Big dreamer

After reaching an agreement, Shen Luo left the horses to the care of Yu DaDa and his wife, while he held the boat and swung towards the river.

Before setting off, Yu DaDa did not forget to give him detailed instructions, fearing that something might happen to him. Naturally, Shen Luo did not dare to neglect this, and wrote down the conditions of each river section in detail, as well as matters that needed attention.

The woman even added clean drinking water to the boat. She also brought out some pancakes and some dried meat from home, wrapped them in linen cloth, and insisted on taking them to the boat to eat.

Shen Luo couldn't resist the kindness, so he also accepted the package with a smile.

The small black-topped boat drifted down the fast river. Shenluo stood at the bow of the boat, holding a bamboo pen in his hand, but he did not support the boat, but explored the rocks in the water on both sides of the boat.

Soon, the boat passed around clumps of reeds as tall as a person and entered a reed swamp.

According to what Yu boldly said, this section of the river is the most turbulent section of the entire Luanshui River. When the boat first entered the water, the speed was not too fast, but as it went downstream, the speed increased extremely quickly, so that it sank. I had to start using my pennies to probe the bottom to slow down the boat.

It's just that he is no good at punting, not in calm water. In this rapid, even though he was concentrating, he still couldn't avoid bumping and bumping.

"Bang, bang, bang"

The boat swung east to west and kept hitting the reefs under the river. It shocked the geese flying over the reeds on both sides and the water birds soared into the sky.

When encountering some large eddies and reefs, he had to use all his strength to push the boat away, otherwise once he was involved, the boat would capsize if he was not careful.

Shen Luo soon became so tired that he was sweating all over and had stars in his eyes. However, the water force forced him to rest and he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

Along the way, he paid special attention to the river banks on both sides to see if there was any narrowing of the river. However, due to the high and dense reeds in the river, his vision was affected and he could not see clearly clearly. He could only follow the changes in the water situation as much as possible. judge.

After all, where the river narrows, the water flow speed will increase.

Shen Luo drifted like this for seven or eight miles, encountering no rocky beaches along the way, but quite a few sandbars in the middle of the river.

His boat plunged head-on into two narrow sandbanks.

The sandbank was covered with green reeds, as if a natural waterway had been created. As soon as the boat entered it, its speed suddenly accelerated and it rushed out suddenly.

There was a muffled "bang" sound, and when the boat rushed out of the reeds, it suddenly shook violently.

Shen Luo staggered and almost fell from the bow of the boat.

He held his bamboo pole to steady his body and looked forward. He saw that the front of the bow of the boat actually hit a rocky beach with a radius of dozens of feet. Fortunately, the boat's wood was strong and it was not damaged. .

Different from the sandbars seen along the way, the rocky beach was filled with fist-sized gray-white pebbles and sand. However, where it collided with the bow of the ship, there was a brown river reef that was much larger than the other stones.

Not only does this stone look craggy and weird, but only about two feet is exposed above the water, while more of it is hidden under the water.

As luck would have it, the bow of the boat got stuck in a groove of this strange rock. Fortunately, it was not damaged.

Shen Luo looked at the river banks on both sides for a moment, and found that the rivers on both sides had narrowed significantly at this point, with a smile on his lips.

"The narrowing of the river, the rocky beach, and the underwater reefs, it looks like this should be the place." Shen Luo murmured.

According to Yu Yan, their ancestors found the unknown book under a rocky beach, and now this place is very consistent.

I thought it would take a lot of searching, but I didn't expect that it didn't take much effort.

Shen Luo threw the pennies onto the rocky beach, leaned over and tied the rope tied to the bow of the boat to the river reef. He tugged hard and made sure that the boat would no longer float away with the water, then he sat down in the cabin. , fell backward.

He had just pushed the boat all the way, and he was already exhausted. At this moment, he no longer had the strength to go down to the river to find the Book of Heaven or even to jump off the bow of the boat.

After Shen Luo rested for a long time and ate some solid food, he finally took a breath and stood up again.

He took out a bundle of thumb-thick hemp rope from the cabin, tied one end firmly to the river reef, and tied the other end twice around his waist before jumping off the boat and arriving at the rocky beach. superior.

The shape of the rocky beach is approximately oval, consistent with the direction of the water flow. It is long and narrow from east to west and slightly narrower from north to south. The river reef stands at the west end of the rocky beach. Shen Luo stands next to the stone and looks into the river.

The river water was dark, with a faint muddy smell. There were white waves on the nearby rocky beach, and there were whirlpools of different sizes floating on the river in the distance. The conditions below the water could not be seen at all.

He calmed down for a moment, stretched out one foot, and cautiously stepped towards the water.

As a result, the rocks on the water's edge were loose, and they suddenly slid down when a little force was applied.

Shen Luo suddenly stepped on the air and fell into the river with a "plop".

The river here was quite deep, and he was completely buried in the water. He was suddenly rushed by the rushing river water, and his back hit the boulder directly. He couldn't help opening his mouth, and took a few big mouthfuls of mixed food. Silt river water.

In panic, he struggled to turn around, grabbed the boulder and climbed up, put his head out of the water, took a sharp breath, and then coughed violently.

"Ahem..."

It took Shen Luo a while to calm down, and he stretched out his hand to wipe the river water on his face, feeling a little frightened in his heart.

"This place is really dangerous, but if it hadn't been so, the Nameless Heavenly Book wouldn't have been here for such a long time, and no one would have found it." Shen Luo thought, and the desire for the Nameless Heavenly Book in his heart became stronger.

This time, he took a deep breath, pinched his nose, and suddenly sank into the water. He held the boulder behind him with one hand and explored the water bit by bit.

After entering the water, he slowly opened his eyes, only to find that the water in the river was a little turbid, and he couldn't see much clearly, nor could he see very far at all. He could only rely on the help of the river reefs to touch the bottom of the river as much as possible.

What surprised him was that the river bed was quite deep. When his feet stepped on the sand at the bottom of the river, the breath he was holding was no longer enough.

He resisted the feeling of suffocation and tried his best to look at the river bottom under the rocky beach with his eyes wide open. He vaguely saw some mud caves and caves with no clear depth inside, and he couldn't see clearly. He hurriedly explored Hands went over and groped.

After only touching it for a short while, holding his breath for a long time made him dizzy and his chest felt heavy, so he could only hold on to the piece and climb up a little bit, back to the water.

Shen Luo took in big gulps of air, his chest rising and falling violently.

After his breath calmed down a little, he plunged into the water again and sank toward the bottom of the river.

This time, in order to stay at the bottom of the river for a while, he sank much faster. As soon as he reached the bottom of the river, he immediately started groping underwater.

It's just that the bottom of the water is dim and there is mud and sand, so the help of eyes is minimal. Shen Luo can only feel like a headless fly.

After a while, his breath ran out, and he had no choice but to return again.

After recovering a little, he plunged into the bottom of the river and groped around under the rocky beach.

After several back and forths, when Shen Luo came up to the surface to take a breath, he felt tired and cold, and his lips were a bit blue.

He hugged the river reef, raised his head slightly and looked at the western sky, and found that the sun had begun to set in the west.

"try again……"

Shen Luo's eyes narrowed, and he took another sharp breath. His whole body sank down again, and he dived towards the bottom of the river.

He had touched almost every mud cave under the river reef, so he walked around the rocks and swam towards the south side of the rocky beach, pressing his palms against the river bed to feel inside.

This time, when his right hand squeezed through a small hole and looked inside, his fingertips suddenly touched something completely different from a stone.