PS: Today is like this, tomorrow two more, yesterday's reward will be thanked tomorrow

At the end of October, the north wind was gentle and the frost was falling.

As the name suggests, it is a crossing in the lower reaches of the Great River, and near the river's edge, the sediment accumulated over thousands of years has formed a flat, solid ground. However, because the salt brine is heavier, there are only some thorn bushes, so that the locals can raise some goats and pick wolfberries, but there are no acres of crops, so there are few cities and towns.

It is also the traffic artery that connects the princes of Puji and Huaisi such as the Jin State and the Southern Weiguo, the Lu State, the Song State, etc., which is controlled by the Weiguo people, and there are dozens of large and small boats tied to the south bank ferry port that covers several houses, and there are Hejin officials guarding it all the year round.

In the land of Yanzhou between Heji, Lucheng Qufu has changed slightly with the change of power and the arrival of Kongqiu, Diqiu sings the beautiful sound of Pu every day, and Taoqiu, the economic center, is a big change in January, but the remote Jianjin is almost forever unchanged.

Until the outbreak of war.

Under a large weeping willow half submerged in the water, a peculiar boat was moored, and the old man munched on dried fish while chattering about old things to his growing daughter, who was weaving fishing nets.

"Since the end of November of the previous year, after the Zhao family and the Fan family fought on the opposite bank, drowning more than 100 people, as well as a gentleman of the Jin Kingdom, the two sides of the river have become uneasy. Last year, I fought with the Jin Kingdom, and I don't know how many times I have come and gone, but the soldiers I have seen in the past few decades have not seen as many as last year, and this year, I am afraid that it will be more serious. ”

Compared with the usual, there was an extra brigade of soldiers sent from Diqiu to guard here, and the military camp was stationed outside the ferry, and all the ferries on the north bank were received to the south, and they also took turns to send people to vigilantly monitor the movements on the other side, for fear of an enemy attack.

Fishermen and boatmen asked. But the specific situation is not even known to the guards, only that after the monarch gave an order, the Wei and Jin went to war again. This has caused a lot of suffering to the people on both sides of the strait, and the usual scene of merchants and merchants has stopped, and it is said that most of their convoys have been conscripted on the spot. Served as an army carry.

The river had not yet frozen, and the healthy-skinned Tsu girls were mending their broken nets, and the long-legged gulls and herons were walking in the shallow water around the ferry pier in search of fish and shrimp, and suddenly they cried out vigilantly.

The guards who had been guarding the shore for a long time were awakened by the chirping of the birds, and they also stood up suddenly, carefully holding their bows and arrows and spears, "Enemy attack? "Enemy attack" shouted non-stop.

The girl on the boat also put down the fishing needle, raised her eyebrows, squinted for a while and said, "Ah Weng." Someone from the other side of the river. ”

……

The number of people who came was less than 200, and a clear banner was played, it turned out that it was not the Jin people who attacked, but their dress still made the defenders nervous.

Jian sent a text, with a black tooth carving title, but the crown was sloppy...... These are all signs of the barbarians in the south, and the image of the Central Plains people is very different.

In the end, the guards breathed a sigh of relief was that there was also a Chinese young man with a crown and a bamboo pole. The scepter decorated with yak tail feathers was the first to come by boat to contact the commander of the Guardian Brigade.

He had a smile on his face. The speech is polite and courteous: "Wu country pedestrians return to the country, passing through your land, a few months ago I informed your monarch, Wu people will borrow the road when they return to the south, there are symbols here, please fulfill the promise." Send boats to cross the river. ”

It turned out that this was the envoy group of the Wu State who entered the Jin from Zheng and Zhou in July and August, and the one who came to negotiate the crossing of the river was the southern gentleman who was a Wu person, but his heart had already been transformed by Yanling Ji Zihua.

He was accompanied by a warrior of the Wu Kingdom, who was not tall. but he is stout and brave. Different from the Chinese custom of growing hair and crowning, his hair is about a foot long, broken into short hair, combed into a short bun, and has a double fish-shaped tattoo on his face.

"Everything is fine in Zhuxia, but it's too cold, I will return to the south this time, and I vow not to cross the big river north again......" He complained secretly when Yan Yan negotiated with the guards.

Compared with the old-fashioned Song Kingdom, the rich and fragile Cao Kingdom, the treacherous Zheng State of the Chinese people, and the aging Cheng Zhou of Longzhong, the terroir and human feelings of the Jin Kingdom are actually more suitable for the taste of crucian carp. The Tang style mixed with Rong Di and the vast and vigorous, the millet wine burning on the bank of Fenshui, and the martial arts and high-spirited children of Liuqing.

And in the days when the Zhao family was in the palace, he was even more interested in Zhao Ying, the heroic second secretary, and finally understood why there was a character like Zhao Wuxian in the Zhao family.

The tiger must have a tiger father!

But that was before the winter weather turned cooler.

Born in the hot land of the south of the Yangtze River, Zhuan Carp has never seen the coldness of snow, let alone the cold weather in the north. It is not as short as the short armor and short brown when he entered the Jin Dynasty in August, and now in the north wind, he is tightly wrapped in the fur coat given by the Zhao family of the Jin Kingdom, but he is still shivering from the cold by the river. You can't stand on your feet, and in the Northland, you have to learn to step on warm shoes lined with leather.

He shivered, cursing the ghost weather in the north in a grunting Vietnamese language. This warrior of the Wu people, who once longed to conquer the princes of the northern land for the king of Wu, now froze out of his nose and was as embarrassed as a sick tiger.

Without the arrogant words when he first came out, he is like the Wu people who are huddled on the other side of the bank to light a fire to keep warm, and now he is more like a goose bird returning to the south.

Therefore, when the homesick carp heard Yan Yan and the commander of the patriotic brigade for a long time, but the other party still refused to send a boat, he suddenly became angry.

"Thief!"

He was not afraid of the cold, he threw off the fluffy fur he was wearing with one hand, took a few steps towards the Patriotic Brigade Marshal who was so frightened that he almost jumped up, touched the fish intestine sword on his waist and scolded the general viciously, although no one could understand what he said.

Yan Yan took the opportunity to pick up the useful words and translated: "This tiger ben is a doctor of Wu Guoxia, and it is already very generous to deign to cross the river to ask you for a small brigade marshal to ask for a ferry, and you still have to drag it out, what is the reason?" ”

The brigade commander glanced at the old Jin official who was buried in his head and didn't dare to speak, and said with a bitter face: "Your envoy is angry, the doctor of the court has also instructed him on this matter, but at that time, Jin Wei had not yet started a war. Now it's different, the noble envoy has just returned from the Jin Kingdom, and the subordinates have to send someone to report to the Yanyi to report it......"

"How long will it take?"

"Thirty or forty miles back and forth, into the ...... At nightfall. ”

At nightfall? It's only early afternoon, which means that the people of Wu have to suffer from freezing by the river for most of the day.

After listening to Yan Yan's translation, Zhuan Carp jumped like thunder again: "If you delay for a while, all of our southern warriors will be frozen into popsicles!" The pedestrian of Wu Guo on the opposite side is the honorable position of the middle doctor, how can he wait for a long time in this wilderness! ”

Yan Yan also complained: "Exactly." Today's weather is gloomy, and it is about to rain, and we still have valuable gifts to be presented to your monarch and your ministers in our convoy. Please also be accommodating, and let the merchants and craftsmen transport it over first. If there is any damage, we can only say that we have been hindered by you under the thorns......"

Zhuan Kun also continued to threaten: "The huge Chu State has been penetrated by our great pedestrians and military commander Sun Wuzi, if Wei Guo neglects the envoys, I am not sure that the king of tomorrow will bring 100,000 armor to Pu Shang to watch the troops, and when the time comes, you can afford to let Wei Wu fight evil!" ”

The commander of the Patriotic Brigade was just a small sergeant, where had he seen such a scene, under the persuasion of Yan Yan's kind words and the coercion of the evil words of the carp. had to agree to be accommodating, and first let Qu Wuji, a pedestrian from Wu Guoda, cross the river with gifts from businessmen and craftsmen, and drink a bowl of hot fish soup to warm up his body.

……

The wide river is murmuring, and now it is the dry season, so there are many sandbanks in the river, but in terms of width, this river is still the most in the north, and only the big river where the southern Wu country is located can match it.

Two great rivers. Two different ways of life that are both farming, the civilization created by corn. and the civilization created by rice.

To escort the envoys of the great powers across the river, it is natural to send the most decent and stable boats, so the old Jin official was named by the brigade commander. His sixteen-year-old daughter, who wore a hat and buried her face deep in her coat, also accompanied him with a pole.

The raft by the river has a low roof, a wide space, and no complicated craftsmanship. People in the interior demean that they are broken houses built on rafts. In fact, except for the poorest and humblest fishermen, everyone tried to make the boat carvings beautiful, and among them, the boat of the old Jin official was the cleanest and most decent, thanks to the skillful and attentive daughter of his daughter.

The ship in front of him was painted in various shades of black, and the wooden tiller was carved into a cormorant. The balustrade is carved with fish prints, and its deck is stacked with poles, ropes, and jars of water.

In addition, there are simple sails called "tents", and two bamboo poles stretched out to form a leather cloth, which is recorded in the Eastern Han Dynasty hundreds of years later.

When the high-crowned black-clad "Wu Guo Pedestrian" wrapped in a bearskin fur and a long sword at his waist stepped onto the deck, Lao Jin couldn't help frowning.

He has been sent to him for so many years, and even the monarch has seen dozens of them, but the one in front of him is a little different, which makes him feel weird, with a thick waist and a demeanor like a perennial military person, not like a graceful pedestrian doctor. So he gave his daughter a cautious look, and while propping up the pole, he sang a fisherman's song as he had done before, or talked about some customs, as if he wanted to make the nobleman happy and ask for some reward.

But the "Wu Guo Pedestrian" kept a straight face from beginning to end, staring at the situation on the other side and behind him, and just glanced at him coldly.

Lao Jin was even more sure that there was a problem.

Dozens of boats from the Thorny Ferry sailed to the north shore in unison, and let the "merchants", "craftsmen" and "subordinates" who were driving the carriages and horses and pulling heavy utensils on them boarded the ships.

On the big boat that greeted the "Wu Guo pedestrians", seeing this scene, Lao Jin's bare brows tightened even more, just because those Wu warriors were holding short swords around his side, so he didn't dare to pronounce it.

On the damp surface of the south bank, instead of putting on their coats again, the carp exhaled white air, bare to meet the north wind, and the ships that were breaking the waves, said in Wu: "They are coming......"

"Yes, it's all right." Yan Yan's mood is more complicated, this kind of thing is not what he wants to see, but since Dr. Qu promised, as a subordinate, he had to do it.

"Try to kill as little as possible for a while, what we promised Zhao Qing has been done!"

……

During the moment of going back and forth between the two sides of the strait, there were no accidents.

It wasn't until the boat landed smoothly that Lao Jin whispered something in his daughter's ear. The girl bit her lower lip and shook her head, but she was pinched hard by the old Jin official, and then she hid in the house with tears.

Lao Jin walked up to the Marshal of the Patriotic Brigade who was smiling and about to go to meet the "Wu Guo Pedestrian", stopped him, and chatted casually as usual.

The Marshal of the Patriotic Brigade was suddenly blocked on the way, first a little angry, after listening to the narration of the old Jin official, his expression was strange, he looked at the Wu country pedestrian, then looked at the old Jin official, and finally waved his hand.

"Ridiculous! Go down quickly, don't talk nonsense here. ”

Then he no longer paid attention to the bitter persuasion of the old Jin officials, and walked towards the "Wu Guo Pedestrian" with a smile, and when he bowed down, he was greeted by a bright red long sword that ran through his body!

When he fell to the ground, there was still an incredible look in the depths of his sluggish pupils, and his hand grabbed the deep coat of the "Wu Guo Pedestrian", and landed with the bearskin fur and silk deep coat, revealing a pure black armor inside!

"Zhao's black-clothed Zheng Long is here!" Zheng Long, the black-clothed guard, held his sword and roared, as if it was a signal, and dozens of merchants, craftsmen, and ministers poured out of the boat behind him.

At the moment when the brigade commander was assassinated by a sword, the patriotic soldiers on the south bank were all stunned.

This is a ploy to seize the ferry, and in the name of the envoys of the Wu State, who are feared by the guards, the elite black-clothed armor of the Zhao clan is hidden in it.

But after all, there are still as many as four or five hundred guards who have lost the brigade commander, and if they are pressed together, they can still drive these Zhao soldiers, who are only one-tenth of themselves, down the river.

But they are destined to fail, and their opponent is the most elite Zhao clan's black-clothed armor, the retainers and dead soldiers group that Zhao Ying painstakingly created. As a team of five, they jumped off the bow of the boat, pierced the patriotic soldiers who reacted, and then brought the cart sundries, spears and crossbows, and actually defended them at the crossing.

The crucian carp also knocked down the two guards who were holding the desire to fight, but did not use the fish intestine sword.

This sword is an artifact that contains his father's soul, and it is used to kill princes, and even ordinary doctors don't deserve to die under it!

"Boyu, come here! After that, it's none of our business! Yan Yan had quietly retreated to a safe place, and those Wu people who followed the "Wu Guoxing" turned a blind eye to the battle that took place, and all surrounded Yan Yan to protect him.

The crucian carp was blown by the cold wind again, and he sniffed, but he couldn't smell the long-lost smell of blood, so he washed his sword by the water, and returned to Yan Yan's side after entering the sheath, giving way to the battle.

These true Wu people agreed to participate in the plan, but were unwilling to shed blood for the Zhao clan, and they returned to the ship, while Lao Jin and the rest of the boatmen were forced by the sword to prop up the boat and return to the north shore again.

On the big river, the gulls and herons were so frightened by the fight that they flew all over the sky, and in the vast wilderness on the north bank, the wind was thundering, and the Xuanniao banners were all over the place, which was the army of Zhao's black pressing...... (To be continued......)