I only saw the dock after dusk and sunset, a few long boats docked on the shore, and there were endless guqin sounds on the boats, mixed with people's laughter.

Shen Mei got off the horse, took the pullover on the horse, and slowly approached the side of the boat, and saw three or five young men sitting on the stone steps on the shore drinking and playing cards. “

One of them seemed to be displeased, and he was impatient to be disturbed, and raised his head to meet Shen Mei's eyes, the person's slightly drunk gaze was a little disdainful, "Why don't you stop here if you don't go to sea." “

"Yes."

Shen Mei asked again, "Where are you going?" ”

Seeing Shen Mei's dignified appearance, those people changed their attitudes for a while, and one of them took a few steps forward and said, "This young master, from out of town?" “

Shen Mei nodded.

"This boat will depart early tomorrow morning, we are all helpers on the ship, if you want to get on the boat...", the short man, looked at Shen Mei a few times with a bright eye, stretched out his right thumb and index finger and rubbed it, signaling Shen Mei.

Shen Mei took out a few taels of scattered silver from her cuffs and put it in the man's hand, only to see that the man's happiness blossomed, and led Shen Mei to the boat and led Shen Mei over on the wooden plank.

Shen Mei walked forward, and the man led the horse and followed behind and whispered, "Childe, this is just the money for the ship..."

"This son, please, this is the best room on the ship, you can rest and leave tomorrow." After the man finished speaking, he invited Shen Mei into the house.

Shen Mei didn't say a word, but she was a little displeased, and the person informed her, didn't stay too long, and left after tying Shen Mei's horse.

There was a smell of damp and rotten wood in the cabin, the room was just a wooden bed, the corners of the quilt on it were yellow, and the smell was more than the smell of rotten wood, Shen Mei was disgusted, lifted the quilt, sat cross-legged on the wooden boat, and the sound of strings mixed with the laughter of men and women was endless.

The jade pendant that Shen Mei handed to the man just now was just a token that Mu Qingfeng gave to Shen Mei back then, but compared to this jade pendant, Shen Mei knew that she needed to get on the boat more.

The sky was gray and gray, Shen Mei slowly opened her eyes, and suddenly noticed that there was something unusual about the silence on the boat, Shen Mei immediately got up and looked around, the few wings on this ship that were still singing and dancing last night were now in a mess, and the faces of the people on the ground were blue and fell to the ground, Shen Mei deceived and touched the pulse of one of them, and sure enough, she was not angry.

The people who looked at this room were all in a similar situation, their faces were blue, their lips were purple, some of the corners of their mouths were oozing blood, and the whole room was filled with a fishy smell, which was mixed with the smell of rotten wood, a little pungent, and Shen Mei immediately ran out.

From a distance, he saw that the man who followed him on the boat last night had also fallen on the deck, and he looked the same as the person before, Shen Mei touched it in his arms, and the jade pendant that he gave him last night was gone.

Shen Mei knew that this place was not suitable for a long time, so she hurriedly walked towards the exit, jumped on the plank, her body shook, and a fire broke out from the tail end of the boat.

Shen Mei watched as the entire ship was swallowed up by the raging fire little by little, and after a while, the fire here attracted the people near the dock.

Several middle-aged men looked at the fire with anxiety on their faces, "Oh my God, how did this ship burn?" ”

"Could it be that the terrible curse of the Zhao Er family has been fulfilled again."

"Bah, what are you talking nonsense, if Zhao Er hears this, you don't want to mix on the dock."

Shen Mei was not far away, and she could clearly hear the words of these people.

Shen Mei knew that now she was penniless, and even the horse was gone, it seemed that it would be difficult to get on the boat, so after thinking about it for a while, she finally decided to gamble.

Shen Mei stepped forward to the side of several men and looked at the ship with a very surprised look.

"Big brothers, can any of you tell me why this ship burned?" Shen Mei looked anxious.

"Eh~"

"Oh my God. My horse is still on it. Shen Mei exclaimed in surprise while skimming a few correct reactions with her afterglow.

"What, brother, did you get on this boat yesterday?"

When Shen Mei heard this, she immediately responded, "Big brother, isn't this." I only came back from the province yesterday, just in time for the boat to be parked on this shore, and then a small man asked me where I was going, and I told him that I was going to Beijing, and after calling a few taels of silver, he took me on the boat, but in the morning I felt a little hungry and thought about getting off the boat to find something to eat, but I didn't expect to pick up a life. Shen Mei looked shocked.

After hearing this, those people really sweated for Shen Mei.

"This little brother, you are really fateful, look at this fire, if it is too late, I am afraid that there will be no one like you." The deep voice of a man with five big and three thick eyes looked at Shen Mei with a little sympathy while looking at the firelight.

"It's not, I heard that a strange thing happens to the ship of the Zhao Er family every three years, and I think this eighty percent is committing something again." The other said thoughtfully.

"I think you're just like those girls, what kind of demons and monsters, I think he Zhao Er deserves bad luck. Look at the ship being burned like this, thinking that someone from the Zhao family should come over and shout later. ”

Shen Mei heard something unusual, "Eh~ Big brothers, I don't know when the next ship to enter Beijing will be?" ”

Shen Mei looked at these people and really came to see the excitement, and now she was thinking about when there would be a quiet ship passing by.

"This is not necessarily, the little brother should have come from the following villages, right?"

Shen Mei nodded.

"I must also know that some time ago, there was a once-in-a-century flood in this section of the river, and the water has just receded, and the boats have not yet come and gone normally, I am afraid that I will have to wait for some time, I looked at Zhao Er and just didn't wait for a good time to get out of the boat, which is why this happened." The man said solemnly.

But Shen Mei didn't think so, after all, she was the only one who saw the tragic condition of the people on the boat in the end, and if the cause of death of those people was not as she expected, it should be better than being poisoned, and she was safe and sound because she had jade with her.