Chapter 41: Meeting the Eunuch Division in the River
The group of pirate thieves on the water was just a minor incident. After the group rectified their situation, they continued sailing towards the secret place.
Xu Qingmu's injuries were no longer serious, but Cao Dan still checked carefully for fear of leaving hidden dangers.
Ever since this little girl opened her heart to Xu Qingmu that night, she has not concealed her care for the boy. She has stepped forward to stand in front of him when fighting, and has taken care of every detail, including picking fish bones and tasting hot soup when eating. The fat man has been depressed ever since.
Unhappy, he got a fishing rod from nowhere and sat on the bow of the boat fishing all day long. Until he didn't catch any fish for three consecutive days. When Cao Dan discovered that there was no bait on the hook, the fat man shouted what he thought
A very talented poem: "I would rather teach you to catch a fish with an empty hook than to lick that stubborn donkey again." When Cao Dan heard it, he gave it a beating and dutifully hung up the bait.
Still found nothing.
The little girl brought by the boatman was indeed not his biological child. According to what the boatman said, about two weeks ago, the little girl named Cao Tong appeared alone at the pier. She was dressed in brocade and gorgeous clothes. She just thought she was a lady coming here to play.
She just got lost. The kind-hearted boatman took the little girl with him and went to the dock every day to wait for her family elders. But the little girl only said that her name was Cao Tong, and told that she had no father or mother, and the boatman had no children.
She recognized Cao Tong as her daughter and has been keeping her with her for the past two weeks.
The strange thing is that this seven or eight-year-old girl is especially close to Cao Dan. Even Ye Qingxian, who is about the same age, rarely communicates with her. What makes Xu Qingmu even more stunned is that this girl who is less than ten years old, first
As soon as she saw him, she felt very hostile to him. In Cao Dan's words, Xu Qingmu was led astray by the old beggar and Li Chengru. He had a rogue nature, so he was not in line with the little girl's liking.
Xu Qingmu didn't care about this at all, he just kept practicing the thorn leaf these days, and the thirty-sixth week of Beiming became more and more diligent.
Li Chengru liked Cao Tong very much. He followed him like a bull and a horse every day. He was chased and beaten several times by Cao Dan but never gave up. He still stared at the little girl with a smile and kept saying that he wanted to teach her how to practice swordsmanship. He also said that once Cao Tong
Holding a sword, with her talent, she is guaranteed to be able to enter the ten realms before she is twenty years old. Xu Qingmu was even more stunned, but before he could refute, Cao Dan gave him a cold look: "So you are better than that sword fairy Fang Yunyi
Still stronger?"
Li Chengru looked disdainful, but did not refute.
Perhaps because everyone was comparing Fang Yunyi to him every day, Li Chengru clamored that sooner or later he would have the opportunity to show off his skills and let the juniors open their eyes. With his two hands, he could truly make ghosts and gods cry with one sword, and immortals with two swords kneel.
.Even the fat man fishing next to him was a little helpless. He told Li Chengru that he really couldn't do it, so he just apologized in person and admitted that he was bragging.
He had good intentions, but was kicked out by Li Chengru. The fat man immediately joined the team that criticized Li Chengru verbally and writtenly.
On the seventh day of traveling, we met a "building boat" head-on. This was a real building boat. The seven-story attic was covered with nanmu on the ship's planks, and the top ridge was decorated with red tiles, green railings, and carved beams and painted beams.
There are people on every floor of the ship, but the higher you go, the more distinctive and beautiful the costumes of the people are. There is a graceful and noble man on the top floor, in his early twenties, holding a sandalwood hanging white jade fan, with the academy's logo and crown and ribbon on his head, wearing gorgeous clothes
She was wearing pajamas embroidered with gold silk and dragons, but her chest was open, and her face looked as lazily as if she had just taken a nap. Four or five beauties around him, wearing thin shirts, were kneeling on their knees, squeezing their legs and beating their waists.
The ravine is already narrow, and the boat on this floor occupies seven or eight times the width of the river. The two boats are heading in different directions, so a confrontation between the front and rear is inevitable.
The man was condescending, with a look of disdain on his face, and whispered a few instructions to the beautiful woman next to him. The almost transparent maid got up and went downstairs. After a while, an old man who looked like a housekeeper stood at the mouth of the boat and faced Xu Qingmu.
A group of people shouted: "My young master has an order, please step aside and execute it quickly."
Xu Qingmu raised his eyes and looked at the people on the roof, and ordered the boatman to pull the boat aside. The original purpose of this trip was just to visit the secret cave in the border fortress, so it would be bad to cause unnecessary problems.
But Xu Qingmu thought so, and the building boat took advantage of it. Just when the two boats were about to stagger, they suddenly collided with each other. Xu Qingmu's feet swayed for a moment, and the fat man was caught off guard and almost fell into the water. Hong Jiafu Santie and other sergeants,
He immediately held his halberd and prepared for battle. Even Cao Tong had an angry look on his face.
But Xu Qingmu didn't say anything, and no one acted rashly. After these few days of getting along, it seemed that the backbone of everyone's hearts had naturally become that twelve-year-old boy. A boatload of people looked at Xu Qingmu, waiting for his instructions.
When the two ships were completely separated, Xu Qingmu stared at the man carefully, then turned around and ordered everyone to continue on their way.
There was no objection. There was laughter from the boat behind him, mixed with a few unpleasant insults. Xu Qingmu's face was watery, and there was no sign of any mood swings.
The man on the roof of the boat changed from a smile to a deep thought. He went north to play and heard from his adoptive father that it was the wilderness battlefield where Prince Xu Pei was. As the adopted son of the eunuch Si Shouge, he had always been very concerned about the twelve-year-old
Xu Pei had resentment in his heart. In addition, Xu Pei joined the frontier fortress when he was seven or eight years old, repeatedly achieved military exploits, and was personally nominated by King Xu Yan with the word "brave", which made him even more unhappy.
When I saw Hong Jia on the boat today, I mistakenly thought that Xu Qingmu was the prince, so I deliberately made things difficult for him. He thought that if there really was a conflict, he would spend a lot of money to hire three sword cultivators from the Sixth Floor Pavilion to make peace with him.
It would be easy for a warrior who has already established his own foundation to teach him a lesson. As long as his life is not harmed, and his adoptive father can present a "ten thousand-character document" to His Majesty afterwards, it shouldn't be a big problem.
But who would have thought that after suffering such a huge insult, the boatman was unmoved and endured it forcefully. This made the graceful man feel worried. If only the prince Xu Pei could endure it with the temperament of a twelve-year-old
In this way, he will grow up to be an out-and-out tyrant in the future, and he will be a big hidden danger to himself and his adoptive father's plans, and even to the entire Eunuch Department.
The man picked up the maid next to him who was trying to untie her pajamas, reached in from her chest, and pinched her hard, causing the woman in her hand to moan in pain. The man then frowned, asked someone to take a pen, and ordered the woman
Lying down like a dog, he picked up a pen and wrote on his snow-white buttocks: This is what the prince should do. After seeing this, he felt very happy and laughed loudly. The waitress on the side was horrified.
Xu Qingmu, who had already missed the boat and continued to move forward, faced Hong Jia and asked: "People from the Eunuch Department?"
Hongjia remained calm, marveling at the good eyesight of the young man in front of him, and then replied: "Sir, it is Nalan Yu, the adopted son of the eunuch Si Shouge."
Xu Qingmu silently wrote down the name, his eyes flashing, but the red-armored general couldn't tell what he was thinking.
Regarding the distribution of forces in the DPRK, General Wang Ziyi informed him that the Eunuch Division was a hotly favored party around King Xu Yan. The leader, Nalan Zhijin, was even known as "Qi Dangguo" in the DPRK. About him
Legends in the world are extremely rare, but there are many rumors about his adopted son, Nalan Yu, who was cruel and domineering.
Xu Qingmu looked at the people behind him and secretly made up his mind to improve his strength as soon as possible.