The big man with a fork on the bow of the ship shouted, "What kind of prince is ahead, who dares to act in the harbor?" The cargo in the ship, those who see it have a share. The boat boy looked back and hurriedly responded: "It turned out to be Brother Li, I just said who is coming." The eldest brother went to do business again, but he never took the brother with him. ”

Dahan said: "Brother Zhang, you have this hand here again!" What's in the ship? Have you ever paid the toll money? If you don't, you will come with me! Gong replied: "It's not very licensed, it's just an ordinary guest crossing the river, and Brother Li spared her." Then he whispered to Sanniang: "Don't show up, I will deal with him, if he sees you, he will definitely ask you to give that bird gold." ”

Sanniang smiled and said, "He's not a wicked person, why don't you see him?" "When he came out of the cabin, he stood at the bow of the ship and watched. The prince secretly complained bitterly, and said in his heart: "What an unreasonable little lady, she has the heart to protect her, but she showed up by herself." ”

The big man on the boat said, "Duh! Isn't it the third lady? Sanniang only looked at the big man and smiled: "It's me, who is here?" The big man was shocked and said, "It's really a lady." "The big man standing on the bow of the boat is none other than him: he lives in Xunyang Jiangpu, and is the most heroic hero. The eyebrows are thick, the eyes are big, the face is red, the mustache hangs down the iron wire, and the words are like a bronze bell. The body is eight feet long, and he can swing a sharp sword and frost edge, and he can make miraculous achievements against the waves. Luzhou born Li Jun, nicknamed Mingjiang Dragon.

The big man standing on the bow of the boat is none other than Li Jun, the dragon of the mixed river. There are two rocking oars on the tips of the boat behind them, one is the Jiao Tong Wei who came out of the hole, and the other is the Tong Meng who turns over the river mirage. When Li Jun heard that it was Hu Niangzi, he brought the boat over, jumped over the boat, and said with great joy: "Li Jun has nothing to do at home today, and the boat comes out of the river to catch some private salt, and I don't want to meet Hu Niangzi here again." ”

The prince was stunned for a long time, speechless, and then asked: "Brother Li, is Hu Niangzi the one who often says?" Li Jun said: "You can know that it is a mile!" ”

The prince bowed and said: "My master, why don't you get a big name early!" Save me from making a fool of myself there. Sanniang said with a smile: "Big brother thief also has a way, and it is not a fool." He asked Li Jun again: "Who is this big brother?" What is Gao's last name? Li Jun said: "The lady doesn't know, this hero is the brother of the younger brother, originally a small lonely mountain, surnamed Zhang, the name is horizontal, nicknamed Boat Huo'er, dedicated to this Xunyang River to do this stable and good road, today I see the lady, to the kindness, not to rob you, but to protect you." With that, everyone laughed.

At that time, the two boats swayed side by side to the opposite shore, and after a short time they crossed the river, and five people went ashore, and the boat was lifted, and all the people came ashore. Sanniang said: "I saw a few brothers here, and I was very happy, so it was better to find a hotel and sit down and have a few cups of talk." Li Jun said: "What the lady said is true." ”

At that moment, Zhang Heng led the way, and the five of them went to a port hotel on the shore to sit down, and instructed the restaurant to make two barrels of wine, and there were fresh fish to make soup, cut more than ten catties of good yellow beef, and laid out a table of vegetables and fruits, Li Jun invited Sanniang to sit in the main seat, Li Jun sat in the second place, Zhang Heng, Tong Wei, and Tong Meng sat in turn.

After sitting down, Li Jun said to Zhang Heng again: "Brother, I often tell you, this Shaohua Mountain is the way of heaven, what a righteous anger, today you can carefully recognize, this is the lady who created the great foundation of Shaohua Mountain." Zhang Heng bowed and said: "I just want to see it sooner or later, I don't know the lady, but Meng Lang!" ”

When Sanniang helped Zhang Heng to look, she saw: three-foot body with triangular eyes, yellow hair, red hair, and red eyes, and a reputation on the Xunyang River. The waves are like water monsters, the waves are like flying whales, the evil water and wind are not afraid, and the dragon is frightened everywhere. The heavens are all about harming living beings. The small lonely mountain lives down, and the ship fire is open.

Zhang Hengbai said: "A few days ago, I heard Brother Li say that the lady was preaching in Jieyangling, at that time, I went to take a trip to buy and sell illegal salt, and only after I came back did I know that the lady had arrived at us. The lady had already crossed the river and gone to Jiangzhou, so she waited by the river in the morning and evening, hoping that when the lady came back, she would be able to meet, but she didn't want the lady to cross the river today. ”

Sanniang said: "But it was delayed because of one thing." At that moment, Sanniang will compete with the Mu Hong brothers in Jieyang Town, and say that she saved Mu Hong. Li Jun smiled when he heard this: "The two brothers only ran rampant in Jieyang Town, but now they were subdued by the lady, and they also joined the gang together." ”

Sanniang said again: "I heard that Brother Zhang has another brother? Zhang Heng said: "The good teacher learned that the younger brother and the mother of the two brothers, the eldest is the younger brother, I have a brother, but he is good." The snow is also like a body of white meat, not forty or fifty miles of water, and the water is lying under the water for seven days and seven nights, and the water is like a white strip, and it is also a good martial art. Therefore, people gave him a different name, calling him Zhang Shun who jumped in the waves. At the beginning, my two brothers only did one thing by the Yangtze River. ”

Sanniang said: "I also want to meet Second Brother Zhang." Zhang Heng said: "I have two brothers, but when the bet is lost, I will first take a boat to cross the river to do a private ferry." There are those who are greedy for hundreds of dollars, and they want to be fast, so they come to get off our ship. waited for the boat to be full, but his godbrother Zhang Shun also pretended to be a single guest, carrying a big bag, and also came to take advantage of the boat. I rocked the boat into the middle of the river, rested on the oars, threw nails, and inserted a sword, but begged for the boat's money, which was five hundred dollars per person, and I would have asked him three times. But I first asked my brother to ask for it, and taught him to pretend that he refused to return me, so I started him, grabbed his head with one hand, and held his waist and crotch with the other, and threw him down into the river. and when they had enough, they sent him ashore in a secluded place. My brother walked across the shore from under the water, and when there was no one, he shared the money with his brother to gamble. But when I met a villain who was a public servant and was unkind to the rich, I invited them to eat knife noodles and wontons, and at that time, the two of us only relied on this road to get by. ”

Sanniang smiled when she heard this: "The two eldest brothers have also received Jiang Lijin's methods, but they still have to spend a lot of time on Second Brother Zhang." Li Jun and the others all laughed. At the end, Li Jun talked about entrusting Shaohuashan to join the gang, Zhang Heng was overjoyed and agreed, and said: "I have nothing to say here, but my brother has to say it." The two of us used to do business together, that was a year ago, since I had a relationship with Brother Li, and heard from him that the lady Shaohuashan acted, and now my brothers and sisters have changed their careers, so I only do some private business in this Xunyang River, and only accept some cents of gold ferrymen. Brother Zhang Shun, but he is now selling fish teeth in Jiangzhou. Now when the lady goes, the younger brother sends a letter to tell him about joining the gang and persuading him to join the gang together; It's just that I can't read and write. ”

Li Jun said: "Let's go to the village to write about it." Sanniang smiled and said: "I just wrote it, but there is no pen, ink, paper and inkstone." Li Jun said: "I asked the restaurant to borrow pen, ink, paper and inkstone." At the moment, he borrowed the pen and ink in the hotel, Zhang Heng dictated, Sanniang wrote a letter, and Zhang Heng asked Sanniang to bring the book.

At that moment, Sanniang received the letter, and after eating wine with the four again, she got up to say goodbye, and the four sent a few miles of land before turning back, and Sanniang went to Jiangzhou.

After only half a day's effort, before the city gate closed at dusk, Sanniang arrived in Jiangzhou City, entered the city, first found an inn to stay, and rested for one night.

On the second day, Sanniang freshened up a little, just wanted to go out of the stall to practice medicine today, so she took some silver taels and walked to the street to play. This Jiangzhou city is on the bank of the river, the throat of the upper and lower rivers, there is an endless stream of merchant ships and cargo ships, and the merchants are prosperous, and it is also a place where there is a lot of money and grain.

Sanniang wandered around the street for a while, and unconsciously went out of the city, but saw a gambling house on a street corner outside the city, but saw a few people, first a black man, and an idle man inside said to the black man: "Brother Li, you are usually the most straightforward, and your luck is not good today, but you want to borrow some silver and go to Bolai again?" ”

But the big black man said: "You guys, I have to pay back three pennies if I borrow you one!" The idle man smiled: "Brother Li also has a debt of three or five taels from me, and I don't fight this time, if I borrow it and fight again, maybe I will win the money back." ”

Sanniang was secretly amused when she saw it, and said in her heart: "It turned out that she persuaded people to borrow money to gamble." Seeing that the big man was born mighty, he couldn't help but think about it, and secretly thought: "Could it be that person who can't do it?" Let's go up and ask. ”

When Sanniang was waiting to step forward, she saw that the big black man couldn't hold back a few words, and shouted: "Okay, I'll borrow two more taels, and I'll go to Bo to see it again!" At that moment, he borrowed two taels of silver from the idle man, turned around and entered the gambling house again.

Sanniang smiled, walked forward, and was about to open the curtain to enter, when a few idlers at the door saw it, one stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Where is the lady?" Sanniang said: "Naturally, I want to go in." The other saw that Sanniang was beautiful, touched his chin and smiled evilly: "Little lady, do you know what is inside?" ”

Sanniang said: "Isn't it a place to gamble?" Can't I get in? The idle man smiled and said: "There are a room of men inside, and you are a woman who goes in, but I am afraid that I will touch everyone's moldy heads." Sanniang snorted, took out a fifty-tael silver ingot in her hand and said: "As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, I have money here, don't you let me in?" ”

When a few idlers saw it, their eyes widened in shock, and they all said, "The lady wants to try her luck, and she can go in." At that moment, the two idlers opened the curtain and respectfully led Sanniang in.

When I entered the inside, I saw that it was pitch black, only some candles were lit to illuminate it, but it was a miasma of black smoke, and a large smell of sweat rushed to the nose, and there was a noisy shout there, which was a place of wealth.

Sanniang saw that in this gambling house, there were several gambling stalls, and the gameplay was different, and the idle man who led the way smiled: "Does the lady know how to play?" Sanniang saw that the big black man was in front of a money stall, pointed to the money stall and smiled: "I'll go there to play and come back." The idle man said: "The lady understands? ”

Sanniang smiled: "There are only two ways to play that money stall. One is to share the money, also known as the meaning of money, is to take a number of coins at hand, put them in the utensils and shake them, count the coins when they open, take four as the surplus, and the rest of the numbers are zero, one, two, three, and the winner wins. The other is twisted money, also known as throwing money. It is to throw money for the blogger, and the play is to divide the victory and defeat with the money and the face, and the words and curtains. The word and curtain are the front and back. Of course I know. ”

The idle man was shocked and said, "I didn't expect that the lady was a habitual scholar." At that moment, he led Sanniang to the money stall, separated everyone, and invited Sanniang to sit on a pestle.

Seeing that the idle man led a woman to come, all the gamblers were stunned when they saw it, and the big black man frowned and shouted: "Sun San, I am here to be lucky, but you are leading a girl here, but you are not touching my moldy head?" ”

The idle man Sun San smiled and said: "Brother Li spared, just because this little lady will give out an ingot of fifty taels of silver, and he just wants to fight once, so he will bring her here." The big black man listened and said, "What can a woman gamble on?" You must be looking at people as a sheep, and you only care about attracting a few losses to you! ”

Sun San said with a smile: "Brother Li said that he was joking, here is a lot, it's all just luck, and this lady may not necessarily lose." Sanniang slapped the ingot of silver on the table, and said: "Don't gossip, let's come and see!" The big black man cheered when he saw it, and praised: "This little lady is heroic, let's take a look together!" ”