On Jieyang Ridge, the corpses of all the thieves were abandoned in the human flesh workshop hidden underground, and the gold and silver worth more than 20,000 yuan were packed up, and the sky was almost dusk.

If you go down the mountain, you can also go to Jieyang Town to settle down for a night, but Ximen Qing knows that there are Mu brothers in Jieyang Town who are doing evil, and Li Jun and his group of private businessmen are also there now, this time is no less than Longtan Tiger's Den, even if the Ma Jing and Ma Jin brothers are outstanding in martial arts, but after all, two fists are invincible to four hands.

With this consideration, Ximenqing made up his mind to deal with the black shop on this ridge for the time being, and then go down the ridge early tomorrow morning.

At this moment, among the group, naturally this Ximen official was the head, and the others naturally had no objection to this arrangement, but the doctor was the one who said that he didn't want to live in the store, and in the end he had no choice but to go to the thief's den behind the store to get a bed and let him settle in the carriage.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Ximenqing and others, who had planned in advance, got up early, and after some freshening, a group of carriages and horses left Jieyang Ridge and went down all the way down the official road on the ridge.

Originally, according to Ma Jin's idea, the black shop on this ridge was bound to burn it down, but Ximenqing was afraid of attracting the attention of the local bullies under the ridge and causing unnecessary trouble, so he persuaded him.

Speaking of which, among the "Jieyang Three Tyrants", only the "Urging Judge" Li Li and the "Boat Huoer" Zhang Heng on the Xunyang River are two life-threatening deals, and the rest of the people are just local tyrants. It's just that this kind of head snake is the most difficult, even if Ximenqing is a dragon crossing the river, but after all, he is not the black guy who is full of rivers and lakes, and he can only endure the minions at this time.

Under Jieyang Ridge, only four or five miles away, a lively and prosperous market town appeared in front of you, the reason is that there is an official wharf of the Xunyang River here, so it is so lively.

After entering the town, Ximenqing and his group did not make any stops, and went straight through the town and went to the official wharf in the north of the town, but they didn't want the Mu brothers in the "Jieyang Three Tyrants" to come over from the official wharf with a group of green-skinned gangsters.

Speaking of which, Mu Hong, the elder brother of the Mu brothers in Jieyang Town, is the head of the local family surnamed Mu, but because it is far away from the county and is located at the intersection of the three nearby counties, the population is mixed, and it is really a place to go. Na Mu Hong is a martial artist, a man of ten miles and eight towns, and has a large number of wealthy people, so he has become the leader of the "Jieyang Three Tyrants".

That Mu Hong is shrewd, and when Ximenqing and his group have gone far, he said to his brother Mu Chun beside him: "Li Li is blind, such a good deal, but how can he let go of Linglai, it seems, it is cheaper to Zhang Heng, this water ghost!" ”

"What's a good deal?"

Mu Chun can't compare to his brother, but he can embroider his legs with two sets of flower fists, and his mind is rough, and he behaves in Jieyang Town on weekdays.

"Look at the ruts on the ground, so deep and solid, and the five or six men who are on the right and left, all of them are capable men, I expect that the cart must be loaded with valuable goods!"

Mu Hong's words were affirmative, but Mu Chun couldn't help jumping to his feet and said: "In this case, how can you just cheapen that water ghost, and tell a child to report the news, and then after that Zhang Heng is finished, he must share half of the profit with my two brothers before he can take a break!" ”

"This matter is a bit strange, and we still need to send a fine person to the ridge to see Li Li's movements."

"Brother, as the saying goes, half of the meeting is divided, then Li Li has no vision, he has left this fat trip, why do you still provoke him, is it difficult to share him with a penny?"

Mu Chun is a brave and unscrupulous prankster, if it weren't for the fact that he needed to rely on Zhang Heng's gang of water ghosts, he couldn't wait to swallow all the foreign wealth before he could take advantage of it, where would he be willing to regenerate the branches.

"Idiot!"

Mu Hong taught his brother a lesson, and then explained, "Li Li's gang is ruthless, and he is full of outlaws, but he is better than the gangsters around you every day. Thinking that Jieyangling is another official road leading up and down, where can this group of people escape the eyeliner of the group of steamed bun sellers. ”

"Big brother is saying, maybe something has happened on that ridge?"

"You also know that yesterday Li Li went down the mountain and messed with Li Jun and others in the town, there is no leader on this ridge, even if there is something wrong, it is normal."

"Okay, everything needs to be up to Big Brother!"

Mu Chun was very respectful to his brother, and immediately sent people to the Jieyangling and Xunyangjiang wharves.

In fact, there is still a key point in Mu Hong's explanation that has not been mentioned. If it weren't for the staggered passage of the two groups of people just now, Mu Hong secretly felt that Ma and Ma Jin didn't want to deal with each other, but he was afraid that he would want to rely on more people at that time.

is not as good as his younger brother Mu Chun, Mu Hong also walked in all directions on the rivers and lakes a few years ago, and he has seen some characters in the rivers and lakes, and he is somewhat self-aware. Thinking that in "Water Margin", although this Mu Hong is one of the eight hussars, he is like Zhu Tong, and his martial arts are not outstanding, only because he was relied on by Song Jiang as a confidant, so he has such a high position.

His family knows his own affairs, and although he Mu Hong is majestic in Jieyang Town, he does not dare to underestimate the heroes of the green forest in the world. In his mind, if those two men are really powerful people, they are afraid that they will not be able to bargain, so it is better for Zhang Heng and his gang to beg for a life on the Xunyang River, even if they meet people who are all over the world and fall on the river, they can only be the souls of the underwater.

With Mu Hong's plan, when Ximenqing and his party arrived at the official wharf, Zhang Heng and his group, who had gotten the news first, immediately surrounded them to peddle business, but they only had to pay half of the fare to take their boat.

Although Ximen Qing didn't recognize Zhang Heng, he knew that this was a common method of "boat fire", as long as there were travelers who were greedy for money and waited for the boat, when the time came, the boat would be in the middle of the river, whether it was "plate knife noodles" or "wontons", then it would be unbearable.

The two brothers, Ma Wei and Ma Jin, had been advised by Ximenqing before, and ignored these people, only found the two largest official boats, and chartered them together, and crossed the river with the carriages and horses, which provoked Zhang Heng and his group behind them to hate the root of their teeth.

At the same time when the fire ** was annoyed and took a foreign fortune, a merchant who came down from Jieyang Ridge brought a piece of news, saying that a wine shop on the mountain was a black shop, and there were more than ten corpses lying in the human flesh workshop under the backyard, and a group of bones were piled up on the side, like hell on earth, which was very appalling.

As soon as they heard the news, they knew that the matter on the ridge would be exposed, and it would definitely attract the yamen and even the local army, and they would inevitably have to jump for a while. Although this Mu Hong vaguely guessed who did it, how could he take care of these things at this time, but let Jiang Ximenqing and his party pass through this treacherous place without danger.