The sun is high in the sky and noon has arrived.
The woman in blue and the boy in short shirt had been resting in the forest for about an hour. Then a man from the caravan trotted to the foot of the mountain to call the two of them down the mountain to meet the caravan. It was unknown whether the caravan manager had been there for more than an hour. Make something happen.
Yue Hanzhi put on his curtain hat and held the rapier in his right hand as a stick, preparing to get up and move forward. It was a bit inconvenient to move. Lin Manliu was about to step forward to help and said, "Miss Yue, it's better for me to help you down the mountain...".
"No, I'll do it myself." A somewhat stubborn voice came out from under the hat of the woman in blue.
Unexpectedly, she had only taken a few steps. Perhaps because the hillside was too steep and she was wearing a hat that affected her vision, she almost fell. The boy in a short shirt hurriedly caught her as she was about to fall. In the end, Lin Manliu had to help him go down the mountain to join the caravan.
When the caravan manager saw the two people leaving the cherry blossom forest, he hurriedly greeted them and said with concern: "Little brothers Manliu, this is the boundary of Yangfeng Valley. It's a comfortable rest. If you want to rest for a while, I will let everyone go again." Stay a little longer."
Didn't he just say not to stay for a long time before he was in danger, but now he had to arrange a rest. I couldn't help but wonder whether this steward was too arrogant or too sure of his escort ability to be so attentive.
"It is no longer necessary to rest in the realm of these Jianghu sects. It is better to leave as soon as possible. By the way, the heroine who came to help will be with us for a while. I don't know if it is convenient." Lin Manliu refused him at first. He asked again after thinking about it.
"Of course there is no problem. If the heroine is kind to our caravan, you can do whatever you want." The caravan manager waved his hand and said.
"Thank you very much..." The woman in blue nodded her hat.
"Thank you, steward," the boy in a short shirt thanked him.
"That's right... Brother Manliu, why don't you go wash up and change your clothes?" The steward asked with concern after finishing discussing the arrangements. Only then did the boy in short shirt realize that his blood-stained clothes were different from those just now. I didn't wash my face well, so I asked for a water bag and packed myself up to go to the woods to wash and change clothes.
I don't know when the caravan's itinerary and rest arrangements began. The caravan stewards gradually began to ask about this kid who they didn't like at first. The caravan men were also convinced. When the woman in blue saw this scene, she felt very strange. Could this person be the young master of the caravan or what his identity was? However, both the manager and the other escorts in the caravan all called him Manliu Little Brother, and it seemed that there were no superiors or subordinates. divided.
The woman in blue wearing a curtain hat was helped by the boy in a short shirt to sit on the carriage where she was sitting. The boy in a short shirt walked beside the carriage and looked forward. The woman on the edge of the carriage looked at the young man in front of her. He should be older than I think I'm fourteen or fifteen years younger. It's not easy to go out and practice like this. I combed my hair back in a ponytail, and there were some sideburns and bangs that couldn't be tied up scattered on both sides of my forehead. , changed into a new set of clothes, but the style was still the same as the previous one, with short shirts and cloth boots, only changed from gray to black, which in his own words meant they were stain-resistant. Because his whole body is black, the black cloth strips on his back and the mountain swag around his waist seem to blend in with him.
"Lin Manliu, where are you going? I'm passing Yuezhou on my way to Jiangning, but I'm on my way." Yue Hanzhi leaned by the carriage door and looked at the young man in front of her.
"By the way, we are going to Hangzhou. We should go to Hangzhou for delivery after passing Huangshan Mountain. By then it should still take half a decade. Miss Yue can rest in peace and recuperate." The boy in a short shirt was obviously surprised by such a coincidence. When I arrived, my hurried reply was a little too fast.
"That's good." After saying that, the woman in blue seemed a little relieved and took a nap against the carriage door. She was not worried that the boy in short shirt or someone in the caravan might have any uneasy thoughts about her.
Everyone's footsteps were quite fast, and they were far away from the boundary of Yangfeng Valley in a short while. Ever since they encountered those mountain bandits, it had been a smooth journey, and they had not disturbed the Yangfeng Valley disciples here. Lin Manliu couldn't help but sigh, finally You didn't meet someone somewhere, right? It seemed that the people in Yangfeng Valley had already encountered the strange woman he saw in the rapeseed field in advance.
On the way, there were caravan men who came to talk to the boy in short shirts, and he answered them one by one. He was able to talk and laugh when talking with these men who were a generation older than him. I don’t know whether it was because he was from the same hometown or because he was really They were very talkative. Although their banter with each other sometimes contained some naughty words, when it reached the ears of the woman in blue who was leaning against the carriage door, she felt that it was a kind of comfort. It was much more than her previous travel experiences. Some peace of mind.
It was not until evening that the caravan found a village according to the map, and planned to rest here tonight. At the post station at the entrance of the village, they handed over the caravan horses to the store for feeding, and everyone entered the inn station to prepare for dinner.
Yue Hanzhi borrowed a black cloth robe to cover her body in order to prevent the people in the village from noticing that her wound was being bandaged and causing bad influence. The caravan men were chatting and laughing at the dinner table, telling stories about their resistance against the bandits during the day. The man who did not dare to resist was forced to drink alcohol to make amends, as if this was a way to laugh away the grudges.
"Ruan Laosan, why are you acting like a coward during the day? Why are you so timid behind us when all six of us are doing it? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha" said a bearded man patting the cowardly man.
"I...my feet are just numb, otherwise I would also like to help the six little brothers," Ruan Laosan said after holding back for a long time.
"Come, come and have a drink. If I don't give you all a drink today, I won't give you a spanking in a while."
"Yes, yes, give me a drink! If you don't dare to lift a knife and drink, you should."
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"You all keep your voices down, look at your little talent, who didn't get beaten to pieces and finally started fighting after watching the six little brothers killing everyone?" the caravan steward scolded at the wine table nearby, and smiled as soon as he finished speaking. He turned to Lin Manliu and Yue Hanzhi, who were sitting at the same table with him.
The young man in a short shirt could only nod to him and continue eating. Yue Hanzhi, who was wrapped in a black robe, did not eat much. He just covered his face and drank some tea and continued to remain silent. When the boy in the short shirt was eating a bowl of rice and preparing to serve another bowl, the woman in the curtain hat coughed and looked at her after hearing the news. She saw that the curtain hat was tilted and pointed towards the guest room of the inn.
Lin Manliu could only put down his bowls and chopsticks with an aggrieved look on his face, bid farewell to the caravan steward, and supported the woman in the curtain hat to the guest room where she was resting. I don’t know whether the caravan manager made a mistake or there were too few guest rooms in the inn. Although the arrangement at the dinner table just now was to give him a separate room without having to live with the men, it did not specify where Yue Hanzhi would rest, so he had to leave it. He left his room to Yue Hanzhi, and planned to continue to find the caravan men to make do with it at night.
"Miss Yue, please rest here. I'll go live with the uncles at night. I'll go downstairs and chat with them for a while." The boy in a short shirt helped the woman in the curtain hat to the table and chair and prepared to go back downstairs.
"The room here is yours. Just come back and rest at night...the bed belongs to me. You can figure it out yourself." The voice under the curtain said hesitantly.
"Ah..." Lin Manliu was a little flustered.
Yue Hanzhi took off her curtain hat as she spoke, and saw her face again, with eyebrows like distant daisies and eyes like stars. She looked at the young man in front of her and frowned and said: "I don't think anything of it. Why are you being pretentious here? Yes, it was really uncomfortable to wear this robe just now. I can't pick up vegetables for dinner. Do you have some dry food with you and give me some later?"
The young man in a short shirt had no choice but to agree, and went downstairs to the carriage to pick up his parcel and asked the store for a pot of tea and water to go upstairs.
Since the attack in the mountains, there has been no danger, as if I had stolen half a day of leisure from the difficult journey eastward.
