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Winter goes to the year, and spring is blooming.

This year, there was not a single snowflake in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the early spring, the providence was getting warmer, and in the past few months, I have traveled to almost every possible place to find Shu Yao. From Lin'an to Zanglongjian, from Shaoxing to Qingya Valley, every place you go, you will be disappointed.

Where will Yu Thirteen settle Shu Yao?

Or did he just find out about Shu Yao's whereabouts and didn't have time to settle her?

All this is unknown, I can only grope and find in the vast world, but this time, I will not give up again.

2.

Shaoxing 21 April.

I went out of Quzhou to Ezhou. The reason why I went there was because I got news from the disciples of the Wolf Dao Society, saying that someone had seen Chen Boyang appear in the Ezhou area.

I heard that he caused several bloody cases in Ezhou.

I didn't want to care about these things, but I thought that Chen Boyang, who had been deeply enchanted, has always been a scourge in the rivers and lakes.

Since it all started with the book in my hand, it should end with me.

Before leaving, I instructed Ming Shaozhong to ask the disciples of the Wolf Dao Society to inquire about Shu Yao's whereabouts. As soon as I got the news, I sent people along the official road to Ezhou to find me.

After Ming Shaozhong got the order, he asked me: "Is the whereabouts of the head of the Qingyun faction still checked?"

I thought for a moment and said, "If you have any news, let me know as well." ”

Take a fast horse from Quzhou to Ezhou, such as in Jiangxi, passing through Poyang Lake. In the past, the scenery was the same, the sky was high and the earth was wide, the lake was green, but when the old place was revisited, he was alone, and his heart was full of emotion.

On the shore of Poyang Lake, a flat boat leans against the shore, and an old man wearing a hat sits on the bow of the boat, leisurely fishing for fish.

"Old man, will you cross the river with me?" I asked softly.

The old man turned his head, looked at me, and asked, "To the other side?"

I said, "Yes." ”

The old man shook his head and said, "No." ”

I said, "I'll pay you as much as I want." ”

The old man said, "I don't want to give you any money." ”

I see that this old man is dressed simply, he is dressed in coarse cloth, and he must be an ordinary person. I am very puzzled if I have money to earn. I asked, "Why don't you go?"

The old man looked at me again and said, "You're from a foreign country, aren't you?"

I said, "Yes." ”

The old man said, "I advise you not to go over." Although the scenery on this side of the shore is good, it is not very peaceful, water bandits are rampant, thieves are rampant, I am afraid that you may not have a life to go back. ”

I shook my head and smiled, "I'm not afraid. Send me there. ”

The old man said, "Don't be afraid, the little old man still wants to live a few more years." To tell you the truth, the boaters in this area are all going up and down the coast, and no boatman is willing to cross the river with you, so you still have to die of this heart. ”

I couldn't help but be surprised. When I was boating in Poyang with Xiaoyue and Li Xiaoqian, the world was vast, the lake was secluded, and although there were not many people on both sides of the strait, they were all safe and busy, and they were all a peaceful scene.

I asked why. The old man put down the fishing rod, sighed, and said, "You said it was five or six years ago. In that year, when the world was in turmoil, the imperial court sent troops to conscript, and experienced a major battle on the other side of Poyang Lake. At that time, the army in charge of the world suffered heavy casualties and fled

Dead Fuzhou City. Many of the stragglers who didn't have time to escape were left behind. After the rebellion was quelled by the imperial court, the army withdrew to the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and these stragglers bravely took root on the spot and formed seven or eight gangs.

Later, I heard that the imperial court ordered the restoration of martial arts and let these gangs grow. They neither plough nor plow, but they all have a mouth, and they have to eat. In the open field, they are famous and decent, but behind the scenes, they bribe local officials, collude with the imperial court, and in recent years have become more and more rampant, killing people and doing all kinds of evil. This Taiping Poyang Lake has not been peaceful since then. ”

As he spoke, the old man sighed again.

Looking at the sparkling surface of the lake, I was bewildered. I thought of Bai Jingxing, back then, as the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, even though he was suffering from the incomprehension and dissatisfaction of all parties, he still insisted on maintaining the existence of the rivers and lakes, and even paid for it with his life.

Is the rivers and lakes he has been maintaining really worth it?

The old man put away the fish basket and straddled his waist, and muttered: "I really don't understand these people in the rivers and lakes, what's so good about dancing with guns and sticks all day long, killing and killing, no matter how high your martial arts are, you have to eat." ”

No matter how high your martial arts are, you have to eat.

It seems to be a superficial sentence, but it contains an extremely profound truth.

Rivers and lakes...... Those who are floating in it, if they can understand this truth, do not know how many disasters will be lost.

"Don't be stunned. Come back with me. The old man beckoned to me and said, "It will soon get dark, and although it is more peaceful here than on the other side, the night is changeable, and perhaps some thieves will touch the shore, and this is not the place to stay." ”

I said, "But I have to cross the river." ”

The old man suddenly became anxious, he glared and scolded: "I have spent so much time, why don't you listen to the advice." How can I not know how to cherish my life so young? Come with me. The old man stepped forward and took my hand and pulled it hard.

I just wanted to get rid of him, but when I saw the sincere concern on the old man's face, my heart suddenly warmed, and I thought that I hadn't enjoyed an ordinary life for a long time, and I couldn't help but leave the lake shore with the old man.

3.

When I followed the old man into the village, it was just getting dark.

The village is not big, and it looks like there are only twenty or thirty households. At this time, it is time to cook on the fire, and the smoke curls from the roofs of the houses, drifting in one direction with the evening breeze, and the village is even calmer and more serene against the golden sunset that has not disappeared in the sky.

The old man led me into a simple courtyard, surrounded by yellow mud walls, more than half a person high, from the outside of the wall you can see the scene in the courtyard at a glance.

The old man placed the fish basket in the courtyard, and a boy of thirteen or fourteen came out of the hut with a wooden basin.

"Grandpa, how many fish did you catch today?" the young man smiled, seeing that my expression suddenly froze, and he took a few steps back in a panic, looking nervous and scared.

The old man handed the basket to the young man and said, "Go, Ah Qi." The fish was stewed. ”

The boy named Ah Qi quickly closed the fish basket, turned his head and ran away.

"Don't be surprised. The old man shook his head and sighed, "Since the child's parents were killed by bandits on the lake three years ago, he has been afraid to see the living. ”

Looking at the young man's back, I thought of Yu Thirteen. They were all of the same age, Yu Thirteen experienced pain that he should not have experienced, and although this young man's character was not as tenacious as Yu Thirteen, he lived the happiest life in my eyes.

The old man led me into the house. The layout of ordinary people is naturally very simple, except for the tables, chairs and benches

In addition to the ordinary furniture, there is also a very delicate shrine in the middle of the room. When the old man entered the house, he lit three pillars of incense, reverently chanted in front of the shrine, and inserted the incense into the incense burner.

The shrine was so exquisitely made that it stood out in a simple and somewhat rudimentary room. I took a closer look, and the shrine was enshrined neither an ancestral tablet nor a god or Buddha, but a masked woman with a graceful figure.

I asked, "Who is this woman?"

The old man hurriedly covered my mouth and said, "Don't talk nonsense. This is the water god Niangniang who blesses us with peace, the magic power is boundless, you don't have to talk nonsense, and collide with the gods. ”

Water goddess?

This is probably the local earth god. I have seen similar immortals when I was in Yandang Mountain, when Ma Wei went in and out of the mountain to rob, captured a woman, and became twenty-eight concubines in other places.

The woman put a wooden statue in her room, carved into a rickety old man, she kowtowed to the wooden statue every day, and sometimes knelt in front of the wooden statue and cried when she was wronged.

I thought she was worshipping her dead father.

Unexpectedly, she was very angry when she heard my words, and said, "This is the mountain god master of my hometown." ”

I said, "Why do you want to come to Yandang Mountain for your mountain gods?" Have you ever consulted the gods of Yandang Mountain?"

The woman was stunned, and then cried: "Why didn't my Dao Mountain God come to save me, it turned out that the mountain god of Yandang Mountain stopped me!"

I don't believe in ghosts and gods. So when I saw the woman, I thought it was ridiculous. If there were really gods in this world, then many innocent people would not die innocently.

"You don't believe me?" the old man interrupted my recollection.

I said, "I never believed in ghosts or gods. ”

The old man pulled me to sit down and said, "Let me tell you, this water goddess is real." Many of us have seen it. More than a month ago, a group of water bandits came to our village, and they couldn't help but say that they would rob them when they entered the door. They were strong and strong, and they all had swords in their hands, and no one dared to resist, but the head of the family next door quarreled with the water bandits without knowing whether they were alive or dead.

There was a sturdy man among the bandits, who was five big and three thick, and seven feet tall, and he was scary to look at, and he slashed off the head of the fool when he waved it. Hey, just when everyone thought that they couldn't survive, suddenly a wind blew, and the fragrance was wafting around, and a white shadow flashed over. The strong man fell to the ground with a bang, and when the other bandits were wondering, the strong man who fell to the ground suddenly bleed from his neck, and he died without even struggling. ”

A sword seals the throat!

This is the Lu family's swordsmanship!

I grabbed the old man's arm and hurriedly asked, "You can see clearly, who is that person?"

The old man was startled by me, pushed my hand away, and said, "You still need to ask, of course it's the water god Niangniang." After she killed the strong man, she suddenly flew to the eaves of Hantou's house, and we could all see it clearly. The white clothes are fluttering, flying around in the sky, and they are still veiled, and they are clearly immortals!"

I looked back at the statue of the water goddess in the shrine, her posture, her silhouette, and the swordsmanship described by the old man......

Don't...... It's really Satsuki!

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