On the surface of the Qingjiang River, a large ship is plowing through the waves.
Where the hull of the boat is in contact with the water, there are many fin-like things flying up and down.
This is a hundred-fin boat made by Mohist techniques, imitating the fins of fish to assist swimming.
A dozen men pedaled the water wheel in the bottom warehouse to push these "fins" and speed up the boat.
Of course, it is actually faster not to use manpower. You only need to put the Daoyuan Stone into the sailing formation plate carved by the Mohist monks.
But it's obviously not as cheap as using manpower.
This large ship can carry two hundred people, which is quite good in the waters of the entire Zhuang Kingdom. It is a government ship, but it also operates passenger and freight business.
Du Yehu is on this hundred-fin boat.
Maplewood City is located in the northeast of Zhuang State, and Jiujiang City is in the west. First go to Qingjiang, and it is most convenient to take a boat and take the waterway.
The military control was very strict. He finally took a long vacation, got on the ship, drank a jar of strong wine, covered his head and fell asleep. Only then did he wake up and come out to enjoy the river breeze.
It was already the twelfth lunar month of winter, but because New Year's Eve was approaching, the people on the boat were still very noisy.
At this time of year, most of the people on this boat are travelers from the three cities of Huiwangjiang, Fenglin, and Sanshan.
Du Yehu walked closer to the crowd and listened quietly for a while. He found that there was no local accent from Maplewood City. He curled his lips in boredom and turned back to the cabin alone.
Not long after, he came out carrying large and small bags, and while the ship docked briefly, he got off the ship alone.
There is still a waterway from Wangjiang City here, so he is the only one who gets off the boat.
In such cold weather, Qingjiang is not a problem, and Luliu River will probably freeze.
Therefore, it should be more convenient to take the dry road from here.
These things were all told by the captain in the army who claimed to have traveled all over the country, and they were very useful.
The large and small bags are full of gifts he carefully prepared, including specialties from Daishan County (Jiujiang City itself has no specialties except for ferocious beasts), seizures from the battlefield, and some goodies specially supplied to Jiujiang Xuanjia.
thing.
In short, Du Huhu can guarantee that he will definitely make those bumpkins happy. His sister An An will also grab his big beard and slap him hard.
Both hands were occupied. Looking from a distance, the figure looked like a moving shelf, but Du Yehu didn't feel tired at all.
It has been several years since he and Linghe Jiang Wangfang Pengju and Zhao Rucheng celebrated the New Year together.
He and Ling He didn't have a home, Jiang Wang came and went in a hurry when he went back to Fengxi Town, Fang Pengju didn't like staying in the family land at all, and Zhao Rucheng didn't live much at home.
So the five of them are always together.
This year there is one less Fang Pengju, but there is more Jiang Anan.
Thinking of Jiang An'an's cute little face, Du Yehu couldn't help but grin.
None of his blood relatives are gone. Jiang Wang and others are his biological brothers, and Jiang Anan is his biological sister.
When he was working hard to get higher in Jiujiang Xuanjia, didn't he just want to show off his power in front of his brothers and greet the adoring eyes of his girls?
When he left, he had made an appointment with Jiang Wang about how fast he would practice the Four Spirits Body Refining Art.
Now that he has followed the ancient military master's path of qi and blood, he has completed the four-spirit body-refining technique, and the four spirits have merged. It's time to let the third child know who his elder brother is.
Du Yehu moved forward very quickly. The closer he got to home, the faster he walked.
He took long strides and ran on the road, returning home as fast as he could.
"stop!"
When he was still some distance away from Maplewood City, a group of soldiers stopped him.
"What are you doing?" Du Yehu stopped and asked dissatisfiedly, revealing the Jiujiang Xuanjia military card on his waist.
Several soldiers looked at each other, and the leader saluted: "Sir, we can't go further ahead."
"Why?" Du Yehu suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
The soldiers looked at the large and small bags on his body and roughly understood what he was here for, and couldn't help but show sympathy on their faces.
"You probably left the camp early and just missed the notice." The soldier said carefully: "The evil cult White Bone Tao is here to cause trouble, and it has sacrificed the entire Maple Grove City to welcome the evil god's arrival. Although the conspiracy was blocked by Maple Grove City
Dong A, the dean of the Taoist Academy, exposed it and even alerted the Prime Minister of the country to personally come to kill the culprit. However, the entire Maple Forest City has also fallen into the netherworld. No strangers can enter again."
Bang! Bang!
With Du Yehu's strength, he was unable to grab the package for a moment and let the large and small packages fall to the ground.
"...Where are the people in the city?" he asked tremblingly.
The soldier sighed: "They're all gone..."
Click!
Du Yehu was startled by the sound, and when he came back to his senses, he realized that he had inadvertently stepped into the ground, sinking several inches.
He pulled out his feet and heard a wailing voice coming from next to him.
"It's gone, it's all gone! Nothing is gone!"
Du Yehu followed the sound and looked over, only to see a man carrying a package crying on the ground, his voice already muted.
He cried for a while, but he really had no strength left, so he stopped for a while, and then started crying again.
From the looks of it, he must be a native who was returning to Maplewood City. He was stopped on his way home.
"Dong A, Dong A! Dong A is our dean!" Du Yehu suddenly seemed to have caught something and asked excitedly: "Since it was dean Dong who exposed the evil cult's conspiracy, all the monks in the City Taoist Academy should have
Did you escape?"
The soldier apologized: "Except for Dean Dong, including the trainees, no one was spared."
Du Yehu sat down on the ground and scratched his hair hard.
"No, no."
He was lost and muttering to himself.
"Boss, don't you have great wisdom?"
"Lao San, aren't you a better fighter than me?"
"Xiaowu, aren't you smarter than me?"
"Why is it gone? Why is it gone?"
At the end of his soliloquy, he shouted: "You three grown men, how come you can't even take care of An An!"
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"I do not believe."
He muttered for a long time, then suddenly stood up, gathered the gifts he had brought with him, hugged them into a ball, and rushed towards Maple Forest City without looking back.
"Sir, you can't go there!"
The soldier stretched out his hand to stop him, but Du Yehu had already rushed away in a few leaps.
"Let him go." The soldier next to him sighed: "He can't enter the Netherworld, so he can just take a look from a distance."
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According to the later recollections of the soldiers who sealed off the periphery of Maplewood City, the entire Maplewood City had been silent since it fell into the netherworld.
Only around New Year's Eve that year, I don't know why.
There was a wailing sound like the roar of a trapped animal, which lasted for three days.
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The mountains are high and the roads are far, Jiang Anan slept and woke up on his brother's back, woke up and fell asleep again.
They traveled during the day and practiced at night, sometimes in caves and sometimes in trees.
We slept in the open and could only eat some wild fruits to satisfy our hunger.
But she was very sensible and never complained once.
She knew that her brother would only be more tired and harder.
Several times she wanted to get down and leave by herself, but Jiang Wang just wouldn't let her.
It's getting dark and it's time to rest again.
Jiang Anan likes the night the most, not only because of the stars, but also because her brother can finally stop and talk to her.
After leaving Maplewood City, my brother talked a lot less.
According to previous experience, my brother should find a cave now, light a bonfire, and let her rest in his arms.
But tonight, Jiang Wang carried her up the mountain, all the way to the top of the mountain.
The cold wind on the top of the mountain made her face turn red from the cold. But she was fine, the animal skin she was wrapped in was very warm.
Jiang Wang put her down from his back and held her little hand.
The brother and sister looked around at the top of the mountain and saw only a few stars falling and the surrounding fields peaceful. The distant mountains were hidden in the night, stretching under their feet.
"Brother, what are we doing here?" Jiang Anan asked.
"Tonight is New Year's Eve."
Jiang Wang asked slowly: "Does An An want to see the fireworks?"
"I want to!" Jiang Anan replied immediately, but then shook her head: "Anan doesn't want to..."
She probably also knew that today was no better than it was in Maplewood City. Where could she go to find fireworks in the wilderness? She knew that no matter what she wanted, her brother would do his best for her, so she refused to ask for it.
Jiang Wang squeezed her little hand and said in a dumb voice: "Look."
He let go of Jiang Anan and raised his fingertips into the air.
A flower of flame flies to a high place and blooms brilliantly.
He moved his ten fingers together, and fire flowers rose up and down one after another, blooming in the night sky one after another.
Exploded into a sky full of stars.
Like a star in the sky, falling into the world.
Every bit of starlight is like a passing person.
Although the body and soul are destroyed, the light will always remain.
This is New Year's Eve in the year 3917 in the Tao calendar.
On the top of an unknown mountain, Jiang Wang set off fireworks in the middle of the night for his sister.
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