Xia Yinhua was a little anxious, and when she saw him get up, she hurriedly grabbed him and said in a low voice: "It's okay for you to go, but don't make a mistake." Besides, I'm going to go alone, and I'll be alone on the boat for a few days, can you rest assured? I'm sure you'll still come with me, yes or no?"

Yang Xianmao looked at her, thinking that what she said was really the truth, if she knew that she came alone, she would still come to accompany her, so Yang Xianmao patted the back of her hand and said, "Okay, these words will be said later, I will go to Lord Liu Helm first to ask for an understanding." ”

After that, Yang Xianmao quickly went out and came to the outside of the cabin, found a boatman, and said, "Go and call you Liu Wuye, I have something to say to him." If he doesn't come, I'll get off the boat and leave. ”

The boatman smiled and said to Yang Xianmao: "Our fifth master is on this ship, in the house in front, and the little one will go and report to the Taoist chief." ”

Yang Xianmao waved his hand and said, "No need, you can take me there." ”

The boatman hurriedly took Yang Xianmao to the front of the big ship, in front of a luxury suite, there were two guards at the door on guard, and when they saw Yang Xianmao coming, they looked at each other and bowed.

Yang Xianmao said: "Please inform, I want to see your helmsman." A guard hurriedly went in to report, came out in a moment, and said to Yang Xianmao with a smile: "Dao Chief, please come in, our helmsman is inside." ”

Yang Xianmao pushed open the door and walked in, and inside was a large living room. Liu Lao Wu was spinning in circles there with his hands behind his back, and when he saw Yang Xianmao, he hurriedly greeted him, hugged his fists and said, "The Taoist is here." ”

Yang Xianmao said: "I want to know, why did you invite me to your cargo ship through Xia Yinhua, you can say anything clearly, I don't want to play tricks with people." ”

Liu Lao Wu smiled and said, "Please sit down quickly, and let's talk about it after we sit down." ”

The two sat on the two chairs. The maid came up and took the tea and withdrew, and closed the door.

Liu Lao Wu said: "Originally, I didn't dare to work as a Taoist driver, and I didn't dare to use this kind of trick to invite the Taoist to come to my cargo ship." Here's the thing, the danger that the Taoist chief had previously calculated for Feng Shui had become a fact. Just a few days ago, I received news that one of my merchant ships was robbed by a beggar rebel while passing through Kowloon Beach, injuring many of my brothers and robbing my merchant ship of its cargo and money. That shipment was worth a lot of money, and this time I really lost a lot. I regret not paying enough attention to what you reminded me of. Moreover, I thought that you were talking about my house being robbed, and I thought that my house was surrounded by tall walls, and it was full of martial arts masters that I had hired with a lot of money, and that any thief who did not have long eyes would dare to come to my house and rob something? ”

Yang Xianmao was a little strange and asked: "The beggar brother occupies the mountain as the king, and if he rebels, he will also rob the house and rob the passing merchants?"

"I had seldom heard of him robbing caravans, because they were all large groups of men attacking towns and plundering. That's all big-ticket business. He generally disdained to do such small things as robbing passing merchants, especially waterway merchant ships, which he had never heard of robbing before. I don't know why I suddenly attacked my merchant ship now. However, I heard that in addition to my merchant ship, there are other merchant ships that have also been robbed, except for the merchant ship surnamed Ma, which has not been robbed. Therefore, I suspect that the surnamed Ma colluded with the beggar brother to do it, but because there is no evidence, because the beggar brother appreciates you very much, I have to think of this way, please come to my merchant ship, my goods are very important, if this batch of goods is also lost, then I really have no return. If the Taoist chief is willing to follow us back and forth, I will donate a sum of money to the tea shop of the shopkeeper Xia, so that she can decorate it well, and from now on, she wants me to enter the tea for her, and I will not charge a penny for her, and I will sell it to him at whatever price there is, and I will definitely not earn him a penny. In addition, I will also donate a sum of money to the Qingfeng Taoist Priest of the Qingfeng Temple, so that he can repair the Taoist Temple and reshape the golden body to express my gratitude to the Taoist Master. ”

Liu Lao Wu already knew that Yang Xianmao couldn't take money, so he invested the money in Xia Yinhua's tea shop and Qingfeng Daoren's Qingfeng Temple, and handed over the money to Qingfeng Daoren for disposal. The donated money can not only renovate the temple, but also provide them with an additional reward. He really wanted to win over Yang Xianmao, a fierce general, not to mention that he got accurate information that Yang Xianmao had a very delicate relationship with the beggar brother, and maybe he could persuade the beggar brother to let go of his merchant ship.

Yang Xianmao thought about it and said: "I have promised Xia Yinhua to accompany her to buy goods this time, so I will accompany him to the front of my word, but I have something to say ahead, if you meet a beggar brother on the road who sends troops to rob your merchant ship, I can come forward to discuss with him and ask him to let you go, but if he really wants to do it, I will not duel him for you, I want to make this clear, everything depends on you." As long as he doesn't hurt me or Xia Yinhua, I don't care about anything else. ”

Yang Xianmao weighed the pros and cons, he was unwilling to make enemies of people like his beggar brother for money, and it would be very unwise to offend such a rebel leader with an army. What's more, he can't use the money given by Liu Lao Wu at all, and he has no interest.

Liu Lao Wu seemed to have guessed what Yang Xianmao would say, and hurriedly said: "If the Daoist can discuss with the beggar brother and ask him to raise his noble hand, I will already be grateful, if I really want to fight, I am ready, and I don't dare to let the Daoist help, so the Daoist can rest assured." ”

Yang Xianmao nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then I'll take my leave." He left the room and returned to Xia Yinhua's house.

Xia Yinhua was very nervous, and when she saw him come back, she breathed a sigh of relief, and asked, "How is it?"

Yang Xianmao said: "I made it clear to him that if I encounter a robber on the road, I will not help him fight, as long as the two of us can get peace." ”

Of course, Xia Yinhua didn't know about the robbery of Liu Laowu's merchant ship before, and when she heard this, her face was a little ugly, and she said, "Will we encounter robbers on the road?"

"It's hard to say. ”

While they were deliberating, the merchant ship had set sail and was heading upstream.

This section of the water is relatively gentle, so pulling the sail and rocking the oars to row forward, the boat is still relatively fast and does not need to pull the fiber. It is only when the beach water is relatively turbulent and there is no way to go upriver by sails and rowing, the boatman will go down to pull the fiber.

After the merchant ship started, Yang Xianmao went out to the side of the ship to take a look, and couldn't help but be staggered, there were more than ten merchant ships on this trip, just like a long dragon with a twist and turn, and each ship had a deep draft, which showed that the ship was loaded with a large amount of goods.

Three meals a day, Liu Lao Wu sent someone to send the banquet to Yang Xianmao's house, he knew that Yang Xianmao liked to be quiet, so he did not come to visit. But everything is responsive.

After walking for two days, from time to time the boatmen would go down to pull the fiber, shouting the trumpet. Yang Xianmao stood at the bow of the boat, saw the appearance of the boatman pulling the fiber, and remembered that he was like this a few months ago, and dragged the boat all the way to Yuzhou. During those days, it was really sad.

Two days later, their boat came to a turbulent section of the river known as Kowloon Beach, and when they looked up, they could see the terrain was dangerous, with steep cliffs, and the roar of the rapids could be heard in the distance.

The boatman told Yang Xianmao that after crossing the Nine Dragon Beach, he would walk another day and arrive at Chazhou.

The boat that Yang Xianmao and they were on was in the middle of the entire fleet, and the previous boat had reached the end of the torrent and began to swim upstream, and all the boatmen disembarked to pull the fiber.

At this time, on both sides of the entire river beach were nearly half-** boatmen, pulling heavy ropes, stepping on dry and hard pebbles, and crawling forward with difficulty, making their fleet composed of more than a dozen merchant ships move slowly on the turbulent Kowloon Beach, and the boatmen's horns echoed in the mountains.

Yang Xianmao took Xia Yinhua and Liu Dongyan to stand on the side of the boat to watch the scenery on both sides of the river, and suddenly, he appeared, and countless flocks of birds flew up in the middle of the mountain, quacking, hovering above.

Yang Xianmao's heart sank, and he immediately looked around to observe, and there were several flocks of birds flying up in the air in the jungle.

Yang Xianmao secretly screamed badly, because the frightened birds in the forest meant that there was likely to be danger in the woods in these places, and moreover, so many frightened birds flew up, this danger was definitely not something that one or two fierce beasts could explain, thinking of what Liu Lao Wu said before, he naturally thought of the biggest possibility, that is, the soldiers of the beggar brother came.

Yang Xianmao immediately grabbed Xia Yinhua beside him and said, "Go to the house quickly, it's dangerous, don't open the door if anyone asks for it!"

Xia Yinhua didn't know what to do, and before she could react, she was already dragged into the cabin behind her by Yang Xianmao. Yang Xianmao asked Liu Dongyan to go in, but Liu Dongyan refused to live or die, and said, "Young master, no matter how much danger there is, I will be with you." ”

Yang Xianmao didn't have time to argue with her at this time, so he nodded and ran to the bow of the boat with her. There were also a few people at the bow of the boat who came towards him, but it was Liu Lao Wu and his right-hand men.

Liu Lao Wu was very anxious, obviously he was also in a wrong situation, so he came to find Yang Xianmao, and the two sides met halfway.

Liu Lao Wu preemptively said: "It seems that the beggar brother is here, what can I do?"

Yang Xianmao said: "What to do with you to decide, if the beggar brother really comes, I said, I can help you go and talk to him, so that he will not rob your merchant ship." But if he insists on robbing, I can't help it. ”

"Okay, then there is Lao Dao Chief, I am very grateful. ”

As soon as he said this, he heard a swish in the sky, and an arrow exploded in the air, and in an instant, countless shouts of killing sounded in the woods on both banks, and countless soldiers with swords rushed out of the woods on both banks, surrounded the boatmen who were pulling fiber on the river beach, and ordered them to tie the fiber rope to the big rock on the shore, and then kneel on the ground and not move.

At the same time, at the end of the Nine Dragons Beach, a squeaky iron cable suddenly rose, and this iron cable stretched across the entire river, and the river became very turbulent here. This iron chain lies across the river, and there is no way to break through and escape, because this iron cable is very thick, it was originally soaked in water, and the merchant ships will not appear in the past, but now, pulled up from the dense forest, the winch has obviously been prepared in the dense forest, and the rotation of the winch has pulled the thick iron cable out of the water.