Chapter 1 on Longmen Gorge

Princess Tencel leaned against the windowsill and glanced up at the river, tired from time to time.

"A wild man must leave his home." In the princess's ears, her father's spell sounded again. The curse came from the king, a stern father. He "blessed" his daughter's distant marriage with his indifference and his usual attitude of dominating the world. But for the princess, this is nothing, and it is better to leave the so-called home than to enjoy the natural love and hate. Calm has always been her mantra. In the king's compound in the secret mansion of the deep palace, the princess has long been accustomed to wearing a "little savage" vest with her. With this outfit, the little princess can come and go freely, and she can't get in the way of those palace rules of Chen Guzi and rotten sesame seeds. Even if he is brutal in front of people, or willfully dodges, who can control it? Except for the king who always has a face, the so-called father who gives birth to the face of his family and countrymen. However, the power of the father is also difficult to compete with the willfulness of the princess, and the years will always destroy the glory of the previous generation. The domination of tens of millions of people, his complexion and temperament, with the cries of long live long live at home and outside the house, the drama has become more and more ugly. This is the conclusion and secret reached by everyone in the palace, but no one speaks. As for the princess's mother, it was the depression and hidden pain in her heart. As soon as you see her, you will understand what a palace day is. It's just that she can only rely on her mother alone.

She often thinks and calculates: If it weren't for the weakness of the queen mother, I would have run away. Leaving the palace, even being a complete "savage" is not bad. Now, hey, I can't help myself. The palace is still the palace, and the princess is still the princess, and they can't be on their own. A joke that had always been thought to be a joke, the wild man, suddenly came true. This time it really happened! I married so far away that I haven't heard of it. The ship has been walking slowly for ten days and nights, and there is still no sign of landing. It's not easy to live on the water, I can't walk around, I can't breathe, I want to sit down and take a nap, but I wake up. Where is this? No one said anything for a long time. Hey, where is Yu'e? Ever since she boarded the marriage boat, she has been like a transfiguration and has avoided me everywhere. I miss my mother! Hey, I don't know how she lives as an old man? Are she still crying? Or, she just cares about twisting the silk thread in her hand. If she leaves me, who cares about her? Those two lines of old tears, since I can remember, have never been broken, like the silk threads of the fingertips, which can never be drawn and never dried up...... The bad thing is that the prince of Sazi Dragon Kingdom knows me from somewhere, and he hasn't met him, so he wants to get married. The rules of the palace are like this, far inferior to the daughters of ordinary people. Let's go on a blind date, meet heads, and take pictures. There was nothing, and suddenly a few broken ships came, and my father just drove me away. A lifetime of things, simply like this. Why am I so dead?!...... Forget it, if you are born in a royal family, you have no family......

Princess Tencel looked out of the boat. The river breeze is blowing, and the ripples on the water surface are fleeing into the distance layer by layer. The mountains on the banks of the river in the distance are still green...... At the time of parting, my mother was also on such a shore, except for tears, she kept shaking her hands, shaking her hands. It's as if her daughter got married and never saw her again...... The princess wiped away her tears and looked in the direction of the bow of the ship, revealing a slight shadow of a pier on the shore. I thought to myself, maybe it's a place to get by boat. If you look closely, there are two huge natural mountain gates, closing the wide river surface, like a wharf blocking the way. But the middle of the gate was opened, and there it seemed to be hidden......

"Princess, princess......" Yu'e pushed the door in, "Princess, the boatman said to go to Longmen Gorge immediately." This is the entrance to the Dragon Kingdom, and this is your groom's home. Also counted...... I'm leaving my hometown!"

The princess looked at Yu'e and asked her to sit down, "It doesn't matter what country you go to, it's far away from home anyway." If only you could get off the boat and take a walk, it would be nice to breathe. Don't call me a princess in the future, just call sister. ”

"Yes......! Princess, no, Sister Tencel, the shipman said that Longmenxia is the first city of the Dragon Kingdom, and whoever comes here will go ashore to rest. After crossing the mouth of the gorge, it is full of canyons, and the river is very dangerous, and it is impossible to reach the shore. I guess Uncle Xu Long will stop the fleet, and my sister will be able to rest on the ground for the night today. Sister, don't worry too much, there must be a way for the boat to the water!"

"Don't have a road, I'm afraid you won't have to walk much! I see, the boat has to have a shore on the water!" said the princess, looking at the vast river outside the cabin.

"The princess can only stay on the ship. The boat is floating freely on the river. The river flowed for a long time, but it couldn't flow out of the country, leaving the Tencel country and coming to the dragon country. Above that kingdom, there is an eternal Celestial Empire. Oh, where is the end!" said the princess to herself, and then turned her eyes to look at the Longmen Gorge, which was getting closer and closer, towering like a giant gate......

Yu'e smiled and quietly got up and went out. After a while, he hurried in again, took the princess's hand, and said that he wanted to go outside the ship to catch his breath and see the scenery.

The wind and fog on the river are wanton, and dozens of sails are lifted to pick up relatives, winding slowly on the vast water. Princess Tencel straightened her braided hair and held Yu'e to hold the bow of the boat. Although it was shrouded in fog, Longmen Gorge was still clearly visible. The rock, like a knife and an axe, seems to fall from the sky, blocking the river. It is like a flood of heavenly soldiers and generals, all of whom are demonstrating with their heads held high. "What a big Longmen Gorge!" Yu'e muttered from time to time. Suddenly, there were a few shouts from the boatmen, and a few strands of the ruthlessness of the people of the Xiajiang River rippled on the water waves. The shouting was getting closer and closer, and even the old boatman at the bow of the boat shouted two sentences in his throat. After a while, the shouting began again at the stern of the ship, and gradually mixed with the sound of some waves, which came from the rear of the fleet and fled. Looking ahead, the fleet seemed to have turned around and was no longer heading towards the mouth of Longmen Gorge. The building boat where Uncle Long was leading the boats to the left, and suddenly on the wide and tiled water, it seemed to embroider a bend of colorful brocade. The boats that pick up the relatives are all dressed in silk and satin, which is gorgeous. Uncle Long's boat was also holding a golden-red dragon flag aloft, and the dragon's fangs, fluttering two front paws, holding a large brush and a heavy hammer, were all flying on the surface of the river...... Yu'e pointed in the direction of the fleet, and could vaguely see that there was a mountain city on the shore. A circle of city walls with twists and turns appeared, and gradually the white city gate tower also revealed its majestic posture. After a while, the dock on the shore was also clearly visible, and there seemed to be a large number of horses gathered. It was also a colorful flag brocade fluttering, and I also caught a glimpse of the giant flag stretched out by one side, and slowly recognized it - it seemed to be "Gong Xi He Xi......

"Looks like we're going to come to the shore to rest. Princess Tencel said as she walked back to the cabin with Yu'e in her arms. About half an hour later, the sound of trumpets suddenly sounded everywhere outside the ship. The momentum was quite extraordinary, echoing each other, as if it had not stopped. After another half of the day, the ship didn't seem to have anchored and stopped.

"People only know of the princess's willfulness, and only the name of the little savage, but they do not know where the princess can escape even if she is a wild man, and what kind of free ship is there except a broken ship. Hey, Yu'e, where do you say this can go?...... If the princess is married, will she still be the princess of the past? Mo Ruo got on another boat! The river flowed without stopping, and when was the end of the princess's life!?" Yu'e knew that the princess was bored again, so she comforted her a few words, and then made an excuse to inquire out.

The sun on the river is gradually turning westward, and if you don't dock at this hour, I'm afraid you won't have a good rest at night. A few days ago, the fleet was also under Uncle Long's order, and they traveled day and night, and they were often woken up at night. If you enter the Grand Canyon and still rush unrelentingly, I'm afraid it won't work. The princess anxiously asked Yu'e, who was returning to the cabin, why she didn't stop the boat. Yu'e was hesitant at first, saying that Uncle Long was worried about time constraints, and then saying that it was Uncle Long's order. In the end, Yu'e was asked to tell the truth, and she had to whisper the truth of the inquiry. It turned out that the officials of Longmen City on the shore were negligent for a while, and they wanted to take the people of the whole city to welcome the wedding team celebrating the wedding of the prince of the Dragon Kingdom and Princess Tiansi at the city gate wharf. I never thought that I only made a banner of "Gong Xi He Xi", but I forgot Uncle Long, who personally greeted the princess thousands of miles away. He was originally the younger brother of the Dragon Emperor, the lord of the Dragon Kingdom, and a good brother who fought the world from the Woshen Goat Horn Village. It can be said that under one person and above 10,000 people, you don't see Uncle Long's call for a thousand years of life and a thousand years of life is always still in your ears! Now that it is the wedding of the prince of the Dragon Kingdom, how could Uncle Long not come to the wilderness and travel thousands of miles to greet the marriage? If the official knew how powerful, wouldn't he have made another sign to greet him, such as "Long live a thousand years," or "a thousand years and thousands of years," or "a thousand blessings," and so on, so as to fly in pairs with the "Gong Xi He Xi" and fly in unison, and he also sang the praises of Uncle Long Chitose lightly and skillfully. Such a courteous horse-fragrant cow fart may be negligent, lazy, and forgotten by the officials and gentlemen living in these remote towns. So, Uncle Long saw from a distance that Long Xin was displeased, and it was not good to teach and teach, or hold a criticism meeting or something like that. Remembering the name of this official in his heart, he drove the boat out of Longmen City Pier slowly. Dozens of boats didn't take a look, and turned around and went straight to the mouth of Longmen Gorge.

Princess Yu'e had to be idle. Suddenly, the sound of the trumpet, the herald, the boat, and the almost roaring sound of the river outside the cabin all started to stir up. Someone shouted again, "Oh, cross the gorge!" The princess couldn't hold back, so she and Yu'e came to the side of the boat.

I saw that the river was already narrow and extraordinary, and the peaks on both sides of the river were towering, like optimus pillars. It seemed to be so close, as if a hand was touching. Under the field of vision, there are cliffs, and strange stones, bushes, and ravines are hung everywhere, and abrupt and majestic landscapes appear. Even the sky, which had been narrow, shrunk and cramped. And right now, Jiang Lang is even more restrained, and they are all very excited, and everyone huddles in a group and only cares about the front and back, left and right, and collides and flies. "Steady!" the boatman did not care about the willfulness of the waves. Each of them held the tools in their hands, sang and sang the low, gloomy and savage boatman's horn, estimated the steady and smooth rhythm, and fought against the unscrupulous and disorderly river dark war. On the whirlpool of the river, there are still a few idle cargo ships on the water, and a few boatmen are scratching the cracks of the beach and splitting the rocks without a trace of it. Maybe I couldn't fight, so I stopped eating for a while......

The princess was looking away, and suddenly saw a large number of branches swaying in a panic among the rocky walls and mountains on the gorge. The dense bushes were supposed to enjoy the remoteness and tranquility of the canyon. But I never thought that I would jump along the gorge and river, and even a little jubilant. Princess Yu'e was wondering, but a few screams flew from the valley. The cry is not like an animal, but it screams and revels like a human, and the whole canyon seems to be torn apart by the sound. People are looking for prestige, and it is a few groups of hairy monkeys, running wildly among the grass and trees, running and jumping and whistling. The princess smiled, and Yu'e pointed at her. Just as she was about to catch her breath, a dark shadow stood at the moment, and the princess couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"What's that?!" Yu'e exclaimed. I saw a thing, standing on a cliff boulder, black all over, as if it had long hair. Unlike monkeys, much more than them, they look like tall and strong giants. He seemed to be staring at the fleet, and he was looking at the princess's cabin.

"Savages!" a voice shouted......