Ye and Su used the silver exchanged for jade to buy horse luggage, went all the way north, crossed Shanhaiguan, and came to Yingzhou.

On this day, we walked to a large river, the river surface is wide and calm, and the water surface is sparkling in the sunlight, which is very beautiful. The two couldn't find the ferry, so they walked slowly along the river, while watching the roadside scenery, met two woodcutters on the way, and inquired about them, only to know that the river is called Ling River, and the undulating mountain on the left also has a name, called Phoenix Mountain.

Yingzhou is east of the Houjin ruling area, because of the frequent wars in the past few years, the population is relatively sparse, but there is a little more quiet and tranquil feeling, Ye Chuan thought: "This place is suitable for recuperation, and when I get to a larger town, I will settle down with my sister and adjust medicine to treat my injuries." ”

After walking three or four miles along the riverbank, they finally saw a ferryboat, and the two led the horses to the boat, entered the cabin and sat down, and the boat came to collect the money.

The person who came was an old man with gray hair, his face was wrinkled and sunken, and his skin was very rough, Ye Chuan paid the fare, talked to him, and asked, "Uncle, how has the war in Liaodong been going in the past few years?" ”

While Zhouzi was busy with the matter at hand, he replied: "After the governor surnamed Xiong came, there were a lot of lives here, but too many people died in the past few years, and life has never been easy. ”

Ye Chuan knew that the "governor surnamed Xiong" he said meant Xiong Tingbi [Xiong Tingbi (1569-1625), the word Feibai, the name Zhigang, Han nationality, Huguang Jiangxia, general in the late Ming Dynasty, Wanli Jinshi, Chu Party. The official promoted the imperial history and patrolled Liaodong. ], said: "Xiong Da is talented and martial, and he is first-class in the court, and with his protection, Liaodong will definitely be able to regain prosperity and stability." ”

Zhouzi shook his head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Borrow the son's auspicious words." ”

Ye Chuan saw his expression, helpless and disdainful, and said in his heart: "Hey, the hardships of the life of the people in the border areas, it is difficult for people like me and my sister who grew up in the capital to understand after all, but fortunately, Xiong Tingbi does have the talent to govern the army, I hope he can sit on this son for a long time, and not be framed like Zeng Miao." ”

After experiencing these many storms, Ye Chuan finally understood something.

Zhouzi silently supported the boat, no longer talking to Ye Chuan, and soon arrived on the other side, the two led the horses ashore, Ye Chuan turned around and asked, "Uncle, let me ask you again, is there a town nearby where you can buy good medicinal herbs?" ”

Zhouzi raised his hand and pointed in a direction, and said, "There is a Liulin Town twenty miles downstream, which is the largest, you two can go over and take a look." ”

Ye Chuan thanked him: "Thank you!" ”

Zhouzi nodded and said, "Childe doesn't have to be polite, go slowly." ”

The two said goodbye to the old man in the boat, walked leisurely along the riverbank, and within thirty miles, they saw a memorial arch with three big characters of "Liulin Town" written on it.

The scale of the town was larger than Ye Chuan imagined, the two first found an inn to live in, and then Ye Chuan called the shopkeeper and instructed him to grab the medicine according to the prescription of Tianxiang Continuation Pulse San, after dinner, the medicine was just fried, Ye Chuan watched Su Ling take it, and told her to rest early, and he went back to the next room and practiced cross-legged.

Since escaping from the Valley of Thousand Machines, Ye Chuan's skills have grown day by day, and he has approached the eighth layer realm, at this time he knows that he is close to the bottleneck, and he tries to get rid of distracting thoughts, wanting to break through the eighth layer, but two hours have passed, and there is still no progress, and in desperation, he has no choice but to regain his work.

At this time, it was getting late, Ye Chuan sighed, took off his shoes and socks, lay on his back on the bed, and thought: "I bought medicinal materials today, and there is not much left of the entanglement around me, I have to think of a way to make money, I can't let my junior sister be wronged, hey...... It's a pity that I don't have any strengths except martial arts, and I don't know if I can find a livelihood to support the two of us. ”

These two people have lived in the Taiqing Palace since they were children, they never have to worry about food and clothing, and it is really not easy for them to support themselves outside, Ye Chuan has a good character, and he will never steal and rob ...... Besides, this is not a bustling city, and street art and the like may not work.

Ye Chuan's heart was so confused that he tossed and turned on the bed to think about it, and fell asleep in a daze.

Early the next morning, Su Ling knocked lightly on the door outside the room and beckoned Ye Chuan: "Senior brother, are you awake?" ”

Ye Chuan suddenly opened his eyes and responded, "This is it!" He jumped out of bed, put on his shoes and socks, and rushed to open the door.

Su Ling held a basin of hot water in his hand, saw Ye Chuan, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, when did you develop the habit of being lazy, I remember that you used to get up very early." ”

Ye Chuan smiled embarrassedly and said, "Senior sister, your injuries are not healed yet, just ask the shopkeeper to do these things." ”

Su Ling said: "I am injured in the meridians, but I can't run the internal force, and I am no different from ordinary people in other aspects, and I can personally ...... for you." I'm very happy to do this for you......" Later, the voice became more and more inaudible, Ye Chuan's heart warmed, and he hurriedly flashed and called Su Ling in, and said, "Having said that, you can't overwork, please come in!" ”

Su Ling's face turned red, he stepped in, put the basin on the table, soaked the towel, and said, "You will remove your shirt later, let me see the arrow wound on your back." ”

Ye Chuan closed the door of the house, stepped forward to take the towel, and while wiping his face, he thought, "When Senior Sister treated my wound for me last time, she looked very shy, why did she suddenly become generous now?" Could it be that after I made my heart to her, she regarded me as a relative? ”

Su Ling didn't know what was going on in his mind, seeing that his action of wiping his face was clumsy and slow, he couldn't help but chuckle, Ye Chuan coughed twice, put the towel aside, quickly took off his shirt, and said, "I can't feel any pain on my back these days, I guess the wound has healed." ”

Su Ling was surprised to see that the previous wound was as smooth as ever, and couldn't help but reach out and caress it, muttering, "Strange...... There was no trace of ......."

Ye Chuan saw that her demeanor and movements were natural, and thought: "Senior sister is no longer completely unguarded against me, if you don't confess to her about Kongminggu's injury treatment at this time, when will you stay?" Coughing twice, he turned around and said, "Senior sister, I have something I want to tell you." ”

Seeing that his expression was so focused, Su Ling was slightly stunned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ye Chuan pondered in his heart and said: "Senior sister, you and I have the same heart, and I must know your affection for you, not to mention that I have already mentioned the family matter to the master, and the two of us will get married, it will be a matter of time, right?" ”

When Su Ling heard him say this, he couldn't help lowering his head and looking away, his face flushed slightly, and said, "Senior brother, you ...... What are you doing with this all of a sudden? ”

Ye Chuan's face was very unnatural, and he snorted for a long time, and finally said: "Senior sister, I can't hide it, at that time in Kongming Valley, in order to save you, you need to take off your clothes all over your body and pierce the big acupoints around your body with silver needles...... Mr. Song said that only the same disciples have less risk of administering needles, so ...... It's my needle for you......"

Su Ling thought of the situation at that time, and let out an "ah", took two steps back, knocked over the basin, and spilled the hot water in the basin on the ground.

Ye Chuan hurriedly pulled her over, grabbed his shirt indiscriminately, wiped the water on Su Ling's hands, and explained clumsily: "Master...... Sister, don't be angry! At that time, there was really no other way, so I secretly made up my mind that I would marry you in the future, but ...... But then I wanted to mention it to you several times, but I was afraid that you would find it difficult to accept, so I had to put it off again and again......"

Su Ling's hand was held by him, his face was red all the way to the root of his ears, and he said, "Senior brother! Say no more...... I, I ......"

Ye Chuan said solemnly: "Senior sister, don't worry, Ye Chuan will never fail you in this life and this life!" ”

Su Ling's heart was pounding, as if he was about to jump out of his chest, he bit his lip and whispered, "Brother Mo has to mention this matter again...... I...... What I wish in my life is to be able to raise eyebrows with you and never leave you. ”

Ye Chuan finally said this, his heart was greatly relieved, and he didn't care that his shirt was water-stained, he put it on, deliberately diverted the topic, and said: "Senior sister, I think this holy blood not only has the ability to resist poison, but also has the miraculous effect of accelerating healing and repairing the skin, otherwise I was scratched by the poisonous lins of the spirit snake all over my body at that time, and I would have been unrecognizable, right?" ”

Su Ling's breathing slowed down, but he still didn't look at him, just nodded and said, "Indeed...... It is possible. ”

Ye Chuan said again: "This is also the reason why Shen Mo is powerful, not only does he have superior internal strength, but he also heals faster than ordinary people, if you want to defeat him, you must find out his weaknesses, but it's a pity...... It's a pity that I still don't know the ability of the Gu worms in his body......"

Su Ling was silent for a moment and said, "Senior brother...... Otherwise, let's go to Mingyue Palace and ask Uncle Mo to practice the Yin and Yang Light Splitting Sword with you and give it a try......"

Ye Chuan said with a smile: "Except for you in this world, no one wants to learn our Ye family's family heirloom swordsmanship." ”

The meaning of his words was that he already regarded Su Ling as the daughter-in-law of the Ye family, Su Ling was ashamed and happy, and gently hammered Ye Chuan, Ye Chuan laughed, and took her in his arms.

The two had breakfast, Ye Chuan asked Su Ling to stay at the inn to rest, and he went around the town alone, first, he wanted to investigate the nearby customs, terrain and landforms, and secondly, he also wanted to find a way to make money.

After going around, Ye Chuan was disappointed, Liulin Town took male farming and female weaving as the main production mode, and there were few other trades, and he was about to return to the inn, when suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and thought: "Mr. Song's "Heavenly Creation" has explained a kind of machine, called "crocodile scissors", which can be driven by a single person, and the harvesting efficiency is extremely high. It's autumn now, and the farmers are waiting to harvest their crops, and if I can make it, I'll be able to sell it for a good price! ”

Thinking of this, Ye Chuan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he took a leap of the clouds and went straight to the farmland outside the town.

The crops in the north are mainly soybeans and sorghum, Ye Chuan galloped through the farmland for a while, made some observations on the height and planting spacing of various crops, and had a base on the size of the crocodile scissors.

The stems of this crop were very tall, as tall as a man, the leaves were broad and long, the fruit was short, thick rods, and the top was a cluster of tassels, like the red tassels on the helmets of soldiers.

Ye Chuan fell to a crop, stretched out his hand to pick a fruit, went out to the blue-green fruit, saw the yellow, orange and orange of the fruit closely arranged along the surface, a name came to mind, and blurted out: "Corn!" ”

This kind of crop has just been introduced to China not long ago, and it was also recorded by Song Yingxing in the book "Heavenly Creation", it is said that it came from a small country called "Spain" overseas, Ye Chuan saw it in the book before, and felt that this thing looked very interesting, and today I finally saw the real thing, no wonder I was so excited.

In fact, corn, a drought-resistant plant, has long been widely planted in northern China, but because Mingshenzong does not like it, failed to enter the palace dining room, Ye Chuan peeled off a few grains, put it in his mouth, only felt that the fragrance had a sweet taste, the taste was excellent, and he wanted to pick a few more to take back, and suddenly heard someone behind him shouting: "Where did the thief come from, so bold!" ”

Ye Chuan chuckled in his heart and thought to himself: "It's not good! On a whim, I forgot that it was a Lord! When he came back to his senses, he saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl standing on the dragon, looking at him with an angry face.

Ye Chuan sighed silently and jumped to Longshang, the girl didn't expect him to jump so far in one step, she was so frightened that she took two steps back, Ye Chuan put the corn under her armpit, bowed to her, and said: "I have never seen this thing in Xia, passing by here, I picked two of them with curiosity for a while, how offended!" How much compensation the girl wants, I will definitely give it below. ”

Seeing that Ye Chuan had no malicious intent, the girl was sure and said, "I don't want your stinky money, go, follow me to see the official!" ”

Ye Chuan couldn't help frowning, and said, "You girl is so unreasonable, I just took your two corns at any time, is it a crime?" ”

The girl said, "Why am I being unreasonable?" Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, as long as you take someone else's things without permission, you are stealing, and if you steal something, you will be punished, this is the principle of heaven. ”

Ye Chuan didn't expect a young girl to talk to him about "Tianli", he was very funny in his heart, looked at the girl's clothes, and felt that she was not an ordinary child, so he said: "If you want to reason with me, I will reason with you, you say that I took your things, but did you plant this corn?" ”

The girl was slightly stunned and said, "I didn't plant the corn, but this land belongs to my family." ”

Ye Chuan knew that he was at a loss, so he had no choice but to mess with her, and said: "The land and mountains and rivers are born from nature, and they have no belonging, whoever works the land will own the fruits that bear them, which is called Tianli." ”

The girl said angrily: "You! …… You are talking nonsense! The title deed is in my father's hands, and of course the land is mine! ”

Ye Chuan had already seen that he was the daughter of the landlord's foreign family, and when he heard her say this, he was even more convinced, and said with a smile: "A piece of waste paper, how can you take heaven and earth for yourself?" ”

The girl said that he couldn't say anything, her little face turned red, and she raised her hand to slap her, which was naturally easily avoided by Ye Chuan, but she almost took a heel, Ye Chuan supported her with his right hand, helped her up, and said: "Since the two of us have our own opinions, it is better to make a bet, if I lose, let you arrest and see the official, if I win, you need to pay me a piece of food, how about it?" ”

The girl broke away from his right hand and said, "Bet, bet!" You say, what kind of betting? ”

Ye Chuan said: "Three days later, at this time, you and I are still meeting here, and then I will spend a day alone to cut all the corn here, what do you think?" ”

The girl couldn't help laughing, clapped her hands and said, "One person for a day? Ha ha! Are you a fool? Let's make up our minds, and we won't regret it! ”

Ye Chuan said: "A gentleman's word, the horse is difficult to chase." ”

The girl thought for a while, and then said, "No, three days is too long, and I don't know where you are, what if you run away then?" ”

Ye Chuan took out the Linfeng sword, untied the sword spike and put it away, and then sent the sword to her, and said, "This is what I have with me, you can keep it as collateral." ”

When the girl saw that he was dressed as a Jianghu person, she thought, "I heard that the people in the rivers and lakes value their weapons more than anything else, so he must not lie to me." Then he put away the Linfeng Sword and said, "Then it's decided, I'll go back and tell my father not to send someone to harvest corn, and come to see your good show in three days!" ”

Ye Chuan said: "In the lower Ye River, a leaf knows the leaves of autumn, the river of the famous mountain and the river, the girl also leaves her name, so that she can be called in the future." ”

The girl smiled lightly, revealing two pear vortices, and said, "I don't want to tell you your name, the family calls me Ah Jiu, you just call me Miss Jiu!" ”