Li Mao stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the majestic Jinling City and the towering Zhongshan Mountain in the distance, half a year of river travel had made him look more muscular, and his skin was tanned, he stood barefoot on the deck, and his ten toes were tightly clasped to the wooden deck, so that he could stand more steadily.

If you haven't seen Li Mao beforehand, you must think that he is a boatman who begs for a living on the river all the year round, and the cold river breeze blows in his face, but Li Mao, who is wearing a single clothes, seems to have no feeling, and the joy of arriving at Jinling Mansion at this moment has filled his heart.

Suddenly, Li Mao's gaze moved to Zhong Shan, his heart beating uncontrollably, and he had a premonition that there was someone or something he was familiar with.

Could it be that before he entered Jinling Mansion, he met an acquaintance? Li Mao couldn't help but ask himself.

The feeling of familiarity was strong, but it was constantly moving at high speed, and it was impossible to determine which direction it was, and soon the feeling disappeared.

Just when Li Mao was a little lost, Yang Nian turned out of the back cabin, bowed down and said, "Engong, my mother said that lunch is ready, please go back to the cabin to eat." ”

Li Mao broke away from his contemplation and said with a smile: "Yang Nian, how many times have you told you, don't call me Engong, why don't you listen?"

Yang Nian thought about it seriously and said: "Engong, you have the virtue of reinventing our Yang family, my father and my mother told us to always be grateful for your kindness, and we must serve the master all our lives." ”

Li Mao didn't have much to do about Yang Da and Yang Hong's brains, so he had to say, "Okay, whatever you like." It's not time for lunch today, why did you eat early?"

Yang Nian smiled, showed a mouthful of white teeth and said: "Master, my father said, according to the current speed, lunch time just arrived in Jinling City, the procedures for entering the city are more cumbersome, and the waterways in the city are not familiar, I don't know when I can eat on the shore, so I will eat in advance." ”

Li Mao looked at Jinling City, which was getting closer and closer, and said, "Okay, let's stop the boat for dinner." ”

At this time, Yang Da walked over from the back cabin, bowed down and said: "Engong, you go to the front cabin and dine with Master Xu and them, we won't stop, I don't know if the procedures for entering Jinling City are cumbersome, I'm afraid it will affect the time to enter the city."

Yang Si, Yang Nian, Xiao Zhuzi, and Xiao Zhu took turns to eat, everyone had been on the boat for too long, and it was estimated that everyone wanted to arrive at the ground early so that they could go ashore to rest. ”

Li Mao saw that Yang Da had arranged everything, so he didn't ask any more questions, turned around and got out of the front cabin, the back half of the front cabin has been transformed into six sleepers, each of which is very small, only a place to stand and put shoes, and the rest is a bed that is not wide.

In the front half of the front cabin, there is a long table fixed to the floor, on which everyone's lunch is placed, only fish head stewed tofu and pancakes.

Li Mao looked at Xu Jiuye's family's painful expressions when eating, and he couldn't help but want to laugh.

In order to rush in the past six months, Li Mao rarely let passenger ships dock at the town market, and unless the ship's supplies are exhausted, they will dock at the shore, so that everyone can go ashore to eat some normal meals, sleep on land for one night, and then continue to travel the next day.

During the entire period, he went ashore at most twenty times, and for Yang Da's family, this kind of water life was normal, but for Xu Jiuye's family, it was painful torture.

Mrs. Xu still showed signs of seasickness in the first month, and then she became numb, except for some smiles when she went ashore, she usually lay on the bed and did not move, if it weren't for Li Mao from time to time to help her straighten out the meridians with the power of True Yuan, and Xu Ai to help her massage her muscles and bones, she would have fallen ill a long time ago.

Xu Jiuye was slightly better, after all, he also grew up on the banks of the Miluo River when he was young, but he hadn't touched boats for thirty years, and this continuous boat ride also made him miserable, and it took two months to get better.

After all, the little bolt and the little pillar were young, and they couldn't sit still all day long, and after the initial discomfort, they quickly mingled with Yang Si and Yang Nian, learned to swim, and learned to operate the boat, which greatly reduced the labor intensity of Yang Da's father and son.

Xu Ai is the best performing person in the Xu family, she has nothing else to do on the river, most of the time is spent cultivating, and Li Mao gave her some auxiliary pills, which greatly increased her speed of expanding her pulse.

In the end, Xu Ai could not improve after the seventy-seven points, Li Maocai taught her the exercises of the Ronghai period, and now Xu Ai has successfully fused the two lakes and stabilized the realm of the Ronghai period, with the increase of cultivation, Xu Ai's body has become much stronger, and even the size has grown a lot, and the whole person looks more cute.

When Xu Ai saw Li Mao coming in, he immediately pouted and said, "Brother Li, if you let us eat fish again, we will go on a hunger strike!"

Li Mao laughed, he ignored Xu Ai, but came to his seat, picked up the pancake and took a big bite, then picked up the bowl of fish head stewed tofu and drank a big mouthful of fish soup, and ate it deliciously.

Xu Ai looked at Li Mao with a look of resentment and said, "Brother Li, is your stomach made of iron and steel? Eat fish and drink fish soup every day, don't you get tired?"

Li Mao ate a piece of pancake in a few bites and said: "Compared with the days when I was a homeless person before, my current life is simply enjoyable! Xiao Ai, you have never suffered hardship, so you feel that such a day is very hard, and there are many people in this world who want to live such a life but have no chance! You have to learn to be content!"

Xu Jiuye gritted his teeth and swallowed a piece of pancake, he didn't want to eat it, but he still agreed with Li Mao's statement: "Ai'er, your brother Li is right, when your father and I first came to the northwest, we were penniless and hungry for three days and three nights.

Now that I am used to a good life, I can't even eat delicious fish soup and pancakes, it seems that the ancients are really right, it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift!"

Xiao Zhu and Xiao Zhu were not picky about food, and at this time they had already eaten the two pancakes and fish head tofu, said hello to the old man and Li Mao, and went to pick up Yang Si and Yang Nian's brothers' class.

Li Mao saw that Mrs. Xu and Xu Ai still had an expression that was difficult to swallow, so he comforted: "Aunt Jiu, Xiao Ai, you can deal with it casually first, you can enter the city at noon, and when you settle down, I will invite everyone to eat Jinling's delicacies in the evening." ”

Xu Ai immediately became happy, and Mrs. Xu rarely showed a smile and said, "Virtuous nephew, when we arrive in Jinling City today, we don't have to take a boat anymore, right?"

Li Mao said: "Aunt Jiu, don't worry, as long as you go ashore today, you don't have to take a boat!"

Mrs. Xu had an expression of escaping and ascending to heaven, and it seemed that she had left a deep shadow on the boat.

Xu Jiuye also asked Li Mao: "Virtuous nephew, when you arrive in Jinling City, how will we arrange it in the future?"

Li Mao said: "Uncle Jiu, let's find an inn to live in first, and then find someone from Yaxing to buy a house and move in, and then I will accompany you to inspect the business atmosphere of Jinling, and finally we will decide what kind of livelihood to do, do you think it?"

Xu Jiuye nodded and said, "Okay, you are the right plan, just do what you say." ”

After lunch, Yang Da hoisted the sails of the small passenger boat, and the small passenger boat quickly sailed towards Jinling City.

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Heavenly Demon Forest, Xuanyuan Tomb.

This year is undoubtedly an extremely successful year for the Xuanyuan Tomb, the revival plan has been launched, the strength of the monks of the three veins has increased greatly, and the cohesion and centripetal force of the entire Xuanyuan Tomb have been greatly improved.

The most talked about thing is that in the annual Demon Clan Top 100 Competition, Xuanyuan Tomb has achieved incredibly good results, winning a large number of cultivation resources for Xuanyuan Tomb, and at the same time deterring some hostile forces that covet Xuanyuan Tomb.

This time, Xuanyuan Tomb sent a total of five players to participate, among which Tu Shanchong participated in the Yuan Infant Top 100 Competition, and he did his best to get the fifty-seventh place, although the ranking was not high, but it also broke the situation that Xuanyuan Tomb was clean in the last session, and won honor for Xuanyuan Tomb.

In the Jindan Top 100 Competition, the performance of the four contestants in Xuanyuan Tomb was even more amazing.

First of all, Hu Chunqiu successfully broke through from the qualifying tournament with 20,000 participants, and entered the list of one thousand and twenty-four main race players, he won two more main races with his speed talent, stopped in the top 128 round, and finally ranked 243rd, but his speed talent still attracted the attention of many demon families.

Ah Li, Ji Yun'er and Yuguan made it all the way to the top 128.

Ji Yun'er and Yuguan stopped in the top sixty-four, and finally Yuguan ranked ninety-two, and Ji Yun'er ranked ninety-five, occupying two seats in the top 100 in the Jindan period, which has far exceeded many families.

Ah Li's performance was even more surprising, she made it all the way to the finals, eliminated the descendants of the four demon king families in a row, and finally faced off against the great-grandson of the White Tiger King in the final, and won the game neatly, making all the pre-match predictions a joke.

The second and third ancestors of the fox clan led by Xuanyuan Tomb blossomed, and Xuanyuan Tomb finally swept away the decline of the last top 100 competition and announced the return of the strength of this old family.

Through the excellent results of the top 100 competition, Xuanyuan Tomb entered the top 20 of the demon clan families in one fell swoop, and also attracted several families to form alliances with Xuanyuan Tomb, improving the external environment, which can be described as full of harvest.

After Ah Li and the others returned to Xuanyuan Tomb, Xuanyuan Tomb organized a large-scale celebration, and the Council of Elders took advantage of the high morale of all the staff to announce the second phase of the revival plan of Xuanyuan Tomb, and this time everyone's enthusiasm for participation was even higher.

Ah Li didn't pay attention to the changes in the later period of Xuanyuan Tomb, she completed the set goal - to go to the Song Guotai Academy for exchange and study, and other things were not important.

Tu Shan Ziyi naturally knew Ah Li's thoughts, she had a lot of contact with Tianhuo when she went to Xuanji Mountain, and she had a good impression of the sincere young monk of the human race, she felt that she had no reason to stop Ah Li at all, just like Xuanji Zi said, everything is fate, if you deliberately stop it, it will only be counterproductive.

Some people are worried that it will be difficult to ensure the safety of Ah Li by sending the hope of Xuanyuan's future to the Song Kingdom, and some people think that without going through more hardships, the current genius will not be able to become the pillars of the future, and support Ah leaving the Song Kingdom to study.

After many days of debate, on November 13, the Council of Elders reached a unanimous agreement, and Tu Shanchong escorted Ah to leave the Song Guotaiyi Academy, and at the same time, Tu Shanchong went to the Da Luo faction on behalf of Xuanyuan Tomb to exchange and study, and this exchange and study quota was an agreement reached between Xuanyuan Tomb and the Da Luo faction in private, and paid a lot of price for this.

On November 15, Tu Shanchong and Ah Li quietly left the Xuanyuan Tomb, and their destination was Jinling City, the capital of the Song Kingdom!