Chapter 4: The Crane

"So you're looking for her?"

"It's miserable, this person is a master."

"I didn't say anything to that ugly guy just now... No, that lady does it! ”

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The appearance of the dumb uncle made everyone on the boat worry for a while, if Qiao Yue had the intention to retaliate at this time, then everyone would definitely be hateful.

Under the worried eyes of everyone, the dumb man just stood quietly in front of Qiao Yue, lowered his head, and looked like he was admitting his mistake, the hat covered his face, and the people around him looked over, and could only barely see his two bundles of white ear hair.

This appearance of the dumb uncle is already obvious, he is the same as the sturdy man just now, he is Qiao Yue's subordinate.

However, one thing is different, this mysterious person who doesn't speak must be the kind of legendary master, and it is definitely not comparable to Geng Huyuan's five big and three thick handles, and for a while, the people who had said rude things to Qiao Yue before raised their hearts to their throats.

The dumb man didn't say anything, Qiao Yue couldn't understand why he followed him for a while, and his cold eyes were a little angry: "I have already done what you want to do for you, and I will not owe you any money with your Qimen faction in the future, why are you still following me?" ”

As she spoke, she took Liu Xing and slowly walked towards the cabin of the big ship, Geng Huyuan glanced at the dumb uncle, his eyes flashed with fiery worship, it was obvious that the dumb uncle's kung fu on the river just now had convinced him to the ground.

This large passenger ship has three floors, and the floor connected to the board is like the hall of the inn, probably because of the heavy rain the day before, the first floor of the big ship is already crowded with people, there is no extra place at all, no wonder the board is also crowded with so many people.

There was a rotating wooden staircase on the left-hand side of the first floor, and in the face of the surprised gaze of the people inside, Qiao Yue just glanced at it slightly and pulled Liu Xing to continue walking up.

An old man near the wooden staircase saw Qiao Yue was about to go up, he glanced at Qiao Yue and Liu Xing and then kindly reminded: "Girl, it's not for people like us to go up above, just squeeze it below, if you offend the people above, there will be no good fruit to eat." ”

Qiao Yue could hear that this person was kindly reminded, and responded with a slight smile: "Thank you for the reminder." ”

After speaking, regardless of the old man who was still shaking his head and sighing, Qiao Yue began to walk up the stairs again.

The layout of the second floor is very different, the room separated separately is much cleaner than the following, and the people who occasionally push the door out are wearing silk and satin, very rich and noble, it seems that it is really like the old man reminded when he went upstairs, and none of the people on it are small people who can collide.

After turning around, she didn't find a free room, which made Qiao Yue frown slightly, and Geng Huyuan stepped forward and said, "Miss, do you want to go and discuss with these people?" ”

Qiao Yue shook her head, there is a long way to go, these people can spend money to live in such a good place, where are the people who are short of money.

Turning around, the dumb uncle was looking at her suspiciously, maybe the dumb uncle still didn't understand what Qiao Yue was pulling Liu Xing around for now.

At this time, the sound of the pipa upstairs stopped, and a flattering voice said, "Ninth Young Master, why haven't your two guards come back yet?" Do you want the villain to go down and take a look! ”

"Huh?" A somewhat dissatisfied voice replied, "Are you questioning Jiu's guard?" ”

Listening to these two voices, one should be the purple-clothed man on the board of the boat before, and the other is the owner of the ship, Jiuming.

"It's still upstairs!"

Qiao Yue muttered, pulled Liu Xing and continued upstairs.

The vision on the top floor is much broader, and the river breeze is also much bigger, Qiao Yue just walked to the top, and saw several men dressed as scholars standing on the edge of the railing, holding a wine glass in one hand and holding the railing in the other hand staring at the turbulent river, muttering and shaking their heads, probably to take advantage of the wine to make poems.

Seeing Qiao Yue appear, these scholars, who had been drunk for a long time, didn't care at all, and still kept shaking their heads.

Qiao Yue has seen a lot of such scenes when she was singing in the past, and the scholars always say that they will be inspired after drinking, and how many good poems they can make can be used as an excuse to get drunk all day long, and they all say that talented people are romantic, romantic, and talented, and they don't seem to be able to be romantic if they don't drink some wine to cheer them up.

Qiao Yue shook her head, it's a pity that when the big boat hit her boat just now, these dignified scholars didn't fall down, otherwise they could get rid of several scourges for the world, don't look at them now they can stand on the top of this big ship and be merry, in fact, I don't know whose hard-earned money is spent behind the scenes, maybe behind every scholar there is a silly girl like Fat Ya who is silently paying for them.

Thinking of this, Qiao Yue didn't know when she began to dislike scholars, and always felt that they were like parasites, except for excessive demand, they had no value of their own at all.

Maybe Qiao Yue read too many bad stories about down-and-out scholars in Black Stone, or maybe the things around her were subverting Qiao Yue's hidden sensitivity one by one, and she began to lose her affection for all scholars.

"Sister, what are they doing? Are you going to jump into the river? ”

Liu Xing looked at this qiē suspiciously, unable to figure out what this group of crazy people were going to do.

A white-robed scholar who was close to him staggered and said, "Waist... Waist one... A jug of wine..."

Geng Huyuan hurriedly slapped the drunken scholar aside, blocked in front of Liu Xing and said, "Second Miss, they are composing poetry!" ”

"Poetry?" Liu Xing raised her head and looked at Qiao Yue puzzled, "Sister, they can't understand what they say, why are the poems written by a group of crazy people after they got drunk?" Apricot doesn't like poetry anymore! ”

Qiao Yue laughed and said, "That's right, it's all the crazy words of a group of crazy people, it's okay if you don't like it..."

"You... How did you guys get up? ”

At this time, the purple-clothed man who came out of the room saw Qiao Yue coming up, and immediately shouted.

Whoa...

In an instant, about forty or fifty people poured out of the room on the top floor, most of them armed guards.

In the crowd, the Jiu Ming who was talking to Qiao Yue coldly just now walked out again, compared to the previous disdain, he was obviously angry at this time.

"You're looking for death!"

As soon as the word death came out, a cold momentum suddenly filled the crowd, and the scholars who were already drunk couldn't help but shiver.

The man in his forties just now, with a calm and restrained face, stepped forward and patted Jiuming's shoulder, and whispered: "Jiugongzi, be careful of deception, this is on the river after all, don't forget, this is the boundary of Yongzhou, and Yongzhou has been a strong man since ancient times." ”

Jiuming's face was hideous, and he said dissatisfiedly: "Lord Hu, your dignified river chief soldier, how many robbers are you afraid of?" ”

"This..."

Hu Wenchang was speechless, and there was suffering in his heart, the general soldier of the Shunjiang River, the name is scary, and the official rank is not low, he is five grades, and there are three thousand sailors in his hands, but the court has never been responsible for the salary, speaking of which is a navy, but the court does not attach importance to it at all, if it is true, his three thousand sailors are not enough for the previous black knife gang.

Hu Wenchang was stuffed back by Jiuming's words, and then looked at Qiao Yue, who was poor and ugly, he immediately took a step back, and immediately ignored it, anyway, the Jiu family is not a nobody in the capital, and it should be no problem for Jiuming's subordinates to clean up Qiao Yue and them, he talked too much and was looked down upon by Jiuming.

Compared to Jiuming's anger, Qiao Yue seemed calm and relaxed, even Xiao Yanagi Xing didn't look a little scared, and a pair of watery eyes kept turning, as if she was very curious.

Just when Jiuming was about to call someone to do it, behind Hu Wenchang, a middle-aged man who was about the same height as him hurriedly squeezed in, and said a little crampedly: "Jiugongzi, can you give Xia Guan a thin face..."

Before the words were spoken, everyone understood what he meant.

"How?" Jiu Ming frowned, "Lord Huang wants to intercede for her?" ”

Compared with his attitude towards Hu Wenchang, Jiuming is obviously much better to this Huang in his mouth.

Qiao Yue looked up and sneered in her heart, it turned out that this person was Huang Enyi, the governor of Changzhou Mansion, and he had long heard that because of his meritorious work in pacifying Shenzhaotang, the emperor would summon him in person, but he didn't expect that so long had passed before he came here.

Stumped for him to recognize me? Qiao Yue subconsciously touched her forehead, but when she looked up again, she was immediately relieved.

Facing Jiuming's questioning, Huang Enyi said: "It's not easy for the lower officials to just look at her as a weak woman, and ask Jiugongzi to raise his noble hand." ”

"Haha..."Qiao Yue was the first to laugh, "Nine families in the capital!" What a big faction, the general army of the Shunjiang River, and the governor of Changzhou Prefecture all claim to be subordinate in front of you! Today is really a little girl's insight. ”

Qiao Yue's words made everyone stunned, and Hu Wenchang said: "You, how do you know that this official is the chief soldier of the river?" ”

Without waiting for Qiao Yue to speak, Geng Huyuan's eyes glared: "Nuo, what you said yourself, is it possible that we are all deaf!" ”

"Smack..."Jiu Ming crushed the wine glass in his hand, full of murderous aura, "Kill them all for me..."

At this time, in the face of Jiuming's monstrous anger, Liu Xing was the first to laugh.

She tilted her head and pointed to the sky: "Sister, they are coming, they are coming to pick us up." ”

For a moment, everyone looked up at the sky in confusion, and saw a huge crane bird with a large group of beautiful crane birds constantly squeaking and hovering over the big ship.

Don't think about it, the dumb uncles have appeared, and it is not a strange thing that a group of cranes and birds will appear again, once when Nanhu appeared, and once when the geese came to the restaurant, this time it appeared again, even Liu Xing could guess what was going on.

"You, who are you?"

Jiu Ming's face became solemn, the appearance of this group of crane birds made him feel a little uneasy, from before to now, for the first time, he began to look at Qiao Yue seriously.

She is definitely not an ordinary woman, ordinary women have long been frightened to kneel and beg for mercy when they see this kind of scene, but Qiao Yue always looked like she was winning, and that kind of confidence in herself in her bones, even Jiu Ming's heart began to waver.

"You crashed my ship." Facing Jiuming's gaze, Qiao pointed to the purple-clothed man in the crowd and then said, "He, and you, offended me!" ”

Yes, even though she was surrounded by dozens of guards with waist knives in her hands, Qiao Yue's voice was still very steady, not only that, but there was also a kind of momentum that was high up and held the life and death of all of them.

"You..."The man in purple shrank back meaningfully, in fact, he had already realized that Qiao Yue and the three of them were wrong, but he still didn't expect that she would still be so fearless when she was surrounded by so many guards at this moment, "What do you want?" ”

Geng Huyuan was very worried, she knew that Qiao Yue had already been angry, she was already angry when she was on the board, but she had been suppressing it, there was a dumb uncle, a master who could come and go freely in Liu Wencheng's heavy guards, Geng Huyuan was really afraid that Qiao Yue would kill all the people in this boat.

Jiu Ming's eyes shrank sharply, and his frightened body trembled, yes, he saw Geng Huyuan's eyes, the kind of worry and pity that looked at his eyes, so that his heart couldn't help but panic.

"You..."Jiu Ming also lost his voice, "what do you want?" ”

"Shhhhh

Jiu Ming's inexplicable fear frightened everyone into a breath of cold air, including the guards who were viciously surrounding Qiao Yue, who were very puzzled, and all of them stiffened.

The situation was obviously still in the upper hand, and he showed his fear first.

"Sister..."At this time, Liu Xing shook her hand, "I want to go up and play with the birds, okay?" ”

Go up?

Liu Xing's words surprised everyone again, and all of them unconsciously looked up at the sky, this look, all the people broke out in a cold sweat on their backs, hundreds of feet high, people, how could they go up.

Qiao Yue patted Liu Xing's head dotingly: "If you like it, go ahead!" ”

After speaking, Liu Xing jumped up for joy and shouted loudly: "White cat, come down quickly..."

"White cat?"

It's a crane, but why did it become a cat again?

Just before everyone could react, the huge crane bird in the sky screamed again, and with a dive, it instantly grabbed Liu Xing and flew into the sky.

Liu Xing's giggling sound came from the sky, and many scholars who were drunk and about to die hurriedly woke up.

It wasn't until this moment that the guards who were holding knives and viciously surrounding Qiao Yue seemed to understand why Jiu Ming was so out of shape just now, and even they themselves subconsciously took a step back.

"Is that you? It's you! ”

At this time, a handsome scholar with a long body squeezed in at the back of the crowd, compared with other scholars, this scholar has more confidence and stability between his eyebrows, and he looks like a person with a grinding belly.

Qiao Yue was puzzled: "Do you know me?" ”

The man's voice trembled a little: "I don't know, but I know this crane!" ”R1152