Chen Qiusheng didn't care about the ridicule of his companions, he had seen female ghosts with his own eyes back then, and he also recognized the theory of ghosts and gods, and it was normal for others not to believe in ghosts and things.

Although many years have passed since that incident, the appearance of the immortal has always been deeply engraved in Chen Qiusheng's mind, but Wang Changsheng has repeatedly denied that he has been to Chenjia Village, and Chen Qiusheng also feels that he may have remembered it wrong, after all, he was not yet ten years old at the time, and it was normal to remember the appearance of the immortal wrong.

Although it is possible to remember the appearance of the immortal wrongly, Chen Qiusheng has always kept the Guanyin jade pendant left to him by the immortal, and even the thief searched his body.

As time passed, the sky became brighter, the fog on the river gradually dissipated, and more than a dozen people waited for the boat to cross the river at the mouth of the river.

Among them, there is a group of people who are particularly eye-catching.

Seven men and two women, six men dressed in uniform green shirts, or armed with knives or carrying guns, one of the men in green shirts carried a black wooden box, on which were inserted several small triangular yellow flags embroidered with the word "far", which seemed to represent some identity.

The remaining man was a bearded man in a blue brocade coat.

This person is burly, with thick palms, bright eyes, and a wary face looking around.

In front of the bearded man, there are two young women, one of them is dressed in a purple brocade shirt, with two small dimples on her beautiful face, which looks very cute, and next to the girl in purple, there is a girl in a yellow shirt with delicate facial features, who looks younger than the girl in purple.

Listening to the words of the second daughter, the girl in purple and the girl in yellow are masters and servants, the two of them talk and laugh, and from time to time they make crisp and pleasant laughter, which is particularly eye-catching, and even Chen Qiusheng and the four of them can't help but sneak a few glances.

Judging by where the nine men were standing and what they were wearing, it was clear that the seven men were bodyguards, while the two young women were the objects of protection for the seven men.

Suddenly, I don't know who shouted: "Hey, the ship is coming, the ship is coming." ”

Hearing this, everyone's eyes looked at the river, and sure enough, they saw a small black dot on the vast river.

As time passed, the black dot became clear, and the black dot was a huge building ship five or six zhang high and more than twenty zhang long.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and the faces of Chen Qiusheng and the four of them showed excited looks.

A quarter of an hour later, the boat came to the side of the ferry.

The crowd cheered, and all of them gathered around, and some people asked loudly:

"Dare to ask the boatman, you can pass through Laizhou. ”

"How much silver is a person! ”

"How much silver does it cost for two people to go to Chushui County!

"Everyone, be quiet, and listen to the next one," said a short and fat man in a blue brocade coat when he saw this.

Hearing this, everyone had to shut up.

"Our ship passes through Chushui County, Baisha County, Laizhou, Dengzhou, Minzhou, and finally docks at the Heisha River in Minzhou, 20 taels per person in Jiangzhou, it is a little more expensive to go to Laizhou, 52 1 people, 821 people to Dengzhou, 1221 people to Minzhou, 221 cabins to rent and place goods, of course, delicious meals will be provided on the ship, you don't have to worry about starving," the short and fat man said slowly.

"What? It takes fifty taels of people to go to Laizhou?"

"I came by boat from Dengzhou two months ago, and I also took the ship of your Fengyuan business, which was only fifty taels, and after two months, you raised the price by thirty taels, which is also black-hearted!"

"That's it, why did you suddenly raise the price, and OnePlus is dozens of taels. ”

Listening to the words of the short and fat man, everyone immediately blew up the pot and began to talk about it, and listening to their words, the price of the boat increased a lot.

Among the people who were dissatisfied with the price, there were four Chen Qiusheng, the property they carried was robbed by the bandits before, and although they got some back, the number was not much, and the road from Jiangzhou to the capital was still very long, if they spent too much at once, the remaining money was probably not enough to support them to reach the capital.

"Ladies and gentlemen, listen to the explanation, it's not that our Fengyuan firm wants to raise the price, but it is a last resort! Recently, there has been a wave of water pirates on the Bailong River, and several small boats have been poisoned, in order to ensure the safety of passengers, we have to send additional guards, this price! Naturally, it has improved a little, not to hide it from you, at the moment, except for the ships of a few large businesses such as our Fengyuan firm, there are no other ships on the Bailong River, of course, if you are free, you can wait for a few months, and when the government eliminates the water pirates, maybe there will be small boats here," In the face of everyone's accusations, the short and fat man was not annoyed, and explained bitterly.

The short and fat man's remarks revealed several information: first, there were water pirates in the Bailongjiang River; second, except for the ships of large merchants, they dared to carry people and passengers, and small boats had become extinct; third, after the government eliminated the water pirates, small boats might not come out to carry people and passengers.

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other with different expressions on their faces.

When Chen Qiusheng heard this, his brows furrowed, and his face was hesitant, not knowing whether to get on the boat or not.

"If no one gets on the boat, then we'll go," said the short and fat man, frowning at the sight of no one on the boat, and with some displeasure.

Hearing this, there was another commotion in the crowd.

"Wait, let's go," a pleasant woman's voice suddenly sounded.

Everyone looked at the source of the sound and found that it was a girl in purple who spoke.

"Dengzhou, nine people," the bearded man stepped forward and said to the short and fat man, his voice a little hoarse.

"Quickly lower the deck and let Liu Dart of the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau come up," the short and fat man commanded the sailors on the ship.

The sailor immediately lowered two planks, one end of which rested against the ship, and the other end extended to the ground.

"Wait, do you know Liu? How do you know that I am from the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau?" The bearded man's eyes flashed, and he stopped the purple-clothed girl who stepped forward, and asked the short and fat man with an unkind face.

As soon as the bearded man said this, two men in Tsing Yi immediately stepped forward and protected the girl in purple, and the other four men in Tsing Yi pressed one hand on the weapon, looking at the short and fat man with a solemn face.

"Don't get me wrong, Liu Darthead is not a bad person, two years ago, when Song Gang, the chief dart head of your Zhenyuan Dart Bureau, was on his 60th birthday, he gave a birthday gift to Song Dart Head for the owner, and Liu Dart Head was responsible for receiving him at that time, Liu Darthead, you also drank a few glasses with me, and it is not strange to recognize Liu Darthead in Xia, but I didn't expect that after two years of not seeing him, Liu Dart Tou forgot to be below," Seeing this, the short and fat man hurriedly explained.

"What kind of wine did you drink with me at that time?" the bearded man asked, with a look of memory on his face, and after a moment.

At that time, Liu Bangtou drank three jars of 100-year-old daughter Hong, and almost made a joke on President Song's birthday, or Li Bangtou sent you back to the room, what's the matter?

Hearing this, the bearded man's face softened, nodded, and said, "There is such a thing, no problem, Song Wu, Li Gao, you two go up first, Miss Zhao follows." ”

When the two men in Tsing Yi standing in front of the girl in purple heard this, they immediately stepped on the wooden plank and walked onto the boat, looking at the sailors on the boat with wary faces.

The girl in purple and the maid also followed.

It didn't take long for the girl in purple and her group to all get on the boat.

With the beginning of the girl in purple, many people also got on the boat, and Wang Changsheng and the five others were also inside.

Half an hour later, after confirming that no one had boarded the ship, the boat departed.

Wang Changsheng was lying on the wooden bed in the cabin, holding a book in his hand, reading it with relish.

This "Xiaoyaolu" is written by an immortal cultivator "Xiaoyaozi" who doesn't like to practice and likes to wander around, and the content recorded is also a secret legend and something like that he himself knows.

The destination of Wang Changsheng's five people is Minzhou, and now it is still in Jiangzhou, I am afraid that I will not be able to reach Minzhou in ten days and half a month, and there is nothing to see on the river, Wang Changsheng felt a little bored, so he took out this book and read it to relieve his boredom.

Not to mention, this Xiaoyaozi is really an idle person, not only visited the one hundred and nine states of the Great Song Dynasty, but also the territory of the Wu clan.

"Xiaoyaolu" only has a few records of the Wu clan, and more of it is a record of some things in the Great Song Dynasty immortal cultivation world, some things are Xiaoyaozi's own personal experience, and some are just hearsay, but all of them are strange and rare things, and even some secrets that the immortal cultivation family has never passed on, it is not clear whether they are true or false.

Wang Changsheng watched it with relish, but after a quarter of an hour, Wang Changsheng's face was a little strange.

Hundreds of years ago, a disciple of Taiqing Palace surnamed Chen killed several fellow disciples for unknown reasons, stole his master's magic weapon, and fled.

If this kind of thing happened, of course, the Taiqing Palace would not let this person go, and sent a large number of people to round up and arrest him, and this disciple surnamed Chen fled all the way back to his family, a family of cultivators with a monk in the Dan period.

The law enforcement disciples of the Taiqing Palace came to ask for this person, and the family not only did not hand over the murderer, but also killed several law enforcement disciples of the Taiqing Palace, so that the family stabbed the hornet's nest.

When the Taiqing Palace heard the news, it was furious and sent a large number of masters to raze the location of this family to the ground, and the clansmen of this family were also killed, and it is said that only a few people escaped.

Because the impact of this incident is too great, the Xiuxian family with a long history has recorded this incident, and Xiaoyaozi happened to hear this rumor and recorded it in the book.

"The surname is Chen, a disciple of the Taiqing Palace, killing fellow disciples," Wang Changsheng muttered to himself, his expression a little complicated.

Wang Changsheng thought about it for a while, touched the storage bag on his waist with his palm, and there was a palm-sized white token in his hand.

This is a token of the Taiqing Palace, but the place where the name is engraved is blurred, as if someone did it on purpose, as if it was to cover up something.

This token was obtained by Wang Changsheng from Chenjia Village, according to the old man, that is, Chen Qiusheng's grandfather, their ancestor was also an immortal, and left them a storage bag, and the token was in the storage bag.

In addition to the identity token, there were also two Chiyan Beads and more than twenty middle-grade spirit stones in the storage bag left by the ancestors of Chenjiacun, and the Chiyan Beads could only be refined by the refiners of the Taiqing Palace.

After reading this rumor recorded by Xiaoyaozi, Wang Changsheng guessed that the ancestor of Chenjia Village was the disciple surnamed Chen who killed his fellow disciple back then.

Otherwise, it would be bad for an immortal cultivator with thousands of spirit stones to go, why would he hide in a barren mountain with weak spiritual energy, and establish a Chenjia Village.

Only the pursuit of a behemoth like Taiqing Palace can make this person have to hide in the barren mountains, and even the name on the identity token has been worn out, for fear of being recognized and affecting future generations.

The "Xiaoyaolu" is more vague, only saying that this disciple surnamed Chen killed his fellow disciples, and did not say the motive of this person for killing his fellow disciples.

However, Wang Changsheng guessed that such a shocking case should be recorded in the sect, and he planned to go to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion one day to check the records of this matter.

He was a little curious, what was the reason why this person actually ignored the rules and precepts of the sect and killed several fellow disciples in a frenzy.

It stands to reason that after doing such a thing, this person should have fled from the Great Song Dynasty immediately, but this person actually returned to the family he was born in, and the most incredible thing is that this family didn't hand over this person, and they also killed the disciples of Taiqing Palace who came to arrest this person, which completely angered Taiqing Palace, razed this family to the ground, and his people were also hunted down.

In order to avoid the pursuit of the Taiqing Palace, this person also had to run to a barren mountain to live in seclusion.

However, even if the ancestor of Chenjiacun was the target of Taiqing Palace's pursuit, Wang Changsheng would not report it to the sect, which would not do him any good, and besides, if it wasn't for the storage bag left by the ancestor of Chenjiacun, he might not be able to enter Taiqing Palace.

Strictly speaking, the ancestors of Chenjia Village were still kind to him, and besides, everyone was dead, even if he reported it to the sect, it was useless, and maybe it might bring him some trouble.

Thinking about this, Wang Changsheng opened the window and threw the token in his hand into the river, it is useless to keep this token, it is better to throw it away as soon as possible.

Wang Changsheng took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and moved his gaze back to the "Easy Record" in his hand.

At this moment, several knocks on the door were heard.

Wang Changsheng frowned, opened the door, and was surprised to find that Chen Qiusheng and the four of them were standing outside the door.

The faces of the man in blue and the man in green looked a little pale, especially the man in blue, who could hardly see the slightest blood on his face, and covered his mouth and nose with his right hand.

"What's wrong with the two of them?" Wang Changsheng asked casually when he saw this.

When Chen Qiusheng heard this, he smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Wencai and Brother Wenxuan are seasick, and their bodies are a little uncomfortable. ”

"Then let's go!" Wang Changsheng heard this, thought about it for a while, and agreed.