Chapter 31: Li Jun
The two walked depressedly along the messy coastline of the hill for a while, and when they went around to the south side of the hill, Qu Shun saw a small boat rowing on the sea from a distance.
"Bottle, there's a ship coming. We're saved. Qu Shun looked at the boat in the distance and said excitedly. He then jumped at the boat and waved his hands.
"Junko, look at that boat..."Yao Ping asked hesitantly, "does it look like our little sampan...?" ”
"Well, isn't that our sampan!" Qu Shun shielded the sun with his hand, looked at it carefully, and said, "Damn, it's really our ship." That man still has a bit of a conscience, and he knows to come back to pick us up. Otherwise, we'd really starve to death on this mountain. ”
"Who do you think is the rower?" Yao Ping looked at it and said, "Is it a teenager?" ”
"I look like a girl." Qu Shun looked at the slowly paddling sampan and said, "It's a girl, that's right." ”
"It's indeed a girl," Yao Ping said when the boat approached again.
"You said a girl's family, why did you run here and steal the boat."
It wasn't until the sampan gradually approached the shore that Yao Ping and Qu Shun saw that the girl who rowed in the boat was actually a beautiful woman with wet hair, but a fit body and a handsome appearance. Judging from her simple clothes, Yao Ping can judge that although she was born beautiful, she is an authentic fisherman's girl.
"Why did you row our boat away?" Qu Shun didn't wait for the girl to get off the boat and stand firm, and stepped forward to ask her first.
"It's not your ship." The fisherman girl was not displeased by Qu Shun's preemptive voice, she just said calmly, "The boat you just rowed here is actually my boat. ”
Qu Shun suddenly felt a little weak, but he still said stubbornly, "Your ship? How do you prove it's your ship. This is clearly our ship. ”
The fisherman's girl leaned over and pointed to the bow of the boat very calmly, and she pointed to the side of the painted eye on the bow of the boat and whispered, "You see, my family name is written in this fish's eye." There can be no mistake, this is indeed my ship. Maybe you're mistaken. ”
Yao Ping was stunned for a moment, he looked closely into the eyes of the fish, and there was really a small character written in the eyes of the picture on the bow of the boat.
Seeing this, Yao Ping and Qu Shun glanced at each other awkwardly.
Qu Shun was still a little reluctant and said, "Isn't it just a word, how can you prove that your surname is Li?" ”
Yao Ping lightly touched Qu Shun and said, "Shunzi, that word is not a friend, but a beauty." ”
Seeing Qu Shun's face flushed, the fisherman girl couldn't help but smile lightly and shook her head.
Qu Shun scratched his head, cheeky and had to continue, "That... It was wrong for us to row your boat out before, but you can't just row it away. We were frightened and searched for a long time. I thought I was going to be trapped here. ”
Yao Ping thought that this girl would accuse Qu Shun of not, but he didn't expect her to open her mouth and say softly, "I'm sorry, because I swam over there before, and my clothes were all wet, so it was inconvenient to see people, so I didn't go to you." I had to row the boat away first. When I got back, I was worried that you might not be able to swim back from here, so I rushed back to pick you up as soon as I changed my clothes. ”
"Swam from there?" Yao Ping looked at Shanbao in the distance and asked her in astonishment, "You, you swam from so far away?" ”
The fisherman girl nodded.
Qu Shun also felt incredible, and he exclaimed, "It's amazing, you can swim from there." This has to be a few miles away... By the way, you said that since you are at the top of that mountain, why did your ship stop at Qingfu City before? ”
"The boat was borrowed by a stranger a few days ago and he never returned it. It so happened that this morning I saw you from afar, and I thought the boat you were rowing looked like mine, so I swam over to make sure it was. ”
"Oh, I see."
Yao Ping said to Qu Shun embarrassedly, "This is not quite what we did. We've really rowed someone's boat. But it's okay, now we're helping the boat find its owner, right? ”
Qu Shun smiled awkwardly, "Sort of." He looked at the new oars on the boat and said, "We also made a new oars for the owner." ”
"Thank you so much. Now I'll send you back. The fisherman girl said calmly.
Yao Ping couldn't see a trace of expression on her face, and he couldn't tell if she was genuinely grateful to herself and Qu Shun, or if she was displeased.
"No, girl, don't bother you." Qu Shun then said, "Let's just go rowing." ”
Yao Ping grinned, and together with Qu Shun, pushed the small sampan into the sea, and then stepped into the cabin again.
Yao Ping and Qu Shun rowed their only two oars and sailed towards the distant mountain.
After paddling for a while, Qu Shun looked at the fisherman girl sitting next to him and asked her, "Haven't you asked the girl's name yet?" I don't know if it's inconvenient to say? ”
"Lijun." She replied lightly.
"Oh, Miss Li." Qu Shun accosted, "However, I don't remember that we Qingfu had the surname Li here." And listen to your accent, girl, you're not a Qingfu person, are you? ”
"Half a month ago, I only came here from the Phantom Sun." Li Jun said.
"Oh, it's from the Phantom Sun." Qu Shun said, "No wonder, otherwise I would have said that I don't know your surname." ”
"I heard that there is also a big flood over there in the phantom sun, right?" Yao Ping accosted Li Jun from the side and asked, "Is it more serious than here?" ”
"The flood situation is pretty much the same. Flooded many fields, farmhouses. Li Jun thought for a while and said, "But there is not only a big flood in Huanyang, but there have also been some Yingzhou pirates who have come there to harass and plunder recently. The common people are not making a living. ”
"These bastards from Sakura." Qu Shun said loudly, "I have heard that they have plundered and killed the people along the southern coast. General Wang had taught them a hard lesson before, and he dared to come here. Especially now that there is a big flood, the people themselves are bitter enough, and they still take the opportunity to make trouble. Damn it. Damn..."
"What's your name?" Li Jun asked Qu Shun, who was muttering and cursing.
"Me?" Qu Shun stopped talking and turned to see Li Jun looking at him, so he said, "My name is Qu Shun." ”
Li Jun nodded slightly.
After a while, Qu Shun was puzzled when he saw that Li Jun only asked his own name and not Yao Ping's name, so he asked, "Girl, we are rowing together, why do you only ask my name and not ask my friend's name?" ”
"His name is Yao Ping." Li Jun said calmly.
"You know each other?!" Qu Shun stood up from the boat in surprise, he looked at Yao Ping again in surprise, and said, "Bottle, you... You.."
"Okay Shunzi, where do we know each other?" Yao Ping glanced at Qu Shun and said, "There is a portrait of me at the gate of Qingfu City, with my name written on it." Didn't you say that the painting was still very similar? ”
"Hey! Also. Qu Shun patted his head, and then said to Li Jun, "But don't be afraid, girl, this friend of mine has been wronged, he is a good person." Don't go to the government. ”
"No, it won't." Li Jun said calmly.
"Really, not?" Qu Shun was a little worried, he raised his anger and pretended to be vicious and said, "If you dare to sue the government, let me tell you, I won't easily spare you just because you are a girl." ”
"I said, no." Li Jun still said calmly.
"Junko, you speak well. What are you doing. Yao Ping pulled Qu Shun with his hand and motioned for him to sit down and continue rowing.
"I'm not worried about you." Qu Shun sat down and picked up the oars, continued to paddle and said, "Bottle, if you let someone sue you, then it's too late to say anything." The people of the government, once you are arrested, it doesn't matter if you are wronged or not. Look at the people who were arrested and paraded in the streets, which one didn't cry out for injustice? ”
"Junko, I know you're doing it for my good." Yao Ping said, "But didn't the girl say it, she wouldn't go to sue the official." ”
"If it's no good, who has nothing to worry about." Qu Shun said, "But do you know that there are still thirty taels of silver?" That's not a small amount, and a family can't save that much money after ten years of hard work. ”
Hearing Qu Shun say this, Yao Ping turned to think to himself, so he opened his mouth and asked Li Jun, "Girl, you also know that I am wanted for thirty taels of silver." If you go to the government and tell me that I am near here, maybe when they catch me, you will get the thirty taels of silver. ”
Li Jun was silent.
"Thirty taels of silver, girl, aren't you really impressed?" Yao Ping asked curiously.
"Heartbeat." Li Jun said slowly, "But it's impossible for me to get the thirty taels." ”
"Why?"
"Because I'm just like you."
"Same?" Yao Ping asked in confusion, "What is the same?" ”
"Bounty is the same."
Qu Shun and Yao Ping heard Li Jun say this, and immediately stopped the oars in their hands. They widened their mouths in shock, and at the same time looked at Li Jun in front of them intently, not knowing how to open their mouths and continue to speak for a while.
"Because the government posted a notice portrait in Phantom Sun City, I left there and hid in Qingfu. No one knows me here. I secretly went to Qingfu City once before to see if there was a portrait of me there. Li Jun turned his head and said calmly to Yao Ping, "I didn't see my portrait, but I did see your portrait." Because you were also rewarded with thirty taels of silver, I have a deep memory of your face. ”
Yao Ping looked at Li Jun, and he slowly asked, "I don't know... I wonder what happened to you, girl? ”
"I guess it's the same as you." Li Jun said calmly, "After all, it is a reward of thirty taels of silver, and such a high amount can only be a matter involving other countries." ”
"Huh?" Yao Ping looked at Li Jun with a calm expression in a daze, and asked her, "Is it because of you, girl..... Collaboration? ”
Li Jun pursed his lips lightly and didn't say anything more. She slowly turned her face to the sparkling water, her gaze avoiding Yao Ping and Qu Shun, who were looking at her in astonishment.
Suddenly, a breeze blew, gently squeezing Li Jun's hair with water droplets, and at the same time revealing her side face like a hibiscus out of the water. Yao Ping looked at her, and he saw a shallow melancholy in her eyes looking at the water.