That night, the two of them stayed in the back garden until late at night before going back separately.

The next day, in order to dilute his sense of presence in the mansion, so that he could go out smoothly during the Dragon Boat Festival on the second day, Jiang Shu did not take half a step out of Qingran Pavilion all day, and he called it rest and recuperate.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, she got up neatly, left a note for Ping Qian explaining where to go, brought the purse containing broken silver and silk handkerchiefs that had been prepared, and quietly went out of the house from the side door of the Ye Mansion without alarming anyone.

Walking along the wide and narrow lanes where there are few pedestrians in the early morning, I walked all the way to West Chang'an Avenue, turned around and looked east through the thin fog, and saw the place where Lang Mo agreed to meet in the middle of the street, faintly showing two silhouettes of a person, a horse and two outlines.

Although it was a little far away and the mist blocked it, he couldn't see the appearance of the person in it, but without thinking about it, Jiang Shu also guessed that it should be Lang Mo, pulled the corners of his mouth lightly, and strode over there.

When he was about to get closer, Lang Mo, who was standing with his back to her, noticed her arrival, led his horse to meet her, and said with some surprise: "Why did you come here so early?" ”

I remember that day, when he proposed that the time of meeting was the right time, her expression was very embarrassed, and he thought that she would be late for a while, but he didn't expect it to arrive earlier than the agreed time.

"Didn't you predate me?" Walking to a position only a few steps away from him, Jiang Shu stopped slightly and turned his head to smile at him.

"That's just as well," Lang Mo chuckled, and said in a soft tone, "since you're here, don't delay, let's go." ”

"Okay," Jiang Shu nodded slowly, looking sideways at the tall horse beside him, "Then which city gate will we take to get out of the city this time?" ”

"Zhangjiawan is in the east of the city, closest to Chaoyang Gate." Lang Mo said, taking the reins of the horse two steps back, turning neatly on the horse, and smiling and holding out a hand to her.

It was not the first time that Jiang Shu had ridden with him, and there was nothing to be pretentious about, so he happily put his hand in his hand and asked him to pull himself on the horse.

After Fu Jiang Shu sat down in front of him, Lang Mo did not stay where he was, grasped the reins of his horse and turned his horse's head, and headed east along the empty streets of the early morning.

After passing through the main street of several wide alleys, and exiting the city through Chaoyang Gate, the surrounding fog has also dispersed. Lang Mo told Jiang Shu to sit down, shook the reins of the horse in his hand vigorously, and galloped towards the southeast along the dirt roads surrounded by green trees on both sides of the city.

Due to the speed of the horse, about half an hour later, Zhangjiawan arrived.

With less than half an hour left before the start of the dragon boat race, the two of them left their horses in a restaurant called Deyuelou and went straight to the Grand Canal on the west side of the town.

At this time, the northernmost part of the canal, the Lu River, the Liangshui River, the Empress Dowager Xiao River, and the Tongyun Bridge at the intersection of the four rivers of the Yuhe River, were already crowded with people, and even the banks of the river were full of people waiting to watch the game.

Because the bridge was too crowded, the two men did not go up, but went to the dock on the east bank of the nearby river.

In the middle of the wharf near the river, there is a half-person-high stone stele, which is deeply chiseled and finely carved, painted with red paint, and has four big characters on it - 舳舻千千里.

However, in order not to be disturbed by today's dragon boat race, it has been fenced for several miles along the river, and cargo ships and passenger ships are not allowed to pass, so there is no scene of many ships gathering at this time.

On the river surface of about thirty or forty zhang wide in the south of Tongyun Bridge, there are only dozens of large dragon boats with dragon heads facing south and dragon tails facing north.