When Hai woke up, he was lying on his back on the cold ground, and the lamps in his memory were dimly lit overhead, like the size of a soybean, flashing and flashing, indescribably weird, the air was cold and damp, and there was an intermittent sound of ticking water, as if he was locked in a dungeon.

The sea turned his body slightly, and the joints all over his body seemed to be broken, and the severe pain stimulated the brain, 'Wow! He shouted in a low voice, and the memory was suddenly used like a tidal wave, broken, fragmented, and gradually put together into a complete picture, the sea opened its mouth wide, fear snatched away the pain, in the face of torture, he said everything, in the face of death, he pressed his own handprint.

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The Hai family is also like ordinary people, with colorful lights and joyful preparations to welcome the New Year, but the head of the family, Hailan, is a little anxious, the four escaping porters, searched for three days, and still have no clues, which just shows that the people who escaped are extraordinary, these four people are like four nails that make Heilan restless every day.

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He had done countless business trips with Tibet, but he had never put so much pressure on him as he did today.

And another concern is that today's report has not come yet, it has been two hours late, he is waiting for the report along the way every day, today the ship should arrive in Yibin County, Yibin County! It was the territory of his old enemy Li Qing, and Heilan was suddenly a little worried. He took a few steps with his hands behind his back, his eyes narrowing into a slit. Flashing with a fierce light, Li Qingdi's account will be recovered sooner or later with interest.

"Father! The ancestral hall has been arranged, do you want to go and see it? I don't know when, his son Haiheng was already standing behind him.

"Oh! I'm not going, you can watch for yourself! ”

Hai Heng was surprised, he was afraid that his father didn't hear clearly, and repeated: "Father, I'm talking about the ancestral hall. ”

Heilan glanced at it. smiled slightly: "Next year you will enter Beijing to take the provincial examination, are you sure?" ”

"The child will do his best!"

"You don't have to worry too much, I have already received the promise of King Tan, and he will help you."

As soon as Heilan's words fell, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and a family member ran panting. "Master, the news from Yibin County is here, it's a black letterbox."

"What!" Heilan Huo Ran stood up, his face turned pale in an instant, and the black letterhead meant that something was wrong.

He took the bamboo pipe with trembling hands, but he didn't hold it steady, and the bamboo pipe fell to the ground.

"Father!" Haiheng bent down and picked it up, "What's wrong?" ”

Heilan's lips were already trembling and he couldn't speak, and he pulled out the bamboo pipe with great difficulty, and hurriedly spread it out. After seeing it, he took a few steps back. The letter fell to the ground, and there was only a dazzling big word on it: The goods were detained in Yibin"

"Daddy!"

"Sir.

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An hour later. Heilan slowly woke up, he was weak and old, as if he had aged twenty years old.

"Big brother! You have to take a good breath, it's not the worst yet. ”

Heilan shook his head, what is the worst, isn't this the worst? The goods have fallen into Li Qing's hands, and this is by no means accidental. Without a long period of planning, he would not have been able to find out. And he didn't know anything, he was defeated, the third and last time, or at the hands of Li Qing.

"Father, leave this matter to me!" Haiheng's face turned red with anger, he stood up and strode out.

"Stop!"

Heilan sat up and said viciously: "If you take one more step, I will break off the fatherly relationship with you." ”

"W-then, are we just going to sit still?" Haiheng's eyes were about to turn red.

"Who said I'm going to sit still!"

He took a long breath and said to the third brother Hai: "Now that my Hai family has reached the last moment, if I estimate it well, Li Qing is already on the way to Chengdu, you immediately lead all the brothers of Emeitang to intercept him along the road, and you must take back the things on him, especially the letter, do you understand?" ”

Haiba nodded, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he shot out a terrifying killing force.

Seeing Haiba go away, Hailan pulled Haiheng over and said in a low voice: "You hurry up and pack up, and go to the capital to join your sister immediately." ”

"Father! What about you? ”

"I can't go, as soon as I leave, the Hai family will really be finished, and I will never be able to turn over."

He took out a booklet from his arms, wiped off the ring on his finger, and stuffed it into his son together: "This is our Hai family's property in the capital, and this ring is the evidence" After a pause, Hailan said again: "There is also the leader of the Dongshi Gang, you call him Grandpa Yong, he is your grandfather's brother, you go to him, he will also help you, you go!" My Hai family will rely on you in the future. ”

"Then I'll take my cousins with me!" Hai Hengzhi's cousin is Hai Badi.

Heilan shook his head and said, "You won't survive with them." ”

Haiheng's eyes were full of tears, he slowly knelt down and kowtowed to his father three times.

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Hai's confession, along with other smuggling items from the Hai family and Li Daofu's letter, were locked in an iron box, and this iron box was in Li Qing's hands at the moment.

This day is the twenty-fifth day of the third year of Tianbao, and then five days is the New Year of the fourth year of Tianbao, Li Qing went to Chengdu with the curtain and Xiaoyu, nominally to go back to Chengdu for the New Year, but Li Qing's real purpose is to go back to deal with the Haijia smuggling case, the evidence of Haijia smuggling is conclusive, all the people involved in the case confessed to the painting, it has become an iron case, but the letter found in the sea has complicated the case, Yizhou assassin Li Daofu was directly involved in the case, Li Qing did not dare to delay, and set off to Chengdu the next day.

Approaching the New Year, the number of merchant ships coming and going on the river is significantly reduced, and more are passenger ships full of homesick people, 'thinking of relatives every festival', and the New Year is the day of clan gathering and the day of worshipping ancestors.

Li Qing stood on the bow of the boat and looked into the distance, the river was wide and vast, and the cold wind made his mind sober, and he gradually realized the complexity of this case, the Haijia smuggling case was no longer an isolated businessman smuggling case, and behind it was hidden the collusion of officials * businessmen, this official was Li Daofu, the assassin of Yizhou, and he Li Qing was very likely to become a small butterfly flapping its wings, causing a hurricane in the officialdom of Jiannan Province.

There was a slight sound of footsteps behind him, and a thick cloak wrapped around his shoulders.

"Male, the river is windy, let's go back to the cabin!"

Li Qing grabbed her hand, the little hand was slender and warm, and he gently hugged the thin shoulders of the curtain, "Go back this time, I'll accompany you to visit Grandpa's tomb!" ”

"Yes!"

"You two, come and clean up! Jiazhou is coming. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, met Xiaoyu's sour gaze, and returned to the cabin together holding hands.

Li Qing chartered a large passenger ship, divided into three floors, Li Qing, Lian'er, Xiaoyu lived on the upper floor, the Min Gang and Hai Ming and Hai Tian's father, who accompanied them to Chengdu to testify, lived on the floor and the bottom floor, because Gao Zhandao and the skeleton had to stay in Yibin to guard, so Li Qing's safety all the way was responsible for the Min Gang, according to the plan, they would meet Wang Bing who came on horseback in Jiazhou, and then go directly to Chengdu by land.

Li Qing was just about to enter the cabin, when he suddenly heard hurried footsteps, and when he looked up, he saw Yang Helmsman of the Min Gang running up, and he looked nervous. From time to time, the head looks sideways at the river.

"What's going on?"

"Master Li, our brother has found three suspicious boats that have approached us."

"What?" Li Qing's face changed greatly, he swooped to the side of the boat on the right side and looked at the river, and sure enough, he saw three small boats in the shape of a pin, which were heading towards them quickly, and he even faintly saw that the small boats were full of dense black-clothed people.

"Why did the Hai family come so fast!"

Li Qing is quickly considering countermeasures. He knew that the Hai family would die in the end, and he specially notified Wang Bing to come to protect him urgently, but he didn't expect the Hai family to come so quickly, and now the only way is to delay for a while and wait for the Wang soldiers from Jiazhou to come to the rescue.

"How far is it from Jiazhou?"

"There are still two miles."

Li Qing looked back at the speed of the boat again, and continued like this. I'm afraid that if I can't get to Jiazhou, I will catch up, and the sweat has oozed slightly from his forehead.

"Hurry up and find a few brothers with good water characteristics to go to Jiazhou for help."

Lord Yang agreed, turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Qing and said slowly: "Tell everyone to get ready, there may be a vicious fight." ”

Li Qing slowly walked back to the cabin, trying to make his expression lighter, but when he saw the worried eyes of the two women, he knew that they had already heard it, so he smiled and said, "Our old friend is here." ”

He drew his sword and slashed down two large decks. He took out the iron box from his arms and handed the curtain and said, "If things are critical later, you and Xiaoyu will hold the plank and escape by water." Go to Chengdu and hand over this iron box to your stepfather. ”

"What about you?"

Li Qing patted her face and smiled: "Naturally, I will also jump into the water to escape, will I still wait for them to kill me?" ”

Li Qing finished speaking. Pick up your sword and stride towards the bottom.

The curtain stared at the place where he had disappeared, biting her lip and shooting a determined gaze in her eyes.

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The speed of the three boats exceeded Li Qing's expectations, and after only half a mile, the three boats gradually caught up.

"Aim and smash!"

Several gang members carried iron pots and water tanks and smashed them into the chasing boat, but the iron pot and water tank only rolled in the river and disappeared, and there was no effect at all.

"Your Excellency. They're going to climb the boat! ”

I saw that the black-clothed people on a boat took out their grappling hooks one after another and shook them in their hands. 'Whoosh! The ground flew out, a grappling hook was accurately placed on the side of the ship, and a man in black bit his knife, swung forward, and swept across the river towards the big boat.

"Cut it off!"

Without waiting for others to react, Li Qing stepped forward, raised his sword and chopped the rope on the ground on the grappling hook, and everyone woke up like a dream, and they rushed to the side of the boat to raise their knives to chop more and more flying catches.

Suddenly, 'Ah! There was a scream, a gang covered his head, took a few steps back, lay on the ground with his back to the sky, a crossbow arrow shot through his head, and then, several more people screamed and fell, and the crossbow arrows shot from the boat gradually became dense, and even the Yang helmsman had an arrow on his chest, lying on the ground and his life and death were unknown.

Li Qing almost killed red eyes, he had cut off five flying grabs in a row, and several black-clothed people also screamed and rolled down the river, at this time, a big man in white had jumped on the bow of the boat, swinging a knife at Li Qing, Li Qing instinctively raised his head, the blade swept past the tip of his nose, the strong wind blew his face painfully, not waiting for him to stand firm, but his shoulder was kicked again, Li Qing only felt that the bones seemed to be cracked, a strong force attacked, the feet were unstable, even two steps back, fell to the ground, the sword came out of his hand, and flew out three zhang away, '! The ground was nailed to the deck, and the man in white didn't wait for him to land, twisted his waist, and slashed at Li Qing's chest with a knife on the ground.

The man in white seemed to recognize Li Qing, and slammed at him with a cruel smile, seeing that Li Qing could not hide, but at this moment, two flower pots fell from the sky one after another, and the man in white dodged a small one with his head sideways, but was smashed on the head by another bigger one, he showed a strange expression on his face, as if he was smiling, his eyes rolled white, and he fell straight in front of Li Qing, how could Li Qing let go of this opportunity, snatched his knife casually, and slashed at his neck with a knife, but at the last moment, his hand trembled, the knife slashed obliquely on his shoulder blade, and the blood arrow marked Li Qing's body, The knife could no longer be pulled out, the man in white was awakened by the pain, struggling to open his teeth and claws to grab Li Qing, he was in a hurry, made a big cloth bag in judo, and the cat's waist carried him down the river.

Li Qing took a breath, suddenly thought of something, and when he looked up, he saw that it was Curtain Er and Xiaoyu standing on the second deck, Curtain Er was pale and his hands were trembling, "Gong, I killed someone." ”