Zhang Lingyu and Hao Yan left Hao Mei's grave, and in the evening they came to Xuyi County, found a Gaosheng inn to live in, asked for an upper room to stay in the name of husband and wife, and asked Xiao Er to deliver the food to the guest room after checking in, and the two ate in the guest room. Lingyu said while eating: "Sister Yan, I see that your poison has not been exhausted, and you will not be able to recover your strength for a while, and you can't always carry you on the road, I think that the carriage is too bumpy, and your body is too weak to ride a horse, I think about it, I feel that the boat ride is the most stable, I heard that from the Huai River to Hongze Lake, you can enter the Grand Canal and go north to Beijing, and there are a few friends waiting for me there after Shandong." Hao Yan said: "Big brother, are your friends male or female. Lingyu said: "There are men and women. Hao Yan said: "They must all be beauties, and there is also a Hong girl who catches flower thieves with you, who is not only beautiful, but also famous in the rivers and lakes." Lingyu said: "You all have your own merits, there is nothing to compare, Yanmei, you see whether you take a car or a boat." Hao Yan smiled and said: "My sister listened to the eldest brother's arrangement, and the eldest brother just left me behind, and my sister didn't complain." ’

Zhang Lingyu said: "Don't think nonsense, you said that you gave it to me, how can I be willing to leave you behind, you want me to abandon it from the beginning." Hao Yan said: "I didn't mean that, I just didn't want to drag down the eldest brother." Lingyu said: "Sister Yan, if you say something outside, are you afraid that my three wives and four concubines will not be able to tolerate you, so you are so unconfident." Hao Yan smiled: "Big brother is joking again, I believe you don't have three wives and four concubines, but I guess you have a few confidantes, and all of them are better than me." Lingyu smiled: "I don't dare to say that they are all better than you, they do have their own strengths, but they are all open-minded girls." Don't worry, they'll treat you as a good sister. Hao Yanjiao smiled: "When they want to bully my eldest brother, you have to call the shots for me." Lingyu smiled, "Of course." It's up to you. Hao Yanjiao smiled: "Big brother, this is what you said, and you are not allowed to go back." Lingyu said: "Ride a donkey and read the record book, let's see." ’

Zhang Lingyu and Hao Yan finished dinner. Hao Yan said: "Big brother, I want to take a bath. Lingyu said: "What's so difficult about this, I'll immediately ask the shopkeeper to boil some hot water." Hao Yan said: "It's okay to have cool water on such a hot day." Lingyu said: "No, you still have residual poison in your body and your body is weak, not to mention that I have to use hot water to force out the residual poison in your body." Hao Yan said: "Then listen to the eldest brother." ’

Zhang Lingyu shouted to the outside: "Xiao Er, you come in." Outside the door, a shopkeeper walked in, and said, "What do you want from the guest officer?" Lingyu said: "Do you have a bathing place in this inn?" Xiao Er said: "Yes, there is a special bathing room with large buckets and small buckets, hot and cold water as you choose." But the same goods are at one price. Lingyu said: "Money is not a problem, you prepare a big bucket of hot water for me and take a bath immediately." Xiao Er said: "Haode, I'll do it right away." After that, he cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and took them away.

After a while, the little two came back and said, "Childe, the hot water has been boiled, you can go over and wash it now." Lingyu said: "Got it, Xiao Er, I'll ask you about something." Xiao Er said: "Childe, please say it, as long as I know it, I will definitely tell you." Lingyu said: "May I ask how to go to the capital by water." Xiao Erdao: "You can go to the Huaihe Wharf to get on the boat, cross Hongze Lake to Huaiyin Mansion and enter the Grand Canal, and walk south to Hangzhou." If you go north, you can get to the capital. Lingyu said, "Please go and hire me a boat, and I'll leave tomorrow." After speaking, he took out a tael of silver and gave it to Xiao Er: "Little second brother." This is your errand fee, and you negotiate the price with the boatman. Xiao Er took the silver and was full of joy, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Childe, I promise to hire you well." Then he left.

Zhang Lingyu and Hao Yan came to the bathhouse, and saw a middle-aged woman taking care of it, filling hot water into a large round wooden barrel. Lingyu saw that it was already half a bucket and said, "This big bucket is fine, and then put the small bucket into half a bucket." The woman said, 'Haode, I'll go fetch hot water.' ’

When the woman had beaten the water, Lingyu took out a tael of silver and gave it to the woman, saying, 'We will take our clothes and wash them later.' The woman smiled and took the money, and said yes, and went away. Lingyu said: "Sister Yan, I'll go out, and you will call me when you go into the water." Hao Yan said: "Haode." Lingyu walked out of the bathhouse and closed the door, and after a while, Hao Yan shouted, "Big brother, I've gone into the water." Lingyu opened the door and walked in, startled him as soon as he entered the door, hurriedly closed the door and squatted Hao Yan in the water with a wave of his hand. Lingyu smiled: "You little fool, I told you to go down into the water but didn't call to stand in the water. Hao Meijiao smiled: "But the eldest brother didn't tell me to squat in the water, besides, my body has already been seen by you, what else is there to hide." Lingyu smiled: "I can't tell you, you are reasonable." Hao Yanjiao smiled: "Originally, it was." ’

Lingyu smiled: "Don't talk about that, you sit cross-legged and see if the water can fill your mouth." Hao Yan sat down and the water was over her nose, and she squatted up busily. Lingyu took a small wooden basin and scooped some water out and said, "Sit down again and try it." Hao Yan sat down cross-legged again, the water was just under her mouth, Lingyu asked her to stretch out her two palms and face each other, Hao Yan closed her eyes slightly and adjusted her luck. Lingyu infused the qi of yin and yang harmony into Hao Yan's body, and took her own poisonous and weak qi to run in the eight meridians and fourteen meridians of the Qi meridian and the second vein of Rendu, gradually making it stronger, and slowly expelling the residual poison of the exhaust gas from the body.

Lingyu said, "Sister Yan, you come out and clean it in the small bucket." As he spoke, he pointed to a set of clothes on the table next to him and said, "Let's put on my clean clothes first." With that, he walked out of the bathroom and closed the door. Hao Yan stood up in the bucket and looked down at the turbid water, and thought to herself: "Could it be that this is all the toxins and dirty gas in my body, the eldest brother is really a strange person, proficient in everything." She stepped out of the big wooden barrel and washed it in the small wooden barrel, and then came up and put on the white silk shirt of Lingyu. She took a deep breath and felt refreshed, and her breath was smooth, but there was only one layer of skill left, which had to be recovered slowly. Now walking is not a problem, not with people on their backs, long distances are still not possible.

Lingyu walked out of the bath, went to find the boat's Xiao Er, and greeted him: "Son, the boat has been found, but the boatman is only willing to send it to Huaiyin Mansion, and does not want to go to Shandong, saying that it is too far, and he wants ten taels of silver for the boat fare, and he will pay the silver tonight." Lingyu took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Xiao Erdao: "You give the silver to the boatman first, and then find the boat in Huaiyin." (To be continued......)