Yutai Bi

Chapter 66 Leave
He jumped into the water lightly like a fish, and swam towards the boat lightly until he saw King Teng standing by the side of the boat.Her body seemed to be softened by the river water, so soft that she almost couldn't grasp Cen Sanniang's cloak.

"Kong Qing! What is in your hand!" Teng Wang suddenly shouted.

Kong Qing's heart trembled, she let go of her hand, and the long cloak was about to float away down the river.He was startled, and quickly reached out to grab it, and summoned up his courage to reply, "The little one only found her... cloak."

King Teng watched the cloak rippling in the water in silence, and said coldly: "If you live, you want to see people, and when you die, you want to see corpses. If you can't find them, you can come and see them!"

"Yes!" Kong Qing replied deeply.

He handed the cloak to the guards beside the boat, took a deep breath, and swam along the river.

Cen Sanniang curled up in the reeds and did not move.She is tired.In the middle of the night, she had nowhere to go.The wide reed beach by the river is the safest place.

She walked in and found a place to curl up on the dry ground.If there are snakes, they are basically non-venomous snakes.Just hide for one night and enter the city at dawn.

Opportunity awaits those who are prepared.

Before she left Longzhou, she made an appointment with Fang Ming.He handed over the mulberry garden in his hand, and exchanged [-]% of the shares for Fang Ming's promise to open a shop in Longzhou.

When she and Liu Niang arrived at Hongzhou Mansion, Fang Ming had already opened a grocery store at the entrance of the alley of the Army Mansion.The nanny took Si Niang and Liu Niang's car into the city to go to the Canjun Mansion, received Fang Ming's letter at the grocery store, and left Cen Sanniang's promise.

King Teng took Cen Sanniang away.The Cen family understood, and told the Fang family that Cen Sanniang was ill and was taken to another garden by Princess Teng to take care of her, and proposed to withdraw the marriage on the grounds that Fang Ming would not be delayed.Fang Ming and Cen Sanniang are only 13 years old.There are still two years left between Cen Sanniang and Yan, and Fang Ming will be 20 years old.If Cen Sanniang couldn't afford to be ill, maybe Fang Ming would still bear the reputation of being a wife.

Fang Ming told Cen Sanniang in the letter that Fang Cen's family had broken off their engagement.He is a smart man, with Cen Sanniang's reminder, he will not let the Fang family fight against a prince.But this does not hinder the agreement between him and Cen Sanniang.The grocery store remained open, leaving a way out for Cen Sanniang.

On the ninth day of September, on the Double Ninth Festival, parents are worshipped, and they climb high and look far away.

Cen Sanniang made an appointment with Fang Ming that on this day, the grocery store would arrange a carriage to stop at the foot of Meiling Mountain in the outskirts of the city, and wait until the sunset.No matter who comes up, as long as they hold Cen Sanniang's token, the carriage will drive to Chang'an.

Cen Sanniang had thought about it whether she was in Cen's mansion or Tengwang's Bieyuan, and Tengwang had no reason not to let her go to Meiling to climb high.Even if she is not allowed to go, she can arrange for the nanny and Baicao to go for her.Only by sending them away from a distance, there will not be even the last soft crack in her heart.

Cen Sanniang wrapped her arms around herself.Fortunately, the weather has not yet entered autumn, and the drenched clothes are slowly dried by the body temperature, and it is not particularly cold.

There was the sound of rushing water not far away.Cen Sanniang looked out through the gap in the reeds.Kong Qing came ashore from the water.

"Third lady." Kong Qing called softly.

Cen Sanniang pushed aside the reed: "I'm here."

Kong Qing breathed a sigh of relief, and strode over.

There were people searching along the river, but he dared not start a fire.Water dripped down from his drenched body, Kong Qing didn't feel the slightest discomfort.He frowned at her, and squatted in front of her: "You can't stay here for long, it's easier to be discovered by dawn, I'll carry you on my back."

Cen Sanniang didn't move, and asked him softly: "Kong Qing, pretend you haven't seen me. Even if I was found, I can still explain that I was washed ashore. I can't implicate you."

"I can't let you stay by his side." Kong Qing looked at her quietly, "I have already made a choice, and there is no way out for me."

Cen Sanniang wanted to ask why.Just pity her and sympathize with her?

A new grocery store opened at the alley entrance of Canjun Mansion.That shop was opened when you arrived in Hongzhou, and the shopkeeper is from Longzhou.The prince guessed that it was opened by the young master of the Fang family. " Kong Qing sighed.

When a bucket of cold water was poured on her head, Cen Sanniang shivered, realizing that she still underestimated King Teng.She nervously asked Kong Qing: "If I leave with you, will Nanny and Baicao be in danger?"

"If you go back, you will never have the chance to leave again. The prince will not be stingy to use them to make you obedient. Can you be ruthless to the Xu family and Baicao?"

Cen Sanniang couldn't.She obediently lay on Kong Qing's back.

He walked quickly, like a bird flying among the reeds.The hot air from his body came through through the wet clothes, Cen Sanniang leaned her face on his back, and heard Kong Qing's steady heartbeat.Before she fell asleep, she thought in a daze that Kong Qing never betrayed King Teng because she sympathized with herself.But she also made a choice, and there was no way out.

Cen Sanniang vaguely heard voices and woke up in shock.

It was the darkest time before dawn, the surroundings were pitch black, and the shadows of the village houses not far away could be vaguely seen.A few steps away, Kong Qing's voice came in a low voice: "...we have to leave now, we can't wait for dawn."

She sat up and couldn't help sneezing.

Hearing the sound, Kong Qing walked towards her, bent down to hug her, and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry for what happened."

Cen Sanniang was not pretentious, she silently leaned in his arms.She glanced at him secretly, her blue eyes were bright in the night, her cheeks were tense, revealing a resolute expression.This look reassured her.

There was a thin, small man leading the way ahead.He carried two big bundles on his back and led them to the river.

Pushing aside the reeds revealed a small black boat, the man threw the burden into the cabin and untied the cable: "Young master, it is maintained with tung oil every year, I never thought it would be useful again. "

Cen Sanniang felt the sadness and reluctance in that man's words.She was very curious about the relationship between Kongqing and that person, it sounded like this boat was a long-prepared escape tool.Cen Sanniang couldn't help but wonder, is this the way out that Kong Qing prepared for himself?

Kong Qing carried her onto the boat, placed her in the cabin, stood at the bow and whispered to the shadow.Holding the long penny in the water, the Wu Peng boat left the reed beach and rowed into the river.

Cen Sanniang saw the thin man in the reed stall knelt down and kowtowed.The boat went farther and farther, and the man didn't get up, and slowly melted into the night.

Kong Qing never looked back, his figure standing at the bow of the boat was as straight as a javelin.The technique of maneuvering the boat is extremely skillful, and the boat goes down the river at a very fast speed.

Isn't he Prince Teng's personal servant?Cen Sanniang is full of curiosity about Kong Qing.

At this time Kong Qing suddenly remembered, turned around and said apologetically: "There are clean clothes in the cabin baggage, Sanniang can change them. It's just better not to light the lamp."

"Understood." Cen Sanniang touched a bundle, opened it in the night, and saw that it was a linen blouse.She lowered the curtain of the Upon boat mouth and groped in the dark to put it back on.She untied her bun, wiped it with the clothes she had changed, and braided it in the back of her head.

"Go to bed, I'll call you." Kong Qing didn't say much, tapped the penny in his hand, and the boat sailed on the river.

Cen Sanniang couldn't sleep, so she raised the curtain, sat in the cabin and looked at him: "Where are we going?"

Kong Qing replied softly: "Let's go along the river to Poyang Lake to hide for a while, and then go to Chang'an. The feudal king is not allowed to enter Beijing without being summoned. The prince's power in Chang'an is the weakest."

Cen Sanniang snorted and stopped talking.

After a while, Kong Qing coughed lightly to break the silence: "Why do you trust me?"

Cen Sanniang looked at him with her chin propped up: "Why did you take me away?"

Kong Qing looked ahead, the sky had already turned white, and the clouds could be vaguely seen showing a faint warm orange color.He didn't answer, and the penny in his hand was tapped more urgently, and the boat galloped towards the bright direction like an arrow leaving the string.

When we arrived at Poyang Lake, the sun was rising, and the sky and the earth were brilliant.The water and the sky are the same color, and the lake is boundless.

"It's so beautiful!" Cen Sanniang stared at it bewilderedly.With such a bright scene, she really couldn't think of King Teng's cruelty and any conspiracy.

Kong Qing rowed the boat into a patch of reeds, as if he was very familiar with the waterways here, the boat shuttled through the waterways among the reeds, and finally stopped at a shore after half an hour.

He jumped out of the boat and fastened the cable.

Cen Sanniang consciously picked up one bag, and then another.

Kong Qing couldn't help laughing, and stepped forward to take the two bundles from her hand: "This place is no better than the city, I'll be wronging you for a while."

"Have you lived here before?" Cen Sanniang followed him and subconsciously asked.

Kong Qing hummed, and led her through the reeds on the bank.

A thatched hut was erected on a higher place on the sandbar, and beside it was a low-rise locust tree with a crooked neck.There is an earthen stove under the tree.There is a water tank under the eaves, an iron pot hanging on the wall, and a bamboo basket with a cover placed underneath.

Cen Sanniang walked over and lifted the lid, and saw that there were bowls and chopsticks inside.It looked a little dirty, but it was cleaned up carefully.

The hut is small with only two rooms.There is a wooden table and a few benches outside.There are several pottery jars by the wall, and a bamboo couch under the rear window.Fishing nets, ropes, and the like hang on the walls.

After entering the house, Kongqing put down her burden and went into the inner room.

Cen Sanniang followed and leaned against the threshold to watch him.

There is a bed in the middle, covered with straw mats.Kong Qing picked up a roll of reed mat from the wall and put it on, opened the big wooden cabinet beside the bed, took out the quilt and pillow and spread it out: "It's all new, Hei Qi will come to change it every three months. You rest Well, it's safe here. I'm just outside, call me if you need anything."

(End of this chapter)