Chapter 7: The Mysterious Ship
The round-capped carriage that hijacked the two young women circled around the labyrinthine streets of Luoyan City, but it only confused the eyes and ears of passers-by, but it never escaped the tracking of the young man in Tsing Yi who was carrying a burden on the roof.
Standing on a high place and overlooking the scene below, people often have a superiority of being a head of the way, just like the Tsing Yi boy on the roof, sometimes he even stops altogether, waiting for the carriage to think he is clever, bypassing the streets and alleys, and finally driving back onto the street where the Tsing Yi boy has been waiting for a long time, and then he follows without hurry.
In this way, one can conclude that he is deliberately following the carriage, which is what people often say: "Follow the vine and touch the melon!"
At this time, the cool evening breeze told the city of Luoyan that the night was falling, and there were already rows of geese flying overhead, flying from a distant place all the way to the lake, and they had long regarded this place as their home, and they would fly back in autumn and winter, no matter where they were. Just like people who are wandering outside, when it comes to the cold winter wax moon, they miss their hometown, their relatives, and their elderly parents!
Night finally came, the lights of the Falling Wild Goose City turned on one after another, and the remnant sun in the western sky was as dark as blood, desolate and silent; however, the mournful cry of the wild geese passing in the sky seemed to announce the aftermath of the impending death knell, which added a touch of unsolvable sorrow to the lonely night!
Such a city of abundant treasures has the glorious side of the rich and beautiful world, but also has a bleak corner of hunger and cold; just like a beggar, it is a sad failure that exists in any city to varying degrees. It's like a wart on a beauty's face, looking at it and worrying about it, ripping out the pain, and touching the cold!
The Baile Bridge is the only way to get in and out of Luoyan City, and the wise beggar always knows this - it is better to sit and wait than to come to the door to complain. Therefore, this Baile Bridge has become the best place for many wise beggars to sit and wait for the visitors to give alms.
Seeing that it was getting late, most of the beggars went early to find their place to stay tonight. Only an old beggar in a broken straw hat and a dirty and dirty ragged shirt still waited at the head of the bridge, and he took a stick and a basin, and leaned pitifully against the white stone railing of the Baile Bridge, desolate and full of confidence, waiting for the zealous benefactor of the past!
Sometimes, he would also make a shuddering appeal or two, which made passers-by listen to it and be filled with grief and indignation.
"Auntie and uncle, all right, I haven't eaten or drunk for three days, and I'm dying......" The desolate cry of cry was often not impressed, and the rock-solid hearts of those who had walked through it, but on the contrary, the hungry dogs, who had no humanity, wanted to impulsively throw him the only bone they had worked so hard to find all day and gnaw, as a way to comfort their own pity.
At that moment an old woman heard the beggar's cry, and he stood still and turned back to him.
"Wait a minute, I'll buy you a roast duck!"
The old woman was gone, and the beggar was moved, so that his cry became a sweet song of thanksgiving!
"Thank you! The heavens have eyes! Good people are everywhere in this world? As long as you beg, you have everything! Good people......
At that moment the wagon carrying the two girls flew past, and even the stick that had left him on the ground snapped and broke the whirling wheels.
The old beggar immediately scolded.
"Dog things, what are you rampant, when Lao Tzu was in the carriage, you were still asking for food at the bridge! A dog thing that doesn't have long eyes, learn from the old lady of the family, the bodhisattva's heart, and later people will buy a roast duck for me, see if you are ashamed to ride in the carriage, ashamed!"
At this moment, another man in Tsing Yi ran across the bridge with a brisk walk, and with a loud sound, threw a round ball of paper into his broken bowl;
"Wagon!"
Immediately, the old beggar got up in one fell swoop, took the broken bowl and the crushed stick, and ran after the man in front of him, and his speed was as swift as a meteor cutting through the sky.
After a while, the old woman bought the roast duck and walked back, but the old beggar was gone, and the old woman was very sad, thinking that her love was too slow to make the beggar disappointed!
At this time, the sky completely sank into the vastness of the night, the road was empty, and the carriage quickly used the south gate of Luoyan City, and rushed forward along the dirt road where Wu Shuang went to duel with the "Flower Protector Nanping" that day.
In the hazy twilight, the road was clearly visible, and the walls and trees along the way slipped quickly behind the car, and the night was like a monster with a huge black mouth open, devouring sin, and at the same time devouring goodness and all that was good.
Therefore, the coming of the night is the beginning of destruction, because in the darkness all sin becomes justified, so that the true righteousness becomes the slave and the object of the ravages of all evil.
At this moment, the horse-drawn carriage, which was jolting in the dark, drove past the maple forest, broke away from the villages along the way, and rushed along the shore of the lake like a streamer.
At this moment, the night and the lake are blended, the sky and the earth are mixed, only under the wheels of the carriage, there is a night road that does not know what to do!
The carriage went on, and the sound of the sparkling wheels seemed to be the cry of the night, and like the wailing of the wind! It made people worry and fear, and perhaps most feared was the pair of beautiful and flawless sisters in the carriage at this moment! They were a pair of finches caught by eagles, looking at the sorrow of fate, but there was no way to mourn!
In addition, there is only the boundless night breeze and the three or two mournful geese that come from time to time!
At this moment, there was a little fishing fire on the lake, it was a large merchant ship, the hull of which was covered with a black pong, as if the devil was wearing a crane, crouching on the shore, and launching a terrible attack on the passers-by at any time. The sporadic fishing fires were shining from the letter lamp hanging from the mast of this dark canopy boat.
So the carriage went faster, like a devil, excited to see a dead body!
After a while, the carriage had stopped on the shore where the merchant ship was docked, and the man in black in the carriage quickly twisted the two hijacked sisters out of the carriage.
"Honestly, if you don't obey, we'll take off your pants and throw them into the lake to feed the fish!" Obviously, the girls must be struggling for the other to say this.
"What are you doing with my sisters here?" asked one of the girls angrily.
"What are you doing!" said a grim voice with a wicked smile, "Take you to eat and drink spicy food!"
After a while, several men in black violently escorted the two hostage sisters onto the merchant ship.
At this time, I only heard a voice from the ship ask.
"Are those two?"
"There will be no mistake! Why don't you let Hu Gongzi confirm it?"
"No need, bring them in!"
So the two girls were escorted into the cabin.