When I woke up, I don't know what time, Ah Dumb was still sleeping by the pool. Wang Hou came up from the pool, fully dressed, and suddenly felt a light under his feet, "The greenstone foot pad has worked?" I couldn't help but be happy, but I didn't know that this was also the work of soaking in the pool water and washing the muscles and marrow.

"But how can you float?" Wang Hou took a few steps, but there was no imaginary effect, "Yes, on the flying stone carving, even the feet of the gods are covered with clouds and mist, how can I float out of thin air?" Thinking like this, I used force under my feet, and suddenly felt a reaction force from the foot pad to myself, and my body couldn't help but bounce up, and it really raised a foot.

Wang Hou couldn't help but be overjoyed, but still secretly exerted his strength, his body gently floated towards the pool water, and landed on the surface of the pool, his shoes were not wet. Haha laughed and said: "Dumb, look! How is my 'stepping on the wind'? Dumb glanced at Wang Hou, who was carried away on the surface of the pool, and once again showed disdain, and then turned over and fell into the pool, paddling his limbs, and disappeared into the water.

The pond was originally connected to the lake, but after a while, Dumb stuck his head out, but there was a ruler-long, glowing silverfish in his mouth. Whitebait is a specialty of Chaohu Lake, Wang Hou has seen it, but it is usually only the length of a finger, and he has never seen such a long and crystal clear body. Dumb took the whitebait in his mouth and swam towards him.

"Give me food?" Wang Hou asked, seeing Dumb nodding, he asked again, "Are you dirty in your mouth?" Dumb looked at him disdainfully, and with a lift of his head, the silverfish blurted out. Wang Hou caught it, the tentacles were extremely delicate, and it melted in the mouth, the taste was mellow, but the body was full of heat, and the whole body was swollen and painful, and he said strangely: "What kind of whitebait is this?" How? ”

Dumb climbed out of the pool, looked back, and continued to crawl forward, Wang Hou following closely. Turning a corner, I saw two lines of words engraved on the stone wall: "The sky and the water are connected, and the boats are endless." Who can shrink the earth, and who has the skill to divide the wind? The dew contains deep ink, and the morning sun baths in tender red. The four mountains are thousands of miles away, and it is difficult to get the same with the sunshine. ”

Wang Houqi said: "Isn't this a poem written by the Song Dynasty Liu Chu when he traveled to Chaohu Lake, how can it be engraved here?" There is also a line of words below the poem: "Yu has been an official for 20 years, he is sparse, does not cultivate prestige, repents a few tricks, then plays the landscape, does not expect to meet the spirit turtle, enters the cave, the fairy prince Qiao left many stone carvings here, refer to it for several years, and the spirit suddenly opened, and wrote down this trick." If those who are destined to see this trick, they must give up their officialdom fame, sail the world, and promote morality before they can learn it. ”

Wang Hou sighed: "I was going to take the children's exam, but I was swept away by the wind, if it wasn't for the dumb rescue, I would have lost my life." Now I want to make a name for myself, but I can't go. Then he looked down, and there were eight drawings on the side of the poem, each of which had a person in various poses, and his body was engraved with a diagram of the movement of the meridians.

The first is a person with his left palm facing the ground, his right palm holding the sky, and the small print note on the side: "The sky and the water are connected, and people are in the heaven and the earth." "Wang Hou is like the stone carving, the left palm is down, the right palm is up, after a while, suddenly there are four streams of heat around the condensation, two from the palm of the Lao Gong acupoint poured in, through the Great Tomb, Xuanmen, Quze, Tianquan to Tianchi, into the body; The other two springs poured in from the feet and entered the body through the Sanyin Jiao, Yangling Spring, and the Sea of Blood to the Jimen, forming a hot flow of agitation, which frightened Wang Hou.

Look at the second picture, it is the person's left hand drooping, the right hand bending the arm stretched upward, just like the "Zhantan Buddha statue", and the small print note on the side: "The boat goes endlessly, and you can travel freely." Wang Hou did the same, and after a while, the four hot streams poured out from his body in the opposite direction of the first one.

In the third, the man clasped his hands in front of his chest, with his left palm up to his right shoulder and his right palm up to his left shoulder. The small print note on the side: "Who can shrink the ground, and the heart is broad." He did the same again, and the air around him surged, pressing towards Wang Hou, but he drew a circle and condensed it on his chest.

In the fourth, the man's arms are outstretched, his body is slightly sideways, and there is a small note on the side: "There is a technique to divide the wind, and all rivers return to the original." According to the note, the air that he had just pressed was divided between his palms, and as his arms opened, he dispersed in all directions.

"Although the first and second paintings are two different moves, they seem to echo, and the third and fourth are the same." Wang Hou was still looking down, but he felt that his head was slightly dizzy, and the "cooing" sounded in his abdomen, thinking that he was too focused, and he didn't know how long it had been. Back to the warm pool, Dumb took out a silver fish from the pool, Wang Hou ate it, rested for a while, felt that his physical strength was becoming more and more inexhaustible, and he was very happy, but he didn't know that at this time, in a cave thousands of miles away, Zhu Ziping was injured and was still thinking about himself.

When he came to the stone carving again, Wang Hou couldn't help but be stunned, the stone carving actually disappeared! Surprised: "Strange thing! How did this stone carving disappear out of thin air? Could it be ...... Could it be that I just used that 'skill to divide the wind' at the end and destroyed the stone carving? …… It's a pity, it's a pity! ”

In addition to regretting, I practiced the four tricks just now, and gradually used them skillfully, and secretly thought: "The first style of these four tricks 'the sky and the water are connected', of course, it is said that they are connected, and the second type of 'the boat is endless', the third type is 'who can shrink the earth', and the fourth type of 'there is a skill to divide the wind', all implicitly connected, otherwise it will not be able to be performed, so I will name these four styles 'the four styles of communication'." ”

I don't know the time in the cave, Wang Hou soaked in the pool water and slept soundly more than 20 times, and it is estimated that he may have been in the cave for 20 days. One day, Wang Hou asked: "Dumb, this cave is not long, have you been here for more than a thousand years?" Ah fell asleep lazily and ignored it, Wang Hou knew that it would be like this, and he was not surprised, and continued, "But I want to go out now, will you go out with me or stay here?" ”

Dumb opened his eyes and slowly crawled towards the entrance of the cave. When I got to the entrance of the cave, I climbed up to the stone pit again, and opened the door of the cave, and the sunlight shone into the hole, bright and dazzling. Wang Hou thought sideways for a while, took off a night pearl and put it in his pocket, and then bowed deeply to the three words "Wang Qiaodong", and came out of the cave with Dumb.

Dumb crawled to the grass a foot away, picked up the dirt to expose the bluestone pit, climbed up, and the hole rumbled shut. Wang Hou helped to re-cover it with soil, and one person and one turtle walked along the road when they came, and Dumb kept turning back, as if he was extremely nostalgic.

On the way, Wang Hou asked: "Dumb, there is no boat now, should we wait here for the boat to pass by, or make our own raft?" Dumb stopped, crawled to his feet, and bit hard, Wang Hou jumped up in pain, and shouted, "Dumb, why are you biting me?" Before he finished speaking, he found that he was floating in the air and did not fall, and his heart lit up, knowing that Dumb was letting himself use the greenstone mat to perform the "Wind Step".

In the past few days, I have been immersed in the "four ways of communication", and I forgot to "step on the wind" for a while. Thinking that he could fly across the Lingbo and walk in the wind, he couldn't help but let out a long howl with joy, and suddenly "ouch", he fell to the ground, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and the white shirt on his body was also green and yellow. Dumb grinned and continued to crawl towards the lake.

At this time, the sky is clear, the lake surface is sparkling and rippling, the floating light is golden, and the crape myrtle on the island is budding to be released, exuding a burst of fragrance, which is very refreshing. Wang Hou felt that this Ziwei Island was much better than it was more than 20 days ago, but he didn't know what was still the case, but his mood was different. Standing by the lake, I remembered that when the Bodhidharma patriarch crossed the river, he only broke a reed on the bank of the river, and a reed crossed the river to make people look good. Today, with the help of greenstone chips, I will also try to cross the vast lake, which is more shocking than "crossing the river with a reed".

At the moment, he performed the "Wind Step", his feet lightly touched the water, and he really floated up, and his palms and chests were staggered, so that a move "Who can shrink the ground" pulled the air in front of him to his chest, but his body was pulled out dozens of feet; Another trick "has a skill to divide the wind", slapped the pulled air behind him, and his body was ejected dozens of feet!

Wang Hou was overjoyed, it seems that the integration of "stepping on the wind" and "communicating with the four styles" is even more exquisite, and he is distressed about the remaining four styles that he inadvertently destroyed. When he returned to the shore, he asked, "Dumb, I'm too shocking to be like this, so I can't leave now, and we'll set off later, okay?" Without waiting for it to nod, he held Dumb in his arms, and his body floated towards the top of the island.

On the top of the island, a man and a turtle face the lake. "Dumb, where did Liu Chu's predecessor go later? He carved on the stone wall that he had to give up his officialdom fame, sail the world, and promote morality before he could learn the eight tricks. I've only learned half of it, should I go back and continue to study the sages so that I can take the exam again next year, or should I do what he says? ”

Dumb stared at Wang Hou intently. Wang Hou continued: "You can see that I am panicked, Ping'er has said many times, a man's husband, words must be done, deeds must be fruitful, although I have only learned the four styles, but I should also follow what Liu's predecessors said." Dumb rubbed Wang Hou's leg with his head, as if agreeing with this.

"But where is the end of the world? How can I sail the world and uphold my morality? At this time, the world is vast, and I don't know where to go. Wang Hou muttered to himself, lowered his head and asked, "By the way, Dumb, you have been here for many years, you should know where to go?" Dumb turned his head to the south, where the lake was still mighty.

"Dumb, do you want me to go south?" Dumb nodded. "My home is in the west of Chaohu Lake...... South, what is that? But I fell into the lake, and if I didn't go back, how could I reassure my family? Dumb bit Wang Hou's robe and tore it up.

Wang Hou said suddenly: "Are you asking me to write a letter to you to bring back to Bianwang Village?" "Dumb is grinning again, as if he is extremely appreciative." Okay. Wang Hou tore off a small piece of the long shirt, picked a handful of leaves to squeeze out the juice, and wrote, "Daddy: Don't worry about Hou'er's safety." ”

In the evening, Wang Hou tied a small strip of cloth to Dumb's hind limbs, and Dumb scratched the back of Wang Hou's hand with his front paws, grinned, jumped into the water with a plop, and then disappeared. Wang Hou stared for a while, glanced back at Ziwei Island, unfolded the "Wind Step" and the "Four Ways of Communication", and quickly walked south on the lake.