One day's drive, several days by water.
Qiong was also woken up by the waves in the cabin and felt dizzy. When she came out to get some air, she saw a person standing on the bow of the boat.
The surface of the river is so white that it is difficult to distinguish between clouds and mist, water and sky.
Qiong Yi walked to Yan Tingshen's side and said calmly: "Thank you for not exposing me that day."
"You're welcome." Yan Tingshen was severely seasick, and his face looked ugly. He had to hold on to the bow mast to feel better. That night, if Qiong Yi's symptoms were not very different from those of being infected by the "Lost Heart Gu", he would not have noticed that she was acting.
"Although the matter has passed, I am still glad that you were not poisoned." Yan Tingshen turned to look at Qiong Yi and saw her smiling bitterly: "Yes, fortunately Su Changming's stab was a little lower, and it only entered the boot. If I go up a little, I That’s the middle of the road.”
"I just made Sheng Jin worried and scared all night, and I... feel very sorry for it." She said, with a complicated expression on her face and a bad feeling in her heart.
Yan Tingshen raised his head and looked at the vast mist in the distance. He wanted to say a few words, you know that Brother Sheng has feelings for you, why do you still test him like this? How many times can the human heart withstand testing? Then she thought about the night she bumped into Qiong Yi, and the disappointment she felt when she heard other people's words, and replied: "At least you got the answer you wanted."
"Yes." Qiong Yi nodded, and after a long silence, she tiptoed back to the cabin.
On both sides of the cabin, there was a person sleeping on one side. Su Ye was wrapped in a thick quilt and fast asleep. Sheng Xuanyuan was sitting with his chest wrapped around his chest, sleeping soundly with his head hanging down. Qiong Yi quietly approached and squatted down beside him.
He slept very quietly, and even his breathing was very shallow. His usually tense and cold face looked particularly soft at this time. She looked at it carefully and thought to herself: When he was asleep, his expression was calm and well-behaved. While thinking about it, she raised her hand to pick up the hair that was hanging down on his right forehead and tied it behind his ear. The boat was swaying, and the hair fell back in front of his face, shaking slightly.
Suddenly a wave hit, and the hull of the boat shook violently, throwing Sheng Xuanyuan forward. He suddenly fell on Qiong Yi's body, and he woke up: "Huh?"
It was a small boat hired to save money. The cabin was small and narrow. The candlelight on the edge of the boat wall danced. It was dim. He only felt the softness under his body. When he stretched out his hand to stand up, he met her beautiful almond eyes, and he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. Stiff: "Qiong Yi? Why are you here..."
The tips of their noses were almost touching. Qiong Yi could smell the scent of cold wood and pine coming from his shoulders and neck in his collar. Her face turned red: "I..." She saw Su Ye who was still sleeping beside her. , pushed Sheng Xuanyuan, "Get up quickly!"
Sheng Xuanyuan didn't know whether he was a little confused because he was awakened by the boat, or he didn't want to move at all. In short, he didn't move.
"Aren't you resting at the other end of the cabin?" He sat down, completely covering her under him. He raised his hands and looked at the person under him. Qiong Yi's face turned red and he hesitated: "I..."
Sheng Xuanyuan just wanted to tease her, but when he saw her twitching her lips like this, he felt that he couldn't go on anymore, so he turned over and sat up. Qiong also saw that he finally got up and climbed up in a hurry. She straightened the broken hair on her forehead and touched her chest. She felt as if her heart was about to jump out.
"What's wrong?" Sheng Xuanyuan asked her.
Qiong Yi waved his hand and said with a smile, "Nothing! I just wanted to see if you were awake, so the boat bumped twice."
"...such a coincidence."
"Haha, yes, what a coincidence, I didn't expect it." Qiong Yi pushed him back to his original position: "You can continue to rest." Sheng Xuanyuan sat back to his original position and looked at her, feeling the affection he gave her Looking at her, Qiong also walked to the end where she was resting, and sat down against the cabin with her back to him.
Why does it seem like he was flirting with her... Qiong Yi covered his face and gritted his teeth, thinking to himself.
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As night fell, Qiong Yi took out the small candlestick he bought in Mingfu Street, lit the candle core with flint, and placed it in the cabin of the ship. When she arrived at Cangshui tomorrow, she would need to change boats to continue south. She walked to the stern of the boat to meet the boatman fishing alone and continued her conversation with him.
"Uncle, how many fish did you catch tonight?" Qiong also looked at the fish basket behind the boatman and said to him.
The middle-aged boatman, wearing thick clothes and a big bamboo hat, responded with a chuckle: "Yes. There are many!" After saying that, he said to her: "It's windy and cold on the boat, go back to the cabin and rest! "
"I'll go back after a while." Qiong Yi looked at the dark river water. The small lamp hung by the boatman at the stern of the boat could not illuminate the river surface under the water vapor, and he could not clearly see the float under the fishing rod.
"Those bastards asked for a bottle of wine that I had left for a long time. What were they doing on the bow of the ship?"
Qiong also replied: "I'm just showing off."
"Why don't you go?"
"I don't want to be sworn brothers and sisters with different surnames."
"Them?" The boatman shook the fishing rod in his hand and joked: "The little girl is not very old and can ride three boats backwards."
"What, how could it be three?" Qiong Yi turned his face and said, "One."
She curled her lips: "Just one."
bow.
Su Ye laughed and called the two people beside him to sit on the ground, took three bowls and arranged them neatly. "The three of us have known each other for a while." Su Ye opened the wine jar and seemed to be reminiscing. "Although it's been less than half a year, but counting the experiences of these few days, it can be said that we have been together through life and death."
Yan Tingshen picked up the bowl to receive the wine poured by Su Ye, and heard him continue, "I still remember the day I first met Brother Yan, you also came to receive the wine poured by me." Su Ye said this, and Yan Tingshen also remembered , and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you won't get to know each other."
Sheng Xuanyuan took the bowl of wine from Su Ye and said, "I'm not good at getting along with others. It's a blessing to get to know Brother Yan."
"No, it's ridiculous." Yan Tingshen waved his hands quickly, "I can't stand Brother Sheng's praise." He paused after speaking, "I wanted to meet you before I came to Yize. At first I heard that you were cold and cold. He is also aloof and arrogant, so getting along with him is not like what the rumors say."
After hearing what he said, Sheng Xuanyuan replied: "Thanks to Su Ye's introduction." He looked at Su Ye: "Su Ye, we know each other..."
"It's been more than ten years." Su Ye blurted out: "We can be called family friends. Although the relationship between the two clans has not been good, we rarely see each other and mostly exchange letters, but we are indeed one of the few close friends of mine."
Hearing that he was a close friend, Sheng Xuanyuan lowered his head to drink. Su Ye laughed when he saw this: "Sheng Xuanyuan, you are easily embarrassed! I'm telling the truth." Yan Ting turned his head and couldn't help but chuckle.
Sheng Xuanyuan coughed, "Stop teasing me."
"Then tonight, the three of us will worship here." Su Ye raised the bowl in his hand and said.
The two responded and added wine to the bowl.
The three of them sat on their knees, holding up their glasses of wine. The river was surging, the wind was rustling, and the sound of oaths of loyalty could be heard from the vast river.
"My name is Yan Yuan."
"My name is Su Ye."
"My name is Sheng Kyung."
The three of them said in unison: "We became brothers with different surnames on the Ming River." Then they sprinkled the bowl of wine in their hands on the river, then filled the bowl again, and the three of them looked at each other and drank it all.
"From now on, we will share the blessings and share the hardships." Su Ye wiped the wine stains from his lips and said.
After the three of them reported their ages to each other, Yan Tingshen was the eldest, Su Ye was the second, and Sheng Xuanyuan was the youngest. Su Ye immediately put his arm around someone's shoulders and asked Sheng Xuanyuan to call out for his brother. Sheng Xuanyuan shook off his hand and rolled his eyes at him.
Yan Ting smiled deeply and said: "From now on, Su Ye, I'll call you by your first name. Xuanyuan, I'll call you by your first name."
Sheng Xuanyuan nodded in agreement.
"I really want to do this, indulge in the world, and travel around the world." Su Ye casually sat on the edge of the boat and looked towards the river: "When spring comes next year, I will return to Qingfeng Town."
"When the class is over, let's go for a walk together?" He turned around and said to Sheng Xuanyuan and Yan Tingshen, who were standing where they were, "Oh yes, there is Qiong Yi too."
Since leaving Mingfu, Su Ye followed Sheng Xuanyuan's call and called her "Qiong Yi", and Yan Tingshen also followed suit. Qiong Yi couldn't bear to hear it at first, but then she thought that everyone lived and died together, so she couldn't just let Sheng Xuanyuan shout her name, so she let them go.
In the end, Sheng Xuanyuan was the most unhappy.
"Su Ye, come down." Sheng Xuanyuan saw that he was getting stronger from drinking and was afraid that he would accidentally fall into the river, so he pulled Su Ye off the edge of the boat. After the others drank all their wine, they returned to the cabin to rest. Su and Yan were so drunk that they soon passed out. Qiong could also hear Su Ye saying something like "one more bowl" in his mouth. She found the quilt and pressed it on the two of them, but saw Sheng Xuan Yuan was not drunk at all, so he couldn't help but curiously asked: "Sheng Kyung, are you not drunk?"
Sheng Xuanyuan rubbed his cheeks that were cold after just being washed: "Well, I can drink pretty well."
"Uncle the boatman has to keep watch at the bow of the boat in the middle of the night." Qiong Yi said without saying anything. Sheng Xuanyuan understood what she meant, put on his clothes and left the cabin. She was looking for an opportunity to talk to him alone along the way, and finally got one, so she called him out.
Qiong Yi's fair face seemed to glow under the night light. She said, "Are we sworn brothers?"
"Yes." After Sheng Xuanyuan for a long time, he said with difficulty: "I call them my brothers."
Qiong Yizhen didn't expect that he was the youngest and laughed out loud. She patted his arm while laughing. Sheng Xuanyuan was not angry after being laughed at by her. Instead, she helplessly spread her hands and asked, "Is there anything you want to tell me?" ?”
"Of course." Qiong Yi hesitated, "As for the tattoo on Dorna's back, you suddenly asked me that day if you knew about me..."
Sheng Xuanyuan was startled: Oh no. That day, I just wanted to finish the question quickly while Su Ye and Yan Tingshen were not paying attention, and forget about it.
"...Yes." He scratched his head, his face flushed, "The night you left Yunliang Pavilion, you fell into the water and your collar slipped down, and you accidentally saw it."
Qiong Yi thought to himself, this is indeed the case.
"Isn't that scar ugly?" she asked casually.
Sheng Xuanyuan thought she was here to ask questions, but Qiong Yi's reaction was completely different from what he imagined: "How could it be?" He blurted out, it was indeed an extremely ugly scar, but on her shoulder, he would only I feel distressed.
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The Mingfu chapter is over~The next chapter is the Confession chapter~"
