Xie Mingzhou swam ashore, wanting to ask the two fathers and sons just now, but the small boat had gradually rocked into a nearby tributary.

At a glance, there were quite a lot of people on the dock, but they all had shaved their braided heads, Xie Mingzhou couldn't help but be secretly surprised: This can't be the place to float to the Tartars, right?

He walked up to a man and asked, "Lay man mercy, may I ask where this place is?"

"This is the Xiangxi River. Xie Mingzhou just wanted to ask a few more questions, but the man had already walked away, seeing that the people on the dock were busy, and he didn't want to be bored, so he walked out of the dock.

There was a market near the wharf, and he walked up listlessly, just about to find someone to inquire, but he heard the voice of the young man by the river just now: "Why has the price risen again?

The shopkeeper replied: "There's no way, the purchase price has risen, and we have to follow it, or we won't have to make money." The boy's father said, "Then we will only weigh two catties, and we will be prosperous." ”

Xie Mingzhou waited for the two fathers and sons to weigh the salt and walked away, before he walked up and asked, "Lay man mercy, may I ask what kind of place this is?"

The two fathers and sons were a little surprised, and Xie Mingzhou hurriedly said: "I met a water thief in the river and floated down the river, so I don't know what place this is." ”

The two suddenly realized, and the young man hurriedly said: "This is the Xiangxi River, which is under the control of Yidu." ”

The boy's father shouted from the side: "Let me go, let's talk as we walk, there are still dozens of miles to go." ”

The young man agreed, beckoned Xie Mingzhou to go together, and Xie Mingzhou asked, "Your name is so strange, isn't it Han Chinese?"

"Yes, we are Miao, but I have a Han name, called Longqing, my father's name is Longwen, and my surname is Jean, which means dragon. The young man saw that Xie Mingzhou was a Taoist priest, and his interest was very high.

"Miao people, then do any of you know Gu?" Xie Mingzhou was also interested, and he asked.

"Of course there is, Grandpa Qianka in our village knows how to Gu. Our village is on the Xiangxi River, and there are dozens of miles of waterways. ”

Xie Mingzhou thought for a moment, and said to Long Wen, who was walking in front: "Uncle Long, because I fell for the enemy's witch Gu, I heard your son say that there are people there who understand Gu, I want to go with you to take a look, I will give the boat money, do you think it's okay?"

"Hit the Gu? What kind of Gu did you fall into? Let's listen to it, see if I've heard of it. Uncle Long said.

"I don't know what Gu is, it's just a heartache. ”

"Heartache? That's a bit troublesome, come with us, and see if Daddy Qianka will cure it, but needless to say, the boat money is not to mention, and we are not specially carrying people." ”

"It's okay, I have silver, just now I saw that you don't seem to have enough money to buy salt, take it to buy some salt, it's such a long distance, it's not easy to come out together." Xie Mingzhou stretched out his hand and handed ten taels of silver to Long Qing.

Long Qing shouted: "Dad, ten taels of silver, he gave us ten taels of silver!"

Long Wen glared at him and said, "Give it back to others, we can't ask for this silver." ”

Xie Mingzhou hurriedly pushed Long Qing: "Then you go and buy twenty catties of salt, ten catties for your family, and ten catties will be given to Grandpa Ganka when I go back." ”

Long Qing glanced at Long Wen, and Long Wen said, "We can't accept such a heavy gift." ”

Xie Mingzhou pushed Long Qing and walked to the salt shop, and Long Wen didn't speak, standing there waiting for the two.

The two bought salt and followed Long Wen to the river, where the Xiangxi River flows into the Yangtze River, it looks very wide, just got on the boat, Xie Mingzhou meditated and exercised, but this vertigo attack has been separated for a long time, and the Yuan Shen may have recovered.

When he meditated, Long Wen also rocked the boat and walked away for a while, although the Xiangxi River is gentle, but sailing against the current is much slower than going into the water, Xie Mingzhou grew up by the Qiongjiang River, so he will naturally rock the boat, the two changed the boat, and it took two hours to get to the ground, if it weren't for Xie Mingzhou's oars like flying, he might still be drinking wind on the river.

When the three of them went up the mountain to the village, it was already dark, and the women at home made food, but Xie Mingzhou didn't eat, and said that he would not eat at noon, and asked Long Qing to take him to rest.

The humidity in the mountains is heavy, and the village is full of stilted buildings built with bamboo, more than a foot high from the ground, Xie Mingzhou is afraid that he will take out the jade bed and collapse the foot of the house, so he only sits on the bamboo bed to meditate.

After a night of practice, his spirit was much better, he had tried to get the Yuan Shen out of his body, but the feeling of boiling oil pouring on his body made him dare not try again, it seemed that it would take some time to completely recover the Yuan Shen.

Thinking that I had finally avenged my master, I was both happy and sad in my heart, and I was a little distracted for a while.

When I got out, it was already dawn, Long Wen's family had already gotten up, there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping under the bamboo building, Xie Mingzhou walked over and chatted with Long Wen: "Uncle, I saw that those people had shaved their hair outside yesterday, did the Tartars already occupy this place? Why haven't you shaved your hair?"

Long Wendao: "I occupied it in the first two years, but it was not very stable, and it was not until last year that it almost settled down." We people in the mountains can't go back to the mountains a few times a year, so we just leave after buying and selling, what are we doing with shaving our heads? ”

Xie Mingzhou said: "I see that those people have shaved their heads, and they don't look dissatisfied, do they want to prepare to be a person from the Tartar country for the rest of their lives?"

"In my opinion, to be a Qing person, except for shaving the head, everything else is better than the Ming Dynasty, the original time, such and such taxes, we went down the mountain once, and the mountain goods and furs brought out were almost half taken away, and what kind of family, the landlord's battle bullying, don't you see how many people can't survive, become a homeless people? I heard that now the emperor of the Qing State has issued a holy decree, so that those officers and soldiers are not allowed to disturb the people, I think it is stronger than the Ming Dynasty. ”

In Uncle Long's heart, there is no distinction between Han people and Tartars, as long as the life can go on, who cares who is the emperor?

Xie Mingzhou was speechless, I heard that the Tartars were cruel and easy to kill, but they could burn and loot back and forth in the land of Bashu, the Great Western Army, the Great Shun Army, the Ming Army, the Yao and Huang Thirteen Families, the mountain bandits and bandits, which one was not a Ming person? Even the Tartars came in, and the one who killed the most people was the Ming man who surrendered!

In all dynasties, it was the people who suffered, "prosperity, the people suffered, and when they died, the people suffered." "Even if there is an occasional person who becomes a human being, but a new person becomes a people, someone has to suffer, and this is a dead knot that cannot be untied. All in all, happiness and power are always in the hands of power!

He dispelled those messy thoughts in his heart, for him as a Taoist priest, thinking about these is obviously not a proper job, what he should think about is: Jindan Avenue, Taoism and immortality.