Notes of Lanxi Crossing

Chapter 8
Song Lanzhang was young and intelligent, but he lacked practical combat, so today is an eye-opener.

He observed and analyzed secretly, summarized and sorted out the situation in the court, and only waited to ask his father for advice after returning home.

Although Song Lanjiu is usually frivolous, she also understands that this is not the time to mess around.

The two brothers are still underage and are not good at drinking. They acted like sons of aristocratic families at the banquet, resisting everyone's temptations one by one.

After all, Song Lanzhang brothers and sisters were young, and they finally stayed until the afternoon. At this time, everyone was full of food and drink, and planned to go for a walk by the lake to admire the lotus.

Song Lanshu naturally had acquaintances in Beijing, some of them invited Song Lanshu to go boating on the lake and pick some lotus pods back.

Although Song Lanshu had been instructed, Song Lanshu couldn't bear to think of Lanxi who was alone at home.

As long as you are careful and don't spend too much time with people you don't know well, there shouldn't be any danger.

After bidding farewell to the wives, the three little girls got into the boat arm in arm, and romped to the depths of the lotus bushes.

The boat is not big, and it can barely accommodate three or four people, so it is inconvenient to move, so they only brought a girl who is familiar with water skills.

A few people chatted and laughed, picked a lot of lotus and lotus pods, and covered their heads with large lotus leaves for shade.

There is constant laughter and noise in the lake. Looking at it like this, it really has a bit of the fun of picking lotus in the south of the Yangtze River.

Song Lanshu also left many flower-leaf lotus pods for Lanxi, all of which were placed on the boat, thinking of using them to please her sister after returning home.

While enjoying the tour, the daughter of the Yushi doctor's family suddenly screamed.

"Ah! Look there!"

"Ahhh-"

The girls turned pale with fright in an instant, and screamed repeatedly. The people who were also on the boat in the distance looked around in amazement, not knowing why.

Song Lanshu followed Lin Ruoyu's line of sight, and saw a slender water snake the size of a thumb swimming around the oar in the girl's hand.

The pupils in Song Lan Shuxing's eyes shrank, and her face suddenly paled.

Although the girl who punted the boat knew water, she had never seen such a battle before.

She was terrified by the girls' screams first, then when she turned her head, she saw the water snake sticking to the oar, as if it was about to wrap around the paddle board in the next moment.

Shocked by this scene, she let go of her arms in an instant, the paddle fell into the water, and she forgot to react for a moment.

This time, the ladies were even more dumbfounded.

In order not to embarrass themselves even more after losing their composure, the ladies who had calmed down restrained their exclamation and watched as the oars sank into the lake.

Everyone looked at each other for a while.

After waiting for a while, Lin Ruoyu, who was really impatient, asked, "What should we do now?"

But what can the other girls do.

Fortunately, they told their mother when they came out, and when they found out that they hadn't returned, they would definitely send someone out to look for them.

As for rowing by hand?

I saw a water snake just now, and no one dared to reach into the water.

There was a servant on the boat, but the girls were not so vicious, it would be good if she was bitten by a snake.

It's just a pity that they can only stay in this place after such a good time.

Just when the few people were helpless, a melodious voice came from their ears.

"what happened?"

Song Lanshu and the others looked up at the source of the sound.

Deep in the shade of layers of green leaves and red flowers, a paddle sticks out, and the lotus leaves are pulled to the sides, revealing the girl in Tsing Yi inside.

She was lying on her back in the boat with a large lotus leaf covering her face.

She didn't carelessly remove the lotus leaf from her face until she retracted the oars.

Ji Ming squinted his eyes with some sleepy eyes, propped his back on the side of the boat a little tiredly, and sat up halfway.

After finally finding a clean place to hide from his laziness, Ji Mingxin looked around. This group of little noble girls who had been chattering just now were now staring at him curiously as if they were watching a monkey.

"Why don't you talk again?"

Song Lanshu and the others looked at each other, waiting for someone to speak first, and they still peeked at women who were different from the noble ladies in Beijing from time to time—

Who is this man?You're welcome!
Every move she made did not have the demure and elegant appearance of a noble lady in Beijing.

Song Lanshu was also very curious about the strange girls in front of her, but she knew in her heart that the first problem they had to solve was how to get back to shore.

"My lady, the few of us took a boat trip to the lake just now, but we were frightened by a water snake. Fortunately, no one was injured."

Song Lanshu paused when she said this, and then added: "It's just that the oar accidentally fell into the water, and now I'm afraid I won't be able to return to the shore..."

When ordinary noble girls hear this, they already understand the meaning, and either offer to help, or decline after explaining their inconvenience.

However, Ji Mingxin didn't answer this question at all.

Seeing that Ji Mingxin didn't mean to reject them, Song Lanshu had no choice but to ask for help directly.

"Now we have lost our oars and are trapped here. Will the girl help us out?"

Ji Mingxin glanced lightly at the opposite side.

"Then how do you want me to help you? Tell me first, I won't send you back!"

It doesn't matter if you don't give it away, just borrow a paddle.

Thinking of this, Song Lanshu shifted her gaze to the boat on which the girl was leaning, but only found a single oar.

Song Lanshu was in a dilemma, this...you can't just leave them here just to let them go back smoothly!

The other girls thought the same way, they frowned and looked at each other, and one of them couldn't help complaining in a low voice.

"Why can't we go back together, we're going to go ashore anyway, can she stay here for the rest of my life?"

Song Lanshu shook her head, helping is out of love, not helping is the duty, how could they be picky.

This girl obviously also came out to avoid the noisy crowd, and it is reasonable to not want to go back to shore.

It's just that in this way, it's not enough to ask her to go back to the shore to help.

Ji Mingxin looked at the few people opposite him with a funny face, why are you so distressed?

"Want this?" She raised the paddle with one hand, "Go on!"

Ji Mingxin curled up the corner of his mouth, and threw it forward unexpectedly.

"Yeah~" The girls were startled.

Everyone only had time to see her wave her hand holding the paddle, and the water-soaked wooden plank seemed to be nothing in her hand, and it fell lightly in the gap of the small boat of several people.

If she throws it incorrectly, the oar will hit them on the head!
Song Lanshu raised her hand, and gently comforted the frightened little heart from an angle where no one was paying attention, before thanking her whole body.

"Lan Shu thanked the girl for her help. I don't know the girl's name. Lan Shu will come to the door to thank you in the future!"

The girls were reminded, and they also expressed their gratitude to Ji Mingxin for reporting himself as a family.

"It's a small matter, let's go back!"

Ji Mingxin waved his hands, and lay back to his original position nonchalantly, with the lotus leaf covering his head and face again, obviously not wanting to say more.

The girls looked at each other silently, they could only thank each other again, and left with their oars.

The lotus and lotus leaves that were pushed away behind gathered together again, and the girl in green clothes blended into it perfectly, and she couldn't find it everywhere, as if she had never appeared in front of them.

(End of this chapter)