243 Sledding

"Why are you ......" Qi Shangyi gritted his teeth, and looked at Shi Yun, who was wrapped in a thick cloak and stood next to the boundary monument of Blackwater Town, isn't this guy without a horse? Why did he fall earlier than himself, and Qi Shangyi didn't touch him along the way.

"Oh, I'll just say you must be on the same road with me!" Seeing Qi Shangyi and Ye Cang, Shi Yun, who had been standing by the boundary monument for a long time, stretched out his hand and pulled off the cloak and hat on his head, revealing his whole face, and looked at the two of them with an aggrieved expression, "When I go back, I must find an opportunity to tell Fu Tu Lao'er that you two teams will not save you when you see death, you are obviously on the same road, and you are still unwilling to take me for a ride, even let me give me a horse!" ”

"Aren't you faster than us!" Qi Shangyi jumped off the horse, glared at Shi Yun, walked forward angrily, took two steps, turned around again, held the horsewhip in his hand, raised his hand and pointed at Shi Yun and said, "To be honest, are you following us?" ”

"Huh? Are you going to the cold too? Shi Yun looked at Qi Shangyi with a surprised expression, and then glanced at Ye Cang with a smile, "I just said that I sneaked out to float Tu Lao'er and didn't find out, I must have seen the note I left, so the two of us went to the extremely cold place, right?" ”

"Xiaoqi, let's go, delay any longer, it's time to close the city gate." Ye Cang ignored Shi Yun and turned his head directly to look at Qi Shangyi, Shi Yun frowned at the feeling, and said in a sharp voice: "It's so indifferent!" ”

Qi Shangyi looked at him deliberately answering the question, shook the horsewhip in his hand, and finally held back, and when he said this again, Ye Cang couldn't help but feel nervous, and secretly glanced at Shi Yun, this guy shouldn't be in love with Ye Cang, right? It is indeed a shemale attribute like Shi Yun. It should be divided into women, and it is not impossible to like the night cang.

"I tell you, don't follow us!" Thinking that he might be his rival in love. Qi Shangyi raised the horsewhip in his hand and pointed at Shi Yun, then quickly turned around and followed Ye Cang, the two laughed a few words, and led the horse into the town.

Qi Shangyi looked around, he hadn't seen him for a year, and the town hadn't changed much, but the weather wasn't as cold as the last time he came. And it's dinner time, and it's much more lively than last time, but the streets are all in a hurry.

Qi Shangyi led Ye Cang to the inn where he stayed with Ruan Fangwen last time. The shopkeeper was still the one before, but he couldn't recognize Qi Shangyi anymore, but when he saw that the two of them were wearing the disciple clothes of the Ten Thousand Souls Pavilion, they hurriedly came out to greet them.

"The last time a disciple from the Yuan character generation came over was a year ago." The shopkeeper said and lifted the teapot and poured tea for the two. Then he looked at the two, "The two guest officers are staying in the hotel tonight, right?" ”

"Well, prepare two upper rooms!" Ye Cang nodded and reached out to pick up the tea bowl, the weather outside was too cold, and he really needed a cup of hot tea to warm his body.

"Three!" Hearing the speaker's voice, Qi Shangyi frowned, Shi Yun had already sat down beside him, and took a tea bowl on the table by himself. gestured to the shopkeeper, and took the shopkeeper's flute. Seeing that he was wearing a disciple uniform of the Yuan generation, he was busy pouring hot tea into the teapot.

"Everyone is a brother in the same sect, I have run out of silver, anyway, the senior brother has money, don't mind paying for my room for one night." Shi Yun picked up the tea bowl and brought it to his mouth, while looking at Ye Cangjue and said.

Qi Shangyi frowned and glanced at Shi Yun, Fang Caizi, he was not wearing a disciple's uniform outside, this is kung fu, he changed his outfit wherever he went.

Ye Cang knew that Yun couldn't get rid of it at this time, and there was still the shopkeeper, but it was not very difficult to make conflicts between the brothers and sisters of the same sect, so he turned his head and said to the shopkeeper: "Then prepare three upper rooms." ”

Ye Cang Jue said and took out a piece of silver and put it on the table, which shopkeeper reached out and took it, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, this disciple of the Ten Thousand Souls Pavilion really made a generous move.

"After a day's journey, some are hungry, shopkeeper, serve some good wine and food!" Seeing that Ye Cang had taken out the silver, Shi Yun became more and more unpolite, stretched out his hand and rubbed his belly, and asked the shopkeeper to eat and drink.

Qi Shangyi glared at Shi Yun, but he was also hungry, so he had to ask the shopkeeper to prepare more.

The shopkeeper agreed to prepare the meal, and when the food was delivered, he heard Shi Yun chattering that he was going to an extremely cold place, which shopkeeper hesitated, leaned to the table and said, "The hero of the Commission for Discipline Inspection is going to the extremely cold place?" ”

Ye Cangjie raised his head and glanced at the shopkeeper vigilantly, as if he was a little complaining that he interjected at will.

"Don't misunderstand!" The shopkeeper hurriedly waved his hand, "I mean, if the three of you want to go to the extremely cold place, you can point to a shortcut." ”

"What shortcut?" Qi Shangyi wanted to get the ice grass as soon as possible, and when he heard that there was a shortcut, he naturally became interested.

"There is a big river not far from the town, called the Heishui River, this season, the ice on the Heishui River is already very thick, the three of you might as well take a sleigh along the river all the way up, you can reach the extremely cold place." The shopkeeper said and smiled, and seeing that everyone seemed to be a little disbelieving, he smiled and continued: "I won't tell you anything, I do have some selfish intentions in saying this, my brother-in-law is doing business in Xia's mother's family, and I am just pulling business for him by the way." ”

Ye Cangjie hesitated for a moment, and looked up at the shopkeeper, "How long does it take for this sleigh to reach the extremely cold land?" ”

"Half a day's work!" The shopkeeper hurriedly said, "This is much faster than you riding a horse, if you ride a horse, it may take a day or two, and the further north it goes, the colder it gets, the horse may not be able to stand it, and the horse's hooves are easy to slip." ”

"Then you can arrange two for me," Ye Cangjie said and took out two silver ingots and threw them on the table, looked sideways at Shi Yun and looked at himself expectantly, pursed his lips, and took out another ingot, "Three, we will have it early tomorrow morning!" ”

"Okay, I'm going to help the three of you prepare the best." The shopkeeper said happily and took the silver ingot, "Those three slow use." ”

"Senior brother is really a good person!" Shi Yun smiled and picked up the wine jug and poured a glass of wine for Ye Cangjue, "It's cold, drink a glass of hot wine to warm up." ”

Ye Cangjie hesitated for a moment, reached out and took the quilt, and just brought it to his mouth, he saw Qi Shangyi glaring at him angrily, and was stunned. I don't know where I made her angry, so I hurriedly put the cup down again, "Xiaoqi, drink some too." This is water wine, which is not easy to get drunk. ”

"Don't drink it!" Qi Shangyi twisted his head to the side in an angry manner, glanced at Shi Yun depressedly, slapped the table, and stood up, "I'm full, I'll go upstairs to rest first." ”

"Hey. Xiaoqi, you haven't eaten much! Ye Cangjue hurriedly got up to ask the lazy pig Qi Shangyi, but Shi Yun on the side smiled and stretched out his hand to pull Ye Cangjue. Senior brother, women eat less, because they want to stay in shape, come. Let's keep drinking! ”

Ye Cangjie hesitated. felt that what Shi Yun said didn't seem to make sense, so he sat down again, and Shi Yun hurriedly smiled and poured a full wine for Ye Cangju.

At this moment, Qi Shang Yike was depressed, originally saying that getting up and leaving after eating was just a pretense, thinking that Ye Cangjie would definitely follow, so that the two of them could avoid this nasty rhyme, but they didn't expect it. Ye Cang was persuaded by Shi Yun and sat back again. His words had already been spoken, so it was naturally impossible to go back and sit down again, so he had to bite the bullet and go up the stairs alone depressedly, not forgetting to hold his mouth, and glanced back at the two people who were drinking in the hall.

"Xiaoqi? Did you sleep? Qi Shangyi was sitting in the room waiting for Ye Cangjue to come to him, when he heard Ye Cangjue's knock on the door, his face was happy, and he was just about to get up, but suddenly remembered that he hadn't caught up with him, so he sat back with a pout.

"I'm already asleep, are you okay?" Qi Shangyi deliberately pretended to be lazy and said, thinking that when Ye Cang would admit his mistake, he would get up and open the door for him.

"Oh," Ye Cangjue, who was standing outside the door, felt a sense of loss in his heart, and only then did he see Qi Shangyi's unhappy expression, and he had always remembered it in his heart, so he came to her first as soon as he finished eating, but he didn't expect her to have fallen asleep, "Then you can sleep, it's okay." ”

"I'll just say that she must have fallen asleep, this woman, the most important thing is to go to bed early and get up early, otherwise her face will fade!" Shi Yun's voice came into the room, Qi Shangyi frowned, damn Shi Yun, even the ice cubes come to see me, it's not Xiao San!

Qi Shangyi thought about it, shook the corner of the skirt in his hand vigorously, watched the two figures at the door slowly walk over, wanted to get up and call Ye Cangjie but couldn't pull it down, so he had to watch the two leave angrily, and then turned around and lay down on the bed.

Early the next morning, the shopkeeper ordered the kitchen to prepare a rich breakfast, and then called all three of them up on time as instructed.

"Morning, how did you sleep last night?" Seeing Qi Shangyi coming downstairs with his eyes open, Ye Cang looked up at her with a smile and said.

"If you go to bed so early, you must have slept well." Shi Yun stared down at the egg that was peeling the shell in his hand and said with a smile.

Qi Shangyi glared at Shi Yun, walked to Ye Cangjue and sat down, picked up the chopsticks on the side, sandwiched a piece of pancake, and said lightly, "It's okay." ”

In fact, Qi Shangyi struggled all night last night, and didn't sleep well, until the second half of the night, maybe there was too much brain activity, so she slept a little deeper, so when the shopkeeper went upstairs to call her, she was still immersed in her dream, and mistakenly took the knock of the shopkeeper for the sound of a woodpecker.

"Guest officer, the sleigh has been prepared according to your instructions, this is my little brother, after breakfast in a while, he will send the three of them to the ferry in a carriage." When the shopkeeper saw that everyone had almost eaten, he led a man wrapped in a thick jacket and walked over.

"Everyone, young heroes, blessed! The little one's name is Erdan," the man looked much bigger than Ye Cangjue, his black and yellow face was deeply shrunk in a thick felt hat, which seemed to be only the size of a palm, he smiled and bent down to salute everyone, and then raised his head and smiled, "The picks are the best trained wolf dogs, and the old people who run often on the sled will be able to send you safely to the extremely cold place as required." ”

"Well," Ye Cangjie nodded in agreement, put down the chopsticks in his hand, wiped his mouth lightly with a handkerchief, and then took out a bag of broken silver and handed it to Erdan, "You take these, and when we are delivered, there are more than this." ”

"Thank you!" When Erdan saw the silver, he even changed his name, and hurriedly took the silver politely.

After breakfast, they set off, the shopkeeper is also a conscientious person, knowing that the night is full of silver, before leaving, he also carefully prepared some baked cakes and some dried meat for them as dry food, Qi Shangyi secretly tasted it, the taste was really good, so he did not postpone, took the things, turned around and got into the carriage prepared by Erdan.

The Heishui River is not far from Heishui Town, the carriage left the town, and it took less than a stick of incense to reach the ferry.

Qi Shangyi let out a breath of white air, quickly put on his hat, and then quickly stuffed his hand into the gauntlet, looked up at the river, and sure enough, it was already a white expanse.

Erdan explained a few words to the man who drove the carriage, and the man drove the carriage back.

Erdan smiled, told everyone to wait for a while, then straightened up, stood aside, picked up a hand and pinched his lips, and leaned his neck and whistled a long whistle.

After the whistle, there were several dog barks from a distance, and it seemed that a large group of dogs were echoing Erdan's whistle.

Qi Shangyi stood on tiptoe, crossed the yellowed reed grass pole by the river, and saw a group of fast-moving black dots on the river, getting closer and closer, accompanied by the sound of barking dogs.

"It's coming!" Erdan turned around and smiled and said to the three of them, then led the three of them to the low bridge, walked to the ferry, and the sled team arrived, a group of gray-looking dogs like huskies looked very happy to see Erdan, knowing that Erdan took off his gloves and touched their foreheads one by one before they quieted down.

"Second egg." Two old men, dressed more exaggerated than two eggs, walked down from the sleigh behind, and their gray beards showed their age.

"This is Second Uncle Zhang and Third Uncle Zhang," Erdan smiled and turned back to introduce them to Ye Cangjue, "They are both veterans of sledding in the town, and the roads are dangerous in extremely cold places, so I specially invited them over." ”

"Second Uncle Zhang, Third Uncle Zhang!" The three of them raised their hands in unison and saluted, and the two old men only smiled heartily, and without much greeting, they assigned seats to everyone.

In the end, it was decided that Ye Cangjue and Second Uncle Zhang were in the front, Qi Shangyi and Erdan followed closely behind, and Shi Yun and Third Uncle Zhang were in the back, in order to prevent the ice from bearing too much weight, each sled was separated by a distance of one or two zhang.

"Hey, isn't the Extremely Cold Land going north?" Qi Shangyi saw that the direction of the sleigh was to the west, so he leaned forward and asked the second egg who was driving the sleigh.

The dogs are all well-trained, so Erdan doesn't need to control them very hard, and when he heard Qi Shangyi ask, he raised a hand and pointed ahead, "Did the girl see the mountain in front of you?" When the river passed the mountain, it went straight to the north. ”

Qi Shangyi raised his head and glanced at the mountain that Erdan said, which was white and vast, like a snow-capped mountain. (To be continued......)