Great Sui Storyteller

Chapter 322 321. Blood Nan
Some things in the world are just coincidences.

After Master Huqiu saw Li Laodao, he naturally didn't think about what kind of bizarre cause and effect happened between Xue Rulong and Li Laodao when she went up the mountain to sacrifice.

In her opinion, Xuan Suning told herself that she told Xue Rulong.Xue Rulong found Li Shouchu, and now when he went down the mountain, he saw Li Shouchu and Xue Rulong together again.

Then it is equivalent to the completion of Xue Rulong's mission.

She is very clear about Xue Rulong's style of doing things.

The man looks rough on the surface, but in fact he is first-class and delicate in heart.

The errands entrusted to him are almost never wrong.

Due to this habit of inertial thinking, she didn't think much about it at all.Just feeling at ease in his heart, he gradually closed his eyes.

Today, this Taoist... is just her little thought.

With Xue Rulong watching him, he would not be involved in any inexplicable troubles.It has no effect on what she is going to do, that's enough.

So, following in the team, the emperor's concubine took the lead, and a group of people walked in the direction of Yi Que.And Master Huqiu in the crowd squinted coldly at the Taoist who was still commenting, then let out another cold snort, and then looked away.

The line was very long. After the line of hundreds of people passed through the "parking lot", others dared to stand up straight.

Then they followed slowly in twos and threes.

Li Zhen and Xue Rulong also followed behind the team.

Xue Rulong was full of thoughts, what happened just now made him feel... neither good nor bad premonition.He didn't think that this matter had anything to do with the Taoist priest next to him. He could still figure out how much this Taoist man weighed.

How could a poor Taoist priest from the northwest provoke... that kind of existence! ?

And even though the Taoist targeted him, he didn't hurt him, and he didn't move, just to trap himself for a while... What's the reason?
Will this matter affect adults?

He was full of doubts.

Just like Mr. Huqiu, he never thought about Li Zhen's affairs at all.

In his opinion, his lord said that Taoist Xuan couldn't keep an eye on this Taoist priest who died after he died, so he ordered him to meet him.As a result, after a sudden accident on the way, when he returned again, he saw the Taoist who had gone down the mountain by himself and was waiting for him.

He also didn't think about how Li Zhen appeared here.

Because it's all too reasonable.

Reasonable enough that he also ignored why Li Zhen was here.

At this moment, he heard Li Zhen say:
"General Xue, can I see Mr. Shi Lang later?"

These words can be regarded as asking Xue Rulong's heart.

He shook his head:

"Bai Ri, it's difficult."

"Why?"

"Your Excellency's trip is on a dragon boat to attend a banquet. Then...Fanbang Xiaoguo has already waited outside the dragon boat, and wants to give us a New Year's gift. This will delay a while. In the afternoon, both sides of Yique will invite people from all over the world to feast. I can't communicate inside and outside... If I want to see the adults, I'm afraid I have to wait until night."

"...When the various schools of thought offer gifts?"

"Ah."

Hearing this, Li Zhen's eyes flickered a few times, and he nodded:

"Ok."

Xue Rulong turned to look at him, frowned and asked:

"what happened?"

"……It's alright."

The Taoist bared out a mouthful of small white teeth:

"It's New Year's Eve, you have to say auspicious words to Mr. Minister, don't you?"

"..."

Does Xue Rulong believe it?
Definitely don't believe it.

But right now...he really doesn't have the heart to think about what this Taoist wants to do.

So he shook his head:

"Let's go."

"Ah."

……

"Huh~~~"

Accompanied by the Taoist's amazement, Xue Rulong, who came back to his senses, also turned his attention to Yique River.

"Boom beep, beep, beep."

"Chuck, choke, choke, choke!"

"Boom choke long choke~"

The gongs and drums are loud.

At some point, the banks of the Yique River were already filled with a group of jugglers.

It's really watertight.

people.

Crowds of people!

Fire-breathing, water-breathing, mountain-moving, sea-filling, star-seeking, moon-grabbing...

Swallowing iron balls, swallowing treasured swords, smashing boulders in the chest, stepping on bamboo poles to play golden rooster independence...

Have everything.

The entire banks of the Yique River looked like a large-scale folk art exhibition. In this noisy Chinese New Year atmosphere, the excitement was pushed to the extreme!
In addition to them, there are tourists who keep rushing to both sides of the river.

Li Zhen guessed at a glance... Today's Luoyang City should be empty.

lively.

It's so lively.

It's like the Golden Week of later generations.

Everyone is here to join in the fun.People are crowded, and people stick to each other.

Too many to add.

Difficult to count.

But what really moved Li Zhen was not the people on the two shores.

It was... one... two... three... nine giant ships standing quietly in the Yique River.

Nine... The visually estimated length of the ship is at least 80 to [-] meters, and the height is at least three floors!
Just standing quietly in the Yique River.

Luxurious and stylish.

Although Li Zhen had never seen the Titanic in reality...but the nine black, vermilion, and gold mixed-colored giant boats just stopped in front of him, which was enough to shock him.

It's just... outrageous!
Especially the largest giant ship headed by it.

The length should be at least one hundred and twenty!
This... I'm afraid it won't catch up with Zheng He's treasure ship in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, right?
Although only one side of the hull can be seen clearly, there is a golden three-dimensional embossed dragon on that side of the hull!

The dragon has five claws, the head of the dragon has long beards, and the most eye-catching thing is the pair of eyes.

Basketball big ruby, have you seen it?
Li Zhen saw it.

The eyes of two big round red treasures...balls reveal the endless majesty of the emperor!
The Dragon God was alive and well, even... when he looked carefully, he could still see the radiance like blood veins flickering in the scales of the Dragon God.

It's just like naked-eye 3D!
Li Zhen's attitude towards Yang Guang...has always been somewhat contemptuous.

Although this kind of contempt is very complicated, but on the one hand...he always thinks that the other party is a low-level country bumpkin.

This kind of idea is not held by him personally, but from the perspective of a modern person, through the combination of technology, material and life enjoyment of modern people, a unique sense of superiority.

Apart from having a lot of wives, what else do you have?
The GDP of your dynasty may not be able to catch up with a free shipping area in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

What are you proud of?

The palace where you live looks like a prison to me.The wall is so high, and you stay in the palace every day, besides seeing flowers and plants, what else would you look at?

As a modern person, not talking about the feudal system, but purely in terms of material life, even Li Zhen feels that he enjoys more than Yang Guang.

No matter how awesome your emperor is, don't you still have to wear a loincloth?
Whoever wears that thing knows.

you are looking at me.

I simply don't wear them.

Hey ~
comfortable~
Sew your own pants.

Therefore, he has never felt that people in this era are very good at enjoying.

It doesn't matter what servants are three thousand, or beautiful wives and concubines.Over and over again, isn't that what entertainment is all about?
But... when he saw the figure of the emperor sitting behind the bead curtain on that boat, and the hundred and ten maids in white gauze dancing on the deck, and this boat, both in terms of its style of painting and its degree of luxury, surprised him. When the breathtaking giant ship...he understood.

sloppy.

It's really like the cross talk that my little nephew Guo Qilin said.

"Father's happiness, you really can't imagine."

Yang Guang...

"It's a "player"..."

"what?"

Asked Xue Rulong, who couldn't hear the Taoist's mumbling.

Li Zhen shook his head and asked in a low voice:
"General Xue, how was that ship... built?"

Hearing this, Xue Rulong also had a little emotion on his face:

"30 craftsmen, 40 civilian husbands in Shunan Road, and [-] Jinshen..."

"...One hundred thousand!?"

Li Zhen was dumbfounded.

Xue Rulong nodded:
"That's right, 40 nanmu. [-] civilians entered Shunan, and it took three years to make it, and less than [-]% of them came back."

"..."

Li Zhen, who was still lamenting that these ships used wood from the Forbidden City, suddenly heard the string of numbers behind...

silent.

"call……"

The Taoist priest took a deep breath, tried his best to cool down the boiling blood in his heart, and asked in the calmest voice possible:
"But this... doesn't look like a hundred thousand nanmu. It shouldn't be used up, right?"

"Can't use it all up?... Heh."

The man let out a sarcastic laugh, which was fleeting.

"Taoist, take a closer look at the hull of the boat."

"..."

Hearing this, Li Zhen narrowed his eyes.

A little golden light appeared in the eyes.

At the same time, Xue Rulong's voice sounded again:
"Can you see clearly?...Although the ship plank is coated with tung oil, the texture is all in the shape of water droplets. Water drop patterns are rare in nanmu, and usually there are not large areas. And For this dragon boat, [-] nanmu are all stitched together with water drop pattern. Moreover, the pattern you see is the most precious gentian pattern in the water drop pattern!"

"..."

Li Zhen didn't really understand Jinsinan.

There were two strings of Jinsinnan bracelets from the Ming and Qing dynasties before, but these were too precious, and he was not good at literary play, so he kept leaving them at home, and he basically didn't take them with him.

But he has heard about the lines of Jinsinan.

It is said that when Jinshen grows, it will produce various lines according to the properties of soil, climate and so on.

Generally, there are three types:

"Drops, waves, clouds."

Water droplets are densest, followed by water waves, and finally relatively "loose" clouds.

The water drop pattern only appears in the "big tree" of Jinshen.It is said that it has grown for at least a thousand years, and it will die naturally for hundreds of years without moving, and the heart will wither, leaving only water drop lines.Water drop pattern is rare in old materials, because the center is empty, the yield rate is extremely low, new material and ordinary young old materials do not have water drop pattern.

This shows its preciousness.

but……

"Waterdrop-patterned planks spliced ​​together?...Then this boat is not strong, is it?"

"Not solid?"

Xue Rulong gave another sarcastic smile:
"Haha."

But instead of targeting the Taoist, he looked at the ship:
"The method of making this ship is kept secret. It came from the mirage palace built by the Yin Yang family for the first emperor's eastward tour of the world. After it was built, the ship's body became a whole, like a living thing. Although the specific magical function is unclear...but at least, let's not talk about other things. A person like you who is in a comfortable environment strikes with all his strength, at most, leaving a hole in it."

Speaking of this, Xue Rulong kept silent.

But in my heart I kept chasing one sentence:
"Wish...to see it sink with my own eyes."

(End of this chapter)