Hei Ni came over without fear, and I hid behind the desk and bluffed, "Don't come here!" You're welcome to come over again! ”。

Hei Ni pursed her lips and smiled, "Why are you not welcome?" You're welcome to show me? ”。 Her face suddenly changed, and she reached out and grabbed me! I was taken aback, and hurriedly rushed forward and rushed out of the room! Hei Ni didn't catch me, stomped her feet and said coquettishly: "Fake foreign devil, don't run away!" ”。

I hid outside the door and grimaced at her, "I can't catch it, I can't catch it, I just can't catch it!" ”。 Seeing that I was so arrogant, Hei Ni couldn't help but be furious, and with a hard kick, she rushed out of the house with a "poof"! I saw her chase her, and I didn't have time to get angry with her anymore, so I turned around and fled!

The inn is facing the street, the pedestrians on the street are weaving, bustling, it is twilight at this time, the sky will be late, a shadow is enough! As I walked along the side of the street, I saw a dock in front of me where boats were moored, and although it was dark at this time, I could still faintly see the shadows of sails on the pier! I walked slowly to the front, but I saw that the boat was lit up and noisy, and there were people loading and unloading goods and children running around, whistling around with bare butts! An old lady of five years and three thick women lifted the curtain and shouted angrily to the group of children from a canopy boat: "What are you running blind? Why don't you come back soon? Is the skin on your body tight again? ”。 Those children were yelled at by this old lady, and they all scattered with a "hula"!

The boats docked on the pier are all emitting curling smoke, soft as the feathers of birds, and the air is filled with the fragrance of various dishes, drifting in the wind from afar! The water in the river beats rhythmically against the stone embankment, gently swaying the boats on the water! With a fishy smell and a damp wind, the faintly audible human voices on the ship were sent!

I saw a thin man on the top of a large ship directing a group of men to load the ship, so I went over and made friends with him, and I learned from him that the ship he was on was going to be shipped to Shanghai tomorrow morning! So I asked him if he could give us a ride. The man looked at me and asked, "You're alone, do you still have any luggage?" ”。

I said there were three more, and I was four in total! The man hesitated for a moment and said, "There are too many of you, if there are only one or two, I can let you on board now!" ”。 I looked up and saw that the lanterns had been hung on the ship, and it was completely dark! The man apologized for letting me wait for him a while, and he walked up the gangplank to the boat, muttered a few words to another older man, and then came back to me and said, "Come here tomorrow before dawn, but don't be late!" ”。 I thanked the man, walked back happily, and halfway through, I saw Hei Ni standing at the corner of the street looking around, so I waved my hand and shouted to her, "Hei Ni! What are you doing? ”。

Hei Ni heard my shout, and couldn't help but pinch her waist and said angrily: "Fake foreign devil, where did you go?" I'm looking for you everywhere! ”。 I grinned and walked up to Hei Ni and said to her, "Who told you to come out to me?" Can I still get lost as a big living person? ”。

Hei Ni didn't speak, she pouted her mouth and pulled me back! While walking, I said, such a big person, I still don't understand four, five or six, this big night is running around, if you bump into the chisel gang, I see what you do! I smiled and said to Hei Ni, "Where am I so unlucky?" Let's ...... again! ”。 Hei Ni glanced at me sideways, and I was so frightened that I quickly swallowed the words again! After a while, Hei Ni and I returned to the inn, and saw that Brother Zhang and the toothless old man were already drunk, and the food on the table was also swept away by them, leaving only a few pieces of donkey meat that had been burned cold, still wrapped in paper bags!

Hei Ni and I were helpless, so we only ate the rest of the fire, the piece of paper used to wrap the donkey meat and burn, which was secretly printed with lead letters, I grabbed it casually and took a look, it turned out to be a newspaper that I don't know when it was issued, the head of the newspaper has disappeared, only the bottom half is left! When I was in England, I developed the habit of reading newspapers every day, and these days the newspapers naturally can't be read, and when I was itching my heart, I suddenly found this half of the newspaper in the inn, which was no less than picking up a big baby, and quickly read it hungrily!

I chewed on the donkey meat and flipped through the newspaper. When Heini saw that I was looking closely, she poked me with her elbow and said, "What are you looking at?" ”。

I pointed to a piece of news in the newspaper and said, "Look here...... It said that civil unrest broke out in Guangzhou, and the imperial court had sent a large army to suppress it. According to the Imperial Court Newspaper, the people's troubles are probably the work of the revolutionary party! ”。

Hei Ni asked me with interest, "What does the revolutionary party do?" ”。

I put down the newspaper and said, "The revolutionary party is the one who does the revolution, and their goal is to overthrow the Manchu rule and establish a new state!" ”。

Hei Ni blinked her big round eyes and asked me incredulously, "At that time, will there be an emperor?" ”。

I shook my head and said, "At that time, everyone is completely equal, how can there be an emperor?" ”。

Hei Ni giggled and said, "If there is no emperor, how will life be lived?" There must be no chaos in this world! ”。

I put down the fire and brushed through the crumpled newspaper, and my eyes were suddenly attracted by a small line of lead letters! It was a very small piece of news, only the size of a tofu cube, and if you didn't look closely, you wouldn't have noticed it at all! I hurriedly read it, and it was the news of the death of the steamer we were on! I pointed to the newspaper and read this passage to Hei Ni, which read: "Today, I learned from the Shanghai Steamship Company that a few days ago, a steamer bound for Shanghai unfortunately sank on a reef in the middle of the Yangtze River, and more than 300 people on board, none of them survived! ”。

Hei Ni listened to the news in the newspaper, pursed her lips, and said disdainfully: "Nonsense, who said that there is no life to return?" Aren't we all alive? ”。

I spread the newspaper in my hand and said, "The news in the newspaper should not be true, what do you have to do with them?" I think we'd better rest early, and we'll have to get up early tomorrow! With that, I let out a big haze and drove Hei Ni back to her room!

The next day, before dawn, I got up early! Shake up Brother Zhang and the toothless old man, and tell them about the matter, they knew that I had found a boat, so they all got up in a hurry, and when everyone was dressed, our group hurried to the dock!

I recognized the ship at a glance on the dock, so I led the group to the bottom of the boat and shouted at the top, "Hey! Is there anyone on board? ”。 After shouting a few times, we saw a lantern come out of the boat, and a man with a long thin face poked his head out of the boat and asked us, "What are you doing?" ”。

When I saw that man was a raw face, I thought to myself! Why isn't this the guy from last night? I had no choice but to bite the bullet and shouted at the boat: "We are guests on the boat, and we told you last night!" ”。

The man on the boat leaned out, held a lantern and shone it down, and said, "What boat?" How did I not know? Who the hell are you? Who promised to let you get on the boat? ”。 I "chuckled" in my heart, and my heart said badly, I forgot to ask what that man's name was, what should I do?

When the man with the lantern saw that we didn't speak, he said impatiently, "Why don't you speak?" Who promised you? ”。

I had to negotiate with the thin-faced man and give him a rough description of what the man looked like last night! The people in the boat seemed to know who I was talking about, so they shouted to me, "Wait a little while you go and ask you!" ”。 After that, as soon as the boat was dark, the thin-faced man put the lantern back!

Brother Zhang wiped his nose and asked me, "I said Lao Cha, didn't you tell everyone about it?" What kind of fuss are they doing? ”。 I said, "Don't worry, wait until they ask clearly, and we'll be on board in a moment!" ”。

Brother Zhang was angry, and complained to me: "Our car is sitting well, what kind of boat do you change?" Aren't you afraid, what moths are we going to have on the water? ”。

I explained to Brother Zhang that we had been in the car for two days in a row, and the bones on my body were about to fall apart. ”。 I was talking to Brother Zhang, when the man on the boat poked his head out with a lantern and shouted, "Hey, I can ask clearly, is there really such a thing, come up quickly!" ”。 When I heard the people on the boat say this, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and turned back to Brother Zhang and said, "We will be at the place in one day by boat, which is much faster than taking a car!" ”。

When the people on the boat finished shouting, they lowered the gangplank and let us on board. As soon as we stepped onto the deck, we felt that something was not right, the ship was so dark that there was no light, could it be that no one on the ship had woken up? I had a glimpse of foreboding in my heart, and I was about to turn around and run back, but someone blocked me behind me, and then I heard the hatch "clang", and more than a dozen people rushed out of it!

These people are armed with knives, guns and sticks, and they are murderous and come straight to us, and before we can come back to our senses, they have already surrounded us on the inside and outside of the three floors! A few of us were taken aback and couldn't figure out what was going on! I emboldened, and I arched my hand at them, saying, "Everyone, everyone, what's the matter?" We're here to take a boat, not to rob, what are you doing here? ”。

There was a big man in the crowd, and he shouted angrily: "Lao Tzu has been waiting for you here for most of the night, why are you here now?" ”。

I listened to the man's voice quite familiar, so I took a closer look, only to find that he was the person who spoke to me last night, and I couldn't help but exclaim, "So it could be you?" ”。

The man smiled and said, "Why can't it be me?" ”。

I asked, "What do you want to do?" ”。

The man said, "I don't want to do anything, but there is a master who wants to meet you!" ”。

I asked, "Who is it?" ”。

The man pointed to the stern of the boat and said, "Look, isn't he here?" ”。

I followed the direction of his finger, looked at the stern of the boat, only to see a person pick a paper lantern, is staggering towards us, although I can't see his face clearly, but the ink monkey squatting on his shoulder, but I suddenly remembered a person, I shouted in surprise: "Is it the sixth master?" ”。