Xianyang Bridge

Chapter 3

Naturally, he couldn't hide anything from him, and Uncle He didn't intend to hide it from him. After the ferry docked at the pier, Uncle He raised his voice and asked, "The man who is wanted by the Taiwei's mansion will come later, the Eighteen Lords are chasing him, can Daxia Qi want him?" Prevent me from crossing the river?"

Before Qi Shaoshang could answer, a carriage rolled up on the deep stone road. The young man sitting on the shaft saw Qi Shaoshang and said something to the carriage in a low voice. Qi Shaoshang didn't hear clearly, and the carriage was going Wei Huan brushed past him and rushed directly to the ferry.

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The carriage got on the ferry, and the boat sank a full inch. Qi Shaoshang's eyes flashed sharply. The carriage looks ordinary on the outside, but it has such weight.

After the carriage came to a complete stop, the owner of the mansion store clasped his fists and saluted the young man driving the carriage, "Young Master Qi has a smooth journey, and my subordinates are going now."

The young man nodded indifferently, and said, "Going to Guanshan for thousands of miles, there are many dangers and obstacles, so take care of yourself."

The boss didn't say anything more, he jumped off the boat and hid in the night. Qi Shaoshang saw that Uncle He had untied the cable and was about to leave the bank to cross the river, so he hurriedly said, "Wait a minute!"

"What orders does Hero Qi have?" Uncle He asked, but his subordinates didn't stop, and the young man also looked at him coldly.

Qi Shaoshang knew that they were worried that the eighteen statues would go and come back, so he said very quickly, "Sir, will you never come back after this trip? I have something to worry about crossing the river, can you give my brother a ride?"

Uncle He didn't dare to make his own decisions, he stopped his hands and looked at the young man, the young man turned his head to listen for a while, and said to Uncle He, "Let him hurry up." He actually refused to say a word to Qi Shaoshang.

Qi Shaoshang secretly felt that these members of the Demon Cult really acted secretly and were different from ordinary people. He heard He Bo said that he would ask Hero Qi to go and come back quickly, and he stopped talking. He went and returned, and boarded the ferry unceremoniously with Lei Yun in his arms.

At night, the rain became heavier and the wind was colder. Uncle He was wearing a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat and swayed away from the shore. The young driver was still sitting in the driver's seat, holding a whip in his hand, and water droplets condensed on his temples and eyelashes. He didn't see him raising his hand to wipe it, he only focused on looking at the deep night, as if he was listening to the movements of the eighteen statues on the shore, and didn't care about the extra Qi Shaoshang and Lei Yun.

The water surface of the Bian River is wide, and this ferry boat is big enough. Qi Shaoshang carried Lei Yun into the cabin and found a place to put him down. Hearing the sound of the rain hitting the awning above his head, the suspicion in his heart rose again. stand up.

He found an umbrella from the cabin, propped it up to the deck, the two steeds smelled the smell of strangers, and flicked their tails uncomfortably, Qi Shaoshang touched the horses' necks twice, and looked back to see the young man sternly He fixed his eyes on his hand, raised his eyebrows, retracted them with interest, and turned to look at him and the carriage behind him.

The two horses are black, the carriage is also black, even the clothes of the young man driving the carriage are black, he looks at the curtain of the carriage slightly shaken by the wind behind the young man, and has the impulse to open it to see what is inside. who is it.

As the ferry gradually reached the middle of the river, the current became turbulent, the body of the boat swayed, the horseshoes pulling the cart stomped back and forth on the deck a few times, and the carriage swayed accordingly, Qi Shaoshang calmly moved half a step towards the side of the carriage, Before seeing what was going on in the carriage, the young man who had been sitting with his legs hanging down suddenly retracted his legs and sat cross-legged directly in front of the carriage, completely blocking the carriage.

Qi Shaoshang stared at him, the young man turned his face blankly,

At this time, an eagle's cry came from the night rain, and the three people on the boat raised their heads. Qi Shaoshang suddenly shouted, "Breeze!"

The young man who was sitting cross-legged swayed, and suddenly turned to look at him. Qi Shaoshang waited for a moment, but there was no reaction on his head. He was a little disappointed, and raised his eyebrows at the young man from under the umbrella, "Don't be nervous, I'll just call out whatever I want."

"Huh!" The boy snorted in a low voice, and ignored him.

"Little Qiye," Uncle He looked at the sky worriedly and said to the young man, "Old Huang warned the police just now, did they come after him?"

The young man looked to the other side, "We have crossed the middle of the river, they can't see us in such heavy rain."

The two of them hadn't finished their conversation when there were faint human voices from the ferry, which could not be heard clearly through the wind and rain. It seemed that there were quite a few people. He Boqi said, "It's so fast, why didn't you hear the sound of the horse?"

The boy frowned and looked at the river bank, and said, "Let's hurry up."

Uncle He quickened his movements when he heard the words, and just after shaking it a few times, a fire suddenly burst out in the direction of the ferry.

Under the flames soaring into the sky, the ferry had no place to hide, and was spotted by officers and soldiers on the other side. After a distant and noisy shout, two fireworks shot into the air. Qi Shaoshang seemed to hear someone in the car sighed softly and turned On the head was the worried face of the boy named Xiaoqi who frowned.

"Uncle He, it should be faster." The young man said.

"Yes, Little Qiye." Uncle He no longer cared about the fireworks in the sky, nor looked at the fire across the way, he bowed his head and rowed on the dark river.

Qi Shaoshang silently watched the fireworks dissipate, and then looked at the fire on the opposite side. From a distance, he could see that the fire was connected together. It was obvious that the houses of several families at the ferry were all on fire. There were faint figures walking around in the fire, and the cries could not penetrate. Wind and rain, only a few sporadic howls remained at the bow.

Qi Shaoshang murmured, "It's those Haozhou people who sell tung oil."

These few Bozhou people arrived at Taojin earlier than him and Lei Yun, and they were also trapped on the shore like them. Qi Shaoshang once heard them discuss that if the boat can't be repaired, they will return to Shunchang The government sold the tung oil, and bought some other goods to return to the hometown. It is better to earn less than to lose the capital.

I'm afraid that this fire will burn them to nothing.

Fortunately, these officers and soldiers only used the fire to find the traces of the ferry, and did not kill them indiscriminately to force them to go back. Qi Shaoshang glanced at the young man and the old man who were standing still in the wind and rain, and thought in his heart, maybe those officers and soldiers also know that killing them will not make them go back. forced back.

These members of the demon sect have the wish to save the world, but what they do is cold-blooded and ruthless. They really are very evil.

He Bo and the boy named Xiaoqi didn't know what Qi Shaoshang was thinking, they had no time to care about other things when the fireworks started, they were just worried that their tracks would be exposed and the road ahead would be even more difficult.

The speed of the boat crossing the middle of the river was much faster, the fire on the other side was still there, the pier was already seen from here, and after sleeping most of the night, Lei Yunzhong's puffer fish poison had almost dissipated, when the boat docked, Qi Shaoshang arrived Calling him from the cabin, Lei Yun was still a little dazed, "Brother, where are we?"

Qi Shaoshang said angrily, "The underworld."

"Brother amuses me again!" Lei Yun turned over and got up, suddenly remembered what happened last night, just about to speak, the boat suddenly moved, almost threw him to the ground, Qi Shaoshang looked back, it turned out to be the carriage After getting off the boat, head north along the ferry official road.

Coming and going in such a hurry, I don't know if I can avoid Tiqi's pursuit. Qi Shaoshang stood at the bow of the boat and watched the people and the car go away. He also had very complicated feelings about this sect that believed in light but was called the Devil's Cult.

He was born in a reckless rivers and lakes, and was falsely accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason. He has lived through countless lives and deaths to this day. He has his own views on the good and evil in the rivers and lakes. , thinking that all these Mingjiao people should be killed.

In the past few years, he has also taken over some cases related to Mingjiao in the Shenhou Mansion. Among them, there are good and evil, loyal and treacherous. He has never seen the truly heinous ones. people.

The only thing he can't get over is what Mingjiao did in the south of the Yangtze River. Perhaps what Bo He said is also reasonable. The Mingjiao's army was indeed to let the people have a way to survive. They had no intention of doing evil, but the final result was not like this. The 10,000+ people who raised their troops died, and the number of innocent people who were dragged to death reached millions.

No matter what the original intention is, who is right or wrong, those thousands of miles of scorched earth and millions of dead souls were ultimately caused by the Ming religion. It seems that it is not an exaggeration to call it a demon for killing evil like this.

That's why Qi Shaoshang didn't think there was anything wrong with exterminating Mingjiao. It would be a disaster to keep such a sect that was good at motivating people's hearts and dared to rebel.

But he was unwilling to do this. After all, in his heart, he still respected those members of the Ming Cult who were willing to give up their lives for the sake of living for irrelevant people.

He is no longer the black and white boy he used to be, and he has long known that many things in this world cannot be explained clearly by mere words, good and evil. Whenever he encounters such unclear things, he is willing to If you choose to follow your heart, you can’t tell right from wrong anyway, so it’s good to feel at ease.

This time, his original intention was to not help each other.

Although from a standpoint Ti Qi and he are considered members of the government, he never felt that he was on the same side as them.

Since the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River was put down three years ago, Tong Taiwei recruited experts from all over the world to form Tiqi in order to wipe out the remnants of the Demon Sect, and he felt a little tired.

Over the past few years, I have witnessed Tiqi's eyes and ears all over the rivers and lakes, using layers of government to clamp down, from the government to the county, from the township to the village. Whenever the Mingjiao remnants are found, they all ransack their homes and exterminate their clans, and even hang out with them all night, either for personal gain, or for revenge, and to disturb their lives. The world is full of blood and rain, and he has long wanted to quit.

But he can't leave yet, he has pawned Pingluanjue and hasn't redeemed it, he still has thousands of old and weak women and children to support in Leijiazhuang, and there are still people who depend on him to live, this boring and boring world, he It's too bad to have to stay on.

He got off the boat with Lei Yun, and Uncle He got off the ferry with an old bag on his back. Qi Shaoshang saw that he looked like he was going on a long journey, so he couldn't help asking, "Mr., where are you going?"

He Bo said, "Probably go to the west, the Central Plains has no room for my sect, I am such a useless old man, I will not be left to be a burden to the brothers in the sect."

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