Walking to a place where there were few people, Haizhu asked, "Do you want to continue looking for the clams?" ”

Han Ji is not sure that his father wants to send it to Kyoto to be presented to the emperor in the Mid-Autumn Festival next year, whether he is doing what he likes or showing weakness, and intends to transfer out of Guangnan. But now his father has gone to the northwest......

"Let's find it." He said.

"During the typhoon season, the ocean currents under the sea change, maybe the clams will follow the ocean current to the offshore water, and I will look for it again when the sea ban is over."

Walking into the alley, the two stopped talking.

……

The meat filling was mixed, and the family was making wontons around the dining table, Han Ji watched it for a while, and also washed his hands and participated.

"The wontons that the major general wrapped by himself, I want to sell them at a high price today." Haizhu teased that his bag was really ugly, and she changed her words and said: "You can eat what you wrap yourself, don't smash my signboard." ”

Han Ji said whatever she wanted, and when she went to the next door to light a fire with the curtain, he sat still and continued to wrap.

Second Uncle Qi sat across from him, he couldn't stand him wasting things, and pointed out to him: "If you have too much stuffing, you can't pinch it, just like this, a shallow spoonful of meat is just right." ”

Han Ji patiently followed the study, he sat in the morning light, watching Second Uncle Qi's movements, and his heart calmed down. He took apart this person who could only move his neck and arms, and after looking at it for a long time, he felt terrible and respectable, and it seemed difficult to survive, and it seemed to be easy.

Second Uncle Qi noticed his gaze and endured it for a long time before asking, "Do you see something?" ”

Han Ji came back to his senses, and he shook his head.

After a long time, when there were only two of them left in the courtyard, he asked, "Are you tired of living?" ”

"Tired, not tired."

"If I become like you......" Han Ji put his father in it, "will it be painful?" Will you want to live? ”

"Probably not, I've thought about dying." Second Uncle Qi talked about the past very calmly, "I want to die very much, from last year to this year, this thought has always been in my mind." It wasn't until a few days ago that I was afraid of death. ”

Han Ji tried to substitute himself, feeling that it was meaningless to live like this.

That's what he thought and what he said.

Second Uncle Qi agreed, "I thought the same way before, I miss that when I was healthy, I could make money and support my family, I could support my mother and son, and I was disappointed when I saw someone who could walk and jump." ”

"And how did you figure it out?"

"Don't think about it, the past has nothing to do with me, I'm now like my son, learning a little bit from scratch, and living a new life. I can't compare with people who can walk and move, and compared with people who die, I can eat, drink, and open my eyes, how amazing. Second Uncle Qi laughed at himself, "I heard Haizhu say that your father went to the northwest to fight?" ”

"Hmm." Han Ji looked at him expectantly, hoping that he would say something more.

"I hope the general will return safely."

Han Ji was a little disappointed.

Second Uncle Qi didn't say anything more, and he didn't know what to say.

……

"Come over for dinner." Haizhu took off her apron and came over and shouted.

Han Ji looked at the past when he heard the sound, it was already three poles in the sun.

"What are you doing?" Haizhu pushed her second uncle to the yard next door, "You're not hungry?" ”

"I'm hungry." Han Ji got up, and when he went out, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he let go of the past... Let go of the ......

He understood, filled his stomach, and hurried to find Shen Sui.

In the middle of the morning, the official ship at the wharf turned back to Fucheng.

Chapter 113: Han Ji goes north

In the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door, and the porter of the General's Mansion got up from his bed and asked impatiently, "Who?" The host is not at home and has something to come back tomorrow morning. ”

"Open the door, the master is back." Han Ji's little servant spoke up.

The porter shuddered, hurried over to open the door, and stooped down to watch a line of long legs walk briskly past him.

The lights in the house were turned on in turn, and the old housekeeper hurriedly greeted him when he heard the movement, "But what happened?" Why did you rush back overnight? ”

"Come with me to the study, and let the kitchen cook two bowls of noodles over the fire." Han Ji casually ordered, and when he took two more steps and turned a corner, he caught a glimpse of the closing door of the mansion, and said, "Change the gatehouse." ”

"Bang", the deadbolt fell to the ground, and the smashed porter knelt on the ground sweating, not daring to say a word, until the footsteps could not be heard, he sat down on the ground with regret.

Han Ji led Shen Sui all the way to the study in the backyard, and the old housekeeper also followed in, and asked again, "Why did you turn back overnight?" But what happened? ”

Shen Sui also looked over curiously, he had been pondering all the way, and he didn't ask, his face was heavy and eager, and he didn't know what was going on.

"Brother Shen, I'm going to the northwest, I need you to hide my whereabouts for me, and you will patrol the ship for me on the days I leave." Han Ji said bluntly, "Don't let people know that I left Guangnan, I have a sudden illness and am recuperating in the mansion, and you will guard the general's mansion for me."

Shen Sui was confused, and intuitively felt that this was a difficult problem, "I can't figure it out, right?" ”

"This is a military order."

Shen Sui instantly straightened his attitude and responded with his hands.

"I will leave the old butler behind, you can discuss something with him, and I will try to rush back within three months." Han Ji heard footsteps outside the door, and he looked over.

The old butler went over and opened the door, took the food and brought it in, and sent the men away.

It was already the second half of the night, and the kitchen had already put out the fire, and the cook was woken up to only two bowls of green onion noodles with fried eggs on the noodles. Han Ji took the bowl and took a big gulp, eating noodles and thinking about things in his mind.

"I'm going to leave overnight, Uncle Li, you go and arrange two boats for me." He said.

The old housekeeper stopped talking, glanced at Shen Sui, and didn't say anything after all.

"What happened? Why are you going to the Northwest too? Shen Sui asked tentatively.

"There's something urgent to go." Han Ji said vaguely, he finally drank the noodle soup and put down the bowl, walked to Shen Sui's side, and said, "Brother, I believe in your ability to fool people." ”

Shen Sui: "...... You believe me as well as Haizhu, can you let her know? ”

"If she comes to her, you tell her that if she is in trouble, you can go to her for help."

"Okay." Shen Sui breathed a sigh of relief.

Han Ji patted him twice and said, "If I survive this difficulty, you can come to me when your family encounters problems in the future." After that, he went out to pack his luggage, ordered a team of generals, disguised himself and went out to leave the city at night.

The old butler sent him to avoid the pier and go directly to the river, where there were two dilapidated fishing boats, and before getting on the boat, he asked, "You tell me the truth, what is your idea of going to the northwest?" ”

"Persuade my father to retreat bravely, let go of what should be put down, fame and fortune, family glory, these are all things outside the body." Han Ji looked at the sea along the river, and when it was dawn and then it was dark, it was the Midyear Festival, the bright moon in the sky was terrifying, and the moonlight was sprinkled on the dark and dreary sea, like broken gold paving the road.

"Quang Nam is a good place, moving from Kyoto to Quang Nam, avoiding the rights and wrongs of Kyoto, and protecting the people of one side is also a real achievement." Han Ji looked at the old housekeeper, "Uncle Li, what do you think?" ”

The old butler was silent.

Han Ji didn't insist on an answer, he boarded the ship and left.

The sound of the water on the river is rolling, the two sails carrying the moonlight are getting farther and farther, the old housekeeper has stood in place for a long time, Anyuan Houfu is the glory of the Han family for several generations, there are many in-laws, and it is not just a family that is involved in retreating or not retreating.

The bright moon slowly shifted, the misty clouds covered the brilliance with the wind, and the roosters crowed in the neighboring villages, and the old housekeeper hurried back to Fucheng before the morning light fell, and sent Shen Sui to the dock to take a boat to the west when the sky was faint.

The guards at the pier changed their duty, they only knew that the official ship returned to dawn in the middle of the night and left, no one would have thought that there was no major general on the ship, even if someone was puzzled, he was not sure whether the major general boarded the ship or not.

Shen Sui took a boat on behalf of Han Ji to patrol the sea and patrol the village, and the soldiers stationed in the village had an impression of him, and there was a small servant of the young general on his side, he said that the major general assigned him to patrol the boat, and no one doubted it.

Passing through Yongning, Shen Sui got off the boat and went to find Haizhu non-stop, and when they met, he explained Han Ji's pit to him, "He left Guangnan without any purpose, and ran to the northwest battlefield, if this is discovered, I will be finished." ”

"Then it's okay not to be discovered." Haizhu was very calm, "How big is the sea, you just float on the sea on a boat, who can find you?" Who found out? There are many small islands in the sea, but they were stopped by someone and said that Han Ji was on such and such an island. Besides, as long as there is nothing wrong at sea, it is estimated that no one will look for him, Admiral Han has been in Guangnan for two years, and how many people have seen him. ”

"I'm afraid ...... in case"

"How can there be so many in case, you can float on the sea for two or three months with peace of mind, even if you are unlucky, you will only be robbed. If a bandit lands to make trouble, you come to me, and we will find them overnight and poison them. Haizhu fed him a reassurance.

After she said this, Shen Sui didn't panic or think nonsense, he praised her with a flamboyant mouth, and boarded the boat and left briskly.

Haizhu stood in place and thought for a while, then walked to the beach where no one was in the sea with a net bag and went down to catch crabs and fish and shrimp. In the evening, the sunset is all over the sky, the sea water is reflected red, people fall in the sea and look up, the gorgeous sunset ripples in the water waves, like a vat of dye splashed out.

The swimming fish on the bottom of the sea leisurely move with the current, the flat-bodied sea snake shuttles in the reef group, the thumb-sized juvenile crab hides in the sand bottom, and the lobster waving the tongs takes advantage of the female crab to go out to find food, they take the opportunity to pound the place where the juvenile crab hides, and soon there are palm-sized turtles coming to eat them one by one.

Haizhu grabbed the lobster and threw it into the net pocket, digging out the conch along the bulge at the bottom of the sand, a big-headed octopus was turned out, she trembled, the octopus hung half-dead on her hand, she tried to let go of her hand, the female octopus fell on the bottom of the sand and tried to drill into the sand, there was no intention of escaping.

Haizhu didn't catch it, this octopus looked like it was about to lay down, and the octopus she kept in the bottom warehouse of the building boat also got bigger before she found out that it was a female octopus, she didn't have the heart to let it give birth to a pocket of small octopus to raise, and it had already been thrown into the sea to be released.

For more than a month, humans have withdrawn from the sea, and the creatures on the bottom of the sea have multiplied so fast that even the seagrass has grown tall and dense.

Haizhu held a pointed shovel to cut the kelp floating on the bottom of the sea, she cut a bundle back, and her third aunt didn't have to spend money to buy braised vegetables.

A sea catfish quietly came out of the seagrass, Haizhu held the pointed shovel with his backhand and hit it, the tip of the shovel brushed the fishtail, the fishtail disappeared in an instant, the sea catfish broke its tail and lost its balance, and fell crookedly to the bottom of the sand. Haizhu swam over and picked up the sea catfish that was almost her arm's length and put it in the net pocket, and the fish slime on her palms was washed by rubbing the sand before washing it clean.

Thinking that the time to go to the sea was not short, she turned around and tied the cut kelp knotted from behind her back to her chest, and dragged the net to swim to the surface.

It's almost the time of low tide, the underwater tide is turbulent, and when Haizhu dives, she encounters a wave of waves, carrying her back a foot away, she clearly perceives that people in the sea are no different from fallen leaves, like sea fish can only swim along the tide. She kicked hard, her head jumped out of the sea, a handful of waves slapped on her face, her face was hot and painful, and she retracted to the bottom of the sea. When the waves calmed down, she swam to the shore on her legs, and when she looked down, she found a dozen or so dizzy bonito below, she quickly looked around, quickly held the pointed shovel and sank, chasing after the bonito to split the fishtail head.

More than a dozen bonito were stuffed into the net pocket, the net pocket was no longer tied, Haizhu dragged the heavy net bag and swam slowly to the shore, when the distance between the water surface and the sand bottom became narrower and narrower, she stepped on the sand bottom and stood up, the sea water will not reach her chin.

The fisherman who came early to collect the net was already surprised to see her, but he was still frightened the moment she appeared.

"How's the catch?" The man on the reef beach asked.

"Okay, caught a dozen fish." Haizhu walked up step by step, and the water in her hair and on the hem of her clothes merged into a stream and smashed on the sea. She dragged the net to the shore and said to the people on the shore: "Don't swim far away when you go to the sea, this fish is a shark's companion fish, and today it is estimated that it was washed away by the ocean current and washed into the shallow sea, but it means that the shark may also be nearby." ”

The fisherman recognized the metallic bonito, and most of the envy in his eyes immediately disappeared, and someone said: "This fish is very unpalatable, and it can break its teeth when it is dried." ”

"When the forbidden period is over, if anyone catches this kind of fish, you can sell it to me, I want as much as I want, I like to eat it." Haizhu said.

The others looked at her suspiciously, and then at the fish in their nets, thinking that this was probably a good thing, and if they only liked to eat it, they couldn't buy it all.

"I still have two more at home, what do you offer?"

"I only want fresh fish, not salted fish." Haizhu smiled, "I'm going back, you guys go to the sea and be careful, be careful of the sharks swimming over." ”

The net bag was not heavy in the sea, and she couldn't carry it when she got to the shore, so Haizhu had to put things on the ground, and she ran to the dock to hire a porter to carry her back for seven cents.

When she was about to reach the alley, she heard Dongzhu's shouting, the shouting was getting closer and closer, and Dongzhu and Bei Niang walked out of the alley next to her with a basin.

"Selling out?" Haizhu asked.

"No, just came out to sell." Dongzhu's eyes lit up when she saw the fish head poking out of the net, and said, "Sister, you go back first, and I will go back to help you after selling the braised vegetables with my third aunt." ”

Dongzhu doesn't like to eat fish very much, but she likes to catch fish, and she doesn't bother her to scrape the scales and marinate the fish.

Haizhu is the opposite of her, she doesn't like to scrape fish scales and cut fish belly, it's troublesome.