"Between the white emperor and the clouds, thousands of miles of Jiangling will be returned in one day. The apes on both sides of the strait could not stop crying, and the light boat had already crossed the ten thousand mountains. ”

"Huh! Dr. Wu's poem is well written! Sounds smooth! But who is that White Emperor? Which river is Gangneung? Why are there monkeys on both sides? Hearing that Wu Xie was full of poetry there, Steward Lu couldn't help but come over and joke.

Wu Xie was stunned for a moment, and explained with a smile: "This poem was not written by me, it was written by a poet named Li Bai." I don't know exactly where it is written - I studied this poem when I was a child, and I couldn't help but say it when I saw that the current scenery was very suitable for this poem. ”

"Oh...... But this poem is so good! It's very imposing! And it really suited us! To tell you the truth, although there are many people on the boat this day, we are the only ones who can travel thousands of miles in a day! Steward Lu did not leave his profession for a few words, and soon talked proudly about how fast the wooden platoon was, how risky it usually was, and how thrilling it was in the midst of the stormy seas and rapids......

His eloquence is not very good, but he is sincere in his feelings, and he is talking about things that he usually experiences, and when he heard it, Wu Jie's eyes widened and his mouth grew, and Mu Muran was just distracted.

A morning passed without realizing it, and shortly after lunch, an experienced old boatman suddenly shouted: "It's time to cross the gorge!" ”

With these words, everyone in the entire wooden platoon became nervous, everyone raised their pennies, ready to deal with the dangerous situation at any time, and the steward Lu even greeted Wu Xie and told him not to speak for the time being, and then took two people out of the small tent on the row and brought out a big drum from the small tent on the bow of the boat.

"What is this going to do?" Wu Xie asked suspiciously in his heart, "Who of you knows the Dao?" ”

Du Ruo shook his head, and Jasmine shook his head even more.

Maybe Wei Shu knew what he wanted, but Wei Shu's wisdom had long been erased and he had become a puppet who could only carry out orders, and he couldn't answer anything no matter what he asked.

After about a minute or two, the cliffs on both sides of the river became higher and higher, and the distance became closer and closer, gradually like two screens blocking the left and right, and only a narrow sky overhead, like a cyan dragon, winding above the mountains.

The river flowing between the cliffs gradually became narrower, the water became more turbulent, and the sound of the water, which was already very loud, was no longer like a faint thunder in the sky, but like a thunderstorm roaring around him, not only buzzing in the ears, but also constantly bombarding in the brain, making people dizzy.

After a while, the water was so turbulent that the rafts were as fast as they were flying in the sky.

One by one, the waves hit the stone wall, shattered, burst into countless splashes, and filled the sky with mist, shrouding the entire river in a confused mist. Looking up, a rainbow was already hanging not far overhead, colorful and beautiful.

However, there was a terrible danger behind the beauty, and the fog obstructed the view, so that the boatmen could not see the distance or the reef hidden in the stormy waves; Wooden rafts traveling at high speeds carry terrible kinetic energy, whether they hit a reef or a cliff, they can tear the entire raft to pieces, and even a little bit of it can have catastrophic consequences.

By this time, everyone in the wooden queue had already raised their hearts to their throats, and the legs of some of the less experienced boatmen had begun to tremble, and even the most experienced old boatmen's faces were inevitably a little pale.

In the hazy mist ahead, the cliffs are winding and turning; In the midst of the rushing white waves beneath your feet, lurking like a fierce beast, a reef. If you're not careful, you'll hit it directly, and then the raft and the boatmen on it will turn into splinters in the rolling waves.

Time seemed to pass very slowly, so slow that Wu Xie even saw the scene of the waves slowly breaking in front of him; Time actually passed quickly, just in the blink of an eye, the cliff that was still in front of him just now had been thrown far behind.

The air seemed to have frozen, and Wu Xie felt that it was a little difficult to even move his eyebrows. He knew that this was the result of a strong wind mixed with water mist blowing in his face, but "knowing the way" was useless.

Then, in this almost frozen air, a loud drum sounded!

The sound of drums jumped in the waves, stirred in the mist, echoed in the cliffs, roared in the sky, with the strength to break through everything, to break through the tense atmosphere, so that the mood of the boatmen gradually returned to calm.

Wu Jie's eyes shrank suddenly—he suddenly noticed that when the drum sounded, the wooden raft that was originally flying along the torrent suddenly slowed down!

He couldn't help but rub his eyes, thinking that he had seen it wrong.

But he was not mistaken, it was really that every time the drum sounded, all the wooden rows in the entire wooden line would be slower.

Don't underestimate this "slower", although it is not much each time, but it adds up, and the travel speed of the wooden queue soon slows down significantly, no longer as fast as before, and returns to the point where people have at least time to react.

The boatmen were busy, walking around on the rafts with pennies, adjusting their direction from time to time to keep them from hitting cliffs or reefs and ensuring safety.

And the steward Lu waved the drumstick on the wooden row in front of him, and beat the agitated drum one by one.

The drums surged and spread farther and farther.

Time passed slowly, and a large group of wooden rafts galloped through the winding river, until when it was slightly dark, the old boatman roared again: "It's time to go out of the gorge!" ”

All the boatmen put down the pennies in their hands, and the whole person lay down on the wooden raft, although Wu Xie didn't understand what was going on, he also followed their example and lay down.

"Hold on!" A boatman next to him reminded him, only to find that the boatmen had already clung to some places on the raft that could be grasped, and fixed their bodies to the raft.

So he did the same.

Looking up, in the entire wooden queue, only Steward Lu was still standing.

He stood at the bow of the boat, still beating the drums.

This time, however, the sound of his drums no longer slowed down the platoon, but with each drum beating, the steak became faster.

In less than half a minute, the speed of the wooden platoon has returned to the previous speed-like level, and it is even increasing!

"What is this going on!" Wu Xie couldn't help but muttered in his heart—even if it was him, he couldn't help but be a little worried.

The speed of the wooden raft is getting faster and faster, and gradually it is like an arrow from the string, and even makes a whistle that breaks through the air as it passes through the mist.

After about ten seconds, the cliffs on both sides disappeared abruptly as if they were broken, and the front opened up sharply, and I saw the blue sky and white clouds again, as well as the blurred horizon where heaven and earth meet.

Wu Xie was relieved, but he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

For what...... Feel like you're on top of a mountain?

Before he could figure out what was going on, the drum beat loudly, and then he felt a shock under him, and the wooden raft that had been speeding through the torrent actually left the water and glided through the air!

Wu Xie was so surprised that he grew his mouth, and even if he was filled with a mouth full of wind, he forgot to close it.

He looked ahead and saw a great river winding across the vast expanse; He looked down and saw the rapidly approaching water.

And when he looked back, he saw the most magnificent waterfall he had ever seen in his previous life and this life!

Guided by the sound of drums, one wooden row after another leaped up from the waterfall, drawing an arc in the air, like a huge waterfowl spreading its wings and gliding, swooping into the distant water.

Behind them, there is a white waterfall that looks like a giant canvas. I don't know what kind of magic it is to cut off the majestic mountain here directly, creating such a huge drop. I don't know what kind of magic pen is in order to paint such a magnificent scene that makes people's hearts surge!

For a moment, he couldn't help but be stunned.

With a violent tremor, the raft fell back to the surface of the water and continued on its way.

The drumming continued until the entire wooden queue had returned to the surface of the water and continued to move forward, finally stopping.

Several boatmen who had already stood up rushed to the front, two people supported the fallen steward from the left and one right, and the rest of the men carefully lifted the magical drum and moved back to the tent with the drumsticks.

Wu Xie also walked over, only to see that Steward Lu's face was as pale as paper, his lips were trembling slightly, but he couldn't say a word. There was even a faint smell of blood in a watery atmosphere.

So he understood at once.

Steward Lu is not an immortal with magical powers, but is using a special mysterious method to overdraft his life force to protect the fleet's natural dangers through this canyon and waterfall.

"No wonder they can do this exclusive business, and no wonder there is no such fast ship in the world!" Wu Xie sighed and sighed with emotion, "If I stayed in Wujiaji for the rest of my life, I would definitely never dream of such a scene, and I would never dream of such a person who is fighting for his life!" ”

"Yes! He deliberately didn't tell us this before, probably so that we could witness all this without preparation - it was so touching! I suddenly felt that my life was worth dying—if I hadn't died early, where would I have seen such a view! Du Ruo sighed and was moved to tears.

"Impressed?" Wu Xie asked.

"Of course!"

"Then let's do something and help them!"

Wu Xie smiled slightly, found his own medicine box, took out a few pale yellow pills with a rich fragrance from the waterproof box, and gave one to Steward Lu.

Strange to say, after taking this pill, Steward Lu's face quickly began to improve, and it only took about a quarter of an hour to recover like a person who had nothing to do!

"Dr. Wu is really a miracle doctor!" He couldn't help but praise sincerely, "In the past, every time I crossed the gorge, I had to lie down for three or five days, and when I was unlucky, I even had to lie down for ten days and half a month. I didn't expect to take your medicine this time and recover all at once! ”

Wu Xie smiled and didn't say anything, just handed him the box.

Inside the box, there were probably thirty or fifty more of these pills.

Steward Lu was taken aback and hurriedly refused.

He is not a person who knows nothing about medical skills, and he knows how serious his previous collapse was - that overdraft has greatly depleted his vitality, lying down for three or five days or even ten days and half a month, he can only recover his mobility, and if he wants to fully recover his health, he must cultivate for at least one or two months!

The stewards of the platoon gang have always been sailing with their lives, and none of his masters, his elders, and the helmsmen of the platoon gang for generations can live past the age of fifty.

The medicine that can restore one's vitality in such a short period of time is not easy to find in the whole world!

"Take it, I've got a lot of it." Wu Xie smiled faintly, looking indifferent.

He does have a lot of these things, Jasmine's pile of snacks just take two yin dry and grind them, and then add a little worthless adjuvant, mix them with honey and knead them into balls.

In fact, since this ginseng pill was made, I don't know how much Lu Dao was stolen by Du Ruo......

However, this cannot be said, and if you say it, you are afraid that you will be in big trouble.

It was inconvenient for him to explain, and the Lu steward naturally refused to accept it, and the two sides were pushing back, Wu Xie suddenly frowned, and turned his head to look at the river bank.

On a headland in the distance, there was a pavilion as majestic as a bird stretching, and there were many shadows near the pavilion, and there was a clear malice coming from there.

Steward Lu also saw that something was wrong in his face, but this steward obviously didn't have Wu Jie's extraordinary intuition that he was about to step into the realm of martial arts, so he could only look dazed and nervous.

Wu Xie hesitated for a moment and asked, "Will we rest at night?" ”

"Yes, everyone is tired today, and when we turn the bend ahead, there is a beachhead. We'll rest there and we'll leave tomorrow morning. ”

Wu Xie nodded and smiled.

Looks like...... It's going to be a lively night!