Seeing that everyone had finished performing, Yu Mansion Bagui said: "If the pedestrians are here for a big event, you must not add up your evil words." ”

Yu Hou said with a smile: "I have heard for a long time that if pedestrians can say that the dead are alive, the finches on the trees can be coaxed down. Come on, take a seat for the guests!"

After standing for a long time, someone sent a beautiful mat with six-sided eyelets.

Perhaps in order to show the high skills of Yu Shui's contemptuous craftsman, but also to show the mastery of Yu Mansion, the waiter slowly put a soft blanket on the mat. Chunpei took a seat calmly.

At this time, Menglong didn't dare to come out, watched a few people fight, and also knelt down. Several of Yu Hou's subordinates also sitted. And some brought fruit.

Yu Hou said: "On the head of the leper, there are also a few long hairs. If the pedestrian is right, it is not entirely unreasonable. ”

Chun Pei saw the opportunity and said: "Hu'an Mountain's big baby and small cubs, all remember the great kindness of Yuhou when he borrowed food to survive. A few people who don't know Yu Hou's kindness and deliberately make things difficult, don't allow the villain not to say a few words, please forgive Yu Hou!"

He gave a serious salute, and then changed his words, saying that the heart of the marquis was full of joy, and the clouds turned sunny, which made people prepare a feast, and especially promised to serve good wine.

Seeing that Yu Hou let Ruo Chunpei go, the one-eared pedestrian knelt in front of Yu Hou and cried: "Beat the dog to see the master." Yuhou, don't just cheap Hu'an Mountain pedestrians!"

Yu Hou sat down, helped him up and said: "Hu'an Palace only needs one ear for you, if the people of Chu come here, it will be a fatal thing." For the sake of the big picture, please give up the past suspicions. ”

The one-eared pedestrian said miserably: "From now on, the villain will no longer have the shame to serve Yuhou." Please be allowed to return to your hometown for the rest of your life, and never leave the mountain!"

Yu Hou said sincerely: "You don't live up to me, I owe you." "Let him be carried away.

Yu Hou returned to his seat and laughed: "Okay, good! From now on, the two departments will abandon their previous suspicions and go to the national disaster together, don't eat their tails anymore, bite themselves by themselves, and make the Chu people laugh." There are contacts between them, and then I sent someone to the grassland to meet my brother. ”

Menglong knew that at this time, he could really rest assured that Ruo Chunpei's salt-tasting objects would not be moved.

A banquet was arranged.

Yufu is rich, the mountain treasures are not only badgers and rabbits, and the water tastes less crabs and shrimps.

The guest and the host rejoiced.

In the wine room, Yu Hou smiled at Chunpei and said: "At this time, the snacks and dishes are enough, if passers-by can rest assured to tell stories." ”

The people accompanying him all pointed their ears, and Chun Pei said: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate!" On Huoba Mountain, there is a kind of beast called the Strange Eyebrow Beast, which eats a kind of melon, called Erzi Melon.

"The two melons are also strange, only two flowers bloom at a time, if one of the flowers is strong, the other flower will fall off before the bud is released, and only one big melon will be born, and if two flowers love each other, two melons will be born.

"What's even stranger is that if you give birth to only one melon, the melon will be huge and sweet, which is simply the best taste in the world, and if you give birth to two melons of similar size, there will be great poison, but the beast also understands the truth of the two melons.

Therefore when the beast saw two melons on a vine, he did not smell them, but if he saw one, he feasted on them. ”

Yu Hou smiled: "I understand, Yu Yu and I are two melons on a vine, and the people of Chu are the strange eyebrow and sun-eyed beast." ”

Everyone laughed.

Yu Hou smiled: "You might as well talk about one more." ”

Chunpei couldn't refuse, and said: "There is a kind of fish in the Qingshui River of Hu'an Mountain, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, and delicious, but no living creature dares to eat it. ”

Yu Hou said: "Why is this?"

"This kind of fish, the cold-blooded eat the cold to death, and the hot-blooded eat the hot to death. There was a monkey who didn't believe it, so he caught one and ate it, and after a while it was cold, and then it was hot, and his whole body itched, and finally he wiped all the hair on his body before it stopped. ”

Yu Hou smiled: "I didn't expect it to be so powerful." ”

Ruo Chunpei continued: "There is a person who heard about it, and he said: If you eat that fish, it is just to remove the hair, what harm is there? I don't have much hair on my body anyway, and I am afraid that it will fall off? So he really caught one and ate it, but there was nothing wrong with it." People are slowly starting to eat this delicacy. ”

Everyone laughed.

At the banquet, Menglong and Bapeng were together, and they had their own methods.

Menglong saw that Ba Peng was a good talent, and he was not angry but self-revealed, and he was bold without saying a word, and he was convinced in his heart.

Seeing that Menglong's figure was slightly shorter than his own, his body was strong, his face was like powder, his lips were like dan, his eyes were like stars, and his ears were hanging, and he praised in his heart: "There are also such characters on the grassland of Hu'an Mountain."

Exactly: the hero sees the hero's love, and the orangutan sees the orangutan and cherishes. After a while, the two began to talk about everything.

Until night falls, the lights are lit, and the banquet continues.

Drunk, Ba Peng and Yu Menglong got up, danced with swords, sang together, and everyone sang together, and the crowd was passionate. The song sings:

Do you say that you have no clothes? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son!

How can you say that you have no clothes? Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the son!

Do you say that you have no clothes, and you are clothed with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son!

This is a song of the Qin State, which shows that the poem with positive energy spreads far, and the Ba people thousands of miles away will also sing it.

The next day, Chunpei and Menglong visited the ancient city of Yucheng accompanied by Bagui and Bapeng.

Entering the market behind Yufu first, Chun Pei said: "Sure enough, it is facing the back market, shoulder to shoulder." ”

In Yucheng, the crowd is bustling, drinking constantly, first a street for salt, a street for salted fish, salted meat, pickles, close to the wine and food, and then for dansha and dyes, painting powder for the streets, as well as for leather goods, clothes, agricultural tools, bronze, bamboo, wood, and even stoneware, everything, shops are lined up.

Not far ahead, the traces of people are gradually decreasing, there is a female Lu (that is, the green building), the local people call "Flower Lane", the flower branches are arbitrarily displayed in front of the door, which makes people feel refreshed, Menglong smiled: "It is really a prosperous place of smoke and willows, gentle and rich township".

Chunpei said with a smile: "No wonder Yuhou is rich and rivals the country, in addition to the two treasures of Yandan, there is still this treasure." ”

Bagui smiled and said: "Brother, this example of the female Lu is from the Qi country, created by the sage, and cannot be blasphemed." ”

Continuing to move forward, the guests of Hu'an Mountain were dazzled, and praised while watching, Menglong said: "It's not worse than Citrus Orange, and it is not within reach of Hu'an Mountain." "Tut-tut.

At that time, Yucheng was the salt capital, and for many years after, it was the most famous city in this area.

Before that, there was an ancient rich and happy country known for its salt. After that, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty placed Fuling County, the Northern and Southern Dynasties placed Fengzhou, and renamed Qianzhou, and Emperor Wen of Sui placed Pengshui County, all of which were also governed here.

Here, the heyday belonged to the Tang Dynasty, where nearly 100,000 people gathered to form the richest and most prosperous downtown in the southeast of present-day Chongqing, which is unimaginable and even doubtful for today's Wujiang people, but it is true - you must know that the population of Chang'an, the largest city in the world at that time, was about 500,000-600,000, even if there were more than 1 million people, the population of Yushan, the place of exile, was terrifying.

Until the Qing Dynasty, Yushan salt is still brilliant, according to records, in the 26th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1761 AD), Yushan has 86 salt wells, 326 salt stoves, 1006 salt pots, the output of 11.06 million catties, the salt produced, the most exported to the two lakes and two Guangzhou, known as "ten thousand stoves of salt smoke, Yujiang never sleeps", it can be said that it is the "small capital" of the lower reaches of the Wujiang River.

Because it is located between the mountains, the road is very difficult and dangerous, and it is far away from the political center of the country, so Yushan is also a famous place of exile, Li Chengqian, the abolished prince of Tang Taizong, Li Yuanliang, the son of Tang Gaozu, Sun Wuji, the prince of Zhao Guogong, the founding father of the Tang Dynasty, Li Linfu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Quan Namjian, the governor of Goryeo (now North Korea), have been exiled here, leaving behind the story of relocation and historical sites.

Here, there are still many famous works of literati and writers.

Huang Tingjian, a great literati of the Song Dynasty, once relegated to live here, claiming to be "an old peasant in Guizhou", and was once called "Fu Weng", and wrote a large number of poems. What is rare is that he wrote bamboo branch lyrics in the tune of bamboo branches in the rhyme of the Ba people, and sang them in a song, leaving behind the famous sentence of "Mo Yanyuan outside the ghost gate, and all the families in the four seas are brothers". When he died, the locals found several pieces of his old clothes, used coffins to converge, and built a mound of clothes at the foot of Yuping Mountain on the north bank of the Zhongjing River.

Here, there are still many poets who see off and miss their friends for their friends to come here to take up their posts, or to be degraded, and the number is too numerous to list one by one.

If you want to say that the most well-known to women and children, it is the Tang Dynasty master Liu Zongyuan's "The Donkey of Qian", which describes the story that happened here.

However, whether there are really no donkeys here does not need to be investigated.

Some people think that the legend of "Qianzhi Donkey" and "Ba Snake Swallowing Elephant" may be an extension of the story of a white tiger Ba people defeating a tribe with donkeys as their totem, and the Ba people have created too many such legends and legends.

Therefore, if you are from Wujiang, don't underestimate the ancient town of Yushan, perhaps it can be said that its Yandan history is the upper and middle ages of thousands of years in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River.

Undoubtedly, the most fascinating chapter of the ancient city of Yushan belongs to the era of the Ba people.

Without further ado, the book gets back to business.

After seeing the prosperity of Yucheng and listening to the hustle and bustle of Yucheng, the warrior Gu Menglong proposed to take a look at the city defense measures of Yucheng, because this was a city that he and many Wujiang warriors guarded with their lives.

At that time, Yucheng was facing the river on one side, backed by mountains on one side, and earthen fences on both sides, which was also regarded as a city wall, called "Bali", and had a defensive function. The "city wall" of the Ba people also has characteristics, most do not turn, that is, rounded corners, and rarely have right angles. The Ba people prefer round shapes, round tripods, Qianyu, and cymbals, except for character and willow leaf swords.

After swimming in the city, the host accompanies the guests on a boat to swim in the water. Yushui, now known as Yujiang, a tributary of the Wujiang River, originates in Lichuan, Hubei, and has three main sources: Houjiang, Qianjiang and Gejingxi.

The mountains on both sides of the strait are steep, and the strange peaks and stones are in a variety of forms, and they are beautiful.

Menglong felt that the sunlight of Yushui and Hu'an Mountain were two different scenes, the sunlight seemed to shine obliquely from the mountain peak to the water surface, such as shooting on a long mirror, shining with golden light, and the sunlight of Hu'an Mountain fell on the grass, it seemed to glow with a little green light.

Ruo Chunpei praised: "The scenery here is more similar and different than Pan Gu Water and Dan Fu Shui, each with its own coquettishness, all of which are superb. If it's spring or summer, it's even more wonderful. ”