Chapter 15 Fifteen: The Bitter Mandarin Duck
Changfeng City is a small city close to the capital of the Eastern Han Empire, with a population of only tens of thousands, compared with a large city like Luzhou City, it is like a small mountain villa.
However, because Changfeng City is close to Li Mountain, it attracts many people from the rivers and lakes, making this small city very lively.
Li Shan, also known as Li Shan Palace, was established by Li Shan's mother, who was once the third master of the land list, but now there is Wu Qi, the new first place on the land list, and this Li Shan's old mother also stepped back one place, ranking fourth, but it does not hinder the prestige of this Li Shan old mother.
Lian Jia, the largest family in Changfeng City, although it is now sunset, but the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and no one in Changfeng City can match it.
In the rivers and lakes, when it comes to Lianjia, I can't help but sigh that Lianjia's former scenery is infinite. More than 20 years ago, the Lian family produced a big master, ranking second on the list, and it was an ancestor of the Lian family, and because of this ancestor, the entire Lian family almost became a behemoth, but the ancestor suddenly disappeared mysteriously, and it is rumored to have died.
Since then, the Lian family has plummeted, but fortunately, the efforts of the descendants have stabilized the decline of the Lian family, but in the end, they can only guard the one-third of an acre of Lianfeng City.
Lian Xuan, the young daughter of Lian Jiangdong, the head of the Lian family, is the first beauty in Changfeng City, and I don't know how many young handsome people want to kiss Fang Ze.
However, a little-known little person took away the heart of this young lady of the Lian family, and once made those young and handsome men in Changfeng City wail.
Song Yuanlin, who is a little famous in Changfeng City, has a martial arts cultivation of the four grades, and is a small master in the rivers and lakes, but he has a mediocre appearance, no family background and no power, except for a body of martial arts, it can be said that he is poor and white, this kind of person can be said to be a big handful in the rivers and lakes.
is such a person, but he let Miss Lian's love die and come back to life, and even did not hesitate to turn his face with his father, so he also became the man of the hour in Lianfeng City, and of course became the thorn in the side of those sons, but because of Lian Xuan's existence, no one touched him.
Originally, Lian Jiangdong wanted to choose a good husband for his daughter among those young and handsome people, but he was sideways by Song Yuanlin, which made Lian Jiangdong almost run away, if it weren't for his daughter's sake, Song Yuanlin would already be a corpse.
Lian Jiangdong actually didn't dislike Song Yuanlin so much, after all, the other party also saved his daughter's life, plus his cultivation is okay, if Lian Jia cultivates, he can also reach the realm of seven or eight grades in the future, if the other party takes shit luck and steps into the ninth grade, then Lian Jia can also get some benefits.
It's just that Song Yuanlin is compared with those young and handsome people, but he is very different, and he can throw him a lot away from him in terms of cultivation or in the world, but his daughter is only devoted to Song Yuanlin.
Let Lian Jiangdong, who has lived for most of his life, almost lose that old face in Changfeng City.
His daughter was also determined to marry Song Yuanlin, no matter how Lian Jiangdong persuaded her, it was useless, and finally made Lian Jiangdong angry, and locked Lian Xuan in the house in a fit of anger, and was not allowed to step out of the door for half a step.
"Huan'er, you show me well, don't let the young lady step out of the door half a step, otherwise I will ask you. ”
Lian Jiangdong said to Lian Xuan's personal maid, Huan'er, with an angry face, but his eyes were full of pity, after all, it was his daughter.
"Yes, sir. ”
Huan'er hurriedly arrived, but when she saw her young lady washing her face with tears every day, she felt extremely uncomfortable, and she wanted to open the door and let the young lady go, but she didn't dare.
"Miss, you just admit your mistake to the master, where is Song Gongzi good, can you practice yourself like this?"
Huan'er said to the house with a crying voice, looking anxious.
In the house, Lian Xuan squatted on the ground, leaning against the door, her face was covered with tears, but she was thinking of Song Yuanlin in her heart, her face was full of love, and she said with a smile: "Even though Yuanlin is not good in a thousand ways, but in my eyes, no one can compare, I am a person of Yuanlin in life, and a ghost in Yuanlin in death." I believe that one day he will come and marry me on a tall horse. ”
"Miss. ”
Huan'er knelt on the ground, not knowing how to persuade.
"Huan'er, if you still treat me as a sister, do me a favor and give this letter to Yuanlin. ”
Lian Xuan took out the letter that had already been written from her bosom and handed it out through the crack in the door.
"Miss, Huan'er will definitely help you deliver it. ”
Huan'er hid the letter on her body, ready to find an opportunity to send it out.
......
Outside Lian's house, a plain-looking man wearing a cloth coat and an iron sword hanging from his waist looked at Lian's house with an anxious face, but he was blocked by the high-walled compound and couldn't see inside.
This person is Song Yuanlin, the person who brought Lian Xuan's love back to life.
Suddenly, the back door was opened, and I saw the Huan'er maid poking her head out, Song Yuanlin was immediately excited when he saw it, and hurriedly asked Lian Xuan's news.
"Song Gongzi, this is my young lady who asked me to hand it over to you. ”
Huan'er took the letter from her bosom and handed it to Song Yuanlin, then quietly closed the door and left.
When Song Yuanlin saw the letter in his hand, he was excited, and hurriedly opened it and looked:
"Yuanlin, Lian Xuansheng is your person, death is your ghost, take me out of here tonight. ”
"Xuan'er is going to elope with me. ”
Song Yuanlin understood the content of Lian Xuan's letter, couldn't help clenching his fists, his eyes flashed with a strange light, and hurriedly left Lian's house, he was going to prepare the carriage and the things needed on the way.
He was excited all the way, and returned to his home outside the city, which was the only thing his master had left him, and took the only money in the family, and hurriedly went to the city to buy a carriage, and at the same time bought a good horse.
He knew that if he eloped with Lian Xuan, he would definitely send someone to chase him, if he didn't have a good horse, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to escape at that time. The carriage and horses are ready, and the rest is dry food, and if you run all the way and don't know where it is the end, you naturally have to prepare plenty of dry food.
When everything was ready, he went home and waited.
As time passed, Song Yuanlin's nervousness became more and more intense, and he kept praying that Lian Xuan could escape safely.
When night fell, Song Yuanlin came to his master's grave and kowtowed three times, then got up and drove the carriage towards Lian's house, and stopped in a secluded corner when he was close to Lian's house, waiting quietly.
In the Lian family, Lian Xuan and her personal maid Huan'er have reached a consensus, and Huan'er has made up her mind to put aside life and death to prepare to fulfill her own young lady.
He stole the key from Lian Jiangdong, and when everyone fell asleep in the dead of night, he opened the door and let his young lady out.
Lian Xuan was already packing up all her valuable jewelry in the house, and she had to bring enough money for the future of her and Song Yuanlin.
As the sound of the watchman sounded, the time had come.
Song Yuanlin, who was originally sleeping with his hands on his pillows, immediately sobered up, drove the carriage carefully to the back door of Lian's house, did not wait long, only heard a slight sound of opening the door, and Lian Xuan and Huan'er cautiously came out of the back door.
Song Yuanlin hurriedly stepped forward, and Lian Xuan's tears flowed instantly, hugging him to death, as if he never wanted to let go.
"Miss, Song Gongzi, you go quickly, you won't be able to leave when the master finds out about you. ”
Huan'er urged from the side.
"Xuan'er get in the car, let's go. ”
Song Yuanlin hugged Lian Xuan into the carriage and hurriedly jumped on it.
"Huan'er, thank you. ”
Lian Xuan looked at each other and actually bowed to Huan'er.
"Miss, Huan'er wishes you and Song Gongzi grow old together. ”
Huan'er knelt on the ground and said with tears on her face.
"Huan'er, Song Yuanlin, the great grace and great virtue, will never forget it in this life, we will have a period in the future. ”
"Driving...."
As soon as the words fell, Song Yuanlin drove the carriage away, leaving Huan'er alone in place, but there was guilt in his eyes.
Not long after Song Yuanlin and the others left, Lian Jiangdong's figure appeared beside Huan'er, looking at the direction of the carriage's departure, his face was expressionless, and he said to the people behind him:
"Bring the young lady back, as for Song Yuanlin's kid, let him die outside!"
"Yes. ”
A group of men and horses with veils covering their faces, dressed as horse thieves, immediately rode horses and chased after Song Yuanlin and them.
"Huan'er, good job, wait for the young lady to come back, and serve her well. ”
After Lian Jiangdong finished speaking, he turned around and left with a flick of his big hand, while Huan'er sat on the ground with a pale face and only a thousand tears
In the early morning of the second day, Song Yuanlin drove the carriage more than ten miles away from Changfeng City, and he couldn't catch up with his family for such a long distance.
Lian Xuan lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage, looking at the scenery outside the carriage, looking at the person driving the carriage, smiling.
"Yuanlin, where are we going?"
"The four seas are home, and we go to the ends of the earth together. ”
"Yes"
The two leaned on each other, as if there was only her (him) left in their respective eyes in this world.
......
"I said, Lao Gai, when I caught the rabbit, I didn't see you exert any strength, and when you ate it, you ate more than we all did. ”
In the woods, Bai Sheng, Wu Qi and Liang San finally caught a rabbit to solve their hungry stomachs for a day.
Just watched most of the rabbit meat come into Lao Gai's stomach, and the three of them looked unhappy.
I saw Lao Gai licking the oil on his hand, with an endless aftertaste, and when he heard Wu Qi's words, he couldn't help blushing and smiling embarrassedly.
"Come on, you're older than us, we should let you. ”
Wu Qi looked at Lao Gai's smile and was defeated, gnawing on the bone that had no meat, and almost bit the bone to eat.
"Third brother, how long will it be before we get to that Changfeng City, I feel like I'm going to starve to death before I do. ”
Bai Sheng looked at Liang San, looking like a starving ghost.
"At our rate, it will take two or three days. ”
"Oh my God, if you don't kill me, it's going to be so long, you can't starve to death. ”
Wu Qi lay on the ground, in love.
"Isn't that to blame you and Lao Gai, who ate so much dry food along the way, otherwise they would be hungry now?"
Liang San grimaced and roared angrily.
Wu Qi didn't dare to refute, Lao Gai turned his head away, not daring to look at Liang San.
"Foodie. ”
Bai Sheng looked at the two of them and said viciously.
From the Daomen to now, ten days have passed, Bai Sheng and the four of them have walked all the way, and they can reach the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty in a few days, but the dry food that could last a few days was stolen and eaten by Wu Qi and Lao Gai on the way, causing the four to be hungry for a whole day.
Walking the rivers and lakes, to be able to get to the point of Bai Sheng, there are no two people, a master who is the first on the list, a third prince of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who almost fell to the point of being starved to death, even if it is to laugh at the big teeth of the people in the rivers and lakes.
The four of them started to set off again hungry, all listless, how could they be in high spirits when they first came out of Qingzhou City.
The route from Qingzhou City to the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty is chosen by Liang San, although the road is close, but it is inaccessible, basically you can't meet people or villages, even the city, there is only a few dozen miles away from the Changfeng City.
Along the way, it was basically a place where the birds did not lay eggs, and even the bandits were not encountered, and there were no people who made them counter-rob.
"Wait, there are people, and there are quite a few. ”
Wu Qi suddenly spoke.
Everyone hurriedly stopped, Bai Sheng also listened quietly, and sure enough, he heard the sound of a fight far away from them.
"Let's go, let's see, maybe we can get something to eat. ”
Liang San's face was excited, and he didn't care about the situation in front of him, so he drove away, for Liang San, there were two big masters by his side, and he was not afraid of any danger at all.
The four of them fanfare and walked in the direction from which the sound came, and as they got closer and closer, the four of them saw that in the distance ahead, a man and a woman were being besieged by a group of masked bandits, and the man was already injured, and the woman was hiding behind the man, with a panicked face and tears on her face, Chu Chu was pitiful.
"Save people. ”
Bai Sheng shouted, and immediately rushed towards the battle circle with Wu Qi.
"Who?"
One of the thieves shouted, but only felt a flower in front of him, and then a burst of pain struck, and when he reacted, he found that he had already flown up.
Wu Qi didn't kill the killer with one kick, and kicked all the people in black away, while Bai Sheng came to the man and woman to protect the two.
In just a few breaths, the group of black-clothed people all lay on the ground and wailed, looking at the man and the woman stunned.
"Ouch hey, I'm even hungrier after a fight. ”
Wu Qi called.
"I don't know, these things don't suit your appetite. ”
The frightened woman with a panicked face had not completely recovered her senses, but she forcibly took out a pile of dry food and said to Wu Qi.
"Eat, haha, eat. ”
Wu Qi seemed to be crazy, he directly picked up the dry food with both hands and began to pour it into his mouth, Bai Sheng on the side was full of embarrassment, but he still looked at the masked people lying on the ground.
"Go, you're not dead, let's go. ”
A leader who looked like a masked bandit struggled to get up from the ground, looked at Wu Qi like a tiger, was so frightened that he didn't even want a knife, turned around and ran away with his own people.
Seeing that people had run away, the man and the woman finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"The life-saving grace of Song Yuanlin's two young heroes. ”
Lian Xuan thanked the two fathers for saving their lives. ”
These two people are Song Yuanlin and Lian Xuan, who eloped, on the second day after they left Lianfeng City, they suddenly encountered an attack by a group of horse thieves, and the group of horse thieves is not low, if Song Yuanlin did not buy a good horse, I am afraid that he has been caught up by the group of bandits, but when the good horses are also tired to death. After losing his horse, Song Yuanlin had no choice but to take Lian Xuan to fight all the way and run away all the way, but when he was escaping, Song Yuanlin found that those bandits were only aimed at himself, and every time he wanted to attack Lian Xuan, he stopped. Song Yuanlin knew that these people must be people sent by Lian Jiangdong, in order to kill himself in the name of a bandit, and then bring Lian Xuan back. It was also because of the restraints of those people that Song Yuanlin was able to escape with Lian Xuan all the way, and he was also extremely lucky, and he was able to survive when he met Bai Sheng and them.
Lao Gai and Liang San ran over when they saw that the fight was over, and when they saw Wu Qi stuffing his mouth full of dry food, they immediately snatched all the dry food in his hand.
"Eat, eat, you know how to eat, and don't leave some for me and Lao Gai."
Liang San looked at the dry food as if he was about to cry, for the first time in so many years, he felt that these tasteless dry foods were even better than those delicacies.
Song Yuanlin and Lian Xuan saw that several people were sad for dry food, and they couldn't help but look at each other.