Copper Coins Chapter 36: The troupe (1)

Anqing Prefecture and Wolong County are only separated by a river. When the weather is very clear, standing on the riverside of Wolong County, you can even see the faint mountain top on the other side. When the weather is calm, it only takes a few hours to rock the boat.

However, it's snowing heavily right now, and before halfway through, the river is already a vast expanse of white, as if they are the only ones left in the wilderness, it's extremely difficult to control the direction, so this The speed naturally slowed down.

The boatman is an acquaintance. When Xue Xian and the others were going to Tombtou Island, they rented his boat. He was probably a good-natured man, and he always felt a little bit sorry for taking back Xuan Min's money. Seeing that they were going to cross the river again this time, after hesitating for a moment, they got out of the boat in the wind and snow.

"There are still two pots of hot wine wrapped in my cloth bag. If you don't dislike it, let's drink some to warm up!" The boatman shook his scull and said.

"Thank you."

Everyone said thanks, but Xue Xian was the only one who actually did it.

Xuan Min does not drink alcohol, nor is he afraid of the cold. Jiang Shining is a wild ghost, and he can't drink. Lu Twenqi has been in a daze since he got on the boat, obviously not in that mood. Shi Shizhang was shivering with cold, and he also wanted to take a sip. His mung bean-like eyes rolled around twice, but he didn't dare to reach out.

He thought that this group of people wouldn't take him with him, thinking that they would sweep him out the door after they had finished engraving the two spirit cards after they asked what they should ask. Unexpectedly, they actually wanted to take him across the river, probably because they wanted him to recognize the places he had been to.

This is not a bad thing for Shi Shizhang, after all, when he stays in the county, he can only sit in the house shivering every day. God knows how long he hid behind the hall with his sword in his arms before Xue Xian and Xuan Min broke into the courtyard. He secretly glanced at Xue Xian, thinking that although this ancestor was scary, he avoided his key points every time he struck a thunderbolt, so it could be seen that it would not kill him. There is no harm in following them except for a bit of courage.

Xue Xian held the jug in his hand, but he didn't mean to take a sip. In fact, he is burning his heart, where is there any chill that needs to be driven away. He didn't hold the jug to keep warm, on the contrary, he was to dissipate heat. Although the jug has been covered in layers of wraps, it has become more or less cold after drying on the river for so long.

But after staying in Xue Xian's hands for a while, the jug made a faint gurgling sound.

Except for Lu Twenqi, who was always silent, the eyes of several people in the boat's awning all turned to the jug in Xue Xian's hand.

This is no longer warm wine, this is cooking wine!

Stone stared at the jug with open eyes, shrugging his neck and holding his hands, wishing that he would form a ball and stuff it into the jug to be boiled together.

As soon as the heat came up, the aroma of the wine came out along the seams, and the stone's eyes were straightened. He rubbed his palm like a fly rubbing his hands and said, "Hey... this wine smells really good. When I make stone carvings on weekdays, I also like to take two bites. The belly is warm, and as soon as the wine is steaming, the hand feels good. ."

This is secretly and secretly, so I almost hug Xue Xian's leg and shout: "Take a sip to me!"

Jiang Shining couldn't take it anymore, so he cupped Xue Xian with his elbow and whispered, "Don't play with the ancestors, he's about to shake off the boat."

Xue Xian didn't hold back the heat at all. He boiled the pot of wine and rolled it away, giving it to Shishi Zhang. Then he picked up another pot without stopping.

Stone Zhang hurriedly caught it with the sleeve of his robe and held it in his arms, as if he had come to life completely at this moment, and sighed a long time, "It's warmer, it's no joke that it's cold in the river. "

Xue Xian let out the heat he had held for a while, and threw the other pot to Shitou Zhang.

"Give me both pots?" Shito Zhang was flattered.

Xue Xian said angrily, "Why are you still awake from this dream?"

Stone Zhang was about to ask again, but Xuan Min, who was sitting beside the awning, had already taken the wine and handed it to the boatman who was shaking the oars.

Xue Xian glanced at him and said nothing.

For him, this is the default meaning, but...

Jiang Shining glanced at him calmly, and then glanced at Xuan Min. I don't know if it's his delusion or what. In the past two days, he always felt that there was something strange between the two. In other words, Xue Xian seemed a little weird. He seemed to be particularly focused on Xuanmin, and he was inexplicably ignored.

Of course, this ancestor also liked to stare at Xuanmin for trouble, and sometimes ignored it, but...

He stared at the two of them for a moment, then silently lowered his eyes and looked at his nose, nose and mouth. After all, they were both ancestors to some extent, and he couldn't afford to offend either of them, so don't mind your own business. it is good.

Thinking of this, he silently moved towards the corner of the canopy.

Boom——

The passenger boat swayed suddenly. Shitou Zhang was drinking wine with his head raised. One of them failed to balance and hit his elbow against the awning of the boat.

"You look at the thin slices like bamboo strips. The weight is not small. The boat will shake when you move it." Xue Xian glanced at Jiang Shining.

"It wasn't this little master who swayed." The boatman shouted and took a few sips of hot wine, and his spirits improved, "This section of the river is like this, it's a bit confusing. Every summer and winter, The boats in this area are always going to capsize, either because the water is high and the waves are strong, or the wind is strong enough to lift the boat. In the past two years, it has been calmer a lot. He's a little weird, and he's a bit of a monster."

Hearing the boatman's words, Shitou Zhang was taken aback. This man seemed particularly timid and afraid of death. He stretched his neck and said to the boatman, "Then...then the boat won't capsize, right?"

The boatman glanced at him unhappily: "The boat is still moving, how can you say such unlucky words? It can't be turned over. I just said it was a little weird, and I didn't say there would be a big wave today."

Speaking of this, he sighed again: "Several gentlemen, it's not me complaining, I'll really persuade me, don't be stubborn when crossing the river, it's always right to listen to the boatman. No one is willing to get out of the boat. You don’t live on the riverside, so you don’t know the habit of the river wind. We float on the river every day, and we almost call the boat home. You can see if you can get out of the boat smoothly by looking at the waves. Yes, at most two days, this river has to turn the sky once. Besides—"

The boatman dragged his tune, squinted his eyes, held the boat scull with one hand, took a sip of hot wine and said, "Why do you choose to go to Anqing Mansion at this time? It's not very peaceful there."

"Not peaceful? Why not?" Jiang Shining had his eldest sister married to Anqing Mansion, and when he heard this, he frowned.

"I still heard from a boatman from the other side of the river two days ago." He lowered his voice and said, "He said that a few days ago, there was ground movement in Anqing Mansion. It is said that the whole mansion was shaking a few times. The important thing is that the ground shook and collapsed a mountain, and some people said that when the house was shaking, they vaguely heard a dragon calling from the ground."

Calling...

What a majestic description, it sounds like someone's squawking.

"That's called Longyin!" Xue Xian finished his correction angrily, and sat up straight as if he had suddenly reacted: "No, wait, Longyin? That person told you that he heard Longyin in Anqing Mansion. chant?"

"Ang!" The boatman said eloquently, as if he had heard it himself: "It is said that it is very scary, and many people even kowtow on the ground, but it is strange, it is said that after a few kowtows , the house stopped shaking, the ground movement stopped, but some people died. But this is not the most strange thing, the most strange thing is that after the ground movement, many fine lines and cracks appeared on the ground in the city. It is said that Crawled something out, I don't know if it was a bug or something. I didn't understand it too well, anyway, it's quite messy."

Jiang Shining's face suddenly turned ugly when he heard the words. Although he was a wild ghost, his face turned blue, he couldn't see where he was going.

Since then, everyone on the boat has their own thoughts and speechless all the way.

Another half an hour later, the boatman finally docked in Wangjiang County, a little-known slap town in Anqing Prefecture.

The place where they disembarked is called Guanyin Ferry, and there are some small old inns, tea pavilions and wine shops by the ferry. There was a vast expanse of fine snow, so it was impossible to just walk on top of the snow, not to mention Xue Xian, who was inconvenient to walk among the crowd.

Jiang Shining got off the boat and hurriedly covered the snow to ask the people beside the tea pavilion: "Is there a place to hire a carriage?"

"It's impossible to hire this day." The man in the tea pavilion, hiding from the wind and holding tea to keep warm, said: "The earth moved a few days ago, but the house was able to withstand it, but the shed was not strong enough, crushing many mules and horses. Animals. They can't run, and naturally they can't pull carts. There's not even a family around here who can hire donkey carts, so don't count on them."

The man had three long scars on his face, which looked very scary, and he didn't know it was scratched by some beast. He half-squinted his eyes, drank the hot tea in his hand, glanced at Jiang Shining and said, "Where are you going?"

"Go further north to Qingping County." Jiang Shining said.

The scar-faced man looked at him carefully and said, "Scholar? Come to save relatives?"

Jiang Shining nodded.

He put the tea bowl on the table, raised his chin and said, "The ones outside are also with you?"

Jiang Shining turned around and saw Xuan Min walking towards this side with his ancestor who couldn't walk. When he was in Wolong County, Xue Xian tried to fight and wanted to change his posture to be less weak. It can be successful, and now it has probably been broken...

Besides the two of them were Shi Shi Zhang, who shrank his neck and sleeves, and Lu Twenqi, who looked sullen.

There are old and young, and a monster, and it looks like a kind of tiredness of dragging a family. It's really hard, master. Jiang Shining tutted inwardly, then turned his head to the scarred-faced man and cupped his hands, intending to discuss with Xuan Min and the others, whether to stay in this inn for a day and wait for the snow to stop.

"Don't expect the snow to stop." The scarred-faced man seemed to have guessed what he was thinking, he wiped his mouth, picked up the long strip wrapped in rags on the table, and said, "Let's go, give you a ride , we just happened to be heading towards Qingping County."

We?

Jiang Shining was stunned and saw that when the scarred-faced man stood up, there were people standing up one after another in the tea pavilion, men, women and children of all ages.

Xuan Min was about to cross the threshold when he heard the scar-faced man's words, raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Shining: "What?"

"This eldest brother has a good heart and said he can take us for a ride." Jiang Shining explained.

When he said this, the scarred-faced man had already walked to the door. He happened to be in Xuanmin's arms. He suddenly stopped and pointed, "What is this thing wrapped in?"

Xuan Min said lightly: "People."

"Dead?" The scarred-faced man looked at the head covered by the black cloth and frowned, "That would be inconvenient, after all, we have old and young, so if we collide—"

He hadn't finished his words yet, when Xue Xian, who was so determined to pretend to be dead, heard that he wanted to go back on his words, he immediately lifted the black cloth and dragged his tone numbly, "I didn't die, I lived a good life. "

Scarface man: "..."

Jiang Shining turned his face away silently in the back, thinking that if he was thought to have a hole in his head, he would not be allowed to get in the car as well, it would be fun.

Who knows that the scarred face is a good bearer. He looked at Xue Xian silently, and then glanced at Xue Xian's pale skin and Xuanmin's calm face. He probably thought that such a person would also Not being able to do anything, he nodded and said, "Okay, don't waste any more time, let's go! The snow will be heavy later, so the road will not be easy to go."

The Scarface Man and his group had three carriages and one donkey carriage.

The carriage box is not too small, it can seat four people, and the donkey carriage is filled with their luggage and sundries.

Jiang Shining stood by the small motorcade and glanced at it. He was about to open his mouth to ask the scar-faced man what they were doing. As soon as he uttered a sound, he felt a slightly hot palm pressing against his arm.

He was stunned for a moment, then turned to see Xuan Min standing beside him, and Xue Xian was holding him down.

Seeing that the ancestor lifted the black cloth, revealing one eye, squinted at him, put his index finger on his lips and made a light "shh", pressing his voice: "Don't ask, don't startle them, Just get in the car, just don't get too close to them."

Maybe because Xue Xian's voice was too soft, Jiang Shining's hair stood up inexplicably.