I trade my property for my wife

Under the control of the boatman, the black-covered boat came to a gentle stop, and the two masters and servants on board did not disembark.

The three of Jiang Xingchen looked at the people on board and stood still.The woman in red seemed to have not seen them, she glanced away, but the servant girl sized them up and said something in the woman's ear, and the woman turned her head, still sitting in the dock tent and did not want to disembark the meaning of.

Yu Zhesheng took a step forward and saluted the boatman: "Excuse me, may I ask the boatman if he has heard of a meteorite falling nearby."

When the boatman came over from the very beginning, his expression was not quite right. He looked around and said nervously to the woman in the boat tent, "Miss, have you finished watching? What beautiful scenery can there be in this place?"

Seeing that the boatman ignored him, Yu Zhesheng wanted to ask again.Jiang Xingchen stopped him and whispered, "Don't ask, there are no meteorites here."

Jiang Xingchen winked at Qin Ling, and Qin Ling took out some broken silver and walked up to the boatman and said, "Boatman, can you take us out of here?"

When the boatman saw the broken silver, he jumped off the boat with a smile, reached out to take it, and said, "Yes, yes."

The maid beside the woman said angrily: "You boatman, we have chartered the boat for a whole day, why should we still carry someone else?"

The boatman laughed and said, "I've already taken the money. The boat is so big that it won't hinder your lady from seeing the scenery. You're just wandering around anyway."

The servant girl became even more angry, she raised her face and was about to curse, the woman stretched out her hand to stop her and said, "It's okay to let them come up."

The voice is sweet and sweet, and it sounds like he is not very old. He should be about the same as Jiang Xingchen, who is about sixteen or seventeen years old.The three of Jiang Xingchen boarded the boat, and Jiang Xingchen bowed his hands and said, "Thank you, miss."

The woman turned her head to look at Jiang Xingchen, and nodded slightly.The boatman hurriedly pushed the boat away with the pole, and the boat left the bank quickly. There was nothing special on the river, and there were reeds on both sides of the river. I just heard the boatman say that the two masters and servants came to see the scenery of the river. What the boatman said was nothing to look at.

Jiang Xingchen looked at the maid beside her, and raised his eyes to look at the woman again. She was not from a small family, and for a moment she couldn't figure out why the woman deliberately approached them.

Qin Ling turned around, bowed her hands to the maid not far away and saluted, "Thank you for your guidance that day, I was able to find my brother without any trouble."

Hearing this, the servant girl glanced at Qin Ling and said, "Young Master and I have never met before, so why give me some advice?"

A sneer curled up on the corner of Qin Ling's lips. It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. Qin Ling has plenty of ways to get her to admit it.

As soon as she arrived in Guning County that night, she was stopped while riding a horse.The servant girl claimed that she was arranged by Mr. Jiang, and came here to inform her which inn to find her, and explained that Mr. Jiang was here to investigate the case of the meteorite, so she couldn't say anything about it. Qin Ling was dubious but went anyway.

Seeing Qin Ling's gloomy look, the maid moved a few steps behind the woman, and whispered something in the woman's ear.The woman turned her head, and said to Qin Ling in a clear and pleasant voice, "My sister is not sensible, so I hope you will forgive me."

Yu Zhesheng was at a loss, looked left and right, but still couldn't understand.The four people on the boat knew it well, and the boatman didn't bother them, as if they didn't hear it.

Jiang Xingchen took over the conversation and said, "It's brother who scared the girl, I will apologize to you two."

The woman chuckled lightly and said, "Young Master Jiang is easy to talk to."

Jiang Xingchen smiled and said, "I don't know what the girl wants to tell us."

The woman said with a slight smile: "I don't dare to obey the order, but there are indeed some things that need to trouble the three of you."

From the time Yu Zhesheng called the boatman, the boatman ignored them, and then he drove them over and agreed to Jiang Xingchen and the others to board the boat. Jiang Xingchen knew that this woman came to them on purpose.

Qin Ling said coldly: "Is it always like this when you ask people for help?"

The woman said indifferently: "It's just an exchange."

Qin Ling didn't understand, the woman motioned her to look back, the three of them turned to look behind them, the boat had just sailed away from the shore, dozens of government officials and some people in military uniforms were standing on the shore, looking over here .

If the woman didn't let the boatman come, if they didn't get on the boat.He will definitely be chased and blocked by the government officers and officers and soldiers behind him, and a fierce fight will be inevitable at that time, Yu Zhesheng does not know martial arts yet.

Yu Zhesheng watched the people behind him turn around and patted his chest: "Fortunately, we are on the boat, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

Jiang Xingchen turned around and said to the woman, "Young lady, if you need help, you can let me know."

The woman smiled: "No rush, Young Master Jiang will finish his errands first, and it won't be too late to help the little girl."

After driving for half an hour, the boat entered the narrow passage of the valley. There were occasional noises of animals. Qin Ling looked around vigilantly. There were mountains and rocks on both sides, as well as some unknown flowers and green leaves.

Jiang Xingchen was contemplating with all her concentration. Just now, she was a member of the government. She had a doubt in her heart. Why can a county government mobilize personnel from the army?

At this time, suddenly a green frog-like animal jumped onto the boat and climbed onto Jiang Xingchen's feet.

Seeing that he didn't notice, Qin Ling wanted to drive the "green frog" away with his sword, but was stopped by the maid beside the woman: "Don't move."

Qin Ling frowned in confusion, and Jiang Xingchen came back to his senses, seeing the "green frog" on Jiang Xingchen's feet, and the woman also saw the "green frog" on Jiang Xingchen's feet.

She said: "Young Master Jiang, don't move around, let him go by himself."

Hearing this, Jiang Xingchen was skeptical and did not move.After the green frog jumped into the water by itself, the woman explained: "This is a poisonous frog. After being frightened, it will spray out venom. The skin of the infected person will fester at the slightest level, and even die at worst."

When Yu Zhesheng heard the words, the expression on his face changed again and again.I thought: What kind of place is this? Your Majesty probably wants his life.

Jiang Xingchen and Qin Ling were fine. Hearing the woman's explanation, Jiang Xingchen thought for a while and said, "Is the lady from the local area?"

The woman nodded and answered her.

Seeing that she didn't want to talk to them, Jiang Xingchen helped them twice in a row. Before helping them finish their work, he probably wouldn't harm them, so he went to the stern of the boat to talk to the boatman.

Jiang Xingchen said to the boatman, "Has the boatman heard anything strange recently?"

The boatman heard their conversation just now, saw that they were not locals, so he shut up.

Yu Zhesheng said: "This boatman has a really weird temper. Could it be that he is intermittently deaf?"

The maid beside the woman laughed, and Yu Zhesheng felt that he had slipped his words and hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

When the boatman heard Yu Zhesheng's words, he put on a dirty face.Qin Ling walked over and took out some broken silver, and said, "Answer her question, these are all yours."

The boatman tilted his head and counted the money in Qin Ling's hand, his face changed into a smile again, and he hurriedly replied, "There are such strange things, but I told you, don't say I said it."

Jiang Xingchen said with a gentle smile, "If the boatman tells us, we will naturally keep our mouths shut."

Only then did the boatman hand over the boat pole to Qin Ling, and stretched out his hand to take away the silver from Qin Ling's hand.He untied the tobacco rod from the rope around his waist, took out the flint, and the two flints collided vigorously, but after touching for a long time, they did not ignite the tobacco in the pipe.Seeing this, Yu Zhesheng took out a fire bag to curry favor and said to the boatman, "Use this."

The boatman took the tobacco rod, lit it on the torch in Yu Zhesheng's hand, took two puffs, and exhaled the smoke. He sat down in an empty space on the boat, half-closed his eyes and said: "This is a strange story in Guning County. There are quite a few, let’s just take this old man who is an official as an example, they say he is the incarnation of a wolf who became a spirit in the mountains, and he came here to slaughter the common people.”

Yu Zhesheng heard the words and said: "Boaters need to be careful in their words." It is a serious crime to slander government officials.

The boatman squinted at him and said, "Would you like to hear it?" After speaking, he took a few more puffs from the cigarette holder, knocked on the hull of the boat a few times with the tobacco rod, and shook all the burnt tobacco ashes into the river .

Jiang Xingchen apologized and said with a smile: "The boat owner doesn't have to worry about it, as long as it comes through the pipe."

Yu Zhesheng laughed twice, seeing the boatman took out tobacco leaves from the pipe again, he hurriedly took out the torch and lit it for the boatman again.Only then did the boatman smile and said, "I'm not just trying to slander the magistrate. You don't want to hear anecdotes. What I'm talking about is just rumors from the county."

Yu Zhesheng said: "Yes, yes, what you said is true."

Jiang Xingchen and the others listened to the boatman's narration, and Jiang Xingchen, the magistrate of Guning County, also learned something.He also holds the same attitude towards what the boatman said, disregarding the king's law, engaging in malpractices for personal gain, and conniving at relatives and subordinates to exploit the people.

The boatman had already smoked five pipes, but Jiang Xingchen still didn't get the "rumor" she wanted.

However, I found out by accident that the brother-in-law of the county magistrate she killed had a special hobby. He liked to pretend to be a thief and a robber, and went to the inn to search for businessmen from outsiders with incense.It is not an exaggeration to say that they are perverted. The businessmen in the past have a hard time saying it. They will have a meal when they sue the government, saying that they lost something on the road and went to the inn. kill him.

Jiang Xingchen killed him because of the extraordinary circumstances at the time, so she chose to kill him with one blow.

And that inn was also avoided by businessmen in the past. Businessmen who were familiar with Guning County never settled there. Jiang Xingchen had never been here before, so of course he didn't know.

As for why there were two more men in black in her room, she wondered if she had misidentified them.Because although the county magistrate's brother-in-law liked to pretend to be a robber, he had never killed anyone, and the two of them obviously wanted her life fiercely.

Jiang Xingchen recalled that when she went to the store, she seemed to hear the waiter in the store say that it is better to come early than coincidentally.At that time, Jiang Xingchen's mind was full of Xiao Jingyin, and he didn't mean to ask this question deeply.Thinking about it this way, someone should have retreated from the superior room, and Jiang Xingchen happened to catch up.

Jiang Xingchen listened to the boatman tell other rumors about Guning County for a while, but the boatman obviously avoided talking about the "meteorite".She was thinking about how to find out about the "meteorite".I heard the maid at the bow of the boat smile and ask the boatman: "I heard that a few days ago someone reported that a meteorite fell and turned the entire village into ashes."

Hearing the words, the boatman changed from being eloquent to being submissive and said, "Miss, don't dare to talk nonsense, there are no meteorites."

Jiang Xingchen glanced at the maidservant, and keenly caught a trace of disdain in the maidservant's eyes.Since the servant girl knew about the "meteorite", why did she use someone else's mouth to tell it.

Jiang Xingchen pretended to be interested, and said to the boatman, "What kind of meteorite can turn a village into ashes?"

The boatman looked embarrassed, as if he didn't want to say anything.Seeing this, Qin Ling handed the boat pole to Yu Zhesheng, touched the saber at his waist, pulled it out and put it on the boatman's shoulder for a moment.

Qin Ling said in a cold voice, "Since everyone has spoken, let's finish."

The boatman was startled by the cold iron sword, and hurriedly said: "I don't know, I didn't see anything, I really didn't see anything."

It turned out to be an eyewitness.

Only then did Jiang Xingchen understand why the maid asked the boatman to speak.