The boat headed all the way west.

The river sails, along the water like tribute, against the water like animals. This kind of boat goes upriver along the Yangtze River, either relying on sails or oars, and the boat travels very slowly, only 35 miles a day. In the event of unstable wind or shallow water levels, it is necessary to hire a slender man temporarily, and generally speaking, the retrograde cost is much higher.

If it weren't for the fact that the person who hired the boat dragged a few layers of relationships and promised three hundred taels of silver, Li Dazhun would not have taken over this deal in this season, but fortunately, the wind was relatively strong these days, and the captain who drove the ship had many years of experience on the Xichuan line, so it was not difficult to endure the first few days.

It's just that Xiao Jinyan and the three of them suffered.

In Li Jinhua's words, the three of them are now boatmen, and the guys should look like guys, and the original outfit can't be worn, so she found a few clothes for the three of them that the boatmen wore before. The clothes were shabby, but they were also cleanly washed.

Li Dazhun is very old, and the affairs on the ship are basically handled by his granddaughter, but fortunately, although Li Jinhua is a daughter, he has been quite capable in the past few years.

The front cabin is not big, only five or six people can be squeezed out, Li Jinhua is also a son and daughter of the rivers and lakes, and he does not shy away from the difference between men and women, and at night, he also eats and lives in the same cabin with everyone. One night, the snoring in the front cabin was everywhere, and Zhao Lanjiang was sweaty again, mixed with the smell of salted fish and dead shrimp, which made Xiao Jinyan and Li Chengcheng unable to sleep, and then they couldn't bear it anymore, ran to the deck, sat down with clothes, and meditated and practiced.

Early in the morning, the two were woken up by a burst of shouting.

Looking up, it was Li Jinhua standing on the deck, practicing his sword in the sun.

Li Jinhua made it, just a very clumsy knife technique on the ordinary rivers and lakes, and there was no internal force to help, but she still practiced with a clear eye, a knife down, her forehead was slightly sweaty, she used a scoop to fill a bowl of water from the bucket, drank it all, saw the two of them staring at her, put down the scoop, and walked over.

Xiao Jinyan clapped his hands and said, "I didn't expect that our ship is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Miss Li is actually a peerless master who is deeply hidden." ”

Li Jinbei said, "The rules of the rivers and lakes, peeking at others practicing martial arts, is to gouge out your eyes." ”

Xiao Jinyan smiled, "And this rule?"

Li Jinhua said proudly, "Of course, use the left eye to look and dig out the left eye, and the right eye to dig out the right eye." ”

Xiao Jinyan raised his foot, "I have a corn on my foot, and I can see it." ”

Li Jinbei said angrily, "You are not honest. ”

Xiao Jinyan laughed, and Li Chengcheng shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Li Jinhua pondered for a moment and said Fortunately, I am also from the rivers and lakes, and the rules of the rivers and lakes cannot be broken, but there is also a way.

"What's the solution?"

Li Jinhua said, "You two worship me as a teacher. That way it doesn't break the rules. ”

Xiao Jinyan said that we don't have apprenticeship fees.

Li Jinhua waved his hand, "How can you two be so pedantic, you have no money to apprentice, when you get to the shoal or landing, you two can just sell more strength when pulling fiber." After that, she deliberately glanced at Li Tingcheng.

In the past few days, some places need the boatman to pull the fiber, how can Li Tingcheng do this kind of work, every time he does not work, but Xiao Jinyan, every time he encounters this situation, he uses the strength to eat, which he admires Xiao Jinyan very much, three hundred and sixty lines, all the lines are proficient, he has the talent to be a buddy, and he has the talent to pull the fiber, he can't learn it.

Before the two of them agreed, Li Jinhua was fulfilling the duties of the master. She said, "Now you two are my apprentices, and I can be regarded as starting a sect, we also have to establish rules, what about our sect, well, well, it's called the nameless faction, and the sword technique just now is called the nameless knife technique." ”

In fact, this name is just Li Jinping's casual nonsense, her half-hanging knife technique, was taught to her by a knife man who went west by boat back then, and she was taught on the idle road, a total of twelve moves, only the moves were taught, and the mantra and internal strength were not taught. Although Li Jinhua is a daughter, she has a strong nature, and she likes knives and guns, she has been practicing diligently over the years, but she also has seven or eight points, and she is not her opponent with three or five big men.

Li Qingcheng said, "The nameless sword technique of the nameless faction is not good. ”

"Why?"

Li Chengcheng said: "Do you think, we will shout on the rivers and lakes in the future and defeat people, you are a nameless faction and nameless sword technique, how can people remember us, we should be given a domineering name." Li Jinhua had just become a master, and was about to play a trick, saying, "I am the master, you have to listen to me." ”

Xiao Jinyan smiled and said, "Yes, Master!"

After that, he stabbed Li Tingcheng again, and Li Tingcheng also said, "Yes, Master." Zhao Jinyan whispered, "You're good, you found a senior uncle for Dean Li, if he knows, he won't be angry?"

Li Jinhua was overjoyed, turned around and walked away, and after a while, he brought two fresh fish over and said, "As a teacher, you can't accept your two apprentices in vain, these two fish should be regarded as gifts for you for the teacher." ”

The two were stunned, and Li Jinhua pretended to have a stiff face, "Don't thank you Master yet?"

The two of them had no choice but to accept it, "Thank you, Master." ”

Li Jinhua sat under the two of them with a grin, "Xiao Da, you are the eldest apprentice, Li San, you are the second apprentice." When I take Zhao Si down, when the time comes, walk the rivers and lakes, if someone bullies you, you will report to Master and I will be shouting at the nameless sword. ”

The two of them said yes.

Li Jinhua grabbed Li Qingcheng's hands and said in surprise, "Your hands are whiter than the girl's house." I must have never suffered when I was a child. ”

Xiao Jinyan laughed so much that she was about to cover her stomach.

If it were someone else, Li Chengcheng would have already beaten Jiangzhong with one punch, but Li Jinhua was true in his words, but he was also a woman with a true temperament, so he nodded, and then looked at Li Jinhua, and his hands were ground with thick calluses, these are not knife cocoons, but after years of dry loading and unloading of goods, and grinding of fiber.

Li Jinping guessed again, "Your family is very good, you must be the son and brother who quarreled with your family and secretly ran out to roam the rivers and lakes." ”

Li Tingcheng said yes.

Li Jinbei said, "It's okay, in the future, on the rivers and lakes, I will cover you." Our nameless family will definitely be able to carry forward, this trip, when I save enough money, I will go to Baoyan Zhai to buy three sets of rouge gouache, I want one set, the other two sets for you, in the future when you meet the girl you like, I will give it to them, it will be a gift for the teacher to give them. ”

thought she was joking, but between the words, Li Jinhua seemed to take this matter seriously.

Li Jinhua said again, "You must have studied?"

Li Tingcheng doesn't like nonsense, and even rarely pretends to women, in his impression, except for his sister Li Jinghong, he has never chatted with people like today. Li Jinbei has no scheming, and it is very comfortable to chat with such a person.

He nodded.

Li Jinhua was overjoyed when she heard this, she took a branch and dipped it in the river water, "You quickly teach me, how to write these three words Li Jinhua?" Li Qingcheng smiled, "The world has always been a master and a disciple, where is the truth of an apprentice and a master?"

Li Jinhua said that he should be a teacher and asked shamelessly.

Li Chengcheng took the branch, shook his wrist, and wrote down the words "Li Jinhua" on Deck Mountain.

While the water stains were not dry, Li Jinhua used her fingers to repeat the strokes that Li Chengcheng had written, she wrote a few times one by one, and then nodded, "It turns out that the three words Li Jinhua are written like this." In her words, she was a little proud. "You teach me to write my name, we have twelve nameless sword techniques, I will pass you eleven moves, Xiao Da and Zhao Si, I will each pass them ten moves. Start with Ming'er. ”

Xiao Jinyan interjected and asked, "Why do you only pass on eleven moves?"

Li Jinhua said proudly, "As a teacher, you have to leave a trick to press the bottom of the box, don't you? If you are disobedient in the future, I will use the last resort to clean up the portal." Are you two afraid?"

The two of them even said that they were afraid.

Zhao Lanjiang climbed up from the bilge, "Early in the morning, what are you arguing about?"

Xiao Jinyan shouted, "Zhao Si, come and introduce you to a master." As he spoke, he pointed to Li Jinhua. Zhao Lanjiang glanced at Li Jinzhui, said "boring", turned around and was about to get out of the cabin, Li Jinzhu's face sank, "I'm not happy for the teacher." ”

Xiao Jinyan and Li Chengcheng said to wait a while.

Not long after, Zhao Lanjiang, who was beaten by the two of them, knelt in front of Li Jinhua, "Apprentice Zhao Si, salute Master." Only then did Li Jinhua turn his anger into joy and send a fresh fish, "Good apprentice, come and eat fish." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said that I belong to the tiger, not the cat.

Seeing Xiao and Li raise their fists, they hurriedly changed their words: "I belong to a cat, meow meow." ”

The three of them lay on the deck, laughing, and even laughed out of tears.

It's been a lot of fun.

……

Some people think it's fun, others don't.

Qi Baihu, the chief steward of the Hundred Knife Gate, is one of them.

The Hundred Swords Gate is a third-rate sect at the foot of the mountain of the Imperial Sword Villa, and over the years, it has been attached to the backer of the Imperial Sword Villa and has made a living by purchasing fine iron for the sword casting of the Imperial Sword Villa. Every year, the Imperial Sword Villa holds a sword-casting conference and a sword-appreciating conference, and this year is especially grand, and even the four major families and the eight major schools also send people to attend. This time, Qi Baihu was ordered by the master of the door to come to Jiangnan to purchase a batch of high-quality iron embryos, and through the relationship between the government and the government, he got the documents for the shipment, and was about to be transported back by cargo ship.

In addition, in Jiangnan, he also found a piece of dark iron, which is said to be a holy relic on the mountain in the south, if this thing can be sent to the Imperial Sword Villa and a few peerless divine weapons can be forged, then the reputation of the Hundred Swords Gate in the rivers and lakes in the future will be extraordinary. Originally, the matter was carried out very secretly, but I don't know how to leak the rumors, Tang Men came out from the halfway, and the price was 300,000 taels to buy this piece of Xuantie, the owner of the Hundred Daomen heard this offer, and his heart was moved, so he prepared to secretly Chen Cang, and transported this piece of Xuantie to Jingxiang for subcontracting, for the sake of prudence, the Hundred Daomen sent an old worshipper to escort this Xuantie.

Unexpectedly, before leaving, two guests came to the boat who asked to take a boat.

One is Sun Shaoming, the young owner of Yujian Villa, and the other is Li Qianjue, the Emei woman.

Baidaomen relied on the Imperial Sword Villa to eat, if it was usual, Qi Baihu would not have time to stammer with this young owner, but there was a cat in this trip, and he didn't want to cause trouble. However, for Sun Shaoming, he really couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he had to agree to go with him.

After the first battle of Taihu Lake, Li Qianjue wanted to return to Mount Emei, Sun Shaoming naturally would not let go of the opportunity to protect the flowers, and when he met Qi Baihu and others at the dock, he directly invited Qianjue to board the boat.

Although Li Qianjue didn't like Sun Shaoming very much, Sun Shaoming was courteous and courteous, and she didn't refuse. The young owner of the dignified Imperial Sword Villa flattered herself in every possible way, so that her vanity was also a little satisfied, and under the meditation, there was a trace of pride.

Everyone sat down in the cabin, Sun Shaoming sat on the main seat, and said to Qianjue, "Qianjue, this ship is hired by Baidaomen, Baidaomen is our mountain villa industry, and we have been favored by our family over the years, don't be polite, just treat it as your own ship, if you have any requirements, just mention it to the Qi manager." ”

Qi Baihu heard him speak so harshly, although he was angry in his heart, but there was a smile on his face, "The young farmer is serious, our Baidaomen is just a slave of the villa, relying on the old farmer to reward food." What does Woman Li command, as long as I Qi Baihu can do it, I will not be ambiguous. ”

Li Qianjue is from a famous family, and the rules in the door are extremely strict, especially when walking in the rivers and lakes, Mrs. Bilian taught her not to lose her courtesy, and she has never heard of the Hundred Knife Gate, but she also got up and saluted, and said: "Thank you for being in charge." ”

Qi Baihu even avoided it, "Woman Li can come and get on this boat, so that the door will shine, you can torture the little old man." ”

Everyone sat down, and the old worshipper of the Hundred Knife Gate sat in the seat by the hatch with a knife in front of his knees, without saying a word. Sun Shaoming noticed this person, "Who is this?" Qi Baihu introduced, "This is our Hundred Swords Sect's worship Mr. Xu, this trip, just in case, according to the usual practice, we invite him to come over." ”

Mr. Xu didn't raise his head, still closed his eyes with a knife.

Sun Shaoming's face sank, and he said in his heart that he had walked the rivers and lakes for many years, and where he didn't go to send him from afar, you were an offering, and I would throw my face at the master here. There are two kinds of offerings in the Jianghu sect, one is the master-servant relationship with the sect, and the other is the master-object relationship.

The former is a house slave raised in the sect, or he is attached to the family with art, and after becoming an offering, he will generally have the same surname as his own family. The latter is the relationship between the owner and the guest, to put it bluntly, it is a temporary employment relationship, you pay, he does things, that's all.

Sun Shaoming has a jade person on his side at the moment, where is he willing to lose face, so he said: "This, Xu Xianfeng, right, I don't know if you are interested in coming to our Imperial Sword Villa?

Sun Shaoming didn't really absorb this person, he felt that this Xu worship was a little annoying, and once the other party agreed to turn his head to the Imperial Sword Villa, he immediately turned his face and dismissed him, taking the opportunity to humiliate him.

Na Xu worshipped: "I came to Baidaomen, to repay a penny of incense for others, not for money." ”

After that, continue to close your eyes and recuperate.

Seeing this, Sun Shaoming was full of anger, and wanted to find an opportunity to repair you.

A subordinate sent candied pastries and preserved fruits, Qi Baihu carefully chatted with everyone, and unconsciously, everyone chatted about the recent battle of golden knives and crazy knives on the rivers and lakes, which Sun Shaoming had personally experienced, so he took the opportunity to play and began to brag.

"In my opinion, what golden knives and crazy knives are too famous in the rivers and lakes, if compared to the real strength, even the Wudang faction Qiankun Daoist is not as good, speaking of Qiankun Daoist, my father also learned martial arts with him, and the two of them did not win or lose in three hundred rounds. When he said this, he suddenly forgot that he was so frightened by Li Qiuyi that he couldn't get up on the ground on the shore of Taihu Lake.

Li Qianjue frowned when she heard this, and she didn't refute him for the sake of face.

Sun Shaoming, as a master of controlling the field and cold field at this moment, said a few words, Yixing Yanshan, and said: "Qianjue, anyway, you have nothing to do when you return to the Emei faction, it is better to take the opportunity to come to our Imperial Sword Villa as a guest, and in two months, it will be the sword casting conference of our Imperial Sword Villa, there are many divine soldiers in the villa, it is better to go around, if there is a consensus, I will send you." ”

Li Qianjue's sword is an Emei standard sword forged by the Emei Mountain blacksmith shop, with a handle of ten taels of silver.

Although it is one of the eight major sects, most of the disciples in the door are female disciples, and there are not many fields under the mountain, and they are not as good as Qingcheng and Tangmen will do business, but they are also famous and decent, and they cannot do business in the house robbery, and the disciples are not rich in hand. The Emei faction also has a famous sword, but it is only taken out during important ceremonies, and the swords of ordinary masters, uncles, and uncles are also unified swords.

The long sword is relatively simple, for this reason, when walking the rivers and lakes, she often wraps the long sword, saying that it is low-key, and she has some inferiority complex in her heart. She was born beautiful, has a haughty personality, and is an Emei woman, who is often stretched thin for money, and does not have Xiao Jinyan's natural heart, and sometimes she is self-pitying.

Sun Shaoming asked, "How, you don't want to?"

Li Qianjue's face was slightly red, "I'll thank the young owner first." ”

Sun Shaoming laughed, "Just call me Shaoming." ”

Sun Shaoming asked again: "Lao Qi, these ships are the goods of our villa, you must be careful, by the way, is this ship reliable? How can it be so slow?" It stands to reason that he is a person from the Imperial Sword Villa, and this ship is nominally from the Hundred Knife Gate, with his identity, he can't ask about other people's affairs at all, but he is used to being arrogant, and he wants to behave in front of Li Qianjue, and he can't help but regard himself as the master here.

"The boat was found by my friend, and the old boat that ran to Xichuan is not a big problem, but a few guys came today, and I looked a little embarrassed. ”

Sun Shaoming said, "There is a chance to try them." ”

Li Qianjue approached the cabin, and she saw that not far away, Xiao Jinyan and the other four were laughing on the deck, feeling that this person was a little familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it.

While thinking about it, suddenly the hull of the boat slammed, as if it had hit something, Li Qianjue did not sit firmly, and almost hit Sun Shaoming's arms.

Then I heard someone outside shouting, "Stranded!"

Sun Shaoming's face was gloomy, "Go out and have a look." ”

……

The ship ran aground and stopped.

The waters here are neither shallow nor deep, and in the old days, the ship could have passed through. It's just that this time there were too many goods on the boat, and the draft was too heavy, and even Li Dazhun, an old boatman for many years, capsized in the gutter. Everyone looked at it, there was no village in front of the village, there was no shop behind it, and it was unrealistic to hire a slender man now, but fortunately, there were several ropes on the boat, and it was up to everyone to get out of the stranded waters.

On this trip, in addition to Li Dazhun's grandson and Xiao Li Zhao, there were also three boatmen, but to pull the boat, it would take at least a dozen manpower.

Sun Shaoming walked out with his hands in his hands and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

Li Dazhun was frightened in his heart and said, "This young master, the boat has too much draft and is stranded. ”

Sun Shaoming said, "I didn't listen to your story, I asked you how you can get out of here." ”

Li Dazhun said, "The water here is turbulent, and there are whirlpools below, according to the experience of the little old man, there should be flowing mud, if you rush down, I am afraid that people will be involved in the mud and sand." ”

Sun Shaoming said angrily, "You can't hear me, what I want is the result." ”

Li Jinhua couldn't listen to it, and retorted: "You are so unreasonable, you are here to point fingers when something happens." Your lives are valuable, and the lives of our fellows are worthless?"

Sun Shaoming saw that Li Jinhua was dark-skinned, wearing a rag skirt, and dressed simply, and he was disdainful, and couldn't help but sneer: "You are a rural village girl, you dare to speak to Young Master Ben like this, yes, your life is worthless in the eyes of Young Master Ben." ”

When Li Jinhua heard this, he felt aggrieved in his heart, and tears rolled in his eyes.

(5K delivered, and there is a shift in the evening.) ）