Chengzhou is located in the easternmost part of the Great Zhou Empire, bordering the East China Sea on both sides in the northeast, and a wide and boundless raging river in the northwest, half of which can be said to be surrounded by boundless seawater.

In addition, there are also countless rivers and rivers in Chengdu, and fishing boats come and go, and there is an endless stream.

Although it is the land of the Central Plains, the scenery here is also quite the style of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

It is said that hundreds of years ago, the former emperor of the first dynasty who started in Chengzhou sent people to the sea from the Jindu port in the east of Chengzhou to find the legendary ethereal Penglai fairyland, in order to seek the method of immortality.

Although it is unknown what the final outcome of the envoys to the east was, this incident has become a long-standing happy talk for the residents of this area.

Yingzhou is located in the southwest of Chengzhou, in the city of Hanshui, standing here like a lonely gatekeeper. If people from the western states and counties want to enter the mirror from this point and do not take a detour by land, they need to take a ferry through the Hanhai River.

The fishermen who live here not only make a living from fishing, but also ferry passers-by by the way. The price they offer is also quite affordable, just people who walk the rivers and lakes, it is convenient for each other, and it is better to have one more friend than anything else.

What's more, the number of tourists who have been pouring into Chengzhou has increased day by day, and the boatmen have become more and more busy, but the simple smile on their faces has faded in the slightest.

The weather has gradually entered autumn, looking up, you can also clearly feel that the sky has been much darker than usual, the sunset is sinking in the west, the sky is a burning dim yellow, the river surface is also reflected red, water and sky.

At this time, it was close to the gate of the city, but the river was still lit with fishing fires, and small boats came and went, never sleeping. But most of the fishermen who live in the city have packed up their men and gone home at this time, eating a fragrant meal with their families, and then drinking a pot of local sweet and mellow fairy wine, sighing for the most beautiful thing in the world.

At this time, on the other side of the riverbank, a slightly rustic fishing boat was waddling and floating at the pier.

Under the canopy, a man with hoarfrost on his sideburns was looking at the cold water city in the distance, his eyes slightly distracted.

His countenance was as resolute as a knife, his beard was unshaven, as if to hide the scars that could be seen everywhere on his cheeks, and he looked very kind when he pulled out his features alone, but the deep nasolabial folds on both sides of his nose set off them with great severity.

A pair of large calloused hands supported the oars, as if intentionally or unintentionally paddling on the water.

"Boatman, ferryman?"

Suddenly there was a light voice in his ears, although he was not in sight, but when he heard the voice, he knew that it was a young boy.

The boatman's body trembled, he grabbed the coat on his shoulder with one hand and pulled it down, and hurriedly turned around and piled up a smiling face: "Crossing, crossing, how can you not cross?"

The person who came was a young man dressed in a white robe, and although his appearance was ordinary at first glance, it was better than his eyes that seemed to take people's souls, and he was very alive.

The man in white smiled slightly, jumped on the bow of the boat gently, then patted the dust on his clothes, pointed to the fishing fires that could be seen everywhere on the river, and asked casually: "Boat family, I have asked a few places just now, they are all fishermen who go out of the river to fish, and they are no longer accepting customers at this time, why are the boatmen still doing this business?"

The boatman also laughed: "This boy, this is the first time you have come to our Cold Water City, right?"

The man in white blinked, and bowed his head slightly.

The boatman welcomed the man in white into the canopy, stood up, held the oars with both hands, inserted them into the water, and said: "At this point, the city of cold water is about to close the city gate, even if I go there now, it is too late." Therefore, passers-by often calculate the time, and now the only people who are still dangling on the river are only fishermen living outside the city!"

When the man in white heard this, he patted his head with some annoyance and sighed.

Then he looked at the boatman carefully and asked, "I don't know who the boatman is......"

The boatman rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "Childe, look at our sloppy appearance, how can it be a city person!"

The man in white pursed his lips and smiled: "I think the boat family is quite temperamental, very comparable." ”

The boatman waved his hand again and again, and said forgiveness.

The boy in white sat in the canopy and shook his head leisurely.

"There are guests coming and going on this river, I don't know this son's surname?"

The boat gradually moved forward on the river, and the boatman had nothing to do, so he talked to the man in white in the boat.

"The surname is Tan, and the single name is a fox character. The man in white showed his white teeth and said with a smile: "I'm just a mountain village man, just out of the rivers and lakes, walking around, I really can't afford the word 'expensive'!"

This boy in white is the same Mojun who left Yingzhou for Chengzhou not long ago.

When the boatman heard this, he quipped in the tone of the man in white: "Where is it, I think Tan Gongzi is quite temperamental, and he is definitely very comparable, and he will be extraordinary in the future!"

When Mo Jun saw that he was being countered by the army, he also fought with the boat family with great interest: "Then I don't know the boat family's surname?"

"What's not expensive, my old bones, don't make fun of me. The boatman laughed, and his emotions immediately let go: "We have been walking on this river for more than 30 years, and everyone calls me 'old horse', and Tan Gongzi also calls me 'old horse'." ”

"More than thirty years?" Mo Jun frowned, narrowed his eyes, and said curiously: "Old Ma, you are only fifty years old, right?" ”

"Isn't it? We're going to be on this river bar for the rest of our lives!"

"Isn't it lonely to be alone?" Mo Jun asked again.

"What's that, wouldn't it be nice to get used to it. The old horse shook his head and replied.

Mo Jun fell silent suddenly, and just as he was about to say something, the old horse suddenly spoke again.

"But sometimes, I do feel quite lonely. I saw the old horse with his back to Mo Jun, holding the boat back and forth, although he couldn't see his expression at the moment, but he could hear a trace of desolation and sadness from his words: "During the New Year's holidays, I watched the people around me beaming, and the guys of the same generation became grandfathers, and the whole family reunited together, which was really lively." ”

Lao Ma paused, looked up at the bright moon that had gradually risen in the sky, and said: "No, it's going to be Tanabata again, after Qixi, it will be Zhongyuan, and after that, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Mo Jun was silent for a moment and put on a smiling face: "Then the old horse doesn't want to find a companion?"

"Which mother-in-law still looks up to me as a poor bone!" the old horse shook his head, and continued: "But I often think that it would be nice if I could pick up a child on the river one day, so that I can also have a grandson or granddaughter!"

"But after thinking about it, this baby lost his parents at such a young age, and it was quite unlucky to accompany me as a bad old man, so it's okay to think about it, it's better not to let this kind of thing happen. ”

Mo Jun suddenly sighed with emotion.

Seeing that the topic seemed to be a little deviated by himself, the boatman hurriedly apologized and said, "Does Tan Gongzi know what this river is called?"

Mo Jun stroked his chin and groaned, "I heard that it seems to be called Fairy Jiang...... Come on?"

"Not bad. Lao Ma nodded, and asked again: "Then does Tan Gongzi know why this river is called the Fairy River?"

Mo Jun's eyes were glazed, and he just shook his head.

The old horse stopped the oars, straightened his waist, guided the side, and smiled: "From here to the south, it is Yangzhou, and there is a fairy mansion near the river, called Tianxiang Mansion." ”

Mo Jun was taken aback, and immediately understood what the boatman meant, and suddenly realized: "I see, I understand." ”

It is rumored that the disciples of Tianxiang Mansion are all beautiful and fragrant, and they act secretively, not causing ordinary dust, just like fairies who do not eat fireworks in the world. This river is close to Tianxiang Mansion, so the name is explained.

"No, no, don't worry, Tan Gongzi, I haven't finished talking yet. The old horse laughed when he saw this, and after moving his muscles, he began to row the boat again.

And the story in his mouth also rippled with the blue waves on the river.

"If you want to talk about this fairy river, retrospectively, it is the most talked about story by the people near our two states. It is said that a long time ago, there was no such river here, and Hanshui City also belonged to the state and county of Yangzhou. ”

The old horse stared at the general's face, and the sparkling water light was reflected in his eyes, showing full of clarity, and his tone was soft, and there seemed to be some kind of emotion hidden in it: "One year, there was a beautiful woman who came here, and the woman was like a person who came out of the painting. ”

"Such a woman should be right to be a human partner, but she came here to seek revenge. ”

Mo Jun's heart moved, raised his eyebrows, and continued to listen patiently.

And what she is looking for is love and hatred. ”

She chased and killed a negative man here, searched for months, but never saw him. So she told the people in the nearby rivers and lakes that if someone could help her find an enemy and bring it to her alive, she would promise to never leave her. ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately alarmed the Quartet, under the so-called heavy reward, there must be brave men, and the men faced such temptations, and they tried their best, and finally found the negative person hiding in the cold water city. ”

Mo Jun became interested, listened to it with relish, and hurriedly said, "And then?"

The old horse was stunned, as if he was laughing, and as if he was regretting: "It's just that when people found out about the negative man, he was already dead." ”

Mo Jun looked a little stunned.

In desperation, the people had no choice but to bring the body of the bearer to the woman with a feeling of apprehension. They were still lucky, thinking that even if they couldn't stay together, it would be good to spend the Spring Festival together, but when the woman saw the corpse, she suddenly cried bitterly, and the pear blossoms fell raining, and the sadness of her voice was all moved. ”

The woman wanted to leave with the body, but how could those people let her go easily, for a while they were already entangled. In the midst of the strife, some people took the corpse to blackmail the woman into submission, and many more people joined the scramble and eventually destroyed the corpse......"

Mo Jun lowered his head, as if he was infected by Lao Ma's words, and there was a touch of fierceness in his eyes.

The woman became furious, and in an instant the wind was blowing, the thunder and lightning were raging, and the woman's body was floating in the air, and her hair was flying, as if a fairy had descended, and she raised her hand, and with thunder as the momentum, and lightning as the sword, and rushed at the panicked crowd is a sword. ”

"This sword seems to have cut open the heavens and the earth, and carved an invisible moat on the ground. ”

Then the rain poured down and refused to stop for months until the ravine was filled. ”

"And this is the Fairy River. ”