Chapter 22: Horror on the River (2)

The three of them had dinner, the time on the boat was very boring, Ah Ling repeatedly tested Zhu Qingheng, Zhu Qingheng always played with her, and did not tell her a word of the guess in his heart. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info At night, Ah Ling cleaned up the bed, prepared to sleep, and came back to wash up with water, but Zhu Qingheng was missing, and said in a panic: "Girl, I wish ...... Where's the big girl? ”

Xiang Xiaoyuan smiled slightly: "What kind of big girl?" Seeing Ah Ling's anxious face, she pointed to the door and said, "Sister Qing said that her chest was tight, and she went outside to blow the wind." ”

Seeing her faint smile, Ah Ling was shocked to realize that she had unconsciously regarded Zhu Qingheng, a child, as a pillar. Said secretly: "Ah Ling, you can't be bored, although Miss Zhujia has a father and uncle who can spell, she is just a child, how many things can she know." If you count on her for everything, you don't know how she died. Although she thought so, she put down the basin, explained to Xiaoyuan, and hurriedly went to the deck to find Zhu Qingheng.

Zhu Qingheng was standing on the deck looking at the night, and he was not surprised to see Ah Ling coming, and pointed to the back of the boat and said, "Tiger Hill is no longer visible." At this time, the night sky is clear, the moon and stars are scarce, Zhu Qingheng's finger direction is only the surging river, the banks of the river are full of lush forests, and the original color cannot be seen in the night. Ah Ling's heartstrings were plucked, and tears suddenly fell. A big man wearing a short shirt and smoking a cigarette stick next to him smiled: "It's the first time that the two little girls have left home." ”

Zhu Qingheng smiled and said, "Yes, my grandfather's family is in Luoyang, and I am going to visit relatives." Uncle, what about you? ”

Dahan smiled: "I am a businessman, and I have traveled from south to north all year round. ”

Zhu Qingheng was curious: "What kind of business does uncle do?" ”

Dahan said: "We don't pay attention to it, we do everything." This time, I bought a batch of tea from Suzhou and Hangzhou and went to Luoyang to sell it. Hey, the most favored lady lady in recent years loves the scary fragrance of Taihu Lake, no, it's time to change the name to Biluochun, and now as long as there is a little power in Luoyang, people are proud to drink Biluochun. ”

Zhu Qingheng said: "Concubine Niangniang? What about Concubine Tong? "Since she was a child, all she heard was how Concubine Tong interfered with the government by relying on the emperor's favor, forced Zhongliang to death, and connived at traitors. The most popular lady had never heard of it.

The big man laughed and said: "What kind of life is that the old emperor's calendar, three years ago the new emperor ascended the throne, and Concubine Tong had already been given a three-foot white silk to commit suicide by hanging herself from the beam in Renzhi Academy." ”

Zhu Qingheng's cheeks were slightly red: "So that's the case." ”

Seeing her embarrassed appearance beside her, Ah Ling couldn't help but feel relieved, and said secretly: "Miss Zhu is really still a child, even I, a little girl, know about the new emperor's accession to the throne." The faint fear in my heart because of the changes in this day, Zhu Qingheng was calm and did not look like a child, and the faint fear also dissipated, only to say that the girl is a child of a monk after all, so it should naturally be different.

Zhu Qingheng asked the big man about the customs of Luoyang again, the life on the boat was really boring, and the big man was probably bored, Zhu Qingheng asked him whatever he asked, and he was very patient. Ah Ling had never gone out, listening to it on the side, she was originally surprised by Zhu Qingheng's nonsense made up in a serious way, but then she gradually became fascinated, surprised for a while and sighed for a while. It's just that Zhu Qingheng saw that the big man's eyes always looked at Ah Ling's slender figure and towering chest, and he didn't like it, so he said a few more words and pulled Ah Ling back.

When she returned to the house, she saw that Xiang Xiaoyuan had fallen asleep, Zhu Qingheng sat on the edge of her bed, and saw that she was breathing smoothly, without joy or sorrow, only a pair of eyelids were high and swollen. admired her very much, Zhu Qingheng put Zhu Xiyan's saber next to his pillow, and Ah Ling and Ah Ling also washed and fell asleep separately.

On the morning of the second day, Zhu Qingheng was looking at a map of Luoyang borrowed from a neighboring house in his room, Xiang Xiaoyuan sat next to him and ate snacks, while Ah Ling sat on the bed and embroidered patterns, thinking that he could sell it for some money in Luoyang. Suddenly, a big wave hit, and the boat on the right side was raised high, while the hull on the left was almost submerged in the river, and the furnishings standing in the room slipped to the wall on the left, and all three of them crashed into it.

Ah Ling hurriedly pulled Zhu Qingheng and Xiang Xiaoyuan up, and said with a pale face and trembling voice: "What...... What's going on? Be...... Are those people chasing after you? ”

Zhu Qingheng barely kept his balance and said, "I'...... I'll go out and have a look. ”

Xiang Xiaoyuan said: "Sister Qing, I'll come with you." ”

Zhu Qingheng turned around and said with a miserable smile: "Anyway, if it's ...... There is no escape from this ship. ”

Ah Ling gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go too!" ”

The three of them walked out of the cabin by holding on to the wall, it was already pouring rain outside, the hull of the ship was undulating, the waves were splashing, and the sailors saw their bodies swaying and shuttling between the cargo hold and the deck, carrying bags of rice and grain out. The captain of the ship held the mast and directed the helmsman to sail through the rough waves.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing that there was no one in the sky, Ah Ling felt a little relieved, and saw that the captain of the ship and the sailor behaved strangely, so he couldn't help asking.

"What's going on?" At the same time, a clear male voice also asked.

Ah Ling's cheeks were red, and when he turned his head to look, he saw a young monk in a cloth walking out of the cabin. He has deep eyes and a wide nose, fat earlobes, and a gentle demeanor, which is quite compassionate. Behind the monk came a middle-aged man in white, who was slender and long, with long eyebrows upside down, and a fierce appearance by nature, as if he had just been beaten up, or had just died of his wife and children, and the murderer was standing in front of him. Ah Ling had looked at the monk a few more times curiously, and when the man in white came out, he hurriedly withdrew his gaze, and his heart was pounding with fright.

The captain of the boat shouted with all his might: "It's the White Dragon King, the White Dragon King, his old man is here!" A wave came, and he swallowed half of his words, as if biting his tongue, and after a while he shouted indistinctly: "Throw the rice into the river and be filial to his old man!" ”

Zhu Qingheng grabbed the cable and poked his head out boldly, only to see that there was indeed a behemoth swimming towards the boat in the river, its scales shining with silver cyan light in the rain, and its body almost filled most of the river.

Zhu Qingheng smacked his tongue and said, "What a big fish!" ”

I also saw that the sailors threw all the rice and grain on the deck into the river, and one of them was slipped by the rice bag and was screaming and was about to fall into the river, but he didn't expect the big fish tail to flick it, and actually caught the sailor from mid-air and threw it onto the deck.

The monk smiled and said, "This fish donor is kind-hearted. ”

The man in white silently withdrew his outstretched arm and stood back next to the monk. Because of this action, Zhu Qingheng faintly saw that there seemed to be a golden chain between the two of them locking the two together. I looked closer, but I couldn't see it again.