After Xue Mei'er took a few steps, she couldn't help but look back at their backs, and a hint of meaning flashed in her beautiful eyes. With just one glance, she turned around again and continued to walk forward.

Even if there is no one to accompany her, her own path has to go on step by step.

At this time, the sun was setting, and Hua Lianyue raised her eyes to look at the gradually darkening sky, and before she knew it, another day had passed. Suddenly, she felt that the hand held by Liu Hui tightened slightly, and she withdrew her gaze and looked at him curiously.

Liu Hui didn't look at her, he raised his chin slightly and looked ahead, and his handsome and noble face actually revealed a gloomy color. Hua Lianyue was a little confused, so Feng Qi stepped forward and whispered in her ear: "Mastermother, be careful, the atmosphere is a little wrong." ”

Only then did Hua Lianyue realize that they had gathered on the side of the boat all the way, so the guests had almost all their eyes on them. Those eyes were not friendly, even openly wary and hostile. A few of the younger ones spat on the ground in front of them. The gloomy and angry eyes made Hua Lianyue feel in a trance that she was the enemy they hated.

How so, when did they commit the wrath of the people?

In the face of such a silent but huge pressure, Hua Liyue was a little stunned and a little dazed. Even if she is a murder suspect in everyone's hearts at the moment, as long as she is not convicted by the government, she is just a suspect.

Previously, when these idle guests gathered outside the cabin where the accident occurred, they were more curious than angry, and they had never seen such a common enemy.

Liu Hui secretly quickened his pace, and they quietly passed through the cold and indifferent gaze until they entered their room. "Bang" closed the door, isolating all those palpitating hostile visions, and Liu Hui, who had been tense face, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Hua Lianyue walked quickly to the table, lifted the teapot and poured herself a cup of hot tea, raised her head and drank it dry. Wiping the droplets of water from her mouth, she said with palpitations: "What's wrong with the people outside, why are they suddenly so hostile to us?"

Xiao Fengnan paced back and forth in the room, muttering in his mouth: "Something is wrong, something is very wrong! There must be something we don't know about...... He suddenly stood on his feet and said to Hua Lianyue: "You just stay in the house and don't go out, there are a few friends of mine on this ship, I'll go and ask them about it to see what happened." ”

Hua Lianyue shuddered when she thought of Fang Cai's cold knife-like gaze, and she always felt that something bad would happen. She nodded and said, "It seems that I can only work hard for you." ”

With her consent, Xiao Fengnan immediately turned around and walked out. Standing in front of the door, he suddenly paused again, and he turned his head sideways to Feng Qi and instructed, "After I go out, you lock the doors and windows so that there will be no accidents." ”

"Don't worry, someone from outside wants to break in, unless they step over my corpse. ”

Feng Qi also knew the seriousness of the matter, put away the hippie smile of the past, and solemnly hugged his fists to accept it.

"Brother Xiao!" Hua Lianyue took two steps and told him to his tall back: "You should be careful yourself, no matter how big it is, don't worry, just come back and tell us." As long as everyone is together, they can solve it. ”

Xiao Fengnan turned around and gave her a comforting smile, and said, "Don't worry, I know what to do." ”

Watching him stride out of the door without hesitation, Hua Lianyue suddenly felt a little sour on her nose, and faintly felt like she wanted to cry. She unconsciously took two steps forward, but Feng Qi closed the door with a "snap" in front of her.

Neatly plugging in the heavy door bolt, Feng Qi turned around and said to Hua Lianyue: "Mastermother, the situation outside is unknown, let's be careful." ”

Hua Lianyue retreated to the table and sat down, Liu Hui walked up to her and gently put his warm palm on her shoulder. Hua Lianyue raised her face to look at him, and after revealing a bitter smile, she laughed at herself: "Ah Hui, I suddenly feel that I am a disaster, as long as people who are close to me seem to have no good end." ”

"What nonsense!" Liu Hui firmly pressed her thin shoulders and said in a deep voice: "The person closest to you now is me, and the fact that I am standing by your side at the moment is enough to prove that these are all accidents and have nothing to do with you." ”

Hua Lianyue's lips moved, and after half a sound, she sighed: "Ah Hui, over the years, my friends have either had accidents or stayed away, I'm really scared! I'm afraid that in the end, I won't be able to keep a friend." ”

Liu Hui tightened his five fingers with a complicated expression, so that her back was close to his arms, and he murmured in a low voice: "I know, in fact, I am also a little scared!"

......

The river is not very wide, and from the stern of the boat, you can see the messy and withered reeds and a little snow on the bank. Dirty foam and dead grass floated on the surface of the water, and the occasional dead fish with white bellies drifted down with the current.

With a "bang", a basin of dirty water was dumped into the river, splashing a large splash and wetting the clothes of the young man hiding under the aft fence. Yu Wu clutched the slippery railing with both hands, and his whole body was lying on the hull of the boat like an octopus.

Yu Wu was not standing steadily, because there were only grooves the size of half a foot under his feet, which allowed him to barely stabilize his body.

Yu Wu knew he wouldn't last long. When his hands and feet are numbed by the biting cold wind, he will fall into the bottomless cold water of the river, and become the food for the fish.

He sniffed harder and tighter, his eyes fixed on the gray-white afterglow in the distance. As soon as it was completely dark, he would be able to avoid everyone's gaze, creep back into the cabin, and find a hidden place to hide.

It's just that at this moment, his arms have begun to tremble weakly in the cold wind, and his feet, which are barely hooked to the grooves, have gradually become numb because he has not dared to move for a long time. There was a strong look of anxiety in his eyes, and he had never hated the slowness of time so much. He could only try to ignore all the discomfort in his body, and only think of himself as a wedge, firmly nailed to the spot.

Suddenly, Yu Wu faintly heard the sound of chaotic footsteps and talking above his head. His heart sank, and he pressed his body closer to the slippery hull of the boat, not daring to move.

"It's strange, the boat is so big, we've all looked for places where we can hide people, why can't we find that stinky boy. ”

"Do you think he's hiding in the storehouse below?"

"Someone is looking for it! For that reward, all of them are red-eyed now. Ma Shunzi and the others were sure that the boy was hiding in the storeroom, and now they were rummaging through it like crazy, and no one was allowed to approach. I heard that I almost got into a fight with the guys who took care of the goods. ”

"If you want me to say, Ma Shunzi and they are stupid, although the treasury is big, there are also many guards. Except for the guys on the ship and the guys brought by the guests themselves, if I were that stinky boy, I would never hide there. ”

"Hey, brothers, let's talk about it, if we catch that stinky boy, we will share the reward equally, and no one is allowed to be greedy at that time. ”

"Hehe, definitely, definitely! That Boss Xiao was very generous, look at that stack of silver tickets, I'm afraid there are thousands of taels. It's not a problem for us to divide a few hundred taels each. With this money, we can go home and buy land and shops, and we don't have to suffer from the wind and sun again. ”

"Yes, yes, I didn't expect that kid to be so quiet. Brothers, we just need to see him. It is better to break his leg than to make him run. Otherwise, our good days will fly. ”

"The third brother is right, we must not give that kid a chance to escape, I must break his two legs first......"

Yu Wu heard the greed and cruelty in their words, and his heart couldn't help but become more and more frightened, and his face was even frightened, and it had become extremely ugly.

The footsteps drew closer, and he felt that the men who were eager to grab themselves for a reward had reached the deck above him. Yu Wu became more and more frightened, thinking only that if he could shrink his body into a ball, or turn into an inconspicuous bird, fish and insect.

"Hey, you guys have taken a closer look, and you can't even let go of those horns. ”

"Yes, yes, rest assured! Remember, take a look outside the boat where you can stay!"

Yu Wu's heart was beating violently, and he bit his pale lips tightly, for fear that he would cry out in horror. A trace of blood slowly poured out, revealing a strange color in the gradually dimming sky.

"Ah...... What are you guys doing?" suddenly came the girl's frightened scream overhead.

"What are you doing here? Don't you know that guests are not allowed here?" replied in an equally unpolite voice, even with a certain wariness.

The girl cried with grievances: "I, I, my housewife has just died, and I think they haven't gone far yet, so I burned the dresses, shoes and socks they usually like, so that they can be beautiful when they get there." ”

"Ah, these are dead people's things? Bah, Bah, Bah, what a bad luck!"

Although it was the first time for Yu Wu to work on the boat, he knew that these people who had been begging for a living on the water all year round had many taboos, such as not peeing on the bow of the boat, not turning over when eating fish, not killing on the boat, and so on.

Don't look at the fact that there are a lot of guests on the boat, but the meat that can be eaten for ordinary purposes is bought and slaughtered on the shore, just so as not to violate those mysterious taboos. Now that there are dead people on the ship, it is already a big taboo, and now when they encounter something that someone has burned to death, they naturally avoid it.

After a brief commotion, someone asked, "Little girl, how long have you been here, and have you seen anyone else?"

The girl said softly: "It's windy here, I've been burning for half an hour, and I haven't seen anyone else come except you." ”

"Hey, how long are you going to burn?"

"It won't be long before I'll leave when I've burned all these clothes, shoes and socks. ”

"Wow, there are so many, I'm afraid I won't be able to burn them all in half an hour. What to do?"

"Let's go elsewhere first, so as not to get bad luck and let the God of Wealth run away!"

"Go, go, go, go somewhere else!"

Yu Wu quietly breathed a long sigh of relief, and he quietly listened to the chaotic footsteps above his head gradually moving away. Suddenly, a girl's cautious call came from her head: "Brother, brother, ......"

Yu Wu raised his head, looked at Chun'er's dark eyes, and smiled reluctantly: "Little sister!"

Chun'er saw Yu Wu clutching the railing desperately, her thin body was constantly trembling, and she couldn't help but feel anxious, she said eagerly: "You wait, I'll come to save you right away." ”

Yu Wu showed a firm smile at her and comforted: "It's okay, my brother can still hold on." ”

Before he finished speaking, Chun'er had already retracted her head with a "whoosh". In a few moments, a rope made of countless gaudy clothes hung down. Yu Wu raised her head and saw that Chun'er had tied the other end of the rope to her slender waist, she grabbed the fence above her with both hands, and said to Yu Wu: "Brother, I will hold you, you come up quickly." ”

Yu Wu trembled and stretched out a hand to pull the hanging rope, which he had barely tied around his waist with a long effort. Chun'er originally looked at it with a nervous face, but when she saw that Yu Wu had finally tied herself up, she showed a relieved smile. She said softly: "Brother, move quickly, it will be troublesome when someone comes again." ”

Yu Wu nodded, with the life-saving rope around his waist, he also had a lot of confidence, so he grabbed the fence tightly and stepped on the hull of the boat and slowly climbed up.

The wooden boat floats on the surface of the water all year round, and in order to prevent rot or leakage, it will be dragged ashore every once in a while to apply a thick layer of tung oil, and the hull is naturally extremely slippery. Yu Wucai climbed two steps, and then he felt that the soles of his feet slipped, and the whole person lost his balance and fell down.

Yu Wu broke out in a cold sweat, and the scream was already close to his throat, but he bit the tip of his tongue and held it back. He felt silence around him, except for the sound of the rushing water beneath his feet. It's just that this familiar sound, at this moment, it is like a curse of the envoy of the underworld, which makes people tremble.

Fortunately, with a rope tied around his waist, he didn't fall directly into the water. But at this moment, he was like a wind blowing meat, hanging from the boat by a rope, and the taste was not very pleasant.

"Brother, brother, how are you?" came Chun'er's anxious whisper overhead.

Yu Wu struggled for a long time, but was frustrated to find that he couldn't reach anything, and his whole body weight was tied to the rope. Chun'er's crying voice sounded again: "Brother, don't be afraid, I'm ....... I'll pull you up."

Yu Wu raised his head and saw that Chun'er was really pulling the rope with her thin arms like hemp rods. Her face was flushed. His legs were trembling slightly, and his slender waist was almost broken by the ropes.

Yu Wu's eyes were a little hot, and he muttered, "Little sister......"

There was a sudden tearing sound above his head, and Yu Wu was horrified to see that a blue soft satin shirt in the middle showed signs of tearing because it couldn't bear his weight. Before Yu Wu could exclaim, the shirt had been pulled in two by his weight.

"Brother!" Chun'er exclaimed in a tragic exclamation, and a strong and rough hand grabbed the broken clothes in time. An ugly man in a short green cloth jacket, with a short beard, and a large reddish-brown mark on half of his cheek, clung to the life-saving rope. He poked his head out and said to Yu Wu, who was frightened and lost his soul below: "Stinky boy, let me find you." ”