As the saying goes, "the peaks and mountains are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road." ”

Shen Yuan led the horse to stand at the Tongguan ferry, waiting for the boatman, but unfortunately, in less than a stick of incense, several boats came and went, either not to the other side, or the boat was small, and there were no horses.

Shen Yuan couldn't wait, so he left the horse in a tea house on the dock, and threw two coins of silver before leaving, which were used as forage and hard money. Then he got on a small boat and went to the other side of the Fengling crossing.

Thinking that I hadn't seen it for half a month, I just wished I could jump to the other side of the Yellow River in the blink of an eye.

Shen Yuan stood at the head of the boat, remembering that when the two reunited, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile, but now that time has passed, Shen Yuan sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but say to himself: "When I enter the rivers and lakes, I rarely stop, and now I come back to my hometown, it is like a world away, which is really embarrassing......."

The old man behind him was an old man who looked nearly seventy years old, dressed in coarse caftan brown, with a hat on his head, a gray beard on his face, a dark complexion, and wrinkles like ravines, full of vicissitudes.

The old man heard Shen Yuan talking to himself, and said with a smile while shaking the oar: "Later life, don't you know the truth that you can't help yourself when you enter the rivers and lakes?"

Shen Yuan listened, looked up and down, although this old man was not good-looking, but Shen Yuan did not dare to despise it, and said, "The old gentleman is also from the rivers and lakes?"

The old man stroked his beard and smiled, but he replied, "You can take a look around." ”

Shen Yuan said that except for the turbulent flow of the Yellow River, he didn't see anything else, and he couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and said, "I don't know what the old gentleman taught me to see?"

In fact, you and I are both from the rivers and lakes, but the old man and I are in the rivers and lakes, and I am not in the rivers and lakes. ”

The old man no longer looked at Shen Yuan, but only looked at the other side and said.

Shen Yuan listened to the novelty and said: "Listening to the old gentleman's words and reasoning, mysterious and profound, could it be that the old gentleman is also a master who lives in seclusion?

The old man laughed when he heard this, and said: "Old man, I am an ordinary boatman who ferries people on the Yellow River, where do I have any name, but I have crossed a lot of people in this life, and I have seen a lot, and I have realized some rough reasoning at this age. ”

After saying that, the old man took off the wine gourd from his waist, pulled out the stopper and poured it into his mouth a few times, and handed the gourd to Shen Yuan with a wipe of his beard and said, "My wine is strong, and I also let you taste the bitterness of my bad old man's rivers and lakes." ”

Shen Yuan took the gourd, looked at it, and then looked at the old man, only to see the old man smile and say, "Hou Sheng, you must be thinking that I have put something in this wine." With that, he stood up, approached Shen Yuan and took the gourd back.

He poured a few more mouthfuls of "coo-dong-goo-dong", Shen Yuan's face was hot, and he said secretly: "This Jianghu has become so suspicious...... It's ridiculous......."

So he sneered: "It just so happens that the juniors are also thirsty......" reached out and took a few sips of the wine gourd.

When this turbid wine entered his throat, it immediately made Shen Yuan's face a little hideous, and he couldn't help grinning: "Senior, how can this wine be so strong, spicy as a knife, it's like cutting your throat!"

The old man of the boat family stroked his beard and laughed, stretched out his hand to take the gourd handed back by Shen Yuan, and said, "Housheng, this taste is not pleasant!"

Shen Yuan waved his hand and said, "I have never drunk such bitter and strong wine."

"In the future, the days will be long, and if you live for a long time in the future, you will be accustomed to this kind of taste, and the aftertaste is endless. ”

Shen Yuan thought that the old man was just talking about wine, but he didn't think so, and said in his heart: "This old man is talking so that he is deceitful, if he has a life in the future, how can he ask for this bitter wine to eat?"

The old man raised his eyes and looked at Shen Yuan, shaking the oar, and said earnestly, "Happiness and enmity are indeed happy for a while, but you don't know that the rivers and lakes are not only happy and enmity, but chivalrous and righteous. It is precisely the hardships of life, but you can't get out, don't you know that this day is the rivers and lakes, unless you die, you will become a monk, and it is useless to shave 3,000 troubles! Since you can't get rid of your life, it is better to fight the waves and turn into a Kunpeng and soar into the sky! In the next life, I have said all I have to say, old man, and you should go ashore!"

After this call, Shen Yuan didn't have time to savor it, only the last sentence "You go ashore" made him a little confused, he looked around, only to see that the ship was still three or five feet away from the shore, and only thought: "The ship has not yet arrived on the shore, why did he say this? and why did he know that I have light skills, but I can jump here?"

But the old man didn't give him a chance to speak.

Shen Yuan only felt that the hull of the boat shook slightly, and suddenly the bow of the boat tilted upwards suddenly, and Shen Yuan's feet suddenly seemed to have no roots, and in the blink of an eye, he was swept into the air by the hull.

Shen Yuan's waist straightened, he spun in the air, and with the help of the internal strength that came from the hull of the boat, he landed steadily on the shore, looking at the old man on the boat from afar, and his heart was shocked inexplicably!

At this time, the old man stroked his gray beard again, his eyes narrowed slightly, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he stood at the bow of the boat and wanted to look at Shen Yuan, looking unfathomable.

"Who the hell is this old-timer?"

Shen Yuan muttered in his heart, this old man was definitely not just an ordinary man as he said, and now that he recalled what the old man had just said, he suddenly felt that it made a lot of sense.

"Dare to ask the senior's surname!" Shen Yuan shouted loudly, but the boat gradually drifted away.

However, a voice came from the Yellow River: "Hou Sheng, if you want the old man to cross you today, you will yell twice at the Yellow River, and the old man will definitely come to pick you up, and then I will calculate the boat money with you!"

The voice was far-reaching, deafening.

If it weren't for a special method, it would be an extremely deep internal force that could be developed, and a person with such a deep internal force, Shen Yuan had only seen two people who could be compared with this person, one was his master Gongyehe, and the other was the head of Wudang, Xuanxu Dao.

As for He Chongyun, the head of the Huashan faction, and Master Haijue, the abbot of the Shaolin faction, although he is also the top of the Beidou Taishan and martial arts in the world, but in comparison, the internal skills are still much worse than the two.

Ordinary masters may not be able to see it, but Gongye He said that in terms of the depth of internal strength in the world, he called the first, and the old cow nose of Xuanxu is the second, and the old monk Haijue is on par with He Chongyun, as for the people next to him, he really can't look down on him.

However, Gongyehe did not mention Penglai Sword Pavilion at that time, and when Shen Yuan asked, Gongyehe only rolled his eyes, and said: "That guy is powerful, but it is not as good as me, otherwise how will he lose to Lao Tzu!"

Although the old man in front of him is not known by his surname, his internal attainments are not inferior to his master at all. Thinking of this, Shen Yuan couldn't help but be more interested in the identity of this old man.

It's just that now the more important thing is to reunite with He Nanxu, and as the light boat fades away, Shen Yuan turned around and went to the ferry.

Since ancient times, Fenglingdu has been the throat of Hedong, Henan and Guanzhong, and it has always been a place for soldiers.

The official road of the ferry is full of people coming and going, and it is also lively, among which there are also many old men from the inspection department and the shipping master department walking around here.

There was a pavilion not far away, which was the place where the two of them met together, and when Shen Yuan walked here, he saw that there was no one in this pavilion.