The 800-mile Dongting Lake has a wide water area and many islands. Among the thousands of islands, the largest island is also the main island of Dongting Lake, which is Junshan Island located in the northeast of Dongting Lake.

Junshan is under the jurisdiction of Yueyang Mansion, known as Dongting Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain in ancient times, and Yueyang Tower, a famous building through the ages, is far away across the lake. The ancient legend of the ancient Chu Xiang land once said, "Dongting Mountain floats on the water, there are hundreds of golden halls under it, the jade girl lives there, and the sound of gold, stone, silk and bamboo is heard at four o'clock, and it is on the top of the mountain." And Dongting is taken from the meaning of "the garden of the fairy cave". There are seventy-two peaks of all sizes on Jun Mountain, which is listed as the eleventh blessed land in the world by the Taoist book.

Therefore, according to legend, the two concubines of Emperor Yu Shun were buried in Junshan, and the ancient Chu poet Qu Yuan called the two concubines Xiangjun and Mrs. Xiang in the "Nine Songs", and the name of Junshan came from this.

On Jun Mountain, there are 36 pavilions, 48 temples, five wells, and four platforms, and there are many places of interest and historic sites, and the cultural heritage is profound. The literati and writers of the past dynasties revolve around the "strange", "small", "secluded" and "ancient" of Junshan, or write poems or inscriptions and carved stones, and many of the eternal swan songs that have been handed down are related to Junshan.

Enjoy the strange flowers and plants in spring, the vast cave garden in summer, the fishing song in autumn and the moon in autumn, and the migratory birds in the wetland in winter, the scenery is different at four times of the year. And the spotted bamboo on Jun Mountain is the only one here. It is rumored that the Emperor Yu Shun collapsed in the south of the cangwu, the second concubine and the queen daughter Ying passed through Dongting Mountain, suddenly heard the bad news, was very sad, and then climbed the bamboo and cried bitterly, blood and tears dripped on the bamboo, and it became a spotted bamboo.

Emperor Yu Shun and the two concubines have long become legends, but Banzhu is still rooted on Junshan Island, telling the world about the poignant love that has been passed down through the ages.

And now, although Junshan Island is still under the jurisdiction of Yueyang Mansion, because of the existence of the Thousand Feather Sect, Yueyang Mansion has no longer stationed officials and troops on Junshan Island more than a hundred years ago, and even the cultural management system only has a tax official stationed in the local area all year round.

The Thousand Feather Sect is responsible for the security of the entire Junshan Island, and similarly, the Thousand Feather Sect also occupies about sixty percent of the area of Junshan Island. Other ordinary people can only live in the lakeside area of Junshan Island.

However, the existence of the Thousand Feather Sect has indeed made the security on Junshan Island very good all the time. The road is not left behind, the night is not closed, there is no trouble of banditry, and there is no disturbance of officials. The lives of the people on Jun Mountain have always been peaceful and peaceful.

It's just that in the past month, after the Thousand Feather Sect closed the mountain gate, the security on the island was much worse. A large number of people in the rivers and lakes who did not dare to pick up the beards of the Thousand Feather Sect appeared on Junshan Island, and there were more and more fights, robberies and thefts. In addition, there would be loud noises and huge earthquakes from the Thousand Feather Sect from time to time, and the residents of the island were naturally panicked.

Under such a background, on a morning before dawn, a group of about thirty or forty people, all dressed in black and brown, with weapons on their backs and waists, appeared on a dock in the southwest of Junshan Island. It's just that such a group of people, except for one who seems to be in his forties, the others are all teenagers and twenties.

The leader was an indifferent young man in a black suit, with a large knife that looked more than four feet long. He looked around for a week, and then asked the only middle-aged man behind him who looked to be in his forties, "Elder Wu, where are we on Junshan Island now, and how far is it from that Thousand Feather Sect?"

The elder surnamed Wu took out a piece of paper from his arms and unfolded it, and it was a very accurate map of Junshan Island. The map is drawn in great detail, and is almost proportionally reduced to the entire Junshan Island.

And in addition to marking the villages on Jun Mountain, the map also focuses on several places, and these places are all within the scope occupied by the Thousand Feather Sect.

The elder surnamed Wu looked at the map, pointed to a dock mark in the middle of the map, and said, "Let's be here now, and if we go northeast for a while, it will be the mountain gate of the Thousand Feather Sect." ”

As he spoke, he drew a distance from the map along the dock marker to the upper right, and the end of his finger was the mountain gate of the Thousand Feather Sect.

The black-clothed boy nodded, silent, not knowing what he was thinking. The elder folded the map slowly and methodically, and asked as he folded it, "Helper, our group of people came without concealment. Thinking about the Thousand Feather Sect, he should already know it at this moment. Do you think we are going to the mountain gate of the Thousand Feather Sect right now?"

The black-clothed young man was still silent for a moment, and then said lightly and coldly: "There are less than thirty-eight of us, and we go directly to the Thousand Feather Sect, which is no different from suicide." Although the Thousand Feather Sect may be fighting among themselves now, it is not something that only thirty-eight of us can take. In this way, you, me, Xiaowu, the three of us will each lead a team of people, divide into three ways, and first go to explore the reality of the Thousand Feather Sect, and then make plans. ”

"But at the behest of the helper. The elder surnamed Wu and a young man who was six feet tall and carried a five-and-a-half-foot sword on his back gave up their orders, and then the thirty-eight people were divided into three small teams, each in three directions, and went separately.

Such a group of people is none other than Hou Xiaohu, Wu Hou and the thirty-six tiger guards of the Tiger Roaring Gang. They took a boat overnight from Tiger Roaring Island to Junshan Island, and landed on Junshan Island before dawn when people were still asleep.

Hou Xiaohu and Wu Hou said before that they wanted to annex the Thousand Feather Sect, but they didn't just talk about it.

In fact, after Hou Xiaohu included Wu Hou in the Tiger Roar Gang, the two giants of the Tiger Roar Gang have been discussing the matter of unifying the Dongting Great Lake. And if you want to unify the forces of the rivers and lakes on the Dongting Great Lake, the Thousand Feather Sect naturally has to face it.

So from very early on, Wu Hou personally led people to Junshan Island many times, constantly went deep into all parts of Junshan Island, and drew a more detailed map of Junshan Island.

Although not everyone can enter the Thousand Feather Sect, when Wu Hou was still Song Wuhou, he went to the Thousand Feather Sect several times on behalf of the Dongting Gang to pay tribute. He already has a good brain, and he has secretly recorded the route many times at the beginning, and he still knows some of the general layout of the Thousand Feather Sect.

So such a detailed map of Junshan Island was finally produced under the double efforts of Wu Hou and his own memory.

It's just that trying to draw such a near-full-scale replica of the map is indeed very troublesome. And Wu Hou has been busy for a month, but he just made such a picture. It is also for this reason that when the Tiger Roar Gang's soldiers were divided into three ways, they could only go roughly according to their memories.

To be continued...

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