Original Liu Xiu They walked more than a mile north along the river bank, and they saw a wharf, next to the wharf is a settlement, which is not big, that is, thirty or fifty households, judging from the fishing nets and dried fish hanging in front of the door, most of this settlement lives by boating and fishing

"Alright, there must be a boat going to Langzhong here. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Park Hu laughed with relief. Liu Xiu and Guo Jia exchanged a look and smiled in unison. Pu Hu is the next generation of the head of the Park family in the seven surnames of Ban Yu, and he will lead the warlike Ban Yu Man in the future, and his physical fitness is of course good, and he has been opening the way in front of him after walking in the jungle for eight days. But from this sentence, it can be seen that he is not willing to live in the jungle, and in thought, he has quietly departed from the primitive simplicity.

This is not unusual, yearning for a comfortable life is everyone's instinct, don't look at whether Confucianism has Meng's sentence "born in sorrow, died in peace" said quite smoothly, but there are still too few people who are really willing to take the initiative to go through hardships and sharpen themselves, so later generations have established one dynasty after another, and one by one they have fallen, whether he is from the Central Plains or from the grassland, all the ruling class is unstoppably decaying, more than ten years, slow for ten years.

"General...... Young master, you wait here, I'll go find a boat. Pu Hu said very actively. I don't know if it's because of Liu Xiu's "Taoism" or because of Liu Xiu's transcendent status, Pu Hu respects him very much.

Xiu nodded, and naturally sat down on a stone next to him. The stone is smooth, and it is clear that people often sit on it, or children climb on it. "Bong Filial Piety. You also sit for a while. Liu Xiu hooked his finger at Guo Jia, and Guo Jia walked up to him and sat down on a smaller stone next to him. Although the stone Liu Xiu was sitting on was spacious enough to seat three people, Guo Jia was unwilling to break the rules even on such an occasion.

Pang De and Yan Ming stood motionless with their knives, standing behind Liu Xiu, and Xu Yu holding the knife. Pacing back and forth in front of Liu Xiu's side, the tigers were scattered around. Only Wang Zhi was a little more relaxed, holding the sword. Leaning against a tree to sleep.

Pu Hu came back after a long time, his face was not very good, and he walked to Liu Xiu's side. He bowed and saluted: "Young master, let's go." ”

"What's wrong? How did it take so long? ”

Pu Hu's cheeks twitched, and just as he was about to speak, Liu Xiu saw a group of swarthy men wearing short clothes and rolled trouser legs happily walking over, talking and laughing one by one, beaming with joy. They passed by Liu Xiu, and some people looked at him in surprise, but they didn't pay much attention to it, and muttered about the dialect that Liu Xiu basically didn't understand.

"Young master. You see! Guo Jia reminded softly and looked at a man. Liu Xiu nodded, he had already found that the man was carrying a piece of brocade in his arms, the gorgeous brocade was in strong contrast with the coarse cloth clothes on their bodies, and it was obviously not his own. Liu Xiu noticed it again. Not one person has it, almost everyone has a piece, the chest is bulging, and it looks very plump.

"Could it be a group of thieves who have just returned from a robbery?" Liu Xiu couldn't help but raise his mind, and he didn't need to say more. The tiger warriors had already dispersed, silently separating the group of Han from Liu Xiu.

Pu Hu led Liu Xiu and the others to the riverside, a big boat was already waiting by the dock, and an old man with a light green face and rust stood by the dock, respectfully looking at Liu Xiu who was striding over. He tightened the hemp rope in his hand, put the boat close to the shore, and waited for Liu Xiu and the others to get on the boat, he untied the cable, jumped on the boat with an arrow step, and strode towards the rudder behind the boat.

Two middle-aged men stepped forward, pushed the big boat to the shore with a thick bowl penny, and walked back and forth along the boat gang, propping the big boat upstream. The current here is not turbulent, although the two middle-aged men are not tall, but a pair of thighs on the boat is as steady as Mount Tai, and the two muscular arms are full of strength, and the big boat is getting more and more. They seemed to be very excited, and said something loudly, until they were reprimanded by the old man at the helm, which closed their mouths, but the smile on their faces could not be suppressed.

Wang Zhi and the others spoke with Liu Xiu in Luoyang's official dialect, and although Pu Hu and their official dialect were not authentic, most of them could still understand it, but the words of these boatmen were authentic Bashu dialect, and Liu Xiu couldn't understand a word. Guo Jia didn't understand either, but he remembered the brocade in the arms of those men on the shore, and paid attention to the expressions of the three men on the boat, he couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"Young master, there are also broken brocades on this ship, it seems that they were cut from somewhere with a sharp weapon, and there are stains."

Liu Xiu looked at Pu Hu, who had been a little uneasy, Xu Yu made a look, and a few tiger warriors walked out naturally, inadvertently divided into three groups, and looked at the three rowing men respectively. The two middle-aged men were a little nervous, and closed their mouths tightly, the old man was stunned for a moment, and his face was also a little uneasy, he roared, and a middle-aged man put down his penny and rushed over to hold the rudder. The old man got up, strode to the door of the cabin, and called out.

Pu Hu, who was in a daze, was startled, raised his head, and replied, what did the two say, Pu Hu slapped his forehead and said something loudly, and the old man went back with some hesitation. Pu Hu walked up to Liu Xiu and blushed: "Young master, please withdraw those people." ”

"Why?" Liu Xiu looked at him very seriously, although he didn't show any malice, but the momentum of holding the power of life and death was inadvertently revealed. When this enemy was inseparable, he had to give Pu Hu a warning, lest he have any bad intentions.

"Young master, they are not thieves, but we are about to meet thieves." Pu Hu explained: "I was just about to ask the young master for advice, should we go slower and try to keep some distance from those thieves, so as not to cause misunderstandings. ”

Liu Xiu was puzzled, but he didn't want to cause trouble now, and he was not in the mood to fight the black. If you want to fight black, you have to wait until he becomes the leader of Yizhou, and now it is better to have more than one thing.

"What kind of thief, so arrogant, actually came out to act in broad daylight?" Guo Jia pointed to the three men outside: "But I see that they are all beaming, not like they are thieves." ”

Pu Hu smiled bitterly. Guo Jun didn't know, but this thief was a little strange, he had always been against these bitter men who sailed the boat, and the people he wanted to rob were either high-ranking officials and nobles, or wealthy businessmen, and he was very generous to these hard-working people. The reason why those people were happy just now was because the thief cut off the brocade that tied the boat, and those who remained on the shore were divided by those boatmen, each of whom was as many as six or seven feet, and as few as four or five feet, almost every person had a brocade, how could they not be happy. ”

Liu Xiu was surprised. Shu brocade is the cloth that began to become popular in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, in Luoyang, a high-quality brocade is sold for a gold, and the ordinary one can also be sold for about two or three thousand yuan, what kind of person is this, actually use brocade to tie the ship, and do not take it away, cut it directly with a knife?

"There is nothing unusual about this, the sails of the thief are made of brocade, and when the light shines, you can see it from miles away."

Jinfan? Liu Xiu suddenly had a person in his head, it couldn't be him, right?

"Where is he from and what is his name?"

"He is also from my Ba County, but he is from Linjiang County, his surname is Gan Mingning, and his name is Xingba." Pu Hu licked his lips and added: "The Gan family is also a well-known family in Linjiang County. ”

Liu Xiu laughed, sure enough, it was this guy, it seems that it was really fateful, and he met it as soon as he arrived in Ba County. Linjiang is in the east of Ba County, far away from here, and he actually arrived here just in time, which cannot be said to be a coincidence. Liu Xiu asked some more about Gan Ning's situation with great interest, knowing that Gan Ning is now in his twenties and has no knowledge, so although the Gan family is a big family in Linjiang, he has not been able to enter the office, and he takes hundreds of teenagers around all day long. He is rich, the pomp is very large, although he has no official body, but Lu Ze rides continuously, the water is a mighty boat, and the young men who follow him are all dressed in embroidered clothes, and they are extremely extravagant and flashy, and they are more majestic than those who are officials. When he arrives in a certain place, if the local tycoons and officials are very polite to him, then of course there is nothing to say, everyone eats wine and drinks meat, and says goodbye, if he is neglected, then I'm sorry, that group of young people in brocade clothes will become thieves, no matter what they are, they will kill people and seize money, and do anything. It is said that such a scourge should have been eliminated a long time ago, but firstly, the Gan family has some strength, and secondly, Gan Ning is extremely vindictive, and the hundreds of people under him are not vegetarians, so if you really want to provoke him, he can kill your whole family.

There are only one or two hundred county soldiers in a county, which is far less than Gan Ning's strength, even if the state and county mobilize a large army, he can't hide in the mountains, what can he do? So in a few years, everyone recognized that most of the local heroes were unwilling to be enemies with Gan Ning, and occasionally a few outsiders who did not know each other came to do the county order to disobey this tone, and they wanted to suppress the local snake, and those heroes were also willing to let them take the initiative to find Gan Ning's bad luck and kill people by Gan Ning's hand.

Liu Xiu rolled his eyes, no wonder Chongqing wanted to fight black later, it turned out that there was a historical reason for this. This Gan Ning is much stronger than what happened in the week of Soochow later, this is simply the underworld with a cane in the Ming Gang. It seems that even if you don't mess with him now, when he presides over the affairs of Yizhou in the future, sooner or later he will have to get rid of this scourge.

In that case, why not do it early? And Gan Ning can be said to be one of the limited few fierce generals on the side of Eastern Wu in the history of the Three Kingdoms, Gan Ning robbed Cao Ying with a hundred horses, it is simply a legend, if he can be subdued now, maybe he can also use these underworlds as another choice in addition to the seven surnames of Ban Yu.

Liu Xiu discussed with Guo Jia, Guo Jia didn't know much about Gan Ning, but he saw that Liu Xiu was very interested in Gan Ning, and it was indeed feasible to use Gan Ning's strength to force the seven surnames of Ban Ning, so he nodded in agreement. These two people have that kind of risk-taking gene from the roots, and they have no resistance to this kind of small thing at all, so they discussed the details of the action.

Pu Hu was startled when he heard Liu Xiu say that he wanted to catch up with Gan Ning, but when he saw that Liu Xiu was resolute, he didn't dare to refuse, so he had to go and talk to the old man at the helm, and the two shouted at the top of their voices for a long time, and then at the cost of doubling the boat price, the old man finally agreed to chase Gan Ning. (Your support on this site is my big motivation.) To be continued