Judgement

Chapter 92 first visit to Yangzhou

Chapter 92 first visit to Yangzhou

Chen Mengsheng stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "The three of us are going to Yangzhou Mansion. My name is Chen Mengsheng, this is my eldest brother Xiang Xiaotian, and this is my junior sister Shangguan Yanran."

The man cupped his hands in return and said: "My name is Luo Ziheng, a fisherman from Mudu Village. You are all capable people, and today you have eliminated a harm for our Mudu. But if you want to go to Yangzhou Mansion, I will I advise you not to go to Yangzhou Mansion. Yangzhou Mansion is now full of goblins, and it is getting worse and worse. Every once in a while, there will be news of the murder of the young master."

Xiang Xiaotian looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Fairy? My brother is the ancestor of killing goblins. Those goblins are waiting for my brother to catch them. Hahaha..." Just as a few people were talking, someone in the village had already lifted Sun Xueli's dead body and buried it. Go to the mass grave outside Zhuangzi.

Luo Ziheng glanced contemptuously at Sun Xueli's dead body, turned around and said, "How about this, I will take a few of you to Yingtian Mansion by boat. Hire a car from Futian Mansion and go north for three days to Yangzhou Mansion. Yangzhou Mansion has been closed to waterways since a year ago."

Chen Mengsheng thanked Luo Ziheng, took Xiang Xiaotian and Shangguan Yanran, and followed Luo Ziheng all the way to the pier in Mudu.Luo Ziheng yelled at an eight or nine-year-old child at the pier: "Little bastard, go home and tell your mother, I'm going to send someone to Yingtian Mansion."

The child replied with a smile: "Father, I know, you go and come back early." After speaking, he turned around and ran to a wooden house not far away.

Luozi smiled and watched the child run back to the wooden house, and then he untied the cable tied to a small boat with a black roof, and invited Chen Mengsheng and the others to board the boat.Gently touch the embankment with a bamboo stick, and slowly swing away.There was a faint smell of fish in the black-padded boat. Chen Mengsheng sat in the front of the boat and let Shangguan Yanran sit behind him. The cold wind above the river blew on Chen Mengsheng's face like a knife.With Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian blocking the wind from the river, Shangguan Yanran curled up like a chicken and shivered.

Chen Mengsheng took out a thick coat from the coat and put it on Shangguan Yanran. This was stuffed into Chen Mengsheng's coat by the little six sons from Huzhou Prefecture before leaving.Chen Mengsheng's old clothes were burned by Zhu Polong, and he was wearing the new thick winter clothes given by Xiaoliuzi.

"Brother, is this the ashes jar of Miss Ying?" Shangguan Yanran asked, looking at Chen Mengsheng who was wearing a jacket.

Chen Mengsheng nodded and said: "That's right, it's the ashes of Miss Ying from Yangzhou Prefecture. There are too many tragic and tragic facts in the world to complain for her father but die in a foreign land."

Luo Ziheng, who was swaying at Banwei, heard Chen Mengsheng's emotion and said: "Young Master Chen is right, the world is dangerous, and people's hearts are even more unpredictable. Just like that Sun Xiucai, who would have expected him to be so vicious. "

Chen Mengsheng sighed: "Brother Luo, I heard about the goblin incident in Yangzhou Mansion a year ago in Huzhou Mansion, but I still don't know what's going on?"

Luo Ziheng said: "Most people in Mudu Zhuangzi live by fishing, and there are many merchants from Yingtianfu who come to collect fish. Yingtianfu is a big place, and merchants are scattered all over the country. Last year, I heard that those merchants It is said that goblins began to riot in Yangzhou Prefecture, and the victims were all young men. At first, the magistrate of Yangzhou Prefecture thought it was the work of enemy robbers, but then it became more and more violent. The government sent heavy troops to investigate the whole city several times. There is no harvest, and now the waterway in Yangzhou Prefecture has been closed for more than a year, and the fish selling business in Zhuangzi has also suffered greatly."

Xiang Xiaotian asked: "Brother, does it mean that there is also a pig dragon in the Yangzhou mansion?"

Chen Mengsheng shook his head and said: "I don't know, but if it's a goblin, it only harms men, then maybe it's a goblin who wants to use men's essence to practice and refine qi. Is there any requirement for burning utensils and alchemy in the junior sister Danding sect? ah?"

Shangguan Yanran tightened her thick clothes and giggled: "Senior brother said that using people to make alchemy is a sorcery. I once heard that in Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Chen used five hundred pairs of children just because he believed what the evil man said. Boys and girls refine the elixir of immortality. As a result, boys and girls are sucked away from Yuanyang and Yuanyin, and are killed by demons. After refining the elixir of immortality, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang took it and died..."

"What? It takes five hundred pairs of boys and girls to make one pill? It's really a crime. It's unreasonable for him not to die after taking it." Luo Ziheng's exclamation interrupted Shangguan Yanran's words.

Xiang Xiaotian laughed and said: "People in the world want to have it when they don't have it, but they don't think it's enough when they have it. Stop it, what do five hundred pairs of virgin boys and girls mean to them?"

Luo Zi shook his head horizontally and sighed: "Those things have nothing to do with ordinary people like us. I only know how to make a living by fishing on this river."

Chen Mengsheng laughed dumbly and said: "I used to live by fishing just like you, brother, but many unexpected things happened. Sigh, think about it, it was still so simple back then, and you could drink and chat every day. I have seen it now." There are too many sorrows and joys in the world, but I feel sad..." Chen Mengsheng looked at the surging river in the twilight, thinking that he had already left Chenjiazhuang for many years, and the graves of his parents must be buried with wormwood. Lin'an went to pay homage to parents...

Luo Ziheng walked into the black-covered boat, took out a mud stove from under the side flap to the cabin, and took out some firewood from under the flap to light the fire and start boiling water and cooking.

Xiang Xiaotian asked Luo Ziheng to sit down and said with a smile: "Come on, brother Luo, rest for a while, I'll go and rock the boat for you." He took off his leather jacket while talking, and put on a bare-shoulder waistcoat , at the stern, the double oars were shaken.

In the hands of Xiang Xiaotian, the black boat sailed faster than Luo Ziheng, Shangguan smiled and said: "Brother Xiang, you really should be a fisherman instead of hunting in the mountains."

Xiang Xiaotian smiled and said: "After my brother's Yangzhou mansion is over, I will take you to my hometown Yicheng. I will ride the fastest horse and swim the fastest boat. It is only three or four days away from the bottom of Yangzhou. It’s fun to have mountains and water.”

"Okay, okay. Brother, he still has to go to Shandong to find someone else's ashes, and help them explain."

Chen Mengsheng saw Shangguan Yanran whose expression was suddenly gloomy, and said with a smile: "Since it was invited by the elder brother, let's go to Yicheng after finishing the business in Yangzhou Prefecture."

After Luo Ziheng waited for the rice to be cooked, he took out a bamboo tube from the cabin roof, which contained pickled dried vegetables.Looking at the outside of the boat, he laughed and said: "Brother Xiang is indeed born with supernatural powers. Just one meal is like sailing a hundred miles against the current. According to this itinerary, you will be able to reach Yingtian Mansion by the second watch, hahaha."

"Then it doesn't matter, I'll go to Yingtian Mansion."

"Brother, let's eat first. After eating, I will wait for my brother to help you. See if you can go to Yingtian Mansion and put it in the inn before entering the shift?"

Luo Ziheng was completely speechless. It was unimaginable for Luo Ziheng to travel three to four hundred miles in two hours.Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian finished the meal, Xiang Xiaotian swung the oar, Chen Mengsheng pushed the stern of the boat with his hands on the vertical ladder, and he used eight steps to drive away the cicadas and fight against the qi.The wind under your feet pushed the boat like an arrow off the string, breaking through the waves and galloping in the river.

Luo Ziheng in the boat was so surprised that he couldn't speak. Fortunately, there were no other boats on the river, otherwise he was really afraid of collision.Shangguan Yanran was too scared to speak at first, watching the rapid retreat on both sides of the river, the strong wind on the river blowing up Shangguan Yanran's beautiful hair, gradually Shangguan Yanran got used to the speed and excitement on the boat like a butterfly generally ran from the front of the ship to the stern...

Two hours later, the boat docked outside Yingtian Mansion, and Chen Mengsheng took out a 50 taels of silver from his bosom and handed it to Luo Ziheng who hadn't recovered yet.

The three of them were overwhelmed by the prosperity of Yingtian Mansion when they first arrived in Yingtian Mansion.After entering the city, the night view of Yingtianfu is dimly lit, the streets are crowded with people, and the shops and restaurants are booming.Chen Mengsheng thought of the wind, food and sleeping in the past few days and found the largest Yuelai Inn in the city.After ordering a table of wine and food, the three of them went back to their rooms to rest after a hearty meal.

In the early morning of the next day, Chen Mengsheng asked where a car could be hired, the innkeeper laughed and said: "The guest officer must be a foreigner, there is a carriage in this inn."

Chen Mengsheng was overjoyed and said: "Shopkeeper, I am worried that I have no place to hire a car, so I will look for it again if it is so easy."

"I don't know where the guest officer is going?"

"Yangzhou Mansion"

"Ah, Yangzhou Mansion? Guest officer, let me say..." Before the shopkeeper finished speaking, a large ingot of ingot was placed on the table in front of the shopkeeper.

With a heavy reward, there must be a heavy husband. As soon as the shopkeeper saw the silver, he shouted to the assistant: "Ah Sheng, pack up the horses and prepare the cart. Send the three guests to Yangzhou Mansion, and ask for the fastest four-horse cart."

In front of the small Kung Fu Inn, a carriage pulled by four tall horses carried Chen Mengsheng and the three of them all the way to the north...

Chen Mengsheng couldn't help admiring in the carriage: This kind of carriage is faster and more comfortable than the donkey cart.Surrounded by an independent cloth curtain, the bumps on the road outside are not even felt in the car.

Two days later, the carriage got out of the car and woke up the three people: "Guest officials, Yangzhou Mansion has arrived." Chen Mengsheng got off the car with Xiang Xiaotian and Shangguan Yanran, but was attracted by a quarrel...

According to the reputation, the soldiers guarding the city gate were blocking the people who wanted to leave the city with their burdens on their backs. Chen Mengsheng and others came to the city.The soldiers stopped Chen Mengsheng immediately: "What are you all doing?"

Chen Mengsheng replied: "We are here to do business for our friends, please let us in."

"Go, go. Master Zhu, the magistrate of Yangzhou Prefecture, has ordered that no outsiders be allowed to enter the city. Go back wherever you came from."

Xiang Xiaotian cursed: "What kind of bastard talk is this? We came all the way here but couldn't enter the city. I think you are looking for beatings, and I am so mad." He rubbed his body and punched the guarding soldier out of the city. so far.The other soldiers outside the city saw that someone was going to be tough, so they ran out of the city with a loud shout. Two groups of soldiers surrounded Chen Mengsheng and the three of them, with their knives out of their sheaths and their arrows on their strings. It was a life-and-death struggle...