Chapter 548 Goodbye, Kyoto
At dusk, people are far away from the drunkenness. The sky is full of wind and rain, and I go down to the west building.
Cui Sanlun woke up slowly, but his mind was still a little confused.
Last night, Su Dalang and himself had a good chat over wine, and they applauded Xiao Nanxi's decisiveness.
Maybe as I got older, my ability to drink was not as good as before. After a few glasses of fruit wine, I was drunk all night.
Cui Sanlun wanted to stretch out, but suddenly realized that he was not lying on a familiar bed.
The wheels are rolling, and the cries of the morning market can be heard through the carriage.
"Where are we going?"
Cui Sanlun opened the curtain, stuck his head out and asked.
This question was like casting a spell, directly arresting the two groups of people outside the car.
Song Da and the soldiers checking at the city gate looked at each other, with shock and confusion in their eyes.
Song Da secretly complained in his heart, didn't Su Dalang say that Master Cui wouldn't wake up before noon? Why did you wake up so early?
The guarding soldier blinked and confirmed that the unshaven old man in front of him was the famous Cui Sanron in Kyoto!
How can this be done? Although His Majesty did not explicitly decree that Cui Sanlun and Su Dalang were not allowed to leave the capital, everyone in the world knew that these two people were hostages.
There was a trace of struggle in the eyes of the soldiers guarding the city, and they squeezed the bulging purses in their hands.
The expression on Cui Sanlun's face was as if the color palette had been overturned. It was green for a while, white for a while, and red for a while.
Moved, angry, guilty, regretful and decisive, mixed together, taking turns.
Cui Sanlun took a deep breath, decisively lowered the car curtain, and returned to the car to lie down.
The soldiers guarding the city and Song Da breathed a sigh of relief.
“Bon voyage.”
Song Da cupped his fists and saluted: "See you later!"
The mist is lingering, and the outline of the mountains in the distance gradually becomes clear, like an ink painting.
There was Cui Sanlun in the carriage. Mrs. Song and Lady Song couldn't get in, so they squeezed into the carriage shaft with Song Da.
Since exiting the gates of Kyoto, there has been no movement in the carriage.
"Dad, do you want to go in and take a look?" Mrs. Song said softly.
What Su Dalang was most worried about was Master Cui's body. Before leaving, he gave many instructions, lest Master Cui would not be able to survive the Hezhong Mansion.
Song Da stopped the carriage and opened his mouth, but did not dare to lift the curtain.
The people in the carriage were probably not asleep. When they saw the carriage stopped, the first thing they asked and asked was: "Do you have any instructions for me?"
Song Da licked his lips and whispered: "Let us take you to Hezhong Mansion safely."
After a while, Cui Sanlun's old sigh came: "I am originally a setting sun, why do I need the rising sun to replace me?"
Song Da: "Having an old man in the family is like having a treasure. Sir, your experience and wisdom are things that no one else can ask for."
Cui Sanlun knew in his heart that it was useless to feel sorry for what had happened.
He opened the car curtain and let Mrs. Song and Mrs. Song go in to rest: "I haven't left Kyoto for a long time, so I took my time outside in the car."
Mrs. Song and Mrs. Song looked at each other, then lowered their heads and entered the carriage.
Song Da raised his riding whip: "Let's walk along Jingxi Road for a while, and then change the water route when we reach Junzhou. Most of the passenger ships in Kyoto have been chartered and are ready to go south. If we want to take a boat from Kyoto to go north, we still have to wait for a few days. .”
"Dalang was afraid of long nights and many dreams, so we first went west for a while. When we arrived in Junzhou, there was also Baida Express there. When the time came, we went to the river with their boat."
Song Da and others walked along Jingxi Road for three to five days before arriving in Junzhou.
The capital city of Junzhou is not as prosperous as Kyoto, but it has good water transportation, and there are many transport ships docked at the docks of various sizes. These docks support a lot of people.
Although there are many beggars on the streets, none of them starve to death.
Song Da went to visit the Junzhou branch of Baida Express, while Cui Sanlun sat in the carriage and observed the people passing by.
These pedestrians are very interesting. They are divided into three, six or nine grades, even more so than in Kyoto.
Those who are luxuriously dressed and arrogant are the best.
Those who wear ordinary clothes and are busy with life are the middle-class people.
The lowest ones have sad faces, dull eyes, little flesh on their bodies, and rough fingers.
However, there is another level that is not among these three, six, or nine levels.
Their clothes are ordinary, but their expressions are extremely proud. When they meet the best people, they will not show their humble look.
"It's really strange. What confidence do they have?"
Manager Qian of the Junzhou branch of Baida Express followed Cui Sanlun's gaze and said: "They are our people."
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"Our people?"
Manager Qian said matter-of-factly: "Yes, aren't Baida Express, Baichuan Academy, and fruit wine distribution all the properties of Duke Yun?"
Cui Sanlun hadn't left Kyoto for several years, and he didn't even know that Gu Nanxi's prestige was so high outside Kyoto.
Even the associates of the property under her name will not be looked down upon easily.
Manager Qian was quite able to talk in Junzhou, so he arranged for a boat to go north that afternoon.
Even if the official in charge of inspection at the dock recognized Cui Sanlun, he just pretended not to have seen him and let him go.
It wasn't until the passenger ship sailed ten miles away that Junzhou could no longer be seen. Cui Sanlun was shocked to realize that the cage that had trapped him for many years was broken like this? !
Standing on the deck of the boat, watching the river rolling, the water waves violently hit the stone mountains on both sides, the splashing waves fell on the weeds on the shore, and the vegetation with water droplets undulated in the wind.
Cui Sanlun took a deep breath, exhaled the turbid air in his chest, and felt deeply that the chain that bound him was breaking inch by inch amid the sound of water waves.
"I thought this was an escape journey and there would be no peace on the road."
After Song Da arranged for his wife and daughter, he was worried that Cui Sanlun would catch a cold, so he came to the deck with a cloak.
"If we had set out earlier, we would not have been as smooth as now. It is precisely because Duke Yun took Shuozhou that they made it convenient for others and for themselves."
People in official circles tend to act according to the prevailing circumstances.
Duke Yun used 10,000 troops to capture Shuozhou in just a few days.
On the surface, she still has 90,000 troops in hand. But behind the scenes, who can be sure how much she has?
There are so many tribes on the grassland, and Duke Yun can raise a cavalry army of tens of thousands at any time.
The grassland people are already ferocious, and coupled with Duke Yun's military skills, no one dares to say how far Duke Yun can go.
Cui Sanlun looked stunned for a moment, then chuckled: "I am taking advantage of Xiao Nanxi."
This passenger ship is owned by Baida Express and is used to transport goods. There are no outsiders, only our own people.
Perhaps because he was finally freed from surveillance, Cui Sanlun was in a very good mood and his spirits recovered a lot.
Mrs. Song was worried that Cui Sanlun would not be able to eat the food on the ship, so she cooked a small stove for Cui Sanlun alone.
Plum blossom buns, mutton soup, shredded chicken noodles, candied plum and snowflake cake...
After eating Cui Sanlun, his face was radiant and he didn't look sick at all.
"Yizu, nine out of ten sentences in my brother's letter told me to take good care of your body. But look at your body, I'm afraid you are not stronger than me!"
Li Mingde came to the dock early to catch the wind.