"The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the sun is high, it's good, the wind is ......"

The rough sound echoed above the blue waves, and between the two mountains, a small boat broke through the calm of the river and slowly slid from the upstream, and the blue sky and white clouds on the water surface also rippled.

The old boatman thumped his legs a few times and sang loudly.

Suddenly, there was a pause in singing, and he looked into the distance.

On the Zijun ferry, which seemed to have been trampled on by something, there was a young Taoist standing with a three-flowered cat at his feet and a jujube red horse behind him.

"......"

A swallow swiped in front of him.

"Ouch......"

The old boatman rubbed his eyes, shouted, and after getting a response, he hurriedly leaned over the boat.

Moments later, the ship was offshore again.

At this time, there was already a jujube red horse on the boat, a young Taoist, and the three-flowered cat was on the side of the boat, leaning down, poking out his head and staring at the water seriously, not knowing what he was thinking.

The Taoist said to the boatman: "The boatman has a leg disease and is old, why is he still running on the river?" ”

"It's not about begging for a living." The boatman waved his hand and said, then looked at Song You, and his tone was a little tentative, "It's the immortal master, after sending the immortal master back last time, the villain listened to the immortal master's words, stopped the boat and went home to rest for a few days, but unexpectedly, in those days, the earth dragon turned over, the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, and even the river was broken, and he ran to another road, and came back after a day." The people of the county said that it was the great water dragon that was making waves and arching the earth, and the villain was still very worried about the immortal master. ”

"Is the damage serious?"

"Zijun is not too heavy, and when I hear about the county, I basically don't feel any earthquake." The boatman said, "It's this river, people on the river or on the shore can see that something is wrong, it doesn't look like the earth dragon turned over, the ghost is very weird, and then the river changed the way and changed back, so that many people on both sides of the river suffered, and I don't know how many boats overturned on the river." ”

"yes......"

Song You also nodded.

Although the Yinjiang River no longer has the momentum of thousands of years ago, it can be regarded as a big river, running east into the sea, and there are not many ships of all sizes on the river, and it is suddenly cut off, how can it be a trivial matter.

This is also one of the reasons why Song You can let go of the white rhino, but not the dragon. It's just that he knew that the fox wouldn't spare them, so he didn't do it himself.

The great demon inherited from ancient times is so terrifying.

It's a pity that there are probably not many big demons handed down from ancient times, most of them have declined, and a few in Yuezhou are probably already well mixed, and there are two fewer since then.

"I heard from the people who fled from the south of Zijun that the water of the Yinjiang River rushed to their side, and a large mountain became like a sea, and it was dark during the day, and ghosts cried wolves, lightning and thunder, saying that there was some great monster making trouble there, and there were gods and monsters fighting." The boatman said while looking at Song You, "Later, after the river came back, after some days, there were boats on the river again, and the villain also came here to wait for the immortal master, but he didn't wait, and thought that the villain had nothing to do with the immortal master, and the immortal master had already left, but I didn't expect that the immortal master would come out a year later." ”

"There's something over there."

Song You said to the boatman with a smile and paused: "Speaking of which, we are also specially waiting for the boatman here, and we have been waiting for two days." ”

"Huh? How can I bother the immortal master to wait for me. ”

The boatman's eyes widened suddenly, and he was frightened.

"There is no need to be nervous, there are few boats on the river, and we have only refused an empty boat in the past two days." Song You opened his mouth and said, "We still remember the love of the boatman who carried me last year, and we also remember that the last time I said that I could meet the boatman again, so I invited the boatman to drink a glass of water and wine. ”

After speaking, he took out the flask and poured a glass of wine.

"Oops......"

The boatman panicked, wanted to refuse but was reluctant, wanted to agree but was embarrassed, put down the oars and wiped his hand on his body repeatedly, and then took it.

"Thank you, Immortal Master."

Then he raised his head and drank it down.

It is a small local wine, but it is also the most expensive wine sold in the county, and the boatmen have never tasted it.

After drinking, he only smiled and said to Song You:

"This wine is so ......"

The wine of this year is not easy to get drunk, it is just a glass, and it does not delay the voyage.

The boatman returned the wine glass, didn't row much, and went down the blue waves, accompanied by singing, and arrived at the boundary of Yaozhou in the blink of an eye, and Song You went back and forth to the ferry where he disembarked.

Xu is wine is warm, can drive away the cold, all the way down, the spring wave is still a little cold, this old cold leg has never hurt again.

"Immortal Master or here?"

"It's still here."

"Okay!"

The boatman immediately leaned over to the boat.

Song You took out the boat money, but he refused to accept it, and Song You also forcibly gave it, and then thanked the boatman and got off the boat.

Or the mountain loess road, better than the road in Zijun, Fengzhou, the straight cedar trees on both sides of the forest, is the place where Sanhua Niangniang once rode a tiger with a pack of wolves, or a spring day, the mountains are still filled with a layer of mist miasma that cannot be dissolved, as if covered with a layer of light veil, trance, and there is no difference from last year.

"Let's go."

Song You stepped forward, and the horse immediately followed.

The sound of horses' hooves and the sound of bells echoed between the two mountains, among the woods.

The three-flowered cat followed with small steps, while raising its head high, looking at the mountains and fog, forests and birds on both sides, and from time to time also lowered its head to look at the front and back of it, thoughtfully.

I don't know if I think about the little monsters hidden on the mountain last year, or if I think that this year there is less carriage and piano sound on this road.

Soon we were at the fork in the road again.

The tea stall at the fork in the road is still not open.

Song You sat on the stones of the tea stall for a while, taking advantage of the shady tea shed to take out dry food and water to eat.

There were a lot of weeds growing on the roadside and along the tea stalls, and the horses were silent, bowing their heads and gnawing, all the sound of pulling weeds and chewing, and the cats also took out the dried loaches from their blankets, and lay on the ground to hold and gnaw.

"Do Taoist priests eat loaches?"

"No, thank you."

"Very clean." The cat looked up at him, "It's cleaner than the jerky made by the people in the city." ”

"Let's eat it."

"I don't eat this, I don't eat that......"

The cat shook its head, muttered a few words, and continued to hold the loach and gnaw dryly.

The loach is dry and woody, and the slag falls off when it is gnawed, and it is full of sneering sound when it is chewed down, which is very comfortable to listen to.

The sun shines brightly on the whole world.

The weather seems to be getting a little hot, too.

Song You ate the vegetable dumplings in his hands cleanly, and the dregs left in his hands, the slightly larger ones, were all twisted and sent into his mouth, which was too small, so he clapped his hands and let it go with the wind, and then leaned his back back, leaning on the wooden pillar of the tea stall, watching the cat bite the loach dry, and also looking at the empty official road under the afternoon sun.

At this time, there is a special kind of ease and leisure.

In the previous year, whether it was busy or boring, it disappeared immediately.

“……”

Song You couldn't help but stretch out, a little sleepy.

Passing through the wilderness, dilapidated tea stalls, the sun is dazzling, the quiet and unmanned afternoon mountain road, the body and mind are tired and relaxed, and it is a very pleasant thing to be able to sleep.

"Sanhua Niangniang, I need to get some sleep."

"Okay......

Song You half-squinted his eyes and fell asleep.

From the beginning of sitting down to rest, until eating dry food, and then sitting on the road to squint for a while, the fork in the road in front of only a group of people, there are people leading donkeys, bells jingling, there are also merchants driving carriages or pushing carts to walk by, the sound of wooden wheels and the ground rolling is really not disturbing when tired, but it is hypnotic, there are also travelers and people with brisk steps, most people walk by and see the Taoist sleeping on the ground, not afraid of mountain bandits and thieves, that comfortable posture can not help but cast eyes on him.

Passers-by participated in the Taoist's afternoon dream, and perhaps the Taoist was also the embellishment of their journey.

When Song You woke up in a daze, the world gradually became clear from blur, and when he looked down, Sanhua Niangniang had fallen asleep beside him, the swallow fell asleep with his neck on the opposite branch, and even the horse in front of him was standing quietly without making a sound.

Several pillars of light hit the ground through the shattered tea shed.

There was a lot of silence around him, only a team of ants on the ground were carrying the scum of the vegetable dumplings he had fallen and the dried scum of the loaches left by Sanhua Niangniang.

Song You couldn't bear to wake them up, and such a scene really made people not want to leave, so he sat here quietly, neither feeling the spirit of heaven and earth, nor thinking about the next route, just looking down at the ants on the ground carrying food around Sanhua Niangniang, and some even approached, wanting to observe this sleeping giant beast.

“……”

The three-flowered cat slowly opened its eyes a little, and saw that the Taoist had woken up, so he immediately opened his eyes wide, looked around, and looked down at a string of ants on the ground, and couldn't help but gently flick them with his paws, and knocked over a few ants, which was all instinctive behavior when he just woke up and was confused, but he didn't embarrass them much, and soon looked up at the Taoist:

"Are you awake?"

Almost at the same time, the swallow also opened its eyes.

"Wake up."

"Are you leaving?"

"Sanhua Niangniang can sleep a little longer."

"Sanhua Niangniang seems to have woken up."

"Let's go, then."

Song You stood up, moved his body, and felt comfortable.

The three-flowered cat also stood up and stretched, and when he caught a glimpse of the ants on the ground, he couldn't help but stretch out his paws and flick a few more.

Naturally, it's still instinctive.

I can't control it at all.

got up and followed the Taoist away, watching the Taoist put the bag on the horse's back, and couldn't help but turn around and look at those ants.

The group walked up the official road and left along the road, but the last time they took the fork on the left, this time they took the right one, and the sound of horses' hooves and bells became the only sound on the mountain road in the afternoon.

A few days later, Anmin County.

Princess Changping is really as she said, after the erosion of Fengzhou's cold ghost qi, and over the miasma of Yaozhou mountains, after settling in Yaozhou, she is also unaccustomed, I am afraid that after learning the truth of the fox demon has also caused a lot of impact on her pride, I don't know if she was surprised, in short, in just one year, it seems to be more than ten years old, almost comparable to her imperial father in the Changjing court.

It's just that she has to know that when people visit, she still dragged her body with a candle, attended with makeup, and entertained herself, maintaining the style of Princess Dayan, and also maintaining the etiquette to Taoists.

At the beginning of March of the ninth year of Mingde, the Taoist people left Anmin.

Soon after, Princess Changping died of illness at home.

One of the most powerful princesses in history has passed away, and I don't know how long it will be before the emperor who has been with her for half her life learns the news, and how the emperor will feel.

(End of chapter)