"Princess, it's me." Xiao Meng deliberately lowered it, but he was still as happy as a bird's voice sounded outside the door.

Qingqing immediately got up and went to open the door, and a gust of cold wind swept into a tightly wrapped person, Luo Yan just wanted to ask, why did he come so early. Xiao Meng has quickly opened his mouth: "The princess must have not slept all night, yesterday I heard the guards say, this Yangtze River to see the sunrise, the scenery is extremely beautiful, after today, the boat from Yangzhou into the canal, it is difficult to see such a wide water surface!" I asked the veteran on the ship again, and said it must be a sunny day. So I ran to the kitchen early in the morning to heat up a few cakes, let's eat quickly, just go to the deck to watch the sun and go out, and then come back secretly, don't let Mother Li know, otherwise it's another good meal! ”

Luo Yan couldn't help but laugh, so she got up and put on her coat, Qingqing was also interested, poured three cups of water from the kettle, and Xiao Meng took out a small bag with several layers from the cloak, which contained three hot scallion oil cakes. Luo Yan felt slightly greasy, but seeing that the two of them were looking at her with blank eyes, she had to take one in her hand, take a bite, chew it slowly, and then send it down with hot tea.

She began to eat, and the two took the cake and laughed and ate it, Luo Yan just swallowed three bites, felt her stomach tumbling slightly, and hurriedly pressed it down with tea. But they had already eaten clean, and Xiao Meng also asked: "This cake is nothing on weekdays, how can it be extra sweet today." It's not that the cooks on this ship are exceptionally skilled. ”

Luo Yan couldn't help laughing and said: "What does it have to do with the cook, it's obviously that the taste of eating secretly in the dark is extraordinarily fragrant!" Then he put down the bread in his hand: "I can't eat it, how long will the sunrise be?" ”

Qingqing hurriedly wrung hot water with a handkerchief, let Luo Yan wipe her hands, and she and Xiao Meng also wiped it, and said, "I'll take a look." He wrapped himself in a cloak and ran out. In the blink of an eye, he ran back: "There are already some clouds in the east, and it looks like it will be a quarter of an hour at most." It's very cold outside, so I'll find a thicker one first. Needless to say, he lit the candle first, and then opened the two cages in the room in turn, and sure enough, he found a large cloak.

Luo Yan saw that it was actually a big wool cloak worn on a snowy day, and couldn't help laughing: "Dressed like this in the morning, I'm afraid that I won't be beaten as a bear?" Xiao Meng has helped find a pair of high-waisted big wool boots, and while pressing Luo Yan to put them on, he said: "Good princess, you have pity on me, if you don't wear more, in case you catch a cold, let Mother Li know that I pinched you to watch the sunrise freeze, do you want my little life?" ”

Luo Yan had to wrap herself into a fluffy zongzi by them, and let her and Qingqing also wrap a thick skirt and cover an extra cloak outside, and the three of them tiptoed open the door and walked out, and saw two female guards in front of them, thinking that Xiao Meng had already told them just now, and the two of them didn't make a sound, just smiled and saluted. The three of them went to the deck in a sneaky and hidden way.

The river breeze in the early winter morning is really strong, fortunately, Luo Yan is really dressed, only a pair of eyes are exposed, when looking around, sure enough, the river is surging, the water surface is wide, the trees on the north bank look very small, where the river rushes away in the east, there is faintly red from the clouds, seeing that the color of the cloud is gradually changing, it seems that there is a ball of pigment slowly impregnated from the horizon, dyeing a small piece of gorgeous and colorful world, and the whole canopy gradually turns blue. It's just that the sun refused to show up for a long time, and Luo Yan couldn't help but think of the experience of watching a concert in her previous life, and the long-awaited expectations were somewhat similar to this time.

When he was in a trance, suddenly Xiao Meng shouted: "Come out!" Sure enough, a little red was already revealed in the clouds, and I saw that the red turned from a point to a bend, from a bend to a hook, and gradually became more and more round, and finally jumped out!

The sky was already a magnificent orange, and the intersection of water and sky seemed to be on fire. The red sun gradually rose, the light turned from red to orange red, and then to golden red, and ten thousand golden scales appeared on the rushing river. Luo Yan only felt that a heart seemed to gradually become bright and vast.

Seeing that the lower deck was gradually full of people, and even some sergeants looked up curiously, Qingqing said, "Let's go back quickly, otherwise Mother Li should get up." Luo Yan and Xiao Meng looked at each other and smiled, and the three of them turned around and walked back, but they saw a person striding towards them, but it was Xue Ming, who had not been seen for several days.

Luo Yan's heart sank, and she wanted to turn a blind eye and walk away, but Xue Ming came up and saluted: "The princess is so Yaxing." Luo Yan only felt that there was still a mocking look in her eyes, and she was even more unhappy in her heart, so she nodded indiscriminately and wanted to turn around. Xue Ming looked at her directly and said, "Xue Ming has something to talk to the princess about alone." ”

Luo Yan was slightly vigilant in her heart, but she only said lightly on her face: "Second brother has orders, Qingqing must not leave me half a step at any time, if you have something to say, just say it here." ”

Xue Ming was still staring straight at her eyes, and the corners of her mouth hooked: "What I want to say is related to General Lantai." Luo Yan felt her heart shrink when she heard this name, and she didn't like the look on her face when Xue Ming said this name, so she lowered her face and said, "I'm sorry, the general's matter, please report back to the second brother, it has nothing to do with me!" After speaking, he pulled the two people around him, and walked quickly past Xueming and went to his cabin.

But hearing an undisguised sneer behind her, Luo Yan couldn't help but be upset, and most of her good mood to watch the sunrise was gone, Xiao Meng was obviously very unhappy, and snorted: "Xue Mingmo is not crazy, how can he talk to the princess like this!" Qingqing was silent, until she entered the cabin and took off her cloak, and then said lightly: "I heard that Xue Ming served under General Yutai in the Northwest Battlefield. ”

No wonder the second brother said yesterday that his people were scattered, but Tantai directly transferred a whole team of guards, no wonder she obeyed Tantai's orders and was more loyal to herself! But why did she look at herself so badly? Could it be ......

Luo Yan only felt that the mess in her heart was generally not a good taste, so she let Qingqing and Xiaomeng take off and put away her coats, and wrapped the remaining half of the cake and threw it out the window, just about to pour out the three glasses of water, but heard Mother Li's voice accompanied by a knock on the door: "Did the princess get up?" Has Xiao Meng already come? ”

Xiao Meng made a big grimace before opening the door with a smile, and when Mother Li saw her, she blamed: "Why did you come to quarrel with the princess early in the morning?" ”

Xiao Meng smiled: "Mom doesn't know that the princess will not be able to sleep in another place, I am worried that the princess will be bored, come and talk to her, we all drank a cup of tea!" I saw Dzi turn out from behind Li's mother, but she glanced at the big wool boots that Luo Yan hadn't had time to change at her feet.

As soon as Xiao Meng saw that Mother Li had turned around to ask Luo Yan, she was busy killing chickens and wiping her neck, and Tianzhu smiled: "Even if you understand and know that the ship is cold, you found such a pair of shoes to warm the princess's feet." Xiao Meng relaxed and gave the dzi with a smile.

Where did Mother Li know the ghost names of a few girls, so she only pulled Luo Yan and asked Han and asked for warmth: Is the bedding on the bed thick enough? Do the curtains leak at night? Luo Yan had to brace up her energy to deal with them one by one. Tianzhu and Xiaomeng went outside to fetch hot water and served Luo Yan to wash. When she came early, Luo Yan's appetite was still not good, and she only drank a bowl of rice porridge and wanted to put it down, but she was forced by Li's mother to eat another piece of dim sum.

On this day, the ship is to cross the Yangtze River, arrive at Yangzhou, and then transfer to the north, Yangzhou is the boundary of Dayan, which is not only a prosperous place, but also has a heavy garrison, so although Luo Yan's car and ship arrived in Yangzhou under the sound, but still need to rest here for a night. There were local military and political officials who came to meet on the ship. Luo Yan was not interested in paying attention to these affairs, but just looked at Yangzhou City from the window.

The ancients are all clouds, the highest ideal of life is nothing more than "waist wrapped, riding a crane down to Yangzhou", when she was a reporter, she also came to Yangzhou once, the only feeling after shopping is: why did the ancients think so much? But now in my memory, there is one more paragraph: when she followed the prince to Jiangnan that day, she also spent two days in Yangzhou, and took the guards to wander around the market in casual clothes. In ancient times, Yangzhou was indeed a prosperous place, the shops were lined up, the wine shop was fragrant, even the women's clothing was extraordinarily gorgeous and complicated, there were many yellow-haired and blue-eyed Persian merchants on the street, all said that Jinling was a ten-mile bead curtain, but if it was only about the romantic and wealthy atmosphere, it seemed to be inferior to Yangzhou.

On this day, Luo Yan only went outside to blow a little wind, don't stay in the cabin all the time, but found a pair of poker out, just a few times to kill time with Dzi, but Xiaomeng always couldn't sit still, and let Li's mother take her place when she played with both hands, and went out to jump up and down by herself, and came back with countless news:

"Yangzhou Taishou is here with a lot of officials! The huge room on the second floor was crammed to the brim. ”

"Yangzhou Yandao is here, such a white and fat old man, I thought he was rolling upstairs at first glance."

"There is an old general, a very majestic beard, and a few generals who look like people, just ......" Speaking of this, Xiao Meng suddenly stopped talking and exclaimed: "Mother Li, you played the wrong card!" ”

Luo Yan only didn't know, and it was expected that the second half of her sentence would be related to the platform Yangfei, and her heart was still faintly painful, and she couldn't help but think, I don't know what Xue Ming wants to say to herself?

In the blink of an eye, it was dinner time, but Murong Qian sent someone to say that there was a banquet in Yangzhou Yandao, did Luo Yan have any interest in bringing him back? Luo Yan said, just don't bring back a drunk cat. But I secretly wondered in my heart, how could the second brother give such a big face to the guy who was rolling away? I couldn't think of a reason for it for a while, but I had no appetite for dinner, so I had to ask Xiaomeng to go to the small kitchen on the boat to ask for a bowl of light Yangchun noodles, but I ate half a bowl.

When he didn't want Xiao Meng to send the bowl back, it took more than a quarter of an hour to come back, and his face was full of weirdness. Luo Yan was slightly surprised, and deliberately let her and Qingqing accompany her outside for a while. Xiao Meng looked at no one left and right, and said to Ai Ai: "I just heard from the people in the small kitchen that there is a small cabin on this ship that is guarded day and night, and only allows some fresh water to be sent in. I sneaked up to take a look, but was discovered by the guards, and I had just said a word when I suddenly heard someone shouting inside, and the sound was like, it seemed to be a plum! ”