Yan Fei

Chapter 29

The shortest way from Caoqing to Yiwei to cross the river is along the coast. There are many towns along the coast. Some kind people saw that the two children were pitiful, so they gave them some food to fill their stomachs.

Swallow was worried about staying in someone else's house, so he hurried on his way after nightfall. When he was too sleepy, he found a cave that could only accommodate a child, hid the horse outside, and tied it near the crow, while the pelican followed him and Yan'er. Sleep together in a cave.

Sometimes if one is unlucky and has no rations, the swallow will ask the pelican to catch a pheasant and a hare to come back. After a simple roast, the meat will be torn off to share with the swallow, and the bones will be thrown to the two dogs to eat.

After struggling like this for nearly seven days, the two finally arrived at Yiweidu River.

The water of the Yiweidu River is always peaceful, but it is wide. Although it looks shallow, there will be a hole somewhere. It is still necessary to take a boat from the riverside town of Yiweidu River to Gusu Pavilion on Jiangxin Island.

The two children are penniless, and there is no ferry nearby, only fishing boats on the river, but it is really embarrassing that they can't even take out their money.

"No money?!" The barefoot fisherman on the bow waved his hands and glared at Swallow. "What kind of boat do you have no money?! Gusu Pavilion won't even look at a little beggar like you!"

Yanzi curled her lips, holding back her anger and said, "We are not beggars."

"Who are you bluffing to?" The fisherman looked Yanzi and Yan'er up and down, narrowed his eyes, "If it's really impossible...the one of you two will stay and pay for me..."

"Get out!" Yanzi tightly clasped the hands on Yan'er's shoulders, and the two big dogs, the crow and the pelican, ran up to them, arched their backs towards the fisherman, and their hair exploded.

The fisherman saw that it was a hard bone, and with a "pooh", he spat out the weed in his mouth into the river.

"Young master," Yanzi's shoulders were suddenly pinned down, making him unable to move.A man dressed as a scholar glanced at the shady fisherman, waved him away, embraced him and said kindly, "Are you going to Gusu Pavilion?"

"Yes."

"What are you going to Gusu Pavilion for?"

"My mother asked me to go to Gusu Pavilion..." Yanzi glanced at the black veins on Yan'er's neck, and frowned.

"Your mother? Who is your mother?"

"Who are you?" Yanzi looked up at him.

The scholar clenched his fist with his right hand, brought it to his mouth, and cleared his throat: "I am the son of Ye Man, the master of Gusu Pavilion, Ye Shen."

"I heard that the master of the young pavilion is Ye Fu." Yanzi hooked her lips.

Ye Shen curled his lips and said, "That's my eldest brother. I'm the third."

"...My father is the Marquis of Kanan."

Ye Shen was taken aback, and looked down at him: "...you and him... don't seem to..."

"Poisoned. So please take me and my sister to Gusu Pavilion."

"...Can you prove it?"

Swallow sighed, looked around, whistled, and saw one of the swallows squatting under the eaves not far away suddenly jumped out and landed on his shoulder.

Ye Shen pinched his chin and stared at the swallow, caught it suddenly and turned it over, brushed the hair on his buttocks, took a look, and let go: "Well, it's Zuo Brown Yan. Come with me."

There are not many people who know about the domestication method of Zuo brown swallow passed down from generation to generation in Guan'an Hou's family.But the owner of Gusu Pavilion and his three sons all know about it.

Ye Shen took his horse and led the two of them and their two dogs to a small boat by the river. Leaning on the boat was a man in plain gray clothes, wrapped in a large scarf that tightly blocked the lower half of his face.

"Going away?" the man asked, crossing his arms.

"Let's go." Ye Shen waved his hand, handed over the horse to him, and sat down in the cabin, letting Yanzi and Yan'er rest on the cushion.

As soon as Yanzi sat down, she seemed to have collapsed, and weakly supported Yan'er, letting her lean on the pelican.

Ye Shen frowned, felt the pulse of both Yanzi and Yan'er, and shouted at the man acting as the boatman: "Ah Qi, do you still have the medicine from before?"

"What?" Ah Qi seemed a little displeased, and said in a muffled voice.

"These two children are dying, let them sleep first, it's better not to move."

Ah Qi hurriedly took out a bottle of medicine from his bosom and threw it to Ye Shen.

It was a small light blue pill, cold in the mouth, and after taking it, the person fell asleep unconsciously, almost like a dead person.

"You said you, what do you want this pill for?" Ye Shen propped his cheeks and looked at him with a smile in the cabin.

Ah Qi tugged at the scarf, and said, "If your father won't let you go, I'll let you swallow it, and then I'll dig you out and bring you after you're buried..."

"Did you fucking curse me?!" Ye Shen picked up a shriveled lotus pod in the cabin and threw it out.

Ah Qi didn't react, she bumped into the lotus pod head-on, touched her forehead, and rowed obediently.

After the boat lightly bumped into the sand, Ah Qi carried Ye Shen out first, and after being beaten up, he carried the two little guys out, and followed Ye Shen to send them to the beach. Gusu Pavilion.

The main building of Gusu Pavilion is in the center of Yiweidu River. The lowest point is lower than the river, but the highest point is higher than the clouds.

This building is located in a hollowed-out cylindrical mountain. The first floor is lower than the river. The whole main building rises in a ring around an ancient tree reaching the sky. Several stone paths protrude from the mountain wall. , connecting the body of the building, it is really spectacular.

The owner's house is located at the top, and you can see the whole scene of Yiwei crossing the river.When they arrived at the first floor where there were some platforms, Ye Shen led Ah Qi up to one of the platforms, and pulled the handle on one side, only to hear a burst of rattling sound from inside the building, and the platform quickly rose up , didn't stop until the top floor.

"Let's go." Ye Shen pulled Ah Qi and walked out first.

There is only one room on the top floor, with wide open wooden doors on both sides, a long couch in the innermost part, and an incense burner on each side. The smell of tea mixed with the curling cigarette smoke floats in every corner of the room.

"Father! Master Hou's son has escaped!" Ye Shen stopped saluting, and shouted at Ye Man who was taking a nap on the long couch.

Ye Man was shocked and almost fell off the bed.He hurriedly walked up to Ah Qi, and looked at the two children in his arms.

"This... this silver hair... are the sons and daughters of Master Hou?"

"Yes!" Ye Shen nodded his head, "The boy will recruit Brown Yan! You can't go wrong!"

Ye Man felt the pulse for the two of them, and broke out in a cold sweat: "Why is there no one?!"

"Pavilion master, don't worry," Ah Qi said, "I took medicine, I'll cure it for you."

Ye Man glanced at him, blew on his beard, and snorted.

Ah Qi froze into a log, put the two children on the couch with a tense face, took out a white porcelain bottle from his arms, and poured a drop of liquid into each of their mouths.

After a while, Yanzi's eyelashes trembled, and then slightly opened those golden eyes.But it was Yan'er, still squinting her eyes.

"Why didn't the girl wake up?" Ye Shen asked.

Ah Qi shook her head, expressing that she didn't know either.

"Pavilion, pavilion master..." Yanzi took a deep breath and said with red eyes, "My parents and the others..."

Ye Man frowned and said, "Qing Bixiewu found out that your father had withheld a lot of basalt charcoal in private, and the emperor ordered to confiscate the Marquis' mansion and cut down the Marquis's position...to punish the nine clans."

"My father didn't! It must be that Bixie Wuqing—that bird—"

"Son, listen to what Uncle said," Ye Man pressed his arm, and said, "I once heard that there is a poison that can make people's hair gray and nails..."

Yanzi moved her fingers.Seeing his blackened nails, Ye Man immediately stood up, turned his head and shouted at Ye Shen: "Let all the doctors in the pavilion come over!"

"Pavilion Master... If it's really poisonous, my sister and I have been feeding it all the time, but I'm slower to develop the poison. Do you have... do you have any clues?"

"You... have you been bitten by something?"

"Yes, yes!" Yanzi pointed to the trouser leg, "I was bitten by a snake on a mountain outside Caoqing before, on the way back from the pasture to Caoqing!"

Ye Man frowned and said: "I have had people stare at the smell of poison. Although the whereabouts of the group of poison makers are secretive, I have found out a little bit. The missing charcoal is probably taken away by them to make poison. And there is a kind of snake that often lives next to the charcoal wood, wakes up for one month in three years, and within this month, it will bite the basalt charcoal wood, and its venom will make the basalt charcoal wood die quickly and become a dead tree. Catch this kind of snake, basically it’s gone, I didn’t expect...the basalt forest outside Caoqing still has it. The poison in your body must be suppressed by the snake’s venom.”

Yanzi grabbed Ye Man's sleeve: "That! Then catch that snake! Give it to my sister..."

"I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up." Ye Man pondered for a moment and said, "Well, since you have snake venom in your body, you might as well take your blood and feed it to your sister."

"Okay!" After saying that, Yanzi rolled up his sleeves.

"Who the hell, ask Shen Shen to ask some doctors to prepare the medicine according to the prescription for treating the plague in the 21st year of Taiwu, and give them to drink."

Ah Qi scratched her head and walked out.

Ye Man turned around and lowered his voice: "Son, Bixie Wuqing doesn't necessarily want to harm your father, you..."

"But he sentenced my father to confiscate the charcoal." Yanzi's face was full of ferocity, "According to what you said, it is indeed possible that the group of drug makers confiscated the charcoal, blamed it on my father, and used the poison to confiscate the charcoal." We forced no one left. But he was the one who killed my parents. It was because of Bixie Wuqing that group of people could put an end to my father's dead relationship and would not be traced by the court. .You can't reason with me, I don't understand, I don't want to hear...I just know that these two are the ones I want to kill."

As he spoke, his pale hands pinched tightly the little bird hanging on his chest through the clothes.

"Little bastard, you have a good brain, but you don't make sense and can't figure it out." Ye Man rubbed his head bitterly.