Jiaohua

Chapter 166 Please eat candy
The boat floated so fast in the river that the horses on the bank could not catch up with it, let alone they had to go down the mountain.

When it was still in the middle of the mountain, the small boat had already drifted to the end of the line of sight. The girl on the small boat seemed to stand up and look at the road independently from the bow. The thin and small figure made Li Xiao gnash his teeth.

"Are you still chasing, young master?" Lin Zongqi asked, feeling that it was not realistic at all.

Li Xiao looked at the shadow of the boat going away, and said coldly, "Luo Rui!"

"Master." Jin Wei responded immediately.

"Take [-] people and track them along the way. You must know where they went. At the same time, go to the Shoushi station and fly pigeons to pass the letter, so that all the checkpoints in the vicinity pay attention to them. I don't believe I can't find her!"

Luo Rui paused, and then took the order: "Yes!"

He reined in his horse and turned around, ready to leave, when Cai He stopped him: "Wait a minute!"

Cai He looked at Li Xiao: "Young master, it is not appropriate to go to the post station for this matter. Don't forget our purpose of doing this. We can only use the hidden guards in the house."

Li Xiao was agitated for a while, and continued to go down the mountain: "Go and deal with it!"

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The dike was completely broken downstream, and the flood flooded towards the villages in the north. Scores of fields and houses were submerged, but at the same time, the water potential was also shared.

After more than an hour, the speed of the boat gradually slowed down and became calm, so Lao Tong and Zhi Changle started rowing manually.

Both of them were covered in sweat now, especially when the water was at its most urgent just now, they even felt that they were about to fall into the river.

Xia Zhaoyi got up again, covering his browbones with his hands, blocking the sun in the sky.

When the boat gradually approached, she finally saw clearly the criss-crossing channels in front of her.

This is where the currents converge, and many rivers and rivers flow towards this side, some of which are very fast and some of which are slow.

She looked one by one, judging the topography of the valley and the width of the upper reaches according to the height of the terrain, the direction of the water flow, and the shape of the river bank.

Soon, Xia Zhaoyi turned to look at Old Tong: "Old Tong, get ready, we are going to change lanes."

Old Tong looked up at the distance, nodded: "Okay! But which way shall we go?"

Xia Zhaoyi stretched out his finger to the front left: "Over there."

"Okay!" Lao Tong shouted.

Xia Zhaoyi's design and leverage on the oars allowed them to get twice the result with half the effort, making paddling very easy.

And an hour of "pushing the boat with the current" also gave them a lot of hand feeling, and their sense of direction in controlling the oars became much stronger.

The small boat went to the river over there. Because of the headwind, the forward speed slowed down. They passed through a mountain, and the two banks turned into continuous high mountains. .

"It's really beautiful here." Zhi Changle said.

Xia Zhaoyi smiled and nodded: "Yes."

She looked around, feeling really relaxed and happy.

Moreover, after arriving here, the water has stabilized a lot, so she doesn't have to stay here to watch the road all the time.

Xia Zhaoyi withdrew his gaze, turned around and went to the middle of the boat, and began to work in a pile of logs.

I was on the road for three consecutive days, and stopped at the shore to rest at night.

At noon on the fourth day, we stopped by an ancient mountain stream and were about to abandon the boat and hike.

Both Lao Tong and Zhi Changle were a little bit reluctant. They had worked so hard to build the boat for so long, and they threw it away as soon as they said it. It was so distressing.

Pang Yi was more indifferent than them, looked at the boat and said, "It has saved us a lot of roads, it's not for nothing."

"It's not a matter of making it for nothing, it's our hard work." Zhi Changle said.

Pang Yi shook his head lightly and stopped talking.

Old Tong withdrew his gaze and said, "Let's go, I just think it's a pity that it took so long to build and it only took four days."

"I remembered that sentence, raising soldiers for a thousand days, and using them for a while." Zhi Changle said.

Old Tong paused slightly, then lowered his head and went over there to lead Qingyun.

When he heard the word "soldier", he felt unable to lift his head.

When the deserter incident first happened, he didn't feel anything other than fear.

Now, the more time passes, the more I feel bad in my heart, blame myself, feel guilty, call myself a coward, cowardly.Especially after Peifeng's accident, he saw the blood and corpses floating on the river, he felt that he was really not a man.

That day on the riverside, he had knelt three times and kowtowed nine times with Zhi Changle. When he was rowing these days, he was thinking, were these people kneeling at that time, or did he want to seek peace of mind for himself?

Old Tong couldn't tell, so he had no choice but to comfort himself. Anyway, following the Marquis of Jing'an had no way out, and both left and right were helping the tyrant. It's okay for such a soldier to be wrong.

Well, it's okay to be inappropriate.

Old Tong muttered again in his heart.

"Pang Yi," Xia Zhaoyi turned around and said at this moment, "Come and sit on Qingyun's back."

Pang Yi paused, looked at Qingyun, and then at the little girl.

"Not anymore." Pang Yi said.

"You are not in good health. If you don't ride a horse, you can't bear it by walking alone." Xia Zhaoyi said.

"...It's okay, I don't ride a horse."

"It's nothing," Lao Tong shouted, "Go up and sit, and I'll hold you here, what are you afraid of!"

Xia Zhaoyi was curious: "Have you ever fallen off a horse?"

Pang Yi shook his head: "No, I, I just don't ride a horse."

Old Tong said "Hey", and then he heard that his statement seemed wrong: "What do you mean you don't ride a horse? You don't want to ride, don't you know how to ride?"

Pang Yi glanced at him, but didn't speak.

Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "Forget it, let's just walk, there is a market in front, we can find something to sell later, and then go to the horse farm to the east to change a carriage. Pang Yi, can you take a carriage?"

Pang Yi frowned, his resolute face showed some embarrassment, but it was really hard to refuse, so he nodded: "Okay."

"Then let's go." Xia Zhaoyi said.

Zhi Changle and Lao Tong hurriedly followed Xia Zhaoyi.

"Ali, you said making money, how do you make money?"

"If you want to change the carriage, it will cost a lot of money, right? At least ten taels of silver, right?" Zhi Changle also said.

"Looking for something to sell, what are you looking for?"

"But I think Ah Li should be able to make money. I don't believe it is someone else, but Ah Li can definitely do it!"

Xia Zhaoyi smiled: "Go on."

Then he threw out a piece of broken silver like a magic trick.

The arc flashed in the air, Zhi Changle hurriedly reached out to catch it, he was stunned for a moment, and then raised the broken silver to the sky.

"It's true!" Zhi Changle exclaimed.

"My lady treats you to some sweets." Xia Zhaoyi smiled, then turned and left.

"Ali, where did you come from?" Zhi Changle hurriedly chased after her.

Old Tong also chased after him: "That's right, why do you have so much money?"

These two pieces of silver are enough for them to use for a long time.

"How can there be so much money?" Xia Zhaoyi smiled as he walked, "It's only one tael in total, and there are still a few copper coins left. What if I don't want it?"

"Farewell, farewell!" Not to mention the few copper coins, even the piece of silver in Zhi Changle's hand, he dare not take it.

"Haha!" Xia Zhaoyi quickened his pace, "Then let's go!"

(End of this chapter)