Chapter 545

"Ou ou!"

Water birds glided along the river, landed on the mast, spread half their wings, and poked out their beaks to groom their feathers.

Treasure ship deck.

Liang Qu leaned against the ship railing, pulling open the cloth strips under the umbrella one by one, reading the text.

After reading, he tied them into a knot and let them hang to the side.

"Hey, the Elder looks very happy; he took the umbrella onto the ship, didn't go back to his room, and has been looking at it the whole time."

"Is there anything special about that umbrella? It's so ugly, all patches of cloth, can it be used?"

"Does the Elder like this kind? We can make it too."

Long Yao and Long Li huddled together, whispering, not understanding why Liang Qu would love a cloth umbrella so much.

"You can't make it; this umbrella isn't an ordinary umbrella, it's a Ten Thousand People Umbrella." Long Pingjiang interjected, "It's not for use, it's for looking at."

"For looking at?"

"What is a Ten Thousand People Umbrella?"

Long Yao and Long Li didn't know much about the customs of officials on land, and neither did Long Binglin and Long Eying.

On the contrary, the Pingjiang and Pinghe brothers had lived on the shore for a long time, and having served as officials in the River Office, they knew quite a bit.

Long Pinghe said: "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I read it all in books; it says that when a local parent official leaves office, if they have done well, the villagers of every household will provide fabric to make a Ten Thousand People Umbrella.

It means the parent official sheltered the local people from wind and rain; receiving an umbrella means the local official did a very good job and won the hearts of the people.

I flipped through the files in the River Office; at the end of August last year, the Huazhu County levee breached, and the casualties were countless. Master Liang was sent as a vanguard official, responsible for managing the disaster and observing the situation, excluding travel time.

In just one day, he figured out the disaster situation in various places, the cause of the levee breach, caught the culprits, organized a fleet for rescue, and eliminated the epidemic, treating the people; his contribution was great, and it can be said that he saved countless lives with his own strength."

The Dragon Girls' eyes lit up.

Liang Qu's back as he looked at the umbrella was infinitely tall at this moment.

"Is getting a Ten Thousand People Umbrella very useful for one's official career?"

Long Pinghe shook his head: "Not very useful."

"Ah?"

"Isn't such a popular official a good official? The higher-ups should promote him vigorously."

"Because there are too many fakes." Long Pinghe recalled the descriptions he had seen. "If you have one and I don't, it makes other local officials seem unpopular. Later, they would try every means to get umbrellas and virtue plaques for themselves.

Out of ten umbrellas, about nine are made by the local official's own people; once the trend starts, even if it's real, no one takes it seriously, at most receiving verbal encouragement from superiors."

"A rat dropping ruins a pot of soup!"

Long Yao and Long Li didn't expect so many twists and turns in a farewell gift, and felt even more indignant at the fake officials who forged Ten Thousand People Umbrellas.

It's too unfair to the Elder!

The sails were bulging.

The treasure ship split the waves and chased the wind.

Tatta Kai grabbed the rope and swung through the air, passing in front of the fat catfish.

The curtains hanging from the edge of the umbrella ribs swayed with the wind, covered in small ink characters on both sides.

All in all, there were several hundred cloth strips, like prayer plaques hanging under a prayer tree in a temple.

The content written was even more varied.

Some expressed blessings, wishing Liang Qu longevity.

Some wrote their own wishes, truly using it as a prayer tree.

It was vastly different from the Ten Thousand People Umbrella in the proper sense.

However, although there were many "blessings," there were only a few types of handwriting in general, which must have been written by others on behalf of the villagers.

There was one.

Liang Qu held it in his hand, rubbing it repeatedly.

"Thank you, Brother Liang, for the wooden sword, shua shua shua!"

His thoughts drifted back to that sunny afternoon.

The young and strong were building houses with yellow mud, the old were holding sickles to cut grass down the mountain, and several little boys were holding tree branches, running from east to west, raising a path of dust.

"Truly good."

Liang Qu looked at the river, his clothes fluttering.

The ship has a direction, and people have a destination.

Safe and sound.

Tie a knot.

Continuing downward, he read dozens of blessings and visions.

His gaze stopped again.

Liang Qu grinned.

"Eying, Long Yao, Long Li, come over and look!"

The three women approached curiously, took the cloth strips one by one, and rolled their eyes without exception.

"Wishful thinking!"

"Hahaha!"

Liang Qu laughed loudly, let go of the cloth strip, and let the river wind move it, snaking in mid-air.

Long Binglin stared at the fluttering cloth strip, piecing together the content from the flashing characters.

"Hope to marry a wife as beautiful as Master Liang's female companion, with a bottom just as round, give birth to two (crossed out) ten big fat boys, and plant two hundred acres of good farmland."

That night.

Dragon People tribe territory.

A young man holding a spear rode a white sturgeon, patrolling the surroundings, when he suddenly saw a figure standing under a Great King Lotus leaf.

"Who!"

The Dragon Person gripped his spear tightly and shouted nervously.

The white sturgeon spread its fins, tensed its muscles, and prepared for battle.

"Don't be nervous."

The figure walked out.

Fluorescent vines illuminated his face.

"Master Liang?" The Dragon Person was surprised, waved his hand to let the surrounding companions stop approaching, and looked carefully. "Why are you here? Should I go notify the Elder?"

"No need, just came to take a look." Liang Qu looked around. "Leaving."

Before the words fell.

A large number of silver bubbles dissipated quietly, and the figure vanished.

The Dragon Person's pupils dilated, and he released his perception again; there was nothing under the lotus leaf, and the other Dragon People who had been observing for a long time hurried over.

"A-Bing, where did the person go? Why can't I feel him?"

"Don't know, he was there before, and in the blink of an eye, he was gone!"

"Could he have left? Such fast speed!"

"Was it really Master Liang?"

"Not sure."

"Hurry and tell the Elder! Don't make a mistake!"

The incident happened suddenly, and the Dragon Person riding the white sturgeon turned back to catch up.

Near the shore of the Jianghuai Daze.

"What a powerful divine ability!"

Liang Qu grabbed the treasure ship's rope, savoring it endlessly.

No panting, no fatigue.

Easy and relaxed.

All innate abilities consume physical strength, just like lifting a heavy object consumes arm strength.

The 【Water Travel for a Thousand Miles】 divine ability is completely different.

Performing it two and a half times, instantly moving to the Dragon People territory thousands of miles away, the physical consumption was minimal, only mental fatigue, some sleepiness, but it was of no consequence.

No wonder divine abilities need to be separated from innate abilities.

One is in the sky, one is in the ground.

Moving such a long distance, if he used 【Water Travel】, he would have exhausted his physical strength and collapsed long ago.

The only drawback—cannot carry too many items.

Liang Qu originally wanted to control the treasure ship and move it to the center of the Jianghuai Daze in one go, but he didn't expect he couldn't do it at all; carrying half a mast was the limit, it seems the vast majority of the divine ability's wonders need to act on himself.

Fortunately, the 【Water Travel】 innate ability didn't disappear; the two are not mutually exclusive.

"Invincible divine ability."

Even though his brain was tired, Liang Qu didn't feel sleepy, but full of spirit.

Can the Jiaolong beat me in the future?

Absolutely impossible!

At least a draw!

A tool for a 50/50 split!

Coming without a shadow, leaving without a trace, this is the victory of divine ability!

Once heard that the Jiaolong occupied the Dragon Lord's Dragon Pearl; don't know if it has finished digesting it. If he can find the right opportunity...

Liang Qu became more and more excited, seriously thinking about the feasibility.

After a while.

The thought extinguished.

Thinking about it is exciting, but it's hard to act in reality; the current feasibility is too small.

"Too little information, don't know where the Dragon Pearl is; if one strike fails and the Jiaolong is alerted, it's hard to try a second or third time. The attraction of dragon blood is truly too great, let alone the Dragon Pearl; once in hand, it can't be hidden..."

Thinking of the madness of the big fish in the pool when the sturgeon demon's dragon tendon was pulled out, Liang Qu didn't think he could perfectly mask the Dragon Pearl's aura after getting it.

At that time, even Great Shun might take action to snatch it, and both sides would lose.

However.

The former belongs to intelligence; slowly layout, probe, there will always be a chance.

For the latter, there is also a solution...

Communicate with the Ze Tripod.

【Can consume three spirit fish to evolve the innate Vortex Aperture into the divine ability Vortex Palace, to accommodate and govern beasts, and receive water beast blessings.】

Last year, managing the flood, evolved A-Wei.

Liang Qu knew for the first time that the Vortex Aperture could turn into a Vortex Palace, but the requirement of three spirit fish formed a chasm.

Thirty thousand essence is not worth mentioning; the key is three wisps of Heaven and Earth Long Qi.

The Vortex Palace can accommodate and govern beasts; accommodating a Dragon Pearl and not revealing its aura, presumably, is not difficult.