After Jing Shan took a bath and changed into clean clothes, Yu Shu returned to the house. She called the boatman to carry the wooden bucket away and asked Yu Xiaoku to find Doctor Sun to get the medicine. She found a rag and squatted on the ground to wipe the water, while looking at Jing Chen openly.
Jing Chen was sitting on the edge of the bed drinking water. His black hair was tied behind his neck, revealing his fair neck. He lowered his eyes, and the curvature of his eyelashes softened his overly straight facial features. Bi Qing's clothes were a little old-fashioned in both color and style. However, the round collar and wide sleeves of the lotus leaf collared shirt did not look baggy on Jing Chen. Even the tacky embroidery at the collar could not discount his handsome temperament.
However, Yu Shu still felt that he was more suitable to wear the white Taoist robe. That kind of spotless appearance was more like Jing Chen.
Looking down, Yu Shu's expression became strange. Bi Qing was about the same size as Jing Chen, but his pants were short on Jing Chen's body, revealing a part of his calf. This made Yu Shu wonder how long this person's legs were.
After drinking the water, Jing Chen let out a sigh of relief. Seeing Yu Shu staring at him, he looked down to see if there was anything wrong with his body. Finally, his gaze fell on his pants that were half short. He knew that the problem was there, so he pulled his pants, but he could not cover it. He had no choice but to look at Yu Shu helplessly. His eyes seemed to be saying, "There's nothing I can do."
Yu Shu was amused by his expression and couldn't help laughing. She said, "Make do with it first. When we get off the boat, I'll buy you a new one. You used to only wear Taoist robes. There are three identical ones, white with black Taoist patterns embroidered on them. I even washed your clothes!"
Jing Chen couldn't speak, so he quietly listened to Yu Shu talk about the past. Occasionally, he nodded in response to her to show that he was listening carefully.
Because there was no one to interrupt them, Yu Shu unknowingly became a chatterbox. She rambled on and complained a lot. When the floor was cleaned, she sat at the table and continued to talk to him. When Yu Xiaoxiu knocked on the door and came back, she realized that she had been talking nonsense for almost an hour, and Jing Chen just sat there and listened to her.
Yu Shu awkwardly said to Jing Chen, "Look at me, I was too engrossed in talking and forgot that you're still injured. You shouldn't sit for too long. Lie down quickly."
Jing Chen waved his hand, indicating that it was fine. He was indeed a little tired from sitting, but compared to lying on the bed, he preferred to listen to people talking to him.
The merchant ship would stop at the shore every two or three days to buy goods along the way. It rained last night, so the ship just stopped today.
Early in the morning, Yu Shu frowned and read Yu Xiaoxiu's horoscope again on a piece of paper. The result showed that Yu Xiaoxiu would be in a flood tomorrow.
Her law of the time of disaster could be calculated as far as half a year. When she read it a few days ago, there was no sign of this, but today, it suddenly changed. She thought that she had read it wrong, so she used the copper coin to read her own fortune. From the results of the divination, she and Yu Xiaoxiu were both likely to be in trouble in the next two days.
"Flood disaster?" Yu Shu touched her chin and thought about the various causes of the flood. She looked up and asked Yu Xiaoxiu, who was sitting opposite her, "Xiaoxiu, can you swim?"
Yu Xiaoxiu didn't raise his head and said, "Yes."
"If you fall into the river, can you swim to the shore?"
Yu Xiaoxiu said, "Why would I fall into the river?"
"Let me make an analogy."
"I've never fallen before, so I don't know.
"Then don't go to the side of the ship in the next two days. Just stay in the cabin, do you hear me?" Yu Shu said.
"Oh." Yu Xiaoxiu was not a child who liked to ask why. Unless he couldn't do what Yu Shu told him, he would usually listen.
Yu Shu turned her head and looked at Jing Chen who was lying quietly on the bed. She really wanted to read his fortune and see the power of Ketu Star. Unfortunately, Jing Chen lost his memory, so there was no way to know his horoscope.
Ding Ning told Yu Xiaoxiu that there was a flood disaster, but Yu Shu was still worried, so she went downstairs to find Bi Qing. She asked him how many days it would take for them to arrive at the destination and changed carriages.
When she came out of the cabin, she saw the sailors adjusting the sails in preparation for docking. She found Bi Qing in the lower cabin. Bi Qing told her that according to the direction of the wind these two days, they would be able to disembark in another three days.
Yu Shu was afraid that the flood was caused by the ship accident, so she deliberately followed him around the bottom cabin. She pretended to be interested and asked questions. After confirming that there would be no safety risks, she left with relief.
On the second floor, when she passed by Xia Mingming's door, the door suddenly opened. Xia Mingming came out with a heavy heart and almost bumped into Yu Shu. Yu Shu dodged and called her, "Mingming, where are you going?"
"To find Bi Qing." Xia Mingming replied absent-mindedly and hurried downstairs. She didn't know what was so important that she didn't even get angry when Yu Shu called her "Mingming".
When Yu Shu returned to her room, she forgot about this matter. It wasn't until dinner time when a boatman knocked on the door that she knew that Xia Mingming hadn't returned to her room for a whole day.
It turned out that when the boatman delivered lunch to Xia Mingming's room at noon, he didn't see her there. He thought that she had gone out, so he put the food on her table. However, at night, the boatman went to deliver lunch again and found that no one had touched the lunch on the table. Xia Mingming still wasn't in the room, so he went next door and asked Yu Shu if she would be with Yu Shu.
"She didn't come to find me?" Yu Shu thought of seeing Xia Mingming in the morning and felt that something was wrong. She said to the boatman, "You go downstairs and find her. I'll ask upstairs."
The boatman hurried downstairs. There were nine rooms on the second floor. Other than her and Xia Mingming's room, there were six other rooms. Yu Shu went to ask one by one, but no one had seen Xia Mingming.
The boatman also looked downstairs, but he didn't see her. Yu Shu made a prompt decision and went to find Bi Qing with him.
When Bi Qing heard that Xia Mingming was missing, she immediately found Qiu Biao and asked him to send someone to look for her on the boat. However, after an hour, no one found Xia Mingming. Bi Qing realized the seriousness of the matter. In the middle of the night, she asked everyone on the deck of the boat.
At this time, a boatman stood up and said that when the boat docked at Qingshui in the morning, he saw Xia Mingming holding a bag and quietly getting off the boat.
After listening to this, Qiu Biao said suspiciously, "Could she have left?"
Bi Qing said, "Why did she leave without saying goodbye to me?"
Qiu Biao said, "How could she have fallen into the river? There are people on the entire side of the boat. She is such a big person. If she really fell into the river, even listening to the sound of the water, it would be impossible for no one to find her. It would be hard for her to drown."
When Bi Qing heard this, her face fell. "What are you talking about? If something really happened to her on our boat, are you going to take the responsibility? You … "
Qiu Biao's face also fell. "If something happened, you want to push it to me?"
Qiu Biao and Bi Qing quarreled last time, and after a few days, their relationship became better recently. However, their temperaments were not compatible. When the two of them talked, it was inevitable that there would be a smell of gunpowder. Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Boss Xu quickly came out to be the peacemaker. "Alright, both of you, stop talking. Boss Bi is thinking about our Tehen's reputation. But what Ah Biao said makes sense. If someone really fell into the river, it would be impossible for no one to see her. Now that she is missing, she must have left. Didn't someone see her getting off the boat?"
Qiu Biao said to Bi Qing, "Since Boss Xu has said so, why? Do you want something to happen to someone on our boat before you are happy?"
Bi Qing did not argue with him. She turned around and asked someone to check Xia Mingming's room. They found that her luggage was also missing. Only then did they confirm that she quietly left when they docked in the morning.
Bi Qing dispersed the crowd. Those who should rest rested and those who should be busy went back to work. Yu Shu watched from the beginning to the end. She did not mention that she saw Xia Mingming in the morning. She stood alone on the deck for a while. When she saw that the crowd had dispersed, she went to the helm and found the boatman who saw Xia Mingming in the morning.
"When did Young Master Xia leave the boat?"
The boatman thought for a while and said, "After the boat docked for a while."
"Did she leave before or behind Boss Bi?" Yu Shu knew that every time they arrived at a place, Bi Qing would bring people to disembark and buy some things.
"Later. The boat didn't stop for long before Boss Bi left early." The boatman looked at Yu Shu in confusion. "Why does Young Master ask this? You … "
Yu Shu smiled bitterly. "I borrowed a tael of silver from Young Master Xia. I haven't returned it to him yet."
The boatman laughed. Then, someone called him to go back to work and he left. Yu Shu looked at the moonlight that was sinking into the blue waves of the river. She expressionlessly turned around and entered the cabin.
As soon as she returned to the room, Yu Xiaoxiu came to welcome her. Jing Chen was also sitting on the bed.
"You still haven't found her?" After being reminded by Yu Shu several times, Yu Xiaoxiu would only call Yu Shu sister when they were alone.
"She left the boat in the morning. You two should quickly go to sleep." Yu Shu urged the two to sleep. She sat at the table and poured a cup of water. She held it in her hand and sipped it. Xia Mingming suddenly disappeared. This matter seemed very strange to her.
The boatman said that he saw Xia Mingming leave the boat after Bi Qing left. It sounded like Xia Mingming deliberately avoided Bi Qing and left quietly.
However, when she saw Xia Mingming in the morning, she clearly said that she was going to find Bi Qing. But looking at Bi Qing, he did not see Xia Mingming in the morning. Looking at the time, when Xia Mingming went to find Bi Qing, she had just seen Bi Qing. The boat had not yet docked. At that time, Bi Qing was still on the boat. Xia Mingming had time to find him. Then why didn't Bi Qing see her?
Did Xia Mingming leave without saying goodbye, or was the boatman lying?
Yu Shu analyzed and felt that the latter was more likely than the former. If the boatman was lying, then his purpose was intriguing. Why would a small boatman lie like this? It did not seem to be beneficial to him, unless someone was instructing him behind the scenes.
Thinking of this, Yu Shu picked up a copper coin from the table with a serious expression. She stared at it, as if she wanted to see something from it.
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