Chapter 126: Taiyuan Mansion
The boat is so big, and Zhikong bowed his head and didn't look up, Zhikong still looked helpful, concerned about whether Mei Xueyan's seasickness symptoms were good, and then sent Huoxiang pills again, if Lin Sanlang didn't know that he was a person on the rivers and lakes, and his martial arts were not shallow, Mei Xueyan would only think that he was an ascetic monk who was kind and good at walking the world. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
After using his medicine, Mei Xueyan's fainting symptoms were much better, and she had the energy and mind to enjoy the scenery along the way.
Lin Saburo had the intention to guard against Zhikong, but he couldn't find any reason to make trouble, so he was quite harmonious on the surface.
"Lady!" Zhikong came over with a warm smile and said, "The sea breeze is damp, don't stay on the deck for too long." ”
Mei Xueyan nodded slightly and replied, "Save it, thank you for your medicine, I'm fine."
"It's because you have a good physique, and you quickly adapted to it when you took the boat for the first time, and some people get dizzy for a lifetime on a boat." Zhikong asked tentatively, "I often see a lady playing a set of boxing techniques these days, and the movements are weird, and it is very ......eye-catching."
Zhikong has been curious for several days, this time it is like a cat's paw scratching his heart, and he will get off the boat and part ways without asking, Lin Saburo is quite hostile to him, and he will definitely not go with him again, so after Zhikong and Mei Xueyan are familiar with each other for two days, he finally can't help but ask.
He figured out that Mei Xueyan was not from a sect on the rivers and lakes, just an ordinary woman in Lin'an, since she didn't hide this set of boxing techniques, it meant that this was not a secret family heirloom, and Zhikong didn't have to beat around the bush, but it made people suspect that he had bad intentions.
"Oh, it's not a martial arts boxing technique, it's just a fitness trick created by a physician."
Zhikong was a little surprised: "I see...... I used to be a lay disciple of Shaolin, and the lady's moves are very similar to Shaolin's 'five-shaped fist', so I have this question. ”
Zhikong knew that Lin Saburo had already seen that he was good at martial arts, so it was easier to win people's favor by simply confessing.
"It's okay."
Mei Xueyan was thinking about it, Lin Sanlang said that the people of the rivers and lakes are sinister, and it doesn't look like it's quite.
"Today's wind direction is good, before sunset, the boat can go to the Yumu ferry in Taiyuan Mansion, is the lady going to Taiyuan Mansion by boat to visit relatives or ......?" Zhikong asked casually.
"Well, what about Master Zhikong?"
Although she thinks that this Zhikong is not like a bad person, Mei Xueyan is not stupid enough to tell everything about it.
Zhikong replied: "I am home all over the world, and I go the same everywhere, but I heard that Taiyuan Mansion has not been peaceful recently, and I was also a Shaolin disciple anyway, and it is my duty to punish traitors and eliminate evil, so if I can kill a few bandits who are making trouble along the coast, it will also be regarded as accumulating merit."
Mei Xueyan felt that this person was contradictory for a while, didn't the Buddhist disciple pay the most attention to benevolence? He kept saying that he wanted to kill the thief, and he planned to kill all the way, but his murderous intent was too heavy. Probably he is still vulgar, so he doesn't have to worry about so much.
"Master Zhikong is talking about the Wokou?"
Zhikong nodded, and said in his heart that this little lady knew that the Taiyuan Mansion was rampant, and she actually dared to come, thinking that she was either an ordinary businessman who was greedy for profit, or she was not an ordinary person.
"I guess you've heard about it, but it's not just the Dongying Wokou, there are also some local demon cults." Zhikong kindly instructed, "If the lady goes to Taiyuan Mansion, be careful, try not to go to coastal places, especially don't go to the suburbs, if you meet bad people, they will not be merciful." ”
Mei Xueyan nodded and said: "I learned from my relatives' letters, the Japanese are brutal, but we Jingguo people can't kill innocents indiscriminately against our own people."
"That's not accurate, the Jianghu sect is mercenary, they only recognize their own righteousness, but they don't care about the king's law and heaven."
Mei Xueyan lowered her head and pondered, she had never heard of these things.
Zhikong saw Lin Sanlang coming back with a food box from a distance, and hurriedly said: "Then I'll leave first, so that you, the 'husband', will be jealous."
Zhikong said ambiguously, Mei Xueyan was speechless, but it was far safer to be alone than a woman with such an identity. Before Zhikong was about to leave, he turned back and left a sentence.
"By the way, if the lady is really in danger one day and encounters those bandits, if it really can't be done, mention my name of Zhikong."
"Huh?"
Zhikong smiled and said: "I have killed so many evil gangsters, and I only see that they have some fierce reputations, maybe they can deter one or two, of course, I naturally don't want the lady to be in danger."
After saying that, Zhikong hurriedly retreated, Mei Xueyan couldn't understand what his intentions were, and said in her heart that if it was really as he said, he had slaughtered a lot of bandits, and there was no blood feud between them? Wouldn't mentioning his name yourself be looking for death?
"And who talked to you about something?"
Lin Saburo ran over with the food box and asked vigilantly.
"I told you about the troubles of the Japanese pirates." Mei Xueyan replied simply.
"I think he's like a ......," Lin Saburo muttered, then opened the food box and asked, "Today's meat dish only has braised lion's head, can you eat it?" ”
"This plate of hot and sour cabbage looks more delicious, is there soup porridge?"
Although Mei Xueyan's appetite is only suitable for light food, Lin Sanlang spared no effort to get meat dishes, this kind of thing is as strong as a cow, and he can't get it back.
After dinner, the building boat has slowly approached the coast, the things on the shore can already be seen, Taiyuan Mansion is really rich, there are many ferry ports on the shore, there are fishing boats going to sea, building ships carrying passengers, and more cargo ships loaded with grain and other goods, which are endless.
Those Japanese robbers chose to make trouble in Taiyuan Mansion, basically because they fell in love with this granary of the world.
However, there are many dwelling villages, but there are no people, many houses are abandoned, and many fertile fields are not planted with crops.
"You see, Mei'er, this is the consequence of the woe troubles, which used to be the richest fields, but now they have become wasteland, and people have moved inland."
As usual, it was still Lin Saburo who kept nagging.
As Zhikong said, when the red sun was some distance from the sea level, they had already arrived at the Yumu Ferry, which was the largest port in Taiyuan Prefecture, and there were tens of thousands of people stationed here in the city army and the Chiyan army that resisted the Japanese, and there were tens of thousands of reserve troops not far from here.
Mei Xueyan came from a small place like Lin'an, and only when she came here did she know what prosperity was, the water boat was by boat, the shore was shoulder to shoulder, and the people were houses at a glance, and the port was as busy as an ant nest.
"I don't know if our Huatong Mansion is the same."
Mei Xueyan was surprised and muttered to herself, Lin Sanlang was overjoyed, so she took the initiative to talk to him.
"It's a little worse than Taiyuan Mansion, but it's also very prosperous, otherwise those small border countries wouldn't be eyeing us."
Mei Xueyan looked at the pavilion with six or seven floors, the huge sailboat, and the world that had grown a lot, and the bookstore she opened was not as spacious as the one selling seasonal fruits here.