Chapter 63: The Port Town Sea Prison
Yang was shocked that as soon as he led the old horse towards Mangshan with his front foot, Yan Qi walked towards Luyang Mansion in the Northern Wei Dynasty with his hind foot. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
When martial arts reach the realm of the Book of Changes, it is really better to hike without good riding skills, unless there is also a famous horse like Meng Bowei's handsome horse that kicks the clouds.
The sword does not leave his body, the green shirt and hat boots, Yan Qi at this moment looks at it, and he has a chivalrous demeanor that wanders the world. Even if there is no wine and no beauty, there is a different taste to take a look along the way.
It was a relatively peaceful season, and there were not too many restrictions on going back and forth between the northern and southern dynasties, so we hurried and hurried slowly, and a few days later, we arrived at the ferry port Haijiao Town, which was established on the edge of the raging Red River in Southern Xia Hezhou. Take a passenger boat to the Northern Wei Dynasty in the town, and you can get to Luyang Mansion in one day and one night.
But upon inquiry, the passenger ship was gone, and the old bookkeeper with a long gray beard told Yan Qi that the passenger ship had been requisitioned by their giant whale gang while directing the coolies to move the goods.
"You can't leave a single one behind, right?" Yan Qi asked.
The old account room looked impatient, and said with a beard: "Even if there is no one left, my giant whale gang is doing things for the imperial court and transporting the tribute from Hezhou to Jinling City." If the little brother is really in a hurry to go to the Northern Wei Dynasty, it is better to try his luck in the inns in the town, and maybe he can bump into the merchants of the Northern Wei Dynasty. ”
Yan Qi couldn't, and secretly scolded bad luck and returned to the town. Haigao is a port town, and most of the people who come and go are merchants with thousands of dollars and knights who go to the rivers and lakes, both of whom are willing to spend money, so although the town is small, there are rows of teahouses and restaurants on the streets, as well as flower boats docked on the shore, and the scale is comparable to the Goolan Street in Hezhou Mansion.
Every inch of land in the town is expensive, Yan got up and went to an inn, and the shopkeeper with gold teeth asked for twenty taels of accommodation fees, not counting food.
Yan Qi was hesitating, but saw an extremely well-dressed young man holding a pretty woman, throwing out a large ingot of gold, patting the table and saying, "Come to the two upper rooms." ”
The shopkeeper's eyes smiled into a line, and the guest officer waited, and then called a clever boy to clean up the room for the young man. The young man pinched the woman's body and said with a lewd smile: "The beauty will accompany my son to drink some wine first?"
The woman's watery eyes were rippling with spring, and she twisted her waist that could be held with one hand and said coquettishly: "The son is good or bad, and he still wants to get drunk." ”
The young man kneaded the woman's body and walked upstairs with his legs raised, looking in a hurry. I didn't want to have someone standing next to me, I was tripped and stumbled, and then I said angrily: "Which one doesn't have long eyes?"
Yan Qi and the young man glanced at each other, and both of them exclaimed in unison: "It's you!?" This young man was Chen Yangzheng, a native of Nanzhong who entered Zhongshan in the same batch as Yan Qi.
Yan raised his eyes and moved towards the woman in Chen Yangzheng's arms, and said, "Brother Chen, although Zhongshan has established the door rules, you are so rampant, if the old guys in the door know, you will be punished." ”
"Don't mention it. Chen Yangzheng slapped the woman's buttocks fiercely, told her to go upstairs and wait first, and then pulled Yan Qi and said, "I didn't expect to meet an old friend in this place, Brother Yan, why don't you sit down and have a drink?"
Yan Qi had nothing to do, the two of them found a private room, called for good wine and side dishes, Chen Yangzheng drank a few glasses of wine, and said with a red face: "Brother Yan is proud of the spring breeze in Zhongshan, to be honest, the younger brother is very jealous." At that moment, he told what happened to Yan Qi in the days when he was not in Zhongshan.
It turned out that the Chen family in Nanzhong was not only a martial arts family, but also a business of reselling armor. Although the Southern Xia Imperial Court expressly forbade the private sale of military armor, as long as the Chen family hugged the thigh of the Zhongshan faction and transported a whole boatload of snowflake silver to Zhongshan every year, the Southern Xia Imperial Court had no choice but to turn a blind eye.
Chen Yangzheng was born in the Chen family, which is rich and rivals the country, and he didn't raise much righteousness, but the young master's temper was born and acquired. After arriving in Zhongshan, one was not accustomed to simple and arduous practice, and the other couldn't stand being left out because of his lack of outstanding qualifications, so he pondered and simply dropped his face and resigned as a disciple of Zhongshan, and went home to continue to be the young master of the flying eagle lackey.
Yan Qi agreed: "How good it is to be an Anle son, there is nothing to tease and tease the big and small maids in the family, and then there is nothing to run on the street to sprinkle silver tickets all over the place, why didn't Brother Chen think of coming to Zhongshan in the first place?"
At the mention of this, Chen Yangzheng sighed and said with a bitter face: "It's not that the elders in the family are restless, don't talk about these troubles, drink!"
Yan Qi didn't mention it anymore, and drank bitterly with the master who could use the silver ticket as window paper. After three rounds of drinking, Chen Yangzheng suddenly patted his head and said, "It just so happens that Brother Yan may be able to help the younger brother." ”
Without waiting for Yan Qi's questioning gaze, Chen Yangzheng continued: "The younger brother went out this time, firstly, to annoy the old man at home to make noise in his ears all day long, and secondly, to accompany his cousin to Luyang Mansion. But the younger brother's cousin was a martial arts idiot, but whenever he met someone with a weapon in his hand on the street, he had to compete, and the journey of several days was delayed for several weeks. Not to mention that this kid didn't know the severity of his shot, and he hurt a lot of men who walked the rivers and lakes along the way, but the little brother brought enough silver tickets on this trip, so he didn't make much trouble. ”
"Luyang Mansion, coincidentally, brother, I happen to be going to Luyang for a visit. I don't know what Brother Chen is going to Luyang Mansion for?" Yan Qi asked.
Chen Yangzheng said with a smile: "That's really a coincidence, Brother Yan will help find my cousin first, and we'll talk about other things." ”
Eating other people's food and having a short mouth, Yan Qi followed Chen Yangzheng to the streets of Haigao Town, and arrived in front of the only martial arts hall in the town.
"Your cousin is in there?"
"Well, I'll be in there after breakfast. Chen Yangzheng looked up at the sky, the sun was hanging in the right, and he had been fighting all morning, so don't make trouble.
Stepping in, the martial arts hall was in a mess. Among the dozens of people sitting and lying down, some tied their wounds with bandages, some collapsed on the ground and wailed, and so on. The two confronted each other in the middle, one old and one young, the old one should be the old director of the martial arts hall, and the younger one should be Chen Yangzheng's cousin.
The old curator is fifty-six this year, and he is easy to cultivate, but his spirit is not as good as a year. He had just seen the methods of the young man in front of him, this guy of unknown origin was very tricky, his two hands were always behind his back, and he only used the long knife in his mouth to pick off more than ten disciples in the martial arts hall in a row, even his most proud big apprentice could not force out this person's hands.
The old curator, who was worried about not being able to step down, saw two people walking in at the door, and one of the young men who looked a little similar to this person shouted: "Brother Zhao, you are so bold, it's just a martial arts competition, why do you not know the importance of it?"
The old curator breathed a sigh of relief, his face was still calm, and he was about to say a word or two, when he saw someone coming over and passing over a few silver tickets and stuffing them into his arms.
A denomination of 10,000 taels...... The old curator was dazzled, and after seeing the numbers on the silver ticket, he coughed and said, "What advice does this brother have?"
"Hey, the old-timers don't know, my brother was born with a bad brain, he can only dance with guns and sticks, and read it for the sake of people who are also martial arts practitioners, and the old-timers have a lot, so don't worry about my brother. Chen Yangzheng had money to open the way, and the old curator stopped pestering after saying a few words.
"Don't go back yet!" Chen Yangzheng was pulling his cousin's placket, but the other party didn't move.
"Look at the door, my brother has found you a master. ”
Only then did his cousin spit out the long knife in his mouth, "Master?"
Chen Yangzheng gave a thumbs up, "Is it not the head disciple of Zhong Shan, Ling Yun is on the list." ”