Chapter 158 Going north by boat
Yi You led the way and took Zuo Chen and others to the governor's mansion in Shangbao City, and thanked Zuo Chen repeatedly.
After the Taoist priest arrived at Shangbao City, he first helped put out the fire in the city, and then went to catch the thieves. If it weren't for the inconvenience of Yi Yu's body, he would have wanted to give Zuo Chen a blow.
The people next to him also helped a lot.
Relying on their good health, Guan Gou Dou and Zhu Laoba rushed directly to the ruins to look for people and rescue them. They carried out the seriously injured people one by one who had not yet died, and saved several lives.
Caiyi used the Fire Suppression Technique to extinguish several small fires that Zuo Chen didn't pay attention to, so as to avoid burning down a few more houses.
Busy and busy, saving people and treating their lives. There were a few shabby households watching the excitement on the surrounding roads. I had never seen so many gods. I was shocked. I wrote down what happened today and ran all the way to the city. With a voice shouting, several "gods to save people in distress" fell from the sky.
Of course, when many good people, people who wanted to be safe, and wealthy landlords arrived at the scene, beating gongs, drums, and setting off firecrackers, they were completely missing. Only a few fire masters were seen cleaning up the aftermath.
After entering the governor's house, it was dinner time. Yi You ordered the cook to cook and everyone went into the house to rest.
The mansion is not big and there are not many servants. It looks more like a wealthy family than the governor's mansion.
When he came to the banquet, Zuo Chen told Yi You and Hu Wen everything he had learned from Bao Zhai.
“It’s a pity that it was not the Smiling Buddha who died.” Hu Wen felt very sorry.
At that time, after listening to the descriptions of eminent monks and monks, he thought it was the Smiling Buddha himself, but he did not expect to catch a fake.
"Xiao Huanxi has a lot of people, and they are all plotters. Generally, those who can be the leader of this kind of people have more thoughts than others. I don't know where the Smiling Buddha is hidden. "
After saying that, Yi You was also annoyed. He lifted up his sleeves and hit the table so hard that the tea tray bounced off.
"Nowadays, there are so many little joys running around in Youzhou, which are difficult to catch and kill. It is really troublesome. King Chang of Jingzhou is also making trouble. King Wei has told him about the bad water three times, but he is still Don't believe it! We should capture him and throw him into the den of evil! Let's see if he can believe this when he is torn to pieces! He coveted Youzhou for the first time." Hu Wen snorted coldly: "He doesn't have enough soldiers and horses, and he doesn't have enough food and grass, so he pretends to have no interest in the world and guards his own three-acre land. But if you check it, You know that he is collecting all kinds of strange people and rare treasures, and plans to create an elite team. According to his temperament, it is not impossible to hire Xiao Huanxi to do these things. "
Yi Youya. Getting angry, I started thinking about the relationship between Prince Chang and Xiao Huanxi, and the more I thought about it, the weirder it got:
Xiao Huanxi is a reclusive sect, just like Wu Xiangxi, those who know their names can understand how insidious they are. The viciousness is far beyond what the wandering sects in the world can match; those who didn't know the name thought they were second- and third-rate gangs that emerged from somewhere, and I'm afraid they wouldn't take it seriously.
But the problem is that very few people in the world know their names.
Even if they are noble lords, now I am afraid that only a few top lords can be called their names.
It’s normal for King Wei to know Xiao Huanxi’s name, and it’s normal for Kyoto to know Xiao Huanxi’s name.
King Chang of Jingzhou?
Although this is an unpleasant thing to say, but...
Who is he?
Rather than him looking for Xiao Huanxi, it was more like Xiao Huanxi was looking for him.
"I'll go burn the incense first. You guys can sit down first and have a good meal and drink."
Yi You stood up and left. The most important thing now is to light a thousand-mile incense stick. Send a message to the northern fortress and tell them everything that happened here.
As long as King Wei knows what Xiao Huanxi is going to do and is prepared, then those despicable bitches will not be able to threaten the fortress no matter what conspiracy they use.
After Yi You left, Hu Wen answered the conversation and said:
"Don't talk about bad appetite. Shang Baobao has a good serving of dishes. These are prepared by Master Yi for everyone. Eat the dishes first!"
Yi You took advantage of Zuo Chen not coming back and asked Hu specifically. Wen Zhongren's appetite was so great that he told the chef to prepare it specially. The dishes could not be said to be sumptuous, but they were thoughtful enough.
Po Xia, a soup and hot dish made from thinly sliced rabbit meat, was served to Zuo Chen, and a red dessert of cut rice cakes was ordered for Cai Yi. They were all dishes that suited everyone's taste.
There were two big fat fish in front of Guan Dog Dou, one of which could be used as a mallet. Watching Dog Dou made his mouth water.
Seeing that everyone started to use chopsticks, I stopped being polite when watching the dog fight. I picked up the big fish and started to eat it. The food was delicious.
Before serving the dishes, Hu Wen asked Zhu Laoba specifically:
"Pork is a common ingredient in Daliang, do you mind?"
Zhu Laoba just laughed. , Tong Hu Wen explained:
"If it were a wild boar from the same tribe as mine, I would definitely not eat it. But to be honest, after having innate wisdom, I would not eat it if I looked at hundreds of animals. I don’t feel that much, just eat yours and give me some other meat.”
So Zhu Laoba now has eight-treasure roast goose in front of him, which is the most difficult dish on the table.
Hu Ni was also given a small dinner plate with various rare meats on it. She also ate happily and licked her lips repeatedly.
Of course the golden boy didn’t need to eat, so he shouted a cheering slogan at the table next to him.
Zuo Chen felt that these two little things might have been with him for too long, and their spiritual enlightenment was visible to the naked eye.
To accompany these delicious dishes, Zuo Chen also took out the monkey wine and drank it with everyone.
While eating half a stick of incense, Yi You walked back from the back hall in a hurry with a worried look on his face.
Seeing his expression, Hu Wen's heart trembled and he felt bad.
“I lit incense, but there was no reply.”
Hu Wen’s heart sank.
Flying pigeons, horse racing, and messenger incense, among the three, the messenger incense is the fastest, but also the most unstable. To kill a bird, you need a bow, and to kill a horse, you need a sword. However, to destroy the messenger incense, sometimes you only need to open an altar and use eight formations to change the wind direction, and the surrounding messenger incense will not be used for half a month.
Sure enough, something happened.
"Let's go to the northern fortress along the river first. We'll come back to visit after we deal with those thieves." Zuo Chen put down his bowls and chopsticks.
Yi You sighed:
"I'm sorry, Mr. Taoist."
Halfway through the meal, he was about to leave in a hurry. He had just finished eating the first fish while watching the dog fight. Now he was holding the second fish, with a look of reluctance on his face, so he simply put the big fish on his shoulders and followed the others with a huff.
I was a little blushing at first, thinking I was the only one holding the food and going out, but I didn't expect that Wei Wei turned her head and discovered that Cai Yi was also holding four or five rice cakes in her hand.
Looking at each other and smiling awkwardly.
This time Zuo Chen and the others did not ride on a donkey, but boarded a large express shuttle specially prepared by Yi You. Several boatmen paddled along the stream, and cooperated with Zuo Chen's contraction. The ground is an inch, and the speed is several minutes faster than the Soaring Cloud Technique.
It was obviously the first time for Hu Ni to take a boat ride. As soon as she got on the boat, she immediately lay down on the side of the boat, exposing her head and looking down.
After the boatman on the deck shouted "let's sail", six strong men shook the oars in the lower cabin of the boat and rode the wind and waves.
The boat that was suddenly moving was full of movement. Fox Ni, who was standing on only two skinny legs, screamed and was almost knocked over to the deck. If Hu Wen next to him had not had quick hands and quick eyes to hold her with one hand, this fox would have been killed. Ni was afraid that she just fell into the water.
Huni was so frightened that she climbed up Hu Wen's thigh, slithered up to her shoulder, and squatted down shivering.
Hu Wen couldn't help but tease Hu Ni with his hands.
The big boat sets off, the wind blows, and it follows the current and breaks the waves, heading north.
"If the wind is smooth, at this speed, it will take about a whole day to reach the northern fortress." Hu Wen calculated the time: "But we will pass a few checkpoints first and inform them so that they don't have to worry about it. Tao.”
Seeing that nothing happened for the time being, everyone on the boat began to rest.
This ship is not small, with guest rooms on it, and a big bunk inside. Hu Wen doesn’t know how to meditate as a substitute for sleeping for the time being, so he goes back to the bunk to rest.
It was also the first time for Guan Gou Dou and Zhu Lao Ba to take a boat ride, and they were still very excited. They watched the roar of the rushing river, and could not tell the difference between the two innately perfect demon kings.
Zuo Chen took advantage of this time to teach Caiyi and Lvye the magic, teaching them how to use their magical powers.
He did not teach the two people such high-end magic methods as the Five Thunder Methods or the Flower Blooming Instantly. After all, the two of them were far from being good at Taoism, and such magic methods often required the calculation of the sixty-four signs of the Eight Diagrams. If they were Taoism, If you don't study hard enough, you will easily suffer from depression.
On the other hand, Zuo Chen also discovered that everyone has different talents and learned Taoist techniques.
Lv Ye himself is good at leg strength, so he is very effective when learning to shrink into an inch. Cai Yi, because of his own experience and previous learning methods, is now proficient in fire magic and clone transformation. More powerful than Zuo Chen.
Rather than forcefully teach these techniques that may damage the root cause, it would be better for them to teach them in accordance with their aptitude and give them more "experience".
He began to preach on the scriptures. Both Mr. Lu and Caiyi listened carefully and studied hard.
From the sunset to the moon hanging high in the sky, the six strongmen who changed shifts replaced the ones on the day shift and continued rowing, moving forward with the water.
After listening to Zuo Chen's sermon for most of the day, Cai Yi felt that her brain was stiff. She was slower than others in learning these things, so she could only write them down in writing and digest them slowly when she went back.
On the other hand, Mr. Lu listened to it and was even able to draw inferences from one instance to another, which was much smoother than Caiyi's.
Seeing that it was getting late, Guan Gou Dou and Zhu Lao Ba were already lying on the deck and fast asleep, Cai Yi also stretched out and planned to rest.
But she didn’t like Datongpu. It was too crowded and smelled of sweat, so she simply ran to the cart and lay down.
Zuo Chen also found a clean place to meditate and rest, waiting to spend the night.
Time passed by minute by second, and most people fell asleep. The wind was good tonight, and the sails were raised. The warriors on night watch also got some time to rest.
The night wind blew, the stars hung in the sky, and everything around seemed to become quiet and peaceful.
Suddenly, Zuo Chen opened his eyes.
He stood up and looked around.
Everyone on the ship fell asleep.
Even the water watchers who kept watch at night were asleep.
The river was filled with mist, and Zuo Chen could feel that fragments of residual dreams seemed to be drifting from the north.
"Intentionally and without thoughts... a natural phenomenon?"
Frowning slightly, Zuo Chen used the technique of entering dreams.
(End of this chapter)