Simao listened to the thrilling, but felt deeply, in the past, I only saw Chun Niang's pungency and the four seas, but I didn't expect her to use love but nine cows can't pull back the dead temperament, so I was secretly vigilant a lot, according to the personality of Chun Niang's eyes not to rub sand, I really have to pay attention not to make any misunderstandings in the future, otherwise Chun Niang is only afraid of being sad.

Thinking of this, Simao said lightly: "I am a poor friend with you, and you have a deep affection for me Simao, at this level, I can't do anything with a clear conscience." We are all pretending to be in our hearts today, buried deeply, don't talk about it in the future, and we will not doubt each other from now on. As he spoke, he stretched out his fingers and hooked Chunniang's fingers. Chun Niang smiled like a flower, with faint tears in her eyes.

The little mustard just now turned into nothing in a blink of an eye, and Chun Niang was even more attentive to add vegetables and pour wine, and asked while greeting: "What are you doing these days?" I asked my dad and Uncle Heipi, and they didn't say it, this is two seasons, and I came back with such a few people, I have never seen them on the road, but looking at the momentum, it is not a simple bastard, today is okay anyway, you give me a break. ”

"Do you really want to hear it?" Simao asked with a smile.

Chun Niang nodded: "Of course I want to hear it!"

Simao looked at the red face under the lamp, indescribably charming and moving, the beauty of Chunniang is not my pitiful style, but bold and delicate, amorous and not weak, the charm is flourishing, and the way of the young woman of the flower letter. Wearing a light green brocade silk shirt lined with a rich and colorful posture, a thin face with powder, a pair of black and white big eyes shining brightly, red lips, and bright teeth like jade, Simao couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and said in a long tone: "It's okay to tell you about it, but there is one condition."

"On what terms?"

"Give me a kiss." Simao said with a smile.

"Get out..."Chun Niang glanced at each other.

Simao picked up the wine glass in front of him, took a big sip, and then opened his mouth slowly. His eloquence was good, and his speech was clear, and this eloquent speech made Chun Niang feel like she was there, but what she didn't expect was that Simao's experience in these days was actually very unusual, even thrilling.

After Simao joined the Cao Gang, the first task he received was to run smuggled goods in Jingzhou. The so-called private goods are the jargon in the Cao Gang, as the name suggests, they are the goods carried outside the Cao grain. One of the biggest advantages of Cao Chuan is that in addition to the grain and fire consumption at the checkpoint, the tax of the general merchant does not have to be paid, and the officials of the tax bureau, the bureau and other yamen will not easily check you, so the Cao Gang has the only way to make money, that is, smuggling or tax evasion of goods.

Simao brought the goods of several Shaanxi merchants this time, and Liu Heipi specially arranged for him to be a accustomed waterway, from Chukou to Jingzhou, this road is relatively peaceful, and there are people along the way to take care of it, and there is no risk. The deep meaning of this arrangement is actually to let the newcomers Simao practice their hands, from simple to difficult. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Liu Heipi specially drew one of his own capable apprentices, this person's surname is Li Mingrunfu, in his thirties, he has not opened his mouth and smiled, he looks white and fat, and he is nicknamed "Huanxituo". Don't look at his unsightly appearance, harmless to people and animals, in fact, he is an old Jianghu who is covered with agency news, well-informed, all kinds of Jianghu routines and tricks are clear, let him accompany Simao to be a staff officer, the purpose is to beware of Simao eating the loss of inexperience on the waterway.

Simao's own temperament is all over the world, does not put on a shelf, is very popular, plus he deliberately knotted ** happy tuo, greeting with good wine and good food along the way, coaxing a white fat man to smile, and sincerely mention Simao before and after the saddle, this Qianli Cao Road is big to the rise and fall of the change, one and the other, small to the black paint doorway, the rooster and the dog thief, to Simao to do a literacy plus improve the experience of the rivers and lakes of the small stove crash course, so that Simao benefited a lot.

It is said that reading 10,000 books, traveling 10,000 miles, Simao feels that it is sincere, sitting in the classroom and listening to the teacher's chatter, at best, it is brainwashing, to learn the real skills, you have to be like yourself, bring a living encyclopedia, and then step on thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, that is a good way to really learn skills, and you can enter the country in a thousand miles, but this method is not something that anyone can copy.

On this day, the fully loaded boats came out of the mouth of the river, and the river in front of them suddenly became clear, the water was boundless, and the vast smoke was filled with sparse and different reeds. Huanxituo pointed to this body of water and said: "From here, you have entered the Hongze Realm, which is known as a thousand miles of water, and it is an important place where it meets the Yangtze River."

Simao pointed to the morning smoke in the exhaustion of his eyes and asked, "Why is there smoke in this water?" Could it be that it was born to grow? ”

Huanxituo smiled and said: "Born to grow in patches, where will there be one east and one west like this."

Simao's eyes couldn't help but widen: "Could it be a human?" But where does this boundless water come from? ”

Huanxituo didn't answer Simao's question directly, but asked rhetorically: "I heard that the master said that you are a person who has studied with Ling Zun, you should have heard of the saying that harsh government is fiercer than a tiger, right?"

Simao nodded and said blankly: "I can't read a book, I just learn to recognize a few words, but I've heard of this sentence."

"This thousands of miles of water is the result of being forced out by the harsh government."

Simao was even more surprised: "How do you say this?"

"Do you take a closer look at the place where the morning smoke came from?"

Simao looked carefully with all his eyes, and sure enough, as Huanxituo said, patches of reeds were dotted among them, and the smoke was mostly hovering over the reeds, and he couldn't help but wonder in his heart: "Could it be that there are people hidden in this reed?" That's too unbelievable, even if they can fill their stomachs by fishing, but people have to eat salt, right? And their daily utensils can't all be in this water, right? ”

Huanxituo said with a smile: "No wonder my master said that you are smart, and you saw the key point at once." These people were originally fishermen, but they all lived near the water, and lived a stable life for generations, but what I didn't expect was that they were affected by a person, starting from the former Ming Dynasty, until the current dynasty, the court and the local government forbade them to go into the water, but as the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to draft, the fishing and hunting in Hongze is much easier than slash and burn farming, of course, the people will avoid the heavy, so the people in the water abound, the government caught it and punished them heavily, and in the long run, the people on the shore gradually abandoned their homes and lived on the water for a long time. Now this place has become a paradise, a place outside the law. ”

Simao asked, "Implicated by a person?" Who can inflict such deep iniquity? ”

"Have you ever heard of Chen Youliang?" Huanxituo asked.

"I've heard that the fisherman head who visited at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and later fought with Emperor Zhu for the world....." Speaking of this, Simao suddenly came to his senses: "Do you mean to say that Chen Youliang is a local, and he is also the one who has affected the people here?" ”

"Otherwise, it's good to have read books, and you can understand it well." Huanxituo said: "Chen Youliang rebelled against the old brothers of the team is the fishermen here, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the government has been very strict with the local people, in order to fear that they will come and go on the water, the government is difficult to control, so it is stipulated that the boat is not allowed to go into the water, can only farm for a living, to this dynasty, such bad rules are still not the slightest relaxation, so many of these people really abandoned their homes on the shore, drifting on the water for a long time, you don't underestimate this wasteland reeds, scattered fishermen are only afraid of no less than a few thousand households, one or two thousand people, The waterways here are complicated, and many tidal flats and small islands are scattered in between, but people who are not familiar with it, let you come in with thousands of troops, just like the official army in the past to fight Liangshan, there is no use. Our Cao Gang's exclusive business is to deliver salt and utensils for daily use to the fishermen here, so in this place, the words of the Cao Gang are more effective than those of the government. However, as soon as people are in a group, there must be a fraction, and the leader of the fishermen here is not a person who is easy to deal with, and it is very difficult. ”

Before Huanxituo's words fell, all of a sudden, small boats in all directions rushed out of the reeds like locusts, and there were dozens of them, and the people on the boats were so dense that they couldn't tell how many people there were.

Huanxituo smiled and said: "See, as soon as the Cao Gang's boat arrives, these people seem to come out of the water, he is looking for you, but you can't find him......"

Simao suddenly looked at it carefully and calmly, and said to Huanxituo in a low voice: "No, they are not here to trade, all the people on the ship are young and strong men, and there are no women or children, there is something strange about this." ”

Simao's words were not finished, Huanxituo obviously also discovered this suspicion, he looked around alertly, and instructed his subordinates around him: "Let the brothers stop the boat, the light is loose and the darkness is tight, something is wrong, without my order, no one is allowed to act rashly....."