Yang Congyi is willing to do it, and this matter naturally falls on him. He picked out the official who was familiar with the situation.

When he came out, Yang Congyi said, "My surname is Yang, my name is Congyi, what do you call it?" ”

The official replied, "I know you, and I have beaten you ten times from forty boards." Yang Zhutou won't hold grudges, right? ”

Yang Congyi smiled, "How come, you are also businesslike, I'm not okay." ”

The official smiled, "We were worried that you would trouble us, but it seems that we are villains in the belly of a gentleman." Another day, the brothers will get a few drinks and dishes to make amends for the head catcher, and the head catcher must be appreciated. ”

Yang Congyi smiled, "Hahaha, let's be exempt from making amends, not really." ”

The official replied, "The younger brother's surname is Liu, and he is the third in the family, and everyone calls me Liu San." ”

Yang Congyi said, "Your name is random enough." ”

Liu San replied, "Poor people, it's good to be able to call out, how can there be a name." It's Yang Zhutou, you don't seem to have a bad family background, why are you here to catch up quickly? ”

Yang Congyi said with a smile, "I don't have any family background, but I studied for a few years in my early years, and it is already good luck to be able to do an errand in the government." ”

Liu San looked at him and shook his head and said, "I don't think so, Yang Zhutou, you are by no means an ordinary person, can you tell me, I won't tell others." ”

Yang Congyi smiled, "Do you know how to look?" ”

Liu San shook his head and said, "No." ”

Yang Congyi continued to laugh, "Then why do you think I'm not an ordinary person?" ”

Liu San replied, "Don't look at my low background, I have also seen many big people." I found that the way you looked, the way you walked, and sometimes even the tone of your voice were very similar to those big people. ”

Yang Congyi smiled, "Brother Liu, you are blind this time. I've been hunting in the mountains to make a living, if I didn't want to go to Lin'an to see, I guess I'd stay in the mountains for the rest of my life, otherwise I wouldn't have let you beat me dozens of boards. ”

Liu San obviously still didn't believe it, and after taking a closer look at him, he said, "Even if Yang Zhutou has an average family background, he will definitely get ahead in the future, and I won't be wrong." ”

Yang Congyi said, "Thank you for your auspicious words." Where do we go now and how do we get there? ”

Liu San said, "Go to Li Goudan's house first, I haven't paid attention to it these days, I don't know if he wants the money back." ”

Yang Congyi agreed. It's the first time he's done to do this kind of thing, so let's take a look first.

The two came to the west of the city, turned around, and arrived in front of a dilapidated stone house, Liu San said, "This is Li Goudan's house." ”

Yang Congyi took a look, the house was really broken enough, it was all made of stones, there were no windows, half of the broken wooden board was blocked, and although the roof was covered with tiles, the moss was very thick, and it looked like it had not been repaired for some years.

Yang Congyi asked, "Who else is in his family?" ”

Liu Sandao, "An old mother, a sister." ”

Yang Congyi said, "It's not easy to feed three people." ”

Liu San said, "Who said it wasn't." I hated the king, who ate his fish, and didn't give him money. ”

Suddenly, a voice came from inside the house, "Is it a dog?" ”

Liu San said in a loud voice, "Auntie, it's me, Liu San." Hearing that it was Li Dog's mother's voice, Liu San immediately replied.

Li Goudan's mother asked, "What are you doing here, Goudan and they are not at home." ”

Liu San said, "The county lord asked us to ask, did the king have given you the fish money he owes you, if not, the yamen will help you." ”

Li Goudan's mother replied, "How busy the county lord is, we make our own decisions about the affairs of the little people, and we don't bother with him." ”

Liu Sandao, "This is the county master's personal explanation, and we can't do it well, and we can't go back to pay the errand." ”

Li Goudan's mother said coldly, "Don't pretend to be a good person, if you want to help us get money, you won't catch Goudan in prison and suffer, leaving the old woman waiting for death." ”

Yang Congyi saw that the old woman in the house was not in a good tone, and quickly explained, "Auntie, we really want to help, or you tell us where Brother Goudan is, let's go find him." ”

Li Goudan's mother softened her tone and replied, "They went to the lake to fish early in the morning, and the old woman didn't know where they were. ”

Yang Congyi said, "Thank you, auntie, the government will definitely help you get the money back." Auntie, let's go. After saying that, he greeted Liu San and left the door of Li Goudan's house quickly.

Liu San sighed and said, "Where are we going to find them, the lake is so big." ”

Yang Congyi said, "You grew up here, and you haven't been to the lake to catch fish?" Never seen a fisherman fishing? Find where you frequent. ”

Liu Sandao, "When I was a child, I went to catch fish, who knows if they are there." ”

Yang Congyi said, "Go and find it, it's still early anyway." ”

Liu San didn't want to walk more, but seeing Yang Congyi's insistence, he had to agree, "Okay, I know a small road, it's faster to go to the lake." ”

The path is no longer a path, it has long been trampled into a big road, Liu San himself sighed, I didn't expect this road to be there for more than ten years, and it has become wider.

Yang Congyi knows that as long as there are people living on water, this road will not be abandoned. Maybe Li Goudan walks this road every day, and he is likely to meet them from here.

In order to find Li Goudan to complete the task as soon as possible, they quickened their pace, the key was to rub the sun up, and then the scorching sun would make it impossible for anyone to stand it, so they could only hide in the shade of the trees.

The two of them trotted all the way to the lake for about half an hour. The lake is surrounded by reeds that are more than a man high, and the closer you get to it, you can't see the water.

Yang Congyi said, "What should I do, I can't even see the water when I get to the lake." ”

Liu San looked around and said, "When we were children, we liked to play by the water, especially in the reeds, digging a hole in it, hiding in it and not basking in the sun, not to mention how comfortable it was." You see, there's not a little hole over there. ”

Yang Congyi took a closer look, and the reeds really had a small hole, and if he didn't pay attention, he thought it was naturally growing like that.

Liu Sanmao bent his waist and drilled into the small hole first, and Yang Congyi saw that there were no other suspicious places around, so he also drilled in.

The feeling of being wrapped in reeds up and down, left and right, is a little uncomfortable, and it is difficult to breathe.

Fortunately, the journey was not long, and after a while, it suddenly opened up, except for a piece of reeds that fell to the ground, and when I looked up, I saw the vast and boundless lake, as far as the eye could see, standing in a small open space like standing on the bow of a boat, driving in the boundless ocean.

In a trance, Yang Congyi felt that the sea in front of him was the sea, looking into the distance, the end of the water was the edge of the sky, the water and the sky were vast, and the sky was far away, and he was like a duckweed floating in the water, so small that he almost doubted his existence. This shock made him feel an inexplicable sadness in his heart.

"There's a fish basket in the water." Liu San's words brought Yang Congyi back to his senses, and he quickly looked down at the land, and then looked back at the reeds in his eyes, which freed him from his sad emotions.

He saw that Liu San had already lifted the fish basket out of the water, so he stepped forward to see if there was anything in the fish basket, whether it was thrown by someone else, or whether it was deliberately placed in the water.

There are fish in the basket, and there are quite a few. Yang Congyi said, "This is Li Goudan?" ”

Liu San said, "I don't know, I guess it's so tightly hidden, a little like him." ”

Hearing that he was no stranger to Li Goudan, Yang Congyi was curious, "You know him very well?" ”

Liu Sandao, "When I was a child, I knew each other very well, and I often finished together at the water's edge, and he started drilling holes in the reeds first." When I grew up, I saw less, he fished every day, and I went into the yamen to make a living. ”

Yang Congyi said again, "Then you should be familiar with Li Goudan's mother, why are we very angry when we go today." ”

Liu San said, "It's not because I'm working in the yamen, they think I'm ashamed." ”

Yang Congyi exclaimed, "Who is it to lose doing things in the Yamen?" ”

When Liu San heard this, he almost didn't believe his ears, and asked in surprise, "Only idle people who have nothing to do, or ruffians and hooligans will go to the yamen to eat, isn't it shameful enough to say that they are doing things in the yamen?" ”

Yang Congyi suddenly realized that the ancient government officials and the like, just like the city management, did not have a national establishment, and they were all for the officials to lay hands and run errands, no wonder Chen Zhixian said that if he wanted to be the head catcher, he would be the head catcher, except for the officials, the rest were all temporary workers. Although he only understands it now, he can't say that he didn't know before, so he defended, "What's the shame of this, it's all mixed food, he fishes to do things, and you work in the yamen, so you don't do things?" The things are different, but the purpose is the same, they are all making ends meet and living. You say yes, right? ”

Liu San nodded and said, "What Yang Zhutou said makes sense, I have nothing to do, so I came to the Yamen, I am indeed doing something, relying on my hands and feet to eat, no shame, yes, no shame." "Whether he can convince others, I don't know, at least he is convinced of himself now. For a long time, only in the yamen did he dare to raise his head to speak, because everyone was the same, once he left the yamen, he did not dare to raise his head, and even his voice became smaller, and it was the same when he returned home.

Yang Congyi looked at the fish in the fish basket, they were not very big, but they were not small, one foot long, there were four or five. The gap in the basket is too big to hold small fish, and I can see the small fish in the water swimming in and out of the basket, free.

Liu San lifted the fish basket that had just been put into the water onto the reeds and said, "I'll see how many fish there are, and I can sell them for a few pennies." ”

Yang Congyi hurriedly stopped, "Don't kill the fish, dead fish is not easy to sell, hurry up and release it into the water." ”

Liu San said while counting the fish, "How can it be so easy to die, this fish has a long life." Yo, it's a lot, six big fish, can be sold for six or seven hundred dollars. ”

When Yang Congyi heard him say this, he also leaned over to take a look, and saw that the fish was jumping alive in the basket, not like being motionless in the water as if it was dead. Seeing that in addition to the fish, there were many crabs and scares in the basket that could not climb out, so he asked, "How much can these crabs and shrimps be sold for?" ”

Liu San said, "This thing is troublesome to eat, and it doesn't fill your stomach, so there are not many people who buy it." ”

Yang Congyi thinks about it, eating crabs and shrimps, what you want is to have spare money and leisure aspirations, how can ordinary people enjoy it?

Sitting on the soft reeds makes me feel comfortable, and I want to lie down when I sit comfortably.

Yang Congyi lay quietly, looking at the white clouds, listening to the sound of the water's edge, smelling the breath of reeds and earth, the whole person even calmed down, this moment is peaceful, carefree and peaceful, fluttering, wandering outside the world.