We dragged the unfinished wooden boats over, and General Su led thirty people down the river to see if we could find any trace of Bai Jing. It was probably unlikely. This guy was now frightened.
The remaining people took the woman back the same way and handed her over to King Tian. Song Kui told us that she said she was from Pu Duanguo.
"Where is Pu Duanguo?" King Tian asked her. She raised her hand and pointed around with a blank expression. She might be just a woman who has never left home for most of her life. She had already covered her head and turned around.
Tian Wang said, "It doesn't matter, take her with you and we will go to Pu Duanguo. A wicked person cannot live without others. He cannot live without others."
General Su also came back. They walked along the river and found no abandoned boats along the way. It seemed that Bai Jing was no longer on Bazi Island.
We were quite polite to this woman on the ship. Her figure was about the same as Qi Xue's, slightly shorter. Qi Xue said, "I don't have much stock at the bottom of my suitcase," but we still found a set of clothes for her to put on.
This way she looks almost like a Central Plains person, but her skin always seems to be covered with an extra layer of stuff than normal women. That is the result of years of exposure to the sun.
We set off on the road, and the woman pointed to the stars in the sky, signaling us to keep heading south. After sailing on the sea for most of the night, at dawn, the woman pointed to a continent in the morning light and said to us:
“That’s it”
I took out the snake pill and found its approximate location. The woman shouted excitedly: "Banna, Rohaz!"
The place where we docked was called Rohatz. It was a densely populated place. As usual, the King of Tian was stationed. Only General Ji and I brought 30 people ashore.
Wherever we went, we had never seen such a prosperous place. There were stone buildings with very wide streets, city walls, and docks. People were coming and going in the market, turning their heads to look at us uninvited guests.
She took us to her house. A man, probably her husband, looked us up and down. The woman ran to get many huge mangoes, which were as big as footballs. She told us not to tear the skin and use a wooden spoon to cut it.
Zhang Di hollows out the pulp inside and puts it in a dark place to dry. The peel can be used to make shoes.
I asked her about Bai Jing, but the woman couldn't explain anything clearly, including the description of Bai Jing's appearance she described to us. From Song Kui's translation, she told us a completely different Bai Jing. He didn't look like that.
And her husband said that from time to time, a group of people who say things like us come here to rob and steal food like hungry ghosts. They also steal women. If they rob them, they will never come back. His wife can come back alive.
, it’s simply a miracle
Just as he was talking, a group of soldiers came outside and blocked the door. Both the woman and Song Kui said that their king has invited us. We were targeted as soon as we landed.
We were almost escorted by someone and walked towards their palace. I told everyone not to do anything drastic and to listen to the person's arrangements.
This is a decent-looking palace that we have seen since we went to sea, except for Xu Fu's place. It is located in the center of the town. Its cylindrical appearance looks like a huge millstone. Compared with the surrounding buildings, it
Immediately reduced quality
From the center of this circular palace, the streets extend in a radial shape. We can't see how many gates there are in the palace. We enter from the north gate, which is guarded by soldiers.
There were more than thirty of us, divided into two groups. General Ji led a dozen people to stay outside. If anything happened to us inside, he could take care of us. I took twelve people, including Sulu, into the palace.
It was already noon, and the palace was dark and gloomy, which was very different from the bustling and bustling scene outside.
As soon as we entered the main hall, a cold air hit our cheeks. The two rows of huge floor-to-ceiling windows were, for some reason, tightly covered by thick baize curtains hanging from the top. If it weren't for someone leading the way, we could hardly see the road under our feet.
Sulu asked me quietly, "What is the general doing? It's so mysterious and a bit scary."
I walked at the front, turned around and said to him, "Don't panic, don't panic, it doesn't matter how much flattering he tries to show off." We walked through a dark passage more than ten steps away, and the sound of our footsteps echoed in the passage.
When we walked to a door, the soldiers who led us in flashed to both sides of the door and disappeared. The wooden door with beautifully carved lace opened silently, and two young women in gorgeous clothes stood by the door and spoke softly.
With a gesture of invitation, I stepped into the gate and turned my head to look both ways.
Beside the door, there are two lampposts made of red copper. They are in the shape of two one-armed naked women. One arm is raised above the head, each holding a luminous pearl in his hand. Two such lampposts face each other, and the other
By the door opposite, there are four in total
A sergeant behind Sulu couldn't help but stretched out his hand and secretly touched the chest of a naked woman on a lamp post. The two women in gorgeous clothes who greeted us didn't seem to see it. They turned around and led us inside.
I also pretended not to see it. I like soldiers like this. They can still think about this in a completely unfamiliar environment. It shows how relaxed their mentality is.
With the cool light emitted by the night pearl, I saw a crab shell blue stone floor on the ground floor. When I stepped on it, even though I was wearing shoes, I could still feel a chill coming from the soles of my feet.
At one end of the corridor, as the red door opened, a scent of orchids hit our faces, and we came to a circular hall.
There are five identical vermilion carved doors in the circle of the hall. Counting the one we just walked in, there are six in total.
I can't help but have some doubts. What we are going to see is the king of Pu Duan Kingdom, and we are entering the palace. Judging from the layout of the hall, there should be six passages connected to the outside. Where is the king?
In the center of the hall is a round exquisite pool. The edge of the marble pool is carved with concave and convex patterns. The size of the pool is only less than the width of the aisles on both sides of the circular hall.
In the center of the pool is a lotus carved from white marble. The flower alone is as big as a tabletop, and in the center of the flower are huge luminous pearls, which are bigger than those seen outside.
On the surrounding water surface, there are three lotus leaves surrounded by flowers, also carved from marble. Their postures are very natural, as if they are swaying in the wind. A dozen small luminous pearls rotate scatteredly on the lotus leaves, like
dewdrops after rain
There are no windows in the hall, and all the light comes from the pool. The water in the pool is slowly flowing through the downward curling part of the lotus leaf and into the center of the lotus leaf. It turns out that there is a hollow
Yes, as the water flows in, a vague white smoke emerges from the water eye in the middle of the lotus leaf, and the aroma comes from there.
This is the first time I have seen this method of maintaining the height of the water surface in the pool. On the inner wall of the pool corresponding to the six red doors, a thin copper pipe protrudes from each, and six streams of water flow silently into the pool.
No wonder we felt that it was dark and cool in the corridor just now. I guess there is a water channel under the floor.
Living in such a hot place all year round, I couldn't help but admire the originality of the design of this pool, and became very curious about the king of Pu Duan Kingdom.
But the question I just had popped up again, where is the king?