Half an hour had passed, but the gale had not abated at all, and as the deck gradually submerged, the passengers became more and more restless, and everyone wanted to have headless flies, slamming against the door of the cabin, as if grasping a life-saving straw, and hiding in the cabin was their only life.

Mo Xiaohe looked at the trembling hatch, her eyes couldn't help but have a touch of worry, she knew that she couldn't hide in it all the time, and when the second deck was flooded by the river, it would no longer be safe here, and now, it could only drag on for a while.

She rubbed her heart, inevitably heartache, the carriage she sat in before going out was on the first floor of the official ship, and there was her sea cucumber baby on the car, with so many on the road, in the end, people were not as good as the sky, she seemed to see the silver of the white flowers drifting.

"Brother-in-law, when are we going out?"

Lin Xiucai's face was indifferent, only his eyebrows were furrowed, and the form in front of him was not optimistic, but he was also a gentleman, Gu Zheng and Xu Tietou were not surprised, but he was like an ant on a hot pot, he always felt lost, he tried not to care so much, his clenched fists and the raised green tendons on the back of his hands exposed his true thoughts at the moment.

At the critical juncture of life and death, the scholar not only can not be superior, but also drags down, although he was peaceful in the past, Lin Xiucai is still a little high in his bones, thinking that he is different from the mud legs of the Zhuang family, and now, that sense of superiority has long disappeared.

"Wait, it's not time yet."

Gu Zheng listened to the noisy noise outside, and judged that the river had just sunk into the second deck, and there was a high threshold in the cabin, and the cabin was still dry. At the moment, there is chaos outside, blindly going out, and the crowd is likely to hurt Mo Xiaohe.

In the cabin, it suddenly became extremely quiet, the noise outside the door was infinitely expanded, Mo Xiaohe already understood the current crisis, her lips moved, and finally decided to remain silent, it was useless to say anything, she believed that her husband would arrange it properly.

"What are you doing, you guys just broke in, are you bandits? A bunch of untouchables! ”

Wu Jinshi spared his life, timid as a mouse, Xiao Li had never seen such a battle, and immediately panicked, the two of them hugged each other in the cabin and trembled, not knowing that they were holding up a wooden stick by the door and being broken in by the manic passengers.

At this time, he couldn't pretend anymore, and shouted regardless of it, "Untouchable! Hugh is rampant! ”

Everyone pushed and squeezed into the cabin, and when they saw Wu Jinshi blushing and scolding, they were stunned, it was difficult to connect Wu Jinshi, who was scolding like a shrew in the market, with a person who was sad and crying for his mother a few hours ago, and a person who was deeply in love, and saw him holding a woman with a woman's hair, what else did he not understand!

"Hey, hey, this is not Wu Jinshi, the widower who just died of his wife, who hooked up with a new love so soon!"

Some people in the crowd couldn't look at it, and Wu Jinshi's scolding was ugly, and everyone had a sense of anger that they had been deceived, and immediately debunked, "Just a hypocritical negative man like you, your conscience has been eaten by dogs, and you are not even as good as a pariah!" ”

"The yellow-faced woman is dead, I am worried that I can't take it, I can only say that God favors me, my lord and I will be like a beautiful flower in the future, and the red sleeves will add fragrance, you untouchables are still worried about the present!"

Wu Jinshi knows how to forbear, he was admitted to Jinshi, he has no connections, he can't be an official, he has never given up for many years, he has worked hard to drill the camp, and when he learned that he had a chance, of course he couldn't let it go, and he planned to kill his wife for a long time, and took the risk to test it himself.

Last year, he set off from Licheng, traveled to the hometown of his former classmates, and accidentally learned that there were water monsters in the canal, and the water monsters were bloodthirsty things, preferably living creatures, the reason why many people did not know was because the area to which the water monsters belonged generally only passed by official ships and merchant ships, the water was turbulent, no one swam in the water, and the water monsters could not move in a wide range, and the boat passengers were naturally safe and sound.

The speaker is unintentional, the listener is intentional, Wu Jinshi took the initiative to run the boat all the year round, showing that he was writing a travelogue, very interested in the water monster, invited the man to eat two meals of wine cliché, after learning the habits of the water monster, he bought a few live chickens on the way back, and repeatedly threw food into the river water.

Slowly, Wu Jinshi mastered the rules, he made some wounds on the chickens, and used the smell of blood to attract water monsters to prey, those guys are extremely smart, every time he takes a boat, the water monsters will always appear.

Repeated more than a dozen times, he had the confidence in his heart, this trip to take the lady on the boat, in order to send her on the road, he appeared as a victim, cleared the obstacles for the little Li family, and expressed his attitude with the big Li family in Kyoto, willing to marry her sister as a wife.

Wu Jinshi thought, after he became an official, he had a bright future, what does Xiao Li have? is not only a widow, but also a country widow, her appearance is barely passable, but she is not as good as the charming sister of Hualou. The crowd was completely enraged, and one of them whispered, "I saw with my own eyes that Wu Jinshi pushed his wife into the river and gave her a knife." ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier!"

Now, the boatmen are boiling, if so, it is murder!

"More things are better than less, you also know that he is a scholar, in case I am hated!"

The man who spoke was a man in his twenties, exposed to the wind and sun all year round, his face was similar to black charcoal, and he opened his mouth with a mouthful of small white teeth, he blushed, but he couldn't see it on his face, "I didn't lie, I really saw it!" ”

The man's name is Zhang San, his home is by the sea, he makes a living by fishing, and he wants to visit his cousin in Kyoto on this trip.

Next to the lowest class ticket is the carriage and horse, the cabin smells of horse dung, he is anxious to urinate, seeing that the thatched house is occupied, he is looking for a place where no one is to release it, just half of the pee, heard Wu Jinshi and his wife quarreling, and then, Wu Jinshi pierced his mother's heart with a sharp knife and pushed it into the river.

Zhang San witnessed the whole process, half of his urine was urinated, his lower body was swollen, and he couldn't pee out, and when he returned to the cabin, he found that his body was covered in cold sweat, and when he was blown by the wind, he immediately woke up.

Later, when he learned that the other party was a jinshi, half an official, he didn't dare to say anything, these years the people don't fight with the officials, he is afraid that he will be burned.

The ruthlessness in Wu Jinshi's eyes flashed away, he thought that he was doing it secretively and seamlessly, who would have thought that there was such a fish that slipped through the net, knowing his secret, this person couldn't stay, wait to see if there was a chance to start, he had to take the first step to die without proof.

"Bloody mouth! Nonsense! ”

Wu Jinshi was very angry, he had the heart to argue a few words for himself, and when he saw the water flooding into the cabin, he was shocked, but he still thought about how to survive, this Zhang San may not have the life to survive to the end.

"It seems that God is still fair."

There must be a mistake in the hundred secrets, Mo Xiaohe nodded, if scumbags like Wu Jinshi are at large, it will be unreasonable! Fortunately, there was a witness to the murder of his wife.

The wind on the river was getting stronger and stronger, the water of the official ship entered the cabin, submerged into Gu Zheng's calves, the fire candle on the table was also extinguished, and the cabin suddenly fell into darkness.

Someone was crying outside the door, and everyone saw that there was no way, so they desperately dispersed, and beat their heads to the point of bleeding in order to grab a plank. There is a little more hope of survival with a plank, and even if you know how to water, you can't guarantee that you will be able to swim to the shore.

The hull of the ship lost its direction, the hull kept sinking, and the passengers watched as they saw someone fall into the water and struggle, crying for help, and gradually lost their voices.

For the living, they no longer expect miracles, and they suddenly find that waiting for death is a very painful process.

Mo Xiaohe was carried on Gu Zheng's back, her feet were already soaked in the river water, the cold water made her shiver, Gu Zheng felt the trembling of his own lady, his face was tense, he clenched his teeth, and his heart was churning.

No matter how you dodge, you have to go into the water, and now it's almost time, and you can't wait any longer.

"Let's go."

Xu Tietou is short, he is very embarrassed at the moment, the river is about to flood his neck, and he can only swim out when the time comes, he has already prepared the plank and the things he carries with him.

If it was usual, Mo Daya would have made a few jokes when she saw Xu Tietou's troubles, but she couldn't laugh at this situation, her cousin there, there was a brother-in-law, and she would never make a mistake, but she didn't know how Lin Xiucai was.

"Can you do it?"

If you want to be embarrassed, how can you pull a cushion, Xu Tietou asked Lin Xiucai, who was soaked on the side.

Lin Xiucai: "......"

Asking a man if he can do it is simply hurting his self-esteem, of course he can, and if he can't, he has to do it!

Holding a breath of air in his chest, he couldn't get out, Lin Xiucai glared at Xu Tietou, and now he can only take care of himself, and the group agreed to meet on the left bank of the river.

"Lady, we'll go ashore soon."

You don't have to think about it to know how tragic it is on the river, Gu Zheng took out a black cloth strip and blindfolded Mo Xiaohe's eyes, and when she just wanted to speak, she only felt the back of her neck sink, and she didn't know anything.

"Brother-in-law, what are you doing!"

Mo Daya, who was following Xu Tietou, widened her eyes, pointed at Gu Zheng, and stumbled, "You ......"

"Xiaohe has always been a soft-hearted person, there are some things, it's better not to see them than to see them."

Gu Zheng patiently explained, no longer spoken, and quickly flashed out of the depressing cabin.

There were hardly a few people left on the boat, and the passengers of the boat had removed those who had been drowned, and the rest were on the river, holding the plank, holding their hands tightly, and from time to time someone in the river probed their brains and scrambled for the plank, and fought for it, killing and wounding countless people.

The wind seems to be lighter, the rain is blown into a diagonal line by the wind, slapping on everyone's faces, and it is impossible to tell whether the rain is still tears......

Mo Xiaohe was lying on a wooden plank, covered with a waterproof linoleum cloth, Gu Zheng was in the water, pushing the plank with water, he could sit on the plank with his wife, but in that way, he couldn't grasp the direction well, and he might let Mo Xiaohe stay in the water for a long time.

The river water was cold, Gu Zheng was too hard, his legs suddenly cramped, he didn't blink, and when he met someone who came to grab the plank, he did it directly, leaving no way back for the other party, because this was his bottom line.

I don't know how long it took, Mo Xiaohe woke up faintly, he felt that he was wrapped in a blanket, and his body was warm.

That's not right, obviously on the ship before, the group was going to get out of the cabin, and then, what happened?

She opened her eyes, and at this moment, she was in a thatched-roof house, and the thatch lid had been lifted off by the wind, revealing a large empty hole, and at the mouth of the hole, sparse small raindrops had fallen.

She was lying on a door, a little hard underneath, and in front of her was a wooden shelf with linoleum cloth on top of it, just to keep out the rain coming from the hole.

The fire in front of her was burning vigorously, and she touched her dress and shoes, all dry.

What about the husband? Where is Gu Zheng? When she woke up and didn't see Gu Zheng for the first time, she suddenly panicked!

"Husband, are you there?"

Mo Xiaohe sat up and shouted.

Outside the door, Gu Zheng was picking up a pheasant that had just been hit, and after he took his wife ashore, he walked for two hours before he found a place that could block the rain, and Xu Tietou, Lin Xiucai and others were separated, and they didn't know what the other party was doing.

He was afraid that Mo Xiaohe would wake up hungry, and the cakes he brought were soaked in the river water, and all of them were scattered into slag, and he couldn't eat them at all, but fortunately, there was a small hill not far away.

After hitting two pheasants, he hurried back, and for fear that the thatched hut would be bloody, he went out in the rain to clean up the pheasants. Thanks to the bottles and cans, it would be difficult for the lady to drink a sip of hot soup.

"I'm here."

Gu Zheng's voice was calm and low, he put down his trouser leg, hid the wound on his leg, stood up, he injured his leg, walked very slowly, and just wanted not to be seen by the lady.