Longjing City, Song Shaoshang and Fengyang were brought to the hall by a group of armor soldiers.

"Who is in the hall?" asked an old man sitting in the main hall.

This old man is the staff of the city lord of Longjing City, and he is also the criminal officer of Longjing City.

Fengyang said, "In Xia Fengyang, Lingzhou people. ”

Song Shaoshang didn't say a word.

Seeing that Song Shaoshang didn't say a word, the old man was also angry, and said, "This official asked you, why didn't you answer!"

At this time, Hu San, who was standing on the side, said, "Master Guo, this is the person." His attitude is extremely bad, you must torture him!"

Hearing this, Song Shaoshang glanced at Hu San indifferently.

At this moment, a middle-aged man walked in from outside.

"Old Guo, why are you here, I'm looking for you in a hurry", the middle-aged man came over and said.

The criminal officer, known as "Guo Lao", said, "Lord Yang, why did you get here. ”

This Lord Yang's name is "Yang Xiao". He was the eldest son of the city lord of Longjing City, and he was the supervisor of Longjing City at that time, in charge of the inner and outer city defenses of Longjing City.

"The people on the mountain are about to arrive," Yang Xiao said, "My father is in front of the hall, and I ask Guo Lao to go quickly." ”

The old man's name is "Guo Umbrella".

Guo Umbrella said, "Here, Hu San has just caught two horse thieves, and the old man is examining them." ”

Although Guo Umbrella is over sixty years old, his work attitude is very serious, and he is famous for his iron-faced selflessness in Longjing City.

Yang Xiao said, "But the people on the mountain are about to arrive, if you neglect them......"

Guo Umbrella suddenly said in a loud voice, "Then let them wait." The city lord is the city lord of Longjing City, even if they are asked to wait for a few days, it is not impossible! Could it be that the people on the mountain are a little more noble than the people below the mountain!"

Feng Yang suddenly used the sound transmission technique to say to Song Shaoshang, "This Guo Lao is a little interesting, I didn't expect that there would be such a righteous person around Long Jingcheng. ”

Song Shaoshang said, "The prince and the general, rather have a kind." The people on the mountain are not necessarily superior to the people below the mountain, they are all mortals in the flesh, so what is the high opinion? ”

Fengyang said, "The little prince is high. It's just a matter of how we're going to do it. ”

Song Shaoshang's voice carried layers of chill, "Wait and see." ”

At this time, Guo Umbrella suddenly asked, "Hu San pointed out that you two stole the horse, and you two can plead guilty." ”

At this time, Song Shaoshang, who had not spoken, spoke, "Dare to ask where the evidence is?"

Guo Umbrella turned his head to look at Hu San, "Hu San, do you have any evidence to correct the two of them." ”

The corners of Hu San's mouth hung into a sneer, and he said, "Looking at the fact that these two people are so poorly dressed, but their horses are so good, this difference seems a bit unreasonable, right?"

"That's all?", Guo Umbrella asked. The way he looked at Hu San also became unfriendly.

Long Jingcheng is moving like this, but the Jiangnan of Daxuan is not peaceful.

Between the majestic mountains, the mighty Qingjiang River winds its way from west to east. Fishermen's floating bamboo rafts can be seen on the river, and mandarin fish can often be seen jumping out of the river. Between the mountains and rivers, villages are dotted. Every village depends on the fish in the river for their livelihood. Qingjiang mandarin fish is famous for its fresh taste, tender meat and smooth texture.

A crow flies lightly over the Qingjiang River. This crow appeared out of thin air, and for half a month, it hovered on this section of the river every day.

Qingshui Village, the largest village within a radius of ten miles in the middle reaches of the Qingjiang River, is located in the middle of the Xisai Mountain. There are many peach trees in the village, and every April, snow peaches bloom in the green mountains and clear waters, against the blue sky. The mountain breeze blows, and the light petals ride the wind and fall on the calm river. Plump mandarin fish emerge from the bottom of the water, rippling in layers. Once a down-and-out scholar passed by here, and there was no money for a boat, and the fisherman saw that he was a talent, so he asked him to compose a poem to counteract: "The egret flies in front of the Xisai Mountain, and the peach blossoms flow and the mandarin fish are fat." Green hats, green clothes, slanting wind and drizzle do not need to return. The fisherman who was on the boat was from Qingshui Village, and he brought this poem back to the village, and it was passed on by word of mouth in the village, and even a three-year-old child could say a sentence or two.

On the surface of the river, a man eight and a half feet tall with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, stepped on a bamboo raft, and his sturdy arms waved a huge wooden oar, sailing to the shore. This person's name is Qin Gang. Qin Gang is an orphan, the old man in the village went out fishing, found Qin Gang crying in the reeds, and felt pity, so he brought it back - the eyes of the copper bell, the huge nose of the bull, and the dragon-like beard entrenched in half of the face, a fierce face. Because of this appearance, the girl within a radius of ten miles hid when she saw Qin Gang. No, for most of his life, Qin Gang is the only one in his family, and he has no mother-in-law. Qin Gang is a sincere person. In his spare time on weekdays, he often runs to the river temple in the village and petitions the dilapidated river god statue - asking for a son. On weekdays, when Qin Gang met the neighbors, after chatting about family life, he always had to say in his rough voice: "God will definitely give me a big fat son." The villagers also laughed at Qin Gang's whimsy, where he could have a son without marrying a wife, it was difficult to jump out of the stone like a monkey in the mythical story.

The setting sun in the west buried its head in the rolling mountains. The clouds in the western sky are rushing to the east like a great golden river. By the river, wooden boats and rows of bamboo rafts came one after another. On the river, fishermen are humming hometown tunes. Such a poetic fisherman's scene abounds up and down the Qingjiang River. On the bank of the river, the green mountains, half of which had already disappeared into the night, snuggled up to each other, sighing and sighing towards the other end.

On the south bank of the Qingjiang River, Xisai Mountain stands quietly. The river here has turned a big bend, so the south bank is mostly washed by the river, and the whole is a huge "bowl-shaped". From the "mouth of the bowl" to the "bottom of the bowl", clumps of reeds of different sizes are scattered on the surface of the river. Deep in the reeds, a dilapidated wooden plank bridge stands alone on the river, the head of which forks horizontally for returning fishing boats.

A middle-aged man with pale temples and dressed in green clothes stood at the head of the bridge, looking at the returning fishing boats on the river, with a smile on the corner of his mouth. Qin Gang's bamboo raft arrived at the bridgehead first, and he handed the bamboo basket full of mandarin fish to the middle-aged man in Tsing Yi and stepped onto the bridge.

"Village chief, I, Qin Gang, put my words here, when I go fishing this year, the fish kui must be my Qin Gang's", Qin Gang's thick and thick smoke voice was particularly harsh. “

"Qin Barbarian Ghost, what are you saying to your future mother-in-law, which time is Yu Kui not my three brothers. On a canopy boat twenty zhang away from the bridge, the three Bai brothers shouted loudly. The three brothers of the Bai family, the eldest white salamander, the second white loach, and the third white ao. The three of them have their own specialties, the eldest is good at fishing, the second is good at swimming, and the third is good at looking. Therefore, in previous years, when fishing, nine times out of ten, the fish were all from the three Bai brothers.

When Qin Gang heard this, his hot temper rushed straight to his head, and he was about to have a seizure, but he was stopped by the middle-aged man. "Rest easy". The middle-aged man's voice seemed to contain magic power, and the anxiety in Qin Gang's heart suddenly disappeared

This fish kui is a tradition inherited by Shimizu Village for hundreds of years, and every time you go fishing, the person who catches the most fish will become the fish kui who goes out fishing that time. At the end of summer, when the river temple fair is held in the village, the person who has obtained the most fish kui can send a representative to be baptized by the river god as a sacrifice of the river god temple fair. A villager who is baptized by the river god becomes a member of the village guard, and he does not have to go fishing.

This middle-aged man with pale temples and dressed in green clothes, named Bai Lijiu, is the thirty-sixth village chief of Qingshui Village. Bai Lijiu is not a native of Qingshui Village. The previous village chief entrusted the position of village chief to Bai Lijiu on his deathbed. The reason for this is also a secret.

After a while, the fishing boats docked, and the fishermen moved their bamboo baskets to the shore. The bamboo baskets are next to each other, and from time to time mandarin fish rise from the baskets.

"Village chief, hurry up, I'm still in a hurry to go home. A short, slightly chubby man shouted.

"Sun Liang, you are worried about your mother-in-law," a middle-aged man with a thief's eyebrows and mouse eyes joked with a smile.

"Huang Cheng, you have this blessing, you old ghost saw your mother-in-law and crawled, who in the village doesn't know!" The fisherman surnamed Sun gave an eye for an eye, revealing Huang Cheng's shortcomings, and then everyone laughed.

The laughter faded away, and everyone became serious. The fish oyiri was selected by the village chief using a secret technique given by the river god. Before each oyster, the fishermen are kept quiet as a sign of piety.

Standing in the center of the crowd, Bai Lijiu was concentrating, drawing an obscure sigil in the air with his right hand, and said in his mouth: "Spirit!", and then pointed out, and a faint blue light scattered into the bamboo baskets.

This technique is a spiritual attraction technique that has been passed down from generation to generation by the village chief of Shimizu Village. Everything in the world has a spirit, flying insects and beasts, the strength of the spiritual power is different, and the spirit is of good quality. The deeper the blue light of the basket, the better the quality of the fish in the basket.

Most of the fishermen's bamboo baskets are only a faint blue color, Sun Liang and Huang Cheng's bamboo baskets are slightly darker, the Bai brothers' bamboo baskets are dazzlingly blue, and Qin Gang's bamboo baskets absorb blue light instead of increasing or decreasing.

"Qin Gang, you kid can't do it, the fish you catch are all some Xibei goods", Bai Ao laughed as he said.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred, and the bamboo basket that belonged to Qin Gang shook violently, and in an instant, a dazzling purple light erupted from the bamboo basket. Bai Lijiu's face was full of surprise. This purple light is a unique symbol of the Qingjiang River God clan. The purple light stayed in the air for a breath, and then shot into Bai Lijiu's eyebrows.

"They're coming," an old voice sounded in Bai Lijiu's mind, "Let it enter the world." Bai Lijiu heard that he had been struck by lightning, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"This time, the fish leader is Qin Gang, and the river temple fair will be held tonight. ”

"Village Chief, do you see that everyone has just come back from fishing, is it necessary to hold the River God Temple Fair in such a hurry?", Sun Liang complained a little.

"That purple light is the manifestation of the river god, Qin Gang is the person appointed by the river god, and Qin Gang must be baptized by the river god tonight. White salamander, the three of you must deliver these mandarin fish to the shopkeeper of the Baicao Hall in Qingfeng Town at sunrise tomorrow.

Looking at the solemnity in Bai Lijiu's eyes, the white salamander was shocked, "Wrap it up on the three of my brothers!"

And after Bai Lijiu ordered everything, he let everyone disperse. Qin Gang dragged his tired body back to his dilapidated thatched hut, and as soon as he lay down, there was a knock at the door. "Qin Gang, the village chief wants to see you, you go over quickly", the captain of the village guard, who was dressed in wooden rattan armor and wearing a wooden rattan helmet, stood outside the door with his big knife on his back and shouted.

Bai Lijiu's wooden house is located in the deepest part of the village. Bai Lijiu was sitting upright on the futon at this time, his eyebrows locked.

"Village chief, I'm here. Qin Gang's voice came from outside the door.

"Come in. “

"Qin Gang, I ask you for one thing", Bai Lijiu's voice was full of exhaustion.

"Village Chief, you said that thanks to you in Qingshui Village over the years, Qin Gang will never give up even if he goes up the knife mountain and goes down to the sea of fire. ”

Bai Lijiu took out a piece of jade from his arms. The jade is pure white and engraved with the word "mountains and rivers" from top to bottom. Qin Gang took the jade and held it in the palm of his hand, but there was a strange touch in his hand.

"Village Chief, what is this?" Qin Gang looked at the jade in his hand, and there was an indescribable kindness in his heart.

"I was originally a handyman of the Baili family in Lin'an City. In the midst of a large city, the competition for survival is fierce. The families in the city are all martial arts. The first realm of martial arts quenches blood, and the second realm is Daigo, separated by nine heavens...... When I was young, I was abandoned on the side of the road, and the people of the Baili family saw that I was pitiful, so they took me back to the clan to raise me and teach me martial arts. After the death of that clansman, I began to work in Baili's house to make a living. At this point, Bai Lijiu fell into deep memories.

"Fifteen years ago. I thought that in an experience, I came to Qingjiang by chance, met Gu Yue, the former head of Qingshui Village, and later helped the Qingjiang River God Aoba to quell the Qingjiang riots, and since then I have formed a friendship with Aoba. My father once left me a jade pendant, and when I was twenty-five years old, the jade pendant began to absorb the spiritual power in my body. When I saw this abnormality, I checked the ancient books and learned that this thing is called Shanhe Stone.

It is rumored that the mountains and rivers are spiritual creatures of heaven and earth, and if they are nourished by spiritual power, they can transform into human beings in 12 years. If it is refined, the user can easily cross the bottleneck between the martial arts realms, you must know that it is the Baili family, and the strongest ancestor is no more than a heavy heaven in the Daigo realm when he has exhausted his lifetime potential. I couldn't bear to destroy my father's relics, so I hid them on my body and nourished them with my spiritual power every night.

I don't know who leaked the news, Bai Li Jue, the eldest son of the family at that time, learned about this, he has been trapped in the Quenching Blood Realm Fifth Heaven for three years, if he can get the Mountains and Rivers Stone, he will be able to win the Nine Heavens of the Quenching Blood Realm within a year, and even become the ancestor of the Daigo Realm before the age of thirty. He couldn't rob me because of his face, so he sent someone to assassinate me. I had no choice but to use the excuse of experience and escape from Baili's house. And that Baili Jue seems to have noticed it and sent a killer to assassinate me.

I fled to Qingjiang, exhausted. Just when I was desperate, Brother Gu Yue happened to pass by here and repelled those pursuers, but he accidentally had a hidden weapon in his body and died soon. Fortunately, Ao Ba is very sensitive to Gu Yue's fluctuations, and he showed up to save me back to the Qingjiang Water Palace, and he also knew the ins and outs of the matter. “

Coming back to his senses from the painful memories, Bai Lijiu took a long breath: "I want you to take the mountains and rivers and stones away to the western frontier, are you willing?"

"Village chief, although I Qin Gang is not a scholar, I also listen to the Xiucai in the village often talk about the virtue of a good life in heaven. Right and wrong, I, Qin Gang, can still tell it, and I Qin Gang has done it. Qin Gang patted his chest and said.

"After you get out of Qingjiang, you will go all the way to the north, to the desert of northern Xinjiang, and the farther away from Lin'an City, the better. These two ancient books are a book of body cultivation exercises "Pure Yang Gong" and Jiupin Dao Jing "Sword Solution" that I found in my early years of training", Bai Lijiu handed these two dilapidated ancient books to Qin Gang and said: "The exercises of "Pure Yang Gong" are overbearing and abnormal, and cultivators must not leak Yang Yuan, I saw that you have no family, so I will teach you this exercise. If you are in a difficult situation, I still have a few exercises that are slightly inferior to it. “

"Village chief, don't be so troublesome, you said that this mountain and river stone can be nourished with spiritual power, and it can be transformed into a human form, that is my Qin Gang's son, and my biggest wish in this life is to have a son. Cultivating this "Pure Yang Gong" is not in the way", Qin Gang scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "Do I have the talent to practice martial arts?" ”

"Sit down, although you have missed the best cultivation age, your muscles and veins are much more sluggish than those young people. When I use my spiritual power to wash the meridians and cut the marrow for you, I can also reach ordinary martial arts qualifications. ”

Qin Gang sat on the ground with his back to Bai Lijiu. The dust that fills the room adds a bit of rotten smell. Bai Lijiu's eyes flashed, his breath condensed, and his palms slapped Qin Gang's back at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and Qin Gang was suddenly shocked. The majestic palm power passed through Qin Gang's body, stirring up layers of dust around his body. Qin Gang only felt that his whole body was hot, and there were countless ants crawling in his veins. He gritted his teeth and didn't say anything. After a moment, Bai Lijiu's palms were retracted, and he took a deep breath, and there was a sickly red on his face full of sorrow.

"I have washed the scriptures and cut the marrow for you, you can quickly take the mountains and rivers and stones", Bai Lijiu's voice was a little weak.

"I, Qin Gang, will definitely not disappoint you, the village chief", Qin Gang looked at Bai Lijiu, who was getting older and older, his nose was sore, he wiped his eyes, turned his head and pushed open the wooden door, and went down the mountain.

"This Qin Gang's brute bull physique is peculiar, and it can actually carry seventy percent of my spiritual power. There is not much time left for me, estimate the hour, it's almost time", Bai Lijiu's eyes became more and more calm.

On the river, two or three miles away from Xisai Mountain, a magnificent treasure ship sailed upstream, taking advantage of the east wind. In the cabin, a young man in a blood robe was lying lazily on the Taishi chair, and beside him, a demonic young man dressed in a purple and gold robe, wearing a purple and gold crown, and purple eyes muttered: "Senior Brother Lizhou, this time he even brought the killer of the Heavenly Tower, is it necessary to pay so much attention, a core disciple of the county family, where is the opponent of you and me."

The blood-robed man is named Lizhou, and the demonic young man is named Zixu. These two people are disciples of the Nanzhu Sect of Lin'an City. This Nanzhu is only fifty, and his strength is quite good, and he can rank in the top three in Lin'an City with his exquisite stick technique.

"The master explained, I'm afraid the origin of Bai Lijiu is not so simple, act carefully. Li Zhou glanced at the bewitching young man with a proud expression. I secretly sighed in my heart that this little junior brother was talented and smart, but his heart was a little worse, and it was not necessarily a good thing for him to be trained in the rivers and lakes so early.