Copper Coins Chapter 20: Blind Guazi (3)

Lu Twenqi wiped away a handful of tears, and returned to his stubborn appearance. He clenched the corners of his clothes and ignored Xuanmin and Xue Xian. He turned his head and stared at the increasingly small flames in the brazier. Dumbly said: "About half a month ago, Lu Shijiu told me that he was going to the grave head island in Jiangxin..."

Compared with its upper and lower reaches, the river road adjacent to Wolong County is relatively shallow and narrow, and there are scattered Xiaozhu in the center of the river. Most of those Xiaozhu are small places, and even the small chicken coop courtyard where the Lu family brothers lived would be extremely crowded. Those Xiaozhu were covered with slender white thatch, and they were used for water birds on the river on weekdays. Take a break.

Only one of them can be a few laps bigger, barely able to count as a small island in the heart of the river.

From a distance, there are wild forests on the top of the island. The branches and crowns are connected. It looks like a green steamed bun, and it also looks like a grave bag. So the locals call it "Bantou Island" or "Grave Island".

Ordinary people don't like to go to Tomb Tou Island. After all, there are weeds and weeds there. It's deserted and overcast, so it's not a good place to go. The only people who attended the Tombtou Island were Yaolang from various townships. It is said that the wild soil of Tombtou Island was fertile and damp, and many medicinal herbs grew on their own.

Lu Shijiu has been there two or three times.

An early morning half a month ago, when Lu Twenqi opened his eyes, he found a note beside the bed. Lu Shijiu couldn't use a brush, and he always used his fingers to dipped in the ink to **** for writing, so the handwriting was extraordinarily easy to read. There was only one crooked sentence on the note: Go to Tomb Head Island.

As outsiders have noticed, the two Lu brothers are not close, Lu Nianqi is covered in thorns and has a stubborn temper, and Lu Jiu's temperament is quirky and taciturn. matter.

So Lu Twenqi didn't think much about it, he just angrily made a fire to cook and went out to collect firewood, while doing his daily chores while waiting for Lu Shijiu to come back.

As a result, I waited until nightfall, it was raining, and I didn't see Nineteen's shadow.

"I went to the ferry, and the boatman moored there said that the rain was rushing, so they wouldn't go to the heart of the river. He also said that on the 19th it was Old Man Liu's Wu Peng, and Old Man Liu never came back. Eight or nine times out of ten it was Mrs. Yu. Da, rest there for a while." Lu Tianqi looked at Xiao, but spoke clearly, "I vaguely saw Jiang Xin had a fishing lantern on the boat, and I guessed that he was hiding from the rain, so he came back. Who knows—"

Unexpectedly, it rained for three consecutive days, and the river water rose a little. Lu Twenqi went to the ferry every day to take a look at the fishing fire before returning, and waited restlessly until the rain stopped. He touched a few copper plates, went to the ferry to find a passenger boat, and went to the grave head island in Jiangxin, but he didn't see Lu Shijiu or Old Man Liu.

"I've been all over Tomb Head Island, and I haven't found him, but I have heard his voice once." Lu Tianqi said, "But when I called him out, the voice didn't come out again. ."

In this way, Lu Twenty-seven went back and forth six or seven times to Tomb Head Island, but he couldn't find Lu Nineteen. A few days ago, a dark vortex grew for some reason near Tomb Tou Island, and two passenger boats capsized there.

What's even more irritating is that these days, Lu Twenqi can always hear someone knocking on the door in the early morning and in the middle of the night. The first two times he thought it was Nineteen who came back, so he hurried to open the door, only to find someone outside the door. nor. When he went back to the house after looking around, he realized that the box in the house seemed to have been moved.

"There are four pieces of money we saved, all gone! There's not a single penny left! What can I call a boatman!" When Lu Tianqi mentioned this, he was like a stray dog ​​with all its fur blown up.

Hearing Xue Xian tsk tsk: "No wonder I opened the door and poured a basin of water on me. Which ancestral tomb is so shameless with smoke and even an eight- or nine-year-old child stealing it! But you can't because of yourself. You came to rob my beads after being stolen for four coins. What kind of reason is this? It's because I am inconvenient now, otherwise I will definitely hang you upside down and put you into the river for two rounds."

"Who is eight or nine years old?" Lu Twenqi was so red that he had to bite the bullet.

"You!" Xue Xian said angrily, "Who else is there."

"I'm fifteen!" Lu Nianqi said angrily and indignantly, "It's just that I've been sick before and didn't grow up, so don't just guess someone's age just by looking at their face."

Xue Xian was a little surprised, but how old is this bad-tempered bear boy, it doesn't matter to him whether he grows or not, and he wants to know if Lu Nineteen is still alive.

Apparently, he wasn't the only one who thought this time.

As soon as Xuan Min lifted his sleeves and swept away, the weakening flames in the brazier were completely extinguished with a "pop", leaving only the green smoke curling up. With his fingers through the green smoke, he picked off Xue Xian and Jiang Shining who were hanging on the spring branches. The two thin sheets of paper have already been baked to dryness at this time, and it is not a big problem.

The only fly in the ointment is that the strokes on the face are blurred a little.

Jiang Shining hurriedly transformed into a human shape, and now he fainted with two dark circles under his eyes, which were much more obvious than before. He took up a small half of his cheek, and he looked like he was terminally ill and was about to die. And Xue Xian was even worse. He had inconvenient legs and feet, and it was not suitable for him to become a human. The smudged ink was more conspicuous on the paper, flowing directly down the corner of the eye and the nose.

Originally, he was just dying, but now he is bleeding from the seven orifices.

Really... hot eyes.

Xuan Min glanced down, and then decisively stuffed him into his dark pocket, his cold expression just showed a numbness of "out of sight is pure".

Lu Twenqi saw the icy monk raised his foot and was about to leave, and couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?"

"Jiang Xin." Xuan Min said.

Hearing this, Lu Twenty-seven jumped up and hurriedly chased after him: "Are you looking for Lu Jiujin? Can you take me with you? I'll go too!"

"At will." Xuan Min dropped two words without looking back, and strode toward the ferry.

I haven't stayed in Xuanmin's secret bag for a few days, but as soon as Xue Xian went in, he found something inside. In addition to his precious golden beads and the cloth bag containing the silver needles, there were also some hard objects. Xue Xian silently moved over, raised his hand to touch it, and tried to bite again...

There's a lot of broken silver, and I don't know where to get it.

The ferry is covered with snow and fog, and there are several passenger boats moored. The boatmen are probably all huddled in the awning cabin, which looks particularly deserted.

Xuan Min waved the copper bell hanging by the flag. Several boatmen poked their heads out of the canopy one after another, and one of them lazily shouted, "The fog is too thick to cross the river. Come back later."

"No more than the river." Xuan Min rushed to a point in the middle of the river, "Go to Tomb Head Island."

As soon as these words came out, the boatmen shook their heads, and without saying a word, they retreated into the awning. Only one boatman who seemed to be more talkative explained to him: "There is a dark vortex near Tomb Head Island, overturned the boat, little master, are you not a local? No matter what you want to do, I advise you to change place, there is no boatman here. I'd love to go."

Xuanmin listened to him quietly, and said, "How much would it cost to rent this boat?"

The boatman was taken aback.

There are many people who rent flower boats, but it is much rarer to rent such Wupeng boats. After all, the passenger boat is small and difficult to control. Without a boatman, it is difficult for ordinary people to safely roll the boat to the other side.

"This—" The boatman hesitated.

Xue Xian unseen two shards of silver in his secret bag, and silently raised the opening of the bag.

Xuan Min: "..."

He copied the silver that Nie Barrier turned out with his hands, and then pressed back the claws of Nie Barrier. Without much delay, he directly handed the silver to the boatman.

Xue Xian didn't feel safe when he was pressed back into the bag. He patted Xuan Min's waist with a crackle, and said seriously: "It's not convenient for me to pay for my appearance now, don't worry, I won't take advantage of you, bald donkey. I'll pay you back."

Xuan Mianquan thinks he doesn't exist.

The boatman took the silver pellets, and he didn't even need to weigh them to know that the weight was not light. He was rather embarrassed: "I can't have these."

However, Xuan Min's face was too cold, and he was colder than the snow **** floating in the sky. Seeing that he had no intention of changing his mind, the boatman had to get off the boat shyly and let Xuanmin and the others get on the boat. When he arrived, he asked anxiously, "You guys really know how to rock the boat?"

Lu Twenqi had the same concerns as the boatman, but he was afraid that Xuanmin would change his mind if he asked a few more questions, so he had to hold back his doubts, staring at Xuanmin and Jiang Shining suspiciously. They got on the boat behind them.

Xuan Min broke a water reed before stepping on the boat.

Lu Twenqi was wondering why he had to bring water and reeds when he saw Xuan Min took out a folded yellow talisman from his arms, slapped it on the bow of the Wu Peng boat, said "run the boat", and put his hand up The reed stalks dangled in the water. The Wu Peng boat moved in response to the sound, slowly breaking through the water. Xuan Min shook the reed pole lightly, and the bow of the boat turned around, heading straight for the string of islands in the heart of Jiang.

Twenty-seven stared at the familiar yellow talisman for a moment, and finally remembered that this was the one Xuan Min used to stick his forehead, and suddenly became a little indignant: Can you change it?

Even with the yellow talisman that made the boat move and the reed pole to control the direction, Xue Xian was still a little uneasy about Xuan Mian. He lay silently on the mouth of the secret bag, staring at the reed in his hand without saying a word. Rod, keep your eyes peeled.

He watched for a while, and couldn't help but raised his face and asked Xuanmin: "What are you looking for Lu Shijiu for? Are you looking for someone by borrowing things?"

Xuan Min was about to open his mouth to answer him when he heard a sudden "ah" cry from Lu Twenqi.