Chapter 37 Soldiers from Sanshui County were transferred

Catkins flying flowers, Xintianyou, casting nets to catch shrimp. The wind comes and the branches swing, and the geese and ducks are idle.

"Dad, Dad, come and see, a basket of shrimp, last night my brother fished all night, there is a basket of shrimp, Dad, look."

Not far from the wharf, in a boat-friendly house, a five-year-old girl with two horns and twitching jumped into the cabin from the outside, pulling a middle-aged man with a face full of wind and frost and no specific age to go.

"Be careful, don't fall down and climb up wet again, go, a basket of shrimp can be exchanged for two buckets of rice, and you can also tear a few feet of cloth slightly to make a piece of clothing."

The middle-aged man touched the little girl's head lovingly, and said as he walked, until he was pulled by the little girl to the deck of the boat outside, and at this time there was a big child about fifteen years old, or a little man, in the bow of the boat, who had put away the thin line of shrimp fishing, and stood by the side of a shrimp basket, grinning.

"Feng'er, did you catch a lot yesterday?" The middle-aged man looked at his son and asked.

"Dad, look, this place I chose last night is good, and I can catch one in a while and put it in a basket." The big boy known as Feng'er happily pointed to the shrimp basket.

The middle-aged man walked closer to see the shrimp jumping in the shrimp basket, and hurriedly took a large wooden basin, filled it with water, and poured the shrimp into it.

"Dad, I just poured shrimp into the basket from the net, what are you doing with it? Isn't it sold to the docks? Feng'er felt a little sorry for the fruits of his labor just now.

The middle-aged man saw that only two shrimp died, and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's for sale, but it's not sold to the dock here, sell here, you can only exchange for a bucket of rice, sell it between the water and clouds, and collect it there, the price given is high, Feng'er will go to rest first, and your father and your mother will support it together, and you will go to the place in half a day." ”

"Brother, go to sleep, my father said to make clothes for me, don't buy them here." The little girl was there to persuade her, and ran to her brother, took his brother's big hand, and dragged him into the cabin.

As a family, the small boat with the joint efforts of the parents of the two children went upstream, and waited until the water and clouds to sell for a high price.

The people on the dock did not stop it, the price they charged was really low, the restaurant had not yet been built, only a simple house to make something for people to eat, and the food could not be sold at a high price, so they only waited to learn from Shui Yunjian in the future, and then bought some special seasonings from Zhang's house.

The pier here is indeed not far from the water and clouds, if you row down from the upstream, you can get there in less than two hours, and the boat is slower when you sail against the current.

The tacit understanding of the husband and wife to support the boat, the boat facing the water makes people look at the speed is not slow, and it has traveled for nearly two hours, and when it can reach the place for a while, the two people began to rest and support, and they will change.

At this moment, about twenty people suddenly appeared on both sides of the river, and just like that day, a rope was thrown on the opposite side and blocked the front of the boat.

A man on the right bank shouted: "The people on the boat, throw twenty live fish, and if there are no live fish, they will take the money, and they want to go over and get ten yuan." ”

The man holding the boat was stunned, he didn't expect these people to be so bold, their family has not gone down, just because the bottom is unstable, only on a section of the road between the dock and the water and clouds, today someone dares to stop the boat in this place?

"Let you take the money, what are you in a daze? If we don't take it, don't blame the stone in our hands for not having eyes. A man on the left bank threw a stone up and down there, shouting to the middle-aged man who was holding the boat.

The middle-aged man looked at the wooden basin on the boat and sighed, "Everyone, do I have any spare money at home?" There is also a pot of shrimp here, so it is better to sell half a pot, which is not more than ten cents. ”

"Pull over and I'll see." The man on the right bank heard that there was a shrimp, beckoned, and had already made up his mind to ask for everything.

A man with a stone next to him, at this time, patted the horse's ass there, "The head is amazing, more than 200 people have been found these days, and more than 20 boats were intercepted the night before yesterday, and the goods on it are worth 300 yuan, and the river chosen by the head is really profitable." ”

Someone said it first, and others followed, and a sound of flattery sounded on the shore on the right.

The middle-aged man slowly leaned to the shore with the boat, and immediately someone jumped onto the boat, looked down at the shrimp in the basin, and shouted below: "Another person, the shrimp is good, go back and sell it to others, and take the basin away." ”

"This little brother, it's not good, I just said that it's half good, leave some for my family, and the basin can't be taken away." The middle-aged man didn't expect them to take away the shrimp with the pot, and said anxiously there.

"Want to live or die? If you want to live, don't move. The man didn't pay attention to it at all, and shouted at the middle-aged man, which frightened the middle-aged man and took two steps back, his eyes full of helplessness and horror.

"If you want to die, if you want to live, don't move." Another voice came, the same as the man on the boat.

The people on both sides of the strait looked in the direction from which the sound came, and saw nearly 100 horses coming from both sides of the river between the water and clouds, and immediately sat on the officials of Sanshui County, and on the water in some distant places, they could vaguely see several boats being rowed down the river.

The officials of Sanshui County pulled their bows one by one, and the flashing arrows pointed at the robbers on both sides of the strait.

The robbers really didn't dare to move now, and the people who wanted to jump into the river to escape, seeing the boat getting closer and closer, also gave up this plan.

"It's not a small courage, a few days ago you were just blocking the boat down there, asking for a little less money, and I thought you couldn't find a way to live, and you haven't been free to clean up you, but I didn't expect that there were too many people, and you dared to grab the goods, and you ran here, and you have a long ability."

One of the servants rushed out and shouted to the people on both sides with a sneer.

They received the news the night before yesterday from the yamen to Shuiyunjian, and today they wanted to patrol here, but they met people as soon as they arrived at the place.

Pointed at by the bow and arrow, the bandits did not dare to move, and the leader of the man also changed his face, unwilling to be arrested like this, and said: "You are the official of Sanshui County, and you ran to the place of Huayuan County to act, and your courage is not small, have you forgotten what happened to the official of Huayuan County who ran to Sanshui County?" ”

"Hahahaha." All the officials laughed at the same time, and the officials who shouted before said to the leader of the bandits: "You know a lot, and you still remember what happened at the beginning, so why don't you know who the county commander of Huayuan County is?" It's not like you're messing with us, is it? All tied, which one dares to resist, kill! ”

"Yes." The servants put down their bows, drew their swords, and rushed near, and immediately knocked down some of the men who dared to stand with the back of their swords.

The bandits did not dare to resist, but it seemed that they were not too afraid, and they were tied up one by one, connected together with ropes, and stood there, looking up at the officials who had re-mounted their horses.

"Say, who else, where is it, it is solved at one time, and no one is allowed to make trouble in this river."

The leader of the officials asked, placing the knife on the head of the bandits.

"If you want to arrest someone, then follow me and tell you that arresting us will not do you any good, and will cause you trouble." The leader of the bandits said with an ugly face, and walked in the direction of the downstream, and for the convenience of guarding, the patrol boats of the officials came over and sent the bandits on the left bank to the right bank, and the two sides were put together to take care of them.

"This big brother, if you continue to hurry, we won't accompany you." The last officer said a word to the middle-aged man on the boat and rode away.

The middle-aged man let out a long breath, looked at the figures who left, and shouted into the cabin: "It's okay, the officials of Sanshui County are really powerful, and they are mighty when they look at them one by one, and we won't go anywhere else in the future, just on this river, with their protection, don't be afraid." ”

A little head with two horns on its head came out of the cabin first, looked left and right, and then the whole body jumped out, patted his chest with his little hand, and said to the middle-aged man: "Dad, it was really scary just now, I thought my shrimp would be snatched away." ”

"Don't be afraid, the official is here, it will be more stable when you get to Shuiyunjian in a while, Dad wants to send you to the school in Zhangjia Zhuangzi, you learn something in the future, and the girl can't be worse than others, when the time comes, Dad will sell things every day, give them some money, and you will eat and live there."

The middle-aged man thought about the official in Sanshui County just now, and thought of Zhangjia Zhuangzi, and felt that his daughter should also go to study and marry a good family in the future.

The little girl blinked her big eyes and nodded, she didn't know what the future would be, she just thought that there would be many children playing together, and when she learned it, she would teach it to her brother, and she heard that she learned it well, and gave her some things that could be used in ordinary times.

When the official escorted a group of bandits to the dock, Zhang Zhong also came here, and after hearing that a merchant ship had been robbed the night before, he wanted to send people from the county to take a look, but he was afraid that the county officials would not train much on weekdays, so he had to let people go to Sanshui County to say hello, and the officials there were much more powerful than those in Huayuan County.

Before dawn today, I set off from the foot of the mountain, came to see for myself, but I didn't think about it, just arrived at the wharf, and saw that the officials of Sanshui County had caught some people first.

Under the protection of the guards, they stepped forward and looked at them one by one.

"My lord, this is the leader of them, and it seems that he was instructed to come, and when the younger one asks him, he will not say." The leader of the officials was Chen Dong, and when he saw Zhang Zhong coming, he stepped forward respectfully, pointed to the leader of the bandit and said.

Zhang Zhong is now a little accustomed to his official position, since he cleaned up Xiao Chi once the day before yesterday, his heart has also become ruthless, he glanced at the head of this bandit, and instructed the guards: "You come to ask, really don't say kill him, just say that he intended to assassinate the court official, and was killed on the spot." ”

"Yes." The two guards untied the bandit's head, and at the same time pulled the bandit leader's shoulders and twisted it vigorously, and when the screams and a crisp dislocation sound sounded at the same time, the bandit leader's arm had been removed, and the two men dragged them aside.

"You can't kill me, kill me, and you will wait for revenge." The leader of the bandits was finally frightened at this time, and shouted loudly as he was dragged away, and the two guards were not at all moved.