An extraordinary journey from the beginning

Chapter 173 Silver's
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"The steward just now is the actual controller of this ship. He is also the steward of the richest family in Suchuan. So far, the ship seems to have behaved a little flatly, even humbled."

Hanging the orange-yellow lantern on the iron barb in the room, Lu Ming looked back and analyzed to Linglong with a calm expression.

"According to the outside world you introduced before, isn't the person in charge also a servant? Is there something wrong with his behavior?" Linglong sat cross-legged on the mat, resting her elbows on her knees, holding her little head in her palms, and looked up. Lu Ming asked for a solution.

For her, since she was a child, this is the first time she left Zhihuo and came to this strange world outside.

Everything here is novel to her, not only the means of transportation under her feet, the strange and beautiful scenery outside, but also the living habits and common sense of society of these outsiders.

These are all things she needs to understand slowly.

Not every outsider can be perceived as good or bad by her like Lu Ming.

"Do you know how we got on the boat?" Lu Ming walked across to Linglong, sat cross-legged with her, and asked with a smile.

"You gave him gold." Linglong replied without thinking.

Although Zhihuo has never spent money in life, the outside world needs to pay for other people's transportation, which she quickly accepted under Lu Ming's explanation.

However, she still doesn't quite understand the importance of money.

"bingo."

The serious expression of the girl is always so cute, and the beeping little face makes people want to slap her. Lu Ming didn't dare to kiss, but he knocked Linglong's forehead unexpectedly, and sighed with a smile: "It's a pity! , I did not reward you."

"It's business, don't push me, what you said just now is attractive." Linglong stretched out her hand and waved Lu Ming's palm away, frowning, pretending to be a little angry and said.

This guy, when talking about things, always digresses while talking, as if the strings in his mind suddenly skipped frequency, I don't know why he can be so strange and interesting.

"Think about it with your cute little head, as the steward of the richest family, will he be short of money?"

Stretching out his hand to stop Linglong from opening her mouth to retort, Lu Ming continued: "①A steward of the richest man will definitely not be short of money, at least a piece of gold from me is not enough to buy him off.

②If he just took us on board the boat casually, but his attitude towards us is a bit weird. From the conversation to the behavior, there are some weird and even humility to please him. Let's blow him outside The steward had to come and invite us back to the room to rest in person, which was a bit too polite.

It's not at all like the attitude of a ship owner, a steward who holds great power.

③He clearly knows that there are two distinguished guests of his master upstairs, but he still let us two outsiders board the boat. Isn't he worried that we will annoy the guests upstairs with some weird behavior? "

She snapped her fingers with a "snap", refreshing Linglong who was listening attentively. Lu Ming looked at her and continued: "This manager is so cautious and even humble from the inside out, but he risked annoying the Patriarch. Is it not suspicious that we two strangers should come on board at the risk of our honored guests?"

"...It's quite suspicious."

Linglong subconsciously replied, nodded slightly, then looked up at Lu Ming, and asked seriously, "Then what should we do?"

Before Lu Ming could answer, she stood up again and suggested, "Since he is so suspicious, it must be uneasy for us to board the boat. Why don't we just get off the boat?"

Linglong's thinking is simple, no matter whether the steward is the same as Gu Shi, under the command of Marquis Ping Jiang, who came to trouble her, the "divine lord", or the steward plotted against the two of them for some reason, as long as she leaves here and stays away from the incident. , on the line.

Before going out, her father, Huo Tu Xin, dragged her to chatter for a long time, and she listened to them impatiently, but she still remembered a word of advice when she arrived, that is, safety first.

The old man said, when in doubt, withdraw first!
Trees are dead, and they can only endure the wind and rain in silence, but people are different. People are alive, and when things happen, their minds turn around. There is not only one way to Zhaodu, and it is not necessary to be a flying fish. Open boats are not acceptable, there is no need to take risks.

This point, Linglong can still think clearly, her little head is not stupid.

"No." Lu Ming refused her directly, and seeing Linglong's confused and hesitant expression, he pointed out the window, "Go and see and you'll understand."

Linglong didn't know why, but she still walked to the window, pushed open the window, a strong cold air flowed along the window and rushed into the warm room, Lu Ming shrank her neck, Linglong frowned and looked at him. Lu Ming gestured with his mouth to look outside, just glanced at it, then retracted his neck for a moment, and closed the store,
"Why is it all dark outside?"

The window was open and the cold wind outside was howling, which is not difficult to understand. After all, it is night and the ship is flying in the sky, but Linglong was terrified. When the two came in, there was still an evening sunset outside, and the faint moon had already leaked. came out.

Why did the two of them enter the house for less than an hour, and the sky was completely dark, forget it when it was dark, there was not even a little light, where did the moon go before?

The boat under his feet seemed to be walking in pitch-black ink, and the surroundings exuded a coldness and shabbyness.

Linglong shuddered a little.

"It's always dark here."

Lu Ming patted the mat, motioned Linglong to sit down first, and slowly explained: "From the lake outside your Zhihuo to the next stop of the fishing boat, you will pass above the Fish Scale Valley, which is where we are currently. ,

Fish Scale Valley is located next to the abyss. It is famous because the pass is shaped like a cut open fish. It is said that there are horrible monsters haunting here all the year round, and because it is close to the abyss, the light at this distance is not enough. At night, even the moon cannot shine on this place. an area. "

"Since you know why you still want to get on the boat?" The pitch-black night outside looked a little scary, and when Linglong sat down, she leaned against Lu Ming, feeling more secure, and asked again: "Is there no Is there another way to go to Zhaodu?"

"Yes, I have."

"Then why are we on this fishing boat?"

"The purpose of getting on the boat is for convenience, and I just remembered it." Lu Ming tapped his head, deeply moved, and said helplessly to Linglong: "After all, my brain is not very good, and my memory often makes mistakes. "

Linglong stared blankly at Lu Ming, and after a while, reached out and touched his forehead to make sure that he didn't have a fever or illness, then probed his head and approached his chest to confirm that the heartbeat was normal, with a confused look on his face.

Why can he calmly say that he has a problem with his mind?

How serious is this disease?
"!!!"

"Don't think about those things that are there or not."

Seeing through the girl's whimsy at a glance, Lu Ming stretched out his hands and pulled her head away, and said very calmly: "I got injured when I fought the fire demon in your Weaving Fire Forbidden Land, so I don't care about some things that don't matter. My memory is not very clear, and I really didn’t think of it before I came here.”

When I was in Yan Xiqiang, the memory of the two lives was easy, mainly in Lu Ming's previous life, and the memory of this life is also fully remembered, but most of the daily trivial or insignificant things are infinitely faded away, while Lu Ming's life in this life In the first half of his life, he lived in the northern border for nine years, and in the nine years he greeted the king in the capital and never left the capital.

Naturally, one would not be very impressed with the anecdotes and anecdotes recorded in such classics and wild newspapers.

He really didn't remember this until he got on the boat.

"Well, I believe you."

Linglong held Lu Ming's face and looked it over carefully, her little head was almost glued to him, and when he was about to flick his forehead impatiently, she resolutely let go, and said with a smile, "I believe you no matter what you say, you have a brain. Problem, I have a problem in my mind too."

"..."

Lu Ming was greatly moved when he heard that, "You are really..."

That's right, how can normal people run away without two people meeting each other?Let your father and clansmen who have lived for more than ten years ignore it, and run away with a wild man from the outside world. Do you think you are writing a novel?

The girl's brain is really... stupid!
What should I do if I meet a bad guy?

Lu Ming muttered to himself, looking at the girl with a beautiful smile, he felt that although the size was wrong, he couldn't bear to watch her go out and be fooled by people casually, so he dragged her to explain how the outside world was so hateful , How to be evil, how to protect yourself carefully when you encounter topics like.

After a while, a girl's silver bell-like laughter came from the room, and Sherlock Holmes gave all kinds of prudish explanations.

……

Outside the wing room, the shadow at the corner moved slowly, stretched and elongated until it gradually disappeared and left this floor.

The owner of the boat, that is, the steward of Weisheng's family, walked out with a speechless expression on his face. He touched his forehead and shook his head, as if he wanted to forget about this pair of men and women who had some neurological problems. After that, he slowly went up to the second floor.

Walking to the middle room, the steward bent down, reached out and knocked lightly on the door made of red silk nanmu, and said with a very humble attitude and tone:
"Guests, the two downstairs have already rested, and no one will disturb you."

The room was quiet and there was no response. Just when the steward thought that the distinguished guest would not answer, the door slowly opened, and a young man in white walked out. He looked into the room and turned back to the steward, frowning slightly. ,
"My sister is a light sleeper, so don't tell us about such trivial matters in the future."

After a pause, the man turned his back and said again: "This is your Weisheng family's fishing boat, not our Yin's. You don't need to ask me for instructions on everything."

"Yes, yes, but the Patriarch has specially ordered that you treat Miss Yin with the same respect as you treat him. The villain really dare not be reckless."

The steward bowed slightly, with a smile on his lips when he cupped his hands.

It seems to be a touch of joy.

The man in white who was about to close the door looked at the smile on the other side's mouth, frowned slightly, his breathing froze for a moment, and then quickly recovered

"...I said, don't bother us!"

"Remember, villain, I won't do it next time."

The person in charge was still humble, bowed his hands and watched the door slowly close, the smile on his face did not weaken at all, and there was a hint of sarcasm on the corner of his mouth.

Then he turned and left, and walked towards the deeper room that belonged to the ship owner.

At the same time that the steward's figure disappeared around the corner, two shadows appeared behind.

"Would you like to follow? See if the captain is still in charge."

Linglong first glanced at the locked nanmu gate, and then at the direction where the captain disappeared. She couldn't make up her mind for a moment, so she reached out and pulled Lu Ming's arm and asked.

"Follow the captain."

Lu Ming stretched out his hand and made a small gesture, then pointed to the direction where the captain disappeared, and followed slowly along the other side of the corner.

Linglong imitated the example, and the two followed the captain around turns and turns. He first went back to his room and made a pot of tea, then went back the same way and walked to the bottom cabin, found the crew who was driving the ship, and checked the details of each flight. Equipment, and carefully instruct the crew on duty in shifts.

After finishing all this, the captain ran to the kitchen and took a box containing a few small dishes, took them back to his room, placed them on the table and began to drink from small cups.

The two watched all this cautiously behind them, becoming more and more confused as they watched.

This seems to be just an ordinary ship owner.

Could it be that they guessed wrong?
Back in the guest room, Lu Ming looked pensive.

Linglong looked upstairs, "Why do you always think there is something wrong with that ship owner? From my point of view, that Yin family in that room seems suspicious too."

"The truth is often covered up in a small number of things that don't have any problems." Lu Ming said as he sat down, and his solemn expression eased again, "But don't worry about it so much, we just need to remember where the owner's room is. gone."

"It's so late at night, and we are in the sky. Life and death are all in the hands of others. No matter what tricks the captain himself plays, or other dangers, as the captain, he must know the best way to escape the ship. , let’s just keep an eye on him, at least it’s the safest way out.”

"Oh, that's how it is," Linglong suddenly realized, "No wonder I said you didn't even look at the gorgeously shaped room, but just followed the owner of the ship, just to confirm the room he lived in, and just in case something happened, you can be the first Find him soon, right?"

"Not too stupid."

The girl's serious and sudden appearance is too cute, which makes people's ambition soar. Lu Ming reached out to pinch her face, but just raised his hand and quickly put it down, and said in a low voice: "Be careful when you go out, outsiders don't have you! Fire weavers are as simple as that."

"I know, I know, why are you like my father, like a buzzing old woman? I've talked about this since I got on the boat." Linglong rolled her eyes, disapproving, and leaned closer to Lu Ming with a smile ,
"However, I'm still curious about who that Yin family is. When you passed by there, you held your breath slightly. Do you know something, right?"

"..."

Lu Ming looked at the girl in surprise, it seems that the girl is not really stupid and sweet, she even noticed his small movements just now, under Linglong's expectant eyes, Lu Ming didn't intend to show off.

"The Yin family is one of the oldest families in Suchuan. Together with the Ming family and the Li family, they are also known as the three major gods. They used to be in the position of gods and in charge of the judiciary. Their clansmen can sense other people's emotions, and the strong can control them better. Its will, it is said that no sinner can escape Yin's judgment."

"Controlling other people's will, isn't that the power of thought, which exists like bone food?" Linglong was a little surprised.

"Different."

Lu Ming shook his head slightly, "The kind of bone food that relies on implanting devices in the body to enhance and obtain certain powers can only be regarded as an imitator, but the Yin family is different. According to the records of the royal family, the Yin family relied on itself to be given by the gods. The power of blood."

"However, after the fall of the gods 500 years ago, this power of the Yin clan gradually disappeared, and gradually the Yin clan began to weaken. Until now, Suchuan has not seen any members of the Yin clan appear for a long time. ancient surnames in

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(End of this chapter)