Chapter 7: Whispering Letters Through the Curtain (1)

But it was said that Qiao Luo was cowardly entrusted by Luo Yu, and rode Ma Xiaoxing to the south at night. Along the way, every inn has to ask the shopkeeper if there are two small maids passing by, some of the shopkeepers because these two small maids are too ordinary so they do not notice, and the sharp-eyed boss said that he has seen it, and said that it is a girl dressed as a man. Qiao Luo timidly followed the inns where he had seen them, and arrived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province in the middle of November.

He threw himself into an inn at noon on this day, ready to look carefully in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. He walked to the innkeeper and asked, "Boss, have you ever seen two people dressed as little girls?" The boss said: "The little official said those two girls dressed as men!" Qiao Luo couldn't help but smile timidly, secretly thinking that these two girls could be recognized everywhere, nodding, the boss continued: "You, it's really unfortunate that those two girls left from this checkout." Qiao Luo hurriedly asked, "How long have you been gone?" The boss said, "I left yesterday morning." Luo was really unlucky, the two of them had been walking for a day, and they didn't know where they were now. I had to thank the boss, and the store didn't stay, so I hurriedly rode away.

The street was bustling with people, and Jolo's timid horse walked slowly. At this moment, Hangzhou Road is really a jewel in the city, full of prosperity, and a prosperous scene. But although it is a prosperous city, after all, people have become slaves of the country. Qiao Luo couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking about the current Yuan soldiers ruling the Han people, and they were extremely bullied. But if there is another war, the common people will not suffer again, but they will not be able to live well now. But then I thought about it, at present, the burden on the shoulders of the common people is not light at all, and they still live without dignity. After all, do the Mongols regard the Han people as their own people? Suddenly the horse was frightened, and he almost threw him off, and he jumped off the horse, and found that it was a large horse of bright red silk that caused the horse to be frightened, but he saw that the horse had thrown aside the woman who was holding the silk, and the woman dropped the silk in her hand, and the horse kicked the silk away at once.

The woman hurriedly walked over, grabbed Luo Ti, and said loudly, "What kind of horse do you ride on the street! Your horse has kicked my silk dirty, and you must compensate me!" Luo Ti knew that he was at a loss, and asked, "How much do you want me to pay?" The woman said, "At least a thousand wen." When Luo Ti heard this, he couldn't help but get angry. Although he had all this money on him, his horse had only kicked the silk dirty, not broken, and he had no reason to lose so much! Besides, he would have to walk so long in the future, and he would still need the money. So he suppressed his anger and said, "I will pay you a maximum of 200 yuan." The woman said: "You are a man, so stingy, no two girls have been generous!" When Luo Ti heard this, his heart moved, and he hurriedly asked: "What two girls?" The woman said loudly: "Yesterday, our girl got married, and on the way, I met two girls dressed as men and asked us to help them find someone in the labor, and we didn't shout that they gave 600 Wen, and in the end no one found it, and we are quite sorry for others! Yesterday you were looking for someone among the people who were forced to do it?" The woman said, "Yes!" Luo Ti asked again: "Do you have a place in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province besides that place for forced labor?" The woman said impatiently: "No, just that place! Hey, you are really, why did you talk about losing money and it was related to the forced labor!" Luo was a little more relaxed, took out three hundred papers, stuffed them into the woman's hand, and said, "Thank you for the news!" Then he stepped on the horse and left, leaving the woman in the same place and shouting angrily at his back.

Qiao Luo timidly thought that these two girls had finished looking for people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, and since they had not been found, they would definitely leave Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province and go to Jiangxi Province. If you follow the route to Jiangxi Province, you will definitely be able to meet them on the way. Thinking like this, I inquired about the route to Jiangxi, galloped dozens of miles, and came to Xin'anjiang at night.

The full moon was clear, hanging high in the air, and a few rays of moonlight flowed far away on the surface of the river. Tonight's river is not as deserted as usual, but there are thirty or forty large ships, distributed from far and near, most of them merchant ships, and a few passenger ships are mixed in. The people on the boat held torches aloft and illuminated the river, and the people on the boat came and went, apparently merchants who were out on business, and there were several large boxes on each boat, and the people in charge were still shouting for some people to carry the big boxes onto the ship. At this time, a boatman came over, and he smiled and said to the person in charge: "Master, our own passenger ship still has to operate to solicit passengers, can we stop using our ship?" The person in charge said in a not very proficient Chinese: "It's okay, so that your guests don't have to come down, just stay on the ship, let's put the boxes, and our people will stay in the back, and they won't go to the front cabin." The boatman agreed.

But it was said that Xi Zhi and Lian Yu got on a passenger ship, and after a while, the passenger ship was surrounded by those merchant ships, and then Xi Zhi heard those merchants put the big boxes on the board, and more than a dozen merchants rested on the back board. Xi Zhi asked the boatman: "What is the origin of these people?" The boatman said: "I don't know, it looks like a merchant, but I have never seen so many merchants coming, it seems that it is impossible to say which merchant gang it is." Xi Zhi said: "There are so many people in the merchant gang!" Lian Yu quietly stuck to Xi Zhi's ear and said: "These merchants seem to be Mongolians." Xi Zhi took a closer look, and sure enough, she found that these merchants were Mongolians, but if you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't see it. She muttered in her heart: "How can the Mongols have a merchant gang?" She immediately raised her vigilance, for fear that this boat family and this group of Mongols were in the same group, so she stayed in the front cabin with Lianyu and did not come out again.

There were a lot of passengers sitting in the front cabin, and in Xi Zhi's opinion, most of them were people who were wandering and wandering. Xi Zhi and Lian Yu found a remote place to sit down, and found that there was an inner cabin next to them, which was lit with candles, and two vague figures were reflected on the white curtain.

The merchant ships slowly sailed, and the passenger ships began to glide slowly along the river. Suddenly, there was a quarrel in the distance, and Xi Zhi heard another boatman shouting, "Your horse can't be brought on board." At this time, a slightly cold but familiar voice sounded, saying: "In the past, you could release horses on the boat, why can't you now?" She hurriedly said to Lianyu, "It's the voice of the gentleman! It's the voice of the gentleman! The gentleman has come to us!" but the shipman continued: "There are many merchants who have put large boxes today, and your horse has no place to rest on the passenger ship. Xi Zhi was in deep love, and no matter if Qiao Luo had a disability in her legs, it was unlikely that she would come so far to find her, so she quickly got up and rushed outside, and Lian Yu whispered to Xi Zhi from behind: "Official! Come back quickly!" Xi Zhi didn't listen to Lian Yu's persuasion, and rushed out of the cabin, and when she was about to reach the back board, she suddenly tripped over an outstretched foot, she stood unsteadily and fell forward, pounced on several boxes, flipped to the side, and took away all the lids of these boxes at once. Xi Zhi fell not lightly, and she couldn't get up for a while when she lay on the ground. Suddenly, I saw that the box was full of knives, guns and weapons. A businessman hurriedly closed the lid of the box, looked at Xi Zhi angrily, and was about to kick her when he went up, but a person next to him came up and grabbed her, shook his head, and the person was not embarrassed Zhi, the two turned around and sat on the back board, Xi Zhi saw that it was a businessman who tripped her and fell to a businessman who was sleeping on her back, at this time the businessman had woken up, looked at her for a long time, and closed his eyes again.

Lian Yu hurriedly came over to help Xi Zhi up, and the two of them went to the side of the boat together, trying their best to look through the layers of ships into the distance. But I saw that the merchant ships and passenger ships had already left, and there were no more ships leaning against the riverbank, and under a tree on the riverside, a horse was looking lonely at dozens of large ships in the distance.