The two policemen still didn't give up, but their eyes kept looking at the lively fish in Jiang Yongming's burden.

Jiang Yongming suddenly understood in his heart, knowing why they refused to let him go.

So he said to the two policemen:

"Boss, I really don't have a penny on the two of you, so you can raise your hand. When we've sold the fish, we'll invite you both to drink, okay? ”

"Stop talking nonsense, come with me now."

The two policemen couldn't help but pull the fish basket and walked towards the Liu family's house. Jiang Yongming was still begging along the way, he looked at Xiao Xiong with his eyes, only to see Xiao Xiong smile slightly, gesture to the direction of the Liu family's mansion with his eyes, and then quietly gave him a thumbs up.

It didn't take long for Jiang Yongming and Xiao Xiong to follow the two policemen to the suspension bridge leading to the Liu family's mansion.

The southeast side of the suspension bridge is close to the main road, but there is another polder embankment tens of meters long leading to the big house, about one zhang wide, and the polder is paved with granite strips. There is a guard box on the side of the main road on the drawbridge, in which two security guards dressed in gray clothes are standing guard.

When the two sentries saw that the two policemen had brought Jiang Yongming and Xiao Xiong with fish baskets, they knew what was going on. They searched Xiao Xiong's body, turned over the fish basket, and shouted directly to the side of the suspension bridge:

"It's your own people, put the suspension bridge quickly."

I only heard a "squeak" sound, and the drawbridge slowly lowered. The four of them walked across the suspension bridge, only to see that there was a large pillbox built on this side of the bridge, and there was probably a squad of security guards stationed in it. On both sides of the bunker, there are two other small bunkers, which can probably accommodate three people, and the three bunkers are horns of each other, and there are trenches between them.

Walking across the suspension bridge, less than ten meters away is the gate of the Liu family's mansion.

Xiao Xiong really hasn't seen such a tall and magnificent gatehouse. I saw that above the three steps was a tall gate, the door frame and the threshold of the gate were all made of stone, and the door panel was more than 3 inches thick, all wrapped in thick iron sheets, and it was embedded with golden copper nails. Xiao Xiong thought, it seems that even if the machine gun bullet hits its body, it will have no effect on it at all.

There were also two security guards standing guard at the gate, and when they saw that the people were two familiar policemen, they asked:

"Brother, what good things did you bring today?"

The two policemen smiled "hehe" and said to the two of them:

"All I brought back today were fat, big and one-pound salmon and yellow tooth head (yellow bone fish). Is it drooling again? ”

"Brother, I have wine there, I'll go drink when I'm going to eat later."

"Okay." The two policemen took Xiao Xiong and Jiang Yongming into the courtyard.

It is rare to see Hakka Weilong houses in Jiangnan water towns, especially large-scale Weilong houses like Liu's family, which are also rare in places dominated by Hakka people in Gannan, Meizhou, Heyuan, Tingzhou, etc.

As soon as he entered the gate, Xiao Xiong quickly turned back to observe the tall wall. The walls were at least four or five feet thick and three stories high. The top is thicker than the bottom, and there are battlements built on top of it, where you can hide and observe and shoot outside. He looked at the two watchtowers on the left and right of the gate, and the structure should be very strong. The walls of the watchtower are all made of granite strips, and all sides are designed with holes for shooting. There are security guards on top of each watchtower. It seems that the garrison is very tight.

Walking through the gate, you will pass through a five-story courtyard. From the outside in, the house is getting better and better. The innermost one is the center, and the beams and pillars of the house are made of the same color of Northeast mahogany, thick and sturdy, about a foot above the ground, all of which are stone piers made of granite. The threshold is also bluestone, although there are many years, but there are still no obvious signs of wear and tear on the threshold.

The main house is the ancestral hall of the Liu family, which enshrines the tablets of several generations of ancestors of the Liu family. The houses on both sides of the ancestral hall are all owned by Liu Shuming's family, including halls, study rooms, houses, etc., as well as kitchens, guest rooms, storage rooms and many other auxiliary rooms. The central field in front of the house is rectangular and large, enough to accommodate nearly a thousand people. The surrounding area of the field is planted with evergreen trees such as camphor trees.

Although Xiao Xiong's family is still a big family in Jiujiang, and the courtyard of the family is also very large, it is nothing compared to this big house, Xiao Xiong and Jiang Yongming are like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

They followed the two policemen directly to the front of the kitchen, and the two policemen told them to wait at the door and went into the kitchen themselves. Xiao Xiong saw that there was a well not far from the door, and the circle around the well was paved with bluestone slabs, which looked very clean and spacious.

Seeing the Hakka Wailong House for the first time, Xiao Xiong couldn't help but sigh in his heart: I really can't imagine that in such a small place as Xingzi, there can be such a unique place, and the legendary Hakka people actually built such a Wailong House by Poyang Lake. It is conceivable that the ancestors of Liu Shuming's family did earn a lot of silver back then, otherwise it would not have been possible to have such strength to build this big house.

Xiao Xiong looked at the military capabilities of the room with the eyes of a soldier. After looking at the house, Xiao Xiong felt that Hu Maoxian's words were very sincere, not to mention the strength of his Xingzi guerrillas, which is the strength of the current Einsatzgruppen, it is basically impossible to break through this big house.

Xiao Xiong was standing there looking around, and after a while, two policemen came out of the kitchen. They were followed by a man who looked like a steward.

"Steward Liu, this is the two fish sellers I brought. You can see, this live salmon, and this yellow tooth head, are very fat. ”

The housekeeper Liu looked at the fish in the basket, nodded, and said to the two policemen:

"The two of you have worked hard, they took people to the account room to settle the bill, and it was still settled at yesterday's price."

"Okay."

The two policemen were like pugs that had picked up bones, and they took Xiao Xiong and the others to the account room to settle the bill. A load of nearly 80 catties of fish turned out to be less than 100 yuan. What did the two policemen say, this is to take care of you, you sold the fish to County Magistrate Liu, and now you don't have to pay taxes. As he spoke, he counted the wad of money given by the bookkeeper in his hand.

Suddenly, one of the policemen said:

"I said, can you send another load of fish tomorrow? Tomorrow our county magistrate and the director will have a treat here. ”

When Xiao Xiong heard this, his heart suddenly brightened, and he nodded secretly at Jiang Yongming.

Jiang Yongming shook his head, sighed, and said:

"I said boss, if you buy this load of fish in Jiujiang, you have to earn at least 200 yuan. But ......"

Jiang Yongming didn't speak, just picked up the two empty fish baskets at one end with a flat pole and walked outside with his head down.

The two policemen suddenly became anxious.

"Hey, I said that the fish seller, tomorrow I will entertain the captain of Yuanshan from Jiujiang, and today's fish is to entertain the Taijun who is looking for the lake. In this case, we will give you 100 yuan first, and tomorrow you will bring the fish, and we will add another 100 yuan to the bill. ”

Jiang Yongming looked at Xiao Xiong, as if he was tempted, and said to Xiao Xiong:

"Brother, do you think this is okay?"

"Okay, just follow the two CEOs. Boss, when are we going to deliver the fish tomorrow? ”

"Be fresh, preferably live. Tomorrow evening. ”

"Okay. Okay, we'll send it tomorrow evening. ”

The two followed the two policemen out of the house.

Xiao Xiong walked across the suspension bridge and saw a group of devils coming towards him. Xiao Xiong listened carefully to them as he walked, this group of devils was going to the big house for dinner. It seems that Liu Shuming invited him. What are you talking about, and I will accompany Captain Yuanshan to come over for dinner tomorrow night.

After some distance from the drawbridge, the two policemen left happily. Xiao Xiong reluctantly glanced back at the Liu family's mansion, and then said to Jiang Yongming:

"Let's go, let's go back to Wang Yantai and them."

The two returned to the fishing boat, but did not see Wang Yantai.

Xiao Xiong couldn't help but wonder in his heart: Where did this Wang Yantai go, why hasn't he come back for most of the day?

It turned out that when Xiao Xiong and Jiang Yongming followed the two policemen to the Liu family's house, Wang Yantai followed Hu Maosheng to find the pseudo police chief Cao Jimin.

Although the wharf in Gutang Town is not as lively and prosperous as Jiujiang Wharf, it is a shortcut from Poyang Lake to Jiujiang, and there is a highway from the wharf to Jiujiang. From Duchang, Poyang, Jingdezhen and other places, and even Nanchang and other places to Jiujiang to take the land route here, it is much faster than taking the Yangtze River waterway. Therefore, there are many guests who come from the east and west to go ashore and go to the lake here. Naturally, the pier is lively, and the more in the afternoon and evening, the more prosperous it becomes.

Although a few years ago, this was the landing point of the devils attacking Jiujiang, and the houses were seriously damaged under the bombardment of the devils' artillery, but after several years of repair, it gradually returned to the way it was before the war. Hotels, teahouses, casinos, notebooks and other entertainment and leisure places are readily available.

Yicui Building is located on the edge of the lake, and it is the largest and most luxurious courtyard in Gutang Town. The two-storey house carved with dragons and phoenixes is painted with red paint, laid with red carpets, hung with red lanterns, and the patio is brilliantly lit, and each room is lit with dim lights, hazy, and beautiful. As soon as you enter the door and feel this atmosphere, you will have a kind of heat that is roasted by the heat, and you won't want to pay for it.

Hu Maosheng took Wang Yantai, Li Minghua, Liu Junshan and several team members to the outside of the courtyard with fish baskets. Because it was three or four o'clock in the afternoon, there were no customers entering the door, and the courtyard seemed a little deserted.

"Sell fish, sell fish, live crucian carp."

Out of it came a half-aged dressed in flowers, who seemed to be the bustard here.

"Hey, what's the noise, our girls are still sleeping. Roll aside and sell fish. ”

"Boss, this is a live fish that has just been caught, you can buy it."

Hu Maosheng picked up a crucian carp weighing nearly a pound and showed it to the bustard, the fish was still struggling in Hu Maosheng's hand, Hu Maosheng didn't catch it, and the crucian carp jumped back into the fish basket from his hand.

When the old bustard saw it, his heart moved, and he said to himself:

"Director Cao likes to eat crucian carp, so I'll just make braised crucian carp for him tonight."

When Hu Mao rewarded them, he was overjoyed, it was really "no place to find a place to step on iron shoes, and it took no effort to get them".

Li Minghua suddenly stepped forward, grabbed the old bustard's hand, and pushed him into the door. He quickly took out a pistol and put it on the head of the old bustard, and said viciously:

"Let's go, take us to see Director Cao!"