After Li Fang found out the news that Li Mao went to Linzi, he immediately sent his confidant Li Yong to Qingzhou overnight, mobilized the manpower of the Yingtian Institute to monitor Wencheng and his family, Li Yong went to Linzi County among the entourage of Wencheng, and before leaving, he explained that Zhang Che, the judge of Yingtian, was responsible for monitoring Wencheng's family, and a large family disappeared under his nose.

Li Yong lost the clerk in Linzi County, and he was also frightened, fearing that Li Fang would blame him, so he falsely accused Zhang Che of letting the clerk go, and blamed the Linzi County Commander and Li Mao for colluding to deal with him.

Zhang Che is dead, there is no proof of death, Hou Yong is the domestic slave of the Wang family, and it is unlikely that Li Fang will verify it, Li Yong instantly blamed his fault cleanly.

At this moment, Li Mao and his entourage have arrived at Matandu in the east of Yunzhou City, which is the last ferry port to Yunzhou, and it is Yunzhou City that crosses the river and walks thirty miles to the west. The weather is hot and sultry, the four of them are sweating profusely, the horses are tired and weak, because they saw a reed mat tea shed on the side of the road, the four of them surrounded it, this is a husband and wife stall, the husband led the horse to drink water, the wife offered water towels, and served herbal tea, melon.

The clerk wanted to drink tea, but was stopped by Li Mao, Li Mao splashed the water, and said with a smile: "There is salt in the tea, the more you drink, the more thirsty you are, first come to a bowl of water to wash your stomach." Wen Cheng was secretly taken aback, someone in this wilderness would poison him? In the middle, Qingmo had already probed a silver needle into his tea, his wrist was slightly bent, and his arm happened to block the silver needle, which could be described as unaware. The mother-in-law who made the tea was ignorant and still boiling her tea soup.

There is no poison in the tea, Qingmo put the silver needle in the leather bracer, and the clerk noticed that even on such a hot day, Qingmo was still dressed neatly, and his sleeves were always caged, I don't know what Li Mao was hiding.

Shibei was even more impressed on the third day, and the clerk smiled bitterly in his heart, Li Mao is no longer the original Li Mao.

After drinking tea, everyone got up and continued westward, and after walking for a mile, the four horses suddenly became weak and weak.

Qingmo and Mo Qi Shentong grabbed the knife and hurried back, and when they arrived at the reed mat shed, they were already empty, and they checked carefully, and found bags of crotons in the nearby grass. Qingmo deduced: "It must be Li Fang's old man's hands and feet, and it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time." ”

Li Mao said: "The ferry can't go, let's find another way." ”

The four of them left the avenue and went north for five or six miles, turned the road and went to the river, where the river is not wide, the water flow is gentle, it is summer again, it is not difficult to cross the river by swimming, the four of them took off their clothes and pulled up their belongings, the clerk found that the four-cornered pants worn by Li Mao and the three of them were very special, stretched and generous, and couldn't help but look at it more, Qingmo quipped: "If Lang Jun likes it, go back and let Neiko make two for you." The clerk snorted, and everyone laughed.

At this moment, a small boat floated on the river, and the boatman shouted from afar: "There are ghosts in the river, don't go into the water." As he spoke, the boat came close like an arrow, smiled and bowed, and said: "Look at a few guests who are people with status, paddling with bare butts, how ugly it is, if you reward a few small coins, and send you over with a small ferry." How is it? ”

This man was born dark and strong, his teeth were white and neat, and his smile was very pleasing, Li Mao smiled: "That's naturally good." And he said, "Drag the boat up, so that your feet don't get wet." The boatman hesitated, jumped ashore, bowed, and dragged the boat ashore with a little force with one hand.

Qingmo took out the heavy money bag, glanced at the man, and asked, "How much money?" The man smiled and said, "Reward a few random guests, earn a wine money, and don't point to eating." Qingmo stopped talking, slowly opened the money bag and pulled the money with a clattering sound, and the man smiled innocently and did not squint.

Li Mao pretended to be impatient, snatched the money bag from Qingmo's hand, grabbed a handful of money and handed it over, and said with a smile: "Brother Lao, stabilize the boat, I'm seasick." The man smiled and said, "That's nature." Reaching out to take the money, I didn't want Li Mao's wrist to turn over and pick the back of his hand, Na Han was startled, let his hand slash diagonally, forcing Li Mao to let go and retreat, Na Han did not chase endlessly, turned around and plunged into the river.

Qingmo shook his hand and shot a sleeve arrow, hitting the Han's shoulder.

Qingmo's sleeve arrow was learned by Li Mao after he was promoted to picket, and he learned from a veteran of the inner courtyard army, and he was not proficient in learning skills, and the arrow shooting was so-so, but as a hidden weapon, if the arrow was coated with poison, the lethality would become very objective. Li Mao didn't want Qingmo to become a cold-blooded killer, so he was not allowed to apply poison to the arrowhead.

Qingmo had no choice but to apply hemp to the arrowhead. Drunk. Medicine, this medicine can make people unconscious in a short period of time, but it is not fatal, the medicine is a unique secret system of Ge Rixiu, which was originally used for anesthesia during surgery.

After the man was hit by the arrow, he slashed forward for a while, and gradually lost consciousness in his hands and feet, and Qingmo and Mo Qi rushed down the river to scoop him up, and dragged him ashore in water. Wen Cheng squatted down to check the soles of his feet and palms, and concluded: "This person has good water skills, he can shoot knives, but arrows are average, and most of them are people from the right side of the water army." Qingmo said: "Could it be someone from the Zhen Navy?" ”

The town navy office was originally in Mizhou, since Zhang Shuye left office, moved to Yunzhou, with the move of two battalions of soldiers, Yunzhou city not far from the east of the city stationed a battalion of 500 soldiers.

Wen Cheng smiled: "The soles of his feet have not been soaked in the sea, so he will not be the Zhen Navy." ”

Qingmo's anesthetic can make people temporarily incapacitated, but it can't make people unconscious, he heard the conversation between Wen Cheng and Qing Mo clearly, and he was secretly surprised by Wen Cheng's judgment, he was indeed a captain in the right wing water camp of the Pinglu Ya Army, named Tang Liu, and the camp was less than five miles away. In the middle of last night, I received a private job, asking him to go out and play a dull stick, saying that he wanted to kill four ideas from the East. The bandits in the eastern Liaodong region take people's money and property to eliminate disasters for others, and killing and injuring people is called beating a stick, and the so-called idea is the target of murder.

The Pinglu army originated in the Liaodong area, many officers and soldiers in the army were originally bandits, the nature of the country is easy to change, and people who do private work while eating official meals abound, and the generals in the army are replaced by their fathers and sons, and their brothers and brothers are dead, and these customs have not died out because of the southward migration, but have been carried forward in the land of Ziqing.

Because the reward is extremely high, Tang Liu and the others are very hard-working, they arrived on the river before dawn, and each side is divided into sections, before meeting Li Mao, Tang Liu has already killed three passers-by, the rules of the bank are not to go out empty-handed, four positive ideas may not be able to wait, killing a few passers-by first mixed food and clothing is the right way.