Chapter 315

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When the ship crossed the Yangtze River, Fang Xie stood in the bow and looked at the waves cut by the bow. His mood still didn't calm down. He had been puzzled by the inexplicable illusion on the kaishantai before. The illusion was so real that the picture in his mind had not dispersed for a long time.

Although Fang Xie fled for more than ten years, he seldom took a boat. At this time, the scene of overlooking the bow breaking the waves made him feel a little more emotion.

I don't know when the black boy Yan went crazy behind him. Fang Xie didn't look back, but he seemed to know his arrival: "to explain why he cheated Chen hum and Chen ha?"

After saying this, Fang Xie turned and looked at the two old urchins not far away. The two men seemed to be afraid of this shaky feeling. They sat on the deck with pale faces, holding hands and talking low. Fang Xie listened and couldn't help smiling at the corners of his mouth.

Those two guys are sarcastic at each other. He said he was afraid of water. He said he was afraid of fish.

This reminds Fang Xie that when he was in the imperial capital, he once said to tie Chen hum and Chen ha up and sink into the river to feed fish. Obviously, the two men also thought of this, so they didn't dare to go near the side of the ship at all. They were originally from the southwest and lived not far from Yongzhou. According to the truth, the two of them should be familiar with the boat, but considering that they lost their father when they were young, and then their mother died, only the two of them were left to depend on each other. He was locked up in the cave by loyal Prince Yang Qi for more than ten years because he did evil and killed people, so he was also very strange to take a boat.

"Adults should have guessed."

Yan Kuang asked back after being silent for a while.

Fang Xie nodded.

Yan Kuang asked again, "since adults have guessed, what are you going to do?"

Fang Xie looked at Yan Kuang, smiled and said, "since Chen hum and Chen ha killed people in the square that day, I knew your Majesty would never let these two people survive. They acted completely unrestrained and had amazing cultivation. They could be cheated by Xiao 19 to make trouble in the imperial capital, and naturally they could be cheated by others again."

"Your Majesty is right to do so..."

Fang Xie paused and asked, "then why didn't you kill both of them?"

"Because I can't beat them."

Yan Kuang shook his head and answered.

Fang Xie shook his head: "if you think this sentence can deceive people, you should first ask yourself if you are biased. I just want to ask you a question. Will you be happy and relieved to kill them, or will you be more comfortable not to kill them?"

Yan Kuang didn't answer, so Fang Xie knew the answer.

"Your Majesty wants them to die. Naturally, we ministers should obey them, or it will be a felony of disobedience, right?"

Fang Xie smiled and said, "but your majesty didn't directly tell me to get rid of them. Since your majesty didn't say, why should I do it? As for whether your majesty arranged others to do it, I naturally don't know. Since I don't know... Guess what I would do?"

Yan Kuang was stunned for a moment, and then asked tentatively, "whoever will kill them, adults will kill who?"

Fang Xie nodded: "That's what I said. I'll kill whoever comes to kill them. Of course, you can tell Grandpa Su that I have guessed that his majesty sent someone, but it won't affect my decision. This trip to the southwest will take half a year. If I don't try to make Chen hum and Chen ha useful to the Sui Dynasty, I'll feel lost. Yan Kuang... You've followed me It's not short. Since I know you're not really stupid, you naturally know some of my temperament... I've never done such a thing. "

Yan Kuang frowned and said, "Sir, you have a bright future. Why should these two people affect your career?"

"Yan Kuang..."

Fang Xie looked at the black boy and sighed: "You're here to persuade me, but have you ever persuaded yourself? If you really think so, you won't wait until Jun Wei, and you won't bring them back alive. Even though Chen hum's cultivation is shocking, their minds are not open and easy to cheat like children. It's impossible to kill their two enemies, and it's not wise to win them It's too difficult. Even if there are no people who secretly support you, won't you succeed in tricking them into taking poison by yourself? Even if you hand them a bottle of poison and tell them it's sugar water, they won't doubt you. But they didn't die, not because they're not easy to kill, but because you don't want to kill. "

Yan Kuang was silent, but his fingers were entangled and rubbed back.

"I'll take it as if I didn't know about it."

Fang Xie said to Yan Kuang word by word, "you can tell your secret friends that I won't give them another chance. If Chen hum and Chen ha die on the way to Yongzhou, I'll spend my whole life digging them out of the secret and killing one by one."

"I don't like threatening people, because the threat itself doesn't make much sense. I like to do it, and I will do it when I say it."

Yan Kuang was stunned, then nodded: "I see."

"What do you understand?"

Fang Xie asked.

"Sir, you are not a qualified adult... But Sir, you are a good friend."

Fang Xie couldn't help laughing: "I don't have many friends. I'll be distressed if I have one less."

"But the temperament of adults doesn't seem to be suitable for being an official."

"Maybe..."

Fang Xie stood in the bow of the boat and stood in negative hands: "I always don't believe what others think of me. I'm not sure. Why should others say I can't? Even if I really can't, I have to do it before I know."

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No matter how wide the Yangtze River is, there will always be the other side. At the request of Fang Xie, the big ship crossed over, put down the people, and set sail again, all the way west against the river. When you go to Yongzhou by water, you have to go up 150 miles against the current. When you reach the intersection of Luoshui and the Yangtze River, you can go all the way south. If you don't delay on the road, you can get to Yongzhou in less than 20 days.

It was completely dark after only thirty miles upstream. Even though it was a huge official ship and the sailors were experienced local fishermen, no one dared to sail at night. There are always many legends about immortals and ghosts among the people facing the river, such as river gods and water monsters.

People along the Yangtze River have been telling a story that many, many years ago, God came down to earth to subdue the harmful water monsters in the Yangtze River. But the water monster felt unfair. It said to the God that since people are creatures, I am also creatures, why do you favor humans? They are not as strong as me, so it is natural for me to eat them. God said you were bullying. The water monster said you wouldn't let me eat people. Isn't that bullying?

This sentence will make the God speechless, so the God set the rules. The river during the day belongs to human beings, and the river at night belongs to water monsters. If someone is eaten by a water monster in the river at night, the God will not punish him. He can only blame himself for not abiding by the rules.

The story is naturally false. The story is only a story after all.

But the moral of the story seems to be very deep. The more you think about it, the more you raise it. What the water monster said is actually very reasonable. This world is such a world. It's not wrong to be born strong.

Fang Xie heard this story from an old boatman when the boat landed.

He recalled what the water monster said to the God, and suddenly found that if the water monster was real, it must be a wise man.

"My Lord, it's a rule that we can't touch the boat at night, so we can only dock and rest. However, we'll go more than 100 miles of water at dawn. Because it's countercurrent, it won't be too fast, but if there's no accident, we can reach the intersection of the two rivers in two days. The Sheriff has sent someone to inform the local government in advance. There should be a big boat there to meet."

The old boatman explained apologetically.

Fang Xie waved his hand and said, "I know that even if there is no rule that you can't sail at night, people will always be tired. If you should rest, you should rest."

Hearing this, the old boatman felt warm.

"Thank you for your consideration. The grass people are leaving."

Fang Xie nodded and looked at the endless Mangdangshan mountain in the distance of the north bank.

On the Hebei bank, about a mile away from the official ship, a small boat also docked and stopped. The fisherman went ashore to tie the rope, and then prepared to make a fire to cook. This is a couple. Because they live by the river all year round, the man's skin color is relatively black and there is a layer of rust. It looks very strong. Even the woman's skill is also very flexible and vigorous. Her skin is much whiter than that of the man. If the plump thighs wrapped in the cloth skirt are wrapped around her waist, it must be very deadly.

The fisherman's age is about 30 years old, but the people along the river look older than those in other places. Or the fisherman loves his wife very much, so the woman's beauty remains pretty good.

The woman made a fire and greeted today's guests.

This is a line of seven or eight people, male and female. The boatman's women come and go all year round. At a glance, they can see that these people are not easy to provoke. In addition, it was already a little dark when these people came, so she didn't plan to take over the business. Unexpectedly, these people were generous and directly threw out a ingot of twenty Liang silver, so that she couldn't refuse at all.

Twenty Liang silver is the usual harvest of the couple for two months.

The Sui Dynasty was rich and powerful, so the daily price was not high. Twenty liang of silver is enough for the couple to live for two years. You know, in the restaurant in the town, it costs seven or eight Wen at most to eat a delicious meal with a pot of wine. Even in the imperial capital, it is reasonable to ask for a table of one or two silver.

For the money, the fisherman's woman promised to come down, but she was always on guard, because she accidentally saw that the people were hiding weapons in their packages.

"Landlady, let's just walk around the shore. You just cook. We'll just calculate the money. We'll prepare a few pots of wine and settle the accounts together."

The man at the head gave an explanation and then took the man away.

The woman watched them go into the night and couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief: "I always feel that these people are not good people."

"Whatever!"

The fisherman smiled and said, "let's just earn money and come back when we send it to the place."

As he spoke, he pinched the woman's full chest. The woman shy away, but her eyes were full of happiness.

In the night, Lihuo swept away with people. With the shelter of vegetation on the shore, he quickly approached the official ship where Fang Xie was located. They hid behind the vegetation and watched the ship.

"We can't delay any more. Maybe Fang Xie will have doubts now."

Lihuo frowned, lowered his voice and said, "Lu minglan, Gao Xiao and Li Sanxing, you three are the best at water. You will quietly touch the ship tonight. Although those two idiots have good cultivation skills, they are not very alert. Find a chance to poison their meals!"

"But... Will poisoning affect others? If Fang Xie is poisoned, how can we talk to Su Gong?"

"Those two people don't eat fish. The cook will definitely cook some food."

Li Huo smiled coldly: "as long as you observe carefully, you won't make mistakes. If you can't poison the food, won't you poison the water in their room while they are away?"

"Anyway..."

He clenched his fist and said word by word, "those two idiots must go to hell tonight!"

Just as he finished saying this, his face suddenly changed.

In the dark, I couldn't see anyone around.

But I don't know why, Lihuo was sure that he would be killed as long as he moved. He didn't know where the sense of crisis came from, but it was so clear. It's like a weapon swimming around me. I don't know where it will pierce my body next second.

Not just him.

Everyone under him feels that way.