The summer festival has ended, early autumn has come, and Hongshan Town, in the upper reaches of the Huai River, has ushered in the annual heavy rainy season.

On the muddy streets, pedestrians came and went like a trend, colorful paper umbrellas composed colorful poems in the rain, and men in robes came to the inn, sat down with golden knives, and shouted two jugs of hot wine.

Xiao Er brought the drink, nodded and said: "Ouch, fifth master, why did you come in person, if you want a drink, let the brothers inform my shopkeeper, why bother you to go down the mountain in person." ”

"I just came down the mountain to do something, what about your shopkeeper?" As he spoke, the five big and three thick men picked up the big bowl and poured all the wine into his throat, and the spicy taste was so refreshing that his eyes narrowed into a slit.

was pinched by the man's neck like a chicken, Xiao Er shrunk and smiled: "The shopkeeper went to the street corner to listen to the play, I don't know what the fifth master commanded?" ”

The man smiled and patted Xiao Er's shoulder and said, "Oh, it's not a big deal, there's a new brother from the village, come to you to get some good wine and food, and the boss will pick up the wind for him tonight." ”

"This, this is a good thing, the villain must tell the shopkeeper." Xiao Er hurriedly said with a smile.

"That's good." The man laughed, took the food on the table into his arms with a fan-like slap, raised his head and ate the wine, then wiped his mouth with a big knife and walked out of the inn.

When the man staggered away, Xiao Er breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered to the kitchen behind the curtain: "Shopkeeper, everyone is gone, you come out." ”

The thin bamboo pole-like shopkeeper walked out from behind the curtain, glanced at the direction where the man left, and sighed: "Why ......are you here again?"

Xiao Er also said with a wry smile: "They are here to ask for wine and meat, the shopkeeper, shall we give it or not?" ”

"Don't give? Do you have the guts? The official master can't control them, what else can you do, alas......" The shopkeeper said helplessly: "Give it, give it, and it should be ruined and eliminated." ”

While talking, a man and a woman came in outside the inn, the two of them were lightly dressed and wore swords, dressed as knights in the rivers and lakes, and Xiao Er greeted each other with a smile: "The guest officer, please, is it a tip or a hotel?" ”

After the man sat down, the woman took out the silver taels and threw them to Xiao Er, and ordered, "Open two upper rooms, and then have a good pot of tea." ”

"Gotcha." Xiao Er accepted the money, weighed the weight, and hurriedly added a little more courteous smile to his face, and hurriedly greeted the two of them.

After the tea came up, the woman refused Xiao Er's flattery, poured two cups by herself, picked up one of them and put it on the tip of her nose to smell it, and then nodded slightly to the man: "No problem." ”

"Hmm." The man then took the cup and drank the tea, and the two sat by the window, watching the drizzle outside, while enjoying the long-lost tranquility.

These two people naturally changed into Lu Hanjiang and Huangfu Xiaoyuan, who came out of Southern Shaolin, and returned to Beijing in the north, all the way to Hongshan Town.

"I don't like rainy days, and when I'm walking on the road, I get in a bad mood sometimes...... By the way, a water fight? I see that the water on the road is not shallow. Lu Hanjiang looked at the gray sky, and suddenly said with a flash of inspiration.

Huangfu Xiaoyuan didn't make such a nonsensical speech, but asked, "What did you talk about with Ling Yun that day?" I let him go so easily. ”

As if forgetting the topic of the weather, Lu Hanjiang said with a smile: "Talk casually, there's nothing to ...... Isn't this good, after all, you are also blood relatives, if he is safe, you may be able to feel better in the bottom of your heart? ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan glanced at Lu Hanjiang and said in a surging voice: "I just feel strange, you have found him specifically, and in the end you will let him go." ”

"Don't look at me like this, in fact, I have no interest in forcing others to do things."

Lu Hanjiang shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "But Shaolin's trip is not in vain, your nephew can't cultivate Buddhism, this Jianghu is his final destination, sooner or later he will come back, it's just ...... Not now. ”

Huangfu Xiaoyuan was silent for a moment, and then said, "Will Shaolin agree to release people?" ”

"Why not, anyway, that kid has long been dispensable to them, I'll send them up the steps, and they just get down the donkey." Lu Hanjiang said.

Probably sensing the same wind direction as the head of Wudang, the abbot of Southern Shaolin also chose to be cautious, and in order to avoid being pushed to the forefront again, they were very happy to deal with the trouble in advance.

Following Wudang's idea of closing the mountain, Shaolin Temple also showed an attitude of less involvement in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and all of this probably stemmed from the change of Jinyiwei's policy on the rivers and lakes.

"Don't talk about this, by the way, Xiaoyuan, have you ever heard of the legend of Hongshan Town." Lu Hanjiang suddenly asked with great interest.

Huangfu Xiaoyuan shook her head and asked, "What legend?" ”

Lu Hanjiang explained: "Hongshan Town has been worshipping the river god white dragon for generations, and the rainy season here is late, in late summer and early autumn, the river god will spread the wind and rain, and will pass over the town, and the locals call it 'White Dragon Crossing'." ”

After listening to it, Huangfu Xiaoyuan savored it carefully, and was a little speechless, which means that it seems to be a heavy rainstorm, right? She asked, "Don't you like rainy days?" ”

Lu Hanjiang waved his hand and said: "The score of this matter, the rain has come out of the legend, so I have to see it anyway." ”

At this time, Xiao Er passed by adding tea, heard the conversation between the two, and couldn't help but smile and said: "The guest officer is so interested, this luck is also good, the rainy season came early this year, everyone estimates, wait a few days, you can see the 'White Dragon Crossing'." ”

"Really? Then we were really lucky, I thought we would have to wait here for at least half a month. Lu Hanjiang was talking, when he suddenly heard a crisp sound from the street, and when he looked outside, he didn't know whose porcelain was thrown on the street and fell to pieces, followed by a foul scolding.

"Okay, you are a third king, a certain person came to your house to buy something, that is to look down on you, but you dare to pick and choose, is it difficult to dislike a certain coarse person! I don't need your good ingredients?! ”

The man who was scolding on the street was full of alcohol, it was the person who had eaten and drunk in the inn before, and the people on the street were helpless when they saw this scene, and there were one or two who planned to come out and say a fair word, but the man was carrying a long knife around his waist, so scared that everyone did not dare to come forward.

Seeing Xiao Er's expression of anger and inaction, Lu Hanjiang asked curiously, "Who is that person?" Speaking like a bandit, isn't it from the nearby mixed road? ”

"Guest officer, be quiet, don't be listened to by that person, they don't like others to say that they are bandits," Xiao Er said bitterly: "They are the heroes of the green forest in the nearby Xiaofei Gorge, but they don't dare to provoke easily." ”

"Yo, a good man in the green forest." Lu Hanjiang watched from afar as the good man picked up his fist the size of a sandbag and hammered the shopkeeper of the cloth shop, he had no intention of acting bravely, generally speaking, this kind of thing is mostly done by other people for him.

"Stop!"

Sure enough, a young man jumped out of the crowd and stopped the man's atrocity, Lu Hanjiang couldn't help but sigh softly when he saw this: "The sword pattern on that clothes...... It's a disciple of the Qingcheng faction. ”