Due to the spring rain two days ago, the streets were muddy, and the carts ran over the stagnant water and mud, splashing water and spraying the streets, attracting several shouts and curses from the green forest people squatting under the eaves.

Lu Liangsheng led the donkey into the city, watched the knight with the sword at his waist hurrying by, and the blacksmith shop on the street he walked through was beating the red-hot iron, occasionally glancing at his eyes, revealing vigilance, and only then turned his face when he saw that it was a scholar.

"There are quite a lot of people in the green forest of Penglai County, which must be related to the shipping at the wharf. ”

Since ancient times, water transportation and shipping are mostly snobbish control, involving interests, and naturally there will be good people in the green forest to participate in it, so there are advantages and disadvantages, it is difficult to say in detail.

'Let's find an inn to settle down and inquire about any ships going to sea in the near future. ’

Penglai County is not big, after walking two or three streets, it can probably be calculated, Lu Liangsheng smiled, thought like this, called the passers-by on the side, bowed his hand, and asked the nearby inn.

Seeing that the scholar was polite, the man originally had some displeasure on his face, and it also dissipated.

"Don't blame this son, there were a few scholars who asked for directions before, and that was an angry person...... Well, if the son wants to stay in the inn, it's better to go to Yuelai, there are many places that are operating, and they are famous, and there will be no theft...... Well, walk forward from this street, turn around the street, and you can see it after about 50 steps. ”

"Thank you. ”

Lu Liangsheng said a few polite words to the other party, and after thanking him, he followed the address of the guide, and saw the flags floating on the street from a distance, and the guy in the inn saw the guests enter the door and took the reins politely.

"Guest officer, please, old donkey, the little one will be pulled to the backyard for you to feed some forage first. ”

Immediately, he turned his head and shouted inside, "One outside!"

Sure enough, being able to open stores in various places does have some skills, at least it can make people comfortable, Lu Liangsheng stepped over the threshold and went in, and said to another shopkeeper who came over: "Do you still have a room in your store?"

"Yes, some of them, and the guest officer comes with the little one. ”

The room number was opened in the shopkeeper, and with the guy on the third floor, there are often vendors in the city, and the rooms on the second floor are basically full, and even the third floor is only a partial room, open the door and go in, the furnishings inside are quite complete, only a window on the side can obliquely see the corner of the dock in the distance.

"That's it, the little brother will go down and arrange a table of food for me, just me, ordinary dishes. ”

Lu Liangsheng looked out the window, turned around and took out two coins from his sleeve and put them in the hands of the guy, who rubbed the copper coins and smiled and put them in his arms, "Come on, let's go down and prepare, if the guest officer wants to take a hot bath, he will immediately burn it for you, by the way, if a person is depressed..... The little ones can also give you some fun. ”

Looking at his expression of frowning and winning, Lu Liangsheng couldn't guess what it was, and waved his hand with a smile: "If you don't love the wild flowers outside, you don't need it." ”

The local fish and dragons are mixed, and it is normal to have this kind of thing, not to mention that the business trips that come from a long distance are not all people who sit still, and it is also excellent to have a woman who accompanies the bed.

After sending away the somewhat disappointed shopkeeper, Lu Liangsheng changed his clothes from the bookshelf, and the toad climbed onto the bed and stretched comfortably, then turned over and sat up, and pulled out a scroll of recipes from the small closet, and the round webbed head slid over it.

"Good life, what will be ...... here? Dish?"

"It's close to the sea, so naturally there is more seafood. Lu Liangsheng came out from behind the screen, tied a scarf, and looked at the toad on the bed.

"Master, there are a lot of people here, so I won't take you down to eat together, and I'll pack it for you later. ”

"Go, go, go. ”

The toad didn't raise his head, squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the similar dishes he recorded: "It's just a good time to stretch your muscles and bones and recuperate your body, otherwise you will get seasick when you go to sea." ”

Lu Liangsheng stood at the door and smiled, so he didn't disturb the master's rest, exited the room and gently closed the door, and cast a spell to fix the door firmly, saving the front foot from walking, and someone sneaked into the room with the back foot to take the sheep.

After that, down to the first floor of the inn, the shop guy had already prepared a meal, simply three dishes and one soup, two of which were seafood, asked the price, but it was also fair.

Sure enough, the store is big and has the advantage of being big, and there are few ripping customers.

"Oops, it's coming!"

Suddenly there was a commotion outside, a guy guarding the door hurriedly ran back, the shopkeeper over there was also urging, Lu Liangsheng looked at the guy who ran into the back kitchen curiously, and in less than a moment, he came out quickly with a basin of water, and ran to the outside of the inn as if waiting for something.

"What is this for?" Seeing this strange scene, Lu Liangsheng asked the guy who was passing by.

"Splash water on the dragon king, get lucky, and ask for a lottery. ”

"I see. ”

Lu Liangsheng thanked his man, put down his chopsticks and got up and walked outside, the pedestrians were divided on both sides, and even the fierce green forest knight was calm at this time, covering up his weapons.

Far away a blowing and beating team lively, before and after eight shirtless men, carrying a top of the red sedan chair over, the sedan chair is a clay sculpture, the head of the dragon body, wearing a bead curtain crown, passing in front of the scholar, the guy at the door hurriedly poured the water in the basin to the side of the sedan chair.

After seeing the excitement, the pedestrians on the street returned to their original ways of doing their own thing, Lu Liangsheng returned to the inn, and continued to ask the guy who was talking just now: "By the way, I asked the little brother about something, have there been ships going to sea in the past two days? It doesn't matter where you go." ”

The reason why I asked here is that the inn is well-informed, and the guy must know one or two, and the other is to cause the conversation, and there are no well-meaning people, so I interjected and said two sentences and gave some pointers.

The guy on the side frowned and thought about it.

"There should be..... After the beginning of spring, everyone has to go to sea to beg for a living, and the son may wish to go to the dock to ask in person, if the price is good, there should still be a sea boat to take a ride. ”

Lu Liangsheng nodded, probably understood, and then asked.

"Oh, where do you usually go?"

"It's hard to say, there are a lot of people who go to Goryeo, and there are also a lot of people who go south along the coast, and there are also a lot of people who go to other places, so you don't really want to go to sea, do you? That's not fun. ”

Seeing that Lu Liangsheng was dressed as a scholar, he thought that he was a literati and wanted to go to sea to see the sunrise, so he recited poems, so Lu Liangsheng looked down at himself and asked with a smile: "Why?"

The man paused for a moment, looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "I have heard many people say that the sea is calm for a while, and the storm and waves are raging for a while, isn't that the work of monsters? Some people say even more mysteriously, saying that they see people with half of a fish's tail on the sea, naked, swimming around the sea in groups..... There are also many sea monsters, and a prodigal son can overturn a ship. ”

"Hehehe......"

After listening, Lu Liangsheng chuckled a few times, he didn't care about the so-called wind and waves, there were many storms and rains on the rivers, as for the monsters, don't bother with them, what kind of half-man and half-fish is unusual, it should be the mermaids mentioned in the "Atlas of Mountains and Seas", or sea people such as mermaids, so it may be more detailed to ask them about the place of return, after all, they are all under the sea.

When the guy saw the scholar smirking, he thought he couldn't listen to it, so he sighed and shook his head.

After eating, he brought some food back to the room on the third floor, Lu Liangsheng sat on the bed, and told the master what he heard downstairs about what he heard at sea, and the toad Taoist was eating, and suddenly raised his face, his cheeks were still wrapped in food, and he scolded: "Here it is again, quack! Don't talk about this in front of the teacher next time, and let me not let you eat......"

Before he finished speaking, his head drooped suddenly, and when he raised it again, the toad's face was majestic, he got up with his flippers, chewed twice at will, swallowed the food in his stomach, took a deep breath and looked out the window at the pier that showed a corner.

"Ah..... I'm here again. ”

Lu Liangsheng frowned: "Your Majesty, you also came back then?"

Hearing the word 'Your Majesty', the First Emperor, who was originally looking outside, hurriedly turned around and hooked the frog web.

"Quick, call two more times to listen!"

"......." Lu Liangsheng looked at him speechlessly, but still opened his mouth and called: "Your Majesty." ”

The First Emperor closed his eyes with satisfaction, raised his face and slowly turned to the window lattice, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of "Ah~~" in his mouth, and it took a while for him to come back to his senses and continue to say what he just said.

"I've been here more than once...... Xu Fu alone went to sea twice that year, by the way, I remember meeting a big fish here, as large as a house, not only was he not afraid of me, but he also dared to crash into my ship, and finally I was killed by a sword, and the blood that flowed out stained a large area of the sea red. ”

He turned his face to look at the scholar sitting on the bed: "Do you know why?"

Lu Liangsheng shook his head and did not speak.

"Here is the edge of the Ten Thousand Souls Array, the mana of the seal has become thinner, and the gods in the sky know that I am going to go to sea, and they obstruct it in every way, so they sent a big fish to attack me, this time, you should also be careful, you are a cultivator, and the things you encounter are not more dangerous than the ones I encountered. ”

The short figure in front of the window lattice waved its frog flippers angrily, looking outside and saying this, Lu Liangsheng frowned when he heard it, there was such a thing.

He looked at the window lattice, and the brilliant spring day outside, I don't know when it began, gradually became cloudy.

.......

On the calm sea, the shadow of the sky and clouds covering the sun pushed the sea surface quickly, enveloping the lively dock, and the white bird named in the sky seemed to be frightened, and flew to the nearby sea cliffs and reefs in a panic.

Overlooking the deep blue sea, a huge long shadow silently meandered from the bottom of the sea, rolling up a circle of water waves to form a white line and slapping to the shore quickly.

Boom –

A thunderclap exploded among the clouds, and soon the heavy rain poured down, and the people on the docks and in the city covered their heads with their robes and sleeves to hide from the rain, scolding the ghost weather.

Lu Liangsheng, who originally planned to go out in the afternoon, stretched out his hand to catch the rain curtain falling from the eaves, it was raining heavily outside, and he couldn't see the street outside clearly, so he had to stop traveling for a while.

It's not too late to wait for tomorrow when the rain stops.