The spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is endlessly beautiful, and the maples on the river are like fire and the water is like orchids. Chen Mengsheng, Xiang Xiaotian and Shangguan Yanran are each sitting in a small boat with their luggage on their backs. There are only seven or eight people on the boat heading west along the Yangtze River. Shangguan Yanran kept asking Xiang Xiao about Tianyicheng along the way. Chen Mengsheng was woken up by Shangguan Yanran before dawn today. The three of them packed up briefly and hurried to the pier to catch Xiang Xiaotian. Home boat.
Yangzhou Prefecture has been plagued by evil spirits over the years, and now the waterway has just opened. There are small boats on the pier taking passengers. Fortunately, someone happened to go to Huizhou to do business on the same boat. Chen Mengsheng and the others were able to get on the boat. According to the boatman I didn't like having female relatives board the ship for a long journey. But seeing that Shangguan Yanran and Chen Mengsheng were both wearing Taoist robes, I didn't dare to offend the Taoists and let Shangguan Yanran get on the boat.
March and April are the misty and rainy months in the south of the Yangtze River. The rustling light rain on the roof of the awning looks beautiful at first, but as time goes by, it becomes unbearable. Especially for a girl like Shangguan Yanran who sat there for three days. The boat in the sky was so wet that it was really uncomfortable. When the boat sailed to both sides of Yanghu Lake, there were steep cliffs that were split by a god's ax and went straight into the sky. The majestic momentum made people fascinated. Shangguan Yanran had lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time and had never seen such majesty. Looking at the endless mountains, he asked in amazement: "Brother Xiang, this mountain is so majestic! The stone forest and dense walls make people admire them endlessly."
Xiang Xiaotian smiled and said: "Silly girl, we have now arrived at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. They say that when you return from the Five Mountains, you don't see the mountains, and when you return from Huangshan Mountain, you don't see the mountains. After we pass Yanghu, we will reach the boundary of Huizhou. When we arrive in Huizhou, we Hire a cart and drive a day's journey to Yicheng. The scene now is the most beautiful time in Yicheng. The pear trees all over the street are blooming, and the petals are falling, just like snow." Shangguan Yanran was said by Xiang Xiaotian I am very excited and wish I could get to Yicheng as soon as possible.
Chen Mengsheng sat on the side of the boat and said with a smile: "Junior sister, you should not be naughty about your injuries. I will wait until you recover to make sense."
Shangguan Yanran said coquettishly: "With senior brother here, what do I have to worry about?"
"Yes, that's good. Girl, your senior brother is more worried about your injuries than you are! How can anyone watch his wife just sit back and ignore her, brother, don't you think so?" Xiang Xiaotian's loud voice attracted the attention of his colleagues on the boat. Everyone looked at the three of them sideways, Chen Mengsheng remained silent in embarrassment, Shangguan Yanran blushed with embarrassment, and Xiang Xiaotian looked indifferent.
There was no one talking in the boat and it was quiet for a while. There were only two elderly couples rowing the boat. A loud "canopy" sound broke the silence, and the couple at the bow and stern of the boat screamed.
People in the cabin heard the sound and rushed to the bow to see what happened. Chen Mengsheng was crowded behind and didn't know what was going on outside the ship. Xiang Xiaotian shouted: "Brother, someone fell off the cliff..."
Chen Mengsheng protected Shangguan Yanran and squeezed forward. All he saw was a young and muscular man lying on the bow of the boat with his body covered with blood. There was a long hemp rope tied around his waist, and the bamboo stalk he was carrying behind him was already damaged beyond recognition. Shangguan Yanran was so frightened that she quickly retreated to the cabin. The people on the boat were businessmen who were going to Huizhou to do business, and they all cursed it as bad luck when encountering such a thing.
The old couple rowing the boat complained even more. Not long after the Yangzhou Prefecture Waterway was opened, a new boat was smashed with a big hole. The boss of the boat quickly bowed to the people on the boat and said: "My lords and officials, today is a big hole."
I really feel sorry for you guys. A big hole was smashed into the bow of the boat by a herb collector, and the boat can no longer move forward."
As soon as the boat boss finished speaking, a few people began to curse, but most of them were looking for money rather than anger. Knowing that something had happened, they went back to the ship's warehouse to pack the goods. The boat boss and his wife rowed to the shore.
When the boat stopped at the beach, the guests on the boat got off the boat one after another, took the goods to look for him, and headed to Huizhou. There were only three people left on the boat, the boat owner and his wife, Chen Mengsheng. The old couple are also charitable people and the boat pulled back.
The dead body on the bow of the boat was placed on the beach, and three stones were piled up next to the dead body. This was to tell people that the deceased died suddenly. If anyone knew him, he could tell the family of the deceased to come and collect the body. After the death, the couple was busy asking for help.
Chen Mengsheng and the others returned the money, but Chen Mengsheng waved his hand and refused.
The old couple thanked each other, picked up the boat, and went to work on repairing the boat. Xiang Xiaotian turned his head and looked at the hemp rope around the waist of the dead body on the ground. Shangguan Yanranqi asked: "Brother Xiang, what are you looking at?
Let senior brother perform a ritual for him to save him from going to the six realms, he is also a poor man who died in vain."
Xiang Xiaotian shook his head and said: "Brother, this man died strangely. Look at the break in the rope around his waist!"
Chen Mengsheng and Shangguan Yanran walked to the place where the long rope broke together. Chen Mengsheng squatted down and said: "Brother, the break of the long rope is like a flower. It should have been broken by the sharp rocks on the mountain, right?"
Xiang Xiaotian said with certainty: "This fracture is definitely not broken by rocks. The fracture should be broken from above. But this fracture is broken horizontally. I guess it was bitten by something small."
Eaten and broken."
Shangguan Yanran shouted in response: "Could it be a straw rope chewed by a mouse?
Xiang Xiaotian gestured and thought for a while and said: "It looks a bit like it, but it's not a rat bite. There are no rat bite marks on the fracture. It's better to ask my brother to summon the ghost's soul and ask, so that we don't have to guess again."
Chen Mengsheng nodded and formed a tactic with his hands to summon the man's soul. The ghost's soul seemed a little scared in front of the three strangers.
Chen Mengsheng asked: "Who are you? Why did you fall off the cliff?"
"My name is Zhang Liugen. I don't know why I fell."
Chen Mengsheng sighed and said, "Another confused guy. Is there anyone else in your family?"
Zhang Liugen said sadly: "No more, I am the only one collecting medicines in the mountains and selling them to make a living."
Chen Mengsheng looked up at the cliff that reached the top and said, "I can save you from reincarnation in the six realms of reincarnation. Do you have any unfulfilled wishes?"
Zhang Liugen hesitated to speak, and finally murmured to himself: "Unfulfilled wish? She has already left. I can't give her anything, but I just can't forget her. She will never come back again."
, she will never come back again..."
Shangguan Yanran was shocked to find that she could see Zhang Liugen's soul and hear what he said. She stepped forward and asked, "Brother Zhang, don't you want to see her again?"
Zhang Liugen lowered his head and said: "She is no longer the same person. I have been waiting here for her, but... I just hope that she can live a good life now, and I can't ask for anything more..." Zhang Liugen finished speaking.
He raised his head and looked north for a long time.
Shangguan Yanran said sadly: "I envy her so much. When I ask what love is in the world, it makes us agree to each other until life and death. After going through hardships, things have become different. If you see the person you once loved become a stranger, that is the saddest thing in the world.
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Chen Mengsheng recited the rebirth curse, and Zhang Liugen was numbly put on the soul-binding iron chain by Bai Wuchang and suddenly shouted: "I will always be the same person, I will never change, I will never want you..."
Shangguan Yanran and Chen Mengsheng heard Zhang Liugen's heartbreaking shouts slowly getting farther away. Although they didn't know what happened to Zhang Liugen during his lifetime, they could only wish him not to live so hard and tired in the next life...
Xiang Xiaotian leaned over and looked at Shangguan Yanran as if looking at a monster: "Girl, can you also see the ghost of the unlucky ghost on the ground?"
Shangguan Yanran also said inexplicably: "I don't know either, but I just saw Zhang Liugen's soul. It's not as scary as I originally thought. He is a pitiful man."
Neither Xiang Xiaotian nor Chen Mengsheng expected that in order to detoxify Shangguan Yanran's body in the Han Mausoleum, they cut her wrists and fed her with blood, so how could her eyes be opened? It was hard for them to tell the truth, so they pretended not to know and buried Zhang.
Since Liugen's dead body was something harmful to human life on Mount Huang, Chen Mengsheng could not ignore it. Xiang Xiaotian was very familiar with Mount Huang, so he led Chen Mengsheng and Shangguan Yanran up the stone steps of the back mountain...
It was almost dusk when we climbed to E-Feoling, and the three of us were sweating profusely. Xiang Xiaotian stopped on the trail and said, "We'll stay here for the night. If we go up there in the middle of the night, the water will turn into ice."
Shangguan Yanran stopped and looked at it and said: "Brother Xiang, the clouds and mist here are so thick that we have already ascended to the sky?"
Xiang Xiaotian laughed and said: "Huangshan is famous all over the world for its strange rocks, strange pines, sea of clouds and hot springs. The white clouds under our feet are the sea of fog. You see, the huge stone statue there does not look like a monkey. That is called monkey watching the sea. That opposite
The cliffs are the only way we are going to Tiandu Peak, and only on the steep cliffs can precious medicinal materials such as Ganoderma lucidum and Shouwu grow."
Chen Mengsheng couldn't help but feel terrified when he looked at the towering cliff, let alone the herb collectors with hemp ropes tied around their waists. Xiang Xiaotian looked at the two of them looking at the mountain and sighing, shaking his head and saying: "
Don't even look at it. We're still far from the top of the mountain! Brother, if you have good legs and feet, I'll trouble you to find a cave to spend the night. Girl, go find some pine branches and firewood. We can meet here in half an hour. Maybe.
I can bring back a Huangshan green sheep, and the meat of that thing will be so delicious." Xiang Xiaotian left with Bawang bowed on his back.
Chen Mengsheng said to Shangguan Yanran: "Why don't I accompany my junior sister to collect firewood? The mountains here are high and the roads are steep and there are many monsters. I'm afraid it will be inconvenient for my junior sister."
Shangguan Yanran chuckled and said: "Senior brother, have you been influenced by that big brother during the day? The rocky path is not a problem for me, haha..." After Shangguan Yanran finished speaking, she ran away like a cheerful butterfly with a smile.
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After being told this by Shangguan Yanran, Chen Mengsheng indeed found that he had been influenced by Zhang Liugen invisibly. What if he was thinking about what he could do to Shangguan Yanran? Maybe he couldn't give her anything. Feelings have been a double-sided sword since ancient times, right?
If you hurt others, you hurt yourself...
The more Chen Mengsheng thought about it, the less he had an answer, and he jumped up the mountain on the vertical ladder in confusion...