Chapter 21: The Torrent Vortex Life and Death
frightened him, and dragged Su Yu to run wildly in the mountains and forests. After running for a long time, seeing that the sky was bright all around, Taibai Crane turned around, only to see that the three white-clothed people were still following closely and never abandoned. Taibai He couldn't help but shake his head, and in desperation, he had to take a small cloth bag from his waist while running, and handed it to Su Yu, who had been blinded by sweat, and said: "Su Yu, they are dressed in white, and they make good use of the mysterious unique martial arts of the rivers and lakes, the yin and yang whirling arm, it must be the "iron harrier" of Western Xia, they are chasing like this, they are afraid that I will expose their secrets, and they will kill me quickly, and now we can only get out if we run separately!" They want to chase me, I will lead them away, you take this treasure, bypass them, and go in the opposite direction! After the danger, go to the Valley of Lights to find me!"
Su Yu was confused when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "Master, what is the Iron Harrier, why are they chasing us?"
Taibai Crane sighed, and urged: "Alas, it's all the masters who are greedy for cups and have discovered their secrets, that's why they're like this! I can't say it for a while, you remember to send the treasure to the Valley of Lamp Flowers, understand?"
Su Yu had to agree, took the package, and left the Taibai Crane under the cover of waist-high grass and went to the forest on the right.
Su Yu stumbled all the way out of the forest, and a turbulent river appeared in front of him. Su Yu looked at the turbulent river and thought that if the "Iron Harrier" chased this Jedi, he would definitely die. He hurriedly hid behind a pile of rocks, and waited for a long time, only to see the morning sun shining, and the birds in the woods kept singing happily in the branches, and the atmosphere was peaceful. Only then did he remember that those white-clothed people must be busy chasing after Master, so there was no one chasing behind him, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly worried about Master in his heart, so he folded his hands and silently recited the words to bless Master to get out of danger smoothly, while walking upstream along the river, trying to find a ferry to cross the river.
After walking for a while, I saw that the reeds were long and the water and grass were everywhere, but there was no one to see, let alone a ferry. Su Yu was worried, only to hear a flock of water birds in the distance screaming, "puff" scattered in all directions, from the reeds, a small wooden boat floated out, swaying towards this side.
Seeing that the boat had come to his side, Su Yu hurriedly shouted and waved his hand, but the boat floated by without stopping, and the boat was empty, and there was no shadow of the boatman. Su Yu figured out that the river was surging, and whose boat broke off its bolt, went down the river, and floated away.
Looking at the boat that had gone away, he sighed and was helpless, so he had to continue to look upstream in despair. After walking a short distance, I only heard an extremely crisp and pleasant voice coming from behind me
"Hey, did you just call me?"
Su Yu looked back, only to see that the wooden boat that had gone away had floated behind him at some point, and there was an extra person wearing a hat and a cloak on the bow of the boat, holding a long penny in his hand, but the edge of her hat was pulled very low, and her face was covered in shadows, and Su Yu couldn't see clearly.
He couldn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Boat man, I want to cross the river, and I hope you can help me, it's convenient!"
The man nodded and said, "It's okay to cross the river, but it costs money!
Su Yu glanced at himself and said, "I'...... I left in a hurry, and I didn't bring any money with me for a while! Why don't you take me there first, and when I get back from my errands, I'll give you more, okay?"
Hearing this, the boatman hesitated for a moment and said, "That...... Okay, but you can't say it doesn't count?"
Su Yu hurriedly said: "Count! Count! I will never lie!"
The boatman nodded, propped the boat to the shore, and said, "I look like a monk when I listen to you! I believe you, come up!"
The moment Su Yu jumped onto the boat, a sly smile appeared on the boatman's covered pink face, and the boat left the shore and floated away into the river. The boat had just arrived at the center of the river, but it didn't leave, only in the middle of the river, with the current swirling, Su Yu couldn't stand steadily, so he had to squat in the cabin, holding the boat gang, looking up at the boatman, and said, "The boatman, why don't you leave?"
The boatman smiled: "Guest officer, you said that you would wait for you to come back and give me the silver, but I still don't feel at ease after thinking about it!
Su Yu heard this, and hurriedly said, "I said that it must count!"
The boatman smiled slyly again, and said, "Actually, it's not difficult for me to believe it, unless you mortgage something to me, naturally we don't have any suspicions, how about it?"
Su Yu looked up and down, and said embarrassedly: "But, I don't have anything else on me except tattered clothes!"
The boatman stretched out a green jade finger, pointed to the small package on his back, and said, "Who wants your tattered clothes?
After hearing this, Su Yu suddenly came to his senses, only took off the burden and hugged it in his arms, and said, "This burden is not mine! I can't escort him to you!"
The boatman sneered and said: "Why do you come back and give it back, but now I want you to mortgage but you don't want to!
After that, he pointed to the vast water with his hand and said: "If you just want to play tricks and don't pay the boat, you can just jump from here!"
Su Yu glanced at the turbulent water, and hurriedly said: "Boatman, the current here is so fast, jumping out of the boat is certain to death, please show mercy to the boatman, cross me, and when I come back, I will definitely double the silver for you!"
The boatman snorted coldly, stopped talking, and only used his feet to step back and forth on the boat, not much effort, the boat was in the water, violently bumping, Su Yu was shaken from side to side, in order not to fall into the water, he had to hold the boat gang tightly with both hands. The boatman looked at it coldly, snorted lightly, and when the boat was turned upside down, he raised the penny, and hit Su Yu's hand that grabbed the boat gang, Su Yu just withdrew his hand, the hull of the boat turned over, he grabbed a few handfuls without grabbing it, and planted it into the water along the board of the boat, "plopping", splashing countless splashes.
When the boatman saw him fall in embarrassment, he couldn't help but stand on the stern of the boat, smiling coquettishly. After a while, Su Yu emerged from the water, grabbed the side of the boat with one hand, and wiped the water on his face with the other, panting.
The boatman looked at him and said, "Give me the burden quickly, or I'll drown you here today!"
Su Yu looked at her and said, "I will definitely give you the money for the boat! You can help me go up quickly! As for the burden, I won't give it to you anyway!"
When the boatman heard this, he was so angry that he stared at a pair of bright eyes, raised the penny to knock Su Yu's hand holding the side of the boat, and as soon as Su Yu let go, the whole person fell into the water again. Although Su Yu knows a little about water, how can the river be turbulent, and when he falls into the water, he is instantly swept up by a stream of flowing water, and he rushes out of the distance with his head and face.
At this moment, a huge turbulent vortex suddenly appeared behind him, and his entire body was about to be sucked into it with the flow of water. Su Yu struggled desperately, trying to get rid of the suction of the whirlpool, but the more he struggled, the faster his body was rushed towards the whirlpool, and at the moment when his whole body had fallen into the turbulent whirlpool and was about to be swallowed up, the hands that were still scratching on the top of his head grabbed something and dragged him out of the whirlpool. Until this time, Su Yu was still clutching a green penny with both hands, coughing incessantly, and vomiting a lot of water.
I could only hear a string of pleasant laughter in my ears: "Hehe, how does it taste to drink water......?" If I hadn't saved you, you would have sunk to the bottom and fed the fish! Why don't you give me the burden?"
Su Yu was choked by the water, his face was pale, and he was bloodless, he barely raised his eyelids to look at him, grabbed the penny, and gasped: "Ahem! This burden belongs to my master......! I can't give it to you! Ahem! It's useless to you, so why do you have to ask for it? Wait for me...... Ahem, after handing over the burden to Master, I will definitely come to double the money for your ship...... That's it!"
The boatman was furious, and while slapping the penny in Su Yu's hand hard, he scolded: "If you don't give it, I'll drown you!"
But the penny was firmly grasped by Su Yu, not let go for a moment, the boatman tried his best to pull the penny into his arms, and even dragged Su Yu to the side of the boat, Su Yu saw the opportunity, and was about to use his strength to seize the boat gang, the boatman hurriedly pushed the penny out, and brought him into the water with a "plop".
She saw that Su Yu was splashed by the water and couldn't open her eyes, but she still grabbed the penny and didn't let go, she was so angry that she scolded with a smile: "I saved you, you rely on me! I will drown you here today, see if you give it to me!"
After that, he pressed the penny into the water with a penny, and Su Yu was also sunk into the water with the penny, and after waiting for a while, the boatman saw him kicking in the water, so he picked up the penny again. Su Yu's wet head had just poked out of the water, and the boatman shouted again, "Do you want to give me a burden?"
Su Yu gasped and was annoyed at the same time, and said angrily: "No...... Give!no ......"
Before he finished speaking, his body sank and was carried under the water by the penny again. If this is the case many times, seeing Su Yu holding the penny, already dying, the boatman looked at him and persuaded: "If you don't give it to me again, you will really drown! Give it to me, and I will save you!"
Su Yu barely opened his eyes to look at her, and said intermittently: "That thing...... It's my Master's, not yours! I'm going to give it to Master, just ...... Not for you!"
Looking at him, the boatman looked at him in despair and chagrin, tore off the hat on his head, took off his coat, and said angrily: "The contents of the baggage are mine! It belongs to my mother! It was stolen by you thieves! Give it back to me!"
When Su Yu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, raised his eyes and looked in a trance, only to see that the boatman was gone, but he saw a little girl with a double hair on her head and a jasper hairpin obliquely inserted in her sideburns standing at the bow of the boat.