Great Sui Guoshi

The three who were the first to speak before shouted: "Old Chuangong, look, there is another business here."

The gray-haired old man looked at the eight people in front of him, especially the scholar who came with a donkey at the end. His whole body was wet, as if he had walked a long way.

"This...everyone, it's really not suitable for sailing in this rainy day when the water vapor is heavy."

The old man looked at everyone hesitantly, and while speaking, a young man who looked like his son shouted from the sailboat deck behind him:

"Father, when the water vapor clears, all the guests have gone to other ships, so there is no business for us. I am still waiting to marry a wife."

Ugh.

The boatman turned his head, sighed, waved his son to put down the wooden ladder, and looked at the eight people.

"Everyone, let's get on board."

After talking about the fare, the seven people stepped up the wooden ladder one after another.

"Hey, let the son talk before sailing." "Don't be too careful, old man, as long as you have money to earn."

Lu Liangsheng followed behind, and took out the agreed price from his sleeve. The eight people shared it for only forty or fifty yuan, but they paid two shares, and the old donkey behind him also took one.

When they got on the boat, they basically didn't talk much. The four scholars gathered together to talk in a low voice, and it sounded like nothing more than academic stuff, while the other three didn't know each other. After boarding the boat, they found different places to stay.

After a while, the rain gradually subsided, the old boatman came out of the cabin with a big bowl, and when he passed by the crowd, he smelled the aroma of wine.

Naturally, Lu Liangsheng also smelled it, leaned against the side of the cabin door, opened his eyes slightly, and saw the boatman standing on the bow, kneading in the bowl with his hands, glutinous rice grains could be seen between the wine and water.

Among the seven people, someone asked curiously: "Boatman, what are you doing?"

"Sacrifice water."

The boatman turned his head and asked the young men on board to untie the rope, and while kneading glutinous rice and mixing rice wine, he said with a smile:

"Guest officers don't know, there is a lot of knowledge in this river, and if you venture out of the boat, you have to offer some offerings to the gods and spirits who govern the river."

A scholar sat on the bookshelf, stretched his legs and said with a smile:

"What about ghosts and gods? I'm a scholar."

The companion next to him leaned over and said in a low voice, "Last time, the vixen..."

"roll!"

At the bow of the boat, the boatman threw the whole bowl into the water, and when he heard the sound of 'boom' coming from the mist in the distance, he turned around with a smile.

"You scholars, if you don't believe it, it's a matter of course, but I have been running on this river all my life, and I have seen everything I should see, and I have seen everything I shouldn't see."

The few people who had nothing to do and waited for the boat to sail were probably interested and urged.

"What should I not look at in this river?"

"……Ha ha."

The boatman laughed and replied: "There are too many, but there is one thing that I will never forget in my life... When I was 20 years old, I once went fishing with my father...

... Suddenly a strong wind blew up on the surface of the river, and the mist filled the air. I heard the sound of rattling in the water. Guess what?A big fish, bigger than the boat we were on, rushed out of the water, and the waves threw me and my dad into the water, thinking that we were going to be eaten by monsters, but the big fish didn't care at all. , has been in the fog like fighting someone. "

Lu Liangsheng closed his eyes, but he was actually listening too. Sometimes this strange anecdote turns into a story, which sounds quite interesting.

The toad lying on the donkey's head opened its eyes and snorted coldly.

"Destroyed."

Over there, the old boatman's words continued.

"...It turns out that there was an expert who did it. After injuring the fish demon, he rescued my father and me..."

Toad closed its eyes and turned away.

"Two defeated generals."

At this time, the boatman stood at the bow of the boat and shouted: "Let's go!"

With the pole in hand, I pushed it into the water, and the sailboat rowed across the water to push away the ripples, and entered into the diffuse water mist.

Chapter 121 Destined to cross the same boat, I don't know if the fairy is in the middle

There was white mist on the surface of the river, and slight water waves swayed away. When the oars were drawn out of the water, the light sailboat sailed quietly, passing through the diffuse mist.

The big river is spacious, but it is not as vast as the sea. The sailing boat is slow, and it has reached the center of the river.

The waves are turbulent, the waves hit the hull, the sailboat is shaking, especially the bow, and the side string against the river, sometimes tilted, sometimes tilted, the sails are folded and lowered at this time, foggy and rainy, it is not suitable for fast sailing.

The boatman is holding his trouser legs and standing barefoot on the bow of the boat. As the boat shakes, the balance of his body changes slightly. The pole in his hand is used to detect hidden reefs.

"Guest officers, you have to sit still and be careful not to fall into the river. It's hard to catch people in this foggy day."

Lu Liangsheng was leaning against the bulkhead at the stern of the ship, and the swaying was a little less on this side, but he didn't feel much. The old donkey was cast with a rock technique, and knelt on the deck with all four limbs. No matter how the ship shook, he couldn't move at all.

The son of the boatman rowing, tired and sweating profusely.

"Damn, is the boat draughting, or is it because I'm not doing my best? Why is it so heavy?"

The other seven passengers in the front part of the boat were all ordinary people. Three passers-by held umbrellas and leaned on the railing with blue faces, probably from seasickness. Talk to each other in low voices.

"Could the boatman's words be true?" "I don't know..."

"I'm a scholar, helping the world and saving the world, how can I be frightened by mere fish monsters!"

"Brother is right, the four of us are sworn brothers, and we are determined to help Lord Ming and restore the peace of the people in the world. How can we shrink back because of a fish monster? Look at that scholar over there, he smells of alcohol and is sloppy. You can't learn from him. Fall."

Among the four, a relatively young scholar suddenly interjected.

"Hey, if you don't tell me, I don't think that person looks familiar, as if I've seen him somewhere before."

On the other side of the bulkhead, Lu Liangsheng closed his eyes and naturally heard the four people talking. He smelled of alcohol, his robes and hair bun were wet. As soon as he got on the boat, the seven people seemed to be disgusted and kept away.

It's okay if you don't come, so you don't have to talk.

Along the way, Lu Liangsheng only talked to his master and the female ghost except when he met the fat monk.

As Taoist Hama said, people who are going smoothly will be hit harder than ordinary people when they suffer setbacks, but after passing this hurdle, they will be alive and well again.

Lu Liangsheng is in such a state right now.

…………

The surface of the river was a vast expanse of whiteness, and under the dark water surface, a mass of white bubbles rolled.

'Boom. '

It melted on the surface of the water, quietly creating a circle of ripples, and pushed it away.

…………

Suddenly, Lu Liangsheng, who was leaning against the bulkhead, opened his eyes slightly, and the toad coiled on the donkey's head also half-closed its eyelids.

"No, fish demon, I'm sorry."

At this time, there was a bang.

"Oh, how did you jump on a carp?"

Not far from the deck of the three traveling merchants, a big carp flicked its tail and danced around the deck. It was quickly caught by a man with both hands, and he lifted the fish by its gills.

"Mr. Chuan, do you have a pot and a small stove? Let's have a drink of fish soup together."

"Haha, I'm afraid it's a gift from the Dragon King of Jiang after seeing me working hard on the boat." The other person looked at Li Yu and laughed.

The four scholars over there came together and looked curiously at the river below the boat. Living in the south, it is rare to hear of fish jumping into the boat by themselves.

A bold scholar even leaned out with almost half of his body.

"I don't know, is there any more?"

At the bow of the boat, the boatman who was exploring the reef put away his pole and turned around, feeling a little worried, and asked the man who was carrying the fish to throw the fish back.

"We fishermen have always been filial to Master Jianghe. Wouldn't it be a mess when we returned the gift in return? Hurry up and throw it back, don't take it randomly, we are almost at the opposite ferry, don't make trouble!!"

The boatman's son also spoke to help:

"The four guest officers over there, don't lean out, keep your eyes on the water, and be careful that the drowning ghost finds a substitute."

At this moment, amidst the ups and downs of the water waves, a huge black shadow swam through the water, looking above the twisted water patterns, a figure sticking out of the ship's side stretched out a long, hard and thorny arm.

The huge body squeezed the river water, and the water waves caused by it rushed away, and the sailboat on the water swayed in the ripples.

The scholar overlooking the water, vaguely saw something in the depths of the water, and when he wanted to see clearly, he heard the son of the boatman say, "Be careful, the drowning ghost has found a substitute."

Instinctively retracted to the inside of the boat, the shelled black shadow broke through the water and immediately caught an empty space.

Turning around, the scholar in the boat straightened his face and flicked his sleeves.

"Nonsense, it's good, how can there be such gods and ghosts."

goo~~

Bubbles surged out of the water, the voice of speaking stopped, and the four scholars were close to the side of the boat, so they naturally heard it.

"what sound?"

"It seems to come from the water."

Bubbles on the surface of the water surged up one after another as if out of breath, and the four scholars and the other three passengers approached curiously.

At this time, the boatman at the bow was also shouting: "We are almost reaching the shore."

The seven people leaned out, heard this subconscious turning back, and looked at the bow of the ship.

The river wind mixed with the rain blew heavily, the furled mast creaked and twisted slightly, the moment the carp in the man's hand swayed its tail, it was like a moment of shock.

Lu Liangsheng, who was leaning on the bulkhead, got up suddenly, disappeared in place, waved his robe, and the boat master yelled "Hey!", the pole in his hand broke the rope connected to the bow and flew into the sky.

The moment his hand came into contact with the pole, Lu Liangsheng stomped on the mast, his robes fluttered, and the long pole in his hand was filled with mana, and he threw it down from top to bottom.

Pfft!

The sound of breaking the water, the water splashed on the bodies and faces of the seven people. For a moment, they only felt the cold rising, and the hairs on their bodies stood up one by one.

The bow of the ship lightly touched the ferry bridge at the pier, and the slight shock brought the boatman and the seven people on the side of the boat back to their senses.

A man wipes the water stains from his face.

"What just happened?"

"I seem to see a white shadow above our heads..."

At this time, someone suddenly found that there was one person missing on the boat.

"Where's that sloppy scholar?"

"It won't fall into the water, will it? And the donkey is gone." "Maybe it's a water ghost. It's wet all over. Isn't that how it's written in ghost novels?"

"Go, go, go!"

The faces of the few people turned pale, and they didn't dare to stay on the boat. Anyway, the boat money had already been picked up before, so they quickly greeted the confused boatman, took their luggage, got off the boat in a hurry, and ran away quickly.

Seeing the pole lying quietly on the boat, the boatman walked over tremblingly, picked it up and held it in his hand to look through it.

"It's strange, why did it fly out, and the scholar and the donkey."

what.

what is this.

At one end of the long pole, there is a two-foot sticky substance, which is yellow and has a strange smell.

The boatman reached out to touch it carefully, frowned, and couldn't help but lick it.

"Crab roe..."

At this time, the young man at the stern came walking with clasped palms and praying. When he saw the old man, he hurried over with excitement on his face.

"Father, that sloppy scholar, that sloppy scholar..."

He stammered excitedly, gestured with gestures, and it took a moment for the last sentence to fall heavily.

"...It's a fairy."

The sound of tinkling came from the side of the river beach, the rain was green in color, and the water vapor melted on the body of the scholar riding a donkey in the distance, misty and hazy, like a land fairy.

The father and son on the boat were at a loss for what to do, holding the crab roe with a strange fragrance.

It took a long time before I realized it, but it was a burst of melancholy.