Shi Zhiyi and the Yu brothers and sisters continued to travel east, and a few days later, they had reached the shore of the river.

The river flows from the Yudai Mountains through more than 10,000 miles to reach here, and countless tributaries gather in the middle, and the width of the river has reached more than 20 miles. The snow covered the sky, standing on the riverside and looking at the opposite side, I saw a vast space between heaven and earth, and I couldn't see the edge at all.

At the Luo'an Wharf, several giant boats have been moored on the shore waiting for the arrival of the three princes and their party. This wharf is one of the largest wharves in the lower reaches of the river, and is not only used by dignitaries, but also an important transit point for commercial transportation, and many large and small fishing boats also anchor here.

When Shi Zhiyi and the others arrived, it was dawn, although the sky was already bright, but it was still cloudy, with goose feather-sized snowflakes, and there was no one on the dock at all. There was only one person who looked like a fisherman, dressed in a cloak and sitting on a fishing boat about five or six feet from the pier, fishing alone with a rod in his hand.

Hundreds of black-armored cavalry dismounted, inspected the front and back of the dock, and found nothing abnormal, the curtain of the carriage was opened, and the three princes, the county lord of Yi Ning, and Shi Zhiyi walked out of the carriage one after another.

Looking at the boundless river in front of them, the three of them couldn't help but think of the scene when they first met near the Jiayu Wharf in Chibi more than half a year ago. Although Shi Zhiyi was still in a coma at that time, he had heard about the situation from the mouth of the county lord of Yining countless times.

At this moment, the three of them came to the shore of the river again, although only more than half a year has passed, but they don't know how much has happened during this period (Lao Yun: one water, ninety-eight chapters have passed since the sixteenth chapter of boating in the east of Chibi), the three of them have experienced life and death many times, and now looking back, there is a feeling of being separated from the world.

After crossing the river, and then a short distance to Kyoto, Shi Zhiyi left home for more than half a year, went to Kyoto to participate in the Spring Festival, after many thrills, now going around and around is finally about to reach the destination, and his heart is also infinitely emotional.

When the three of them were reminiscing, a sergeant came to report that the inspection on the dock had been completed, and asked the third prince to board the ship as soon as possible.

The three of them stopped their thoughts and walked to the gangway.

When the third prince just stepped on the gangway, something happened to him! I don't know what kind of wood it was, the incomparably sturdy gangway suddenly broke off from the middle, and six black-clothed men with masks covering their faces and only revealing a pair of eyes burst out from the bottom of the water, and the twelve water-splitting thorns flashed out of a dark blue light, and snowflakes fell past, and they were cut into two petals!

Shi Zhiyi could see at a glance that the dress and blade of this man in black were exactly the same as the assassins they had encountered in Tianshui City in Puzhou before, and even the assassin at the beginning might be one of these six people!

According to their later estimates, that assassin should have had the realm of ascending to the entrance to the hall at the beginning, and now the six masters of the ascending realm have come out together, although they have three masters of the ascending realm, but one of them is already on the ship, and the other is staying at the end of the team, only one person is with the side of the three princes, even if there are more than 100 elite cavalry around, but in the narrow space of this dock, how can they be the opponent of the six ascending realm assassins!

"Protect the Three Princes!" the commander beside Yu Zhongqian shouted as he blocked the Three Princes behind him and met the two black-clothed assassins. And beside him, dozens of ironclad elite soldiers who had already dismounted instantly lined up into a thick human wall, protecting Yu Zhongqian and the three of them tightly in the middle.

Just when Shi Zhiyi had just pulled out the Qingshao Sword, he heard a middle-aged man's cheers not far away: "The fish is hooked!"

The silver slash through the air like a bolt of lightning in the gloomy sky, piercing through the snow and sparkling through the throats of the other four assassins, before quickly retracting.

The other end of the lightning was in the hands of the angler in the fishing boat, dressed in a robe, but it was just a most ordinary fishing rod. The lightning that swept through the air was naturally a fishing hook and a fishing line.

Looking at the third prince's side, the four assassins were oozing blood from their throats, and they had already died of exhaustion. The remaining two Assassins were suddenly besieged by the commander and dozens of elite soldiers.

The other two commanders hurried towards the battlefield and joined the warband, which became the last straw that broke the two camels.

One of the Assassins was shot several times and stabbed into a honeycomb, while the other saw that the situation was gone, and bit the poison hidden under his tongue, and his soul returned to the West.

The sergeant stepped forward to search the bodies of several assassins, while Shi Zhiyi and the three looked at the angler, who was dressed in a cloak and killed four high-ranking assassins with a fishhook.

Beside them, three commanders and hundreds of sergeants stood with guns, protecting the three princes and the others tightly. Most of them had just seen the lightning bolt that pierced the void, and knew that this man was terrifying, and although he may have been friend or foe, he had raised his guard to the highest level after an assassination attempt.

As if sensing the gaze of everyone, the angler, who had turned his back to them, took off the hat on his head and slowly turned around.

This is a middle-aged man about fifty years old, with an elegant appearance, clear eyes, and a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, looking towards the third prince and the others.

His appearance is by no means the kind of handsome and earth-shattering beautiful man, but the proportion of facial features is just right to convey a unique experience of a mature man. Plain as water, warm as jade, at the first sight of him, people can't help but have a feeling of wanting to be close to him.

Seeing the person's appearance, Lord Yi Ning rubbed his eyes, and then exclaimed in surprise: "Uncle Rui Wang!"

It turned out that this elegant-looking man turned out to be the third brother of the current emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, Prince Rui Yu Lizhi!

Hearing the shout of the county lord Yi Ning, the original smile on Prince Rui's face instantly bloomed: "Xiao Yi Ning, Uncle Wang hasn't seen you for more than half a year!"

The sergeants who had been tightly guarding the three of them dispersed, and the three of them and the three commanders stepped forward to salute together. It can be seen that Prince Rui is quite approachable, and he has no prince or elders, not only is the Lord of Ning wanton coquettish in front of him, but even the third prince Yu Zhongqian, who has always been steady, has become less restrained.

After introducing the two parties, Prince Rui looked at Shi Zhiyi and said, "It turns out that you are Huaiyuan's son, I said that the sword just now looks a little familiar, but I can't remember it." The last time I saw Qing Shao, it had been almost thirty years. ”

"You came to Kyoto this time for the Spring Festival in a year, right? More than 20 years ago, I was eliminated by Huaiyuan when I was in the fourth year of the eighth. You don't know, your father swept through Cuijing Mountain with a Qingshao sword back then, and beat the children of our generation of families to a mess. ”

"Your father gave birth to you too late, the group of people back then, and now the children are almost in their twenties, you have to be careful when you participate in the Spring Festival!"