Anqing Prefecture and Wolong County are only separated by a river. When the weather is extremely clear, standing by the river in Wolong County, you can even see the faint peaks of the mountain on the other side. When the wind is calm, it only takes an hour to shake the boat and pass by.

However, it was already snowing heavily. After half a journey, the river was already covered with white space, as if only they were left in the vast sky and wilderness. It was extremely difficult to control the direction, so the speed naturally slowed down.

The boatman was an acquaintance. When Xue Xian and his friends were going to visit the gravetou Island, they rented his boat. He was probably a good man, and he was always a little disgusted when he recycled Xuan Min's money. This time, he saw that they were going to cross the river again, so he hesitated for a moment and then came out of the boat in the wind and snow.

"I still have two pots of hot wine wrapped in my cloth bag. If I don't dislike it, let's drink some to warm up my body!" The boatman said as he oared.

"Thank you."

Everyone said thank you, but Xue Xian was the only one who actually took action.

Xuan Min is not drunk or afraid of the cold. Jiang Shining is a wild ghost and cannot drink anything. Lu Erqi has been in a daze since he boarded the boat, obviously not in the mood. Shi Tou Zhang was trembling coldly, and he wanted to take a sip. The beads of mung bean-like eyes turned around for two rounds, but he didn't dare to reach out.

He thought these people would not bring him with him, and thought that after they asked him to carve the two spirit cards, he would sweep him out. Unexpectedly, they actually wanted to take him across the river, probably because they wanted him to recognize the places he had been to.

This was not a bad thing for Shi Tou Zhang. After all, he stayed in the county and could only sit in the house trembling every day. God knew how long he had been hid behind the hall with his sword before Xue Xian and Xuan Min broke into the yard. He secretly glanced at Xue Xian, thinking that although this ancestor was scary, he avoided his vital points every time he struck thunder, which showed that he would not take his life. It would be no harm to follow them except to suffer some punishment.

Xue Xian held the wine pot in his hand, but he didn't mean to take a sip. In fact, he was burning his heart, so there was no chill to drive away. He held the wine pot not to keep warm, but on the contrary, he was to dissipate heat. Although the wine pot was kept wrapped in layers of wraps, it was still cold after hanging on the river for so long.

But after staying in Xue Xian's hand for a while, the wine pot made a faint gurgling sound.

Except for Lu Erqi, who was silent all the time, the eyes of several people in the tent turned to the wine pot in Xue Xian's hand.

This is no longer warm wine, this is cooking wine!

Shi Tou opened his eyes and looked at the wine pot, hunched his neck and put his hands in it, wishing he could put himself in a ball and stuff it into the wine pot and be cooked together.

As soon as the heat came up, the aroma of wine came out along the cracks, and the stone's eyes were straightened. He rubbed his palms like a fly rubbing his hands and said, "Oh... this wine smells really good. When I make stone sculptures on weekdays, I like to have two mouthfuls. The stomach is warm, and the smell of wine is steaming, and the feel is coming."

Openly and secretly, I almost hugged Xue Xian's legs and howled: "Give me a reward!"

Jiang Shining could not bear to see anymore, so he arched Xue Xian with his elbow and whispered: "Stop playing with his ancestors, he is almost shaking off the boat."

Xue Xian didn't hold back the heat at all, so he boiled the pot of wine and gave it to Shi Tou Zhang. Then he picked up another pot without hesitation.

Shi Tou Zhang hurriedly caught it with his robe sleeve and held it in his arms, as if he had finally come alive. He sighed long: "It's a little warmer. It's not a joke to get cold in the river."

Xue Xian vented the heat he had held for a while and threw another pot to Shi Tou Zhang.

"Give me both pots?" Shi Tou Zhang was flattered.

Xue Xian said angrily: "What's wrong with you not waking up in this dream?"

Shi Tou Zhang was about to ask again, but Xuan Min, who was sitting by the cloak, had already taken the wine and handed it to the rowing boatman.

Xue Xian glanced at him without saying a word.

For him, this is the default meaning, just...

Jiang Shining glanced at him quietly, then glanced at Xuan Min. I don’t know if it was his illusion or something, but in the past two days, he always felt that the two of them were a bit strange. In other words, Xue Xian seemed a little strange. He seemed to be targeting Xuan Min, but he was inexplicably ignoring him.

Of course, this ancestor also liked to stare at Xuan Min for trouble, and sometimes he ignored him half-care, but...

He stared at the two of them for a moment, then silently lowered his eyes and looked at his nose and nose. After all, to some extent, these two were both ancestors, and he couldn't afford to offend one of them, so it would be better not to meddle in other people's business.

Thinking of this, he moved silently into the corner of the tent.

Dong--

The boat suddenly shook, Shi Tou Zhang tilted his head and drank wine. He couldn't hold on to the balance and hit his elbow on the boat's tent.

"You look at the thin piece like bamboo strips, which is quite large, and you can shake your boat when you move." Xue Xian glanced at Jiang Shining.

"It's not this young master who shook it." The boatman shouted, took a few sips of hot wine, and he became much more energetic. "This section of the river is like this, a bit confusing. Every summer and winter, boats in this area are always bound to overturn. Either the water rises and the waves are rushing, or the wind is so strong that it can lift the boat. In the past two years, I have been much calmer. I never encounter those big waves and demonic winds again, so the boat has gone a lot. Today, I am a little weird and have a bit of a stance."

When Shi Tou Zhang heard the boatman's words, he was startled. The man seemed to be particularly timid and afraid of death. He stretched his neck and said to the boatman: "Then...then the boat won't overturn, right?"

The boatman glanced at him with displeasure: "This boat is still walking, why can you say so many unlucky words? If you can't turn over, I just said something strange, and I didn't say that it would be a big wave today."

Speaking of this, he sighed again, "Masters, it's not that I'm complaining, I really advise you to do not be stubborn when you cross the river. It's always right to listen to the boatman. No one is willing to leave the boat in this kind of sky. You don't live by the river and don't know the habit of the wind. We float on the river every day, and we almost regard the boat as our home. You can tell if you can leave the boat fairly with a glance. As far as I'm concerned, at most, the river will turn over once every two days. Besides-"

The boatman dragged the tone, narrowed his eyes, held the oar with one hand, and poured a mouthful of hot wine and said, "Why do you choose to go to Anqing Mansion like this? It's not peaceful there now."

"Not peaceful? Why is it unsatisfactory?" Jiang Shining had an elder sister marrying Anqing Mansion. When he heard this, he frowned.

"I heard a boatman from the other side of the shore two days ago." He lowered his voice and said, "He said that a few days ago, there was an earthquake in Anqing Mansion. It is said that the entire mansion had shaken several times. The most important thing is that a mountain collapsed. Some people said that when the house was shaking, they vaguely heard a dragon calling underground."

Calling...

What a majestic description, it is like someone's rat screaming.

"That's called Long Yin!" Xue Xian finished correcting it angrily, and suddenly realized that he sat upright: "No, wait, Long Yin? That person told you that he heard Long Yin in Anqing Mansion?"

"And!" said the boatman with great emotion, as if he had heard it himself: "It is said that it is very scary. Many people lie on the ground and kowtowed, but it is also strange. It is said that after a few kowtows, the room stopped shaking, and the earth stopped moving, but some people died. But this is not the strangest. The strangest thing is that after the earth moves, there are many fine cracks on the ground in the city. It is said that some things crawled out, and I don't know if it was a bug or something. I didn't understand it very well. Anyway, it's quite messy."

When Jiang Shining heard this, his face suddenly became unfavorable. Although he was a wild ghost, his face turned blue and he had no good idea to see anything.

After that, everyone on the boat had their own thoughts and had nothing to say along the way.

Another half an hour later, the boatman finally approached the shore in Wangjiang County, an unknown small town in Anqing Prefecture.

The place where they got off the boat was called Guanyin Ferry. There were some small inns, tea pavilions and wine shops next to the ferry. The snow was covered in thin air, so we couldn't just walk like this, let alone Xue Xian, who was inconvenient to step.

Jiang Shining got off the boat and hurriedly covered the snow and asked the people next to the tea pavilion: "Is there a place to hire a carriage here?"

"I can't hire this day." The man who hid the wind in the tea pavilion to hold tea to keep warm, said: "The earth moved a few days ago, but the house was occupied, but the shed was not strong enough, which crushed many mules, horses and animals. If you can't run away, you naturally can't pull a cart. There is not even a family nearby who can hire a donkey cart, so don't expect it."

The man had three long scars on his face, looking scary, and he didn't know whether he was scratched by some wild beast. He half-squinted his eyes, drank the hot tea in his hand, and glanced at Jiang Shining again and said, "Where are you going?"

"Go to Qingping County a little further north." Jiang Shining said.

The scarred man looked at him carefully and said, "Scholar? Come and visit your relatives?"

Jiang Shining nodded.

He put the tea bowl on the table, raised his chin and said, "Those outside are also with you?"

Jiang Shining turned around and saw Xuan Min walking towards this side with her unwilling ancestor. When she was in Wolong County, Xue Xian tried to fight and wanted to change to a less weak posture, but she still failed. Now she was probably overwhelmed...

The two of them were surrounded by stone Zhang, who was hunching their necks and sleeves, and Lu Erqi, who looked depressed.

There are old, young and a monster, and they look quite tired of being with their families. It's really a pain. Jiang Shining said in his heart, and turned his head to bow to the scar-faced man, intending to discuss with Xuan Min and the others, otherwise he would stay in this inn for one day and wait for the snow to stop and beg for it.

"Don't expect the snow to stop." The scarred man seemed to guess what he was thinking. He wiped his mouth, picked up the long strips wrapped in rags on the table, and said, "Let's go, take you a ride, we just happened to go towards Qingping County."

us?

Jiang Shining was stunned. When the scarred man stood up, there were individuals standing up one after another in the tea pavilion, both men, women, and young and old.

Xuan Min was about to cross the threshold when she heard the scar-faced man's words and looked up at Jiang Shining: "What?"

"This big brother is very kind and said he can take us for a ride." Jiang Shining explained.

As he said this, the scarred man had already walked to the door. He happened to have arrived in Xuan Min's arms. He paused and pointed, "What's the thing wrapped around this?"

Xuan Min said lightly: "Man."

"Diet?" The scar-faced man looked at the black cloth covered head and frowned: "That would be inconvenient. After all, we are old and young, and we will run into it-"

Before he could finish his words, Xue Xian, who was determined to pretend to be dead, heard that he wanted to repent, immediately lifted the black cloth and dragged the tone with a numb look on his face, saying, "I'm not dead, I'm alive."

Scarfaced man: "..."

Jiang Shining silently turned her face behind her, thinking that if she was considered to be a brain-like person and was not allowed to get on the bus, she would have fun.

Unexpectedly, the scar face was a good one. He looked at Xue Xian silently and glanced at Xue Xian's pale skin and Xuan Min's face. He probably felt that such a person could not be a monster, so he nodded and said, "Okay, don't waste it, go quickly! The snow will be heavy later, so it will be difficult to walk."

The scar-faced man and his group had three horse-drawn carriages and one donkey carriage.

The carriage box is not small, and it can sit four people, and the donkey carriage holds their luggage and miscellaneous items.

Jiang Shining stood by the small convoy and looked at it. He was about to ask the scar-faced man what they did. As soon as he spit out a sound, he felt a slightly hot palm pressing his arm.

He was stunned and turned around and saw Xuan Min standing next to him, while Xue Xian was holding him down.

I saw the ancestor lifting the black cloth away, revealing one of his eyes, squinted at him, put his index finger on his lips and snorted, and said in a tight voice: "Don't ask, don't be surprised at them, just get in the car, just don't be too close to them."

Perhaps because Xue Xian's voice was too light, Jiang Shining inexplicably raised a burst of hair.
Chapter completed!