Chapter 359 Although the Turtle is Longeved
From the outside, the size of this sea ship can only be said to be moderate, not too big.
But when An Bochen walked into the cabin and looked at it, he couldn't help but have a head and two big.
There is also a different hole in this winged sea boat. What appears in front of An Bochen is a corridor. The corridor is colorful, but it is dark and deep when you look forward, and you don't know where to go.
Although the murals and carvings on the four walls of the corridor are a little strange, all kinds of strange existence, they are very measured, sometimes inlaid with shiny conch and enamel, which does not look so terrible. At the top of the corridor, there is a thick silver candlestick hanging down, illuminating the road under An Bochen's feet.
"My younger brother is playful. He always likes to depict the things he has seen in the places he has visited and put them here to make An Daoyou laugh."
The voice of Qin Niang came from the side. An Bochen did not dare to walk through the corridor under the guidance of Qin Niang. Suddenly, he was enlightened, but he came to a small hall.
The furnishings in the hall are not luxurious. There is an ancient and refreshing atmosphere in simplicity. On the big futon in the middle, there is a teapot and several rhinoceros horn cups. There are three people sitting around. Lv Fengqi, Wuhua and a man in a dark blue windbreaker. The man has two thick eyebrows, big eyes, a flat nose, and thick lips. Although he is not so beautiful, looking at him a few more gives people a particularly bold impression, which inevitably creates a sense of closeness.
"Qin Niang, you and this Taoist friend are very friendly."
The man laughed and said, although he was a little ridiculed, it was not annoying.
"Not at all." Qin Niang found a futon, sat down generously, and said with a smile, "This An Daoyou said that I was a real fairy. What does my brother think?"
"What a fairy?" The man was stunned, and a happy color floated between his eyebrows. He patted the pu and smiled, "There are immortals in the world who don't know it, but Taoist friends don't know until they say it. I didn't expect that there would be such a thing as immortals in the world.
"You are not even immortals, so who else is qualified to be called immortals?"
But Wuhua took An Bochen to sit down and asked curiously.
"I can't wait for idle savages. The so-called immortals have always been just a thought. From ancient times to the present, I'm afraid there are no immortals. Later generations quoted immortals as the realm of practice, which is just to cover up people's eyes and ears and deceive themselves.
As the man said, he reached out to hold the teapot, shook his head and said, "Don't gossip. The visitor is a guest. Please try my pot of turtle fairy tea."
While talking, he had filled the five rhinoceros cups.
An Bochen and the other two have been bored in the sea for so long. It was because their mouths were dry and their tongues were dry. At this time, they picked up the teacup and took a sip.
After teaing, An Bochen raised his eyebrows and was secretly shocked.
A cup of tea actually contains deep vitality, which is enough to withstand An Bochen's practice of not entering the fairy mansion for half a year, but it reminds An Bochen of the time when he and Sima Jin played Xuande Dongtian and ate a lot of food on Taibai Mountain. It's just that this bowl of tea is countless times more than that feast of dragons and phoenixes.
Looking at Wuhua and Lv Fengqi, they were equally surprised. Obviously, they didn't expect to get such a big benefit for no reason.
"Good tea." Putting down the rhinoceros horn cup, Lv Feng raised his fist and saluted the man: "Thank you for the hospitality of Taoist friends, but I don't know your name yet."
An Bochen beside him was funny. Lv Fengqi and Wuhua stayed in the cabin for a long time and didn't even ask the owner's name.
"I..."
The man leisurely put down the rhinoceros horn cup and said with a smile, "I'm an old turtle this year."
Hearing the words, An Bochen was stunned, and Wuhua almost choked the tea.
"My younger brother has not liked his name since he was born, and he has changed his name all year round." Looking at An Bochen, Qin Niang explained, "Take this year as an example, at the end of February, my brother-in-law was also called Feng Junzi, so he caught three wind demons in the four-fold sky. At the beginning of March, he went to the Arctic abyss under the abbot's mountain to catch a big turtle. After the big turtle returned, he changed his name to the old turtle.
What a free and easy fairy.
After listening to it, An Bochen couldn't help looking at the man who called himself "old turtle" a few more times. Even if he and Qin Niang did not admit that he was a fairy, but in An Bochen's heart, they were the only names of the immortals.
The man's face showed pride, and he filled An Bochen with tea and said with a smile, "The turtle I caught is not an ordinary turtle. Earlier, when my grandfather was alive, he saw it in a blessed place, and when my father was alive, he found it on the bank of the Tianzhou River above Yingzhou. However, my grandfather and my father were busy with it and had to ignore it. By the time I found it, it was estimated to be 40,000 to 50,000 years old, and it was not in vain for me to call it an old turtle.
When the words fell, An Bochen and Wu Hua were a little distracted, and it took a long time to calm down the inexplicable in their hearts.
"Since he is 40,000 to 50,000 years old, the turtle should be as big as the sea. Your Excellency can catch it with amazing arm strength.
I really don't know what to say. An Bochen can only sigh like this.
"It's not, it's not." Who would have thought that the man waved his hand with a smile and looked at An Bochen with a mysterious face: "The world thinks that the longer spiritual beasts such as turtles and cranes live longer, the bigger they are actually wishful thinking. Admittedly, the longer they live, the bigger their bodies are, but if they live longer, they will experience more things in the world and are born spiritually. Naturally, they know that they grow too big, which is not only difficult to walk, but also easy to be exposed and found by natural enemies. Therefore, when they live long enough and spiritual enough, they will not continue to grow up. On the contrary, they will try their best to shrink their bodies. The smaller the body is, the more free and easy it is to swim all over the world, and it is not easy to be discovered by natural enemies.
After a pause, the man took a sip of the tea channel: "When my grandfather found it, it was lying under the central mountain of the square cave sky, so big that it was more than a hundred miles. And when my father was looking for it, it was swimming to the Tianhe River to steal the dragon whale. No one knows how big the Tianhe River is. In short, the ten Penglai seas are not as wide as the Tianhe River, and the turtle pretends to be the island in the Tianhe River to lure the dragon whale. At that time, it was nearly 500 miles away, the size of a giant in the Sifang River.
"The giant in the Sifang River... What is that?" Wuhua asked in.
It was Qin Niang who answered him.
"The Sifang River is a branch of the Tianhe River, where there are many strange creatures, including giants. Since they were born, they have grown up at a rate of one inch a day, and their life expectancy is very long, so when one day they are so large that it is difficult to live on the bank of the river, in order not to starve to death, they can only jump into the river, lie flat, and eat the river fish for a living until the end of their lives.
"Those giants have human appearance, but they don't have human wisdom, so they can only eat and wait to die like this." The man was not dissatisfied with being interrupted by Wuhua. He said, "On the contrary, the old turtle I caught was very smart. The first time I saw it, it had reduced its size to a radius of ten miles. The second time I saw it, it was only more than a hundred feet in size. When I met it the third time, it had shrunk to five or six feet long."
Stop the narrative. The man put down the rhinoceros cup and swept over An Bochen, Wu Hua and Lv Fengqi one by one. After a long time, he narrowed his eyes and said, "Do you know how big it is now?"
"One foot long?" Wuhua said first.
He shook his head with a smile. The man looked mysterious and suddenly reached out and lifted the top cover of the teapot.
A dark cloud rose from the teapot and disappeared after flying over the cabin. In the steaming tea in the kettle, there was a golden turtle swimming like a pigeon egg.
As far as he could see, An Bochen, Wuhua and even Lv Fengqi were stunned on the spot. They only felt that their throats were blocked and their stomachs were so uncomfortable.
No wonder the tea is called turtle fairy tea. It turned out to be tea obtained by cooking live turtles. That's it doesn't matter, but the key is that the turtle is still alive. It swims in the teapot and drops a bath water for An Bochen and three people to drink as tea.
Seeing that An Bochen's faces turned pale for a while, Qin Niang laughed and said, "Don't be surprised by the three Taoist friends. This old turtle has lived for tens of thousands of years and stays in the Tianhe River most of the time. Even living creatures are many times cleaner than many cooked dishes in the secular world, and it is full of aura. If mortals can drink a mouthful of turtle fairy. Tea, even if you can't live with heaven and earth, it won't be a problem to live for a thousand or eight hundred years.
Having said that, An Bochen and the three of them couldn't be as free and easy as the two immortals in front of them, and they never touched the rhinoceros cup at hand.
Qin Niang and the man who called himself "old turtle" didn't mind. They continued to talk about all kinds of anecdotes and strange things. The man seemed to have been to many places and was also very talkative. What he said was either where to catch spirit beasts, or where to look for ancient treasures, and Qin Niang quoted the scriptures and scriptures, which made An Bochen and others open up. The horizon.
The ship travels in the sea, bumping twice from time to time. Through the curtain, you can faintly see the high white sky clouds and the blue sea reflected in the mirror white clouds.
"Yes, dare you ask sir, how did the old turtle you caught swim from the cave to Tianhe and from Tianhe to here?"
Looking at the sea outside the window, An Bochen's heart suddenly moved and asked the man.
"It's not here, but the Arctic abyss under the abbot mountain. You should know that the abbot Xianshan and my Penglai Xianshan are far away from each other. Even if you take a feather boat, you have to walk for more than half a year.
The man looked at An Bochen and said with a smile, "As for your question, it can't be simpler, because the rivers and seas between heaven and earth are connected."
Looking at Lv Fengqi, An Bochen was clear in his heart. No wonder the three of them came to the fairy Penglai inexplicably. Since the rivers and seas of the world are interconnected, it can also be explained in this way.
The guests talked happily. Unconsciously, an hour has passed, and the friendship has risen, and it is time to get to the point.
But Lv Feng coughed down and held his fists and arched his hand towards Qin Niang and the windbreaker man: "To be honest, there is actually something else for us to come to Guixian Mountain. I'm just waiting for..."
However, Lv Feng was interrupted by Qin Niang before he finished speaking.
Looking at Lv Fengqi with a smile, Qin Niang took a sip of the tea channel: "The intention of several Taoist friends, Qin Niang and her brother-in-law have long been clear, otherwise the three of them can't get on this boat. Don't worry, this matter will definitely be explained to the three."
While talking, the windbreaker man next to him suddenly got up, and his face was full of joy. He opened the curtain covering the boat window and looked out of the window with his hands behind his hand.
The crow was silent, and only the old turtle swam in the teapot.
An Bochen stood up and walked to the window. He inexplicably looked at the white clouds flowing next to the ship's feathers, and occasionally there were cranes hovering around. He flapped his wings and flew away to the mountains in the distance.
The feather boat is still in the sea, but the sea under it is tilted upwards, as if the long rainbow hanging between heaven and earth, leading the feather boat to the sky and clouds.
"Don't panic. It will be there in a while."
Walking behind An Bochen, Qin Niang said with a smile.