Chen Mengsheng stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "The three of us are going to Yangzhou Mansion. My name is Chen Mengsheng, this is my eldest brother Xiang Xiaotian, and this is my junior sister Shangguan Yanran."
The man raised his hands and returned the greeting: "My name is Luo Ziheng, and I am a fisherman from Mudu Village. You are all capable people. Today you have eliminated one harm for us in Mudu. But if you want to go to Yangzhou Mansion, I
I advise you not to go to Yangzhou Prefecture. Yangzhou Prefecture is currently in trouble with goblins, and the trouble is getting worse. Every once in a while, there will be news of the murder of a young master."
Xiang Xiaotian looked up to the sky and laughed: "Fairy? My brother is the ancestor of the evil spirits. Those monsters are waiting for my brother to catch them. Hahaha..." Just as a few people were talking, someone on the village had already picked up Sun Xueli's dead body and buried it.
Go to the mass grave outside Zhuangzi.
Luo Ziheng glanced at Sun Xueli's dead body with disdain, then turned around and said: "How about this, I'll take a boat to send you to Yingtian Mansion. From Futian Mansion, I hired a car and walked north for three days to Yangzhou Mansion.
Yangzhou Prefecture has no waterway since a year ago, so we have to do this."
Chen Mengsheng thanked Luo Ziheng and followed Luo Ziheng with Xiang Xiaotian and Shangguan Yanran to the dock in Mudu. Luo Ziheng shouted at an eight or nine-year-old child at the dock: "Little bastard, go home quickly.
Go tell your mother that I want to send someone to Yingtian Mansion."
The child smiled and replied: "I know, Dad, you should go and come back early." After saying that, he turned around and ran to a wooden house not far away.
Luo Zi smiled and watched the child run back to the wooden house, then untied the rope tied to a small black-topped boat and asked Chen Mengsheng and the others to get on the boat. He gently tapped the bank with a bamboo pole and slowly swung the black bird away.
There was a faint smell of fish in the tented boat. Chen Mengsheng sat in the front of the boat and let Shangguan Yanran sit behind him. The cold wind above the river blew on Chen Mengsheng's face like a knife. There were two people, Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian.
Blocking the river wind, Shangguan Yanran was like a chicken huddled in a ball and shivering.
Chen Mengsheng took out a thick coat from his bag and put it on Shangguan Yanran. This was secretly stuffed into Chen Mengsheng's bag by the mistress of Huzhou Prefecture before leaving. Chen Mengsheng's old clothes were burned by Zhu Polong, and he was
She is also wearing a new thick winter coat given to her by Xiaoliuzi.
"Brother, is this the urn of Miss Ying?" Shangguan Yanran asked, looking at Chen Mengsheng who was tying his coat.
Chen Mengsheng nodded and said: "Yes, it is the ashes of a girl from Yangzhou Fuying. She died miserably in a foreign land after avenging her father's injustice. There are too many tragic facts in the world."
Luo Ziheng, who was swaying at the end of the boat, listened to Chen Mengsheng's emotion and said: "Master Chen is right, the world is sinister, and people's hearts are even more unpredictable. Just like that Sun Xiucai, who would have expected that he would be so vicious.
"
Chen Mengsheng sighed: "Brother Luo, I heard about the goblins in Yangzhou Prefecture a year ago in Huzhou Prefecture, but I never knew what it was about?"
Luo Ziheng said: "Most people in Mudu Zhuangzi make a living by fishing, and there are many businessmen from Yingtian Mansion who come to collect fish. Yingtian Mansion is a big place, and businessmen are all over the country. Last year, I heard that those businessmen
It is said that goblins began to cause trouble in Yangzhou Prefecture, and the victims were all young men. At first, the magistrate of Yangzhou Prefecture thought that it was caused by enemy bandits, but later the trouble became more and more serious. The government sent heavy troops to the city to conduct strict investigations several times.
There is no harvest, and now the waterway in Yangzhou Prefecture has been closed for more than a year, and the fish selling business in the village has suffered greatly."
Xiang Xiaotian asked: "Brother, could it be said that there is also a Pig Woman Dragon in Yangzhou Mansion?"
Chen Mengsheng shook his head and said: "I don't know, but if it's a goblin that only harms men, then maybe it's a goblin that wants to use men's essence to practice Qi. Is there any requirement in Junior Sister's Danding Sect for burning weapons to make elixirs?
ah?"
Shangguan Yanran tightened her thick clothes and giggled: "What senior brother said about using people to make elixirs is evil. I once heard my father say that in Tang Xuanzong, Li Chen used five hundred pairs of children just because he listened to the evil demon.
Boys and girls refined the elixir of immortality, but as a result, the boys and girls had their yang and yin sucked away and the demons gouged out their hearts and killed them. After the elixir of immortality was refined, Tang Xuanzong died after taking it..."
"What? It takes five hundred pairs of boys and girls to make one elixir? What a crime. It's really unjust that he won't die after eating it." Luo Ziheng's scream interrupted Shangguan Yanran's words.
Xiang Xiaotian laughed and said: "People in the world want to have something when they don't have it; when they have it, they don't think it's enough; when they have enough, they want to be emperor; when they become emperor, they want to become an immortal. Greed is not enough and desire is not enough.
Stop it, five hundred pairs of boys and girls mean nothing to them."
Luo Ziheng shook his head and sighed: "Those things have nothing to do with ordinary people like us. I only know how to make a living by fishing on this river."
Chen Mengsheng laughed dumbly and said: "I used to live by fishing just like you, brother, but many unexpected things happened. Alas, when I think about it, I still lived a simple life and could drink and chat every day. Now I have seen it
There are too many sorrows and joys in the world, but I feel sad..." Chen Mengsheng looked at the surging river in the twilight, thinking that he had left Chenjiazhuang for many years, and his parents' graves must be buried in wormwood. When he comes back,
Lin'an went to pay homage to my parents...
Luo Zi walked into the awning boat, carried a clay stove from under the flap of the ship's side to the cabin, and took out some firewood from under the flap to start a fire and start boiling water for cooking.
Xiang Xiaotian asked Luo Zi to sit down and said with a smile: "Come on, Brother Luo, let's rest for a while, and I will rock the boat for you." As he spoke, he took off his fur coat and wore a strapless vest.
, reached the stern and raised the double oars.
The black-topped boat in Xiang Xiaotian's hands actually traveled faster than Luo Ziheng. Shangguan Yanran smiled and said: "Brother Xiang, you should really be a fisherman instead of going up the mountain to hunt."
Xiang Xiaotian smiled and said: "After my brother's affairs in Yangzhou Prefecture, I will take you to my hometown Yicheng. You can ride the fastest horse and swim the fastest boat. It is only three or four days' journey from the bottom of Yangzhou.
It’s fun to have mountains and water.”
"Okay, okay. Even senior brother, he has to go to Shandong to find someone to find my husband's ashes, so he can help them explain."
Chen Mengsheng saw Shangguan Yanran who suddenly looked sad, and said with a smile: "Since it's my eldest brother who invited me, let's finish our business in Yangzhou and go to Yicheng."
After Luo Ziheng waited for the rice to be cooked, he took out a bamboo tube from the cabin roof which contained pickled dried vegetables. He looked outside the boat and laughed and said, "Brother Xiang is indeed born with supernatural power. Just one meal turned out to be like going against the current."
It's a hundred miles by boat. According to this itinerary, we can reach Yingtian Mansion by the second watch, hahaha."
"Then it doesn't matter, I'll go to Yingtian Mansion."
"Brother, let's eat first. After you finish eating, my brother will help you out. Can you go to Yingtian Mansion and drop off at the inn before the shift starts?"
Luo Ziheng was completely speechless. It was unbelievable to Luo Ziheng that he had to travel three to four hundred miles of waterway in two hours. Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian finished the meal in several bites, Xiang Xiaotian shook the oar, and Chen Mengsheng used the vertical ladder to fly into the air.
Pushing the stern of the boat with his hands, he used his eight steps to drive away cicadas. The wind generated under his feet pushed the boat like an arrow off the string, cutting through the waves and galloping across the river.
Luo Ziheng in the boat was so surprised that he couldn't speak. Fortunately, there were no other boats on the river, otherwise they would have been really afraid of collision. Shangguan Yanran was too frightened to speak at first, watching the two banks of the river retreating rapidly.
The strong wind blew Shangguan Yanran's hair completely flying. Gradually, Shangguan Yanran got used to the speed and excitement of the boat and ran from the front to the stern of the boat like a butterfly...
Two hours later, the boat docked outside Yingtian Mansion. Chen Mengsheng took out a silver ingot of fifty taels from his arms and handed it to Luo Ziheng, who had not recovered yet.
The three of them were impressed by the prosperity of Yingtian Mansion when they first arrived. The city gates were not closed before dawn. After entering the city, the night scene of Yingtian Mansion was brightly lit. The streets were crowded with people, and the shops and restaurants were doing brisk business. Chen Mengsheng thought of the days of dining and sleeping outdoors.
We found the largest Yuelai Inn in the city, ordered a table of wine and food, and after a hearty meal, the three of us went back to our rooms to rest.
Early the next morning, Chen Mengsheng asked where he could hire a carriage. The innkeeper laughed and said, "The guest officer must be a foreigner. There is a carriage in this inn."
Chen Mengsheng said happily: "Shopkeeper, I'm worried that I don't have a place to hire a car. It's so easy to save money so I'll go look for it again."
"I wonder where the guest officer is going?"
"Yangzhou Mansion"
"Ah, Yangzhou Mansion? Sir, I say..." Before the shopkeeper could finish speaking, a large ingot was placed on the table in front of the shopkeeper.
A heavy reward must be rewarded with a heavy reward. When the shopkeeper saw the silver, he shouted to the clerk: "Asheng, hitch up the horses and prepare the carriage. Send the three guests to Yangzhou Mansion and ask for the fastest four-carriage to pull them."
In front of the small Kung Fu Inn, a carriage pulled by four tall horses carried Chen Mengsheng and the three of them, heading north towards Juechen...
Chen Mengsheng couldn't help but admired in the carriage: This kind of carriage is many times faster than the donkey carriage before, and it is also much more comfortable. It is surrounded by independent curtains, and the bumps on the road outside are not affected at all in the carriage.
Unaware.
After two days of driving, the carriage got out of the carriage and woke up the three of them, saying: "Guests, Yangzhou Mansion has arrived." Chen Mengsheng got out of the car with Xiang Xiaotian and Shangguan Yanran, but was attracted by a quarrel...
According to the sound, the soldiers guarding the city gate were blocking people who wanted to leave the city carrying their baggage. Chen Mengsheng and others came to the city. The soldiers immediately stopped Chen Mengsheng: "What are you doing?"
Chen Mengsheng replied: "We are here to do things for our friends, please let us in."
"Go, go. Master Zhu, the governor of Yangzhou Prefecture, has issued an order not to allow any outsiders to enter the city. You can go back where you came from."
Xiang Xiaotian cursed: "What the hell are you talking about? We came all the way here but couldn't get into the city. I think you are looking for a fight, and I'm so angry." He punched out the soldier guarding the city.
It was so far away. When the other soldiers outside the city saw someone trying to get tough, they shouted loudly and ran out of the city. Two groups of soldiers surrounded Chen Mengsheng and the three of them. With their swords unsheathed and arrows cocked, it was like a life and death fight...