Chapter 68
On the third day of February, the weather was excellent, and Shen Yanling's family set off from Xiaohe Village to the capital. In order to travel conveniently, he specially bought a carriage, and Shen Yanling drove it. The carriage was not big, the family did not bring too many things, and Ning'er sat in the car with a few children. Although some improvements have been made, but in the end it is not as comfortable as a modern car, at the end of the day, I am too tired to work, I found an inn and stayed to rest.
Shen Yanling wanted to enter Beijing, naturally someone would take care of him for him, and after leaving Xiaohe Town, the guards around him appeared to drive, and Shen Yanling also entered the carriage to sit with his wife and children. Ah Zheng is still young, and it is the first time to go out, always like to lift the curtain to watch, the spring is imminent, and the road also meets the scholars who entered Beijing to take the exam.
For Ning'er, the itinerary along the way is very boring, but Ah Zheng and Yutang are playing all the way, while Ah Ping has been quiet since he was a child, blinking and laughing when he listens to others. Although Shen Yanling didn't mean to seek fame and fame, but she was bored on the road and read the book, so Ning Er also took a book to read, it was a medical book, Shen Yanling used to buy books on the street when she bought them, but she didn't expect it to be a rare medical classic, Ning Er saw it when she sorted out the book, and brought it with her when she went out.
The escort car that drove the car was very good, at least, it was much better than Shen Yanling, but the car suddenly stopped on the road on this day, and the people in the car all fell forward, but fortunately, Ah Ping was held in Ning'er's arms and did not hit it.
"Fenghui, what's going on?" asked Shen Yanling to the guards who were rushing the car outside. In addition to the distribution of all kinds of talents, there are also secret soldiers and secret guards directly subordinate to the door owner. The duty of the dark soldiers is to protect national security, and they will not be dispatched unless necessary, but the secret guards belong directly to the door master, led by the four guards, who follow the surname of the wind, thunder, water and fire, and choose another word as the name, Feng Hui is the dark guard under the wind, this time the four dark guards returned to Beijing first, and he and the other four secret guards were one bright and three dark guards Shen Yanling's family.
"Back to the master, there was a person in front of him who suddenly fainted, and the subordinates were worried that they would be injured and suddenly stopped, which frightened the master, and asked the master to forgive the sin!"
"Is that person injured?" asked Ning'er.
"Back to Mrs. Hui's words, the subordinate stopped in time and did not hurt anyone, the person seemed to be sick. ”
"Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, Xianggong, let's go down and have a look!" Ning Er said to Shen Yanling.
"It's okay, it won't take much time, I'll go down with you to have a look. Yutang, take care of your brother. Shen Yanling agreed, and explained to Yutang again, and when Yutang nodded, she walked off the carriage with Ning'er.
When Shen Yanling and Ning Er got out of the car, Feng Hui had already moved the man to the side of the road, and when he looked at it, he was about twenty years old, and he looked like a gentleman, although he was dressed in cloth, he was also clean and tidy, carrying a small burden, and he was probably going to Beijing to take the exam. Ning Er was about to treat him, but saw Ah Zheng and Yutang walking out of the carriage lightly with Ah Ping.
Ning Er frowned slightly, and shouted to Ah Zheng: "Ah Zheng, Yutang, where are you going?"
Ah Zheng and Yutang stiffened when they heard this, turned to look at Ning Er and Shen Yanling and said, "Don't go there, it's just that the scenery here is very good, Sister Yutang and I took my younger brother out to breathe." ”
Ning'er's eyes glanced around, there was a river passing by the roadside, the river stalls were full of blooming wildflowers, and there were water birds rising and falling from time to time, but the scenery was really good, and it was good to come out to breathe, but a few children were always at ease playing by the river, and Ah Ping was still so young. Shen Yanling saw Ning'er's thoughts, so she replied to the wind: "Tell people to follow them, don't let them have an accident." ”
Feng Hui nodded, waved his hand into the shadows, and two figures followed the three children. Ning'er was relieved and squatted down to check the patient's condition. Seeing this, the child knew that his parents had agreed, so he didn't have to sneak around anymore and happily went to the river.
Ning Er checked the patient's body and said to Shen Yanling: "It's not a serious illness, it's just that I'm weak and hungry for a long time." ”
"I think it's a child of a poor family! It's good to help him, can you feed him?" Shen Yanling said.
Ning'er nodded, pinched his man, and with a slight force, the young man woke up. Ning'er replied to the wind: "Fetch some water, mix some honey in the car, and bring some food." ”
Feng Hui nodded and went back to the car, and took food for a while, Ning Er first gave the man the sugar water to drink, and then took the dry food for him to eat. Although the man was hungry and anxious, he still thanked Shen Yanling and his wife, and only then took the dry food to eat, but some scholars were gentle and elegant.
Shen Yanling and Ning Er looked at the children playing happily by the river, and saw that it was not too early to see that it was not too early, so they planned to take a break, eat something and continue on their way. After a few days of traveling, they eat dry food for lunch every day, Shen Yanling and Ning'er are fine, but the three children have long been bored, they only eat a little each time, they don't want it, and they have to eat more at night, although Ning'er knows that it is not good, but there is no way to take them. There was plenty of time today, so Shen Yanling asked Feng to go back and catch a few fish for lunch, and the two sat on the side of the road and talked to the scholar.
The scholar didn't talk much, but he was very insightful, and Shen Yanling and Ning Er knew from what they said that his name was Zhou Yuanjin, and he was the one who went to Beijing to take the exam. His family in his hometown is also not low scholarly family, but it is a pity that he is a concubine, there is a grandmother in the family to suppress, originally because he reads well, and his brother is not as good as him, he was more harshly criticized, this provincial test, he happened to be sick, did not play well, although he got a lifter, the ranking is not good, his mother persuaded his father not to allow him to enter Beijing to catch the exam, so as not to spend money in vain, but the brother has excellent grades, has already entered Beijing. He was really unwilling to lose this opportunity like this, so he would find a way to sneak into Beijing to catch the exam. Although his biological mother gave him some personal money, but in the end, it was a drop in the bucket, and he had never gone out and was stolen from the money, so he would be so wolf.
Shen Yanling and Ning Er listened to his words, and they were both embarrassed, after all, they were both scholars, so they naturally wanted to help him, so they invited him to go along. Who knew that this person was very dignified, and said to Shen Yanling and Ning Er: "I am very grateful for the help I received from the two of you today, how dare I ask for more, I only ask the two of you to carry me to the town, I go to the street to sell words, and I can always exchange some money." ”
Shen Yanling nodded, there was only one carriage in their group, and they had children in their families, so it was indeed inconvenient to bring a strange man, and Shen Yanling also admired Zhou Yuanjin's integrity very much, so he said: "That's fine, I'll wait for you in the capital, I believe that with Brother Zhou's talent, I will be able to get my wish." ”
"With Brother Shen's auspicious words, he should repay Brother Shen's kindness. Zhou Yuanjin said.
At this time, Feng Hui came back with a few fat fish, and the three children also came back. Shen Yanling and Feng Hui made a fire, and the task of grilling fish was handed over to Ning'er, and the three children sat next to them and watched, Ah Zheng has always been a self-cooked, pestering Zhou Yuanjin to ask questions, and Yutang pulled Ah Ping to sit next to Ning'er and watch Ning'er grill fish. Ah Ping can now walk and speak clearly, although he is not very stable when walking, he doesn't like people to hold him, and he loves to follow people everywhere.
Although the seasoning on the road is not complete, it is much better than dry food, the three children ate more, Ah Ping is young, Ning'er also specially picked fish bones for him to eat.
After resting and eating, the group continued to hurry, because of some delays, it was already dusk when they arrived in the next town, but fortunately, someone had already arranged a place to stay, and the family went to the town to eat something and rest.
Up to now, the road to Beijing has gone more than half, this town is the hub of Jinlongguo's transportation, so although it is only a town, it is very prosperous, and it is the time to raise the child to enter Beijing to catch the exam, it is even more lively, and the inns and restaurants in the town are almost full. When Zhou Yuanjin arrived in the town, he separated from Shen Yanling's family, and Shen Yanling's family went to the prepared inn to rest.
Most of the inns where Shen Yanling's family lived were also moved to Beijing to take the exam, and when they walked into the inn, they saw a group of people fighting poems in the hall. In this era, although the imperial examination was important, poetry was still an extremely important part of the imperial examination, so it was very common to fight poetry in places where scholars gathered. Since ancient times, students have been close to each other, and readers will be close to each other when they see them, and exchanging poetry is a common way, but although Ning'er read a lot of poetry in her previous life, she didn't like poetry seriously, and Shen Yanling didn't seem to be very keen on poetry. Therefore, although those who raised their eyes to see Shen Yanling were invited by scholars, Shen Yanling refused on the grounds that he was tired from the journey.
It's just that Shen Yanling and Ning Er didn't expect that those people would be able to fight for their lives with a single poem.
Because they are too tired during the day, Shen Yanling and Ning Er almost sleep on the bed these days, but after all, they are people who practice martial arts, and they are much more sensitive to the surrounding environment than ordinary people. Not long after falling asleep, Shen Yanling and Ning Er were awakened by a noise, and the sound came from the hall downstairs. After a while, someone shouted 'Murder!'
Both of them were shocked, Shen Yanling got up and put on her clothes, and asked back to the wind outside, "What's going on down there?"
"Back to the master, there was a fight at the bottom because of the fighting poem, and then he made a move, and now it seems that he is dead!" Feng Hui said calmly.
"It has nothing to do with us, sleep! I'll go and see the kids." Shen Yanling thought about making trouble with them below, and he didn't bother to care, since he woke up, he went to see the child, Yutang didn't have to worry about it, Ah Zheng was naughty, Shen Yanling was afraid that he would pull Ah Ping to play again, and he wouldn't sleep.
Ning Er nodded, fell asleep obediently, and Shen Yanling went out to the next room. The layout of the inn is surrounded by rooms on all sides around the lobby in the middle, Shen Yanling can see the situation in the lobby below when he goes out, it is really a mess, there is a person lying in the middle, and a pool of blood is flowing under his body, Shen Yanling looked at the location of the wound, but it was really hopeless, thinking that it was manslaughter, and it was handled by its own government, so he turned around and prepared to enter the door to see that Ah Zheng and Ah Ping did not sleep honestly.
But at this moment, another scream came from below, and another person in the crowd fell, and the man with the dagger in his hand reflexively stabbed the person next to him. Shen Yanling didn't have time to think about it, so she casually took out a copper coin and shot it at the dagger raised by the man, and with a clear sound, the dagger fell to the ground. The man was startled, and slashed at the other person with a palm, where would Shen Yanling let him hurt people again, and flew down quickly from the upstairs, quickly restraining the perpetrator.
Shen Yanling noticed that the man's eyes flashed, and two more people not far away drew their daggers and wanted to hurt people, they were all dead soldiers, and now they just wanted to kill a few more people to be enough. Where will Shen Yanling let them succeed, with a wave of his hand, the two secret guards hidden in the dark appeared, and they were restrained before they could react.
There was so much movement at the bottom, Jing Ning'er also went out to see, and saw that Shen Yanling ordered someone to restrain the murderer, and the person who was watching the person in the lobby had already lost his breath. Ning'er knew that Shen Yanling could deal with it, so she didn't go down, today's things were a little strange, although the three children were protected by secret guards, Ning'er was still a little uneasy, and it looked better on it.
The owner of the inn has long been hiding and not daring to come out, most of the scholars in the lobby are pale, and their bodies tremble slightly, but fortunately, the store is not confused, and when something happens, they find someone to report to the government.