Chapter 18: Heroes Save Beauty
As the saying goes, an autumn rain and a cold, on September 14, a light rain extinguished the last sweltering heat in Chang'an, and the people in the city added thick clothes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yundan Street, Qin House.
Qin Ran put down the scroll in his hand, suddenly raised his eyes, and looked at a white cloud floating on the edge of the blue sky, his thoughts wandering.
"It's time to Cangzhou." took the cloak from the wooden shelf, and Song Tianxian put it on her shoulder.
Seeing Qin Ran turn around and look at him, he continued.
"Afraid of delaying Qin'an next year's spring, everyone hurried up. Rest assured, I have sent a letter, and there is no need to worry about everything. ”
The Qin family, except for Lu Han who followed Qin Ran to travel around the Tang Dynasty when he was a child, Qin Xiaowu, the Zhao family and Qin An, none of them had ever been far away, and Qin Ran was inevitably a little worried.
Fortunately, there was another Li Chen on the road, and Song Tianxian also sent someone to keep an eye on him secretly, so Qin Ran was a little relieved.
At this moment, Cangzhou, it is approaching evening.
Outside the city, on an official road leading to the city gate, a horse-drawn carriage galloped forward.
The man driving hoped to rush to Cangzhou City before the lockdown, otherwise, they could only spend one night outside the city, in fact, it was no big deal to make do, a few people were not a little bit of a daughter who couldn't endure hardship, but seeing that the black clouds were overwhelming, a heavy rain could fall at any time, and no one wanted to be drenched in soup.
There was no accommodation nearby, and their only target was naturally Cangzhou City.
"Auntie, it's almost there!" While pulling the reins, Lu Han turned his head and said loudly into the car.
"Dizzy or not?" In the car, Qin Xiaowu looked at Zhao, who had a bad face, and hurriedly took out the small clay pot in the package, and as soon as he opened the jar, a slightly sour fresh and fruity fragrance immediately gushed out. "With a green plum."
With a sour green plum in his mouth, Zhao grabbed Qin Xiaowu's arm tightly, lifted the curtain, and said to Lu Han. "Leave me alone, hurry into the city, this rain must not be small."
I really can't do it, the rain is coming too quickly!
Lu Han and Li Chen are in good health, although Qin Xiaowu and Zhao are not young, they often work, and their foundation is not bad, the most pitiful is Qin An, he only caught a cold two days ago, compared to being sore, Zhao is more worried that he has a fever after being drenched in the rain, and once he gets sick, he will not get better for a day or two.
The five of them rested by the stream for a while in the afternoon, but the weather changed without warning, which made them so embarrassed.
Li Chen looked at a few people, his eyes were worried, and Lu Han beside him waved his horsewhip and replied. "Okay, sit tight."
Perhaps, the horse also felt the urgency of the mountain rain coming, and ran quickly, and after about a quarter of an hour, everyone estimated that they were about to reach the gate of Cangzhou.
After turning a small corner, everyone heard a scream.
"Ahh
The woman's screams reached the ears of several people, and even the drowsy Qin An suddenly woke up and looked around with wide eyes.
Pulling the reins, Lu Han glanced distractedly not far away.
I saw that more than a dozen black-clothed men were surrounding a shiny black-lacquered four-wheeled carriage, and a middle-aged man fell next to the carriage, with a long knife stuck in his back, and blood flowed out of the knife, which had stained most of the man's body.
The woman who screamed had several knives in her vest, and she was protecting the curtain of the car, and the person had already died.
Outside the carriage, only one person was still struggling to support, a long-faced man in his thirties, who was holding a large knife against the black-clothed men who surrounded him.
“…… Don't come out, Master Jin, Fan swears to protect you to the death! ”
With a loud roar, the man kicked a person violently, kicking the man in black to the ground and couldn't get up, the man looked powerful, but his hands were hard to beat the fists, he attacked to the left, the man in black on the right slashed at his waist, he counterattacked to the right, and the man in black on the left attacked his thigh......
"Uncle Fan." Where can the people in the carriage sit still, and pull open the curtains.
"Go back!" Enduring the pain, Fan Da took two steps back and protected his son-in-law behind him.
"Hand over the people!"
"Don't think!" Fan Da ignored the wound on his arm and rushed towards the man, but unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step, a man in black stretched out his hand to the son next to the carriage.
Fan was greatly shocked, because he had seen the man in black quickly put the knife across Gongzi's neck.
The target of the man in black is the son that Fan Da desperately protects, if he encounters misfortune, what face does Fan Da have to survive in the world? In any case, Childe must not fall into the hands of thieves!
At this moment, as if a lightning bolt flashed in front of him, and in an instant, Fan Da saw that the man in black had a dagger inlaid with sapphires in his arm.
The boy drew his dagger, smiling and white.
"It's not appropriate to bully too much, right?" He was not afraid of the black-clothed man beside him, and tilted his head and asked.
Seeing this, the men in black turned their knives to Lu Han, who didn't know when he invaded.
"If you don't want to die, get out!"
"I should give it to you." On the other side, Li Chen looked at the man in black with his back to him, and glanced at the thin boy next to the carriage by the way, the man was a little nervous, but he was not panicked.
After only staying for a moment, Li Chen and Lu Han looked at each other and smiled, and he rushed towards the man in black with a thunderous momentum.
The strength of the two is beyond doubt.
Lu Han is agile and fast, Li Chen is extremely powerful and experienced, it seems that it is only a blink of an eye, more than a dozen people in black knocked the two to the ground, and they couldn't get up at all, let alone escape.
Seeing such a scene, Fan Da was impressed, the two of them were young enough to have such kung fu and become heroes.
"Thank you, two Lang Jun." Fan Da's arm was injured, but he still clasped his hands into fists and made a big salute.
Lu Han didn't say anything, he tied everyone together and tied them to the tree.
"You're welcome." Li Chen returned the salute and replied politely.
"Brother Chen, let's go." Originally, Lu Han didn't think about getting the benefits of others, besides, the carriage of the three Zhao family was in front, and he didn't worry about them.
Li Chen nodded at Fan Da and wanted to leave, but Fan Da hurriedly opened his mouth to stop the two.
"Wait." Stretching out his hand, Fan Dapo asked with some embarrassment. "I was injured in the next, I don't know if I can bother the two Lang Jun to help send my son-in-law a ride, just go to Cangzhou City, and I will be grateful at that time."
After a while, the gates of the city were closed.
Lu Han rolled his eyes widely, and he grabbed Li Chen and didn't let him agree.
They were kind enough to help, why did they pick up a hot potato? Who cares about their thanksgiving?
First of all, Lu Han didn't have a good impression of the son next to the carriage, he saved the two of them, he didn't come to thank him, just forget it, why put on a stinky face who owed him money? Still glaring at him? Big eyes?
Besides, when they encounter this today, they have to leave quickly, who knows if there will be another incident? When going out, where can ordinary people meet this gang of professional bandits, Lu Han feels that this person's identity must not be simple.
He was in a hurry to go to Chang'an to meet Qin Ran, who had the kung fu to take care of other people's bad things.
"This ......" Fan's brain turned, looking for a reason to stay with them.
At this point, the son, who was dressed in a delicate and slim brocade robe, straightened his expression and whispered.
"Uncle Fan, we-"
"Xiao Lu, are you all right?"
Before Childe finished speaking, Qin Xiaowu drove over, and after a fixed look, Qin Xiaowu showed a surprised expression, good guy, the two tree trunks were actually tied with unconscious black-clothed people, thinking that the two people had dealt with more than a dozen people, he couldn't help but quickly look at the two to see if they were injured.
It was not Lu Han or Li Chen who answered Qin Xiaowu, but the black cloud that was finally suppressed.
"Boom—"
The thunder was accompanied by a downpour, and the rain was non-stop.
The rain was rolling in, and no one could walk, so everyone looked for a place to hide from the rain.
Lu Han returned to the carriage, and Li Chen drove behind the Qin family's carriage instead of Fan Da.
Looking for a dilapidated wooden house in the woods, the group hurriedly got out of the car and hid in the house, the rain was so heavy that everyone was more or less wet with the rain.
Lu Han brought back a bundle of firewood from the car, and after a long time, the fire was lit, and the wooden house gradually became warm, out of normal vigilance, several people did not talk to Fan Da and the two, Qin Xiaowu guarded the Zhao family and Qin An who closed their eyes and rested, Lu Han sat by the fire and wiped his dagger, and glanced at the brocade-robed young man in the corner from time to time.
The boy leaned against the wall of the house, clasped his hands on his chest, motionless, no one looking, not even his half-wet clothes, and let the temperature in the room and his own body temperature slowly dry his clothes.
Next to him, Li Chen bandaged the wound on Fan Da's arm. "Okay, be careful, don't move."
"Thank you." Fan Da's face was pale, he took the hot water handed by Li Chen, didn't take a sip, and gave it to the young man. "Master Jin, drink some water, we will be able to enter the city at dawn tomorrow."
The boy opened his eyes, looked at Fan Da, and shook his head in refusal.
Hearing this, Lu Han and Li Chen both looked at the young man, at most seventeen or eighteen years old, not tall, with fair skin, and even seemed to have a little bit of a woman's delicateness, such a young man, Fan Da called him 'Jin Ye', the two thought, this person's status should not be low.
Lu Han glanced at Li Chen and asked him not to care about other people's affairs.
Li Chen smiled helplessly, walked to the door and sat down.
As the night gets deeper, some people have a good night's sleep, and some people have a sleepless night.
Early the next morning, as soon as the rain stopped, Li Chen, who was by the door, suddenly grabbed the sword in his hand and opened his eyes.
Bang, the wooden house collapsed in an instant!
Yesterday, the black-clothed men who were tied to the trunk of the tree untied the ropes at some point, and they found a wooden house to hide from the rain, and the house was hung with hooks on all sides, and when several people pulled hard, the wooden house collapsed in an instant.
Because the wooden house was very dilapidated, Qin Xiaowuhu only suffered a slight injury on Zhao and Qin An, Fan Dawei blocked the wooden plank that fell on the young man's body, and his injured arm was unfortunately hit hard again, and the beams and pillars of the house were pressed on him.
Lu Han had already jumped up to deal with the men in black, and Li Chen was holding his sword to hit the men in black who were leaning towards Fan Dahe and the young man.
"Be careful-" The man in black slashed at Fan Da, the young man's face sank, and he wanted to get up and push Fan Da away, but it was too late.
At this moment, Li Chen stood in front of the young man.
The knife of the man in black, straight into his shoulder!
"You ......" The young man couldn't believe that he would sacrifice his life to save himself, and when he was surprised, he didn't notice that Li Chen's hand was accidentally pressed on his chest.
Li Chen was blindfolded, this knife instinctively dodged, unexpectedly, his hand touched an unusually soft place, Li Chen did not marry a wife, but many things still understood, he knew where the soft and warm place was, raised his eyes to the young man's black eyes, long eyelashes, his heart stopped beating instantly, his delicate face was engraved in his eyes, after that, he no longer belonged to himself.
Some things pay attention to a natural way, and some people must be destined, and they can meet what they should meet if they miss what they should miss.
Many years later, whenever Li Chen thinks of the picture of the two meeting, he inevitably sighs, that year, fortunately he chose to go to Chang'an, that day, fortunately, he rushed out of Cangzhou in time, otherwise, would the two really miss a lifetime?
This young man is the only daughter of the richest businessman in Jiangnan, known as the jade-faced son - Jin Qinxue of Jin Ye.
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On September 15, Qin Ran was invited by Sun Li to go to Zheng's house.
If you want to buy a comfortable courtyard in Chang'an City, it is not only a matter of silver, but also related to the status and connections of the owner, Zheng Chao took a lot of effort to buy a house, and after settling down, he connected Jiangnan's parents to Chang'an.
Qin Ran also met the two elders, Zheng Chao's father was very knowledgeable, I heard that the luck was bad that year, and he fell ill in front of Zheng's mother's medical center, Zheng's mother saved him, and later, the two became biological sons and had Zheng Chao, Zheng's mother ran a small medical hall, and Zheng's father taught in the town.
Actually, when I came to Zheng Mansion today, it was Zheng Chao who wanted her to accompany Sun Li.
She is seven months pregnant, and the family treats her as a baby like an eyeball, Sun Li is smiling on the surface, and Zheng Chao looks at her and smiles beyond her eyes.
Qin Ran ...... You enlightened her, and I'm sorry for you. Zheng Chao looked for an opportunity to hold her, and the two turned to the next yard, he said.
Although he didn't believe that Qin Ran would enlighten people, Sun Li's depressed appearance all day long was something he didn't want to see, even if Sun Li made a big fuss, he would feel much better.
A few days after coming to Chang'an, she often stared out the window in a daze, lost her appetite, slept very shallowly, and was a good delicate flower, as if she was about to wither and wither, Zheng Chao could not worry when she saw it?
He couldn't say more, as soon as he asked, Sun Li cried.
Zheng's father and Zheng's mother looked wrong, and they didn't dare to ask in detail, so they could only share some things within their ability, Zheng's father was responsible for taking care of Zheng Han every day, and Zheng's mother tried to make medicinal food for Sun Li to make up for her body.
Thanks to Zheng's mother's tonics, she didn't lose her roots when she was born prematurely.
Zheng House, backyard.
"Xiao Ran? What are you doing here? In a flash, Sun Li saw an acquaintance, and immediately raised her eyebrows, raised the corners of her mouth, and she got up to greet her.
Pulling Qin Ran's wrist, Sun Li sneered at Zheng Chaojiao. "You don't tell me either."
"Sit down." Her belly was big, Sun Li couldn't stand for a long time, she led Qin Ran to the window, and then turned her head to the girl and commanded. "Songzhi, hurry up and let the kitchen prepare that jade paste soup, Xiao Ran loves to eat it."
Zheng Kai saw that Sun Li's face was good, and quietly retreated.
"How?" Turning his gaze on her bulging belly, Qin Ran asked.
"It's good, but I don't have much appetite, and it's my little girl."
"Little girl?"
"It's a girl." Sun Li lowered her head, touched her belly with one hand, her face was full of happy smiles, and her mood naturally became much better when she thought of her little daughter.
"How do you know it's not a son?"
"What I dreamed of, the little girl looks beautiful."
The two got along, Qin Ran buried his head in eating jade paste soup, mille-feuille crisp, and drinking honey pomelo tea.
She said from time to time, most of the time she listened to Sun Li's nonsense, she talked about the weather and food in Chang'an for a while, talked about the delicate appearance of the little girl for a while, and asked Qin Ran about the cases she had recently solved...... At the end, she still talked about her worries.
A few days ago, Sun Li and Zheng Chao had a big quarrel because she wanted to give Zheng Chao's three-year-old sister Luluo to Zheng Chao as a concubine.