At night, passengers are not allowed to light the lights in the cabin at will, but it is not pitch black inside, and the pillar head lamp in a small iron cage with a grille is small, but it barely provides some illumination.

In the dimly lit cabin, some people were already asleep, others were constantly moving, and the dock outside the cabin was still very lively, but it was a little further away from the big ship.

Yi Shuyuan came out of the cabin again and came to the deck.

At this moment, it is already a bright moon and stars in the sky, and there are wind and waves on the river.

The Kaiyang Grand Canal is a great project dug by the previous dynasty in the heyday of national power, although it caused more than public resentment at that time, but it has to be said that to this day, the digging of the Grand Canal is indeed a feat for the descendants of Fuze.

When Yi Shuyuan was compiling the county chronicles in Yuanjiang County, he learned about this Grand Canal from literature.

To be precise, this river runs through two rich places in the southeast and northwest, with a total length of about 9,000 li and an average channel width of more than ten zhang.

For example, this section of the river outside Mingzhou City, because of the interconnection with the original big river, plus the original depression, has formed a wide body of water.

Yi Shuyuan walked on the deck, the cold wind at the end of the first month was still biting, and no one stayed on the deck at this time, he jumped lightly and reached the top of the cabin.

The bow of the ship has been turned in advance, and at the moment the head is facing the surface of the canal.

Yi Shuyuan sat down on the spot, leaned against the low fence here, looked at the bustle on the wharf, looked at the lights of Mingzhou City in the distance, and then turned his head to look at the surface of the canal.

The night wind brought up the uncertain waves on the river, and the moonlight shone down, refracting an angle in Yi Shuyuan's line of sight at this moment.

This angle made it seem that in Yi Shuyuan's eyes, the moonlight seemed to be dancing on the waves, bringing bursts of non-dazzling sparkle.

For a while, Yi Shuyuan was a little stupid.

Yi Shuyuan doesn't seem to see water, it doesn't seem to be light, what he sees is ups and downs, what he sees is shining and flowing and causing wind and waves.

The water waves float, the moonlight follows, there is light and shadow, like a dream.

An inconspicuous luster flew out of Yi Shuyuan's sleeve, turning into the wine gourd in his hand, he shook the gourd, feeling the shaking of the wine inside, as if it also brought up the waves of the river.

"The moon is thousands of miles, the light is golden"

Not far away, a flower boat slowly left the dock in the midst of warblers and laughter, it should have attracted enough guests, and it was going to the river to seek pleasure while driving

A faint smell of fat powder came with the wind, and the flower boat slowly sailed past the vicinity of the big ship where Yi Shuyuan was, causing Yi Shuyuan to glance at it.

"That's why the boat painting boat will sail on a night like this."

There are three or two women on the flower boat wearing fur, even if the weather is cold, they will come out of the cabin to breathe.

"Look over there."

A woman spotted a man sitting alone on the top of a large boat, although he couldn't see it clearly, but what appeared in the moonlight was probably a long-haired man, leaning on a low railing with a gourd, his sleeves swinging and his long hair flying.

The woman who was with her looked in that direction along the fingers of others, and she was a little distracted.

Even if you just glance at it from a distance, it makes people feel that the boy is free and easy, fluttering like a fairy.

Yi Shuyuan could feel the sight of him, but he didn't know that he had become the untouchable beauty in her heart at the moment.

It wasn't until Yi Shuyuan looked up that the women had just left with fans covering their faces.

The gourd in his hand no longer shakes, but the wine inside is still surging.

At this moment, Yi Shuyuan looked at the moonlight reflected on the river, and remembered the battle with the cat demon in the village, the thrill and excitement and the burning sensation in his stomach were vivid.

In a blink of an eye, it was already midnight, and the vicinity of the dock had quieted down, and Yi Shuyuan gradually came back to his senses at this moment.

"Wine in the pot, moon in the water, sun and moon yin, floating light and gold"

While muttering to himself, Yi Shuyuan suddenly pulled out the stopper of the wine gourd, and then threw it away.

"The mystery of change, the chance of immortal law, or just a thought!"

In Yi Shuyuan's low groan, the wine gourd spun in the air for a few weeks, and finally fell far on the surface of the river with a "poof", and in Yi Shuyuan's sight, it was falling where the moon shadow was shaking.

At this moment, Yi Shuyuan remembered the scenery at this time, closed his eyes, and the folding fan had slipped out of the right sleeve, which had turned into a pen in the mist with the operation of the mana in his body.

This mist did not dissipate, but made Yi Shuyuan hazy.

A gust of wind blew, and Yi Shuyuan, who was originally sitting on the top of the boat, was like a mist-shaped person, and he collapsed and disappeared in the wind.

On the surface of the river, Yi Shuyuan, whose eyes were closed, had already appeared in the wind, and he held the pen and fell to the river with the head of the pen and his feet, and fell to the river in an upside-down attitude.

Hunting with his sleeves in the wind, the tip of the pen fell to the river but undulated in the waves, and he did not fall into the water with Yi Shuyuan.

Yi Shuyuan's heart is the moonlight, and in his hand is the pen turned by Yinchen, and the pen barrel is constantly circulating in his hand, crossing the waves on the river.

The pen walks like a snake, undulating with the waves, a smile appears at the corner of Yi Shuyuan's mouth, and the pen in his hand keeps dancing.

Every time the tip of the pen crosses the light and shadow, the moonlight in Yi Shuyuan's heart will be a little less, as if it is used as ink to be sucked into the pen, and then drawn into the waves.

Gray Mian grabbed Yi Shuyuan's shoulder, and the gentleman didn't notice it, and it also closed its eyes at the moment, because as soon as it opened it, there was a dazzling light in front of it.

More than a dozen breaths are as long as an hour, and it seems like a snap of a finger.

Yi Shuyuan opened his eyes in the wind, and the moonlight floating in the water turned out to be the light and shadow of a sword.

Draw a shadow and make a sword!

The pen shook and the whole person flew upside down in the wind, and the pen brought out not a touch of river water, but more like a white moonlight, which fell back into the shadow of the sword in the water after leaving the river a few feet away.

At this moment, Yi Shuyuan's heart moved, and the gourd seemed to become a little bigger, sucking the floating moonlight into the gourd.

The next moment, the waves floated, and the moon shadow remained the same, as if everything was just an illusion.

"Woohoo."

A gust of wind blew, Yi Shuyuan pulled the wind, the gourd returned to his hand, and in a breath it had fallen to the place where he had just been on the boat and sat down again, and the gourd in his hand seemed to be much heavier than just now.

Gray Mian also opened his eyes at this moment, and asked very curiously.

"Sir, what were you doing just now?"

"Change, you see."

Yi Shuyuan shook the gourd, opened the mouth of the gourd, and patted the mouth of the gourd with Yinchen, who had turned back into a folding fan in his hand.

Gray Mian climbed onto the gourd and looked inside, and could vaguely see that under the turmoil of the wine in the gourd, there was a moonlight-like sword shaking, like a snake like a shadow.

"It is both virtual and real, but virtual and real, it is not only against water but also against fire, but also against gold, and this sword is also the way of change."

"What about Kim?"

Gray Mian looked up at Yi Shuyuan, who patted his chest lightly, and spit out a mouthful of white rainbow-like lung gold qi from his mouth, which directly melted into the gourd.

At this moment, Gray Mian felt that the gourd seemed to be slightly hot, but no matter how carefully he felt it, he couldn't feel it.

However, Ash Mian knew that this gourd was faintly related to Mr.'s artistic conception fairy furnace, and the temperature just now was definitely not an illusion.

"Only this one of the golden qi in my lungs is put into the furnace, see if I can cultivate it, if it can be done, I will drink this sword again, and it will merge with my body!"

Yi Shuyuan said this, a smile appeared on his face, but he quickly noticed other movements.

"Hey, sir, someone has come out of the cabin."

Ash Mian lowered his voice and pointed to the right side, and Yi Shuyuan also stretched out his head to look down.

The window of one of the cabins on the right side of the ship opened, and a man climbed out of it, clinging to some of the bulges on the side of the ship, moving cautiously.

"Sir, it's the money-hungry boatman! Is he going to kill for money? ”

"I don't know if you kill people, but you are sure to make money."

I saw this man crawl to the window of another cabin with his hands, pick and scratch under the window with the knife he carried, and then lift the window little by little.

Yi Shuyuan opened his mouth and just wanted to blow down to make him fall.

But I saw that in the process of the man's efforts, one foot slipped and stepped on the air, and his hand was unstable, and he broke two nails and slid down.

"Oops, hey."

"Poof~", the man fell directly into the river.

Except for the exclamation when he just fell, even if he fell into the river, the man did not call for help, and after paddling hard, he grabbed the edge of the pier and climbed to the shore where there were steps.

Even if you have reduced your clothes when climbing, you must still be wearing a lot of clothes on this cold day, if it weren't for the excellent water ability as a boatman, otherwise you would change to another person who knows how to water, and you won't be able to flutter in the water with so many clothes.

"I said he was unlucky."

Gray Mian lay on Yi Shuyuan's shoulder and giggled.

——

Early in the morning, Yi Shuyuan woke up to the shouts of the ship's family, and the ship was slowly leaving the port.

Yi Shuyuan walked to the deck outside the cabin, the morning light was just rising, and there was more than one ship leaving the port on the dock.

Nowadays, the wind is gradually changing to the southeast, and when the sails are down, the big ships do not need to paddle and do not go slowly, but they still need to paddle when leaving the port.

The boatmen cooperated with each other, the oars held the shore a little harder, there was a pulp tank in the middle of the hull, and six slurries on the left and right stretched out, and after the big ship slowly sailed away from the port, the boatmen shouted the trumpet and rowed the oars.

"One, two, three. One, two, three."

Originally, it was just an ordinary trumpet, but as the frequency and synchronization of the oars increased, the trumpet became more flavorful.

"Hey, hey. Paddle and set sail, hey, he

The sound of the trumpet was the same as the song, and Yi Shuyuan couldn't help but beat with the rhythm, and even sang with a low chant, and quickly mastered the essentials.

(End of chapter)