Section 287 The red boat in the dark night
The few of them came to Ye Tan's room first and then went out together.
Even Dong Fang and Zhao Zhao, who were the worst in their ability, were wondering why Ye Tan did this, but they still followed.
The night in Jiangling City was originally quite lively, but unfortunately, since the flood, there have been almost not many people, so there are very few people on the street. And because of last night, Jiangling City has already begun to be in a semi-martial law. Therefore, it is not easy for them to go out, but this matter cannot defeat a few people.
Instead of going directly outside the city, they went to the old woman's house first.
It was almost exactly the same as when I came before, without any difference. Zhao Zhao checked everything inside and out, and now it was all about the life trajectory of the girl and the old woman, and there was nothing else from others, but Ye Tan stood there looking at the threshold.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were many families with thresholds, but there were more families without thresholds. Many families may not have such things in their lives, so there was no such threshold. The threshold for wealthy families was very high, while there were no one in small families. There were chickens, ducks and other poultry at home, so there was no way to make it very high, but there was a threshold here.
It has been raining in the city these days, so the threshold is still relatively dirty, with all kinds of messy muds. It may have been stepped on by the old woman himself, so no one would care about these things, but Ye Tan cared about it. Not only that, but he also looked at it very seriously. Finally, he saw a piece of wood on the side of the door. If he accidentally touched it, he would definitely get bleeding. However, there was no one on it, just a black silk thread.
He didn't remember giving an old woman something like that, and this kind of fabric between silk and hemp is something that most people can't afford to wear because it's very expensive.
Generally speaking, official uniforms are made of silk, silk, yarn, and silk. However, most people wear the simplest vegetarian clothes. So if you see someone wearing different clothes now, they are definitely not ordinary people. It is not the prosperous Tang Dynasty. At that time, there will be more silk, vegetarian and other things, and the clothes will become more fancy. Now, even Li Shimin does not have that kind of treatment.
"Have you seen this kind of thing?" Ye Tan asked softly, then took off the black silk thread-shaped thing from the wooden thorn and asked.
Taking advantage of the night, the few people looked at it a few times, shook their heads, saying that they had never seen it before. Only Dong Fang looked at it for a while, then reached out and touched it, "It's a bit like Shu Jin."
"No, I remember that these things are very gorgeous." Ye Tan asked strangely. During the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang had done a very shameless thing, which was to make all the Shu brocades in the entire Shu Kingdom's official business, and then take them out for supplies. This is a bit like some countries today obtaining resources by selling raw materials. As for the future, they are not interested in taking care of them, as long as they feel comfortable.
"The kind you said is for big people, but some are for ordinary people. However, such fabrics usually need to be filled with some other things before they can be worn. It seems that the person who comes here has a different identity." Dong Fang explained in a low voice. As a tomb robber, the most common ones in the cemetery will never be various jewelry and jade, but dilapidated corpses and clothes, because sometimes they really need to wear clothes when they are buried.
"It seems that these people like it very much." Ye Tan said in a daze, and then said to the people around him, "Get out of the city now."
The few people quickly walked out along the low-high city wall. When they were about to reach the riverside, Ye Tan suddenly asked, "Do you wear tight clothes better when robbing tombs?"
Dong Fang nodded and said, "After putting on those clothes, it is easier to avoid being stuck in some messy things, and it is naturally the best."
"Well, it's true that's the same as I thought." Ye Tan said this and followed Ye Du to the riverside.
The wind was very cold in the middle of the night, especially in autumn. Several people stood behind the reed marsh without seeing any ships, but all looked at Ye Du.
Ye Du squinted his eyes and put his hands in his sleeves. He was not frightened by their eyes, but whispered, "I just saw two boats passing by here, but they seemed to have gone downstream and didn't stop at all."
Ye Tan looked around and then whispered, "Let's go around the river."
Originally, he could go out from the South Gate, but in order not to make them doubt, he planned to take a long way to talk.
Several people slowly came to the south of Jiangling City along the muddy riverside. From a distance, they saw two ships floating on the gray river surface. There were no two lanterns on it, as if there was no one on it. However, in such an environment, when seeing such a scene, anyone who was a little more timid would be scared to death.
"That's that." Yedu pointed to the ship and said in a low voice.
Before Ye Tan could speak, Dong Fang couldn't help but tremble, "Flower Boat?"
"You said this boat is a flower boat?" Ye Tan asked strangely. How could such a boat be there? When is this place now, and who still has the energy to do those things?
"This kind of flower boat is not the kind of cruise ship in the general sense, but a kind of ship similar to black and white impermanence. I heard that there are no people on such boats. If you go up rashly, it will die. Even if you take a few glances, you will be locked by the ghosts above." When Dong Fang said this, his throat was trembling, making the environment here feel even more terrifying. When others heard his words, they felt not very good, as if they were not far from life or death.
"Is that so? But isn't black and white impermanence black and white? Why, it's a red and a white?" Ye Tan didn't care. He had seen too many similar things in his previous life, so he was not afraid of these at all. And if it was true, he might be able to bring himself back to his hometown.
"I don't know this, but there is a legend. The red represents temptation. It can always tempt some fishermen with unstable will to go up and then disappear. Even if they sometimes see it, it is just a corpse, while the white ones carry the key to hell, and the ones who go up are all women, and the result is the same." Dong Fang said tremblingly, and after saying it several times, it was considered clear.
Ancient people believed in these things, so except Ye Tan, they were a little scared.
"Is that so powerful, then okay, I'll take a good look." Ye Tan said with a smile, as if there was nothing between heaven and earth that could scare him.
After saying that, they found a shelter place to hide and see what they were doing.
Time passed by minute by minute, and there was nothing else around except the sound of wind. The sound of wind blowing dry grass with a strong smell of ghost movies made other people dare not sleep or watch.
It is said that the autumn wind blows the autumn mood, and the jackdaw’s legs are frozen, but this sentence is true.
Just when they seemed to be about to fall asleep, a light sound came. Ye Tan gently pulled the clothes of several people and said, "Here you come."
Although they were afraid, their curiosity was sometimes so strange. After hearing Ye Tan's words, they looked over with his fingers.
Two lanterns suddenly appeared on the two ships, one red and the other white, which seemed particularly cunning in the dark night.
After the lantern drew a strange arc in the air, it was then destroyed. However, there were waves of slapping water. Several people held their breath and looked at it accordingly. But now, there were several small boats slowly rowing over to the south before. The people sitting on the boat were all dressed in black. This type of boat is generally called a Ye Zhou, which is a small boat similar to a leaf.
Those who rowed the boat seemed to be very strong because their boat was not empty, but had many small bags placed behind it. They were not big, and they were just long and thick, as if they were put in some treasures.
These people are very strong and rowing very quickly. On the empty river surface, only this sound is beating, which makes people feel uncomfortable, but it makes Ye Tan feel a little excited deep in his heart.
Because these men in black reminded Ye Tan of the black silk she had with the wooden thorns on the door of the old woman's house.
Because the river surface is very wide, they took a long time to pass by, but it was strange that no one around seemed to care about these things. Because it was not raining, the water vapor on the river surface was not heavy, so Ye Tan and others could see these.
When these boaters rowed the boat to the edge of the big boat, they suddenly disappeared, as if they were swallowed by something, which made Ye Qi and others widen their eyes, as if they really saw the demon.
"The middle of this ship should be empty, and these people are quite good at playing." Ye Tan's face was wrong. This guy had been dealing with the cemetery for a long time, and it would be impossible if he was not afraid. However, because of this, he thought more.
"Did they drive the boat directly in?" Yedu asked in a low voice, because there are similar ships in Yejia Village.
"Many things are simple. The reason why it is not simple is because we don't know the result." Ye Tan said with a smile, and then waited for a while and saw the boat appear again. However, this time there seemed to be nothing on it, which seemed particularly relaxed. They rowed very quickly and arrived at the shore soon. Then someone pushed the boat up and put it in. There should be many people with such a small boat by the river, so everyone doesn't care.
Ye Tan looked at it for a while and found that the two ships had actually started to move. They were not walking back, but continued to move south, but he hoped that these ships could go north.
"You guys are here, I'll go and have a look." After Ye Tan said that, he jumped directly from the shore to the water. Dong Fang couldn't help but want to catch him, but finally grabbed an empty passage, "There is water there."
"It's okay, this is all a trivial matter." Ye Du said casually, and then and the remaining people saw Ye Tan as if he was walking on the land, slowly leaving the shore and walking towards the big ship.
"Is this human or a ghost?" Dong Fang asked tremblingly at Ye Tan.
"Nonsense, of course it's human beings." Ye Du said with a blank look.
"But how can people walk on the water?" Dong Fang continued, his voice louder, but the boat opposite could not hear it because it had already started to leave.
"Do you think Ye Tan is a swearing man to become a governor? Your Majesty is not a fool, but I don't know this thing." Ye Du said seriously, then looked at the other people and said, "Now we will hurry up and look for a boat in front. If I expected it, maybe we will go to the boat tonight for the night."
"What, get on the boat?" Dong Fang found that these people were completely different from the people he knew, and they were simply crazy.
Looking at his horrified look, Ye Du said disdainfully, "If you don't want to, then you can walk to Phoenix Mountain honestly."
"Why do you want to go to Phoenix Mountain?" Dong Fang asked strangely, but he didn't get an answer and could only follow them to steal the boat.
Ye Tan came on the water, as if he was walking on the ground. He soon arrived at the edge of the boat. He first looked around and found a lot of gaps. These places should be used for breathability, and then he got on the boat directly.
The result was almost exactly the same as what Dong Fang said before. The layout on it was elegant, but many places were dilapidated, and there were dolls on it, but the silk clothes on it were also defeated. I don’t know how long it took these people to clean up.
The mosquito nets were covered with spider webs, and on a moldy and deteriorating bed, I saw a skeleton. Combined with the strange environment around me, if I were a timid person, I would be scared to death.
This place is like the once prosperous brothel in Yangzhou. After experiencing war, there are only defeats and dust.
Ye Tan looked around for a few times, but no one was seen, nor did he see the person who shook the lantern before.
However, he was not discouraged, but lowered his head and thought, listening around him, and then he heard the sound of paddling in the cabin. It is not modern mechanical now, it is all artificial, so no matter how you hide it, there is no way.
When he found the entrance along the ground where someone had footprints, he breathed a sigh of relief. These people were still very smart. They actually placed the entrance on the bow of the boat and were locked up from the inside. People outside had no way to open it.
Unfortunately, the person they met was not someone else, but Ye Tan, so their design was just an ordinary design. Ye Tan reached out to hold the bow of the boat, and then suddenly exerted force, the hook that was attached broke directly, revealing a flashing entrance with lights, and then there were waves of desolate sounds and fragrant wine and meat.
These people have good living conditions. After Ye Tan broke this piece, he turned around and threw it in with a broken wooden board.
Chapter completed!