Wang Li and Jia Xu stood on the top of the boat with their hands behind their backs, staring at Xiangyang City, where the river and clear water pass through the city, and the green mountains and mountains enter the city for ten miles.

Winter has just passed, spring has not yet opened her sleepy eyes, the early sun has not yet risen, and the ancient city in the distance covered in a light blue veil has just revealed her face.

The nearby wharf is already bustling with boats and crowds, and the Han River is still flowing eastward at your feet. Pick a handful of river water, the waves can stir up countless Jin Ge iron horses, borrow a wisp of morning breeze, how many warships can be found in the waves.

"My lord, sir, can we go?" Gan Ning "pedaled" and ran to the top of the boat.

Since returning to Wang Li last night, Gan Ning has of course taken over the full business of Steward Cai and the ship's boss, and the water ghosts under his command also firmly control the various positions of the ship, such as helm, navigation, flag and command, etc.

What are you kidding, this Gan Ning is one of the best naval generals in the Three Kingdoms period, there are no rivers or lakes along the way, Wang Li doesn't put everyone's lives in the hands of Gan Ning, is he still looking at Steward Cai and the boat boss?

As for Steward Cai, the ship's boss, and the sailors on the ship, they can only be temporarily placed under house arrest in the cabin, and the ban will be lifted when Wang Li and the others return. No way, who made Wang Li's identity not be exposed?

Let's just accompany Wang Li to be a travel friend.

Wang Li nodded towards Gan Ning: "Go straight to Jiangxia, and then go down the river until Danyang Moling." Also, tell the brothers that you should treat this peaceboat gang sailor brother well, and if you have someone you like, you can also recruit them to your command on the spot. ”

"Don't say it, Gan really likes a few good seedlings!" Gan Ning grinned with a big mouth, hugged his fists towards Wang Li and hurriedly walked to the bottom.

……

In the cabin, thirty or twenty sailors were gathered, whispering and dividing.

"Big head, you have traveled from south to north, have you ever encountered such a strange thing?"

"Yes, we poor haha don't need rowing, nor do we need to turn over the pulp, just a round trip from here to Moling, we can get hundreds of dollars out of thin air, big head, what do you say that the young master is not lying to us, right?"

The young man with the big head glanced at everyone in front of him: "What kind of am I going from south to north, I just accompanied my brother to escape from Yingchuan to Jingzhou back then." ”

"But you've dealt with the court after all, and you know more than we know, right?"

The big head smiled bitterly: "What kind of dealing?" It's just that he killed people with his brother and was chased by the government together. But when it comes to the government, you know more about this Lord Assassin than I do, do you think Lord Assassin will do this? ”

Everyone suddenly shook their heads in unison like a child's rattle: "Although this Lord Thorn Shi is more close to the people than the previous Lord Wang, he has also helped farmers and run schools, and loves people and musicians." But where in this world is there a reason to take your family's money out? ”

"Don't think about it, we are all a group of bitter haha, what are we worried about if we have no long-term things and no money to spare, brothers, if you come, you will be safe." The big head only comforted the people with words, but his heart was also beating, if my cousin was here, maybe he could see through it all!

Everyone's minds were a little steady, but another discordant voice suddenly appeared outside the crowd, "Cut!" A group of fools, the big head is just a mountain people, do you believe his words? ”

"Bu Ren, then what do you mean by the young master?" The crowd gathered around the man with a sharp beak and a monkey's cheek, and they were like fifteen sparrows.

Bu Ren looked at everyone triumphantly, shook his head and gushed endlessly: "There is no such thing as a loss-making business in this world, and the young master acts like this for no more than two purposes, either to rob money or rob people!" We are all a bunch of bitter haha, there is no money, but there is still a life!

Now that the court is in decline, the world is full of officials as black as crows, and the princes are busy dividing up the territory

Emperor. You say, who cares about us little people? Do you still want to take other people's money for nothing? Phew!

I guess they should have sent us to be soldiers to help them fight the world. A few years ago, Sun Jian's guy attacked Xiangyang City, and Lao Tzu happened to be transferred to the city, you don't know, the corpses under the city are a mountain of blood, and the bones of the soldiers are piled up to be higher than the eaves, and Lao Tzu's legs are weak when he thinks about it now! ”

"If you say that, then wouldn't we—" A lean middle-aged man in his forties looked at Bu Ren, stammering and his face full of horror.

Bu Ren rolled his eyes, revealing a pair of white eyes: "Uncle Wen, don't blame me for Bu Ren's bad speech, just your old arms and legs, at most, you will only let you go to the fire to cook, people want a strong young man like your third child!" ”

San'er? When Uncle Wen heard this, he suddenly felt that a cold wind penetrated his body and cold the bone marrow, and his heart was like fifteen buckets of water fetching water.

San'er came out from behind Uncle Wen dissatisfied: "Ah Weng, what's wrong with being a soldier and eating food?" Huo Huqi swept through Mobei at the age of twenty-one, and Ma Fubo was shrouded in horseheat. I'm almost eighteen years old this year, do you want me to face the loess with my back to the sky for the rest of my life?

Moreover, now that you and your mother are old, your mother's health is not good, Xiu'er is already thirteen years old, and the dowry has not yet been prepared. If I go back and forth with you from here to Moling, I will have to pay two hundred dollars, and if I am following the young master, I am afraid that there will be two or three hundred dollars? ”

Uncle Wen slapped San'er on the head: "Don't listen to the nonsense of those people in the tea shop all day long, good iron does not hit nails, good men are not soldiers, this is the right principle since ancient times..."

It's really a dog, people just said to let us stay in the cabin, don't just get off the boat, how did it become this situation!

The big head looked at Uncle Wen's father and son with a smile, and was about to speak, but saw the cabin door suddenly open, and the big man wearing bird feathers broke in like a wind, looking at everyone for a while, and finally landed on San'er, Monkey, Guniu and himself and other dozen young adults.

"You little cubs, Lao Tzu is Gan Ning, the captain of the navy under the command of the former general, are you willing to eat the imperial grain with Lao Tzu?"

Gan Ning's mouthful of "Lao Tzu" coupled with his fierce and vicious expression, everyone was already stunned, and even San'er, who was still eager to try just now, was dumbfounded.

What's more, there is also a foreshadowing of Na Buren, everyone can't hide, who dares to come in front of him?

After a burst of shouting, no one stood up, Gan Ning shook his head in disappointment, and swaggered towards the cabin: "Ge Lao Tzu, has the blood of the men in Jingzhou been eaten by dogs, and more than a dozen gentlemen dare not respond to Lao Tzu!" ”

"General, who said that the Jingzhou man is dead? Lao Tzu..."Gan Ning was excited, and the three children felt that the blood was boiling all over their bodies, and as soon as they jumped up, they were hugged by Uncle Wen and covered their noses tightly.

Gan Ning Huo Ran turned around and stared at everyone: "Who said that?" ”

The cabin fell silent again, the big head glanced at Uncle Wen's father and son, shook his head secretly, suppressed the doubt in his heart and came out of the crowd, standing in front of everyone: "General, it was the grass people who said it!" ”

"What did you say?" Gan Ning looked at the big head with interest, "Dare to fill Lao Tzu with Lao Tzu, turtle son drop, aren't you afraid that Lao Tzu will throw you into the river to feed Wang Ba?" ”

Everyone only felt a chill, and the big head reluctantly puffed up his chest and raised his head: "General, grass... The grass people have no ill intentions, that's just a common mantra, please... Please don't blame the general! ”

"Ge Lao Tzudi, I thought it was a tough seed, but I was timid in a word, why am I afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!"

"Haha, it's delicious! It's a gentleman, from now on you are Lao Tzu's soldiers, today you say goodbye to them, tomorrow come to the ship to find Lao Tzu! ”

Gan Ning slapped the big head and shoulders hard, and the big head frowned, and then swept San'er, the monkey, and the bull

A few people glanced at it: "There are still hundreds of miles to Moling, and you guys should think about it!" ”

With that, Shi Shiran walked out of the cabin.

As soon as Gan Ning left, the cabin exploded again.

"Bu Ren, you're still right, it seems that this general really wants to pull us to the battlefield to be a whirlpool."

"No, we can't sit still, we have to find a way to escape from here, otherwise we won't know where we will die that day, and we will be lonely ghosts for the rest of our lives!"

The big head looked at everyone silently, and the words of farewell that he had thought of were no longer spoken. Uncle Wen led San'er forward and bowed to the big head: "I'm sorry for the big head, it's all San'er's fault, Uncle Wen can't accompany you!" ”

"Uncle Wen, you're welcome..."The big head helped Uncle Wen up, but his heart was bitter, he hadn't had time to say goodbye to his brother, and from then on he would have to go to different places.

"Ah Weng, if you didn't hold me, how could you let the big brother carry the black pot for me?" San'er broke free from Uncle Wen's pull, leaned over to the big head and whispered: "Brother big head, when you go to see the general tomorrow, just tell him, and I will be his soldier like you." ”

"San'er, your mother and I are just your only son, you can't talk nonsense..."Uncle Wen was suddenly in a hurry, and hurriedly pulled San'er to the side, standing with the monkey, Guniu and Bu Ren, and began to discuss slipping away from there.

……

It was nearly noon, dozens of miles away at the foot of Rhodium Pan Mountain in Liujiawan, two young men with weak crowns walked in.

One of them has a slightly chubby face, a high nose bridge, a warm complexion like jade, and is dressed in a precious gray-white coat. The other man was a little thin, with an angular face, dark and deep eyes, and although he was dressed in a shabby robe, he had a long sword hanging from his waist, and his expression was flying as he walked.

"Brother Guangyuan, when I committed a crime in my hometown, it was you who accompanied me to find my mother from Yingchuan to Jingzhou, and today you accompanied my little brother to go so far, and my little brother has nothing to repay, or will I sing you a paragraph?" The shabby man bowed slightly to the man next to him and smiled.

"Yuan Zhi, why should you and my brother be polite?" Guangyuan shook his head, then laughed and said, "However, when I was in Yingchuan's former residence, Shi Mou heard that you liked opera a lot, but I didn't want you to say a few words, since there are only you and me here, it doesn't hurt if you sing and I listen." ”

"Carving insect skills, it's just harmless!" Yuan Zhi smiled, coughed lightly a few times, cleared his throat, and blurted out a song of 'taking off the cage', the sound was high and low and twisted and twisted, sometimes like tearing brocade, sometimes like mountains and flowing water.

"The scenery under Rhodium Pan Mountain is new, and the front of Liujiawan is clean and dust-free. Yesterday, I traveled with my brother during the Shangyuan Festival, and stole a bottle of idle wine before the beginning of spring. After a few glasses of wine, I couldn't help but think about that spring. In the spring of that year, I painted my white face all over my body.

Brother Shi, back then, I killed people in a rage, but unexpectedly, the beasts trapped the old city. Fortunately, thanks to your help, you can get out of the predicament and get out of the broken cage of the imperial court.

Get out of the cage, get out of the cage, take off the cage and put the horse in it. Or to the south, or to the east, Brother Shi, it all depends on your help and tolerance, Xu can now fish and fly shallow bottom eagles to hit the sky, and his body is like a flying rainbow on the edge of the sky..."

Xu? It turned out that Yuan Zhi was surnamed Xu!

Xu Yuanzhi was singing happily, and suddenly there were more than a dozen "plops, plops" in front of him, as if more than a dozen boulders were constantly smashing on the surface of the river, stirring up huge sounds and waves, interrupting his interest.

The two of them looked at each other, only to see a large boat several meters high, several zhang wide and about ten zhang long slowly leaning against the river, and a group of soldiers rushed out and went straight to the river, with long arrows in their hands pointing straight into the river, shining and cold.

More than a dozen figures fluttered in the river, rising and falling on the water like foraging birds, floating and sinking.