Chapter 351: Crossing the River
The man on the boat was dressed in a single coat, his trousers were pulled up high, and he was holding a long pole in his hand, and Gao Chong's eyes were facing each other as if he was about to burst into flames, Yue Shao'an saw that these two people seemed to have the intention of making a move, and he also wanted to go back to Hangzhou as soon as possible, how could he delay here, looked at the two, hurriedly pulled Gao Chong, and then said to the man: "Boatman, your price is indeed a bit expensive, can it be cheaper?" β
"Okay." The man looked Yue Shao'an up and down a few times and said, "What this son says is like human words, your scholar is too rude." β
"Scholar?" Gao Chong said angrily: "Who do you say is the scholar? β
"You!" The man replied.
"Say it again!"
"You, you, you...... Ahhh......h
Gao Chong was furious, Yue Shaoan raised his hand to stop him: "Don't be so uncalm, it's just a trivial matter, it's important that we rush back to Hangzhou." β
Gao Chong suppressed his anger and nodded at Yue Shao'an.
Yue Shaoan said: "Boatman, you can tell me the price, the price is right, and we will cross the river by your boat." β
"Two hundred taels, only the money for the horse is collected, and the money for the person is not collected."
Yue Shaoan frowned, and said angrily: "Are you called cheap?" β
"Oh, if you look down on two taels of silver, then add it to me."
"I think you demolished this bridge eight achievements." Gao Chong pointed to the bridge and said, "Demolish him, and then you make black money here, right?" β
"What is black money? Fart-" The man was also angry: "Lao Tzu clearly marked the price, the price is fair, how is it black-hearted money, if you can't afford to pay, swim over by yourself." β
Yue Shao'an saw that this man had made it clear that he was going to kill the two of them, so he didn't bother anymore and said straightforwardly: "Okay, it's up to you, you drive the boat over." β
After rowing the boat to the shore, the man looked at the spear shining with cold light in Yue Shaoan's hand, and said, "You can't bring weapons." You have to bring the price, ten taels a piece. β
"Good!" Yue Shaoan nodded, stepped on the boat, and then, Gao Chong also walked up, after the three of them and two horses stood firm, Yue Shaoan took a closer look at the boat, and felt that although the boat was a little dilapidated, it was quite reliable, so he nodded and said: "Boatman, let's start the boat." β
"Pay first." The man held out a hand.
"How can there be such a reason?" Gao Chong said: "After crossing the river, it will be given to you naturally, can you still be fooled?" β
"Look at your virtue, I really can't say, when the time comes, as soon as you cross the river, you ride your horses and run away, where will I go up to chase you?"
"Be carefulβ"
"Who are you scolding?"
"Gao Chong, give him silver." Yue Shao'an cut off Gao Chong's words.
Gao Chong reluctantly unwrapped the package behind him, took out a few ingots of silver, and handed them over. The man took it in his hand and weighed it, smiled, and put it into his arms. It's just that when his gaze swept over Gao Chong's package, the greedy color in his eyes flashed and disappeared, and the speed was extremely fast, so that neither Yue Shaoan nor Gao Chong noticed anything abnormal.
With the money, the man said no more, and rowed his boat towards the opposite shore. Gao Chong's mouth couldn't stop muttering, still thinking that the money was spent a little unjustly.
However, before he finished his words, the boat suddenly stopped, Gao Chong was stunned, raised his head and said, "Why don't you leave?" β
The man snorted coldly and said, "You kid scolded me just now, and the boat price doubled." β
"What?" Gao Chong was really angry this time, he opened his eyes and said, "How can you sit on the ground like this?" β
The man smiled coldly: "I'll let you see and understand today." β
"I don't want money." Gao Chong glared at him angrily and said, "You'd better send us over obediently." β
"Huh!" Without saying a word, the man bent down and pulled out a steel knife from below the deck, and slashed straight at Gao Chong, while shouting: "If you don't have any money, then you can leave your life to me!" β
Gao Chong was startled and wanted to dodge, but all this came too suddenly, so he didn't have the slightest preparation, and now if he wanted to dodge, it was too late, seeing that the blade was about to reach his body, suddenly, a spear was across in front of him.
"Whenβ" A metal crash sounded, and the man's knife was stretched out.
It turned out that Yue Shao'an had already noticed the man's actions, and when he saw him draw his knife, he knew that something was wrong, so he acted in time and saved Gao Chong's life.
Gao Chong's face brushed up, and it turned pale, if it wasn't for Mr. Yue's timely action, this life would be gone. However, there wasn't much time for him to think about it, because Yue Shaoan was already fighting with the man, and Gao Chong hurriedly drew his blade to help, two against one, plus the small place on the ship, the man was suddenly in a predicament.
Yue Shao'an shook his spear and attacked the opponent's upper body. Gao Chong tacitly drew his knife and slashed at the other party's legs. The man fought two people alone, Yue Shao'an naturally didn't need to say it, his marksmanship was killed on the battlefield, as soon as he used it, he naturally had a ruthless look, noble, but he had also been in the army for a long time, although the knife technique was not very powerful, but under the double attack, it also brought a lot of trouble to the man.
In this way, before a fight, the man leaned back and fell directly into the river, Yue Shaoan rushed up a few steps, stabbing into the water, and said to Gao Chong: "Row quickly." β
Gao Chong agreed, threw down the single knife in his hand, picked up the wooden stick that the man had dropped, and hurriedly rowed towards the opposite bank.
The man did not give up, and wanted to get close to the hull of the boat several times, but was forced to retreat by Yue Shaoan with a gun, fortunately, the river was not very wide, Gao Chongyou rowed desperately, and soon, the boat reached the opposite bank.
As soon as the boat came to shore, the two men took the horses down, and the two turned over and were about to leave.
But the man in the water came up and shouted, "There is a kind of ...... you don't go"
"There's a kind of you don't come up!" Gao Chong laughed and replied.
With the words, the two of them slapped their horses and ran forward, and after a run, the horse's speed slowed down, and Gao Chong smiled and said: "Mr. Yue, although the money was spent unjustly today, it is really relieved." β
Yue Shao'an frowned: "You are too careless, if I hadn't found out earlier just now, your life would have been lost......"
Gao Chong sounded the situation just now, and his heart was also a backshot, he nodded, and did not say anything more, the two were silent for a while, and on the road, there was only the slight sound of horses' hooves hitting the ground.
Suddenly, a person rushed from behind, and with a "whoosh", he jumped forward and blocked in front of the two: "If you want to run, it's not so easy." β
Gao Chong gasped, this man is so powerful, the two of them ran so far away, although they slowed down later, but they were able to catch up in such a short period of time, which shows that the other party's light skills are indeed extraordinary......
He turned his head to look at Yue Shaoan, only to see that Yue Shaoan's expression was also solemn.