Chapter 202: Changes at the Ferry (1)
Chen Wei looked at me, was silent for a moment, and then put away his sword and shouted, "Go and lead the horse!" β
The five soldiers ran away when they were given the order.
"Ah Yu." Wuxian looked at Ah Yu beside him.
"Yes!" Ah Yu lifted the scimitar and chased after him.
At this time, Chen Pan's hand hanging down suddenly pinched my little finger, he took a breath, and said intermittently: "Girl, you led Zhao Wuxian into the palace and fled with the king, and my father will not spare you." You leave the king behind, and run away! β
His hands were as cold as ice, his palms were full of sweat, and he couldn't stop shivering when he was half leaning on me.
It shouldn't be, I just burned two pills, how could he be in pain like this?
"What did you do to him? He has an old disease in his chest, are you going to kill him! "I was wondering in my heart, and Chen Zhi's thunderous roar exploded in my ears.
My body shook, and the dagger in my hand almost cut into Chen Pan's neck: "You go farther!" My heart was in turmoil, and I yelled at Chen Zhi in a dumb voice.
"She scared you, and you scared her. Brother Chen, let's stand farther away! "Wuxian helped Qi Hou to come to my side.
Chen Wei pursed his lips tightly and jumped back to a foot away.
I patted Chen Pan's face and said, "Chen Pan, wake up!" I promise you, as long as your father retires from the army, I will give you an antidote. β
Chen Pan leaned his head on my shoulder, closed his eyes and smiled: "My silly girl, my father has four sons-in-law, one and three who died. I'll tell you a secret, my brother, who is a year younger, can't be a son. He loves to fight, to cut off people's heads, to skin people. If I die here today, twenty years from now, you will regret it. β
"How dare you threaten me when death is imminent......" I looked at the weak smile on the corner of his mouth, and my heart could no longer harden. At that time, he and I were still living in Qilan Pavilion, and there were mosquitoes in the house, so he put on the white cloth and shook the fan next to my bed all night. When I woke up in the morning, I didn't say anything, I just laughed, and my smile was as ugly as it is now.
"Girl, you're soft-hearted, aren't you? I knew you were soft-hearted...... "Chen Pan's head was tilted, like a dream.
"Ah Shi, he is telling the truth. If his younger brother Chen Liao takes charge of the Qi State in the future, you will really regret it. Wuxian glanced at Chen Pan and whispered in my ear.
"Why are one or both of you in such tattered bodies! It's just a slow poison that hurts your body and consumes your life, and it makes it look like I've drugged you heavily. I was angry and annoyed, took out the antidote from my arms, and stuffed it into Chen Pan's mouth viciously, "Swallow it!" A few days ago, when I said that Ah Su had chest pain, why didn't I say that I was also in pain? If I knew, I would have burned a lark vine far away today, and you wouldn't have to die or live like this! β
"Poison that kills the body? Oh, what a ruthless woman, I am so good to you......" Chen Pan swallowed the medicine, laughed twice and fainted.
"Master, the horse is here!" As he spoke, Ah Yu and the soldiers pulled out four horses from the dense forest.
"Master Chen!" A soldier ran to Chen Shun's side with a depressed face and said bitterly, "That man let the other horses go and killed your horses......
"Zhao Wuxian!" Hearing this, Chen Yi raised his head suddenly. He was so angry with the loss of his beloved horse that he could not help himself. Wuxian only said sorry lightly, and then bent down and put the fainting Chen Pan on his horse.
"You can't take him away!" Chen Wei took a step forward and shouted.
I kicked the horse's belly and walked to Wuxian's side, bowed my head and said to Chen: "Master Chen, the poison in Chen Shizi still needs to be taken for two more days." If I leave him behind, he will collapse and die in less than half a month. After three days, if we are safe, I will detoxify him and let him go. If I see you again in these three days, I will destroy the medicine and give you a living corpse to bring back!" β
Chen Yi looked at me, the expression on his face changed from shock to stiffness, and finally turned into deep pain: "I misjudged you!" It turns out that you are such a vicious woman. I won't hunt you down, but Xiangye's people will never let you go. β
"Then Wuxi, I have to ask Brother Chen to be a dumb man for another three days, and lead away your father's people for us!" After speaking, Wuxian pulled the reins of the horse, shouted, and drove the horse to gallop.
Qi Hou took his wife Lu Ji, and Ah Yu rode a horse with a scimitar to catch up.
Chen Wei looked at me in a daze, and there was an inexplicable surge of emotion in his eyes.
What does he want? My explanation? My commitment?
I silently glanced at him with the reins of my horse, and rushed out with a loud shout.
Liuzhou Ferry, an abandoned ferry. In addition to the sound of wind and water, there are only a few sparrows pecking grass seeds among the rocks and weeds.
"Master, where have all those who answered died? Even if he is killed by Chen Yana, he should keep a corpse? Ah Yu wondered after riding his horse around the weedy and empty ferry.
Wuxian paced two steps with the reins of the horse, with no expression on his face, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking at the moment. "You stay here, I'll take a look." He beat his horse and galloped to the ferry, and I followed with my horse's belly.
Liuzhou was originally a place where the Qi people and the Yan people from the north sold illicit salt in exchange for leather goods, and it has been abandoned since the Qi State issued a decree prohibiting the sale of illicit salt decades ago. The merchants of Yan State opened another business market, and the small merchants and hawkers of Qi State were also relocated to Linzi City by the city. Year after year, this Liuzhou ferry is gradually forgotten. Passenger ships and merchant ships heading south no longer berth here. However, the horse trail built by the merchants of Qi and Yan in order to buy and sell illicit salt has been preserved. Barren, accessible, that's why Wuxian chose to meet people here.
But such a wonderful place was easily discovered. How did Chen Pan know that we were coming here? Chen Yi was still in the Qi Palace just now, why did he go to Liuzhou in a blink of an eye and capture Mrs. Qi Lu Ji? What about the people who are not arranged to be picked up? Why didn't anyone come? I had a lot of questions in my stomach, but I didn't ask any of them.
Wuxian should have felt as lost and confused as I did at the moment, and Chen Pan's sudden appearance obviously disrupted his original careful plan.
Riding straight to the wooden bridge where the boats were parked at the ferry, I rode back and forth along the river bank with the thought of the Fat Temple and the Swordsman. Eventually, Swordsman's body was found in a green reed. He was stripped of his crown and the robes and shoes of the guards on his body, and he lay on his back on the bank of the river wearing only a bloody fine Gebri shirt, a pair of barefoot stained with mud and weeds half-soaked in the river.
I felt a grief in my heart, jumped off my horse, and ran to the corpse in a few steps.
The swordsman looked at the sky with his eyes open, and there were several wounds on his hands and legs, the most fatal one being a two-inch-long sword wound in his throat.
I leaned over and rubbed his half-stiff brow, and gently closed his eyes for him: "I'm sorry, I can't bring your brother to see you." He may have walked a little earlier than you, and if you run a few steps briskly on the Huangquan Road, you may still meet him, and you can walk side by side for another ride. Mrs. Qi, we have rescued us, you can go with peace of mind! "I dragged his feet up from the river and found a few reeds and a few bushes of branches to cover his body.
"Ah Shiβ" Wuxian called me from the riverbank.
"Here!" I turned around and looked around, but I didn't find the body of the fat temple man, so I hurriedly climbed the river embankment, turned over and got on my horse, "Did you find anything?" β
Wuxian saluted the corpse of Swordsman from afar, pulled the reins and turned the horse's head: "The person who answered may have gone wrong and hasn't arrived yet." β
"How do you know they're not here yet?"
"The cinnabar stone I hid under the stake has not been replaced with green lacquer stone, which means that they have not yet arrived."
"So where are we going now? How are they going to meet us next? β
"I left a black lacquered stone. When they saw it, they naturally knew that Liuzhoudu was no longer safe. We're going to the second rendezvous. Wuxian raised his horsewhip at Qi Hou and Ah Yu, and shouted loudly: "Quick, follow me!" β
"The second rendezvous point? Is it safe? β
"Safe for the time being, I've only told one person about the location. As soon as he sees the black lacquered stone, he will bring someone to us. β
"Who? Is it reliable? β
"A man who may betray me, but will never betray you." Seeing Qi Hou and Ah Yu chasing after him, Wuxian stopped talking, only clamped the horse's belly and swung a few whips.
"Drinkβ" I tightened my grip on the reins and sped away toward a cloud on the northern horizon.
Everyone hurried up, wading around the creek and hiding their whereabouts. In the evening, we finally arrived at a canyon.
Wuxian unloaded the reins of the horse, let go of the four horses, carried Chen Pan on his back, and let Ah Yu carry Lu Ji on his back, led us into the canyon, and climbed up a hillside. Finally, stop in front of a cave covered in vines.
"Ah Shi, you go up first with your honor, and I'll go find some water and food." Wuxian handed Chen Pan to Ah Yu.
"The widow will go with you!" Qi Hou handed Lu Ji into my hands, picked up his sword and followed Wuxian towards the forest.
I pulled my hair up in a bun and scattered, and a dejected Ruggie burrowed into the cave behind the green vines. The walls of the cave were smooth and level, with no water seepage or moss, and the ground was covered with a pile of dry thatch in addition to gravel and gravel. I helped Ruggie to sit down on the thatch.
Lu Ji was frightened too much along the way, and he had long lost the mean appearance he had when he was commanding in the Qi Palace, and he shrank back, completely becoming a stupid old woman.
"Ah Yu, let me take a look at your wounds." I got up and walked towards Ah Yu.
After Ah Yu put down the Chen Pan on his back, he was leaning against the cave wall and looking down to check the wound on his waist, when he saw me coming, he hurriedly covered it with his clothes: "Don't look at it, girl, dirty your hands." β
"You let me see, I'll go out to collect medicine later." I reached for the fish clothes.
Ah Yu grabbed my hand: "No need, it will be fine in a few days." Where is this called injury? Don't make too much fuss, girl. β
"If you suffer a sword wound, you are most likely to have a fever, if you fall tomorrow, how can your master drag us waste people out of the Qi country alone! If you shirk it any more, you will be unjust to your master. β
"The girl wants to see it, just look at it!" Ah Yu sighed and took off all the coats and underwear on his body at once.
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