I could cut the Yangtze River by throwing a whip, regardless of the opposition of the ministers, and forcibly crossed the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was defeated by Xie Xuandong's strong army, and returned in despair, and finally became a wave in the river.

The water of the gentleman, the water of the Yangtze River, clear and bright, is also like Zhou Gongjin, elegant and polite, even if the waves are monstrous, it is like the Wei and Jin celebrities are drunk and excited, and they are not embarrassed at all.

"In August, the Yangtze River is clear, and the wind is light with thousands of sails. Haha"

On the water of the Yangtze River, a prodigal gentleman who has the wind of Wei and Jin celebrities, reclining on the soft chair of green vine, the soft chair is horizontal on the bow of the boat, and there are more than a dozen large black wine jars scattered on the side of the chair, the wine is smoky, and the fragrance of osmanthus is also wafting.

It's just an ordinary merchant ship, quite old, no more than two zhang wide, only five zhang long, although it is against the current, but the ship is very urgent, Zhong Lijiu is lying on the bow of the ship, holding a big wine jar, drunk and hazy.

The autumn is high and refreshing, with a sassy cool breeze, blowing by, the wine is slightly awake, struggling to sit up, shaking the wine jar in his hand, and has drunk it again, raising his hand to throw the wine jar on the bow of the boat, sighing, and looking at Zhang Tie who was standing behind him,

"Move the wine again. ”

Retracting his gaze from scanning on both sides of the river, Zhang Tiemian glanced at the wine jar expressionlessly, bowed his head and said,

"It's gone. ”

Hmmm, so fast, with a frown, Zhong Lijiu stood up, looked at the pile of empty jars under his feet, shook his head, and looked at the sky, the colorful glow was like fire, holding a red sun, it was already twilight.

The cool breeze gusted, waking up the drunkard's dream, Zhong Lijiu looked at the fisherman in the small boat beside him and stared at his boat in surprise, laughed, turned to look, only to see a long spear stuck in the aft deck, and a long black knife lying horizontally next to it.

Xiao Ya squatted beside the spear wrapped in a thick quilt, stretched out her head to look at the stern of the boat from time to time, only to see the waves rolling, she couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and turned around angrily to stare at the white-clothed figure on the bow of the boat, only to see the sky laughing.

"Where?"

Hearing Zhong Lijiu's inquiry, Zhang Tie bowed down and replied,

"Thirty miles ahead, there is the Red Cliff Battlefield. ”

Having arrived at Chibi, Zhong Lijiu bowed slightly, it seemed that the speed was not slow, patted Zhang Tie's shoulder, and said,

"Stop at Chibi tonight. ”

"Yes. ”

Knock knock, a figure came out of the deck, five big and three thick, full of anger, gritting teeth, it was Qi Chen, looked up and saw Zhong Lijiu looking at him, hurriedly withdrew his teeth, scratched his head,

"I've seen the Commander. ”

Zhongli Jiu raised his eyebrows, looked him up and down, and asked with a chuckle,

"What page do you see?"

Qi Chen whispered back rather shyly,

"It's still on page three. ”

Zhong Lijiu bowed slightly,

"It's easy to go to hell, but it's hard to come up, you enter the rivers and lakes a little later, but the early years have eliminated a little impatience, which is good. ”

Qi Chen was about to be humble, a figure flashed behind him, a big red robe, embroidered with two huge banana leaves, facing the sunset, brilliant and dazzling, carrying a thick pile of silver tickets in his hand, the tiger's eyes were shining gold, the bridge of his nose was straight and round, looking up to the sky and laughing, very rampant,

"The people in Jinling City who dare to shake the sieve with their aunts and grandmothers have not yet been born. ”

Qi Chen lowered his head, it seemed that he had lost all the money on his body, Zhong Lijiu shook his head, kicked away the wine jar under his feet, and walked towards the stern of the boat, Zhang Tie immediately followed.

Just as she was about to keep up closely, she was held by the Tianwei White Tiger, the Rouge Princess of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Chen watched her reach out and shake the silver ticket in front of her, her eyes looked at the double swords on her waist presumptuously, and a low laugh came,

"Little Qizi, press your two swords, how about we continue to gamble?"

Holding the black and white double sword on his waist with one hand, and scratching his head with the other, although he said that he did not distinguish between high and low when he entered the hidden guard, but the person in front of him was always Princess Daming, and he naturally couldn't say anything more about ordinary presumptuousness, Qi Chen thought of her skillful gambling skills, and eighty percent of them relied on her cultivation to be higher than the old thousand, and she was resentful in her heart.

But it was said that the war turned to the next day, and it happened that the money was distributed, and his hands trembled, holding this terrifying two hundred taels, and the annual income of ordinary third-grade adults was not so high, but the income of their private land and shops was naturally more than that, but even so, Qi Chen still felt that it would not be too high.

I have only a few taels of silver in Hangzhou Mansion for a year, and I can't eat enough, but then I thought that I am now dangling on the edge of life and death all day long, maybe one day I will be swallowed by a monster, and then look at the two hundred taels in my hand It is nothing, and I scolded him for not having knowledge, and my hands are not shaking.

After receiving the Yulu, he returned home, proudly showed off to his uncle and mother, and the angry uncle blew his beard and glared, and in the end, he gave him one hundred and eighty taels, and kept twenty taels for himself, and by the way, he told him that he was going to follow his boss to Yunnan for a while, and it was estimated that he would not be able to come back for a month.

Liu Yishui stuffed the money into his pocket, bared his teeth happily, patted his nephew's shoulder, and urged with a mouthful of urging,

"Let's go, let's go, the family will be handed over to your uncle and me. ”

comforted the mother who would be quite worried, took her to the back room to practice, gently led the door, pulled the still triumphant uncle to the small courtyard, and said softly,

"Lord Yao Guangxiao will give my mother a look at her eyes in a few days, you must not get drunk these days, offend him, and spray you to death in one go. ”

Liu Yishui rolled his eyes, he had never seen such an unfilial nephew, kicked up, and shouted impatiently,

"Let's go, let's go, your uncle and I are not stupid. ”

"Don't forget the big yellow dog across the street. ”

rushed out of the yard, saw a big yellow dog in the opposite courtyard howling at himself, shouted at his uncle, and ran out of the alley.

From the wharf on the side of the Yuejiang building in Jinling, this small boat, along the Yangtze River, going up, although it is retrograde, but the boat is galloping, all the way to scare away thousands of sails, but five days of effort, has arrived in Huguang territory.

There were only six people on the boat, three men and three women, the left commander and the guard Zhang Tie, Zhang Tie's little maid Xiaoya, himself, and two tigresses.

The osmanthus wine brought out by Commander Zuo from Jinling was piled up in half of the cabin, but he couldn't bear to drink the wine as water, and he moved it clean.

After finishing today's practice, I was about to go to the deck, when the tigress next to me came out of the cabin next door, yawning boredly, shaking a few sieves in one hand, and taking out a large number of silver tickets in the other, pulling herself to bet on two to have a good time.

Thinking back to his natal sieve since it was smashed by another tigress in Hangzhou, he never had a chance to show his magic skills, especially the stack of silver tickets that looked like thousands of taels anyway, and in an instant, with a small gambler's psychological attack, he couldn't bear the itching of his palm, and gambled in the cabin.

There is no father and son in the casino, there is no monarch and minister in the casino, twenty-two pairs of thousands of taels, without a stick of incense, Qi Chen won a lot of money, with more than 7,000 taels of silver tickets in front of him, it seems that Jinling really did not come in vain, he has been poor in Hangzhou for more than 20 years, and he has become a local tyrant in an instant at this moment.

There was only one hundred taels of silver tickets left in front of him, but the tigress on the opposite side was as plain as water, flushing red towards the face, and the high-spirited Qi Chen smiled sympathetically.

The sieve is disobedient, if you want to be big, you will come small, if you want to be small, you will enlarge, just arrived at the hand of the silver ticket that has not been hot, and saw that one by one came to the opposite side, and the silver ticket in front of you slowly thinned, only the last twenty taels remained, which was your own money.

Qi Chen, who lost with red eyes and a thick neck, stared at the tiger's eyes, his nostrils were wide open, and he gritted his teeth and pressed himself twenty taels of money, sure enough, often gamblers who gave up all their last fight would have failed.

Losing twenty taels and losing a few thousand taels is very different, the gambler Qi Chen jumped up and touched his body to see if he could find some broken silver, but after being poor for more than 20 years, he really had nothing.

After touching it for a long time, he didn't turn out a copper plate, his eyes were red, and he looked at the arrogant tigress on the opposite side and looked at the double swords on his waist with reckless eyes, looking high-spirited, Qi Chen was shocked, gradually recovered his senses, scolded the old man, and turned around and went to the deck.

Ignoring the tigress's entanglement, Qi Chen walked to the stern, stood behind Zhang Tie, glanced at the spear that pierced the deck and nailed straight to the stern, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead.

At the bottom of the stern, under the turbulent waves, a figure held his breath tightly, his hands supported the wooden plank at the bottom of the stern, his blood and qi were in the veins, and his legs swayed like a fish, stirring up the undercurrent under the water surface, and the waves on the water surface were rolling.

"According to what Suzaku said, the person with the peacock mark on his palm, his cultivation is no longer under him, and with your body, is it to add chaos?"

"There are 100,000 miles of mountains in southern Xinjiang, the people are fierce, there are wizards everywhere, there are countless jackals, tigers and leopards, and they don't have the heart to sneak around like Penglai Immortal Sect, are you looking for someone to protect you?"

"You don't have enough energy, you broke the cage and saw the blood tiger too early, and there was a void blood wave, just forcibly agitating qi and blood, not the original blood wave that spawned on its own. ”

"So, do you want to steal the horse yourself and go under the clouds, or follow me and go up the Yangtze River, along the way, you still have to throw away your life and do whatever you want. ”

The iron hammer at the back of the waist sank like a boulder, and two thick iron cables were attached to the ankles, which were deep and hung down under the blue waves, with no end in sight.

Gritting his teeth and roaring, Tie Lingshuang's soles fluctuated like waves, and the long iron rope in the water also swayed like a snake, looking at it was about to drill out of the water, but at the end of the iron cable, it seemed that there was a heavy object dragging it, and then it hung deep into the water.

The breath in his chest was about to end, and he suddenly rose up with blood, Tie Lingshuang jumped up from the water, drilled out of the water, gasped for breath, wiped the river water on his face, and saw Xiao Ya waving her little hand towards herself in surprise.

Tie Lingshuang was about to raise his hand to signal, when he caught a glimpse of a head sticking out, squinting at himself, his face suddenly coldened, and it happened that the iron rope on his feet was dragged, and he got into the river water with the trend, and became an old scalper, biting and pushing the boat, and galloping forward.

"Commander, will this kind of cultivation accumulate dark wounds in Xiao Shuang'er's body, after all, she has no internal breath. ”

The body of an ordinary person can carry a hundred pounds of heavy goods, if the weight is forcibly loaded, it may be called the courage of the blood for a while, but the five internal organs have been injured, and the blood congestion gathers and gathers, which damages the number of life, so there is the word of doing what you can.

The cultivation of qi refiners is all step-by-step, little by little to improve their skills, Tie Lingshuang's internal strength has been abolished, and there is only one brute force, although there are often herb baths, but this kind of cultivation that forcibly improves strength, in the eyes of qi refiners, is mostly regarded as a demon path, and the demon path hurts the body.

Turning to look at Rouge who came forward, seeing her brows furrowed slightly, Zhong Lijiu nodded slightly,

"Ordinary qi refiners have damaged bodies, and they have internal power to recycle and repair dark injuries. But she can't, she now has internal breath, which will not only limit her development, but also make her go on the path of demons, which will be clear when you see her sister soon. ”

Rouge wrinkled his brows and thought for a while, but still didn't understand what was going on, and pursed his lips impatiently,

"You and the old monk are like this, and they don't say anything clearly, or the right commander speaks straightforwardly. ”

"Hahaha"

Zhongli Jiu looked up to the sky and laughed, pinched his fingers and calculated, and said,

"About a year ago, the Right Commander will be back, if it goes well, when we go back, you can ask him for advice. ”

Tapping lightly on the side of the boat, Zhong Lijiu said lightly towards the rolling waves,

"After a stick of incense, the practice stopped, and the boat stopped on the shore. ”

As soon as the words fell, the underwater dragon made waves, and the hull of the ship shook suddenly and shook.