At the end of March, Wang Hou and Wang Changbo will go to Chao County to take the children's exam. The children's examination is also called the children's examination, and the qualified ones are Xiucai, among which the first and second class results are eligible to participate in the township examination, and the township examination is called lifting. The children's test was held in Chao County in early April, and in the early morning of this day, the third uncle took Wang Hou and Wang Changbo to the ferry. It takes a day to take a boat from this ferry to Chao County, because the mountain village is remote and there are few people, the boat is not big, it can only carry more than 20 people, and the boat only departs once in two days, all of which depart in the morning and return the next night.

The third uncle said: "I am going to take the exam, the third uncle has already told me a lot, needless to say, I hope you will cherish it." The two said goodbye to the third uncle, and the boat slowly rowed towards the lake.

At noon, Wang Hou stood on the bow of the boat, and the lake water slapped the side of the boat, making a "whooshing" sound. Remembering that when he was eight years old, the third uncle stood on the mountain behind the village, pointed to the lake and said: "Eight hundred miles of Chaohu Lake, the wind and waves are calm at this time, but when the wind and waves rise, only these white storks fly against the wind." It only takes two months from birth to take off, and they are the strongest in this lake...... The third uncle is old, but I hope that you will be diligent in your studies, train your body, and take off as soon as possible like this white stork. Ahead, there is an even more beautiful view. ”

Wang Hou's heart was surging at this time, and he said secretly: "Third uncle, Hou'er is going to take the children's exam now, and he will definitely get a good ranking, and I will also fly between heaven and earth like this white stork." ”

At this moment, a whirlpool suddenly rolled up on the surface of the lake fifty zhang away in front of him, and the whirlpool turned bigger and bigger, rolling up a column of water with a thickness of one zhang and heading straight for the boat. "Tornado!" The boatman exclaimed, rowed desperately, trying to get away from the rushing water column, the hull of the boat brushed the water column, but Wang Hou stumbled, and was swept up from the bow of the boat by the water column, circling away.

"Wang Hou......" Changbo shrank on the boat, trembling with fright, and only screamed in pain for a long time, where is there still a figure?

In Bianwang Village, Dumb was lying beside Wang Changzhi, lazily basking in the sun, suddenly stretched his head straight, used his limbs together, and desperately crawled towards the lake. "Dumb, where are you going?" Nagaeda asked eagerly from behind. Dumb didn't stop, crawled to the lake like crazy, fell into the water, and disappeared.

Wang Hou was swept into the water column, only to feel that his body was held up out of thin air, and he kept circling upward, and after a long time, his body sank downward, fell into the lake, choked on a mouthful of water, and immediately passed out. I don't know how long it took, but I felt that my body was slowly sinking, until I sank to the bottom of the lake, but I was bounced up by the bottom of the lake, and gradually floated to the surface, the lake was still making a loud noise, slapping my whole body, sore and painful, and I tried my best to raise my head, but I couldn't move.

When Wang Hou opened his eyes, it was already evening, and he found that he was soaking in the water, but his back was leaning against a stone, turning his head to look around, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Dumb? Why are you here? Dumb lay on the stone, his eyes closed weakly, as if he was extremely tired. Wang Hou remembered that he was carried into the air by the water column swept up by the tornado, and he didn't know how long it took to fall into the water again, and he was still afraid at this time.

"Dumb saved me? Where is this? Wang Hou got up, his whole body was sore, and when he looked around, it seemed to be a small island, and there were many trees growing on the island, and there were pines and cypresses and more crape myrtles, which were tall or bent.

Wang Hou sat down to exercise pranayama, and after so many years of teaching by Zhu Zhi, Wang Hou followed Zhu Ziping to practice martial arts. The effort was not great, the clothes on his body were slowly steamed, and his whole body had some strength, so he said to Dumb: "Dumb, you rest here, I'll go to the island to see if there is a place to stay." Dumb was still lying on his stomach.

When I walked to the edge of the forest, I saw a stone tablet with the words "Ziwei Island" written on it. Walking up from the forest, you will reach the top of the island in a short time. The island is not big, only a hundred zhang above the lake, and the radius is only one mile, surrounded by verdant woods, and there is no cave to accommodate at all; Beyond the island is a vast lake, and the sun is slowly sinking with a golden glow.

Wang Hou sighed: "It seems that tonight is going to be spent in the woods." Turning down the road, Dumb still stood still. Wang Hou felt hungry in his stomach, touched his pocket and five pieces of dough, tore open the paper seal, unscrewed a small piece and put it in front of Dumb's nose, Dumb opened his mouth and swallowed the dough in his mouth, Wang Hou himself gnawed it.

It was the end of March, there was no moon, only a few large stars twinkling brightly. Wang Hou asked, "Dumb, let's be in the woods tonight, there is no other place around here." Can you walk around? "Lazily stretched out his limbs and crawled towards the woods, and climbed to the edge of the woods, but instead of inward, he turned to the right.

"Dumb, where are you going? I saw that there was no other suitable place here than the woods. Dumb did not stop, but continued to crawl slowly, until about fifty feet away, he did not stop, but he picked up on the grass with his forelegs. Wang Hou became more and more curious, knowing that Dumb had not yet recovered his strength, so he broke a pine branch and stepped forward to help dig up the soil. About half a foot was planed, and suddenly I heard a "bang", and the pine branch hit a piece of bluestone.

Wang Hou brushed off the soil, only to see that the bluestone was not flat, there was a basin-sized pit on it, and there was a small hole in each of the four corners of the pit. Wang Hou rubbed his eyes, suspecting that he was dreaming.

Dumb crawled out of the pit, filled in the dirt, and then crawled straight to the hole, and Wang Hou quickly followed. Entering the cave, Dumb lay down on another stone pit, and there was another rumbling sound, and the entrance to the cave closed again. After closing, the cave becomes brighter and brighter, but it is made of the night pearls inlaid on the stone wall, and the rows of night pearls extend forward.

"What is this place?" Wang Houzhi was stunned, only to see three basin-sized words engraved on the wall of the cave: "Wang Qiao Cave", look closely, and there is a small word carved below:

"I am Prince Qiao, a descendant of the forty-second generation of the Yellow Emperor, whose real name is Ji Jin, and the word is Qiao. In the twenty-first year of the King of Spirit, the flood of Luo was about to destroy the palace, and the King of Spirit decided to block the flood. I admonished that it is not possible, since ancient times, the elders of the people, do not fall into the mountains, do not fill the lakes, do not leak water. Heaven and earth naturally have their own way of life and restraint, which can gather soil and dredge rivers to divert floods. I didn't want to anger the spirit king, thinking that I laughed at his unkindness, so I was deposed as a concubine. Whew! I traveled to visit the immortals, fell into the Chaohu Lake, fortunately met the spirit turtle, and built a cave here. ”

Wang Hou couldn't help but take a deep breath after reading it, it was incredible! King Ling has been nearly 2,000 years ago, Prince Qiao is the son of King Ling of Zhou, at the age of fifteen to assist the government as the crown prince, and was later deposed as a common people, his story has been seen in books, Han Liu to the "Legend of the Immortals • Prince Qiao" said that he retired for more than 30 years, and went away as an immortal; In "Nineteen Ancient Poems", it was also said that "Qiao, the prince of immortals, is difficult to wait for." "I didn't expect him to be in seclusion on this island, he said that he had to meet the spirit turtle, could it be a dumb? Or is Dumb a descendant of the spirit turtle?

Dumb rubbed the corner of Wang's thick pants with his head and crawled into the cave. The slope in the cave went down, Wang Hou followed Dumb and walked down, only to see that there were many Buddha statues carved on the left and right cave walls, but the Buddha statues were mostly incomplete, and they did not know who chiseled off their heads. Walking not far, Dumb stopped, but saw a stone statue carved with clear lines, for the rebound of the pipa, the stone carving is about two feet long, about one foot high, is composed of two symmetrical "flying sky", the human body in the picture is light, the posture is free and graceful.

"Feitian" stone carving below is a niche, there is a thing in it, Wang Hou holds it in his hand, it is two thin stone chips, the shape is like a foot pad, the color is dark green, relatively soft. Turn it over, there are small characters engraved on the back, and one piece on it reads: "I saw a piece of green stone in the middle of the lake one day, born between the aquatic plants, the color is dark green, I am very happy, take it out, but see that this stone can float in the air." The following piece reads: "I once saw a picture scroll flying in the sky, so I made this stone into a foot pad, although the cushion cannot fly into the sky, but it can also resist the wind." ”

Wang Hou groaned: "Wang Ziqiao got a piece of green stone that can float under Chaohu Lake, and Wang Ziqiao made it into a foot pad, could it be that this foot pad can really make people walk in the wind?" So he took off his shoes, stuffed the greenstone chips into them, put them back on and walked two steps, but he didn't feel like he was floating, and he was a little disappointed.

Dumb showed disdain in his eyes and led Wang Hou to continue walking. After a while, I saw a pool, the pool was not big, the radius was only one zhang, but it was steaming, like a hot spring. Dumb looked at Wang Hou, probed his forelimbs into the water, and turned his head to look at him.

"Dumb, but let me soak in this hot spring?" Seeing Dumb grinning, Wang Hou took off his shirt and suddenly said, "Dumb, don't peek." ”

Dumb looked disdainful again and closed his eyes. Wang Hou smiled, quickly took off his tights, and jumped into the water with a "plop". The water is chest deep and constantly whirlpooling, Wang Hou only feels that the whole body is very comfortable and warm, he grew up by the lake since he was a child, and the water is good, at this time he relaxed, and suddenly felt a wave of tiredness attack, and he actually floated on the water surface and fell asleep.

If a martial arts practitioner saw this scene, he was afraid that he would be jealous, only to see Wang Hou spreading his body in the water, his body constantly excreting debris, wisps of sewage from him, and being swirled and brought to the edge of the pool.

Wang Hou was washing his muscles and marrow, and his skin began to become crystal clear, and he didn't even know anything about this.