In the thirty-seventh year of Fengyuan, Jingguo

At the north gate of Yangzhou City, at noon in August, the sun is so poisonous that it is like being dipped in chili pepper water, and there is no shady place on the open street, and the sweat beads of people are rolling down.

The street vendor, holding a fan in his hand, kept fanning, without any energy, muttering in his mouth, as if he was scolding the ghost weather, and it seemed like praying, hoping to cool down.

Under the towering city walls, Ma Anbang's face did not show too much unhappiness because of the heat, compared to others, he was very excited, as if he was in the shade of a tree, holding the ice cubes specially provided in the palace, and he didn't feel the heat!

He ignored the fact that these people looked at him like a fool at the schoolmaster who was guarding the gate, and he looked at the people out of the city with the eyes of an eagle in armor in search of prey!

There are only two words in the hearts of all the people who have been glanced at by him, shivering, uh, it should be disgusting, because the excited expression on his face is like a courtship rooster!

"Hey, I said Lao Ma, your news is accurate, I've been waiting for almost an hour, I haven't waited for them, I'm hot and out of breath first! If people don't come again, Lao Tzu can go home and sleep! The man next to Ma Anbang was talking, and he was fanning the wind with a fan that he didn't know where he had found it!

"You still can't trust me in our fateful friendship, if it weren't for your good relationship with Lao Zhu, could I call you for such a good errand? The lord of the court can say that as long as it is done, it will be a great credit, and we don't have to guard the city gate here! ”

Although Ma Anbang said to Zhu Wuye with a proud face, he also muttered in his heart, why didn't the big man in the court inform others of such an important matter, but sent someone to deliver a letter to him as a small city gate official.

Just when he was thinking about it and couldn't figure it out, Zhu Wuye hammered him several times in a row, he raised his head and was about to open his mouth to swear, when he saw Zhu Wuye's hand pointing behind him.

He looked at the long procession of carriages, and the smile on the corner of his mouth could not be suppressed!

Ma Anbang knew that the time had come for him to glorify his ancestors.

Today is a good day, at least in Zhang Benliu's eyes!

Zhao Benliu held a folding fan in his hand, dressed like a businessman, and matched his immature face, a little nondescript, and a golden chrysanthemum on the back of the clothes, thinking in his heart, after delivering the goods this time, he could follow the boss to the capital to find his good friend for a few months, and the smile on his face was as bright as this golden chrysanthemum!

He saw the officers and soldiers guarding the gate at the city gate, and muttered: "At the beginning, my mother asked me to join the army, but fortunately, the young master didn't mean to be here, otherwise it would be this virtue, or now it is more comfortable!" Slowly, the smile on his face was more similar to the chrysanthemum on his body!

Ma Anbang at the gate of the city was laughing.

Zhang Benliu, who was riding a horse, was laughing.

The people in Tsing Yi in the teahouse are laughing.

More than a dozen carriages, dragging sacks full of sacks, against the blazing sun, marched towards the city gate step by step. Zhang Benliu, who was riding on a horse, also noticed the two at the city gate, but he didn't take it too seriously.

Before Zhang Benliu arrived at the city gate, Ma Anbang pointed at Zhang Benliu, who was in the lead, and shouted: "The people in front of them got off the horse, and the three cars in the back, parked on the side, there is an order from above today, whether it is people or goods who go out of the city, they must be checked!" He laughed at the fruit vendor next to him, and the people in front of him didn't stop him, and when he saw the boy on horseback, he asked people to stop, could it really be the rooster in heat!

Zhang Benliu didn't have time to think about the hawker's thoughts, he could see that this person was coming at him, or pretended to be calm, dismounted, and waved his hand to let the people behind park the car on the side of the road. He walked up to Ma Anbang and said with a smile: "The official seems to have an opinion on me, a serious businessman who sells fruits, and you don't stop the convoy in front, what's wrong with me?" ”

Ma Anbang replied impatiently: "Whether it is serious or not, you have to check it to know!" After speaking, he walked towards the three carriages, Zhang Benliu hurriedly stopped Ma Anbang, took a bag of silver and put it in Ma Anbang's hand, and said with a smile: "Official, I am in a hurry, I don't have much in my hand, so I will honor you and my brothers with this little bit!" ”

I don't know if it's because of the hot weather, or because Ma Anbang is overly nervous about checking the carriage, Zhao Benliu's money bag was soaked in the palm of his hand at this time, his eyes kept looking at the sack on the carriage, and said: "Official, we are all sending this to the adults in the capital, if you open it, I can't explain it!" ”

Ma Anbang waved away the money bag in his hand with one hand, strode to the carriage, looked back at Zhao Benliu coldly, pulled out the knife on his waist, and said: "Lao Tzu, no matter who you send it to, when you get to Lao Tzu, it's up to me!" As soon as the words fell, the bright knife went in and out of the sack, and the white particles in the sack flowed down the mouth.

Zhu Wuye, who was on the side, squatted on the ground, pinched a handful and put it on the palm of his hand, looked up and asked, "Didn't you say it was a fruit, what is this?" Zhao Benliu hurriedly patted his head and said: "It must be that the housekeeper installed the wrong thing when he went out, how did he put the sugar at home on the carriage, and he must teach these begging things a good lesson when he goes back!" As he spoke, he walked back, his eyes still looking at the terrain around him.

"Don't fart to Lao Tzu, this is fucking salt, private salt, brothers, take these people down for me!" Ma Anbang shouted

The first to move was Zhu Wuye, who got up and directly put down the two people on the side of the carriage, and the other dozen people behind pulled out the knives on the carriage, and suddenly the scene became chaotic, Zhao Benliu saw that the big thing was not good, and he turned around and was about to slip away.

Ma Anbang saw that Zhao Benliu was going to run and reached out to catch it, but he didn't think about it, but he was directly blocked by Zhao Benliu with the fan in his hand, and he stumbled himself, Ma Anbang thought that he was in this Yangzhou City, as long as he was not a person with the strength of Andinghou, the person who could compete with him, designated no, he felt that it must have been an accident just now, and when he thought of losing face in front of so many brothers, he couldn't help but be angry, got up, roared, and directly slashed the tiger and tiger with the knife in his right hand towards Zhao Benliu, But he was parried by the fan in the other party's hand!

came and went, there was no way to take Zhao Benliu, and Zhu Wuye on the side took the others to tie up the dozen or so people who were watching the car, and then came to help Ma Anbang deal with him.

The three of them suddenly fought together, and the horsewhip in Zhu Wuye's hand was thrown like a poisonous snake, sometimes up and sometimes down, and the moves were aimed at the vital point, but they couldn't even touch the other party, and they were all avoided.

Zhao Benliu shuttled around the two like visiting a vegetable market, the fan in his hand kept hitting the two of them, Ma Anbang's knife, Zhu Wuye's whip, under this fan, like a student who was taught by a teacher, he didn't even dare to raise his head, and at this time Ma Anbang realized that this was a master he couldn't compare! Zhao Benliu had no intention of killing, hit Ma Anbang's neck with a fan on his right, and punched Zhu Wuye in the chest, and the two of them immediately half lay on the ground!

"You are a little city gate official, you really eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, you don't want to give you money, you have to get a shameless thing, phew, shameless, wait for someone to come to you, it's important for you to hurry!"

After Zhao Benliu finished speaking, he didn't care about the dozen or so people who were tied, stepped on the carriage with one foot, exerted force with one foot, and when he saw a jump, he was about to get on the horse and go!

I only heard a "whoosh" sound from the teahouse, and a teacup lid hit Zhao Benliu's waist, and Zhao Gongzi, who was originally high-spirited and dashing on the horse, fell heavily to the ground in mid-air, and couldn't move for a while.

"Which grandson who has been stabbed a thousand times, throwing things around, waiting for the master to get up and find it...!" Zhao Benliu scolded, but before he finished speaking, he was kicked hard by Ma Anbang, who had already gotten up, to the chrysanthemum on his back, and ate a mouthful of soil.

Ma Anbang's martial arts can't compare to him, but the strength of this body is not small, and he picked up Zhao Benliu again, face to face. spat in Zhao Benliu's face, and then sneered: "Your kid is still a master, and he is still a master of leg cramps!" Turning his head and looking at him, the people under his hands immediately tied Zhao Benliu into a crab and threw it next to those people.

Ma Anbang's face was happy, his mouth bloomed, and he said to Zhu Wuye: "Old Zhu, look at it, whether the brothers are all right, now just send this kid to the adult, hahahaha!" ”

Zhu Wuye was not as happy as him, only he saw the teacup lid just now. It wasn't just thrown casually, he could see the accuracy of the strength best.

But there were too many people in the teahouse, and he didn't know who threw it, and the person who could use the teacup lid as a hidden weapon, he didn't say it, and he had never heard of it. Such a master, why do you want to help the two of them, if it is sent from above, why don't you show up and take this person away!

"Lao Ma, you listen to me, just send this person to prison, don't ask for merit and reward, I don't want to know which adult asked you to do this, if the prefect asks you about this, you also said that you didn't want to catch it, I think it's enough for us to do this!" After Zhu Wuye whispered to Ma Anbang, he left holding his beaten chest.

Ma Anbang was very puzzled, caught such a big thing as a smuggler of salt, whether it was public or private, he should be rewarded for his merits, why is this Lao Zhu like this, but he thought that he was cautious, so he didn't say anything, and ordered his subordinates to pull these people and the things on the carriage to Yangzhou Mansion, covered his neck, and shouted: "Lao Zhu, wait for me!" ”

The efficiency of the officers and soldiers of Jingguo is very high, and at the gate of Yangzhou City at this moment, except for the discussion of the hawkers, the clean streets are as if nothing has happened.

On the teahouse, the man in Tsing Yi whistled and called a pigeon, he touched the head of the white pigeon with his hand, the pigeon shook his little head, as if he didn't like it very much, avoided the person, lowered his head and drank a few sips of water in the teacup.

He looked at the note that had just been tied to his feet with his two small eyes, flew out of the window, and when he turned his head, the man in Tsing Yi on the seat also disappeared, and only a teacup with a few tea leaves floating in it was left on the table!

Guangling Road, the official road from Yangzhou to Jingzhou, because of this hot and murderous day, even if there are green trees on the side of this road, there is really no one walking, but as long as it is the road, there will always be people walking.

A long procession, waving the dart flag of the word "mighty", slowly moved towards Jingzhou. I saw that behind this team, a man on a horse chased after him, shouting while riding: "The villain has something important to ask to see the fourth master!" ”

When the man in the carriage at the front of the line heard the sound, he knocked on the carriage with the big knife in his hand and signaled to stop.

The man who was driving the car shouted to the team: "Stop moving!" "The whole procession, from horses to people like machines, stopped in an instant.

Seeing that the carriage at the front of the team was hung with a gilded black dart flag, the horseman hurriedly dismounted, ran over, and half-knelt beside the carriage and said: "Fourth master, news came from Yangzhou yesterday that the sixth master was intercepted in the city, the goods were detained, and the people were also taken into prison!" ”

The person in the carriage with a gilded dart flag opened a corner of the curtain with a calloused hand, and outside the car, he could not see all his appearance, only half of his face could be seen with a beard, and this person's other hand was coiled with two jade beads, and his mouth moved slightly, and he did not make a sound for a while, he was too surprised by the news, and he was dumb for a while.

After a pause, he licked the corners of his mouth and asked, "Someone leaked the news?" The answer in the city is not there? was arrested by the people of the government, how could he get out of here and wait? Well, you go back to Yangzhou first, and when I arrive in Jingzhou, I hand over the goods, go to the capital and tell the owner, let the owner solve it, and you people who stay in Yangzhou don't do anything to add to it! ”

"Got it, Fourth Master!" When the kneeling man agreed, he got up and mounted his horse, and went back the way he came.

"Aqu, drive with peace of mind, on such a hot day, stop when you meet the tea stall, let the brothers drink a bowl of herbal tea and take a rest!" After the bearded man in the carriage finished speaking, he lowered the curtain.

Ah Qu, who was driving the car, just wanted to speak, but he seemed to think of something, dispelled the idea of asking, shouted to the back and continued to set off, leading the team to continue to move forward.

It's just that no one noticed that where they stopped just now, in the woods on the side of the road, on the highest tree inside, there was a person standing on it like a bird watching what had just happened like a play, he looked at the northbound convoy with his eyes, and kept muttering: "It's started, it's started!" ”