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There are two roads from Huai'an County to Lingyang County, one by land and the other by water.

Liu Hongyi's original words were: "Brother Jiang, this trip to Lingyang for one day and one night, why don't you and I take a boat, drink and talk on the boat, and by the way, how about watching the mountains and rivers on both sides of the strait?" ”

Jiang Chaoge thought for a while and replied, "Excellent! ”

So, the two went to Huai'an Wharf and found a passenger boat.

The boat was sailed by an old man, in his fifties, with a somewhat thin face, but his physical strength seemed to be very good, and his voice was particularly loud.

"Two guest officers, hurry up and board the ship!!"

Jiang Chaoge only felt the pubic membranes of his ears tremble, and subconsciously got on the boat.

There were also three people on board, a merchant in his forties, and a woman in her twenties, with a three-month-old baby in her arms.

Jiang Chaoge rubbed his ears and looked at the turbid river and the sparse dead trees on the opposite bank.

Just watching, Liu Hongyi came over: "Brother Jiang, but there is Shixing?" ”

I just have a sore ear...... Jiang Chaoge saw that the other party paid him the ferry ticket, and it was not easy to ruin his interest, so he said: "I have it." ”

"Oh? Brother Jiang, please come on! Liu Hongyi's eyes lit up.

Jiang Chaoge thought for a moment and said: "Thousands of miles of hakama river is surging, passing by the waist of the Huai'an water snake. Graceful and beautiful, I really want to practice water floating. ”

Liu Hongyi was stunned for a moment, and it took a long time to react.

Immediately, he smiled wryly and opened his mouth to praise: "Good poetry, good poetry!" Brother Jiang is really talented! ”

"What is the broken poem, still floating on the water? I'm afraid you don't want to float in the water! ”

A young girl in a multicolored skirt walked over.

With red lips and white teeth, flying eyebrows, a three-foot Qingfeng in his hand, a sheepskin bag hanging from his waist, and three flying knives diagonally inserted on it.

A heroic woman!

Liu Hongyi's eyes immediately lit up again: "The woman is going to board the ship?" ”

"What, don't let it go?" The girl raised her eyebrows.

"How dare you, there is just another place." Liu Hongyi immediately got out of the way.

The girl carried a sword, jumped on the bow of the boat, and when she passed by Jiang Chaoge, she squinted: "It looks pretty good, but it's a pity." ”

Jiang Chaoge thought for a moment and said, "Is the girl seriously ill?" ”

"No?" The girl didn't react at once.

"It's a pity." Jiang Chaoge sighed.

If you don't have a serious illness, you can't be strong, and it is estimated that this woman can't float on the water.

So, when the ship was full, sailed.

Along the way, the old man paddled in the back, and the girl shouted in front.

"Don't come here, you disciple!"

Liu Hongyi blushed: "A gentleman loves beauty, what's wrong?" ”

It shows the first two words of the merry and talented man vividly.

Jiang Chaoge had no interest in women, so he didn't want to deal with the two, so he just held the scroll in his hand and studied it silently.

This scientific examination mainly tests the essay strategy, just like the composition of the previous life, if your own level is not up to it, you don't even know how to copy it.

Moreover, there is a very fatal problem now, that is, this Qin seal...... He doesn't know much!

Plus the brush word...... Equally sucks.

"It's only because Jiang Yu'er's memory is broken, otherwise, how can someone in my Jiang be illiterate?"

Look at it......

It was almost dusk.

The old man stopped in the middle of the river, took two more river fish caught in the river, and opened the fire at the stern of the boat, and boiled them, one steaming and the other boiling soup.

These are included in the fare.

The vendor was the first to approach, looking a little hungry.

The woman nursed the baby in the boat.

Liu Hongyi couldn't stay in the boat any longer, so he pulled Jiang Chaoge to the bow of the boat: "Brother Jiang, look at the mountains and rivers on both sides of the strait, are they beautiful?" ”

"Beauty? It's the first time you've taken a boat to Lingyang, right? It's not beautiful along the way! The vendor interjected from behind the boat.

"What, is there anything dangerous along the way?" Liu Hongyi obviously understood the implicit meaning of the vendor's words.

"Hehe, after the mouth of the water in front, there is the big stone statue!" The vendor took the opportunity to glance at the woman in the boat: "That is the most dangerous place in the Qing River. ”

"What's at stake?"

"Have you ever heard of 'mountain ghosts'?"

"Mountain ghosts!!"

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"It's ridiculous that you're still a reader, haven't you read Qu Sheng's "Nine Songs"?" The girl said disdainfully in the boat: "There is a mountain ghost in it." ”

Qu Sheng? "Nine Songs" ...... There is Qu Yuan in this world!

Jiang Chaoge blinked, and realized something.

And Liu Hongyi blushed again: "How could I not know Qu Sheng's "Nine Songs"? ”

"If you know "Nine Songs", how can you not know the mountain ghosts?" The girl's eyebrows flew: "I heard that this mountain ghost is extremely beautiful, by the way, she also likes beautiful men very much, and she wants to marry when she sees it!" ”

Saying this, the girl's eyes glanced at Jiang Chaoge.

Jiang Chaoge ignored her.

The girl saw that Jiang Chaoge didn't respond, and seemed a little lost, so she said again: "Actually, that big stone statue not only has mountain ghosts, but also mountain spirits, and those are all wandering spirits who have been married to mountain ghosts." ”

"Is there really a mountain ghost and a mountain spirit in that big stone statue? That...... Why don't we take a detour? "Liu Hongyi likes to listen to strange legends, but it doesn't mean that he likes to mess with.

"Don't talk about it, a year ago...... It's really a detour. The old man cooking river fish smiled: "However, there hasn't been much trouble in the past year." ”

"How?" Liu Hongyi asked again.

"Speaking of which, that's weird......"

The old man began to take over the topic of everyone on the boat and began to talk about it.

Jiang Chaoge was interested in these ghosts, so he naturally put down the book and began to listen to the old man talk about the big stone statue.

According to the old man, this big stone statue is indeed extremely strange.

In the past few decades, there were often some fatal cases, and the guests passing by on the boat would inexplicably lose one, and the whole ship could not be found.

There are also some people who pass by the big stone statue, and suddenly they will go crazy, and shout: "Lady, beautiful lady!" ”

Then, jump into the river and swim towards the large stone statue.

But the one who swam past ......

None of them came back.

"I heard that they all followed the mountain ghost and became a geist on the mountain!"

The old man made a frightened expression.

Then, he continued.

"So, in the past few decades, people who generally ran boats in the Qinghe River basically took a detour, and few businessmen would take the risk of taking the waterway of the big stone statue because they were in a hurry."

"But a year ago, things changed......"

When the old man spoke, the fish soup had already been cooked, and it was fragrant and snow-white.

After serving a bowl of fish soup to each of the people on the boat, the old man continued: "A year ago, an old Taoist came to this big stone statue...... Just sit on the belly of the big stone statue! ”

"A year ago? The old man said that the old Taoist is still there? Liu Hongyi's eyes widened.

"Yes, of course!" The old man nodded.

When Jiang Chaoge heard this, he was also a little surprised in his heart, an old Taoist sitting on a big stone statue, didn't he eat or drink? A year, without starvation?

As if seeing everyone's doubts, the old man explained: "The old Taoist is indeed still sitting on the big stone statue, and you can see it when you pass by, but he is not dead...... But I don't know. ”

"Didn't anyone climb up to the big stone statue to see?" Liu Hongyi hurriedly asked.

"Childe really said, this year, there are really more than a dozen people climbing up the big stone statue to see, but these people ...... When they returned, they all died. ”

"All dead?"

"Yes, no one who has ever climbed the big stone statue is alive, and over time, no one dares to climb the big stone statue to see the old man, and so a year has passed......

“……”

"However, it is strange to say, since the old Taoist sat on that big stone statue, there have been fewer things for mountain ghosts to ask for their lives, so we who sail will dare to pass."