At this time, another young man in his twenties said: "What are you afraid of? Our Salt Gang has now cut off the way to make money, and the barefoot ones are not afraid of him wearing shoes! Besides, the Yangtze River is north and south, and there are several places in a radius, who doesn't know the prestige of our Salt Gang in Sichuan?"

If you can take that thing this time, everyone will practice diligently, and if you have the strength, you can go to Jianghuai when the time comes, and you can also share the profit, if not, you will be driven back by others, but it will become a joke in the rivers and lakes. ”

Everyone agreed, but the old man seemed very worried, as if he did not trust the strength of his own people. He reprimanded everyone: "What are you arguing about? ”

The man who was called the head of the hall was a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, and he thought for a long time before he said softly: "Old Qi, brothers, in this situation, I don't say that the big guys know it, if there is no silver in the account, our Sichuan Zhongyan Gang will have thousands of people in the family, and I am afraid that they will all starve to death at home."

But if we go to Jianghuai to make this salt goods, we are also scooping rice in other people's pots, and people are still not allowed to fight with us? But if we have a hard shelf in our hands, it is easy to gain a firm foothold, and then how can we share a share of the money, although it is risky, but it is worth fighting for everyone!"

But the old man surnamed Qi was still worried, and he said to everyone: "It's not that I'm timid, the corny-eyed third person said it, and there are also people from the White Lotus Sect who have come to Wudang, obviously for that book, with the strength of my gang, I will definitely not be able to fight others." ”

Zhangtang said: "Let's go to Wudang, also in secret, and not much fanfare, when the time comes, see the opportunity to act, see the opportunity, take the book and leave, who knows which way we are immortals?"

Everyone said that this was exactly the case, and chattered for a long time before they dispersed.

Xie Mingzhou heard this, he already roughly knew the ins and outs, but it was the Sichuan Salt Gang, which had been selling smuggled salt for a living since ancient times, and now Sichuan was in turmoil, the number of people was scarce, and the salt well was also blocked.

At this time, the helmsman of Yunyang Rudder brought a letter, saying that it was the treasure of Wudang Mountain, "Wudang Secret Book", and reappeared in Wudang County, Yunyang, so he asked the head of the hall to bring someone to rob it, so the cadres were arguing here.

Xie Mingzhou couldn't help but say proudly: "I said this Wudang cheats so well, I just happened to go to Wudang, no matter who is in my hands at that time, I will borrow it first and take a look." ”

Xie Mingzhou walked out of the room to find the shopkeeper to inquire about the distance, and the shopkeeper said: "Here to Wudang, the fastest is to take a boat to Badong by water, then take the dry road to Xingshan, along the edge of Shennongjia all the way to Fang County, and then Wudang Mountain." It's strange, how did you go to Wudang Mountain these days?"

Xie Mingzhou asked again: "Is there a passenger boat to Padang?"

The shopkeeper said: "There is no special passenger ship, but we happen to live in this store a merchant, hired two ships, tomorrow will leave, then get off the ship in Padang, if you want to leave, go to the owner as soon as possible, lest the goods are full and can not carry people, carrying people can earn more silver than carrying goods, he will be willing." ”

Xie Mingzhou asked the owner of the boat where he lived again, but he was not in the city, he lived on the boat on the wharf by the river, so he had to go out of the city to the wharf, found the owner of the ship, paid five taels of silver, and set up to board the boat tomorrow.

On the second day, the master and apprentice arrived at the dock, but the two boats were still loaded, and they had already loaded several golden silk nanmu and some messy things.

Xie Mingzhou got on the boat, and was squatting there to look at the golden silk nan, when he heard a young man's voice say: "Zhangtang, I heard that this golden silk wood is very expensive in the Central Plains, and we also have a boat ourselves, why don't we also sell this wood?"

The palm said angrily: "This thing is valuable, but how many people can afford it? Run two or three times a year, you drink the wind? ”

Xie Mingzhou couldn't help but be happy, wasn't this the group of people in the courtyard yesterday? What a coincidence, it seems that they are also going to Wudang.

The group of people got on the boat, and saw these two young Taoists, brightly dressed and with good faces, not like the down-and-out, and looked at them a few more times, but did not speak.

It took another half an hour to load the goods, and because this one ship was carrying guests, the goods were not loaded much, and there was enough room to come out, and the other was full, and the boatman lifted the anchor and went downstream slowly.

All the way through Fuzhou, Fengdu, Wanxian, Kuizhou, only to see the peaks and peaks on both sides of the river, the cliffs, and many reefs and dangerous shoals, some reefs and beaches are like small islands in the river, the islands are covered with verdant forests, and the peaks on both sides of the river reflect each other, beautiful.

However, it is also more thrilling, several times because of the dangerous beach, almost hit the rock, but fortunately, the boat boss is familiar with this waterway, and every time he can save the day.

Entered Kuizhou, it is the White Emperor City, famous for Li Bai's poem "Chaofa White Emperor City", but if the scenery is precipitous, it is far from the Kuimen below, this Kuimen has been known as "Kuimen in the world" since ancient times, and the cliffs on both sides of the strait are as high as hundreds of zhang!

And the width is only dozens of zhang, the narrowest place is only more than ten zhang, the water flow in the gorge is turbulent, the waves are turbulent, the river water roars all the way down, makes people palpitate.

Soon out of Kuimen, and into the Wu Gorge, but it is another scene, the river seems to be a tamed horse, in the green mountains on both sides of the cloud and mist steaming between a hundred turns and a thousand times, twists and turns.

The strange peaks and green mountains on both sides of the strait are like a long painting, slowly gliding in front of the eyes, and the sound of the ape crying ringing in the ears from time to time makes people can't help but think of Li Daoyuan's poem "Notes on the Water Classic": The Wuxia of the Three Gorges of Badong is long, and the ape screams three times and tears are stained.

When they arrived at the Padang Wharf, the master and apprentice were still reminiscing about the wonders in the gorge, until the boat boss came to shout, and then came back to their senses and went ashore.

Xie Mingzhou stopped a person and asked about the direction of going to Shennongjia, so he set off with Yizhen, knowing that Shennongjia was Wudang Mountain in front of him, he couldn't bear to go around that long road, and he just went to Shennongjia to collect some medicinal materials, he was worried that there was no material for alchemy, Shennong could pick suitable medicinal materials here, and he thought that there should be some good things.

The two of them used the magic technique, went straight to the Shennongjia Mountains, and did not go through the mountains and rivers, and got into the Shennongjia Mountains at one end, which was to come out to travel, and they were not in a hurry, and the master and apprentice had a good tour of the mountains and rivers, if it was not for the rice soup to feed the two tiger cubs every day, the life would be more comfortable.