The ship, already docked.

The sun was shining on the huge hull, casting a long shadow that almost covered most of the dock, and all the people on the dock looked up and watched the haze brought by this behemoth obscure them.

Pei Yuanxiu and I stood on the sampan.

I don't know why, seeing this scene, it makes me feel more and more heavy.

It seems like...... What I brought was really a haze.

Pei Yuanxiu also kept looking down, for him, this piece of land was also unprecedented, after a while, he felt my distraction, gently pinched my fingertips, I suddenly raised my head to look at him, only to see the corners of his eyes crooked: "It's okay, right?" ”

“……”

"Young Baby?"

"......" I opened my mouth, and said a little hoarse for a long time, "It's okay." ”

When the boatmen have taken care of it, we're going to go ashore.

The three rivers converge here, and it is naturally the hub of waterway transportation, where people come and go, ships come and go, goods come and go, just stand on the deck and take a look, you can see the liveliness and prosperity here. In the midst of the commotion, the attendants who accompanied them all walked down first, opening the way on both sides, Pei Yuanxiu and me, followed by Su Su, and several other maids, slowly went ashore.

The moment I stepped on the dock from the gratelet, my feet were finally solid, but the person stumbled slightly.

Pei Yuanxiu hurriedly grabbed my arm and looked at me a little nervously, I smiled faintly at him, but such a smile couldn't hide the gradual paleness of his face.

Then I turned my head to look at this wharf, the roads here, the people here, and the mountains and rivers in the distance in the light mist, all of them were so familiar, but so far away, as if there was something that had never changed after seeing each other in the world.

I, after all, came back.

How many times have I appeared in nightmares, and this place has been sealed in the depths of my heart, and after more than ten years of escape, I have finally returned.

A carriage came in front of us, and Pei Yuanxiu led me over.

There are no ornate decorations on the carriage, but the carriages are spacious and comfortably furnished, after all, there is still a long way to go from Fengjie to Chengdu. Pei Yuanxiu lifted the curtain and just grabbed my hand and was about to take me to the car, when suddenly, a strange movement behind me made me and his movements pause.

I looked back and felt the crowds on the dock fall silent.

Someone's coming this way.

Pei Yuanxiu also felt something, still holding my hand, standing still by the carriage, and then saw the people on the dock slowly retreating to both sides, and a group of people walked towards us.

It was a group of young men, each dressed in a tight-fitting white gown, and looked athletic and lean; They are all only thirty years old, and their looks can be called handsome, and the appearance of such a group of people on the crowded dock will naturally attract everyone's attention.

But what's even more surprising is that their steps are almost the same, the people in the front row take a step, and the people in the back row take a step, just stepping on the footprints left by the person in front.

The attendants behind us also looked at them, and although they didn't speak, except for Su Su, everyone else was obviously shocked.

Pei Yuanxiu and I stood in the carriage until those people walked in front of me, and then all of them pulled their fronts and bowed down to me: "Meet the eldest lady!" ”

Although there were many people on the dock, they didn't even hear a breath at this time.

They didn't put on a show, they didn't arrange people at the dock in advance, and they didn't forbid anyone to come up to the dock, but as soon as these people appeared, all of them consciously stepped aside, not daring to make any more noise.

This is the status of the Yan family in Xichuan!

This is the Yan family!

And at this moment, everyone's eyes were on me.

I stood there a little numbly, the wind was not in a hurry, but it was enough to blow my clothes up to the top of the hunt. The wind penetrated through my clothes, as if a cool hand was caressing my body, making me unconsciously, already cold.

When they knelt down, they all bowed their heads, and none of them dared to raise their heads again. I stood in front of them and said coldly, "What about my daughter?" ”

"The subordinates came to greet the eldest lady on the order of the head of the family, and asked the eldest lady to get into the car."

Dozens of people spoke at the same time, and no matter how smooth the voice was, it was enough to stir up a thousand waves in everyone's hearts.

The quiet people on the docks were staring at me dumbfounded.

"Where's my daughter?!"

"Miss, please."

“……”

Before I could say a third word, I saw a motorcade of carriages approaching.

There were about four or five carriages, the front and rear ones were spacious, and the middle one was not only spacious, but also comfortable, and could even be called exquisite, and even the carriages were finely carved, and the curtains hanging down on both sides were as light as clouds, and they were blown by the wind and danced, so that the whole carriage seemed to be in the clouds.

The wharf here is civilian, and there are rough boatmen back and forth, large boxes of goods, and the air is also filled with water and fishy smell, but the delicate carriage that suddenly appears, like pearls emerging from the rough sand, makes people a little overwhelmed for a while.

At this moment, what I felt was a chill in my back.

In any kind of dispatch, as long as there are a lot of people dispatched, there will inevitably be a leader, and whatever I say and do, I will inevitably take that person; But Yan Qingchen sent a team of exactly the same people, and could not find the deacon, so that what I wanted to ask, no one answered, and what I wanted to do would not affect them.

Pei Yuanxiu, who was standing next to me, also felt this, and his brows furrowed slightly.

Although it was just a simple response, it had already been suppressed!

Yan Qingchen, sure enough, it was Yan Qingchen.

I remained silent and did not speak, and these people kept kneeling at my feet, and none of them looked up, not even moving.

In the end, it was Pei Yuanxiu who opened his mouth, and he said softly: "Qingying? ”

I looked up at him, didn't say anything, and walked forward. Pei Yuanxiu saw that I was walking towards the carriage they brought, and hurriedly took two steps forward and grabbed my hand: "Qingying! ”

I looked back at him and said calmly, "It's okay. ”

"But—"

"He wanted to see me sooner than I wanted to find him."

Pei Yuanxiu's face sank, as if he understood something, and he didn't speak again, while I already kept my face calm and continued to walk forward.

The men, who were kneeling on the ground, immediately got up and retreated on either side, and made a way for me, and followed behind us; And when I walked towards the carriage step by step, I also clearly saw the stunned and surprised eyes of the people around me, and I held my breath one by one, and I didn't dare to take a breath.

I only heard someone behind the crowd and lowered his voice: "That-that's the eldest lady of the Yan family!" ”

"It's her, it's really her!"

"Miss, why are you here? She's not—"

"Shh

I subconsciously glanced over there, and after a single glance, everyone in sight lowered their heads, cautiously not daring to look at me.

I sighed softly, and I was a little out of strength.

In the past, the feeling of depression that made people unable to even breathe came to my heart at this moment.

This is Nishikawa.

This is the Yan family in Xichuan!

The carriage drove quickly down the mountain road.

The horse that pulls the cart is a thousand-mile horse that can travel long distances, and four horses pull a cart, which is naturally effortless. In this rapid progress, the days also passed day by day.

We drove fast, but the journey was not hard, and Yan Qingchen's arrangement was enough for me to enjoy a good service on the way. In Xichuan and all the official roads in the Central Plains, there are post stations, and each section of the road will remove the tired horses and replace them with energetic horses, and the post stations have long prepared for us to rest and delicacies, and after resting, we can quickly get on the road.

After passing the Fengjie area, the mountain road gradually smoothed out, and the carriage traveled faster.

Gradually, the rugged mountain roads gave way to wide avenues, and when I lifted the curtain and looked around, it was no longer rolling mountains, but a wide field of flat rivers.

Chengdu is close at hand.

I have traveled a lot of places in the Central Plains, from north to south, and there are many prosperous and lively scenes in those cities, but no matter how prosperous the city is, outside the main city, there is a somewhat cool feeling. But here is different, even if you have not yet arrived in the main city, the surrounding area has gradually become lively, and some remote towns also have their own prosperity.

Water and drought come from people, and they don't know hunger.

The richness of this place can also be imagined.

Our last day of rest and recuperation was in Changfeng Town. The name here is Changfeng, which means a perennial harvest, and is already a small town closest to the main city of Chengdu. When I got here, it was late, Pei Yuanxiu and I rested directly after dinner, and early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, I got up to freshen up, and when I walked out of the post station, those people were already waiting by the carriage.

When I got into the carriage, my feet slipped a little, Pei Yuanxiu didn't say anything, and carefully helped me into the carriage.

When the two men were seated, the coachman outside asked, then raised his whip, and the carriage drove forward.

In the carriage, it was still calm.

Along the way, my words became less and less, and I almost didn't speak in the past two days, but Pei Yuanxiu didn't mind at all, just sat quietly with me.

But today, like him, I'm obviously a little bit at peace.

Even if I don't say it, he knows by his own estimation that we are going to enter the city today.

The carriage drove for a while, and the carriage became more and more silent, and after a while, he reached out and lifted the curtain to look out, and the carriage had reached the entrance of the town, and the pedestrians on both sides of the road saw our group of people and horses, and they all retreated.

At this moment, a flag flashed in front of his eyes.

At a glance, I saw a huge word "iron" on the banner.

It's Tiejia Qianzhuang!

I suddenly felt a sudden heartbeat, and subconsciously reached out to my chest, Pei Yuanxiu immediately turned his head to look at me, and said softly: "What's wrong with you?" Under the weather? ”

"......" I was speechless for a moment, only gently tugging at the placket of my chest.

He looked at my face a little pale, thinking that I was nervous because I was getting closer and closer to Chengdu and getting closer to the Yan family, so he moved over and hugged me gently, and said softly: "Don't be nervous, there's nothing to be afraid of." ”

“……”

"Remember, I'm here."

My fingers were still pinching the placket of my clothes almost spasmodically, and my palms hurt a little, but I looked up at his gentle eyes, and finally nodded: "Hmm." ”

I didn't say anything, and the flag flashed by, and we quickly left it behind.

The carriage kept moving forward, and when the hour came, our carriage came to a slow stop after a period of rapid travel.

There was a lot of people around, and it didn't seem like an ordinary post station.

My mind turned, I turned to the side, gently lifted the curtain on the side, and at a glance, I saw a towering city wall!

The gray-black city wall with traces of wind, frost, rain and snow stands in front of you, there is a different kind of heaviness, just a glance, will overwhelm people, and on both sides of the city gate, the guards were about to come to ask, and a man in white closest to him said expressionlessly: "Miss back to the city!" ”

This sentence was not said loudly, and it was even quickly drowned out in the surrounding boiling voices.

But it's like a spell.

Suddenly, all the people around them fell silent with bated breath, and they all looked at our carriage with wide eyes as if they were in disbelief, and the guard who had come up to inquire looked up at me immediately knelt down when he raised the curtain and looked out at me.

Then I heard a commotion, and in an instant, the guards of the city all knelt down.

"Greetings, Miss!"