On the Jinhao River, dozens of ferries sail on the vast river.

These businesses, which rely on rivers and boats to eat, are supported by small sects along the river. Spring goes to autumn, ships go and return, goods are transported, and people are ferryed to distant places, all of which are important means for these small sects to make profits.

The boatman Du Yuan, who was a sixtieth year, blew strong winds and waves for decades on this river leading to Daqi Dongjing, and practiced his iron-clad water nature and kung fu on board. One of the great wonders on the Jinhai River is that there is an old man, standing at the outermost edge of the mast, letting the water be turbulent and the angry wind howling.

The boatmen around him were willing to listen to the gray-bearded old man, and the people on the boat had been living by the water for generations, and when the old men who were also skilled in the same skills gave up this business, the old man was still doing the job that he had loved for most of his life.

Several times, when encountering water bandits on the road, all the boatmen were scared half to death, and they would rather smash the rice bowl in their hands than to keep the head on their necks.

Later, some people pondered and guessed that what Du Yuan said should be the black words passed on by word of mouth among the older generation, as long as he opened his mouth to say black words, black and white, everyone had to give him three points of thin noodles. Someone carrying a small wine and roast goose, coming to the door to learn this craft, Du Yuan is slowly twitching his eyes, waving his hand and laughing, no, this has to be said to work, if there are more people, it will not work.

The old man also has a stunt, if the boat is moving, the bottom of the boat hits the reef, or is entangled in something, he doesn't think about it, he jumps into the turbulent river with a shovel, and stays for an hour, and there is no need to ventilate halfway, looking into the water, only a white shadow can be seen vaguely.

After that, the ship was safe and sound, the wind and waves were calm, and the name of the golden wisp river Bailian became more and more miraculous.

But on this day, the men on the ship and the merchants on the boat discovered another spectacle, and saw a young man, sitting at the far end of the mast with his eyes closed, motionless, like a monk sitting in meditation.

There were several times when there were strong winds on the river, blowing huge sails and hunting sounds, but the boy shook a few times, and he was stunned that he did not fall into the river.

"This show-off boy looks pretty hard." Someone walked out of the room, holding a teapot, and couldn't help but mumble.

"But when the river wind was so violent, the young man breathed evenly and sat still as usual, obviously a practicing family."

For some reason, when people look at the boy sitting alone on the mast, there is always a little untimely expectation in their hearts.

On the one hand, I want to see the young man who doesn't know the height of the sky, and he can't be saved when he falls into the river with a smoke. In the future, there will be a good conversation after dinner, and even when teaching their own stubborn children, they can also have the confidence to scold: When you Laozi and I were on the Jinhai River, I saw a boy who didn't know the height of the sky fell into the river to feed the fish.

Another convenience is that the older generation of kind-hearted people on the ship are worried in their hearts.

An old man saw that the young man was so unconcerned about his life, so he wanted to step forward to stop him, but was stopped by a man who was usually very clever: "Grandpa, you relax, that young man is probably competing with Du Ye, with Du Ye here, as long as he doesn't fall into the belly of the Dragon King, he can let Du Ye save him, you will go up this time, in case that guy is a master who is not stingy, so he falls into the bottom of the river, and depends on you, won't there be a troublesome lawsuit, why do you say you are doing this?"

The old man thought about it, it's such a reason, so be it, anyway, with this golden wisp Jiang Bai Lian, what big thing can happen? Even if something happened, it was the boy's life.

The deck was crowded with people and talking, and the sun was raging at this time, especially the wind on the river, and it was not pleasant to stay on this mast for so long. Du Yuan took out the small wine jug on his waist from time to time, took two sips of it beautifully, and then took that small sip of the eye bag, which was very happy.

Du Yuan put away the cigarette pouch and wine jug, looked at the kid who closed his eyes and recuperated with the corner of his eye, and muttered to himself in his heart: "This later life is a little capable, they all say that they are poor and rich in martial arts, and most of them are because the family has hired a real martial artist

, It's just that the old man has been on the ship for decades, how can he be smashed by a hairy boy, if you want to compete, I'll open your eyes today."

In front of everyone's eyes, Du Yuan's rickety figure began to sway in the wind, shaking his head and shaking his head, like a schoolboy in the school who followed his husband's endorsement, and began to sing.

This is a folk song with a fisherman on the river, the song is loud, talking about a family on the boat, a man in one fell swoop, the doll soaked in the water at the age of three, went into the water at the age of five and recognized the dragon king, tread the waves at the age of nine, and knew the daughter of the big family next to the river at the age of fifteen or sixteen......

Xia Ze, who was concentrating on using the sword and sword trick on the mast, was originally out of the way, and got carried away, hearing this melodious song, although his eyes were still closed, the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually became clear, and he began to shake his head with this folk tune.

The crowd began to erupt in thunderous applause, some people were intoxicated by Du Yuan's singing, and the guys who were familiar with this piece had already begun to follow the tune.

The song was sung slowly for half an hour, until there were fewer people on deck, and the two men on the mast still showed no signs of falling into the river. Du Yuan suddenly felt that his mouth was dry, and he wanted to take a sip of wine to moisten his throat, but he found that the wine gourd was empty, and he regretted that he had betrayed it in front of this kid.

He was inevitably a little unhappy in his heart, and thought to himself, "Good boy, you are here for me today, don't blame the old man for letting you drink a few more sips of river water and then save you."

In the guest room on the ship, Lin Luqing lifted the door curtain with some displeasure and looked at the young man who was single-mindedly running his sword qi. The spectators all found a place to sit in the shade, chatting and drinking to pass the time, in short, someone fell into the river, this kind of excitement is not to be missed.

The two of them worked like this, and after another hour, Du was already old, and when the river wind blew, he had a terrible headache, and he was about to fall off the mast, and the young man on the other mast frowned slightly, tilted his head, and fell into the river with a plop.

There was an inopportune commotion on the deck, or rather, cheers, Lin Luqing walked out of the room, endured and endured, and finally didn't shoot the hundreds of silver needles in his hand towards the group of gloating.

Du Yuanru was amnesty, stood up suddenly, plunged into the river, people followed the direction he entered the water, only to see a narrow white shadow swaying under the water, and then quickly broke through the water, stepping on the waves.

In the crowd, there was a cheer again, and the name of today's Jinhai River Bailian is like thunder, worthy of the name.

After a while, on the deck, there was a shivering young man who was frozen by the river, soaking wet, and after spitting out several mouthfuls of river water mixed with mud and sand, he respectfully saluted Du Yuan and thanked him.

Xia Ze squeezed the water out of his shoes and said, "Old man, your water is so good, thank you for saving your life."

Du Yuan was busy dealing with the group of people who complimented him, and finally got out, touched his gray beard and smiled: "Childe's kung fu is not bad, I see that your next game is very solid, you must be a martial artist, right?"

Xia Ze shook his head, and wrung out the river water on his clothes.

The crowd gathered around, all wanting to know why, so Du Yuan asked again, "I see that you are breathing evenly in this strong wind and waves, since you are not a martial artist, then you should be a monk who practices qi and breathes?"

Xia Ze shook his head again, and people began to wonder, how could it be that he was neither a martial artist nor a qi refiner?

Xia Ze smiled and said slowly: "I grew up in the grasslands in the north, and I have long been accustomed to bumps and bumps in those big families, and I have been riding on horseback all year round, so this little movement is really nothing. As for breathing evenly......

"When I was young, the lord of the big family didn't let me be lazy, so I worked hard, and I developed the habit of falling asleep while sitting, even if it rained and thundered, I might not be able to wake up......

The surrounding crowd began to let out bursts of boos, and Du Yuan couldn't cry or laugh, thinking that he had met some worldly master, and it turned out to be an oolong after a long time.

A well-dressed scholar walked up to Xia Ze's side, coldly

glared at him and said with a smile, "It's really a monkey."

Xia Ze laughed, but when the scholar turned around, he was stomped on by Lin Luqing, and he didn't dare to attack, so he fled.

Du Yuan asked a guy on the boat to bring warm ginger tea for Xia Ze, and went back to the room to rest alone.

The person who served the tea was the one who had dissuaded the old man to stop Xia Ze before, only to see him resist the ginger tea, and said with a smile: "This son, you don't have to feel sad, others can't see through it, I don't know yet, you must be a martial artist, but Grandpa Du's horizontal practice of water kung fu has already been superb, and it is not ashamed to lose to him."

Xia Ze had a look on his face I don't know what you said, just gulped down the tea, and the guy put a cold ass on his hot face, but he was glanced at by the very good-looking woman for no reason, and left in a daze.

Lin Luqing frowned slightly, hugged her arms to her chest, and said angrily, "I really don't understand, the old man before was obviously not good at his skills, and he was about to lose, you are good, you really deliberately fell into the river, now it's okay, you have achieved the reputation of others, but you have become the laughing stock of others, is it interesting."

Xia Ze grinned: "Miss Lin doesn't have to be so indignant about me, I'm just a boat rider, but the old man has been wearing here all his life to beg for a living, I have no intention of competing with him, there is no need to smash his job for the sake of a momentary anger, besides, just now the old man jumped into the river to save me regardless of the danger of his life, such a good person can always be safe and secure on this boat, I think it is a very happy thing."

Lin Luqing was dumbfounded, that's it? Do you have to fall into the water for this reason? This fool is still happy to be happy for a long time? I really don't understand, what do I like about this nerd, wait a minute, this kid has something to say?

She rolled her eyes, "Who said I was mad at you, I just couldn't get used to the gloating faces of those people on the boat."

It's just Xia Ze's next sentence that made Lin Luqing, who was already a little unhappy, grit his teeth even more.

The young man seemed to have survived the catastrophe, and breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good if you don't have it, it's good if you don't have it."

The futon that Lin Luqing was holding in his hand smashed towards Xia Ze's head in the blink of an eye. After a while, she looked at Xia Ze's soaked appearance, gradually dissipated, and said softly, "You should change this clothes first, you will get sick if you wear soaked clothes."

Xia Ze nodded gratefully, Lin Luqing's heart was hot, and the feeling of suffering from gains and losses came up, before getting on the boat with him, there seemed to be little room left on the ship, just one room left, the owner of the boat persuaded him with kind words for a long time, saying that he would bear with it first, passing through a small town on the way, and when the guests got off the boat, there would be many rooms vacant.

The owner of the boat gave Xia Ze a look, Lin Luqing was about to be unable to pretend, but this kid looked embarrassed that he was going to be eaten by her, please! Is she a girl, or a woman who is not in her cardamom years!

It's coming, it's coming! The embarrassed look of worrying that he would lose a piece of meat came again, Lin Luqing said angrily at Xia Ze, "What are you doing? Don't change your clothes and want to freeze yourself? This girl is not the kind of person you imagined, I have never complained about a big girl living in the same room with you, what are you doing?"

Xia Ze was stunned, hugged a clean suit, and said miserably, "Miss Lin, if you don't go out, how can I change my clothes......

Lin Luqing reacted at this time, blushed, opened the curtain and walked out angrily.

I happened to meet the owner of the boat named Liu Yiyi, and when I saw Lin Luqing's angry appearance, I understood, and sighed and muttered, "Silly boy doesn't understand the amorous feelings, I also specially created such a good opportunity for the beauty of adults."

After traveling 500 miles during the day, passing through a boundary with many reefs, for the sake of safety, the ship's slender man fixed the anchor in one place and rested in place.

Lin Luqing is a Qi Refiner of the Seven Realms, and he can already open the valley, and food in the world is dispensable, just drink water.

But she just couldn't understand that Xia Ze, this guy, holding a broken porcelain bowl and carrying porridge and water, sat around the fishing fire, listening to those unclothed slender men, telling those stories that she knew were made up blindly when she heard them, and he even listened to them

Relish.

Lin Luqing frowned, and also held a bowl to Xia Ze's side.

Xia Ze suddenly smiled and said, "Coming?"

The boastful slender man, saw a cold-looking but quite standard girl sitting, so I wanted to show it, the story was blown that called a sky, first in the underwater dragon palace to claim the king, and then to the town and the beautiful woman fornication, the visitors repeatedly pointed out the logical loopholes in his story, in a boo, the slender man could not get off the stage at all, seeing the hard to please the person, eyebrows and eyes are the boy who fell into the water in the daytime, said a really disappointing, turned to leave.

The people who sat down left one after another, waiting for the next round of fun on the Golden Wisp River.

Next to the fishing fire, in the end, there were only four people left, the boat owner Liu Yiyi, Du Yuan, as well as Xia Ze and Lin Luqing.

Du Yuan smiled: "Looking at the two of them born with such a sign, they must be brothers and sisters, right?"

Xia Ze hesitated for a moment and nodded, and Lin Luqing quietly stretched out a hand and twisted it towards his waist.

The boy endured the severe pain, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Liu Yiyi looked at the bottom of her eyes, hid her face and said with a smile: "Grandpa Du, what kind of eyes do you have, seeing that they are so in love, it must be out of safety considerations, they said that they are brother and sister, and they must be a couple."

Lin Luqing smiled, ignoring the helplessness on Xia Ze's face, and gave a thumbs up and said, "Sister has a good eye."

Liu Yiyi threw a smug smile at Xia Ze, as if to say, look, elm head, how simple it is to make a woman happy, use your brain, use your brain.

Xia Ze was silent for a moment, and then spoke, "Old man, have you ever known how to fight an iron sword?"

Du Yuan was confused, looking at the young man's dress, he didn't look like a poor man begging for a living. He glanced at the wine gourd around Xia Ze's waist.

Xia Ze comprehended and offered the wine gourd: "This is the most famous locust flower brew in Night City, the old man can try it?"

Du Yuan took the wine jug, poured it hard, and said slowly: "I'm not an expert, but I heard a blacksmith on a boat say that gradually striking iron is divided into several steps, and the iron ore must be smelted into hot molten iron, and then the molten iron will be integrated into the mold of the sword, and when the molten iron cools, the prototype of this sword will come out......

Du Yuan's speech was extremely slow, as if he was savoring the aftertaste, Xia Ze raised his hand, so the old man took another sip: "Then there is forging, constantly forging this iron with a hammer, knocking out the impurities in it little by little, and when the forging is almost done, you can quench, this quenching can be exquisite......

Liu Yiyi felt bored, spread her hands, and got up to leave, Lin Luqing saw that Xia Ze was interested, but she couldn't hear the doorway, so she also got up with Liu Yiyi and walked to the bow of the boat.

In the distance, dozens of small boats lit with fishing lanterns were heading towards the big boat they were on.

Lin Luqing couldn't help but wonder, "Sister Liu, what's going on?"

Before Liu Yiyi could solve her puzzles, on the deck behind her, dozens of striped men shook the clothes in their hands and cheered.

Lin Luqing glanced at it, and felt that her face was red, Liu Yiyi was not surprised, and said with a smile: "Those dozens of boats, all of them are passing through the Goolan women in the town, who came to our ship to solicit business, and they are very favored by those literati and, and the silver they get is more than ten times that of the town. Over the past few decades, it has become a conventional rule, and as for whether we have received benefits and colluded with those people, I don't know if others are not, in short, we don't."

Lin Luqing was silent and slowly sat back beside Xia Ze, Du Yuan seemed to be determined to take a few sips of wine, and his speed of speech was extremely slow.

Xia Ze naturally has his plans, and the process of forging swords in iron may be inextricably linked to his mastery of the sword technique.

"That's not right! There is a case! Those who don't come from the tick!" Liu Yiyi shouted.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The big ship seemed to have been hit by many heavy objects, and the whole hull shook incessantly, and it was about to topple, and there were shouts and shouts one after another.

"Great

It's not good, it's a water bandit!" Someone exclaimed.

"Don't panic! Listen to me, and don't make a sound! I'll negotiate with them!" Du Yuan stood up and shouted.

In an instant, hundreds of flying claw ropes equipped with iron hooks hooked to death on the hull of the ship, and there were constantly water bandits dressed in black who climbed up the bow of the ship along the ropes. There were about 100 people, all of whom were armed with cold knives and black veils on their faces.

Several of them seemed to have some martial arts skills, and they swayed freely on the rope that connected the two boats.

Du Yuan arched his hand and said loudly, "Heroes! And I received the supernatural powers first, and I have something to discuss."

Even though the crowd of onlookers trembled with fright, they all kindled a glimmer of hope that they might be able to see Du Yuan's black words today and save their lives.

Lin Luqing was about to get up, but was grabbed by Xia Ze and said softly: "Look at the situation again, this group of people is not simple, they should not be ordinary water bandits."

This group of bandits, led by the man in black among them, saw him holding an iron fan and sneering.

Du Yuan's face was pale, and his mouth began to make strange sounds, as if there were a thousand frogs, chirping at the same time, noisy.

Lin Luqing was a little surprised, looked at Xia Ze, and the young man nodded.

But he never thought that the next moment, the man holding the iron fan hit out with a palm, and layers of palm shadows bombarded Du Yuan's body, he screamed miserably and flew out upside down.

"Grandpa Du!" Liu Yiyi exclaimed.

There was a water bandit carrying a big knife with a cruel smile on his face, groped for a while from the place where the old man fell, and then snapped the thing and threw it on the deck.

Everyone gasped: "Old Man Du, it turned out to be a silver carp essence?"

The man sneered and shouted, "Today, the son of the water god of the Golden Thread River, he is here to get rid of the demon, which is considered to be the luck of ordinary people and ordinary people, and those who know each other hurry up and hand over all the valuable things, otherwise?"

In the crowd, there was a sobbing scholar, crying pear blossoms with rain, who was dragged out with one leg, and then there was a big knife on his neck.

The scholar was so frightened that his buttocks urinated, and he cried: "Uncle spare my life, I'm just a poor scholar, I took a boat to Daqi Dongjing to catch the exam, I don't have any money, you spare me, kowtow to you!" I'm kowtowing to you!"

A few bandits ordered some of the money in his baggage, but it was really not much, so the man was so angry that he kicked him away a kilometer, and raised his knife to cut him.

The man didn't care about the pain, so he hurriedly got up and hugged Xia Ze's leg, begging, "You save me..... Save my girl, save my young man, lend me some silver, and I will pay it back then."

Lin Luqing recognized that this person was the one who laughed at Xia Ze during the day, so he squatted down without smiling, straightened his hat, and said with a smile: "Childe is really a monkey, like Sven."