Chapter 128: Thrown into the river in a coma

The waning moon was dim, standing in the courtyard and looking out of the door, the night outside the door was as dark as ink, Han Ji didn't let anyone help him, he walked into the carriage by himself, and the group from Kyoto also sat in the other carriages.

The old butler hurriedly packed up a few thick clothes and came out, and followed him with a group of seven guards with knives, who were traveling with them to protect the safety of their master.

"We still have ten guards on our side, and the major general doesn't have to bring the guards with him, there are more people, and the boat will move slowly." The eunuch in the carriage behind spoke.

The old butler did not listen to him, and said, "If one ship is not enough, hire two ships." So he got into the carriage.

Haizhu stood on the steps outside the door and watched, the horse's hooves were not light or heavy on the ground, and the messy muffled sound made people feel irritated and uneasy in this dark night.

Han Ji pushed the window to look out, the two looked at each other, and he asked aloud, "Do you want to go back to Beijing together?" You go to see the prosperity of Kyoto, and you also go to the Imperial Castle. ”

"Okay." Haizhu's mind nodded and agreed, she turned around and explained to the porter: "It's dawn, you take a boat to Yongning Wharf, go to Qingshi Lane to find Dongzhu, and tell her that I will go to Kyoto with the young general, and I will definitely come back before the New Year." ”

The porter glanced at the master in the carriage and said, "Don't worry, young lady, the little one will definitely bring the words." ”

Haizhu ran down the stone steps in three or two steps, and bent down into the carriage.

"Go—" the leading guard shouted, and the horse's hooves galloped, and the wheels of the carriage spun with it.

The lanterns in the carriage swayed back and forth, and the dim light cast on the walls of the carriage, and the old butler looked inquiringly at the two people sitting on the couch.

Han Ji didn't have time to think about it, he leaned on the chair and closed his eyes silently.

Haizhu smiled at the old butler and explained, "I want to go to Kyoto to see what the Imperial City is like, and Admiral Han is my father-in-law, I want to go and see him." ”

Han Ji knocked on the wall of the car twice, and immediately a guard shouted in a low voice through the window: "Master." ”

"Is there anyone around?"

"It's all our people."

Han Ji looked at the old housekeeper and asked, "Do you have a letter from the northwest during the days when I am not at home?" My dad's ......"

"There is no news, and your mother has not received a letter, before the court came, the old slave didn't know that the Hou Ye was injured."

"None of the people who came?" Han Ji asked.

The old butler shook his head, "No." ”

Haizhu's eyes rolled, why did it sound like something was still going on? But no one explained to her, so she just listened and didn't speak.

The carriage bumped for a long time and finally arrived at the dock, Haizhu jumped out of the car and felt that her ass was about to burst, and her mind was buzzing, and when she got on the boat, she walked into the cabin she used to use and fell asleep.

The waves on the river were small, the boat was steady, and Haizhu slept deeply, until he was woken up by the old housekeeper at dawn.

"The river is narrowing, and the official boats can't pass, so we have to get off the boat and ride horses."

Haizhu packed up the two clothes prepared on the boat and followed the people off the boat, the horses and carriages had already gone ashore one step ahead, these horses were seasick when they took the waterway, and one by two smacked the horses' mouths from time to time.

The cook on the boat steamed the steamed buns overnight and cooked the porridge, the steamed buns were packed in the basket and carried down, and the group stood by the river with steamed buns in one hand and thin porridge in the other to fill their stomachs.

Han Ji drank the bitter soup without changing his face, and when the horses eased up, he got on the car and spoke: "Let's go now, and arrive at the canal in three days as much as possible. ”

After that, I traveled day and night, met the post station, rested at the post station, and missed eating and sleeping in the wild.

Haizhu felt like she was tied up with a rope and stuffed in a water tank, her joints were uncomfortable, and the mountains and villages on the road were unintentionally watched, full of irritability, and she wanted to find someone to quarrel. She glanced at the man opposite, he looked like a meditating monk, his face did not change, he sat upright, and he didn't know what he was thinking with his eyes closed.

At this time, she did not dare to talk to him, so she had to push the window hard, and her head stuck out to let the wind blow her hair, and the ends of her hair crackled on her face and neck.

Han Ji opened his eyes and looked at her motionlessly, and when she straightened up and wanted to retract her head, he closed his eyes again. At this time, he was in no mood to comfort her, let alone speak.

Finally arrived at the mouth of the canal before Haizhu was about to jump out of the car, the fishing boats and merchant ships on the river came and went frequently, and the old housekeeper came forward to hire two merchant ships, the front boat sat people, and the back boat carried carriages and horses.

The people fell asleep on the boat, and the horses were tired to death after three days of rushing on the road, and the people were also affected by the bumps, and when they arrived on the boat, the group filled their stomachs and fell on the bed and did not move.

"How many days are we going to be on the ship?" Haizhu asked.

"If it's slow, it's half a month, and if it's fast, it's two days less." Han Ji drank the medicine and put the bowl on the table casually, and he said to Haizhu: "There are a lot of things for fun on the merchant ship, you are bored and go to the housekeeper and ask him to arrange it for you." ”

"What about you?" Haizhu asked.

Han Ji glanced out, and the old housekeeper came in with two books with the fragrance of ink.

"Miss, the farther north you go, the colder it gets, the old slave asks the boat lady to make you two sets of cotton clothes, and she will come up and measure you later." The old housekeeper picked up the medicine bowl and asked Han Ji how he felt, "This is the last medicine, and when it comes to the next ferry, the old slave will go to the town to ask a doctor to come over." ”

Han Ji waved his hand, "No need, don't kill time on the road, go north as soon as possible." ”

"Then you should rest early." The old butler sighed.

Haizhu turned around and went out, the boat lady had already come, she directly reported the size, and went back to the cabin to rest.

The next day, she went to look for Han Ji after breakfast, and she also pretended to sit by the window with a book to read, and from time to time she asked him how to pronounce this word and what that word meant. Whenever he was in a daze, she woke him up.

After three times, how could Han Ji not understand her intentions, he sighed silently, and for the first time he had the idea of talking.

"When I get back, my dad may no longer be there." His expression was gloomy, "I didn't expect that the previous meeting turned out to be the last meeting of our father and son, and I also had an argument with him and said a lot of heart-wrenching words." ”

Haizhu was silent, she knew that he didn't want to listen to useless comfort at this time.

"He has already relented and is about to retreat, it seems that the ancestors of my family are not happy that he will turn his back on the ancestral teachings, so they left him in the northwest."

"It shouldn't be, if your ancestors really have spirits, they will only bless your father to be invincible." Haizhu interjected, "Okay, don't think nonsense, maybe your father has no worries about his life, you can read to me, and I will help you bless your father." ”

Han Ji raised his eyes and looked her up and down.

"Amitabha." Haizhu raised his hand and recited the Buddha's verse.

Han Ji pulled the corners of her lower lip with a half-smile, picked up the book and read it out loud as she wanted.

The boat traveled on the canal for ten days, and the people on the boat changed into cotton clothes, and the cold wind from the north and the heavy moisture of the river water, Haizhu had to light a brazier when he slept at night, and it was wet and cold to the bone, and the people were shivering under the quilt.

There was a knock on the hatch, and she looked up and asked, "Who?" ”

"Miss Qi, the kitchen boiled ginger soup, and the young general sent me a bowl to bring over, so that you can drink it and then sleep, so as not to catch a cold." The boat lady said outside the cabin.

Haizhu rolled up the quilt and got up to open the door, as soon as the door opened, the cold night wind rushed in her face, and she shrank her neck and shivered. Taking the warm ginger soup from the boat lady's hand, she held her breath and dried it into her stomach, and the spicy spicy made her bared her teeth.

"I'm tired." Haizhu handed the bowl to the boat lady, "It's cold, auntie, you should rest early." ”

"Hey, okay." The boatlady closed the door for her and went downstairs with the empty bowl.

The guard standing on the board of the ship made a gesture to the dark place, and after a moment he went to the bottom warehouse and said to the helper on the ship: "The Lord is merciful, you have drunk ginger soup to warm up your body and rest as soon as possible, you will not sail tonight, and you will get up early tomorrow morning and then hurry." ”

In the middle of the night, the people who drank the ginger soup on the ship fell into a coma, and several black shadows opened the hatch and came out, and they violently kicked open the wooden door, and the people sleeping in the cabin did not move.

There was an emaciated figure standing on the board of the boat, he leaned on the side of the ship to watch the guards carry people down, and asked in a loud voice, "Is there anything missing?" ”

The voice is feminine and treacherous, which is unique to eunuchs.

"No, even the old housekeeper and the girl are here."

"Throw it all down."

"Yes."

There were several splashes on the river, and then calm was restored, and the people on the boat carried lanterns to shine on the river, and the water was so dark that nothing could be seen.

"When the morning dawns, the body will be salvaged, and the miscellaneous family will go to rest first." The eunuch rolled up his cloak, he smacked, shook his head, and said, "Oh my God, it's changed." ”

In the river, Haizhu was awakened by the biting cold, she struggled to open her heavy eyelids, and from the neck down was like a soaking in an ice cellar, she tried to move, her whole body was weak, if she wasn't too familiar with the water, she would have thought she was dreaming.

The drowsy brain woke up under the washing of the river, Haizhu realized that something was wrong, she pinched herself hard, felt that the water in front of her was wrong, she swam over and bumped into a struggling person, the other party grabbed her with his backhand, and stepped on her to swim into the water.

Haizhu was strangled to roll her eyes, and after escaping with difficulty, she touched him on the head, it was not Han Ji, she turned around and continued to look for it.

The people on the boat waited for a cup of tea, and estimated that the people who threw them in the river had drowned, and they went upstairs to sleep one after another.

Hearing the disappearance of footsteps on the boat, Haizhu dragged a person out of the water with one hand, she dragged Han Ji and the old housekeeper to push ashore, and said in a suppressed voice: "If you want to cough and run away, if you can't run, hold back." ”

After that, he turned around and got into the river again, dragging the guards who didn't know life and death ashore as much as possible, but it was too late, and the stunned guards had been washed away by the current, and Haizhu only found three.

Han Ji and the old housekeeper dragged people to run away, and when they ran away, they pressed their stomachs to control the water, but only two of them had breath.

"What should I do?" Haizhu was frozen and shrunk into a ball, and her teeth trembled when she spoke, "How did you do it?" Why do the people of the court want to kill you? ”

"The arrow that hit my father should have come from his own hands, all this is a trap, he is dead, I am dead, there is only a six-year-old child left in Anyuan Houfu, and it can't be a climate." Han Ji shook his hands and said that if Haizhu hadn't followed, he would have died on the way back to Beijing.

"Haizhu, you can do me another favor......" Han Ji looked at her.

"Poisoning, huh? There are no poisonous jellyfish in this river, how can I help you? Haizhu spread his hands.

"Scuttle through the bottom of the boat."

This is feasible, Haizhu sneaked back into the river again, she slipped onto the boat, took an axe and kitchen knife from the bottom of the warehouse and slipped into the water, dived to the bottom of the boat and inserted the kitchen knife into the gap in the plank. The merchant ship has been used for a long time, and the planks on the bottom of the ship are soaked and rotten, so it is not difficult for her to pry it up.

The river water poured into the bottom warehouse, Haizhu got on the boat to take a look, and felt that the speed was too slow, so she went down and continued to pry the plank, smashing through three holes before stopping.

One of the guards heard the movement and came out to check, and he stood on the board of the boat and looked out over the river, but there was nothing but the sound of the water and the wind and the snoring of men.

Half of the boat was already in the water, Han Ji and the two guards jumped into the river and swam into the boat, and the three of them went into the cabin to kill people in the dark.

In the end, those who have lived by the sea, who are more water-oriented than those on dry land, stand under the boat, and watch the people on the boat shout in a hurry. The boat sank little by little, and the helmsman and the boat lady were awakened by the cold, and jumped off the boat one after another to swim to the boat behind. The guards on the ship did the same, but when they entered the water, they were chased by Han Ji and cut down.

When the night faded, Haizhu wore a mattress and watched Han Ji tie up the old eunuch and throw it on the board, the boat sank in the river in front of him, and the boat behind made a detour to continue moving forward.

"The next ferry port will stop for a day, and I'll take you to see the doctor." Han Ji said to Haizhu.

Hae-joo sneezed and said, "Are you still going back to Kyoto?" ”

"Return, the emperor will probably find a substitute for the dead ghost to give me an explanation." Han Ji lowered his head, he couldn't make up his mind for a while, he didn't know whether to avenge his father, or flee in a panic with his mother and nephew.

"Second Young Master, look, it's our people who are here." The old butler shouted excitedly.

Han Ji and Haizhu looked over when they heard the sound, and a ship came to them, with a flag on the boat, which was the military flag of the Han family.

"Second Young Master, Master Hou has woken up, and the first thing he does when he wakes up is to send Mo to pick you up." The person who came was the general of the Han family.

Han Ji smiled on his pale face, he turned to look at Haizhu, and joked, "Thank you for your blessing." ”

"Amitabha." Haizhu smiled and read again, "In the future, if you have something to worship me, you can save your life and bless your family." ”

Chapter 129: I'm afraid it's not good for the heir

The boat stopped at the ferry for an hour, Han Ji and Haizhu took two guards and an old housekeeper to soak in the icy river all night and fell ill.

After another five days on the river, the group changed boats and rode west, Haizhu and the old housekeeper were still sick, and the two of them were each lying on a carriage covered with quilts coughing.

Han Ji beat his horse and approached the carriage, knocked twice and pushed the window, "Passing by the farmer's house, I bought a basket of apples, if you feel uncomfortable, you can take a bite, and when you get to the post station, someone will give you steamed apples to eat." When I was sick when I was a child, my mother steamed apples for me. ”