Chapter 82: Meeting the Dead in a Foreign Country
"Big brother, Zhiyong Shuangquan, Zhiyong Shuangquan" Zhang Hong and the others watched Li Shan's safe recovery of the silver, and the crowd cheered. Li Shan smiled and said: "Okay, everyone still has to be concerned in the future, this road is far away, maybe there will be some accidents, cheer up." ”
Zhang Hong was still ashamed, Li Shan patted him on the shoulder and said: "I don't blame you for this matter, you have to cheer me up, the tadpoles of the Qinglong cousins are looking at you, what if you let them hang your head and let them do it?" Even if you have suffering, you can't show it, you must be a hall master who is as stable as Mount Tai in front of everyone. ”
Zhang Hong nodded, bowed down and said, "I have memorized the teachings of the eldest brother, and I will not embarrass the heavens and the earth." ”
"Alright, let's go. This little girl has no one to take care of, let's save people to the end, send the Buddha to the west, just take her. We're going to get on our way as soon as possible, and we're keeping up with the salt merchants. Li Shan arranged.
Along the way, the group of salt merchants did not seem to notice the whereabouts of Li Shan and his party. The two teams traveled for four days and arrived at Wanzhou City. Strangely, the salt merchant did not continue to move forward, but stayed in Wanzhou City.
"Big brother, did you say that those people found out that we were following them?" In Li Yunshu's room, Zhang Hong asked. Li Shan took a bowl of medicinal soup, scooped a spoonful and gently blew it cold, and sent it to Li Yunshu's mouth: "Ah, open your mouth." Yun Shu is obedient, I can only get better after taking medicine, listen to my brother's words. ”
This is the little girl who was saved before, and the little girl's parents also died of illness, so she became an orphan. The girl had to find her mother as soon as she woke up, and Li Shan had never felt the pain in another person's heart so deeply, because the despair he felt when he first crossed over was too similar to the little girl's mood now.
Li Shan felt sorry for this little girl, so he recognized her as his godsister. The little girl's family was a farmer and had little education, so she named the little girl Dog. Li Shan naturally couldn't call it that, so he named the little girl Li Yunshu, hoping that she could live a comfortable life like a white cloud in the sky every day. In the past few days, Li Yunshu has accepted Li Shan, after all, he eats well and dresses warmly every day. Li Shan tried to make her laugh every day and gave her fairy tales, and even Zhang Hong said that Li Shan was better to Li Yunshu than his own sister.
"No, it's too bitter." Li Yunshu has always been very resistant to drinking medicine, Li Shan was very patient, took out a candy and shook it, and said, "Look, Yunshu is good, hurry up and drink it, my brother will give you candy to eat." Li Yunshu looked at the sugar in Li Shan's hand, swallowed his saliva, took the bowl in Li Shan's hand, frowned, and drank all the medicine in one go.
"This little girl is really smart, she doesn't scatter eagles when she doesn't see rabbits. She knew big brother that you would bring out the candy. Zhang Hong stood aside and said with a smile. Li Shan hurriedly peeled the sugar and put it in Li Yunshu's mouth, covered her with the quilt again, and then got up and said, "Yunshu is smart, after all, it is my sister." Alright, let's go out and let her have a good rest. ”
"If you find it, you will find it, if you don't find it, it doesn't matter. Since they stopped in Wanzhou City, we also rested here for two days, and I watched them go as if they had been walking along the Yangtze River. As far as I know, there is a large salt producing area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, called Zigong. I guess they're going that way. "Li Shan made a deduction based on the memories of his previous life." If it is to transport salt in the direction of Jingzhou, I estimate that most of them will take the waterway, so let's go to the wharf to have a look. It should be rewarding. ”
After lunch, Li Shan took Zhang Hong and Dongyang Dao Chang to the wharf in Wanzhou.
"Big brother, there should be a lot of merchants coming and going around here, right?" , Li Shanzheng chatted with a young man carrying a bag on the dock. "What are you trying to transport?"
"That's a lot, I carry a lot of things every day. There are tea, silk brocade, and official salt. As long as Shu wants to go to the east, everything has to go through Wanzhou, and this waterway is more convenient than the road, so they all take this waterway. Simple working people, Li Shan asked him for a bowl of tea and opened his chatterbox, seeing the bow of the boat shouting, the young man drank the tea in one go, got up and left: "Big brother, thank you for your tea, I still have to be busy." ”
Li Shan got up and said, "Let's go." At this moment, a shout came from afar: "Help, the robber has killed someone, help." Li Shan rushed over when he heard the sound, but saw an old man, Shen Linfeng. Li Shan saw him nearly a year ago, when Li Shan just crossed over, he didn't expect to meet here this time, it was really a life where not to meet.
It's just that Shen Linfeng doesn't have the demeanor he had before this time, or he is very embarrassed. There were several wounds on his body, and if Li Shan remembered correctly, there was also a scholar of his who was with Shen Linfeng at the beginning, and now that scholar is gone. Shen Linfeng's four masked men surrounded him and couldn't get out, although he was holding a knife to block left and right, but after all, his two fists were hard to beat with four hands, and he was overturned under the horse if he was careless.
Li Shan hurriedly said: "Dongyang Dao Chief, go and save him." Hearing this, the Taoist chief flew away, and Zhang Hong also followed and fought with the four of them. Li Shanduo went to help Shen Linfeng and said, "Brother Shen, don't come unharmed, I didn't expect to see you here." Shen Linfeng also recognized Li Shan, and said with a sigh of relief: "Thank you Brother Li for saving me, these people are extremely fierce, Brother Li should be careful." ”
Li Shan was still very relieved of Dongyang Daoist, and comforted Shen Linfeng and said: "Don't worry, my subordinates are peerless masters, and no one can help him." "Sure enough, the Dongyang Daoist has already gained the upper hand with one enemy and three enemies, but Zhang Hong is a little invincible and struggles to support it. The four of them saw that things were stuck and didn't like to fight, and after blocking the Dongyang Dao Chief, one of them shouted: "There is no chance, withdraw." Then the four men mounted their horses and fled.
Li Shan asked: "I see that those people are strong in martial arts and well-trained, they don't seem to be ordinary mountain bandits, how could Brother Shen provoke these people to make such a mess?" Shen Linfeng tore off the corner of his clothes and bandaged his wound a few times, hugged his fists and said: "Brother Li's life-saving grace, Shen remembers it, but there are some things that are difficult for Shen to say." Shen was about to board the ship and go back to Suzhou, and if Brother Li could come to Suzhou in the future, he would definitely come to Shen's house in Gusu, so he said that he was a friend of Shen. Linfeng must thank Brother Li well. While saying that he had already gotten to the dock, Shen Linfeng was about to leave after finding the boatman. Li Shan saw that he was in a hurry, and it was not easy to stop him, so he saw him off at the dock.
Having already gotten on the boat, Shen Linfeng ran down again and said, "Brother Li, Linfeng can't say too much, but the gang of people who killed me just now are all ruthless characters, and they will definitely be angry with you when I am saved by Brother Li this time." I hope that Brother Li will be more careful and take his leave. ”
Come and go in a hurry, but it is only a time to say goodbye from the meeting road. Li Shan didn't have time to think about it, but when he calmed down, he seemed to feel that everything was so strange. Dongyang Dao said: "Young master, those four people must be not small. ”
"Why did the Taoist say that?" Li Shan asked.
"Just now I fought with those people, and found that one of them made a move, which seems to contain Taoist kung fu, and it is a Taoist superior martial art, and the other people's kung fu is also quite sharp, and it seems that they are specially trained to kill people." Dongyang Daoist slowly analyzed. "Although Taoist martial arts is divided into several sects, they all belong to the same sect, and the current emperor advocates Taoism, so now Taoism is mostly for the royal family, so poor Dao feels that these people are very likely to be related to the imperial court. If this is the case, the identity of that Shen Gongzi is a little suspicious. ”
Li Shan looked at the Jiang Zhou in the distance, because it was going downstream, and in a blink of an eye, he couldn't really see it. Li Shan couldn't figure out Shen Linfeng's identity, but vaguely felt that he would have something to do with the salt merchant Shen Teng? Not only because both of them are surnamed Shen, but also because of the temperament of the two of them, Li Shan has this idea. If this is the case, then this Shen Teng may not be just a simple salt merchant.