Jian An Kee

In April in the south of the Yangtze River, the grass grows and the warblers fly, the wind and drizzle, the scenery along the Fuchun River is extremely beautiful, like a long scroll of mountains and rivers, forming a scene within three or five steps, the charming scenery is like a dream.

When we got to the bank, everyone untied their saddles and got out of the boat and crossed to the other bank. I squatted down and swiped the clear river water, and said to the steward beside me: "The scenery here is very beautiful, everyone can take a rest."

I have been submissive since I was on the road for half a month. Manager Yang relaxed his vigilance early in the morning, and saluted after hearing the words: "No," he turned to face the crowd and announced loudly:

"Everyone rest for a quarter of an hour."

The boatman at the ferry unloaded our luggage, and Steward Yang directed the servants to reload the luggage.The maid brought me bread, and I picked up a piece and chewed slowly, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw the boatman rowing the boat to the middle of the river.

Several waiters took the time to gnaw on the dry food, while the rest stood guard at a distance. The waiter was leading the horse to the river to drink water.The bright sun at noon embroidered the brook water into a golden brocade, and the slim figure of a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl was fully revealed under the sun, and the pear-shaped pendant at the end of the belt was stained with sparkling drops of water.

I rolled up my sleeves and walked to the water's edge, and said to the maid who was bailing out the water in the river beach, "Get me a handkerchief, my clothes are dirty, I need to wipe them off."

"Yes, ma'am."

When Steward Yang heard our conversation, he looked around cautiously, but he didn't see anything dangerous, so he took a step back to make way for the little maid.

This side of the ferry is a shoal, and when it transitions to the other side, the water surface gradually changes from clear to dark green with evil intentions.A hundred meters further ahead is a river bend, where the water is rushing and making gurgling noises.

Seeing that Yang Fu's eyes turned away from here, I quickly untied the belt that bound the skirt and robe, took off the soft shoes, and jumped into the river.The upper limit for me to hold the water is 4 minutes. In less than 2 minutes, I had already swam to the side of the ferryboat in the middle of the river and climbed up the board.

The guards who went into the water like plopping dumplings behind them were obviously out of order, and they were vainly fishing for people on the river bank in a daze.At a loss, Yang Fu shouted at the top of his voice, ordering the ferry to dock.

I grabbed the cable by the side of the boat, wiped my wet face, and said to the boatman teasingly, "Young Master Zhao, why don't you pay attention to our supervisor calling you over?"

He stretched out his hand to pull me onto the boat, and covered his face with a wide bamboo hat: "The boat fare he gave is only enough to ferry him once, and there will be no second time."

I shuddered in silent protest at the bad joke.

The calm Boss Zhao ignored the movement of the opposite bank, and skillfully paddled the boat back to the south bank.I squatted on the side of the boat and twisted the hem of my drenched clothes. When I saw the guards coming over, I was a little worried: "They're here, there are only two of us, what should we do?"

He gave me a look of "you clearly know", put his finger on his lips and blew a loud whistle. After that, there was a brush in the woods on the side of the road, and three or four masked men on tall horses came over. Still holding a shining big knife in his hand, he is ready to entertain the "guests".

The two rolled off their horses, and asked me and Zhao Xu to get on the horse

I got on the horse, grabbed the rein and glanced at the people on the south bank for the last time, and heard Zhao Xu's deep voice saying: "Don't worry, my lord, these are good players, and they won't kill anyone."

I was silent for a second, then raised my whip high.

Starting from Shanyin City early in the morning, he walked for three hours to the Fuchun River. After galloping with horses this time, he returned to the eastern outskirts of the city in less than half the time.

Undoubtedly, Zhao Xu is a person who knows everything. When he respectfully invited me to change clothes on the carriage in the forest, he reported in a low voice: Lu Cui has been rescued, and now he is avoiding the limelight in Shouchun City.

I said "tsk" and said, "Your Excellency is very capable." Now that Jianghuai is fighting fiercely and there are many barriers, he was able to send people to Shouchun safely.

I couldn't see Zhao Xu's smile through the car board, but I think he was proud of it.

I changed into a man's attire in the car, tied my hair with a bra, put on deerskin boots, got out of the car, and Zhao Xu said, "My lady, please follow me."

He took a large volume of "Tu Pu Shen" for me to read, and the section with the ivory stick between them was marked: Xu used six directions and eight trigrams to control people's spirits.At the bottom, there are large comments such as "Using one's own essence to consume the other's essence", "Is not the right way", and "Forbidden". , in short, very boring text.

I pursed my lips and read it, then exerted force on the bamboo slips with my index finger, slowly rubbing away the pictures and writing.

Zhao Xu was shocked: "My lady, why are you doing this! I will be punished!" As he spoke, he wanted to grab the scroll in my hand.I shook my body and said to him: "It has nothing to do with you, you can report the truth to Mr. Zhong."

Either that guy Ge Xuan is not good at learning (or Zuo Ci is not willing to teach well), his three-legged cat way really hurts the enemy ten thousand and himself eight thousand.Sun Quan believed him, and used the six-party gossip map to control my mind, trying to steal the blood contract and unicorn jade.But what he and Ge Xuan didn't know was that although they had fooled my eyes, they couldn't fool me about my agreement with "Shu".It abandoned them completely, but obviously, it abandoned me too.

The gentleman who has always had the physique of strategizing and strategizing was the first to notice the abnormality, so he took advantage of the internal contradictions of "Bundle" to temporarily assign some hidden forces in Jiangdong to Sun Quan.

So far, General Sun, who thinks highly of himself, thinks that he has finally obtained all of the "bundle". Over the past few months, some flaws have gradually emerged in his actions.Mr. took the opportunity to take some action.

Standing on the bridge, I asked the people around me: "Young Master Zhao, the action you speak of is... a natural disaster in the General's Mansion?"

Zhao Xu showed a hint of surprise: "Based on your understanding of all of us, is it possible to achieve this kind of anger?"

"No." I shook my head: "Then Dong Yuan... Did you send someone to kill him?"

"Dong Yuan was not killed by someone I sent."

"really?"

He nodded: "I did it myself."

"..."

While leaning, the wind blew up beside the bridge, I put my hands on the bridge railing, and slowly chanted: "The side of the Lingsi bridge is so sentimental, it is clear that the lake faction circles back to the pond."

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, the sky was getting darker, and there was the sound of water splashing under the bridge.Zhao Xu said softly, "Let's get started, the time is up."

I knelt down and clenched my hands into fists, pressed my thumbs on my forehead, and prayed silently: Almighty Taiyi God, I pray to you, please protect my children and grandchildren for the rest of my life, please protect grandma’s soul, and please protect Mr. willing……

The sound of oars paddling water came into my ears more and more clearly, and the canopy boat under the bridge docked on the shore.Zhao Xu lit up the orange lantern and walked down to the river bank with me in silence.

The decayed ship boards creaked with the impact of the water flow, and a cold breath that did not belong to the world rushed over.A young woman at the bow put her hands on her chest, her snow-white dress was painted a pale blood by the orange lantern.

Her voice seemed to come from hell: "What do you want? Can you be sure?"

Even though I have seen a lot, I don't have the guts to look her in the eyes.I tried my best to ignore her strange red pupils, glanced at her sharpened pale jaw, and stretched out my hand to pass a palm-sized brand new mirror made of pure gold: "You must be here, to the north."

The woman smiled miserably, flung her long sleeve over the mirror, put it into the sleeve immediately, and took a step back to signal us to board the boat.

Zhao Xu held my arm, I didn't refuse, and went down to the cabin trembling.

The woman leaned over and picked up our lanterns on the shore, and hung them lightly on the bow.I clearly saw her hand protruding from the sleeve robe, and her pale skin was covered with countless rose-colored heraldry.

I bared my teeth exaggeratedly, and whispered to Zhao Xu, "If I faint from fright, you are not allowed to laugh."

The boat is moving, and through the rotten canopy, the sky is full of stars, like a priceless night dress.Slowly, the stars disappeared, and there was only ink-like black crisscrossing the top of the head.

The sound of Eina's oars sounded, and the woman at the helm was singing, "The dew on the scallion, He Yixi, the dew will fall again in the Ming Dynasty, and when a person dies, when will he return..."

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The rising sun shines brightly in the vast water; the water mallards flutter, and the reeds flutter to the clear sky, traveling in an unknown direction.

At this moment, in the east of Yangxian, on the west bank of Zhenze, in a certain corner of the lake.

"Cough, cough, cough..." First there was a violent cough, and then the hot feeling of choking in the nasal cavity woke me up from the coma.I strangled my throat, spit out a few mouthfuls of dirty water, and got up in a state of embarrassment.

Surrounded by centuries-old mud and blooming reeds growing like crazy.I tried to wipe my face, and regretted it the next moment: my face was covered with mud in my palm.

"Zhao Xu, Zhao Xu? Did you hear that?" I trudged on the muddy ground as I shouted.

"Here!" The shout lasted for a full quarter of an hour, and finally got a response from the other side of the reed.

I laboriously made my way around the swamp to where he was.

Seeing his appearance, I was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed wildly: "Hahahaha, Mr. Zhao is so elegant, you think the mud bath tastes good?"

Zhao Xu's whole body was covered with mud, only a little gap was exposed around the eyes and mouth, which was hilariously funny.I really admire that I can still see that he is frowning, and he said seriously: "I accidentally fell down, just laugh at me, just laugh at me."

I reached out and pulled him out of the mud bank.He squatted by the side of the puddle to wash his face, and I laughed at myself and said, "That beauty on the ferry is so cruel that she threw us into this ghostly place."

Zhao Xu took off his muddy robe, sighed and said, "There are many rumors among the folks that there is a secret connection between Lingsi Bridge and Zhenze, and the villain thought it was just ignorance..."

I interrupted him with a smile: "The so-called foolish people are truly wise, and those who think they are smart are often the most stupid."

"You taught me the lesson. It seems that we are near Fengqiao, and it is still early. If we travel quickly at night today, we can cross the river tomorrow without any accidents."

"Well, great, now we have time to leave before Master Wu gets the news."

The two supported each other and walked out of the reeds, and found the official road after a while, and Zhao Xu got in touch with the person who met here.Among them was a girl of twelve or thirteen years old, wearing a pink silk dress, with a bright face and an innocent face.

Seeing the child skillfully controlling the pure black adult horse and pacing along the road, I found a gap and asked Zhao Xu secretly: "What is the background of the little girl?"

He replied, "Ami is from the north. Do something for me temporarily."

My face sank, "Children who haven't reached the level dare to use it."

"My lady, please forgive me. Although Ami is young, she is very capable. That's why Master Ma appointed her here by name." Then she shouted at the little girl:

"Ami, you go ahead and pass on my words: leave the outpost to Ajia and the others, let your senior brother come and lead the way." He didn't say the last part, and I silently added for him in my heart: tonight we are going to cross Shenting Ridge.

"I know~ I know." The little girl named Ami responded crisply, knocked the horse's belly skillfully, and quickly escaped from everyone's sight.