Qi Su Niang and Chen Yan are as good as ever, they are in love, Chen Yan is busy on weekdays, but he felt that he neglected Qi Su Niang, and finally took time to take her into the county to tour around.

In the early winter, with a bone-chilling drizzle, enveloping Qinghe County, Chen Yan changed into a navy blue fine kudzu cotton robe made by Qi Su Niang the year before last, put on a warm hat, held an oil umbrella, and walked with Qi Su Niang in the twists and turns of the alley.

The eaves on both sides of the alley are long and protruding, and the eaves are full of pavement. Qi Su Niang was wearing a thick cotton dress, covered with royal blue leather armor, wearing a draping yarn bib to not let people look closely, found an alley selling rouge pollen, and looked all the way. Although it was cold, the people doing business were still shouting hard, most of them recognized Chen Yan, and said hello one after another, but no one dared to look straight at Qi Su Niang. The two walked and stopped, and before they knew that they were out of the alley, they arrived at the edge of the Caohe wharf.

Qi Su Niang was looking at Qingkou Gaogang in the distance, when a gust of river wind blew and shivered. Chen Yan hurriedly hugged her into his arms and scolded softly: "Before you go out, let you put on another cloak, you are too troublesome, I will talk about it, so I put on the veil." The south is cold and wet, which is more unbearable than the cold in the north. As he spoke, he tilted the oil umbrella, blocking the river wind with cold rain a little, and also blocking the figures of the two embracing.

Qi Su Niang bit her lip and smiled, and whispered, "Someone." "The grain inspection day on the first day of the first month of the first month of Huai'an Caoyun Yamen is coming, there are countless boats and boats of all sizes in the river, and there are people burning incense on the bow of each boat, bowing to the high post from afar.

Chen Yan smiled: "There is an umbrella in the way." Lift the veil with your index finger, bow your head slightly, and take a deep breath on Qi Su Niang's neck, "This lotus fragrance ......"

Qi Su Niang smiled softly, and Chen Yan said softly: "It's cold today, let's go back, and go to the Tianfei Ancestral Hall next time." After that, she was about to turn around with Qi Su Niang, Qi Su Niang looked up at the ancestral hall, "That's the Tianfei Palace?" Chen Yan said: "Exactly, the three gates in front of the Tianfei Gate refer to this Tianfei Palace, the correct name is called Huiji Temple, which is dedicated to the sea goddess Niangniang Mazu, and also called the grandmother temple." ”

Chen Yan pointed to the high gate and high dam under the post and said: "That is the first gate in front of the Tianfei Palace--- Huiji Gate, followed by the Fuxing Gate and the Tongji Gate. That high dam is the one that I built when I came here. He also pointed to the people who burned incense and bowed: "The Cao boat from the south has passed through three locks and a dam in order to live in peace, and only by asking for the blessing of the sea goddess Niangniang, it is still inevitable that the boat will be broken and the dead will die, and the Cao Si and the Cao Gang quarrel over these things every day." ”

Qi Su Niang looked at the head of the wooden gate about ten zhang high, the giant tree towered, the rapids and dangerous waves hit it, and the iron bowl was buckled on it to connect to the river bank with a thick cable, and the ten oxen tied their necks and staggered in, which was really a dangerous place. Sailors came and went, and as noon approached, many poor women carried food in and out of the dam.

The two walked back slowly, looking for a clean restaurant to eat. Chen Yan had no choice but to accept the umbrella, went into the lobby to find a table and sat down, ordered steamed crab roe lion's head, Pingqiao tofu, fried mushrooms with green vegetables, sipped Jinhua wine, and whispered.

Chen Yan whispered: "There are people dying at the gate all the time, and the court will not have a penny of pension silver, all of which is paid by the Cao Gang themselves, which is already a big item, but Cao Si looked at the Cao boat passing through the gate and handed over the "family" to sit on the ground A lot of money, and more than half of the life has to be divided, where is there still harmony?" I have to quarrel every once in a while. ”

Qi Su Niang already knew on the Luo Shiqing boat that "home" is just the meaning of the head snake, which means that there are one hundred and thirty-eight small gangs under the nine gangs along the Cao River. She snorted lightly and glanced at Chen Yan, "In order to please you, the county master of the "family", I naturally have to get some tricks. ”

Chen Yan smiled slightly, took Qi Su Niang's hand from under the table, and said softly: "Wang Xiancheng is good friends with Governor Quan of Caosi, and Yundian Shi is good friends with Lian Zhenyun, the master of Qinghe Altar, so I can't be biased on both sides." If you don't pay attention, you will make them a gunman. He smiled again: "Old man Xu called Mrs. Wang Xiancheng back to her parents' house and scolded her, and Wang Xiancheng and the governor stopped a little now." ”

Qi Su Niang snorted, couldn't help but smile, raised her hand and poured him a glass of wine, tilted her head and said, "Brother Chen, how many such sexy things have been in the past four years?"

Chen Yan smiled and didn't answer, just gave Qi Su a woman vegetables, but Qi Su Niang put down her chopsticks, secretly stretched out her hand and pulled his sleeve, looking at him coquettishly smiling, Chen Yan was forced to laugh, and said with a smile: "Where will there be many of my Zhixian in Fangsheng this year?" ”

Qi Su Niang bit her lip to look at him, snorted lightly, took back the wine glass that had been poured for him, and drank it herself. Chen Yan couldn't cry or laugh, shook his head and said: "Su Niang, Su Niang, it's not that I have you in my heart, where do I dare to take these things?" is mostly hiding treachery and cleverness, how sincere can you be? ”

Qi Su Niang heard the words "sincere", only to feel that Chen Yan may not be jealous of the meaning of "concubine", her heart sank, and the smile on her face gradually faded, but she didn't want Chen Yan to notice, she still smiled and poured wine and food for him.

Chen Yan looked at her for a long time, and sighed with a smile: "Don't hide it, if you are angry in your heart, you always want to find me to send it, hurry up and make it clear, and let me understand it." ”

Qi Su Niang was silent, she drank a few glasses of wine, although she didn't go up, but she was a little indulgent, she heard Chen Yan speak like this, thinking about the love between the two, she wanted to say the unspeakable things in her heart, but she heard a loud noise outside, but the direction of listening came from the gate.

Chen Yan stood up suddenly, and before he could speak, Qi Su Niang said, "Go quickly, be careful, I'll go home." Chen Yan nodded, hurried out of the store, and left in the rain.

The thick clouds in the air rolled, the drizzle followed the cold wind, one moment urgent, one moment slow, Qi Su Niang met the tent, holding a green oil umbrella, and went to the grass hall. When I got to the door of the backyard, I put away my umbrella, and when I looked up, I saw that the sky was going to be dark, and a string of cold raindrops fell from the eaves, and finally seeped through the veil and fell on Qi Su Niang's face, but there was no coldness anymore.

Qi Su Niang returned to the room, took a bath first, boiled a large pot of boiling water, and waited for Chen Yan to come back to take a bath to keep out the cold. When it was time to turn on the lamp, the charcoal fire in the inner room was red, and she slowly dried her hair half-dry.

The first change drum has sounded, the inner room is hot, Qi Su Niang thought that Chen Yan was coming back soon, took off the heavy leather armor, and found the close-fitting Yuan Red Dark Lotus pattern silk dress sewn by herself, she took it in her hand and looked at it for a while, and still felt that compared with the previous life, the clothing was not shiny enough, the style of clothing was conservative, and the top and bottom were tightly wrapped, but because it was a round neck, the neck was exposed, and the color was bright, cut and close, which was very popular with Chen Yan. She changed into clothes and sat in front of the makeup mirror, reached out and took the Ruyi head gold hairpin from the makeup box, and pulled her long hair. She was about to get up, when she suddenly struck again, remembering that Chen Yan loved to smell the fragrance, she took a wisp of lotus powder from the silver powder box, pounced a little, sniffed the residual lotus fragrance on her clothes, smiled lightly, and pounced some more.

The sound of wind and rain outside has not stopped. Qi Su Niang was sitting at the head of the bed, flipping through the landscape album that Chen Yan specially made for her to learn to paint, and suddenly heard a chaotic sound outside the middle door, and heard Wang Zhutou shouting: "Madam, madam, something is wrong!" The county lord has an accident at the gate! ”

Qi Su Niang was taken aback, she didn't care about putting on her clothes, jumped up from the bed, rushed out of the inner room, ran to the middle door in the rain, and said sharply: "What's wrong with my lord?" ”

Wang Zhutou was sweating profusely, his face twitched, and he stammered: "Today, the waves are big, and the Cao Gang didn't catch it when they led the boat across the imperial dam, and they overturned two in a row, and they saw that dozens of them were brought down." The county lord was in a hurry, and personally went to the imperial dam to command, and passed one safely, but he didn't expect that the boat behind him capsized again, and brought the big man and Qian Patrol down and pressed it under the gate! ”