Chapter 41: Cold Waves and Slanting Flying Geese

In the mountains and forests, a young military general named Yi Shi suddenly woke up, followed by a stinging pain all over his body. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Bracing his left elbow on the ground, he struggled to raise himself and saw the back of a slender woman with her back to him. The woman, adding firewood to the bonfire lit in the forest, was about aware of the voice behind her, and turned around: "Are you awake?" ”

This woman, with an ordinary appearance, belongs to the kind that can be easily forgotten at a glance when walking on the road. The midday sun shone through the foliage above, dappled light and shadow falling on her face. Even though it was noon, the weather was still a little cool, the ground was quite damp, and the bonfire was lit to dispel the chill around it.

Yi Shi said: "This girl, you are ......"

The woman said softly: "The slave's surname is Yan, his name is affectionate, and he has a slight name in the rivers and lakes, and everyone calls me the soft moon knife......" Looking at the injured young man, he didn't react, and he looked a little disappointed. He added: "Early this morning, I passed by the forest on the other side of the mountain, and saw you fall to the ground, wounded, if you leave it alone, it will be difficult to save your life. Because I don't know which enemy you offended, I didn't dare to leave you in the same place for treatment, so I brought you here, fortunately, you have a lot of wounds, but they are all flesh and blood wounds that do not hurt your muscles and bones, and you looked covered with blood at that time, but there was no worry about your life. ”

Yan Shi looked down and saw that the wounds on his body were basically properly bandaged. In the battle last night, he originally thought that he would definitely die, but even he didn't expect that he would survive. It seems that most of the killers are eager to chase after Lord Zhao and have no time to make up for him.

Thinking of the heavy responsibility he was shouldering at the moment, he sat up suddenly, and his body tingled even more. Yan Qing said: "This strong man, although the injuries on your body are not fatal, but the injuries are not healed, it is better not to move." ”

Yi Shi knew that this woman was probably a chivalrous woman walking the rivers and lakes, probably because he saw him carrying a weapon and falling to the ground injured in the wilderness, so he regarded him as a person in the rivers and lakes. Because he had never been in the rivers and lakes, he naturally had never heard of the "Soft Moon Knife", but the other party saved him after all. At the moment, he said gratefully: "More heroines save their lives, but I have an important task on my body, and I don't dare to stay here longer. ”

He grabbed the horizontal knife that was placed beside him, supported the ground with the hilt, and got up with difficulty.

The woman glanced at the knife in his hand and hesitated: "You are a strong man...... Childe, are you a member of the army? ”

Yi Shi knows that as one of the most common weapons, the style of the knife is unknown, and it can be regarded as a thousand types, but from the standard of the knife, the identity of some users can still be seen.

For example, the long-handled Guan knife can only be used in the army, ordinary Jianghu people, it is troublesome to carry, and any long blades are not allowed to be brought into the city.

Similar to the Guan knife, but the blade is narrower, and the simple knife that is easy to carry is only the fast catch, infantry inspection, etc., and the white road and the official will carry it under the government, just because it has a long handle, although the long handle can be disassembled, but in essence it is still a long weapon, and ordinary people cannot carry it into the city, which has made the people of the rivers and lakes respect it.

In addition, there are four types of knives in the army, namely horizontal knives, barrier knives, ritual knives, and Mo knives. Needless to say, the ritual knife is purely good-looking, and the Mo knife is also a long weapon. The remaining horizontal knives and barrier knives are conducive to direct fighting and blocking on the battlefield, and there are not many people who use them on the rivers and lakes. It is precisely because of this that after realizing that he was probably not from the rivers and lakes, the woman first thought about the army because of the horizontal knife he carried.

Without answering the stern question, the stone struggled to stand up and shook it, but it almost fell down again. Yan Qing hurriedly held him up and said, "Even if you have something important, but like this, what can you do?" Once you encounter a brute on the road, with your current injuries, even self-protection will be a problem. I see you'd better get on the road later, at least rest for half a day......"

Yi Shi said in a low voice: "More girls care, but the crisis in the capital, my military affairs are in the body, and it is difficult to delay." ”

Yan Qing sighed: "That's it, I am a woman in the rivers and lakes, and I didn't want to take care of it." But now that the barbarians are invading, the Lord of the Ning League has also called on us people in the rivers and lakes to go to the country to save the country and save the people, what you have done can be related to the resistance to the barbarians? Where are you going? I'll give you a ride. ”

Yi Shi said: "The girl knows Master Ning?" ”

Yan Qing blushed slightly: "Although I have heard the prestige of the alliance leader, I have never really seen it, but I have admired it for a long time in my heart." ”

Yi Shi exhaled: "It's not a secret, in fact, my military affairs this time are to escort the Qin Cha sent by the imperial court to ask Master Ning to rescue Jingshi, but I don't know where the traitor came out on the way, and I want to kill Lord Qincha, there are many people on the other side, although I sheltered Qin Cha and escaped temporarily, but those traitors must have chased after him now, and I don't know whether Lord Qin Cha is alive or dead at the moment." ”

Yan Qing said: "In this case, I will go on the road with you, this area is what I am used to, I know a lot of shortcuts, maybe I can catch up with those traitors, find Lord Qincha, if it is not good, I must also inform the Lord of the Ning League about this matter." ”

Yi Shi was overjoyed and said, "Let's go on the road." At that moment, regardless of his injury, he rushed to the west with Yan Qing......

Far to the west, Zhao Dehai hurried together under the protection of the Four Heroes of Huangshan and five guards. In the evening, they came to a river.

Yu Zhicheng, one of the Four Heroes of Huangshan, said: "I have been here once before, there used to be a pontoon bridge here, but many boats were connected side by side, and wooden planks were built on it, why is there not a boat now?" ”

Yuan Chengjiang smiled: "I'm afraid you remember wrong, right?" ”

Xu Jiaolong inspected the shore and said: "Look at the stone pillars here, there are still cut iron cables here, it seems that there was indeed a pontoon bridge before, and it is estimated that it was either demolished by officers and soldiers, or demolished by barbarians." ”

Fu Dingbo looked downstream and suddenly said, "There is a boat there!" ”

Everyone looked together, and saw that there was indeed a boat slowly rowing downstream, and the one who was rocking the oars was a delicate rough girl who was at most twenty-eight years old. The girl sang a song, like the most beautiful color in heaven and earth in this season of cold wind. Zhao Dehai said happily: "It's good to have a boat, it's good to have a boat!" ”

Everyone listened carefully, and the delicate girl dressed up in the village girl had a crisp voice, and the beautiful song was like a yellow bird, resounding between the two sides of the strait: "Sing a mountain song to my brother, I compare my brother to my father, my father and mother only gave birth to my body, and my brother's brilliance shines on my ......heart."

Xu Jiaolong smiled: "What a strange song! He said loudly: "That girl, we want to cross the river, you are willing to plant us for a ride, we are willing to pay!" ”

The girl rowed the boat over, glanced at them a few times, and said crisply: "It's okay to carry you across the river, but my boat is small, and I can only plant two or three people at a time." ”

Xu Jiaolong said: "It's okay, just send it a few more times, we don't need this money." ”

The girl said, "I haven't talked about money yet, I have a trip to the river for a tael of silver!" ”

Xu Jiaolong said: "Are you blackmailing?" Such a river, with the most ten cents, is there a reason for a trip of one or two silver? ”

The girl snorted softly: "I am this price, you can't love it." I can tell you that I am the only boat nearby, and that if you want to cross the river, you have to walk ten miles upstream, where it is guarded by brutes. ”

Zhao Dehai hurriedly said: "We've passed, we've passed." ”

The girl said: "It's counted as one trip in the past, and it's also counted as one trip to pick up people when you come back, and one trip is two trips." ”

Xu Jiaolong said: "Are you robbing money? ”

The girl pouted: "It's all said, you can't love it." ”

Xu Jiaolong snorted, and then lowered his voice: "Boss, this girl is a little weird." ”

Fu Dingbo said in a low voice: "It's inevitable to be weird, but if you negotiate the price, maybe it's better, in short, be careful." "There is a shortage of soldiers in this vicinity, the barbarians have swept many times, and the surrounding villages, it is estimated that those who can escape have fled, and those who can't escape are either killed by the barbarians or captured by the barbarians. A girl's family like this, if she doesn't have the ability, how dare she haunt such a place.

Xu Jiaolong said loudly: "It's no problem to make money for you, but it won't be on the river, and suddenly invite us to eat zongzi or wontons, right?" ”

The girl smiled and said: "Don't worry, I don't sell zongzi and wontons, but I have a friend who sells steamed buns, if you meet her shop in Qinling, just say that I introduced it, it can be cheaper." ”

Xu Jiaolong said: "There is a huge Qinling Mountains, spanning many states, where can I encounter it?" If we really want to meet it, we just don't want to be buns. He whispered, "Boss, how do we cross the river?" ”

Fu Dingbo said in a deep voice: "First go through two groups of people to the other side of the river, and after making sure that there is no ambush on that side, you and I will take Lord Zhao over." Looking at the girl in the rough shirt, she said loudly: "How about we pay half of the deposit first, and then pay the other half after all have crossed the river?" His voice was loud and full of internal strength, hinting to the other party that he was not easy to mess with.

The girl snorted: "You don't have to be loud, I'm not afraid of you, how many trips do you have to cross the river?" The deposit is paid in advance. ”

Fu Dingbo said: "There are ten of us, just cross the river in four times." ”

The girl said: "Four times is eight trips, eight taels of silver, pay half of it first......"

Xu Jiaolong said: "I said that your algorithm is not right, not to mention that there are many of us, and you don't give a discount, you pick up and drop off four times, and it only takes three trips to return on the way, which adds up to only seven taels of silver, where did you get eight taels?" ”

Zhao Dehai hurriedly said: "It's okay, it's okay, it's not bad for one or two, I have it, I have it." And he quickly took out the money.

Xu Jiaolong rolled her eyes...... These officials are really stupid people and have a lot of money. Looking at it again, I saw the girl on the boat looking at the coil wrapped around the waist of Lord Zhao with yellow and white things, and Mimi smiled, so she said in a low voice: "Boss, be careful, I think this girl is making wontons." ”

Fu Dingbo said: "It's okay, she can't turn the sky!" "Even if this girl is not a good person, she will never be better than him by her age, and it is impossible for a real master to make wontons in this kind of place.

Xu Jiaolong took the silver and stepped forward: "Seven taels of silver, I will give you half first, that is, three and a half, and after we all cross the river, in addition to the remaining three and a half, one or two more will be counted as a tip, okay?" ”

The girl in the rough shirt smiled, "That's fine." ”

At that moment, the girl received the deposit, sang a song, and first sent Yu Pheasant City and two guards over, and the three of them went to the other side of the river, checked the surrounding reeds and grass, and then turned back to wave to show that no abnormality was found. After a while, the maiden rowed the boat back and sent two more guards over. On the third trip, Zhao Dehai and Xu Jiaolong escorted Master Fu onto the boat, and behind them, Yuan Chengjiang and the other two guards continued to wait.

On the way, the girl in the rough shirt sang a song while rocking the oars. Xu Jiaolong smiled: "Sister, your song, brother, sister, is it a love song?" Who made the song, it sounds so weird. ”

The girl said: "The person who made up this song is a great character, and it scares you to death when he says it." ”

Xu Jiaolong laughed and said: "What I said, in the past few years, there are only a few people who can be scared to death and unobstructed characters who can be shouted out, and even fewer who can make arrangements." can not only make arrangements, but also scare people to death when they say it, dare to be Ning Gongzi, who is also the leader of the Southeast Martial Arts Alliance and the champion of the Yuanlang? Do you still have time to arrange music for you? ”

The girl pursed her lips: "I can't say." ”

As he spoke, a voice suddenly came from upstream: "Little sister? ”

Fu Dingbo, Zhao Dehai, and Xu Jiaolong turned their heads to look, only to see a fishing boat rowing down from the upstream like an arrow, and the boat was a girl in red with a veil on her face. At this moment, it was evening, and the light of the water was like a bronze mirror, reflecting her in the water with the people and the boat, and the waves of the water parted to both sides, as if shuttling in the mirror.

The veiled girl in red parked the boat next to them, and said with a smile: "Little sister, are you doing a good business today?" Are you going to treat them to zongzi or give them ravioli? ”

The girl in the rough shirt said, "No, I'll help them cross the river." He glanced at the boat opposite: "It seems that you have also made a good deal today?" ”

Fu Dingbo and the others looked and saw that the side of the girl in red was covered with blood, and the blood had not yet dried, and it was shocking under the sun that was about to set.

The girl in red said: "I met a few barbarians just now, and I used the excuse of crossing the river to do something to this girl on the boat, but I didn't bother to scrape them, so I just made them into wontons." ”

On this side, even Zhao Dehai saw that the two girls were not ordinary people, and asked quietly beside Xu Jiaolong: "Xu Nuxia, what do they mean by zongzi and wontons?" ”

Xu Jiaolong sneered: "This is the jargon on ****, take people across the river with a boat, and when you get to the river, take a knife to force the guests to hand over all the silver on their bodies, and then, tie people into a ball and throw them into the river, call them to wrap zongzi, and directly cut them to death and push them into the water, called them wontons." Speaking of which, in the past, there were female shops making steamed buns in the Qinling area, and they used all human flesh filling, but they seemed to have disappeared out of thin air in the past two years. ”

Unexpectedly, such a charming two girls turned out to be female robbers who killed people and oversold goods on the rivers and lakes, Zhao Dehai, who was the minister of the imperial court, was shocked, especially when he remembered that he had also eaten steamed buns in Qinling before......

(To be continued.) )