Chapter 8 Settle in Sanjiang Town
Fei Mo sat up from the bed suddenly, and he heard clearly that it was the voice of Miao Nu Yunhan.
"Master, save them!" Fei couldn't bear to beg his master Zhang Qingyang silently.
Zhang Qingyang strode to the back of the door, holding a knife in his right hand, and carefully opened the door with his left hand. looked out, sure enough, it was Yun Han standing at the door with Ziyan in his arms, the two of them were covered with blood, Ziyan obviously hadn't encountered such a terrible thing, and his small body trembled in Yun Han's arms.
Zhang Qingyang opened the door to let the two of them in, Yun Han said thank you, and walked in with Ziyan in his arms. Zhang Qingyang looked at both sides of the door and closed the door after making sure that no one was there.
Zhang Qingyang came in and put the knife back into the scabbard and asked, "What's wrong with you, where is Mu Qingyi?" Yun Han hugged the trembling Ziyan and said anxiously: "We met the black witch, they wanted to capture Ziyan, Aunt Qingyi stayed behind and dragged them away, let us come here to find you for help." ”
Zhang Qingyang thought for a while and asked, "Is it a black witch or a yin walker?" Why did they arrest this little girl?"
Yun Han shook his head: "Before we could figure out the details of the other party, they made a move. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Ziyan's surname is Long." ”
Zhang Qingyang's pupils shrank: "You said she is Long Hao's daughter?" Yun Han nodded.
Zhang Qingyang seemed to suddenly think of something and said, "How did you find this?" Yun Han thought about it for a while and said: "Xiaonanguo is a foothold in our Phoenix Mountain, and we will know it as soon as you move in." Zhang Qingyang pulled out his knife violently: "It's not good, we can't stay here for a long time, we escaped from Tongren Mansion overnight." ”
Yun Han asked anxiously: "What about Aunt Tsing Yi, do we leave her alone?" Zhang Qingyang explained: "Mu Qingyi's cultivation is not low, and she already has the ability to impact the Semi-Saint Realm, don't worry, she must have a way to get out." ”
After speaking, Zhang Qingyang directly pushed open the door and walked out first, Fei Mo took the package and chased after him. Yun Han gritted his teeth and stopped insisting, and walked out with Long Ziyan in his arms.
The four of them went out of the city non-stop, and the east had begun to whiten, and the sky was about to dawn.
Zhang Qingyang noticed that Yun Han had been holding Ziyan and following him hard, Yun Han's pretty face was already covered with sweat, and his lips were already white, to Zhang Qingyang's relief, his apprentice was not tired and panting like a cow and did not complain, Zhang Qingyang looked at the surrounding environment and waved his hand and said, "Let's rest for a while, it should be safe now." ”
Yun Han carefully reassured Long Ziyan at this time, and after a night of physical and mental torture, Long Ziyan fell asleep on Yun Han's lap. Fei Mo looked at Long Ziyan's carved face with a few dried blood stains, sympathized with her from the heart, and said in his heart: "Such a good-looking little girl, how can anyone bear to arrest her?"
Fei Mo took out the water bag from the baggage, licked his dry lips and handed the water bag to Yun Han.
Yun Han looked at the water bag handed over by Fei Mo in surprise, and took it after a moment of silence.
Seeing Fei Mo, he watched Yun Han carefully feed Long Ziyan water, Zhang Qingyang shook his head helplessly and handed his water bag to Fei Mo. Fei Mo took the master's water bag and poured two mouthfuls into his mouth and handed it back, Zhang Qingyang looked at his apprentice and stopped talking, he knew that his apprentice was kind-hearted and honest, and he was honest and taught him the cold-bloodedness of the rivers and lakes, but he couldn't bear to destroy his innocence, and he was silent for a long time, and secretly said in his heart Let him go.
Along the way, they only cared about escaping, and after resting for a while, Zhang Qingyang noticed that they had deviated from the established route because it was dark. Originally, Zhang Qingyang planned to come out of Tongren Mansion and take the mountain road into Phoenix City, but now he has walked to the Tuohe River.
Zhang Qingyang thought about it carefully: "That group of black witches is here to catch Long Ziyan, and Long Ziyan is Long Hao's daughter, that group of black witches dare to blatantly arrest people under the nose of Phoenix Mountain, it seems that something must have something wrong with Phoenix Mountain." Since Yun Han was able to find me with Long Ziyan, the group of black witches would definitely be able to find out that Long Ziyan was rescued by me, if they caught Lao Ma again, then they would definitely know that I originally planned to take the mountain road into Phoenix City, if they ambushed on the mountain one step earlier, it would be tantamount to throwing themselves into the net now. After thinking about it, Zhang Qingyang made up his mind, although it was close to the road, it was dangerous to take the two children, so he would not take the mountain road and the water road.
After resting for a while, Zhang Qingyang and his entourage were not in a hurry to go to Phoenix Mountain, but quietly walked to Shanjiang Town, which is twenty kilometers away from Phoenix City.
It was just dark, and Zhang Qingyang took the three of them in Sanjiang Town in the dark night. At this time, Sanjiang Town was still composed of many Miao tribes, and they were still guarding against each other, so in an unclear situation, the four of them could only dress up as Han people selling salt, and Yun Han and Ziyan also had a unique charm in wearing stolen Han costumes.
Guessing that there might have been a problem with Phoenix Mountain, Zhang Qingyang didn't dare to let Yun Han contact Phoenix Mountain's stronghold in Sanjiang Town, for fear of appearing in Tongren Mansion and exposing his whereabouts.
There is a hostel in Sanjiang Town that specializes in entertaining Han people, although it is still a stilted building, but compared with the narrow residential stilted building, this kind of stilted building prepared for Han people to do business is much more spacious. Although Sanjiang Town has been officially managed, in the land of Xiangxi, where the people are strong, the businessmen who do business do not dare to be careless, they prefer to choose a room as large as possible to arrange the goods and guys together to take care of them at any time. After Zhang Qingyang exchanged with the owner of the inn for a while and dropped a dozen or so silver dollars, the boss happily greeted a sixteen or seventeen-year-old Miao boy with a Chinese dialect of Miao to take them to their guest room.
The young man opened the door and stood aside, stammering, "You guys, stay here, you have something to do with me." After speaking, the young man shyly peeked at Yun Han and left quickly.
Fei Mo didn't understand the meaning of the young man's words, Zhang Qingyang looked at him hatefully: "With your language ability, how can you walk the rivers and lakes in the future, and rely on your hands and feet?" But he still explained: "The man said that he could find him if he had something." At the end, he glanced at Yun Han, Yun Han was not a little shy, obviously it was commonplace to be courteous to men, and Miao women were not Han women's delicate treatment of feelings and the opposite sex was warm and generous.
Zhang Qingyang walked in first, and there were not many things in the room, but it seemed more spacious. The group put their luggage in place, Zhang Qingyang sat at the table and checked the teapot on it, which was empty. Zhang Qingyang quietly touched the desktop with his fingers, looked at some dust before relieving himself. Zhang Qingyang is not afraid that the house is not clean, and his years of experience in walking the rivers and lakes have made him understand that some dust is safer in such a situation. If there's not a trace of dust on the table, it's probably a trap that someone else has carefully arranged, in other words, a room that someone else has just vacated waiting for them to live in.
Putting his mind at ease, Zhang Qingyang arranged for Yun Han and Ziyan to live in the room on the left while he took Fei Mo to live in the room by the door on the right, so that if there was any emergency, he could also preemptively.
Zhang Qingyang had just sat down, there was a sound of footsteps outside, followed by a knock on the door, Zhang Qingyang cautiously opened the door, and there was a person standing on the stairs outside who was the Miao brother.
"Drink water, you guys. The little brother was holding a teapot in his hand, and Zhang Qingyang let the little brother in.
The little brother walked in and put the teapot on the table and replaced the empty teapot, his eyes glanced around, but he didn't see Yun Han walking out with the empty teapot in a bit of despair.
Zhang Qingyang poured four glasses of water and beckoned the three of them to come over and drink some. It was brewed with a unique local flower tea, which was obviously stained with the light of Yunhan.
Not long after, the little brother brought some more food, and Fei Mo ate Xiangxi-style meals for the first time in Xiangxi, especially the sour and spicy sour soup fish, which made him hungry for several bowls of rice. Yun Han didn't eat much in his heart, but Long Ziyan ate a little bit and Fei Mo compared the amount of food, but after all, it was not as white as Fei Mo Fei Mo glanced at Fei Mo and whispered: "Rice bucket." Fei Mo pretended not to hear and gulped down the rest of the fish soup.
After eating, Zhang Qingyang couldn't sleep, so he simply walked out of the room. The moon outside was very big, illuminating the entire Sanjiang Town. The mountains and rivers here are very spiritual, and the air has a purity that is not found in the Central Plains.
Zhang Qingyang looked around, most of the stilted buildings have lost their light, but there is a tavern not far away that is still lit by itself, and some energetic businessmen are willing to find some fun to pass the long night, after all, it is only a few dozen miles away from Phoenix City, and they are not in a hurry.
Zhang Qingyang thought about it and walked in, and the junior who had just entered the running hall greeted him warmly: "This guest officer, please come inside." Zhang Qingyang found a window seat and sat down, asked for a plate of braised beef, a plate of peanuts, and a pot of twenty-year-old Huadiao slowly poured himself a drink.
The moonlight was evenly basking on the windowsill and the stilted building outside, and from time to time there were a few bird calls, and Zhang Qingyang swept away the gloom of the day under the wine.
"This lord, there is no one here. Zhang Qingyang retracted his gaze, and opposite him was a woman who had wiped some rouge, and she looked like she was thirty years old and wearing a red long dress. Zhang Qingyang nodded, and the woman sat down generously.
Seeing that Zhang Qingyang didn't speak, the woman generously took Zhang Qingyang's Huadiao wine and poured herself a glass and drank it all. Zhang Qingyang frowned, a little displeased, she was a Hongchen woman who came to find prey, threw out a few silver dollars from her sleeve and said indifferently: "I just want to drink here quietly, you go elsewhere." The woman was not angry, but she never glanced at the silver dollar on the table: "Everyone in the rivers and lakes says that the king of the array is a righteous gentleman, and seeing it today makes the little woman ashamed of herself." After speaking, he pinched a two-finger gesture, stood up, ignored Zhang Qingyang, turned around and walked out of the tavern.
Zhang Qingyang's eyes were cold and chased out, the gesture made by the woman was the gesture of the notorious yin walker on the rivers and lakes, and the hands facing down were the gesture of the yin walker respecting yin.
Zhang Qingyang chased out, and the woman in the red dress was waiting for him outside, seeing that he chased him out, she smiled and teased: "The little woman just threw herself into her arms and ignored you, and now she has a change of heart?" After speaking, he stretched out his tongue and licked his bright red lips temptingly, his eyes were like silk.
Zhang Qingyang looked away in disgust: "I and you have always been good water and don't interfere with river water, so I advise you not to provoke me." ”
The woman was not annoyed when she saw him so puzzled: "It is precisely because we have no bad relations that Mei Niang specially came to remind the king of the array that it is best not to wade into the muddy waters of Phoenix Mountain, otherwise it will not be Mei Niang who will come next time." After Mei Niang finished speaking, she threw a wink at Zhang Qingyang.
Zhang Qingyang was shocked, isn't Mei Niang the red devil who has become famous in the rivers and lakes in recent years? This time there is a disaster in Phoenix Mountain, and I don't know how many of the ten demons are coming.
Mei Niang looked at Zhang Qingyang and fell into thought, and said a little provocatively: "If you are willing not to interfere in the affairs of Phoenix Mountain, we can send your partners back safely." ”