Text Chapter 87 Xiao Jiasui
Thirty or forty miles west of Xuyi County, there is a barren mountain, and there is a Wuxian temple on the side of the small river below the foot of the mountain, which is already in disrepair, and after days of wind and rain, it is even more dilapidated.
Recently, more than 100 victims have come to the temple, but compared with ordinary victims, they are a little different, the most significant thing is that they are more calm, and they do not have that helpless and sad look.
At this moment, two men were sitting opposite the entrance of the temple, talking.
"Brother Lu Cheng, the disaster relief in Dawangzhuang is clear."
The person who asked was a man in white who was nearly thirty years old, only to see his sword eyebrows and starry eyes, three short beards, and his own extraordinary bearing.
"It has been found out, I heard that it was made by a small official named Yumian Meng, the victims used to eat enough, not to mention, if they are willing to stay and do things for them, make other arrangements, and if they are unwilling, they will also be given 200 yuan per person for the travel expenses, I have asked many groups of victims, and they generally say that it should be correct."
This is called Lu Cheng, a big man with a height of eight meters, I saw him with a mustache and a mouth, a square face and broad shoulders, eyebrows and round eyes, so he was so powerful.
"This little official is so bold that he has done such a great righteous deed, which is admirable."
"Who said no, I asked all the way, that person is not a mouthless compliment, Mr. Xiao, let's go to his place, we will not suffer." After some inquiry, Na Lu Cheng already admired the jade-faced Meng Wei very much.
"It's okay to vote for him, but a difficult matter in front of us must be solved first, more than 100 of us, nearly half of women and children, but only a few dozen catties of surplus grain, here to Dawangzhuang is forty or fifty miles away, if we can't raise food, how did we get there." Mr. Xiao said worriedly.
"We don't have any money, this hellish place is there to raise food, Mr. Xiao, it's better to ...... like this." Na Lu Cheng whispered in the ear of the man in white.
"You can see it accurately." After listening to this, Mr. Xiao asked in a deep voice.
"You can't be wrong." Lu Cheng is more sure.
Let's say that there is a small set on the Huaishui side of the north of the Wuxian Temple two or three miles away. In the afternoon of this day, a cargo ship docked, and two men from the ship went to the collection to seek medical treatment, saying that a companion suddenly had diarrhea. However, the set is too small, there is no clever doctor, the only one Tulang Zhong prescribed a prescription for him to serve, and it did not get better, a boatload of people was at a loss, but a man in white who claimed to be Langzhong came to the shore, and the guys seemed to be personable and not like a layman, so they invited him in.
"This fellow must have eaten something unclean and unclean that caused diarrhea." The white-clothed man said after some diagnosis.
"Yes, when he was sailing in the morning, he said that he was thirsty, so he took a scoop of river water and ate it." Then a guy suddenly remembered.
"The root of the disease is here, the current flood, all kinds of dirt flow into the Huaishui, raw food river water is naturally easy to get sick, I open a party to take it, and see if it can be effective." Anyway, the white-clothed man wrote a side with a pen.
On the other hand, the guy took it, hurriedly went to the set to grab the medicine, and when he came back, he hurriedly fried it and let him take it. Unexpectedly, it was also miraculous, not long after the guy took it, the diarrhea actually stopped, and the boatload was overjoyed, and the owner hurriedly sealed a bag of silver to thank him.
"It's just a coincidence that I met today, but the honorarium is not necessary, I see that the ship seems to be heading west, and I am trying to go to Zhaoxin, if it is convenient for the owner to give me a ride, and if this guy has a repetition on the way, he can't say that he can still use it." But Na Langzhong didn't want to be paid, just to take a ride.
Seeing that Lang Zhong was alone and a weak scholar, the shipowner agreed without hesitation, and then untied the cable and set sail.
The boat was not far away, but he saw Na Langzhong take a few medicines from his luggage, soak them in boiling water, and drink them as tea.
"Sir, what is the effect of these medicinal soups?" The owner of the ship looked at the rarity and asked curiously.
"The proprietor doesn't know, every great disaster must have a great epidemic, and we sail in the river, and drink the river water every day, although it is boiled, but it is inevitable that in case, my medicinal soup will have the effect of prevention."
When the owner of the boat heard that it had such a good use, he thought that he was sailing in the river every day, and he was using it, so he asked for it.
"If the owner wants it, how dare he refuse, I will get off the ship tomorrow, and these will be sent to the owner, but there are many guys on the boat, and they get along every day, and everyone must prevent it, so that nothing goes wrong."
"What the gentleman said is reasonable, so I ordered the kitchen to fry it and divide it among everyone." The owner of the ship was very grateful when he saw that Lang Zhong was thinking about him everywhere.
After another journey, it was getting late in the evening, due to the flooding of the Huai River, the channel was complicated and inconvenient to travel at night, so the cargo ship leaned on a small wharf for the night. After dinner, a boatload of people all took Langzhong's medicinal soup. After about half an hour, a boatload of people yawned and fought with their eyelids, and each found a place to sleep.
After that Lang Zhong inspected a circle, he carried a lantern to hang on the mast, and after half an hour, more than ten men came to the place where the boat stopped, and the leader was the big man called Lu Cheng, and this Lang Zhong was dressed by Mr. Xiao, it turned out that when Lu Cheng was inquiring about the news in the morning, he saw the boat, and saw that it had a deep draft, and the boat was covered with a rain awning. Coincidentally, his group was short of food, so he discussed with Mr. Xiao the plan to hijack the ship, and the two made an agreement at that time that if things went well, it would be convenient to hang a lantern on the mast, otherwise they would only wait until late at night to attack.
Mr. Xiao put down the gangplank and let the group go into the boat.
"Mr. Xiao, what's the trouble?" Na Lu Cheng asked.
"It's surprisingly smooth, those guys are now asleep in the barn, and they are tied up and locked up in one place, and people are watching them all alive." Mr. Xiao commanded.
"It's better to kill it cleanly, so as not to cause trouble." Lu Cheng gestured and said fiercely.
"It's better to keep it for now, maybe it will be useful later." Mr. Xiao thought for a moment and said.
Lu Cheng stopped talking when he heard this, so he took people to do things. After a while, I saw him running over again, and said excitedly: "Mr. Xiao, it is indeed a warehouse full of grain." ”
Mr. Xiao smiled, obviously already knowing. I saw that he took out a letter of silver, handed it to Nalucheng, and instructed him to take a few people back overnight, rent a few boats in the collection tomorrow morning, and take a boat to Dawangzhuang together, so as to save those women and children from running around and suffering.
Early in the morning of the second day, Mr. Xiao led everyone, turned the bow of the boat and went downstream, and arrived at the small set at noon, Lu Cheng had already hired a boat to wait, and the two sides merged into one and went straight down the river. In the evening of the same day, several boats arrived outside Xuyi City, and the fleet did not dare to stop and move forward for a while, until they reached Guishan Town. Mr. Xiao and Lu Cheng asked everyone to go ashore and send the rented boat back. A group of people spent one night in Guishan Town, and the next day they rented a few boats and headed for Dawangzhuang.
Let's say that Gu Haotian has been busy these days, the fleet has sent three more batches, transporting nearly 3,000 people, at present, he not only has no ships available, but also no manpower, the first three batches of Ruan Xiaowu, Sun An, Gu Bo escorted, the last three batches he only had Yu Sheng and Ruan Xiaoqi on hand, and finally he had to let Qin Sheng and Ruan Shuisheng go up. Now there is only one Bian Xiang left in the leader of the escort team around him, and if he wants to give it away, he can't even use newcomers such as Yuan Lang, Teng Ji, and Teng Ji.
At this moment, at Shangguanyi's house, Du Qian was reporting the situation to Gu Haotian. He was in charge of logistics, and seeing that there were more and more victims, but there were no ships available, he was in a hurry.
"There are not enough boats, the first six batches of 5,000 people used nearly 100 boats, and there are less than 10 available for the remaining, and there are more than 1,000 people who are coming today, according to my opinion, after two or three days, the surrounding victims are almost there, and the number of people who come will gradually decrease, and the fleet of the first batch of the five little five brothers can only reach Liangshan in these two days, and it will take at least six or seven days for them to come back, and there will be no ships available in the middle, but you have to plan early."
"The officials have already rented boats with Cooper, and I think there will be a harvest in the future, as long as we survive three or five days, the situation will improve." Gu Haotian had no choice but to pin his hopes on Shangguan and them.
Just when the two of them were worried, they saw a team member come to report that a few boats came down from the village and more than 100 victims, and a man in his thirties who led the way said that he asked to see a petty official.
When Gu Haotian heard this, he couldn't help but wonder that he had been here for disaster relief for six or seven days, and he came here in batches in an organized manner, but it was the first time. He got up and took Bian Xiang and Du Qian and followed the team members to the entrance of the village.
The wharf of Dawangzhuang is also at the east end of the village, and it is not far from Shangguan Yi's house. Gu Haotian saw a large number of people standing on the dock from a distance, and the handsome man standing at the head made him secretly praise in his heart, thinking that there were such excellent people among the victims.
And Mr. Xiao was also secretly observing the oncoming young man, but what surprised him the most was that this jade-faced Meng Wei was so young, as if he was only twelve or thirteen years old, and what impressed him the most was because he was young.
"This gentleman is invited, and it is Gu Haotian below, I don't know what to call him?" Gu Haotian walked up to greet him.
"The contemptible Xiao Jiasui, who is the leader of this group of victims, came suddenly today to disturb the petty officials." That Mr. Xiao was originally called Xiao Jiasui.
"Could it be Xiao Liang's great-grandson, Xiao Jiasui, who was named after one stem and six ears."
This time it scared Gu Haotian, Xiao Jiasui is a character who sees the beginning and the end of the dragon in the Water Margin, but although it is only a glimpse, it leaves a wonderful enough imprint, he killed Liang Yong, cut the horse, broke Jingnan City alone, light high position, abandon wealth and nobility, idle clouds and wild cranes are free, he is really a stunning character. However, such a figure appeared in front of him out of thin air, how calm Gu Haotian was.
"How did the petty officials know about the old things in the family?"
Now it was Xiao Jiasui's turn to be surprised, how could a teenager know about his family's private affairs.
"Oh, but it was Zhou Dong and Wen Huanzhang who talked about it occasionally, and only then did they remember it and blurt it out."
Gu Haotian was in a hurry just now, and now he had to move the two masters out.
"But Zhou Daxia in Kansai and Mr. Wen in Anhito Village in Tokyo."
"Exactly."
Xiao Jiasui suddenly seemed to understand, why this young man is so extraordinary, Zhou Tong and Wen Huanzhang are the top figures of this era, others can't ask for anything, but they both became the master of this young man, which shows that this young man is extraordinary. He couldn't help but glance at Gu Haotian again in his heart, and added a sense of mystery to Liangshan, thinking that he would go and take a look, maybe he would get something else.
Then Xiao Jiasui introduced Lu Cheng and others to Gu Haotian, Lu Cheng was originally the guard of Wancheng under Wang Qing, and he was also a fierce man, but unfortunately he met the more fierce Sun An and died. He instructed Du Qian to take the victims to resettle, and he returned to Shangguanyi's mansion with Xiao Jiasui and Lu Cheng. After gossiping all the way, Fang knew that when Xiao Jiasui traveled in Huaixi, he encountered this group of disaster victims, and he couldn't bear it, so he took them all the way east, and later joined Lu Cheng on the road.
"The day before yesterday, I hijacked a grain ship in Huaishui, I interrogated a guy, he said that it was from Zhaozhuang to transport grain, I guessed that there should be a large amount of grain stored there, these people are now in the boat, I don't know if it can be useful to petty officials." After a few people sat down, Xiao Jiasui talked about the grain ship.
It's Zhao Zhuang again, Gu Haotian remembered what he said on the day of Shi Qian, and thought that this grain ship must have something to do with Zhao Zhuang, and those guys may be of great use tomorrow. hurriedly thanked him, and asked Bian Xiang to take someone to take a good look.
Let's say that both of them are people with extraordinary knowledge, and after a conversation, they both have the intention of hating each other. It was almost noon, Gu Haotian ordered the kitchen to make a few side dishes, and called Yuan Lang, Teng Ji, Teng Ji and others to drink two cups together, which was regarded as catching the wind.
Gu Haotian raised his glass to toast, looked at the table full of heroes, and couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, going south to Jianghuai, it was worth the trip.