There were no stops along the way, and the journey of hundreds of miles took only three days with the help of the turbulent river.

When I walked to Dongting Lake, the rain did not stop, and I almost bumped into a painting boat full of singers and talents, only to realize that I had arrived.

The twilight rain is dashing, the smoke and waves on the lake are curling, you can see the famous buildings on the shore of the lake in the distance, and the pedestrians on the street are relatively scarce, but it shows a bit of the charm of the south of the Yangtze River.

Under the tug of the boatman, the boat slowly docked to the shore. The rain was not heavy or small, Mrs. Lu and Xiao Xiang'er did not go out in the rain, and still sat in the house and exchanged skin care methods with Zhongli Jiujiu.

Zhongli Jiujiu is not an embroidered pillow in the middle of the show, you can see its ability to cultivate Zhongli Chuchu into Zhaohong Bakui, all kinds of secret methods for maintaining beauty emerge in an endless stream, from hair maintenance to toes, Xiao Xiang'er, who is erudite and talented, is shocked, and even Ning Yuhe, who wants to pick a thorn, can't find fault.

Xu Buling naturally does not interfere with this, after all, 'women are those who please themselves'. Zhu Manzhi and Nightingale are young, and their interest in these is not very strong, but they are more interested in crabs.

In order not to leave regrets, as soon as the boat docked, Zhu Manzhi ran to the deck, and pulled Ning Yuhe out, and went to the small shop that Ning Yuhe said last time.

Xu Buling agreed to go to eat crabs with Manzhi, and he was fine on the boat, so he took the nightingale and the four of them got off the boat together.

At dusk, the streets were sparsely populated, and the nightingale walked in front of Xu Buling with an umbrella, looking left and right with some curiosity. Zhu Manzhi hid under Ning Yuhe's umbrella and came once, and was quite experienced as a tour guide at this time:

"In front is Yueyang Building, the building is three floors high, next to it is Yueyang's most famous restaurant cyclamen, the owner is Chen Han, the leader of the boat gang, after the Cao family retired to the rivers and lakes, it belongs to his most extensive network, just like Chang'an's Chen Siye......"

Xu Buling looked at the words a few times and thought for a while: "In addition to the Cao family, there are no other masters in Yueyang?" ”

"Uh......"

Zhu Manzhi blinked, she was looking for food, but she really didn't pay attention to these.

The nightingale thought about it for a moment, but said:

"Yueyang is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and to this day there are still three sects and nine streams, among which there are many masters. In addition to the Hutou Mountain Lin family that opened the martial arts hall, there are also Pengjiazhuang, Longwan He family, etc., although they are not first-class families, they are also famous in the rivers and lakes. In addition, there are many rangers, the most famous should be the bandit 'Ghost Niangniang' ten years ago, and it is still listed in the A-number bounty list of the Investigation Division......"

Zhu Manzhi came out of the Investigation Division, and he was patrolling the streets from beginning to end, and he really couldn't remember the list of gangsters in the yamen, but he knew the danger of the bandits very well.

The prisoners in the case library are divided into A, B, C, and three classes, and the people don't need to dispatch the wolf guard to commit the crime, and the wanted criminals in the C number are at least officials or murderers and arsonists, Wu Wei Xue Yi belongs to this category, and the B number is an extremely difficult bandit, and it is also the main target of the wolf guard's arrest.

Needless to say, the number A is not to mention, those who can go up are all extralegal fanatics, Zhu Liu, Li Hansheng, etc., are among them, and there are not many of them.

Hearing that Yueyang still has such a number one person, Zhu Manzhi was naturally surprised:

"A bandit? Isn't that similar to my father, what did that ghost girl do? ”

Nightingale shook her head, she just wrote down the arrest documents of the imperial court, and she didn't know the details, but said:

"Killing officials and rebelling, martial arts are extremely high, and I didn't catch it anyway."

Ning Yuhe held a white oil-paper umbrella, and turned around at this time:

"I just arrived in Wudang Mountain, at that time, the iron eagle deer hunting world was very chaotic, there were many people in the rivers and lakes who rebelled against the imperial court, the ghost lady came out at that time, no one knew who it was incognito, assassinated wolf guards and officials everywhere in Chu, killed nearly 100 people in just two months, and then killed directly to the palace of the king of Chu, and almost took off the head of the king of Chu......"

Xu Buling was slightly surprised when he heard this, as the prince of the vassal king, he naturally understood the family background of the vassal king, the Su Wangfu was located in the barren Western Regions, and the defense was already very exaggerated, and the two rich vassal kings of Chu and Wu were naturally only strong and not weak, and the difficulty of daring to rush into the Chu Wangfu to assassinate was not much different from the difficulty of entering the Taiji Palace to kill the emperor.

Xu Buling thought for a while: "Why haven't I heard of this person?" ”

Ning Yuhe sighed: "The king of Chu responded to the imperial court's suppression of the people in the rivers and lakes, and naturally took precautions, at that time, Chen Daozi of Wudang Mountain and Lin Da of Hutou Mountain were secretly invited to the palace to prevent accidents, and the ghost lady broke in rashly and suffered a big loss, I once heard Chen Daozi talk about it once, and he was defeated by three swords, and he was afraid that he would be injured at all, and he disappeared since then......"

Xu Buling nodded.

During the conversation, the four of them came to a small shop in the back alley of the market, the name of the shop was 'Yang Kee'.

The small shop has been built in a relatively remote back alley for a few years, and there are only four tables in it, and the faint fragrance comes from the direction of the back kitchen, which makes people feel appetizing when they smell it.

There were no guests in the rain, and the proprietress in a cloth skirt sat on a table by the window, watching the seven or eight-year-old girl next to her write.

The proprietress is in her thirties, the Jing Hai cloth skirt is petite, and her appearance and temperament are very soft, and when she saw a guest coming in, she got up with a smile and greeted:

"A few guest officers are here for the first time, please come inside."

Although the shop is very small, it is very clean and tidy, and the little girl who is writing is wearing a skirt, which looks very polite, and she also stood up and gave a blessing.

Xu Buling picked a well-lit table and sat down, and let Manzhi order a few special delicacies.

The nightingale was still thinking back to Fang Cai's conversation, and said seriously:

"The ghost lady met Chen Daozi and a group of guests from the Chu Palace, but she was seriously injured and escaped, and she can indeed be called a bandit."

Ning Yuhe sat on Xu Buling's left hand side, poured tea for the three of them, shook his head and sighed lightly:

"Killing officials is naturally a bandit, but people in the rivers and lakes are not necessarily evil. Just like Zhu Lao Sword Saint and Manzhi's father Zhu Liu, he is naturally a bandit in the eyes of the imperial court, but he is a hero in the rivers and lakes, he has integrity and rules, he will not kill people for no reason, and he will not bully the weak, which is much better than most court officials......"

Ning Yuhe was born in the rivers and lakes, and he was deeply affected by it, so he was naturally prejudiced against the iron eagle of the imperial court.

Xu Buling thought for a moment: "The rules of the rivers and lakes are based on personal morality, but there are few people in the rivers and lakes with noble morals, the law is the bottom line of morality, and the court may not do it right, but the law of Dayue is definitely better than the rules of the rivers and lakes to distinguish between good and evil." ”

The rivers and lakes are a social environment that is not bound by the law, and it is impossible to coexist, and these words are actually meaningless.

Ning Yuhe nodded, did not refute Xu Buling, but said softly:

"When the iron eagle was hunting deer, the current saint ordered to clean up the rivers and lakes and disobey the people, and the imperial order was passed down from Chang'an layer by layer, and it completely changed at the bottom. Many officials relied on the convenience of their positions to indiscriminately exploit the forces in the rivers and lakes, saying that if you are a bandit, you are a bandit, and the land shops will accept it when they say they will accept it, and if they dare to say a word, they will be beheaded by the family, if not, how can it be the final scene...... In my opinion, the ghost lady is a chivalrous man, and the people she kills are corrupt officials and corrupt officials, if it were me, I would still do that......"

Xu Buling thought for a while: "Escaping with serious injuries and not dying can be regarded as a good ending." ”

In the small shop, the little girl who was writing, saw that her mother went to the back kitchen, and she was also lazy to listen, maybe she didn't understand at this time, so she turned around and whispered:

"Is that ghost girl a good person or a bad person? I've heard a lot of guests say it......"

The little girl looks very cute, quiet and quiet, and is not very afraid of life.

Xu Buling glanced at it a few times, tilted his head and chuckled:

"It's just a different position, there are no good people and bad people, my little sister studies hard, and she will know when she grows up."

"Oh......"

The little girl didn't seem to understand, so she turned back and continued to write.

After a while, the proprietress came over with a few side dishes and put them on the table, steaming hot and fragrant.

Xu Buling and the Manzhi Nightingale didn't have the heart to talk about irrelevant matters at the moment, so they picked up chopsticks and began to feast.

Ning Yuhe is a monk, and he is not close to meat, but he just asked for a bowl of porridge, and sat next to him to serve tea and pour water.

The shop is not big, and there are no other guests, Zhu Manzhi is a half-person who is not very good at eating crabs, and when he saw the proprietress sitting quietly next to him, he pulled people over to ask for advice.

The proprietress is very kind, she must answer questions, and she learned that her name is Meng Hua, and her husband is the head of a dart bureau in Yueyang, and she has opened a small shop with her eight-year-old daughter to make a living, and a family of three is also a happy family.

Xu Buling was a man after all, and he didn't disturb the women's chat, just sat next to him as an escort, a few glasses of wine were down, and when Man Zhi'er was seriously studying how to eat crab legs, a figure suddenly appeared in the back alley of the rainy curtain - wearing a robe and holding an oil-paper umbrella, with an unsheathed iron sword hanging from his waist, standing on the roof of a wine shop.

Xu Buling was holding up the wine glass, and after Yu Guang noticed it, he turned his head to look, but there was no one on the roof of the wine shop in the distance, and instead a middle-aged man was sitting at the window of the wine shop, looking at him with a pair of plain eyes.

His eyes are as sharp as a sword, making it difficult to look at directly, but there is no hostility.

Xu Buling didn't know this person, and when he saw that the other party seemed to be looking for him, he frowned and thought for a while, so he asked Ning Yuhe to take the two little girls to continue eating......

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It took a lot of time to write the outline today, so it's just two shifts.