"Borrowed, borrowed!" Ying Lan'er took the lead and shuttled through the crowd, Han Linyuan took care of Li Bing's hand injury, and could only follow unhurriedly behind.

He didn't want to delay his time to come here, but he couldn't stop Li Bing and Ying Lan'er from being really curious, and finally said that he would just take a look and leave.

Walk to the front row of the crowd, right by the river. What catches your eye is a wooden bridge with stone piers that spans the one-mile-wide Han River. Every five zhang a boulder pier stands in the water of the Taotao River, between the piers stand a complex keel wooden frame, the surface is covered with thick solid wooden planks, and simple railings are repaired on both sides.

The bridge deck is not wide, less than half a zhang, only for a horse-drawn carriage to pass, and in the most central section of the bridge, it is slightly widened to form a one-zhang wide platform to coordinate the use of vehicles on both sides to avoid driving.

Today, the embankments on both sides of the Han River have already surrounded the people, and on the platform in the middle of the bridge, it is the group of people standing in Liangzhou City just now.

Ying Lan'er pointed to the other side of the river and called out to Li Bing: "Look at the other side, there is also a purple city. ”

This Tangliangzhou city is on the side of the Han River, looking at the past across the river, opposite is the old site of the Hanzhong City of the Han Dynasty, the scale is smaller, the city wall is shorter, and it is also broken. However, this is also a coincidence, the Han Dynasty disliked that the old city of Baoguo was too small, and built a new city on the other side of the Han River; as a result, in the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of Sui thought that the old city was dilapidated, and also built a new city, which happened to fall back to the old site of Baoguo City.

Two purple cities, one large and one small, one new and one old, face each other across the river.

"I have long heard that the scale of this 'Centennial Bridge' is grand, and I have seen it today!" Han Linyuan looked at the mile-long wooden bridge, and said: "On the river, there are many pontoon bridges and iron cables, and there are few wooden bridges like this in the entire Tang Dynasty." ”

"Is there any way to say that this bridge is called the 'Centennial Bridge'?" asked Li Bing.

"During the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang took Hanzhong as a base, and in order to facilitate the people, he built an iron cable pontoon bridge, which was very large and durable. However, the pontoon bridge is a pontoon bridge after all, and when there is a big flood, it is often washed away, and it will cost money to repair it in the coming year.

In the previous dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui built a new city and also wanted to build a new bridge. So in the dry season every year, the waist cut off the river, buried the piers, the beginning of the project was very fast, five years to repair the first half of the piers.

I thought that this bridge could be built quickly, but the emperor died, and Emperor Yang of Sui ascended the throne, liking Jiangnan, so he cut off the appropriation of the bridge on the Han River.

But half of the bridge was repaired, and the people of Liangzhou couldn't wait, so they raised their own money to start repairing the other half from the other side of the river, which was originally quite fast, but unfortunately it was halfway through, and there was a big flood, which not only washed away the embankment, but also washed away several piers on both banks.

After that, the war between the previous dynasties and the chaos of the previous dynasty put the matter of repairing the bridge on hold, and the people on both sides of the strait still used the pontoon bridge to pass.

Knowing that during the Zhenguan period, the imperial court allocated money and grain to build this bridge that must be passed into Shu. When it was repaired, it was exactly 100 years before the start of the repair, so this bridge was called the 'Centennial Bridge'. ”

Ying Lan'er said again: "The previous dynasty was a great achievement. You see that this river is wide and narrow, and this bridge is repaired in the widest place, and if it is repaired in a narrow place, it may have been repaired long ago. ”

Han Linyuan hadn't spoken yet, but a fat lady next to him shouted at Yinglan'er without a good voice: "You know! In a narrow place, the water is deep and urgent, not to mention that it can't be repaired, it will be washed away without a big flood!"

After speaking, she glared at Li Bing and Han Linyuan, who were standing on the side: "What are you three chirping, I can't even hear what the palace master is saying!

Li Bing came back to his senses at this time, glanced around, and seemed to be very disgusted by the people around him, so he stopped talking at the moment and apologized slightly.

The voice stopped, and he looked at the bridge again, only to see that there was already an old man in a purple robe beside Lord Thorn Shi, who should be the 'Praise Palace Master' in the mouth of this lady.

He is a hundred miles away from both sides of the strait, but these people can still hear his blessings and prayers, and even Li Bing and the others can perceive the depth of the internal force in this word.

"What is he sacrificing?" Ying Lan'er heard inexplicably, and asked Han Linyuan in a low voice.

"I don't know, I guess it's the river god!" Han Linyuan finished speaking, and made a silent gesture.

But I heard a little brother next to him whisper: "It's not the river god, it's the water dragon god!" We only have three gods, the water dragon god, the mountain dragon god and the heavenly dragon god. Today is the birthday of the water dragon god, and Lord Thorn Shi and the palace master are praying that there will be no drought or flood this year, and there will be a good harvest. ”

Between the words, the sacrificial words of the palace master have been recited, and the sacrifice is about to be offered.

"Please, five grains!" Lord Thorn Shi stepped forward, stood in front of the railing, and bowed.

The so-called five animals are pigs, chickens, ducks (or geese), fish, and eggs, while the five grains are rice, millet, millet, wheat, and mushrooms.

I saw thirty purple-clothed disciples walking out of the platform, divided into two teams, walking to both sides of the river, and every time they reached a bridge pier, one person stopped, and these thirty numbers corresponded to thirty bridge piers. In their hands, they carried a tray of yellow pears, on which were placed offerings, covered with purple cloth.

Ying Lan'er and Li Bing were originally looking at Xing. His face changed suddenly. They looked at each other and were slightly puzzled.

One of the purple-clothed disciples was the one he had seen in the Meridian Sect before—Venerable Elephant!

When the little brother saw these people throwing the sacrifices into the river, he said to the three of them, "Those who can carry the sacrifices are the most outstanding people among the inner disciples of the Praise Sect. You see that on their cuffs, there are three white lines, and they are three-pattern disciples. It is the most noble in the inner gate, except for the palace master, the six 'Feizun masters', and the twelve pavilion masters. ”

"My brother is already a disciple of Erwen, maybe next year, he can also go to the top to perform sacrifices!" The little brother said to Li Bing with a smile, very proud, and Li Bing had to smile.

Han Linyuan saw that the expressions of the two had already realized that something was wrong, and pulled the two of them out: "This time it's for your business." Don't get in the slightest trouble, let's go first!"

Li Bing also couldn't figure out the relationship between praise and integration, thinking about it, he still left with Han Linyuan, after all, in another twenty days, it was a full moon, and this kind of day would come to an end as soon as possible.

When the three of them left, not far behind them, a girl in a white veil whispered, "They're gone!

This girl is holding a two-foot-one-inch long sword in her hand, named Feiyan, and she is none other than the Rongjiao West Fourth Hall-Kite Venerable Ni Shang. And the stout man beside her is the head of the West Fourth Hall, the Tiger Venerable.

He also glanced at the backs of Li Bing and the others squeezing out of the crowd, and said, "Don't worry, anyway, I already know where they are going, and I won't lose them." ”

After speaking, he continued to observe the ceremony, was silent for a while, and then said, "Or, you can go first." Just follow from afar, and don't startle the snake. I'll look for you when the 'sunset' is over." ”

The East Fourth Hall of the Rongjiao has fallen, the Eagle Venerable in the West Fourth Hall was killed by Li Bing and Ni Shang together, his brother was still locked up in the prison because of the rebellion, and the remaining three people, at this time, all appeared in Liangzhou.

Ni Sheng nodded slightly, and also withdrew from the crowd.

And Tiger Venerable's mind flashed through countless thoughts for a while.

This time, thanks to Chen Qingniu's awareness of the abnormal behavior of the 'Dragon Venerable Li Xuan', he first discovered that he was concealing the fact that Li Bing had the "White Snow Neijing" of the "Angry Disciple of the Last Generation, Sun Wuyi". Continuing the investigation, it was found that he revealed the news of the "Three Phases Sutra" to Han Linyuan, but did not report it to Rongjiao.

Chen Qingniu informed the Zuo Soul Envoy of the two things together, and Xisitang got the task this time, to follow Li Bing, maybe he could find a new page of the "Three Phases Sutra", and if necessary, he would also take the "Baixue Neijing" from him.

Venerable Tiger shook his head and said in his heart: Even if he is the biological son of the "previous generation of meanders", and he has been guided by Yu Zhen since he was a child, but after all, he did not grow up in Rongjiao, and he is not his own person.

He used his afterglow to sweep the back of Ni Sheng leaving: The Dragon Venerable is unreliable, naturally there is a left soul envoy to clean it up, and you can't rely on it, so let me check it! I hope the death of the Eagle Venerable has nothing to do with you.