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The wooden boat left the dock, and the sky soon darkened, and the bearded boat boss asked Hu Shu: "King, where are we going?" ”

Hu Xuan knew that the shipwrights regarded their group of hijackers as bandits, but he did not expose them, and said with a smile: "Run to the grassy slope." ”

Changcaopo is a river beach, less than ten miles away from the willow beach wharf, according to the plan of the first man of Gai, after the ship is captured, it will soon be discovered by the enemy, and it will be pursued, so it is not allowed to stay in the river for a long time, and must dock as soon as possible to secretly transport the goods away.

The place to land on the shore was chosen on the long grass slope.

The boat went forward, it was down the river, although it was night, but it was fast and steady, the boat boss lit the lamp, and the bolt stopped, "Don't point it, go in the dark." ”

The night was quiet, the lights on the shore were swaying, the sound of the river brushing, accompanied by the sound of the flickering wind, slid past the ears, Duan Laosan, Hu Xuan, Shi Suo and others all stood at the bow of the boat, staring intently at the sparkling river in front of them, and the dark shore. It is conceivable that the soldiers who escorted the boat, when they learned that they had lost the ship, would desperately chase after them and block them on all sides. The silence in front of me was only temporary.

"King, there's a ship ahead." The bearded man pointed to the river in front of him.

Sure enough, far ahead, there was a vague shadow shaking, and Hu Xuan and the others were puzzled, could it be that the enemy mobilized ships to chase after them so soon? Extrapolating over time, it probably won't. Is the ship in front of you an ordinary cargo ship?

"Bypass them." Duan Laosan said.

Looking closely, there were three of them, all of them were relatively small, some resembled fishing boats, and they sailed very briskly, Hu Shuo commanded the captain of the boat, and avoided to the side, and Shi Suo called several gun-wielding team members to the deck, and said, "Ready, there is no order." No shooting. ”

The further I went, the closer I got to those three boats, and what made people wonder was the three boats. It is neither upstream nor downstream, but suddenly upward, sometimes downward, and sometimes rampant in the river. It was as if they were playing a game of hide and seek, and even the bearded boatman wondered, "No, are those boats hiding cats?" ”

Sailing at night is already dangerous, of course the fishing boats will not play with the hidden cats, the situation of these boats, it can only be a hijacking or a battle, and the three boats. There are no lights, in this dark night, such a voyage, full of dangers, because the ship is not like a car, turning and changing speeds, are extremely complicated, not as free as on land, lighting the lights and it is difficult to ensure safety, let alone sailing in the dark? The bearded boatman nervously said to Hu Shu, "King." This won't work, go any further, and you won't be able to bump into it. ”

However, it is not possible to move forward, the cargo on board is too valuable. The enemy will definitely not sit idly by if he loses the ship, and a slight delay will bring serious consequences, Duan Laosan said to the bearded man: "Brother, you just drive forward." Try to avoid them as much as possible, and if the boat is damaged, we guarantee compensation. ”

Will the bandits compensate? The bearded man shook his head, naturally disbelieving it in his heart. He steered the big ship carefully, avoiding the middle stream, and leaned cautiously to the side, but because the ship was afraid of running aground, he did not dare to come too close to the shore. Duan Laosan, Shi Suo and the others all stared at those strange fishing boats with wide eyes.

A fishing boat, straight to this side, the bearded man hurriedly ordered the boatmen to speed up, for fear of colliding with the incoming boat, Duan Laosan asked Shi Suo and a few other strong people to hold a long rod, ready to use the rod to top the boat once the two boats approached, although it may not work, but it is always better than nothing. Shi Suo scolded: "These broken boats, you should give them a few shots." ”

"No shooting." Duan Laosan said.

The boat turned a corner, sailed to the right rear, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Duan Laosan looked into the distance, in the vast night, really can't see how far, according to the mileage calculation, the long grass slope should not be far, the river turned a corner in front, forming a tidal flat, growing tall reeds, all the leaves are withered in winter, only the dead branches remain, blurred in the dark night, after that tidal flat, it should be the destination of the long grass slope.

The boat moved fast, leaving behind the fishing boats of the "hidden cats", and several boatmen skillfully bypassed the tidal flats, and the Hu bolt stretched out his finger at the beard, "Brother, the craftsmanship is good." ”

"Not really," the bearded man turned to the swarthy river behind him and said, "Look at the fishing boat that almost hit us just now, the craftsmanship of the old ambassador's boat is good, a small pointed head is playing tricky, it scared us just now, afraid of bumping into it, it seems that people have the bottom of their hearts." ”

As for the origin of these three fishing boats, everyone can not guess, the bearded boatman said: "It is definitely not night fishing, nor is it a cargo carrier, the three boats are very brisk, there is no cargo in them, eighty percent are the gentlemen in the lake." He regarded Hu Xuan and others as bandits, so he did not dare to directly say that the fishing boat was a bandit, but called him "a man in the lake." ”

"That makes sense," Shi Suo said, "probably a lake bandit." What kind of Shen Jingang is, isn't he just a bandit in Dongting Lake? ”

As he spoke, the boat had already rounded the tidal flats, and the long grassy slope was in sight.

The long grass slope is a sandy beach, sparsely covered with wild grass and reeds, which seems to be the original river channel, and later after the vicissitudes of the sea, the river is diverted to reveal this sandy land. The big boat went smoothly and quickly went to the vicinity, because this place is not a dock, so it can't get close to the shore, the bearded man asked Duan Laosan and Hu Shuan, "Everyone, the ship has arrived, but we can't run aground, what should we do?" ”

Everyone looked at the shore for a while, although there was a crescent moon in the sky, the night was too dark, and they couldn't see whether there was a figure among the earth, sand and reeds in the distance. Duan Laosan took out a horse lantern from the cabin and rowed a few circles towards the shore.

After a while, a small sampan came from the shore, everyone knew that the people who answered were coming, they were all busy carrying goods and preparing ropes, Duan Laosan did a division of labor for everyone, transporting goods, pulling ropes, and defending, each with its own responsibilities, and there was no chaos. The little sampan approached and leaned on the big boat, and it was Jiang Sheng standing at the bow of the boat, and he said to the big boat, "Third child, it's so fast." ”

The stone lock followed the rope and went down to the small sampan, he had great strength, and was responsible for receiving the cargo boxes removed from the ship, and the team members carried the boxes and baskets to the deck, tied them firmly with ropes, and hoisted them to the sampan. ”

The sampan was loaded with goods, Jiang Sheng drove the boat to the shore, on the beach, Professor Wan led a dozen armed team members, waiting, everyone rushed up, carried the box from the sampan, quickly carried it away, and sent it to the carriage waiting on the road. (To be continued.) )