We went out of the gate in one breath, and then went west for thirty miles, and we sat down in a small tea shed for a short rest.

The horses were running too fast and tired. And I had a cool morning breeze early in the morning, but I was in good spirits.

I hadn't used my watch for a long time, and I looked at it, and it wasn't even seven o'clock. There were still two quarters of an hour left before he was found out.

I looked around at the people who were hurrying around, and there were quite a few handlebar trucks waiting for the merchants. I said, "Xue Moxuan, wait for me to hire a carriage or take a ride, you can go back!" Thank you for sending me this paragraph! ”

He put down the tea bowl and looked at him with the same clear gaze as Nian Yi'an: "What are you doing?" Is this going to cross the river and tear down the bridge? ”

I looked him squarely: "We all have our own way to go. ”

He pouted: "Do you think I rushed back to change my armor and led the horse out with you, isn't it serious?" My intuition tells me where you go in the future, I will go. ”

I grinned, "Please! We've only met twice, and today we're the third. ”

He waved his hand: "Ahem! For some people, it is enough to meet in person. ”

I white him: "Oily tongue." ”

He became serious: "I don't talk to other people like that. ”

I didn't argue with him anymore, put a few dollars on the table, and got up to ask for the handlebar style on the side.

"This big brother, how much silver does it cost to hire a car to Liangsu County, Yizhou?"

The emaciated figure said, "Yo, girl, there's a war going on there, and most people don't like to go, it's messy!" ”

I smiled and said, "Since there is a war, there must be a lot of people coming out, and when the eldest brother returns, he can carry one more merchant." ”

The handlebar style scratched his head, and his hair was covered with a turban and a thin layer of ash. He frowned and said, "This is also a long way!" Does the girl have to go by land? Why don't you be sent to Linghuadu, and you go down by water? You can still rest on the big boat, there are fewer bumps, and the scenery is beautiful! ”

As soon as I heard that I was going south along the river, I was interested: "Where is Ling Huadu?" Is there any natural insurance? Is there a bandit? ”

The handlebar style laughed and bared his yellowish teeth: "How could that be!" This waterway is the old road into Shu, when the land route was not so smooth in the past, the older generation took this waterway. Starting from here, we will arrive at Linghuadu at this hour tomorrow. ”

Xue Moyan echoed on the side: "This is okay!" When the boat goes down, my horse can rest. ”

I thought about it and thought it would work. So I negotiated the price with the handlebar and got into the car with a pointed point.

Although he didn't pay much attention to Yang Mojiao, he kept happily following by the carriage. From time to time, he chatted with me: "Hey, a certain rabbit, it's okay to ride a horse over, but you have to take a car again, so arrogant and proud!" ”

I leaned down at the car door and fed the sharp tip pears: "Just in case you can't see it?" Originally, the journey was supposed to be uneventful, but maybe you became the biggest villain, but I don't know! ”

"Hey——, you kidnapped me!"

"Then you Malier go back, the world is peaceful."

"If you don't go back, you won't go back."

He played Lai, and when he got tired from riding for a while, he also got on the cart. The carriage was now sheathed with two horses, and for a while it felt much lighter.

Take out the fried pine nuts you just bought at the tea shed, peel them and eat them to pass the time.

Xue Moyun also grabbed a handful, but the ren'er that was peeled out was all poured back into my palm, and then approached me and whispered: "I said, you little palace maid said that you will go home when you go home, is this considered a smuggling from the palace?" ”

I tasted the sweet fragrance of pine nuts and disagreed: "Maybe forget it, after all, the palace has not been removed." Then learn his tone: "I said, you Yu Lin Wei is on duty, and you just ran away, are you absenteeism for no reason?" ”

He also looked leisurely, threw a pine nut into his mouth and knocked it: "If you are absent from work, you will be absent from work." The world is big, come out to travel through the mountains and rivers, so as not to waste time~"

I laughed, "Oh, okay, it's yours." ”

He winked at me, "Don't worry, I'll help you get home." ”

I suddenly felt a warmth in my heart, and looked at him with burning eyes, but soon I lowered my head again and stroked my sharp hairs.

After a day and a night, the bones of the whole body are about to fall apart. Finally, at dawn the next day, they arrived at Linghuadu.

Sharp tip is sleeping with his mouth open in his cloth pocket. And just now, I should have looked like this.

When I got out of the car, the scent of grass steamed with morning dew.

As soon as you raise your eyes, the water mist and river breeze are curling.

The water is green. The grass smoke on both sides of the strait is low. Aoyama Cry Zi Gui.

The mountains in front of you are endless, the water outside the mountains is headless, and the clouds on the water are long.

The bridge is not big, the facilities are outdated, and the wooden planks of the pier creak as soon as they step on it. The ship is still ahead, and there are already more than a dozen travelers waiting for the ship's home.

The handlebar type said, "Wait, wait." There is only one boat a day at this ferry and it departs at the end of the day. Don't run around, if you miss the time, you'll have to wait another day. ”

We nodded, took the money from the handlebars, and waved goodbye to us.

The mountain rain is coming, and the ice drizzle is entangled. I quickly raised my face, which counted as today's washing and gargling.

Xue Moyun smiled and followed my example.

The water droplets bounce on the skin, and it is very comfortable.

A passer-by beckoned to us: "Hey, that little brother and little girl, don't dare to get drenched anymore, the boat journey will take seven or eight days!" If you have a wind, there is nowhere to prescribe medicine! ”

Listen to people's advice and eat well. We laughed, took the pony on our backs, carried the food we had bought along the way, and hid under the felt shed with the people waiting for the boat.

The rivers and rivers are beautiful, the empty valley is quiet, and there is only the sound of rustling and rain.

I was suspicious: "This time the exodus is too smooth." ”

In Xue Moyao's consciousness and I, we only thought that the palace was just a little female official and a little guard, which was not enough to worry about.

Unexpectedly, there was a sudden storm in the palace. Concubine Shu and my aunt knelt in the Hall of Manna for an hour on the day we left. At the same time, two waves of men were sent to the palace to search for our whereabouts.

However, a wave of people was sincerely arrested, and a wave of people deliberately released water. ——This has also become the key factor for us to reach Linghuadu safely.

As for why this is so, and why the departure of little people can stir up a thousand waves, this is all a story later.

Now, with the early cold river breeze blowing and a light rain on his body, he subconsciously tightened his clothes. There's a spike in the back, and it's quite warm. At this time, I feel that the scorching heat brought by the hot summer has dissipated. Heaven and earth nourish, soothing in the heart.

An old man Weng saw that everyone was bored standing there, so he spoke: "Do you know, what is the origin of the name of this Ling Huadu?" ”

None of the people present answered.

He stroked his white beard and said slowly: "Earlier, this ferry was full of Lingxiao flowers, hence the name. Every summer to autumn, yes, it is this time when the flowers bloom the most beautifully. This flower is shaped like a trumpet, the inner core is bright red, the appearance is orange and yellow, and with this water and sky, it makes people's hearts warm when they look at it. ”

Someone asked, "Why is it missing now?" ”

The old man continued: "Lingxiao flowers need to be grown on a bamboo shed, and someone needs to take care of them from time to time. In the beginning, there was a family next to this pier, who had lived here for several generations, and planted a large field of flowers. This Ling Xiao could have been used in medicine, so from time to time there were drug dealers to collect it. ”

Someone had a bad mouth: "Isn't it, the drug dealer and the girl in this family got along later?" ”

They laughed.

The old man glanced at the man and continued, "You're half right. At that time, everyone said that the girl of this family fell in love with this man first, but I don't think so. If it weren't for the bad intentions of the drug dealers, how could a simple and pure girl like a black lacquer pickled goods. ”

"And then? And then? ”

Later, the drug dealer stepped on the dog shit and took a lot of luck, and the villain became a character. The girl was miserable, and was abandoned by the people from the beginning to the end, and stayed at this ferry, and her heart was sad and her soul was lost, and she played with the snakes and insects of the ground every day. ”

"And then something strange happened!"

When the story came to this, everyone was interested, and they all looked at the old man with twinkling eyes.

"The girl is inexplicably close to the snake. Until one morning, the grandmother called the girl to dinner. But the girl didn't see it...... And on the girl's kang, there is a big snake lying there! Orange-yellow serpent! ”

"Ah?!!!h The crowd was noisy.

The old man stretched out his index finger and pointed: "This big snake with the same color as orange peel is not afraid when it sees someone coming." But the old couple couldn't walk because of their weak legs at that time! The snake silently got off the kang and crawled out. From that day on, there was a big orange-peeled snake hanging on the Lingxiao vine outside! ”

The old man smiled: "Zhenzhen'er is about the same color as Lingxiao flowers, and they are usually hidden in the flowers." But once I passed under the bamboo hut, and when my neck was cold, it was the snake's tail that came down! Scared me, Sayangzi ran away. ”

There were laughing and scared people in the crowd, and there were goosebumps falling all over the place......

Someone asked, "Did the girl turn into a snake?" Or did the snake eat the girl? ”

The old man shook his head: "This matter has become an unsolved case. But what can be determined is that the girl is gone. And there is one more spiritual snake. The old couple saw that this snake was human, and they kept it. Later, it was discovered that she could also speak human words, but only the words "yes" and "no"! ”

Hearing this, I opened my cherry mouth: "Wow~~, isn't someone coming to divination?" ”

The old man looked at me: "Yes! When people from all over the country heard about it, they all came to ask about it. The old couple made a lot of money because of this. ”

Then he let out a sigh: "However, the good times don't last long!" There were many rumors, and in order to make this old scandal disappear, the big man razed the garden and the family to the ground overnight, and the snake was gone. It was as if nothing had happened......"

The young people chimed in: "Yes! Oh, yes! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have heard of it. ”

The old man sighed again: "Naturally, there are fewer people who have experienced this. Now, forty years later, no one has mentioned it. ”

Xue Moyun sighed: "At the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, there were really a lot of evil things that happened. ”

The old man smiled and said, "Yes! When the Li family entered the palace, they heard that there was a pair of white phoenixes opening the way in front of them! ”

My eyes flashed, and my heart moved.

A pair of white phoenixes! Xuanhu Palace closed one, and the other one should be the one that was in the underground palace mausoleum, and it was the one that was amazed.

Looking at the river ahead, a red leaf is from far and near.

"The ship is coming, the ship is coming." People have lifted their luggage and hula-la-la-hued to squeeze forward, ready to board the ship.