I didn't intend to become a fairy

Chapter 403 Yaozhou Road Halfway
"The mountains and rivers are beautiful and the sun is high, it's good, the wind is blowing..."

The rough sound echoed on the blue waves. Between the two mountains, a small boat broke through the tranquility of the river and slid slowly from the upper reaches, causing the blue sky and white clouds on the water to ripple.

The old boatman beat his legs a few times and sang loudly again.

Suddenly the singing stopped, and he looked into the distance.

On the Zijun Ferry, which seemed to be trampled down by something, stood a young Taoist, with a three-coloured cat at his feet and a bay red horse behind him.

"Swoosh..."

A swallow passed in front of him.

"Ouch……"

The old boatman rubbed his eyes, yelled, and quickly pulled the boat over after getting a response.

Moments later, the boat left the shore again.

At this time, there was already a bay red horse on board, a young Taoist, and the three-colored cat was pawing at the side of the boat, leaning down, poking out his head and staring at the water, wondering what he was thinking.

The Taoist said to the boatman: "The boatman has a leg problem and is getting old, why is he still sailing on the river?"

"It's not just to make a living." The boatman waved his hand and said, then looked at Song You with a tentative tone, "It's the immortal master. After sending the immortal master back last time, the villain stopped the boat and went home to rest after hearing the immortal master's words. It took a few days, but unexpectedly, in those few days, the earth dragon turned over, the landslides and the ground cracked, and even the river was broken. You are making waves and breaking the ground, and the villain is still very worried about the immortal master."

"Is the disaster serious?"

"Zi County is not too heavy. When I heard about the county, I basically didn't feel any shock." The boatman said, "In this river, people who were on the river or on the bank at that time could see that something was wrong. It was the earth dragon that turned over, and the ghosts were very strange. Later, the river changed its way and then changed back again. After going back and forth like this, many people on both sides of the river suffered disaster, and I don’t know how many boats capsized on the river.”

"yes……"

Song You also nodded.

Although the Yinjiang River no longer has the momentum it had thousands of years ago, it is still a big river, rushing eastward into the sea, with countless boats, big and small, coming and going on the river, and being cut off suddenly, how could it be a trivial matter.

This is also one of the reasons why Song You can let the white rhinoceros go, but not the dragon.I just knew that the fox would not spare them, so I didn't do it myself.

The big monster inherited from ancient times is just so terrifying.

It's a pity that there may not be many big monsters handed down from ancient times, and most of them have declined. The few branches in Yuezhou may have been considered good, and there have been two less branches since then.

"I heard from people who escaped from the south of Zi County that the water from the Yin River rushed to them, and a large mountain became like a sea, and it became dark during the day, and there were ghosts crying and howling, lightning and thunder. Great monsters are making trouble there, and there are gods and monsters fighting." The boatman said while watching Song You, "After the river came back, after a few days, there were boats on the river again, and the villain came here to wait. Immortal master, I just didn't wait for it, I thought that the villain and immortal master had no destiny, and the immortal master had already left, but I didn't expect that the immortal master would come out after a year."

"There's something going on over there."

Song You said to the boatman with a smile, and paused: "Speaking of which, we are also specially waiting for the boatman here, and we have been waiting for two days."

"Ah? Why bother the immortal master to wait for me."

The boatman's eyes widened suddenly, and he was terribly frightened.

"There is no need for the boatman to be nervous. There are few boats on the river. We just turned down an empty boat in the past two days." Song You said, "We still remember how the boatman carried me last year, and we also remember the last time I said it was okay. When I met the boatman again, I invited the boatman to drink a glass of water and wine, this time I brought it, I only wish to drive away the body cold for the boatman.”

After speaking, he took out the jug and poured a glass of wine.

"oops……"

The boatman panicked, wanted to refuse but was reluctant, wanted to agree but was embarrassed, put down the oar and rubbed his hands on his body repeatedly, and then took it.

"Thank you Immortal Master."

Then he raised his head and drank it in one gulp.

It is a wine from a small place, but it is also the most expensive wine sold in the county, and the boatman has never tasted it.

After drinking, he only smiled and said to Song You:
"This wine is good..."

This year's wine is not easy to get drunk, it's just a glass, and it doesn't delay the boat.

The boatman returned the wine glass, didn't row the boat very much, the light boat went down the blue waves, accompanied by high singing, and in the blink of an eye, it arrived at the border of Yaozhou, the ferry where Song Youshang got off the boat.

Xu is that the wine is warm in nature and can dispel the cold in the body. After walking all the way, Chunbo still has a bit of cold air, and the old cold legs have never hurt again.

"The immortal master is still playing here?"

"Still playing here."

"okay!"

The boatman immediately went by boat.

Song You took out the boat money, but he refused to accept it, Song You also forcibly gave it, then thanked the boatman, got off the boat and left.

It's still the loess road in the mountains, which is easier to walk than the road in Zijun, Fengzhou. There are forests of straight fir trees on both sides. It is the place where Sanhua Empress once rode a tiger and led a pack of wolves. There is a layer of inextricable mist and miasma, which seems to be covered with a veil. In a trance, there is no difference from last year.

"Let's go."

Song You stepped forward, and the horse followed immediately.

The sound of horseshoes and the ringing of the bell echoed between the two mountains and in the woods.

Sanhuamao followed with small steps, raised its head high, looked at the mountains and fog, forests and birds on both sides, and lowered its head from time to time to look at the front and back, thoughtfully.

I don't know if I'm thinking about the little monster hidden on the mountain last year, or I feel that there are no carriages and piano sounds on this road this year.

Soon there was another fork in the road.

The tea stall at the fork in the road was still not open.

Song You sat on the stone of the tea stand for a while, taking out dry food and water to eat under the shade of the dilapidated tea shed.

A lot of weeds grew on the side of the road and along the street of the tea stall. The horse kept silent and gnawed with its head down, making the sound of pulling weeds and chewing. The cat also took out the dried loach from the bag and hugged it on the ground. gnawing.

"Do Taoist priests eat loach?"

"no thank you."

"It's very clean." The cat looked up at him. "It's cleaner than the jerky made by people in the city."

"Empress Sanhua, let's eat."

"I don't eat this, I don't eat that..."

The cat shook its head, muttered a few words in a low voice, and continued to gnaw on the loach.

The dried loach is dry and woody, and the slag will fall off when chewed, and the sound of chewing is full of chi chi, which is very comfortable to listen to.

The sun illuminates the whole world brightly.

The weather seems to be getting hotter.

Song You ate the vegetable balls in his hands cleanly, twisted the larger dregs and put them into his mouth. If they were too small, he clapped his hands and let them go with the wind, and then put them on his back Leaning back, leaning against the wooden pillar of the tea stand, I watched the cat biting the dried loach, and also saw the empty official road under the afternoon sun.

There is a special sense of freedom and leisure at this time.

In the previous year, whether it was stressful or boring, it disappeared immediately.

"..."

Song You couldn't help stretching, feeling a little sleepy.

Passing through the wilderness, dilapidated tea stalls, the sun is dazzling, the quiet and deserted mountain road in the afternoon, the body and mind are tired and relaxed, and it is very pleasant to be able to sleep.

"Miss Sanhua, I need to sleep."

"OK……"

Song You half-closed his eyes and fell asleep.

From sitting down to rest, until eating the dry food, and then sitting on the road and taking a nap, the fork in front of you is only a group of people passing by, there are people leading donkeys, jingle bells, and driving Businessmen passing by with carriages or carts, the sound of wooden wheels and the rolling of the ground is really undisturbing when they are tired, but instead lulls them to sleep. There are also travelers and Jianghu people who walk briskly. And Mian, who is not afraid of bandits or thieves, can't help but look at him with that relaxed posture.

Passers-by have participated in the Taoist's afternoon dream, maybe the Taoist is also the embellishment of their journey.

When Song You woke up in a daze, the world gradually became clear from blur. When he looked down, Mistress Sanhua had already fallen asleep beside him, and Yanzi fell asleep with her neck curled up on the opposite branch. The horse also stood quietly, without making a sound.

Several beams of light penetrated the broken tea shed and hit the ground.

It was very quiet beside him, only a group of ants on the ground were carrying the dregs of the vegetable dumpling he dropped and the dregs of the dried loach left by Mistress Sanhua.

Song You couldn't bear to wake them up, and such a scene really made people not want to leave, so he sat here quietly, neither comprehending the aura of heaven and earth, nor thinking about the next route, just looking down at the ants on the ground carrying food Walking around the Sanhua Empress, some even approached, wanting to observe this sleeping monster.

"..."

The Sanhuamao slowly opened its eyes a little, saw that the Taoist had woken up, immediately opened its eyes wide, looked around, and looked down at the bunch of ants on the ground, couldn't help poking it with its paws I checked them and turned over a few ants. This was all instinctive behavior when I just woke up, but I didn't make things difficult for them. I quickly looked up at the Taoist:
"Are you awake?"

Almost at the same time, Yanzi also opened his eyes.

"wake up."

"Are you going?"

"Mistress Sanhua can sleep a little longer."

"Mistress Sanhua seems to have woken up."

"Let's go then."

Song You stood up, moved his body, and felt refreshed.

The Sanhuamao also stood up and stretched itself. It caught a glimpse of the ants on the ground out of the corner of its eye, and couldn't help stretching out its paws, and flipping over a few more.

Naturally, or instinctively.

Can't help it at all.

He got up and followed the Taoist away, watching the Taoist put the quilt bag on the horse's back, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at the ants.

A group of people walked on the official road and left along the road, but last time they took the left fork, this time they took the right one. The sound of horseshoes and bells became the only sounds on the mountain road in the afternoon.

A few days later, Anmin County.

Princess Changping really did as she said, after going through Fengzhou's cold and ghostly atmosphere, and then crossing the miasma-ridden mountains of Yaozhou, after settling in Yaozhou, she was also dissatisfied. Her arrogance caused a lot of shock, I don't know if she was surprised, in short, in just one year, she seemed to have aged ten years, almost comparable to her emperor's father in the court hall of Changjing.

It's just that she has to know that people are visiting, but she still drags her body, puts on makeup to attend, entertains in person, maintains the strength of character she used to be Princess Dayan, and also maintains the etiquette to Taoists.

At the beginning of March in the ninth year of Mingde, the Taoist left Anmin.

Soon, Princess Changping died of illness at home.

A princess who had held the greatest power in history passed away. I don't know how long it will be before the emperor who has supported her for half his life knows the news, and how the emperor will feel.

(End of this chapter)