At night, on the river surface of the ferry port in Jingxian County, the lights on the four-zhang brocade sailboat were bright, and more than 20 shirtless drunks were chatting on the deck in groups of three or five, chatting happily.

This is Ma Yue's last night in Danyang County, and the next morning he will take a boat up the river and take a Jinfan!

"Big brother, what do you keep smiling at me?"

Peng Shi was wearing a single coat and tied loosely around his waist with a belt, sitting barefoot against the mast, a pot of old wine dangling in his hand, and he noticed that Gan Ning was smiling at him with Ma Yue on the side with his back against the boat, so he poured a sip of wine and asked.

How do you know that it's okay if he doesn't ask, but when he asks, Gan Ning and Ma Yue laugh even more.

"No, what are you two laughing at? Do I have flowers on my face? ”

Gan Ning was shirtless, wearing pants and leaning cross-legged on the boat, the wine jug was placed on the ground by him and staggered, while making a strange expression while learning the appearance of Peng Shi's left-hand bow and right-hand arrow running out of the woods, looking at Peng Shi asked angrily, which made Gan Ning smile and leaned back. It's just a matter of lying on the hammer deck.

"Ah Zhong, don't worry." Ma Yue also smiled with a stomachache, stretched out his hand to comfort Peng Shi and said: "Xingba follow, Xingba told me about the appearance of you and me rushing out of the woods, saying that I was like a debt collection shrew carrying a stick and driving a dozen people. ”

Peng Shi wrinkled his nose and said, 'Are you stupid for me?' He looked at Ma Yue with an expression and said disdainfully: "Needless to say, the eldest brother must be laughing at the way I came out, and Bacheng has been talking about me." ”

Hearing this, he and Gan Ning glanced at each other, Ma Yue covered his stomach and laughed even more, Gan Ning was really talking about him just now, saying that his appearance was too stupid. In the end, they are brothers who have worked together for many years, and they can't be fooled.

Gan Ning pursed his lips and smiled at Peng Shi: "Who made you like a monkey without even pulling out a knife, and rushing out with a bow as a spearman...... If those bandits have the audacity to fight a little more, a random nobody can stab you through. ”

"Jun Hao is too fierce, with our arrow rain on his head and rushing down the hillside with a big iron bump, I just didn't hold back my temperament, eh, big brother, you haven't seen that Zu Lang's chattering dead look, you have to see him for a moment and shoot him with an arrow without waiting for him to enter the firing range!" Peng Shi grinned and showed a mouthful of white teeth and smiled: "I ran after Jun Hao's ass, who would dare to touch me?" The road was unimpeded, and everything that stood in front of him was whipped away by Jun Hao with the iron lumps.

"Tsk, yes. Jun Hao is indeed brave. As soon as he heard Peng Shi say this, Gan Ning couldn't help nodding, Ma Yue kicked a thief from the forest and drove Zu Lang to escape for more than a dozen people with an iron rod The picture was still hovering in Gan Ning's head, Gan Ning suddenly sat up straight, and asked Ma Yue: "Eh, I wonder, you said that you were so brave, why did you lose in Zu Lang's hands at that time?" ”

"Isn't fighting a war just morale after all?" Ma Yue shook his head and said: "It's not that I'm brave or not, they originally thought that they surrounded more than 20 people in Ah Zhong, and when a wave of arrows rained down on the mountain, it would have shocked them, if no one moved, it would be a stalemate, once Zu Lang had some courage to recharge to the bottom of the mountain, there were many of them, then Ah Zhong and their twenty or so people would be in danger." Ma Yue now talks about tactics really a little battle-hardened, he waved his hand on the deck, and said: "At this time, I rushed down, this is called grasping the fighter, not at all how brave I am, just need to have an invincible momentum to scare the enemy, the result of demoralization is that they run away and don't dare to turn back, maybe many of them don't know until they die, only me and Ah Zhong are chasing behind." ”

"Indeed!" Peng Shi clapped his palms and said: "Jun Hao rushed down the crossbow and shot Zu Lang, Zu Lang ran with many people running, at that time the brothers on the mountain had already lay down ** when the arrows rained down, Jun Hao went up and smashed three or five, and the rabble began to run as soon as he 'whewed', and he was directly defeated!" ”

Gan Ning nodded and said, "Once upon a time...... Not to mention the past, thanks to Junhao's blessing, I am going to settle in Gu Mansion in Wu County to study with the teacher, Ah Zhong, what are your plans in the future? Still walking on the river? ”

"Well, I don't know." Peng Shi sighed, sat on the deck a little dejectedly, took a sip of wine, and said: "I'm not like you big brother, you have such a good opportunity, when I was young, most of our brothers are now married, and I can't afford to mix with any wind and waves on the river, I plan to send Jun Hao to Luoyang and return to Qiantang, sell the boat to see what can be done." ”

Gan Ning sighed, to be honest, he is now too busy to take care of himself, and following Cai Yongxue Zhuzi decided that he can no longer lead the fleet over the river and the sea like before, and his group of old brothers are also married and have children, it is impossible to follow him around like before, what can he do when he goes back to his hometown like Peng Shi? Is it possible to be a ferryman at the ferry? Suddenly, Gan Ning's gaze turned to Ma Yue and asked, "Jun Hao, will you ever come back?" ”

"I don't know very well, if there is something, His Majesty should still use me, and if there is anything, I will have to wait for my teacher to come back from Youzhou to make plans." Ma Yue shrugged his shoulders, "I don't care if I have been an official in the past two years, if Your Majesty and the government don't recruit me, I will practice arching horses at home and read some books, why did you suddenly ask me?" ”

"It's not a big deal." Gan Ning suddenly got up a little embarrassed, and said to Ma Yue: "Ah Zhong has a hard bow with one stone and seven buckets, he is good at driving, and he is also very handsome in riding, although his temper is a little worse, but he didn't say anything about righteousness, and he didn't hesitate to follow when you saw you charge." I'm thinking, anyway, he is going to send you to Sizhou, why don't you let him follow you as a general, see more of the market in Luoyang, and let him be a deputy general by your side in the future, okay? ”

Ma Yue was stunned for a moment, and then his heart was happy, Peng's ability he had seen, he was not afraid to let Zu Lang into close range for thirty steps, an arrow nailed to the nail and hit the ground Zu Lang took two steps back, although it was silly to pinch the arrow and charge with himself, but this did not prevent the evaluation of Peng's bravery, and Ma Yue was naturally very happy to have such a warrior by his side. nodded immediately and said: "Of course I have no problem, I have seen Ah Zhong's ability, Ah Zhong, are you willing to go to Luoyang with me?" ”

Peng Shi smiled immediately and said, "Of course I am willing, the feeling of charging behind Jun Hao is simply enjoyable!" ”

"Xingba, after I leave, Mr. and Yan'er will be entrusted to you to take care of, if Mr. is pardoned one day in the future, I hope you can also come to Luoyang to find me."

"Jun Hao, rest assured, if there is one day, I will hang up the brocade sail again and escort Mr. and Miss all the way to Luoyang to meet Jun Hao!"

The two clasped their fists, Ma Yue's mood suddenly became a little low, and said: "Xingba, Yan Hu's matter, I still need you to ......."

"Jun Hao doesn't need to say this anymore, I will hand over the letter to Yan Hu, and when the time comes, I will send someone to Luoyang by boat to tell you the situation, don't worry."

On this night, several people drank several jars of old wine and drank drunk.

Early in the morning of the second day, bidding farewell to Gan Ning, Peng Shi took a boatload of brothers to hang up the brocade sail and sail upstream.

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Xixiang Xiting, early in the morning, the old pavilion chief with three pavilion guards towards the forest. He is the pavilion chief, he doesn't know what happened here yesterday, but the first two groups of people returned at a later time, and the blood stains on their bodies The old pavilion chief would not be mistaken, he knew that something was wrong here.

Before he reached the place where the conflict occurred yesterday, he could already smell the pungent smell of blood, and the ground looked like a Shura field, and the corpses were lying on the ground.

"Pavilion Chief, Pavilion Chief, that bandit leader was tied to a tree yesterday, and it looks like he's been dead for a long time."

Hearing this, the old pavilion chief staggered over with a branch, his cheeks were already swollen, and yesterday the bandit leader slapped the last two teeth in the old pavilion chief's mouth, and when he got closer, the old pavilion chief saw that he was not the ferocious bandit leader.

"Eliminate harm for the people, eliminate harm for the people!"

The old pavilion chief looked at the corpse tied to the trunk of the tree with silk, and couldn't help but purse his lips without a single tooth, and shed old tears of gratitude.

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Peng Shi was the leader of the rebel army who rebelled in Qiantang in history.