In the east of Qinhuai City, the river is rolling:

In the early morning, there was no wind, and on the river dozens of zhang wide, a ferry boat carrying five or six people sailed to the other side of the river; where the stern of the boat crossed, a line of water rippled to both sides, which was quite beautiful; the boatman was dressed in a robe, and his hands were rocking the oars, and the wooden boat was moving very smoothly in the water.

At this time, more than a dozen people gathered on the riverbank, including men, women and children, all waiting for the next crossing of the river; in the crowd, a woman dressed in purple was very eye-catching, not only her appearance was noble and delicate, but also she had a hemorrhoid between her eyebrows, which looked different. Beside the woman in purple, there were also a few maids and a coachman, who else could this person be if it wasn't Qin Meiniang?

In less than a moment, the boatman had already sailed back from the other side of the river, and after approaching the shore, Qin Meiniang and the few people who accompanied her stepped onto the wooden boat. The coachman's father asked the man in charge of the boat, "I said, old man, you see that your business here is not bad, why don't you get a bigger boat, so that five or six people at a time will not be too troublesome." ”

The boatman smiled and said while rocking the oars: "A few of them are from other places, you don't know, there is a rule in this Qinhuai ferry, no more than six people can cross the river at a time, and there will be disaster if you exceed it." I tell you that you may not believe it, but before me drowned more than a dozen boatmen, because they were greedy for money, they carried a few more people, and they all fed the king in this river. ”

Everyone on the boat was skeptical, and Mei Niang asked, "Is there really such a miracle?"

The boatman said with a frank face: "Who can joke about this, otherwise you think I don't want to get a big boat to ferry people." ”

There was a maid named Xiaolan beside Qin Meiniang, and she didn't know what was wrong with her, her face was pale. Qin Meiniang asked, "Xiaolan, what's wrong with you today, is there something wrong with your body?

Suddenly, Xiaolan knelt on the boat with a thud, and he replied tremblingly, "Yes...... Don't ...... Madame, I ......"

She knelt down like this, Qin Meiniang was startled, she got along well with these subordinates on weekdays like a family, why is she ...... now Qin Meiniang hurriedly helped Xiaolan up and asked, "Silly girl, what do you tell your sister about, what are you doing kneeling?"

Xiaolan cried and replied, "I...... I'm pregnant......"

When everyone heard this, their heads buzzed and they were stunned on the spot, and everyone's eyes were on Xiaolan. At this time, Qin Meiniang looked at Xiaolan and said with concern: "Xiaolan, get up quickly, why don't you tell your sister if you are pregnant, what six people and seven people, my sister doesn't believe it." After that, Qin Meiniang helped Xiaolan up and quietly asked in her ear whose child it was......

The coachman's father said to the boat boss: "The one in charge of the boat, you don't have to panic, there is a way that the rich and noble people must have God's blessing, my master accumulates virtue and does good deeds on weekdays, presumably God will take care of him, and after a while to the other side, add three taels of silver, what do you think?"

The captain of the boat was holding the oars, and his mood had just calmed down, and he said to the old man of the horseman: "Hey, let it be fate, but it is better to be safe." With that, he shook the oars and continued to sail towards the other side.

At this time, two people came from the east of the city, and these two people came to the ferry one after the other. Suddenly, the one in front pointed to the ferry on the river, and said, "Tang Feng, look, the woman in purple on the boat will be that Qin Meiniang." ”

Tang Feng looked in the direction of Nangong Bei's finger, a small boat carrying several people on the wide river was heading to the opposite bank, one of the women in purple was quite eye-catching, although she couldn't see what she looked like on her face, but from the way she was dressed, it really looked like it should be that Qin Meiniang......

The wooden boat was halfway up the river, and five feet to the opposite shore, when suddenly the little wooden boat shook violently, as if something had been scraped from the bottom of the boat. Everyone on the boat hurriedly held on to the side of the boat and squatted down, and everyone looked at the old man in charge of the boat.

Cold sweat ran down the captain's face, and his eyes widened into the water, though he had heard of the river monsters, but he had never seen them before. He clenched the oars in both hands, and his heart was already panicking.

After all, the groom was a man who had seen the world, and he pulled out a short knife from his waist and held it in his hand, and grabbed the side of the boat to watch into the water. The water of the Qinhuai River is very turbulent, because the bottom of the river is full of yellow sand, and the whole river looks yellow and bright, and there is no bottom.

Qin Meiniang squatted in the boat with a few maids, at a loss.

Suddenly, a splash exploded on the surface of the river, and a golden color flashed in front of everyone's eyes, and then fell into the water with a "whoosh", because the speed was too fast, and all this happened very suddenly, no one could see what it was, and it seemed to be a big fish in a trance......

"Ah...... The boat boss has taken the river captive......"

At this time, Qin Meiniang was already stunned with fright, she pointed to the empty boat board with her finger, and the boat boss was standing there just now, and at this time he had fallen into the water, and in an instant, he was tumbling and turning blood flowers from the river.

When the groom saw this, he shouted, "Get down and don't move." ”

With that, he jumped to the position of the boss of the boat, grabbed the oars, and shook them vigorously. But the groom's father, who had only driven a carriage and never sailed a boat, had made great efforts to paddle the oars, but the boat kept spinning in the river, and he was sweating profusely.

At this moment, the water next to the boat splashed, and a golden light shot out of the river and rushed straight towards the coachman's father. This time, everyone can see clearly, the leap out of the river is indeed a fish, this fish is more than three feet long, with a layer of golden scales all over its body, the scales reflect the sunlight, the golden light flashes, very dazzling.

Before he could react, the groom was bitten on the shoulder by the big fish and thrown into the river.

"Daddy......"

Qin Meiniang shouted, lying on the side of the boat and looking into the river, but the river was tumbling and turbid, where could you still see the slightest footprint. On the side, several maids had already been frightened, they were lying on the board and crying, only that Xiaolan was still strong, he picked up the father's lost short knife on the board, and looked at the river beside him vigilantly.

Qin Meiniang looked at the river and burst into tears, although the horseman's father had no relationship with her, but he had saved his life, so this trip back to his hometown allowed his father to drive a carriage for him, and also wanted to give him more silver taels to repay the grace of saving his life......

Suddenly, a huge momentum hit the wooden boat from under the river, the wooden boat was thrown up more than two feet high, Qin Meiniang and several maids on the boat were thrown into the river one after another, and the water under the river was turbulent and there was the golden-scaled fish, these people had reached the critical moment when their lives hung by a thread.

On the riverbank, the people waiting for the boat have become a pot of porridge, although they didn't see what was in the river clearly, but the boat that crossed the river was really overturned on the water, everyone couldn't help but feel sorry, some people began to discuss, "Have you heard, there are water ghosts in this river, and they have to catch a few ghosts for the dead every year before they stop, but it's a pity that those girls ......"

Suddenly, two figures shot out from behind the crowd, one after the other, and they shot into the center of the river on the waves of the river, and the crowd at the crossing exclaimed, "Quick...... Look, aren't those two mountain gods offered in our temple in the west of the city, otherwise how could they fly......"

In a moment, Tang Feng floated down on the wooden boat that overturned, and he stepped on the side of the boat with both feet and turned the wooden boat over, and then Nangong Bei also landed on the boat.

Tang Feng looked at the river from the side of the boat, looked anxious, and said, "It's over, it's over, the river is so fast, I don't know if they will be able to water." ”

Nangong Bei looked downstream, and pointed with his hand: "Don't worry, do you think it's a person?"

Tang Feng raised his eyes and looked, showing his head on the water surface of the lower reaches of the river more than ten zhang away from the boat; Tang Feng didn't say a word, jumped into the river, his mind was everywhere, and he used the technique of wind and body in the water, and only a moment before he came to the man's approach. Tang Feng peeked out of the water, grabbed the man's shoulder and lifted it up, only then did he see that it was a man.

Tang Feng asked, "Who are you, is there Qin Meiniang on the ship?"

The man floated in the water and replied in horror, "You...... Behind ......"