across mountains and seas

Jiangqing County is the largest county seat in the nine counties of Linhai. There are thousands of acres of fertile fields outside the city. Every autumn, rice waves surge, and everywhere you can see, there are golden rice waves.

This year there is plenty of rain and the harvest is good. Counting the time, the rice in the field should not be harvested so quickly.

Liuxi and Shen Jiangli took a boat all the way down, not only in Jiangqing County, but most of the rice fields in other counties were harvested.Not to mention that the population of these nine counties is limited, and most of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are defending against the enemy at the border. How can there be so many people to harvest rice?

If most of the rice goes to other places by sea, this person will take out some of the rice and resell it after winter, whether it is the imperial court, the Ye family, the Wei family, or the Zhulu League, I am afraid they will all buy it-this is a steady profit. Big deal!

For such a money-greedy person with sea traffic, the first thing Liuxi thought of was Youyou.

Counting the time, it is expected that after she fled back to the sea to recuperate for a few months, her injury should have healed.

If it is really Youyou, who is cunning and cunning, and has a good relationship with Yeshi, if this batch of rice falls into Yeshi's hands, it will be a disaster.

The more Liu Xi thought about it, the more sad she became. After landing on the shore, Shen Jiangli's face was so gloomy that he had never seen it before.

"Sister, sister?" Shen Jiangli grabbed Liu Xi's clothes and looked at her worriedly.

Liu Xi looked at her seriously, "Sister, it seems that this battle will not be easy."

Shen Jiangli nodded firmly, "Kill, man." As she spoke, she pointed to herself.

Liu Xi smiled, "It's not time to kill people, maybe things are not as bad as I imagined." As he spoke, Liu Xi identified the direction of the city gate, "Sister, let's go, let's meet Alan first."

Shen Jiangli nodded, took Liu Xi by the corner of his clothes, and followed Liu Xi to the gate of the city.

Sure enough, as Liu Xi thought, when the two of them arrived at the gate of Jiangqing City, Jing Lan hadn't arrived yet.

Liu Xi couldn't help feeling a little worried, and wondered if Jing Lan was slow on her journey, or if she encountered some danger?

I didn't realize it was noon.

Shen Jiangli rubbed his stomach, and stared eagerly at a bean curd vendor not far away.

Liu Xi glanced at Shen Jiangli, and she went straight to the bean curd vendor, "Brother, give me two bowls of bean curd." After speaking, she took out two copper coins and handed them over.

"Okay." The bean curd vendor quickly made two bowls of bean curd and handed them to the two.When he raised his eyes, he realized that although these two were dressed as peasant women, their eyebrows and eyes were picturesque, and they were two beauties in every way, so he couldn't help staring dumbfounded.

Shen Jiangli's lips were slightly dark, in order not to attract attention, he had applied a thick layer of red rouge today, standing in the sun at this time, his lips were even more red.

Shen Jiangli didn't like the little brother's wanton gaze, she gave him a fierce look, and the little brother lowered his head in a panic.

Suddenly, I felt that this bowl of bean curd was not very fragrant.

But his stomach was growling, and Shen Jiangli didn't care too much. He took the bowl and drank it cleanly, but he didn't taste anything special.

"Boom!"

Shen Jiangli smashed the bowl under his feet angrily.

The younger brother didn't expect the girl to have such a temper, so Liu Xi took out another five copper coins and handed them to the younger brother, "My sister has a temper, this is compensation."

It's just an earthen bowl, and five cents is enough to buy ten identical ones.

The little brother held the copper plate in his hand, and said in a low voice: "Miss, this little sister has a really bad temper." Surprised by Shen Jiangli's fierce gaze, the little brother shut his mouth in a panic.

Liu Xi smiled lightly, took a sip of the bean curd, and asked casually: "Brother, I have something to ask you."

"Girl, please tell me." The younger brother replied politely.

Liuxi looked out of the city thoughtfully. Most of the rice in the good fields had been harvested. "We are all foreigners. We heard that the rice here is delicious, so we wanted to buy two bags and take it home when we passed by. Let everyone have a taste. But along the way, is the harvest not good this year? Why did the rice harvest run out so quickly?"

"Girl, don't even think about buying two bags of rice." The little brother was very surprised when he mentioned this, "A few days ago, a group of businessmen from nowhere came from door to door with a thousand buddies. Grain is collected at a high price. You should have seen it when you came, the rice shop is out of grain and they are all closed.”

"Won't half of the rice in the nine counties of Linhai have to be handed over to the imperial court?" Liu Xi asked tentatively.

The little brother nodded, "The imperial court has already paid the half, and we only have food for next year on hand, and sold everything else that can be sold."

"Brother, do you know where those merchants are? I'll go and see if I can buy two bags from them?" Liu Xi asked again.

The little brother looked around, moved closer to Liu Xi, and lowered his voice, "I'm kind enough to tell you, girl, please don't say I said it!"

"Okay." Liu Xi nodded.

The younger brother continued: "These businessmen's buddies have a smell of earth and a stench. Everyone said that their money probably came from other people's graves." After a short pause, the younger brother looked around again, "After collecting the food, they went to the Great Barren Mountain, where there is a mass grave, and it will be haunted at night!"

Liu Xi was startled, "Dahuangshan?"

The little brother nodded sharply, "You two girls' house, don't go to that kind of place, those people don't look like good people, but don't fall into the hands of those people."

"Thank you, little brother." Liu Xi sighed pretending to be regretful, "It seems that I can't buy rice this time."

The little brother hesitated, "If the girl really wants to try it, I can sell her a bag."

"No, no, that's the ration left by your family, we can't take it." As he spoke, Liu Xi shook his head, and was about to say something, when he saw Jing Lan's figure appearing in front of the city gate out of the corner of his eye.

Shen Jiangli waved to Jing Lan happily, "Here."

Jing Lan was quite surprised when she saw the two of them, they actually went ahead of her.She walked over quickly, with hot sweat on her forehead, flying all the way, her breathing was short of breath, and she still hadn't recovered for a while.

Shen Jiangli took the bean curd from Liu Xi's hand and handed it to Jing Lan, "First, drink."

Jing Lan saw that the bowl of bean curd was full, so Liu Xi must not have drunk it before. She couldn't help but finish the bean curd after picking it up. It tasted sweet and quenched her thirst.

Liu Xi looked at her with a suppressed smile, and Shen Jiangli also smiled slyly.

Jing Lan didn't know what the two of them were laughing at. She returned the bowl to the little brother and asked, "Have you all drank?"

"Don't move." Liu Xi said warmly.

Jing Lan was stunned for a moment, Liu Xi had already pinched her sleeves and gently wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"Liu..." Jing Lan subconsciously wanted to retreat, but suddenly scolding Liu Xi here in front of everyone, it would only appear that Liu Xi, a sister-in-law, has no shame.

Liu Xi was sure that she didn't dare to scold, and said with a smile: "Go slowly, look at the sweat, the collar is soaked." Gently scratched Jing Lan's neck with her fingertips, "Fool."

Jing Lan's face flushed, and from the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the younger brother's envious eyes, how could she explain this?

"Okay, let's go." Jing Lan hurriedly grabbed Liu Xi's hand and hurriedly urged.

Liu Xi clenched her hand tightly and said with a smile, "Okay, let's go home."

Jing Lan couldn't help clenching her fingers in protest.

Liu Xi also tightened her fingers, raised her eyebrows to look at her, and expressed her rebuttal.

Shen Jiangli covered his mouth with a chuckle, obediently grabbed Liu Xi's other corner of his clothes, and followed the two of them out of the city gate of Jiangqing County to the suburbs.

Walking along the ridge for a while, the three of them stopped until there were only bare paddy fields left in the four fields and no one else was there.

"Liu Xi, you're messing around again!" Jing Lan finally couldn't help but speak.

Liu Xi looked at her innocently, "What nonsense? You and I have agreed in the morning, you and I are traveling in disguise, not pretending to be husband and wife, are we pretending to be siblings?"

"You!" Jing Lan thought to herself that she couldn't tell her.

Liu Xi smiled and said: "It's fine to pretend to be a brother and sister, you call me good sister first, then I will recognize you."

"..." Jing Lan really had no choice but to deal with her, "Let's get down to business!"

"Did you find anything?" Liu Xi told her the business.

Jing Lan nodded with a dignified expression, "I searched for the rice on the ground and went all the way into Dahuang Mountain, it's over there." She identified the direction and pointed to the green hill not far away, "Behind that mountain. I'm worried about you, So I didn't pursue it any further, so I rushed to Jiangqing County to join you."

"Dahuangshan." Liu Xi raised his eyes and looked over there, trying to recall the memories of Dahuangshan in his previous life.

The so-called mass burials are actually because many poor people can't afford coffins, so they wrap their corpses in straw mats, throw them into the mountainside, and let the wild animals in the mountain eat them.

If there is anything special about this place, there is only one legend—it is said that there is too much yin there, so a wandering monk spent his whole life building a temple for the dead in the depths of the mass graves to save the souls of the dead.

No one has really seen what the Past Life Temple looks like. After all, it is a mass grave. How can strangers dare to go in and find out?

Thinking about it now, such a place is indeed a good place to collect rice.

Listening to Liu Xi's tone, Jing Lan seemed to have heard the name before, "Liu Xi?"

Liu Xi said seriously: "The bean curd seller said that someone harvested grain wantonly and transported it to the mass graves in the Great Barren Mountains."

"No wonder." Jing Lan looked around at the bare rice fields.

"Are you afraid of ghosts?" Liu Xi suddenly asked.

Jing Lan chuckled, "I haven't done anything wrong, how can I be afraid of ghosts?"

Liu Xi turned to Shen Jiangli and asked, "How about you, sister?"

Shen Jiangli shook his head, pointed to himself, "Ghost, doctor."

"Maybe there are still people who dare to venture inside during the day, so their defenses must be strict during the day." Liu Xi said while thinking, "There are so many mass graves in the world, why did the monk choose this place to build the Temple of Rebirth? I think , there must be another universe inside."

"Wangsheng Temple?" Jing Lan was puzzled.

Shen Jiangli had never heard of this name before.

If it wasn't for attacking East Fuzhou in her previous life, Liu Xi would not have sent people to explore all of East Fuzhou, so she memorized most of these legends.

It was very hard in this life to get along with Jing Lan peacefully, and to mention that she is also a reborn person, that would be an extra problem, and it is absolutely unacceptable.

Liu Xi smiled calmly and said, "If you read more books, you will naturally know a little bit more."

Shen Jiangli grew up in [Ghost Gate] since she was a child. She studied poisonous scriptures or medical skills. She rarely read these miscellaneous books. After hearing what Liu Xi said, she said with great interest: "I, read."

"What about you, Ah Lan?" Liu Xi fondled the back of Shen Jiangli's head, then turned to look at Jing Lan, "Do you want to learn more from my sister, and read more books in the future?"

Jing Lan coughed twice, "It's important."

Liu Xi held her hand tightly, "Okay, I'll listen to A Lan."

It was only then that Jing Lan realized that she had been holding Liu Xi's hand, "Liu Xi, you..."

"What's the matter?" Liu Xi took Shen Jiangli's hand with the other hand through the clothes, "Look, isn't it just holding hands? We are both girls, what are you afraid of?"

Shen Jiangli looked at Jing Lan with a restrained smile, "No, I'm afraid."

"You... when did you even say this?" Jing Lan was shocked.

Liu Xi raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "The friendship between Jinlan and Lanzhou is because of sincerity, so naturally you know everything and say everything."

"No, all." Shen Jiangli nodded heavily.

Jing Lan knew that she couldn't beat them, so she had no choice but to give up. She looked up at the sky, "It will take at least an hour to walk from here to the mass grave. The further you go, the more uneven the mountain road will be." Saying that, she Looking at Liu Xi, "You have bad feet, or..."

"I can't go, you just carry me." Liu Xi said naturally.

Jing Lan shook her head and sighed softly, "You really push yourself."

"Alan is kind-hearted, she must be reluctant to let me walk with a limp." Liu Xi blinked at her.

Jing Lan spoke stiffly, "Who doesn't want to miss you?" As she spoke, she turned her face away, and after a moment of silence, she said in a low voice, "Liu Xi, don't show off to me, if it really hurts, just tell me."

"Okay." Liu Xi smiled.

Jing Lan hurriedly turned her back, raised the corner of her mouth, and suddenly two small dimples twirled on her face.

Liu Xi couldn't see Jing Lan's sniggering, but Shen Jiangli could see it clearly.

She moved closer to Liu Xi, and said in a low voice, "Laughing." As she spoke, she cast a sidelong glance at Jing Lan's back.

In fact, Liu Xi knew she would laugh without seeing it with her own eyes.Jing Lan has such a temperament, so she let Jing Lan be like this, at least in the past two years or so, she won't make things too difficult for her, as long as she can be like this with her.

The world's fine wines are intoxicating, and they also need to wait patiently during the aging years.

She is willing to wait.

I am also willing to wait for Jing Lan to really be able to take charge of her own affairs and face the storms of the future with her.

After all, what comes by force is not your own after all.Only if she is also willing, can it last for a long time.

The author has something to say: Shen Jiangli: Assist and attack.

Yuan Xiaoning: Yes!Add chicken legs for you!

Jing Lan: Did Liu Xi drink that bowl of tofu curd?

Liu Xi: Guess what?