Outside the gate of the water escort battalion were Liu Tang, Ruan Xiaoer, and Ruan Xiaowu, with one hundred and fifty escorts, fifty archers and goose wings lined up to protect the two wings, fifty sword and shield hands in the center, and fifty Pu knife hands behind them, the blades were shining coldly.

There were also more than 100 people on the opposite side, and a fat-headed and big-eared man rode a white horse with a big knife in his hand. Behind him are four strong men, each holding a knife and a gun, as for the more than 100 Zhuang Ke weapons behind him, they are disorganized, there are all kinds of weapons, spears, knives, iron forks, etc., the formation is scattered, and the momentum is a lot weaker.

Chao Gai asked Liu Youtian to take Niu Gao and his mother to go in first, and he rushed over with Wu Yong, Hua Lei, and Li Kui, Liu Tang made a long story short, it turned out that the opposite came from Ren County, and the one with a big head and a thick neck was Ren Batian, and behind him were his four brothers, Ren Yong, Ren Meng, Ren Gang, and Ren Qiang.

The Ren family is here to ask for someone, Liu Tang naturally will not give it to them in vain, and he insists on paying a fine, one hundred yuan per person.

Ren Batian was embarrassed and angry, so the two sides fought against each other like this.

Ren Batian looked at the four more people on Chao Gai's side, and his obvious disadvantage in this aspect was great, but he didn't want to lose face, and laughed: "Look at them, fighting in a group is the same as fighting, who are you fooling, haha." ”

Ren Batian smiled, and the four brothers behind him also laughed, and the people who followed were not so nervous.

"Chao Gai is a bear, today he kicked over their bird camp, went back to kill pigs and sheep and drank wine for three days." Ren Batian promised to make everyone's morale even higher.

Liu Tang scolded: "Just this group of goods, one charge can kill them all, and they are still laughing there, and they don't even have a formation." ”

After all, you really can't kill people indiscriminately now. Ren Batian asked the fighting generals to win or lose, and Liu Tang had already come down just now.

A fat man came out of the horse behind Ren Batian, riding a flower horse, holding a bright silver spear in his hand, stopped in the middle of the battlefield, and shouted: "I am Ren Yong, who dares to fight me." "This shouting is very powerful.

Chao Gai looked left and right, everyone was just about to invite the battle out of the horse, at this time, Niu Gao, who had just sent the old lady into the barracks, came back and gave Chao Gai a fist: "Brother, Niu Gao is the first to come, and there is no meeting gift, so let me clean up this birdman." Niu Gao said.

Chao Gai nodded: "Okay, just divide the winner and loser, and try not to hurt his life." ”

Niu Gao said: "Okay, you can just take a look." ”

After saying that, Niu Gao borrowed Li Kui's ploughing horse and lifted the double horse, and Lao Yuan scolded: "Riding a white horse and holding a silver gun is considered to be Zhao Zilong, looking for a fight." ”

Niu Gao went up immediately, and hit the head with a double hammer, Ren Yong did not give it in vain, the big gun knocked open the double mace, and the distraction was stabbed, and Niu Gao and the horse dodged.

Li Kui, who was watching the battle, grinned and said, "This black boy is much stronger than me in riding a horse. "Li Kui has just learned to ride a horse, and he can't ride a new Mongolian horse, so he rides a horse that is a ploughing horse.

Wu Yong said: "Niu Gao, this person should have practiced horse warfare, and a horse that cultivates the land is so good." ”

Just as he was saying that the winner had been decided, Niu Gao grabbed the barrel of the gun when Ren Yong stabbed the second shot, and Ren Yong was pulled off the horse with a snap, and he fell into a.

Ren Batian immediately ran up behind him, and two Zhuang Ke took Ren Yong back, and the fall was not light. Ren Gang was furious and fought with a sword.

Niu Gao ignored him, and the horse returned.

Ren Gang is a big man, with bronzed skin, bulging muscles, riding a jujube red horse, holding a long knife in his hand, and it seems that he has thirty pounds to say the least.

"I'm going to fight him." Li Kui was not to be left behind, and he didn't ride a horse and pounced on it with long legs and a double-plate axe, and the two didn't talk nonsense, one cut with a knife, and the other raised an axe to split. Li Kui is a horse on foot, tall and strong. Ren Gang is also very strong, just started a tie, five in one, Li Kui fiercely came up and slashed fiercely, Ren Gang couldn't parry, was killed by Li Kui's axe, Ren Gang jumped off the horse, took a long knife and Li Kui continued to fight, but the weapon was not powerful, no three let Li Kui kick over, and came back happily.

Ren Batian quit, he came out in person with a big knife, don't look at his big head and thick neck, he is actually a ruthless man, he became famous earlier than Chao Gai, he has countless shops in Ren County, and he has profiteering industries such as green buildings and gambling houses. He also served as a bully who often took his brothers out to rob some caravans, and did the business of killing people and goods, and belonged to a bully who was half a merchant and half a bandit, and Chao Gai was much kinder than him.

Hua Lei was just about to fight, and Liu Tang said: "You are not familiar with equestrianism, so I'll go." ”

Liu Tang flew out as soon as he swooped out, and the horse was so fast that the Dapu knife was mixed with the wind and thunder and slashed towards Ren Batian, Ren Batian raised his knife to parry, and he heard a loud noise, and his hands were numb.

The two horses staggered and ran a long way, turned the horse's head and made another move, Liu Tang raised the big knife and shouted: "Ah." "Slashed at Ren Batian's head, Ren Batian has been famous for a long time, and his physical fitness is not as good as back then, not to mention that Liu Tang has the true biography of Chao Gai, unless Ma Zhan is a first-class fierce general can play skills, ordinary fierce generals can play with strength and momentum. The strength must be strong and the momentum must be fierce, so that you can fight quickly.

Ren Bawangtian was intimidated by Liu Tang's momentum, and he was timid and slower in his movements, and his hat was cut off by Liu Tang, and his hair was scattered. Ren Batian lost, his face was a little embarrassed, he recovered for a moment, and said loudly: "Let people go, we admit defeat, two thousand and one hundred guan are brought." ”

Ren Batian beckoned, and his subordinates brought over a box of silver.

Chao Gai asked people to count the silver, and by the way, he released the people of the Ren family who were seized, and the battle was fought beautifully.

Chao Gai hugged Ren Batian with a very graceful gesture and said: "Master Ren Zhuang is polite, he came from so far to send silver, why don't you eat and leave." ”

"Hmph." Ren Batian glared at Chao Gai viciously, and didn't answer, just turned his head and led people away.

Chao Gai was bored and said to Liu Tang: "You send it to the owner for me." ”

Liu Tang nodded to show that he understood, and took one hundred and fifty people to send Ren Batian out of Yuncheng County.

In the camp of the water guard, Chao Gai arranged for Niu Gao and others to rest temporarily, Niu Gao looked around, the escort team was quite professional, in addition to the warship, swords, guns, swords, halberds and all kinds of weapons were complete, the soldiers were busy training, Niu Gao said: "Is this into the bandits' den?" ”

Next to him, Li Kui was a chestnut and scolded: "Enter you big-headed ghost, my brother is a serious 800 Yuncheng County regimental training envoy." ”

"Oops, I thought it was a bandit, I could fall into the grass." Niu Gao said disappointedly.

Wu Yong asked: "Niu Gao, why do you want to fall into the grass, isn't it better to be an official soldier?" ”

Niu Gao shook his head and said: "What's so good about the official army, eating rice full of sand and old grain cakes, if the official is unhappy, he will beat him, and if he is happy, he will scold, and the pitiful salary of a few hundred civil soldiers a month will be deducted, and I am not an official army." ”

Li Kui pouted when he heard this, Chao Gai came over at this time, looked at Niu Gao and said, "You are a deserter, it turns out that you are still an archer, and your archery skills are not bad." ”

"You, how do you know?" Niu Gao was a little surprised.

"What's so strange about this, you are good at horse fighting. There are calluses on your fingers that look like archery grinding, everyone has seen your skills, and it's okay, if the bow and arrow shoot accurately, I can directly promote you to be an archery instructor, fifty percent of the settling-in allowance, the annual salary is also fifty percent, and there is also a bonus, if you can eat and drink, ask Li Kui. Chao Gai said.

Niu Gao's eyes were rolling, and he was very clever, and Li Kui next to him said: "Black boy, you still hesitate to be a bird's feather, and you still don't promise my brother." ”

"No, I'll wait until my mother is well."

Chao Gai smiled, ordered someone to set up a carriage, pulled Niu Gao's old lady and rushed to the Chaojia Village Medical Center, and Chao Gai and Li Kui accompanied him. Before arriving at Chaojia Village, the pedestrians gradually became dense, most of them were farmers who went to work in the fields, either leading cattle or pulling donkey carts.

The medical hall is located on the bank of the stream, now it is the south of Chaojia Village, the newly repaired gate is not tall, but it is very simple, there is a plaque hanging on the gatehouse, the book Chaojia Village Medical Hall, the carriage directly enters the courtyard, and does not stop until the door of the clinic. It's already afternoon, and there are still a lot of people in the hospital, in addition to people from Chaojia Village, there are also people from nearby villages, but fortunately, there are also many doctors.

Chao Gai said to Niu Gao: "You are not currently a member of the escort team, the old lady has to pay for medical treatment, you take the money to go to the window ** money, wait for the doctor to read and then buy medicine, your mother has no place to live, just live in the hospital." ”

Chao Gai took the usual copper money and gave it to Niu Gao, Niu Gao paid the money according to the rules, Chao Que treated Niu Gao Niang, and after the pulse inspection. Niu Gao asked, "Doctor, how is my mother?" ”

"The patient is fine, mainly due to poor long-term rest, irregular meals, and high mental stress." Dr. Chao said.

"Then you should prescribe medicine quickly." Niu Gao said anxiously.

Doctor Chao shook his head: "Otherwise, it is a three-point poison." As long as the patient can eat and sleep well, and no longer wander, it will take less than ten days. If you insist that I open it, I will prescribe you some millet porridge, stewed chicken soup, and green vegetable tofu. ”

Chao Gai said: "You arrange a ward, let his mother and son live first." ”

A beautiful sister dressed in white came over and arranged a house for Niu Gao's mother and son, and as for the three meals a day, the hospital has a canteen, Chao Gai has the money given to him, and he doesn't worry about eating and drinking.

Niu Gao's old lady said: "Thank you, Brother Chao." ”

Chao Gai hurriedly said: "Some small things are not worth mentioning, the medical hall needs to be quiet, Niu Gao's voice is loud, you should pay attention, don't make noise to other patients." ”

Niu Gao hurriedly agreed, Chao Gai and Li Kui had something to do and turned around and left.

After a while, the nurse sent basins, porcelain bowls and other daily utensils, and Niu Gao Niang thanked her a thousand times. Niu Gaoniang was tired, and the bed in the hospital was very soft, and she fell asleep quickly. Niu Gao was bored alone, went out to watch, this is unbelievable, such a medical hall actually has sixty or seventy houses, and the innermost row of houses is actually where the woman's family gave birth to a child and was hospitalized. In front is where other patients are hospitalized.

"Weird, look at how this medical hall is so big, it's the first time I've seen it." Niu Gao muttered to himself. This was said by an old man who came to get medicine next to him: "What's strange about this, the strange thing is that it doesn't cost money to see a doctor and take medicine here." ”

"Really?" Niu Gao asked.

"Of course it is, believe it or not." After saying that, the old man left. Niu Gao patted his head and said, "What are you running around, let's settle down here." ”