Chapter 40: The Ferry

Liu Ye was sitting, holding the knife in his right hand, pushing forward hard, pushing Xu Gan's body backwards, raising his left hand above his head, his palm changed from flat to tilted, supporting the wine jar, and the palm of his hand slid and pushed the wine jar out. As soon as the wine jar broke away from Xu Gan's hand, Liu Ye's left hand grabbed the middle finger of Xu Gan's right hand, twisted it hard, and broke Xu Gan's middle finger. Xu Gan was still in pain, Ma Hong had already pounced on him with the short knife, and the short knife was inserted into his stomach in an instant. Xu Gan's stomach tumbled for a while, and then a mouthful of blood spurted out, spraying Ma Hong's face all over his face.

Liu Ye's subordinates saw that the leader had already moved, and all those who had not drunk stood up, and some people had already prepared weapons in advance, and two hundred people picked up their weapons and began to slaughter the unarmed rogues, and the rogues who did not drink were panicked for a while, and they were quickly swallowed up by the soldiers without organization. For a moment, children cried, women screamed, and the broth in the dingzhong was dyed bright red with blood spurting from the severed necks of the drunken rogues.

The boiled fat sheep was soaked in blood, and the eyes of the young children were filled with fear, and the blood sprayed to extinguish the flames. Life was sighing, the women huddled in the corners and shivered, and whimpering was heard incessantly. The women who fled were all hacked to death on the spot, and those who did not escape could only lean together and whimper quietly. The swords never intercede, and they are the closest to death drenched in blood.

Xu Gan had already fallen, he didn't even have the strength to get up, he gasped and lay in the woman's arms, pointing at Liu Ye's face with his finger, unable to say a word.

Liu Ye stretched out his foot and stepped on Xu Gan's face, stepping down heavily, and the young woman hugged Liu Ye's feet and cried: "Please, don't step on his face." ”

Liu Ye withdrew his foot and said to the young woman, "Let go of him and follow me!" ”

The young woman shook her head and said, "He is my husband, and I will not go with you." ”

Liu Ye wiped the blood on the short knife with a white cloth, put the knife together, and said to the young woman, "Don't you remember me?" ”

The young woman shook her head and said, "Yes, of course I do." ”

Liu Ye stretched out his hand to pick up the young woman's hair and said softly, "You didn't go with me last time, this time I will definitely let you go with me." ”

The young woman looked at her husband who only had her last breath left, raised her head and looked at Liu Ye stubbornly, her eyes were a pool of stagnant water, and she said fiercely: "Don't think about it." ”

When Xu Gan heard these two words, tears flowed from his eyes, and he reached out to touch his wife's face, but Liu Ye raised his foot and stomped his hand on the ground. Xu Gan was no longer powerless to resist, he exhaled his last breath and died.

Liu Ye bent down, cupped the young woman's face with both hands, and said, "If your words are just to make your husband blind, I won't blame you, if you don't want to go with me, I will take your child away." ”

Tears kept pouring out of the young woman's eyes, and she looked at the man in the green shirt with blood on it, her eyes getting blurred, and a scene came to her mind before she passed out. It was autumn, the lake was clear, but it was not as clear as the eyes of the man in the green shirt, he looked at her, the tide poured into her heart, damp and delicate, like a clear spring in the mountains washing her eyes inch by inch, she grabbed her at some point and picked up the chain of shells she wore and stuffed it into his hand. He laughed, and her whole world trembled.

It seemed like a long time had passed, and the young woman woke up and walked out of the cabin.

Ma Hong held a two-year-old boy and Liu Ye stood side by side, looking at the lake together, the autumn wind was mixed with the smell of fish, I don't know if it was the smell of blood on their hands, or the smell of fish from the lake. Neither Ma Hong nor Liu Ye noticed the woman standing not far behind them.

Liu Ye suddenly said, "Senior brother, why do you say she refuses to go with me?" ”

Ma Hong stretched out his hand and touched the little boy's face, and said, "Do you like her?" ”

Liu Ye nodded.

Ma Hong asked again: "Like her, when she is still a girl, will you marry her?" ”

Liu Ye nodded, shook his head again and said, "I want to marry her, but I can't marry her." ”

Ma Hong smiled and said, "And now that she is a wife, do you want to marry her?" ”

Liu Ye said: "I just came to see her and took her away by the way." ”

Ma Hong sighed and said, "It seems that she is living quite happily, where are you going to take her?" ”

Liu Ye said: "She is happiest only when she is rowing in this lake, and she is always smiling at that time." ”

Ma Hong didn't speak, Liu Ye just saw her rowing, his heart was happy. In this era, there is no love, Ma Hong said to himself.

One is a descendant of the royal family, the other is an ordinary fisherwoman, this difference in identity is like the stars in the night sky, even if their light meets, they can never touch each other.

The woman stood behind Liu Ye, she had already stretched out her arms, she was going to jump into the lake with Liu Ye in her arms, if she took Liu Ye down, according to her water nature, she would definitely let Liu Ye drown in this lake. But now that she heard the conversation between Liu Ye and Ma Hong, tears rained down, she couldn't help hugging Liu Ye's back from behind, opening her mouth and crying.

Liu Ye just stood like this, and waited until the boat landed, but Liu Ye didn't speak. She let go of her hand, Liu Ye stepped off the boat, looking at her, her eyes were moist and warm, she looked into his eyes, if he asked her now if she would like to go with her, she would definitely go with him without hesitation.

Liu Ye pointed to a new boat not far away and said to the woman: "Look, that new boat is what I prepared for you, and you will stay at your ferry in the future!" No one is going to take you away. ”

The woman looked at Liu Ye's eyes, and at that moment, the center of her lake was frozen for three thousand miles.

Ma Hong handed the little boy in his arms into the woman's arms and slowly walked off the boat. Liu Ye turned to leave, got on the horse and did not look back, Ma Hong rode a horse and followed Liu Ye to a small hill, and vaguely saw the woman standing on the bow of the boat with the child. At this time, a thought suddenly popped up in Ma Hong's heart, if the woman didn't say two words to Liu Ye: Don't think, will Liu Ye take her out of this ferry.

Thinking of this, Ma Hong stopped the horse and stopped, and Ma San also stopped the horse and asked, "Childe, what's wrong?" ”

Ma Hong said: "Let Ma Wu take some food brought from the island and send it to the woman, and leave her two pieces of money, and then you let Ma Liu go and see if the woman has received two pieces of money." ”

Ma San instantly understood Ma Hong's intentions, Ma Hong said that Ma Wu's matter should be put down, and letting it go is not to let it go, and the son is now going to test Ma Wu. If Ma Wu embezzled the money given to the woman, then Ma Wu's life would be gone. Childe can emotionally indulge Ma Wu to disobey his orders once, but he will never allow Ma Wu to disobey his orders a second time, even if Ma Wu really needs money to treat his children.

Ma Hong rode a horse and suddenly looked up to the sky and said, "Women thousands of years later, how lucky you are. ”

When Ma Hong and Liu Ye returned to the gate of Chengde, Ma Wu walked to Ma Hong's side and said, "Childe, the woman said that she would hand over this string of copper coins to Liu Gongzi." ”

Ma Hong took a string of copper coins strung with red thread, and Ma Hong remembered that the original string of copper coins was strung around the boy's neck, and now what the woman meant by giving the copper coins to Liu Ye. At this time, Ma Hong's mind suddenly remembered the past that Liu Ye told him, every time Liu Ye saw the woman, he would give her a copper coin, Ma Hong counted the number of copper coins, it was twenty-three, which was the number of times Liu Ye went to the transition before.

Ma Hong patted Ma Wu's shoulder and said, "Old Five, rest assured, your child will definitely grow up healthy." ”

Ma San breathed a sigh of relief, Ma Wu finally did not disappoint his son.