Xianyang Bridge

Title: [Qi Gu Tongren] Xianyang Bridge

Author: Fortune Villa

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Cars rattle, Ma Xiaoxiao, pedestrians with bows and arrows at their waists.

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Search keywords: Protagonist: Qi Shaoshang, Gu Xichao┃Supporting roles: Xiaoqi, Lei Yun┃Others:

One word introduction: Qi Gu

Conception: Why don't men wear Wu hooks

一

Ten days after the Waking of Insects, at the Nantaojin Ferry in Shunchang Prefecture on the lower reaches of the Bianhe River, the weeping willows on the river bank have just turned green, and the peach and apricot trees in the yards nearby are just budding. In the Didian next to the ferry, there is also an apricot tree in the courtyard. , a little flower buds dotted on the branches, the drizzle is slightly, quite spring.

Qi Shaoshang and Lei Yun have lived here for five days. They came back from Leijiazhuang and waited for the ferry here.

These days, the spring rains are dense and the Bian River is swollen. The only ferry at Taojindu touched a piece of dead wood from the upper reaches when crossing the river a few days ago. The keel needs to be repaired by a professional craftsman from Shunchang Mansion, and the wood needed must be bought from the city. It will take some days to cross the river, about ten days.

Qi Shaoshang was going to do some errands in Ruyin County on the other side, and after calculating the itinerary, if he went upstream to cross the river and then back, the time spent on the road would not be much faster than waiting here for the ferry to be repaired, so he stayed with Lei Yun.

Lei Yun was young and active, when Qi Shaoshang was watching the rain and apricot blossoms on the porch of his mansion, he had already chatted with the boatman.

When it was getting dark, Lei Yun came back wearing a coir raincoat, with a fish in his hand, Qi Shaoshang looked at the boy's excited face, and couldn't bear to tell him that it was a puffer fish. The people in the shop were poisoned to death.

"Brother!" Lei Yun smiled and showed him the fish in his hand, "Look what I got? I'll borrow a pot from the shop to cook it later. Let's have a tooth-fighting festival at night."

Qi Shaoshang laughed, took it over and pinched the puffer fish's fat belly, and asked, "Where did it come from?"

"I borrowed a fishing rod from the boatman and fished it from the river. He also said that this is a rare and good thing. Do you know what kind of fish it is?" Lei Yun saw that Qi Shaoshang was quite interested in this fish, so he couldn't help but smile. Light, looking at him with sparkling eyes and asked.

"Well, it is indeed a good thing. The most delicious things in the world can be ranked among the top three. Unfortunately, it is highly poisonous. I don't know how to deal with it, and I don't dare to try it desperately. Why don't you go find the boatman and exchange it for an ordinary carp?" Qi Shaoshang Return the fish to Lei Yun and say.

Lei Yun heard him say that this fish is actually very poisonous, a little frightened and a little bit reluctant, and murmured, "It's so chubby and looks obedient, and it's delicious, it's actually poisonous?"

Qi Shaoshang straightened the bamboo hat for him, and shook his head lightly, "It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not, and whether it is poisonous or not, sometimes the more beautiful it is, the more poisonous it is."

The young man pursed his lips, still reluctant to get the delicious food in his mouth, so he threw it away, stomped his feet and rushed into the rain curtain and said, "I'll ask the boatman association if they will clean it up."

He castrated very quickly, obviously using a self-willed body method, seeing that the disciple who shot with one hand was so promising, Qi Shaoshang was relieved, but he couldn't help but lament that time flies by like running water, which is both fair and ruthless.

It has been rainy for several days, and the firewood room in the store is leaking. Although Qi Shaoshang and Lei Yun have tried to move the firewood to a higher place, but the weather is humid and the water vapor is everywhere, the firewood is still damp.

Yesterday, when the cooking smoke was curling up in the rain, it was quite beautiful. Today, the smoke could not escape from the flue at all, and it was pouring out from the kitchen, and the customers in the shop who were choking came to the corridor to breathe.

The little girl who cooks is the owner's daughter, she is only in her teens, and as the customers in the store ran out, the little girl came to the front yard coughing and impatient with the smoke.

Qi Shaoshang saw that her face was smoked one by one with the fire stick, and said to her, "We still have some dry firewood under our bed, is it useless?"

The little girl murmured, "The one where you live is paid, how can you always take the firewood you sleep on?"

Qi Shaoshang said gently, "It's okay, just use it."

The little girl lowered her head, "No, the rest of the firewood is very wet, and you will get sick if you sleep on it."

Qi Shaoshang's heart moved slightly, and he felt that the little girl was kind-hearted and cute, so he said to her, "Okay, then let me light the fire for you, there are so many guests waiting for dinner, and the meal is still not ready after dark , your father should scold you."

Thinking of her father's severe beating and scolding, the little girl couldn't help shrinking her thin shoulders, and timidly said to Qi Shao, "Then I will thank you first."

Qi Shaoshang smiled and patted her head, and said, "Don't worry, I won't tell your father, and I won't ask him for rent just because I did the work for you."

The little girl felt a little relieved, and her face couldn't help but feel a little hot.

This mansion shop is not big, most of the backyard is built with simple thatched sheds for merchants to store goods, the firewood room is very small, and the kitchen is also very narrow.

In order to save money, there was no lamp in the kitchen, so the smoke had dissipated a little at this time, and only a little light from the stove was illuminated.

Qi Shaoshang knelt down to poke the fire, and said to the little girl, "Is the rice ready?"

The little girl nodded again and again, and said awkwardly, "Let me cook it, and you can just sit down."

She said that she found a small bench for Qi Shaoshang from the damp firewood pile behind the door, Qi Shaoshang did not refuse, and sat on the bench to pass the firewood to her.

It's strange to say that the firewood that was obviously very wet just now has become less wet after being handed over by him. Although there is still smoke, people who are no longer choking can't stand it.

Guessing that she would not miss dinner, the little girl felt much more relaxed. She took a peek at Qi Shaoshang's handsome face under the firelight, and said to him, "You are really a good person, a very good person."

Qi Shaoshang smiled, with a dimple on the side of his cheek, he looked very friendly, he said, "Oh? I'm just passing firewood for you, but I can't deserve your compliment."

The little girl pursed her lips and said in a low voice, "No, I know this is a very powerful effort. You are helping me, and I know it."

Qi Shaoshang didn't expect a little girl in a remote shop to have such insight, so he couldn't help but asked with great interest, "Do you still know Kung Fu? Have you ever learned it?"

The little girl shook her head, "No, but I've seen it before. That person is just like you. He can dry things with kung fu. It's amazing."

"Hey, tell me, maybe I can still recognize it." Qi Shaoshang said, still using his internal energy to help her dry the firewood, the little girl started talking to him while lighting the fire.

"That was last winter. Last winter, a Taoist master wanted to cross the river. The boat was broken down, so he stayed at our house. One night, I couldn't sleep. I wanted to find some water to drink, and I heard someone talking in the yard."

"It was snowing that day, and the yard was not dark at all. I hid behind the window and saw the Daoist who lived in my house, and another person. He was injured, and blood dripped down his sleeve onto the snow. His feet were all red, and there was a knife on his neck. I was terrified and wanted to leave, but I heard the Taoist said, 'My lord, did the leader ask you to kill me?'"

"The man opposite him said, 'Mr. Feng, I didn't intend to kill you. The leader asked me to ask you why Fang Tianwang and the others are dead, but you are still alive?'"

Qi Shaoshang frowned when he heard the leader and Fang Tianwang, and the little girl continued, "I was very scared at first, but I don't know why I couldn't move when I heard this man talking, and I wanted to hear him continue go down."

"After he finished speaking, the Daoist suddenly laughed. He laughed very loudly. I was afraid that he would wake up my father, mother and younger brother. They all held knives and looked very vicious. I was afraid that they would be scared. Not only my family but also the customers in the store.”

"But I waited for a while, but no one woke up. It was very quiet everywhere, as if... It seemed that I was the only one who could hear them talking. I was scared and excited, and the Taoist laughed enough and said, 'Could it be Shouldn't I be alive?'"

Her voice was clear and soft at such a young age, but she said these words with indescribable resentment and resentment, presumably imitating the Taoist tone, Qi Shaoshang sighed softly.

The little girl was still immersed in the wonderful encounter that night, and she said to herself, "The Taoist seemed to have used a lot of strength to say this, and he spit out blood after he finished speaking, and the blood splashed on the knife. The man didn't move at all, and the blade almost cut the Taoist's neck. He said coldly, "You came all the way from Zitong, and the sub-rudders were burned by the government when you passed by. Many brothers in the sect were killed and injured. Eighteen Tiqi came from here." Mindi has followed you for thousands of miles, but you have never killed him, you ask me if you should live?"

"Have you asked the brothers in the sect who were betrayed by you to death and their families, do you want to live?"

I want to remember what I saw and heard that night very deeply in this little girl's heart. Not only did the conversation between the two of them remember very clearly, but even their tone of voice imitated vividly. Who is it.

"What happened next?" Qi Shaoshang asked.

The little girl's face looked like she was in a dream, and she said foolishly, "Afterwards he left, he killed that Taoist master and took the body away, he stood in the snow for a long time, his clothes were wet , I saw him wipe the knife with snow, and the wet clothes on his body dried up in a short while. Although he couldn't see me, he found me long ago and gave me the rent of the Taoist master. explain……"

"He said, once you enter the rivers and lakes, life and death are the border, don't step in."

Qi Shaoshang was stunned when he heard this sentence, and repeated, "Once you enter the rivers and lakes, life and death are borderlines."

The little girl seemed to have lost her mind suddenly, and said to Qi Shaoshang shyly, "Do you think I'm talking nonsense? I told others about this and they didn't believe me. No one heard anyone talking that night. , The yard was clean the next day, there was no trace of blood, and no one even remembered the Daoist."

"But I, I remember, I remember the man's voice,