The master said not to judge people by their appearance

"Mr. Xie, how are you doing? Are you still used to living here?" There was a warm greeting from the ship's owner, shopkeeper Zhou, from outside the door.

"It's okay, but my cousin is a little seasick." Xie Yunlan replied through the door.

The boat owner said with a smile: "Those who don't take boats often will get a little dizzy, just come out and get some air!"

"Okay, I'll take him out later."

After the captain left, Xie Yunlan immediately sat up and pushed Shen Fan away from him.

"Go down!" His tone was very fierce, but mixed with a little imperceptible panic.

"Oh." Shen Fan looked at him inexplicably, not understanding why Xie Yunlan was so fierce.

Xie Yunlan also realized that his tone was wrong, but he couldn't figure out the reason, let alone how to explain it. He just felt annoyed and confused at that moment.

He changed the subject and said, "Go outside?"

Shen Fan nodded.

Leaving the cramped cabin, the refreshing cool wind blows head-on, and the hull is not as swaying as before. It has already left the port, and now it is driving on the open and stable water. The wind is sunny and the water is shimmering.

"Is it better?" Xie Yunlan asked.

"En." Shen Fan felt that the boat ride was not so uncomfortable now.

"Mr. Xie, is your cousin better?" The captain greeted them from the other side of the deck, and there were a few people standing beside him, who looked like they were not dressed like boatmen, and their eyes showed the shrewdness of a businessman and philistines.

Xie Yunlan guessed that these were traders who chartered the boat. The owner of the boat was only the owner of the boat, but the goods were not his. He made money by helping people transport goods.Large merchants often have their own ships, while small merchants do not have so much goods to transport, so in order to reduce costs, some acquaintances will charter a ship together to transport goods.

"It's much better, Shopkeeper Zhou, who are these?" Xie Yunlan walked forward with a smile.

Shopkeeper Zhou introduced the two parties. As Xie Yunlan expected, these are merchants who charter boats, dealing in spices and medicinal materials.

He intends to chat with them, and the merchants are the most well-informed. Although he has a certain understanding of the officialdom in the south, it is still a little worse than these merchants who traveled north and south.

The merchants were also happy to chat with him. Although Xie Yunlan was pretending deliberately and only wore more ordinary clothes, he couldn't hide his extraordinary demeanor. He was either rich or expensive. It is naturally desirable to make friends with such a noble person.

The two sides chatted happily for a while, Shen Fan didn't quite understand what they were talking about, and couldn't get in the way. He stood by himself, lying on the side of the boat, looking at the Taotao river.

After an unknown period of time, the sky suddenly darkened. When everyone looked up, a dark cloud was floating above them. The wind was no longer as warm as before, but became violent and frenzied, and the sails were blown loudly.

The weather in summer is always changeable, and the sky was still clear just now, and it may be rainy after a while.

Everyone was in a bad mood, it was going to rain, a lot of medicinal materials couldn't stand the tide, and they were drying on the deck, and they would be gone as soon as they got wet.I didn't dare to talk any more at the moment, and went to battle in person, moving the cargo into the cabin with the crew.

"What are you doing lying here? You are not afraid of falling!" Xie Yunlan noticed that Shen Fan had been lying on the side of the boat, and quickly dragged him down.

After finishing speaking, he realized that his tone was a bit fierce, and said as if to make amends: "It's going to rain, let's go back."

"It won't rain." Shen Fan said.

A peddler who was moving goods heard this sentence and interjected: "It's so cloudy and windy, how can it not rain? Let me see, it must be a heavy rain!"

Others also responded one after another, keeping their hands on and speeding up to rescue the goods.

No one believed Shen Fan, except Xie Yunlan.

"You know how to watch the sky?" Xie Yunlan asked.

Shen Fan: "No."

Xie Yunlan: "..."

"Then how do you know it won't rain?" he asked.

"There is no water vapor in the cloud." Shen Fan said.

"Can you still know if there is water vapor in the clouds?" Xie Yunlan wondered.

"Don't you know?" Shen Fan asked strangely.

Nonsense, how can a mortal like him feel whether there is water vapor in the cloud.Xie Yunlan said in his heart.But then again, why could Shen Fan feel it?It is still so taken for granted, as if it is as normal as people can feel hot and cold.

Xie Yunlan knew that some aquatic animals were more sensitive to changes in water vapor. Shen Fan...he still didn't know the real origin of Shen Fan. He stared at Shen Fan for a while, but didn't see any clues.

The vendors moved the goods in a hurry, but until they put away the last box of goods, after another half an hour, the sky did not rain, but the sun broke through the clouds and cleared up.

Everyone was amazed for a while, and Shen Fan really got it right.

"Mr. Xie, does your cousin know how to watch the sky?" Someone stepped forward and asked.

"What can you tell by looking at the sky? The sky just now was clearly a sign of a storm coming, Mr. Xie, does your cousin know how to do divination?" Another humane questioned.

"No, he doesn't know how to do divination. He just said casually that a blind cat ran into a dead mouse." Xie Yunlan lied.

Everyone believed his words. After all, Shen Fan really didn't look like those warlocks who can pinch and count. They didn't delve into the matter any further. Instead, they used this to open up another topic, talking about what happened in Beijing a month ago. misfortune.

The scope of this accident has affected the whole city, and it is impossible to hide it. The news has almost spread all over the country, but the content heard by everyone is far from the truth, and there are many versions.

The version the group of businessmen heard was that a monster dragon wreaked havoc on the capital, planting monster embryos in women’s stomachs, and even the emperor was transferred. Fortunately, the dragon god appeared and finally subdued the monster dragon. The messenger of God played a big role in this matter.

This envoy of the dragon god is a true master, not only can pinch and count, he can know 500 years from the top and 500 years from the bottom, he can also call the wind and call the rain, cast beans into soldiers, he is omnipotent.

When they were bragging, they had no idea that the protagonist of the story was on this boat, not far from them.

Xie Yunlan was amused to hear that, how could Shen Fan have such a great ability, but this group of people talked with their noses and eyes, as if they had seen each of them with their own eyes.

Hearing them talk about the reason for the monster dragon's rebellion, someone said: "I heard that it was because the monster dragon was unwilling to suffer the pain of cultivation and wanted to take a shortcut to transform into a dragon, so he came to the world to make trouble."

Another person also said: "That's what I heard too. It takes a thousand years of cultivation to transform a dragon into a dragon. How hard it is. I would also like to take a shortcut."

Everyone else followed suit.

What they said is getting more and more outrageous. The monster dragon is making trouble because of this reason, and it is not even a real monster dragon, but just the incarnation of the inner demon.But... There have always been legends in the world that a jiao can transform into a dragon after practicing for thousands of years, and similarly, a carp can transform into a dragon by jumping over the dragon gate. Xie Yunlan didn't know the truth of these things, so he asked Shen Fan for proof.

"Can Jiao really transform into a dragon?" Xie Yunlan remembered that Shen Fan said that dragons are gods of heaven and earth, and Jiaos are just monsters, and the boundary between the two is not so easy to cross.

"No..." Shen Fan was about to deny it, but he seemed to think of something suddenly, and changed his words, "It wasn't possible before."

"Not before?" Xie Yunlan didn't understand.

"En." Shen Fan didn't seem to want to talk about this matter.

Xie Yunlan stared at him for a while without asking any further questions.

night.

There were no recreational activities on board, except for those on duty watching the ship, everyone went to bed early, and Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan also went back to their rooms early.

During the day, Xie Yunlan specially opened the doors and windows of the cabin to dissipate the musty smell in the house, and bought some spices from the vendors, lit them and put them in the house, the feeling was completely different, much fresher and more comfortable.

The bed was not wide, and the two of them would inevitably touch each other after lying on it, if it was just an unintentional touch, it would be fine. After lying on the bed for a while, Shen Fan turned over and hugged Xie Yunlan.

"What are you doing?!" Xie Yunlan sat up in shock.

"There are not many pillows here." Shen Fan looked at him innocently, not understanding why Xie Yunlan reacted so strongly.

Pillow?Xie Yunlan remembered this, last time Shen Fan hugged him like a pillow all night.

"You have to hug something to sleep?" Xie Yunlan frowned.

"It's not a hug." Shen Fan seemed to want to correct the wording, but then remembered something, and his voice paused.

Xie Yunlan didn't pay attention to his suspicious pause, he was very confused at the moment, it seemed that every time Shen Fan got too close to him, he would be upset, but this guy was always like this.

He sat up, brought over the package containing the clothes, piled up several clothes, made a cloth bag, then stuffed it into Shen Fan's arms, and said, "Hold this, don't hug me when you sleep!"

"Oh." Shen Fan looked at him silently for a while, then turned around with the cloth bag in his arms, leaving only a view of Xie Yunlan's back, wondering if he was holding grudges.

Today, Shen Fan has been beaten by him many times in one day, and Xie Yunlan also knows that he is making a fuss out of a molehill, but he can't control it.

He stared at Shen Fan's back for a moment, hesitated for a while, and lay down again without saying a word.

He closed his eyes and wanted to sleep, but he didn't know if it was because of his heavy mind or because he was not used to the shaking of the ship, Xie Yunlan tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

He was worried that his tossing and turning would wake Shen Fan up, so he thought to himself that he might as well go out and blow some air, and was about to get up when he found some movement from beside him, and Shen Fan didn't seem to be asleep.

"Can't sleep?" Xie Yunlan asked in a low voice.

"En." Shen Fan's voice was muffled, "It's too shaky."

Riding a horse is only daytime, and boating is day and night, and he began to regret it again.

"Even if you haven't been on a boat before, haven't you seen it?" Xie Yunlan asked strangely.

As long as you have seen it, you should know the characteristics of the shaking of the hull.

"I seem to have seen it before, but I don't remember it." Shen Fan said.

Can you forget all this?Xie Yunlan recalled the doubts during the day, her heart moved, and she tentatively said, "You rarely go out? Do you usually stay at home?"

Shen Fan let out a "hmm".

"Where is your home? Zhong Shan?" Xie Yunlan asked again.

Shen Fan thought for a while and said, "Below Zhongshan."

Xie Yunlan's understanding was that Shen Fan's house was at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain, so he continued to inquire in a chatty tone: "Where are your family members? Are they there? What do they do?"

"Family..." Shen Fan was stunned for a moment, then said hesitantly, "I don't seem to have any family."

"No?" Xie Yunlan was also stunned for a moment, and joked, "Could it be that you jumped out of a crack in the rock? Where are your parents?"

Shen Fan thought about it for a while, and he didn't seem to have jumped out of a rock. As for his parents...he hesitated and said, "It should be regarded as having a father."

Xie Yunlan didn't care about Shen Fan's incongruous answer like a fool, and continued: "What about your father? Does he trust you to find your demons alone?"

Shen Fan was silent for a moment this time before saying: "He kicked me out."

Xie Yunlan was slightly startled: "Why chase you?"

"Because I did something wrong." Shen Fan said sullenly.

Xie Yunlan: "What did you do wrong? The consequences are serious? There is no way to fix it?"

Shen Fan shook his head: "It's not serious, and it's not irreparable. It can be said that it's just a small matter."

"Then why did he drive you away?" Xie Yunlan didn't understand. Shen Fan looked like he was spoiled and raised. How could parents who spoiled their children drive them out of the house just because of a trivial matter?

"I don't understand either." Shen Fan's voice was a little low.

Xie Yunlan stared at him for a while, put his hands behind his head, and said, "My father also kicked me out once."

Shen Fan turned to look at him, Xie Yunlan's eyes showed memories: "When I was 15 years old, I was young and vigorous. I broke the ribs of a magic stick in the street, and my father was impeached a lot. When he got home, he whipped me with a bamboo stick. After a meal, he also called me a waste who can only bully others, let me get out, don't tarnish his reputation."

"I was not convinced, so I left the house and joined the army. I deliberately concealed my identity so that no one would know that I was the son of General Xie, and would not take care of me because of it. What achievements I made in the future have nothing to do with him."

"I stayed in the army for two years and slowly rose to the rank of captain. During this period, only Yuzhen would visit me occasionally. My father never asked me. Occasionally when I met in the army, he didn't even look at me."

"Later..." Xie Yunlan paused before saying, "After he passed away, I found out that one of the ministers next to me was his confidant. He was ordered by my father to secretly protect me, and to tell me about my situation. Report to him from time to time. I wondered at the time why this general was so careful that he even prepared autumn clothes for me in the cold weather.”

"Father and son are father and son," he looked at Shen Fan, "He let me go so ruthlessly that day, in fact, he just wanted to train me and wear down my impulsive temperament."

"I know." Shen Fan understood what Xie Yunlan wanted to say, he lowered his eyes, "But my father is different from your father."

"Both father and son are blood relatives, what's the difference?" According to Xie Yunlan, Shen Fan's father kicked him out because he wanted to grind his delicate temperament.

"It's different." Shen Fan said lightly.