Bidding farewell to the old and young dragon gods, Xingyan and Xue Yiqiongwei slowly walked along the river. When I walked all the way, I thought about it suddenly, and suddenly felt that it was very interesting, and I didn't expect that Chenguang, who had only been two years before and after, had such a friendship with the Poyang Dragon God that the neighbors and villagers were sincerely afraid to worship, and the relationship became so close. I don't usually think about it, but I suddenly jumped out and thought about it, but I felt that this matter was so magical.

Now, he had probably learned the news of the lost water spirit from the mouth of the old dragon monarch, but he was not in a hurry to rush there.

In the past few days, Xingyan and the two girls who followed him have experienced several thrilling times, almost parting from life and death; Therefore, since leaving the territory of Tongzhou, where the Yangtze River estuary, he and Qiong Wei Xueyi walked slowly along the north of the river, watching the scenery along the way all the way, and they were not in a hurry. After about two or three days, they came to Yangzhou City, a popular place in Zhuxi, which is common in the canon and lyrics. This time, Xingyan has made up his mind to take Qiong Wei Xueyi to play in this Yangzhou city, which can be regarded as a small compensation for these two girls who follow him all the way to adventure.

In the Yangzhou city in front of them, a few people came back for the first time. They all went westward all the way, and when they were about to reach the east gate of Yangzhou, they went to the temple of sending their children to Niangniang in the eastern suburbs, and worshiped in the temple.

Last time, the dragon girl Lingyi had done something in this temple, breaking the golden body of the mother and taking away the black magic armor hidden in it. However, it seems that this place is rich, and when the awakening is to the temple to worship, pay attention to it, and find that the statue of the child in the temple has already reshaped the golden body, smeared with gold and silver, and shines brightly under the reflection of the incense candles around, and it is dazzling.

Seeing this situation, the young man who was originally pregnant with some ghosts was relieved, knelt down on the futon and prayed very sincerely, just begging the mother not to be surprised.

When he knelt down, that Qiong Wei also danced and worshipped like her brother as before, and while worshipping, she also spoke in a tender voice, saying that she was begging the mother to send her son to bless Yunyun—she was just parroting with the women who asked God to give her a child, and she didn't know what she was talking about; when the other people in the temple heard it, they all looked sideways, and their faces were full of surprise! And most of these surprised eyes fell on the handsome young man beside the little sister. These good men and women are now indignant and thinking in their hearts: "Oh! This is only a big age, and he is going to come and rob us of the heirs given by his mother!"

Seeing this situation, Kou Xueyi, the plum blossom fairy soul who knew some common sense, was so embarrassed that she was at a loss—did she want to defend the hall master? Or did she want to tell the little sister that what she said was inappropriate? This problem made the icy and jade woman's face flushed, and she was stunned and didn't know what to do.

However, this embarrassment, the young man who only cared about closing his eyes and sincerely repenting and blessing did not know. After praying, Xingyan stood up from the futon, raised his hand and gestured slightly, beckoning Xue Yiqiongwei to leave the shrine together. And when he stepped out of this smoke-filled temple, the Daomen Young Hall Master was still muttering in a low voice: "Well, the people in this big place are really different, and they can see that I am a foreigner at once—otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people looking at me all the time!"

After praising two sentences, he took Qiong Wei's little hand and walked towards Yangzhou City with Xue Yi.

At this time, Yangzhou was located in the land of Huaihai, and it was a rare county in the world at that time. Legend has it that after Dayu ruled the water and calmed the water and soil of the world, the land of Middle Earth had the saying of Kyushu, and Yangzhou was one of them. When King Zhou Cheng was king, he made the book "Yu Gong", saying that "the southeast is called Yangzhou." Of course, at this time, the geography of the world, the southeast has already reached the Nanhai area of Lingnan Jiaozhou, and Yangzhou, the southeast place in ancient times, has gradually become the center of the eastern part of the world.

If you say that these are just seen in the classics before, there is no specific impression, but when a few people really came to Yangzhou City, they realized that Yangzhou, the thoroughfare of the nine provinces and the rivers and seas, is ten times more prosperous than originally imagined!

Although it is now late September, and the city is already in the crisp autumn weather, and the yellow leaves are scattered, the streets are not deserted at all, and the people who come and go are full of people, and the stalls of the hawkers who are busy selling are all kinds of melons, fruits, and lotus roots, and I don't know how they brought them from all over the world. Yangzhou, its name takes the meaning of Yangbo, there is really a lot of water in the city, the river is criss-crossed, and the boats come and go like shuttles. Those boats and boats often walked side by side with the carriages on the bluestone streets on the shore, competing with each other for priority, and they were stunned to watch.

Looking at this way, the three of them were dazzled, and they forgot to stop to buy a penny of goods when they walked for most of the time. This grand scene really responds to the sentence: "There are many lotus roots in the city like rice, and the smoke and water in the city are like mountains!"

Walking around the street involuntarily, they were suddenly swept away by a stream of people to the side of the market, and then they saw dozens of people rushing by with noise, and I don't know what they were shouting and drinking, and the pedestrians around them suddenly cheered loudly. Poor Xingyan and the three of them were squeezed into a corner of the street, their robes were crooked and their sleeves were wrinkled, their breathing was difficult, and their eardrums were even more buzzing, but they never understood what had just happened.

When the crowd dispersed a little, he woke up and pulled the kind old man next to him and asked, only to know that it was not some high-ranking officials, nobles, generals and captains who had just flaunted their might and swaggered through the city, but the cricket competition in Yangzhou City, which had just decided the champion; After the victory of the cricket, it was put into the sea coffin box in the white jade plate, and then put on red silk and inserted with gold flowers, called "General Cricket", and then was carried around the city by his master as a treasure, boasting for a long time.

After listening to the words of the old man, and then hearing that the cricket is worth the victory, it is often hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, then Rao is awakening to say that in the past two years, he has traveled south and north, and he has seen a lot, and he can't help but be stunned for a while, and he has lost his language for a long time - thousands of taels of silver? In his hometown, as long as six or seven taels of silver, it is enough for a family to live for a whole year!

"Alas, I thought that Raozhou was already very prosperous, but I didn't expect that compared with Yangzhou, it is still an underground and a sky!"

In this way, while watching the street scene with emotion, I felt that it was not long before the sun was about to set. Looking at the sun in the west, the young man who has been only greedy for it feels a little hungry in his belly. After playing for most of the day, affected by this luxurious atmosphere, the young man who was ready to treat Xue Yi Qiongwei gritted his teeth and went to the Slender West Lake in the northwest suburbs of the city, and found a magnificent restaurant called "Zuixiang Lou", ready to have a good meal.

Of course, the owner of Sihai Hall, who has always been thoughtful, did not forget to ask the guy at the door of the restaurant about the approximate price of this restaurant before boarding this luxury restaurant. Although he is cautious and cautious, he is quite rustic in the eyes of Yangzhou people, but the young man who guards the door does not dare to despise it at all, because the three people in front of him, although they are dressed ordinarily, they are either sword eyebrows or beautiful eyes, and they are obviously not ordinary people. Therefore, he reported the price of the wine and food very honestly, for fear that he would accidentally provoke the prince and grandson who traveled in micro-clothes. Maybe it's because of the abundance of goods in the city, or the fierce competition among the nearby restaurants, so the price of wine and food in this spacious drunken incense building is probably in the expectation of the awakening.

At this time, the sun has not yet set, and there are not many diners in the restaurant. Ascending to the second floor, Xingyan picked a position by the window and beckoned Xue Yiqiong to sit down together. Sitting by this window, you can just watch the lake view, watch the smoke and water of the lake under the sunset, and extend in the meandering morning and twilight smoke.

I sat down and began to order. Although the intention is extravagant, but after all, he is used to simplicity, and Xingyan still ordered three bowls of moderately priced soup silver silk noodles. Of course, one of the signature dishes of this Zuixiang Lou is not the same as the ordinary noodle soup, a bowl of jade white noodles as thin as willow silk is covered with fragrant soup, which includes chicken skin, chicken wings, offal, mackerel, pufferfish, ham, crab roe, a few kinds of fresh things mixed together, boiled into a thick soup, poured on the silver noodles, the delicious and mellow taste, can no longer be described by words.

When Xingyan ordered such noodles, he left the table under the pretext of catching up with the shopkeeper and asked him to add shark wings and Jiang Yao Zhu to the second girl's noodles - he could clearly see on the menu, with these two rare seafood things, the taste of the soup noodles was completely different, and only the soup noodles with these two kinds of seafood were really called the signature dishes of Zuixianglou. Of course, in this way, each noodle will be more expensive than half a tael of silver, and Xingyan has already thought that these may be just gimmicks of the store, so let Qiong Wei Xueyi try it, and forget about her own share.

When I finished ordering the food and returned to the seat, I saw that the little girl who had been in such a luxurious restaurant for the first time was so excited that her little face was flushed, and she kept looking around, as if she wanted to see all the beautiful furnishings in the restaurant. And Xue Yi, who has an elegant face, is a little cramped and uneasy, occasionally looking at Xingyan's eyes, quite timid, as if she feels very uneasy to let the hall master spend money like this.

Aware of this, Xingyan opened his mouth to talk about the Yangzhou allusions he had heard, and then pointed to the sparkling lake under the sunset outside the window, so that Xue Yi paid attention to those pleasant scenery - after a while, the plum blossom fairy was attracted by the young man's words, and his eyes followed his guidance, concentrating on watching the lake scenery outside the window.

When the noodle soup came to eat, it was getting dark, and there were more people in the restaurant. In a short time, red candles were lit in the building, and the whole hall was brightly illuminated. When the lights were bright, the shadows of the lake and trees outside the building became vague, and the afterglow of the sunset gradually disappeared into the smoke waves in the distance, and it was no longer clear to see. At this time, Xingyan asked for a small pot of light wine made from a hundred flowers, and poured it with the two girls.

Their shallow drinking pales in comparison to the grandeur of the newcomers. Those who came to the building to drink and feast were probably rich salt merchants from the north and south, or local celebrities, and almost everyone brought a prostitute from the nearby green building to accompany wine to relieve boredom. When the wine and fists were fighting, there was a warbler and swallow words, which was not the same as the deserted scene here on the side of Xingyan.

Of course, there are also bold high-rollers, seeing that the young man by the window is alone with a man, and the two women next to him are stunning, so when the wine is hot, he can't help but have crooked thoughts, thinking about whether he wants to borrow wine to go crazy and come forward to tease. It's just that all of them who can fight in Yangzhou City for a long time, even if they are rough and arrogant on the surface, they are definitely acquaintances; before getting drunk and crazy, pay attention to the ancient sword leaning on the young man's side, and then look at his demeanor of calmly eating and drinking in the hustle and bustle of the building, don't think about it, it must not be a master to mess with. Therefore, although the high-roller literati who hugged each other left and right in the vicinity of Xingyan, although they were full of foul language, they only dared to greet the prostitutes they brought with them, and they did not dare to involve the two stunning ladies over there.

It's okay to get along like this, and it's a little boring to wake up. After eating for a while, I saw the few singing singers in the corner of the hall next to me, cold and deserted, and never opened, and Xingyan remembered his experience as a musician in Huayue Building. Now that it is a little deserted, he has the heart to take care of the business of those singers. After greeting Xiao Er and asking about the price, he felt that it was not too expensive, so he ordered the class of the singers in the corner of the hall and asked them to come over and sing songs and wine for themselves.

Hearing someone singing, the singers were naturally overjoyed, holding the pipa and dragging the song board, Nana moved here, sat down on a few red lacquer waist drum stools not far from the Xingyan table, and then plucked the strings and began to play. When the song was played at the door and the song was getting longer, the singer who was the leader held on to the red tooth song board and sang it tactfully to Xingyan. The song is gentle and soft, and it sings: "Ling Bo walks in the evening, the clouds are high, and there is no sky outside the sky."

The green feather shakes the wind, the cold beads cry and the dew, and the whole is relieved.

The bright moon is cold and the pavilion is jade, and the light incense is scattered all over the lake boat. People are like fairies, and flowers are pitiful.

Wait for the wine to be full of gold bottles, and the poems to be full of notes......"

This soft singing voice is charming and soft, the tail note is long, fluttering like scratching the heart, and it seems to be ringing softly in my ears, it is really a different kind of ecstasy. After the song was finished, the two girls behind her, who were a little younger, changed their Yiyang accents with her, and sang in a bright and cheerful chorus: "The fish blows the waves, the geese fall on the sand, leaning on the green screen of the autumn mountain hangs high;

After singing the song, the pipa also happened to ring, and the whole song was finished. After listening to this neat ending song, the young man who was originally in a state of mind felt refreshed again. At this time, he couldn't help but applaud: "Okay! What a sentence: 'People are like fairies, and flowers are pitiful'!"

After that, he tilted his neck, and a glass of wine was gone.

Seeing him praise, the singer with beautiful eyebrows hurriedly came over and gave a gift. Seeing her coming, Xingyan returned to the smell of wine, and then looked at the Qingwan woman in front of him who didn't dare to raise her head, so he laughed, took out a string of copper coins, about 200 words, and turned his face to the singer and said: "This sister, this is a reward for you, reward you for the sentence 'people are like fairies, flowers are pitiful'." It's really apt!"

After that, he handed the money to the singer and watched her go away with a thousand thanks.

Xu is the song of the singer of the song "lake boat" in the sentence of the song to trigger the interest of Youxing, out of the drunken fragrance building, in the vicinity of the leisurely for a while, until the night is dark, the pedestrian is scarce, Xingyan went to the lake boathouse to hire a rocking boat, put it into the lake, and Qiong Wei Xueyi boarded the boat, together with the Moon Lake smoke and slowly slid towards the Moon Lake.

Originally, Xingyan was going to rock the oars by himself and let the two girls sit on the bow of the boat to enjoy the lake view, but for some reason, Kou Xueyi, who originally listened to the arrangement of the hall master, insisted on rocking the oars for the two of them this time. Although she was just silent at the time of the "dispute", holding the oar tightly with both hands, she could already feel her resoluteness, so she had to say "you have work", and sat on the bow of the boat with Qiong Wei, leisurely enjoying the scenery of Qinghu Lake under the moon.

At this time, it is almost the middle of the night, the moonlight is cold, the night is quiet, and on both sides of the winding waterway, from time to time there are withered yellow leaves falling to the bow of the boat, like falling butterflies in the night. In the sound of the oars, the bright moon in the upper part of the sky, reflected in the water, fell on the side of the ship, rippling into a mass of broken light and shadow, as if it could be fished out as soon as you stretched out your hand. Qiong Wei said that the half of the moon in the sky now, like the half mint she had left this afternoon, was very cool. Earnestly told her brother about this experience, and she kicked the two small embroidered shoes into the cabin, revealing her slender white toes, and immersed them in the cool lake water at the bow of the boat, and from time to time there was a "whooshing" sound of water.

Watching the boat walk leisurely in the sparkling water, after a while, he finally couldn't help but speak, wanting to replace the woman: "Xueyi, are you tired?"

"I'm not tired. ”

Xue Yi replied softly but firmly.

"Oh well. ”

Neither can the teenager. After a while, he said, "Xueyi, then I'll play the flute for you to relieve your fatigue." ”

With that, he untied the white jade flute from his waist and raised it to his mouth. Then, on this autumn night, on the cold lake water, there was a long flute song.

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At this ethereal sound of the flute, the girl who was as cold as snow in the shadow of the moon, her eyes also seemed to reflect the haze of the moonlight in the water, and became a little blurry. And the babbling sound of the oars has not stopped, accompanied by the melodious flute song all the way. Exactly: the snow and ice are half bright, and the smoke and waves are dark.

At this time, the moon is full of cyclamen, and the villages on both sides of the strait are closed early.

In this way, he was comfortable in Yangzhou for a few days, and Xingyan took Qiong Wei Xueyi back to the future. This time it was already a clear goal, just waiting to find the hiding place of the water spirit, and then return to the Qing Palace on Luofu Mountain.

"Well, this time Qiong Wei has to be obedient. ”

As he was walking, Xingyan reminded the little girl in front of him: "This time, as long as we find where the water spirit is hidden, we don't have to catch it." ”

Xingyan was afraid that these two girls would encounter any danger again, so he warned Qiong Wei in advance. Anyway, before going down the mountain, the head of the sect had instructed that as long as the whereabouts of the water spirit could be found, it would be fine, and then Feiyunding would send someone to invite it back.

Naturally, after listening to his reminder, the girl who was trotting all the way in front was busy, and quickly stopped and clarified with Xingyan: "Brother!

After a few days of travel, at the beginning of the twilight that night, Xingyan was ready to find a place to stay.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he saw the faint shadow of a market town, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing in his face, blowing so that people's eyes couldn't open. After a while, he opened his eyes, but Xingyan saw that on the field in front of him, a building painted with the pattern of a fierce clouded leopard suddenly appeared.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, he was surprised to see the flat floor rise, and after a little closer inspection, he found that the building looked like a building ship.

Just as he was looking at it vigilantly, the door of the cabin on the building in front of him suddenly opened, and four or five gold-armored warriors walked out of it, with mighty expressions and shining robes and armor.

"...... you?"

Seeing that these samurai who suddenly appeared were full of divine light, Xingyan was a little confused. When he was inexplicable, he saw these golden-armored warriors quietly lined up in front of him, and then the man with the golden helmet and white feather stepped forward, clenched his fists and said proudly: "My lord Mengjun Marquis of the South China Sea, the Ming Dynasty read the Hehai Dragon Army, and I hope to watch the sunrise of the sea with you, and send a little god to report it!"

This god will speak sonorously, as if with a gust of sea breeze and tide, which is so exciting that he wakes up and gives birth to a chill!

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