The two of them went out of the city and hurried to the docks.

This time, there is not a lot of information about the target, so it is necessary to rush to the place early and check it out in person.

Ethereal Villa earns all the money to buy lives, many of the people they killed should not have died, and how many murders have become unsolved cases over the years, so leaving aside its relationship with the Liao State, the imperial court also dreamed of ending this killer's nest.

There was an official who asked for troops to be sent to encircle and suppress the Ethereal Villa, but the soldiers were sent, but when they arrived, they found that it was just a dark spot of the people, and the people inside had already been evacuated by the news, leaving only an empty shell, and the encirclement and suppression became a joke.

The Ethereal Mountain Villa is hidden very deeply. On the rivers and lakes, if you want to do business with the Ethereal Villa, you will go to Zhuangzi near Zhending Mansion on Hebei West Road. The imperial court secretly sent people to arrest them several times, but the handover of the Ethereal Villa turned out to be all dead soldiers, and once they were rounded up, they tried their best to commit suicide, leaving no room for anything.

The Crane Control Army is the most rear-back barrier to defend the Great Song Dynasty, and if it is not forced to do so, it cannot be dispatched out of Beijing in large numbers. They had rarely received a mission about the Ethereal Mountain Villa before, so although the Crane Control Army had collected some information in bits and pieces in the past two years, they had never been able to understand its full picture.

In recent months, due to various evidence that the Ethereal Villa was a spy of the Liao Kingdom, the Holy Lord felt that this tumor had to go, so he sent the task to the head of the Crane Control Army. The time given was very short, and the secret commander had no choice, so he made people raid the dark spots of the Ethereal Mountain Villa at the same time, looking for a way for them to contact the village, and wanted to follow the vine.

This method did work, and it was known in half a month that the Ethereal Villa was near Yangzhou City on Huainan East Road, but the Ethereal Villa reacted quite quickly, and the Crane Control Army was never able to find its specific location.

From Bianjing to Yangzhou, the fastest waterway.

Bianjing is located in the middle of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and the section from Bianjing to Jiangnan is called the Bianhe River.

Chu Dingjiang and An Jiu went to the government wharf to find a boat and take the waterway south.

There are many ship masts on the river, ships come and go, and more than a dozen large ships are docked by the dock, as well as many small ships. A number of hired workers unloaded their cargo from two of the large ships.

The south was rich and produced a large amount of grain, and during the war, this section of the canal could transport a large amount of material supplies from the south, so the Great Song Dynasty attached great importance to the order of the river from the founding of the country, and the construction of private wharves required the approval of the imperial court.

There are three private wharves near Bianjing, but the scale is not large, usually only for cargo transportation, rarely carrying passengers, Chu Dingjiang and An Jiu Yitong to this official wharf.

After Chu Dingjiang found a boatman. So he took Anjiu to the nearby market to buy something.

"The boat left an hour later, and the boatman said that there was no food." Chu Dingjiang took out two large cloth bags from his arms, went to the market, and bought them when he saw something to eat.

An Jiu silently followed behind, dragging the bag.

After turning around, Chu Dingjiang walked back with two huge cloth bags on his back, and pedestrians on the road looked sideways.

An Jiu didn't say anything all the way, and it wasn't until he got on the boat that he couldn't help but ask him, "Are you sure you used to be a noble son?" ”

Chu Dingjiang was silent, "What do you mean?" You should have been allowed to carry your luggage just now, and a noble boy like me didn't have to do it himself? ”

"No, I just think that just now suits your temperament perfectly." An Jiu said that Wu felt that his expression was not clear enough, and then made up for it. "You didn't daydream about your son."

Chu Dingjiang smiled and said, "It's in the heart, it's in the bones." Others can't learn it. ”

Even if two thousand or two hundred years are thrown away, the gap between An Jiu and his thoughts is still wider than that of the galaxy, so I heard his words at this moment. An Jiu felt that Chu Dingjiang really had a sense of humor.

Chu Dingjiang didn't know that her smile was so unique, and when he saw her grinning, as if he was very happy, he said in his heart that he really had the same demeanor as he did back then.

He counted out some of the ingredients that needed to be cooked, and then picked up the cloth bag and said, "I'll take these to the boat lady, you can rest for a while." ”

"Okay."

Yasuhisa packed up the rest of the things, piled them in the corner, and went out to see the environment on the ship.

The ship was large and mainly for passengers, with some loose cargo in the bilge, some large bunks for those with limited travel resources, and some rooms of various sizes in the middle.

An Jiu and Chu Dingjiang lived in a small room in the far corner of the central region. Originally, when Chu Dingjiang was looking for a boat, the boat was already full, and he spent a lot of money to let the boatman vacate a room, so that the two could only temporarily squeeze in one room.

An Jiu didn't care about this, it was already hard to perform tasks outside, and it wasn't the first time he lived in the same room, so there was nothing to be pretentious about.

After a cursory look, Anjiu was confronted by a group of people on his way back to his room. Two strong men in front and back, one in the middle wearing a dark purple skirt and a hat, the veil half covers and half hides his face, and he walks with a light veil fluttering, occasionally revealing a delicate chin and red lips. The four strong men were tall, almost the same as Chu Dingjiang, and the woman standing in the center was not much shorter.

The aisles are very narrow, and you can only stagger each other when you meet each other. An Jiu rubbed shoulders with the woman sideways, smelling the faint fragrance of medicine.

The woman's extraordinary bearing made An Jiu look twice.

The woman seemed to sense someone's gaze, and lowered her eyes slightly, her gaze swept over Yasuku's body through the thin light veil.

An Jiu was half a head shorter than the woman, and he didn't have any momentum, but his eyes were not shocking, giving people the illusion that Mount Tai couldn't be overwhelmed.

The short eyes met, but because of each other's differences, they all left a little impression in their minds.

Not long after An Jiu returned to the room, Chu Dingjiang returned.

"I put on a very special woman." An Jiudao.

Chu Dingjiang sat down opposite her, stretched out his hand to pour water, and raised his eyes to look at her when he heard the words, "What, is there anything more special than you?" ”

An Jiu snorted.

Chu Dingjiang took a sip of tea, "Let's talk about it." ”

An Jiu's mental power is very high, she thinks that unusual people or things must be unusual, Chu Dingjiang never doubted this.

Unexpectedly, she recalled it for a long time and told him very seriously, "It's really not ordinary." ”

“……”

Seeing Chu Dingjiang's helpless eyes, An Jiu also felt that what he said was too vague, so he said, "I can feel that her spiritual power is about eight or nine levels, but the coercion that is inadvertently revealed is completely more than this. ”

"Be careful on the road." Chu Dingjiang Road.

He sat down on the couch, crossed his knees and closed his eyes to practice, "If you feel bored, look around and come back before dinner." ”

An sat for a while, then got up and went out. After all, to stay on board for several days, she needs to take a closer look at the environment.

The lower level of the cabin is very simple, only a large space separated by wooden planks, and there are sixty or seventy people in the bunks, if there is no money, both men and women, young and old, can only sleep together. However, ordinary women rarely go far away, and even if they do, they must be with the men in the family.

Because the luggage is all there, even if it is stuffy underneath, these people are all inside.

An Jiu took a few looks, and most of them were dressed decently, and most of them were businessmen. (To be continued......)