Wearing the cannon fodder little koi in the imperial examination essay

Chapter 305

At the end of the Xianggong, the examination is generally held in the spring of the next year of the Xianggong, in the spring of the Chen, Xu, and Wei years, so it is also called Chunwei.

Coincidentally next year is the new year, Chun Wei will start the exam in early spring and February, half a year, no matter how long the time is, Song Xinglin and Yu Su are not in a hurry, they discussed with Wang Shuisheng, and finally the four of them decided , Continue to take the waterway to Beijing.

Firstly, the waterway is faster, and secondly, it is safer and less labor-intensive than the land way. With the extra time, they can also play while walking, enjoying the scenery and people along the road, and walking slowly.

After making a decision and leaving Jinling, they went directly to Huaiyang, where they boarded a passenger ship on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, preparing to go all the way to Tongzhou, and finally from Tongzhou to Kyoto.

However, because the journey northward is against the current, the speed of the boat is not fast.

On this day, the boat had just crossed the Yellow River and arrived at Donglin Road at about noon. Thinking it was still early, the boat had only moored at Donglin Road for a few hours, so Yu Su and the others disembarked and wandered around the wharf. They dared to stay away because time was tight. They didn't even have a meal, so they bought some local specialty snacks, melons and fruits, and the group hurried back to the boat.

In the cabin, the four sat facing each other, Song Xinglin looked at the busy little wife and said.

"Further north of Donglin Road, the next stop is Linqing, which is one of the five granaries on the canal along with Huai'an, Jining, Dezhou, and Tianjin. It is more lively than Donglin Road. When we get there, the ships need to be replenished, and they will berth there." The time will probably not be short, and then we will get off the boat and go for a walk. This is noon, everyone will settle down and eat whatever you want. Besides, Yuyu, you bought a lot of fruits and vegetables just now? I But I heard from Brother Liao next door that Donglin Road is rich in melons, fruits and vegetables, and at night we will use them to talk around the fire, so that we can sing about wine, okay?"

Yu Su was right after thinking about it, so he listened to his little husband-in-law, greeted his second younger sister, and went to work with the shopping in his hands. Yu Su was going to use the five-gengar chicken they brought at night, and then asked the boat mother for another one. Bowl delicious fish soup, boil these vegetables to eat fresh, right now, put those snacks on the plate for everyone to fill their stomachs.

Although the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal has a wide channel and smooth sailing, it is not as steep and difficult as other rivers, and it does not need to be like the rivers in Sichuan. Reverse travel requires many trackers on the shore to move forward. Here, it relies on pure human power. It can go smoothly by following the wind, but relying on these alone, the ship is going retrograde slowly, and it is not going fast.

Time passed in a blink of an eye, night came quietly, and after nightfall, lights were lit up everywhere on the ship.

It is said that scholars love to be arty, even Song Xinglin is a fake scholar who is still rude in his bones. Under the leadership of real scholar Wang Shuisheng, he has also more or less acquired some scholar habits.

"Junior Brother Song, look, it's the fifteenth day tonight, and the moon in the sky is bright and bright. We should have a drink together under the moonlight to enjoy ourselves. What do you think, Junior Brother Song?"

Then there's nothing else to say, Song Xinglin looked at the appearance of this prospective brother-in-law, and knew that he might not be homesick.

Also, during the festive season, I miss my relatives a lot. Although it is not a festive season right now, facing the full moon above their heads, and they have been rushing to take the exam for many days, they finally won the exam but can’t return to their hometown. The relatives in the family are friendly and supportive, which is not like my own family. It is inevitable to miss the messy home behind him.

It can be seen that no matter how stable and mature he looks, the senior brother is still half a boy!

Song Xinglin, who was the oldest and considered himself the patriarch, couldn't help but soften his heart when he saw his brother-in-law looking at the bright moon above his head while leaning on the railing, and nodded in response without saying a word.

"Senior brother wish you, junior brother dare not refuse, today you and my senior brother will have a night chat around the stove under this month, and have a drink."

Beside, Yu Su and Song Xiahe's aunt and sister-in-law looked at the uncle and uncle hooking up with each other, they looked at each other and smiled, and acted quickly.

Song Xiahe went to the cabin at the stern of the ship with copper coins to find the boat mother, and bought the fresh fish soup that was prepared every day on the boat. When she saw a bowl of fresh fish balls, Song Xiahe bought a catty of them without hesitation.

Yu Su in this compartment packed the vegetables that he would pick and wash in the next afternoon, and instructed the young gentleman to carry the small round table in their cabin to the deck at the stern, and Yu Su personally lit the five-watch chicken and put it on the table. Put a small iron pot with ears on it, put a layer of fresh vegetables on the bottom of the pot, pour the fish soup bought by the second sister, add fish dumplings and fish balls, and some egg dumplings made by Yu Su himself, sprinkle pepper, insert a handful Green coriander, the soup is full of fragrance and delicious.

The four of them sniffed and sat down one after another, Aunt Yu Su was holding the wine, and Song Xinglin and Wang Shuisheng who were holding sake held a toast.

The beautiful scenery on such a beautiful day, the delicacy comes first, and the four of them had a great time eating. Wang Shuisheng raised his glass and couldn't help but sigh with emotion to the bright moon in the sky, "Beauties, beautiful scenery, delicious food, and fine wine, if we have some fairy music at this time, it will be even better." Beautiful..."

I don't know if Senior Brother Wang opened his mouth, but just after his voice fell, there was the faint sound of silk and bamboo on the river.

Song Xinglin, who was sitting with his back to the stern, was still puzzled. He looked around and muttered to himself, "On this section of the river, there aren't even any residential houses on either side of the river. How could there be the sound of silk and bamboo?"

Song Xiahe, who happened to be sitting opposite Song Xinglin, pointed at the river behind her second brother and let out an exclamation.

"Wow, look everyone! There's a boat! There's a boat! The sound must be coming from the boat behind us."

All four of them turned their heads to look for the sound, and saw a large ship that was more than twice the size of their passenger ship floating on the river hundreds of meters away behind them.

Under the illumination of the lights, several people vaguely saw that the boat was carved with beams and painted buildings, and it looked gorgeous. The sound of silk and bamboo that they heard just now faintly came from there.

When Yu Su saw the brightly lit building boat, he couldn't help feeling emotional, "Wow, this boat is beautiful, I like it! I just don't know, who is sitting on it? Hmm~ it can't be some oiran girl... Oops! "

"What are you talking about!"

Yu Su covered his forehead with both hands, staring angrily at the culprit whose hands were still in mid-air, Yu Su gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "Little brother, what are you doing!" She spoke decently, but did nothing, this guy I'm afraid I'm not crazy, why knock her?

What else?
Seeing Zijiatang's polite eyes, Song Xinglin nodded Yusu helplessly.

"If I didn't hit you, what did you plan to be bald just now? Miss Huakui?" Song Xinglin smiled angrily, "Hmph, I think you have been playing wild in Jinling City for the past two months, why? Your husband-in-law and I have never been to those occasions, do you still want to go there?"

Er... Yu Su, she really wanted to come here.

As a time-traveling girl, it has been said in the novels that in the classic time-traveling plot, the brothel must start, and a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier, and a time-traveling girl who doesn't want to be a concubine is not a good time-traveling girl, so she thought What's the matter if you want to see the brothel?
But seeing the serious look of the young man in front of him, Yu Su smiled dryly, "Hey hey, little brother, let me just think about it, didn't I go?"

Walking around Jinling City, during the period, I heard a lot about the affairs of the Qinhuai River, and even saw Yu Su, who was selling laughing women on the fence, and subconsciously muttered this, but Song Xinglin was so angry.

"Hey, you really want to go!", Don't even think about it!
He was so angry with his own fish.

Seeing that this one of his family was about to explode, Yu Su secretly thought that something was wrong, so he quickly confessed his mistake and coaxed others.

"Hehehe, I'm just talking, don't take it seriously, little brother Ang, besides, if you want to blame it, blame the boat behind it, if it weren't for the noise on their boat, it would be like the Qin Lou Chu Pavilion , people don’t want to be crooked, hehehe.”

The one on the back boat who was listening to the music and admiring the beauties dancing... is it his fault?

Song Xinglin sighed helplessly: "Forget it, you're the only one with a lot of nonsense, you are not allowed to mention these in the future, do you know?"

Facing such a baby who was afraid of melting in his mouth and afraid of losing in his hands, Song Xinglin had nothing to do. Until now, his waist had never stood up.

But what does that matter?On the contrary, he enjoyed himself.

Looking at the man who was laughing at him, Song Xinglin surrendered first, shook his head helplessly, sighed, raised his chopsticks to pick up a tender fish ball and put it into Yu Sushi's bowl, Song Xinglin's face was pampered and helpless.

"Okay, hurry up and eat, don't make any more trouble."

Yu Su said obediently, and saw that the second younger sister beside him was still smiling strangely at him, Yu Su gritted his teeth, pouted and picked at a certain brother sitting opposite him, the second younger sister immediately shut up obediently, and quickly put her head down dishes to go.

Yu Su was satisfied in an instant, and pouted his small mouth. The chopsticks picked up the round snow-white fish balls and were about to send them to his mouth. The fish ball mischievously escaped from the prison on the chopsticks.

Yu Su subconsciously said, "My fish balls!"

Song Xinglin at the side had sharp eyesight and quick reaction, out of instinct, he immediately reached out to grab the unsteady center of gravity, and even tried to save the person who ran away from the fish ball.

"Okay, okay, it's just a fish ball, there's still more in the pot, you..."

"Ah, it's not good, it's not good, there are bad guys boarding the boat and killing people!"

At this moment, a scream pierced the tranquility of the night, followed by various shouts.

"Ah, it's the water bandits, there are water bandits! The water bandits boarded the boat and killed people!!"

Clang, clang, clang...

Just as Song Xinglin stretched out his arms to hold Yu Su and tried to stabilize his figure, what followed next to his ears were the rapid sound of gongs beating.

In an instant, the entire passenger ship was in chaos.

"My God! What's going on, whether it's a gangster or a water bandit, who will tell me?"

"What's going on, what's going on? What water bandit? Where did the water bandit come from?"

"Yes, yes, why are there water bandits on the Grand Canal?"

"Quick, run, go back, no, no! Diving, jumping... No, there are also in the water, you can't jump, no, you can, jump..."

The boat instantly became a sea of ​​panic, crying, howling, shouting, all kinds of voices filled the eardrums...

At the same time, the four people in the boat who were singing to the moon at the end of the boat also looked nervous.

Song Xinglin hugged Yu Su tightly in his arms, together with Wang Shuisheng, who had already reacted and held up a ponytail to protect Song Xiahe behind him, the brothers and sisters formed horns and guarded carefully.

"Song, Junior Brother Song, what should we do?" Wang Shuisheng, who encountered such a thing for the first time, tried his best to calm down, swallowed dryly, and looked at Song Xinglin nervously and defensively.

As for Song Xinglin, he scanned the scene like lightning, glanced at the chaos in front of the cabin, heard the commotion everywhere, felt the spread of panic, and frowned.

"Senior brother, this is not a place to stay for a long time. I remember that there are escape boats on both sides of this vehicle and boat. Senior brother, the situation is unknown at the moment. We still look for the light boat and leave first..."

want to leave?Hmph, I can't get away!
The prepared enemies came very fast, too fast, so fast that there was no time left for them to think about how to deal with it.

A group of men in black turned into water bandits and boarded the boat at night. They wanted to silently search for the cabin where the four of Song Xinglin and his party were, and then kill them silently before throwing the body into the water. Disguised the scene as if the water bandits ransacked, completed the task, and retreated without knowing it.

After all, this is the only way to go along with their shadow killer's style.

It's a pity that they are also unlucky.

Obviously everything was going well, and they managed to capture a boat slave without disturbing anyone, and after inquiring about the location of the target, they killed the cheap boat slave with a single blow, and lore turned around with his men Just rush to the cabin.

But damn it!Unexpectedly, the ship slave's atrium was out of the way, and before they pried open the cabin door they found, a strange sound came from behind.

Hearing Na Na's terrified scream, the leader lore's eyes flashed fiercely, and he also knew that the boat slave must have not died just now, and he notified the other people on board, which led to their whereabouts being exposed.

The questioning eyes of his subordinates behind him swept over, lore closed his eyes, and made a decision in an instant, "Let's go, search the cabin first, if it doesn't work, the whole ship will be spared!"

"However, this ship is full of applicants who went to Beijing for scientific research. If no one stays, if things get serious..."

In this world, even the most ferocious bandits and road tyrants outside know that the scholars and messengers who can't move for the exam, now they want to challenge the authority, and they will kill so many, if the higher-ups thoroughly investigate and investigate...they Even the dead guards, I'm afraid they won't be able to hide.

Lore seemed to see the hesitation in his subordinates, and immediately snorted coldly.

"Huh! Don't forget, how did we come all the way to the present, and live until now, if we can't complete the task, do you think the lord will let us live?"

Obviously, no, if it falls into the hands of the lord, they can't even ask for death!

Since you can't, instead of dying yourself, let someone else die.

Lore watched his subordinates bow their heads one by one, and he issued an order cruelly, "All disperse, move quickly, leave nothing behind, clean up the tail, don't leave any lies, aren't these idiots just shouting water bandits? It's time to pretend to be a water bandit and do it."

After finishing speaking, Jue Sha led the way and went straight to the cabin, but unfortunately there was no one there, Jue Sha's expression was very bad.

When I came out again, I saw people running around, no matter who they were, no matter who they were, under the command of the lore wave, all the men in black unsheathed their sharp knives. All the cabins, silver light and blood flew together, wherever they went, blood filled the whole world.

The murderous aura spread quickly from the front deck, cabin, bilge, walkway, to the stern...

The lore came prepared, and even indirectly got the portrait from the messenger Tan De.

As soon as he stepped out of the cabin and stood on the side of the ship, he saw the cautious man at the stern at a glance. Under the black mask, lore smiled.

"Want to leave?" It's not that easy!And first ask the knife in his hand if he agrees!

There was no second word for lore, with a whistle, several men in black who followed behind immediately surrounded him in a fan shape.

The leading lore, holding a blood-stained long knife with a blood groove, pointed at Song Xinglin, oh no, or to be more precise, the first lore pointed at the person he was protecting in his arms.

The lore is a single step, the whole person is like a sharp arrow, holding a long knife, and leading the men behind him through the air.

(End of this chapter)