Lin Hai led his disciples and newly befriended Chen Ruiwen Xiucai in Wuxi for two days, and on the third day, someone in Chen Ruiwen's family suddenly came to look for him, and after a while, he said goodbye to Lin Hai, saying that he had to go back to Suzhou first if he had something important to do. Lin Hai was inconvenient to keep, and he didn't ask much, so he said goodbye with a few words of greeting.

Chen Ruiwen left the inn and went to Wuxi County. When he arrived at the county office, the leader of the bandits on the lake yesterday was already waiting, and the county commander Zhang Yuan and a young white-clothed scribe sat on the left and right, and the first person to sit was King Wu. Chen Ruiwen hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

King Wu squinted his eyes and said, "Mr. Chen, this king came to Wuxi overnight according to your plan, as if he had come for nothing." ”

Chen Ruiwen bowed and said, "I don't want General Xu to find the boat that I and Lord Lin were on. ”

General Xu, the leader of the water bandits, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "The last general listened to Mr. Chen's intelligence and Mr. Wei's strategy, resulting in the defeat of the enemy too lightly, and there are also last generals who are not. ”

The young man who took Wu Wang's hand stood up and arched his hand: "It was really a student's mistake to ask General Xu not to bring a bow and arrow, at first it was because I was afraid that Master Lin would be shot by mistake, and the student never thought that the group of ruffians in the capital of the Taiping Dart Bureau would actually know the nature of water. ”

General Xu clenched his fists and said, "Mr. Wei easily made a mistake with two words, can you know how many robes my men have died?" ”

"It's just that according to what General Xu said, everyone on Lord Lin's boat has the ability to be a general, and they also use their hands. There was a poison dart in the crossbow, and there were many firearms and thunderbolts. The ship was not a pleasure boat, it was like a battleship. I think it's not easy to take it even if you bring a bow and arrows. ”

General Xu said angrily: "Isn't the arrow among the brothers the hand? Crossbow arrows? ”

Chen Ruiwen hurriedly said: "General Xu, the students have been on the ship, if there was really a battle, how could the students not know?" Moreover, according to the general's words, your two ships will start fighting before and after three o'clock, and will not stop fighting until six o'clock. Just after Lord Lin entered the cabin to rest, Jia Cong has been chatting with the students about interesting things in Beijing; It wasn't until nearly four o'clock that Lord Lin got up, and the two of us went to the bow of the boat to reminisce about the past and talk about poetry and papers. Dare to ask General Xu, how does Jia Cong chat with the students and argue with the general at the other time? Even if the student is deaf and can't hear the sound of fighting, he will be able to divide it. Unable to do it? Later, when you fought on the deck, didn't you see the students and Lord Lin? Could it be that the student and Lord Lin know stealth techniques? ”

General Xu said: "The last general has never seen Mr. Chen and Lord Lin from beginning to end, but last night the last general and a few brothers followed Master Zhang to see the ship, which was actually the one who fought with the last general, and it was also the ship that Mr. Chen's men were referring to. ”

Chen Ruiwen said: "It is obvious that the battle with General Xu is another boat, but I don't know who that Jay Chou is, the prince must be careful." The students had already probed the tone of Lord Lin and Jia Cong last night. So he said it again.

King Wu couldn't help laughing: "He calls the waiting dart master Sun Dart Master!" Could it be that he remembered Sun Dasheng? ”

Chen Ruiwen said with a smile: "Jia Cong is young after all, and he is occasionally confused. It is obvious that there is no Kun dart master in their dart game, Cai Dart Master has long stopped darts, and the waiting dart master is not the age that General Xu said. And we came out of Suzhou with a total of eight people, Master Lin, students, Jia Cong, Jia Weis, Lord Lin's bodyguard Yang Song, sister Ruijin and two young dart masters. Jia Congruo shouted the names of the three dart masters, but the number was not enough. ”

General Xu sneered: "Mr. Chen means that the last general is lying? ”

Chen Ruiwen hurriedly arched his hand and said: "General Xu has thought too much, the holes in the general's boat and the iron nails on his calves are all real evidence. ”

General Xu said angrily: "If you don't swear that there is only one Yang Song on the ship, some skills are not good at water, how can the last general underestimate the enemy here!" ”

Mr. Nawei hurriedly said: "General Xu is angry, I'm afraid that the ship is not Lord Lin." ”

General Xu became more and more angry: "Many of my brothers and I have gone to see the ship!" That's it! Unless Mr. Chen pointed to the wrong ship! ”

Wu Wang pondered: "I haven't heard of a bachelor named Jay Chou in Hanlin Academy. Moreover, General Xu said that the young man who was good at using poison darts was extremely skilled and ruthless, and Rongguo Mansion couldn't raise such a character, but he had a bit of a big inner master. Everyone was amazed. He added, "Some of the masters of Ouchi were taken away by Liu Dengxi, and some were subdued by King Yan. It is not impossible for King Yan to send people to protect Lin Hai. ”

Chen Ruiwen hurriedly said: "Lin Hai did not come to Suzhou from Beijing to bid farewell to King Yan Huanjoy, but was kidnapped by King Lu's people, Jia Cong Jarvis led the dart masters to save his old man in Cangzhou, because he was upset and Jia Cong took the opportunity to instigate him to travel in the mountains and rivers, and Fang went south. ”

Mr. Wei said: "The students have carefully investigated the battle of Cangzhou that day, and the dart master of the Taiping Dart Bureau is not bad, but he must not have the ability to defeat General Xu." ”

General Xu shouted: "Lord Wang! It's the ship! ”

King Wu pondered for a while, but gestured to Zhang Yuan with his eyes, and Zhang Yuan said to Chen Ruiwen again: "The day before yesterday, a little brother came to Yamen with a post from Rongguofu, saying that he was from Beijing to Wuxi Jia's horse shop to do business, and Ming'er wanted to get a safe and not fancy boat to tour the lake, and never mentioned Master Lin and Third Master Cong, nor did he mention hiring guards to get on the boat. In the early years, the father of the lower official went to Beijing to donate the official on behalf of the lower official, and what he asked for was the door of the Rongguo Mansion, and a county magistrate in the lower official district did not dare to offend these people, so he arranged a cruise ship for him. ”

Chen Ruiwen asked, "Where is the ship?" ”

Zhang Yuan turned his head to look at King Wu, and King Wu said, "In this case, let's go to the boat first." ”

King Wu then got up, and Zhang Yuan led them to a small wharf, on which there was only one boat moored, which was a little dilapidated. General Chen Ruiwen Xu saw it and said, "This is the ship!" ”

King Wu frowned and said, "So dilapidated! Why don't you find a new ship for Lord Lin. ”

Zhang Yuan smiled bitterly: "The lower officials thought that the little steward of Rongguo Mansion who came to Wuxi to do business wanted to swim in the lake, so it would be good to get him a boat, and he ordered the boatman to clean it up." The lower officials are the officials of the imperial court, if it weren't for their sake, how could they serve these two masters of the rich slaves. King Wu listened to it and reasoned, so he gave up.

The master personally led the way in front, and the group boarded the boat, and General Xu said again, "This is the ship." The boatman and his wife were all on the boat, and they came to kowtow to King Wu. King Wu waved their hands to get them up. Chen Ruiwen was shocked when he saw that the boatman's beard was gray, and pointed at him and said, "The boatman yesterday was not you!" ”

The boatman was busy and knelt down again: "Master, this boat is run by villains, old women, and two children on weekdays. Early yesterday morning, after the guest officers boarded the ship, a young man in green gave me twenty taels of silver, saying that he had found another boat lady to cook, and also invited another boat boss and three or four men. The twenty taels of silver are the money for renting a boat, and we don't need our family, so let's rest. Because he was a middle-aged man made by the county magistrate, the villain didn't dare to ask for his deposit. ”

Mr. Wei smiled: "The twenty taels of silver are enough to buy your boat, and you still have the face to deposit." He asked him to take the silver and look at it, but the boatman refused to give it. Mr. Wei said, "I don't want your silver, how about the shipwright to lend me a look and give you twenty dollars for rent?" Immediately the boatman took the money out of his bosom. Mr. Wei took a look at it and said, "Lord Wang, it is really the silver in the capital." As he spoke, he handed over the money.

King Wu saw that it was not only the silver in the capital, but also the authentic official silver, and nodded. Mr. Wei returned the boatman's silver, and really gave him another twenty copper coins, so happy that he kowtowed again and again.

Mr. Wei searched the bow of the ship carefully, snickered a few times at the corner of his mouth, and turned to King Wu and replied: "If it is really this ship, since it has been fighting, it will definitely leave some clues." Could it be that both sides of the fight are so accurate? A knife has never been cut off, a knife has not been chopped onto the side of the ship? ”

When General Xu heard this, he hurriedly checked it again, the ship was quite old, but the marks were long gone, there were no new additions, and there were no knife marks, and he couldn't stop reading: "It's strange......"

Chen Ruiwen led King Wu into the cabin from the bow of the ship, and pointed to him one by one: "Here I sit with Mr. Lin and drink tea with poetry, here I chat with Sanye Cong and eat snacks, and everyone here eats boat dishes together......

When they all entered, Mr. Wei quietly pointed to a broken spot and asked the boatman, "What broke here?" Do you remember? ”

The boatman frowned: "I don't remember." Could it be that the guy they received when they were transporting beans last month smashed it with a shovel? ”

Mr. Wei said with a smile: "It's okay, I'll just ask casually." With that, he walked back to the cabin.

The group went around in a circle, and there was nothing wrong with it, so they left. King Wu also ordered someone to give the boat family ten taels of silver, and the boat family and the two of them were happy to thank him.

Mr. Wei laughed in a low voice: "The prince is a good means, the two of them were originally begging for a living on the lake, and when they see money, they don't need to say that they will praise the prince for his generosity and kindness when they see people." ”

King Wu is rich, and he is a casual reward; When he was praised like this, he became happy, and said with a smile: "It's just that I pity the people of my Wu country for working day and night." The crowd hurriedly followed with a few words of flattery.

Back at the county office, Mr. Wei said: "Looking at it this way, I'm afraid it's really not the same boat." General Xu was about to argue, and swallowed again. He thought again, "Lord, this matter is really too strange. How could it be so coincidental? The ship that General Xu is chasing is exactly the same as Lord Lin's boat? And they also changed the boat boss and the boat lady. Who is Jay Chou from Hanlin Academy? Where did he get so many masters on his ship? There are more and more powerful than the ships on the Lin Hai, and there are pig iron mines and hands. Crossbow. ”

Chen Ruiwen said: "It's not strange to change the boat lady, Jia Cong's mouth is tricky, and he will not be used to eating ordinary boat girls." The boss of the boat change, presumably because Yang Song and Jarvis are cautious, and the students guessed that the boat was probably all from Jia's horse line. Although they are all cargo ships, there are a few captains. Moreover, the students also recognize Jia Cong these days. Although he is young, he is very sleek, aggressive, and envious of the Green Forest Hawkers. Their family also opened a kiln in Beijing! Being on top of Taihu Lake, bluntly saying that he looks down on Cao Kou, and fleeing when he encounters a fight, it is not like what Jia Cong said. It's just that where did the ship that fought with General Xu come from? Listening to what General Xu said, his first wave was to make people dive under the water to dig through the bottom of the boat according to Mr. Wei's plan, and there were already many people wearing sailors' clothes waiting under the boat. ”

"Oops!" Mr. Wei hit the case and said, "I actually forgot! He hurriedly stood up and said to King Wu, "Shui Shiyi!" How can ordinary people have that? Unless it's an officer or soldier. Lord Wang, the so-called 'dart master' is only afraid that the officers and soldiers are pretending. Bachelor Zhou on the ship is not sure what kind of person he is. ”

King Wu said: "How can their ship be exactly the same as Lin Hai's?" ”

Mr. Wei turned to Zhang Yuan and said, "Then when did Jarvis come to look for Master Zhang?" When did you take him to see the ship? ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I came here the morning before yesterday, and I can't remember the hour. I was busy with official business, so I asked my master to lead him to the boat he was looking for at the dock. ”

Chen Ruiwen said: "The day before yesterday, I entered Wuxi City with Mr. Lin, and found an inn to rest for a while, and after a while, Jarvis came in and said that the boat was arranged. ”

Mr. Wei asked, "Who found the inn?" How long did it take? ”

"It didn't take much effort for Jarvis to find it."

Mr. Wei high-fived and said, "The student knows!" "Nai stood up and bowed to King Wu," Jarvis, a disciple of Lord Lin, was cautious by nature, and heard Mr. Chen say that when they were on a cruise in Suzhou, they specially invited a few fishermen who knew how to use the water at the wharf as temporary guards, and the trip to Wuxi would naturally not be taken lightly. Because Jia Cong had already come to Wuxi to play, they must have made contact with Jia's horse shop in Wuxi a few days ago, and prepared a boat boss who is familiar with Taihu Lake, a young man who is good at water, and a boat lady who can cook boat dishes. If you don't believe it, let's make people follow the appearance of the ship's family as Mr. Chen said, and the students dare to assert that they will be able to find it on the cargo ship of Jia's horse company. ”

King Wu nodded and said, "Sir continued." ”

Mr. Wei arched his hand again and said, "The day before yesterday, Lord Lin and Mr. Chen arrived in Wuxi, and Jarvis led the way to find the inn. I thought I had already heard where the inn was, and I searched for it according to the address. Because Jia's horse shop did not have a cruise ship, he took the idea of kindness between Rongguofu and Lord Zhang in his early years, and bothered Lord Zhang to get a boat for him to cruise the lake. It's just that he didn't notice that someone was following him. ”

King Wu was shocked: "Tracking? ”

Mr. Wei said: "Master Ouchi. Everyone in the room took a breath. He continued, "Lord Lin waited until the next day to swim in the lake, and most of the day and one night were enough to make a similar boat." In addition, General Xu did not board the ship, but he looked similar on the outside. The cruise ships in Wuxi were originally much the same. ”

After a while, King Wu asked with a gloomy face, "What does this boat man mean, sir?" ”

Mr. Wei said: "The students don't know. Or they want to rob Lord Lin, or they want us to prevent us from robbing Lord Lin. If it is the former, they will spoil our business, and we will also ruin their business, but we will not stop in the future. If it's the latter—" he smiled, "Lord Wang, we have a mole in us. ”

Everyone was shocked and looked at each other, and even King Wu stood up: "Sir, explain." ”

Mr. Wei waved his hand again and said, "It may also be that I was robbed, and I was overheard while we were discussing the strategy." ”

The crowd slowed down again.

He added: "It's just that Lord Lin's ship has been followed by Lord Chen's men in small boats since it left the port, and that week's ship can find an opportunity to confuse the sight, and General Xu completely followed the wrong ship, the timing is too good, and the students still suspect that there is a traitor." ”

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