"Crossing the Mojiang River" is a catchphrase often used by the younger generation of disciples in the Forty-Eight Villages. It's just like "kill you" and "invite you to dinner another day."
And the reason for this is a long story.
Since the rebellion of the three villagers back then, the forty-eight villages have suffered a serious loss of vitality. In these years, the north-south confrontation outside, and the multi-party battles have become more chaotic and complicated. The forty-eight villages harbored an unknown number of imperial prisoners, so they had to be strictly controlled.
This place is mountainous. There are countless secret roads and sentries along the mountain road. There is a change in one side, and the news can immediately spread throughout the whole of Shu. Usually, you have to keep a secret when you go in and out, who, why, and how long you have been there. Wait, the ins and outs must be complete, ready to be checked at any time, everyone has their own token, with a name and a surname on it, and stealing other people's tokens is not acceptable.
Young disciples who have not yet graduated are not allowed to go down the mountain casually. It is up to each master to check whether he is a teacher or not. If the master does not nod his head, it is not enough to have the ability to fly away from the sky—but there is one exception, that is, you can get through it by yourself. The people who wash the Mojiang River.
The Ximo River is the only place in the entire forty-eight villages that does not have guard posts day and night. At the southeast end, the two sides of the mountain are separated like a cowherd and a weaver girl. There is a wide Ximo River in the middle, which is a moat.
There are countless local folklore about washing the Mojiang River, because the water in the river is neither blue nor green, it looks dark, and when it is condescending, it looks like a huge black agate. When the old village owner was alive, it took more than three years. It took countless manpower and material resources to polish the trees and the abrupt big stones between the mountain walls on both sides. The mountain wall is not only difficult to climb, but also can be seen by the patrolling.
Even if there is someone who is truly incomparable, it doesn't matter if they can go down to Jiangzhong. There is still an old senior in Ximo Jiangxin. "Yu Lao" is the goddess of the town house in the forty-eight villages.
In addition to an old fish, there are countless traps in the Ximo River.
Zhou Fei remembered that when she was a child, entering and leaving the Forty-Eight Villages was not so strict. There was a wave of unfortunate senior brothers who didn't know what medicine they took, and they couldn't leave. For two days without exception, they were all tied with hemp rope and hung from the cliff.
Yu Lao pursued neatness very much. Not only did he tie them up, but he also aligned the feet of these people and arranged them in a row according to the height and height. From a distance, they were very neat and pleasing to the eye.
At that time, Li Jinrong ordered people to put down these ignorant disciples, and joked that anyone who could cross the Mojiang River in the future would be considered a teacher. As soon as these words came out, generations of disciples tried to cross the river with enthusiasm, but unfortunately they all retreated.
So far no success.
Zhou Fei frowned slightly, feeling that Li Sheng was looking for trouble.
Li Sheng stared at her closely, showing a slightly malicious smile, and said in a slow voice, "It's okay to be afraid, I know you're not a person who likes to complain, and today I didn't say it and you didn't listen. Pass."
The so-called "exciting general method" is sometimes really powerful. No matter how much you say "I won't eat your fierce generals", your heart will still be on fire.
Often, the more she shouted about not eating, the more angry she became. Zhou Fei had no interest in provoking Yu Lao in the middle of the night. Intellectually, Li Sheng felt sick, but emotionally, she couldn't hear the "scared" sound.
But at this time, Miss Li Yan, the scumbag, said she had reason and reason: "A Fei, let's go, ignore him, no one has ever crossed the Ximo River in the middle of the night, Li Sheng, you must be crazy, you can't fit in the forty-eight villages. Are you?"
Li Sheng shook his head, very restrained and arrogantly smiled and said: "How big is the world, how wide are the four seas? The peerless masters are like crucian carp crossing the river. Be the first person ever!"
When every young man blurted out such rhetoric, he was full of sincerity, but he didn't consider himself a little disciple. "There are as many peerless masters as the crucian carp crossing the river" has nothing to do with him.
Anyway, since the ability can no longer be detached from the outside world, at least the sight can be so lofty, so that people can also have the illusion that they are "not in the pool".
While Zhou Fei thought he was ridiculous, she couldn't help being swayed by the phrase "how big is the world", which was not contradictory, because they both thought that the "first person" was herself.
She glanced at Li Sheng: "When will I fetch you?"
Li Sheng ignored her verbal provocation, and only said: "The day after tomorrow, at three o'clock in the morning."
"Oh, fifteen," Zhou Fei laughed inexplicably, "Good day, the moon is bright, in case of an accident, howl twice, and Mr. Yu can see who you are."
She didn't say anything, and she didn't say anything. She reached out and patted Li Yan on the shoulder, and wiped the snotty girl's snot and tears back very deliberately, and then she carried her narrow-backed knife and walked away.
No matter what Li Sheng planned, Tiangong was very unpretentious—the fifteenth day of this month was a cloudy day.
The moon is dark and the wind is high.
Xie Yun quietly crouched on the top of the tree, breathing and breathing, as if he had merged with the tree. There was a bird's nest two fists away from him. The big bird was protecting the young. The young and the old were sleeping all over the place, and they were not disturbed by the human flesh tumor next to them.
Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through, and the big bird jolted and opened his eyes vigilantly. I saw two sentries on duty in the Forty-Eight Villages galloping past the dense forest.
The people in the forty-eight villages are not relatives. They are father and son brothers and soldiers. There is an indescribable tacit understanding between each other. The soldiers were divided into two groups, one was searching the main road and the other was searching the small road, and they both disappeared in a blink of an eye.
After the two walked away, Big Bird turned his head and stared at Xie Yun with his head tilted.
Xie Yun didn't move his eyelids, his eyes were quiet, and the big bird stared at him for a moment. Except for the strange appearance of this "twig", he didn't see any problems, so he rested his head under the wings. , fell asleep again.
Quietly in the jungle, the frogs from nowhere had a narrow rhythm, and they kept murmuring with the big and small insects. About a stick of incense, the two sentries suddenly jumped out from nowhere, in the original place. The ground gathers - it turns out that the two of them were just feigning chase.
The two searched nearby, but none of the ghost shadows were found.
The younger one said, "Fourth brother, maybe we got it wrong."
The older man said cautiously: "One day may be wrong, we two have four eyes, can we still see wrong every day? This person must be extremely high in light work, he has been around our stockade these days, I don't know why... In any case, let’s go back and send a letter first, and tell the brothers to stay alert tonight. If something really happens, although we haven’t caught anyone, there are 108 bright and dark piles ahead. "
When the two of them left, and about half an hour later, the moon, which was covered by the clouds, showed its face again, Xie Yun's eyes moved slightly, and in an instant he turned back into a living creature, and then It fell to the ground like a feather.
He was about the age of a weak crown, and he had a pair of eyes like a flat lake, as if he could absorb the faint moonlight around him, reflecting a crescent moonlight, which was extremely bright and quiet.
He leaned against the tree trunk to think for a moment, reached into his arms, and took out a token the size of a slap. If there were some important officials from the previous dynasty, he would be shocked. The eight characters of "National Fortune Prosperity" are exactly the same as the seal engraving on the jade seal!
Xie Yun took this weird and arrogant sign in his hand and threw it twice, and then hesitantly shoved it. He heard people say that there were 108 light and dark piles in front of him, but he did not panic. He picked a palm-sized leaf on the spot, folded it in half, drew the dew into a line, drank it, and slid out.
His whole person seemed to be completely weightless, his toes pointed on the branches, and he passed lightly through the treetops. Wherever he passed, the branches were often shaken very lightly, and the dew on the leaves would not fall off.
Legend has it that this hand is called "Wind Without Traces", and it is one of the top Qinggong skills in the world, comparable to wearing flowers and trees and stepping on snow without traces.
He did not take the main road, nor the small road, but circled around the forty-eight villages.
Xie Yun came to Forty-Eight Villages to meet someone and give a gift.
He had long known that Forty-eight Villages was not easy to enter. If he reported himself to the sect to ask for a meeting, maybe the person he wanted to meet didn't see it, and he would be turned into a hot pot by Li Jinrong's yaksha first. And it is even more inadvisable to break in or sneak in - that is something that the big traitor Cao Zhongkun has not done. Xie Yun feels that he is not a thief to that point.
He is very patient and has been lurking outside the Forty-eight Village for half a year. First, he pretended to be a foot merchant for a month. It is impossible for the Forty-eight Village to be completely isolated from the world. There are always some things that cannot be self-sufficient. Xie Yun listened to the gossip while being familiar with the terrain. Even "Dad Li's family likes to eat dumplings stuffed with radish and tassels".
A month later, he got involved in a delivery job, but was unable to enter the mountain.
The people in Zhaizhong only let them deliver the goods to the periphery and send someone to pick them up. Xie Yun recognized the door, and relied on his own merits to visit that night, but he underestimated that the forty-eight villages were heavily guarded.
After that, he calmed down and walked around the forty-eight villages for more than three months. He counted the rabbit holes on several hilltops. He tried repeatedly and carefully on the edge. Finally, the hard work paid off, and he found the only one. There are not so many bright and dark sentries on the road - the section of the moat that washes the Mojiang River.
Li Shengda Road will be hard if no one picks it. Xie Yun does not know if his Qinggong has the level of "unparalleled in the world", but there are probably a few people who can endure this big river. Li Jinrong is so relieved, there must be something weird on the river. . Xie Yun walked around the riverside every day, but was not in a hurry to go down, and observed on the shore every day.
There is a small pavilion in the heart of the river, and a layer of lights floats up every night, indicating that someone is guarding it.
However, on the night of the fifteenth day, Xie Yun sneaked into the forty-eight villages again, and when he came to the Ximo River, he unexpectedly did not see the lamp.
Xie Yun made a decisive decision and decided to choose a day instead of hitting the sun, so he dived from the cliff.
He was dressed in night clothes, bowed his head and met Xi Mojiang, who was surging, and then took out a copper coin from his pocket.
"Let's make a divination," Xie Yun thought, "the front side is all good luck, and the back side is that there is no danger."
God may have never seen such a shameless question before, determined to cure him, Xie Yuncai just threw the copper coins into the sky, and suddenly there was a sound not far away, as if something heavy fell into the deep stream, in the silence There was a string of crisp noises in the valley of the mountain. There were disciples patrolling the mountain on both sides of the mountain, and the lights were turned on immediately. Xie Yun couldn't help being distracted. The copper coin was blown away, but he didn't catch it.
The copper coin fell to the ground in front of him, neither positive nor negative, it was stuck between two stones in a coquettish side lying position.