Xiao Jinyan jumped into the carriage and rushed into the dense forest, he didn't dare to take the big road, he specially picked a remote path and escaped. After traveling more than ten miles, Xiao Jinyan found that he was lost. Fortunately, the terrain of the mountains and forests is complicated, and there is a cover of night, which throws the people of Yixiaotang away.

Xiao Jinyan got out of the car, the path became narrower and narrower, only enough to accommodate a carriage, in the night sky, surrounded by towering forests, even the east and west, north and south could not be distinguished, how could he find a way out. Xiao Jinyan turned around and said, "This ......"

He paused suddenly, during the day, the maid Xiaohong called her Miss, and Elder Liu called her Madame, and now the person in the car didn't say a word, and he couldn't tell what to call this person. I had to say: "In Xia Xiao Jinyan, entrusted by Elder Liu, I will send you to Yangzhou." ”

The people in the car were still silent.

However, since he had accepted the gold leaf, he was a man who kept his promise, so he made up his mind that no matter whether the other party was mute or deaf, sending her to Yangzhou City would not be regarded as a broken promise.

At this moment, a sigh was heard from inside the car.

Xiao Jinyan asked, "Can you hear me?"

After a while, a voice in the car said, "Is Elder Liu martyred?"

The speaker was a woman, and her voice was extremely sweet, Xiao Jinyan guessed that this woman should not be very old, so he said: "Elder Liu sent you out desperately, girl, you mourn by the way." The woman sighed again, "Elder Liu loves me the most in the sect, and now he has left me, leaving me alone in the world, what's the point?"

Seeing that she was depressed, Xiao Jinyan comforted, "Elder Liu just went to another Elysium. You can't come back to life after death, girl, don't think about it. The woman was silent again, and Xiao Jinyan asked again, "What relatives does the girl have in Yangzhou City?"

The woman said, "Where are there any relatives?" A year ago, I had a strange disease, this time I went to Yangzhou, I wanted to find the six-fingered doctor Shengxue Shen Doctor to see a doctor, but I don't know who leaked the news, attracted the pursuit of the enemy, along the way the brothers in the sect were killed and wounded, I knew that it would harm them, I would rather die in Xianyang. ”

It turned out to be to see a doctor, Xiao Jinyan said in his heart, the six-fingered doctor saint is a strange person in the rivers and lakes, his medical skills are unparalleled in the world, he has the ability to bring the dead back to life, white bones and flesh, it is said that the person sent to him, no matter how serious the injury is, as long as there is a breath, he can save his life without worry. He had a quirk that whenever he promised a patient, he would do everything in his power to save him, and for every person who died, he would cut off one finger, and he had never missed a finger since he cut off his fourth finger twenty years ago. It's just that although his medical skills are high, his medical ethics are not good, he regards wealth as his life, and his diagnosis fee is ridiculously high.

Xiao Jinyan had a deal with him, when in Kaifeng, the Yellow River burst its embankment and the plague was rampant, Xiao Jinyan gave him 100,000 taels of silver and saved thousands of lives. Later, he went bankrupt, and Doctor Xue threw his hand away, causing the two to have a somewhat unpleasant quarrel.

Xiao Jinyan persuaded, "Don't worry, since Elder Liu has entrusted you to me, I will definitely send you to Yangzhou City unscathed." ”

The woman said softly, "Xiao Daxia, why are you so good to me?"

Xiao Jinyan scratched his head and said, "I received ten taels of gold from Elder Liu. ”

When the woman said so, she was silent.

Xiao Jinyan said, "Girl, the road ahead is inconvenient, and you may have to abandon the car later." Can you walk now?"

The woman said: "I'm sick like this, I can't see the wind, and I can't see people, Xiao Daxia, can you change the way?"

Xiao Jinyan said in his heart that it was no wonder that you had never gotten off the carriage in the past two days, it turned out that there was still this reason, so he said: "Then it's so good first, you can have a futon on the car, if you have to abandon the car, you can wrap you up and think about it again." ”

The two continued to walk, but fortunately, the mountains and forests were dense, and there were many divergent roads, and the people of Yixiaotang did not catch up, and after about an hour, the carriage finally came out of the mountains and forests and came to a plain. At this time, the sky is getting brighter, and there is a line of fish belly white in the east.

Not far ahead is a village, where smoke curls in the village, and there are already people cooking in the stove. Xiao Jinyan patted a family, bought two bowls of somen noodles with two coins of silver, and handed one of the bowls into the car window, "Girl, countryman, coarse tea and light rice, let's make do with it." ”

The woman took it, and Xiao Jinyan only felt that the woman's hands were as slender as soft wattles, and her skin was like congealed fat, which was very attractive. It's just that the owner of these hands has a strange illness and can't help but sigh. I sat down beside the carriage and ate it in a big gulp.

Suddenly, he said in his heart that it was terrible, he ran away last night, and actually left Lu Gongzi in the woods, and it was impossible to turn back at this time, and he couldn't help but feel pity. When he was at his most depressed, Lu Gongzi never gave up, and he was half a good friend. Now, it is in the wild mountains and forests, and it must be able to take care of itself.

After a while, the woman said, "I've eaten." ”

Xiao Jinyan took the dishes and chopsticks, went to find that they were almost untouched, and asked, "Girl, the food is not to your taste?"

The woman said, "I can't eat it." ”

Xiao Jinyan said: "You are weak, you can't skip a bite, I'm afraid that you won't wait for the people of Yixiaotang to chase and kill, you will starve to death on the road first." When the time comes, I went to Yangzhou, and no matter how good Doctor Xue's medical skills are, he can't cure the starving ghosts. ”

The woman sneered and said, "I'm used to eating brocade clothes and jade, and this kind of food is really hard to swallow." If you haven't eaten enough, eat this bowl of noodles too. Xiao Jinyan said well, only when you are full will you have the strength to fight with the people of Yixiaotang. So he devoured the rest of the noodles and ate the rest of the noodles like a whirlwind.

The woman asked, "Do you usually eat like this?"

Xiao Jinyan laughed and said no, he couldn't even eat a full meal on weekdays.

While the two were hurrying, Xiao Jinyan chatted with her, telling her the story of her hunger and fullness in Suzhou City, and the story of living in Fan Wuchang's house and fighting wits and courage with the miserly old rich man, the woman couldn't help laughing, and seemed to have forgotten the current enemy and the crisis that the people in Yixiaotang were still chasing and killing them.

"Xiao Daxia, how long will it take to arrive in Yangzhou?"

Xiao Jinyan said that it will take two days to find out, and I fled in a hurry last night, and I don't know where it is now.

After walking for another half a day, there were very few pedestrians on the road, Xiao Jinyan felt strange, how could the people in the hall of laughter not catch up?

There was an old man not far away, who had just finished cleaning up the crops, squatting in the field and smoking dry tobacco, Xiao Jinyan drove over, "Driver, uncle, I am from Suzhou, I took my sister to Yangzhou for treatment two days ago, but I met bandits on the road, panicked, came here, I don't know how to go to Yangzhou from here?"

The old man smoked a cigarette, looked Xiao Jinyan up and down, and coughed dryly.

Xiao Jinyan asked again.

The old man said: "I heard it, but if you ask me for directions, you will have to charge a fee." ”

Xiao Jinyanqi said: "How can you inquire about the road, do you also need money?"

"You don't understand such a simple truth?"

"Tell me about it?"

The old man smiled, "Young man, since you are so humble to ask for advice, I will come to reason with you, these years, even Beidou has charged, where is there a free lunch? What's more, you ask me for directions, if I don't ask you for a benefit fee, show you the way, do you dare to go?"

"That's right, I don't know the old man, how is this asking for a road?"

When the old man heard this, he also became energetic, "Do you want to ask about the short road, or the long road? There are ten copper plates on the short road, and only one copper plate on the long road." ”

In addition to the ten gold leaves, Xiao Jinyan didn't have a copper plate on his body, but the woman in the car handed out a silver ingot and said, "Xiao Daxia, you can use this." Xiao Jinyanxin said that you can't be so bad if you have money, not to mention, when you go out, your wealth is not exposed, if you really give this old man so much money, he may not know what kind of moth he will make, so he used internal force to pinch the silver ingot into thin strips, cut a penny down, and handed it over.

When the old man saw that he was so generous, he immediately smiled and said, "You are lucky to meet me today." To tell you the truth, if you go on like this, you won't be able to reach Yangzhou for another month. ”

"Why?"

"Nonsense, this is the boundary of Changshu, you should go west to Yangzhou!" The old man pinched the silver in his hand, and said, "Follow this official road to the west for twenty miles, meet the White Horse Station, turn north from there, and you can get there in two days, but it's ......."

Xiao Jinyan asked, "But what?"

The old man smiled again and said: "Recently, the vicinity of Yangzhou has not been peaceful, and there are often bandits. The old man paused, "Just spend another penny, and I'll show you a clear way to avoid them." ”

Xiao Jinyan was helpless, so he had to give him another money, and the old man said, "There is a Shuanglong Mountain to the north of the White Horse Station, and there are dozens of green forests gathered on the mountain, you should be careful when you walk, it is best to avoid them." If you are troublesome, my son often goes to Yangzhou, as long as the price is right, I can let him be your guide. ”

Xiao Jinyan even said no.

"If you think about it, with just a few taels of silver, you can avoid a disaster, and it's a good deal. ”

Xiao Jinyan laughed, and said in his heart that we were even offended by Yixiaotang, and we were still afraid of the "good man" of Shuanglong Mountain? So he thanked him and said goodbye to him, the old man swallowed a cigarette, sighed, and said: "Young people now, I really don't know how important it is. ”

The two turned around and headed west.

After walking for a while, I heard the woman in the car laugh. Xiao Jinyan asked curiously, and the woman said, "I said why didn't I see the people from Xiaoxiao Hall chasing after me, it turns out that we went the other way." It is estimated that Yu Wenshuang can't catch up with us, will he be angry. ”

Xiao Jinyan said: "It's not necessarily necessary to be angry, Yixiaotang has a lot of power in Suzhou, if you want to hunt us down and kill us, I'm afraid our trip to Yangzhou will not be easy." ”

The woman said in a low voice, "Xiao Daxia, if you are really in danger, if you are not defeated, just run for your life, there is no need to fight against Yixiaotang for the sake of me, a weak woman, and lose your life." ”

Xiao Jinyan patted his chest, "Haha, you call me a hero, how can you do this kind of thing, don't worry, even if I die, I will never break my word, along the way, if you lose a hair, this account will be counted on me." ”

The woman was very relieved when she heard this, she grew up in the mountain gate since she was a child, her identity was delicate, everyone saw her, they were cautious in their words and deeds, no one had ever talked to her like Xiao Jinyan with such a big grin, and she couldn't help but have a good impression of Xiao Jinyan.

"Warm, warm. ”

Xiao Jinyan asked, "What?"

The woman whispered: "My name is Nuan Nuan, Dongfang Nuan Nuan." ”