Tomb Robber: I, Chen Yulou, am dedicated to cultivating immortality!

Chapter 174: There are dragons and snakes in the mountains and swamps

Pass the east gate and go to Chaoyang Tower.

Walking through the long streets paved with bluestones.

I thought it was similar to Nanjian Ancient City, just a small border town.

But to the surprise of the group, although Jianshui City is indeed not big, it has high-walled gardens all the way, three vertical and horizontal, carved beams and painted buildings, cornices and brackets, the buildings are in an orderly layout, and the courtyards are arranged in layers.

It is clearly an ancient garden that can only be seen in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

In addition, there are the ancient pagodas of Fenfo Temple from the Nanzhao Kingdom period, the double pavilion and seventeen-hole stone arch bridge, and the unique loess palace of the Yi people.

of course.

What surprised them the most.

There are also academies scattered throughout the city.

"Everyone, do you want to eat or stay in a hotel?"

I made a special trip to Fuxian Lake.

"Yes, from the shopkeeper."

The shopkeeper was stunned.

If it were a prosperous time, Jianshui City would definitely be considered a paradise.

Those who looked a little further, only thought about risking their lives to gain wealth, then go down the mountain to buy a few acres of fertile land, marry a daughter-in-law and start a business, but they never thought about studying.

After walking for a day, it’s important to get enough rest and recharge your batteries to face the dangers on the lake.

Unfortunately.

This trip is not far away for hundreds of miles.

Lin'an Prefecture accounted for about half of those who passed the imperial examination in southern Yunnan, ranking first in southern Yunnan, so it was also called Lin'an Prefecture.

Therefore, for hundreds of thousands of years, every household in Jianshui City, whether Han, Yi or Wa, is proud of reading.

The culture of advocating Confucianism and reading in Jianshui City is one of the best in southern Yunnan.

Are there any eggs under the overturned nest?

After walking for less than half an hour, I had already seen four ancient academies.

After retiring from office, he returned to the city and either built a large academy or went to school to teach.

It’s not just to enjoy the scenery here.

When Chen Yulou heard the shopkeeper speak, he couldn't help but say.

As early as hundreds of years ago.

Seeing the cavalry team approaching, the old shopkeeper who was originally checking the account books in the building did not dare to delay. He took the initiative to take over the responsibility of the shopkeeper and smiled at everyone.

You know, this scene is rare even in Xiangyin.

Even if it was Chen Yulou, it was rare for him to feel emotional.

Amidst the flickering lights, there was the sound of reading aloud.

For a moment, I couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

It is precisely because of this.

Jianshui City was definitely the only place he had ever seen that had such a vision.

"Find a place to rest first. Brothers are tired after running around for a few days."

Lin'an Fuxue, Chongzheng, Huanwen and Chongwen.

Almost across the entire territory of southern Yunnan.

"Yes, Sichuan North Road..."

I found out after asking a random local.

Chen Yulou casually pointed to a restaurant next to him and said calmly.

They don't know why, but listening to the sound of reading coming from the academy feels inexplicable pressure on them.

This trip to Zhelong Mountain.

The group of people subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Many people on the mountain still think that they will settle down when they are rich.

But he reacted quickly.

Even in today's troubled times.

Most of the people in the group were old Jianghu people who had traveled far and wide. They had never seen such a scene before.

"The shopkeeper's accent sounds like he's from Sichuan?"

The trend of reading still remains unabated.

Since ancient times, scholars in Lin'an Prefecture have taken the imperial examination and become officials in the dynasty.

He fled the famine and came to Jianshui City when he was a teenager. More than thirty years have passed in the blink of an eye. His temples have been stained with frost, but his local accent has never changed.

Over the years, he has seen many Han people coming and going.

Most of them are businessmen.

His eyes glanced at the heavy bamboo basket on the horse, and he had a suspicion in his heart.

This group of people is probably the same.

"It should be called Jialing Road now."

"Yes, yes, Jialing Road, I don't know why it has been changed all day long. One moment it is established as a state, another moment it is changed, and I am afraid it will be withdrawn again in a few years."

The old shopkeeper seemed quite dissatisfied with this and muttered in a low voice.

Hearing this, Chen Yulou just shook his head and smiled.

This was the case at the beginning of the Republic of China. The establishment was in chaos and orders were changed day by day. It was understandable that the old shopkeeper would have complaints.

After all, it is my hometown.

I changed my name every three days.

I am far away in a foreign land, and sometimes I don't see a single Han person for a year or so, and even fewer people know about North Sichuan Road.

"Hey, I'm just saying this, everyone, please go in first."

After coming back to his senses, the old shopkeeper patted his forehead, smiled apologetically, stepped aside quickly, and invited everyone to enter the building.

"it is good."

Even though it’s a meal.

But there were not many guests in the building.

There were only a few tables and the lobby seemed empty.

However, the old shopkeeper still specially invited the group to the second floor and ordered the waiters to make tea.

Return the peach.

Chen Yulou was naturally not stingy and asked the old shopkeeper to serve the food.

From the first meeting.

The old shopkeeper felt that he had an extraordinary bearing, and at this moment he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.

Want to get acquainted.

I personally went to the cellar to get a pot of aged cave.

Seeing this situation, how could Chen Yulou refuse? There is no more suitable person than the old shopkeeper regarding the matter of Fuxian Lake.

Wait until a few glasses of wine are gone.

Taking advantage of his drunkenness, Chen Yulou pretended to be curious.

"By the way, old shopkeeper, on the way here, Chen heard someone say that the Fairy Lake has not been peaceful in the past few years. What is this situation?"

Listen to him ask.

The old shopkeeper put down his wine glass and sighed.

"The tide rises every year and floods many villages. Those fishermen who depend on the water do not dare to go into the water. There is no peace."

"Isn't this Immortal Lake a mountain lake? Why does it have tides?"

Chen Yulou frowned, indeed a little confused.

When I entered the city in the evening before.

Standing on the top of the Hezi boat, he specifically looked at the large lake outside the city from a distance.

The water area of ​​Fuxian Lake is vast, much larger than the creeks and lakes seen along the way. However, it is surrounded by mountains and the terrain is low. Logically speaking, there should be no storms and waves.

"Who says it isn't?"

"I have been coming to Jianshui for 30 years, and I have never seen this scene a few times."

The old shopkeeper nodded.

He actually cares more about the situation on the lake than anyone else.

After all, if you open a restaurant by the lake, all your guests will eat is lake delicacies.

I have indeed developed several signboards over the years, otherwise the business would not be as good as it is.

But in the past two years, the restaurant's business has plummeted. Not to mention new customers, the old people who used to come to the restaurant also don't come very often.

There is no other reason.

The waves were rolling on the lake.

Those who fishermen dare not go into the water.

Therefore, the current situation has been created. Although they are guarding hundreds of acres of lake water, there is almost no fish to eat.

Sometimes, it’s not easy to catch a fish in a net.

Before entering the city, he was robbed by several other companies.

This made him very worried.

Originally, he had just kept these things in his heart, but now after a few glasses of wine, his complaints and dissatisfaction could no longer be suppressed and came out like beans.

"Could no one check to see what's going on?"

Chen Yulou held the wine bottle, filled it for him, and asked.

"Why don't you check?"

"is not it……"

The old shopkeeper spoke subconsciously.

However, just before he said these words, a gust of night wind blew outside the window, which made him wake up from the wine. Cold sweat dripped on his forehead. The hand holding the wine glass was hanging in the air. For a moment, he didn't know whether to lift it or put it away.

"Does the old shopkeeper have something to hide?"

Chen Yulou picked up the wine glass with a smile, drank it all in one gulp, and then said with a smile.

"This..." Seeing this.

The old shopkeeper gritted his teeth and seemed to have decided something.

"Mr. Chen, please wait."

As he spoke, the old shopkeeper stood up straight away. Under the astonished and surprised eyes of everyone, he closed all the windows facing the lake, and then returned to his seat.

He picked up the drink and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Mr. Chen, don't blame me for being pretentious. This thing actually sounds horrifying. The older this person is, the bolder he becomes. If he offends him, the whole family really doesn't dare to gamble."

The old shopkeeper smiled coquettishly.

Hear this.

Chen Yulou and Partridge Whistle couldn't help but look at each other, their eyes lighting up.

"it?"

Looking back, Chen Yulou raised his eyebrows.

"Lord Dragon."

Compared to his calmness.

The old shopkeeper struggled to spit out a few words.

boom!
Three simple words.

It was as if there was some kind of magic that suddenly brought the thoughts of everyone at the table back to a few months ago.

On the Nanpan River, the bow of the Hezi boat.

Ba Mo, the leader of the boat, was smoking a pipe and talking about that past event.

What he saw on the Immortal Lake was almost exactly the same as what the old shopkeeper said at this moment.

"You don't want to talk nonsense. Old shopkeeper, Chen has also traveled north and south. River gods and dragon kings have always blessed a place with peace and good weather all year round. How can there be people who flood villages or capsize boats and kill people?"

"Harmful, Mr. Chen, how dare I say such nonsense?"

The old shopkeeper shook his head repeatedly.

"Sacrificing the river god at Fuxian Lake is not to mention a centuries-old tradition. Mr. Chen, you didn't see the battles in the past few years."

"But since the sacrificial boat was overturned the year before last, there has been no peace on the lake."

"Tell me, if this is not the Dragon Prince's anger, what is it?"

This was the first time Chen Yulou heard about this.

After all, I had heard about the handlebar head on the road before and had never seen it with my own eyes. The details were far less clear than what the old shopkeeper said.

"Is it because the boat capsized that the river god was angered?"

Chen Yulou said thoughtfully.

Unexpectedly, the old shopkeeper still shook his head and frowned deeper.

"If so, things would be simpler."

"But... the sacrificial boat was overturned by the Dragon Prince. You said this."

"Lord Dragon overturned the sacrificial boat?!"

This answer.

Even Chen Yulou was unexpected.

Not to mention that the people next to him looked at each other in disbelief.

According to the old shopkeeper, the boat was sacrificed to the Dragon King in the lake to pray for good weather. They had been in peace for hundreds of years, so why did they suddenly get angry?
"Is it a sacrificial ritual that is against the rules?"

Miss Hong thought about it for a moment and suddenly said.

"Sacrificing the river god is a major event among the major events. Every step of the process must be carefully prepared and considered repeatedly. We don't dare to be careless. How can something go wrong with a centuries-old tradition."

The old shopkeeper sighed.

Countless people in the cities and villages around the lake have been thinking about it for several years, but they still can't figure out how they offended the Dragon King.

It even got to where it is today.

Hear the words.

Everyone's expressions were even weirder.

Walking across rivers along the way, almost every river and lake has a river god.

But the situation like this on Fuxian Lake is truly the first of its kind.

Generally speaking.

River gods are basically big monsters in the water who have become climates.

Either a snake, a python, a dragon, or a big fish and a mole.

Offer incense.

This can be regarded as a matter of each gaining something and complementing each other.

Lord Dragon lifts the table. Why does this sound so weird?

Chen Yulou tapped his fingers on the table, and suddenly he remembered something.

"By the way, old shopkeeper, I heard someone said that there was an ancient city on the lake. Is this true or false?"

"Ancient city?"

The old shopkeeper, who was still immersed in complex emotions, was startled.

"I have heard about the ancient city at the bottom of the lake. As for the ancient city above the lake, could Mr. Chen be talking about Yinghai Mountain or Liangwang Mountain?"

His tone didn't sound like he was being fake.

Chen Yulou understood instantly.

It is true that the lake is not peaceful, but the matter about the ancient city on the lake is most likely based on rumors.

"Old shopkeeper, you keep talking about the Dragon King, the Dragon King, has anyone really seen him?"

Hua Ling has never spoken.

Suddenly asked.

Hearing this, everyone who was still thinking about it subconsciously fell on the old shopkeeper.

"How could I not have seen it before?"

"I personally went with a sacrificial ship and saw it with my own eyes."

Upon hearing this, an invisible fire seemed to be lit in the building.

On the Nanpan River that day.

The old turtle appeared.

Only a few people from Chen Yulou saw it.

Most guys are still in the dark.

At this time, hearing the old shopkeeper's conviction, everyone's ears stood up, and they didn't even dare to breathe harder, for fear of missing any scene.

"What about Lord Dragon?"

Hua Ling asked with surprise.

"……dragon!"

The old shopkeeper hesitated for a while before speaking slowly.

"I remember that the sky was clear that day, and we rowed the sacrificial boat all the way to the lake. The temple was still burning paper to worship the gods. Suddenly, the sky turned cloudy, and heavy rain poured down like it was piercing the sky."

"A group of people could only run to the cabin."

"I was young and fearless at that time. I looked back when I entered the ship."

"I saw a black dragon leaning against the bow of the boat inside the rain curtain, swallowing the sacrificial bull's head in one bite..."

The night wind howled outside the building.

I don’t know when it started to rain.

Rain pattered on the windows.

It was so quiet inside the building that the fifty or sixty people held their breaths and did not dare to breathe. Only the old shopkeeper's old voice with a Sichuan accent kept ringing.

He was still talking about the past.

Chen Yulou's eyes became deeper and clearer. He looked past everyone, as if he could see through the closed windows and the rain curtain between heaven and earth, and see the lake in the vast night.

This is the end.

Many things have actually become clear.

The giant dragon in the whirlpool that Ba Mo saw in the lake back then was the same dragon as the Dragon King the old shopkeeper was talking about now.

only.

That's not a dragon.

But it is a dragon that has not yet transformed into a dragon.

A giant dragon that is even more terrifying than the demonic dragon suppressing it under the ancient scripture pillar.

According to ancient books, the simplest way to determine the strength of a dragon is to look at the vast area of ​​water they occupy.

The ancient scripture pillar where the black dragon lives is no more than ten miles away from the Longtan.

But the dragon here occupies ten thousand hectares of Fuxian Lake.

Which one is strong and which one is weak is clear at a glance.

You know, the land of southern Yunnan is also known as the Land of Land, with countless rivers and lakes, but there is only one water body that is wider than Fuxian Lake, and that is Erhai Lake under Cangshan Mountain.

Can be imagined.

The giant dragon under the lake is so amazing.

"Old shopkeeper."

Wait until the rain outside the building calms down a bit.

Chen Yulou suddenly put aside his thoughts and took a deep look at the old shopkeeper opposite.

When he saw it, for some reason, the old shopkeeper felt a sudden change in his heart. He always felt that what he said next would make him extremely embarrassed.

He took several deep breaths in succession.

Then he suppressed his emotions, squeezed out a smile, and said sarcastically.

"Mr. Chen, are you hungry? I'm going to go to the kitchen to urge them to serve the food quickly."

"There's no rush about eating."

Chen Yulou waved his hand.

"I just want to ask, how can I meet the River God?"

(End of this chapter)