Chapter Eighty-Three: Clever Boarding the Ship
From the words of the Lieyang Gate, it was known that they were following the orders of a prominent figure in the Wu Dynasty to forcibly requisition these ships controlled by the Great Waves Gang.
With the sound of the old man's pleading, several people from Lieyangmen beat him more and more.
"Stop!" Seeing this, Ouyang He immediately stepped forward and took out the Golden Snake Whip to easily repel these Lieyang Sect disciples.
"Ah, Ouyang He, you stinky girl, Lao Tzu recognizes you!" A disciple of the Lieyang Sect seemed to recognize Ouyang He, and Ouyang He glanced at it with disdain, and immediately recalled that this person had whipped himself in Zhongzhou, and then he was beaten to his knees and begged for mercy by Meng Yan, who came to rescue Ouyang He.
"Damn, don't get too complacent, we'...... Go to the master to teach you a lesson! Several people from Lieyangmen saw that they were invincible, and hurriedly ran away from the scene after putting down their cruel words.
After Ouyang He helped the old man up, the Julang Gang token she was carrying around her waist was noticed by the old man, and the old man mysteriously invited Ouyang He and the masked man to be guests at the place where he lived to express his gratitude.
The old man lived in a large compound of many thatched huts, and in addition to the old man, there seemed to be a family of one or twenty people.
After the two of them sat down and drank a cup of tea, the old man suddenly knelt down to Ouyang He and begged her to help the old boatmen in the courtyard.
Ouyang He hurriedly helped the old man up, and after inquiry, it turned out that the old man thought that Ouyang He was a big man in the Julang Gang after seeing the token, so he hoped that the Julang Gang could send their old shipwrights home after giving them pension pensions.
"Girl, the people from the Lieyang Gate you saw today have come to us many times to make trouble, and every time they come, they will make a move at us old men, and we really can't stand the toss. But there is no instruction from the upper peak, no matter how humiliated we are, we don't dare to leave here one step! The old man's eyes welled up with tears as he spoke.
Ouyang He then learned from the old man that Lieyangmen had been in collusion with the pirates who harassed the area from time to time, and was encircled under the hands of Xu Zhihe, the current prime minister of Wu State. Although Xu Zhihe is now in the Wu court, he still urgently needs to bring all the Wu seaports into his hands in order to obtain trade-related financial support.
"Also, I've heard that since the Sun Gate took control of the pier that led to Broken Blade Island, it has been deserted during the day and noisy at night." After cautiously looking outside the door through the crack in the door, the old man leaned into Ouyang He's ear and whispered, "An old worker of mine has briefly gone to the docks to help before, and according to him, he can always see these people throwing some moving hemp bags into the airtight cabin one by one at night, but he doesn't know what exactly is inside. ”
After listening to the old man's story, Ouyang He had a general understanding of the situation in the port. It's just that for the current situation of the old people, she can't think of a good way to help them for a while, after all, she is not a member of the Julang Gang.
"Old man, I know all your difficulties, but I still have important things to do, please wait for a few days for a while, I will definitely find a way to solve this problem for you." Ouyang He secretly kept the old man's commission in his heart.
"The girl is narrow-minded, the old man has thanked the girl on behalf of the old boatmen in the entire closed courtyard!" The old man stood up and saluted Ouyang He again.
Seeing that the tokens of the Great Wave Gang were now useless, Ouyang He had no choice but to find another way to catch the ferry to Broken Blade Island.
"Ah...... Ah......h
"Ah, you're back, I just saw you disappear suddenly, and I thought you thought you were too bored to stay by my side and left, hehe!" Ouyang He said with some jokingness.
The masked man looked at Ouyang He and then turned around and walked in the direction of the market, and Ouyang He then followed him a little unexplained.
"Is there anything strange about that man?" Ouyang He gradually realized that the masked man seemed to be following a person in front of her with her, so she tried to ask the masked man softly, but the masked man did not respond to her.
After a while, the man walked into a small casino on the side of the street, and Ouyang He and the masked man also walked in.
"Hey, girl, we don't accept women here!" Ouyang He, who was about to walk into the store, was suddenly stopped by a person dressed as a junior at the door.
Ouyang He originally wanted to leave, but the masked man pulled Ouyang He's sleeve and insisted on going in.
Seeing that Xiao Er seemed to want to make a move on the masked man, Ouyang He hurriedly stopped between the two, and then she took out some silver taels from her sleeve and gave them to Xiao Er, and the two were able to enter a private room in the casino under the leadership of Xiao Er.
As they passed by a nearby gaming table, Ouyang He noticed that the person they had been following before seemed to be in full swing.
And after entering the room, the masked man tapped the giant wave gang token that Ouyang He put on his waist, and then he pointed to the position where the person was.
"Are you asking me to give him this token?" After Ouyang He asked the masked man, the masked man leaned over and shook his head, and then he wrote his thoughts on the paper on the table.
"Is there anyone else to accompany my uncle to gamble? If no one is ...... "This man seems to have had a good gamble, and in a few moments he has won everyone at the table."
"That...... I'll bet on you! However, just as he was proud, Ouyang He sat quietly across the table.
The sudden female voice made the casino instantly quiet, and then the people at the other tables came over to watch the game.
"What, this girl is crazy, she dares to take the initiative to bet with him."
"No, this man is the winning general of this gambling house, and I've never seen him lose before."
The people around him were talking, and Ouyang He's face also showed a little nervousness.
"Hehe, little girl, if you have the guts, then I'll have fun with you!" The man was not polite, and threw out a large pile of silver that he had just won.
Seeing that this person had been staked to death, the surrounding onlookers followed him and wanted to get a piece of the pie.
"Little girl, you have to think about it, don't wait and cry when you lose, haha!"
Under the fanning of the people around him, Ouyang He was a little apprehensive and put some silver taels in his hand on the gambling table. And because she had never been in contact with gambling since she was a child, she didn't know anything about it, so she had to take advantage of the situation to push the silver two to the side of the bet.
The dealer at the table then shook the gambling equipment violently, and when the top lid was opened in anticipation, the number of dice displayed inside actually belonged to the side of the bet.
Everyone was in an uproar, and Ouyang He and the man also showed incredible expressions on their faces at the same time.
Subsequently, everyone followed him unbelieving and bet two more big bets, but they all lost to Ouyang He.
At this time, everyone completely quit, and someone took the opportunity to provoke that it was that the person had colluded with Ouyang He to cheat everyone out of money, so everyone in the gambling hall began to rush forward to besiege the two of them.
Ouyang He took out the Golden Snake Whip and fought off the gamblers who were besieging them with ease. At the same time, the person who gambled with Ouyang He didn't seem to be very good at martial arts, and he hid behind Ouyang He to watch the battle the whole time.
"Wait a minute, everyone!" When the gamblers then stood up and wanted to continue the siege, Ouyang He immediately stopped them, and said loudly to them according to the mask man's previous plan that he would not take any of the silver taels they lost, because she was just a childcare hired by another person, and she would only take twenty wen from that person in advance.
"No wonder you've been winning money here, it's all tricked with these tricks!"
"This girl is just a humble accomplice, you are the culprit!"
"And the little girl helped you with so much money, you gave someone twenty wen, and your heart is too dark!"
Now, after Ouyang He's "explanation", the gambler suddenly became the target of public criticism. Although he denied it in every possible way like a frightened bird, in this case, the others were already convinced of what Ouyang He said.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the man suddenly threw a smoke bomb from his waist bag, and then he tried to take advantage of the chaos to escape.
However, before he could take a few steps, Ouyang He quickly flashed in front of him, subdued him in three or two clicks, and pushed him into a nearby room.
"You can't beat me, and when the smoke clears, they'll come back to you soon, and you have no choice but to listen to me!" At this moment, Ouyang He, who has become a little black-bellied according to the masked man's plan, is trying to play a role that he has never tried.
Seeing that there was no other way to get out, the man had to follow Ouyang He's so-called "suggestion" and replace the high-level token of the Julang Gang in Ouyang He's hand with the Lieyang Gate token on his body.
After the smoke cleared, the man was holding the token and was pushed out by Ouyang He with a palm. As expected, the masked man pretending to be the dealer rushed to stop the others in a panic when he saw the token.
It turned out that the masked man had learned from the beginning that this gambling house was the property of the Julang Gang, so the token he got from Mr. Qian would naturally come in handy here.
"Oh, you're from the Shaodong family, we really don't know Taishan!" Under the mediation of the owner of the inn and the other shopkeepers, the gamblers left one after another scolding, and the man was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
And when he came back to his senses and rushed into the room to look for Ouyang He, Ouyang He had already disappeared.
Ouyang He, who had successfully obtained the Lieyangmen token, was ready to rush to the dock immediately and blend in with the Lieyangmen disciples, but the masked man motioned for her to leave first after handing over a set of the Lieyangmen disciples' costumes to Ouyang He.
Ouyang He guessed that maybe he wanted to stay and contain the actions of the Lieyang Sect disciple until he successfully boarded the ship and left the dock.
"Thank you and take care!" Although the two had only known each other for a few days, the masked man's help at several critical moments still made Ouyang He feel very warm. And although she was already a little reluctant in her heart at this time, she could only continue to go to Broken Blade Island alone.
Next, with the token and the clothes on his body, Ouyang He smoothly blended into the ferry that was about to leave for Broken Blade Island, and took over the job of going to the bottom cabin to take care of the goods on the boat, and found a corner in the bottom cabin that was not easy to be found for pranayama.
After an unknown amount of time, Ouyang He, who was sleeping in a daze, was woken up by some fragmentary noises. When he stood up, he saw that there were two disciples of the Lieyang Sect who were about to quietly steal the wine from the wine barrel and drink.
A disciple in charge of letting go also noticed Ouyang He and hurriedly prepared to pull another person to escape, but Ouyang He's eyes were quick and he quickly closed the door and stopped the two.
"This brother, we haven't drunk anything, and you haven't seen anything, isn't it beautiful that everyone is safe?" The tall and thin disciple stepped forward and offered great courtesy to Ouyang He.
"But didn't you just scoop it out and have a drink? Where didn't you get it? The short and fat disciple next to him suddenly let out a "soul torture", and the tall and thin disciple suddenly couldn't get off the stage.
"Isn't there wine on board? Why are you sneaking here to steal a drink? Seeing that the short and fat disciple was a little sincere, Ouyang He took advantage of the situation and continued to ask him.
"Because the wine up there won't be enough for us to drink!" The short and fat disciple continued to answer despite the obstruction of the tall and thin disciple.
"Then why can't you drink it?"
"We're being controlled because we drink too much!"
"Then why do you drink too much?"
"If you drink too much, you dare to come down and steal wine when you have the courage to drink!"
"Then why did you come down and steal the wine!"
"Because the wine above can't be drunk by us......"
"Uh......"
Ouyang He covered her head a little speechlessly, and this "looping" conversation made her a little dizzy.
While the three of them were still wrestling in the cabin on the ground floor, it suddenly became noisy. Listening to the shouts of the disciples outside, it seemed that some powerful character was making trouble on the ship, and they were clamoring for wine.