At the border of Xinye, on the edge of the water, there is a small fishing village called Linjiang Village. To the north of the village is Du Island. However, because of the presence of water pirates, the locals call it Thief Island.

The village is not large, dozens of families, three or four hundred people. Most of the people in the village live on big fish and are not wealthy. Maybe it's because of poverty, there is no oil and water. Or maybe the rabbit doesn't eat the grass around the nest. The village has never been attacked by water thieves.

It's very stable. The village was very remote, and there were no caravans or big people passing by.

However, today there is a very stylish team that has entered the village.

In front was a very luxurious carriage, followed by dozens full of goods. or the carts of the tents, and two or three hundred guards.

Each of the guards was armed with spears and wore leather armor. Extraordinary.

It was noon, and the fishermen had gone fishing by boat early, and they would not come back for dinner at noon. Therefore, there were only women and children in the village.

The movement of the procession was so loud that it almost alarmed the entire village. Many women dragged their children out to watch, and when they saw the huge procession, the women's curious eyes were slowly replaced by awe.

They pulled the children back into the house. Close the door.

One of them is Guan, a twenty-five-year-old native of a fishing village who married her man at the age of fourteen and gave birth to five children. Except for those who died young, three were standing.

At this time, she pulled her eldest eight-year-old son, hugged her two-year-old daughter, and hurried into the house, intending to close the door.

But before she could close the door. A man in his mid-twenties broke away from the group and rode towards her.

Guan was very timid, and when he saw this, he was frightened and wanted to close the door, but in fright, he forgot to plug in the latch. The man went straight in.

Of course, this man is Xu Tian, although according to intelligence, that gang of water thieves rarely robs caravans, but this is the only way to lure snakes out of the hole.

A few days ago, Liu Feng entered Xinye and made sense of Mi Zhu. Thirty truckloads of salt were brought over, intending to disguise themselves as caravans and lure water thieves to come out and rob.

Salt in the north has always been very expensive, and if these thirty carts of goods were transported to the north, they would be worth at least seven hundred gold. The temptation should be great.

"You, who are you?" Seeing Xu Tian walking in directly, Guan Shi was terrified in his heart, and asked in a sharp voice.

"Sister-in-law doesn't need to panic. My name is Xu Tian, and I am the owner of a caravan outside, and I want to borrow some boats from you to cross the river and go north. Xu Tian politely raised his fist to Guan Shidao.

Xu Tian looked good and was polite, which made Guan calm down a little. However, he still timidly glanced at the huge caravan behind Xu Tian, and whispered: "The men have all gone fishing, if you want a boat, you have to say it." Moreover, moreover, it is not suitable to cross the river here. ”

"Why?" Xu Tian asked knowingly.

"To the north of here, there's an island. There are hundreds of water thieves entrenched there. Guan explained in a whisper.

Xu Tian laughed when he heard this: "I have three hundred guards, and hundreds of water thieves are nothing." ”

The Guan family originally wanted to say that those water thieves were not even afraid of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, how could they be afraid of your three hundred guards. But looking at Xu Tian's confident appearance, he couldn't help but swallow this sentence.

Guan was not a talkative person, so he stood on the side and stopped talking in a daze.

"Hehe, I want to camp in the open space near your yard and wait for the men of your village to come back, is that okay?" Seeing this, Xu Tian smiled and said.

"It's okay, it's okay." Guan couldn't wait for Xu Tian to leave quickly, and when he heard the words, he said again and again.

"Thank you." Xu Tian hugged his fists and said thank you, and left the courtyard.

After Xu Tian left the courtyard, he immediately ordered the convoy to set up camp and unload the goods.

Three or four hundred men set up camp on their own. For the women around him, Qiu did not commit any crimes.

Some of the brave women, though they had closed the door, were actually lying behind them, secretly observing the caravan through the cracks in the door.

When the time passed slowly, and the caravan did not show any evil intentions, the women became emboldened one by one, opened the door, and observed the caravan in the open.

For Linjiang Village, such a large caravan passing by is rare in ten years.

At this moment, the camp had been set up, and the luxury carriage led by the leader slowly drove into the camp. Suddenly, there was a "bump", and a wooden box fell from the car.

"My pearls." An exclamation suddenly sounded in the car, and then a middle-aged man stepped down and quickly picked up the wooden box on the ground. Immediately, I cautiously opened it and looked at it.

The women not far away only felt a flash of light, and then, their eyes widened, and they looked at the wooden box for a moment.

Inside the box, there are dozens of huge pearls.

After the middle-aged man took a look, he immediately closed the box and walked back to the car.

This is a fishing village, and there are occasional pearls in the rivers, and these women can be said to know a lot about pearls, although only for a short moment, but they have realized the preciousness of these pearls.

In the car, Liu Feng took the wooden box from Zhang Dao's hand, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

They spent some time researching the village, and agreed that there were eyes and ears for water thieves in the village. Otherwise, it wouldn't be unharmed.

Because since the water thieves chose to raid the village under Liu Biao's rule, they would not abandon this fishing village because the so-called rabbits did not eat the grass by the nest.

And just now, the bait has been laid down.

Even if the allure of those dozens of truckloads of salt is not enough, coupled with this box of pearls worth thousands of gold, Liu Feng doesn't believe that he can't catch a big fish.

Liu Feng stroked the wooden box in his hand, and couldn't help but think of Mi's in the deep house. Although the dozens of pearls sent by Mi Shi could not be sold, they also came in handy.

It was not in vain that she put her mind to it.

It was getting dark, and the fishermen who had gone out to fish in the morning returned by boat. Although the place where Liu Feng and the others camped was relatively remote, such a large camp was still very eye-catching.

When some of the men returned home, the women told the story of how the caravan had entered the village and what it was for.

Someone reported it to the village chief.

The village chief of Linjiang Village is a middle-aged man named Zhou Shun, who has dark skin and is very capable and strong.

In his yard, Zhou Shun listened to the advice of a henchman, a fisherman named Chen Guang, especially after knowing that the other party had a box of fine pearls. Zhou Shun lowered his head and pondered for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said to Chen Guang: "If they want to rent a boat from us, you will agree to come down instead of me." I'm going outside. ”

Take a trip outside. What is the purpose, Zhou Shun knows it, and Chen Guang also knows it.

"Yes." Chen Guang replied.