The door squeaked open, and Cui Zixuan walked out.

In the night, he was visibly emaciated, but his eyes were surprisingly bright.

Stretching out his hand to take the flying pigeon handing over by the guard, Cui Zixuan looked at the light for a while, slowly put away the note, and said in a dumb voice: "Okay, stand down." ”

"Yes. ”

The guard had just retreated, and a few more guards came over, and after they saluted Cui Zixuan, one of the guards said: "Childe, a total of eleven people came out of the wing room at that hour, and ten of them have been investigated, only this young man is of unknown origin." Speaking of which, the guard handed a portrait to Cui Zixuan.

Cui Zixuan stretched out his hand to take it.

After looking down for a while, Cui Zixuan said softly: "Yes, it's him." ”

Several guards hurriedly raised their heads, and one was about to speak, Cui Zixuan raised his right hand and said slowly: "Inform down, pay attention to pawnshops and major gold and silver shops along the way." Other than that, everyone else can be withdrawn. ”

In the blink of an eye, he smiled again: "Don't startle the snake!"

Obviously, he was laughing at this time, but the guards shuddered when they saw it, and they all lowered their heads.

At this time, Cui Zixuan waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's step down." ”

"Yes. ”

As soon as the guards retreated, Cui Zixuan turned around and returned to the study.

The study was in a mess, and there were tatters everywhere, but Cui Zixuan seemed to be in a good mood, he looked down at the portrait, and hummed a tune.

After a moment, his voice was extremely soft, very soft. He also said to himself a little gently: "The top priority is not to startle the snake!"

After studying the portrait for a while, Cui Zixuan walked a few fronts, only to see him spread the portrait on it, pen the dragon and snake, and in a blink of an eye, he drew a thin boy in plain clothes.

It's just that the kid's shirt in this painting fell off to the ground, and the jade belt was thrown far away......

After drawing for a while, Cui Zixuan became short of breath. He closed the study door again. Slow it down. He unbuckled his belt and stared at the portrait as he sneered and gasped......

Cui Ziying has not had a good time these two days, she habitually came to her brother's courtyard and faced the lights burning in the study. Cui Ziying hesitated. Or step forward.

"Knock knock knock. ”

There was silence in the study. After a while, Cui Zixuan's somewhat unsteady voice came, "What's the matter?"

"My brother is me. ”

A moment later. Cui Zixuan's voice came, "Wait a minute." There was a sound of footsteps, and the door to the study opened from the inside.

Cui Ziying raised her head, facing her brother's obviously not so ugly face, Cui Ziying's eyes lit up, and she exclaimed excitedly: "Brother, how are you?" In a blink of an eye, she shouted happily: "Brother, are you hungry?" I heard that the next person said that you haven't eaten for the past two days, you must be hungry, right? I'll go and ask the next person to prepare a meal......

"No, I don't. Cui Zixuan said softly: "I used something just now." ”

Hearing that her brother had eaten, Cui Ziying smiled happily, she jumped into the study, and said in a brisk tone while cleaning up the rags in the house: "It's great that my brother can figure it out, I'll go and tell my grandmother later." Really, who is the Jiang family, she doesn't cherish her brother obviously marrying her as his wife, and she will regret it in the future......"

As she spoke, Cui Ziying felt that the atmosphere was wrong.

She looked back in a daze.

At this time, Cui Zixuan had already walked to the screen window, he turned his back to Cui Ziying, slowly sorted out the files on several volumes, and said, "It's not early, you go back." ”

Hearing her brother's tone suddenly become so cold, Cui Ziying's face turned pale, and she immediately realized that her brother had not let go of the Jiang family.

Cui Ziying stood there in disappointment, she didn't leave, but pursed her lips for a while, and couldn't help but whisper: "Brother, they all said that it is impossible for the Jiang family to return to our family in the future......"

Cui Zixuan, who was facing away from her, said lightly: "Who said that?"

After throwing out these three words, he obviously didn't want to say more to Cui Ziying, so he ordered again: "Okay, you can retreat." ”

Cui Ziying wanted to say something, her lips moved several times but she still didn't dare to say more, and after a while, she bowed silently to Cui Zixuan and quietly exited the study.

......

The Gao caravan couldn't wait for dawn, and almost as soon as they could see the road clearly, they couldn't wait to get on the road.

Because Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi changed to a spacious carriage, both of them felt comfortable. Shao Xiaozi stretched his head out of the window and looked around, and said in a chattering voice: "Chang Lao said just now, you can meet several teams in two days, and then you don't have to be afraid of robbers." ”

He added, "Oh, I have to worry about it for two nights, and I feel uneasy when I think about it." ”

After talking for a while, he turned his head to look at Jiang Mi, and saw Jiang Mi reciting her four books and five classics with her eyes closed like chanting, Shao Xiaozi flattened his mouth and muttered: "What hobby, this is!"

After a while, Shao Xiaozi still came to Jiang Mi to interrupt her chanting, and asked with sparkling eyes: "Hey, you have to worry about it for two nights, are you afraid?"

Jiang Mi looked up at him.

She pursed her lips and shook her head, saying, "Don't be afraid." ”

Shao Xiaozi's eyes widened, and he said strangely: "They are all afraid, why aren't you afraid?"

Jiang Mi thought: Because I know that nothing will happen to me.

Thinking like this, she said softly again, "There's nothing to be afraid of. ”

"Cut!" Shao boy gave her a disdainful look, and stuck his head out the window to chill with the guards outside.

To Shao Xiaozi's surprise, the next two nights were really as safe as Jiang Mi said.

On the third day, the team successfully joined the other three teams.

In this era, it was a matter for laymen to tie their heads to the waistband of their trousers. Over time, the ones that can trade outside are either super caravans with strong force, or like the Gao caravan, several small caravans form an alliance, and when they go out, they enter and exit together, and when they arrive at their destination, the rest of the caravans will contact their companions who can go all the way.

Because with the addition of those three caravans, the following trip was smoother. this day. Shao Xiaozi pointed to the front and said happily to Jiang Mi: "Look at it, look at it, that's Suzhou City." ”

Half of his body stretched out of the carriage, pointed to a river in the distance, and said, "That is the canal dug by the Sui Dynasty." I'll be able to see my brother after crossing this canal!"

Jiang Mi also stretched out his head to look at the canal.

Looking at it, Jiang Mi asked curiously, "Is this canal so lively?"

Shao Xiaozi was stunned, he looked at it seriously.

After looking at it for a while, Shao Xiaozi shouted at the Chang steward in front of him: "Lao Chang, why are there so many people in front?"

Steward Chang was frowning and looking out, and when he heard this, he said without looking back: "You'll know when you arrive." ”

When the caravan came to the canal, Jiang Mi and the others heard a bad news. The canal is closed. Moreover, the city gate of Hangzhou is also closed, and no one is allowed to enter!

The daily throughput of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is unknown, and this is a sudden river, and all of a sudden, both sides of the river are crowded with boats and pedestrians. Because it's not just rivers that are blocked. Even the official road was blocked. Therefore, guests from all over the world are crowded on this small river. The desolate riverwon has been transformed into a noisy city.

Because they couldn't move, the people on both sides of the river were a little irritable. After the steward and others went out to inquire, they came back with a gloomy face.

At noon. Steward Chang came to Jiang Mi and Shao Xiaozi's carriage, and he politely asked, "What relatives do the two little Langjun have in Suzhou City?"

Jiang Mi shook his head, Shao Xiaozi nodded again and again, and he shouted, "I'm here to find my brother." ”

Chang Guan didn't really care about this, at the moment, he sighed lightly and said: "I heard those people say that this river can't be unsealed for a while, and then we want to deal with the goods here cheaply, if the two of you have a place to go......"

He didn't finish his words, but the meaning was very clear, Chang Guan was chasing away customers.

But also, the two of them didn't have a penny, so they took a ride for so many days, and now Hangzhou City is close at hand, of course, it's time to part ways.

At that moment, Shao Xiaozi pulled Jiang Mi and thanked him again and again, and after the two ran to the chief steward to thank him, they officially left the caravan.

After leaving the caravan, Shao Xiaozi was still alive and well, and he said in a chattering voice: "I don't know if my brother is in Hangzhou now? Oh, if my brother sees me suddenly appear in front of him, I don't know how happy I will be!"

He didn't have a heart yet, but Jiang Mi was looking around, and after a while, she pointed to a stone and said in a dumb voice, "Let's go over there." ”

Shao Xiaozi glanced at it with disgust and shouted, "Let's take another turn." ”

Jiang Mi shook her head, and she said seriously: "Although the river is closed, the boats in the front section are still coming. When those ships get here, they can't go any further, and the people on board will definitely go ashore. This is the only place on the road that is still clean, and if we don't stay there anymore, we won't even have a grass to sleep on. ”

Shao Xiaozi looked at Jiang Mi in surprise, and he said happily: "I didn't expect you to be quite capable." So the two boys squatted down in front of the big rock.

After gaining a foothold, Jiang Mi's eyes kept staring at the temporarily erected shops on the riverbank. After a while, Jiang Mi explained to Shao Xiaozi and said, "You guard here, I'll go see if I can find something to shelter from the wind and rain." As she said this, Jiang Mi touched the bracelet on her wrist.

This bracelet is one of the bride gifts given to her by Cui Zixuan, because the color is as white as jade, faintly revealing wisps of clear blood, which is both elegant and gorgeous, Jiang Mi likes it very much. Now, the flying money attached to her abdomen naturally can't be used, maybe this bracelet can be exchanged for a little food camp or something.

Jiang Mi's eyes were fixed on the shop, and she was not so attentive when she walked, she stumbled and fell to the ground as she walked.

With a "porphyry", a mouthful of blood sprayed on Jiang Mi's face!

Jiang Mi quickly got up, she looked blankly at the young man who was knocked by herself, and saw that his face was pale and he was still vomiting blood in his mouth, Jiang Mi panicked.

She hurriedly squatted down, stretched out her hand and tore off the young man's clothes to take a look, Jiang Mi hurriedly said, "You, why are your injuries so serious?"

The young man had already fainted half-dead to the ground, and naturally he could not hear her exclamation.

Jiang Mi raised her head, she glanced at this young man who was extremely tall and seemed to have very good clothes, and secretly thought: This person was seriously injured, and he was even more injured by my collision, if he didn't think about it, he would die.

For Jiang Mi, she would never dare to take a life. After thinking about it, Jiang Mi came to a pawnshop that had been set up temporarily, took off the bracelet from his wrist, Jiang Mi gritted his teeth and said, "Die!"

The middle-aged man behind the pawnshop raised a pair of triangular eyes.

Just glanced at the bracelet, and the middle-aged man's triangular eyes narrowed. In the blink of an eye, he lowered his head and said unreasonably: "Ten catties of rice." ”

"What?" Jiang Mi hurriedly said: "You look at this bracelet carefully, this is from the court of the Han Dynasty, and it was brought by Empress Zhao Feiyan and Zhao back then." This bracelet is worth two sets of houses in Hangzhou, to say the least!", "In the peaceful and prosperous era, it is a priceless treasure."

The middle-aged man raised his triangular eyes, he looked Jiang Mi up and down, and sneered, "What you said is good, but the problem is, this thing is only worth so many things at this time!"

Seeing Jiang Mi reaching out to take back the bracelet and turning around to leave, the middle-aged man called out to her, "Add another tent!"

Jiang Mi turned around, and she said seriously: "Seven days of rice grain, a place to shelter from the wind and rain, as well as seven medicinal herbs to treat injuries, as well as pots, stoves, quilts, and crockpots for cooking medicine. When the middle-aged man laughed, Jiang Mi pointed outward and said, "You also know that this canal can't be closed for a few days, and I can't take out this kind of bracelet from an ordinary person." In other words, if you want to take advantage of this time without consequences, then trade as I ask. After all, it's just a matter of a few dollars, and you can't do it absolutely!"

At this time, Jiang Mi was specially trained by Cui Zixuan for two months. When she pointed out that she was so unhurried, she was already completely like a family leader!

The middle-aged shopkeeper was shocked.

He first squinted his triangular eyes, reluctantly glanced at the bracelet, and then looked at Jiang Mi, who had fine skin and tender meat, and after a while, the middle-aged shopkeeper said: "Okay, it's up to you!" As this kid said, even if it was all according to his requirements, it was only a matter of a few hundred dollars.

When Jiang Mi and the guy sent by the shopkeeper half-supported and half-dragged the injured young man into an old sailboat, and placed the pot and stove and other things on the bow of the boat, Jiang Mi hurriedly ran towards the place where Shao Xiaozi was.

However, when Jiang Mi arrived panting, there were already a few strangers behind the stone.

Seeing Jiang Mi, who was sweating profusely, a middle-aged man said: "This little brother is surnamed Xu? Just now, a little brother surnamed Shao left a message, saying that he had met a fellow villager and had followed the fellow villager to find his brother. He let his little brother take care of himself. ”

It turns out that Shao Xiaozi has found his relatives?

Jiang Mi returned to the old ship listlessly, and she picked up the crockpot that was set aside to boil the medicine.

Half an hour later, the medicine was boiled, and Jiang Mi carried it towards the cabin.

As soon as he entered the cabin, Jiang Mi heard a cough. When she crouched in front of the young man, she met a pair of eyes that slowly opened.

This man's eyes were very fierce, and there was a hidden majesty. Jiang Mi was stunned at first, and then she whispered: "Are you awake? drink medicine, this can cure your injuries." ”。

Seeing the young man staring at him, Jiang Mi explained, "I didn't know just now that Brother Ren fainted on the ground and accidentally bumped into you. Seeing that you were vomiting blood, I helped you here. Speaking of this, Jiang Mi casually asked while blowing the cold medicine, "Brother Tai's surname?"

I have to say that Jiang Mi has a kind of softness from the inside out, the young man retracted his vigilant gaze, and he said gently: "I'm tired of the little brother, my surname is Zhao."