"We don't know very well, but after being selected as a green god, you can designate a mountain parade......"

Under the narration of these girls of the same age, the details of Gao Azheng's fall into the cave became clear again: on the same day, after Gao Azheng was elected as the green god, the tour around the mountain had ended, but she unexpectedly said that she would continue to sail along the Qingshui River.

In view of the fact that being selected as the Qingshen was a glorious thing, the elders of Tudong Town also agreed to her request, and let many Tudong Shaoai take a boat and go all the way south along the Qingshui River, skipping countless Gu villages along the riverside halfway, until Lao Longkou completely stopped.

Here, it has been close to the old dragon's mouth, everyone knows that there is a cave god in the old dragon's mouth, and there are countless predecessors who have fallen into the hole here, some young Ai is naturally afraid of here, and they have persuaded Gao Azheng to go back, under their persuasion, Gao Azheng decided to end the parade, but when she left, she said that there are flower vines near the old dragon mouth, and she wants to pick some flower vines to make flower crowns.

Shao Ai had to wait on the boat, let Gao Azheng go to the shore alone, pick flowers and vines on the mountain wall near Laolongkou, and see that there are more and more flowers and vines in Gao Azheng's back basket, these Shao Ai can't help but worry, urging Gao Azheng to hurry up and get on the boat.

said that it was too late, and suddenly a nameless wind blew into the river, almost lifting everyone's veil, at this time Gao Azheng wanted to get on the boat, but at this moment he had stopped, and came to the water's edge with the fallen leaves, carefully looking at the reflection in the water, this scene, scared the young Ai a lot.

They had to get off the boat, planning to take Gao Azheng back, when they came to her, they could clearly feel that Gao Azheng had become gentle, and felt self-pity for the reflection on the water, with a kind of charm beyond age, and when they returned home for only a few days, they became what they are now.

Song Siyuan carefully pondered the details of what they said:

These young Ai knew from the beginning that there was a cave god in Lao Longkou, in order to avoid being trapped, they didn't even dare to get close to Lao Longkou, they only dared to wait for Gao Azheng to come back on the boat, and Gao Azheng, as a party, didn't he know that Lao Longkou was very dangerous?

She must know that the old dragon's mouth is dangerous!

In the past few decades, there have been many legends of cave girls being chosen by the cave gods, which have been spread near the cave, which has added a touch of mysterious attributes to the old dragon's mouth, and has become a forbidden place for women not to approach, but if she is a young woman, as long as she does not want to be left in the hole, she will not easily go to the vicinity of the cave entrance.

When Ah Xi noticed that the drift boat had arrived at the mouth of the old dragon, their fear was completely the reaction of normal people!

In other words, Gao Azheng's behavior is definitely not normal, although she took the initiative to go to the vicinity of the cave to pick flowers and vines, this is likely to cover up the real purpose, that is to say, Gao Azheng's behavior of going to the old dragon's mouth should not be chosen by the cave god, but the result of her deliberately approaching the cave in exchange for falling into the cave.

"Sister Peacock, you also persuade Ah Zheng, if you fall into a hole at a young age, the old man and the old woman will be distressed to death, and you can't say that you are married, and people are afraid that they will withdraw from the marriage."

Ah Xi's words attracted Song Siyuan's attention, and she pulled Miss Ah Xi: "Divorce? ”

Ah Xi nodded, his tone became mysterious, and he lowered his voice to explain the reason: "Yes, I decided the son of the squire of Huahuan County half a year ago, I heard that this man is still a commissioner in the Yali of Huayuan County, and he is a promising person. ”

"Xiangxi people, where do they dare to rob the bride with the cave god, the family thinks that if it is not good, then they can only withdraw from the marriage, otherwise the old man of the Gao family will not be in a hurry to redeem himself with A Zheng, if it can be done, maybe there will be no need to fall into the hole."

Ren Peacock and Song Siyuan glanced at each other, and sure enough, they still found new clues, they turned their heads and stared at Gao Azheng, the secrets hidden in this Shao Ai are not ordinary, no matter whether the cave god is true or not, at least Ah Zheng falling into the hole, it must not be as simple as it seems.

After the two of them signaled to the old Taoist priest, they gradually withdrew from the Gao family's mansion, and when they came out, Yue Guanchao and they had already sold almost all the groceries in the bamboo basket, and when they saw them coming out, they immediately carried the burden to meet.

"Let's get on the boat first, I'll ask Ah Liang to take us to Huahuan County to check the Falling Flower Cave Girl in the county chronicles."

After speaking, several of them walked to the Qingshui River, jumped into the boat of the boat people and his wife, and when they sailed the Qingshui River, Yue Guanchao looked at the old Taoist: "Master, the stone you gave, there won't really be ghosts and gods living in it, I see that the smoke is all sucked in." ”

Yue Guanchao had always been curious about this just now, but he didn't have time to ask in detail, and everyone was standing on the boat at this moment, just to ask about the twists and turns.

"What kind of ghosts, old Taoist, do I seem to be a person who can catch ghosts? This stone can smoke mist, which is actually a trick of the Taoist priest. ”

After speaking, the old Taoist priest paused, and his tone became mysterious: "That stone is a hollow stone carefully selected by me, the outside is solid but the inside is hollow, as long as I use a chisel to open up the inside of the stone, I can form a passage from the top of the stone to the foot of the stone, and in the future, whenever there is smoke, it will be sucked directly into the stone path from the top, and then slowly disperse from the bottom." ”

"Well, it's just the craftsmanship of the rivers and lakes, just a mixed meal."

The words of the old Taoist priest made everyone curious: "You are doing this just to eat mixed rice?" Then you still dare to pretend to be a ghost and do something to others? ”

The old Taoist priest's eyes rose up, and he shook his head and retorted: "No, no, the old Taoist priest is indeed mixed rice, but he is not a cheater, these people believe in ghosts and gods, and Xiangxi is a wild god and witch land, maybe when they encounter a headache and brain fever, they feel that the wild god mountain has harmed them, my role is to give them a drink of rune water, and then do a law, as long as the doubts in the heart are gone, the disease will slowly heal." ”

"Then do you think that the girl in the falling flower cave is really a falling hole?"

Song Siyuan recalled Gao Azheng's performance and asked the question in her heart,

"Hey, the people of Xiangxi are facing illness and disaster, don't ask the common people to ask the ghosts and gods, these cave girls are the same, as long as these symptoms appear, most of them will be rumored to be a hole, the people in the countryside are most afraid of offending the gods, they can do anything, and then her family will not send her to Laolongkou."

"Is it the cave god who is doing the trick? Does it really matter? After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he glanced at everyone with a sly look in his eyes and stopped talking.

An hour later, several people along the Qingshui River turned around the landscape to Huayuan County, they came to Huayuan County for the second time, it was not a temporary stop, but with a certain purpose to come here, there is a request for the ancient city, can not help but carefully examine the style of the ancient city.

Huayuan County is called Yongsui County in the previous dynasty, located in the wild mountain peaks east of Fengtou Mountain, a Qingshui River passes through the wild mountain, impacts out the fertile tidal flat in the mountains, the ancient county town is built in the Qingshui River two cases, leans on the tidal flat at the foot of the mountain to spread out the stilted building and the white wall of Matou.

As mentioned earlier, the government of the former dynasty wanted to develop shipping in the southwest, and had already taken Dongting Lake as a shipping hub in the southwest, and there was the Yuan River as the main canal from Dongting Lake, implicating the Cao Canal in Xiangxi and Guizhou, but if it wanted to make the southwest freight prosperous, it was also necessary to open up the Cao Canal between Xiangxi and Sichuan and Shu.

At that time, if the goods wanted to go out of Shu, the only way to take the Jialing River to the Yangtze River, along the way the river is more dangerous, a little careless may overturn the ship, plus the river can not implicate the southwest water vein, so that most of Sichuan and Shu and Xiangxi can not be shipped, the goods want to enter the southwest, still have to test the rugged official road.

In this way, the efficiency of freight transportation will be reduced, and it is easy to be robbed by mountain bandits, I heard that when the last years of the previous dynasty were the most chaotic, the southwest official road was mostly abandoned, and the reason was that the mountain bandits were chaotic.

If the rugged official road can't be relied on, then you can only rely on the Caoqu waterway!

That is to say, it is necessary to open up a smooth waterway between the Yuanjiang River in Xiangxi and the Jialing River in Sichuan, Shu, and it is also because of the exploration of the river channel that the government of the former dynasty will entrust the foreigners who stayed abroad to invite foreigners to plan the navigation channel for them.

Under the survey of outsiders, there are Jinsha River, Jialing River and Yangtze River in the southwest that can be connected to shipping, and directly enter the Dongting Lake shipping hub, but out of the Jialing River, only the Wujiang River is implicated between Chongcheng and Xiangxi, and this river can only be diverted into Qiandi, from the east of the Wujiang River to the Yuanjiang River, there is only an intermittent water network, but there is no interconnected river, and it is completely impossible to make a boat and navigate the southwest.

In this case, the most economical way to save money is to open up the Cao Canal between the Wujiang River and the Yuan River, so that the goods can go directly from the Dongting Lake to the south, and disperse the goods to Hunan through the Yuan River, or you can take the Cao Canal to enter the Wujiang River, which can be navigated to Sichuan, Shu, Yunnan and Yunnan in the west, and Qianqian Province from the Wujiang River in the south.

It can be said that this canal can completely implicate the water veins of Yunchuan, Hunan and Guizhou, and once the river is opened, the freight transportation in the southwest will no longer be hindered by the rugged official road.

The most important of these rivers is located between the Yuan River and the Wujiang River.

Huayuan County, just located between the two rivers, whether it is the Wujiang River or the Yuan River, the straight-line distance from them to Huayuan County, are infinitely close to the same, if you look at it from the map, you can find that Huayuan County is like a button, set between the two rivers, and fully possess the conditions to become the canal of the two rivers.

After the river is opened, after the boat is opened from the Yuanjiang River of Dongting Lake, you can go along the Youjiang River, Huayuan River, Qingshui River to the border of western Hunan Province, and then cross the Wujiang River to the west by the Huayuan Canal opened up by the Qingshui River.

If there is a ship from Xiangxi to Yunnan-Guichuan, it will definitely pass through Huayuan County, where it will stop and stop sailing, replenish supplies, or directly circulate goods and distribute small boats.

For more than 20 years, Huahuan County has also become a prosperous county from a small border county, if you enter the county seat from the Huayuan River by boat, you can see countless three or four storey pavilions on both sides of the river, most of the stilted buildings have probed into the river, set up signboard shop banners on the shore, thousands of ships, and prosper.

After crossing the river on both sides, it is the dwellings of ordinary people, they are divided into irregular shapes by various canals, and are located among the green willow trees, like shells spreading among the mountains, small bridges and flowing waters, poetic and picturesque, as if it is the paradise of the beautiful mountains and rivers in the southwest.

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Some people died, but not completely......