On the surface of the Qingjiang River, a large ship was cutting through the waves.
On the part of the ship that is in contact with the water, there are many fin-like things flying up and down.
This is a hundred-fin boat made by Mohist techniques, imitating the fins of fish to assist swimming.
A dozen men pedaled a water wheel in the bottom warehouse to push these "fins" and speed up the boat.
Of course, it is actually faster not to use manpower. You only need to put the Daoyuan Stone into the sailing formation plate carved by the Mohist monks.
But it's obviously not as cheap as using human power.
This large ship can carry two hundred people, which is quite good among the waters of the entire Zhuang Kingdom. It is a government ship, but it also operates passenger and freight business.
Du Yehu is on this hundred-fin boat.
Maplewood City is located in the northeast of Zhuang Kingdom, and Jiujiang City is in the west. First go to Qingjiang, it is most convenient to take a boat and take the waterway.
Control in the military is quite strict. After finally taking a long vacation, he got on the boat and drank a jar of strong wine, covered his head and fell asleep. Only then did he wake up and come out to enjoy the river breeze.
It was already the twelfth lunar month of winter, but because New Year's Eve was approaching, the people on the boat were still very noisy.
At this time of year, most of the people on this boat are travelers from the three cities of Huiwangjiang, Fenglin, and Sanshan.
Du Yehu approached the crowd and listened quietly for a while, and found that there was not a single Maplewood City accent. He curled his lips somewhat boredly and turned back to the cabin alone.
Not long after, he came out carrying large and small bags, and while the ship docked briefly, he got off the ship alone.
There is still a waterway from Wangjiang City, so he is the only one who gets off the boat.
In such a cold weather, Qingjiang is not a problem, maybe Luliu River will freeze.
Therefore, it should be more convenient to take the dry road from here.
These things were all told by the captain in the army who claimed to have traveled all over the country, and they were very useful.
The large and small bags are full of gifts he has carefully prepared. There are specialties from Daishan County (Jiujiang City itself has no specialties except for ferocious beasts), some captured on the battlefield, and some good ones that are only for Jiujiang Xuanjia. thing.
In short, he, Du Laohu, can guarantee that he will definitely make those bumpkins happy. His sister An An will definitely grab his beard and slap him hard.
Both hands were occupied. Looking from a distance, the figure looked like a moving shelf, but Du Yehu didn't feel tired at all.
It had been several years since he had celebrated the New Year with Linghe Jiang Wangfang Pengju Zhao Rucheng.
He and Ling He didn't have a home, Jiang Wang came and went in a hurry when he went back to Fengxi Town, Fang Pengju didn't like staying in the clan at all, and Zhao Rucheng didn't live much at home.
So the five of them are always together.
This year there is one less Fang Pengju, but there is more Jiang Anan.
Thinking of Jiang An'an's cute little face, Du Yehu couldn't help but grin.
His blood relatives are gone. Jiang Wang and others are his biological brothers, and Jiang Anan is his biological sister.
When he was working hard to get higher in Jiujiang Xuanjia, didn't he just want to show off his power in front of his brothers and greet the admiring eyes of the girls?
When he left, he had made an appointment with Jiang Wang on how fast he could practice the Four Spirits Body Refining Art.
Now he has followed the ancient military strategist's path of qi and blood, and has completed the four-spirit body-refining technique, and the four spirits have merged. It’s time to let the third child know who the older brother is.
Du Yehu moved forward very quickly. The closer he got to home, the faster he walked.
He took long strides and ran on the road, returning home as quickly as possible.
"stop!"
When he was still some distance away from Maple Forest City, a group of soldiers stopped him.
"What are you doing?" Du Yehu stopped and asked dissatisfiedly, revealing the Jiujiang Xuanjia weapon card on his waist.
Several soldiers looked at each other, and the leader saluted: "Sir, we can't go any further."
"Why?" Du Yehu suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
The soldiers looked at the large and small bags on his body and roughly understood what he was doing, and couldn't help but show sympathy.
"You probably left the camp early and missed the notice." The soldier said carefully: "The evil cult White Bone Dao is here to cause trouble, and it has sacrificed the entire Maplewood City to welcome the evil god's arrival. Although the conspiracy has been blocked by Maplewood City Dong A, the dean of the Taoist Academy, exposed the truth and even alerted the Prime Minister to personally come to kill the culprit, but the entire Maple Forest City has also fallen into the netherworld. No strangers can enter."
Bang! Bang!
With Du Yehu's strength, he was unable to grab the package for a moment and let the large and small packages fall to the ground.
"...Where are the people in the city?" he asked tremblingly.
The soldier sighed: "They're all gone..."
Click!
Du Yehu was startled by the sound, and when he came to his senses, he realized that he had inadvertently stepped into the ground, sinking several inches.
He pulled out his feet and heard a wailing voice coming from next to him.
"It's gone, it's all gone! Nothing is gone!"
Du Yehu followed the sound and saw a man carrying a package crying on the ground, his voice already muted.
He cried for a while, but he really had no strength, so he stopped for a while, and then started crying again.
Judging from that look, he must be a native who returned to Maplewood City. Got stopped on the way home.
"Dong A, Dong A! Dong A is our dean!" Du Yehu suddenly seemed to have caught something and asked excitedly: "Since it was dean Dong who exposed the evil cult's conspiracy, all the monks in the City Taoist Academy should have Did you escape?"
The soldier apologized: "Except for Dean Dong, including the students, no one was spared."
Du Yehu sat down on the ground and scratched his hair hard.
"No, no."
He lost his mind and muttered to himself.
"Boss, don't you have great wisdom?"
"Third brother, aren't you a better fighter than me?"
"Xiao Wu, aren't you smarter than me?"
"Why is it gone? Why is it gone?"
At the end of his soliloquy, he shouted: "You three grown men, how come you can't even take care of An An!"
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"I do not believe."
He muttered for a long time, then suddenly stood up, gathered the gifts he had brought with him, hugged them into a ball, and rushed towards Maple Forest City without looking back.
"Sir, you can't go there!"
The soldier stretched out his hand to stop him, but Du Yehu had already rushed away in a few leaps.
"Let him go." The soldier next to him sighed: "He can't enter the Netherworld, so he can just take a look from a distance."
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According to the later recollections of the soldiers who sealed off the periphery of Maplewood City, the entire Maplewood City had been silent since it fell into the netherworld.
Only around New Year's Eve that year, I don't know why.
There was a wailing sound like the roar of a trapped animal, which lasted for three days.
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The mountain is high and the road is far, Jiang Anan slept and woke up on his brother's back, woke up and fell asleep again.
They traveled during the day and practiced at night, sometimes in caves and sometimes in trees.
They slept in the open air and could only eat some wild fruits to satisfy their hunger.
But she was very sensible and never complained once.
She knew that her brother would only be more tired and harder.
Several times she wanted to come down and leave by herself, but Jiang Wang just wouldn't let her.
It's getting dark and it's time to rest again.
Jiang Anan likes the night the most, not only because of the stars, but also because her brother can finally stop and talk to her.
After leaving Maplewood City, my brother talked a lot less.
According to previous experience, my brother should find a cave now, light a bonfire, and let her rest in his arms.
But tonight, Jiang Wang carried her up the mountain, all the way to the top of the mountain.
The cold wind on the top of the mountain was so cold that her face turned red. His body was fine, the animal skin he was wrapped in was very warm.
Jiang Wang put her down from his back and held her little hand.
The brother and sister looked around on the top of the mountain and saw only a few stars and tranquility in the surrounding fields. The distant mountains are hidden in the night, stretching under your feet.
"Brother, what are we doing here?" Jiang Anan asked.
"Tonight is New Year's Eve."
Jiang Wang asked slowly: "Do you want to see the fireworks?"
"I want to!" Jiang Anan replied immediately, but then shook her head: "Anan doesn't want to..."
She probably also knows that things are not as good as they were in Maplewood City. Where to find fireworks in the wilderness? She knew that no matter what she wanted, her brother would do his best for her, so she refused to ask for it.
Jiang Wang squeezed her little hand and said in a dumb voice, "Look."
He let go of Jiang Anan and raised his fingertips into the air.
A flower of flame flies to a high place and blooms brilliantly.
He moved his ten fingers together, and one after another, fireworks bloomed in the night sky.
Exploded into a sky full of stars.
Like a star in the sky, falling into the world.
Every bit of starlight is like a passing person.
Although the body and soul are destroyed, the light will remain forever.
This is New Year's Eve in the year 3917 in the Tao calendar.
On the top of an unknown mountain, Jiang Wang set off fireworks in the middle of the night for his sister.
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