Xu Zizhen didn't say anything else. Li Meng's slightly immature face was full of stubbornness. He understood that once he said no again, Li Meng would most likely find an opportunity to leave him and take revenge alone.
He is just a child. If he is allowed to run wild, something will happen sooner or later. Then he will be too embarrassed to see Li Sheng. Instead of doing this, it is better to let him follow him, at least to keep him out of his sight.
Li Meng simply packed up, packed a small bag and followed Xu Zizhen back to the inn. The small box containing the ashes was carefully wrapped around his waist with a piece of cloth. Early in the morning two days later, Xu Zizhen took him there as promised.
pier.
The ship had finished loading the cargo, and the ship owner had been waiting on the shore early. Xu Zizhen discussed with him and brought Li Meng aboard the ship. He originally planned to give the ship owner some money to eat and drink for Li Meng on the ship.
It was expensive, but the captain was quite open-minded, smiled and waved his hand, not caring about it at all.
Xu Zizhen took Li Meng on board the boat, put the luggage into the cabin, and returned to the deck. He found that in addition to the captain himself and the boatmen, there was actually a young man who looked like a scholar on the boat, who looked to be in his twenties.
He was standing on the side of the ship, looking at the rushing river water outside the ship, with a handsome face and a look of emotion.
It was fate that we were on the same boat, and the journey this time was not short. Xu Zizhen stepped forward and greeted with a smile: "This brother is invited. I am Xu Zizhen. What do you call me?"
Upon hearing this, the scholar hurriedly turned around and bowed deeply: "Ah, Xiaosheng Liu Fengsui has met Brother Xu."
Xu Zizhen smiled and said: "Liu Fengsui? What a good name! Could it be that Young Master Liu also belongs to this company?"
Liu Fengsui shook his head and said: "No, no, Xiaosheng is just like my brother, just taking advantage of the favorable wind."
Xu Zizhen wondered: "Oh? I wonder where Mr. Liu is going?"
Liu Feng followed: "Xiao Sheng is going to Lanzhou Mansion to celebrate my aunt's birthday, but where is Brother Xu going?"
Xu Zizhen clapped his hands and said with a smile: "What a coincidence! I am also going to Lanzhou. It seems that we can go together after we get off the boat." At this point, he looked at Liu Fengsui and said, "But this corner of the northwest is not very peaceful.
Mr. Liu is so weak, why is he alone? He doesn't have any followers or anything."
Liu Feng smiled and said: "Xiao Sheng's family is quite poor. It's a long way to Lanzhou Prefecture. I'm just here to save some money." After saying that, he also asked, "I wonder what Brother Xu does when he goes to Lanzhou Prefecture to make a living.
?Are they also visiting relatives?"
Xu Zizhen was secretly amused when he saw that he looked like a sour scholar. He deliberately narrowed his eyes and grinned: "I heard that there is good money in the northwest, and I plan to go there to be a horse thief and do some business without capital."
Liu Fengsui was startled and couldn't help but take two steps back. He looked at Xu Zizhen with horrified eyes: "Brother Xu, you..."
Xu Zizhen laughed and returned to normal: "I'm joking, Mr. Liu, please don't take it seriously."
Liu Feng twitched the corner of his mouth and forced a smile: "Heh, Brother Xu really scared me."
Xu Zizhen laughed and said: "Haha, this is my fault. When we get off the boat, I will treat Mr. Liu to a drink to calm his shock."
When Liu Feng heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Brother Xu, is this the way he likes you? Why do you need to wait to get off the boat if you want to drink?"
Xu Zizhen's eyes also lit up: "Oh? Do you have wine here?"
He agreed to come to protect the ship for the owner, so it was naturally impossible for him to buy wine and bring it on board. He would be drunk and it would not look good. After all, he was a member of the ship.
Liu Fengsui chuckled: "Brother Xu, please wait." After saying that, he turned around and went straight to the cabin. In a moment, he came out with two five-pound small wine jars in his hands.
Xu Zizhen was stunned: "I'm going! Are you really bringing wine with you?"
Liu Feng then sat down on the deck, with two jars of wine placed in front of each other: "I was thinking that the journey would be lonely, and I was afraid I would have to drink alone, but unexpectedly I met a like-minded person like Brother Xu." He said.
As he spoke, he opened the mud seal of a jar of wine, raised his head and took a big sip, and said with a smile, "It is said that good wine does not belong to different families, Brother Xu is not polite."
Xu Zizhen could smell the aroma of wine wafting from the jar, and felt the wine worms in his intestines squirming. He immediately sat down, picked up the jar and took a deep drink, then put the jar down with a bang and praised loudly: "Okay.
liquor!"
This jar of wine was extremely sweet and mellow in the mouth. It was obviously not an ordinary product, but Liu Feng, a scholar, drank such a strong wine, which made him somewhat unexpected.
Liu Fengsui laughed and said: "The road to Zuixiang is stable and you should come here often, but it is difficult to go anywhere else! Brother Xu, please!"
Xu Zizhen raised the jar and laughed: "Done!"
The temperaments of the two seemed completely different, and Liu Fengsui had been frightened by Xu Zizhen's threats to be a horse thief, but when it came to wine, especially after the wine was in his mouth, the two became completely inseparable.
Xu Zizhen also didn't expect that this weak and acid scholar would have such a wild side, especially when he was drinking, his bold appearance was not inferior to him at all. He immediately felt like a confidant. In his eyes at this moment, Liu Fengsui was
A country man with his trouser legs rolled up and his clothes open, he is a high-drinking high roller who has no major interests in the world but good wine.
The cargo ship set sail slowly, and the whistling river wind made the sails rustle. The sky was a little gloomy, and there were faint signs of rain. However, Xu Zizhen and Liu Fengsui completely ignored it all and sat facing each other.
Drink heavily.
Wine is the thing that can bring people closer together. After half a jar of wine was drunk, Liu Fengsui no longer looked frail and elegant as before, but started talking with Xu Zizhen. He was a scholar, and while talking,
He quoted scriptures and talked extensively, and Xu Zizhen's eloquence was not bad. Except for those things about his own later generations, he did say a lot.
Xu Zizhen took advantage of the wine to complain about what he did in Suzhou City. Anyway, now that he has left Jiangnan, Hu Youzu and Kong Qilin can't reach up to the Yangtze River. Furthermore, he found that Liu Feng followed
There is a faint chivalrous spirit in his character, and he will never betray him to the government. In this regard, he has some inexplicable trust.
Liu Feng became more and more excited as he drank, and his eyes became brighter and brighter. When he looked at Xu Zizhen, he also had an inexplicable taste. When he heard Xu Zizhen talk about Shen Zongwei robbing civilian girls and sending them to the Kingdom of Jin, he became furious and painful.
He scolded the government. When Xu Zizhen mentioned that Shen Zongwei was so unrecognizable that he died on the street, he laughed again and clapped his hands in joy. When Xu Zizhen said that Mr. Hua would rather die than say a word, he cried bitterly and looked up to the sky in lamentation.
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By the time it was almost noon, both of them were drunk. They fell asleep next to each other on the deck, with two empty wine jars rolling aside.