On the ferry port, a dark shadow quickly swept towards the woods, and after entering, he stopped and looked around, sobbed and whistled, and a man jumped lightly from the tree in front of him, and landed in front of him, and the man who swept into the woods in front of him hurriedly took a step back and reported, "Master, it is a human tooth gang that trafficked human beings, and it seems that some women were robbed in the cabin."

"The Tooth Gang? What a coincidence! happened to be seen by us, and the ship happened to stop near "Yijiangnan"? The man known as the master was hidden in the shadows, frowning as if thinking.

Then he raised his eyes and said to the man in front of him: "Whether it is the deliberate arrangement of that person or not, since I have been told to wait until I see it, there is no reason not to save me from death, but those women are innocent." ”

After a pause, he said, "But if we don't come forward, we can just ask the government to come forward to take care of this matter."

The man before replied, "What the master said is that his subordinates are now going to inform the governor of Yangzhou?" ”

"Yangzhou Zhizhou? Cao Mu? What is this person's character and how is he an official? The master asked.

It is known that Cao Mu is honest on the outside, cunning on the inside, timid and fearful, greedy for money and lustful. But when it comes to the credit in front of him, there is no reason why he doesn't grasp it, right? The subordinate replied.

"It's hard to say that there is no internal and external collusion, then you can try it, I am here to watch the wind, you go and return quickly, and you can put a signal smoke if you have something." After the master had given the order, he jumped on the tree and hid himself in the darkness. And his men swept out of the woods at a rapid pace.

In the "Remembering Jiangnan" painting boat, in the room near the corner of the wall on the first floor, Zhao Qiong, the director of the painting boat, was listening to the report of Steward Zhao under the lamp, "Chief, my subordinates just discovered that there is a cargo ship very close to us that is quite suspicious. ”

"Oh? What happened? ”

"Before, I quietly observed that a group of men in black carried a large bag into the cabin, at first I thought that who was still loading the goods so late, but after a closer look, I found that the items in the bag looked like people, and my subordinates guessed, could it be that the human trafficker looted people on the ship? Happened to stop at the edge of our boat? After analyzing it, Steward Zhao answered Zhao Qiong seriously.

"At such a time, you and I should be careful everywhere, be very careful, do not fall for the plans of others, you make a few people who are good at water quietly let a small boat go down, lean on the side, just in case." Zhao Qiong thought about it and then instructed the steward.

At this time, he suddenly heard a chaotic shouting outside, "There is a fire, there is a fire...... Zhao Qiong's face changed after hearing this, and he said to the manager, "Quickly go and arrange." ”

At this time, Dan saw that the tooth boat that sold women began to catch fire from the stern, and the flames gradually burned towards the center of the ship, and then a slight wind blew up, and the fire began to grow larger, accompanied by the shouts of the boatmen, the sound of extinguishing the fire, and the cry of the woman in the wind.

The people on the boat were awakened, and they all ran up to the bow to look, and the ships that were nearer to the burning ship, the smaller ones, hurriedly raised their anchors, and hurried away from the ship; The larger ships are also busy hoisting their sails, anchoring, and supporting artemisia.

Zhao Qiong stood on the deck and looked at the ship, silently estimating whether it would burn the painting boat, and methodically commanded the servants, servants, and boatmen to move the painting boat as far away as possible.

Zhao Qiong was arranging things on the painting boat, the tooth boat suddenly changed, and the boat that was on fire actually crashed towards the "Yi Jiangnan" here, because the two boats were dozens of zhang apart, and they rushed to the front in the blink of an eye with the wind, and they were about to hit the "Yi Jiangnan".

If "Yijiangnan" is bumped into, although it will not be destroyed, it will also be quite damaged, but it is a "fire ship", if it is hit at this time, the fire will inevitably burn to "Yijiangnan", and the consequences will be unimaginable. The people on the boat around saw this scene and inhaled the boss's cold breath, and they all let out an "ah"!

Said that it was too late, it was fast, I saw an inconspicuous boat suddenly **** in the oblique thorn, although it could not completely stop the forward momentum of the "fire boat", but it also slowed down the speed of the ship, at this time, "Yi Jiangnan" quickly moved back a few feet, which was able to avoid the collision of the "fire ship".

The onlookers all turned the cold air that was inhaled just now into the hot air in their mouths, exhaled loudly, and found that they were in a cold sweat on their backs, because they were in a hurry to come out, and they were wearing very little.

"Yi Jiangnan" dodged the "fire boat", but the cry on the boat became more and more poignant, "Help, help......" The woman's cry for help came from the cabin one after another, and the strange thing is that there were obviously boatmen fighting the fire just now, and there was no man on the ship at this time. Look at this fire, who would dare to risk going on that boat to save people? Unless it's because he thinks his life is too long.

At this time, everyone was sorry, and they couldn't bear to continue looking, and suddenly saw more than a dozen women coming out of the fire in twos and threes, they stumbled onto the deck, and the woman who couldn't water looked at the fire behind her, and then looked at the river in front, and a touch of helplessness and ruthlessness flashed in her eyes, and she gritted her teeth and resolutely jumped down the river;

There are also women who are afraid of crying, who are already so frightened that they are on the deck, and they don't know what to do, but fortunately there is one on the side, and without saying a word, they pull their companions and jump into the water together. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen women were all in the water.

When Zhao Qiong saw this, she couldn't help but sigh, waved her hand, and said, "Go down a few more people, and save them." After thinking about it, he added, "Do your best, don't be strong."

After the chin bell, more than a dozen women were lifted onto the deck of "Yi Jiangnan", some were already unconscious, and some were still better, lying on the deck and patting their chests and coughing vigorously. After another rush of rescue, the women were carried into the cabin and poured ginger soup and changed into wet clothes.

The surrounding spectators couldn't help but applaud "Remembering Jiangnan", and there were also those who gave a straight thumbs up, and then exchanged with each other about the things they knew about "Remembering Jiangnan". Thinking that this matter could be over, everyone was ready to continue to go back to the cabin to catch up on sleep.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps on the shore, and the torches that were clearly extinguished, but when they saw a group of soldiers running towards here, everyone couldn't help but roll their eyes in their hearts.

After the group of officers and soldiers ran to the ferry, the small soldiers with a loud voice shouted in the direction of "Yi Jiangnan", "Listen to the people above the south of the Yangtze River, the government has received a secret report, you and others have abducted and sold women without permission, violating the laws of our Great Song Dynasty, and now the ship will be docked as fast as possible, and everyone on the ship will follow us back to the yamen to listen to the fate, if you don't obey, forgive me for being polite!" ”

Hearing this, everyone's eyes widened, "What is this and what?" Could there be anything more ridiculous and ridiculous? It is also a great wonder that the rescuer is falsely accused."

The bold man shouted at the shore, "The government is doing things so indiscriminately? Can black and white be reversed without doing research? Don't be afraid, the little ladies in the south of the Yangtze River, I'll help you testify when the time comes! ”

The timid and frightened person hurriedly dragged the bold and fast-talking, "Hurry into the cabin, the affairs of the government are not clear, don't get involved, hurry back to the room to sleep, we have to hurry tomorrow, don't make trouble now, it's good to start a fire."

The master in the woods on the shore saw the whole process of the matter clearly and clearly at this time. He asked his subordinates who had already returned halfway, "Didn't you inform that Cao Mu?" ”

"Back to the master, no, the subordinates saw the officers and soldiers coming over in the middle of the way, and they knew that things had changed, so they hurried back to report to the master."

"It's a good trick to lead the water to the east, a plan to kill two birds with one stone, and you want to force me to show up? I'm afraid it's not that easy! ”

Then a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he continued, "Fortunately, that man has not lost his heart, otherwise a boatload of innocent women would have been burned alive." Then he asked his subordinates: "I heard that Yang Ziwei Hu Su is quite upright?" ”

"It is reported that Hu Su is a person who is upright, loves the people like a son, has always been supported by the people under his jurisdiction, and is also strong on the outside and on the inside, and knows quite the way of being an official" The subordinates seem to know very well about the people mentioned by the master.

"Okay, you go to Yangziwei Husu now, and take him to the Zhizhou Mansion to save people, it seems that he has to help us sing the next scene." After a pause, he continued, "After reading here, I will go back to my residence, and you will come back to report to me when you are over."

"My subordinates understand," the man arched and left the woods in a few dodges.

"Alas, I'm really tired, it's a good toss this night, you guys hurry up and act, and let me go home early to rest after watching it!" The master stretched his waist while talking to himself, and then found a larger tree and jumped on it, leaned on it in the most comfortable state, and continued to watch the wind and watch the play.