"It is rumored that there are three taboos in Tiandu City."

"Which three taboos?"

"One taboo fog boat, two taboo rain boat, three taboo night boat. If you commit these three taboos, there is no way to live or die. ”

"Huh! Did you find out that I like to hear some weird stories, so in order to trick me into playing chess, I made up these weird stories in advance? ”

Xia Xiaocian looked past the black and white children who were fighting on the chess game, and gave Zhao Sishui, the captain of Caozhou, a disdainful look.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the night is not young.

A bright moon like white paper hung in the western sky, and on the rippling white river, a fleet of Cao boats from the south of the Yangtze River sailed high, and drove towards the Tiandu City upstream.

In the building boat, the two played against each other, and the agarwood smoke curled.

The white-haired old servant sat in a corner, stroking the piano to help the fun.

"There have been many strange and strange rumors circulating in Tiandu City since ancient times, and they are everywhere, I really didn't lie to Xia Gongzi." Zhao Sishui smiled, picked up a sunspot from the rattan box with his two fingers in the middle of the food, and pressed it on the chessboard without hurrying.

Ren Xia Xiaociao, a boy who likes vassal elegance, looked at it in his eyes, and couldn't help but slander: You are a rough martial artist wearing armor and swords, but you like to toss this rotten Ke Yadao with self-cultivation, you can pretend better than me.

Xia Xiaocian responded to Baizi and said, "Okay, I believe you." Next, you have to explain the 'three taboos of sailing' and this 'no way to live and die'. Dig the hole and don't fill it, and give birth to a son without an asshole. ”

Zhao Sishui pointed to the chessboard and said with a smile: "Old rules." After every game of chess, whether you win or lose, I will tell Xia Gongzi a strange story about Tiandu City. ”

Xia Xiaocian looked at the dense black and white on the chessboard, and sighed: "According to this slow play, Ma Yue can only finish a game in the Year of the Monkey." Why don't we change the way we play? ”

Zhao Sishui Qi said: "Can there be any other way to play this Go?" ”

"Absolutely!"

Taking advantage of the other party's curiosity, Xia Xiaocian played a scoundrel, and immediately rubbed the black and white children who were in full swing, and said mysteriously: "This kind of play is called 'Five-Star Alignment'." The rules are also very simple, as long as whoever connects the five stars of gold, wood, water, fire and earth into a straight line first will be the winner. ”

"And this kind of play? Xia Gongzi, let's give it a try? Zhao Sishui, who had never heard of Go and the "Five Star Beads" game, rubbed his hands and was ready to move.

Soon......

He lost one, two, and three.

"It's too easy to play! There is neither a strategy nor a strategy to conquer the city, which can be described as boring for the winner and tasteless for the loser. ”

Zhao Sishui pretended to comment profoundly, and then smiled with a smile: "Young Master Xia, why don't you ...... Let's have three more rounds? ”

Although the gameplay is simple, he knelt down three times in a row, and he was not convinced.

If he plays Go seriously, he can still kill Xia Xiaocian with you, and play a simpler "five-star bead" but lose all the games, I really can't afford to lose this person.

Xia Xiaocian, who tasted the sweetness of the new rules, shook his head: "You said that every time you finish a game of chess, whether you win or lose, you will tell a strange story about Tiandu City. Now that the three games of chess have been played, you should also say all the words hidden in your stomach like beans, right? ”

Zhao Sishui put away his chess in a daze, and said eloquently: "In the spring of three years ago, the 'Dragon King Case' occurred in Qingluo County downstream of Tiandu, and the wind and waves were strong for several months, hundreds of passing ships sank, and more than 30 women were sacrificed to the river by the foolish people. ”

Xia Xiaocian shook his head and sighed: "Ximen Leopard's rule is comparable. ”

Although Zhao Sishui didn't understand what the allusion of "Ximen Leopard Zhiye" was, he had heard that this Xia Gongzi was well-read, so he didn't care, and then waved his hand, and a maid on the boat stepped forward to pour wine for the two.

Xia Xiaocian picked up the green jade wine glass and took a shallow sip.

The entrance is sweet and mellow, the taste is soft and slender, and it should be a 20-year-old bamboo leaf green.

Zhao Sishui also took a sip slowly, and then said: "In July two years ago, a mural of 'Hell Change' in Tiandu Xilan Temple was completed. But three days later, the ghost disappeared mysteriously, and then seventeen wealthy businessmen and politicians died mysteriously. Rumors spread in the market that it was a hellish ghost who came to seduce the soul and ask for his life. ”

Xia Xiaocian picked up the green jade wine glass, swallowed it beautifully, and said with a smile: "The murderer is a human being, not a ghost." ”

Zhao Sishui paused for a moment, and then added: "A year ago in April, a big hail fell from the sky, smashing a big hole in the main hall of the Chaogong of the Vientiane Divine Palace, and a demonic aura escaped into the main hall, turning into a ten-zhang long big green snake, devouring the three courtiers. ”

Xia Xiaocian gestured to the maid to hand over the wine jar, poured another full glass, and drank it all: "Eighty percent of this green snake is changed by illusion." Attacking a minister in the main hall of the court palace involves either a partisan struggle or a seizure of power. ”

Zhao Sishui Qi said: "Why is Xia Gongzi so sure? ”

Xia Xiaochan's face was slightly drunk: "I have been a law cao in Ningzhou for seven years, and I have handled not thousands of cases, but also hundreds, and I have seen some human faces and ghosts. ”

Zhao Sishui said strangely: "Xia Gongzi has solved countless cases at a young age, and his future achievements are naturally not something that a mere Ningzhou can accommodate." But there are so many gates in Tiandu City, why did Xia Gongzi move to Guangming Temple? ”

Xia Xiaocian smiled freely: "Ningzhou Thorn History is recommended, the officials are stamped and approved, and the buttocks are roasted on the fire, can I still go!" As for this temple of light...... Brother Zhao seems to have something to say? ”

Zhao Sishui turned his gaze away, his eyes were empty, and he sighed faintly: "Your Majesty the Queen of Heaven has been listening to politics since the curtain was lowered, and the Tiandu City has become more and more frequent. Many of these cases were sponsored or co-organized by the Guangming Temple.

"Like the 'Dragon King Case', 'Mural Case' and 'Green Snake Case' I mentioned above, most of them are involved in Guangming Temple, but these tricky cases have not been solved for a long time, causing Guangming Temple to be suspicious of all parties.

"Today's Guangming Temple can be said to be full of black clouds and storms, but Ningzhou Thorn Shi just recommended Xia Gongzi to go to Guangming Temple on an errand at this node, could it be that Xia Gongzi and Ningzhou Thorn Shi do not deal with each other?"

Xia Xiaocian pondered for a few breaths, and seemed to smile: "That's not necessarily." Ningzhou Assassin Shi is an upright and honest official, and he will not put me together for no reason. It's that you said three strange cases in one breath, but it still has nothing to do with the 'Three Taboos of Sailing in the Sky'. ”

Zhao Sishui suddenly raised his head and laughed: "The so-called taboo in the world, ordinary people believe and fear it, those who are promising in cultivation believe it but are not afraid, and those who have attained the Tao only laugh at it!" ”

Xia Xiaocian was speechless for a while, and said in her heart, look at what you can bear.

At this time, the sound of the piano stopped, and the white-haired old servant had finished playing the piano.

Zhao Sishui was in a rather happy mood, and beckoned from afar: "Uncle Cui, behead the Three Corpses Brain Divine Pill, I'm going to start cultivating the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting." ”

The white-haired old servant hesitated for a moment, and the wrinkles on his face wrinkled more deeply: "Captain Zhao just broke through the three realms of foundation building a few days ago, so he should fight steadily and steadily, and there is no need to rush to attack the four realms of sword gall. It is a medicine that is poisonous, and the so-called elixir is no exception. ”

Hearing Cui Bo's words, Xia Xiaocian thought in his heart, Zhao Sishui Xingwu was born as a warrior, and his original cultivation should be a martial arts path, but this "Three Realms of Foundation Building" and "Four Realms of Sword Courage" are clearly the names of the realm of Daomen Sword Cultivation.

It seems that this Zhao Sishui has changed his cultivation system?

Zhao Sishui said disapprenously: "If it is an ordinary cultivator, it should indeed be steady and steady. But I have Wufu's 'Sword Heart Four Realms' as a foundation. Wouldn't it be better to transform from a martial artist's sword heart to a sword gall of sword cultivation than ordinary people? ”

The white-haired Cui Bo sighed helplessly, and then got up and walked to the secret room behind him.

Xia Xiaocian couldn't help but ask: "Why did Captain Zhao change his course and change from martial arts to sword cultivation?" ”

Zhao Sishui glanced at him and said with a wry smile: "The martial arts system is easy to learn and difficult to enter. It is all about forging bones first, then nourishing qi, and then cultivating copper and iron bones. This basic three realms are accessible to everyone, and it is nothing more than a matter of time.

"But when you reach the fourth realm of martial arts, 'Sword Heart', you have to start tempering your natal Xuan Soldier, and every step after that is as difficult as reaching the sky.

"Although I had already cultivated the 'Four Realms of Sword Heart' of Wufu to the Great Perfection nine years ago, I have never been able to achieve the 'unity of man and sword' in the past nine years, and my cultivation progress has always been sluggish......

The sword is known as the emperor of a hundred soldiers, and although there are various natal soldiers cultivated by martial artists, they all use "sword" to summarize them in the name of the realm.

I don't know if the first martial artist who divided the realm of martial arts was a sword weapon, anyway, this set of names has been handed down, but it has not been criticized by later generations of reckless martial artists.

A certain martial artist with a stick: As soon as Lao Tzu uses a stick, can't it be called "the unity of people and sticks"?

“…… It was also a coincidence, and later I came into contact with the sword cultivation system, and unexpectedly found that I had a higher understanding in this area, and I asked for a bottle of the Brain Pill of Killing Three Corpses, and since then I have changed from martial arts to sword cultivation. ”

As soon as the words fell, Cui Bo had already brought a blue and white gourd porcelain bottle and poured a reddish-brown elixir into Zhao Sishui's palm.

Zhao Sishui said with a smile: "Once I start to practice the Sutra of Sitting and Forgetting, I will be too vain, and I will have no time to take care of Xia Gongzi and look at Haihan." ”

Xia Xiaocian nodded, indicating that it didn't matter.

Zhao Sishui threw the Three Corpses Brain Divine Pill into his mouth, sat on the ground, and began to practice.

Cui Bo waved his hand and stretched out the room, smiling kindly: "Young Master Xia, please." ”

Xia Xiaocian had no choice but to get up and leave the room. Traber reflexively locked the door.

At this time, the sky was just dawning, but the fog on the White River was filled, the scenery on both sides of the river was blurred, and several boats nearby seemed to be shadowy, giving people a sense of dampness and dreary oppression that was difficult to breathe.

Suddenly, a huge wave shook and hit the bow of the ship hard.

A crystal splash exploded in the sky, and the entire boat also shook violently!

Xia Xiaocicada stumbled and almost fell on the deck.

The officers and men of Caoyun cried out in terror: "There is a dark shadow under the water——! ”