Chapter 40: Ningzhou
Ningzhou Mansion is located in the southeast of Honghuang, at the junction of the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and is one of the three major seaports in the world.
Every day, thousands of ships come in and out from the port of Ningzhou, on the one hand, the goods and business travelers from the south are transferred to the north, and on the other hand, they are transported to the hinterland through the Ningjiang River.
When the Jiqing sailed into the port, it was evening, and the red sunset was shining brightly on the sea to the west, and a large area of bright and shining clouds was beautifully shrouded in the faint green mountains outside Ningzhou Mansion.
Thousands of sails are competing on the sea outside the harbor, and there is no depression as the night is approaching.
Lu Ye stood on the deck, surrounded by a crowd of people watching the excitement, everyone had experienced so many days of dull life on the sea, and finally saw the land again, all of them were elated.
At this time, a three-masted ship sailed out of the harbor, its slender bow like a sharp blade cutting through the water, moving smoothly and swiftly in the sea, heading straight for the Jiqing.
You Long and Fat Girl stood on their respective terraces looking at the port like a pair of brothers, and when they saw the fast approaching fortune boat, the two people who were originally listless suddenly lifted their spirits.
"Qingzhou Shen family's boat?" The fat girl slapped the folding fan in her hand and said, "Third child, guess what they want to do." ”
You Long pretended to ponder, "Welcome to us?"
"You told the people of the Shen family that they took the Jiqing this time?"
"How is it possible, I have no friendship with Lao Shen. He's the second oldest. In this way, we are not welcomed. ”
The fat girl yawned lazily, rubbed Bao's head indiscriminately, and suddenly found that the hand felt wrong, only to remember that the hair on this guy's body had been shaved by Lu Ye, and now what he was holding in his hand was a heavy pile of meat, and she couldn't help twitching in her heart, gritted her teeth and said: "This is the East China Sea, you come forward to be more effective than me." ”
You Long shrugged and said, "I'm so familiar with the second child, how embarrassed?"
"Third brother, don't you feel a bad conscience when you say this?"
While the two were talking, the blade-like bow of the Fu Ship had already slammed into the Jiqing!
The people on the boat exclaimed, the Jiqing was bulky, and it was too late to turn around and dodge.
The fat girl's eyes narrowed into two slits, "These bastards who don't have long eyes, there are so many ships parked in the harbor, and they are looking for death for our brother's Jiqing!"
You Long said impatiently: "There is such idle nonsense, just kill it." ”
Before he could finish speaking, his figure had disappeared from the terrace.
The fat girl was stunned, and scolded in a low voice: "You said that you know the second child very well?"
A moment later, less than three feet away from the Jiqing, the hull of the Fubune was suddenly picked up by a strange vortex from the bottom of the sea, and it spun in place, unable to move forward half a foot.
The vortex became more and more obvious, and it kept sinking downward, forming a giant trumpet-shaped abyss.
A frightened cry sounded from the ship, as if something terrible was happening. The hull of the ship shook violently in the whirlpool, as if it was stuck in quicksand, sinking continuously.
Soon the sea water above poured in and completely engulfed the Fubune, and the sea returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
There was silence on the deck of the Jiqing, and everyone was stunned, unable to speak when they saw this strange scene close at hand.
Lu Ye glanced at the empty terrace on the third floor, and rarely praised You Long and Fat Girl in his heart.
If You Long and Fat Girl stand by and watch, he will take the risk.
As for the people on the lucky boat, it is estimated that there are many bad lucks, and even if they are not drowned, they will be cleaned by Long Dashao and Fat Girl. Lu Ye neither wants to be a white moonlight, nor is he a white lotus, those bastards who don't pay attention to the full ship of passengers, and only have a momentary pleasure for themselves, but it is too peaceful to die a few more times.
Until the Jiqing slowly moored into the dock, You Long and Fat Girl did not reappear.
Lu Ye was obviously annoyed by these two bastards, but for some reason there was a feeling of refreshment in his heart.
He didn't rush off the boat with the crowd of people, and first said goodbye to the Zuo sisters and the Burning Qin Boiled Crane, thanking them for taking care of their food and drink these days.
The Zuo sisters were surprised and hurriedly thanked them, and asked Lu Ye if he wanted to stay and wait for Long Dashao?
Burning the qin and cooking cranes are all well-behaved people, and when they knew that their master was angry with Lu Yeduo, they only hated that they couldn't be angry for Ah Bao, so they politely sent him away.
Lu Ye walked on the gangplank alone, and suddenly heard someone calling behind him: "Master Lu, there will be a period later!"
Lu Ye turned around, and it was the steward of the Jiqing who spoke.
Lu Ye smiled at him and said, "Long Dashao used to be domineering, he didn't mean to humiliate you that day, he told me in private, let me apologize to you on his behalf." ”
"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" The steward saw Lu Ye leaning over to bow to him, and he was so frightened that he shook his hands and hid to the side.
When he came back to his senses, Lu Ye had already walked through the springboard and landed on the land of Ningzhou Mansion.
Many years later, the steward of the Jiqing would boast that when Lu Taishang was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, he had ridden my sea boat and saluted me.
Lu Ye got off the Jiqing, and the wharf was crowded with people, both those who picked up relatives and friends and those who were soliciting business. Hundreds of dock coolies began to board and unload their cargo, and there was a lot of noise everywhere.
Lu Ye looked around at the bustling flow of people, and he didn't know where he should go for a while.
He knew that his aunt lived in Ningzhou Mansion, but he was poor and white, so he rashly came to the door to take refuge, but he was afraid that it would bring her great trouble.
Seeing that it was getting dark, Lu Ye thought that it was best to find a place to live and wait for tomorrow to reason. However, a penny suffocated the hero, and now that he is penniless, it is obviously impossible to stay in the guest house, so he can only try his luck to see if there is a temple Taoist temple willing to let him stay overnight.
He was thinking about his thoughts as he walked, and suddenly a teenager screamed over him, as if he had been hit by someone next to him, lost his center of gravity and stumbled towards Lu Ye.
Lu Ye's heart was alarmed, and he grabbed Xiao Xiaohua sideways and touched the black dirty hand in his clothes, "What are you doing?"
"Phew!" Xiao Yuhua spat at Lu Ye.
Lu Ye avoided just wanting to speak, and the two and a half teenagers next to him squeezed over, with a fierce look that should not have been at this age, and said to him: "Boy, hand over the money if you know each other!"
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, showed two knives to sandwich Lu Ye in the middle.
There were many people coming and going, and there was no shortage of coolies and sailors on the docks, but they all walked by as if they were blind.
Lu Ye knew that he had met a gangster, so he let go of Xiao Zhaohua and said to the two teenagers who were one or two years older than him: "A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." ”
The young man on the left has a scar on his face, and his originally childish face looks a little vicious, and he is overjoyed when he hears the words: "You say that we are gentlemen?
Lu Ye said honestly: "It's fatal." ”
The scar boy nodded and said, "You are sensible." Little jar, search him!"
Xiao Xiaohua answered, and reached out to take it into Lu Ye's arms.
Lu Ye suddenly flashed, and the two teenagers only felt a flower in front of them, "bang", each leg bent and kicked hard, staggered forward, rushed forward a few steps, and fell a.
"Brother Xiaodao, garlic sprouts!" Xiao Jar was taken aback, and raised his small fist to hit Lu Ye.
Lu Ye saw that he was only a seven or eight-year-old child, and he couldn't lift his hands, so he patted him lightly on the back.
The little jar was numb and couldn't move, and it was soft and spread on the ground, and suddenly he cried out and cried, "I can't move, am I crippled?"
The crying was extremely delicate, and Lu Ye realized that the little jar dared to love a girl.
The knife and the garlic sprouts struggled to get up from the ground, but who knew that Lu Ye's feet implied that the internal strength sealed the meridians of the two, and they couldn't stand up after struggling for a long time.
The knife was so anxious that he was sweating, threw away the knife in his hand, and shouted: "Brother, let's admit it! There are clouds in the rivers and lakes that kill people but don't nod their heads, don't bully the little can, something will come at me!"
Lu Ye didn't expect this little gangster to be so righteous, and chuckled: "You are quite kind." ”
He walked in front of the knife and squatted down, the knife looked nervous and didn't know how Lu Ye would toss himself, so he simply closed his heart and eyes.
Unexpectedly, Lu Ye actually searched for him with his hands for a long time, and found more than a dozen copper coins, and finally said in disappointment: "That's it?"
Knife froze and muttered, "Didn't you just say it...... A gentleman loves money, and he takes it in a good way?"
Lu Ye copied the copper coin from the garlic seedling again, and said with a smile: "There is another sentence of theft, I didn't have time to say it!"
Xiaodao was speechless and muttered: "My mother, no wonder the dead ghost Lao Dou forced me to study when I was a child." It makes sense to be a reader. ”
Lu Ye walked up to the little jar, picked her up and said, "Little sister, don't be afraid, this money will buy you sugar gourds to eat." He turned his hand and stuffed more than 20 copper plates from the knife and garlic seedlings into the small jar.
The little jar opened its crystal bright eyes, and it was not that it was not connected.
Xiaodao was surprised, lying on the ground and looking up at Lu Ye and said, "Brother, righteousness!"
Garlic Miao also said: "Early, early I knew that you were so righteous and righteous, and you would kill us...... I won't rush or rush at you!"
It turned out that he was born with a stutter and was afraid of being laughed at, so he was rarely willing to speak.
Lu Ye solved the acupuncture points of the two, and the knife stood up and hugged his fist at Lu Ye and said: "Brother, the green mountains do not change the green water, and my brother Xiaodao will remember it in my heart." In the future, who will dare to make things difficult for you on the land of Ningzhou Mansion, even if it is said to be a friend of our three heroes!"
Lu Ye listened interestingly: "Oh, it turned out to be the Three Heroes of Wind and Dust, disrespectful and disrespectful." ”
Xiaodao's face turned red, and he said proudly: "There are clouds in the rivers and lakes, don't bully the young man to be poor! Don't look at the three of us who haven't made any name now, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, it is difficult to guarantee that Ningzhou Mansion will be my Xiaodao brother's world in the future!"
Lu Ye smiled, "Okay, ambitious!"
To be honest, the three heroes in front of him are much more affectionate than the three broad dragons, fat girls and Hua Zhenjiao.
He suddenly had an idea and said: "Three young heroes, the rivers and lakes have clouds and don't know each other. In Xia Lu Xun, there is a difficult matter, I wonder if I can ask three friends to help each other?"
Xiaodao was stunned, patted his chest and said: "Everyone is a friend, just open your mouth if you have something." We are three heroes in the wind and dust, and we will not hesitate to go to the soup and fire!"