I am a literati, but also a person, I did not leave Dan's bones, if I have to say that there are any bones, it is just to return to your hometown with your clothes, and receive a few buckets of rice every month. In fact, I am more like a historical record that never records history, but the page about you has been torn off, I once wanted to serve the country loyally, but the country does not like me. I've been flipping through this history book and I've never found you again, and I can't find myself anymore.

Du Dengkui looked at the withered old man and replied, "You missed?" ”

"Well, we underestimated the people around Shen Jin'an. However, the loss is not big, it is just the fall of a blood bat, which is not a bone injury. The old man nodded directly in agreement.

Du Dengkui's face was displeased: "I passed on the news for you, just to let Shen Jin'an, a chess piece, die in Huayang, so as to cause Beiyan and Huayang to fight, so you can enter the customs from the dragon." It was originally a seamless plan, but now it is fortunate that because of the mistakes of you barbarians in the northern Xinjiang, my good game of chess has been disrupted. ”

The old man was not annoyed at all when he heard Du Dengkui call himself a barbarian from Northern Xinjiang, and after squeezing out a little smile from the corner of his mouth, he said: "Don't be angry, Lord Du, this is our mistake, but it does not hinder our plan for the whole game, and we will have to ask Lord Du to help me more in the future." ”

Du Dengkui bluntly refused: "The reason why I agreed to cooperate with you Northern Xinjiang is not because I like you Northern Xinjiang people, but because I hate Emperor Huayang more than I hate you Northern Xinjiang people." If you're dragging down my plans, then this is the end of our cooperation. ”

"Yes, yes, Lord Du is happy to take revenge, which is really admirable. I am also here to represent the Khan of Wangbao this time, all the actions of my northern Xinjiang in Western Shu are all arranged by Lord Du, and I and other 134 northern Xinjiang warriors have entered Shu, and now all of them have been lurking. ”

Hearing the introduction of the old man, Du Dengkui's face had been gloomy, and he took out the "Topographic Map of Xishu" that had been prepared from behind, gently pushed it away on the table, and pointed a few very important roads into Shu with his hand and said: "Look at it, the terrain of Xishu is complex, the mountains are stacked, and most of the officials in the nineteen states of the two provinces of Xishu are sent by the officials of the Huayang Imperial Court, and the remaining part of the generals who hold real power are also the henchmen of Murong Di, the king of Yungui and different surnames. Although these people seem to live in harmony on the surface, some conflicts between the court and the vassal king are unavoidable, and this situation is beneficial to us, which is one of them. Second, whether it was a civil servant or a military general in Xishu, he was full of hostility to Shen Yue, and for Murong Di, how could others sleep soundly where he stepped on his side. For the Qingliu celebrities who were born and raised in the land of Xishu, although the world has been determined, Shen Yue once slaughtered 38,000 people in Xishu in the Meridian Valley of Xishu, and his reputation is naturally very bad. Third, there are southern barbarian plunders outside Xishu, and there are constant disputes in the rivers and lakes and martial arts, especially in Xishu Tangmen, we can fish in troubled waters and come up with a plan to drive away the wolf and the tiger. Now the whole Xishu is like a dead chess, and Shen Jin'an's arrival is just a wave of living eyes, as long as he enters Xishu, it is inevitable that there will be a few staggering, and I heard that His Royal Highness the Shen family is dissolute by nature and loves beautiful women, if he dies in the land of Xishu by mistake. Shen Yue will be furious, according to his character, when the news of Shen Jin'an's death reaches Beiyan, it is when Shen Yue leads the army to the south. When the time comes, the Northern Yan army will be empty, and you will be able to take advantage of the weakness to enter, and the land of Yanyun will be in your hands. ”

When he heard Du Dengkui lightly say a game of killing chess in a light tone, the withered old man from the north looked out the window and then at the Confucian student in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Mr. Du is worthy of being admired by the Khan of Wangbao, and before he left the courtyard, he has already stirred up the world into turmoil, and the old man admires it." ”

Facing the old man's sycophancy, Du Dengkui didn't care: "Then you go back and tell Wang Bao, just tell him to remember what he promised me." ”

The old man immediately nodded in agreement: "Lord Du, don't worry, the Khan of Wangbao has already said that once the big thing is successful, Shen Yue and Huayang's Emperor Lao'er will personally send you to kill the enemy." Not only that, the land of Xishu will be divided to you, Lord Du, at that time, and the hereditary replacement, and the northern Xinjiang will not interfere. ”

Hearing that Du Dengkui had no expression on his face, as if this kind of thing was dispensable, but when he could hear the enemy of the blade, he could clearly see the excitement and uncontrollable joy on Du Dengkui's face.

After the old man left, Du Dengkui pushed open a secret room in the cottage, the secret room was empty, only a woman's phoenix crown and xia curtain quietly fell on the hanger, and took a closer look at the blood stains on the phoenix crown and xia curtain.

"Xiaoyue, please wait patiently for a few years under Jiuquan, and after I help you get revenge, I will come down to find you soon." Du Dengkui touched the blood stain that had already dried with his hand and said.

Du Dengkui stayed in the grass hall for almost two hours, and only came out of the grass hall when it was dark, but the splendid dress on his body just now was long gone, replaced by a peacock official uniform of the third grade, and there were two strings of morning beads hanging around his neck.

In Huayang officialdom, the status of officials and officials can be said to be worlds apart, if the officials can be promoted to the officials, they can glorify their ancestors. Among the officials, the four products are a watershed. Once you have crossed this watershed, it can be called the humerus of the temple.

A green sedan chair and four sedan chair drivers outside the grass hall had been waiting for a long time, and after seeing Du Dengkui walk out, a sedan chair driver immediately stepped forward and said, "Master, are you going back to the house?" ”

After receiving Du Dengkui's affirmative answer, a sedan chair driver opened his voice and shouted: "Get up the sedan chair!" Lord Yin Du of Chongdu Mansion returned to his home, and the idlers dispersed! ”

After the bridge of forgetting worries, it is Qiulingdu, go west along Qiulingdu, if the water flow is gentle, you can reach Xishu in less than three days.

Shen Jin'an and his entourage hired a barge and sailed up the river along Qiuling Crossing.

There is a river in the north and south of Huayang, which goes down from the Tianshan Mountains, rolls eastward, and enters the sea.

Thanks to these two gods-given rivers, thousands of people in Huayang have been fed.

They are all rivers, but the two rivers in the north and south can be called abruptly different, the river in the north is called the Luo River, the upper reaches of the Luo River are gentle, but the downstream is turbulent. The river that goes south is called the Yang River, on the contrary, the Yang River is generally turbulent in the upper reaches and gentle in the lower streams.

The two rivers echo each other from afar, which is the foundation of Huayang's foothold, and the difference between the Luohe River and the Luohe River is a drought every three years and a flood every three years, but the Yanghe River is mild, except for a few dangerous places where the water flow is turbulent, the rest of the land is stable and abnormal.

Just as Shen Jin'an and the others were eating, a boatman came over and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is the Dragon Gate ahead." If you are seasick, it is recommended that you tie the pole, otherwise you will vomit at least or your internal organs will be tossed and uncomfortable. ”

After the boatman left, Xiao Wuzi, who had never been to the south, was a little curious: "Childe, what did the boatman mean just now?" ”

Shen Jin'an drank the bowl of fish soup in front of him and said: "According to legend, there is a big snake in Xishu, and the snake will shed its skin and turn into a dragon after five hundred years. Jiaolong often lurks in rivers and lakes, and Jiao can turn into a dragon after cultivating for 500 years and carrying the catastrophe. Longdong enters the sea to survive, but because Jiao is large and cannot fly, if it takes the land route, it will become a target of thunder, so it will generally sneak into the sea from the river. The Yangjiang River has a huge amount of water and is extremely wide, so it has also become a must-go place for Jiaolong. For this kind of behavior of Jiao, it is generally called a Jiaojiao. The so-called dragon gate, is when Jiao enters the sea, need to cross a high ground, after the dragon gate Jiao can be the first born double horns, but also escaped by the punishment of the catastrophe, of course, these are just folk sayings. According to Xu Ke's "Water Flow", it is only said that the water potential may be turbulent, the cliffs on both sides of the river, and the underwater reefs are clustered, which is an extremely important test for the boatman's boating skills. ”

Hearing Shen Jin'an's introduction, Tang Wuxin on the side nodded and praised: "Yes, you have a literati style when you say this." The original location of Shu was remote, because it could be self-sufficient, so the people of Shu did not want to participate in the disputes outside, so it was called the country of abundance. The waterway is only accessible for a few periods of time a year. Boy, you have to think about it, after passing the Dragon Gate, you will arrive in Shudi. Not only will the name of Your Highness the Shen Family not help you in any way, but on the contrary, it is likely to become a burden to you. ”

Shen Jin'an was not panicked, and said calmly: "If it is for myself, I'm afraid I won't come back." However, even though there are thousands of reasons not to go, there is only one reason why I have to go. ”

This statement also made Tang Wuxin interested: "Oh? Boy, what are the reasons why you have to go? ”

Shen Jinan glanced at Lu Jiangnan and said, "Naturally, I promised my heroine." ”

Lu Jiangnan's face was flushed by Shen Jin'an's words, to tell the truth, for so many years, except for that person, no one else has ever cared so much about him, although it is not a thousand difficulties and dangers along the way, it is also a stumble, the young man in front of him seems to have never said a word "no", nor has he said a word "go home", as if all this is what he should do.

Even so, Lu Jiangnan still didn't bypass Shen Jin'an and snorted coldly: "Who told you to care." ”

Tang Wuxin laughed out loud when he heard this: "Boy, you are really a cold ass with a hot face." ”

Shen Jinan replied without embarrassment at all: "My heroine is thin-skinned and shy when she says it, but if a few of our juniors want to be able to go on this trip safely, if there is no protection from your old man, I'm afraid it will be nonsense." ”

Tang Wuxin waved his hand: "I haven't been back for so many years, and I still have to go home." ”

The three of them were closed, and Shen Jin'an looked at Xiao Wuzi who looked not quite right on the side and said: "It's understandable that northerners don't know how to fight in the water, and they can't take a boat, we take a barge, although this kind of boat is relatively slow, but it is strong and abnormal, if you are worried, you can also hold on to the mast tightly, this is not a shame." ”

Xiao Wuzi just wanted to speak, but suddenly there was a jolt in the hull, Xiao Wuzi couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately ran to a cabin and vomited.