Everyone looked sideways for a while, seeing that Wang Huan was very uncomfortable, and couldn't help shouting at Ma Quan: "I don't wear this outfit anymore, hurry up and find other clothes, otherwise I will be out of place, how can I get through this way?" ”

"We are disguised as cloth merchants this time, a group of businessmen who bought Songjiang cotton cloth from central Sichuan to Jiangnan after transporting Shu brocade to Jiangnan, and there is a Xiucai account room inside, which is also very reasonable."

Li Tingyu looked at Wang Huan with a smile, and saw that Wang Huan's face was clean and clean, and his eyebrows were handsome, and he was graceful in a long collared robe, thinking that if he waited for the little monk's hair to grow out, it would not be distorted and he would have the demeanor of a literati.

"yes, Senator." Li Yan echoed: "Master Li is reasonable, so let's do it, there is a person dressed as a talent on the boat, and it is convenient to deal with those petty officials when he encounters the river and water gate to check the road guide." ”

There is some truth in this, the river inspection at the end of the Ming Dynasty, although they are all filled by martial artists, but the style of emphasizing literature and suppressing martial arts is the most in all dynasties, from the nine products of the inspection is not a petty official who is not in the stream, but also at any time by those literati who read the books of sages and sages as eagle dogs and lackeys, and they have to speak politely when they see a small Xusheng, not to mention the meritorious Xiucai.

When Wang Huan heard this, he lost his temper, so he had to stand in the crowd with a bald head, fortunately, it was not so strange to have a group of Mai monks with the same bald head as companions.

A few water cowards carried a stretcher, also came to the dock, Zu Tianci lay on it with a miserable white face, with a towel wet with cold water on his forehead, he was groggy and fell into a coma, his injuries appeared to be inflamed and high fever repeatedly, the whole person was as hot as fire, in a dangerous period, only survived these few days, the fever retreated to be stable. A white-bearded man with a medicine box on his back and trembling ropes followed behind, which was caught by Zu Bian last night and was responsible for taking care of Zu Tianci.

Seeing Zu Tianci's stretcher get onto a larger boat, surrounded by a string of small boats, he slowly went offshore, Zu Bian took out a stack of paper from his arms and handed it to Li Tingyu.

"My lord, this is the road guide opened by the Yamen of HZ County, it is all genuine goods with blank stamps, as long as we fill in the place we are going to, any water gate will be released."

Li Tingyu took the road guide, flipped through it casually, gave it to Wang Huan, and said happily: "Okay, with this thing, we don't have to worry about it along the way." ”

Wang Huan hurriedly put this treasure in his pocket, and said strangely: "How did you get these things?" ”

Zu Bian said with a smile: "The senator forgot, we are also half of the natives who have lived on this lake for many years, how many times have we dealt with the county government along the lake, and those state officials and county officials have made trouble in order to keep us from causing trouble within their jurisdiction, so as not to affect our homework considerations, and more or less have had transactions with us through intermediaries, and even some of the second adjutants have taken the initiative to report the whereabouts of the rich merchants and share the looting proceeds with us." Now that everyone has a friendship, many things are easy to do. This guide is one of them. ”

When Li Tingyu and Wang Huan heard this, they couldn't help but glance at each other, and at the same time sighed: This Daming is really rotten to the end, there is such an official mansion, the so-called official and bandit family, nothing more than this.

However, Li Tingyu has long lost hope in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, and only thinks about returning to his hometown, Wang Huan is from later generations, and he is very clear about the degree of corruption in the late Ming Dynasty, so after listening to Zubian's words and sighing, he did not mind at all, but took it for granted.

At this moment, the island has basically been emptied, except for a few people such as Ma Quan who saw them off, there are no living creatures on Mudun Island, everyone and Ma Quan are sorry to say goodbye, Li Tingyu and Wang Huan once again explained some matters that need attention, and the four hundred people who have changed their faces got on the more than 30 big ships docked on the shore together.

The big ship is the ship of the water thieves, different from the boat, this is the white sailing ship that transports goods on the folk river, the hull is narrower, the cabin is also smaller, and the official ship can not be compared, each boat is full of Songjiang cotton cloth, these cloths are moved from the warehouse of the water thieves by the ancestors, all of them are obtained by robbery, and they are very appropriate to use as goods to disguise their identity.

The boatmen untied the cables, propped up the long artemisia, and the ship slowly drifted off the shore and drifted to the lake, the lake was stormy, and the white sails hanging obliquely immediately opened and bulged, and the heavy hull was like a light boat rippling, flying towards the rising sun on Hongze Lake.

When the fleet turned into black dots and slowly disappeared from view, Ma Quan turned his head and waved his hand fiercely at the twenty water thieves on the other side of the dock who were waiting for them. ”

The boatmen on the boat hurriedly moved, opened the anchor, and supported the boat to shore the shore, but the long artemisia was propped up in the water, but the people who supported the artemisia were much more difficult, it seemed that the things loaded on the ship were much heavier than the cloth loaded on the ship of Wang Huan and others, and the long artemisia made of cotton and bamboo had excellent toughness, and it was almost bent into a bow, and the bow of the ship moved slowly and floated out.

The water thief on the bow of the boat **** wore his upper body, revealing a colorful tattoo, and yelled at the boatmen viciously: "Keep driving north, enter the canal, don't play tricks with Lao Tzu, otherwise Lao Tzu will chop you!" ”

The boatmen were frightened, and they only agreed to it, not daring to disobey at all, and the sharp knives inserted in the waists of the water thieves pierced their eyes so brightly, which was full of deterrence for these honest boatmen.

Ma Quan looked at the west where Wang Huan and the others' fleets had disappeared, and then looked at the north of Cao's fleet, two completely different directions, two fleets that had nothing to do with each other, with an expression of admiration on his face, and muttered: "Senator's trick, in this way, the Qinggou want to catch up with the adults, but it is even more difficult." ”

After standing for a while, when the fleet slowly moved away, Ma Quancai waved his hand again, took the remaining dozen people, jumped on the last few remaining boats on the dock, and rowed away quickly in the direction where Zu Tianci and the others went.

After a while, the original hustle and bustle of Mudun Island returned to a quiet place, the wind and grass on the island were low, except for the chirping of waterbirds, there was no sound, as if everything that had happened on this island in the past two days was a mirage-like illusion.

The white flag followed Jia Sule, at this time he was riding a horse galloping on the official road leading to the canal in Huai'an, the armor on his body was already full of dust, and the iron helmet on his head was also taken off, hanging behind the saddle, revealing a face like a knife and an axe, his forehead was deeply wrinkled, his face was tired, his eyes were bloodshot, and he seemed to have not slept all night, but Rao was so, his eyes were cold and abnormal, and his whole expression was cold like water, and he was like a cannibal, and he whipped the horses under his crotch again and again.

Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Huai'an in the Qing Dynasty, followed behind with his horse, and also fought his horse regardless of the life and death of his mount, lest he be half a step behind Sule. Behind the two of them, a long cloud of smoke and dust rose up, and countless cavalry followed closely behind, and as far as the eye could see, it actually filled the entire official road.

Xu Dingguo was afraid and angry in his heart, the previous Suijia, the identity is not worth mentioning at all, it is just a Suijia, and it is not on the table, but there is a royal order of the prince of Yu, who was ordered to hunt down and kill a group of Ming Dynasty rebels who killed people and seized wealth on the boundary of Huai'an, the royal order was written very clearly, and the Han army along the way was under its command and mobilization.

This is going to die, even if Xu Dingguo is dissatisfied, he has to follow Su Le, and this happened on the ground in Huai'an, he Xu Dingguo can't get out of it, and if he is not careful, he may be used as a scapegoat by the angry Manchurians. Xu Dingguo was the leader of the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and was recruited by the Ming Dynasty because of his greed for wealth, and later saw that the Qing army was powerful, and designed to kill Gao Jie, one of the four towns in the north of the Ming River, and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty again.