Chapter 8: Cicada, Praying Mantis, and Yellow Finch (I)
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It was like the tide was rising, and there was a little wind, and the dark river water set off patches of white waves, washing away all the qiē it could get, the river banks, the reefs, and the boats.
There are not many boats on the river, and at this time, most of the men who rely on the water to eat docked, pack up the boats, and go home for dinner. Only those travelers who were in a hurry, a little anxious, felt the surging river, and hit the boat gang all at once.
A big boat was driving on the river, and the old boat squatted in the stern of the boat, smoking a cigarette, and the blue-white smoke surrounded his face, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be more obvious.
At the position of the stern helm platform, there was a young man, wearing a hat that covered most of his face, and a robe that covered most of his body. This was supposed to be his son's seat, but I don't know what it was today, my son, who has always been strong and powerful, suddenly had a stomach upset, vomiting and diarrhea for a while, but fortunately, before lifting the anchor, he met Lao Liu, who used to mix with the big river, and brought his sick son back to the town to see Langzhong, and the guest on Lao Liu's boat volunteered to be the helmsman, saying that he was going to Poyang on the way. Don't say it, that young man's thick eyebrows and yellow face really have a good handle, looking at the helm, it is comparable to a ship's handlebar style that has been working all his life. But he doesn't like to talk much, but he is a good person, and he always smiles gently when he is called.
On the stove on one side, there was a pot of medicine stewed, which tasted strange, and the guy Xiaomao was stuffing a handful of mulberry branches into the stove. The branch was a little wet, and the smoke was a little choking, making Xiao Mao cough and mumble quietly.
"Decoction of medicine, decoction of medicine, why do you have to be so particular? You have to use mulberry branches to light the fire, what! Is the fire burning from the branches of the mulberry tree smoking? ”
Lao Jin grinned slightly: "Teach you to be obedient, mulberry is cold, use mulberry branches to light the fire, it must be to clear the fire, clear the heart and lungs!" ”
"Clear the heart and lungs?" Mao Wu looked puzzled: "Could it be that he has lung disease, alas, pitiful." ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" Lao Jin got serious: "If you hear this, you will be angry."
Mao Wu grinned and said, "I'm just guessing, if you want to say that people are fair, you are really a good person!" It's like the slave in the cabin, who has a bigger temper than his master. As he spoke, he picked up a white wood medicine spoon and stirred it in the big jar, and the thick medicinal gas drifted away in the wind. Then he used a small medicine filter to strain out the medicinal juice in the jar, which was a small half bowl of medicine, thick and green in color.
"What does it smell like? It's weird! At this point, he looked ahead with some disgust and said, "Look, that minion is here again!" ”
The white-headed old gold was stunned, hurriedly stood up, stopped smoking cigarettes, and even the man with the rudder plate stretched his neck and looked this way.
In front of the eaves, under the illumination of the barrel-shaped lanterns of the two palaces, a slender shadow had come closer.
The white-headed old gold rubbed his hands a little nervously, and said with a smile: "Yo! Isn't this Shi Ye, what do you command? ”
The visitor snorted and nodded with a smile: "Where is this?" ”
Lao Jin looked out, he was too familiar with this place, and blurted out at the moment: "Oh, it's already past Wulitan, and then it's Qixingzi, it's still early!" By noon tomorrow, we'll probably be on the Han River! ”
"Hmph, long-winded." The two hands were put behind their backs, and the two little eyes blinked, "When the time comes, tell me, I want to go down." ”
The surnamed Shi turned around, suddenly remembered something, and said with a head, "There is nothing to do with you in the front cabin, you are not allowed to come in without greeting, greeting a good ship is, when we arrive in Poyang, we will leave, and the money will only be given more, you know.!" ”
The last words were finally heard, and Lao Jin arched his hands and said yes again and again. Under the illumination of the lights, the character with this surname can be regarded as showing his full face.
Fifty-six or seventeen years old, half-white hair, a pair of provocative ears, a small nose and small eyes, not like a roe deer, it's almost the same.
He walked to the cabin, stopped suddenly, and with a twist of his eyes, he saw the medicine bowl in Xiao Mao's hand.
"Something"
"A bowl of medicine is a ...... in the back cabin Fair. Xiao Mao was frightened and trembled.
The face of the surname Shi sank, and he reached out and grabbed it, and grabbed the placket and pulled Lao Jin up. The pair of rat eyes widened and said, "What is the prince, what is going on, say!" ”
Lao Jin coughed dryly and muttered: "That's the case, when the boat passed through Dongting, I met a young scholar who was sick again, and I think the aft cabin was empty and empty......"
"Slap, slap" two crisp sounds, Xiao Mao didn't see the movements of the surname Shi clearly, and Lao Jin had already been slapped twice.
These two blows were really not light, and Lao Jin's mouth was full of blood, and he screamed "ouch".
"How do you beat people" Seeing Lao Jin being beaten, the little hairy man who looked at Lao Shi unpleasantly raised his fist and was about to rush up.
The surnamed Shi sneered, and as soon as he raised his leg, he stepped on Xiao Mao. He is obviously a practitioner, and he has a lot of kung fu on his feet, although he doesn't use much force, and when he goes down this foot, Xiao Mao has to be full of flowers.
Unexpectedly, the surname Shi's foot actually stepped on the air, but it was the man at the helm who jumped down, grabbed Xiao Mao's back collar and dragged him, and pulled him to the head first.
"The child is not sensible, this master should not be as knowledgeable as him, the time is not early, the distinguished guests must have rested, and the trouble is like killing pigs, disturbing the guests, after all, it is not good." The young man in the hat raised his head slightly, revealing a young smiling face, his eyes seemed to have a calming power, and with his words, the face of the surnamed Shi, who was about to attack, softened a little.
"There's nothing to say, we'll charter this boat first, and tomorrow when the boat arrives in Hanyang, we'll tell him to go down." The surname Shi is obviously not a straw bag, he looked at the river bank that seemed to be invisible, and lowered his voice.
"This ......" Lao Jin looked embarrassed, and wanted to say something, but when he saw the man in the hat giving him a look, he hesitated for a moment, but still responded.
"Uncle Shi, Miss takes care of me, Mrs. and the little master are asleep, don't make noise. A girl with a slender waist and a long body came out of the front cabin, summoned the surname Shi over, and whispered to her.
The surnamed Shi turned around and glared at Lao Jin fiercely, and followed the girl.
Touching his hot face, Lao Jin sat down.
"Hmph, it's such a bully, this is our ship, why look at his face." Xiao Mao said indignantly.
"We received the money from others, we shouldn't have taken any more outsiders, and you, if it weren't for this descendant to pull you, it would be good if you could stand and talk now, but people are practicing their families." Lao Jin glanced at the man in the hat and sighed.
"It's just, what about the prime minister."
"Bring him the medicine, and take care of the wound on your face, tomorrow's matter, tomorrow's matter, tomorrow's talk about it." The young man in the hat looked at the two people with knotted brows, and suddenly said loudly.
Lao Jin sighed again, took the medicine bowl and left.
In the side cabin, the prime minister was writing, wearing a royal blue robe, draped, without any folds, like a whole satin, he had long hair, a little wet, and a lock scattered behind his head.
Lao Jin coughed, "This minister, your medicine is cured." ”
"Oh" The blue-clothed man put down his pen and turned around slowly.
After a few polite words, he took the bowl and drank the half bowl of medicinal juice.
He was indeed sick, not lightly ill, with a miserable white face, and a pair of black and white eyes, a dark red color, just like his fingernails. Under the dim flickering lights, it makes people a little hairy.
"Sit down for a while and have some tea." The blue-clothed Xianggong raised a hand dragging the sleeve of his fat coat and pointed to the seat, Lao Jin suddenly felt that his voice was a little familiar, just like the hat man, with a power that people couldn't help but obey.
He took two steps back, sat down where he was pointing, picked up the teapot, poured half a bowl, and drank it in a daze.
"It's a bad night." The man in blue said, suddenly opened a window near the river, and glanced out, the sound of the river outside sounded all of a sudden, and the cool wind blew in, so that the hanging paper lamp turned a few times, and the paper on the table seemed to fly.
Lao Jin stood up and wanted to close the window, but saw that the wind in the cabin suddenly stopped, and the wind and waves were blowing outside the window, but the window was quiet, and all the qiē, lamps, paper, and pens were all quiet.
"Uh, that," Lao Jin swallowed with straight eyes, trying to say something, but couldn't say anything.
"It's late at night." The man in blue suddenly spoke.
"Ugh"
"The wind is blowing on the river, I'm afraid it will be eventful, my husband should pay attention."
Lao Jin rolled his eyes and wondered, but he seemed to hear a few piano sounds. When he heard it again, it was gone.
"Bring him the medicine, and take care of the wound on your face, tomorrow's matter, tomorrow's matter, tomorrow's talk about it." Suddenly, a sentence popped into his mind, and Lao Jin was no longer interested in what he wanted to say.
"It's getting late, I'm leaving."
The man in blue didn't say anything more, his eyelids seemed to droop, and he just nodded slightly.
The wind and waves were stronger than just now, and when they heard Uncle Shi's orders, Lao Jin, Xiao Mao, and the man with the hat didn't move anymore, and the three of them were stunned by the rudder.
Suddenly, the man stood up, walked to the mast, and raised the mainsail, his hands were so flexible that it would take two people to turn the mainsail, and he raised it alone.
"Old Jin, you take the helm." The man's voice was very low, but in the wind and waves, Lao Jin could still hear it clearly, although he wanted to ask why, but the man's voice seemed to have the same magic power as the blue-clothed man, so he couldn't at all, or he didn't want to resist.
The man in the hat pulled the sail rope like this, and in his hands, the wind and the sail seemed to become docile kittens. The speed of the boat gradually increased, and by the time he stopped, the speed of the boat had increased by almost fifty percent.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Xiao Mao finally couldn't help but ask.
"I don't know, I suddenly feel a little dangerous, as if I'm being targeted." The hatsman showed the lower half of his face and smiled at the two of them, "I've been at sea for a while, and I've met pirates a few times, and every time I met pirates, I felt this way. ”
"It turns out that the little brother has mixed up at sea, no wonder he is so handsome on the water." Lao Jin pressed the rudder and said with an oh sound.
"See, the ship, accelerated, I don't care if he came to find the guest in the front cabin, or to find the sick minister-in-law, it seems that he is not good, since I am also on this boat, I will fight with him." The man in the hat raised his hand and pointed behind him.
Under his guidance, Lao Jin and Xiao Mao both saw it.
It was a two-masted flat-topped clipper, with a new appearance and a fast speed, cleaving the waves and chasing the big ship. The ship didn't have a single light, it was dark and scary. If it weren't for the man with the hat to raise the sail in time, I'm afraid he would really have to catch up.
"That's it." After adjusting the angle of the mainsail and fixing the sail rope, the man with the hat took over the rudder in Lao Jin's hand, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was quite mischievous.
"What's wrong, what's wrong." The figure swayed, and it was the familiar voice of the surname Shi.
The change in the speed of the ship obviously couldn't hide from an old Jianghu, and the one who found out about the abnormal surname Shi also ran out in a hurry.
"Someone is chasing our boat." Xiao Mao pointed behind him and shouted at the surnamed Shi.
The ship had already raised its full sails, and the river wind was blowing the sails to hunt, and the distance between the two ships was gradually shortening.
The four of them saw clearly that it was a strange clipper, with a solid bow in the shape of a diamond, and it looked like a naval warship.
"Quick, quick, get rid of him as much as you can." The surname Shi's face turned blue, and he urged one after another.
"Well, Lao Jin, take out the sail as well, see that thing, it's called the angle of attack, hit by that thing, it's hard for the ship to change both halves." The man's voice remained calm, as if he were telling a trivial matter.
A small spinnaker rose on the auxiliary mast of the big ship, which was hung by the surname Shi, and the speed of the ship rose again, and the distance between the two ships shrank to about ten zhang, and finally it was no longer close.
"Lao Jin, you two go in, this distance is not safe for you, this Shi Ye, if I am not mistaken, the boat behind should be coming to you. But in order not to suffer from the pond fish, I think we can cooperate and play with them. The man in the hat seemed to be starting to get excited, and there was a bit of arrogance in his words.
Although he was a little suspicious, the figure running on the boat behind him, the shining blade, had to dispel the other thoughts of the surname Shi, and with a sigh, he raised his toes and had an extra long rod in his hand.
"Before that time, although their ship is fast, it is not so easy to catch up with me, an old sailor at sea, you should first go and order your companions, prepare for contingencies, and prepare to leave the ship if necessary, and then, find a thick table, with a wet quilt nailed on the surface, to give us a bow and arrow, and if there is a guy who can go far, bring it with you." As he spoke, he took the long rod from the hand of the surnamed Shi, and with a strong support, the distance between the two boats was unexpectedly widened again.
"Boy, you've got yours." The surname Shi is happy. Turn and run to the cabin.
The back of the boat was empty all of a sudden, leaving only the man in the hat, he suddenly showed an unfathomable smile, his left hand was at the helm, and the right hand was connected with a long rod, and the distance between the two boats was gradually widened.
The man turned his head and saw that not only the surname Shi was coming, but even the girl with the thin waist from before was carrying a dove-shaped short staff and followed.
The conductor surnamed Shi set up the table, so that the most important rudder knob near the stern was blocked by the table. A few arrows came from the clipper, but they didn't even penetrate the quilt. And he fell crookedly into the water
"One, two, three, four, his grandmother's bear." The man in the hat suddenly scolded.
"What's the matter, what are you counting? The girl asked, curious.
"I'm counting the number of people on their boat, fuck, there are only four kings and eight lambs who dare to chase Lao Tzu's boat." The man in the hat said angrily.
"What did you say, there were only four people on that boat, boy, you didn't count wrong?" The surname Shi was taken aback.
"Well, it won't be wrong, the first three, plus one at the helm, I have been living at sea for more than ten years, watching the boat, looking at the draft, watching the movement, you can watch a ** not far from ten, in addition, don't call me a kid, my surname is Meng, you can call me Mr. Meng."
"Meng, that Meng of Mencius?"
"It's the dream that dreamed."
"How can there be such a strange surname?"
"A name is just a title, my parents are gone, and I didn't know what my surname was since I was a child, I chose it myself."
"That's right, it's pitiful." The girl said with some sympathy.
"Hehe, I don't need others to be pitied, but since we are on the same ship, we can be regarded as fate, so I will come up with an idea to repair them."
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