When Wanying and her group of four people ran out of Gyeonggi quickly, more than a dozen horses of 600 li were rushed from the capital to the whole country. The whistling dust made the four of them shudder.

After sleeping in the wilderness for a few days and nights, Wanying didn't feel hard, lying on the hard car board at night, counting the stars in the sky one by one. It can also be like a dream for a while.

The increasingly dense round-trips on the official road made the four of them feel unprecedented pressure. When he arrived in Henan, Yicheng sold the carriage and exchanged it for fifty taels of silver.

The four of them decided to abandon their horses and wait for the boat, and along the old canal, all the way to the east, until they reached Nanjing, and then went to Fujian.

The four of them dressed up in disguise, Lao Lin and Yun Niang pretended to be two people, and Wanying and Hongfu disguised themselves as men and pretended to be sons.

Wanying grew up in the capital and never made a long boat journey.

Vomiting along the way, so that Wanying leaned on the boat every day, there was the sun in the morning, Wanying leaned on the shaded side, and in the afternoon, the sun moved over, and Wanying lay on the other side.

The hard work can be endured, but the abnormality that quietly happened to Hongfu aroused the vigilance of Wanying and Yunniang.

Hongfu may be pregnant! This kid must be the child of a dozen dead ghosts!

Hongfu was also aware of the changes in her body, but she was silent, as if she wanted to use silence to tell the evil seed in her stomach: "I don't care about you!" ”

On the canal, there were many cargo ships going east and west, and the post man could always exchange two peaches and a bunch of grapes in a few words, and occasionally spend a few dollars of silver to buy a few pieces of watermelon for three women to relieve the heat.

The crisp and sweet watermelon was eaten by all three of them with relish, but Hongfu only took a bite and threw up on the boat.

After experiencing the catastrophe that night, Yicheng understood the reason for Hongfu's vomiting, and nibbled on watermelon to the bow of another boat to cool off.

"Hongfu, you're pregnant!" Wanying leaned on the goofs with one hand, like a question, more like an informant!

Hongfu put the watermelon in her hand on the deck, curled up in the crook of her arm, and sat on her knees against the boat.

"Girl, it's okay, women have this experience!" Yun Niang comforted Hongfu.

"I don't plan to give birth to this evil seed, when I get off the boat, I will go to find an abortion pill, while the month is still young, I must beat this evil seed!"

Wanying put the watermelon in her hand on the deck, hugged her stomach tightly, and looked at Hongfu with understanding and understanding: "This is your own child, don't you want to give birth?" ”

"This is not my child, this is a seed of sin, I will not give birth to it."

"If you have a child, you will have something to rely on in the future, won't you?"

Wanying and Yunniang both knew that they had experienced that terrible catastrophe. Hongfu can only die alone in the torture of that night of sin in this life.

"I'd rather die than leave this seed behind."

Hongfu's determination makes people shudder, how much courage and ruthlessness does it take for a mother to cut off the child in her belly with her own hands?

The three of them were silent, and Hongfu still curled up and leaned against the boat. Wanying suddenly put Hongfu's hand on her stomach, and said softly: "Hongfu, you touch, he has come out of my belly." ”

Hongfu felt that Wanying's lower abdomen was no longer as flat as before, and it was already slightly bulging.

"Hongfu, I touch him every day, he doesn't say a word to me every day, but, you see, he's really there, right in my belly, with me." I don't know when Wanying no longer uses the word 'Bengong', maybe such a sloppy escape is no longer worthy of that noble self-title.

"Niangniang, the prince is the royal bloodline of gold and jade, of course Niangniang must be born. What is in my belly is the bane of the evil fetus, and if I give birth to him, I will mistakenly let the evil go back to the world! ”

Hongfu also had a steady stream of tears in her eyes when she said this, and she put on a red hijab, which used to be the sweetest part of Hongfu's dream, but now it was lost that night.

Once upon a time, when Hongfu and the imperial doctor named Shen Changlin looked at each other, Wanying saw some strange feelings, but now she can only pretend not to know in her heart.

In the clear canal water, sometimes mischievous fish chase and frolic on cargo ships. I heard that fish have no memory, and many tragic injuries will be forgotten as soon as you turn around. Still cruising in the water carefree. If you want to be a fish, forget about it, whether it's good or bad.

"Hongfu, it's me who has tired you!" Wanying threw her face into the bottomless river.

The tears in Yun Niang's eyes fell, and she whimpered and said, "It's okay to change it to me, I'm an old man who is half like loess, and if I die, I'll die." ”

Hongfu's tears suddenly stopped, and she smashed a piece of melon skin into the water, and the splash burst behind several people, and the boat still moved forward.

"If the bad luck really can't be stopped, I'd rather be me, Niangniang, Yunniang, and don't say it again in the future."

The melon skin that sank into the river behind him pierced a fierce son in the water, floated up leisurely, and stayed far behind the hull, farther and farther away.

"I'm going to Jiangnan soon, stop there for a day and a half, Hongfu will go to find a medicine hall and lay down this evil seed."

Hongfu insisted on doing so, and Wanying and Yunniang did not dissuade her.

The cargo ship rode the wind and waves, floated on the canal for three days and three nights, and finally arrived at Yangzhou, the terminal of the canal.

The boatman had already become buddies with Lao Lin, and thoughtfully and carefully told the four of them where the cheapest cargo ship to transfer to at that estuary. I scooped a few scoops of peanuts from the sack and stuffed them into the burden of the old forest.

"Brother, your family of four didn't occupy a place originally, I took your money when I got on the boat, you helped me on the boat for three days, and I didn't want to go, and when I saw my relatives, I came to me when I returned, and I didn't want your money."

"Brother, I've been feeling bad in my stomach these days, where is the nearest hospital in Yangzhou City?"

The boatman pointed to a road at the mouth of the river and said, "Follow this road, go two or three miles, look to the right, and you will definitely find it!"

The four of them took a boat all the way down to Yangzhou from the hinterland of the Central Plains, and when they arrived at the Yangzhou border, they also felt that the wind and water were beautiful, and even the breath in the nose was with the fragrance of fat powder.

The three men followed the path pointed out by the boatman and walked along the road. Since I saw Zhou Tieping that night, I haven't encountered the pursuers, but Zhou Tieping also said that the whole capital is now chasing Wanying, so several people are also afraid to flee all the way, and when they left Gyeonggi, they were much less populated, and several people were relieved. After getting on the boat, I was even more at ease, so after a few days, several people's guards were much more relaxed.

Along the way, I looked at the sealing in Yangzhou City, and I also felt very comfortable.

It is said that fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March, but Yangzhou City in the scorching heat of July is even more affectionate.

Wanying's grandmother's ancestral home is Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and when I was a child, I heard my grandmother say: you can't miss Yangzhou City when you visit Jiangnan, and you can't go to Slender West Lake in Yeyangzhou. Wanying is now on the boundary of Yangzhou, and she really wants to go to the scenic spots that her grandmother told her.

The ferry port is the lifeblood of Yangzhou City, and the cargo ships coming and going from south to north on the canal are lined up for thousands of miles.

Occasionally, in the middle of the cargo ships that meet end to end, you can also see a few painted boats with red pillars and pink curtains. The girl on the painting boat pulled with the ship's owner waiting to be unloaded.

Between three or two sentences of hooking up and laughing and scolding, the boatmen on the cargo ship had no intention of waiting, and jumped into the cabin of the warbler from the towering cargo pile.

At the time of a stick of incense, the boatman was deceived by Wu Nong's soft words before the unloading silver arrived.

Unable to say goodbye, the warbler was anxious to make a sum of money, and the boatman knew that his brothers were waiting anxiously outside.

Three times five divided by two, the brothers are still brothers, and they even praised Liuying for being a chivalrous woman, and even this money can be credited.

In order to thank the warbler for this righteousness, the boatmen sweated and unloaded the goods on the ship and took the silver. Hurriedly looking for the wandering warbler. At this time, I said goodbye and made an appointment to see you next time.

At the appointed time, the boat of the Wandering Warbler will wait by the canal as scheduled, and this time it will no longer squeeze into the middle of the cargo ship, but will quietly dock at the appointed location.

On both sides of the road, densely packed with guignes and shops, the smell of fried green onions in the food stalls on the street first ran to the noses of the four people in the warm summer heat. The first time Wanying heard the sound of the boiling pot, she thought the pot was going to catch fire, but after the stir-fry man checked the wok a few times, the fire in the pot was extinguished, followed by a burst of unforgettable fragrance.

The guy who stir-fried the vegetables saw that the four of them were looking here, and shouted loudly at the top of his voice: "Yangzhou fried rice is out of the pot, the emperor can't go back to the capital after eating!" ”

This kind of hawking attracted the diners to spray rice, "The emperor is tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas, who eats your broken fried rice!" ”

The man brought a plate of colorful fried rice to the front of the diners, wiped the sweat on his forehead with the white towel around his neck, and shouted at the few diners who teased him: "The emperor has eaten my fried rice, and he is full of praise!" ”

"Fart! Fart! The emperor you said wouldn't be me, I also think your fried rice is good! ”

More than a dozen diners laughed, smiled helplessly at the other side, and waved their hands at the guy.

Wanying and the four of them continued to walk forward, and suddenly a large group of people in front of them hugged together, not knowing what they were doing.

Yi Cheng vigilantly squeezed into the crowd, only to find out that this was the emperor list to announce the world.

The new emperor has ascended the throne, and sure enough, it is Prince Rong. The country name is 'Wan'an'.

"Why did the country name change again? It used to be called Yong'an, but now it's Wan'an, isn't it all the same when it comes and goes? ”

"Can it be the same? How can the new emperor use the old number, the new dynasty and the new atmosphere! Wan'an, Wan'an, Wan'an, long-term peace and stability! ”

"This new emperor's name is Wu Yuyan, and the Daxing Emperor's name is Wu Yuxian, these two people are like brothers, not like father and son!"

"You don't care if he's a brother or a father and son, in short, the taxes that should be paid will not be less than a big word, let's just look at the excitement."

A few commoners scattered boredly, and when they walked up to Wanying, they were still discussing, "Is the new emperor the son or brother of the old emperor?" ”

This sentence drifted into Wanying's ears, and Wanying pushed through the crowd like crazy and squeezed to the front.

The noon sun shone on the bright yellow emperor's list, stabbing Wanying's eyes with pain.

The emperor list that announced to the world said that the new emperor was Wu Yuyan, and the country name was 'Wan'an'.

Wanying finally waited for this day, she walked in front of the imperial list, lay on the imperial list desperately, and shouted loudly: "Liulang, you scared Qing'er to death, Liulang Qing'er is really afraid that she will never see you in this life!" ”

The tears of grievance splashed the bright yellow silk cloth, and the onlookers were stupid. Where did this madman come from, who dared to cry in broad daylight holding the emperor's list?

Seeing this, several soldiers guarding the imperial list squeezed into the crowd and shouted at Wanying: "Where did you come from called Huazi, crying and mourning, this is the imperial list of the imperial court, if you dare to howl here, Lao Tzu will stab you to death!" ”

Liulang became the emperor, that Wanying is the queen, the queen lives in Yangzhou, can the Yangzhou prefect not care?

"I am the wife of the current emperor, and I asked you Yangzhou prefect to come to see me." Wan Ying shouted at the howling soldiers.

Not only the soldiers, but even the melon-eating crowd squatting under the shade of the trees couldn't stand it: "Where did the crazy woman come from, and the wife of the emperor today?" Crazy, right? ”

"Get out, if you dare to shout here again, I will punish a crime of disturbing the peace, get out!"

Wanying has gone through several catastrophes and fled thousands of miles, and finally waited for this news, how could she give up easily?

"I am really the wife of the emperor today, and your Yangzhou prefect will send me back to Beijing quickly!"

Bing Yong saw that there were no men or women, and Wanying, who was in rags, was already impatient, took the red tassel stick in his hand, and stabbed Wanying in the heart, Wanying staggered back a few steps and fell into the dirt pit, but fortunately when she landed, her hands stopped the ground and did not hurt the child in her stomach.

Wanying is now out of her arms, and she fell to the ground all of a sudden, in case she really hurt the child, but it was terrible.

Lao Lin saw that the soldiers were barbaric and unreasonable, and kicked the soldiers who pushed Wanying to the heart. scolded and scolded: "Rotten heart and liver of the king and eight lambs, wait to open your eight eyes and see, this is Prince Rong and concubine, the future queen mother, you have lived enough?" Hurry up and call your Yangzhou prefect over, and then call an eight-lift sedan chair! ”

Wanying was pushed to the ground with good words and persuasion, and Lao Lin spoke viciously to each other, but in exchange for low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

Bing Yong was kicked by Lao Lin Woxin and almost vomited blood, lying on his back on the ground and shouting 'oops, oops, oops'.

Hongfu had already squeezed in, and when she saw Wanying falling to the ground, she hurriedly helped Wanying up with Yun Niang. Beat the dust off your body.

"Break away from your dog's eyes and take a look, this is the prince and princess of the imperial court, hurry up and call your Yangzhou prefect, this bastard, a moment later, my aunt will kill you!"

Hongfu is no longer the bold and willful little girl, but a fierce and powerful female King Kong.

'Oops, oops'. Bing Yong was still rolling on the ground.

"You can't move, can you? Grandma help you ......" Hongfu picked up the red tassel stick next to her and beat the soldiers fiercely.

Wan Ying frowned and looked at Hongfu, and then looked at Bingyong's clothes, and probably knew why Hongfu suddenly broke out.

The stick fell densely on Bing Yong, and Bing Yong begged for mercy again and again, "Grandma, I'll go now, you can stop it!" ”