In the past, Song Siyuan could still speak up, but now what she wants to say is like a fish in her throat, and she can only turn into a light sigh, Yue Guanchao noticed her emotions and pulled down the corners of her clothes, and whispered: "There are too many unjust things in the world, and any of the children of the rivers and lakes can pull hundreds of pieces, now it is a troubled time, it is good to be able to pick up a life, your own affairs are the most important, you can't help the land." ”

"Look at it, what am I telling you about these nonsense things, hurry up and drink ginger tea to warm up, these things have nothing to do with you foreigners." Everyone drank ginger tea and stopped talking, and the boat swayed all the way out of the Dongting Lake Plain, and the sound of the rain was really shrinking, and in the end, the thunderstorm could no longer be heard, and the window was cast into a bright pillar of light, and it was already clear outside.

They opened the door and walked out of the guest hall to look back, the sky was high and the clouds were light, the sky was blue, and the Dongting Lake in the distance was still pouring heavy rain and black clouds covering the sun, and the golden sun was completely filtered on the clouds, without a trace of light.

"Sister, could it be that there is really a dragon king in Dongting Lake?" Ren Peacock has only heard of Dongting rain but has not seen it, and now he sees the black clouds and rain, and he only feels that it is extremely magical.

Song Siyuan stared at the clouds in the distance and explained: "Rain is just natural weather, ancient farming and rain have an inseparable relationship, pray for good wind and rain during droughts, pray for clouds to stop rain during floods, most of the gods will only be concretized, and gradually evolved into a dragon king who can perform clouds and rain." ”

"If you only say that it rains, it is better to understand, water vapor will run into the clouds, when too large water vapor meets cold air at high altitude, it will condense into small water droplets, and then the raindrops fall to the ground, the condition for this process is to evaporate a large amount of water vapor, Dongting Lake belongs to the lakeside ocean, and the water vapor it evaporates is exactly in line with this situation, and it rains more here than other places, which is also normal." Lan Ruling looked at Song Siyuan: "You cultural people just know a lot, if you want us to explain, it must still be the rain of the Dragon King, you can make it clear in three or two sentences, you really still have to read more, otherwise, you will have to be deceived into being a fool." ”

"Sister, then you still drive the corpse? If you are told to read, you don't read, what kind of garlic is you pretending to be now. Lan Ruling's words made everyone laugh, at this time, the boat has been far away from Dongting Lake into the Yuan River, the surface of the boundless lake suddenly contracted, the naked eye can see the clear microwave, away from the wind and rain, the river surface is not alarmed, the fish fly shallow bottom, the sun imprisoned by the black clouds sprinkled down the river, trembling and sparkling light, restoring the clear sky.

Here, it is completely different from the Dongting Lake Plain, once out of the plain, the surrounding thousands of mountains are stacked with emerald green snails like stars, and the Qingshui River stretches out from the Yuan River, winding between the endless distant mountains.

The boat crossing the river is like watching the flowers across the bank, along the way is full of rich and steep mountain scenery, the cliffs are towering, the karst caves are continuous, the funnel is all over, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the fog on the mountainside hides the stilted buildings, the lush vegetation is purple and red, it can be seen that the city is located in the mountains, if the river is too narrow, you can even see the glamorous Gu girl dressed in the embroidered clothes of the Tu tribe, and throw a surprise glance at the boat.

Thousands of mountains, thousands of waves, the river boat swept over the mysterious Xiangxi, and in the evening, it had stopped near Huayuan County.

Along the way, it may be that the anti-smuggling team patrols strictly, but fortunately did not encounter the water bandits, Song Siyuan finally saw the magnificent and precipitous karst landforms, and the camera in his hand was never put down, and he was not happy until the film was finished.

"Sister, we have come to the Yuanjiang River, Youjiang River, and Huayuan River from Dongting Lake, it is inconvenient to sail at night, spend the night in Huayuan County, and then set off the next day, here is only the Qingshui River away from Tudong." The boat is stopped, and the sail is lowered.

They took advantage of the evening to go ashore, found the tea stall on the dock opposite the boat to prepare to pad their stomachs first, such a tea stall in addition to serving herbal tea, ginger tea, there will also be rice noodles, bait, brown sugar glutinous ba, cold powder and other things, although they can't stop being hungry, the heavy spicy and sweet things taste refreshing, suitable for boaters along the river, but also suitable for porters and slender men who carry work on the docks.

When he came out after eating, the boat had already lit up the kerosene lamp, although Zhu Fushun said that he had no cheap status, he was still not used to stepping on the ground, no matter how he asked him not to go up to eat, Ma Yanghua had to bring things up, and he returned them after eating.

The night of the river boat was much more damp and cold than the ground, and everyone closed the door in the night wind, only opened the skylight overhead, and burned the stove to listen to the sound of the water on the riverbank, even if they did not say a word, they did not feel bored.

"Sister, this time the Falling Flower Cave has been solved, do you want to go back directly, or go somewhere else?" They were in a hurry, and before they told Ren Peacock about coming to Sichuan and Shu, Song Siyuan lit the kerosene lamp, took out the classics of the Northern and Southern Dynasties she had prepared, and told her everything that happened in the ghost market.

"Sister, according to your meaning, you want to turn around and go to the Yinping Ancient Road?" Ren Peacock's surprised face made Song Siyuan curious: "Why, can't we go?" The Gu girl waved her hand: "It's not that you can't go, few people have set foot on the Yinping Ancient Road, the peaks of hundreds of miles are more steep than Xiangxi, and there are no towns for hundreds of miles, even if the troops are transiting, they don't choose here, I heard that too many people have died, and all the Lingzi Yin Qi is too heavy." ”

"It's not that there are no villages here, why do so many people die?" Before Yue Erpao's words fell, Ren Peacock had already explained: "I'm stupid boy, I don't mean that there are too many dead people now, I mean the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties." Ren Peacock lowered his voice and explained the legend of the Yinping Ancient Road.

In the early period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Cao Wei dug the Yinping Ancient Road, and then Deng Ai's army entered Shu to destroy the Han Dynasty, so far Cao Wei got half of the world, only the Eastern Wu was left in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was said that the Eastern Han Dynasty was divided into three kingdoms at the end of the year, and heroes from all walks of life came out frequently, but they had to be counted carefully, and the people were bitter and the people were suffering.

At that time, there was only a trail for the local people to walk out of the Yinping Ancient Road, and the mountain was so steep that it was very difficult to march on this trail, even if people could pass, could the horses and grain and grass be able to cross it?

Cao Wei's generals had no choice but to recruit people along the way, building ancient roads and marching. In order to cross the ancient road faster, the generals of Cao Wei did not do a restrained burial for these dead people, and let them rot on the side of the road, and when the wild dogs and wolves arrived, there were no bones left.

There will be a great plague after the dead, some villages have too many dead people, and they have not had time to converge, and they directly evolved into a plague, completely covering the villages near the ancient road, and soon after the army, it has been an extinct beast paradise.

So consuming people's power, since then there has been no trace of living people on the Yinping Ancient Road, and so on to the Northern and Southern Dynasties period of the Wuhu Chaohua, Shu people for refuge, have fled to the Yinping Ancient Road, the Hu people pursued here, and brought the second massacre.

These Hu people treat Hermes-Epitek as two-legged sheep, and they cook and eat them at every turn, and there are so many people who eat them that they even have a grade!

Like women, the meat is soft and easy to rot, and the old man and the old lady are relatively old, and they need to be steamed and cooked to rot the meat, which is called Rao Huo, as for the children and cubs, as long as they cook a little, they can be crispy and delicious, and they taste like a lamb, which is called an envious sheep, and the young and middle-aged people either choose the strong ones to serve as slaves, and the not strong ones are directly killed and dried as military food!

In a hundred years, millions of people died in the hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers near the Yinping Ancient Road, so that the corpses accumulated, the white bones piled up and finally turned into powder.

It can be said that the Yinping Ancient Road is still a no-man's land! After the peacock finished speaking, everyone listened to the cold and cool hearts, whether this statement was true or not, it undoubtedly cast a dark cloud on the trip to Yinping.

"That's it, you're all going to go with me to investigate the truth, and I'll have to help you once, and when this time is over, how about I find a few hunters with good skills and go into the mountains with you?" Ren Peacock was gracious, Song Siyuan only felt warm, nodded gratefully, and said: "Okay, if there is Sister Ren, we also have to go to Yinping with confidence." ”

"Okay, okay, let's all rest, pay attention to keeping warm at night when the wind is strong, but don't be frozen." There was no rain all night, and the river wind was howling.

When they woke up again, they had already seen the river boat skimming the Qingshui River and gradually approaching Fengtou Mountain.

"You see, that's where my mother and I live, and the Yizhuang on the mountain is the master." Back in her hometown, Lan Ruling was much more relaxed, Yue Song and the two followed her to look at the crested mountain on the right side of the boat, the mountain bags here are not high, but they are covered by dense vegetation, there are few bald mottled, and the mountainside spreads clear water and mist, which can be regarded as a real mountain and clear water show.

The bottom of the crested mountain they saw was like a tomb, but when it reached the spire, it suddenly bent inward and a gentle slope, with a few old pine trees on the top of the mountain, it seemed that the crested head stretched towards the river, and several dilapidated villages were embedded in the gentle slope, like a wilderness and ancient house, which was quite mysterious.

According to the original plan, Lan Ruling and the others got off the boat, drove the corpse over the Fengtou Mountain, and walked towards Xiu'an County, as for them, they usually came to the end of the Tudong Jiangxin Island.

In the distance, Jiangxin Island is verdant and vigorous, the grass is abundant, you can see a blue brick spire that stands up from the sky, such as bamboo shoots pulling the clouds, piercing the sky, with Jiangxin Island as the center, the pavilions with southwest characteristics are densely arranged along the Qingshui River, they are connected with each other on stilts, the steep eaves in the bamboo building, the riverside windows, the flying corridor trestle are mixed with each other, constitute the complex and mysterious embankment of the riverside.

Crossing the riverside pavilion, it is relying on the gray tile horse-head wall at the foot of the mountain, and the endless white wall spreads to the river at the foot of the mountain, and is divided into different settlements by the three rivers of Qingshui.

"Tudong, after more than ten years, I finally came back." Originally, it was planned to let the boat people and their wife take them back to Tudong and leave, but Ren Peacock knew that Yue Song was going to Yinping, so he temporarily changed his mind and settled the money for them first, and paid a sum of money in advance to ask them to wait in the Qingshui River, and then turn around and go directly to Shu through the Wujiang Cao Canal.