The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 155 The Long Journey Home

The evening after half a month.

The cold spring breeze blows on the surface of the river not long after the ice breaks, causing waves of ripples.Ripples converge into a surging river, pushing the boats on the river to move forward slowly.

"Girl, Jiang Shangleng, come into the cabin quickly."

Ye Shenyan emerged from the cabin and beckoned Yun Ruochen to come in.

"I've warmed up the rum, and I've made sugar-coated eggs. Come and eat it while it's hot!"

As expected of Ye Shenyan, who has served Yun Ruochen personally for a long time, he knows her temperament too well, and knows that the only way to lure her is to use food.

Sure enough, Yun Ruochen immediately grinned into the cabin, and stretched out his hand to Ye Shenyan.The next moment, a small silver bowl was firmly supported on her frosty Saixue's bright wrists.

The hot sweet wine has a tangy aroma, but the taste of the wine is actually very light, more like the aroma of glutinous rice.This is last night, when they were mooring at a remote pier, Ye Shenyan bought it from the boatman of the neighboring boat, and it was a liqueur wine brewed by the fishermen themselves.

Yun Ruochen opened his lips and took a sip of the sweet wine. The taste may not be very special, but it is clear and pure, with a simple farm flavor.As a drink, it is still very refreshing.

After taking two sips of sweet wine, she scooped up the tender sugar egg nestled in the wine and took another bite.The semi-solidified egg yolk flows on the tip of the tongue, and the egg liquid full of aroma of wine and rice is smooth and intoxicating.

And the tofu-like egg white also has a unique flavor, it's hard for Ye Shenyan to control the heat so well - the temperature of the wine and the degree of doneness of the eggs are so just right.

She couldn't bear to finish drinking the sweet wine.I have been away from the island for more than ten days, and I am on the road most of the time, so I always eat a lot of dry food for three meals.Ye Shenyan knew that she was hungry, so he went to find some fresh food for her.

It's so sweet, my Shenyan is the cutest.

Gu Che was on the other side of the deck, "talking" with his beloved horse, Xiaomao.Their ship was of medium size, equipped with a boatman and a sailor, both of whom were normal servants, not Nie Shen's subordinates.

Nie Shen walked with them, naturally, wearing his extremely mediocre middle-aged mask.

The current identities of their group are: the three cousins ​​who are the master, Gu Che and Yun Ruochen; the steward, Nie Shen; the servant, Ye Shenyan; One, although the name is "Little Mao", what is even more sad is that its owner does not intend to change its name in this lifetime...

Oh, what is more handsome is the golden eagle named Xiaojin flying in the sky.If the boatman knew that there was such a flat-haired beast not much smaller than their boat chasing them, would they be so scared that they would stop doing business, abandon the boat and run away?

Originally, the two boat owners were not very happy to do this kind of business going north, so they kindly advised them not to go, and wait until the situation calms down.Who doesn't know how strong King Cheng's rebellion is now?I heard that they are almost reaching the root of the imperial city!
Moreover, there are many pirates nowadays.

This group of people also brought children and girls, and only a middle-aged housekeeper was taking care of them, not even a nursing home!Why do you still want to run to a dangerous place?
However, after Nie Shen silently put a heavy big ingot into the old boatman's hand, the old boatman still gritted his teeth and let's go because of the huge profit!

The world is not good, and the boatman's business is also difficult to do, and it will soon be impossible to solve the problem.Alas, when will the world be peaceful?
At this moment, the nearly fifty-year-old boatman and his little sailor, who didn't know whether he was a nephew or a nephew, were discussing the matter of war.

Listening to their worried discussion, the smile on Yun Ruochen's face faded a bit.

She put down the silver bowl, walked to the small bed in the corner of the cabin, and tucked the corner of the quilt for Yun Yao who was sleeping soundly.

Yun Yao has been a little seasick these two days, but luckily the boatman has seasickness medicine for the guests, so he poured Yun Yao a few bowls.But the problem with earth medicine is that it is too strong, Yun Yao doesn't vomit anymore, but he always feels sleepy.

The child who was only two years old was forced to wander around with her.

"Girl, don't worry, Xing'er's pulse is very steady."

Ye Shenyan comforted him.

In order to deceive others, he couldn't call her "Princess Princess", so he had to change her name.But to Gu Che, he still yelled "Ache, Ache"—his master is only the little princess, and everyone else is just floating clouds, floating clouds.

Dinner is the same as in the past half a month, and it is still eaten on the boat.The boatman has a small frying pan, which can cook simple food, but his cooking skills are far behind Ye Shenyan's, which makes Yun Ruochen, a spoiled foodie, very uncomfortable.

So most of the time, she would rather eat dry food made by Ye Shenyan.

But tonight's food was okay, because Ye Shenyan went to borrow a fishing rod from the little sailor in the afternoon, and unexpectedly caught two palm-sized whitebaits.Ye Shenyan borrowed a pot and oil and salt from the boatman, fried the fish until delicious, and poured a spoonful of fish soup that was smothered into snow-white by river water.

Yun Ruochen and Yun Yao shared a small bowl of fish soup.Yun Yao smacked his lips after drinking so much that he no longer suffered from seasickness, and his little face became a little angry.

Yun Ruochen hugged his younger brother distressedly, and couldn't stop rubbing his little face.Yun Yao is young, but he is very clever. He raised his neck and said to his sister in a childlike voice, "Sister, Xing'er is fine!"

"Well, Xing'er is fine."

Yun Ruochen hugged his younger brother even tighter.

From the island where they are hiding to the capital, the normal journey will take more than a month, and the water and land routes will alternate.Now that the war is raging, the journey is even more difficult.

But the situation was urgent, and Nie Shen also understood Yun Ruochen's desire to rush back to his father's side earlier, so he found the most convenient shortcut for her.

In this area, the power of Tingyulou is insufficient, and no suitable manpower can be found for the time being.But Nie Shen has already contacted his subordinates, and in a day or two at most, the people from Tingyulou will come to pick them up.

At that time, they can change into better cars and boats, and go faster.

"Someone is singing?"

Gu Che seemed to have listened vaguely, and then listened carefully, but there was no sound again.Ye Shenyan nodded and said, "It was singing just now..."

As soon as the voice fell, the clear fisherman's song rippled on the water again.At this moment, not only Gu Che and Ye Shenyan, but even Xiao Yunyao could hear clearly.

It was the late returning fisherman who was singing, tactfully and clearly. Although she couldn't hear what she was singing, she could still feel the girl's joyful mood.

On the bow, the boatman and the young sailor were also quietly listening to the unique tune of the fisherman, and they had long since stopped arguing about the situation of the war.

No matter how bad the environment is, there are always some naturally optimistic people who will infect those around them with their optimism.

There was a hint of tiredness in Yu Niang's voice, presumably it must have been a tiring day, right?Spring has just arrived, and the fish are still young, so not many can catch them online.The world is bleak and business is not easy...

However, the girl's mood didn't seem to be affected.The singing was louder and louder, echoing the sound of rushing water waves, adding some bright colors to the already dark night.

"Sister, you can sing for me too, okay?"

Yun Yao sucked his fingers and looked at his sister.Gu Che and Ye Shenyan unconsciously surrounded him, as if they hadn't heard Yun Ruochen sing for a long time.

"Okay, my sister will sing for you."

Yun Ruochen smiled, cleared his throat, and just remembered the tune, when he suddenly heard an exclamation in the distance!
The next moment, they immediately judged that it was the singing girl who was yelling something.

"what's up?"

Yun Ruochen was stunned for a moment, then looked at Ye Shenyan, who quickly left the cabin.

Before Ye Shenyan came back to report, Yun Ruochen heard the trembling voice of the boatman at the stern: "River... bandit, it's a river bandit!"

what?
Yun Ruochen's expression froze, he put his left arm around his younger brother, and immediately buckled the three copper coins in the palm of his right hand.

These days, in order to recharge her energy, she didn't bother to calculate the good or bad of the itinerary, and left the arrangement of the itinerary to Nie Shen.She believed that Nie Shen would try his best to get her to her destination.

But I don't know how many people there are in this group of river pirates?How is the combat power?

If he dared to come out to rob the boat when it was just dark, he must be quite confident in the strength of his gang.Another possibility is that the disbanded stragglers, who did not know where to fish a boat, began to act as river robbers.

"Ruochen, don't come out. It's nothing to worry about, just a small thief."

Nie Shen's deep baritone voice came to her ears, and Yun Ruochen's heart settled down a lot.However, she was still concerned about the screaming boat lady just now, and hurriedly raised her voice: "Master Nie, how is the girl?"

Nie Shen didn't respond, but the noise outside became more and more noisy.The commotion on the water became louder, and the boatman and the little sailor trembled and wanted to escape by rowing, but the boat turned around a few times and then turned back—presumably, it was surrounded by people outside?
So maybe the river pirates had more than one boat?
"Hahaha, there is another boat here!"

"Quickly rob this ship too! Hey, I wonder if there is a beautiful lady on this ship?"

"That little girl just now was quite succulent... One more robbery and we won't be lonely at night hahaha..."

The obscene and arrogant laughter floated over from the river pirates' boat.The boatman's sailor was completely limp and collapsed to the ground.

"Mice..."

Yun Ruochen shook his head, a sneer flashed across his mouth.Under Yun Yao's curious gaze, she lightly tossed the three copper coins in her right hand on the floor of the cabin.

Yun Yao couldn't understand the mantra she was chanting, but felt that her sister's speech was getting faster and faster, but her voice was gradually getting quieter.

"Well, it's a small matter."

Seeing the clear instructions on the hexagram, Yun Ruochen was not worried at all.

On the contrary, she was a little happy - a few days ago, she couldn't calculate the divination so quickly.It seems that my vitality has recovered very well!

Ye Shenyan returned to her side silently like a nimble cat, no need to ask, it must be Nie Shen who drove him back to protect his siblings.

"Shen Yan, remember to save that little girl. The others..."

Yun Ruochen sneered and said, "Just feed the fish."

Listening to those people talking and laughing, one knows that they have definitely done a lot of evil.She doesn't care about the origins of these river robbers, whether it's the disaster victims or the defeated soldiers, since they are looking for death and bumping into each other...then die.

As her sneer escaped from her lips, the fight on the river finally lifted the curtain!
(End of this chapter)