The palace of the prince of Dingguo, the mansion is very large, and it is extremely prosperous. The palace is backed by Phoenix Mountain and faces Xieyue Lake, which is comparable to the Changxin Palace in the imperial city where the Son of Heaven occupies the Nine Dragons and returns to the sect.

When the palace was just built, the impeachment of the right governor of the imperial history of the central government flew into the dragon case of Changxin Palace like a snowflake, saying that the palace occupied the dragon vein, and the voices of the government and the opposition demanding the deposition of the prince of the country and the punishment of the crime came and went.

"Ridiculous", Han Yin, the Son of Heaven, smiled when he saw the song and ignored it.

The gate of the palace is divided into three rooms on the left, middle and right, and the middle gate is generally not opened, unless it is to welcome the holy decree and meet a major event. Usually officials go through the left door, and family members and guests go through the right door. The vermilion lacquer gate is full of golden door nails, and a three-zhang high stone lion stands on both sides of the steps, which is majestic.

Eighteen years ago, the old prince died, and this huge palace was in charge of the old lady, and the old lady only had Yang Ze a lone seedling under her knees.

Although the old lady is a woman, she does not let her eyebrows go, she is not angry and arrogant, and her phoenix eyes have a murderous aura. I think that this woman followed the old prince to kill people at the age of ten, attacked Tiefu in the north, swept the six countries in the south, captured more than 130 cities for the dynasty, and slaughtered 38 cities.

It is the height of summer, on the Xieyue Lake in front of the palace, 10,000 lotus flowers are in full bloom, mixed with some duckweed and water lilies that drift with the waves, and a few koi fish are playing among the lotus leaves.

Several delicate and graceful girls, swinging a light boat in the Xieyue Lake to pick the tender green lotus canopy, the lotus seeds in it are full of particles, vying to break the lotus canopy to stand out, just like the girl's bulging breasts as delicate and snow-white.

On the six-story Leiyin pagoda in the center of the lake, a few twilight-toothed old children with rickety bodies rarely walked out of the pagoda, lazily basking in the sun, and staring at the noisy lotus picking girl. The girls felt a pair of fierce eyes behind them, and immediately kept silent, tiptoeing, for fear that the enraged slaves of these arsenals would be secretly fed to the fish in this lake.

This six-storey ebony stupa has four ten-zhang high Dharma Protector Vajra standing at the four corners. Ebony is a precious tree unique to Xishu during the Seven Kingdoms, and the carpenter Li Si once said when he was drunk, "Finding the ebony side is better than a box of jewels." However, what is more precious is not the pagoda, but the lone secret book in the tower, this Leiyin pagoda in addition to the first floor of the Buddha of the West Heaven, each layer above is the conquest of the six countries, from the rivers and lakes of the various sects and factions to plunder the martial arts treasure.

A huge arsenal can hold the entire rivers and lakes.

Of course, there are indispensable delusional people who want to get a glimpse of the secrets of the arsenal, and finally end up on the rocky beach outside the city.

On the shore of Wangfu Lake, there is a Xuannu Pavilion, blue bricks and white tiles, the corners of the cornices, the nine heavens Xuannu on the pavilion is lifelike. The plaque in the middle of the eaves is written on the "Xuannu Pavilion" three gilded characters, and the other side is written with a big seal "Ming Xianren and then Sheren Ming", which is the morality of the monarch and the minister advocated by the Confucianism of the Xiangtuo Dynasty today.

In the pavilion, the prince Yang Zeyun pen is like the wind, the wind is switching, and the calligraphy of the wind and snow is on the paper.

He was lame and old, with fairy wind and bones, and a long beard fluttering, if it weren't for the fact that there were a few uneven patches sewn on the Taoist robe, which was extremely unsightly, it would definitely look like a master from the world who came down from Niutou Mountain in the ancestral court of Taoism.

After reading the wind and snow scroll Jiangnan written by the prince, the old man at the foot of the slope nodded with satisfaction, and praised "The calligraphy of the prince is perverted, thin and explicit, even and clear, there is really a sudden wind and whirlwind, and the small seal can be rewritten in the future", turned around and returned to the west study.

Scholar Qingfeng squatted on the steps by the lake, looking at the blue waves in the clear pond, 10,000 koi fish swam around, and said, "The Taoist at the foot of the slope is tricky, he never writes, he has nothing to do all day long, and he looks at the endgame of the nineteen locks, and it is also thanks to the old lady's broad-mindedness that she can accommodate this old Taoist who eats idle meals", a breeze blows, and the ten thousand lotus flowers in the pond swing with the wind, undulating.

"Feng'er, don't underestimate the lame Taoist. You haven't seen him enter the mansion since he entered the house, and the chess pieces in the lock Jiao endgame can play against each other by themselves, and no one in Jiangzhou can do it except him, and it is rumored in the rivers and lakes that once the lock Jiao chess game is cracked, the martial arts cheats of the Kaitian Divine Sword will reappear in the rivers and lakes, and this rumor is really bitter for those martial artists who are scheming and want to get ahead in the rivers and lakes."

The first floor of the Lei Yin Pagoda.

The monk of Ziyi has a fat head and big ears, sitting on the threshold of the Buddha hall, looking at the scene of ten thousand carp in the distance, turning the crystal clear jade Buddha beads, it is the master Guangzhi who is the host of Huangjing Temple, Yang Ze picked him up from the foot of Niutou Mountain, and the old lady glanced at the Buddhist monks, so she left him.

Under the Buddha's seat, a delicate woman in red, fifteen or sixteen years old, although she was wearing a coarse dress and her hair was a little messy, her clear eyes instantly made people feel that she was a rare beauty in the world.

The girl dragged a thumb-thick iron chain behind her, her eyes were red, and she glared at the dazzling prince of the palace viciously, eager to pounce on him and bite him to death one by one, so as to relieve the hatred in her heart.

This woman's name is Mu Ping, Mu is the surname of Dongyue during the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms, and this woman is naturally the Dongyue royal family. Three years ago, he mixed into the servant of Lu Yuanlin, a scholar of the prince in the Jiangzhou School Palace, entered the palace, and almost killed the prince Yang Ze with the famous sword and phoenix dagger in the sleeve, and was locked in front of the Buddha by the old lady, chanting and repenting every day.

But she didn't dare to move, not because she didn't want to, but because she didn't dare.

Not far in front of the pagoda, an old man with a thin face, resting on crutches, was staring intently at the stone table in front of him, his trousers were empty and drooping, and the wound was smooth, as if he had been cut off by a sharp blade.

Opposite him, an old man with a flat face and a green shirt, was playing against a thin old man, and it was difficult to separate. On the chessboard, two red-eyed mice are dragging the chess pieces, obediently settling the chess pieces. At the beginning, she infiltrated the palace and deceived the prince to go boating in the middle of the lake with herself, and almost stabbed the prince of the palace to death.

The old man who was broken by his leg, with a light click of his crutches, paralyzed his whole body, and was caught.

At that time, it was the royal palace soldiers, stepping on the Dongyue Palace, razed to the ground overnight, although the Duke of Dingguo was dead, but the national hatred and family feud made the princess want to take revenge all the time.

She later heard Master Guangzhi say that this person was the Bai Kui in the Beifu soldiers. The descendants of the Seven Kingdoms have heard that Bai Kui broke through thousands of armor on the battlefield, followed the old prince to fight in the Seven Kingdoms, and made great achievements.

In the clear eyes of the girl, the shadow of the prince Yang Ze shaking the dagger was reflected.

She closed her beautiful eyes tightly, but her heart fluttered, she didn't know how to humiliate herself in this life, she was also very strange sometimes, she was not afraid of death, but she was afraid of this life.

There was a crisp sound, and the thumb-thick iron chain was as fragile as tofu under the phoenix.

Don't look at the dagger without a blade, the texture of the blade is tortuous and tactful, uneven, but sharpened like clay.

"Little nun, let's go", Yang Ze reversed the dagger and handed it to the stunned, overwhelmed, and even more surprised princess of the dead country.

Mu Ping's eyes were staring at this "bastard" who she wanted to kill in her dreams, but he had a good skin, and she was annoyed by the innocent injustice, why? .

"Little nun, don't get out of here, this son is in a good mood today, and he is not to blame for the past. If you don't leave, don't wait for me to regret it, then I will have you warm up tonight", Yang Ze leaned in front of the Buddha statue shrine, shaking his peach blossom eyes and sneering.

"I ...... I want to stay and serve the young master of the world", Mu Ping did not take the dagger in the hand of the prince, took three steps back, hesitated for a long time, and left a small tooth mark on his vermilion lips, and his teeth were like snow.

"I said, little nun, do you really want to serve me?, or do you want to find another opportunity to kill me?", Yang Ze said flatly, picking up the wooden fish on the Buddhist shrine and knocking it a few times.

Mu Ping saw through Yang Ze's careful thoughts, and bowed his head and remained silent. Her clear eyes glared at Yang Ze fiercely, and tears finally flowed, and crystal tears rolled down.

"Okay, since you want to kill me so much, then I will fulfill you, but I'm afraid you only have one chance, and the old lady won't be merciful next time", Yang Ze looked up at the top of Phoenix Mountain, smiled, and threw her a handkerchief.

"Don't cry, little nun, wash up and wash well, it's hard to wait for you in this life", looking at Yang Ze's distant figure, Mu Ping trampled the piece of champa under his feet and ravaged it.

"Tsk, it's so beautiful", the maid Luoxia took Mu Ping to take a bath and change clothes, and after grooming, she was like a hibiscus out of the water, and she got rid of a beautiful embryo.

What the maid Luoxia didn't know was that the beauty of the queen of Dongyue had made thousands of people empty in the royal city of Dongyue, vying for a glimpse. Naked, embarrassed by Luoxia, she lowered her head and smiled shallowly, her clear eyes smiled like a crescent moon in the vast starry sky, charming.

At the top of Phoenix Mountain, an old woman behind the old lady was accompanied, smiling but silent.

This is the highest point of the palace, looking down, those guards in the palace hold the Sui blade, all of them have a dark back as copper, and the perennial knife makes their hands grow layers of thick calluses, such as the Buddha in front of the Dharma Protector Vajra.

The old lady looked at the golden-winged roc hovering in the air, thoughtful.

This kind of Peng bird is extremely rare with red and green feathers originally, the golden wing is even rarer, there are people who travel far away to the west of the country of Panyue Buddha say that he is the royal bird, produced in the west of the tiger Ben Peak, extremely humane, life span of hundreds of years, eagle beak iron hook, like to eat raw meat.

The slanting moon lake gathers a layer of thin veil, like a dream.

The lotus in the middle of the lake and the rows of duckweed slowly fall to both sides, a flat boat opens the lotus leaves, and the lotus flowers that fall to both sides come from the middle, the koi fish can not take care of the food, dives into the lake, a few tails are a little bolder, and jump out of the water from time to time to look.

On the bow of the ship stood a young woman dancing like a young man, with long hair and a shawl, a pleated ruyi moon skirt, a gold belt tied in her hair, and her skin was better than snow. A breeze blew, and the clothes flew up and down with the wind. In this lotus bush, it is not inferior to the delicate lotus, like a fairy descending to earth.

The girl is just growing, her chest is slightly bulging, and she has a quiver hanging from her waist, and a wind chime on the quiver rings.

Since childhood, the two have not seen each other for the longest time this time. In the past three months, Ye Qingxuan was grounded by her father Ye Fusheng and reflected behind closed doors. The reason is that she instigated her obedience and beat up a few little Taoist priests who went down the mountain to do things in the Yuxu Palace of Niutou Mountain, and she was really becoming more and more lawless.

"Brother, you stop for me", Yang Ze was just about to turn around and was scolded by her.

"Sister Ye is here", Yang Ze reversed his steps, smiled all over his face, and shouted obediently, like a docile kitten.

"I just passed through the Ebony Tower, and I heard Master Guangzhi say that you released Princess Taiping?", the old lady had no daughter under her knees, and she was very sorry, so she accepted Ye Qingxuan as a righteous daughter, and specially asked Ye Qingxuan to be the lord of Taiping.

This Taiping county lord felt more sorry for the prince than the old lady who cared for the calf, and couldn't help but worry: "Aren't you charmed by her?

"What does my sister think, is it possible that all the ugly girls in our palace are rotten wood?", Yang Ze took Ye Qingxuan's hand and comforted.

"That's right, I think she's also strange and pitiful, I have long wanted to beg the old lady to let her go, but I'm worried about your safety", she bowed her head and sighed, "Why should a woman be embarrassed by a woman."

Raised his head in an instant and smiled, "I heard that you are going to travel far away, why don't you tell me, do you want to sneak away?".

The two stood still and threw a few glances at each other, and after a while, they came to a conclusion.

"Okay, when I ask the old lady, let's go together", Yang Ze said stupidly, and finally avoided a fight.

At this time, criss-crossed, on the verandah path of the verandah, the maid Qiushui came over with a yellow rosewood box.

"The eldest lady is here", Qiushui said respectfully, the maids in the mansion all knew that this county lord was the young lady with a knife mouth and a tofu heart, but she was the most strict with Yang Ze's personal maids, for fear of a mistake, they didn't dare to make a mistake in front of Ye Qingxuan.

"Have you heard about the recent haunting of the Tongou River?" Ye Qingxuan took a bite of the osmanthus cake, and the fragrance of the flowers overflowed.

Yangfu osmanthus cake, taken from Guizhou osmanthus by fast horse every October, squeezed juice to slag, cellar storage for three years, take out, prepare cinnamon, wood fragrance, musk, mother cloves, agarwood, incense, peilan and other traditional Chinese medicine spices that strengthen the spleen and dissolve gas, refined into "osmanthus sauce", and then mixed into the glutinous rice flour that is fried, grinded, steamed, sieved finely, and added sugar, five-spice powder, sesame mixed to make cakes, the fragrance does not disperse for a long time, the most luxurious.

"It is rumored that there is a treasure trove under the Ou River, which contains countless martial arts cheats. The river is bottomless, and it is guarded by water ghosts, Xuanwu, and white snakes."

"Do you believe it?" Ye Qingxuan's eyes flashed with a hint of essence, waiting for Yang Ze to speak, there are so many water nature and ghost ideas, Yang Ze said second in Jiangzhou, no one dared to say first.

"Good sister, those are all tricks of the warlocks and teahouse storytellers to cheat money, can you believe it?", Yang Ze put down the pineapple cake in his hand, this river and lake is like this pineapple cake, take a bite, layer by layer seems to never be finished, "This stuffing is too greasy", Yang Ze threw the pineapple cake aside, and the lazy cat came over and licked it in the corner.

"I know you have good water quality, the rocky beach of the Tongou River is not as good as our Xieyue Lake, the reef in the river is full of canine teeth, the river is turbulent, the undercurrent crashes against the reef, and the seemingly calm water surface is full of turbulent whirlpools and deadly traps. Because there are abundant fish here, there are also some fishermen who are bold or can't open the pot to fish here, and almost all fishermen will put their lives there", he saw that the righteous sister was full of curiosity about this matter, and the streets and alleys of Jiangzhou City were already boiling about the recent strange things in Tongou River.

"The day before yesterday, the Lu family in the south of the city transported a boatload of grain, and the boss of the boat walked from here in order to save effort, but a boatload of people did not even catch the corpses of the capital. ”

In Jiangzhou, the rivers crisscross and criss-cross, especially the Tongou River, the river surface is more than 30 zhang wide, the reefs are dense, the river water is extremely deep, extremely rapid, and the undercurrent is surging.

Every rainy season, there will always be several big floods on the Tongou River, washing away countless fertile fields and crops around Jiangzhou Prefecture. Jiangzhou Governor Tan Zainian arrived and has been suffering from this headache. The embankment was repaired, and it was repaired again.

The dynasty examined the merits of the department itself every year, and there were a lot of silver taels of white flowers and flowers. However, among the three of virtue, talent, and labor service in the examination of merit, the labor service is always unsatisfactory for the next examination, because the Tongou River floods every year, and the people on both sides of the river do not know how many cattle and sheep are swept away. The evaluation of "abiding by diligence and slacking off in the river" is naturally seen in the merit book.

Almost every child in Jiangzhou grew up playing in the water, and the water nature is excellent.

When he and Ye Qingxuan were children, they often played bare-chested in this Xieyue Lake. At that time, Ye Qingxuan still felt that he had one more "baby elephant" than her, so she had to drag his "baby elephant" back to play for a few days.

But Yang Ze knew that this Xieyue Lake could go down, and the Ou River would be forgotten, so he knocked on the door of this sister's head, "County Lord, Confucian Sage Qiujun once said that all those who drowned are water-based."

"Hmph, who is rare in martial arts cheats, I'm just curious", she grabbed a handful of bait and threw it to the center of the lake, the koi jumped to grab food, and the sound of the water was soft.

"County Lord, it's not strange for you to say it's strange. Two more men in black were fished up today. The flesh and blood of the two people are blurred, their clothes are torn, and their deaths are terrifying", Qiushui packed up the small plate, and when he heard Ye Qingxuan talk about it, he also interjected.

"I heard that the shopkeeper said that more than a dozen corpses have been fished out this month. Now everyone in the city is terrified, and several waves of Taoist priests and monks have come, shouting to catch the water ghosts, but unfortunately they have all gone and never returned", she looked frightened, eased, and continued, "Even the cinnabar of the merchant (which has the effect of warding off evil spirits) has been sold out. I heard that the Taishou has strictly guarded the banks of the Tongou River. No one is allowed to fish in the river until it is clarified."

"It's really a strange thing, does the water ghost really exist?", Yang Ze also felt that this matter of the Oujiang River was strange, and he wanted to stop talking, he was afraid that Ye Qingxuan's character of not being afraid of the sky and the earth would really go to the river to take a look.

Soon the crowd dispersed.