Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Black-Haired Monkey

When the five cargo ships loaded with grain sailed until nightfall, Li Jin, the general of the left, ordered the fleet to stop, so that the soldiers, who had been busy all day, could rest for the night and hurry again tomorrow.

According to Jiang Jinshui's perennial experience in doing chores on merchant ships, he speculated that everyone was now about ten miles away from Jiangbian Town, and they were temporarily away from entanglement, and judging from the limited strength of Guandu Pavilion, the other party could not pose much danger to them.

Therefore, Li Jin's decision was very correct, the nervousness of several days in a row, and the fierce fighting in the morning, made the soldiers tired, and it was not advisable to rush overnight, but to rest well for the night.

In order to avoid sudden danger, Li Jin also asked everyone to bring the five cargo ships close together, leaving only two teams of soldiers to take turns to keep vigil, and the others hurried to rest.

After dark, the surface of the Yellow River was calm and dark.

Wang Baoshan took the five soldiers in the battalion and stayed on the cargo ship he was on, bearing the vigilance at night.

Tonight, the starry sky is cloudless, except for the sound of the river flowing Zeze, and the night song of unknown wild birds on the cliff on the right bank, there is no sound in all directions, but it seems empty and quiet.

When the cargo ship approached, it was also convenient for everyone to move around on other cargo ships. When most of the soldiers were asleep, Li Jin took his son Li Ziming to the cargo ship where Wang Baoshan was.

After finding him, Li Jin thanked him on the spot and thanked him for saving his son Li Ziming's life today.

After hearing this, Wang Baoshan realized that he had been misunderstood, and hurriedly explained: "General Li, it was my friend who saved him today, and I just helped a little..."

When Li Jin heard this, he thanked him, didn't feel inappropriate, and said: "Anyway, without you, your friend wouldn't have come here, let alone just saved my son, this favor, I remember... When I get back, I invite you to drink... Haha..."

"Yes, yes, General Wang! We didn't move around well before, and we didn't know each other well enough, so we can move around more in the future!" Li Ziming was not lightly injured, but he still held on to salute Wang Baoshan.

"Well said... It's easy to say..."Chen Chong was in a hurry and saved Li Ziming's life, but Li Jin's father and son's attitude towards Wang Baoshan was greatly improved, and he was quite happy in his heart.

Li Jin said again: "Having said that, this time I asked Fa Tong to bring only more than 50 brothers from his camp, and he ran over to grab food, which was really a bit of a presumptuous thing at the beginning......

He also said that he thought he could easily get it, but he didn't know that the situation in this riverside town was so responsible, and the city sent so many guards over, and the manpower disparity was too great. What's more, he didn't expect that Zhang Table and the others would not take the land route, but planned to use the waterway to transport the grain away.

He Li Jin didn't know anything about this kind of situation at the time, and if he went directly to the town to rob it at that time, it would definitely be a vicious battle with no chance of winning.

Although there is Lian Fatong's cousin Jiang Jinshui, and the help of more than a dozen strong men, I am afraid that they will not be able to do it easily for a while!

"We didn't know until we got to the town, but with our ability, it was not easy to handle. And I want to inform the general that I intend to work with the general......"

Wang Baoshan saw that he was sincere and touched, so he told the truth. I told all the things that I was entrusted by Wang Qiang to come to secretly cooperate.

It turned out that he was too conceited, wishful thinking, and almost ruined the plan, not only did he bring humiliation on himself, but he also had to kill a lot of brothers, this is really playing with fire**!

At this point, Li Jin finally understood the good intentions of Wang Baoshan and others. immediately apologized and thanked Wang Baoshan, saying that he shouldn't have been angry with him before, and he really shouldn't be angry with everyone.

Fortunately, everything did not reach the point of unforgivability, so Wang Baoshan also persuaded for a while. The relationship between the two has become more and more harmonious since then.

After Li Jin thanked him, he took Li Ziming and left, leaving Wang Baoshan to continue to watch the night.

can turn war into jade silk, Wang Baoshan is very happy in his heart, and he has gained a lot this time. not only successfully completed Wang Qiang's entrustment, but also successfully resolved the misunderstanding with Li Jin, and even helped the Black Wind Army recover the grain of five cargo ships.

It's really going well, and everything is going in a good direction!

In this way, with full joy, Wang Baoshan sat on the bow of the boat, squinted his eyes, and took a nap.

Outside the boat, the night is getting deeper and deeper, quietly on the Yellow River, the clouds in the night sky gradually fade, and a bright bright moon, piercing through the fog and sand-like smoke waves, is revealed.

The moonlight tonight is beautiful, so beautiful that people are jealous. High in the sky, her bright and holy light reflected the heavens and the earth.

In this way, the black earth under her suddenly woke up, and the ground was covered with silver frost, and the creatures trembled.

In an instant, the mountains and rivers of the entire land seemed to turn into countless greedy mouths, and began to frantically share and possess her, her bright moon essence.

The Yellow River also got a part of the moonlight, and from a distance, the river surface was sparkling and mist.

When it was almost three o'clock in the morning, Wang Baoshan, who was sleeping very lightly, woke up leisurely.

He was disturbed by the smell of a vague fragrance, and he had to wake up. When he cleared his mind and went to smell the fragrance again, it was gone.

"General, are you awake?"

Someone asked him in the dark, Wang Baoshan immediately went to see the person in front of him, and found that it was Liu Qing, I don't know when he sat next to him, and put a robe on his body.

Thinking that Liu Qing was so attentive to himself, Wang Baoshan was also reluctant to go, and said: "You are injured, didn't you let you rest more?"

Liu Qing smiled and said: "I'm just a hard worker, I've been too nervous and tired these days, I thought I could sleep well today, but I knew that I couldn't sleep... Huh..."

"You!" Wang Baoshan heard him say this, and he was speechless for a while, not knowing what to say to him.

Liu Qing smiled, didn't say anything more, he didn't talk much, Wang Baoshan didn't know what to say for a while, the two had to sit together, quietly looking at the river in a daze.

"Whoa......

At this moment, a black shadow jumped on the cargo ship where Wang Baoshan was located from the dark river.

"That's ......"

When Liu Qing saw the black shadow that suddenly jumped up, he was about to scream on the spot, but Wang Baoshan blindfolded his mouth.

In the faint moonlight, the black shadow looked like a wild monkey in the mountains, the hair on his body was as black as ink, but the head was extremely large, which was particularly strange.

Wang Baoshan didn't know what it was, so he didn't dare to act rashly or make a sound, so he had to wait and see calmly.

"Click... Click..."

A soldier walked by, patrolling the ship.

The black shadow noticed it, and immediately its figure drifted, and it dodged into a corner, obviously it was a little afraid of the living.

When the soldier was gone, the shadow came out again, carrying a series of wet footprints, and burrowed into the cabin at the bow of the ship.

What kind of monster is that? Why did you suddenly run into the ship and go to the cabin? yes, why did you go to the cabin?

Looking at the ghost-like monkey-shaped black shadow, Wang Baoshan's scalp was numb and his heart was pounding. He really saw it just now, it was a black-haired monkey with a big head and a small body, and it was very weird, but it was not very scary and scary.

It's just that it's as clever as a ghost, and its body is erratic, and it can climb onto the boat from the surging water, and it can dodge the patrolling soldiers and sneak into the cabin.

In this dark night, its series of strange behaviors will inevitably make people feel a lot of inexplicable uneasiness.

Could it be that it was for food, but in the cabin, except for the more than ten soldiers who died in the morning battle, who were arranged inside and outside the cabin of this cargo ship, there was nothing else!

Wang Baoshan asked Liu Qing not to make a sound, and he wanted to see what was going on. Cautiously and lightly along the way, he reached the small door of the cabin, held his breath, and looked inside.

At this time, there were still a few oil lamps in the cabin, which was specially arranged by Li Jin, saying that it was a thing used to guide the souls of the dead, and it was to be left to the dead soldiers, so that their souls would not get lost in the night, and the faint light could accompany them home.

Maybe Li Jin didn't think so, maybe he wanted to leave it to the soldiers on duty at night, for fear that they would be afraid at night, so he deliberately let people light oil lamps.

In the dim light, the black-haired monkey looked at the corpses of more than a dozen soldiers, and suddenly became extremely excited, and let out a soft cry of "whin". Then, its eyes gradually glowed with scarlet blood, and its form shook, and it gently jumped on a corpse.

"Woo ......"

The black-haired monkey, after a few more soft cries at the soldier's corpse, began to keep snorting as if he was breathing something.

Suddenly, as it breathed, wisps of black gas appeared on the corpse.

In the black gas shaped like smoke, wafting around, a humanoid shadow made an anthropomorphic frightened move, as if it was afraid of its black-haired monkey.

Looking at the virtual figure, it was still struggling. The black-haired monkey's face showed a hideous color, the blood in his eyes suddenly flourished, and the intensity of his breathing increased a lot.

And the figure was instantly torn apart by the suction, dissipated in the black gas, and with the swirling black gas, it rose one after another and floated into the nose of the black-haired monkey.

Outside the cabin, Wang Baoshan saw it really and felt furious in his heart. He remembered that a few days ago, the ghost baby Mochizuki sucked the snake cave in the python cave, and the appearance of those endless black fogs seemed to be like this, could it be that this black-haired monkey was a demon who devoured the soul.

Although I once heard the old people in the village say that there are ghosts hidden in the mountains, rivers, and lakes, and they like to devour the souls of people who have just died, but those are just legends, and they are used to scare children not to run around at night.

At this moment and now, seeing this gruesome scene with his own eyes, Wang Baoshan couldn't help but be frightened into a cold sweat, and countless goosebumps trembled on the skin all over his body.

After devouring the soldier's soul, the black-haired monkey jumped onto the corpse of another soldier and tried to devour it again.

"Bang ......"

Before it could start, a popping sound sounded, and then a man shouted, "Animal, you dare to ......"

Wang Baoshan hurriedly went to look and found that Chen Chong was holding a handcuff, and at some point, he had come behind him.

Just now, he fired a bolt into the sky, and the sound was like thunder.

The black-haired monkey was so startled by this sudden sound that it jumped up and down, panicking, and seemed to be very afraid.

Chen Chong threw the firearm in his hand to Wang Baoshan, took out another from behind him, and stood at the door of the cabin, intending to fire again.

"What's wrong?"

"Where?"

The people on the other cargo ships had already woken up, and everyone was shouting in a daze.

"Ah, it's General Wang's ship......"

"Treading ......"

The shouts were mixed with footsteps, and it was the soldiers on patrol, hearing the sound, who ran over. After a while, Luo Ying, Yang Zhuoyi, Jiang Jinshui, Li Jin and others also rushed over one after another.

All of a sudden, the cargo ship where Wang Baoshan was located was overcrowded, and everyone gathered around and blocked the entrance to the cabin.

The black-haired monkey was also alert, and when he saw that everyone was holding torches, he blocked the entrance, and he couldn't escape for a while, so he immediately jumped up and extinguished the oil lamps in the cabin, making it suddenly fall into darkness.

"What's that?"

"A Monkey ......"

"Monkey, how did you get here?"

When everyone saw that it was dark inside, they couldn't see anything clearly, and they didn't dare to act rashly. On the one hand, everyone strictly guarded it, fearing that it would escape, and on the other hand, they understood the situation.

"General Wang, do you remember...... Was that black goat that you had eaten at my house?" In the crowd, Luo Ying pulled Wang Baoshan aside.

"You want to say that they are the same kind of thing?" Wang Baoshan couldn't help but feel a little sick to his stomach when he heard this.

Li Jin saw that the scene was a little chaotic, and said: "A wild monkey, you don't need to panic, leave a few people here, and the others quickly go back to their respective bows in case of accidents." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they dispersed, leaving only the officers who led the team.

Jiang Jin, who has always been low-key, looked at the dark river, and said to Li Jin: "General Li, this is not the water monkey in the Yellow River. I grew up by the river, and I have been on the river for many years, and I have heard a lot of such legends. ”

When Li Jin heard this, he frowned and said, "Brother Jiang, don't say this kind of thing casually, no matter what it is, it is already a turtle in an urn, and when you catch it, you will decide!"

After hearing this, Chen Chong said: "General Li, this monkey is as clever as a ghost, and it is not easy to catch it!"

Li Jin didn't care and said, "There are so many of us, I'm afraid that this animal will run away." ”

"Woo ......"

The black-haired monkey seemed to understand the sound of the speech outside the cabin. It hid in the darkness and screamed incessantly, as if in response to the crowd, warning them not to enter, or else they would be at their own risk and threatened.