Chapter Fifty-Eight: Parting Outside the City (I)
Dugu Jian said to the two: "Then I will thank you very much." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIf there is a life situation, please have someone send the news to you...... Send it to ......" Li Yao saw that he hadn't thought about it yet, so he said: "Just send it to us in Mengcheng, and then I will send someone to inform Brother Yu Dugu, how about it?" Dugu Jian nodded: "It's okay, it's decided, and I'll send it to you." Third brother, I thank you here in advance. As he spoke, Dugu Jian hugged his fists and thanked him. Zhang Jinyan hurriedly dodged to the side, supported him with both hands and said, "Big brother, don't do this, the little brother can't afford it, this can be tormenting the little brother." ”
The words of the three of them made Wan Yan Yong forget the words of Fang Cai Wu Liji, and he was now thinking about how to return to Shangjing safely, and how to find Dugu Yun's body.
A group of people talked here again, and explained everything to each other. Zhang Jinyan said first: "Two brothers, it's not too early, and the younger brother will take the lead with my family master." ”
Dugu Jian and Xu Tianchang nodded, and said in unison: "Third brother, take care!" Zhang Jinyan also replied: "Two brothers also take care, we will have a period later!" With that, he got into the carriage with Wan Yanyong and drove to the northeast.
Looking at the carriage that was moving away, Dugu Jian said to Zhang Linxin: "Lin'er, we should also go." Zhang Linxin looked at everyone and nodded, "Well, okay, let's go too." ”
Dugu Jian asked Xu Tianchang, "Second brother, are you going to wait here for the horse team to come over?" Xu Tianchang turned his head to look at Li Yao, Li Yao knew that he was asking himself, so he looked at Uncle Wan again. Uncle Wan saw that everyone was looking at him, so he replied: "Miss, in my opinion, we still go to meet them, these five hundred and fifty horses, plus the horses we rode before, there are almost six hundred, and I can't see anything on the grassland, but after naturalization, I can enter the boundary of Hebei, which is the world of the Jin people, and such a large group of horses is easy to attract attention." ”
Li Yao frowned lightly and asked, "Uncle Wan, it seems that we thought too simple at that time. Now that I think about it, no matter where we go back, we have to pass through Hedong and Hebei, which are all the boundaries of the Jin people, with such a large group of horses, not as good as the convoy, after all, it is still very eye-catching. ”
Uncle Wan replied: "Miss, I have thought about this situation in the past few days, and after we meet with the horse team, we will divide the people and horses into ten teams, twelve or thirteen people in each team, and take fifty or sixty horses to go separately, so that the target will be much smaller, even if it is seen, it is easy to say, and it is not easy to arouse the suspicion of the Jin people." Besides, even if something goes wrong, you don't lose all the horses. As long as we wait for the Yellow River and arrive in the Yingtianfu area, which is basically our place, everyone will be together again, and it will be much safer. ”
Hearing Uncle Wan's method, everyone thought it was very good, Li Yao nodded and said, "Okay, just do what you said Uncle Wan, but I don't know where they are now?"
Wu Liji thought about it for a moment and said: "This time you are all good horses, the speed and endurance are very good, and now they should be more than a hundred miles away from here." ”
Xu Tianchang and Li Yao listened, turned to look at Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin, Li Yao said: "Brother Dugu, Sister Lin'er, then let's say goodbye, when you are done, please go to Mengcheng to talk about it." ”
Dugu Jian arched his hand and said: "Okay, we will definitely go to visit at that time! I still want to meet Brother Yan again, I want to thank him for his gift of the sword." ”
Li Yao said with a smile: "Okay, then we will sweep the couch in Mengcheng to greet each other." Brother Dugu and Sister Lin'er, let's say goodbye, there will be a date later!" she and Xu Tianchang clasped their fists and bowed to Jian Xin.
Kenshin and Kenshin also clasped their fists and replied, "Okay, there will be a date later!" After speaking, the two sides turned over their horses and went to the south and north respectively.
For the time being, Xu Tianchang, Li Yao and others went north to meet with the horse team, and did not mention anything, only said that Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin were two people, they rode horses around Guihua City, passed through Yi County along the way, passed through Zhending, and did not stop when they arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, but just hastily bought some food, let the horses rest for a while, and then continued to hurry.
The two of them were like arrows, anxious to rush to the Shaolin Temple, so they started to rush every day before dawn, and as long as they could see the road clearly at night, they would go forward a little further. Every day, I eat dry food and sleep on the side of the road, so it's not hard. It took them ten days and thousands of miles to finally arrive at Yanjin County on the north bank of the Yellow River, which is one of the three important ferries on the Yellow River. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other eighteen princes met here to form an alliance to fight for Dong, so the princes' men and horses were also called the sour jujube alliance, and the sour jujube became famous.
In the seventh year of Emperor Huizong's reign, the Yellow River crossing was renamed Yanjin to show the importance of this place. When Kenshin and the two came here, it was almost evening, Dugu Jian reined in the horse, looked at the tired girl, and said: "Lin'er, looking at the way the sky will be, it is estimated that we will not be able to cross the Yellow River. I think we can find an inn by the river, rest for the night, and then find a boat to cross the river tomorrow morning, how about it?"
Since Zhang Linxin followed Dugu Jian out of Lin'an, in less than three months, she felt more hardships than she had suffered in the previous nineteen years, but she was also a resolute person, no matter how hard she was, she gritted her teeth and persevered. But in the past ten days, the girl has been walking non-stop, eating and sleeping in the open, which has indeed made the girl very tired, and when she rides on the horse for the past two days, she only feels that her bone frame is about to be torn apart.
And at this moment, when I heard Dugu Jian say that she wanted to rest here for a night, how could the girl not want to? She nodded and said: "It's okay, Brother Dugu, after crossing the Yellow River, it is only a day's journey from Shaolin Temple, if we are faster and cross the river early tomorrow, it is estimated that we should be able to go up the mountain tomorrow night." ”
Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin dismounted, led the horse and said as they walked: "I just don't know if Master Wuxu is in danger now, we came down from Huashan to Hengshan that day, and we were in a hurry along the way, but unfortunately we were still a step late." This time, I was delayed for several days because of my injury, and the closer I got to the Shaolin Temple, the more I felt faintly uneasy in my heart. ”
Zhang Linxin handed the reins of the horse to his left hand, took Dugu Jian's hand and said, "Brother Dugu, I think it should be fine." The people on that list, the Five Colors Sect also started in order, and the Voidless Master was the last. We haven't heard a single rumor about the murder of several senior masters in the past few days, and I believe that Master Wuxu has not been assassinated by the Five Colors Sect, don't worry, it will definitely be fine. ”
Dugu Jian looked at the gradually darkening sky and nodded, "I hope so, I hope we can still have time to meet Master Wuxu and inform him of the matter." ”
The ferries were no longer ferrying, and the captains were carrying baskets of fish and shrimp they had caught in the river, and were smiling and rushing to their homes. The smoke rising from the houses on both sides of the street, and the women at the door shouting for their children to come home for dinner, were a peaceful and peaceful scene.
Kenshin and the others came to an inn not far from the ferry, asked for two rooms, ordered some more dishes, and the two of them ate some hastily, and then went back to their rooms to rest. In the past ten days of travel, even with the efforts of the two of them, they have been very tired. The two of them lay on the bed and soon fell into a deep sleep.
Early in the morning, before dawn, there was a sound of people shouting and neighing outside, waking up the two who were still asleep. They each opened the window of their house and looked out into the street, only to see that two thousand men of the original Jin Bing had arrived from the north, and were collecting boats to cross the river. Now the entire ferry there has been surrounded by golden soldiers, and it seems that if these golden soldiers can't finish crossing the river, I'm afraid that everyone will be difficult to cross the river today.
(To be continued.) )