Chapter 45 Flying Fish Robe

Fang Jie got into the carriage and threw the horizontal knife aside, took the wine bag from Mu Xiaoyao and drank it hard. The big dog outside the carriage waved the whip, allowing the carriage to speed up and keep a distance from the Hongxiuzhao convoy. There is no doubt that if he chased after him and walked with the Hongxiuzhao people, he would be more relaxed in dealing with the danger along the way. After all, there was a perverted old lame man on the Hongxiuzhao side.

Although this old lame man has never shown any extraordinary strength, Fang Jie is sure that an old man who can protect the entire Hongxiuzhao alone will never be a living bag. You must know that Hongxiuzhao has so many bells and swallows, and has there been fewer things in recent years to attract bees and butterflies?

Since the old lame man can withstand it with all his strength, it is definitely not as unbearable as it shows.

"Now it is certain that he is from the Great Sui court."

Fang Jie put down his wine bag and found that his palms were a little wet.

"If I hadn't made any mistakes in the speculation, something must have happened to Fan Gucheng."

Mu Xiaoxiao's body stiffened and he subconsciously looked at Fang Jie. However, he saw that the young man who had never looked sad had his eyes moistened. Fang Jie was the first time Mu Xiaoxiao had seen this in fifteen years.

"Maybe...it's just your own random thoughts."

She could only comfort her.

Fang Jie slowly shook his head, his voice a little hoarse: "Even I don't know my life experience myself, so the court used such a powerful killer to collude with the people who had pursued us before. Moreover, the Sui court has always been arrogant and strong to the outside world, and it is impossible for him to collude with people from other countries because of a small person like me. So it becomes much simpler to speculate... I just said that the reason why the court killed me must be because someone did not want me to enter the Martial Arts Academy."

"I don't have any secrets that scare them. If I had to say anything, it would be easy to think of Li Xiaozong. The people who died in Fan Gu that night should have been sent by the court. The reason I wanted to kill me was because the court had to inspect the case of corruption in the border army. In order to escape, Li Xiaozong put all the blame on me and tried to kill me to clear himself. But if those people died, Li Xiaozong would definitely not be able to explain to the court."

"What I am thinking now is what method did Li Xiaozong use to cover up this matter. Too many people knew about this matter that day, and all the soldiers of the border soldiers knew... If you want to hide it...unless..."

He paused for a moment, and seemed not to want to continue talking.

"Unless you kill all the border soldiers and then make up an excuse for war to occur? And you are the only person in the border soldiers who are still alive, so there must be someone in the court who is unwilling to enter the imperial capital. If you want to hide such a big case, it is definitely not something that a yamen in the Ministry of War can do. I said why are you so unlucky? After hearing this, I can only say to you Wuliang Fuck Heavenly Lord."

This was not what Mu Xiaoyao said, nor was it a big dog.

But Xiang Qingniu.

Fang Jie was stunned and looked at the fat Taoist who lifted the curtain and got into the carriage.

"When did you get in the car?"

Fang Jie asked in surprise.

Xiang Qingniu rubbed his nose and said proudly: "I have told you a long time ago that I am a very high-ranking master. Not to mention a broken carriage like you, there are two guards who are barely considered ordinary masters. Even if I want to enter the world's best-selling place, no one can stop me."

"certainly……"

Xiang Qingniu sat down and took out some food without hesitation and hugged it in his arms: "It's because my stomach is so hungry that I can't stand it, and my body is floating and I can't ride a horse. Although I am a top expert, I will tremble all over when I'm hungry and I will even tremble my hands and feet. This tastes so uncomfortable. So when I feel hungry, I have to eat. So... I'm not deliberately eavesdropping on your conversation, but coming to find food."

Fang Jie was silent for a while, and took the greasy and cold roasted chicken legs from his hand, took out a small paper bag from his arms and handed it to Xiang Qingniu: "If you feel this way again in the future, you will eat two pieces of this."

"candy?"

Xiang Qingniu opened the paper bag and couldn't help but curl his lips: "You can't stop being so stingy? Will you feel sorry for me if I eat a pheasant leg?"

“This works.”

Fang Jie was too lazy to explain what he wanted.

Xiang Qingniu glanced at Fang Jie suspiciously. He, who originally disliked eating sticky candies the most, began to tremble because his hands and feet gradually began to tremble. The feeling of panic in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he had to grab it and stuff it into his mouth. When he wanted to continue eating, Fang Jie stopped him and wrapped the paper bag back and stuffed it into his arms.

"Enough, sit quietly for a while and it's fine."

Xiang Qingniu was stunned and couldn't help but say in surprise: "Do you understand medicine?"

"I don't understand, but I happen to know what's wrong with you. I had this problem a long time ago, so I just had a few candies."

"What disease is this?"

"It's a bit difficult for me to explain to you. Simply put, you can understand it as stomach sugar loss."

Fang Jie pointed to the big dog outside the car, then pointed to Mu Xiaoyao and said, "He has stomach and meat loss, she has stomach and alcohol loss... It's not a serious illness, but it's very uncomfortable to deal with it."

After a while, Xiang Qingniu was surprised to find that the symptoms of weak hands and feet had really disappeared, which made him feel a little more admiration and more delighted.

"In the future, you don't have to see anything stuffed into your mouth. Just carry a pack of candy with you and you will be able to do it."

Fang Jie said lightly.

"How should I thank you? Otherwise, I would let you get into the exam easily during the Martial Arts Academy exam?"

"Don't come to this... Tell me who those assassins were before."

"This...is a secret...oh don't rob my candy, I said it's not okay?"

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Maple Forest Ferry

This is the largest ferry that you must pass when you go from Xiangcheng to the imperial capital. After taking a boat from Fenglin Ferry to pass Xiangshui, you will leave Longxi County and enter Hedong County. Xiangshui is one of the five most famous rivers in the Sui Dynasty and the largest river in the western part of the Sui Dynasty. The narrowest part is also a hundred feet wide, and the waters of Fenglin Ferry are the smoothest part of the Xiangshui River. There are dozens of ferries traveling back and forth every day.

On one side of Fenglindu trestle is a reed marsh, and many people fish here every day. If you have good luck, you can catch dozens of fish in the Xiang River in a place with many people a day. It is said that a long time ago, an old man once caught a big fish more than ten meters long on the side of the trestle. The fish was called Iron Head and was extremely powerful. I don’t know why he bit the hook and pulled the old man into the water from the shore.

This iron-headed fish is something that many people on board have seen such a big fish showing the back of the river. If you encounter it, you must throw down the pig's head that is necessary for the river boat, which is considered a filial piety to the river god.

But this story has been passed down for many years. Originally, the big fish was the protagonist, but later it changed its flavor for some reason. The most popular version now is that the old man held the fishing rod in one hand and pulled out the big iron head more than ten meters long from the river.

The iron-headed fish was extremely fierce, and its steel teeth were full of their mouths. The old man reached out and pointed out a golden light that hit the big fish's head, and drank in his mouth: "God beast! Why don't you hurry up and surrender!"

Then the big fish gradually shrank, and finally turned into a human form and worshipped at the foot of the old man. The old man thought that he was not evil in nature and accepted him as his disciple. Since then, he has no trace of traveling far away.

This story is so vivid that many children along the coast would go to the river to rub soil to incense every day, kowtow to the east, hoping that one day the old man would come and take them as his apprentice.

Legends are legends, and they cannot be true.

But in the past few days, a middle-aged man fishing here a few dozen meters away from the pier. The man brought a big hat and a gray cloth dress. He came with a bench, a fish basket and a fishing rod every day, and sat for the whole day. He could not catch a few fish every day, but his interest was still unabashed.

The local ferryers were careful to find that since there was a middle-aged man fishing on the shore, there were also many people setting up stalls near the trestle, all of whom were strangers. Some people accidentally discovered that there were many rare war horses tied in the secret place in the forest behind the reed marsh.

The middle-aged man who was fishing didn't talk much. Occasionally, someone would go over and say a few words politely and then leave. So this person attracted the idea of ​​the fishermen. Someone went up to talk to the man and the man was very easy-going. He spoke politely, and he could hear that he was speaking with the accent from the capital. This accent is called a Beijing movie by the people, with clear pronunciation and very different from the local accent.

This man looks very ordinary, and if he walks into the crowd, he will never attract other people's attention. Such people may encounter hundreds of people every day when walking in a bustling city. He has a medium figure, neither fat nor thin, nor has a beard. Even if he sits by the river for several days, he has not been tanned. His face is pale and looks sick. He has a sword eyebrows, broad eyes, a tall nose, and a slightly cold lips. He should be a very beautiful guy when he was young.

However, although there are many wrinkles on the corners of your eyes now and there is always a hint of fatigue between your eyebrows, you are still very charming and seem calm and composed.

Every day at noon, someone will deliver food to him. The food is not luxurious and exquisite. It is almost just a few plates of stir-fry, but there must be a fish, whether it is fried or fried.

And wine.

Most of the people who ferrymen are good at drinking, and you can smell the aroma of wine from afar. So someone shamelessly picked up a piece of bacon and smiled at him to ask for wine. The man did not refuse, and always smiled and nodded, and then left the fisherman to drink with him. So gradually, the man met many friends in Fenglindu.

But there is one thing that makes people feel unsatisfied is that the person only needs a pot of wine for each meal. Whether ten people drink or one person drinks, they will no longer drink after drinking this pot. Even if the fisherman takes out his own wine to persuade him, he will never touch it.

So the fishermen finally reached a consensus... This is a good person and a weird person.

This person appeared at noon on the sixth day of Fenglindu. His family came to deliver the meal and the pot of fine wine as usual. The one who delivered the meal was a very young man with handsome eyebrows and strong figure. Although he was wearing a cloth clothes, he was very clean and refreshing. The only disadvantage was that the young man blinded his right eye. There was a scar that straightly crossed his right eye, from his forehead to his jaw.

Everyone thinks that this must be the son of the middle-aged man. So everyone says that this young man is very filial and comes to deliver meals to his father on time every day.

The young man with one eye blind put down the food box, lowered his head and whispered a few words.

The middle-aged man who was fishing nodded slightly and waved his hand. The young man turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man pointed to the hem of the young man's cloth robe and said in a plain tone: "Tianbao... Do you remember why your eyes were blind?"

The young man named Tianbao shook his body, and his eyes were filled with uncontrollable fear: "I will return to the tutor, and I will never forget my humble position."

The middle-aged man nodded: "Next time I make such a low-level mistake, I will blind you in the other eye. If you keep both eyes blind, it will be useless for me to keep it."

The man whose real name is Gao Tianbao immediately leaned over and hid the brocade robe with a corner exposed inside.

This brocade robe is very beautiful, dark red, and silver lines are faintly visible.

Even if people in the officialdom in the imperial capital only see a corner of the brocade robe, they will recognize it and feel terrified.
Chapter completed!