"The people who disembark from the ship enter the port in order, and those who come from the territory go to cabinet A to report, and those who come from overseas go to and from B to register. Those who carry the goods will wait at the port for the time being, and after the goods are registered, they can leave together! ”

On the busy dock, the voices of people are noisy, but there is no scattering at all. The people who disembarked from the ship lined up in order according to the instructions of the people in the harbor, and seemed to be in an orderly manner.

"Next." The person who processed the entry certificate was Xu Yicheng, a man in his thirties, who may have been sitting for a long time and looked quite tired, but he was still conscientious. As an official of the Municipal Shipping Department, he is in charge of all port matters, so every day is so busy.

As a small official, he is still very satisfied with this errand after getting married, and he also makes himself careful not to make mistakes every day. Although the work is two o'clock and one line, it can still meet the family's three meals a day, and the small expectations are enough to be warmly satisfied.

When he was resting for a while, the next person had already walked in front of him, Qiu Shaohu carried his box, and quietly took out his entry documents, on which were written all kinds of information about him. In the past few years, Lianmo would come to the mainland from time to time, and she would come with her at that time. It was also through those opportunities that he could make a lot of preparations.

Xu Yicheng looked at it for a moment, looked up and said, "I have been doing business from overseas and have not returned for many years, and this is the first time I have come back to visit my relatives?" ”

"Yes." Qiu Shaohu replied. The identity of a businessman was carefully chosen by him. Peasants, craftsmen, musicians, and other occupations, only the merchant is often on the move, which can reasonably explain why he came from overseas.

"How many years have you been overseas?"

"It's been two years." Qiu Shaohu replied casually.

"But you look so young." Xu Yicheng was telling the truth, Qiu Shaohu's face was always like a teenager, much younger than his age.

"You're welcome back." Xu Yicheng didn't ask anything more, and stamped the seal of "pass" on the paper, and the cinnabar ink blended with honey emitted the fragrance of osmanthus, "Since it's a family visit, you can stay for a few more days." ”

"Thank you." Qiu Shaohu took the paperwork, his breath was quietly hidden from everyone, and he left with the box.

"Wait a minute." Xu Yicheng suddenly stopped him, his eyes were fixed on Qiu Shaohu's other hand, and when he saw the strange long tube, he said curiously: "What are you?" It's rare. ”

"Overseas clairvoyance." Looking at Xu Yicheng's gaze, Qiu Shaohu said: "I have another one here, if you want it, it is better to give it to you." ”

As he spoke, he took out another clairvoyant mirror and put it on Xu Yicheng's table. Qiu Shaohu knew that if he didn't do something, the other party would be entangled in this topic alone.

"This? Really give it to me? Xu Yicheng didn't expect it, when he looked up and saw that Qiu Shaohu had already walked away, he picked up the long cylinder with a little joy at the moment, and just glanced at it in front of him, but found that it was nothing special from what he usually saw. took it down and looked at it carefully, only to find that what Qiu Shaohu left him was a simple straight tube, and the most important front and rear lenses were not at all.

"I was deceived...... Xu Yicheng realized that he had been tricked, but he was not annoyed, "It's okay, it's a big deal to go home and play with my son." ”

Walking out of the port, the noisy hustle and bustle gradually moved away, and at this moment, Qiu Shaohu suddenly felt an obvious aura coming towards him.

That momentum can be perfectly integrated into the surrounding environment, like fish and water. But for others, it's like a male lion patrolling his territory, which is very eye-catching.

Qiu Shaohu remained silent, because he realized that the other party was not coming at him.

Looking up, what he saw was an official in a collared uniform, scanning the ships in the harbor one by one with a group of people. This is Zheng Ling, the ruler of the city's shipping department, who is blind in one eye and has an awe-inspiring momentum, but everyone who knows him in the port greets him respectfully.

"The Messenger?" Qiu Shaohu recognized the identity of the other party, but his eyes quickly fell on another middle-aged man beside him, who seemed to be ordinary, but the other restrained momentum on his body was more thrilling than the breath released by Zheng Ling, like a forbearant hunter, searching for his prey in a hidden place.

Zheng Ling deliberately distanced himself from that person, proving that he was afraid of the other party; And subconsciously leaning towards the other person's body means following. The two contradictory manifestations proved that this time it was not the city envoy of this port who wanted to inspect the port in person, but the person next to him who asked him to do so, and Zheng Ling was just forced to follow.

In particular, there were other details on his body that particularly attracted Qiu Shaohu's attention - the other party was wearing a dark swallow suit, and the back of the costume was embroidered with a red pattern of warding off evil beasts. And the people who followed him and Zheng Ling were all dressed in the same attire.

These were all Fu Shendu's people, and Qiu Shaohu had just dealt with them not long ago. The other party is now coming to explore Chaomen Port again, for what?

There was still some distance away, and the other party's conversation had already jumped into his ears.

"Lord Cheng, you have to come in person, it's hard to stop the officials. However, Rong Xia Guan said, Your Excellency, you are specially from the capital, and Fu Shendu has always been in charge of the affairs of the Zuo Dao monks, but do you look at me here, do you seem to have some evil demons and outsiders? Besides, didn't you check it out yesterday? Zheng Ling seemed to have said all the good things, and the smile was still on his face, but he was already impatient.

"I only met a few women yesterday when I came here, and you know I've never remembered what women looked like. Besides, if there is an evil demon or not, you don't count it, and if you say it, it doesn't count, you have to search for it. Cheng Tingdong, an official of Fushendu, took a cigarette pouch and smoked it casually, and the smoke of the tobacco dispersed, and the choking breath made people breathless. His hand gripping the stem of the cigarette pouch was as sharp as an eagle's claw.

Before Zheng Ling spoke, Cheng Tingdong had already taken out another edict, and instructed the other party in black and white, "Lord Zheng, you have also seen it, this is the deadline required by Shangfeng, and when the deadline passes, the officials who delay will lose their heads one by one, will Lord Zheng be ready to die in front of me or behind?" ”

"Cheng Tingdong!" Zheng Ling's one-eyed fire seemed to be about to attack, but he still forcibly suppressed his anger. Even if he himself has experienced a lot, including being injured in the conflict between Chaomen and Langguo's fleet in one eye, he still doesn't dare to disobey the other party when he thinks of Cheng Tingdong's prestige that he didn't recognize in Beijing.

"Lord Chengdu, come and see!" His subordinates suddenly hurried over, and after searching a brand-new cargo ship, he took an item and brought it to Cheng Tingdong. Cheng Tingdong took it, and immediately frowned, and there was a tumbler in his hand, but he drew a black crying face, which looked extremely weird.

"The tumbler of the heretic's resting place! Where was this found? Cheng Tingdong ordered his subordinates to thoroughly inspect all the ships in that area, which were all cargo ships that had just sailed in, all of them were newly built ships, and even the paint on the ships was intact.

Zheng Ling's face darkened, he knew that once Cheng Tingdong found out, it would be impossible to give up.

The port was noisy, but it had nothing to do with Qiu Shaohu. He was just thinking that this Cheng Tingdong's bone refinement and blood qi condensation was a completely different feeling, if it was also counted as a cultivation system, he was probably no worse than those pampered Xianmen disciples in the Forgetless Island.

"Even if it is the outside world, it is not an immortal sect, the world is different, each has its own mysteries, if it is underestimated, I am afraid that one day I will regret it for life." This is a sentence that woke him up when Lianmo brought him out a long time ago.

"Each worker has its own way, and everyone is different. No matter what kind of Taoist system it is, if it is a choice, you must be cautious, otherwise one day in the future, there will be the end of the way, and the road will enter the road to death, after all, there is no way to go wrong. ”

Qiu Shaohu thought like this and left silently.

……

"Come and see, the cloud-edged flowers brought by Zhaoyuan Country as tribute nourish yin and aphrodisiac, and those who are not good at legs and feet can try it first to ensure that the medicine is cured!"

"The new book "Immortal Relics" of the "Distant Unknown Life", tells the story of an immortal from the outside of the sky to help a general make a contribution, and now only Zhile Zhai is published, I have a lot of effort to get it, and those who want to see it come and buy it!"

"What the Tianmen Chamber of Commerce sells, look at the new gadgets made by the Shengongmen, puppets that can move without ropes, the young master of a big family should buy one!"

Chaomen City is worthy of being a seaside trade city, just along the way, the sound of bustling and selling is endless, making people feel so lively, and it is the most prosperous in the world. On both sides of the road, buyers and shops are crowded almost the entire street, shoulder to shoulder, and people must be careful to bump into others as they pass by.

And in a remote teahouse in a noisy street market, the disciples of Forgetful Island rested here.

"Senior brother, I still don't understand how that wolf cub sneaked out." One person asked.

Another person continued: "I can't figure this out, even if we people from the Hedgehog Hall can only enter and exit with the permission to go out, and the sea water outside can make people lose their mana, but Qiu Shaohu can't be like us at all, how did he pass the ban?" ”

Hearing the words of his junior disciples, Meng Chen replied after a while: "Calm down, don't you understand?" The ban on the waters of the island of Forgetfulness is only useful to us. He had never practiced the orthodox Dao, so naturally he could not restrain him. So as long as he has enough strength to swim out of the sea, the sky is high and the birds can fly. ”

"That's exactly what happened!"

"I can't imagine that there are such benefits without cultivation."

"What do you mean by that? Do you want to come out and even waste your own efforts? ”

"I'll just say what you want."

"But even if he could get out, how did he find his way out and the sea conditions were bad?"

"Master Lianmo has taken him out a few times before, if he has always had the heart to do this, it is not impossible to memorize the route in advance."

The juniors and disciples were talking about it, because they had already set a ban with spells, so they were not afraid of being heard. And from the little information in those words, Meng Chen gradually had some other ideas.

"No ...... to practice", "Find a ...... to the route", "Don't be bound ......", "Master Mercy ......"

Suddenly, a thought popped into his mind, almost inconceivable to the dust:

"Could it be that it was deliberately arranged by Master Mercy from the beginning?"

At this moment, outside of their prohibition, another figure stood not far from them. Motionless, it seemed to take in all their words.

He was dressed in white, his face was awe-inspiring, and unlike them, he didn't use any spells to prohibit him, and people who came and went didn't realize him, as if he was just a natural background.

If Qiu Shaohu was here, he would be able to recognize that the other party was outside the Chaomen Sea, the person who drove the clouds from the sky.

……

"Guest, what do you want?" In the inn, Qiu Shaohu, who was seated, was greeted and asked.

Qiu Shaohu said: "Boiled mutton, no rice wine, no spices, no salt. ”

"Objectively, according to your way of eating, it's really boiled mutton." The little guy still couldn't understand this strange request.

"What I want is boiled mutton in water." Qiu Shaohu said as a matter of course.

The little guy felt bored, and still asked again: "What does the guest officer want to drink?" We have the best champion red, we are not used to drinking wine, and there is also the Jin Jun Mei tea that has just been shipped, you see......"

"Water." Qiu Shaohu spat out a word.

"What?" The little guy was puzzled.

"I said, just drink water."

This sentence completely choked the other party with nothing to say, and the little guy could only walk away stupidly.

After a while, Qiu Shaohu's things were placed on the table, Qiu Shaohu was eating Qingshui mutton with this clear water, and heard the storyteller invited by the inn knocking on the hall in the center of the lobby: "What I want to talk about today is the heirloom written by the talented man 'Yangzhai Hanke'......"

"Oh, the old liar is coming to cheat again!" Suddenly there was a murmur outside, and the guys at the inn crowded towards the door, as if they were chasing someone.

"Go, go, who said that I am here to cheat and eat and drink today, the old liar never cheats people, and the master is here to find someone today!" An old man squeezed out of the crowd's pushing, looking old, but his legs and feet were extremely flexible, and he dodged all the guys with three crutches and two dodges, and several sturdy young men couldn't catch him.

One of the guys stopped him and shouted angrily, "You dare to say you're not a liar? Before you helped me calculate a hexagram, I kept saying that I could make a fortune that day, but the result was good, there was a generous guest who rewarded me with a lot of silver, but I turned around because I accidentally broke the boss's precious vase, not only did not make a profit, but also lost a lot of money! ”

"But I also told you, if it's free, you can only know one thing, and if you want to see the second one, you have to pay for it, aren't you unwilling?" The old liar said as he did the opposite side of Qiu Shaohu and said, "And didn't I say it, I'm here to find someone today, you see, the person I'm looking for is here." ”

As he spoke, he took a large piece of mutton from Qiu Shaohu's bowl and munched on it, as if they were already very familiar with each other.