Now, the general trend has gone, although Liu Qing is still abusing him in various ways, but the family members outside don't care what kind of former young master he is, they rushed in and escorted him away.

The three of us outsiders saw this farce of twists and turns, and we really couldn't interject or intervene, so we could only watch quietly from the side.

After Liu Qing was taken away, Liu Zhan looked at us and walked over. He saluted us and said, "Tao Gongzi, Wang Gongzi, Miss Rui, the family is unfortunate, so you can see and laugh." ”

I waved my hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's okay, it's idle to be idle......"

Liu Zhan smiled faintly and said: "I also know that my father has done some wrong things, but as a son of man, filial piety comes first, and I can't disobey it." Now his old man is so ...... It can be regarded as paying the price for his actions. In order to protect the reputation of the Liu family, I have offended a lot, I apologize to you, just a verbal apology is a little insincere, in the future I will do my best to help the neighbors, benefit one party, and never break my word! What do you think? ”

We looked at each other for a while, and we both felt that he was polite and sincere, and we really had no way to refuse, so we had to nod.

When sending us out of Liu's mansion, Liu Zhan waved goodbye to the three of us, but said, "Four of you are good!" ”

This can't help but make me suspicious, it seems that what Liu Ding said before "There is nothing that my master doesn't know" and the like, maybe what he said is true, the calmness, wisdom and the occasional ruthlessness embodied by the young man who is only twelve or thirteen years old in front of him are not comparable to the greedy and impulsive Liu Qing.

After such a gloomy morning, now bathed in the noon sun, I feel that the coldness accumulated in my heart is slowly melting!

After walking a short distance, I saw my father leaning against a tree smoking his dry cigarette again, and a brand-new carriage and a good horse with smooth fur parked beside him!

The matter seemed to have been resolved safely, so everyone was a lot more relaxed and ready to set off again in high spirits.

But my dad seemed to see that I was not the same as usual, and secretly asked, "What's wrong?" Anything else to worry about? ”

I looked back and saw that Rui Wei was talking happily with Wang Shaoting. He whispered to his father: "Yes, that Liu Qing seems to know something about the Blood Rock Furnace, but I didn't ask it." ”

Daddy groaned for a moment and said, "That's really a pity!" ”

I nodded and said, "Well, although the will says that Liu Qing will be expelled from the Liu Mansion, no matter what, he knows too much, and what this kind of big family cherishes most is reputation, and it is impossible for him to go out and talk nonsense." I guess we won't ever see this person again. ”

Dad smoked a cigarette and was silent, I guess he should know more about this set of human accidents than I do.

"There are two other points that I haven't figured out, one is that since Liu Qing has always hoped that Master Liu would die so that he could inherit the Liu family's property, then he could completely lie that Master Liu died of a sudden illness, wouldn't his goal be achieved? What do you want to do by hiding this news and keeping the body all the time? I continued, "The other is that Liu Zhan brought so many people over later, if it was to arrest the three of us, they should have targeted us first when they entered the house, but they went directly to the coffin as if they had predicted Master Liu's death, which is too unreasonable." ”

Daddy looked at me and asked, "You mean ......?"

"From the beginning to the end, I felt like I was being manipulated, as if there was a person, I don't know if it was a person, who was manipulating it all in the background. However, our main task now is to go to Luoyang first, and many things will naturally be exposed at the right time. In addition......" I glanced back at Rui Wei, who was smiling happily, and said, "Don't let Rui Wei know what I said, I don't want her to worry." ”

Father Yan understood, smiled and nodded.

After a few days of walking, we came to a small town to rest and rectify.

At dinner, Father Yan went to ask the people nearby, and learned that there was a big river in front of him, called Qinshui, and he would cross this river and walk for two or three days to Luoyang, the eastern capital

Daddy Yan opened the map and pointed out where we are now, and sure enough, it was only about a centimeter away from Luoyang.

My heart suddenly felt happy and worried, happy that we had been running for so long, and we were finally approaching our destination; The worry is that after arriving in Luoyang, it is not good and there are many crises, the blood rock furnace is the fate of my family, and I should share all these experiences, but these three people around me are innocent, and I really don't want them to encounter any risks.

But looking at their calm expressions, as if they had tacitly agreed that several of us had been united in the same fate, it seemed that I was not fighting alone, and I couldn't help but feel warm in my heart.

At this time, Father Yan raised a question: if we plan to continue to take the carriage, we need to go south to Hanoi County to detour the official road, there is a bridge there to cross the river directly, but then it may take another three days to walk. Another option would be for us to ditch the wagons in this town, take a ferry across the river, and find a way to get a car when we get to the other side.

As the saying goes, there is food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart. Since the economic problem was solved, the need to hurry up has become the first need, and of course we immediately unanimously decided: cross the river by boat on the spot!

We immediately made some preparations according to the guidance of the locals, all the clothes were changed into simple and neat, the trouser legs were tightened, all the extra items were abandoned, and the important things we carried were wrapped in layers of oiled paper and firmly tied to the body.

It was the first time I took an ancient ferry, and I felt a little excited and looking forward to it as if a primary school student was going on a spring outing. But when I got to the ferry, I found that I was a little too optimistic.

I also grew up by the river, and although there are some sections of the river in the northeast, the water flow is relatively fast, but most of it is gentle, calm and clear. On the other hand, this big river known as "Qinshui", the river surface is wide, the water flow is turbulent, and the amount of sediment in the water is so large that you can't see the situation in the water at all, but you can see many places with the naked eye, which proves that there are many stones or dark pits underwater.

At that time, I regretted that I decided to take the boat, even if I didn't fall into the water, I had to vomit all the little I ate in the morning!

Wang Shaoting obviously saw my hesitation, patted me on the shoulder and teased: "Boss Yong also has times when he is stunned?" It's rare! ”

"No way, I've been playing in the river since I was a child!" I said stubbornly, but my eyes stared fiercely at this thin little white face, thinking that I couldn't lose to him!

After a while, I heard the loud shouts of the boatmen, the voice was high-pitched, and the tune was peculiar, as if they were singing, but the lyrics were not very clear.

Daddy Yan stretched out his hand to greet us and said, "Let's go!" ”

Rui Wei and Wang Shaoting followed him across the trestle and stepped onto the boat. I couldn't hold back now, so I had to follow the boat. The boat did not have a canopy, and it could seat about ten people in total, and there were four people besides us, all of whom were local people. I was the last to get on the boat, so I pulled over and found a place to sit.

There is a boatman at the bow and stern of the boat, all of whom are black and strong men who look like they are in their forties, **** with bare upper bodies and bare feet. The one at the bow of the boat holds a long bamboo pole, and the one at the stern holds a double oar.

As soon as I sat down, the boatman at the bow shouted again, and as soon as the bamboo pole was propped up on the shore, the boat slowly began to move. Sure enough, as soon as I arrived in the river, I felt that the whole person had completely lost its support, and began to be like a caterpillar lying on the leaves, and could only shake back and forth with the wind.

The two boatmen had been here for a long time, and they had long been familiar with it, adjusting their direction back and forth with long bamboo poles and oars, avoiding the undercurrents in the river one after another. On the surface, it seems to be just going down the river, but it is getting closer and closer to the other side. Seeing that I didn't look informed, Father Yan specially explained to me that it was relatively easy to float down the river like this, but if you wanted to come back, it would be complicated, and it would take dozens of slender men to pull it back. I can't help but feel that the conditions in this era are really difficult, and it is so troublesome to cross the river.

I sat there honestly, trying to tilt my head and pretend to admire the surrounding landscape, and in order to distract myself, I deliberately sang in a low voice: the small bamboo row in the middle reaches of the river, walking on both sides of the towering green mountains, the eagle spreads its wings and flies, even if the wind and rain are ......

But I saw Rui Wei suddenly leaning over and asking, "What are you singing?" ”

"It's nothing, you don't know." I said casually.

"What's wrong with you today, becoming so cowardly!" She covered her mouth and smiled.

Yes, struggling on the edge of life and death is not once or twice, and I don't seem to be afraid, why was I scared by this small river today? It's a bit weird indeed. I'm starting to wonder too.

As soon as he looked down and thought about it, he saw that a black shadow suddenly appeared in the river next to him.

I chuckled inwardly, staring at the surface of the water to see what it was, but waited for about half a minute to see anything unusual.

At first, I thought that I might have been dazzled, and then I saw the black shadow rising from the water, like a black water rising from the yellow water.

"What's that?" I pointed to the river and asked the old man in the back loudly.

Daddy looked into the river along my hand and said strangely, "I don't see anything!" ”

I was feeling inexplicable when the boat suddenly jerked violently, and I shook my body and almost fell to the side of the boat, and quickly grabbed the side of the boat with both hands.

The two boatmen felt the vibration, and made a hesitant tone, and said something to each other, and the speed of the ship suddenly increased considerably. However, in the midst of the tumbling water beside me, I clearly saw that the looming black shadow also followed quickly!

However, when I called out to them to see them too, they were all dazed, as if they couldn't see it at all!

Seeing the shadow approaching us again, I couldn't hold my breath any longer, so I picked up a stick from the boat and poked at it.

When the stick entered the water, it felt like it didn't touch anything, but when I tried to pull it back, it felt like it had been cast into the mud, and I couldn't pull it out at all!

In a moment, I was pulled into a half-squatting position, seeing that things were not good, I was just about to let go, but the hull of the ship shook heavily again, I was unstable, my body was crooked, and I fell into the water with a "plop"!