Lanke Chess Edge

Although Yin Qing and Hu Yun didn't understand what Mr. Ji was up to, they knew that Mr. Ji must have his own reasons for doing things, so they hurriedly followed Mr. Ji when he urged him.

When I went back, I felt a little faster than when I came. After returning to the cargo lane of Lao Huashan, I could already see some teams driving ox carts, donkey carts, and horse-drawn carts, carrying goods, luggage or guests back and forth, like Ji Yuan and Yin Qing. Naturally, there are many people who walk.

Walking on the road, Hu Yun frequently looked at the lotus leaf bag in Ji Yuan's hand. He remembered that these dried lotus leaves were bought from the store when he bought pancakes in Jiudaokou County. He didn't expect that they were used to hold fish. The red fox instinctively felt that the fish was not simple.

On the other hand, Yin Qing, besides looking at the fish in Ji Yuan's hand occasionally, also looked behind Ji Yuan frequently, and after walking for a while and saw that there were no pedestrians and horses beside him, he couldn't help asking Ji Yuan in a low voice.

"Mr. Ji, what about the sword that appeared in your hand just now, why is it gone now?"

Yin Qing looked at the cloth bag that Ji Yuan was carrying, it was obvious that such a small bag couldn't fit a long sword, and the shape was also wrong.

"You are talking about the Ivy Sword, this sword is unwilling and must not be shown lightly to others, it is hidden in a place where it cannot be seen."

"oh…"

Mr. Ji's ambiguous answer meant that he didn't want to elaborate, so Yin Qing gave up.

"But that sword is so beautiful, and the verdant green feels so agile. Once you see it, you know it's definitely a magic weapon, right Mr. Ji?"

Ji Yuan smiled before he had time to speak.

"Om..."

A burst of sword cries sounded vaguely, Yin Qing and Hu Yun heard faint tinnitus, and couldn't help looking left and right, but they couldn't find the source of this strange feeling, only Ji Yuan said "hey" twice. make a sound.

The cargo lane at Laohua Mountain was dug along the gentle terrain on the side of the mountain, and it didn’t take much effort to shuttle to the ferry at the other end.

Even though Ji Yuan and Yin Qing were walking at a normal walking speed, they arrived at the ferry by the Xiaoshun River outside the mountain before noon.

Yin Qing still had pancakes and snacks bought in Jiudaokou County in Yin Qing's bookcase, so they didn't plan to eat in the shops and restaurants at the ferry, but went directly to the ferry.

It was still early when Ji Yuan came to this ferry, but now it happens to be the busy time of the ferry, with all the boatmen loading and unloading the cargo and the boatmen attracting guests.

The atmosphere of a place like the pier made Hu Yun, who was lying on the bookcases, a little nervous, especially those muscular boatmen who carried wooden boxes and big frames with their bare arms and leather pads. An inexplicable sense of oppression, I always feel that this box will come and hit me, and I blame Yin Qing for telling the story of the villagers fighting spirits together.

Ji Yuan took Yin Qing up and down the ferry, and Yin Qing felt that Mr. Ji was looking for something.

"Mr. Ji, are you looking for something?"

Ji Yuan walked around, but couldn't find the small passenger boat back then, and he didn't know if the boatman and his son stopped doing this business, or if they had already left the boat and just missed it, it should be the latter.

Facing Yin Qing's question, Ji Yuan smiled.

"It's nothing, just take a look, do you two want to take a big boat or a small boat?"

"Big boat!" "Small boat!"

Two voices sounded one after the other. Yin Qing and Hu Yun had a rare disagreement. Yin Qing wanted to take a big boat, while Hu Yun wanted to take a small boat.

Yin Qing turned his head, and happened to meet a slightly perturbed fox face, and changed his words to Ji Yuan in a daze.

"Mr. Ji, it's better to take a small boat. There are few people and it's quiet."

"Okay, then we'll take the boat!"

Leading Yin Qing to the side of a small passenger boat that was similar in style to that of the boatman and his son back then, Ji Yuan greeted the man who was dozing on the deck with a straw hat on his face.

"Boatman, does this boat go to Chunhui Mansion? Boatman..."

After calling twice, the boatman took off his straw hat and straightened up to look at Ji Yuan and Yin Qing who were standing on the dock. They looked like two scholars.

"Boater, do you want to go to Chunhui Mansion?"

Ji Yuan asked again.

The boatman scratched his face and head again, and answered a little leisurely.

"Two-two boats can be chartered, and you can wait for passengers and pay, but only eight people can be seated."

Look at the hidden energy and blood hidden in this man's body, he should be a good martial arts practitioner, but the premium is a bit too much, Ji Yuan waved his hand.

"Two taels? This Jizhou is free from disasters and has plenty of supplies, so the boat fare will not increase so much, how about chartering the boat for 200 Wen and then chartering meals on board?"

The boatman leaned out to wash his face with a cup of water by the river, and fixed his eyes on the shore.

"Hey, I'm still a knowledgeable person. How about this? If the guest officer charters the boat and leaves immediately, he will pay two hundred cash. If he is going to wait and pay the passenger, then the final total fee will be four hundred cash. How about it?"

Ji Yuan nodded.

"Okay, let's go straight to the boat, we charter the boat!"

"Okay, the guest officer is a straightforward person, hey, wait a minute, young man, be careful, I will give you a springboard!"

Hearing that Ji Yuan was ready to charter a boat, the man's attitude became warmer, and he was busy setting up the planks on the boat so that Yin Qing could step on the gangway to get on board.

When Yin Qing boarded the boat with the bookcase on his back, the boatman also reached out to help him, but when Yin Qing stepped onto the boat, Hu Yun jumped from the bookcase onto the boat.

Although the red fox was extremely light, when it landed on the board, the boatman still frowned, looked around subconsciously, and then called Ji Yuan to board the boat.

"Boatman, are you the only boatman?"

Ji Yuan looked back and forth on the boat, and there was no second person on the other side of the inner warehouse, so wouldn't there be no one to take turns.

"Hey, it's the next person. Don't worry, Mr. Big. I'll take three days for others, and three days for others. I can't slow down!"

While talking, the boatman had already untied the ropes on the pier, and propped the boat away from the shore of the pier gradually with bamboo poles.

"Sit tight, sit tight, let's sail! Hey~~~~yo~~~~"

The energy and blood of the boatman's body rose sharply, and his muscles became clear when he swayed vigorously, and the whole boat swayed violently from side to side and sailed away from the pier.

Yin Qing's center of gravity was unstable on the boat, so he quickly sat down on the stool in the cabin to stabilize himself. Even the red fox, who was on the boat for the first time, lay on the stool and hugged the stool with its front and back paws.

Only Ji Yuan stood firmly in front of the barn, looking at the surface of the Xiaoshun River, without even shaking his body, causing the boatman behind him to squint his eyes for a while, wondering if he had misread it.

The strength of this man's rowing is obviously stronger than that of the old boatman back then, and he had already reached the intersection of Xiaoshun River and Chunmu River in the afternoon.

However, just like the boatmen back then, the boat also stopped here. The man walked from the back to the front and took a long harpoon from the cabin, with a long rope attached to the handle of the harpoon.

"Two guests, please wait a moment. There are a lot of big fish in the estuary. Tonight's meal is pointed here!"

Both Yin Qing and Hu Yun couldn't hide their curiosity, they went outside to watch how the man speared the fish, and Ji Yuan also smiled and stood by the mast.

In the past, some small and large boats passed by, and some small boats stayed here, either casting nets or throwing poles.

The boatman stared intently at the water surface, exploring the subtle changes in the water through the sparkling light. If a novice might not be able to judge where the deep and shallow fish are because of the refraction of light, it is obviously not a problem for this boatman.

"Mr. Ji, why is he standing still?"

"Shh... look at it!"

As soon as Ji Yuan finished speaking, the boatman suddenly moved, his muscles seemed to bulge in an instant, and he threw out the harpoon with a strong momentum.

Whoosh~ "Boom..."

The water splashed, and the harpoon flew out one foot and shot obliquely into the water. Only the handle of the one-handed harpoon sticks out of the water.

"Hahaha... hit!"

The man laughed, and quickly pulled the rope back. After a while, a big silver carp that was still shaking was pulled up.

"Good skill!"

When Ji Yuan praised him, Yin Qing also called it "awesome".

There were sporadic applause from a little distance away, and following the sound, a large ship happened to pass by, and the passengers on board also saw this scene, and applauded from afar.

"Hey hey, it's too much, it's a living on the water!"

The boatman didn't stop, thinking that one silver carp was not enough to eat, so he took the silver carp off the fork and put it in a wooden basin beside him, and raised his fork again to concentrate.

This picture made Ji Yuan inexplicably think of Runtu and Yun, the poses were the same as the pictures in the text of his previous life.

A large silver carp weighing four to five catties and a grass carp of about the same size were harvested by the man, and then he happily went back to row the oars, sailed the boat out of the mouth of the river, and headed towards Chunhui Mansion.

There is no wind on the river today, and the sails are useless, but the boatman's enthusiasm for rowing the oars has not diminished from the beginning to the end. position, Ji Yuan called to stop.

"Boater, stop the boat!"

"Ah? If the guest officer is in a hurry to urinate, he can solve it directly at the bow of the boat facing the river. Facing the shore, there are forests and wilderness on the other side, and no one will see him!"

Ji Yuan can't laugh or cry.

"Boater, I didn't mean to relieve myself, we'll rest here tonight, let's go tomorrow!"

"ah?"

The boatman looked at the sky and was a little puzzled. With the speed at which he swung the oar, he could have sailed a long way before breaking down.

Ji Yuan cupped his hands and explained.

"When I passed this section of the river back then, some interesting things happened. Now I am touched by the scenery, and I want to stay here for one night as before. I would like to trouble the boatman to make it easier."

The boatman scratched his head in the back, and returned a salute.

"All right, all right, you are the patron, you can do whatever you want! Hey, scholars are troublesome..."

The first half of the sentence was answered loudly, and the second half of the sentence was murmured and complained softly, all of which were heard in Ji Yuan's ears verbatim.

Since Ji Yuan insisted on requesting, the boatman dropped anchor and stopped the boat here, started handling the two fish in advance, and then took out the stove to prepare meals

Before sunset, the boatman had already prepared meals. The two fish dishes were steamed fish with sliced ​​ginger and some sauces prepared by the boatman. However, after the meals were prepared, Ji Yuan borrowed the stove and casserole from the boatman. He said he was going to carry it to the bow of the boat to make soup.

The boatman also took a look out of curiosity, and found two palm-length silver fishes in a large pot of water. He didn't know where they came from. Maybe there was a small tank in the bookcase. It seemed that the fish were still alive. Yes, although it turns its belly when entering the water, its cheeks and fins still move occasionally.

"Uh, guest officer, do you want me to help you deal with these two fish, gills and internal organs..."

"No, no, that's fine!"

Ji Yuan smiled and rejected the boatman's kindness, which also made the latter dumbfounded, saying in his heart, 'These nerds are really nerds! '

The sky was getting dark gradually, Ji Yuan, Yin Qing and the boatman were eating with bowls in the cabin, Hu Yun was lying on the table staring with greed, occasionally Yin Qing "accidentally" dropped a piece of fish, which could not satisfy Chi Fox Appetite.

One thing the boatman was very happy about was that the gentleman surnamed Ji took out a pot of Qianrichun during the meal. This kind of famous wine was not cheap, and the boatman who drank it felt a little embarrassed, after all, this wine was more expensive than the boat fare.

After eating almost, the boatman went to the bow of the boat to have a urinate, Yin Qingcai hurriedly filled a bowl of rice, poured sauce and fish soup on it, put a spoon on it and put it on a stool.

With lightning speed, Hu Yun grabbed the spoon with his paws, and swallowed the rice into his mouth. There are too many delicious meals in An County.

After the boatman untied his hands, he went to the other side to scoop up some river water to wash his hands, and then went to the bow to add some charcoal to the stove.

"The taste is quite fragrant... Mr. Ji doesn't seem to have added any seasoning..."

The man's nose twitched, and he couldn't help but wrap his hands with his cuffs to prevent the scalding. He lifted the lid of the casserole to look inside.

Immediately, a strong fragrance overflowed from the inside, and it smelled like numbness all over the body. Looking inside, the two fish had disappeared, leaving only a silvery white transparent pot of soup.

"Clatter..."

Suddenly there was a sound of water on the surrounding river, the boatman was awakened, and immediately closed the cover inexplicably guilty, and looked at the river a few feet away, the ripples were slowly dissipating.

"Clatter..."

This time the sound was in front of the bow, the boatman suddenly crossed a few feet away, looked towards the direction of the water pattern, and faintly saw a blue light flashing away, and the movement of the water pattern was not small, it was definitely not like an ordinary fish.

Even if he possesses martial arts, the boatman still feels nervous. Could it be that there really is a Shui Gong?