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When the wind rises, the waves are rough, and when the wind is even, the undercurrent rolls. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

This is the Yellow River, the turbid water roaring towards the East China Sea like a golden dragon.

At this time, on the Yellow River, the sail shadows are dotted, and the boats that continue to travel are like dead leaves floating on the river, moving freely. Those who go with the current are roaring, and those who are against the current are shaking the sky.

This is the port on the bank of the Yellow River in Jizhou, there are countless merchant ships coming and going, there are flat leaf boats, there are also luxury merchant ships, and there are more military ships coming strongly. Everything seemed so prosperous, and the people on the boat shouted like thunder, as if they did not care about the cold wind that blew wildly on the river.

On the shoals not far from the harbor, rows of slender men were dragging a magnificent merchant ship with all their might. They shivered in the cold wind, but none of them showed timidity, and none of them flinched, and with neat slogans and vigorous steps, they dragged the merchant ship to the shore step by step.

The water of the Yellow River came up from the sky, rushed to the sea and never returned.

Ling Tianyun's eyebrows were full of the rushing Yellow River water, the muddy water of the Yellow River that made him suffer so much, and his mood was also surging. Once upon a time, I also saw the majestic Yellow River with my own eyes, and I was almost drowned by this torrent-like Yellow River.

It was a passenger ship that went straight to Bianliang, mainly manned, and it took about three days to take the waterway from Jizhou to Bianliang. And when they left Fufu, Zhao Kuangyin decided to return to Bianliang as soon as possible, and only by water was the best way. Jizhou is close to the Yellow River, and taking the waterway is undoubtedly the best choice.

The passenger ship had started slowly, and Zhao Kuangyin and Ling Tianyun stood on the deck, looking at the rolling turbid river, and couldn't help but feel a thousand feelings rise in their hearts. The thief Ma Chenghui took his bags to clean up the room on the passenger boat, and he was also unaccustomed to water and had an inexplicable fear of the river.

"Fu Heng will rush to the imperial capital immediately. My emperor is seriously ill and dying, and how many pairs of eyes are staring at that seat. Could it be that my brother Chai Rong is deeply loved by the emperor, I'm afraid he has no chance at all. Zhao Kuangyin talked to Ling Tianyun about the affairs of the Great Zhou Kingdom. At the same time, he also told Ling Tianyun about his other nominal brother Chai Rong, who knew that Chai Rong was the righteous son of the current emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and he was also a talented man with a martial arts strategy. But what he didn't know was that Chai Rong was Zhao Kuangyin's brother-in-law, if Guo Wei, the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom, died, then Chai Rong took advantage of the situation and seized the throne, and he would be prosperous.

But he was originally from the Northern Han Dynasty, but he became brothers with different surnames with the generals of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and I don't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Ling Tianyun secretly analyzed the current situation in his heart, he knew that Guo Wei was seriously ill, if there was no problem, it should be Guo Wei's righteous son Chai Rong who successfully became the second emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom, unless something changed. And the righteous brother next to him is about to play a major role, but what he doesn't understand is why the Fu family and Zhao Kuangyin are in harmony with Zhao Kuangyin in the open, but they are fighting with each other in secret, is it closely related to the battle for the throne.

Regarding this, Ling Tianyun didn't ask Zhao Kuangyin much, he knew that when the time was ripe, the righteous brother would definitely tell him.

The dark clouds in the sky rolled and pressed like that lingering melancholy. The passenger ship had not yet set sail, and it seemed that an important guest was still waiting, the shipman was a burly northern man who grew up by the Yellow River and was also a native of Jizhou. Because of some relationship with the Naji Prefecture government, he made a water runner business.

From time to time, the ship's guests apologized back and forth, and his bronzed and muscular skin was filled with an explosive force, which was a primitive explosive power. The vicissitudes of life on his face are weathered, his hair is messy, but there is also a majestic momentum, and the body of the boat man contains the most primitive power, like the roaring Yellow River.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, this ship still has to wait for an important guest, so I didn't leave the ship in time and delayed everyone's trip. Thank you for your understanding and understanding. The boatman clenched his fists and apologized to the guests standing on the deck, a masculine smile on his weathered face.

"The shipman is polite, it's not the first time we've taken your boat, just wait." From time to time, someone responded politely, I don't know if it was because he was really too familiar with the boat or because he was afraid of the forces behind him, basically no one stood up to say anything against and disrespectful.

Zhao Kuangyin and Ling Tianyun stood on the edge of the deck, and the shipman didn't apologize to them, maybe it was because of the large number of people or other reasons. The boat man passed by them, and a cold aura condensed on his body was clearly captured by Ling Tianyun, which made Ling Tianyun's heart shock. This seemingly ordinary boat man, but he is a martial arts master, and his martial arts realm is not weaker than him at all, this Jizhou is really the land of the hidden dragon and the crouching tiger. Even an ordinary boat man who can no longer be ordinary is actually a high-level martial cultivator, not to mention those martial cultivators in the Mingli.

"That boat man belongs to the Guo family in Jizhou, so he will monopolize the water transportation between Jizhou and Bianliang, don't think that the Fu family is the first martial arts family in Jizhou, just because Fu Heng is the master of the first group of Shengyangmen in the Central Plains. But to fight for the foundation, the Guo family is still slightly better than the Fu family. Zhao Kuangyin watched the kind-faced boat man gradually walk through the crowd, and couldn't help but explain to Ling Tianyun.

It turned out to be a member of the Guo family in Jizhou, and according to legend, the Guo family in Jizhou has some connections with the Guo family, the first martial arts family in the Central Plains, but I don't know if it's true or false. The Guo family and Guo Wei, the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom, didn't know if there was any relationship, and Ling Tianyun was also very curious. There was a glint of curiosity in his eyes, but he didn't ask.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't know what he was thinking, he smiled faintly and said: "Today's saint has nothing to do with the Guo family, when the former emperor of the Han Dynasty had no way, he killed all the old and young of the saint's family and my brother's family, resulting in the saint still having no heirs, so he recognized his nephew as his righteous son." If the saint is the Guo family, the number one martial cultivator family in the Central Plains, then ask who else can harm his family. ”

Ling Tianyun listened quietly, he didn't expect that the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom, Guo Wei and Na Chai Rong, had such a tragic story, such a tragic past was indeed sad, and he couldn't help but feel sad. Obviously, Zhao Kuangyin did not say that the Guo family in Jizhou has any relationship with the Guo family in the Central Plains, but it is certain that the two Guo families must have something to do with each other.

"In the early years, the Guo family in Luoyang, the capital of the gods, was divided into two factions, but because the Guo family supported the former Jin emperor Shi Jingtang, but unexpectedly, Shi Jingtang recognized the thief as his father, recognized the Khitan Emperor as his father, and ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun. As a result, the defense line of the great rivers and mountains in the Central Plains was completely destroyed, and the Jinxiu mountains and rivers were vulnerable. And the Luoyang Guo family only did one thing, which put the status of the first martial arts family in the Central Plains in jeopardy, after all, the famous family is a famous family, and its strong heritage supports it. But after that incident, the Guo family was divided into two, with the Guo family in Jizhou and the Guo family in Luoyang. Zhao Kuangyin's eyes shot a faint sadness, he had always been worried about the Guo family, and he couldn't figure out why. The sixteen large states within the 100,000-mile Great Wall defense line were ceded to the Khitan, and the Central Plains had no more favorable place to defend except for the dangerous Yanmen Pass.

Ling Tianyun was also embarrassed in his heart, he didn't expect that this extremely prosperous martial arts cultivator family in the Central Plains had only done one wrong thing, and he was almost wiped out. Although the Guo family has a strong background, the reputation at this time is not as good as in the past, that is, the reputation and status of the Fu family are obviously slightly better.

"I see, is it because the Guo family in Jizhou is assigned to this Jizhou because of opposition." Ling Tianyun couldn't help but ask, but to his great surprise, he had the opposite idea.

"You are wrong, the Guo family in Luoyang is the one who opposes that faction, and the Guo family in Jizhou lost the sixteen states of Yanyun because of their support for Shi Jingtang. The main family of the support faction made people feel ashamed of their ancestors and ancestors, so they moved to Jizhou, but the Guo family in Jizhou made indelible contributions to the war against the Khitans. Therefore, the reputation of the Guo family in Jizhou has gradually improved, but the Guo family in Luoyang fell into a depression after that incident. His subordinates kept a low profile and never participated in any battles in the martial arts cultivation world, but their reputation plummeted. It is only in recent years that the Guo family in Luoyang has been talked about again, not because of its status in the martial arts cultivation world, but because the only daughter of the Guo family eloped with a killer of the Assassin Heaven Alliance. It's really a good thing not to go out, and bad things to spread thousands of miles, and the Guo family in Luoyang is even more devastated because of this incident. In any case, a big clan is a big clan, and it has a heritage of hundreds or even thousands of years, which should not be underestimated. ”

As soon as Zhao Kuangyin's words were finished, they found that there was gradually a stirring in the crowd, as if the ship was about to set sail, could it be that the important guest was about to board the ship. They stopped talking, and as the crowd looked below the deck, they didn't see the important people they imagined crowding around.

But they saw a monk, a fat-headed and big-eared monk in a red robe, passing through the crowd and slowly walking towards the boat. In addition to the nine dazzling ring scars on his forehead, the fat-headed and big-eared monk also had a string of stone-sized Buddha beads hanging around his neck, which was even more conspicuous on his thick neck. The monk had no long body, not even a bag, and walked alone to the boat with the swift steps of a dragon and a tiger.

No one went to greet him, even the ship's man who had repeatedly apologized politely did not come out to greet him, but the fat-headed and big-eared monk slowly walked to the deck of the ship. And when he reached the upper deck, the ship began to slow down a little, and it was about to close its anchor.

The fat monk had thick eyebrows and big eyes, an eagle hooked nose, and his eyes were not the black of ordinary Han people, but slightly royal blue, with a wide forehead and thick lips. The monk was nine feet tall, several points taller than Zhao Kuangyin. I don't know how much higher than ordinary people, giving people a feeling like a majestic mountain.

"What are the monks of the Western Regions doing here?" Zhao Kuangyin's eyes showed a solemn light, the monk's pretense was not like the ordinary monks seen in the Central Plains. There was some exaggerated robe with flowers, and the string of Buddhist beads hanging from his neck even more exaggeratedly, and his appearance.

When the fat monk got on the boat, he found a sparsely populated place and sat cross-legged, he lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, and he meditated. Some of the guests had already returned to their cabins before the boat opened, and only less than half of them stayed to watch the spectacular view of the majestic Yellow River.

When the boat reached the center of the river, the wind blew stronger and stronger, and the water flowed rapidly, and the boat was as steady as a rock, not even shaking it, but it made Ling Tianyun settle down. The inexplicable fear of the Yellow River came from the catastrophe between life and death with Zhao Kuangyin at the beginning, and if he was thrown into the river again, he couldn't think of any way not to be drowned by the river now. I believe that Zhao Kuangyin also thinks the same way, and his slightly pale face can be seen that he still has palpitations.