Under the Power

Chapter 44

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Just after boarding the boat, Zhai Lanye was stunned. Her feet were not wooden boards, but a whole piece of soft snow-white sheepskin. Not only her feet, but the deck was paved with sheepskins for people to walk on.

"The girl is here..." A maid on the boat came forward. "The master ordered me to ask the girl to take off her shoes and socks and enter."

Zhai Lanye was startled again: "Take off her shoes and socks?" She saw that the maid was also barefoot.

"Yes, this is the master's order."

Although it was his order, how could the woman's feet be seen casually? Zhai Lanye looked around anxiously, but luckily, she didn't see any man.

"girl?"

After a moment of hesitation, Zhai Lanye nodded.

The maid took a round stool, invited her to sit, leaned over and took off her shoes and socks, and helped her stand up.

Stepping on the sheepskin mat with bare feet, the smooth and soft wool came out from between his fingers. Zhai Lanye stood up uncomfortably, looking at the soft road leading to the cabin, feeling unreal like a dream.

"Please come with me, girl."

The maid walked in front, she took a deep breath and kept up.

After entering the outer cabin, the lights were dim, and she only felt that the touch under her feet was not the same as before. Although it was still furry, it was not as soft as before, and it looked a lot harder. She looked down in amazement, and the ground was no longer covered with sheepskin, but replaced with mats of wolfskin.

Going further inside, it became darker and darker. The maid took a lamp from the bulkhead and held it. She followed closely behind, not daring to get too far.

The maid led her up the stairs, and there was another kind of cushion on the ladder. She could only detect the difference, but couldn't tell what kind of animal fur it was.

Going up two flights of stairs, then through a passage, and then up another flight of stairs, Zhai Lanye's eyes suddenly opened up, and he actually reached the top cabin of the ship...

A bright moon is in the sky, and the ground is covered with black fox fur, and the fox fur is as bright as needles.

Stepping barefoot on the dark and shiny fox fur, she became more delicate and fair, Zhai Lanye glanced down inadvertently, and was stunned, her face blushed involuntarily.

"You're here..." a low male voice said in the dark.

The maid who had led the way backed away at some unknown time, Zhai Lanye stood there, slightly at a loss, and after a long while, she said softly, "Is that you?"

"I haven't seen you for three years, you can't even recognize my voice?" The man leaned on the soft couch and chuckled softly, "Come here and let me see, don't stand so far, you know my eyes are not very good Make."

Zhai Lanye walked slowly to the soft couch, and looked at the man with a pair of wonderful eyes, but the man's eyes looked at her slender feet.

He slowly stretched out his hand and gently placed the back of his hand on her ankle. The moment his skin touched, Zhai Lanye shuddered violently and shrank his feet.

"Sit down and let's talk." The man was not annoyed, pointing to the fox fur and whispering.

Zhai Lanye sat on the black fox fur with his knees bent, covered his pink feet with a skirt, and sat down shyly with his eyes down.

The man looked at her for a moment, smiled slightly, took her hand, rubbed it lightly in his palm, and asked with a smile, "I heard that you like to eat fresh fish soup, don't you?"

Zhai Lanye nodded slightly.

"I eat it often in Beijing, too," he said again.

Then, there was a moment of silence between the two.

She glanced at him a few times, and finally summoned up the courage to ask, "Will you take me away this time?"

The man smiled, raised his hand to caress her face, brushed his calloused fingers lightly across the beautiful jaw, and said in a low voice, "The last time I saw you was three years ago."

"Three years ago, it happened to be the day of the frost."

The man sighed deeply: "I can't escape in the capital. If I hadn't been filial to my mother, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come here."

"Your mother, she..." Zhai Lanye looked up at him with distressed eyes, "You must be sad, right?"

"Why should I be sad when the old man went to the Western Pure Land of Bliss." The man still laughed, "My father is very sad. I persuaded him to sing with Zhuangzi's widow, but unfortunately he couldn't listen. , I can come and see you by the way."

"..." She didn't know how to answer, so she only asked again, "Are you here to take me away?"

The man still didn't answer, stroked her face, and sighed softly, "I heard that Zhou Xian scared you that night? You don't even dare to live in that house?"

Hearing this, Zhai Lanye lowered his head in fear: "I don't know what happened, why did he suddenly... hang himself? I did as you ordered, thinking that he would only be hurt for a few days at most, how could it be, how? Will... Did I kill him?"

"Silly girl, this is his own business, and it has nothing to do with you." The man's voice became softer and softer, his hand slipped to her ear, rubbing his earlobe, "You have always done well, I am in the capital, Every time I receive your letter, I am very happy."

"Why don't you let me stay with you? I'll do well, too," she said eagerly.

"I know, you've always been very good. Have you met Lu Yi? What do you think of him?"

He comforted her, his eyes slowly slid down with his hands, he slowly lifted a little of her skirt, and looked at her jade-like feet...

"I've only met once. When I first saw him, he asked about Zhou Xianji, which made me a little annoyed. Later, he stopped asking and just chatted about trivial things. Later, he also sent people some spices and snacks to meet with him. I."

"Small snack?" The man turned his head slightly.

"It's millet cake. I'm also surprised, how can he give snacks. Later, I heard that he likes to cook by himself in his spare time."

The man couldn't help laughing: "You were tricked, how could he do such a thing, someone must be making trouble... But in this way, he didn't care about you, it was just a perfunctory, otherwise how could he let others do this? Like teasing you." "It's Lan Ye who is incompetent."

The man smiled and said, "It's irrelevant, I had long expected that he would not be easily fooled by you."

"Young master doesn't blame Lan Ye?"

"Of course." He replied absentmindedly, drawing lightly in circles on the soles of her feet.

Zhai Lanye shyly and embarrassedly shrank his feet, but was held by him instead. It was cold in the early spring, and her ankles were exposed, freezing cold, and his hand had some kind of strange heat, which instantly made her shudder.

"Young Master..." she whispered uncomfortably.

"I remember it was only six inches two when I left."

The man raised his other hand and rubbed it along the outline of his slender feet, as if he was admiring a finely crafted masterpiece. Zhai Lanye's face was flushed with shame, but she didn't dare to move, she was only worried that someone would suddenly break in.

After a long while, he only heard a sigh, and said with great regret: "It's six inches seven now."

Zhai Lanye was surprised by his precision, nodded and said, "Yes."

"It's a pity, it's a pity..." The man put down her feet regretfully and looked at her tenderly, "If you can go back to the capital with me, the foot length cannot exceed six inches six."

"What, what..." Zhai Lanye was stunned, not understanding at all.

"This is a rule I set up years ago. You see, I can't do anything about it, can I?"

He was still smiling slightly, and his tone was so gentle that it almost dripped with water.

"All these years, I, I... I've been waiting for you..." Zhai Lanye tried her best to open her eyes, but she didn't dare to blink, but she still couldn't stop the tears from falling in strings, "I only think about you, you I have never disobeyed my orders."

"I know, I know it all."

He watched her tears fall down lovingly, drop by drop like pearls infiltrated into the black fox fur.

It has been a tea time after leaving the ferry, and the long oars are paddling one after another, and the water waves are sparkling and sparkling in the moonlight.

Standing at the stern of the boat this summer, looking around, there were still two or three boats as far as my eyes could see.

Gao Qing at the bow of the boat also noticed that the surroundings were strangely quiet, and instinctively pressed his hand on the handle of the Embroidered Spring Knife, and glanced around without any relaxation...

"The waterway here is complicated, row quickly, and enter the waterway of the city quickly." He instructed the boatman.

The boatman did not dare to disobey, and accelerated the movements in his hands, and the oars stirred up countless splashes. The ship moved forward quickly, but unexpectedly, it only took a moment to hear a "dong" sound, and the ship shook, as if it had hit something hard on the bottom of the water.

This summer, I staggered to hold on to the canopy of the boat, and only then did I stand firm.

Gao Qing also almost fell into the water and said angrily to the boatman, "What's going on?!"

The boatman stammered: "The villain and the villain don't know either, maybe they bumped into something."

"Don't hurry up!"

"Yes Yes Yes."

The boatman responded repeatedly and started to row his oars. As soon as the oar entered the water, it was as if it was inserted into a crevice in the stone, and it could not shake for a minute. The boatman was startled and pulled it out.

"What's going on?" Gao Qing knew something different. He had poor water skills, so he could be calm on land, but he was inevitably impetuous when he was in danger on the boat.

Before the boatman could answer his words, the whole person was dragged into the water by the oars, splashed with a splash, and after a few bubbles, there was no movement.

The surroundings returned to the original silence, as if nothing had happened.

Someone underwater!

Tension all over this summer, he slowly squatted down until he was lying low on the board of the boat, he had already pulled out the Pu Dao with one hand, and waited quietly...

The two Jin Yiwei guards who were originally guarding Sha Xiuzhu in the cabin also pulled out the embroidered spring knives and called nervously: "Lord Captain! Lord Captain!"

"What's wrong?" Gao Qing was nervous and annoyed, looked around anxiously, then took time to look in, and scolded, "What are you yelling for?"

"grown ups… "

A Jin Yiwei pointed at the bottom of the cabin. Their soap leather boots were soaked through. I don't know when, there were several gaps in the bottom of the boat at the same time, and the water was rising.

Gao Qing rushed in with a single stride, reached out and cut the corner of his clothes to block the gap: "What are you doing, stop it!"

"The water suddenly gushed out for no reason. I didn't hear any movement. Sir... Could there be ghosts and ghosts?" Almost all people near the water have heard stories of water ghosts taking their lives.

Backhand gave the speaker a clear slap in the face, and Gao Qing said coldly: "Go to the bow to guard, and kill him if something pops up! Whether he is a human or a ghost!"

The Jin Yiwei didn't dare to say anything, and walked quickly to the bow, guarding vigilantly with a knife.

This summer, leaning down, he glanced at Sha Xiuzhu through the moonlight, trying to see some clues from his expression, but it seemed that Sha Xiuzhu lowered his head, and the darkness in the cabin made him unable to see his expression at all. .

There was the sound of water splashing at the bow, Gao Qing turned his head quickly, the Jinyiwei who was still on the bow just now disappeared without a trace...

"Lord Colonel..."

The other Jin Yiwei's voice was obviously a little hoarse.

Gao Qing tightly plugged another gap, and said in a rough voice: "You plug the remaining places, look after him! ... And you! How come you are lying on your stomach, why are the six doors full of trash like you!"

"You're not a waste, you go into the water!"

This summer, she said angrily that she was most annoyed by this kind of master who knew how to scold people if he couldn't solve the problem. The voice just fell, and suddenly I caught a glimpse of an object slowly floating up on the water surface beside me, wisps and wisps, so dark that it made people palpitate, and when I stared at it, it was actually long black hair rippling with the water waves...

Is it a man or a ghost? ! She sucked in a breath of cold air, and without thinking about it, she slashed into the water with a knife.