I dress up as a poor noblewoman, and I bring my whole family home with my literary talent.

Chapter 15: Shili Ferry
Shili Ferry is remote
The carriage entered the village before it was completely dark.

It is said that if you live by the mountain, you can eat from the mountain; if you live by the water, you can eat from the water. This village is on the bank of the river. As soon as you enter the village, you can see that every household has fishing nets hanging and winnowing baskets drying salted fish.

The Song family's ancestral home is close to the river. It is a small courtyard surrounded by a fence and has walls made of yellow mud. The yard is overgrown with weeds, and they are afraid that the roof will leak.

Azhu helped Song Lingyi into the house

The house was filled with a strong musty smell, and the furnishings were simple and shabby. There was an uneven dirt floor, a pile of junk in the corner, a dusty wooden bed, and a wardrobe with half of the door broken.

Really a penniless family

Song Lingyi could not help but admire the noble and magnanimous sentiments of the predecessor who wrote "Praise of the Humble House". In any case, she could never say to this house, "Mountains are not famous for their height, but for the immortals living there. Water is not magical because of its depth, but for the dragons living there."

Azhu found a wooden stool from somewhere and asked her to sit on it. Then he lit a candle and cleaned the room, especially the wooden bed. He wiped it back and forth three or four times, fearing that the musty smell would be too strong and the fifth girl would not be able to sleep well.

By the time everything was cleaned up, it was already pitch dark outside.

Azhu bid farewell to Song Lingyi and drove the carriage back to Chang'an City.

Song Lingyi sat in the house, looking at the fishing lights on the river, and sighed: Never mind, in her situation, why would she need a bicycle? She can just make do with it. After all, she is in the village, not in the deep mountains and forests, where no one lives...

Dragging my tired body to lie on the bed
Perhaps because Song Lingwan had applied medicine to her during the day, the wound was not as painful as it was last night. As the night deepened and everyone was asleep, she gradually fell asleep.

The next morning, she was awakened by hunger.

There was nothing in the kitchen of this shabby house except a large pot covered with dust and a pile of eight hundred year old firewood.

"Excuse me... are you from Chang'an City?"

Song Lingyi looked in the direction of the sound and saw a woman in her forties standing outside the yard. She had dark skin and simple clothes, and it was obvious that she was someone who had been working hard for many years.

She nodded slightly in response.

The woman saw her slightly swollen right face and the scars on her sleeves, and was surprised and puzzled: "Oh my...what happened to the girl? How did she get such a serious injury?"

Song Lingyi pulled her sleeves down to cover the red marks on the back of her hands, unwilling to say more to the stranger.

"My aunt has some ointment and some food left at home. If you don't mind, I can bring it to you." The woman felt pity for the girl because she was young and lived in such a simple house.

Song Lingyi thought for a moment and said with a faint smile: "Then I'll trouble you, Auntie."

After eating the breakfast brought by the woman, Song Lingyi briefly learned about the village from her.

The village is called Shili Village. The villagers have made a living by fishing for generations. The people are simple and honest. As for this ancestral house, they only know that it was lived in by a scholar in the village many years ago. Later, the scholar went to Chang'an to be an official and sent people to repair it once. No one has lived there since then.

The woman's house was very close to the ancestral home, and Song Lingyi called her Aunt Li.

Aunt Li was a warm and kind person. She didn't ask where Song Lingyi's injury came from or why she came to live in the shabby house. She helped her apply medicine and cleaned up the weeds in the yard.

Aunt Li had a young son who was cheerful and often came to talk to Song Lingyi and took her to the river to go boating.

After staying in Shili Village for six or seven days, she gradually accepted this humble room. Life is her own, how can she abandon herself because of a momentary unhappiness? When her injury got better, she used the money to buy a roast duck and a jar of good wine to entertain Aunt Li and her family.

Night falls, the full moon hangs high

The soft and clear light enveloped the courtyard, where there were lilies she had newly planted. The cool night breeze blew gently, and the sweet fragrance was rich.

Song Lingyi was sitting alone in the yard, thinking about making a swing. When she looked up, she saw a large ship passing by on the vast river. There were no lights on the ship, and from the direction of the ancestral home, it looked like a huge black shadow was floating on the river.

Hiss...Strange

The boat was sailing at night without lights on. Something must have happened on the boat.

Song Lingyi watched the boat break through the thick fog on the river and crash into the opposite bank. The sound was earth-shaking, and the originally quiet Shili Village was boiling in an instant.

"What happened?"

"Hurry... the other side is on fire!!!"

"Er Gouzi! Get the bucket!"…………

Opposite shore
The deck was already littered with corpses. A pair of black boots with gold patterns walked forward on the blood-soaked ground. The ring-handled sword in his hand was lowered, and blood dripped down...

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The night before, An Blade captured an opium seller and forced him to tell him that there would be a big deal on the river at Shili Ferry that night.

This ship set out from upstream an hour ago -

The ship was heavily guarded. Fei Chao received orders, disguised himself as a seller, and boarded the ship to conduct the transaction.

According to the plan, the ship's route would pass through the backwater bay, and the Dark Blade's men were lying in ambush on the shore in advance, waiting for Fei Chao to send a signal so that they could board the ship by force.

But who knew that this deal was actually a trap.

Fei Chao realized that something was wrong and wanted to take action, but he was suppressed by the people on the boat.

The cabin was dark and damp, and the air was filled with the smell of mold. Fei Chao was tied up and thrown to the ground at random.

Soon, a slow and steady sound of footsteps came from the deepest part.
Fei Chao gritted his teeth and looked up. Under the candlelight, he saw a woman wearing Miao clothing. She had strange tattoos covering her entire left arm from her neck. If you looked closely, you could even see what looked like worms crawling under her skin.

The woman walked up and tore off Fei Chao's mask.
"Lord Fei Chao, we meet again." With a hoarse and unpleasant voice, the woman slowly stretched out her right hand towards Fei Chao, with a bright red larva wriggling on her fingertips.

Fei Chao's body froze immediately, unable to move.
"During this period, the dark blade has really given us a headache." The woman took out a dagger, her eyes sharp, "The master has ordered that you must be eliminated at all costs. I'm sorry, Master Fei Chao."

The woman raised her knife and the dagger was about to pierce her neck
At the critical moment, a silver arrow streaked across the night sky and knocked the dagger down.

The collision of the iron tools caused the woman's hands to become slightly numb.

She turned her head suddenly to look at the direction where the silver arrow came from, and saw a man wearing a ghost mask and a black robe with gold patterns appeared on the deck at some point. The arrow from his sleeve was like breaking through the air, and instantly killed her three subordinates.

"Finally here." The woman smiled wildly and stepped one foot on Fei Chao's back.

The person under his feet groaned and then did not respond.

"Master Moon, how are you?"

Lu Jing looked calm and said "hmm" in a neutral tone.

"..."

The woman raised her eyebrows slightly. "You were lucky that I couldn't kill you last time. You won't be so lucky this time."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dozen burly men rushed out of the cabin and surrounded Lu Jing in a half-moon shape. Each of these men was tall and strong, with ferocious faces and bloodthirsty expressions.

At the same time, five or six people wearing ghost masks, black armor and holding ring-handled swords jumped onto the deck and stood behind Lu Jing.

The two sides were in a standoff, and it was hard to tell who was better.

"It is said that those who are capable should work harder. I haven't seen you for half a year and Miss Chi Yao has changed her business into medicinal materials." Lu Jing tilted his head sarcastically.

This group of people used to sell illegal salt in various places in the Central Plains. The Prince of Jin sent out a hidden blade to destroy the smuggling organization in one fell swoop. Lu Jing was also seriously injured in that operation.

The person who seriously injured him was the woman named Chi Yao on the boat. Her origin was not simple. More than 20 years ago, there was a turmoil in the Miao area of ​​Southwest Road. One of the tribes captured 100 boys and girls and raised them with poisonous insects. In the end, only Chi Yao survived, and she also mastered the two arts of insect poison.

But in a moment, the two sides came into close combat, and the deck was filled with the flash of swords and sabers.

Although there were only seven people from the Dark Blade group, all of them were masters who had fought their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They wiped out the small foe as easily as catching moths. In less than an incense stick of time, only one person was left on the other side.

Chi Yao stepped on Fei Chao, his expression was still unafraid

Dark clouds covered the moon and fog rose on the river

Chi Yao took off the necklace from her neck, which had a hollow silver ball hanging from it. She muttered something for a while, and a thick purple mist spread out from the silver ball, filling the entire ship in an instant.

Her voice was like a ghost: "Since you are here, please stay."

(End of this chapter)