ten mile river moon

After three days of trekking day and night, Liu Chengyue and Ye Ling finally arrived at Ye Shui City on the morning of the fourth day. Looking at the three big characters of Ye Shui City gleaming on the city gate, they thought about the dilapidated small city gate of their own border city , Liu Chengyue felt a little frustrated.The same county magistrate, why is there such a big gap between people?

After entering the city gate, Liu Chengyue, who was quite complaining, looked at the wonton stalls, steamed stuffed bun shops and other food stalls on the roadside, and instantly forgot the little resentment in her heart, and turned her head to look at Yeling eagerly, with a smile on her face. It is full of three big words "I want to eat".

Since there were only three sets of clothes in Liu Chengyue's baggage, the waist card was originally also packed in the baggage, but Liu Chengyue stuffed it into Yeling's arms when she found out that it would hurt people when she carried it on her back. In addition, it is true that I did not bring a tael of silver with me, nor did I carry a big pie.So, along the way, Liu Chengyue has been brazenly eating Yeling's big sesame seed cakes. It turns out that one person's sesame seed cakes are eaten by two people, and one of them is a rice bucket. Of course, seeing the food stalls all over the street will be like meeting relatives up.

Seeing Liu Chengyue's wet eyes like a puppy waiting to be fed, Yeling resignedly took Liu Chengyue to sit at the nearby wonton stall.As soon as the stall owner brought two bowls of small fresh meat wontons to the table, Liu Chengyue ate the wontons like a hungry ghost. To this, Yeling next to him just wanted to say, aren't the wontons hot?

After Liu Chengyue finally ate and drank enough, Yeling was finally able to take Liu Chengyue, who was hiccupping while walking, to find an inn to stay. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Yeling chose a small-scale Tongfu Inn .

Standing at the door, Liu Chengyue looked up at the name of the inn, and then looked at the environment of the lobby inside, feeling a bit time-traveled.If he didn't know that this world and modern society are completely different time and space, Liu Chengyue would feel that he had arrived at the filming location of "Jianghu Biography", and Yeling was just a fan.

Thinking of Yeling's brain-dead look, Liu Chengyue couldn't hold back anymore. The innkeeper who was talking to Yeling couldn't help but suspect that he was a fool, and Yeling was just a mentally handicapped brother. A great brother who works hard.Fortunately, Liu Chengyue didn't know the psychological activities of the innkeeper, otherwise he would definitely grab him by the collar and roar: "I don't look like a mentally retarded man, but he's smart, okay?!"

Yeling opened two upper rooms, and after resting in the rooms for a while, the two left the Tongfu Inn, planning to find a random teahouse to listen to news.If you want to say that the best place to inquire about news, it must be the Chuguan teahouse. The former listens to the rich and powerful, and the latter listens to all directions.You must know that most people in teahouses and restaurants talk badly and gossip. If the conversation becomes interesting, you can even tell you which room the county magistrate slept in last night.

They randomly found a teahouse, Liu Chengyue and Yeling ordered a pot of tea, sat by the window on the second floor, said a few insignificant words from time to time, and mostly listened to others.After listening to it for a long time, I even talked about the affair between Xi Shi, a widow selling tofu, and Zhang Xiucai in Chengxi, but I didn't hear anyone talking about Yongshou Coffin Shop.

Liu Chengyue was about to suffocate, gossip sounds interesting, but it's not a problem if you can't hear the point!So, after drinking a cup of tea, Liu Chengyue walked towards the big table in the lobby on the first floor of the teahouse, "Hey, I'm late, I'm late, I've been delayed by something today, where are you talking about? "

A large table of people looked at this strange man, and one of them asked, "Who are you? Why doesn't it seem like I've seen you before?" The others also looked at Liu Chengyue warily.

"Hey, I'm the neighbor's son of Aunt Zhang's daughter's daughter's husband in the east of the city. Didn't we have a chat the day before yesterday? Everyone has forgotten Liu so soon?" Liu Chengyue pretended to be lost Look, "After the chat the day before yesterday, we agreed to invite everyone to have a meal together in a few days?"

The person who asked the question was named Li Ergou. He was not doing his job every day. He stayed in the teahouse all day long and gossiped with people. He would chat with people he knew and didn’t know. Although this person looked a little strange to me, I thought there would be a free meal Eating, the face changed quickly, "Oh, it's you, you've been talking too much to people all day long, now I feel familiar when I see Brother Liu, don't be angry, Brother Liu, come and sit down."

The people around saw that Li Ergou had said that, and they didn't think much about it. The chat was like this, everyone said something to each other, and the more people there were, the more lively it was.Liu Chengyue's joining did not attract too much attention from everyone, and continued to gossip that Tailor Li's wife had committed adultery with Tailor Wang and was caught.Liu Chengyue was a little speechless listening to these people's gossip, can you still pursue it a little bit? !

After finally waiting for this topic to end, Liu Chengyue hurriedly asked what she wanted to ask, "Hey, my dear friends, the nearest relative in our family has not survived, and the family has never done white things before. Is there any coffin in this city?" Is the shop more fair?"

Everyone listened to the words, and no one blamed Liu Chengyue for bringing up the topic at an inappropriate time, so they immediately offered their opinions one by one.Liu Chengyue listened for a while, and said, "I heard that Yongshou's coffin shop is pretty good, do you guys know that?"

As soon as Liu Chengyue finished speaking, Li Ergou said, "Hey, you are asking the right person! This Yongshou coffin shop, I dare say that I am not familiar with the people present, my uncle works in Yongshou coffin shop , that job is too good to talk about, if your relatives have some money, they can go to Yongshou to buy it, and keep it for you to talk about."

"What's a good way?" Liu Chengyue asked, and the others at the table looked at Li Ergou curiously.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Li Ergou felt a sense of arrogance in his heart, and even raised his voice, "You don't know that, although the coffins of the Yongshou Coffin Shop are not expensive in Yeshui City. Not much, but they don't expect our little money, their coffins are even wanted by the people of Nanyue Kingdom!"

Liu Chengyue was startled, "How do you say that?"

"One night when my second uncle came home and found that he forgot to pick up the coffin, he took a small path back to the coffin shop to get it. Halfway through the road, he saw the shopkeeper of the Yongshou coffin shop staring at people pulling the coffin while talking to people. My second uncle used to I have served as a soldier on the border for several years, and I can tell that the man is speaking the language of the South Vietnam Kingdom." Li Ergou said proudly.

After talking casually to others, Liu Chengyue offered to leave, and before leaving, she heard Li Ergou shouting: "Brother Liu, when will you be free? Let's have dinner together?" Li Ergou really never misses the opportunity to eat and drink for free, so the news he just said is still useful.

Walking outside the teahouse, Yeling was waiting at the door with a dark expression on his face. It seemed that he should have heard Li Ergou's words just now.If what Li Ergou said just now is true, it is very likely that the ore in those coffins has flowed to Nanyue Kingdom. I didn’t pay much attention to it before. Now that I think about the strange geography of the border town, there are countless hidden rivers in the mountains. If it is transported through the dark river It is not impossible to get the ore to South Vietnam, and it is obviously very convenient to transport the ore in a sealed and waterproof coffin.

Back at the inn, Liu Chengyue and Ye Ling discussed the next move, because Yongshou Coffin Shop only delivered coffins at night, so Ye Ling planned to go to Yongshou Coffin Shop tonight, while Liu Chengyue waited for news at the inn.

After making a plan, I felt that time passed very slowly. When it was completely dark, Yeling went out through the back door of the inn.Liu Chengyue opened the window and watched Yeling blend into the night, feeling a little nervous. At one moment, she was worried that a killer would come to assassinate her, and at another moment, she was worried that Yeling would be taken away by the other party's people.

After finally staying up until midnight, Ye Ling suddenly came in from the window of Liu Chengyue's room. Liu Chengyue, who was about to drink tea, was so frightened that the cup was thrown out. The broken teacup was rescued.

"How's the situation?" Liu Chengyue asked curiously, took another cup and poured tea for Yeling.

Yeling took the teacup and took a sip, "It is true that someone pulled the coffin overnight, but I didn't see the shopkeeper talking to the Nanyue people. They walked by water, so it's hard to follow."

Liu Chengyue thought about it, if these coffins were also used to hold ore, what was the purpose of going by water?It is impossible to dig mines in another city. In that case, the transportation of the coffin will be a big trouble.Logically speaking, this coffin is used to store ore, and the mining site should be near this Ye Shui City.

After listening to Liu Chengyue's analysis, Ye Ling was also a little puzzled. Logically speaking, this is true, but mining must be carried out on the mountain, and it is a problem when transporting coffins ashore by water, and I have never heard of other mines around Ye Shui City. Wharf, could it be possible to mine on the water?

The puzzled two fell asleep with doubts. Liu Chengyue's whole dream was filled with those coffins painted with tung oil, and he didn't sleep well all night.After finally waking up the next day, my whole back was covered in cold sweat. Sure enough, this job was really not that easy to do.

After breakfast, Yeling went out to inquire about the news again, and Liu Chengyue sat alone in the lobby of the inn doing nothing.Tongfu Inn is small in scale, and generally rich people will definitely not choose this inn, and those who have no money to choose this inn are either peddlers, or people who are in a hurry and don’t choose a place. Liu Chengyue sat in the lobby For nearly an hour, nothing special was found.

Liu Chengyue, who didn't sleep well last night, got up and walked towards the stairs, ready to go back to her room for a good night's sleep, when she just went upstairs, she heard someone from downstairs talking about opening a room, the tone of her voice was similar to that of locals or people from Northern Chu All very different.Liu Chengyue's eyes lit up, maybe she is from Nanyue Kingdom?

Hearing that the man had asked for a room from the clerk, Liu Chengyue hurried back to the room, squatted by the door with his ear pressed against the door, and eavesdropped on the people outside.There were two people talking, and this time Liu Chengyue couldn't understand what they said at all, which further strengthened Liu Chengyue's idea that they were from the Nanyue Kingdom.

During lunch, Yeling finally came back.The two of them ate in the lobby downstairs, and then went back to Liu Chengyue's room. After Liu Chengyue told Yeling about what she had discovered at noon today, Yeling pondered for a while, and decided to observe the two secretly. Find out the bottom and talk about it.

The first thing is to determine whether the two are from the Nanyue Kingdom. As the vice-captain of the Imperial Guard, every year when the Nanyue Kingdom sends envoys, Yeling will accompany the emperor. Although he can't speak the Nanyue language, he can at least tell the difference. .