In the south of the Yangtze River, after the summer, the cicadas chirp all night long, and the noise is annoying or not, it depends on the person.

The rickety carriage stopped, Shang Luo struggled twice before he barely opened his eyes, and in the corner of the curtain, he could vaguely see the night sky outside, only scattered stars hanging in the sky, it seemed that it was not a good weather tonight.

She lifted the curtain, and there were two people sitting on the ground beside the fire not far away, and on the side of the carriage, Lu Hanjiang stood with his hands in his hands, as if waiting for her.

"The girl has slept for most of the day, let's eat something." As he spoke, Lu Hanjiang handed over a small cloth bag, and after Shang Luo opened it, there were flour cakes and some dried meat inside, which was not bad as far as the dry food was concerned.

"Thank you."

Shang Luo took a bite of the dough and chewed it, she hammered her chest, and swallowed it with some difficulty.

"Drink some water." Lu Hanjiang handed over another water bag very intimately, Shang Luo took it and didn't speak, pulled out the plug and poured it into his mouth.

"Whew, it's alive."

Shang Luo wiped off the water stains on the side of his mouth with his sleeve, returned the water bag to Lu Hanjiang, stretched his waist, and asked, "Where are we going?" ”

"The capital." Lu Hanjiang leaned on the carriage, looked at the long official road, and said, "Your father has a lot of skills, and he entrusted you to a nobleman." ”

As he spoke, he handed the jade pendant given to him by Ghost Li and handed it to Shang Luo, which was a piece of fine jade with excellent material, with a dragon tattooed on one side and the word "Luo" written on the other.

Luo, the royal surname.

"Luo ......" Although Shang Luo doesn't like to read, but she still understands this thing on the streets of the teahouse every day, she turned the jade pendant over and over for a long time, and said: "Isn't my father not a big man in the rivers and lakes, but a big man in the court, this jade ...... My dad is a prince? ”

"Guess boldly, maybe your father is the emperor." Lu Hanjiang said with a smile.

"Emperor, ......" The people in the rivers and lakes have no reverence for the imperial court, and Shang Luo quickly made up a picture of a woman with a beer belly chasing a woman in the big room who was not dressed well.

She flattened her mouth and muttered, "Then you might as well be a gangster." ”

"Poof—ahem, ahem!"

Not far away, Liu squirted out a mouthful of wine with one hand, choked on his throat, coughed non-stop, Ying Wuxian on the side hurriedly came over and patted him on the back a few times, and pulled him away by the way: "Brother Liu, the little brother is drunk, so go to the tuyere to sober up, you are also drunk." ”

"Ahem, ahem, ahem, ahem, go." The two joined forces and fled.

Shang Luo watched the two walk away and stuck out his tongue: "Coward." ”

"You're bold." Lu Hanjiang said funny.

Shang Luo smiled, and slowly, she restrained her smile and asked softly, "My father, what happened to him." ”

"It's dead," Lu Hanjiang paused and said, "The corpse found a neighbor to help you bury it, and if you have the opportunity to go back to Jiangnan in the future, go to worship again." ”

"It's good to have a tomb, I thought he was thrown into the river by the emperor's family." Shang Luo looked up at the stars, his voice was empty, and he sounded a little less angry.

"People die and resent, the emperor's family is a dignified family, and he can't get along with a corpse."

Lu Hanjiang said melancholy, and took out a note to Shang Luo: "The cemetery and the funeral, a total of seven taels and three cents, and the odd is gone, count it as seven taels." ”

"You buried my father in front of the emperor's house! Grab the money! ”

Shang Luo's little face wrinkled into a bun, and she might have made up so much money if she sold her, she looked at the jade pendant in her hand: "This thing should be worth dozens of taels." ”

"Don't don't, don't, this time I'm squandering my money." Lu Hanjiang was speechless, Shang Luo really could do this, and the royal jade pendant was taken to the pawnshop by her, so it would be a lot of fun.

"Mm-hmm, Xiao Qiao, you're pretty good." Shang Luo squeezed over, bumped Lu Hanjiang with his shoulder, and said with a smile.

"I remember that I haven't told you something yet," Lu Hanjiang cleared his throat and said with a smile: "Actually, my surname is Lu, my name is Hanjiang, in case your father is a big person, you have to remember to praise me in front of him." ”

Lu ...... Okay, what are you praising for almost shooting my dad into a hedgehog? ”

"Eh, that's not your fake father, forget it."

"Fake dad is also my dad!" Shang Luo waved his arms, fangs and claws.

"That's all right, it's all up to you." Lu Hanjiang shrugged.

"Okay, then if you give me another three taels of silver, I won't care about you." Shang Luo stretched out his hand towards Lu Hanjiang with a smile.

Lu Hanjiang rolled his eyes: "Your father is worth three taels of silver, cough, what do you want silver for?" ”

"Expenses on the road, you are in such a hurry, just throw me in the car, I haven't sorted out the salute at home, and I can't buy some again." Shang Luo is rightfully authentic.

"You don't think I can earn a lot a month for a thousand households, do you?" Lu Hanjiang took out the money bag from his arms, weighed it, and looked at the sky speechlessly, this month may have been in vain.

Shang Luo took three taels from it, and returned the deflated money bag to Lu Hanjiang: "Thank you." ”

Mutter~

The inappropriate sound came from Shang Luo's stomach, her pretty face was slightly red, and she took out the dry food and gnawed it silently.

Lu Hanjiang glanced at her and said, "The dry food is all prepared by Deputy Liu's thousand households, and the court reimburses it, the bread is not worth a few dollars, let's eat jerky." ”

Shang Luo thought about it, it did make sense, so she put down the dough, picked up the jerky and tore it up, I don't know where Lao Liu bought it, this jerky is surprisingly hard, it took a long time, she couldn't tear off one, and she directly knocked it with her teeth.

Lu Hanjiang really didn't see it, so he took out a knife from the baggage of the carriage and gave it to Shang Luo: "Use this, it's more convenient." ”

"Uh-huh."

Shang Luo removed the jerky from under his teeth, picked up the knife and was about to start, but he was suddenly stunned for a moment, came back to his senses and used the knife to force the jerky a few times, but he only embedded the blade of the knife in the jerky and couldn't move for half a minute.

Shang Luo's face was expressionless, and she smashed the jerky on the wheel a few times, but she couldn't pull out the knife, she looked at the knife fixedly, and suddenly felt sick to her stomach, she covered her mouth, rolled down the carriage, and rushed towards the woods next to the land.

Lu Hanjiang silently put away the dry food, took the blanket in the carriage, and followed.

Shang Luo rushed all the way, her feet were mixed with stones without paying attention, the whole person fell and rolled a few times, the wound on her leg began to ache faintly, she curled up together, buried her head in her knees, and the intermittent sobbing sound slowly came out, gradually becoming a howl.

When Lu Hanjiang walked over, Shang Luo cried so loudly that he didn't notice anyone approaching at all, he put a blanket on the little girl's body, didn't say a word, and listened to her cry for a long night.

Xu was tired, Shang Luo stretched out an arm from under the blanket, groped left and right for something, and said hoarsely: "My throat hurts, is there any water?" ”

After a while, without getting a response, Shang Luo stuck his head out of the blanket, only to find that Lu Hanjiang had fallen asleep.

Shang Luo, who was not angry, was a fan fist to Lu Hanjiang's legs.

"Huh? Is it dawn? Lu Hanjiang opened his eyes in a daze.

"I'm thirsty, I want water!" Shang Luo covered her head with a blanket again.

"Give." Lu Hanjiang yawned and put the water bag in her hand.

The hand holding the water bag retracted under the blanket, and soon, a piece of wet on the blanket appeared, Shang Luo coughed for a while, and then said: "The silver will be returned to you when I get to the capital, and I want to return it to you when I have earned enough." ”

"Forget it, I'll help the needy."

"I said I had to pay it back!" Shang Luo lifted the blanket suddenly, staring at a pair of rabbit-red eyes, she was stubborn and unreasonable at this moment.

"Okay, okay, you have the final say."