Wanzhou, the last important town in the Yangtze River basin in the Celestial Empire, and then west to the Tufan country, Wanzhou is built according to the river, the wharf on the river bank is lined up with female embankments, large and small ships such as the carp crossing the river, here is the transit station of waterway freight, there are many merchants from here to receive goods and then take the Jiannan Road at the junction with the Tufan country by land, go straight to Lanzhou, pick up the Silk Road and sell it abroad, there are also smuggling merchants of Tufan to transport the goods here to sell, and then hit the goods along the Yangtze River upstream and return to the Tufan country to trade, The unique geographical advantages make Wanzhou unprecedentedly prosperous, here is no longer the atmosphere of the north, all kinds of architectural customs are more biased towards the rich Jiangnan, the pedestrians on the street are more beautiful and exquisite than the north, the stores are densely packed, the pedestrians are bustling, so lively.

A seven or eight-year-old child in the crowd led a black horse, walking alone on the street, looking left and right from time to time, the clothes on his body had been torn in many places, the hem of the outer blouse had become a strip of cloth, his hair was messy, and he could see a few thatches inserted on it, and his face was stained with a lot of black mud, but his eyes were still bright, showing coldness and stubbornness. Xiao Wu learned from Xiao Wu's mouth that he was not wanted before he dared to enter the city to rest, and there were many people in the city, which killers would also have scruples.

Wu Xiao didn't eat a grain of rice for a day and a night, and he was hungry in his stomach, but the silver two didn't know when he was lost, he was penniless, the dry food had already been eaten, and even the soybeans were fed to the black horse, and the hot bun incense of a bun stall on the side of the road reached Wu Xiao's nose, and he suddenly felt even more hungry, Wu Xiao looked at it, untied his bow and arrow, and walked to the front of the bun stall, at this time there were two or three people buying in front of the bun stall, Wu Xiao struggled for a long time before he spoke: "Boss, can you use this bow to exchange a few buns for me to eat", which boss was busy, and said angrily: "Go, go, which child is running here to make trouble, who wants your broken bow", Wu Xiao hung his head with a dejected face, swallowed his saliva and was about to walk away, a white and tender hand holding three hot buns stretched out in front of him, "Take it and eat it" Who said, Wu Xiao looked up and found that it was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl wearing a red dress, which was a very warm face, smiling shallowly, Wu Xiao immediately took the bun, where to stand and eat, he was so hungry, he ate it quickly, when he was eating the buns, The maiden also plucked some of the thatch from his head.

"Which family are you from, why are you here alone, mother?" The girl squatted down and looked at Wu Xiao's face and asked, Wu Xiao lowered his head with the last bite of food, he swallowed it forcefully, he didn't want to cry but when he heard the girl ask, the tears still slowly seeped out, and the eye frame swirled, he bit his lip and didn't say a word, although his body was trembling slightly, but in the end the tears did not fall, the girl sighed, looking at the delicate and stubborn little face of this little boy, the softest place in the girl's heart seemed to be pricked by a needle.

"Do you have a place to go?", Wu Xiao raised her head and looked at her and shook her head, and immediately nodded again, the girl looked confused, not knowing what this child meant. I'm going to Jiangnan" Wu Xiao said.The girl breathed a sigh of relief, "You're alone?", "Yes"

"I'm going back to Jiangnan in a while, or I'll take you there."

Wu Xiao was silent for a while and shook his head and said, "No, I'll go by myself".

The girl looked at Wu Xiao seriously for a while and said, "Okay", and then took out a silver ingot and stuffed it to him, "Save some flowers, it should be able to support some days"

"Thank you" Wu Xiao looked directly at the girl's eyes, her eyes were full of sincerity, the girl patted him on the shoulder, straddled a skin bag on the side, stood up, turned around and left.Wu Xiao kept looking at the corner where the girl's figure disappeared, before leading the black horse away, Wu Xiao knew that someone was chasing him, he couldn't involve such a good person.

Wu Xiao purchased some of the cheapest dry food, and then found a place to feed the horse, when he bought dry food, he found that there were two tails in the back, he deliberately stopped to check a stall on the side of the road, and sure enough, the two people behind also stopped, for fear that he would find out, hidden behind a pillar, but this is even more obvious.

There is still some distance from the city to the dock, Wu Xiao's worries are also born, when he ran to an alley with few people, he was blocked in the middle, there were four or five people standing at the mouth of the alley at both ends, Wu Xiaoqing had a bow in his hand, and three arrows shot at the enemy in front of him, and at the same time hit the horse forward, jumped up when the enemy dodged the arrows, jumped up and jumped over the encirclement and rushed into another alley, but as soon as the horse's hooves hit the ground, Wu Xiao felt two cone pains in his back, it was estimated that he was hit by the enemy's two hidden weapons, he grabbed the copper ring on the saddle hard, Fortunately, he didn't fall, there was a dock in front of him, where there were many people, the only thing Wu Xiao could count on was that these people didn't dare to kill people blatantly.

Wu Xiao tried his best to control the black horse to run towards the yard bucket, and from a distance, a black horse rushed out of the alley, rushing to the dock in a frenzy, the workers on both sides were brought down a lot, many goods were knocked over to the ground, followed by a group of fierce ruffians and hooligans, many people didn't know what was going on, they all looked over here, and the lively bastard shouted: "Hurry up, the back is coming", everyone also saw that the knight on the horse was a child, all for the weak side to help out, and the people who ran the dock were hot-blooded men, It doesn't matter if you really dare to help others out, help a field or dare.

Wu Xiao's mind was a little blurry, his back was bleeding, it had been soaked in the horse's back, he saw in a daze that the road in front of the dock was messy, and he couldn't control the black horse, so he could only rely on the black horse to run." Run this way, run this way", hearing this voice in a daze, like a lightning bolt across his brain, Wu Xiao immediately sobered up, he looked up, and saw a red figure standing on a big ship jumping and waving to himself.

Wu Xiao took the horse's head without force, and the black horse also understood what the master meant, and immediately ran to which big ship, and when he got to the side of the boat, he didn't take the board at all, and jumped directly lightly, and landed on the deck steadily, and then kept holding his hooves.

A few men who ran the boat came around, looking at the girl being busy alone, they all rubbed their hands, but they couldn't help, this swarthy man in his forties squatted down and asked: "Who is this kid, does the redfish girl know him?", the girl raised her head and glanced at the man and said: "I just met on the street, this time I may want to cause trouble for you, I see that the people chasing him are not simple", which middle-aged man said indifferently: "Look at what the redfish girl said, such a few people are not in the eyes of our Qinghe Gang." , On weekdays, the red fish girl is kind to our Qinghe Gang, help this little favor, we are not a problem, the red fish girl must not be polite, we are all rough people, we can't stand this courtesy, hehe", the people on the side echoed, the red fish said: "Okay, I'm not welcome, help me carry him to the cabin", the two of them quickly brought the board and carried Wu Xiao in.

Hongyu skillfully pulled out the two hidden knife knives, checked the color of the wound, the two small eyebrows couldn't help frowning, she turned around and took out a porcelain bottle from the leather bag, poured out some brown powder from it and sprinkled it on Wu Xiao's wound, and then bandaged it. Zeng Asheng looked at the child, out of the cabin, the rough man also has a careful side, Hongyu thought so.

The next day, the red fish sat on the bow of the boat and watched a round of red sun slowly move to the cliffs on both sides of the river into a line of sky, to the moss on the cliffs slowly crossed the gold, from time to time there are birds with the breeze to come, the men on the boat last night to drink, will not wake up so early, only the boat in charge of the noble brother on the sail.

"They will chase after them again," Wu Xiao said

"My name is Hongyu, what's your name" Hongyu stared at Wu Xiao sideways, as if he didn't hear what he said just now, but asked for his name.

"Wu Xiao" he looked at the red fish strangely.

"What are you doing in Gangnam?"

"Go to Wuxi Mountain to find the reins of the stream"

"What are you looking for him" Hongyu looked at Wu Xiao with wide eyes

"I don't know what to do until I find it," Wu Xiao paused before saying.

Hongyu thought for a long time and didn't understand what Wu Xiao meant, so she had to give up, she found that this child was weird, he didn't talk much, but he had his own ideas.

"Turn around, I'll take a look at the wound on your back", Wu Xiao was very cooperative, Hongyu took off his blouse, slowly unwrapped the gauze, two deep wounds were shockingly engraved on Wu Xiao's immature back, Hongyu was a little distressed, but the flesh around the wound had turned red, no longer as black as yesterday, indicating that the poison was almost clear, but it hadn't been made yet, Hongyu quickly ran back to the cabin to get some medicine to help Wu Xiao change the medicine, her movements were very gentle, Wu Xiao didn't feel pain at all, He suddenly had a strange feeling, an ambiguous feeling enveloping him, as if every pore on his body was shrinking. What did you say in the first sentence just now" Hongyu remembered that she didn't hear much of the child's first sentence.Wu Xiao said: "The people who chased and killed me yesterday, they are very likely to chase again, they are very powerful, they can mobilize the soldiers and horses of the state capital"