"Who are you?" Jiang Sheng was taken aback.

"I'm Xu Hou."

"Brother-in-law, it's you." Jiang Sheng shouted.

Hearing Jiang Sheng call him "brother-in-law", everyone was taken aback, and Duan Laosan shouted: "Hey, Jiang Sheng, who is that?" What brother-in-law? ”

"Brother-in-law, it's brother-in-law, what kind of brother-in-law can it be?" Jiang Sheng laughed.

The big cargo ship had been let go, and in the dark night, sailed away, and everyone went ashore from the fishing boat, escorted a few captured enemies, and climbed up to the earthen hill, and the small boat driven by the "brother-in-law" also docked, and the two men on board boarded the shore with Duan Lao and others.

Jiang Sheng pulled a thin person, walked over to everyone, and introduced him one by one: "This is Duan Laosan, this is Hu Shu, this is Shi Suo, this is Dafeng ......" The man smiled heartily: "I've heard that Lao Jiang is about to grind out the names of you people in his mouth." We are not outsiders, let's call me Lao Xu. ”

At this time, everyone had already guessed that this person was Jiang Yuniang's husband, and they were very surprised, and they came over to say hello, Shi Suo asked anxiously: "Brother-in-law, is Sister Jiang here?" ”

"She didn't come," Lao Xu said, "I came to find a friend to do something, and I happened to have this battle, but I didn't expect to meet you." ”

Duan Laosan ordered the team members to escort several prisoners to the side for interrogation. Then I looked at the surrounding terrain, this uneven mound, like a hill, growing sparse grass and trees, in the distance is farmland, because it is midnight, there are no lights far and near, and the four fields are silent. He first sent a few team members to chase and support Professor Wan and others who were transporting cultural relics, and then found a slightly flat ground and sat down.

Shi Suo only felt it at this time, his legs were numb from the cold, and his soaked trousers were still dripping, Lao Xu said: "This won't work, it will be cold, you quickly dry the wet clothes." Dafeng found a leeward place. lit a fire and baked clothes for Shi Suo, Jiang Sheng asked Lao Xu: "Brother-in-law, what is going on today?" ”

Xu Hou pulled the man next to him over. Introduce to everyone: "This is Lao Qi, my friend. Lao Qi nodded to everyone. Xu Hou continued: "Originally, I came to Lao Qi to help him do a business, and you know it. It's not easy to run a business these years, not to mention anything else, the bandits and officials on the road, set up cards everywhere, the bandit family, making it difficult for people to move an inch, I arrived at Lao Qi's house, who knows that he is sighing, Lao Qi, you come and talk to everyone. ”

"Okay." Lao Qi said: "Brother Xu and I, we have been discussing since years ago, taking a trip to the fur business, and I have already set the source of goods, we have not many such goods in the Jiangnan area, if you do it well, you can make a profit." Because the road is not easy to walk, I wanted to take the water route, but I didn't expect it. Just two days ago, the goods also had an accident on the waterway and were robbed by the lake bandit Shen Jingang......"

"Shen Jingang? It's this guy again," Stone Lock interjected, "Oh. You go on. ”

"Good. You also know that furs are valuable goods, and if you rob a bundle, the loss will be not small, and I am a small business. Where can you afford it? At that time, when I heard that something had happened to the goods, I was really blind, and I didn't know what to do. ”

Duan Laosan asked, "When you transported the goods, was there no one to escort them?" You two, didn't follow the goods? ”

"This is also to blame for my negligence, I was busy contacting the way out, and before Brother Xu arrived, he asked the cargo ship in the river to bring it by the way, alas, I really regretted it." Duan Laosan couldn't help but shake his head, such an important product, it was so negligent, it was really a little speechless. Thinking about Jiang Yuniang's heart and wisdom, it seems that her husband Lao Xu is a lot inferior to his wife.

Lao Xu continued: "At that time, it was not only our goods that were robbed by Shen Jingang, but also the shipload of goods, all of which he robbed, I discussed with Lao Qi, and then went to the lake to ask him, the two of us planned to quietly enter the lake, if we could steal it back, it would be the best." ”

Duan Laosan couldn't help but smile dumbly, and shook his head, "Brother-in-law, you are thinking too simply, Shen Jingang is an old bandit, is it so easy to steal back the things he hijacked?" ”

Xu Hou laughed, "You're right, Lao Jiang always said that I was a brainless Ma Daha, but she wasn't there at the time, my brain was hot, so I drove a boat with Lao Qi to the river, thinking that my ability to make a boat is not bad......"

"That's right," Shi Suo praised, "and it's a good skill for you to get the boat up." ”

"It's useless to have good skills," Xu Hou said: "The two of us touched Shen Jingang's nest, and before we had time to find the goods, we were found and chased out, this group of guys, water kung fu is really good, we ran left and right, or failed to run out of their chase, until the evening, and they fought again, haha, what happened later, you all saw it." Thinking about it, it's really reckless, if your eldest sister Jiang knows about this, you should blame me again......"

Shi Suo and Dafeng both laughed, Xu Hou also laughed, and he said to Shi Suo: "I heard Lao Jiang say that you are also a reckless man, saying that the two of us are quite similar, and when we see each other today, the two of us really fall in love." ”

Duan Laosan and Hu Xuan briefly discussed, turned to Xu Hou and said: "Brother-in-law, we can't finish the matter with Shen Jingang about the robbery of the goods, this is not only a matter of the two of you who are carrying goods, but also we have plans to take the waterway to transport the goods in the future, Shen Jingang's misconduct in the lake is our biggest stumbling block, and sooner or later we will have to get rid of him." In this case, let's find a place to rest first, and tomorrow morning, we will go to the lake to find their bad luck. ”

2

The next day, Duan Laosan and the others, still wearing military uniforms, took the two captured fishing boats, plus Lao Qi's boat, escorted a few prisoners, and set off towards the lake.

Dongting Lake has been greatly reduced in modern times, some places have become swamps, some places have become sandbanks, and the remaining lake water has shrunk into several pieces of sporadic waters of different sizes, which makes the terrain more complex and difficult to navigate, and the large reeds and labyrinthine waterways near the swamp and the shore have become places where bandits are rampant.

Shi Suo said to Lao Xu: "Brother-in-law, your technique of throwing arrows last night was really good. ”

"What's that, fortunately, Shen Jingang's bandits don't have guns, otherwise, we would have been defeated a long time ago. If it's summer, you can jump into the water and try to overturn their boat, but now in this season, you can freeze if you jump in. ”

"How are your martial arts compared to Sister Jiang?"

Xu Hou smiled and waved his hand, "On this, I can't compare to her, the two of us have been learning martial arts together since childhood, but she is always better than me, and I only figured it out later, some things are innate, and I can't practice them." (To be continued.) )