The moon is fading, the clouds are quiet, the starlight slowly fades to the dazzling brightness, replaced by the faint morning light, the river breeze seems to be tired, and finally when the boat turns out of the gorge, sleep peacefully.

Fan Qin and his entourage came to a more open water surface, the scenery began to be clear, the distant mountains were vast, the ups and downs were powerful, the sky broke through the clouds and fell, sprinkled on the thousands of ravines and thousands of rocks, like a giant dragon covered with golden scales. There was a crane chirping on the mountain, and as far as the eye could see, several birds rose to the sky, accompanied by green clouds and wind, soaring and coiling.

"Whew. ”

Fan Qin wiped the sweat stains from the corners of her forehead and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Little one. ”

Xie Wenshui shook the oars and smiled faintly at him, "If you're tired, you might as well go and rest." ”

"No, no, no. ”

Fan Qin hurriedly shook his hand and said, "I can still row, I still have energy..." Unfortunately, many things in this world are easy to seem, but difficult to do. This boating is one of them. The huge resistance of the waves determines that every swing of the oars takes a lot of effort, and people who have never been in contact with it only find it interesting at first, but after a long time, exhaustion, dizziness, and back pain are not enough. Fan Qin is no exception, he was born in the family of the eunuch, and it is rare to have the opportunity to contact this kind of thing in his life.

"Why is this drudgery so tiring, I wouldn't have done it if I knew it!" Fan Qin complained in his heart, but his face was pretending to be calm, he didn't know much about others, but Xie asked what kind of character Shui was, and at the moment he only felt that the child that Senior Brother Yu met was very interesting, and he didn't break it, and he smiled silently.

"It's strange, he looks weak, why doesn't he seem to be tired at all?" Fan Qin glanced at Xie Wenshui, puzzled in his heart. Xie Wenshui not only has "blue water strength", but also a leader, the internal force is like blue water, endless, Xiangri Qin Yuan is relying on this martial arts and Hua Qian, although Yu Kongshan said, but Fan Qin did not know that Xie Wenshui would also do this kung fu.

After another moment, Xie Wenshui suddenly turned his head and smiled wryly at Fan Qin, "Why don't you forget it?"

Fan Qin had to hold on again, and suddenly there was a loud shout, "Little ghost is in the way!", followed by a light body, and was already lifted up. Fan Qin looked back, the man was slightly chubby, and his face was angry, who was He Xiyun?

He Xiyun threw Fan Qin into the cabin roughly, Fan Qin only felt a sharp pain in his buttocks, and couldn't help but scream.

"Senior Brother He!"

Xie Wenshui's face changed, and he hurriedly rushed to Fan Qin's side and helped him up, "What are you doing, you have something to say!"

"Humph!"

He Xiyun snorted coldly and rolled his eyes at Fan Qin, "Stinky little devil can do his best!" Senior Brother Xie rows very well, but you are rowing slower and slower, this left and right, one fast and one slow, not to mention the bumpy hull, the bow of the boat is about to turn, and you won't hit the stone later?"

Fan Qin was stunned, he only cared about rowing, but he didn't think about this problem.

"In his position, he seeks his government. He Xiyun said coldly, "Do you know what it means to "occupy a pit and not"?"

"Senior Brother He, be merciful!" Xie Wenshui thought that he was also anxious, and shouted coldly at the moment, "You don't have to teach others a lesson, the things you did on the way here are not necessarily better than him!"

He Xiyun's face turned red when he heard this, and he shut up.

Xie Wenshui looked at Fan Qin and smiled slowly, "Senior Brother He has such a temper, don't take it to heart"

Fan Qin looked at him with an amiable face and a smile, and slowly regained his composure timidly, and muttered, "I'm just... Just want to..."

"It's good to want to help, but you have to do what you can, otherwise it's self-defeating. Xie Wenshui smiled and said lightly, "You are still young, and you have not yet started martial arts, looking at your excitement when you got on the boat, it must be the first time to row a boat, no one blames you for rowing well." ”

Fan Qin heard these words and was about to say something, when he suddenly heard a sound from the cabin.

"But you can ask someone to stand for you, not one person, but you don't know that the lives of this boatload of people may be tied to your thoughts. ”

Fan Qin turned his head to look, Yu Kongshan smiled, he opened the cabin curtain, and saw that the table in the cabin was neat, Qin Yuan had already sat up, and although Su Qingyue woke up, she was still lying on the bed, taken care of by Qi Xinlan. Ling Jiange was not among them.

The east is white, the bright moon is setting in the west, Fan Qin and a group of people are waiting for a meal.

Yu Kongshan bit the bun and asked Xie Shuidao, "Why are you here?" Is it the order of the valley lord?"

He Xiyun just wanted to speak, but suddenly looked at Xie Wenshui and glared at him, but he had to be silent. Yu Kongshan looked at the situation and guessed in his heart, "What did Senior Brother Yun do again?"

Xie Wenshui didn't answer the question, and while drinking tea, he said slowly, "The valley master asked us to come out to find the young master!", and glanced at Qin Yuan, who frowned, as if he had something on his mind.

"I'm ashamed to say that. ”

Yu Kongshan sighed, "What the hell is it that made Senior Brother Yu run away." ”

"This is natural. ”

He Xiyun snorted, "The reason why we were able to find Wuzhai is all thanks to him. ”

"What?" Yu Kongshan, Su Qingyue and Fan Qin were both shocked, "You ran into him?"

"Not bad. Xie Wenshui put down the teacup and said slowly, "At first, we went west along Jiangnan Road, and when the road was exhausted, we rested in Jiangzhou for a few days, sold some calligraphy and paintings, and raised enough money before continuing to hurry..."

"Wait!"

When Yu Kongshan heard this, the white bun in his mouth almost froze, and his eyes rolled, "Have you run out of entanglements?"

"Senior Brother He, where are you going?" Su Qingyue glanced at He Xiyun, who was about to walk out of the boat, and said slowly.

"It seems to be raining this day, let's hurry up and go ashore to stay early..." Fan Qin swallowed a fish and said strangely, "Where is it going to rain, isn't it a sunny day?"

"Stinky boy, you talk a lot!" He Xiyun smacked him hard and scolded.

"Hmph, are you going to buy food again?" Yu Kongshan had already frowned and said angrily, "How many times has the valley lord warned you that those who practice martial arts can't be greedy for the pleasure of their stomachs! Why do you think the valley master sent Senior Brother Xie to go out of the valley with you? Back then, you went out of the valley to spend money without moderation, and you almost couldn't come back, you know!"

He Xiyun said with a bitter face, "It is said that the people take food as the sky, and the valley lord finally let me out, and I still have to make a tooth sacrifice?"

"You!" Yu Kongshan saw that he was still unrepentant, and he was speechless with anger. Su Qingyue burst out laughing, He Xiyun felt embarrassed, glared at Xie Wenshui, and before he could speak, he listened to Xie Wenshui and said lightly, "Don't stare at me, I didn't say anything." ”

He Xiyun had to be sullen for a while, and went to the side to stay.

"Later, when I was resting in a restaurant, I suddenly met Senior Brother Yang drinking tea there, looking quite comfortable, and there were a few people beside him, but they were facing away from us, and they didn't see it clearly for a while. Xie asked, Shui continued.

"Comfortable?" Yu Kongshan snorted coldly, "Don't let me run into him, otherwise I will definitely make him look good!"

Xie Wenshui glanced at Yu Kongshan and said slowly, "Your Senior Brother He has already called him good-looking." ”

"Oh?" Yu Kongshan smiled at He Xiyun, "This is like words!" He Xiyun also had a smug face, "That's!"

"Strange to say. Xie Wenshui touched his chin and recalled, "Senior Brother Yang's martial arts are slightly higher than Senior Brother He, and there are a few people around him, who seem to be friends, but Senior Brother He fought with him, but he just ran away. ”

"What's so strange about this!" He Xiyun said with a smile, "Yang Xinyu has defected to the imperial court all these years, wasted his martial arts, and felt guilty in his heart, of course he ran away in front of him!"

Yu Kongshan frowned and looked at Su Qingyue, who shook his head slightly, "No, Senior Brother Yang's martial arts have not regressed, after so many years, I still narrowly beat him." ”

"Then why do you say that?" He Xiyun shouted when he saw that everyone despised his martial arts, and he was slightly dissatisfied in his heart.

Xie Wenshui was just about to speak, when he suddenly heard a child's voice coming, "He wants to lead you to a place!"

Everyone followed the prestige, but they saw Fan Qin's words shocked, which made people sigh.

"What the little guy said is reasonable!" Xie Wenshui cast an approving look, but He Xiyun hated this mouthy child even more, and turned his face.

Su Qingyue also nodded to him, Fan Qin's face turned red, scratching her ears and cheeks, and she was uncomfortable.

"Later, we chased him to Huguang, and under the siege of the two senior brothers, we forced him to say that the six of you were near Wuxia, and we rushed over non-stop. Xie Wenshui said.

"So that's the case?" Yu Kongshan nodded, and at this moment, he suddenly saw Qin Yuan's eyes wide open, and he didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly asked, "Yuan'er, what's wrong?"

"You just said, Yang Xinyu said how many of us are?"

Everyone was silent for a while, but He Xiyun was puzzled, and said in a casual voice, "Six people, what's wrong?"

"Did you hear it?" Qin Yuan's face sank and he asked again.

"Of course!" He Xiyun looked towards Xie Wenshui, "Senior Brother Xie also heard it, I don't believe you asked..." Did I miscalculate?"

"You're not wrong..."Qin Yuan shook his head and said, he was about to explain something, when suddenly the hull of the ship shook, and then, the hatch curtain was lifted, Ling Jiange poked his head in, looked left and right, and said coldly towards Fan Qin, "Come out." ”

Fan Qin hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, Yu Kongshan and the others knew Ling Jiange's temper, and when they were not close to the living, they waved their hands and said, "Let's go out and have a look, Senior Brother He, you stay." ”

He Xiyun was dissatisfied, "Why!"

Xie Wenshui smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Press the scale!" and walked out of the cabin. Only then did He Xiyun react, if everyone ran to the bow of the boat together, the boat would capsize. In order to maintain balance, he was told to stay. Of course, maybe it's because he's heavier...

Fan Qin walked out of the cabin, only to see that the sky was like a belt and the river was like a mirror, but at this time, everyone was not interested in enjoying the scenery.

"What's wrong?" Fan Qin walked to the bow of the boat, Ling Jiange pointed to a black shadow under the water, Fan Qin saw that the black shadow looked like a human form, and was curious, but heard Su Qingyue's voice next to him, "It's a corpse!"

Fan Qin was startled, and when she looked closely, the corpse was already swollen with blisters, and her back was floating on the water. Presumably, the hull shook just now, and that's why.

"How do you pick it up?" Fan Qin asked Ling Jiange. The young man was thinking about it, Yu Kongshan groaned slightly, suddenly raised his breath and waved his palm, with a "whoosh", the water mirror shattered, splashed three feet of white waves, and threw the corpse high, and then a green shadow flashed, Su Qingyue stepped on the water, grabbed the corpse, and threw it back into the boat, Fan Qin saw the corpse quickly smashed into the bow of the boat, for fear that the hull would be smashed out of a hole, took a step back, and was about to use the "cloud hand" , Who expected that the blue shadow suddenly appeared in front of him, Xie Wenshui had come closer, his body was like a spinning top, and the body was caught to offset the momentum, and the end was a clever light skill, Fan Qin turned his head to look again, Su Qingyue didn't know when he had returned to the boat, the three of them did not communicate before, but they had a tacit understanding, throwing, grabbing, and following, the action was done in one go, and at this time, Fan Qin really realized why the "Heavenly Abandoned Valley" could become famous all over the world.

Ling Jiange's long sword "swished" out of the sheath, picked it up with a sword, turned the corpse over, only to see that the corpse due to edema, the face changed greatly, only from the white sideburns on both sides can be vaguely seen, this person is not young.

Xie Wenshui was about to ask, when he suddenly saw Yu Kongshan's face pale, and his heart chuckled, and when he saw Su Qingyue's action of covering his mouth, he hurriedly said, "Senior brother and sister, do you know this person?"

"It's more than awareness. Yu Kongshan sighed, you look at his chest.

Xie Wenshui followed the prestige, only to see a scratch on the man's chest, and his clothes were torn and messy. "Is this..."Leave a Claw"?" Xie Wenshui exclaimed.

Fan Qin looked at the corpse, and the uneasiness in her heart was extreme. The corpse is over the age of six, and it is the initiator of this series of turmoil that brought them into Wushan, the old Zheng!

The boat is like a leaf, slowly moving forward on the vast river, and the scenery on both sides is changing, just like a horse. The atmosphere inside the ship was unusually solemn.

"Uncle Xie, Uncle He, Uncle Yang... Yang Xinyu, didn't you catch it?"

Qin Yuan listened to the stories of several people, and when he learned that Lao Zheng was dead, his brows did not frown, and he asked Xie Wenshui.

"This..."Xie Wenshui looked at He Xiyun, who said helplessly, "I've done it, are you still afraid of what others will say?"

Xie Wenshui nodded, and said slowly, "It's all my fault for the benevolence of my thoughts, arsoning into the sea, letting the tiger return to the mountain, and after I return to the valley, I will ask the valley lord for guilt." After saying that, he bowed his head and wanted to worship, but Qin Yuan raised his hand, shook his head and said, "Let's talk about these in detail when the time comes." ”

He looked around and saw Su Qingyue Yu Kongshan sitting on the side of the boat, Qi Xinlan Xie Wenshui sitting on the other side, He Xiyun sitting on the opposite side with a big grin, Fan Qin was staying in the corner, next to him, Ling Jiange was leaning with his sword in his arms, closing his eyes and not saying a word.

"Young Master Yuan, you just said six, what's the problem?" He Xiyun was already impatient, and shouted, he just couldn't pretend to be a person, he went straight and said something if he had something to say.

Qin Yuan didn't answer, but instead asked Yu Kongshan, "Uncle Yu, when you last saw Yang Xinyu, how many people met him face-to-face?"

"Me and Senior Sister Su, this little guy, and his grandfather. Yu Kongshan stroked his hand and recalled, "Senior sister, they met him first, and I met him later when I went to save people." ”

"Hmm. Qin Yuan nodded and said, "Before I came, there were only three of you. Including me, there are only four people on the shore. The two extra people we met by chance before we got on the boat, how did he know about it?"

Fan Qin and the others suddenly realized when they heard this, it turned out that Qin Yuan was thinking about the suspicious place, and nodded again and again at the moment, "Not bad!"

"Yuan'er, what do you mean..."Xie Wenshui said slowly, "There are traitors among us?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone only felt that their hairs stood on end, but Ling Jiange didn't care when he heard it, he still closed his eyes and recuperated, and everything in the cabin seemed to have nothing to do with him.

"It's possible. Qin Yuan said slowly, "But this matter is too complicated, what a careful plan to plant spies, how can it be succeeded by chance? How does he know about the journey we have to the bank of the river? If it is early or late, then everything will be in vain." As he spoke, he looked at Qi Xinlan, who was uneasy, and said with a smile.

"Then how did he know?" He Xiyun raised his eyebrows.

"It's simple. Qin Yuan said, "He only needs to see us on the boat, and he will naturally know how many of us there are." ”

"You mean, he's been following us?" Su Qingyue frowned slightly, "This is impossible, his martial arts are not as good as Senior Brother Yu, how can he follow us all the way without being discovered?"

"It's just speculation. Qin Yuan shook his head and said, "Let's talk about the second thing now." ”

"Is it Lao Zheng?" Yu Kongshan said, "This old boatman is really hateful, but why was he killed?

"Senior brother, don't be funny!" He Xiyun laughed, "A fisherman can't swim, drowned in the water? hahaha! This is like saying that Senior Brother Xie can't write! I'll go out to take the helm..."Before he finished speaking, he saw Xie Wenshui's cold eyes coming over, and he hurriedly dodged away.

Fan Qin saw it, and she was so bitter to hold back her smile in her heart.

"It's time to start at the beginning. Qin Yuan stared and whispered, "You also know that the people in Wuzhai have the eyeliner of the Lin Gang, and Chen Zhai mainly cleans the portal, which is bound to attract the attention of the Lin Gang." ”

"That's good!" Yu Kongshan said, "The Lin Gang is a net for the Li family to monitor the world, and Taizong once said in the past, "The heroes of the world are all in my place" Maybe in addition to the imperial examination, it also has this meaning!"

"In his eyes, the people of the world are just fish in the water, if they are obedient, it is fine, once they dare to resist, this invisible net will be tightened!" Xie asked the water port.

Fan Qin listened to it at this time, thinking of his grandfather in the distance, "Grandpa, is he okay?"

"Judging from Fan Qin's description, the surviving minions are one of the Lin Gang's eyeliners!" Qin Yuan's voice came, pulling Fan Qin out of his memories, he looked at everyone and said blankly, "What?

"Qin'er, did you catch that person?" Yu Kongshan hurriedly asked, Fan Qin's face turned red, and before he could answer, he heard a "hum", Ling Jiange turned around and walked out of the cabin.

"What?" Su Qingyue said hurriedly, "Let him run away?"

Fan Qin is not good at lying, and immediately told everything that happened on the bird beach that night.

"What you're doing is a little inappropriate!" Yu Kongshan heard that he had stopped Ling Jiange from killing, and immediately said in a serious tone, "Even if you don't kill him, can you guarantee that he won't sneak up when you get on the boat?"

"That's it!" Su Qingyue said coquettishly, "It's okay to be a good person! You let a water thief go, I don't know how many fishermen you want to kill!" The speaker didn't want to listen to the intention, not only Fan Qin, but Xie Wenshui on the side also had a red face, coughed twice, and said slowly, "That's it, the childlike innocence is not lost, and it is understandable." ”

"Senior Brother Xie said something wrong. Yu Kongshan said solemnly, "Qin'er, listen well, Fan Shilang is not by your side, although we can protect you for a while, but you still have to step into this river and lake alone after all." The hustle and bustle of the red dust is ten thousand times more dangerous than the Shu Road, the jackals grind their teeth, the tigers and leopards suck blood, compared to the unpredictability of the people, they are just child's play!"

When Fan Qin heard this, a fear inexplicably arose in her heart, thinking of the scene where Lao Zheng was smiling one moment and pulling out a knife to kill the next moment, she unconsciously curled up.

"Don't be afraid. ”

Qin Yuan said slowly, "At your age, before you enter the WTO, we will take you back to the valley, and after training, we will make a final conclusion." He walked over slowly and touched Fan Qin's head, "But people have good and bad luck, the moon is cloudy and sunny, you have to adapt slowly, if something happens in the future, you can live alone and find your grandfather." ”

When Fan Qin heard this, he raised his head to look at Qin Yuan, and when he saw Yu Kongshan, Su Qingyue and the others also cast encouraging glances at him, his eyes were moistened.

"No shame, no shame!" Su Qingyue rolled her eyes at him and sneered, "Do you have a water curtain hole on your face?"

"I didn't cry!"

Fan Qin pursed her lips and twisted her face to the side, and there was laughter in the cabin. It was not until this time that Fan Qin finally felt the warmth of home again, just like when she was a child, sitting in the hall, the family talked and laughed, and talked around the fireplace, that long-lost feeling, like a beam of sunshine shining into Fan Qin's heart, lighting up the gray heart of this almost orphan-like teenager.