Volume 1: A Youth's Journey, Long Journeys and Ambitions, Chapter 27: A Rare Half-Day of Freedom
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. I don’t know where the caravan manager was during this more than an hour.
Make something happen.
Yue Hanzhi put on her curtain hat and held the rapier in her right hand as a stick 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, let me 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 her down the mountain to talk to Shang.
Team meets.
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 why did he have to arrange a rest now? 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 a last resort 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.
After thinking about it, he asked again.
"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 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 since when, regarding the caravan’s itinerary and rest arrangements, the caravan stewards gradually began to ask about this kid they had not expected at first, and the men in the caravan were all convinced. The woman in blue felt very strange when she saw this scene.
It's strange that this person is the young master of this caravan or something else, but both the manager and other escorts in the caravan call him Manliu little brother, and there seems to be no distinction between superiors and subordinates.
The woman in blue clothes 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 set of clothes, but the style was still the same as before, with short shirts and cloth boots, but changed from gray to black. In his own words, it was stain-resistant. Because the whole body was black, the black cloth strips and waistband he carried on his back were
The mountain walks seemed to blend into 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 recover." 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 the 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, and finally
You didn't meet someone somewhere, right? It seemed that the people in Yangfeng Valley had already met the strange woman he saw in the rapeseed field in advance.
On the way, there were no caravan men who came to talk to the boy in short shirts. He also 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 genuine.
They were very talkative, and although their joking words sometimes contained some naughty words, when they reached the ears of the woman in blue who was leaning against the carriage door, she felt that it was a kind of comfort, which was much better than her previous travel experiences.
Got 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 inn at the entrance of the village, they handed over the caravan horses to the inn for feeding, and everyone entered the inn to prepare for dinner.
Yue Hanzhi borrowed a black cloth robe to cover her body in order to prevent her bandaged wounds from being noticed by the villagers and causing a negative impact. The men in the caravan were talking and laughing at the dinner table, telling stories about their resistance to the bandits during the day.
The man who dared to resist was forced to drink wine to make amends, as if this was a way to laugh off the grudges.
"Ruan Laosan, why are you acting like a coward during the day? Why are you so timid behind us when we have six little brothers doing it? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha" a bearded man patted the cowardly man and said.
"I... I just feel numb in my feet, otherwise I would also like to help the six little brothers." Ruan Laosan held it in for a long time and said something.
"Come, come and have a drink. If I don't give you 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."
...
"You all keep your voices down, look at your little potential, who didn't get beaten to pieces and finally started fighting after watching Man Liu's little brothers killing everyone?" the caravan steward scolded at a nearby wine table, 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 boy in the short shirt could only nod to him and continue to eat. Yue Hanzhi, who was wrapped in a black robe, did not eat much. He just covered his face and drank some tea and continued in silence. When the boy in the short shirt finished eating a bowl of rice,
When he was about to fill a 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 the dishes and chopsticks with an aggrieved look, bid farewell to the caravan manager, and supported the woman in the curtain hat to go to the guest room. I don't know whether the caravan manager made a mistake or there were too few guest rooms in the inn. Although the dinner table was arranged just now,
It was to give him a separate room so he wouldn't have to live with the men anymore, but he didn't specify where Yue Hanzhi would rest, so he had to leave his own 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. You can 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 brows 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, what are you being pretentious about here?
By the way, I felt really uncomfortable wearing this robe just now. I couldn’t pick up food for dinner. Do you have some dry food with you? 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.
Chapter completed!