Chapter 20 Blind Trigrams (3)
Lu Erqi wiped his tears and returned to his stubborn appearance. He held the corner of his clothes, and did not look at Xuan Min and Xue Xian. He turned his head and stared at the increasingly tiny tongues in the brazier, and said softly: "About half a month ago, Lu Shijiu told me that he was going to the Tomb Island in the heart of the river..."
Compared with the upstream and downstream of Wolong County, the river road is shallower and narrower, with scattered small turkeys scattered in the center of the river. Most of the small turkeys are small places, and the small turkeys where the Lu brothers live will look particularly crowded when they are located. The small turkeys are covered with slender white thatch, which is usually for the water birds on the river to rest.
Only one of them can go a few laps, and can barely be considered a small island in the heart of the river.
From a distance, there are wild trees on the island, connected by branches and crowns, which look like green steamed buns and also like graves. So the locals call it "Mantou Island" or "Group Island".
Ordinary people in Tomb Tou Island do not like to go. After all, there are other weeds and misty trees, which are deserted and cloudy, and are not a good place to go. Only the medicine men from different townships far and near are said to the land of Tomb Tou Island, and the land of Tomb Tou Island has fertile and humid, and a lot of herbs have grown on their own.
Lu Shijiu has been there two or three times.
One morning half a month ago, Lu Erqiyi opened his eyes and found a note pressing beside the bed. Lu Shijiu couldn't use a brush, and he always used his fingers to dip his fingers ink to find out, so his handwriting was particularly easy to distinguish. There was only a crooked sentence on the note: Go to the grave tomb island.
As outsiders have noticed, the Lu brothers are not close, Lu Erqi is a stubborn temper that is difficult to cultivate, Lu Shijiu is strange and taciturn, and leaving a note is something he is accustomed to doing.
So Lu Erqi didn't think much about it, but just angrily made a fire and went out to pick up firewood while doing his daily work while waiting for Lu Shijiu to come back.
As a result, I waited until nightfall, and it started raining, but I didn't see the shadow of the nineteenth.
"I went to the ferry, and the boatman moored there said that the rain was getting fast and he would not go to Jiangxin. He also said that the 19th was the black tent of Old Man Liu, and Old Man Liu had never come back. On the 18th, it was too heavy, so he stayed there for the time being." Lu Erqi looked at Xiao, but he clearly said, "I vaguely saw a fishing lamp on the boat in Jiangxin. I guess he was indeed hiding from the rain, so he came back. Who knew-"
Unexpectedly, the rain fell for three days and the river water rose a little. Lu Erqi went to the ferry every day to take a look at the fishing fire before coming back, and waited restlessly until the rain stopped. He touched a few copper plates, found a guest boat at the ferry, and went to the ferry to the Fort Tou Island in Jiangxin. Unexpectedly, he did not see Lu Shijiu or Old Man Liu.
"I almost walked around the Tomb Island, but I didn't find him. I heard his voice once." Lu Erqi said, "But when I called him, the voice disappeared again."
In this way, Lu Erqi went back and forth back and forth six and seven back to the Tomb Island, but could not find Lu Shijiu. A few days ago, there were some dark vortexes near Tomb Island. Two passenger boats capsized there one after another, and these boatmen were unhappy. No matter how Ren Erqi was involved, it was useless.
What's even more annoying is that Lu Erqi always heard the sound of someone clamping the door in the early morning and midnight these days. The first two times he thought it was nineteen who came back, so he hurried to open the door, but found that there was no one outside the door. After he looked around and went back to the house, he noticed that the box in the house seemed to have been moved.
"The four hang money we saved in it is gone! None of them are left! What should I call the boatman?" Lu Erqi mentioned this and looked like a wild dog covered in hair.
Xue Xian said, "No wonder he poured a basin of water when he opened the door. Which ancestral tomb is so shameless and smoked, even an eight-nine-year-old child is stolen! But you can't rob my beads just because you were stolen four hangs of money. What's the reason for this? Fortunately, I'm not able to move now, otherwise I would have to hang you upside down and put you in the river for two rounds."
"Who is eight or nine years old?" Lu Erqi was scolded and said with a fierce temper.
"You!" Xue Xian said angrily, "Who else can you?"
"I'm fifteen!" Lu Erqi said with annoyance and anger, "It's just that I've been sick before and I don't grow tall. Don't just guess other people's age just by looking at me."
Xue Xian was a little surprised, but how old this naughty child with a bad temper was, and whether he could grow up or not was his business. He wanted to know whether Lu Shijiu was still alive.
Obviously, there was one time when he was more than one who thought about it.
When Xuan Min raised her sleeve and swept it, the weakening tongue in the brazier was completely extinguished, with only green smoke remaining. His fingers passed through the green smoke and picked Xue Xian and Jiang Shining who were hanging on the branches of Yingchun. The two thin pieces of paper were already roasted thoroughly and dry, and nothing was wrong.
The only drawback is that the strokes on the face were dizzy and a little dispersed.
Jiang Shining became a human figure on the side, and now he fainted two blue-black circles, which were much more obvious than before. He occupied half of his cheek, which looked like he was dying. Xue Xian was even worse. His legs and feet were inconvenient, and he was not suitable to turn back into a human form. The dizzy ink marks were more conspicuous on the paper, and it flowed down the corners of his eyes and nose.
Originally, I just died with my eyes open, but now it turned into bleeding from the seven orifices.
Really...shot.
Xuan Min lowered her eyes and then decisively stuffed him into a dark bag. Her cold expression showed a hint of numbness of "not seeing is pure".
Seeing that the cold monk raised his foot and was about to leave, Lu Erqi couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?"
"Jiang Xin." Xuan Min said.
Hearing this, Lu Erqi jumped up, and Wu Liu chased after him and said anxiously: "Are you going to find Lu Shijiu? Can you take me with you? I'll go too!"
"Ask." Xuan Min threw two words without looking back, then strode towards the ferry.
Having not stayed in Xuan Min's secret bag for a few days, Xue Xian found that there were more things inside as soon as he entered. In addition to his treasured gold beads and the cloth bag containing silver needles, there were also some more hard objects. Xue Xian moved over silently, raised his hand and touched it, and tried to bite it...
There are still a lot of broken silver, and I don’t know where to mix it.
The ferry was covered with snow and a few passenger boats were moored. The boatman probably hid in the black-topped cabin, which looked particularly deserted.
Xuan Min shook the copper bell hanging by the flag. Several boatmen poked their heads out of the tent, and one of them shouted lazily: "The fog is too strong, I can't cross the river, wait and come again."
"It's not the river." Xuan Min rushed into the river and "go to the Tomb Island."
As soon as these words came out, the boatmen shook their heads and retreated back into the tent without saying a word. Only one boatmen who seemed to be talking to him explained to him: "There is a dark vortex near the Tomb Island. Climb the boat. You are not a local, Master, right? No matter what you want to do, I advise you to change the place, there is no boatmen here willing to go."
Xuan Min listened quietly to him and said, "If it's just a fake rental of this boat, how much does it cost?"
The boatman was stunned.
There are often people who rent a boat for fun, but it is rare to rent a small boat like this. After all, the boat is narrow and difficult to control, so it is not necessary for boatmen. It is difficult for ordinary people to shake the boat to the other side safely.
"This--" the boatman hesitated a little.
Xue Xian took out two broken silver particles in the dark bag without seeing him, and silently raised them out of the bag.
Xuan Min: "…"
He copied the silver that the evil man had dug out, and then pressed the evil man's claw back, without delaying much, and handed the silver grain to the boatman directly.
Xue Xian was not at ease when he was pushed back into his bag. He patted Xuan Min's waist with a crackling sound and said seriously: "I am not convenient to pay for it now. Don't worry, I won't take advantage of you, and I will return it twice."
Xuan Minquan pretends that he does not exist.
The boatman took the silver pellets and knew that the weight was not light. He was quite embarrassed: "I can't get these."
However, Xuan Min's face was too cold, even more frozen than the snow slags floating all over the sky. Seeing that he had no intention of changing his mind, the boatman had to get off the boat awkwardly and let Xuan Min and the others get on the boat. After that, he asked with concern: "How can you really rock the boat?"
Lu Erqi had the same concerns as the boatman, but he was afraid that Xuan Min would change his mind after asking a few more questions, so he had to hold back his questions, staring at Xuan Min and Jiang Shining with some suspicion, and followed them onto the boat.
Xuan Min stepped onto the board and broke a water reed.
Lu Erqi was wondering why he wanted to bring water reeds, but when he saw Xuan Min took out a stacked yellow talisman from his arms, slapped the bow of the black-sailed boat, and said "Boat", then hung the reed pole in his hand into the water. The black-sailed boat moved in response to the sound and slowly broke through the water. Xuan Min shook the reed pole gently, and the bow of the boat turned around and headed straight towards the islands in the middle of the river.
Erqi stared at the familiar yellow talisman for a moment, and finally remembered that this was the one Xuan Min used to stick his forehead before, and he suddenly felt a little angry: Can you change another move?
Even with the yellow talisman that made the boat move and the reed poles that control the direction, Xue Xian was still a little worried. Xuan Min was silently lying in the mouth of the hidden bag, staring at the reed poles in his hand without saying a word, without turning his eyes.
He looked at it for a while and couldn't help but ask Xuan Min: "What are you doing with Lu Shijiu? You are also looking for people by borrowing things?"
Xuan Min was about to answer him when she heard Lu Erqi shouting suddenly "ah".
Chapter completed!