Chapter 59 Preliminary conviction for collaborating with the enemy

There are many boats on the Jingshui River, no one will deliberately pay attention to these boats, and the three big boats have just arrived at the place where the two currents meet in Dingping County, and they are arranged diagonally in a row according to the requirements.

Set up a springboard with each other, looking chaotic, the boat that was coming from the Luoshui River was immediately led by the rapid current that blocked out, but fortunately, the people on the boat reacted quickly, and went down several oars in a row, and the boat turned around and went towards the downstream of the Jingshui River.

has been washed out for more than 100 feet, and then leaned to the side, looking at the big ship in the distance in horror.

When the boats behind saw this, they stopped and did not dare to go there any longer, and on a small boat that also stopped, a group of people were drinking in the bow, and many of them laughed when they saw the boat washed away like a leaf.

Only Mi Fan, who was sitting there and had not eaten a mouthful of food, turned pale, and just when the boat was washed away just now, he felt that it was dark in front of him, and he couldn't see anything, and it took a while to recover.

He wanted to drink some wine to suppress his fright, but found that his hands were shaking and he could no longer reach for the glass, so he could only sit there and gasp vigorously.

"Brother Wei, are you uncomfortable again?" Guo Jian saw Mi Fan's face and asked with concern, it has been like this since the beginning.

Mi Fan shook his head slightly, he actually wanted to persuade the people of the boat to give up this plan, he had never felt like this before, it was too terrible, I don't know what will happen.

But he also knew that it was useless to say anything now, and the people of the boat would not listen to him, even if they were very obedient before.

On the small boat waiting to pass, he already knew the situation ahead, and cursed there, what is wrong with three ships? How did you end up in that place? It's still broken together, look at the flag on the ship, it's the boat of Jingshui Boat Company, there are those who are smarter, and they immediately guess that this is the person who is going to ship to make it bad.

Guo Jian and these people listened to the scolding of others, and they didn't care at all, what can they do if they scold, it's not that they can't get by?

Some of the people on the boat scolded as if they were tired, especially those who had shipped seasonal vegetables and fruits, and for every hour of delay, something could rot.

But they had no choice but to wait for the three ships to leave quickly, and the bold man, who thought he was skilled, tried to move forward, but without exception, they were all washed downstream, and honestly leaned against the shore.

Half an hour passed, and the three big boats that looked like nothing was still parked there, and the small boats that could have passed this side also stopped, and the small boats on the Luoshui River here were also next to each other, waiting for the three big boats to leave.

"Hahahaha!" Looking at the anxious appearance of the people on the small boat that stopped on Xiao Luoshui's side, the people on the boat laughed heartily again.

Mi Fan listened from the sidelines, and his heart became even more irritated.

Just as some people were cursing and some people were laughing, six more big boats suddenly appeared from the place upstream, and the people who had just arrived at the back of the three big boats immediately changed the flags on them to those of Jingshui Boat Company.

The small boats that stopped to transport goods thought that the three ships that had stopped earlier were indeed broken, and the ships behind them came to help, otherwise they would not be so close, but the merchants on Mifan's side wondered, where did the six ships in the back come from?

While everyone was thinking about it, the six ships had docked there in the same way as the three ships in front of them, and set up gangplanks with each other, and at the same time took the outermost ship of the three ships, and someone pulled the iron cable out of the other boat.

While the people on the three ships were still stunned, the three ships and the six ships were all connected by more than twenty iron chains that were not too thick.

"...... you guys?" The people on the three ships couldn't figure out what was going on, and one of the men who led the boat grabbed a man who was still there with chains and asked.

The man looked up and glanced impatiently, "Do what you are told, you are responsible for blocking the water, and someone will come and tell you what to do next." ”

As he spoke, the man had already nailed a few places in front of him that needed to be nailed, turned around and ran back, and the other people who came over were the same, and the people on the three boats looked at the flags and the clothes they were wearing, and it was not easy to stop them for a while, it was indeed the boat.

When the people on the six boats had withdrawn, they saw some small boats being lowered from the boats, and the people on the big boats jumped on top of the small boats, and disappeared downstream in the blink of an eye by the impact of the current.

When the last boat was out of sight, smoke rose from the six large ships, and not long after the smoke appeared, the people on the three ships saw the fire on the six ships.

"Quick, cut off the chains." The person in charge of the third ship, when he saw this, immediately reacted and shouted to the boatmen, and some of the shipwrights immediately went to look for tools, but before he could find tools, the big ship closest to them was blown open with a bang.

The rain of fire fell from the sky, and inevitably fell on the other ships, and the fire was mixed with oil, and began to burn when it fell on the deck.

The wind on the river was already strong, and the fires set the nearest boat on fire, and the six boats that were connected together sounded explosions one after another, and the boatmen on the three boats could no longer care about cutting any chains, and one by one, they jumped from the boats and were swept downstream by the current.

The boatman's water quality is indeed not bad, and when he got to the water, he didn't shout for help stupidly, held his breath, and rushed a distance first, and then showed his head to call for breath.

One by one, they looked back in horror, only to see that the boat over there was no longer saved, and all three people on board jumped down, seeing that they were engulfed by the fire, but there was nothing they could do.

The people who were waiting for the small boats passing by were stupid, and Mi Fan was also stupid, fast, it was too fast, the six boats stopped from coming, and then caught fire, and they didn't even use a quarter of an hour, and now they want to find those people on the boats, and they have long disappeared.

I don't know how it came about, what happened to it, the only thing I know is that the ship burned, and six ships burned three ships.

"How so? Where did the ship come from? Why under the banner of our ship? Guo Jian, who was stunned, was the first to react, looked at the burning ship, and shouted loudly.

The other merchants also couldn't figure it out, and shouted along, and as soon as they shouted, their identities were revealed, and the small boats around them were cursing people just now, and there was no exact target, but now they found the target, and it turned out that they were the people of the boat.

Just as the boat had exploded just now, the people of the boat also broke out, and began to curse at them, and blocked their boat with their boat, preventing them from leaving.

After scolding each other for an hour, the ship over there has completely burned, and it is impossible to save it, and after a while, it will sink.

At this moment, some fast boats came from downstream, and the officials of the government standing on the bow of the boats, and some of the government soldiers, as soon as these boats arrived, they began to control the people in those small boats.

Mi Fan and the others were no exception, and they were also guarded by several people.

He didn't let him go, he didn't ask questions, he just watched, and when it was getting dark, the boats were almost burned, and except for the places that went into the water, they were left behind, and the rest of the places were either turned to charcoal or dust.

The officials and soldiers of the palace were not idle, but pulled away the fleet, and from time to time they salvaged something there, which contained tea, rice and flour, and salt in wooden barrels.

While the people who were being guarded were waiting, these officials and government soldiers began to ask one by one, whose ship was it? Why are there some salt teas on board? When some people went to the place where the fire was still burning, they pushed away the burning planks and scattered the nets, waiting for the nets to be lifted, and some of them were still hanging with weapons.

This kind of thing is not difficult to ask, the shipwright of the boat company is still there, and as soon as he asked, he got the boat of Jingshui Boat Company, and immediately someone found Mi Fan and others and asked: "Why are there those important things on the ship, even weapons?" ”

"This official, we don't have it on our ship, it should be the goods pulled on the six ships later, and it has nothing to do with us, you think, if it's our ship, how can it be possible to load weapons on it? And how can it catch fire? ”

A merchant from a ship company was there to explain, and reasoned with the questioner.

"But as we just asked, why did the six ships that came after that also fly under your flag, and if they were not your ships, why did they stop there at the same time? Besides, I don't know which ship the fished out belonged to. ”

The man asked again.

The merchant could only continue to explain: "Official, how do we know why they are flying our banner? Why stop there? Three of our ships broke down, so they stopped. ”

"Oh? You don't know, that is, you don't know? And how can you get their people on your ship? When I asked the people just now, they said that they saw the people on the six ships get on the ship that was originally parked here, and your ship is really broken? You don't have to call a few boatmen to come over, it seems that what you said is different. ”

The man asked again, just in time for something that others were not good to say.

"This ...... This one....... ”

"I suspect that you are collaborating with the enemy in this matter, wait for someone from the mansion to talk about it, no one is allowed to leave now, otherwise, kill!"

"Kill!" When this person finished shouting the word kill, the other officials and government soldiers also shouted at the same time.

"It's over, I know it's not that simple, collaborating with the enemy, the sin of destroying the door." At this time, Mi Fan finally understood where the discomfort came from.