112 Arrival at Liangzhou
◎He is the one she can rely on, and he is the only one she can rely on.◎
Ye Yunzhao looked up at him, his restless heart gradually calming down: "I'm not afraid."
Now that the departure time had been set, the two of them were no longer in such a hurry. While standing under an eave at the pier to avoid the rain, Chen Jingshan miraculously pulled out a bag of hot cakes from his straw raincoat:
"Let's eat something first. I think the return trip might be difficult. I'm afraid I'll get seasick."
In the past, even if Ye Yunzhao didn't eat, she would still smile and joke about it. But now she really had no appetite, so she just waved her hand silently to refuse.
Seeing that she was not in a good mood, Chen Jingshan stood quietly aside, put the things back in his arms, and waited for her to have an appetite so that he could serve her the food in time.
"Let's get on board—"
The captain's deep and rough voice mixed with the sound of rain spread farther and farther. The two paid the money and hurriedly boarded the ship. Although it was a merchant ship, due to the heavy rain, the cabin was only filled with cargo and there were only a few people on board.
There were still good rooms available, and Chen Jingshan booked two. Ye Yunzhao didn't have the heart to care about these things at the moment, so he followed him onto the boat.
After entering the room and taking off his raincoat, he felt much more relaxed. Just as he expected, the river was surging and the whole boat was shaking.
Ye Yunzhao sat by the window, a faint melancholy on her face. Suddenly, a huge wave hit, and the wooden table in front of her slid a distance with a sharp sound. Unprepared, she grabbed the window frame and almost fell out.
After the big wave, the rain continued to fall, but it became calmer. She carefully touched the purse in her arms, and the five hard silver ingots were still safely in her arms. Ye Yunzhao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon, she became worried again. She didn't know if the person who died on the boat outside Yuezhou City was the servant of Ruyi Tower, or even more so, the kind and honest Uncle Da Niu...
Because she was so worried, Chen Jingshan knocked on her door three or five times to invite her to dinner, but she didn't respond. The surging river water made Ye Yunzhao's internal organs churn, and she had no mind or appetite.
Perhaps because the way back was still downstream, the boat's speed far exceeded Ye Yunzhao's imagination. It was estimated that it took less than ten hours for the boat to stop at Liangzhou Wharf.
The boatman came up and knocked on the door: "We have arrived at Liangzhou."
Ye Yunzhao hurriedly packed up his things and put on his raincoat. When he opened the door, Chen Jingshan was standing outside with a worried look on his face.
As soon as he saw her, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're okay, let's go."
The two of them hurriedly got off the boat and heard the boatman say that it was three quarters past midnight. However, Ye Yunzhao looked at the dark sky with no sign of dawn, which was more or less unbelievable.
She didn't know if it was her imagination, but it seemed like the rain was getting heavier when she arrived in Liangzhou...
There were several breakfast shops with lights on next to the Liangzhou Wharf. Ye Yunzhao originally had no appetite, but he couldn't resist Chen Jingshan, so he had to sit in the shop with him and ordered a bowl of wontons.
Ye Yunzhao looked at the steaming wontons and sighed inwardly. She picked up a spoon and stirred it gently. Seeing her like this, Chen Jingshan asked with concern, "What's wrong? Still no appetite?"
She saw the worry in his eyes, smiled lightly, then shook her head and put the wonton into her mouth: "How could it be."
Chen Jingshan turned to look at the wonton shop owner with confidence: "Auntie, do you know where to rent a horse carriage or ox cart?"
"I remember there's one nearby..." Auntie Wonton said as she looked outside and pointed to a place, "Here, that's it."
Hearing this, he quickly stood up and looked in the direction of her finger. He saw a sea of shops that had not yet opened. "Not open?"
Aunt Wonton shook her head, thought for a moment, and said, "Now that you mention it, it seems like we haven't been open for three or five days... What's the matter? Do we still need to rent a car in such heavy rain?"
Ye Yunzhao replied, "Aunt, we are from Yuezhou and want to rent a carriage to go home."
"Yuezhou?" Aunt Wonton was stunned and waved her hands repeatedly. "I'm afraid no one dares to do your business! From here to Yuezhou, you have to walk a very dangerous mountain road. It's really dangerous. Not to mention that this carriage and horse shop is closed, I'm afraid even if it was open, they wouldn't dare to rent it!"
Chen Jingshan quickly asked, "Is it because of the boat capsize in Yuezhou two days ago where someone died?"
"Dead?! Are you trying to scare me, young man?" Aunt Wonton was startled and said hurriedly, "You're talking nonsense! No one died. Although he fell into the river, he was rescued by others. It's absolutely not what you said. Don't talk nonsense. If anyone hears it, they will definitely teach you a lesson."
Chen Jingshan was still stunned, and Ye Yunzhao quickly responded: "I'm so sorry, Auntie. I think there was a misunderstanding in the transmission of the news. I'm glad he's not dead. I was worried all the way here. Fortunately... Fortunately..."
"You are a girl who speaks quite pleasantly." Aunt Wonton rolled her eyes at Chen Jingshan after saying this.
The two of them quickly finished their meal and planned to look for an open carriage and horse shop in Liangzhou City.
Unfortunately, the sky did not go as planned. A bolt of lightning struck from the dark sky. They asked three or five businesses in a row, but they all got the same answer: "It's raining too hard. We won't be doing business for the next two days."
The two looked at each other, and Chen Jingshan said, "I don't think the rain will stop for a while..."
He didn't want to travel in the rain. Although Ye Yunzhao didn't say it, he knew she wanted to return to Lingnan County as soon as possible. Thinking of the mountain road she had walked before, he thought that if he was more cautious along the way, there shouldn't be any accidents. He made up his mind and gritted his teeth: "Why don't we go on our own?"
Ye Yunzhao was stunned. Looking at the pouring rain, he hesitated and said, "Didn't they say the mountain road was difficult to travel? I'm afraid it will be even more difficult in the heavy rain..."
Although she said so, the hope that flashed in her eyes made Chen Jingshan make up his mind: "We just need to be cautious. Trust me, A Zhao."
She looked at the man in front of her, her heart moved slightly, and it was pouring rain. The only person she could rely on was him, and he was the only one worthy of her reliance.
The road is difficult to walk on when it rains. The stone pavement in the city was fine, but once outside the city and onto the soft yellow dirt road, Ye Yunzhao truly understood the meaning of this sentence.
After walking for about half an hour, countless stone brick and tile houses were left behind. The trees around us gradually increased. Through the rain, we could occasionally see a small village among the mountains.
To ease her fatigue, Chen Jingshan asked her with a smile, "A Zhao, smell it, do you smell anything?"
Ye Yunzhao raised her hand to adjust the hat that was pressing on her eyes. Her nose moved slightly, and the smell of rain penetrated her nose violently.
The faint fragrance of the forest mixed with the unignorable turbid smell of soil. The air was sweet, and the rain that penetrated into her nose turned into a mountain spring, which was both strange and made her greedy.
“The smell of rain.”
Fortunately, many trees in the forest had sprouted new leaves. The two walked beneath the trees, and the rain didn't obscure their vision. Chen Jingshan looked at her with a smile: "Yes, the smell of rain. I used to love it when I was walking alone on the mountain trails. I didn't expect... that there would be someone by my side now."
Ye Yunzhao also smiled, as if the stone weighing on his heart had disappeared, and he even jokingly said, "It's my honor."
He was stunned for a moment, then smiled even more deeply: "Do you want to know about my childhood?"
She looked up at him. It would be a lie to say she wasn't curious, but Chen Jingshan had never mentioned it, and Ye Yunzhao never liked to pry into other people's private affairs. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Yes." Chen Jingshan looked at the distant mountains in the rain and mist, and said in a low voice, "Have you seen my brother?"
Ye Yunzhao thought of the person who looked about 70% similar to him and nodded.
"Actually, he and I are twins." Chen Jingshan laughed when he talked about this. "Everyone says twins are a good omen, but few people know..."
He put away his smile. "This so-called good omen nearly cost my mother her life. My father died young, and not only were we twins, we were also posthumous. At that time, my mother still lived in Lingnan County. There weren't many clinics or doctors in these mountains... The midwife didn't realize she was pregnant with twins until the day she gave birth..."
This was the first time that Chen's mother gave birth. As the saying goes, childbirth is like walking through the gates of hell for a woman. The baby's head didn't come out for a long time, and she had no strength left.
The midwife wasn't a proper midwife. She was just a peasant woman who had learned a few herbal remedies from her nephew who ran a clinic. After delivering a few babies for young wives in the surrounding villages, she became a midwife in Lingnan County. Naturally, she was terrified by the situation. She said she would keep pushing, but she could see that Chen's mother was exhausted.
"It's over... it's over..." Unimaginable pain swept through her body. Mother Chen, sweating profusely, looked at her belly and shed two lines of tears. She looked into the void, "Mr. Chen... the child... the child can't be saved... can't be saved..."
"Don't say such things." The midwife was so anxious that she was spinning around. "Try harder! Try harder!"
Before she finished speaking, Chen's mother gritted her teeth, exerted force, and the baby actually came out, but with it came a steady stream of blood.
This child is Chen Yuechuan.
Fortunately, the midwife's nephew, a doctor, was visiting her that day and rushed over after hearing about the incident. Childbirth is a time of great separation between men and women, but when he heard only the midwife's voice inside, he made up his mind and rushed in.
At that time, Chen's mother was almost dead, and basin after basin of bright red blood was spilled out. He took her pulse and gave her acupuncture, only to find that there was another baby in her belly.
After working all day and night, they finally saved the mother and her two children. In order to express her gratitude to the doctor who saved her life, Chen's mother asked the literate doctor to name her two children.
The little boy was eating his father to death. Mother Chen was frail, so raising two children was a struggle, even for herself. Fortunately, the two children were sensible from a young age. The older one joined the army when he was thirteen or fourteen, and every year he sent his salary back home to support his mother and younger brother. The younger one worked as a handyman in a restaurant, but thanks to his good abacus skills, he gradually became an accountant.
Chen Jingshan has never been content since he was a child. As an accountant, his monthly salary was not enough to pay for his mother's medical treatment and medicine. It was because he became an accountant that he realized how rich the merchants looked down upon by the world could be.
What does it matter if they look down on him? Money is what keeps you alive. Since then, he has been traveling around with the boatmen, starting from a small stall and gradually becoming the owner of the Ruyi Tower in Yuezhou City. Who can he tell about this dispute?
Chen Jingshan looked at Ye Yunzhao and saw that she looked worried. Instead, he smiled and said, "How is it? Am I very powerful?"
He was so nonchalant, and Ye Yunzhao felt even more distressed. Two children, a widowed mother, who knew how hard it had been to build their current family business. She felt that she had really seen it before, and her throat choked with sobs: "Amazing, ah——"
But before she could finish her words, her feet went soft, yellow mud flew like fallen leaves, and she fell rapidly.
【Author’s words】
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