Copper Coins

Anqing House and Wolong County are just across the river. When the weather is extremely clear, standing on the banks of the river in Wolong County, you can even see the faint peaks on the other side. When the sea is calm, it only takes a few hours to shake the boat.

However, nowadays, the snow is endless, and the river is white. It's as if the leaves of the lonely boat are left in the wilderness. It is extremely difficult to control the direction, so the speed is natural. Slow down.

The boatman was an acquaintance, and when Xue Xian was going up to Fentou Island, he rented his boat. He is about to be a good old man, and it's a bit of a pity to recover some money from Xuan Mian. After seeing them crossing the river again this time, he hesitated for a moment before leaving the ship against the snow.

"I still have two jugs of hot wine in my cloth bag. If you don't want to discard it, let's drink a bit to warm up!" The boatman shouted.

"Thank you."

The crowd thanked in their mouths, but Xue Xian was the only one who actually did it.

Xuan Mercy does not touch wine or chills. Jiang Shining, a ghost, couldn't drink. Lu Yanqi has been in a daze since he got on the boat, apparently not in that mood. He was so cold that he shivered, and he wanted to take a sip, and the green bean-like beads turned around twice, and he didn't dare to reach out.

He thought that these people wouldn't take him, thinking that if they asked him what they should ask and let him finish the two spirit cards, he would sweep him out of the door. Unexpectedly, they actually wanted to take him across the river with him, and Momo wanted to let him know where he had been.

This is not a bad thing for Stone Zhang. After all, he stays in the county and can only sit in the courtyard every day. God knows how long he hid his sword behind the hall before Xue Xian and Xuan Meng broke into the courtyard. He glanced at Xue Xian secretly, saying that although this ancestor was scary, he threw thunder again and again to avoid his vitality, which shows that he would not kill him. There is no harm in following them except for some guilty.

Xue Xian held the jug in his hand, but didn't mean to take a sip. As a matter of fact, he was burning heart, and there was a bit of chill that needed to be expelled. He didn't hold the jug for heating, on the contrary, he wanted to dissipate heat. Although the hip flask has been covered in layers, it has been mostly cold for a long time on the river.

But after a while in Xue Xian's hands, the hip flask made a faint sound.

Except for Lu Yanqi, who was always silent, the eyes of several people in the boat tent turned to Xue Heng's hip flask.

This is no longer warm wine, this is cooking!

The stone stared at the hip flask with an open eye, and narrowed his neck, holding his hands together, anxious to smash himself into the hip flask and be boiled together.

As soon as the heat came up, the wine scented through the seams, and the stones opened their eyes straight. He rubbed his hands like a fly rubbing his palms and said, "Hey ... this wine smells really good. When I am doing stone carving, I also like to have two sips. The belly is warm, and the wine is steaming, and I feel it. Now. "

Secretly and secretly, he sent Xue Xian's leg and yelled, "Receive me!"

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

Xue Xian didn't hold his breath for a moment. He boiled the pot of wine and rolled it away, opening his eyes to the stone. Then he kept picking up another pot.

Stone Zhang quickly caught it in the sleeves of his robe and held it in his arms. It seemed as if he had survived completely at this moment. He sighed longly: "It's warmer, it's not a joke in the river."

For a while, Xue Xian vented the heat he had choked for a long while, and threw another pot to Stone Zhang.

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

Xue Xian was not angry, "What's wrong with your dream?"

Stone Zhengzheng wanted to speak again, and Xuan sympathy sitting by the poncho had taken the wine and handed it to the shaking boatman.

Xue Xian glanced at him without saying a word.

For him, this means the default, but ...

Jiang Shining glanced at him calmly, then glanced at Xuan Merci. I don't know if it was his illusion or what, in the past two days, he always felt something strange between the two. In other words, Xue Xian seems a little strange. He seems to be particularly aimed at Xuan Mercy, and he is inexplicably indifferent.

Of course, this ancestor also liked to stare at Xuan Mian before, and sometimes he just ignored it, but ...

He stared at the two for a moment, and then silently lowered his eyes and looked at the nose and mouth. After all, to some extent, both of them were ancestors, and he couldn't bother to bother him, but it was better to leave it alone.

Thinking about this, he moved silently into the corner of the awning.

Boom--

The passenger boat suddenly swayed, and Zhang Zhengzheng looked up and drank the wine. One didn't hold his balance and hit his elbow on the canopy.

"You look at the bamboo slipper like a thin piece, the weight is not small, moving a nest boat is shaking." Xue Xian glanced at Jiang Shining.

"It wasn't this little old man shaking." The boatman snorted, took a few sips of hot wine, and his spirit was much better. "This is the way the river flows, there are some people. Boating in this area every summer and winter There is always a need to turn over, either because the water is rising rapidly, or the wind is so strong that it can set off the ship. In the past two years, it has calmed a lot, and the ship has gone much without encountering those big waves and demon winds. Some are weird, and some are going to be demons. "

Upon hearing the words of the boatman, Stone Zhang was shocked. The man seemed extremely timid and afraid of death. He narrowed his neck and rushed to the boatman and said, "Then ... then the boat will not overturn?"

The boatman glanced at him unhappyly: "This boat is still going. How can you say such unlucky things? I can't turn it over, I just said something weird, and I didn't say that there would be a big wave today."

Speaking of this, he sighed again: "Several masters, it's not me who complained, I would really say a few words, don't be stubborn after crossing Jiang, listen to the boatman's always right. This kind of day is actually no one happy Those who leave the boat, you do n’t live by the river, and you do n’t know the habits of the river wind. We float on the river every day, we almost have a boat as our home, and we can see at a glance whether we can leave the boat peacefully. Just as I said, top For two more days, this river has to turn around every day. Moreover-- "

The boatman dragged his eyes, his eyes narrowed, holding the boat bow with one hand, and filled the hot wine: "How do you pick this time to go to Anqing? It's not quite there right now."

"Not quite? Why isn't it?" Jiang Shining's eldest sister married to Anqing Mansion, and immediately frowned.

"I still heard a boatman from the other side say the other day." He lowered his throat and said, "He said a few days ago that the area around Anqing moved, and it is said that the whole house shook several times. The most important thing is that The ground moved down a mountain, and some people said that when the house was shaking, I heard a dragon calling from the ground. "

Call out ...

What a dignified description, it sounds like someone's rattle.

"That's called Longyin!" Xue Xian corrected it impatiently, and suddenly sat up straight as he responded: "No, you wait, Longyin? The man told you, did you hear Longyin in Anqing?"

"Ang!" Said the boatman, as if he had heard it himself: "It is said to be scary. Many people even scratch their heads while lying on the ground, but it is strange. It is said that after a few stings, the room It stopped shaking, and the ground motion stopped, but some people died. But this is not the weirdest thing. The most strange thing is that after the ground motion, a lot of fine cracks appeared on the ground in the city. It is said that it crawled a bit. Something came out, I do n’t know if it was a bug or something. I did n’t understand it too much, anyway, it ’s messy. ”

Jiang Shining heard that his face suddenly looked bad. Although he was a wild ghost and his face turned blue, Ben couldn't see where he was going.

Since then, everyone on the ship had their own thoughts and had nothing to say.

Half an hour later, the boatman finally docked in Wangjiang County, an unknown palm city in Anqing.

The place where they disembarked was called Guanyindu, and there were some small old inns, tea pavilions, and wine shops by the ferry. The fine snow is boundless, and you can't just walk like that, not to mention that Xue Xian is an inconvenient step in the crowd.

After Jiang Shining got off the boat, he hurriedly covered the snow and asked the people at the tea booth: "Is there a place to hire a carriage?"

"It can't be hired this day," said the man in the tea kiosk holding the tea for warmth, "they moved a few days ago, but the house survived, but the shack was not strong enough, and it damaged many horses and animals. No, of course, there is no way to pull a car. There is no one nearby who can hire a donkey cart, don't expect it. "

The man had three long scars on his face. He looked strange and scary. He squinted, drank the hot tea in his hand, and glanced at Jiang Shining: "Where are you going?"

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

The Scarface Man looked at him carefully, and said, "Scholar? Come and save the pro?"

Jiang Shining nodded.

He clasped the tea bowl to the table and lifted his chin. "Those outside are with you?"

Jiang Shining turned back, and saw Xuan Mercy walking towards this side with his ancestors who could not walk. Previously in Wolong County, Xue Xian attempted to fight and wanted to change to a less weak posture, but he still failed. Now Jomo has broken the jar ...

Around them were also Zhang Shiqi, who had a narrow neck and Lu Qiqi who looked embarrassed.

There are old and young and there is a monster, it seems quite a bit of tiredness to drag home, it is really a bitter master. Jiang Shining said secretly in his heart, and then turned his head again and arched his hands at the Scarface Man, and planned to discuss with Xuan Mercy, otherwise, he would stay in the inn for a day first and wait for the snow to stop.

"Don't expect this snow to stop." Scarface seemed to guess what he thought. He wiped his mouth, took up the strip wrapped in rags on the table, and said, "Let's go, hit you, we're just right. Also go in the direction of Qingping County. "

we?

As soon as Jiang Shining saw this scarfaced man standing up, the tea kiosks stood up one after another. Individuals, men, women and children alike.

When Xuan Merci was about to cross the threshold, he heard the man with a scared face, and looked up at Jiang Shining: "What?"

"The elder brother said that he could take us for a ride," Jiang Shining explained.

As he said this, Scarface had already reached the door. He happened to be in Xuan Merci's arms, and he stepped forward, pointing, "What the **** is this wrapped in?"

Hyun Mercy said lightly: "People."

"Dead?" Scarface looked at the black clothed head and frowned, "It wouldn't be convenient, after all, we have old and young, just rushed to--"

He hadn't finished saying this yet. Xue Xian, who was pretending to be dead, heard that he was going to regret it. He immediately lifted the black cloth and dragged the tone with a numb look: "Not dead, live well."

Scarface Man: "..."

Jiang Shining turned away silently in the back, saying that if he was recognized as having a hole in his brain, he would not let him in the car, so he would have fun.

Who knows that scar face is a good bearer, he silently looked at Xue Xian, scanned his pale skin, and his pitying face, and thought that such a person could not make it. When any demon came, he nodded and said, "Okay, don't waste it, let's go! The snow will be heavy later, and the road will not be easy to go."

Scarface Men and his party had three carriages and one donkey cart.

The carriage is not small enough to seat four people, and the donkey cart holds their luggage.

Jiang Shining stood at the side of the small team and glanced. He was about to open his mouth to ask Scarface what they were doing. As soon as he uttered a sound, he felt a slightly hot palm pressed against his arm.

He hesitated and turned around to see Xuan Mian standing beside him, while Xue Xian who held him down.

I saw the ancestor opening the black cloth, exposing an eye, and squinting at him. The forefinger pressed against his lips and "shushed" softly, pressing his throat and saying, "Don't ask, don't startle them, just get in the car. OK, just don't get too close to them. "

Perhaps Xu Xian's voice was too light, and Jiang Shining heard a puff of hair inexplicably.