Chapter 23 to Niangniang Beach

The two went down the mountain, and because Chu Haotian couldn't use his internal force, Mei Gui had to carry him all the way on foot. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info to go to Niangniangtan and must pass through Suizhou, and the two of them finally arrived in the city of Suizhou in the evening.

The streets were still noisy, but the last time they came to Xuzhou was spring, and it was autumn at this time, and before they knew it, they had been on Cuifeng Mountain for two whole seasons. The vendors on the street are obviously very different from last time, and this time they are mostly harvested products such as melons, fruits and vegetables.

The two found a larger inn to live in, and then went downstairs to the lobby for dinner. After Mei Guipin tasted the special dish of "Donkey Meat Stir-fried Bowl Tray" last time, she has been thinking about it, and today she can finally enjoy it. Although Chu Haotian was addicted to alcohol and committed crimes, he was physically injured, and his master's words were still vivid, so he finally restrained himself from drinking.

After the meal, Chu Haotian called the store to ask about the situation in Niangniangtan. The shopkeeper told him that twenty miles north of the city there was a village called "Jiaowei City", where he could cross the Yellow River by boat to Niangniangtan. The current of this Niangniang Beach is turbulent, and there are giant whales lurking in the water, and ordinary people who are not ferrying people on the beach cannot reach the beach at all.

Niangniang Beach, located in the northernmost part of the Central Plains, is the only inhabited island in the Yellow River, so it is known as "the first beach of the Yellow River in the world". According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng and his mother Bo Ji were framed by Empress Lu and took refuge here, so they were named Niangniangtan. It is this small island that legend has it that once staged a legendary and tragic scene in the history of the Central Plains. At that time, several generals led a number of strong warriors, protecting a concubine who was pregnant with Liujia secretly out of the palace, all the way to the Xiongnu territory, suddenly, a big river in front of them, in panic and despair, they unexpectedly saw the island in the river, there was no choice, they desperately hid here. However, they still have lingering fears, and after the birth of the child, the clever and delicate concubine will transfer the child to another island, or you will come or she will go to nurse the child, just in case. Twelve years later, a young man walked out of this island, returned to the palace, and sat in the dragon court. He is Liu Heng, the Emperor of Han Wen who was praised by later generations as the "rule of Wenjing". There were three brothers among the generals who protected them back then, and it is said that these three people were the famous flying generals Li Guang, Li Wen, and Li Gong in history.

Three years after Liu Heng ascended the throne, he took his mother back to the palace, and divided the two islands and more than 1,000 miles of beach land west of the Yellow River to the Li brothers, and no one was allowed to occupy them. It is said that this "policy" has continued to the present, and Niangniangtan and Taizitan are named after this. For thousands of years, there has been such a folk song in the local area: "Niangniang Beach, Taizi Beach, the water is long, it is two boats." "No matter how many times there have been floods, they have not flooded this beach in the river.

"Eighteen bends of the Yellow River, the legend is no more than Niangniang Beach; after thousands of years of vicissitudes, it is still entrenched in the middle of the river; the descendants of the generals guard the island, keep in mind the holy order from generation to generation; worship the temple of Our Lady of Bohou, and bless the people with a good name. "It's Niangniang Beach. The beach is surrounded by water on all sides, the mirror is shining, the back is against the dragon's mouth, sitting firmly in the water, like the surging Yellow River after hundreds of miles of steep cliffs hijacked, because of anger and spit out a huge thing. The Yellow River is divided by it, and the cliffs facing the water are surging with waves, and you can see from afar that it shows dozens of miles of rich and narrow river valley plains. The north bank is a stone cliff, the mountains overlap, the sea of clouds is vast; condescendingly, overlooking the panoramic view, Niangniangtan is really like a pearl inlaid in the middle of the Yellow River, and like a landscape painting covering the middle of the Yellow River, it is vivid and has a special interest. The green trees on the island are towering, the orchards are prosperous, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the fields are moistened by the water of the Yellow River. Idyllic cottages, dotted in the forest, the island residents work hard, fish and ferry, live a self-sufficient life, outsiders set foot on the island at first glance, such as Penglai fairyland, and as if entering the paradise. Walking around the island, the flowers and plants are thick, fragrant and refreshing, the path around the island, the willow trees are shady, cool and refreshing, looking forward to the river, suddenly feeling open-minded, taking a cruise, chasing the wind and waves, making people feel refreshed and happy.

After listening to the introduction of the store, Chu Haotian and Mei Gui both looked at each other, he thought that Niangniangtan must be a desert island with bad conditions, but he didn't expect to be described by the store as a fairyland on earth, and they both wanted to go to the island to see it immediately, so the two of them suddenly felt better.

After a night of silence, the two hurriedly set off to the village of "Jiaowei City" in the north of the city. Two hours later, we finally arrived at this small village on the bank of the Yellow River. I saw that the green corn field was connected to the edge of the Yellow River, and there was an old man wearing a hat peeling corn cobs in the field.

Chu Haotian walked over to the old man and asked, "Old man, may I ask if you go to Niangniang Beach to cross the river from here?"

The old man stopped what he was doing, picked up his hat and looked at Chu Haotian and Mei Gui, and pointed to the river bank with his hand, "From there, cross the river by boat!" Chu Haotian thanked the old man and walked in the direction he pointed.

When I got to the shore, I saw a small boat docked not far away, and a middle-aged man was sitting on the bow of the boat fishing. Chu Haotian asked the man, "Dare to ask, can you take the two of us to the opposite Niangniang Beach?"

The middle-aged man on the boat looked up at the shore and replied in a thick voice, "Yes!"

Chu Haotian was surprised, he thought that he would interrogate them about the reason for crossing the river, but he didn't expect the middle-aged man to agree so simply. The two got into the boat, and the middle-aged man put away the fishing rod, untied the rope and rowed towards the middle of the river. The river was filled with fog, and an island could be seen standing in the water in the distance, Chu Haotian and Mei Gui felt refreshed, and they really had the illusion of entering a fairyland.

After a while, the boat slowly sailed into the fog, only to see that the current was getting faster and faster, and the hull of the boat was jolting left and right with the waves, Mei Gui was nervous in her heart, and reached out to hold Chu Haotian's arm. In a moment, a huge wave suddenly hit, throwing the hull of the ship into the air, and when it fell, Chu Haotian and Mei Gui had already fallen on the deck. The middle-aged man in charge of the ship shouted a spell they didn't understand, and was struggling to protect the ship. The hull swayed so strongly that it almost capsized. Chu Haotian grabbed the edge of the boat tightly with one hand and Mei Gui's hand with the other, for fear of falling into the water.

After a while, the tide finally stabilized, and the middle-aged man in charge of the boat breathed a sigh of relief, turned back to the two of them and asked, "Aren't you pilgrims who came to worship Niangniang Temple?"

Chu Haotian told the middle-aged man about the things entrusted by the nameless real person one by one, and said that he had a letter to the island owner Li Tian.

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Oh, I see, do you have anything evil on you?"

Chu Haotian and Mei Gui hurriedly shook their heads to clarify, they didn't carry anything evil.

The middle-aged man in charge of the boat muttered, "That's strange, why is the giant whale so restless?"

As soon as the voice fell, I saw a huge whale slowly rising from the stern of the boat, the silver-gray body was like a small island, the length of the body was at least twenty zhang, the part of the fish's head exposed to the water was nearly three zhang high, and the two fish eyes glared at Chu Haotian on the boat viciously......