Finding a carriage in the town, Hansu and Daohui embarked on a journey back to Shushan, Daohui, who could not recover his physical strength for several years, was no longer suitable for completing the task of sending a letter to Penglai, and for safety reasons, he was unwilling to let the young Hansu travel thousands of miles.

What will he face when he returns to the mountain on this trip, which is already on the edge of Shushan, he has no time to think about it, and what is currently giving him the most headache is the transformation from a little girl to an old mother.......

"Senior Brother Daohui, do you drink water?" "Senior Brother Daohui, are you hungry?" "Senior Brother Daohui, is it hot or cold?"

"What's that... Senior Brother Daohui, do you want to change your clothes?"

From the early years, he brought up Hansu in swaddling clothes, and has been called 'Nurse Senior Brother' by his fellow brothers, and he has always been like a brother and a father to Hansu, and Hansu is also very dependent on him.

Whether it is gratitude, or something else, Hansu's meticulous attention to the return of the Tao made Zhou Bai, as an outsider, see a subtle change.

Of course, what will happen to them in the future, and whether the relationship will change because of this accident Zhou Bai didn't know, now he has gone down the river to the land of Jiangnan.

The previous time because he was in a hurry to go to Chaohu Lake, Zhou Bai did not calm down to enjoy the scenery on both sides of the strait, but now that Lei Lingzhu is missing, he does not have that impatience in his heart, since it is useless to look for a needle in a haystack so anxious.

At the end of summer and autumn, the rainy season is approaching, the rain in the land of Sichuan and Shu has stopped, but the river suddenly pours down, it is blue and cloudless and the sky is clear, and in the blink of an eye, the dark clouds are dense and the thunder is rolling.

Even the gentle autumn breeze on the river has disappeared, and an indescribable dullness makes people a little uncomfortable.

"Don't stay out there. The boss of the ship, who was reinforcing the cable, walked up with a cautious face and said, "There will be a thunderstorm and strong wind soon, so Childe should go back to the cabin first." ”

"Boss, why don't I think there's something wrong with the weather?" said an old boatman in his forties as he pulled out a shiny cigarette pouch and frowned.

"Old fish, too?" The boat boss looked at the earthy yellow faintly turned out of the dark clouds, and his eyelids jumped wildly, "Old fish, you have been playing with water on the river for decades, what do you think should be done?"

The old boatman staggered to the side of the boat, looked at the turbulent river, snapped a cigarette holder and said cautiously, "There is a vision in the sky, if it is an ordinary rainstorm, the fish in this river will definitely open their mouths, not to mention the fish, even the birds and beasts on the shore do not see any movement." If I say, let's find a sheltered place and anchor first. ”

Nearly fifty years old but still active in merchant ships, the old boatman relied not on abundant physical strength but on decades of experience and foreknowledge of danger, which is why he would provide him with a high price even if his legs and feet were not suitable.

When Zhou Bai walked into the cabin, he saw a group of people sitting at the square table in the hall, not knowing what they were talking about. The corner of the cabin is an individual passenger like him, mostly scholars and ink writers.

He didn't ask anyone with him before getting on the boat, and as long as Fuxi and Shennong weren't on the boat, nothing else mattered.

As he entered, the whispering in the cabin suddenly stopped, and for a moment fell into an eerie atmosphere. Zhou Bai didn't feel embarrassed, turned around and sat on the chair by the door, closed his eyes and meditated.

After a while, the gaze cast on him gradually shifted, and several people began to discuss softly again.

The first person, dressed in a brocade robe, never spoke from beginning to end, and he was the patron of the merchant ship, and the people next to him to discuss matters were his treasurers or bookkeepers.

"Mr. Li, the weather is changing, and the merchant ships need to find a place to take refuge in the harbor, and I am afraid that it will take some time to reach Yueyang. The curtain was lifted, and the captain of the boat came with a smile and bowed.

A young man next to him changed his face, got up and said, "Postponement? Do you know how important this batch of goods is?

The boat boss wiped the sweat from his head, ignored the young man who barked wildly, and looked at the middle-aged man sitting in the first place, Mr. Li's eyes swept to the young man, and the young man quickly shut up, and glanced at the boat boss with hatred before sitting down.

"Since the weather is the reason, there is really nothing to do, postpone it, and if you encounter an accident, it will be worth the loss. Mr. Li stroked his beard and said kindly.

"Mr. Li is really a great benevolent man!" "He is worthy of being a famous Confucian merchant in the south of the Yangtze River!" "A model businessman!" The literati in the corner finally found a reason to interject, squeezed the boat boss out, and gathered around to praise Mr. Li with a smile on his face.

This kind of scene was really Zhou Bai couldn't help frowning and turned to leave.

He is not a cynical person, but he does not want this scene to stain his eyes.

The boat boss turned around and saw Zhou Bai, who came out, as if he understood something, and said with a sincere smile: "If this son feels bored, just take a walk at this gate, don't go to the boat for the time being." ”

Zhou Bai bowed his head and leaned on the plank to look at the busy crew.

The storm on the river is far less than that on the sea, but it is also a catastrophe for the ship, a breeze blows Zhou Bai's clothes, the ship's face changes greatly, and he shouts loudly, "Speed up! Don't be hesitant, the wind is blowing!"

Fortunately, the old crew was very familiar with this road, and soon found a small recess on the hillside to station the merchant ships.

The wind suddenly rose, Zhou Bai squinted his eyes at the yellowing stratus clouds, and the thunder rolled and condensed, as if he was confronting an extremely terrifying existence.

As a whirlpool was created from the clouds, the river instantly set off huge waves, and the rising water was sucked into the whirlpool by the wind, and a dragon that sucked water through the sky appeared in front of everyone.

"This ..... What is this?" the old crew had never seen such a terrifying dragon suck water in their decades of experience.

The yellow in the sky became thicker and thicker, and the dull coercion became more and more intense, and Zhou Bai muttered, "Humane catastrophe......

The old crew seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly took a few steps back, showing panic, "The demon is about to descend!" The ship boss frowned, "What do you mean." Old fish, have you ever seen this kind of scene?"

The old crew took out the eyeband tremblingly, and took a few puffs fiercely, then calmed down, squatted in front of the door of the boat, and said, "I heard my grandfather say it when I was young, and he also heard this kind of dragon absorb water a long time ago. ”

"A long time ago, there was a dragon like this on the river to absorb water, and it is said that later a demon with horns fell from the whirlpool, and the thunder smashed it for three days and three nights and failed to kill it. The old crew said with trembling lips, "After that, this demon devoured countless people, and several states and counties became dead cities for a while, if it weren't for the immortal chief of Shushan to descend the mountain and surrender it, even if there was no one in the entire Bazhong!"

"I don't know what the name of that demon is?" Zhou Bai wondered.

"I don't know about this, it seems to be some kind of god. The old crew frowned.

"But the Heavenly Ghost Emperor?"

"It seems like that's the name. The old crew member was surprised, "How do you know?"

Zhou Bai nodded, and said clearly, "I see, that's ......" Looking back at the whirlpool in the sky, Zhou Bai pursed his lips, it was actually more than a hundred years earlier than Shushan expected, is this monster already so impatient?