Thousands of miles away from Qingniling, Xiangyang is still prosperous.

On the Hanshui River that goes around the city, thousands of boats and thousands of merchants gather. Along the Hanshui River, Fancheng in the north, Xiangyang in the south, the two banks form a river street six or seven miles long, more than 30 wharves of all kinds are in between, large and small ships are moored in them, one next to the other, densely packed, such as two wooden walls sandwiching the shore opposite, the sails of various colors of white and black and the colorful flags hanging on the bow flutter in the wind. The newly arrived ships sailed through the river between the walls, and the sailors on board and the merchants on the shore shouted at each other, bustling with each other, rendering the important town of Xiangyang as magnificent as an ink painting in the prosperous era.

When there are many people, there are all kinds of birds, just like when the forest is big, there are all kinds of birds.

Xiangyang as an important cargo transfer station, all kinds of people from all over the country gather, the south of the tea to the north, the north of the leather goods to the south, all kinds of accents in the south of the sea and the north of the world rise and fall one after another on the street, donkeys and horses and camels side by side, coats and green shirts on the same road, cultural collisions, customs abound.

Different customs and habits in various places, it is inevitable that some people laugh at each other, the north is not used to the south of the people of the chicken, the south is not used to the northerners of the thick branches and leaves, generally speaking, secretly laughing and laughing, but when you encounter a bad temper, a word does not agree with the neighbors at the table, it is also a common thing.

At this moment, on the Xiangyang side of Linhe Street, on a salt wharf, a group drama is being staged.

Generally speaking, the wharf is a place of right and wrong, and the place where merchants gather means that the wealth is huge, and those who smell the smell of money are all people who want to get rich, some of them are honest and some are extremely vicious.

Gang figures, ruthless gangsters, frequent haunts of the three sects and nine streams, in order to get money for interests, some people at both ends of the three days are fighting here, thousands of people rely on these docks to eat, and the control of a dock is basically soaked in human blood, and the patrol officers of Xiangyang Mansion are accustomed to this, and they are not surprised.

Zhao Si, the head catcher, with a group of his brothers, hanging an iron ruler from his waist and holding a chain in his hand, was hurrying towards the salt dock where the fight was taking steps.

Beside him, a young man with a young face looked a little uneasy, he was thin, the black crewneck shirt on him did not fit well, it was too big, the cuffs and hem were fanned one by one when he ran, and the head of the head shook and shaking, which made him look a little funny.

This image made Zhao Si a little dissatisfied, he glanced back, his brows furrowed.

"Boy, get some spirits!" He scolded: "If your father hadn't had a lifelong friendship with me, I wouldn't have let you wear this outfit for a little stunned." Since you have put it on, you have to take out the style of our Xiangyang Mansion, don't wear a dragon robe like the prince, it's not promising! ”

The young man agreed, and the other officer with a slick face sneered: "Isn't this the first day of the errand? Brother Zhang must have been a little nervous, and the person who fought in front of him heard that he was a Khitan again, and he was fierce and abnormal, which made him even more afraid. ”

"I'm afraid of a bird!" Zhao Si pouted, not caring: "On the land of Xiangyang Mansion, except for the prefect, we are the biggest!" Outsiders from ten miles and eight towns, whether they are Khitan or Semu, they all have to obey me! Otherwise, grandpa's iron ruler doesn't recognize people! When we get to the ground, we all puff up our chests, and whoever doesn't listen to the call will clean up first, no matter which side it is, we have to recognize the blade in our hands! ”

"Yes! Listen to Zhao Tou! ”

A group of servants who surrounded him behind him agreed and rushed through the street. The people on the street heard the sound and found that it was the official errand of Xiangyang Mansion, and they all panicked to the side of the road, and there were also street idlers, seeing the brigade of officials running in the direction of the wharf river street, knowing that there must be a lively to see, laughing and falling far behind, and when Zhao Si and others ran to the river street, there were one or two hundred spectators gathered behind.

Zhao Si scolded the young man surnamed Zhang in his mouth, but he took good care of him in action, and when he was about to enter the ground of River Street, he turned his head sideways and admonished.

"Little brother, when it's time to get down, if it's an ordinary crowd fight, just disperse, if someone is injured, it's really a life lawsuit, then you have to take someone. The troublemakers on the wharf on River Street are all outlaws, you wait and follow me, be careful, this place is not as peaceful as when you used to do business with your father, and if you are not careful, you will be stabbed. Zhao Si warned.

The young man surnamed Zhang nodded, and followed by his side: "Uncle Zhao, don't worry, when my father was still alive, I followed him to traffic tea as far away as the desert, and bandits and horse thieves have also seen it, and I have also practiced a few hard kung fu tricks in my hands, and I can't get close to ordinary splashing skin." ”

"Oh." Zhao Si didn't expect that his distant nephew would also be able to do kung fu, so he couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and felt that this skinny little boy was not very powerful, but it was not good to do the work of the public without skills, and he would be able to do some kung fu.

So Zhao Si said a word to follow up again, and broke into River Street with a team of wolf-like dukes.

The salt wharf is located in the middle of the river street, it is the widest wharf on the Hanshui River, it can accommodate five big ships to moor at the same time, the flooded stairs built of bluestone slabs have been repaired from the river to the river street, a magnificent archway stands in front of the wharf, the stone lion squats on both sides, the couplet is painted on the top, and the four big characters of "Xiangyang Yanli" are vigorous and powerful.

There are usually salt supervisors stationed here, all the salt ships in and out of Xiangfan are counted and taxed, and there are dozens of wharves in Xiangfan, only here can accommodate salt ships to dock, and if there are salt merchants who dare to place goods elsewhere, they will all be punished as private salt.

So here is the perennial people, the fat-headed and big-eared salt merchants take square steps, fold their chins and hook up with the squinting salt officials, the dark-skinned porters struggle to carry up and down the carloads of white salt under the sharp gaze of the salt dings, the sailors at the bow of the ship slam the gangplanks on the bluestone slabs, and the small traders in tattered clothes and shoes rush up and sell their worthless things to the crowd who have come off the boats.

All kinds of sounds are mixed together, converging into a unique movement of the Dasong River Transport Wharf.

It is mixed with the sound of angry scolding and ping-pong, which is not so prominent.

Under the archway of the wharf, a large group of people are blocking there, blocking the only passage in and out of the wharf, the porters pushing the cart can not enter, shouting and scolding outside, but to no avail, watching the lively people from everywhere, the inside and outside of the three layers of the road is blocked, and the rats can not enter and exit.

Catching fast is naturally different from porters, they are very violent, and they can do it without moving their mouths. Zhao Si waved the iron ruler and hit the crowd blocking the way without any force, and scolded angrily: "Your mother, what are you doing here?" Look at your mother? Get out of here! ”

A group of errand servants followed suit, punching and kicking: "The public does things, and the irrelevant people retreat!" ”

The crowd was like a sheep frightened by a lion, all of them hugged their heads and scurried, and they ran slowly with fists, kicks and sticks, screaming and crawling away, and quickly gave way to a road.

Zhao Si hummed and walked in, and as soon as he stepped under the big archway, he saw people fighting.

The two groups of people were beating each other, a group of people wearing linen cloth robes, all with slanted eyebrows and crooked eyes, at first glance, they were idlers who had been eating and drinking on the dock all year round, and several of them Zhao Si still recognized, they were all brave and ruthless prodigals, and they didn't cause trouble for themselves.

Zhao Si frowned, his heart was displeased, and then he looked at the other group of people who had seen these ordinary people fighting like avoiding the plague, but it was a group of Hu people.