Song Taizong to the road for three years, the Song Dynasty divided into fifteen roads, Jingxi Road governed Henan Mansion, governed sixteen states, Xiangzhou led to Xiangyang, Dengcheng, Gucheng, Yicheng, Zhonglu, Nanzhang six counties.

Xiangyang is among them, this is known as the "place where the world's soldiers must fight", since ancient times it has been a traffic fortress, known as "the south ship and the north horse, the thoroughfare of the seven provinces", and has always been a channel for trade and cultural exchanges between the north and the south.

Although it is bordered by Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, Jianghan in the east, Hunan and Guangdong in the south, and the Central Plains in the north, it is extremely important in terms of economy, culture and strategic significance.

But at this moment, it is just an ancient city standing quietly in the upper reaches of the Han River. For Qingqing, it is not as good as the Han River under the bamboo raft, the smoke and waves are rolling, or rapid or flat, the canyon is steep and overhanging, the dangerous shoals are everywhere, and the river course is tortuous...... These are in harmony with the mind.

Even along the winding mountains to the turbulent section of the river, a woman born in a water town in the south of the Yangtze River held a penny in both hands, and made the short bamboo raft even and stable, and walked with the flowing water in the middle of the river.

In a blink of an eye, I arrived at a wharf on the other side of Xiangyang, with countless big boats and small boats, cloth tents and wooden tents connected together, boatmen, businessmen, ronins, officials, talented and beautiful women, poor men, street vendors, a hodgepodge.

Among them, those who are jugglers, those who cook a big pot of braised hooves, those who pour wine around with wine jars, those who sell flowers with bamboo baskets, those who carry swords and swords, and those who hurry by with luggage, are full of fireworks.

Qingqing walked to the edge of a stall and looked at the lively prawns in the water basket, drooling greedily.

"How is this shrimp cooked?"

"There are two ways to eat, boil in water, pour on Xiao Lao'er's own sauce, fragrant and delicious! Or roll in oil, the taste will be heavy, and then make two or two small wines, better than a fairy!"

"Can you not do neither, soak it in wine, vinegar, sauce, and garlic, and taste it fresh in your mouth?"

Ye Yunsheng lifted the water basket, and frightened a small white-haired stall owner on the side hurriedly pressed his hand and said, "Don't move, if you want to shake to death, the smell will hurt!"

"How is this shrimp cooked?"

"There are two ways to eat, boil in water, pour on Xiao Lao'er's own sauce, fragrant and delicious! Or roll in oil, the taste will be heavy, and then make two or two small wines, better than a fairy!"

"Can you not do neither, soak it in wine, vinegar, sauce, and garlic, and taste it fresh in your mouth?"

"Huh, the guest officer said, Xiao Lao'er also met one not long ago. ”

He smiled, nodded, and said, "That's a coincidence." ”

Cui Sheng and Qianqian both went to sit down on an empty wooden table, Ye Yunsheng took another jar of wine, handed it to Cui Sheng, and then went to the stall next to him to buy a big bowl of Kong Ming vegetables, which is commonly known as Xiangyang kohlrabi, which is said to have been created by Kong Ming, so they are all called Kong Ming dishes.

When the shrimp were soaked in the wine vinegar sauce and served, the stall owner gave a few more pancakes, and the three of them drank wine and ate vegetables, and ate the cakes.

Shallow to drive the carriage to the dock, and later take a boat across the Han River into Xiangyang.

Ye Yunsheng paid the money, wandered around with Cui Sheng for a while, passed by a flower seller, Ye Yunsheng picked a camellia, it bloomed early, the buds were not fully opened, the color was red, and the fragrance was very light.

The flower girl was very young, short, thin, and looked no more than ten years old, still a child.

Ye Yunsheng asked, "Do you know all the people who sell flowers here?"

"It's all from a nearby town, where would you not know each other?"

"Did you lose one a few days ago?"

"yes, how do you know?"

He gave more money, and then in front of the flower seller, he put this camellia in his hair.

White hair, red flowers.

Look, there is a rare trace of graceful aftertaste.

Ye Yunsheng and Cui Sheng walked towards the dock, and Qianqian had already found the boatman.

The bamboo raft slowly paddled towards Xiangyang, and Qingqing happily talked to the little sister behind her, who was holding a bamboo basket in her arms, and the bamboo basket was full of flowers.

"When you get to Xiangyang in a while, you go to see your aunt, so accompany me to drink, I have no friends here, just you and I fall in love. ”

"Sister, I don't drink. ”

"Whatever you want to eat, I'll invite you to eat. ”

"Thank you sister for taking me across the river, how embarrassed to ask my sister to spend money to invite me again. ”

"It doesn't matter, I walk the rivers and lakes, and the silver comes easily. ”

A red rose is inserted in her green hair. After the flowering period, the growth is sluggish, the fragrance is very light, the color is red, and the petals are soft and wilting.

Her green hair is soft and elegant, and the flowers are in her hair, with a sigh of the dying Shaohua.

When he came to Xiangyang, perhaps because the armies rushed to the northwest in moderation to prepare for a big war with Western Xia, Xiangyang City was not prosperous, but it was not deserted.

Qingqing accompanied her little sister through the streets and alleys to a secluded courtyard in the city. There is a field of flowers around the courtyard that is ten steps square, and when you get closer, the fragrance of flowers overflows, with a faint sweetness.

The little sister is fifteen years old, and the adult in the family is surnamed Su, she is the third among the children, and she is not named, so she is called Su Sanniang.

The adult died of illness last year, and she was sent to a family in the town outside Fancheng on the other side, selling flowers on weekdays, and waiting for a few years older to be the wife of Shiro of this family.

Come back to see the eldest mother, don't cry or make trouble, talk for a while, it's all good here and there, Qingqing, who listened to the flowers in the yard, was full of emotion, it was not easy to be so sensible at a young age.

Later, I said hello to the eldest lady, took Su Sanniang out shopping, bought miscellaneous chews, fruits, and then went to the extremely famous Donghe Building in Xiangyang for a meal.

went back and gave some of the things I bought to the eldest mother, accompanied Su Sanniang out of the city, and then sent them to the other side on a bamboo raft, all the way to the town, and the two said goodbye.

The encounter on the rivers and lakes, the fate of gathering and dispersing, Qingqing has long been used to it.

Su Sanniang was reluctant to cry and sent back a little way.

Qingqing said, I'll go to the mountain over there, and see if you go back and go again.

She performed light skills, and the nearby hill, which was only more than three feet high, climbed it in an instant.

Looking back again, I happened to see Su Sanniang being knocked unconscious by a Jianghu person, and she ran away.

This man did a good job, Qingqing was far away, chased all the way, came to the edge of a forest, saw him jump into the forest, and hurriedly chased in.

There were two people from the rivers and lakes in the forest who answered, came up to do it, Qingqing was good at making a long whip and a short sword, the long whip was inconvenient to carry, and he only carried a talisman short sword, and immediately drew his sword and fought with the two.

These two Jianghu people couldn't resist her, and one of them was put down after more than ten moves, and the other person saw that it was not good, so he reflexively ran away.

"Who are you, why did you snatch Su Sanniang?"

The man did not answer, but ran forward, and she rushed up and stabbed him in the waist with a sword, and fell to the ground screaming.

She glanced at it, and couldn't see the Jianghu man who ran away with Su Sanniang, so she pointed at the person on the ground with a sword, "Say, otherwise I will take your dog's life with a sword!"

This man was a stout man of about thirty, and according to the wound, he begged for mercy: "The heroine's subordinates are merciful, and the villain is just acting according to the orders, and taking the young and good-looking woman to a place, where someone will take over, and a woman will be ten taels of silver." ”

When Qingqing heard this, she was extremely angry, did she meet a trafficker, or did she do it in front of her, so unscrupulously snatched Su Sanniang away to sell silver, what would happen to a young girl in the flower season who was sold by these people, you don't have to think about it!

In the face of such a hurtful thing, how could Qingqing endure it! I wanted to kill this person with a sword, but now Su Sanniang didn't know where to go, so she could only start by asking clearly.

She pressed the murderous intent in her heart, her face was cold, and she asked coldly: "Where to trade, tell the place, I will spare you from death!"

"I said, I said, just northeast, outside the woods. The store there specializes in women, and there are Jianghu masters behind them, and the people in the nearby Jianghu do not dare to provoke. ”

"You lead the way, and if you lie to me, I will tell you to go to Hades!"

"Yes, yes, the villain will take the woman forward, and he will never dare to deceive at all!"