When the gangster Wu Chi in the casino and the scum gangster Gao Li Dai were killed, the people of Chang'an City were excited, and everyone applauded.

What made everyone even happier was that Tang Zhangwei burned the IOU of the printed money. Tang Zhaozong bent his bow and shot arrows in the palace of the Tang Dynasty, and Empress He asked Tang Zhaozong: "When is it, do you still have time to play these flowers?" ”

Tang Zhaozong licked the tip of his tongue and said, "How can I shoot arrows to be a flower?" ”

Empress He said: "As the emperor of a big country, you don't want to use good people, win over a group of people who can really do things, and always come up with some garbage ideas. Now there are fewer and fewer people who advocate you, don't you feel it? ”

Tang Zhaozong licked the tip of his tongue again, and he said: "It's going to rain, my mother is going to get married, whoever wants to leave, let them go!" From today onwards, I will not keep any of them. ”

Tang Zhaozong said this, on the contrary, Queen He panicked, and she said to Tang Zhaozong: "I'm just a little impatient, don't give up on yourself." ”

Tang Zhaozong smiled and said, "I'm not talking about you, you look at the excitement of Chang'an City, what kind of people we used before, most of them were scum, but because they followed me." I have to be responsible for them, when these people followed me, I was weak because of my strength, so I picked up the basket full of vegetables, and now Tang Zhangwei helped me kill them, which happened to fulfill my wish, and I didn't have to pay for the house. ”

Chang Deqing nodded and urged: "How about driving you ashore?" ”

The soldier said, "Not far from the riverbank, there is a thatched house; Eight men in water coats and steel forks escorted us to the hut. There was a lot of straw laid in the ground; There was a bowl of oil lamps nailed to the wall, and there was nothing else. Eight men shut the door and kept watch over us. After a while, someone knocked on the door outside, and a message came in through the door: "Brother Jiao has raised a killing embryo to go up for questioning." "I didn't know what embryo killing was. I saw the eight people guarding the prison, and they should have said in unison. Out of the thirty of us, the one who picked the fat just chose me. Two people came over, one of them held one of my arms, and said go, it's worth it! I just learned that killing embryos refers to us. I didn't open my mouth, but I went out of the hut with the two of them, and walked five or six miles to the northeast. I saw a bunch of lights in front of me, and when I walked near, it was a mountain rock; About forty or fifty men, each with a lantern and a torch, stood under the rock. A man in his fifties with a full beard; I was talking to a man covered in blood and without his right arm. The two people who held me suddenly pushed me forward and shouted: Kneel! I'm going to have to kneel up the rock. ”

"The beard turned his face and said to me in a very soft voice, 'Don't be afraid! My sword here will not hit you on your foreheads. I only ask you: What kind of skills do you dare to escort this ship of money to Beijing? Tell me what to say!' I replied, 'We are sent by the Lord, and we are not able to help ourselves, and we have some skills!' And we only send it to Hubei, and then we will sell it back!" The beard nodded and smiled, "I know you can't help yourself! But you are only sent to the Hubei border, and who will escort you below?' I said, "There is an escort from Master Chang Deqing." The beard showed a hesitant look and said, "Chang Deqing? Where did you come from? Spit! Let me ask you: How old is this Chang Deqing? Where are you now?' I said, 'I don't know how old I am, it's like I'm very young, I'm only in my twenties. When the ship was wrecked. I don't know where he's going.'" Beard laughed and said, "It's strange that I've never heard of such a name as a cake, but it's only a man in his twenties. What a cowardly person!' When the bearded man laughed, he looked at the man who had no right arm and said, "This time, the fourth brother can be said to have capsized in the gutter!" "The person who has no right arm is not convinced, and said loudly: "Although this Chang Deqing has no name, his skills are regarded as first-class! I planted it in his hands, and some of them were not wronged. I didn't want to get to know him, but unfortunately he ran away from the water!' As he spoke, he looked at me and shouted, "Listen, I'll let you go back, and when you see Chang Deqing, you have to pass me a word; You only say that Peng Shoushan of Luoshan worships him; This time, I learned his skills! Looking at his skills, no one can say that he can't be a bodyguard! It's just that on the rivers and lakes, the first thing is benevolence and righteousness; the second is to have both pen and tongue; The third is to be brave and brave. When he was first born, he didn't have a friendship, and his skills were ten times higher, and he couldn't keep such a heavy dart to Beijing! These are the kind things I want to get to know him. Can you say the same and not forget?' I said, 'I won't forget!' The two men who had taken me to the beard still escorted me back to the hut. ”

"When I arrived at the hut, less than half an hour later, I heard a knock at the door outside, saying, 'There is a man who intercedes and wants to get back all the three hundred thousand pieces of silver. Brother Jiao said: Look at Gan Maozi's affection, return half of him. Fourth Brother Peng said: With his knife skills, he has completely returned him, and now he has moved all the silver taels to the opposite riverbank, and Gan Maozi will bring back these thirty killing blanks together. Now wait ahead, hurry up and send this group of killing embryos. It's our downside, and we're tired all night!" "The eight guards were angry and said, "We have been in the water for most of the night; I was left with an empty mind. I really don't have to fall on the frieze!' The people outside the door immediately said, 'That's it, that's it! Hurry up and send it away! Pour the frieze, don't be boring anymore! This lame man is the most nosy of all!' All eight were gagged. The stilted face, even scolding, led us to the place where the shipwreck was. The beard who was questioning under the mountain rock, and the man who had no right arm, were standing on the bank of the river, and they were laughing with the old man who had led us here. When the old man saw that we had arrived, he addressed the two of them, said a word of affection, and brought us here. I don't know who brought these silver boxes here. ”

When Chang Deqing heard these words, he was afraid in his heart, and he didn't dare to bet on the silver taels anymore, so he walked forward; In Yuji, another civilian ship was hired, and 300,000 Ding Cao silver was still sent back to Changsha; He who made clear to the feudal lord the form of the misdeeds, and resigned solemnly, was relieved of his appointment. Ran to Yuji alone, worshiped Gan Maozi as a teacher, and practiced an amazing swordsmanship.

This Gan Maozi is the great swordsman of the two lakes. His master, Yang Zanhua, was a well-known figure in the swordsmanship of the Kongtong School. Dong Lutang, who competed with Jin Luohan Lu Xuanliang in Yudong, was Yang Zanhua's eldest apprentice and Gan Maozi's senior brother. Because of Dong Lutang's defeat in the hands of Lu Xuanliang, Gan Maozi had a hatred for the people of Lu Xuanliang's lineage: just wait for the opportunity to take revenge.

The two places of South Jingqiao and North Jingqiao are the nests of Gan Maozi.

(End of chapter)