As soon as the hatch opened, a torch the thickness of a child's arm came in first, and then a man in a short shirt walked down the stairs with careful steps.

Looking at his cautious steps downstairs, the scalper boldly guessed that this man was also a night blind patient, and when he went down to the bilge and waved the torch to look around, he expected that this man was indeed night blind.

But he said that he looked around, and then he saw the three cloth bags in the corner clearly, so he took a step and stretched out his hand, as if he was ready to touch it as just now.

This person walked to the place where the original Wanjia sisters and brothers were, and when he reached out to touch it as he did just now, he was surprised to find that what he touched was not a warm and soft human head, but a foreign body with a hard hand, and before he could react, he felt that his heart was suddenly pressed against something, and someone said: "Don't move, don't scream!" ”

The man was startled, but he didn't want to use the torch in his hand to sweep behind him, but at this moment, he heard two dinging rings in his ears, and then he felt a sudden cold and pain in his heart, and his whole body was also numb and soft, and then the torch that was swept out could no longer be grasped, and the whole person fell to the ground as if his spine had been removed, and fell to death.

At this time, looking at the back of his heart, a dagger was about to enter without a handle, and the scalper behind him was holding a ballast stone and was stunned like a sculpture.

Just when the scalper used the dagger against the man's heart, he thought that he should be able to restrain him, who knows that people don't eat this set at all, and the backhand will be hit with a torch, and in a hurry, the scalper immediately used the ballast stone in his hand to knock the handle of the dagger, and the first time he knocked the dagger's half-foot short blade into the flesh more than half, and the second time he knocked it into the handle, the half-foot-long dagger pierced into the back of the heart.

With a crackle, the falling torch jumped on the board of the ship, and rolled into a pile of debris, from which smoke rose quickly and then flames were ignited.

"Let's go! Come on! The scalper, who was stunned, felt a fire in his eyes and hurriedly woke up, and before he could pull out the dagger from the corpse, he immediately ran to the edge of the stairs, grabbed the two sisters and brothers, and shouted: "Take the barrel and go quickly!" ”

The three of them hurriedly climbed up the stairs, stepped out of the hatch and saw that they were in a two-story medium-sized passenger boat walking on the river, and they were being dragged downstream by a large double-sailed fishing boat.

At this time, there was no wind and no waves in the river, and the sound of the water of the three people jumping into the river was also heard far away, at least the scalper himself listened to the sound quite loudly, so he heard the cry when he entered the water, and the scalper didn't care to look back, and dragged the sister and brother to the river to tread water, and after fluttering for a while, he was patted on the back by Wan Jinbao and shouted: "Brother, look!" ”

The scalper turned his head to look at it, only to find that the passenger boat and the fishing boat were far away at this time, but the fire on the ship was like a flaming mountain, to be exact, it should be two flaming mountains, and the entire section of the river was illuminated. What is even more eye-catching is that from a distance, there seem to be a few figures fighting on the burning ship, although it is not real from a distance, but through the blowing river breeze, the sound of dense weapons colliding can be faintly heard.

The scalper who stepped on the water stretched out his hand and wiped his face, he obviously only put a fire in the bilge of the passenger ship, how could it be possible to set the two boats on fire in a moment, not to mention that he also saw clearly, the fishing boat that raised the sail and dragged the passenger ship was pulled by a thick hemp rope with an arm, and this fire could not easily burn to the fishing boat anyway.

"Look, hold the barrel and learn to tread water!" Seeing that there were still twenty or thirty zhang away from the river, the scalper was not interested in watching the thieves on the boat fight, so he took a deep breath and stepped on the water.

Don't look at the distance of twenty or thirty zhang is not far, if you change the scalper on weekdays, maybe a fierce son can pierce a back and forth, but at this time, the Wanjia sisters and brothers who are dragging the barrel can't get up quickly, and this section of the river is an undercurrent and panting, and several times I felt a sudden warm river water surging under me, so I pushed the three of them to the center of the river again.

fluttered for a while, and just when the scalper was about to be deflated, Wan Chunnu, who was holding the wooden barrel, his face was already blue, but he stretched out his hand and said, "Huang Lang, look!" ”

Following Wan Chunnu's gaze, by the faint moonlight, the ox looked downstream, but found that the shadow of the two fireboats on the river had long been gone, but there was a small boat going upstream, and the distance between the three was less than a hundred feet. When he looked again, the scalper was stunned to find that there was only one person on the boat, and the black and white gossip patterns of this person's robe were clearly visible in the moonlight.

It was also in the scalper's stunned kung fu, this person actually seemed to handle the boat like an arrow from the string, and when he came to a close place more than ten zhang away, he heard the person who operated the boat laugh and said: "Little junior brother, don't panic, senior brother is one step late!" ”

The scalper was very surprised, and when the boat approached him, he saw that the person on the boat was indeed a Taoist priest, not to mention his young face, he looked at the lotus crown on his head, wearing a robe embroidered with white hexagrams, carrying a Songwen sword on his shoulder, and a bulging Zhaowen bag hanging under his waist, which was a little familiar.

The young Taoist priest came to the nearest place, then raised his hand and threw out a rope is set on the body of Wan Jinbao holding the pontoon, and then saw the Taoist priest pull with one hand, Wan Chun Nu and Wan Jinbao who were tied together were mentioned on the boat as if they were made of paper, and then the Taoist priest threw the rope, just wrapped around the right hand of the scalper, and then felt a huge force in the hand, the whole person flew lightly on the boat, and when he was about to fall, he felt that the Taoist priest supported the back waist with his hand, and then changed his body and stood firmly on the boat.

Although he was confused, the scalper still hurriedly gave a lecture to this person, saying, "Thank you senior brother for saving your life!" ”

"Don't dare! Can't! The young Taoist priest hurriedly returned the salute, but he took a step back and grabbed the oar and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that even if I don't make a move today, the little junior brother will definitely be safe and sound!" ”

"I don't know who my senior brother is?" The scalper took a closer look, but also recognized that this Taoist priest should have seen it in the foot shop before, but at this time, he looked closely, but found that his whole body was unscathed, only the hem of the Taoist robe was a little wet, and then I thought that he was the one who fought with the thieves on the thief ship just now and set it on fire.

As soon as the young Taoist priest shook the oars, the boat sailed towards the center of the river like an arrow from the string, and he smiled and said, "Doesn't the little junior brother remember?" Three years ago, a certain master once visited your master with his master, and the master of a certain family was the real person of the Purple Void Guan Luo of the Second Immortal Mountain. ”

As soon as the scalper patted his head, his heart rejoiced, but just as he was about to open his mouth to recognize him, he remembered that he had pretended to have amnesia before, and hurriedly changed his words: "Oops! But I really don't remember, I had a strange illness not long ago, and I don't remember a lot of things before, even the appearance of my family master is now vague, and I almost can't recognize my father. ”

When the young Taoist priest heard this, he nodded secretly, and then said: "I also know about this matter, this time the little junior brother can remember it, the name of a certain layman is Gongsun Zheng, and the Taoist name is clear." ”