Volume 1 The Return of the Old Man Chapter 49 Arson
She smiled heartily, just when she saw Han Changdu's cold face, she hurriedly accepted the smile, and she closed it too quickly, almost cramping her face.
After a night of silence, after packing up, the boat moved forward quickly, and the spacious river surface made a sharp turn from the north side, and flowed straight all the way away. The steep terrain on both sides of the river is slowly becoming soothing, and the mountain farmhouses and villages are dotted around, and further afield, there are faint boundless fertile fields and bustling villages and towns.
When the boat traveled to the Fengling ferry, it was late in the sky, and in the blood-like sunset, the Rongjin Mountains in the distance condensed the iron bones, and the nearby river soup flowed with tenderness.
Fengling Ferry is the waterway hub of Guannei Road, Hedong Road and Henan Road, which is very busy on weekdays, from morning to night, there are always passenger ships and cargo ships one after another, entering and exiting at the ferry.
Yao Qi stood on the deck, looking at the huge archway erected on the ferry in the distance, with three big black characters written on it.
The archway has been eroded by wind and rain, it looks old and heavy, the three words of Fenglingdu are like a knife and axe to chop, deep and deep in the middle of the archway, quite a bit chivalrous.
She automatically ignored the lively fireworks at the ferry, and only looked at the archway and nodded, this is what Fenglingdu should look like in Jin Yong's martial arts novels.
She muttered: "When we first met at Fengling Ferry, I saw Yang Guo for the rest of my life. ”
Han Changwan didn't hear what Yao Qi was saying clearly, only vaguely heard the last three words of mistaken life, and spit out a sentence in surprise: "What did you say." ”
Yao Qi broke the gong in a second, remembered where he was now, and hurriedly closed his mouth.
Hehe, her rivers and lakes are over before they even start.
Han Changdui watched Yao Qi's face change in surprise, and he touched the tip of his nose unwillingly.
In a word, is it so terrible, he doesn't eat people.
The boat docked at the dock, and Li Yushan and Han Changwan stood at the bow of the boat, watching the dart masters carry dozens of large boxes and get off the boat first.
Since they agreed to go all the way to Qiuzi, Han Changdui and Li Yushan also unconsciously became close, one was thoughtful, the other laughed heartily, and they also talked happily.
Bao Cheng had a shriveled little burden on his shoulders, it seemed that he had been scavenged by the water thief, he quickly walked to Han Changdui's side, and came over with a smile: "Eh, Brother Han, let's go together in a while." ”
Han Changwan glanced at Bao Cheng lightly and did not answer.
Li Yushan also glanced at Bao Cheng with a strange expression and ignored him.
Bao Cheng suddenly felt bored, and turned his head to find Yao Qitao: "Ah Qi, have you been to the Western Regions?" ”
Yao Qi didn't look back, her eyes were slightly cold, and she was watching the dart master carrying the big box away without blinking, she wrinkled the tip of her nose silently, and immediately sneezed loudly, which frightened Han Changwan and Li Yushan to look back at her together.
She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled embarrassedly: "The wind is too strong, it's a little cold." She turned her head and asked Bao Cheng: "I didn't hear what you just said." ”
Bao Cheng pursed his lips, and suddenly felt a great sense of humiliation of being ignored, and Tengteng got off the boat without saying a word.
Yao Qi looked at Han Changwei innocently: "Childe, what's wrong with him." ”
Han Changdui said lightly without squinting: "I was scared by your sneezing, I was afraid that you would pass on the wind and cold to him." ”
Yao Ji sighed, turned his head and continued to look at the dart team that was slowly moving away, his gaze even colder.
The boatmen gradually ran out, and after ten days of floating on the river, they suddenly stepped on the shore, as if they were stepping on cotton, and their soft legs fluttered.
Yao Qi had just walked a few steps, and suddenly remembered something, slapped his head, stuffed the box in his hand into Han Changdu's hand, turned around and ran towards the boat, shouting as he ran: "Childe, you go to the front and wait for the servant, the maid just remembered that something had fallen." ”
Something fell, Han Changdui pursed his lips, he didn't believe in the evil of this girl who talked nonsense.
But he didn't ask, more beautiful chased after him, dragged the box, and smiled at Li Yushan: "This girl is like this, she is very reckless, and she also loses everything, which makes Li Darttou laugh." ”
Li Yushan shook his head with a smile: "Han Gongzi is polite, I think this girl is good, and she is smart." ”
Yao said that he had left something behind, but instead of going up to the third floor, he turned to the warehouse at the stern of the boat.
She glanced outside several barns, reached out and pushed one of them open, and closed the door with her backhand.
The half-man-high sackcloth bag filled the barn, and the highest part of the stack was almost stacked on the roof, and even the barn door was barely pushed open, and there was no place to stay.
She pondered for a moment, and as soon as she reached out her hand, she heard the sound of messy, hurried footsteps approaching.
Looking at the unobstructed surroundings and the roof that didn't even have beams, Yao Qi stiffened her head and got into the narrow and thin gap between the burlap bags, and as soon as she entered, she was so crowded that she almost turned her back.
It's still a little fat, so I'll have to eat less in the future.
The door was suddenly opened, and the footsteps were whirring, listening to the sound, there were many people crowded at the door.
"Come, come, brethren, after carrying this grain, we can get off the boat and drink."
"Hurry up, that's all there is left, one person carries two bags, hurry up."
Yao Qi hid in the gap of the burlap bag, shivering, seeing a faint light coming in, she knew that the burlap bag was getting less and less.
What are these people doing with such neat hands and feet?
Is it too late for her to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead now?
At this moment, a terrible and tragic scream came from outside: "It's on fire, it's on fire, come and put out the fire, put out the fire, put out the fire." ”
With a few "bang, bang, bang", the burlap bag smashed on the ground, and the floor shook.
The group of people who entered the warehouse rushed out one after another, and at a glance saw black smoke rising from the bow of the ship, and they rushed over with buckets of water.
Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it.
Yao Qi used his hands and feet at the same time, and climbed out with difficulty.
At this time, a big hand reached over, grabbed Yao Qi's arm, and pulled her out.
"It's you." Yao Qi looked up, and saw a face crawling out of the coal pile, and couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly, and whispered in surprise.
The owner of that hand was Bao Cheng, who was full of every word of truth, and he chuckled: "Ah Qi, you see, I said it earlier, it's more reliable to follow me than to follow your son-in-law." ”
Yao Qi wasn't sure what Bao Cheng's plan was, what he saw, what he thought, adhering to the golden rule that more words must be lost, he closed his mouth, looked at the cat's body at the door, and saw that all the people had indeed put out the fire, so she turned around boldly and went to pick up the burlap bag.
Bao Cheng leaned against the door frame, crossed his arms and smiled: "Don't worry, I'll put the fire on it, they won't be able to pass it for a while." ”
Yao Qi's movements froze, but he didn't look back.
It was this piece of black charcoal that set the fire, why did he help her, what did he want?
But this is not the time to wonder why.
She neatly opened the burlap bag that left half of the warehouse, revealing several large wooden boxes hidden behind the wall.
Bao Cheng put away his thoughts of playing lightly, slowly straightened up, frowned, and said, "I said why these burlap bags are piled up so high, it turns out that they are to hide these boxes." He paused: "Ah Qi, how do you know that there is something hidden here?" ”
Yao Qi ignored him, flew up and jumped onto the top box, didn't open the box, just leaned on it and sniffed it carefully.
"What do you ask?" Bao Cheng walked over curiously, and also leaned on the edge of the box below, sniffed it, and said, "The smell of tea." ”
Yao Qi jumped down, turned around and walked out.
Bao Cheng chased after him and said, "Eh, Ah Qi, I helped you, why don't you say thank you." ”
Yao didn't reply, and threatened: "You are following me, do you want me to beat you?" ”
Bao Cheng shrunk his neck and followed off the boat.
Han Changdui stood with his hands behind his back not far from the shore, looking at Yao Qi and Bao Cheng approaching one after the other, his face sank, and he said lightly: "Something found?" ”
Yao Qi raised the hairpin in his hand and said with a smile: "I found it." ”
"If you find it, don't hurry up." Han Changdu's face was not good, and his tone was not very good, he threw the box and baggage to the ground, shook his hand and walked away.
Yao sighed.
Carrying a burden, dragging the box, he hurriedly chased after it.
There is a huge carriage and horse shop next to the Fengling ferry, donkeys, horses, mules and vehicles of all kinds are available, there are quite a lot of passengers who get off the boat at this time, and the front of the carriage and horse shop is also crowded with people, some break the horse's mouth to see the teeth, and some turn over the donkey, try the strength of the feet.
Li Yushan didn't plan to buy donkeys and horses in the carriage and horse shop, he turned his head and explained to Han Changwan with a smile: "Han Gongzi, the donkeys and horses in this carriage and horse shop have average foot strength, and they are not suitable for going to the Western Regions. He turned his head to look at Yao Qi, who was holding the burden and panting and running over, frowning in embarrassment: "It's just that I don't know if Miss Ah Qi can ride a horse, whether she wants to hire a carriage alone." ”
"Ah Qi can ride a horse, Li Darttou doesn't have to bother, just go to the horse farm to choose a horse." Han Changwan smiled.
The people who came out of the sixteen guards, let alone riding horses, are afraid that they are riding very well, and ordinary people can't catch up.
He was looking forward to going to the racecourse.
Yao opened his mouth.
She didn't want to ride a horse, she wanted to ride in a carriage, and it would be easier to ride in a carriage.
The racecourse is not far from the ferry port and is a place with abundant water and plants.
A group of people went around in the horse farm, the horses in the horse farm have been tamed, although there are still some wild, but these people are not ordinary people, change into suitable horse riding clothes, run a few laps, the horses will be obedient enough.
It's just that if you want to be full of tacit understanding, you will have to run in for a long time along the way.
Han Changdui led an extremely tall and strong yellow horse out, the horse's whole body was red and golden, and there was no variegation, only a little white spot on the horse's head that looked like a full moon.
He put on a beard, trousers tucked into leather boots, turned on his horse, rode the horse, and ran quickly, and the intimate short coat of indigo and dark flowers made a dark blue light, illuminating the dark green and light green meadows.