"Young Master, what should I do with that confessed guy and a few other living thieves?" A young man walked up to Gao Huaiyuan and asked him.

Gao Huaiyuan's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he waved his hand without looking back: "You don't need to ask about this kind of thing, keeping them is also a scourge, just to eliminate harm for the people!" Do it simply, we're going to get out of this mountain when it's dark! ”

"Yes! Master! The young man choked and pulled out his waist knife, turned around and strode away.

Ji Xiancheng looked at Gao Huaiyuan's cold expression, and the waves in his heart were rolling, not knowing what he was thinking at this moment.

Immediately afterward, there were a few screams not far away, and then the surroundings immediately calmed down, and no one made any groans anymore, and the four teenagers returned to Gao Huaiyuan with bloody knives and replied: "Young master! It's all dealt with! ”

Gao Huaiyuan nodded: "You all take care of the wounds too!" Take Wu Tian's corpse and let's hit the road! ”

After a while, they wrapped Wu Tian's body in a quilt and carried it into the car, and several people escorted the vehicle all the way to the front again.

After dark, they finally rushed outside a small town, Gao Huaiyuan did not enter the town, directly near a forest outside the town, cut some firewood, set it together, put Wu Tian's body on the pyre, Gao Huaiyuan personally lit the pyre, and incinerated Wu Tian's corpse on the spot.

The fire burned until the second half of the night before it was extinguished, Gao Huaiyuan personally picked up Wu Tian's bones, put them in a cloth bag, and carried them on his back, he wanted to fulfill his promise to Wu Tian during the day, and personally took him back to Crouching Tiger Village.

Along the way, everyone lost the excitement they had when they first left Shaoxing, they all fell silent, and they were silently on the way, and they no longer had the interest to chat.

After passing through Huizhou, they turned to Qingyang County, and never encountered any danger again, and walked all the way, and finally came to the edge of the Yangtze River.

The Yangtze River is the barrier of the Southern Song Dynasty, although the Song and Jin wars are in full swing, but it has not caused any serious impact on the shipping on the Yangtze River, after all, the Jin army broke through the Huai River barrier before, the Yangtze River along the Yangtze River is relatively safe, not to mention that although the Southern Song Dynasty does not want to forge ahead, but the Jianghuai Navy still attaches more importance to it, after all, this is related to the survival of the Southern Song Dynasty, even if it is a traitor like Shi Miyuan, he does not dare to ignore the deployment here.

When Gao Huaiyuan and his entourage arrived at the riverside wharf, looking at the various boats shuttling back and forth on the river, they couldn't help but feel relieved, and under the river breeze, there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

"How's Ruohu's situation?" Gao Huaiyuan asked Liu Er, who was sitting in the car.

Liu Er lifted the curtain, revealing her slightly haggard face, shook her head slightly at Gao Huaiyuan, and said with a melancholy face: "I haven't woken up yet, and my body is still a little feverish!" But the breathing is a little calmer! ”

Gao Huaiyuan sighed, although they had tried their best to rescue Li Ruohu, but after all, he had many injuries on his body, and the wound was a little inflamed, in such an era, there were no antibiotics available, only some herbs to help him heal, and Li Ruohu was sometimes unconscious in the past two days, sometimes awake, and his body was still feverish, this was a manifestation of his own resistance fighting against the bacteria in the wound, and they couldn't stop here, so that Li Ruohu could fully rest, and could only take him on the road, whether Li Ruohu could carry it over, For now, it can only be seen that his own resistance and will to survive.

"Young Master Gao doesn't have to worry too much, I checked this little brother's pulse just now, Ji has some rough medical skills, and I can feel that his pulse is still relatively stable overall, and there are signs of strengthening today, which shows that this little brother's body is recovering, his physique is quite good, and these injuries seem to be dangerous, but in essence, they are all flesh wounds, not hurting muscles and bones, with his physique, he should be able to carry it! Please rest assured, Young Master Gao! Ji Xiancheng stepped down from another mule cart at this time, and walked away with relief.

Gao Huaiyuan was in a better mood after hearing this, he also knew that guys like Li Ruohu usually pay attention to training, although they were injured, with their physical instincts, they could also avoid the key points at critical moments, so that the injuries were reduced to the lightest level, and they had a good diet on weekdays, and their resistance was much better than that of ordinary people, Ji Xiancheng said this, and he was much more relieved.

"Young master, I'll go to the dock to hire a boat first, and we can leave here in the afternoon!" A teenager came over and asked Gao Huaiyuan for instructions.

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and said, "You might as well hire a larger boat, so that it can be more stable, so that Ruohu can have a good rest!" There you go! ”

The young man immediately flew down the dock, Ji Xiancheng looked at Gao Huaiyuan and persuaded: "You have been working hard for the past two days, take a rest first, the injury on your leg is not light, and you insist on walking like this, don't fall into the root of the disease, it will be difficult to deal with it if you want to treat it in the future!" ”

Gao Huaiyuan smiled and said: "Thank you Mr. Ji for bothering, this time you are also frightened with me, Huaiyuan is very uneasy, fortunately Mr. Ji is not injured, otherwise Huaiyuan will be to blame!" My injury is fine, it's just a skin injury, it's much better in the past two days, this kind of injury is nothing in the next place! ”

"Huaiyuan is really a tough guy, Ji deeply admires it! This battle Ji can be regarded as clear, Huaiyuan can make immortal achievements in front of the army, it is not a fluke, from you, Ji Mou sees what is called the wind of a general who is not afraid of danger! Ji Xiancheng said sincerely.

"Mr. Ji praised it falsely!" Gao Huaiyuan smiled, then found a stone to sit down, rested his sore thighs, in the past two days, he has been worried that Ma Erdao may be unwilling, and then lead people to kill a horse pistol and raid them, so all the way from Huizhou, he has always been careful and vigilant, mentally and physically tired, to say that he is not tired is false, after all, he is a human, not a god, and the people who are beaten by iron are also a little unbearable, and now after arriving at the riverside, Gao Huaiyuan can finally relax a little, when he arrives here, he thinks that Ma Erdao is just a bandit, Once on board, you're completely safe!

"Young Master Gao! Ji was very interested in the kind of thing that would explode used by Miss Liu'er in the battle the day before yesterday, I wonder if Young Master Gao can give Ji some explanation? Ji Xiancheng has been pondering the explosive thing that Liu Er threw out that day for the past two days, after he saw the inconspicuous black iron egg explode, he immediately overturned a group of thieves, only to startle the thieves and flee, he seemed to know that the Song army also used gunpowder weapons, called thunderbolts, but he didn't expect Gao Huaiyuan to have something similar, and the power was so huge.

"Oh! What's this...... How do you say this? Gao Huaiyuan was really a little embarrassed, the day before yesterday in a crisis, he had to let Liu Er use this weapon he secretly made, although he frightened the thief, but also exposed his secret, at this time Ji Xiancheng still asked about this matter, and couldn't help but hesitate when Gao Huaiyuan answered.

Ji Xiancheng seemed to see Gao Huaiyuan's hesitation, so he smiled slightly and said, "Since Young Master Gao still can't trust Ji, then it's right to say hello to Ji!" After saying that, Ji Xiancheng turned around to leave.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at Ji Xiancheng's back, and after a few thoughts in his mind turned sharply, he immediately stretched out his hand to greet Ji Xiancheng and said, "Mr. Ji, slow down!" Let's listen to Gao tell you in detail! ……”

Ji Xiancheng stopped, turned to look at Gao Huaiyuan, and slowly walked back to Gao Huaiyuan's side, shook the hem of the scribe's robe, and sat down on the stone next to Gao Huaiyuan.

In fact, Gao Huaiyuan is still a little too careful, Ma Erdao since the Huangshan sneak attack failed, after the defeat and escape, he never thought about turning around and killing a horse pistol at all, and ran out with the remaining subordinates all the way out before he dared to stop, Gao Huaiyuan and the others' terrible combat power made them all have palpitations, especially the spirit of their fearless protection of their companions, for them The memory is still fresh for these people, they are forty or fifty people in this battle, and more than half of them were lost in one fell swoop. Even the big knife that Ma Erdao became famous for was destroyed under Gao Huaiyuan's fast knife, and he was slashed on his arm, almost turning into a one-armed prawn.

This kind of loss made Ma Erdao worried, he didn't expect that this time the job would encounter such a hard stubble, the other party was not only fierce and scary, not to mention, but also came up with such a terrible weapon in the end, and put down a group of them at once, a few guys who ran out still had shrapnel on their bodies, and they grinned in blood, such a thing made them not know what it was, where would they have the courage to find Gao Huaiyuan to retaliate again!

"Damn! This transaction is really a big loss, I didn't expect the idea to be so hard, and I almost folded all of them here! Ma Erdao sat on the ground gasping, stuck the broken knife in his hand heavily on the ground, and scolded with a depressed face.

"Big boss! This time the business is like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to explain it to the people over there! What do we do now? One of his subordinates, who was also considered his cronies, came over and asked worriedly.

Ma Erdao raised his scarred face, glared at this subordinate and said, "What should I do?" Cold! Damn! The people over there said that this surnamed Gao was just a rich man, but they didn't tell us that he was so powerful, Lao Tzu was already careful, brought so many brothers, spent so much effort, or suffered such a big loss, this matter Lao Tzu is not finished with them! Give them an account? Lao Tzu still wants to find them to explain to Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu didn't finish this matter with them, so he asked the leader to come over and ask him if he was entrusted by the people, and Lao Tzu is now going to settle accounts with them! Damn! If you suffer a loss here, you will ask them to come back! ”

After a while, a guy was dragged in front of Ma Erdao, this guy looked frightened, and asked Ma Erdao with a smile: "I don't know what the big boss has to tell the little one?" ”

"Phew! Why the hell didn't you say it sooner? Causing Lao Tzu to lose his troops and end up in such an embarrassing end, who are you? Why do you want to hurt Lao Tzu? Ma Erdao spat at the mouth and scolded this person.

This guy's face collapsed suddenly, and he cried and said, "The big boss is angry! The little one didn't expect that person and his subordinates to be so powerful, and the little one also told the big boss two days ago, this guy has a little kung fu at hand, please be careful, the little one doesn't want to harm the big boss! Otherwise, the little ones wouldn't have come with the big bosses! ”

"What kind of grudge do you have with this surnamed Gao? He didn't even know his details, so he brought Lao Tzu to find their bad luck, and as a result, Lao Tzu ended up in such a field, how do you say this account should be calculated? If you can't say it, Lao Tzu will cut you first! Ma Erdao continued to scold unrelentingly.

This guy immediately collapsed to the ground in fright, he also knew that a guy like Ma Erdao was definitely killing people and killing chickens, killing him was as simple as crushing an ant, and after they suffered such a big loss, it seemed that they were angry at him, the liaison, so they cried and begged: "The big boss spares his life!" The little one is just a messenger, and the little one has no grudges with the one surnamed Gao, but he was entrusted by someone and was sent by them to take the girl back, and this matter has nothing to do with the little one! ”

Ma Erdao stood up and kicked this guy to the ground: "Then you tell Lao Tzu, who are you entrusted with?" ”

This guy rolled his eyes, quickly got up and said, "Yes, yes, yes!" The little one said that this time it was Su Dingjun, the eldest young master of the Su family in Shaoxing, and others who asked the big boss to do something! ”

"Fart! I think you're still not honest! I've heard that Zhang Laizi say, what kind of subordinate is Young Master Gao, and who is that Young Master of yours? Ma Erdao grabbed this guy's chest, pulled the broken knife out of the ground and put it on this guy's neck.

This guy was so frightened that his legs and stomach turned and exclaimed: "The big boss spares his life, and the small one says it!" The little one does know the one surnamed Gao today, and the little one is a servant under his second brother, and this is all his second brother's idea! ”

Ma Erdao shook his head, a little confused, what kind of bad debt is this! Why is there a brother who wants to ask someone to kill his own brother? ……

After asking for a long time, this Ma Erdao completely asked the reason for the matter, kicked this guy to the ground again, touched his chin and pondered, and then sneered and said to himself: "This thing is a little funny, can Lao Tzu get some benefits from it?" Otherwise, this time I will lose a lot of money......"

Ma Erdao gathered his brothers, rested in the forest for a while, and after dealing with the wounds on their bodies, he ordered some people to turn back to Majiazhai first, and brought a few cronies with him, caught the house slave under Gao Huairen, and walked all the way in the direction of Shaoxing.

Gao Huaiyuan finally boarded a hired big ship at this time, this ship is also a big ship on the river, and even their mule cart can catch up with the boat, which shows that this boat is really not small.

After loading the few of them, the ship was still a little empty, and everyone had their own cabin to rest, which also made Gao Huaiyuan feel very clean.

When Gao Huaiyuan came and went to Xiangyang, he also took a transitional boat, and the ferry at that time was larger than the boat they hired this time, but it was not so clean, so he was very satisfied with this boat, the boat family was a family of six, young and old, living on the boat, taking the boat as their home, coming and going to and from the river all year round, specializing in transporting goods or people, earning the ship fare, they were still very honest, and the ship fare was also fair.

After negotiating the price, they invited Gao Huaiyuan and his party to the ship, lifted anchor and left the dock in Qingyang County, and sailed upstream.

At this time, Gao Huaiyuan completely relaxed, knowing that even if Ma Erdao chased after him, it would be difficult to find the boat under him on the river, so returning to Daye County by boat would save a lot of bumps.

Today he made a bet, in order to keep Ji Xiancheng and make Ji Xiancheng his person from now on, he told Ji Xiancheng some of his secrets, especially about the kind of explosive mine in his hand, he told Ji Xiancheng the original, but he did not tell Ji Xiancheng in detail how he obtained the formula of gunpowder, but only said that after seeing the huge power of the thunderbolt cannon in front of the army, he wanted to do something like this to protect himself, so he improved the kind of explosive mine used in their hands now, and Ji Xiancheng After hearing it, did not continue to delve into anything, so far the relationship between the two people has entered a new level.

Gao Huaiyuan admires this Ji Xiancheng's knowledge, he really needs such a person to assist him now, but whether he can control such a person, Gao Huaiyuan is somewhat unsure, and the reader has many eyes, whether to tell Ji Xiancheng his secrets, Gao Huaiyuan is not sure before, he dare not make up his mind, once Ji Xiancheng has a different heart, then he will be equivalent to handing over the handle of the knife to Ji Xiancheng and putting it on his neck, but if he hides it from Ji Xiancheng, With a smart person like Ji Xiancheng, he can quickly see that he doesn't trust, and he will definitely not continue to assist him when the time comes, how to do it, Gao Huaiyuan felt a little embarrassed.

And Ji Xiancheng didn't ask anything more after listening to Gao Huaiyuan say about this kind of thunder, and he was also thinking about what kind of person Gao Huaiyuan was, the information he got from Gao Jian about Gao Huaiyuan was completely different from the Gao Huaiyuan he saw now, Gao Jian said that Gao Huaiyuan had a bad brain before, almost illiterate, and was very reckless, but after coming out of Shaoxing, this impression was completely overturned by Gao Huaiyuan's own performance.

Gao Huai is far from what Gao Jian said, not only is he not stupid, but he is also very smart, and even his vision in many things even he, a person who claims to have a university question, has to be impressed, the more he contacts Gao Huaiyuan, the more he begins to see Gao Huaiyuan clearly, from Gao Huaiyuan's performance, he can see that Gao Huaiyuan has a lot of secrets that Gao Jian did not know.