Lord of the House

The big ship is like a building, next to the pine pier of the ferry, the lighthouse on the top deck is lit like the bright moon, not only the deck of the big ship, but even the side of the pier is also fully illuminated. Ordinary people have never seen such bright lights. It is a rare thing. In the middle of the night, many refugees stranded on both sides of the strait did not sleep. They all gathered by the river to watch. There were two or three hundred people in Yingyingchuo, which was very lively.

Hongzepu and Shiliang River are connected to form an important waterway that runs through the Huai River and the Yangtze River. However, because Hongzepu is a shallow lake formed by dozens of large and small lakes, the Qianshi ship has a deep draft when it is loaded with goods, even in spring and summer. In the early high water season, it is difficult to pass through Hongzepu smoothly and enter the Huaihe River. Therefore, most of the ships traveling between Hongzepu and Shiliang River are Wu Peng Cao boats with a load of about 200 stone. Thousands of stone ships are extremely rare. Great shore.

Four of the men who had been drinking at the Dukou Restaurant mixed in the crowd and watched for a while, then quietly retreated to the depths of the deserted grass.

"Damn it," scolded a middle-aged man with half of his face unkempt and curly beard, "Isn't this trying to tempt grandpa to hijack the ship?"

"You've come to watch the boat. You didn't see the ten military guards at the bow of the boat? The Jiyun Club in this **** day, that Lin Fu is really a dog officer. His little nine-rank prison guard dared to give Their own private soldiers are equipped with fine-steel swords so heavy, the armor on those people's body is so **** good..." The man with a shallow scar on his forehead smacked his lips, his eyes showing a greedy look.

"So far away, can you tell whether the armor on those people is good or bad? You're bragging!" The bearded man said unconvinced.

"Why can Malantou be the leader of Eleven, isn't that kid who joined the crew and took out six pairs of rusty iron armor to share with everyone? The lights on the boat are shining like the moonlight, and you are not blind. You said Malantou took Can the six pairs of rusty armor that come out are better than those worn by the people on the ship? And the warrior at the head, who is wearing thin-scale armor, it takes several hundred taels of silver to get a pair, and you can be your grandson. No matter how good the bow and arrow are, it can't hit his throat with one arrow, and no matter how close it is, it can't penetrate the armor. Even if that person is two grades worse than you, he can easily beat you with that armor. , can't you just look at the blade? If you try to slap the knife against others, you'll know it's great, and you'll know how to carry it with me." The man with the scar on his forehead smiled annoyed.

"Then let's make this vote even more!" The bearded man's grandson Pangzi shouted, drooling when he heard the scar-headed man say so.

The other two middle-aged men with short beards and red faces both frowned and said nothing. Seeing that they were silent, Sun Ganzi put his elbows on one of them's waist and asked in a low voice, "Brother Shiyi, do you want to shout again? Some people come over, or wait until they hit the road tomorrow?"

"There are a few points that I have to consider: Lin Fu has a good reputation, and Jiyun Society recruits refugees to work on the north bank of Chaotiandang. No matter whether they can recruit workers or not, there are tens of thousands of scattered rice and scattered copper coins, and the beneficiaries are tens of thousands. There are quite a few; there are only ten military guards on the boat, and they are all strong in spirit and spirit, wearing all fine armor and sharp weapons in their hands. There are more than 40 other boatmen and sailors on the boat, all of them are strong and brave, and they are afraid of equipment. It's not too bad. How many lives do we need to take to take the boat? In addition, Lin Fu is extraordinary in Gu Wuchen's eyes. The Xihe Society will definitely save his life, so it is difficult to kill all the people of the Xihe Society. To offend the Jiangning River Gang forces?" The middle-aged man called "World Heritage" said.

"Don't let him pass through the border arrogantly, doesn't he lose everyone's prestige?" The bearded man was unwilling to retreat like this, and said, "If he is more restrained, he will let him go." It was really unwilling.

"Apart from getting a few good armor and a good Mo sword, what's the benefit of robbing this ship?" Another middle-aged man asked the bearded man with a smile, "If you rob this ship, you will be shocked by the grass, and this Lin Tie is in Jiangning City. He can no longer be regarded as an insignificant person. He was killed and his body was dumped in the Shiliang River. Gu Wuchen is bound to be very angry, and the situation on both sides of the Shiliang River will immediately become tense. Do we still want to do that big deal?"

"Ri, according to this, I really can't start," the scarred-headed man scolded bitterly, "I really can't see the arrogance of the dog officials. Most of the scattered rice and loose copper coins that Lin **** in Chaotian Station are also buying people's hearts, I live my life. In half my life, I've never seen an official who doesn't have a bad heart or a dog who doesn't eat shit."

"It's also good to let him be arrogant," said the red-faced man named "World Heritage". "The insider sent a message that the prey was swaying along which waterway to go north. There really can't be any disturbances here to startle the prey away. We Not only can't you strike, but also stop the poles on other roads from attacking..."

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Liu Xilin slept peacefully on the boat. The next day, Lin Fu asked Sun Jingtang to send a boat to take Liu Xilin to Jiangning. It was safer to go south by water than by land.

Sun Jingtang complied with everything, and it would take a day or two for them to stay in Shanglin to load tea goods. It would not be too much of a delay if they sent a boat back to Jiangning and made up for them with two fast oars. Liu Xilin was the captain of Dongcheng in the Jiangning Mansion in the future. With such a character, Xihe Club would only wish that he had no chance to approach and curry favor. Sun Jingtang wanted to accompany Lin Bie to Shanglinli, and he dispatched a well-known leader and more than a dozen brothers to **** Liu Xilin and others. When people go to Jiangning, they are asked to serve carefully along the way.

Sun Jingtang didn't rest well last night, so he was very worried. He couldn't guess what Lin Fu was thinking. The Dongyang ship was dazzling at night, and the military guards were on duty on the deck and were clad in armor and lined up sharply. They meant to show off their strength, but they might also arouse the greed of rogues. He knew that Lin Bie hid some elites on the boat, but no matter how elite the more than 50 people are, can they resist the attack of the rogue ant-attached crowd?

No one knows how many of the stranded refugees along the Shiliang River are keeping their peace.

There was nothing to do all night, and in the morning, Sun Jingtang was eager to set sail to the forest earlier. There are more than 500 people in the township of Lin's family, and they can be equipped and trained. They are rare elites in Dongyang Mansion. As the leader of the river gang, Sun Jingtang was quite familiar with these situations. As long as the boat went to Shanglin, the rogues and water bandits would have scruples no matter how coveted they were.

Sun Jingtang climbed up the Dongyang from the rope ladder. He didn't see Lin Bie and asked Zhao Hu, who was standing on the deck blowing the river wind, "Where's Mr. Lin?"

"What's the matter with Sun Dang's family looking for me?" Lin Bie came out of the aft cabin, holding the bottom of the blue robe with both hands, trying to be careful not to let his feet step on it.

"Lord Lin, the south wind is blowing, let me ask, when will we set sail? With this limelight, I might be able to rush to Shanglin for lunch." Sun Jingtang said.

"I have something to discuss with Dang Sun's family," Lin Fu said. "There are many hungry people on the shore, all with yellow faces and thin skin. I still have dozens of stone ballasts on this ship. I hope Dang Sun's family can send two brothers to me. Use, the ballast rice on the ship will be left at the ferry, let them borrow a place on the shore to cook rice porridge, and rush us to pick up the two brothers from the Guihui on the boat when we return to the voyage."

Sun Jingtang thought that it is better to do more than one less thing. Dozens of stone rice porridge at the ferry would not help many people. It would only attract more refugees nearby to the ferry, and there was not much benefit. But it wouldn't do any harm. Although Sun Jingtang thought it was more troublesome, he still found two brothers and went ashore to inform the tax collectors and sentry officers of the ferry in person, and told them that Lin Bing was the red man in front of the deputy inspector of Jiangdong. people, to prevent them from bullying the two congregations that Xihe would stay to cook porridge.

After a long delay at Yerendu, Lin Fu and the others set sail, and they didn't rush to the forest in a hurry. They stopped for a while in the middle, and Sun Jingtang watched Zhou Pu, Cao Zi'ang and other four people riding fast horses from behind. catch up. The Dongyang had a deep draught, and could not get close to the embankment without a pier. They saw Zhou Pu and others approaching without pausing, raising the reins and riding the horses. Sun Jingtang saw that the ship's side was almost three feet away from the river bank. It was not difficult to jump such a long distance on the flat ground. The difficulty was that the horse jumped from the river bank to the boat without stopping. The Dongyang ship was wide. It was only a little over two feet, and he was able to ride the boat vertically, but he might not be able to control the horse's momentum and let the horse rush off the boat from the other side. Zhou Pu is Lin Fu's personal squire, and it is not surprising that his riding skills are superb, but Cao Zi'ang is a lichang recommended by the leader of the refugees. pretty.

Seeing Zhou Pu and Cao Zi'ang chasing after him on horseback, Sun Jingtang subconsciously thought that something happened in Hekou and he should report Lin Bie urgently, and he was a little nervous.

Lin Fu knew that Zhou Pu and Cao Zi'ang were chasing after him on horseback. He saw Sun Jingtang looking at them and said with a smile: "It's really not worrying, I have a headache to chase after the big things in Hekou... ..." Without saying anything to Sun Jingtang, he went into the cabin to discuss matters with Zhou Pu and Cao Zi'ang.

Sun Jingtang doesn't doubt anything else. Even if he doubts, where can he go?

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"When we got the letter, we asked the car and boat to take us to the north bank. At the mouth of the river, someone temporarily called Xiao Loach back from the Longjiang Shipyard to help the scene in secret. We rode fast horses on the road without delay. Last night, the people of the Savage Ferry Restaurant found out that one of them was Wu Shiyi, the leader of the Fuling Lake Water Village in Hongzepu, and the others were not all from the Fuling Lake Water Village. I guess Hong Zepu's many forces have secretly united." Cao Zi'ang sat down and sipped tea, and just after breathing, he told Lin Fu the information he had exchanged with Crow Wu Qi, and Lin Fu had a way to communicate with Crow Wu through lights. Qi carries out simple signal transmission, and Wu Qi and his subordinates can play a greater role in hiding in the dark unless it is a last resort.

"I guess so too," Lin Fu said, "I just sent an urgent letter to ask you to come over and discuss with Mr. Leopard."

"The water depth of Fuling Lake is not as deep as a zhang, and it is useless to capture a thousand-stone boat," Cao Zi'ang said. "If it were me, Qin Chengbo would also be regarded as a prey. We already know what you did at Yerendu. Are you planning to fish in troubled waters?"

"Can you touch it or not?" Lin Bie sighed slightly and said, "I'm worried that the water here is muddy, and the world's crisis will be even more difficult..."

Although the Shiliang River and Hongzepu cannot pass through large ships, the Wupeng Caoboat with a capacity of 200 stone is very convenient to pass through. Water system. When Hongzepu is in chaos, not only will Dongyang in the northern part of Jiangdong County and the Huaian prefectures fall into chaos, but this waterway will be cut off, and the pressure on water transportation in Weiyang prefecture will be even greater. There is no grand canal system in Lin Bing's impression in the world today. Water transportation is a combination of various water systems, and it is concentrated in the Huitong River in the middle section. No one built the Grand Canal in Weiyangfu (now Yangzhou) in the previous dynasties.

"This pool of water in Hongzepu is bound to be muddy. Although the fishermen who have been gathering and troubled have dispersed, the government has not investigated it for the time being, but there is a lesson from the Qing bandits. The forces of Hongzepu will not be afraid of the government's liquidation of old accounts in the future? If the forces of Hongzepu are really as we think. As presumed, they have been secretly united, like an arrow on the string, and it is inevitable. Whether we want it or not, Hongzepu will definitely be in chaos, unless half of the warships and troops of the Jiangning Water Camp can be transferred to Hongzepu to stabilize the situation. "..." Cao Ziang said.

"..." Lin Bie nodded, Hong Zepu's various forces have been secretly linked, whoever quits may betray other families to the government, and all are tied to the warship, who will not allow others to quit, except for one road to the black, This kind of thing cannot be stopped. Qin Chengbo was just a prey they saw, or else they would cause trouble when the third division of Chen Han from the anti-theft camp was transferred to Huai'an.

Cao Zi'ang, Zhou Pu and others hated Chen Hansan and his followers, and they wished that the forces of Hongzepu could lead the fishermen and boatmen to revolt, and use the sword to destroy Chen Hansan and his followers.

The world is like this, and Lin Fu can't do anything. As Cao Zi'ang said, in order to stabilize the situation in Hongzepu, unless half of the warships of the Jiangning Water Camp were transferred to Hongzepu Weishe, this was only a cowardice plan and could not completely resolve the intensified contradictions between the officials and the people, let alone even Li. Zhuo also has no right to transfer half of the warships of Jiangning Water Camp to Hongzepu to stabilize the situation.

"I can't control too much. Qin Chengbo has been in Jiangning for three years and has scraped countless people's fats and creams. No matter what, it's not wrong to introduce the fish into Hongzepu first." Lin Fu said.

In fact, there are nearly a thousand servants in the Qin family, and there are four or five hundred elite warriors. They will all leave Jiangning north with Qin Chengbo this time. Even if Qin Chengbo went north without foreign aid at all, if it wasn't for the union of the various forces in Hongzepu~www.wuxiaspot.com~, no one or a few would be able to bite this hard bone.

Lin Fu showed off his force so much last night. First, he wanted a small group of rogues to retreat. Although there are not many elites hidden in the Dongyang, Lin Fu is not afraid that the single-stock water village forces on Hongzepu will run out to grab the boat. The second is to test whether the forces of the Hongzepu clan are united.

In order to prevent theft, Qin Chengbo cast the silver scraped over the years into a thousand taels of silver balls. It is said that there are 800 or 600 silver balls. There are countless other treasures and antiques. The lost belongings will be an extremely staggering number. If the forces of Hongzepu's water village, fishermen, and boat households join forces to take Qin Chengbo as their prey, the more arrogant Lin Fu crosses the border, the more likely he will be safe. There are many signs that the forces of Hongzepu's families have secretly linked together to make a big deal.

Besides, with the ability of Shen Rong, the prefect of Dongyang, most of them were also aware of Hong Zepu's vision. If Shen Rong really believed that the Hongzepu fishermen's riot was over, and after Liu Xilin was transferred, why would he needlessly keep an elite secret of the Dongyang government army in Shiliang County?

Thinking of this, Lin Fu realized a question: Will Shen Rong, who has long been aware of Hongzepu's abnormality, also intentionally condone Qin Chengbo's resignation and go north to Hongzepu to return to his hometown in Zhongli County?

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