The boats went upstream, and after turning the river was twenty miles downstream, they turned the boat into it.

Xie Toad came with Eight Meows in a small boat, and Wang Qilin asked, "Is the matter done?"

The old Taoist priest smiled slightly: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, the Seventh Master is clever, everything is as you said." ”

Wang Qilin shook his head: "What kind of magic trick is this? It's just to understand a little human nature." ”

Luo Shui sat at the stern of the boat, staring blankly at the large reeds that were swinging for twenty miles.

The flying boat shuttled slowly inside, and most of the day was spent in the reeds.

Wang Qilin knew that she was unwilling, so he didn't care about her emotions, but took out a fishing rod to fish.

There are many waterfowl in the reeds, it is the spring season at this time, the waterfowl have returned, and the reeds are very lively.

The bait they use for fishing is earthworms, and as a result, the waterfowl are attracted by the earthworms and fly to steal the food.

Eight Meow flicked his tail and put on a posture: I see that you don't take my black cat in your eyes!

Cats are natural enemies of waterfowl, and the eight meows show up, and the waterfowl flee one after another.

Wang Qilin threw the fishing rod and put the bait, and a colorful pheasant flew out, and he quickly grabbed the earthworm and swallowed it in his mouth.

It ate the earthworm and spread its wings arrogantly and wanted to fly away, but Wang Qilin went to retrieve the fishing line, and the pheasant was dragged back with frightened eyes.

Xu Da opened the chicken's mouth and looked inside, and said with a beautiful smile: "The seventh master is so lively, you see that there is water, chickens, and men here, and the man gave the chicken a deep throat - haha, wonderful!"

Wang Qilin said: "Very good, you can eat stewed chicken at noon today." ”

The others fished, but the fishing was not so simple, and they were a group of landlubbers who had no skill? They didn't catch any fish for a while, but they lost their bait.

Xiang Peihu was evil for a while, he took out a fragrant cigarette and said with a cruel smile: "Aren't you not taking the bait?" Okay, Lao Tzu will let you turn your belly together!"

Wang Qilin stopped him and said, "Brother Tiger, poisonous fish is illegal!"

Xu Da also stopped him: "The main thing is that we can't eat the fish you poisoned!"

Luo Shui took the fishing rod and said lightly: "Rest your lords, I'll fish for you." ”

Wang Qilin asked her, "Are you in a better mood?"

Luo Shui smiled bitterly: "What if it's not good? Our brother, it's not clear that we're destined to die, right?"

Xu Da comforted her and said: "Miss Luo, don't be so depressed, this incident you encountered is indeed very weird, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, there is no unsolvable case, as the old saying goes, ......"

"Everything is most afraid of being serious, and we are the most serious in listening to the heavenly supervisor. Wang Qilin took the initiative to praise him.

Xu Da nodded appreciatively at him, then turned around and said, "Yes, we heard that the Heavenly Prison will investigate this matter, you can also continue to pay attention, let's work together, this is called ......"

"Win-win!" Wang Qilin replied.

Xu Da's heart was full of joy, and he squeezed his eyebrows at him.

Chen Weiyue passed by and said, "Master Xu, what are you doing to give Seventh Master a flattering look?" ”

Luo Shui smiled.

Xu Da said: "That's right, smile more, life ......"

"Life is short for a few autumns, if you don't get drunk, you won't stop!" Wang Qilin sang.

Xu scolded: "It's really ugly to sing, what is it?"

He pondered for a moment and then sneered, "But it makes sense." How many times can there be a spring and autumn in this life? Miss Luo, don't be so worried, this case will be solved one day. ”

Luo Shui smiled: "Thank you Xu Ye for your explanation?" Thank you also for singing and relieving my sorrows. ”

Xu Da said to Wang Qilin: "Seventh master? Keep singing. ”

Wang Qilin laughed? opened his voice and sang: "Life is short for a few autumns, and you won't stop if you don't get drunk." My beauty in the east, the Yellow River in the west. Come on, let's have a drink, don't stop if you don't get drunk, don't worry about your worries......"

"The seventh master is wrong, it's my beauty in the west, and the Yellow River in the east. The witch stretched out his hand to support his cheeks and listened with relish, and his big eyes narrowed into crescents with a smile.

Luoshui has a fish at a rod, all of which are delicious Yellow River carp? It's a pity that the carp are not fat in the spring, otherwise they are really a mouthful.

They were killing chickens and fish on the boat to prepare lunch, and another boat was floating over with a rod on board? There was a slip of waterfowl hanging on it.

Is there an old man in a cloak and a hat? As the boat approached, he asked in a loud voice, "Do you want to spend money on a bird?"

Xu Da stared at a waterfowl with interest and asked, "How to sell it?"

The old man smiled: "A copper baht for the first bird?" The price of the second bird is doubled, and the price of the third bird is doubled......"

Wang Qilin said: "Then we only need the first bird." ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, he lifted his hat and revealed his face, this is naturally the white ape.

Eight Meow and Nine-Six wagged their tails happily when they saw it, and the two little tails wagged quickly.

Swallowing excitedly, he shouted, "Master Ape, why are you back again?"

The white ape said loudly: "Master Ape, I didn't plan to leave! I'm going to buy a boat, this flying boat is the boat of Baichuanmen, and Miss Luo won't go with us to the monk's hometown, how can we take the waterway then?"

"Master Ape has a surprise for you!"

Xu Da said: "We didn't plan to take the waterway, but we were going to take the dry road!"

The white ape was stunned: ", Master Ape, did I show the blind man my flattery?" I thought we didn't have a boat to use, so I deliberately used the money given by the seventh master to buy a boat to chase you, otherwise how could I leave?"

The big boat approached the flying boat, swallowed the air and jumped over, got up and hugged him with his paws, and was so excited that he burst into tears: "You scared me to death just now, I thought you really wanted to leave us to go to your rivers and lakes." ”

The white ape man twisted his beard and muttered: "The ape master wants to go to the rivers and lakes, but the ape master is honest and honest, and there are too many treacherous and slippery people like the seventh master on the rivers and lakes." The ape master doesn't want to plant it again, I am convinced to plant it in the hands of the seventh master, and where is the face of the sword ape in the hands of others?"

With these waterfowl, this lunch is hearty enough.

The white ape bought a long-range water boat, which was equipped with pots and stoves, salt, firewood, star anise, peppercorns and other big ingredients, and they could fire directly after handling the fish and birds.

Shen Yi watched them kill chickens and fish and chant the scriptures vigorously, his face full of compassion.

Seeing this, Wang Qilin sneered, he picked up the fish and said: "You see it, it is this monk who will eat you later, you went to the west and saw that the Buddha and the Bodhisattva were going to sue and got it, it was this monk who ate you!"

Xu Da hugged his arms and said, "Oh, this fish can't be blinded, big troll, you are really evil." ”

Shen Yi was stunned: "Ah, Amitabha, you are really sluts!"

This lunch was not bad, there was wine, fish, chicken and meat, and the group ate with a mouth full of oil.

After eating, Wang Qilin clenched his fists at Luo Shui: "Miss Luo, we won't send you back to Chang'an City." I beg you to tell Lord Lothamon that I couldn't help me this time, and I'm sorry, but I've written down this case, and we'll talk about it in the future, and try to find out the truth as soon as possible. ”

Luo Shui returned the salute, his eyes slightly red: "Lord Wang's words are serious, thank you Lord Wang for accompanying Luo Shui all the way to this point, the kindness of you and your lords, Luo Shui will never forget it!"

The two sides split into two roads, one to the north and the other to the south, and they parted ways.

Xu Da stood at the stern of the boat and looked at the flying boat from afar, Luo Shui also walked to the stern after packing up his things, and then blessed him: "Master Xu, cherish!"

This is the first time Wang Qilin has seen Luo Shui make the gesture of his youngest daughter's house.

Xu Da clasped his fists and saluted, and walked back freely.

Wang Qilin asked, "Don't you say goodbye to each other?"

Xu laughed and said, "Children of the rivers and lakes, why bother to behave?"

Wang Qilin said: "You are still quite happy? I thought you would shed tears when you two separated." ”

Xu Da said: "Seventh Master, look at what you said, the uncle is just in love with Miss Luo, but she doesn't seem to be in love with the uncle, the two of us are fated, this kind of thing is open." ”

He also recited a poem: "There are tears in the pearl of the sea and the moon, and the blue field is warm and the jade is smoking." This situation can be recalled, but it was already clear at the time. ”

"Can you see it?" Wang Qilin was surprised.

Xu Xiaoda said casually: "What's so unsightly about this? My brother has to fall out of love ten times a year from eight to eighteen years old, if he doesn't look at it, can he still live to this day?"

"Get out!"

The waterway network in the eastern part of the land of Kyushu is transparent, and they can reach the land of Jingchu by waterway.

But the twists and turns of the waterway, and the occasional sailing against the current, are slower than riding a horse on land.

Wang Qilin doesn't like to walk on the waterway, because there are very few water ghosts in the river, and they haven't encountered many ghosts along the way, and he hasn't picked up too much wool.

The boat had already been refined by the furnace, but Wang Qilin didn't dare to get it out, because he couldn't explain why there was an extra boat in the river, and they would eventually go to land in the future, what would happen to the ship at that time?

Therefore, this delayed the utilization efficiency of the furnace, and Wang Qilin was unable to refine other items—originally he wanted to refine the Book of Encouragement Tianlu to see if he could refine any new things.

When the boat went to Xiangyang Mansion, they were going to abandon the ship and go ashore, and then they had to take the land route to Zhending Mansion.

They docked the boat to a dock outside a small county town and began to pack up their things and disembark.

They got a lot of fish, shrimp and crabs along the way, and the light and wind on the road turned into dry goods, and they were reluctant to throw them away, so they packed them all up.

Wang Qilin cleaned up the two snake molts of the beautiful snake, these two things are also magic weapons, and the beautiful snake chose to give the snake to him in order to thank him for impartially enforcing the law.

He asked Xu Da to put away the snake molt, and then turned his head to see Xu Da making some rags, and asked, "What is this?"

Xu Da said: "The cloak of the Pleiades chicken, the uncle will clean it up, and he will use it as a guy in the future." ”

Wang Qilin said: "This cloak is a good magic weapon, but if it is broken like this, what use can it be? ”

Xu Da shook his head and said, "You can't throw it, it's useful ......."

Shen Yi said: "You can make a mop, Amitabha, and the second troll will be responsible for sanitation in the future." ”

Xu Da glared at him angrily and said, "Yes, uncle is a mop, if you are not honest in the future, uncle will use the mop to clean you up!"

Shen Yi laughed: "Second troll, have you become a fool too? You can't clean up the spray monk even if you carry the glaive, let alone use a mop?"

Xu Da said coldly: "Then it depends on how to use this mop, and when the time comes, the uncle will use the mop to dip the dung and paste you!"

Shen Yi was stunned: "Amitabha, so vicious?"

The white ape man carried the sword and said: "Don't say it, this thing is really vicious, you see, once it gets rid of it, it will be invincible in the world, it is more powerful than swallowing the mouth and spraying arrows and spraying swords!"

"Then I have an idea, in that case, why let the swallow squirt arrows and swords out, isn't it more powerful to let him squirt dung out?" Yang Dazui, who rarely spoke, smiled.

The yawning spout was stunned: lost conscience!

The white ape said impatiently: "Don't bully me and swallow my brother! What I said is serious, you think, if Xu Ye dips the mop in dung, and then puts on a coat and a hat--perfect match, isn't it?"

Swallowed his mouth and exclaimed: "That's right, as the old saying goes, the mop dips in, and the overlord is alive!"

Wang Qilin said with interest: "If that's the case, then why bother with a hat and a robe? Xu Ye has a helmet called a tiger and leopard, and he also has a golden jade robe to protect his body, hey, he is already alive?"

The group exclaimed: "Xu Ye is going to be invincible!"

Xie Toad stroked his beard and asked, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, have you ever thought about the consequences of the mop being taken away?"

Everyone was silent.

Xu Da threw away the broken cloak: "What are you all doing?

The white ape thief looked around, and he secretly put away his cloak.

The big ship was transferred by them on the spot and sold for a whole gold baht.

When the white ape learned of this price, he stomped his feet and was furious: "Hey, you losers, that boat was bought by me for five gold baht, and you only sold it for one gold baht?"

Hearing this, Xu Da sighed: "Master Ape, you are fortunate to be back, just walking the rivers and lakes like you, it really won't take two days to make you lose your pants!"

Shen San touched his stomach and asked, "Can you stop arguing?" Let's go and have a good meal, okay? I have been floating in the river these days, fishing in the Don River and eating shrimp and crabs, I really can't stand it!"

Wang Qilin said: "Then you are not thin?"

Shen San said: "I just can't stand it, it's not that I can't eat it, I still have to eat it." ”

Xiangyang is also a famous city, but they are on the edge of a county at this time, but you don't have to go into the city to eat, and there are many food stalls on the docks.

Wang Qilin and his entourage casually found a family to sit down, and the proprietress came up to greet them and asked, "What do the guest officers eat?"

Xu Da said: "Serve the dishes you are good at." ”

As soon as she heard the accent, the proprietress knew that they were from other places, so she simply gave them a few dish names.

Xie Toad chose it and said, "Xiangyang pan eel, famous all over the world, you can try this dish." ”

"What about you?" Wang Qilin asked.

Xie Toad Ji sang for the first time: "Immeasurable Tianzun, this dish is too murderous, so the old Taoist priest will be exempted." ”

The proprietress said: "If the Taoist can't eat meat dishes, then we also have a lot of green vegetables in our house, and the shepherd's cabbage is fresh in March. ”

The boss who was cooking the spoon stuck out his head and said, "If you want to eat vegetarian dishes, how can you not eat sweet and sour cabbage when you arrive in Xiangyang?"

Xie Toad said: "Lao Dao just doesn't eat eel, but it's not that he doesn't eat meat dishes, come, boss, do you have a flower chicken and old leaves wrapped around their hooves?"

"How could it not be?" the proprietress smiled, "Don't look at my house as a small stall, in fact, the dishes are still very complete." ”

Xie Toad said: "Then serve two dishes in the same way, as well as sweet and sour cabbage, and also stir-fry a large plate." ”

Shen Yi looked at him suspiciously and said, "Amitabha, why don't you eat that eel?

Xie Toad pointed back and said, "Won't you go and see for yourself?"

The group suspected fraud, and they all went to see the boss cooking, and this time they understood why Xie Toad didn't eat this dish.

The main dish of pan eel is eel, the eel it uses is very slender, just like eel fry, this thing does not do a knife to cut the belly, put it alive in a hot iron pot and let it jump to death!

After scalding the eel alive, the boss washes it with water to remove the mucus, then puts sesame oil in the pot, and frries it repeatedly over low heat, until the eel turns from hard to soft into a curl, and puts salt, pepper, ginger, garlic and spicy sauce and other seasonings into a charred yellow.

It's fragrant, but it's really inhumane to make.

Wang Qilin sighed: "Boss, this dish hurts the heavens and the peace." ”

The boss said: "I heard that there is a dish called drunk shrimp in Jiangnan Water Town, the shrimp are soaked in wine, and they are drunk and eaten raw, it is said that when the shrimp enters the mouth of the person is still alive, you can feel the shrimp beating in the mouth of the person." So, isn't this hurtful?"

Shen Yi put his hands together and sang, and then secretly pointed at Xie Toad and whispered: "Yu'er, Yu'er, you have to look at that Taoist priest before you die." He brought us here to eat, and he ordered the food, so you go to the Western Pure Land of Bliss to complain to my Buddha, then don't sue the wrong person, remember to sue the toad!"

A plate of small eel was served, and half of the table was worried.

Wu Dasan asked: "Boss, this eel doesn't cut its intestines and belly, and its head is not chopped off, can it be eaten like this?"

The proprietress smiled and said: "That's how to eat, this is an aquatic weed eel, as thin as aquatic weeds, they only eat clean aquatic plants on weekdays, not dirty at all, you can rest assured to eat." ”

A local fisherman came over with a wine jug and said something with a smile, the local dialect of Jingchu was already difficult to understand, and the fisherman drank wine again and spoke vaguely, and everyone didn't understand anything.

Xie Toad drank water and smiled and said: "What he said is the trick of eating this dish, holding his head with chopsticks, going down the neck, tearing off the intestines and head, swinging the tail in his mouth, and swallowing the throat with bones." ”

The fisherman pointed at him and smiled, nodding his head as he laughed.

The proprietress brought two more lumps.

This is called flower chicken, pat open the mud shell that is roasted until crispy, and inside is a layer of dense large-leaf aquatic plants.

Xie Toad explained to them, saying that there are no lotus leaves in spring, and only in the Jingchu area are there flowers and chickens near the big river, because people can only wrap fat chickens with water plants and roast them.

Unravel the layers of aquatic weeds, and inside is a roasted rooster that is shiny with oil.

The proprietress tore the steaming chicken apart, and laughed as she tore it: "Is the Taoist chief our Jing Chu disciple? ”

Xie Toad stroked his beard and smiled, laughing without saying a word.

Wang Qilin said: "My Taoist master has walked through the south and the north, his head has fallen on the iceberg, he has drunk water in the underworld, and he knows the customs of the two worlds of yin and yang and all over Jiuzhou. ”

The proprietress smiled even more happily, and she said to Wang Qilin: "Xiao Langjun is not only good-looking, but also has an interesting mouth. ”

The whole chicken was torn open to reveal the snow-white chicken, and she poured a little sesame oil on it, and placed a bowl next to the plate with sesame sweet sauce in it.

The roast chicken skin is shiny, shiny, the chicken is crispy, there is no spice in itself, it maintains the original fragrance of the chicken, it can be dipped in sesame sweet sauce to taste, the entrance is salty and sweet, and the roast chicken that Wang Qilin has eaten in the past is completely different.

The local pig's trotters are also very distinctive, they use the fine hemp rope to wrap the pig's trotters tightly and cook and dry to eat, the color of the pig's skin is red and bright after untying the hemp rope, I don't know what condiments are used to cook the taste, the meat quality is strong and fragrant, under chewing, the fragrance lasts for a long time.

A variety of special dishes were served, and the proprietress began to serve a large bowl again, one bowl of noodles per person.

Butter noodles.

The thick noodles are sprinkled with green shallots and coriander, and the smell of spring is strong.

Inside the bowl is beef bone butter soup, which is quite thick.

Taking a bite of soup and eating a mouthful of noodles, Wang Qilin exclaimed: "It's delicious, this soup has an umami taste, not a fragrance, this bone broth actually stews a delicious taste, amazing." ”

The boss smiled: "The broth has no umami, so what's the point?"

He boiled the noodles and fished them out and plated them into lumps, and cold water flowed through them, and the hot noodles became cold.

Someone asked for butter noodles, so he grabbed a piece and put it in the bamboo drain with mung bean sprouts, poured it into a large bowl after a simple scalding, the bean sprouts were flipped over and covered on the noodles, and the boss poured a spoonful of butter soup, sprinkled with green onion and coriander, and a bowl of hot and delicious noodles quickly came out of the pot.

It was very efficient, and the days were hurried and leisurely.