Sir, this sword is a keepsake

On the Daigo River, misty and rainy, with green hills on both sides of the road, a light boat slowly goes down the river.

There is a straw shed to keep out the rain at the bow of the boat, and the boatman sits on a bamboo stool and shakes a banana fan. On the bamboo mat beside him, a six or seven-year-old girl is sleeping soundly, with a sweet smile on her lips. What a sweet dream.

On the baffle at the stern stood a row of black ospreys, with three black heads hanging down and snuggling together, hiding their pointed beaks in their breast feathers, resting quietly, occasionally making cooing noises.

There was a sudden coughing in the cabin, and the girls and the Ospreys woke up with a start.

The girl squeezed her slender eyebrows to her forehead, sat up straight, and pressed her narrow shoulders against the fishing net stand behind her.Her big black eyes reflected the dense water vapor, and her expression was naive.

"Grandpa, that brother is awake."

As soon as she spoke, the eyes of the man in the cabin suddenly opened. They were a pair of amber pupils, without any impurities, floating a dull blue color.The curtains were drawn down, and the cabin door was tightly closed, as if afraid of letting in a little wind.Facing the complete darkness, Shen Fang's eyes flashed with daze and confusion.Hearing someone walking outside, he subconsciously touched his waist with his right hand, but it was empty.He sat up, mobilized his senses, and caught the unique evil spirit of the sharp weapon in the corner.

The door was pushed back at this moment, and the light came in. Shen Fang was dazzled for a moment, subconsciously closed his eyes, opened them again, and saw a girl with big eyes.

He hesitated, "Where is this?"

The girl just stared at him, as if she saw something strange, and then ran away, stepping on the board of the boat with brisk steps, making a thumping sound.

"Grandpa, grandpa, come quickly, people are really awake!"

She yelled as she ran.The door was wide open, and Shen Fang saw the hazy landscape outside receding backwards, confirming that he was on a river boat.He looked at his body, touched his chest, shoulders, and thighs, was stunned for a while, and got off the couch.Seeing that Yiwei and Duanjian Huangxue were there, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the dark cabin.

As soon as he arrived at the bow of the boat, he heard the boatman in coir raincoat and bamboo hat under the thatched shed say, "Young man must have many questions, but I suggest you start with the simplest ones, for example——Where is this place?"

Shen Fang looked at the talking boatman, speculating about his identity in his heart.

"Daigo River?"

The boatman nodded.The girl brought out a bowl of steaming noodles, raised her head, and stared at Shen Fang with her eyes.

"Is this for me?" Shen Fang asked.

The girl nodded.

When Shen Fang heard the girl calling the boatman grandpa, he knew that she was not dumb, and he didn't understand why she didn't talk to him.However, in an instant, his head throbbed and hurt. He frowned, and quickly took the big bowl of white soup and fine noodles.

The first mouthful was still a bit measured, with no more and no less noodles, chewing and swallowing slowly.For the second bite, he picked up the bowl, scooped up a large stack with his chopsticks, and sucked the soup into his mouth, making a lot of noise.

With something in his stomach, his headache also eased a lot.

The girl walked to the stern silently, sometimes looking at Shen Fang, sometimes looking at the river, the river was calm, they were the only boat, and she didn't know what she was looking at.

Shen Fang was not afraid of the girl's jokes, he was really hungry.The sweetness of the river water, the chewy texture of the fine noodles, and the freshness and fishiness of the river fish are all eaten whole.He raised his head and drank the fish soup in one gulp.Raising his hand, wiping the grease stains on his lips, a full stomach made Shen Fang finally accept the fact that he was still alive.

"How long have I been asleep?" Shen Fang asked the boatman.At the same time, he said in his heart: It's good that he didn't die, because alive, there is still room for maneuver in many things...

"No more, no less, three days."

Three days, that's ten days before the vernal equinox.

"Where is this ship going?"

"Go eastward to Luoyang."

Shen Fang took a deep look at the boatman, nodded, and sat down on the spot in the thatched shed.From this angle, you can just see the appearance of the boatman under the bamboo hat.The boatman's hair was actually grizzled, coupled with his sagging and thin shoulders, he didn't have the lean physique that he should have had to earn a living on the river for many years.A pair of eyes are wrinkled and drooping, no matter what angle you look at, it looks like you are sleeping.

However, his attention was only focused for a moment, and all kinds of pictures he had experienced flashed in his mind: Yongxia Mountain, Fengpu County, Lianyun City, Jinghu Lake, Wuyou Peak... His thoughts were like wild horses running wild, violent and uneasy Speeding forward, and finally freezes into a picture that he is all too familiar with - a misty cocoon beating like a heart, but what is different from usual is that the cocoon ball is wrapped with something like a blood vessel, extending towards the endless blood-red depths and go...

A withered hand suddenly grabbed his shoulder, Shen Fang woke up suddenly, raised his eyes, and saw the boatman standing in front of him, and the hand that was still holding him just now disappeared suddenly.

"Senior, did you save me? I remember, I was... I fell off Wuyou Peak."

The boatman looked at Shen Fang's right hand, which was used to holding a sword, and said, "I am not the one who saved you. I was resting at the foot of the mountain. I saw you lying there, so I picked you up and boarded the boat."

"At the foot of the mountain?" He should indeed be lying at the foot of the mountain, but there should be several puddles of mud...

The boatman didn't respond, his gaze slowly moved up and landed on Shen Fang's left chest.

Shen Fang frowned, then looked down at his left chest, only then noticed that his clothes had changed.Suddenly, the boatman rashly reached out to his left chest. Shen Fang was startled, and instinctively blocked with his hands. At the moment of contact, Shen Fang felt a soft force force his wrist to turn over. The palm of the hand was barely brushed.

"This—" He was horrified in his heart.Shen Fang wasn't worried that the old boatman would harm him, he had been locked away once, if he wanted to kill him, why wait until now, unless he was to use him.

The boatman's withered palm had already slapped his chest, and an internal force from his palm immediately penetrated into his body. Shen Fang didn't feel any discomfort. ups and downs.

There is something in his body that has suffered from the force of the boatman, and it seems to have awakened!

Shen Fang naturally thought of the heart-like fog cocoon.Could it be that he was parasitized by the mist cocoon instead of that woman?This, never heard that there is a Holy Son?No... This must have something to do with receiving Gui Xuzi's finger on Fengyuntai.

The feeling of falling sharply from the sky thousands of miles seems to be just yesterday, and Shen Fang, who has experienced the storms of life and death, quickly stabilized his mind.At this time, the boatman walked to the side of the boat thoughtfully and looked towards the river.

This……

Shen Fang took the initiative to open the mouth and said: "What did you see, senior? I have been in contact with the fog cocoon of the Northern Wilderness Saintess in Lianyun City, and I was attacked by evil fog in my body. Lord Gui Xuzi's finger, the current situation—"

Since the other party sent him to Luoyang, he was by no means an ordinary person.At this time, Shen Fang decided to tell everything and tell the whole story.

"Why did you come to Wuyou Peak?"

"Since the senior sent me to Luoyang, he wanted to know my identity, and also knew that I was entrusted by my father to go to Luoyang. I was a little confused on the way, and I heard that Hualongzhan can eliminate the influence of evil fog, so I rushed up the mountain .”

"Hualongzhan can eliminate the influence of evil mist, is that what the monk in Jinghu told you?"

"Exactly, the seniors also know him?"

"I know. He's right. Guixuzi once said that Hualongzhan carries energy and star luck. In the chaos, there is a way. Hualongzhan is the best choice to restrain the evil fog in the Northern Desolation." The boatman After a pause, "It seems that you not only failed to use the Hualongzhan, but also failed to solve the confusion, and suffered a big loss from that old Taoist. Guixuzi's Lingxu can cut off water and clouds with one finger, and can also make dead trees Blooming flowers. The mist in your body would not have formed a cocoon, but he stimulated it. Even if you fell from Wuyou Peak, he was still worried that you would not die... Just now, when I tried it, I found that the mist cocoon was completely formed , it's only been five days."

Shen Fang was silent. In this way, he returned to the original question again, why didn't he fall to his death?It doesn't make sense in any way.At this time, Zhuang Li didn't know that he was not dead?Three days have passed, he must have left Wuyou Peak... where will he go...

Shen Fang, don't think about that person anymore, you may have been completely manipulated by the fog cocoon to become the Son of the Northern Wilderness before you arrived in Luoyang... The situation is too difficult, and this absurd idea made him laugh out loud.Immediately, the smile disappeared, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and the pain in his expression was seen by the boatman.

"Young Xia seems to be worried about more than just this matter."

Shen Fang was taken aback, and smiled wryly: "Don't hide it from seniors——"

"Wait," the boatman shouted towards the stern, "Mistress Kui, plug your ears, it's too early for the dolls to hear this."

"..." Shen Fang stared blankly and saw the girl pouted her small mouth and raised her two small hands to cover her ears.

"Young hero, please speak."

"No no no, senior misunderstood."

"I have lived most of my life, and I have seen all kinds of men and women suffering in the world of mortals. Just now, you have four big characters written on your face, 'trapped by love'."

"..."

"It must have something to do with your falling from the sky."

"F-falling from the sky? No, no, senior still misunderstood. I really fell from the Fengyun Terrace of Wuyou Peak."

"It doesn't agree."

"Who disagrees?"

Shen Fangzheng said suspiciously, when a loud cry suddenly sounded from the river, with a long tail, swinging from the opposite bank.He stood up, followed the prestige, and found that it was the direction that the girl named Kui Niangzi was looking at earlier.So this is what Kui Niangzi has been looking at?Just as a thought flashed through his mind, the next moment, Shen Fang's expression froze, his mouth was slightly open, and he was speechless.

I saw a snow-white giant kite swooping down from the mountain, and when it was about to plunge into the river, it flipped up again in a hurry.Its powerful wings were fully extended, forming two huge feather canopies, gliding towards them by the wind.

A pair of eagle eyes were piercing, staring at Shen Fang from afar, as if greeting an old acquaintance.Shen Fang couldn't get any more excited, and murmured, "Bei Mingyuan, so it's like this..."

After the day when he embraced Xiashan, he finally saw Zhuangli, this magical flying bird again. In just a few months, its body has grown a lot, and with light flapping of its wings, it can raise a huge air current.

Shen Fang's headache seemed to be caused by Bei Mingyuan's collision with him in the air.

However, just when Shen Fang was about to go forward to meet him with "hot tears in his eyes" with a little bewilderment, Bei Mingyuan lifted his tail and turned lightly towards the stern of the ship.

When the river waves rose, the hull of the boat swayed, Shen Fang stabilized his figure, but saw the sunflower flying in front of those ospreys that were so exquisite because of the contrast, like a hen protecting its chicks, threateningly Shout: "Don't play tricks on them! Grandpa, come and take care of it!"

"Hey." The boatman responded softly, and Bei Mingyuan actually listened to him quite a bit, flew over the heads of Osprey and Kui Niangzi, and flew away again.

Watching Bei Mingyuan return to the forest, Shen Fang's heart could not be calm for a long time.

"Young man, what, I'm right, you are indeed 'trapped by love', and you indeed fell from the sky."

Shen Fang leaned over the side of the boat, bent over to wash his face with water, and the scene of Zhuang Li washing his face by the side of Yunchuan was printed in his mind when the fog cleared and the sun rose that day.He should have told Zhuang Li what he wanted at that moment.

"It's too late." Shen Fang said helplessly with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "Entering the palace, the way of the sword is lost; there is fog and cocoons, and you can't help yourself; killing your father's hatred, there is no way to get rid of it."

The boatman shook his head.

"Whether you want to go to the palace or not is up to you."

Shen Fang was silent and did not respond.

"The matter of the fog cocoon, alas, in fact, the Hualongzhan is useless at all. Therefore, you don't need to be disappointed."

Shen Fang was surprised, "Senior, didn't you say that was what Guixuzi said?"

"That's right, that's what Gui Xuzi said, but that's a big lie that Gui Xuzi told!"

Shen Fang was terrified.

"Then, is it possible that Hualongzhan carries the fate of the country..."

"That's right, that's also false. As for the fate of the country, do you really think it can be materialized in a vessel? This is just Guixuzi's attempt to attract the attention of everyone, whether it is Xiliang, Lingsnamp, Beihuang, or Daliang. cheated by him."

Shen subconsciously wanted to ask why, but a thought gradually emerged in his mind and became extremely clear.

His gaze froze at first, then softened, and fell on the boatman, "So senior, you are the Taoist priest of Guixuzi."