Ye Gui

As soon as Lin Xiao came out of the restaurant, he saw the little daughter of the boatman running over from the corner of the street, grabbed her skirt and asked, "Sister, sister, my father asked me to ask you when to cross the water?"

Lin Xiao picked up the girl, looked at Lei Yan, the little general said: "Bai Yin and I are going to meet the water ghosts, you can find a place to wait for us."

The girl was about the same age as Xiaoyi, and stretched out her hands towards Lei Yan: "Hug."

"Sister, please hug you." Lin Xiao put his arms around her.

"It's okay." Lei Yan smiled and took her over: "Why? Like brother?"

The girl was obviously stunned for a moment. In her perception, all the beautiful ones were older sisters, but the one who was prettier than the older sister just now turned out to be an older brother?

"Xiaomo!" The boat lady came over and saw her daughter playing with the nobleman's hair with her small hands playing with mud, she reprimanded her: "Oh my child! Your hands are so dirty! Let me go!" He patted the girl's little hand, and brought the child over, "I'm sorry, the little girl was young and ignorant, and offended the nobleman."

Lei Yan smiled and said, "It's okay, the little girl is very cute."

The boat lady asked, "May I come over and ask when we will cross the water?"

Lin Shao: "Just now I discussed with you that we will cross the water after noon, but there are still some matters that need to be delayed for a while, probably in the evening."

The boat lady was a little confused: "I'm afraid it will be dark when I come back in the evening." She frowned tightly, "The white water is not smooth recently, and the boatman has to come back before the sun goes down. There are water ghosts in the water, and if you come back late, you will be caught." The water ghost caught it and ate it..."

Hakuin asked, "Excuse me, has anyone seen a water ghost?"

Boat girl: "Have you ever seen people come back alive? In the past six months, there have been people who disappeared every month, and they all crossed the water. When they came back, they were empty boats."

Xiaomo put her arms around her mother's neck: "Water ghost, Xiaomo is afraid..."

The boat lady patted her on the back to reassure her: "It's fine for the three boats to go together in the blue sky, but if the sun goes down, no one dares to cross the water. Besides, after dark, there is no place to live on the other side. Leave early?"

Bai Yin and Lei Yan looked at each other and said, "If that's the case, let's set off tomorrow morning."

Lin Xiao found an inn.Lei Yan was very curious about the water ghost, so he asked the others to settle down, and he dragged Bai Yin to the bank of the Baishui River.

Baishui originates from Baishan Mountain, and when it flows south to the mountainous area fifty miles north of Anning County, it turns a big bend in the canyon and rushes towards the southeast.

The terrain of Anning County is flat and the drop is small. The location of the ferry crosses the rainy season and the water flows calmly. Today is cloudy and the sun is hiding behind the clouds. There is plenty of water vapor in the south and there is no wind. A thin layer of white mist has gathered on the river.

The two split up to look for the boat. At this time, the boatman went back. Because of the water ghost, no one would go out to cross the river after the end of time.

Hakuin felt a little troubled, if he used his spiritual power standing on the bank, the water surface was wide and the river was long, the water ghost would not know where it was, it would be a waste.

The little general came back after running around the ferry, and Bai Yin said, "No one is willing to leave the boat, why don't I use my spiritual power..."

Lei Yan said with a smile: "Mr. Bai has lived in the world for a long time, and I don't know there is a saying called Qian Ketong Shen." He pointed to a ferry boat parked not far away, "That one."

Hakuin asked, "Is there anyone willing to go out on the boat?"

Lei Yan: "No, I bought the boat." He jumped into the boat and stretched out his hand to Bai Yin, "Will Mr. Bai go boating with me?"

The ferry boat is not big, and the hull and cabin of Jinyoutan, because of the high cost and high rent, are only used by dignitaries who want to visit the scenery on both sides of the river along the white water. However, in the past ten years, there are fewer and fewer people. It has been idle for a long time, and the boat owner does not need it to make a living. He thinks it takes up a lot of land and requires maintenance, so he sold it to Lei Yan at a cheap price.Although it was a discount, it was enough to buy five ordinary ferries.

The little general was rowing at the stern of the boat. It was the first time for Hakuin to take this kind of ferry, and it was very fresh. He stood at the bow and watched from a distance.

There are no other boats on the white water in the fog, and there is no sparkling sunshine from a distance. Only when you go deep into the depths can you find the blue waves.The ferry was swaying, and only the sound of oars could be heard in the silence.

"I'll use my spiritual power to move it, Ah Yan don't shake it too hard." Bai Yin stepped into the cabin and said.

Lei Yan smiled: "Don't, it's rare to go boating with Mr. Bai, so it's interesting. After the world is peaceful, I will disarm and return to the field. Let's find a place with mountains and water, and plant a piece of land under the mountain to grow vegetables." , if you want to eat fish, go to the water and cast a net, then you will row the oar and I will catch fish, isn’t it very interesting?” Hakuin walked to the stern of the boat and listened to him expectantly.

Baishui came out of the canyon and fell silent in this open area, as if it was brewing the next wave of power and rushed to the southeast towards the sea.

While the two of them were talking, the ferry boat went to the middle of the river, Hakuin spread out his spiritual power, the water was tens of feet deep, and the river was more than a mile wide, he stroked it carefully until the sun set and the fog thickened, but nothing was found .

Lei Yan asked: "How is it?"

"I originally guessed where the monster escaped and hid in the water, but the water was clean and there was no trace of monster energy." He remembered that Bai Ran had used the fallen flowers to hide the monster energy in Yanming City, "I don't know if it will be with Bai Ran Ran related."

Lei Yan said: "Anning County is next to Yingzhou, in the hinterland of Shenyu Country, even if Bai Ran has a long arm, he can't reach here."

Bai Yin nodded: "Indeed, if he intervenes so far, Pei Zheng will not just sit idly by."

"Master..." Lei Yan sat in the cabin, "I heard from the people in the restaurant that the disciples of the National Teacher have been here, why don't we go back to Tianlu City tomorrow, and then go to the National Teacher's Mansion to ask?"

"That's the only way to go, I just hope that no one will go missing."

When the two of them got back to the pier through the thick fog, it was past Xu hour, and it was completely dark. Lin Tong, Linshao and the boat lady were waiting at the ferry, and they were relieved when they saw them.

"What? Are you worried about this general?" Lei Yan threw the cable to Lin Tong.

Lin Tong smiled and said, "How dare I, it was Xiao Mo who insisted on coming to play, so we followed."

Lei Yan scratched Xiaomo's nose with a smile, and the boat lady asked, "Did you find anything?"

She had just heard that these two gentlemen from Yushu Linfeng, who looked like they were not ordinary people, went to Baishuishang and hadn't come back after dark. She was so worried that she insisted on following them. Lin Tong told her that the two were going to investigate Water ghosts cannibalize people.

Her distant cousin disappeared while fishing half a year ago, and he has not been found yet.

Bai Yin replied: "We have checked the waters in the ten miles around Anning County, and there are no water ghosts."

The boat lady said: "Impossible, we in Anning County were on the banks of this white water hundreds of years ago, and everyone lives by fishing on ferry boats, and they are all familiar with water skills. It makes sense, but twelve people have disappeared in the past six months. What else could it be? My cousin was the first to disappear. He is well-known for his good water skills. Even if he falls off the boat in the middle of the river, he can swim back... ..."

Lei Yan asked: "What did the disciples of the national teacher say when they came?"

The boat lady said: "Two people came from Tianlu City last month. The boat they used was in the cabin. I was at the helm, and I vaguely heard them talking about peach...peach blossom..."

Hakuin suddenly remembered that Digui and Xianhe had told him that when the barrier broke, they appeared on the island in the middle of Cuijiu Lake in Baijiao Mountain, a peach tree full of peach blossoms.

Could it be Pei Zheng?What the hell is he doing?

When he came down to Baijuan Mountain three years ago, Pei Zheng went to see him in person. This was the first time he saw this legendary magician genius.

Pei Zheng just looked at him for a moment, then handed him the snow jade that carried her spiritual power, and said very concisely: "Please leave the barrier." Regardless of whether Bai Yin agreed or not, she turned her head and left.

Seeing that Bai Yin didn't speak, Lei Yan probably guessed his doubts, so he said, "Let's go back to the inn first."

Sleeping until midnight, Lei Yan heard faint footsteps outside the window, as if someone was rushing, and it sounded like the footsteps were messy and stumbling.He turned over and got out of bed, and opened the window a crack. Their room was on the second floor, and in the alley downstairs, a small shadow was dragged long under the hazy moonlight shrouded in clouds and mist. The bumpy one is Xiaomo.

Bai Yin woke up when Lei Yan got up, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Ah Yan, what's wrong?"

The little general put on his robe, pointed out the window, and beckoned to him. With one hand on the edge of the window, he rolled over. The two of them landed lightly, without disturbing the girl in front, and quietly followed behind.

Xiaomo ran very fast, and ran towards the ferry with her short legs.When she got to the ferry, she jumped into a small boat, skillfully let go of the cable, and the boat drifted to the middle of the river with the current.

The two also boarded the boat, and followed at a distance. Xiaomo found someone, and looked back at them, without any movement, like an empty puppet.

Hakuin released his spiritual power to cover Xiaomo with the barrier, Xiaomo struggled a bit, the barrier immediately dispersed, Hakuin was shocked, no mortal could break his barrier so easily.

He urged the boat to approach quickly with his spiritual power. When he approached, Xiao Mo didn't move, but turned his head suddenly to the back, and grinned at them with empty eyes.

"Fuck!" Lei Yan was taken aback, the angle between the head and neck must not be a living person, "What's going on?"

Bai Yin knows very well that if there are mortals and demons in this world, they are ghosts, and ghosts are the souls of people who have not entered the underworld after death. They have no substance, but Xiaomo clearly had a shadow just now.

Suddenly, the thick fog in the middle of the river seemed to come alive, surrounding the two boats in the middle, and the water was murmuring in the distance. Apart from them, another boat was approaching.

Xiao Mo turned her head back towards that side, hissing, as if she was very frightened.The two of them did not act rashly, and quietly looked at the other side of the fog.

A lot of peach blossom petals suddenly surged on the water, and then a black boat floated over. There was a man standing on the bow, wearing a white cloth, wearing a hood, and holding a peach-wood walking stick in the water.

Bai Yin recognized the person: "Pei Zheng?"

Lei Yan also shouted in surprise: "Master!"

Pei Zheng saw a flash of surprise in the eyes of the two of them, but immediately became calm again, took back the mahogany cane in her hand, and bowed to Bai Yin: "Little uncle."

At this time, Xiao Mo suddenly turned around and jumped onto Lei Yan's boat, Pei Zheng frowned slightly, and waved the peach wood cane, peach blossoms gushed out like flowing water and engulfed Xiao Mo in mid-air.

Xiaomo burst into tears as if in pain, but Bai Yin couldn't bear it, and said, "Pei Zheng, let her go."

Pei Zheng didn't say much, the cane fell down, and the peach blossom rolled the girl straight into the water, about to sink to the bottom of the water.