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Although it was said that it was going south, Xiao Buyi and his men came from the Xining Gate, the northern city of the eastern capital, to the early spring, and the water of the Yellow River thawed early. Although the ice chips could be vaguely spread on the river, there was no big problem with the ship.

When Huang Cheng Liu Jiangyuan left the Dongdu, he immediately said respectfully: "Sir, according to your instructions, the first stop to the south is the Qingjiang Horse Farm in Songcheng."

"But I think we are heading north." Xiao Buyi is still a blind road and does not know many places. He has been wandering around the grassland, Mayi and Dongdu recently. After leaving Dongdu City, he was very confused. Fortunately, he can still distinguish between the southeast, west and north.

Liu Jiangyuan replied: "Sir, Songcheng is south of Liangjun. If we were riding a horse, we could head all the way to the southeast. However, the former Taifu Shaoqing didn't like to travel, and often he would take a boat. He was afraid that he would work hard, so he prepared to take a boat down the Yellow River, and then turn to Tongji Canal to flow south, just passing by Qingjiang Horse Farm. In this way, the adults would lose a lot of hardship. I wonder what the adults would want to do?"

Xiao Buyi thought to himself that this person who is an official is comfortable, and there are people who prepare well along the way. It is not like fighting for life when going out of the frontier, which is a great difficulty.

"Just do everything as you say. If you need anything, please inform me."

Liu Jiangyuan smiled and said, "I dare not say the notification. It should be said that I report it to the adults personally." In the past, Yu Wenhua and the tour, the Taipu Mansion had more than a dozen people, and they were surrounded by him. It was the first time I saw him when I only took him on a trip. However, the adult in front of me had something to resist and everyone enjoyed the blessing. It made him admire him. He just said that the last time he took Zhao Chengpeng to shock the princess on the Huang Ling last time, if it were in the past, he would have been severely blamed by Yu Wenhua and severely. However, Lord Xiao apologized to the princess with a smile on his face. After he came back, he only said be careful and said nothing else. All the subordinates were moved.

Asu Zhou Muru was by Xiao Buyi's side, like a door god. He was full of energy and never seen before. Bei Pei was as calm as ever, but less indifferent. However, Sun Shaofang rode over and smiled and said, "Is this my first time going to Jiangnan?"

Xiao Buyi nodded, "Brother Sun must be the one who knew the way."

"Just Lord Xiao just call me Shaofang," Sun Shaofang said ashamed: "I told me Brother Sun to kill me."

Xiao Buyi smiled and said, "Brother Sun is of course older than me, so it is not an exaggeration to call him Brother Sun."

Sun Shaofang shook his head helplessly, "Mr. Xiao is a rare modesty among the officials of the court. No wonder everyone is convinced of you. Brother, I have been to Jiangnan several times, but I have followed the emperor. This time I was lucky enough to follow Lord Xiao to relax once, which is a rare beauty."

Xiao Buyi thought to himself, when Old Man Yuwen finds someone to plot against me, you will know if it is a bad person. Although he knows that the journey does not look beautiful, he is not afraid. He has really gone through too many bloody battles. He has long been accustomed to it.

"In fact, it is indeed more comfortable to ride a boat than riding a horse." Sun Shaofang looked back at the guards, "We have more than twenty people and more than twenty horses together. At least three large ships must be prepared."

Everyone only walked for a long time to reach the Yellow River Guandu. The guards were still serious and didn't understand the details of Lord Xiao. But when they saw him chatting and laughing all the way, they had no airs at all, but they quickly got together and felt that it was really good to follow this Lord.

The staff of Guandu checked the documents of everyone. They were responsible for the transportation of ships all year round. They saw that Xiao Buyi was extraordinary early. Although Xiao Buyi was just going on a patrol in casual clothes, a group of Dongdu guards followed him, and those who had not been pinched by the door panels knew to flatter him. When Xiao Buyi saw the official ship, he realized that Wan'er's small boat was just a piece of wooden board floating on the water. According to his plan, such a large boat was enough to load it with people and horses. He thought it was enough, and there was no need to waste it too much, even if it was not now.

The embarrassment at that time was never worried about money, but he still did not develop any habit of wasting. However, Sun Shaofang insisted on refusing to say that the rules in the court could not be broken. Sun Shaofang was a personal guard, and Lord Xiao was a Taifu Shaoqing. He had a large number of people and horses, so he had to ask for three ships. Sun Shaofang was a personal guard in Kyoto, and he had at least four or five thousand people like him, which was insignificant. However, after leaving Kyoto, the seventh rank was already considered a high-ranking official in the eyes of the people. For the fourth rank officials like Xiao Buyi, the people were rare to see.

You should know that even if the Sui Dynasty is the Dongdu, Xijing, Henan and other places are the magistrates of the county magistrates, they are still the fifth-rank position. Sun Shaofang's seventh-rank official position is still a call for the wind and rain when he arrives at the place. When the officials heard Sun Shaofang's orders, they prepared three large ships early. Sun Shaofang arranged for Asu, Zhou Muru and Beipei to ship with Xiao Buyi. Of course, Huang Cheng also had to follow the adults. He also accompanied Xiao Buyi. The five people were on the big ship, which was really empty and had a grand taste.

The remaining guards were arranged on another large ship, and all the horses were treated the same as the guards and placed on the third large ship. A large ship could accommodate as many as 200 people, but now only more than 20 people occupied three, which was conceivable as spacious.

Although Xiao Buyi didn't want any privileges, he gave Moonlight a special explanation. The horse sent it around and finally returned to his master. When Moonlight got on the boat, he was quite proud. Bei Pei looked at Moonlight and thoughtful. Sun Shaofang had seen many horses, but he praised Moonlight. Naturally, he ordered his servants to take care of them carefully and prepare the best fodder.

The boat was equipped with maids, chefs and boatmen, and all the demand was complete. Xiao Buyi realized that it was really wise to bring Huang Cheng with him. It would be much harder to ride a horse than a boat. These three boats were the place where they lived for more than ten days, so of course they should be perfect.

Everything was ready, and the three large ships sailed down the water, sailed along the water, and were also breeze. The large ships were quite brisk.

When Sun Shaofang asked, he understood that the itinerary was not a hurry, and he specially asked the boatman to lower the sails, slow down the boat speed and go down the water.

Along the way, the early spring scenery on both sides of the shore was infinite, and green gradually appeared. The birds sing and the wind was light, the sound of water was gurgling, and the sky was high and the clouds were light. It was really a rare comfort and comfort that Xiao Buyi had.

Asu and Zhou Muru are both northerners.

I heard that I was afraid of taking the boat, but when I saw the big boat riding again, I felt so comfortable. This trip was also refreshed and happy. I thought to myself that Fat Huai was going to Dongdu with Yang Dezhi. It would be comfortable to follow the young leader with him. In the future, he would not leave even if he was beaten to death.

The boat was sailing for one day. On the second day, it had been more than a hundred miles. Xiao Buyi finished practicing the method of Yi Jin, and left the cabin. He looked up at the distance and saw the green mountains and clear waters on both sides of the shore, black soil and brown stones, which was quite pleasing to the eyes.

Seeing the Bepe people standing on the deck and standing on the railings, Xiao Buyi walked over and learned from her distance.

Beipei did not turn around, as if he had known that it was Xiao Buyi.

"Brother Bei got up early." Xiao Buyi asked casually.

"Yeah." Beipei replied, "Isn't you the same?"

"I don't know what Brother Bei is thinking?" Xiao Buyi had nothing to say.

Bei Pei finally turned his head and smiled at the corner of his mouth, "I actually didn't think of anything." Seeing Xiao Buyi's surprise, Bei Pei explained: "Sometimes, it's a happy thing to think of nothing. Don't Brother Xiao think so?"

Xiao Buyi felt that Bei Pei was almost the same as a philosopher. She also felt that she had a much better attitude towards herself recently. "Brother Bei said it was really good, but sometimes, she wanted to seek happiness but couldn't get it. Happiness and power, status, and wealth are not equivalent. Perhaps many people think that being the emperor is the happiest thing, but when I saw the priest, I felt that he was more troubled than anyone else. He just thought too much, so Brother Bei said that he was happy even if he didn't think about anything. I deeply agreed."

Bei Pei listened quietly and suddenly said, "Are Brother Xiao happy? I always feel that you are always completely different from Miss Pei, but they are all people I admire."

"Oh?" Xiao Buyi stretched his eyebrows.

Bei Pei turned his head and looked at the distant mountains and said softly: "Ms. Pei is very wise, and Brother Xiao is actually the same. In the grassland, Brother Xiao resolves dangers invisibly and takes light weight, but he just lets the flowers bloom and fall on weekdays. Although Miss Pei is extremely intelligent, she is worried all day long. Brother Xiao is optimistic about his destiny, but he can get along with others. If you are about power, you are not as good as her, and if you are about happiness, she is not as good as you."

Xiao Buyi smiled and said, "Others laughed at me for being too crazy, I laughed at me for not seeing through, I didn't see the tombs of the heroes of Wuling, and I could hoe the fields without flowers and wine! Even if you are a hero, what can you do in the world? What can you keep some souvenirs but be hoeed into idle fields by someone. How can you be more carefree than those with flowers and wine? Speaking of this, I really want to congratulate Brother Bei for being free and easy now."

"Others laugh at me for being too crazy, but I laugh at me for not seeing through it?" Bei Pei murmured: "Brother Xiao is a talented person, but these two sentences show the open-mindedness of his mind."

Xiao Buyi secretly expressed his feelings and thought that he liked Tang Yin's four poems, which were directly drawn out. Unexpectedly, he was very literary and open-minded again.

Seeing Xiao Buyi's desire to speak, Bei Pei covered his mouth and smiled, "Did Brother Xiao say again, what kind of teaching doctor who travels around the world teaches you?"

Bei Pei covered his mouth and smiled, showing a childlike attitude. It was because he had been bound by a killer for a long time. He has been unrestrained recently and has recovered some of the character of a woman. But when he covered his mouth, he realized that it was inappropriate, so he quickly let it go, and there was a little shame in his eyes.

"Brother Bei is really smart, he will be right as soon as he guesses." Xiao Buyi turned a blind eye to her small movements and just smiled.

"I haven't seen the tombs of the heroes of Wuling, and I can make fields without flowers or wine?" Bei Pei replied again and sighed softly, "You said the land is good at all, so what can you do for the eternal merits and demerits? In the end, I'm just a piece of idle field. I've seen a lot of people climbing up in the temple, but like Brother Xiao, it's rare to come and go freely and be free and elegant. I guess Miss Pei has also seen Brother Xiao's nature, so that she won't let Pei's contact you."

Xiao Buyi understood a little bit why Pei Yun had never been far away from him, but it turned out that it was Pei Mingcui's arrangement.

"By the way, Brother Xiao, you said you welcome me to your house as a guest in the future. I wonder if it is true or false?" Bei Pei asked suddenly.

"Does this require any falsehood?" Xiao Buyi said sincerely: "Don't Brother Bei know what I want?"

Beipei turned his head and dared not look directly into Xiao Buyi's eyes, "Yes, but I, but if I weren't Beipei, would you still welcome me?"

"Who are you not Beipei?" Xiao Buyi said in a daze.

Beipei stomped his feet and turned away, and before leaving, he left, "Idiot!"

Xiao Buyi was so amused that she couldn't understand Bei Pei's intentions. She dressed up as a man herself, did she still want to treat her as a woman? She turned her head and looked over and found A Su and Zhou Muru whispering, and couldn't help but walk over, "What are you muttering?"

"Nothing." A Rush straightened his back and said seriously: "Boss Xiao, we are studying what it means if two men whisper?"

Xiao Buyi looked at the two of them and nodded, "Yes, you two big men are whispering here. I'm also curious about what it means."

After he finished speaking, he left and looked at each other in shock. Asu and Zhou Muru were amused and crying.

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When the boat was at night, it had reached the intersection of Tongji Canal and the Yellow River in the Sui Dynasty. The boat slowly walked into Tongji Canal and then went south. Xiao Buyi then discovered the smooth flow of the Grand Canal communication and transportation. In his era, the transportation was particularly developed and the dependence on the canal was not so urgent. But in this era, the canal water conservancy was a great communication between north and south. The ships shuttled back and forth on the canal, and the prosperity of early spring was already achieved. Xiao Buyi also used the water conservancy of the Grand Canal to move south leisurely.

I knew that Xiao Buyi was not rushing to the journey by boat. For the sake of safety of the boat, I also stayed overnight and did not sail at night.

It was not a day before we were on the way. We headed south along Tongji Canal on this day. We had already passed Yang and Junyi, and we were Yongqiu for another half a day. Everyone saw that Xiao Buyi had no intention of getting off the boat. They were all following. After all, they were bosses and they were guards, but they were all panic on the boat.

Sun Shaofang knew everyone's feelings and said to Xiao Buyi with a smile: "Master Xiao, I wonder if you are tired of being on the boat these days? When I was in the sun, I thought I would get off the boat. I didn't expect that sir is very real. I would let go of the opportunity to fight Qiufeng so easily.

Xiao Buyi has a calm personality. In addition to enjoying the scenery and chatting with Beipei, Asu Zhou Muru and others, he devoted himself to practicing qi and only preventing someone from plotting. Now they are on the boat, needless to say, others have fewer opportunities for plotting. He never relaxed and did not want to cause trouble. When he heard Sun Shaofang ask, he knew his feelings and smiled: "Always on the boat, the ground is really tired. The brothers along the way have worked hard. Why not, why don't we rest for two days after we arrived in Yongqiu and then go to Songcheng?"

Sun Shaofang said happily: "Mr. Xie Xiao understands that we dare not say it for our hard work, but it is true that these people are all panicked on the boat."

The two looked at each other and looked over the river. Suddenly, they saw two small boats opposite him surfing against the current. Sun Shaofang looked for a moment, looking puzzled. Before he could say anything, Bei Pei had already come over and whispered: "There is something wrong with the small boat."

Beipei is usually speechless, and he can speak a few words with Zhou Muru and A Ru. He spent the rest of his time looking at the river on the deck, as if he was out of the fortress and looking at the sky. Xiao Buyi already knew that she was experienced and seemed casual, but she was paying attention to the abnormal behavior around her. Although she was a problem of being an assassin guard, she was definitely a guard and couldn't help but feel moved.

Sun Shaofang also nodded and said, "Brother Bei is talking very well. I also have some doubts. Although there are ships coming and going on the river, when the small boats see big ships like us, they know that they are official ships. If the people speak, they will probably avoid them early and come to us..."

"The people who come up with it are mostly ill-hearted." Bei Pei said coldly: "Now bandits are rampant, and the rivers here are often within the range of Wagang plunder. We have to guard against them."

Sun Shaofang nodded and whistled. The big ship following him woke up, and all the guards were on high alert.

Xiao Buyi was amused and crying, "Brother Sun, in order to make us spacious, you put the guards on the ship behind you. Who will protect us?"

Sun Shaofang smiled and said, "Although there are only five people on this boat, I am afraid that the other party will only gain something if the top master comes."

As the two talked, the two small boats had already reached the front of the big boat. The boatman also found something wrong and shouted and asked the small boat to dodge. However, the small boat was quite agile. It swung like a fish, and it had already walked around the bow of the boat, one left and one right, and walked to both sides of the big boat.

"A Ru Muru goes to guard the left side." Xiao Buyi shouted in a low voice.

A Su Zhou Muru rushed to the left side of the big ship early and looked down. He saw a person on the boat holding a hook that had already covered the side of the big ship, making the boat close to the big ship. Three people rushed out of the boat, holding a lasso and a steel knife with his waist. He just waved it, putting on the railing of the big ship, and climbing towards the big ship with a nimbly.

A Rue said coldly, Zhou Muru asked in a low voice: "A Rue, have you cut the rope?"

"Wait a minute." A Su whispered. When one of them climbed onto the side of the boat, A Su suddenly used a knife and slashed at the man's wrist. The person was shocked and shrank his hand in a hurry. A Su's move was a futile force. With a long sword, he had already cut the man's head.

The other man was shocked. He did not expect his opponent to be so fierce. When he saw his companion headless and fell into the water, he felt cold in his heart, but he heard a wind coming from behind his head. There was a loud "bang" sound. His dizziness had fallen into the water.

Zhou Muru hit the man with a stick, hit the man in the back of the head, and then hit the last man with all his might. The man shouted angrily, grabbed the rope with both hands, and had no time to dodge, and used force under his feet and swung the whole person away. However, A Ru snorted coldly. The long sword came out of his hand and threw it out, and he wanted to stab the man in a transparent hole in the air.

The man was agile and hurriedly released the rope, "Gudong" entered the water, and disappeared in an instant.

The battle was resolved earlier on the right side of the ship. Without Xiao Buyi Beipei's attack, Sun Shaofang had already killed two people cleanly and kicked one into the water. When he returned to the knife and entered the sheath, he smiled and said, "This kind of person is also coming out to rob, and the weight seems to be a bit insufficient."

Seeing that the situation was not good, the two small boats rushed upstream early. Beipei suddenly shouted, "No."

"What's wrong with it?" Sun Shaofang asked in confusion.

"Since they have fled, they should have dispersed, but they are on the big ship and their target is the second ship." Beipei's face changed slightly.

Sun Shaofang smiled and said, "Brother Bei is worried about the sky. There is no Lord Xiao on that ship, and there are only a dozen guards. Although their martial arts are not very powerful, they are not coming out to make a living."

His meaning was very simple. Since these people could not do anything to this boat, how could they get to the group of guards to get it? Only after he finished speaking, his eyes froze and he said in a lost voice: "Not good."

The two small boats went upstream and arrived at the side of the second boat in a flash. Two more people appeared on the boat, and they jumped into the water with the ship. The guards were puzzled, but Sun Shaofang shouted loudly: "Be careful that they dig the boat."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a 'plop' sound beside him. Sun Shaofang turned his head and looked over. When he saw Xiao Buyi, he shouted urgently: "Brother Bei is back."

The waves swam quickly towards the ship in the center. Xiao Buyi frowned and jumped into the water, swam over closely with Beipei. Now the river water is iced, but it is early spring. The river water is indescribable cold. Beipei jumped without hesitation, and Xiao Buyi was the same. Sun Shaofang stomped his feet in a hurry, and in addition to his long boots, he also jumped down. He was appointed by the emperor to protect Xiao Buyi. Not to mention Xiao Buyi jumping into the water, he would follow even if he jumped into the fire! If Xiao Buyi had trouble, he would not have to go back to the capital.

A Rue also wanted to dive, but Zhou Muru caught him, "A Rue, do you know how to water?"

"I don't know, I forgot." A Ru finally said anxiously: "Muru, where are you?"
To be continued...