Chapter 18: Turning the Tide of Danger
It's a big deal, and when you get to the point where you can breathe like a fish, well, like a frog to be exact, a fish has gills. Zhao Chuan revised his thoughts.
Is there anything else? Zhao Chuan tossed again, and found that except for being able to see farther in the water and see more clearly, there were no other unusual changes.
Then let's try to cultivate in the water again, what is it like?
Zhao Chuan closed his eyes, and just after a few laps of luck, he felt a heat all over his body, and after a few more laps, the water around his body began to rotate around Zhao Chuan, and his whole body felt very comfortable.
Zhao Chuan is very satisfied, such a practice is called cultivation, and the feeling of pain to the bone marrow like before is simply a sin.
Oops, no, Zhao Chuan suddenly keenly sensed that something was swimming towards him nearby, and he was shocked to find that the big snake before was swimming towards him!
Zhao Chuan not only hates snakes, but in fact, he is more afraid of snakes by nature, he quickly retracted his qi into the dantian qi sea, and withdrew himself to swim out of the water.
When he reached the water, Zhao Chuan found that the passenger ship had long since disappeared, and Zhao Chuan remembered that the passenger ship had been sailing, and he stayed underwater to practice, and the passenger ship had already moved far away.
Zhao Chuan hurriedly swam forward to catch up with the passenger boat, but there was a terrifying big snake behind him, the big snake was extremely fast in the water, where could Zhao Chuan swim past it.
Seeing that the big snake was about to catch up, Zhao Chuan hurriedly turned around in the water with a palm.
This palm is made of aura, the palm is urgent, and the strength is also great, but Zhao Chuan feels soft and weak after it is emitted in the water, just like hitting cotton.
The big snake ate Zhao Chuan's palm and didn't seem to change, and instantly came to Zhao Chuan's side, flicked its tail and entangled Zhao Chuan, and then took Zhao Chuan to swim forward quickly.
Zhao Chuan was entangled in the big snake, and he was naturally very afraid, although he knew that this black snake did not eat people, because no one who had fallen into the water on a passenger ship had ever been hurt by it before.
But not long after being led by the big snake, Zhao Chuan felt his body being thrown out of the water and landed on the deck of the passenger ship with a snap.
The big snake sent Zhao Chuan back to the passenger ship.
Zhao Chuan stood at the stern of the boat and looked at the river behind the boat, only to see the big snake swimming with its head on its back, following closely behind the boat.
He didn't understand why the serpent did this, but if people didn't eat it, he sent it home, which showed that the snake had an independent mind.
Zhao Chuan bowed his hand to the big snake to show his gratitude, but he didn't expect the snake to go up and down and nod back and forth in response. It turns out that this is a spiritual snake that can understand the meaning of humans.
"Orochi, if you can understand me, you can swim to this side of the ship!" Zhao Chuan pointed to the right side of the passenger ship.
Unexpectedly, the big snake really swam to the right side of the passenger ship and traveled side by side with the passenger boat.
Zhao Chuan stood at the stern of the boat at the bottom of the boat, really a little surprised.
"Snake, swim to the other side of the boat now!" Zhao Chuan thought for a moment and pointed to the left side of the passenger ship.
The serpent immediately submerged its head into the water, and its body was immediately invisible, and a moment later it appeared on the left side of the passenger ship, and it turned out that the great snake had crossed through the bottom of the passenger ship.
"Uh-huh! Good! It's okay, then you just follow the boat! Zhao Chuan felt very funny, although he didn't have anything to say for the time being, but he didn't want to let it go. Because thinking that since this snake can understand human speech, it must know a lot of things that it does not know, and I must first think about what I need to ask it.
Zhao Chuan went back to the cabin to rest first, changed his clothes, and lay on the small bed to think about things.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Chuan was awakened by an urgent sound of gongs, and saw that the ship was full of fire and smoke.
"Hu Ren touched it again! If you can fight, you can fight the fire, and if you can't, put out the fire! Someone shouted.
What about Huang Jin? Zhao Chuan looked at Huang Jin's cabin bed, which was empty. Did this guy run away early? Or did you not return overnight in the public area on the second floor? Zhao Chuan scolded secretly and hurried out of the cabin.
Zhao Chuan looked at the river and saw dozens of small boats surrounding the passenger boat.
Many people were fighting on the lower deck, and there was a steady stream of Hu people climbing up to the side of the ship.
Zhao Chuan came out with both palms, knocked down a few Hu people, and then ran to the Han family's VIP cabin on the third floor.
Han Yu'er and the maid Qin'er were in a panic, and they couldn't help but be happy when they saw Zhao Chuan coming.
Before Zhao Chuan could comfort them for a few words, he saw Jiang Yong running up in a panic, "Oh no!" The bottom layer is occupied by the Hu people, the boatmen are dead, the Hu people are coming up, a few people are jumping off ship with me, and I have prepared a small boat below. With that, he stepped forward and grabbed Han Yu'er, and pulled to the window.
Han Yuer was shocked, where was she willing to jump ship, this is the third floor, and besides, a woman's family doesn't know how to water.
Zhao Chuan looked down, and sure enough, the passenger ship had stopped on the river and was no longer sailing, and it was expected that the bottom paddle wheel room had been occupied by the Hu people, and the oarsmen and oarmen and other operating crew members had been killed.
"Don't panic, let me go down and see, you're guarding here!" Zhao Chuan glanced at Jiang Yongfei and went downstairs.
The bottom layer was indeed occupied by the Hu people, and screams and wails came from inside.
At the entrance and exit of the second floor, the owner of the ship with a few people was still desperately resisting.
Zhao Chuan jumped directly into the river from the third floor, there were twenty or thirty small boats on the river surface were surrounding the passenger boat, Zhao Chuan climbed into a small boat, both palms out, palms killed, several Hu people on the boat into the water.
"Great serpent, great serpent! Come out! Come out! Zhao Chuan shouted to Jiang Interview.
As soon as the words fell, the big black snake immediately surfaced, and it turned out that the big snake had been obediently following the passenger boat.
Zhao Chuan was overjoyed, so he ordered the big snake to overturn all these small boats in the river.
In the dark night, the big snake of more than ten feet shook its tail and smashed it randomly, and after a while, the river was full of struggling Hu people crying.
The Hu people on the passenger ship were surprised to see this situation, and before they came to their senses, Zhao Chuan made the big snake jump onto the bottom deck of the passenger ship and swim meanderingly, although the big snake does not eat people, but how did the Hu people know, they saw that the boat in the water was smashed just now, and they were so frightened that they jumped into the water and fled.
The owner of the ship took advantage of the situation to counterattack, drove all the Hu people off the passenger ship, and hurriedly organized the remaining boatmen to reluctantly drive a paddle wheel away from the river of right and wrong.
Accidents occurred one after another, it is impossible to say that Han Yuer was not frightened at all, how could this rich lady have suffered such an encounter, this time her mind was indeed affected, fortunately, Zhao Chuan comforted and relieved her heart in time, and gave her true qi to calm down, and it was no big deal.
After dawn, the passenger ship finally entered the confines of Jiangzhou City.
After another hour of driving, military flags could be seen waving on both sides of the strait, a large number of soldiers were stationed along the river, and the barracks could be seen with big "Zhou" national flags and "Han" handsome flags.
"Look, there are generals of our Han family there!" Qin'er excitedly pointed to the flag on the shore.
At this point, the talents of the whole ship were completely relieved.
Soon, a small boat of the navy on the river approached the passenger ship, and they tried to contact the passenger ship with flags, but the crew of the passenger ship was seriously killed and wounded, and there was little left to be safe, and the boatmen at the lookout had already died.
Seeing that there was no response to the contact, there was a cannon shot, and two warships surrounded the shore, and the owner of the ship quickly ordered the ship to be stopped.
When the sailors boarded the passenger ship, the owner found that the problem was serious, so he immediately let him go.
Another hour later, close to noon, the passenger ship finally arrived at the ship's destination: Jiangzhou City Wharf.
Zhao Chuan looked for Huang Jin everywhere, but he couldn't find him, so he had no choice but to go to the VIP cabin on the third floor to greet Han Yuer.
The passengers began to disembark happily, except for the owner who stood on the deck with a heavy face, looking at the river bank and the passengers, not knowing what to think.
The Han family probably got the news a long time ago, and had already sent someone to wait on the dock to greet the young lady, because Qin'er had sharp eyes and said that the carriage of the Han Mansion had already stopped on the dock.
"Zhao Chuan, Chuan'er! So you're here, let me find it all over! Huang Jin came out of nowhere, walked over and grabbed Zhao Chuan's arm.
"Oh, Uncle Huang, I didn't see you last night, I thought you let Hu Ren beat you to death!" Zhao Chuan said deliberately.
"Ahem! What an unlucky thing, I went to put out the fire last night, and you can see my sleeves are burned! Huang Jin rolled up his sleeves as he spoke.
When the boat arrived at the shore, Huang Jin wanted to get off the boat, so he naturally had to appear, and Zhao Chuan didn't scare him much with a smile.
Han Yu'er and Qin'er followed behind Zhao Chuan, and Huang Jin followed last.
What Zhao Chuan didn't expect was that the person who came to pick up Han Yuer turned out to be Master Han Qiaosheng, didn't this old guy let the captain pick him up halfway, and the official was reinstated as an errand? How could it be here.
Han Qiaosheng and they were already on the shore, Han Zheng was also waving to Zhao Chuan, the Han family's carriage had been waiting next to them for a long time, several people greeted each other, and Zhao Chuan said that he was also going to leave to find relatives.
Jiang Yong asked for the balance of the Han family's protection fee and left on his own, originally after getting off the boat, his eyes were always staring at Huang Jin with some intentions, but Huang Jin did not leave Zhao Chuan an inch, and seemed to be very familiar with the Han family, Jiang Yong had to stare at Huang Jin a few times and left.
Han Qiaosheng saw that Yu'er seemed to have tears rolling in his eyes, and after pondering for a while, he said to Zhao Chuan, "Xiaoyou borrow a step to speak."
A little away from everyone, Han Qiaosheng looked around, left and right, and then took out a jade plaque from his arms.
"Xiaoyou is neither willing to accept Han's help, nor is it convenient to force it, but Han is willing to get to know Xiaoyou, I have a jade plate here, you can withdraw gold and silver at will in any money village in Jiangchuan territory, there is no limit, with the jade plate, you can also arbitrarily arrange the Han family's belongings to help you do what you want to do, of course you don't have to, anyway, there is no burden, don't shirk this time!"
Zhao Chuan still didn't want it, but when he thought of someone on the passenger ship talking that if a cultivator wants to reach the advanced level of kung fu, he has to spend a lot of money to buy a elixir to assist in cultivation, so he should accept it for the revenge of the high level of cultivation that he has already achieved.
Zhao Chuan took the jade plate, saw that the front was a Korean character, and the reverse side had flowers and grass cloud patterns and a few seal characters, which was very exquisite, and he liked it very much, and said: "Thank you, Master Han, it's too polite" to return and say goodbye to everyone.
After the Han family left, Huang Jin asked Zhao Chuan: "What did Master Han call you?" ”
"It's still the last time I said that," Zhao Chuan said perfunctorily.
Huang Jin said that he was tired of taking a boat these days, so he would find an inn to live in first.
Zhao Chuan said: "Uncle Han, thank you for taking care of you all the way, now let's say goodbye." ”
Huang Jin's old face flushed, he didn't want to break up with Zhao Chuan, this way, especially on the boat for a few days, he felt that this kid was getting more and more material.
Huang Jin said with a thick old face: "Hehe, you are young, Uncle Huang is very worried, let's find your relatives first, Qingfeng Guan is under the mountain outside the city, which is also a good way." ”
Even so, Zhao Chuan was casual, and the two of them found a place to eat and went straight over.
Qingfeng view is on the Lingyin Mountain in the southeast of Jiangzhou City, 20 miles away from the city, there are rivers separated by rivers all around the mountain, the mountain is high and the road is steep and the clouds are dense, the top of the mountain is rainy and foggy all the year round, it is said that there is a spirit god to guard it since ancient times, so it is called Lingyin Mountain is also.
Qingfeng Temple is located on the southern slope of the mountainside, covering a wide area, with a lot of scale, and the momentum is very magnificent from a distance.
When the two climbed up to the front of the view, it was the beginning of Shen Shi, and Zhao Chuan saw the tall and majestic mountain gate, and hesitated to get up.
Zhao Chuan hesitated for a long time, thought about it and said to Huang Jin that this distant relative had never met, only remembered the surname Zhao, about forty years old, at this time he came to look for it, and felt very abrupt, if he didn't recognize me, wouldn't I be very embarrassed? Otherwise, forget it.