Zhenjiang Mansion, Kang Family, Kang Damao sat at the dinner table with his head drooping, his eyes blank.

"Shaodong, today I made your favorite braised saury, eat two more bowls of rice." In the kitchen, Mama Zhang brought a plate of dishes that looked delicious, and said enthusiastically.

Saury? Kang Damao remembered that the first time he came to Zhenjiang Mansion was when Dabin took him to catch saury, and then came back and asked Zhang's mother to cook it, and the two guys rushed to eat a plate of braised saury.

The two also went down to the river to swim together, slept together on a small boat for a long time, and even fought with the town's scoundrels together......

Kang Damao picked up a piece of fish meat with chopsticks and put it in his mouth, he swallowed his throat dryly, and tears flowed down his eyes as he ate.

"Mom Zhang, don't make saury anymore." Kang Damao put down his chopsticks, got up and walked back to the room.

Three days later, the Shen family held a funeral, and Shen Luobin went out for the funeral.

Kang Damao was wearing filial piety clothes and wearing filial piety, and came to the Shen family in front of Shen Luobinling, ready to pay tribute, and was surrounded by everyone in the Shen family as soon as he entered the gate of the Shen family.

"You hurt my son, do you dare to come? Someone, arrest him. Shen Yuhai gave an order, and more than a dozen caretakers immediately surrounded him and directly pressed Kang Damao to the ground.

Kang Damao didn't resist at all, but just looked up at Dabin's spirit card and said, "I just want to come to pay tribute to Dabin." ”

"Give him to me and beat him to death." Shen Yuhai's eyes were red, the hatred of killing his son was not shared, he pointed at Kang Damao and roared at the nursing home.

"Let him go! I said let him go. Shen Luojun rushed out in a white filial piety dress at this time, and after speaking, she pushed away the nursing home and blocked directly in front of Kang Damao.

"Jun'er, are you crazy? This is your brother's murderer. Shen Yuhai couldn't believe his eyes, he knew that his daughter had always liked this kid, but this was an enmity that was not shared.

"Dad, revenge is going to be avenged, but not today, let Dabin go with peace of mind, Dad, please." Shen Luojun said with tears in his eyes.

Shen Yuhai was so angry that he was trembling all over, but after looking at his son's spirit card, he gritted his teeth and said, "Beat him out with a stick, and you must not step into my Shen family from now on, otherwise, you will be beaten to death with a stick." ”

Kang Damao was beaten with a stick, bruised all over his body, he didn't feel the pain in his body at all, the whole person was like a lost soul, walking towards the river alone, until he came to the Xijin Ferry, looking at the churning river, which was the place where Dabin drowned.

Kang Damao hasn't slept a peaceful sleep in the past few days, as long as he closes his eyes, his mind is the shadow of Dabin, he lies on the big bluestone by the dock and looks up at the sky, with tears flowing from the corners of his eyes.

With the sound of the river beating the bluestone on the shore again and again, he fell asleep unconsciously, and in his dream, he and Dabin lay side by side on the boat and looked at the blue sky in a daze.

"Brother Da Mao, don't sleep, something happened."

Kang Damao was shaken and woke up from his sleep.

"Erhu, what's wrong?" Kang Damao stretched his waist and was in much better spirits.

"We have opened another grain farm on the other side of the river in Kangjia Grain Village." Erhu said anxiously.

"What's the problem? There are more grain farms in the town, can you manage it? Kang Damao was unimpressed.

"Of course there is a problem, the name of their store is so annoying that it is called to defeat the Kang family grain village, and they also put up a sign at the door, which reads: The purchase price of grain is always one percent lower than that of the Kang family." Erhu said angrily.

Is that okay too? This is clearly trying to our Kang family!

Kang Damao suddenly felt that this matter was a little strange, got up and took Erhu back to the store, standing on the Kangjia wharf at the entrance of the store, Kang Damao looked at the grain ship docked on the dock of "Defeat Kangjia Grain Village" opposite, and his eyes narrowed.

The white flag on the bow of the grain ship had a big "Cao" written on it with a black brush, and it turned out to be the Cao Gang? This shows that this newly opened grain farm is taking the official road, two possibilities, the first is that the grain farm is government-run, and the second is that the grain village has something to do with the Cao Gang, and it has made a bloody investment.

Just as Kang Damao was thinking about how to deal with it, Shopkeeper Sun hurriedly brought someone over, who was a guy from the Luohe Kangjia head office.

"Shao Dongjia, something is wrong, the ten boats of grain a few days ago have not yet arrived in Luohe, the owner sent Xiao Si all the way along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to Cui Liang, all the way to Zhenjiang Mansion, I didn't see our ten grain ships along the way." Shopkeeper Sun stomped his feet anxiously after speaking.

Xiao Si next to him wiped the sweat on his forehead and told Kang Damao about the situation along the way.

It's strange, is it an accident? It is impossible to capsize the ship, if there is such a big movement as the capsizing boat, it would have spread throughout the entire Zhenjiang Mansion a long time ago, and it is even more impossible for ten ships to capsize together, and there is not even a person who comes back to report the news.

Kang Damao squatted on the ground and meditated, unless, someone was detained on the Grand Canal with the boat and people.

Who has that much ability? Out of the corner of his eye, Kang Damao inadvertently caught a glimpse of the word "Cao" on the boat next to "Defeat the Kang Family Grain Village" in the river, and he chuckled in his heart.

In the evening, Kangjia Grain Village closed early, and the guys closed the door of the store with a piece of wood, and Kang Damao called several important persons in charge of the Kangjia Grain Village branch to the back hall to have a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

As soon as a few people sat down, they remembered a hurried knock outside the door, and the guy ran out to see, there was not even a figure at the door, but there was a mysterious note left on the ground, and the guy took the note and handed it to Kang Damao.

Kang Damao read the note and said slowly: "The note said that the grain is in the hands of the Cao Gang. ”

"Shao Dong, why didn't the other party tell me directly, secretly stuffed the note, be careful of fraud."

"If that's the case, it's going to be troublesome, and the Cao Gang is not easy to mess with."

"So our grain was robbed as soon as we entered the canal and arrived in Yangzhou?"

"Our ten boatloads of grain are military rations forwarded to the capital in the Luo River, and if we lose them, something will happen."

A few people in the room whispered.

"In this way, I wrote a letter and sent it to Luohe overnight, first, to ask my father to quickly allocate food in case of accidents; the second is to let his father go to the Cao Yun Commander, and the Cao Gang is under the jurisdiction of the Governor of River Transport; The shopkeeper Sun is looking after the house, and the second tiger will follow me to the helmsman of the Yangzhou Cao Gang early tomorrow morning. Kang Damao made a decisive decision.

After dismissing everyone, Kang Damao went into the study alone, and he checked all the information recorded by the Cao Gang.

Then he went to the shopkeeper Sun to get some things before returning to the bedroom, lying on the bed he stared at the beams of the room, thinking about what might happen tomorrow, he simply made a deduction, this is his habit, for important things in advance in the mind to deduce.

On the second day, the sky was still bright, Kang Damao took the two tigers to go north to Yangzhou by boat, Cao Gang, Xiang Yunlong, you are the Longtan Tiger's Den, I will also go to break through.

Just after Kang Damao left, there was a person standing on the Hongqiao on the river surface of the ancient town, he looked at the canopy boat that was gradually moving away, with his hands behind his back, with a sneer.

"Dad, why do you use such despicable means?" Shen Luojun ran to the Hongqiao in one breath and said angrily when he saw that the ship had gone away.

"Why? Don't forget that he killed your brother, are you surnamed Shen or Kang? Shen Yuhai turned his head and roared with a hideous expression.

"Dad, he didn't mean to, I'm going to chase him back." Shen Luojun said and ran towards a canopy boat docked by the river.

"You, you're going to be angry with me, come here, take her home for me and lock her up, and don't be allowed to leave the Shen Mansion for half a step for seven days." Shen Yuhai rushed under the bridge and ordered, and immediately went over and a few people pulled Shen Luojun off the boat and took him back to the mansion.

"Steward Wang, please tell me, will it be dangerous for Da Mao to go this time, and my father won't really want to hurt him, right?" In the Shen Mansion, Shen Luojun pulled the sleeve of the Wang housekeeper and begged bitterly.

Steward Wang shook his head and said slowly: "I'm afraid that there will be no return!" ”

Yangzhou Cao Gang helm, in the hall, Xiang Yunlong, the leader of the Cao Gang, sat on the main seat, there were two deputy gang leaders sitting on the left and right sides, and the rest of the people were separated on both sides, sitting or standing, no less than forty or fifty people in the entire hall, all staring at Kang Damao in the field.

"I said, there is no one in your Kang family? Send you a little doll. A deputy gang leader on the left, nicknamed "One-Eyed Dragon", glared at Kang Damao viciously with his remaining big eye, and at first glance he was definitely not a good type.

The Cao Gang has three dragons, Xiang Yunlong, Mixed River Dragon, and One-Eyed Dragon.

As soon as the one-eyed dragon said this, Kang Damao was sure that the grain was indeed in the Cao Gang, and the other party had premeditated it.