Chapter 43 The Plum Garden Changes

As the boat gradually approached Suzhou Jinshan, they chose a pier close to the outskirts of the city, from which they could go directly to the canal pier. They instructed the boatmen to wait for them at the canal docks.

Zhao Cheng took the token of the Twelve Docks and dumped the goods onto a large ship in the Twelve Docks, and then left the canal dock.

Wang Shan thought so, since he didn't want it, it was better to give it to the Twelve Lianhuanwu to be a favor.

Wang Shan walked slowly towards the city, and Xiao Ruoshui and the princess slowly followed. Along the way, I met a lot of martial arts people, and from their words, I knew that Lu Dao was going to the plum garden. Wang Shan muttered a little in his heart, and decided not to go to the plum garden for the time being, and to meet Zhao Cheng first.

They slowly came to the canal pier, and Zhao Cheng looked at them with a serious face.

Wang Shan said: "What's the matter, have you found any news?"

Zhao Cheng dragged the three of them into a private room of a teahouse, and when Xiao Er served tea, he stood up and closed the door. I looked left and right. He smiled bitterly and said, "All the martial arts masters from all over the world have gathered in Suzhou, and Meiyuan is the object of focus." We don't have a way to go to the plum garden openly. ”

When Wang Shan heard this, he understood in his heart the purpose of the martial arts people going to the plum garden just now. Just wait for them to take the bait. Wang Shan thought about it carefully, how to enter the plum garden is a problem.

He looked up at the princess and looked at her carefully, and the princess was a little embarrassed to look at her, and lowered her head with a blushing face. Xiao Ruoshui said to Wang Shan: "Big brother, why are you still looking at other girls' girls at this time, others are embarrassed to look at them." ”

Wang Shan laughed and said, "You misunderstood, I am looking to see if the princess has any special signs, and now we can only negotiate with the people of the Plum Garden from these places, otherwise we will not be able to enter the Plum Garden at all." ”

The princess and Xiao Ruoshui laughed, and the princess took a piece of jade from her neck, handed it to Wang Shan, and said, "There are two pieces of this jade, one is in the hands of my father and one is in my hands. When my father sent me to the palace, he said that when these two pieces of jade meet, it is the time when our father and daughter are reunited. ”

Wang Shan took the jade, which is a half of a dragon, which is carved from mutton fat white jade under Kunlun Mountain, wrapped in gold, inlaid with jade, and the carving is crystal clear and vivid. Obviously, this is a priceless treasure, and the dragon pattern is also exclusive to the royal family, which is difficult for the people to see.

Wang Shan said: "Tonight I will take the jade to visit the Plum Garden. Rest at the inn and wait for me to come back to the plum garden. ”

Wang Shan took them to stay in the largest hotel in Suzhou, the hotel was very comfortable, and they waited for Wang Shan to come back in the room.

Wang Shan sat in a sedan chair and slowly walked towards the plum garden, looking at the scenery along the way. The sedan chair is not a fully enclosed sedan chair, it is the kind of thing with two bamboo poles plus a chair and a shade, also called a sliding pole sedan chair. Now that it's hot, few people make closed sedan chairs, most of them are sliding pole sedan chairs, which are cool. He was dressed as a gentleman and stopped at the plum garden. He shouted loudly and knocked on the gate of the plum garden.

The door opened a crack, and I saw this oily-haired, sweary-mouthed boy, with a look of disgust, and asked, "This son, is there anything wrong with you?"

Wang Shan shook his fan and said to his family: "I came to meet your master, and by the way, I will enjoy your garden." Wang Shan held the jade in his hand, hidden behind the fan and could only be seen by the family, and kept shaking it in front of him, but the people outside couldn't see it at all.

When the family saw the jade ornament, his face did not change at all, and he said, "Childe, I'll let you go in and watch, and you can give me some benefits." ”

Wang Shan smiled and said, "Give you twenty copper coins and let me go in and look at it for a while." ”

The family said, "Okay, you must follow me." As he spoke, he walked into the plum garden with Wang Shan. The door was closed. The plum garden is very large, it is a famous garden in Suzhou, and the flowers and trees in it are very freehand. It has always been a place for Suzhou dignitaries to enjoy the flowers. Ordinary people don't have the opportunity to go.

The family turned around three times and two times, and disappeared in front of the eyes of the people who were monitoring Wang Shan outside.

Wang Shan was taken to the living room, and the family asked Wang Shan to sit down and get a cup of tea. Then he said, "I'll go and ask the master." ”

Wang Shan drank a cup of tea, and the family came over in a hurry with the master, who was tall, and at a glance knew that Lu Dao was born in martial arts, and hurriedly said, "Where is the princess?"

Wang Shan was not in a hurry, put down the teacup, and raised the jade ornament. The master laughed and said, "I'm in a hurry, I forgot." After speaking, he took out the jade ornament from his bosom. Wang Shan took the jade ornament and put it together. The two are seamless, and they are one and the same.

Wang Shan parted the jade ornament and handed it to the master. Only then did he say: "The princess is safe now, you can decide when to send it to the plum garden." ”

The master sat down and said, "Originally, we were supposed to receive the plum garden, but now the situation has changed, the plum garden has been surrounded, and we are no longer safe here." Duanwang meant to send us to the Duanwang Mansion in Jinzhou. You can't send it to the plum garden now, we have to go to Shen Village. From there, he went to the sea to Zhuo County, and then walked along the Great Wall to Jinzhou. I know that this is not very fair to you, your task is only to send the young lady to the plum garden, but now I have to trouble you, tonight please please send the princess to the Yangtze River Fuhua Wharf, where there will be a boat waiting there, this is a token of boarding, we will see you at Fuhua Wharf in the evening. ”

The master said with a pleading face.

Wang Shan stared at him for a long time and nodded helplessly. I also had a helpless face in my heart. But for the sake of the princess's safety, he couldn't think of a better way, so he had to nod and agree.

When he arrived at the inn, he told the situation in detail, Zhao Cheng and Xiao Ruoshui didn't say anything, but the princess had a little dark face, and she didn't know what she was talking about.

At dusk, when it was dark, Wang Shan took the three of them to Fuhua Wharf, a big boat on the wharf was waiting there, Wang Shan took out the token, and took the princess to board the boat, the boat was very large, there were many rooms, and the princess hid as soon as she entered the room, not wanting to see people. Wang Shan and Xiao Ruoshui, Zhao Cheng didn't even say goodbye, and they were locked out of the princess.

Wang Shan, Xiao Ruoshui, and Zhao Cheng waited for the arrival of the owner of the plum garden, and according to the boatman, he drove the boat as soon as he came.

Wang Shan, Xiao Ruoshui, and Zhao Cheng got off the boat and waited slowly on the dock, looking at the direction of Meiyuan, the anchor had been pulled up, and the cable tied to the boat was not untied, and the people from Meiyuan could set off as soon as they came.

Wang Shan looked at the direction of the plum garden, he, Zhao Cheng, and Xiao Ruoshui sat in front of the snack stall on the dock, and asked for a little beef, peanuts, and pig tongue, pig head meat, and two pots of rice wine. Drink slowly. A wisp of green smoke rose up, and gradually the smoke grew larger, and after a while it turned red to the sky.

Wang Shan's face was grim, and he said, "Something happened to Meiyuan." ”

Xiao Ruoshui and Zhao Cheng looked in the direction of the plum garden, only to see that the fire was getting bigger and bigger.

Wang Shan said, "Let's get on the boat, you two protect the princess, and I will guard the cable, and tell the boatman to hoist the sails and prepare to set off." ”

Wang Shan found an axe from the cabin in his hand, stood in front of the cable, and waited for the people of the plum garden to arrive, he was about to stomp off the cable and set off.

Not long after, I saw the owner of the plum garden galloping on a horse with a few family members, covered in blood, and there were already many people chasing them behind him.

The family behind the owner of the plum garden turned the horse sideways and said loudly: "You go first, adults, we will break off." As he spoke, he rushed straight into the crowd. The sheep entered the tiger's mouth, and saw that everyone could come out alive, but they delayed the pursuing crowd.

The owner of the plum garden had several arrows stuck in his body, covered in blood, and rode towards the boat like a horse, and when he reached the side of the boat, he felt a lightness on his body, and left the horse's back, and he saw Wang Shan pick up the cable and pull him from the horse's back to the boat, and at the same time, the boat flew down. Left Suzhou. When the owner of the plum garden fell in the air, Wang Shan caught him, stretched out his hand and pointed at several acupoints on his body, stopping the bleeding. Carried him to the cabin, put him on the bed, slowly untied his clothes, took out hemostatic medicine, a knife, roasted it on the fire, pulled out the arrows one by one, carefully wiped off the bloodstains, applied hemostatic medicine, and bandaged it. Then he said to him, "Have a good rest, and then talk about it when you get to Shen Village." He looked back at Xiao Ruoshui and Zhao Cheng and said, "Let's talk about it when we get to Shen Village." Protect them first. ”

Zhao Cheng and Xiao Ruoshui nodded, what else could they say? It seems that Murong Yan knows these three people very well and understands their personalities, so they can be mobilized by people thousands of miles away. The actual character of the three people is the most believed in the rivers and lakes, a promise of a thousand gold, hoeing the strong and helping the weak, chivalrous and courageous, this is the spirit of thousands of years of rivers and lakes can be long-lasting.