Chapter 12 Yanding Water Dragon Festival
Yin Tao put his hand on the place where the man's severed hand was, and the gushing blood gradually became smaller until it was completely stopped, and Yin Tao threw him back to the ground, and the man got up from the ground with a fall, clutching his broken arm, panting, and his eyes were full of panic: "You-who are you-"
Chen Yin opened his eyes and found that he was lying in the carriage, his body was jolting up and down with the carriage, it was already daytime outside the window, the sun was bright and dazzling, he tried to sit up, and felt his whole body ache.
"Senior Brother Yin, are you okay," Jiang Yuehua helped Chen Yin to sit up, "They were all tired last night, and they were still sleeping." Yingli Leopard Hong and Chen Moling leaned on the carriage with their eyes closed, sleeping soundly.
"The one who will rain muttered?" Chen Yin asked.
"You mean that bandit leader? Senior Brother Yin stopped his bleeding and handed him over to the government. ”
"Oh, what happened to you over there yesterday?" Chen Yin saw that everyone was more or less injured.
Jiang Yuehua handed the pot of water to Chen Yin, and said softly: "It's a trap over there, their boss used all his men as bait to drag us, and buried gunpowder in the village, and he himself went to the official residence to swallow the goods alone, but fortunately we are fine." ”
"What the hell is that pile?"
Jiang Yuehua didn't speak, groped around her waist for a while, and took out a piece of letter with a line of words written on it:
"At the beginning of next month, the Qiguan Mansion will transport goods to Beijing, one of which is a box of soul jade collected locally, a total of three, all of which are of the highest quality, whoever obtains it, one bid for 10,000 taels"
There was no payment, Yuehua saw that Chen Yin had finished reading it, and continued: "This was found in the cottage, it is said that the bandits and bandits in the area from Dinghua to the capital have received this letter, and what I met yesterday was just a handful. ”
"Is it just the beginning-" Everything yesterday still made Chen Yin's heart palpitate, "Is there anyone who survived in the official mansion?"
Jiang Yuehua shook her head bitterly, Chen Yin sighed, and then asked, "Then what are we going to do now?"
"We continue to escort the goods into Beijing," Jiang Yuehua pulled open the floor of the compartment, and the boxes were all placed underneath.
"But now we already know that many people are eyeing this box of goods, and if we transport it to the capital, as it is now, we will meet even more powerful people. ”
"We let the officials of Qiuquan Town transport a batch of fake goods out of the city from the official road, and we will go to Yanding first and then turn back to the capital, there will be no trouble, and no one will know. ”
"But didn't Senior Brother Yintao say that the government actually wanted to use this carload as bait, if we diverted the route, wouldn't it be meaningless, and if this is the case, how could the government of Qiuquan Town agree?"
"We are not from the imperial court, so naturally we will not be willing to be its bait, anyway, they only let us escort to the capital before, then we will not be done escorting it to the capital, besides, Qiuquan is a small town, how can they know so much, the imperial court will only inform them at most that they have been careful of the surrounding mountain bandits sneaking into the city recently," Jiang Yuehua smiled softly after speaking.
"Oh, I see. Chen Yin touched his shoulders and abdomen, and found that not only had the bleeding stopped, but even the wound had healed.
"Senior Brother Yin can control the blood in the human body, he stopped the bleeding and accelerated the healing of the wounds," Jiang Yuehua explained, "Those wounds on our bodies were healed by him. ”
Leopard Hong yawned full: "Comfortable! Yo, Senior Brother Chen is also awake!"
"Uh-huh. ”
Ying Li and Chen Mo Ling also opened their eyes one after another, Mo Ling nodded at Chen Yin, Ying Li looked at Chen Yin stunned for a while, and then frowned and kicked him lightly: "If you can't win, run away, you stupid, wait for death!"
"Manly man, it's nothing more than death, how can you run!" Leopard Hong turned his head and asked, "Are you right, Senior Brother Mo Ling." ”
Chen Moling said unhurriedly: "Do everything according to your ability. ”
"I can't listen to it," Leopard Hong got up and got out of the car, "You take a break, I'll drive." ”
"Is Senior Brother Chen awake?" Yintao asked Bao Hong.
"Ah, no big deal. ”
"Well, that's good. ”
"Did you hear what my senior sister said, the next time you meet someone more powerful than you, you can run, don't act like a fool. Yingli kicked Chen Yin again.
"Yes, yes, I know. ”
The next way, it was indeed smooth sailing, and then the group arrived at Yanding City like a tour of the mountains and rivers, which is the closest big city to the capital, and it is the most prosperous place that Chen Yin has seen so far, the streets are crowded with people, and there are restaurants selling gadgets one after another.
"What's that?" Chen Yin asked, pointing to a colorful wooden building.
"Qinglou," said Leopard Hong with a wicked smile, "a place that men love to go." ”
"Oh?" Chen Yin suddenly became interested, "What is the place where men like to go?"
"It's hard to say, you'll have to see for yourself. Leopard Hong smiled again.
Qi Yingli next to her looked at Chen Yin: "If you go, don't call me senior sister." ”
Everyone found a slightly corner inn to live in, Yintao and Bao Hong slept in the carriage in shifts, and the rest of the people opened two rooms, one for men and one for women.
"Everyone has worked hard in the past few days, so let's rest today, let's stop here for two days and then set off," Yintao turned to Leopard Hong, "Let's work harder in the past two days, guarding the carriage in shifts." ”
"Okay!"
Chen Yin took a shower and changed into new clothes, it was dark at this time, but the streets were indeed brightly lit, Chen Yin asked only to know that today happened to be the Water Dragon Festival in Yanding City, and people were preparing to go to the river to put river lanterns, in order to calm the big river that passed through the city, and pray that there would be no big water in the coming year.
"Let's take a look, too. Qi Yingli grabbed Chen Yin's hand and dragged it out.
"Wait for me. Jiang Yuehua followed happily.
Chen Moling sat in place and hesitated for a moment, but got up and immediately followed.
The street to the river is full of stalls of all kinds on both sides, crowded and busy, it is not lively, Chen Moling bought a paper figure for Jiang Yuehua, Jiang Yuehua walked and played along the way, Qi Yingli held wine in one hand and sugar gourd in the other, looking left and right happily all the way, Chen Yin also seemed to have fallen into the treasure garden, everything had to be looked at for a long time, and then he smirked for a while, the four of them were full of interest all the way, looked left and right, and completely melted into the surrounding happy atmosphere, they chose an excellent position to sit down on the bank of the river, and there were many people around, and they almost had to shout at each other with all their strength to hear each other clearly, but they love it at the moment.
"Let go of the river lanterns!" a loud and long voice shouted the slogan.
Dense candlelight appeared on the bank, slid into the water, slowly flowed over, the river surface was instantly embellished like a galaxy, one by one the stars glowed with yellow and warm points of light, with the river wind swaying left and right, the noisy crowd around gradually quieted down, people closed their eyes and folded their hands, their mouths each muttering.
"Hurry, close your eyes, make a wish!" Qi Yingli said as she folded her hands, the corners of her mouth raised and kept muttering to herself.
Chen Yin also imitated the gourd painting scoop, but he didn't know what to make a wish, so he didn't say anything at all.
"What wish did you make?" Qi Yingli asked.
"I don't know what to promise, so I don't. ”
"Stupid, I promised that when I returned to Dinghua Mountain, you would still bring wine to Fenghu Lake for me every day, so that I could drink wine every day. She burst out laughing.
"Oh no, it doesn't work to say it. Chen Yin looked surprised.
"Do you dare to bring me wine," Yingli turned her head and asked the other side, "Senior Sister Jiang, what about you?"
"The people around me are safe and healthy. ”
"Senior Brother Mo Ling, what about you?"
"I didn't. ”
"Look! Fireworks!"
There was a sudden muffled sound in the sky, a purple firework burst out, and the people below made a 'wow' sound, and then 'orange, green, red-' broke through the air at one time, and when the four of them were drunk, Chen Yin suddenly heard someone talking in his ear: "Shi Huo." The voice seemed to be close to him, he turned around suddenly, and there was only a crowd of people looking at the sky in a daze, maybe it was the voice of any of them, Chen Yin was thinking like this, and the voice came from his ears again: "Shi Huo." This time, Chen Yin really didn't see anyone around him to speak, but the voice couldn't be clearer, he looked around, and then looked at a person wearing a mask and wearing black clothes and pants: "Shihuo, I'm waiting for you outside the inn, don't tell anyone." Chen Yin looked at the person and heard the voice again, Chen Yin blinked again, and the person was gone.
At the end of the Water Dragon Festival, the four of them returned to the inn full of spirits, Chen Yin remembered the voice and the man wearing the mask: "I'll go to the thatched house, you go back to the room first." Chen Yin slowed down, and waited until the three of them disappeared at the staircase, before turning around and running out of the inn, at this moment the outside of the inn is not as lively as before, plus this place is relatively remote, and there are fewer people, Chen Yin looked left and right at the door for a while, and didn't see anyone, could it be that I made a mistake, Chen Yin felt the breath around him, and all he felt were scattered people.
The black-clothed masked man quietly squatted on the roof opposite and watched him, and only then did he slowly speak: "Long time no see, Shi Huo." ”
Chen Yin's heart palpitated, he couldn't feel any breath of the other party at all.