Chapter 40: Mushroom Cloud
The boat on the river was erected with a big flag, a white flag, and a huge line of ink characters embroidered on it, "Mention the Fourth Road Criminal Prison Division in Western Sichuan", and five or six people wearing official robes stood on the bow of the boat, pointing and pointing at both sides of the river from time to time. There are small boats cruising around, driving away some of the fishing boats that have no eyesight.
The official robes were the men of the prison department, the escort was the van soldiers, and the three boats marched at the tail of the tail, and the archers with bows and crossbows on the side of the ships patrolled the river, and the villagers and townsmen along the way were staring at the shore, and the whole fleet looked well-defended and foolproof.
The eldest grandson Hong looked at the other side of the small wharf, and there was also a group of people standing there, it was the richest man in the village, Li Xian, Li Daguanren, the deputy Baozheng Li Yi and a group of thugs brought by them.
This group of people should be the trend of the times, embroidered with tattoos, on their hands and legs, very similar to the posture of the underworld in later generations, Changsun Hong frowned, leaned towards his father, he is not used to standing so close to the underworld.
"Eldest grandson Baozheng, have the inspections at the intersection been arranged? The orders of the imperial court cannot be careless. Li Xian saw that the fleet was approaching, and opened his mouth to shout at Changsun Hao.
Eldest Sun Hao frowned, turned his head and replied: "Don't worry, Li Guanren has been arranged, and a suspicious character will not be let go." ”
Li Xian nodded with satisfaction, and said: "The county lieutenant specially sent someone to say hello a few days ago, and asked us to be strictly careful, the person arrested this time is a big man from the Tang Sect, and those remnants of the Southern Tang Dynasty will definitely not give up, and they have to fight up the spirit of twelve points." We must not have an accident on our river. ”
Changsun Hao lowered his head and replied "yes", turned his head, and looked at the river again with an expressionless face. Changsun Jin kept holding his Pu knife and looked at the three boat soldiers with a smile, as if he was reminiscing about his previous days in the army.
The fleet is getting closer and closer, there is a cruising boat around the three big boats close to the shore, the people on the boat are waving to this side, Li Xian hurriedly stood a step forward, bowed to the people on the boat in return, the boat leaned slightly towards this side and left, and continued to move forward, while Li Xian stood on the dock and waved his hand for a long time.
The fleet slowly moved away in the sound of the slender man's horn, until it disappeared at the bend of the river, leaving the river range of Lijia Village, the three members of the eldest grandson family were relieved, but Li Xian on one side seemed to be very interested, and loudly said to a group of people behind him, listening to the meaning of his words, the person on the small boat just now was the county lieutenant of Shizhao County, and he leaned over to say hello to him Li Xian.
A group of people in the rivers and lakes all said flattering words, which made Li Xian even more happy, he turned around and said to the eldest grandson Hao reservedly: "Let's all withdraw, it's none of our business, come to my house tonight, everyone will have a drink!" ”
A group of people made an uproar, saying that Li Daguan was righteous, and Changsun Hao also arched his hand in response to the situation, but he didn't say to go, and he didn't say no.
There was no one on the small wharf soon, Changsun Hong followed his father and second uncle back home, this kind of thing has nothing to do in the village, the government is like a big enemy is just to deter possible fanatics and rob people, to tell the truth, in Changsun Hong's opinion, if you want to keep up with hundreds of soldiers on this kind of wide river with a very fast current, you may need an army. Therefore, the eldest grandson brother didn't pay much attention at all, and took people to deal with the errand, and Li Xian brought people over with great fanfare, just to let the county lieutenant who accompanied him see how loyal he was.
In any case, the matter passed, and there were no accidents, and the three official boats carrying the prisoners went smoothly to the parade and broke away from the scope of Lijia Village, even if a flash flood suddenly broke out in front of the fleet and destroyed the fleet or thousands of people from the Tang Sect swam to kill them, there was nothing to do in Lijia Village.
The farmers did not have the habit of eating lunch, so they ate some vegetables and vegetables, and the eldest grandson brothers did not even put their weapons home, but went directly to the fields, and there was still a lot of farm work to be done.
The eldest grandson was allowed to go home, and the scholars were allowed to focus on their homework. Before leaving, Chang Sun Jin blinked vigorously, meaning that Chang Sun Hong understood, this was to ask him not to abandon his martial arts practice.
Slipping back to the village, Changsun Hong bypassed the village entrance and went up the mountain, the dog was already waiting there, with the grace of the three hundred copper coins, the dog family was no longer worried about the tax money, after paying the court taxes, there was still a lot left, the dog father deliberately let the dog wind, so that he only needed half a day to go up the mountain to chop wood, and the rest of the time could be used freely, so this guy spent much more time in the private martial arts training ground on the mountain than Changsun Hong.
The two of them took a moment of stride, and began to wave their fists at the sandbags tied to the trunks of the trees, and the cool breeze in the forest made them sweat like rain, and their fists rained down. After more than two months of physical training and basic martial arts practice, the bodies of both of them have strengthened a lot, the fists that go out are whirring, the sound of hunting, and the trunks of ordinary people's two thighs are under the repeated punches of the two, even if there are sandbags, they are still swaying left and right, and the leaves are "swishing" and falling, and it seems that there is a danger of breaking at any time.
The more the two practiced, the more excited they became, and they began to follow the professor of the eldest grandson, and began to practice blocking, this kind of practice is very simple, it is a routine, a person swings a fist and a personality block, and the practice is proficiency, to achieve the same conditioned reflex when fighting with people, the fist that comes to fight freely is blocked, only this seemingly boring and monotonous practice.
The practice is in full swing, the eldest grandson Hong hit the dog's face with a straight fist, the dog immediately put his hands on the shelf, sealed the punch, although the two are practicing, but they used all their strength, this punch down, only to hear the ear "boom!" There was a loud sound like the earth shaking the mountains.
The whole mountain is moving, the trees all over the mountain are shaking, Changsun Hong and the dog are stunned, no matter what, Changsun Hong's punch will not cause such a big movement, and the dog's arms are not steel and iron bones. After a moment of daze, Changsun Hong's first reaction was: There was an earthquake!?
Wrong! The tremor was only a momentary thing, and the feet were back to the same as before, and the loud noise sounded not like an earthquake, but a bit like a ...... Explode!
Changsun Hong retracted his fist and looked left and right, but saw the dog on the opposite side with his mouth wide open, stretched out his finger behind him, and stammered: "Smoke!" Smoke! Smoke! There's smoke there! ”
Looking back, Changsun Hong immediately saw that outside the forest and in the distance of the mountains, a black pillar of smoke soared up and soared into the sky.
The aftermath of the explosion is still lingering in the ears, the echo in the mountains is endless, the black smoke column is so conspicuous in the blue sky and white clouds without a trace of haze, even if it is far away, Changsun Hong can still see that he is calmer than a dog, so he can quickly distinguish that it is not a burning smoke column, but a very special cloud.
"Mushroom cloud, this is mushroom cloud!" The eldest grandson Hong rushed forward a few steps, came to the middle of the clearing, and looked up: "The mushroom cloud of gunpowder explosion!" ”