Although it was late at night, the docks in Sin'an were still full of people, but there were no cargo ships docking, and naturally these voices would not be made by the shipowners and porters.
They came from the officials of Xin'an City and the soldiers sent by the imperial court, and although the salt ships would not dock until tomorrow evening, these people were stationed here a few days earlier.
In the past few days, they not only carefully inspected the fortifications reinforced by the wharf, but also searched all the houses and inns within a radius of several miles, just to ensure that there were no thieves ambushing nearby, and to ensure that the salt transported from Western Xia all the way was safely unloaded from the salt ship, and then transported smoothly to Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
Salt is a necessity of the people, and the salt-producing areas represented by Wuchi and Baichi in the territory of Western Xia are cheap and good, and the taste is pure, so it is called Qingbai salt.
The self-produced salt in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty is not only expensive, but also has a trace of bitterness and astringency, and the people do not like to eat it.
Therefore, the imperial court had to buy a large amount of salt from Western Xia every year to supply the needs of the people.
The salt transported from Western Xia was as much as more than 40 million catties, and 97 were loaded on ships, which was the largest in the country, so the Great Song Dynasty court attached great importance to it from top to bottom, and Emperor Taizong also sent two important ministers to supervise the transportation of salt to ensure that everything was safe.
Therefore, it is not surprising that so many soldiers gathered on the wharf of Sinseong the night before the salt ship arrived.
The water waves were calm, reflecting the crowded scenery above, and Pei'er saw this lively scene from a distance, so she clutched her stomach and walked around to the south side of the pier, walking down a muddy and uninhabited path to the depths.
This path is a dead end on the bank of the bustling canal, and this place was originally full of shops, but due to its age, most of the shops are dilapidated, and the distance from the dock makes the merchants and porters reluctant to walk an extra mile to get here, so the shopkeepers move away one after another, and move the shops to the two newly built streets on both sides of the canal.
Pei'er grew up in Xin'an and was familiar with the layout around the canal, so when she saw the crowd on the pier, she didn't hesitate to walk to the dilapidated street with her stomach twisted.
Yes, since you have made up your mind to prepare to die, you must not choose a place with many people, otherwise you will be fished up by someone just after jumping down, and you may not sink to the bottom.
Thinking so, she hastened her pace towards the depths of the path, despite the pain in her abdomen.
The decayed shops on the side of the road looked like ghosts with teeth and claws under the dark night, looking extremely terrifying.
Pei'er was originally a timid person and never dared to go to some remote and quiet places, but now when she saw the scene in front of her, she just chuckled senselessly: What's so scary?
How terrible?
Can it compare to this monster in my womb?
Thinking of this, her hand on her belly suddenly shook violently, and her belly stretched a little more in a violent beat, and the thin placket also made a crisp sound of "Zla", which completely burst open.
Pei'er's heart was pounding, her legs were weak and she fell to her knees.
His knees were worn out by the rubble and rubble, and the pain was terrible.
But she got up again regardless of it, crying and staggering towards the dark riverbank, grabbing her belly with one hand, and said intermittently, "If you don't think about it, I will die, and I will be buried with you."
The thing in her stomach seemed to sense what she was going to do next, and it fused for a moment, then moved violently again, and with more force than Fang Cai.
Pei'er almost couldn't support it, her body was staggered by it, and she almost overturned to the ground a few times, and it took half a column of incense to finish a short road.
But fortunately, she finally came to the river, she took a deep breath, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, bit her silver teeth, and threw herself into the water desperately.
"Miss Pei'er."
At the moment before falling into the water, Pei'er heard an anxious call, she turned her head slightly, and saw Jiang Xixi running towards the river from not far away.
However, she was still a step slower, and when she was a few feet away from the riverbank, Jiang Xixi heard a "plop" sound, and then a splash of water splashed up, soaking her wet.
"Miss Pei'er."
She looked at the river that gradually calmed down below, and a sense of admiration suddenly rose in her heart, this underage girl, although she looked thin and weak, she didn't think it was a fierce person, she knew that her life was not guaranteed, so she wanted to pull the monster to the Yellow Spring together, and not give it a chance to harm the world.
Jiang Xixi leaned over and squatted down, two tears fell on her cheeks, "Miss Pei'er, I'm a step late, I'm sorry" As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden "grunt" in the water, and a bubble the size of a fist floated out, which exploded on the surface of the river, startling Jiang Xixi's body shook suddenly, so he stood upright, drew his sword, and aimed the blade at the river water with black light, and did not dare to move for half a minute.
Cold sweat ran down her spine, soaking her clothes, and Jiang Xi held her breath and listened to her increasingly dense heartbeat in a deathly silence.
"Knock Knock Knock" Like drumsticks, one after the other, it seemed like it was about to jump out of its throat.
"Goo."
Another bubble floated out of place, and in the reflection of the moonlight, a chilling white light flashed.
Jiang Xixi bit her lower lip tightly, holding the long sword in her hand and approaching the river bank step by step, her eyes locked on the place where the bubble disappeared.
With a "bang" sound, the water splashed, and Pei'er's broken body suddenly bounced out of the water, and the water vapor mixed with bloody gas, smashed down on Jiang Xixi's head and face.
Jiang Xi couldn't dodge, so he could only use his arm to block the top of his head, and with a slight force of his elbow, he knocked Pei'er's bloody corpse aside.
However, before she could react, the water in front of her right seemed to have been blown open, and a wall of waves three or four feet high rose up, and the dragon roared towards the shore.
In the surging white waves, the shiny figure was particularly conspicuous, but Jiang Xixi had just knocked Pei'er away, and she didn't have time to exert her strength again, so she could only watch the black shadow fly towards her, and after passing straight over her head, she deftly turned around in mid-air, and her scaly wings swung violently on her back, pushing her into the canal with her sword.