Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Black Ship

Ximenqing came all the way south, only a few days, and approached the Yangtze River. When the horse was reined in and shouted for a long time, a ferry boat came slowly, and the boat on the boat lazily looked at Ximenqing a few times, and saw that he was alone and two horses, and the package was heavy, and it seemed that there was some oil and water, so he asked irrationally: "Do you cross the river?" ”

Ximen Qing said: "Exactly." Don't know how much the ship fares? ”

Na Zhouzi said: "Always full of money, no two prices!" ”

Ximenqing frowned when he heard this: "Isn't it five hundred wen?" When did it go up so much? ”

Zhouzi sneered: "You guest can see clearly, this boat is an official ship, and you have to pay for it every day when you solicit customers at the place designated by the government." Now that this money is getting more and more expensive, if the price does not rise, will it not be possible for us to swallow the northwest wind? Besides, even if the price rises, the money is rising, the more we cross, the more strength we lose, if it weren't for the dust of you, like a rush to cross the river, I still don't have this kindness! Without further ado, do you sit on this boat or not? ”

Listening to this boat, Ximenqing suddenly remembered the two of them, so he shook his hand and said, "That's it, I won't sit anymore!" ”

The boat was not angry, and he lit the ferry away with a penny, and said with a smile: "You outsider, you don't know the characteristics of our ferryboat here." Today, I will tell you to learn to be obedient and slowly regret it! With the sound of daxiao, the boat went far away.

Ximenqing only smiled when he heard this, let the horse walk around the river, and saw the smoke coming out of the reeds at the beginning of summer, so he shouted loudly: "Is there a boat crossing here?" ”

But when he heard the sound of the rustling, a man strode out of the reeds and said to Ximenqing: "The guest wants to cross the river, but I am a black boat here, the boat price is 500 Wen, if you don't bargain, will the guest go?" ”

Ximenqing asked, "What is your surname?" ”

The man said: "Don't be surnamed Liu." ”

Ximen Qing shook his head and said, "It turned out to be Liu Shaogong." I came here to find a Zhang Shaogong named Zhang Wang, but I don't know if Liu Shaogong can recognize him? ”

The man surnamed Liu looked Ximenqing up and down a few times, and suddenly sneered: "Look at you, there are five people and six people, it turns out that you are all the way with those water crows!" ”

Ximen Qing smiled and didn't answer, so the man surnamed Liu pointed his hand into the distance and said hesitantly: "Go there!" With that, he stomped his foot and turned back into the reeds.

"Thanks for the pointers!" Ximen Qing gave a salute leisurely, but what he got back was a cold snort from the depths of the reeds.

Ximenqing was not angry, turned his head to look at the man surnamed Liu, and saw the sunset on the ferry, and the lonely smoke in the reeds, the smoke column was much thicker than the man surnamed Liu, and it was much thicker, condensed in the breeze on the river, and unscrupulously soared straight to the sky, as if the demon was shaking his intimidating fingers here.

Pulling two horses, Ximenqing went down the pillar of smoke. When he got closer, he shouted, "Prince, bring me the ferry!" ”

I heard a burst of laughter in the reeds first: "The business has come to the door!" Then there was a loud sound, and two people, dressed in robes and hats, trampled on the broken reeds and reeds, and came out straight to meet them.

The man on the left bowed down and said, "Villain Zhang Wang, this is my brother Sun Wu, who only crosses the river for a living - but I don't know where the guests are going?" ”

Ximenqing nodded when he heard this, and said with a smile: "I'm going to go to the Jiankang Mansion on the other side, who knows that the official ship is difficult to recruit, so I have to find a black boat to sit on." The two of you quit your hard work, and quickly crossed the river with me, and I will give more money for the boat here! ”

Zhang Wang smiled and said: "But it's not a villain bragging, if you talk about fast and stable, except for me Zhang Wang on the Yangtze River, there is no second black boat with such ability." Fifth brother, you take the guests to lead the horses to the boat first, let's hurry up and eat, and we have the strength to do it! That Sun Wu agreed, nodded to Ximenqing, and said, "Come with me!" "Bento first went into the reeds.

Ximen Qing led his horse to follow him, and walked a short distance, but saw a ferry boat on the beach. He first led the two horses onto the boat, intentionally or unintentionally pinched the package on the horse's back, and jumped up with joy in his heart, and then came to help Ximenqing get on the boat. Ximenqing pretended not to know the nature of the boat at all, swayed and followed him on the boat, then sat on the board of the boat and rubbed his feet, complaining about the hard journey.

Sun Wu said with a smile: "The guests don't complain, and when they get to the ground for a while, they don't have to work hard!" The villain went to eat, and when he was full, he sent the guests on the road! ”

Ximen Qing saw Sun Wu burrow back into the reeds, sneered, and went to the top of the boat to uncover a piece of the gunship, and there was a bright board knife underneath. Ximenqing sneered again, and sat back in the cabin to close his eyes and recuperate.

After a while, Zhang Wangsun and Wu returned to the boat with a smile, and the two of them shook their spirits, pushed open the tent, jumped ashore to untie the cable, got on the boat, lit the penny, got on the oar, and babbled into the river.

Ximenqing closed his eyes in the cabin and listened to the sound of oars, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when he hurriedly drilled out of the cabin to see, he saw Zhang Wang's boat behind, and at some point he crashed into another boat, and it was the man surnamed Liu who rocked the boat.

Zhang Wang and Sun Wu looked at each other, Zhang Wang made a look, and Sun Wu said backwards: "The surname Liu, what are you doing with our boat?" ”

The man surnamed Liu sneered: "You don't care about my birds? This Yangtze River is your family's? If you leave, others can't go? ”

When Sun Wu heard it and wanted to return the favor, Ximenqing shouted: "Boat family." ”

Glaring at the man surnamed Liu fiercely, Sun Wu hurriedly came to answer Ximen Qing and said, "What do you want from the guest?" ”

Ximenqing pointed to the back and whispered: "I have seen this person today, I see that he is a thief, and he is not a talent, so he does not dare to take his boat." At this moment, he followed, and he must have bad intentions. The two of them quit their hard work, and only picked up the deserted harbor, and got rid of this guy first. If you keep me safe, you will be thankful. ”

Sun Wu was overjoyed when he heard this, jumped to Zhang Wang's side and said, Zhang Wang daxiao: "The guest is so insightful!" ”

At that moment, these two came up with the means, pulled the tent and shook the oars, and drilled into the deep water and dense grass. Zhang Wang really didn't brag, his boat was stable, if it was fast, then the man surnamed Liu really couldn't catch up with them alone, and he was thrown away after a while.

Seeing a secluded and uninhabited place, Zhang Wangsun Wu made a look, fixed the penny, and the boat stopped in the Gulf Stream without moving, Zhang Wangsun Wu turned around, and just smiled at Ximenqing.

Ximen Qingyi smiled: "But 'the boatman doesn't pay for crossing the river'? The two dukes said clearly, what is the price of the ship? ”

Zhang Wang said "hey", opened the gunfare early, pulled out the snowy board knife, and said with a cruel smile: "What do you say is the price of the ship?" ”

Ximen Qing jumped up with an "ah", retreated straight to the horse, stretched out his hand to pull down the package and tore it open, and in an instant, Zhang Wangsun's five and fourth eyes lit up at the same time, but he saw that the package was full of gold, silver, pearls and jade, and it flashed in the twilight, reflecting the eyes of both of them. These two people have been Jiang bandits, so many belongings, but they have never seen them in their lives, and when they suddenly saw it, their hearts shook for a while, and they didn't know how many thoughts had turned in their minds.

But I heard Ximen Qing say pitifully: "Two, the gold, silver, pearls and jade are all with you, and leave me alive!" ”

Sun Wu's eyes stared directly at the treasure on the ship's board, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother Zhang, the youngest brother is the most soft-hearted in his life. This guest was sincere, and the mourning was tight, so we saved him from a knife, only tied him up with four horses, and then tied the ballast stone to sink into the river, leaving a corpse, which is also a good thing. At that time, you and I gave up this Jiang bandit career, took these gold and silver treasures and went to Tokyo Huahua Shijie to have fun, and it was also a reincarnation! ”

Zhang Wang shook his head and said, "Alas! Brother, kindness can kill people! With a lightning sword, Sun Wu was split into two pieces, and his body fell straight into the river.

With a swing of the knife, the aftermath is over, and the gold and silver treasures are all their own. Zhang Wang wanted to look up to the sky and laugh wildly, but when he thought of the man surnamed Liu, he was afraid that he would find him by laughter, so he couldn't help himself, but he just looked at the blood dripping from Tian's blade and smiled: "Sure enough!" Whenever the knife is in your own hands! ”

Ximenqing nodded and said: "This is the most basic philosophy of life!" A society in which everyone is in charge of a knife and a handful of people is very different! ”

Zhang Wang's eyes were sharp, he pointed the blood knife at Ximenqing, and said fiercely: "Death is coming, what are you still talking nonsense?" ”

Ximen Qing sighed: "Spending money to redeem your life, the rules of heaven and earth, don't you work here?" ”

Zhang Wang said with a smile: "I want gold and silver treasures, and I want your life!" ”

Ximen Qing spread his hands and said: "In this case, please ask Your Excellency to come and get it." ”

Zhang Wang saw Ximenqing hanging his head and holding his hands, looking like he was waiting to be killed, he smiled proudly, and strode forward to kill someone. Who knew that he stepped on Sun Wu's blood splashed, his body slipped, and he almost fell down on his back, but fortunately someone reached out to help him.

For a while, Zhang Wanghan's hair stood on end: "Who is helping me?" I barely calmed down, and I breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that it was not Sun Wu's ghost who was holding him, but Ximen Qing who was smiling and groaning.

But as soon as he was halfway relaxed, Zhang Wang shouted in his heart: "Not good! When he was about to frustrate and swing the knife at Ximenqing's face, he found that he didn't know when, the knife in his hand had fallen into Ximenqing's hand.

Ximen Qing opened the board knife, the knife was dense, and it was rustling, it was really impervious to the wind and rain, and Zhang Wang was dazzled again. Suddenly, the knife light flicked, Ximen Qing flicked the blade of the knife, and said leisurely: "Zhang Shaogong, you are right, when the knife is, you must be in your own hands!" ”

At this time, Zhang Wang had already lost his soul, and he couldn't make a sound. This is exactly what it is:

Why is it too early to have a butcher's knife in hand? Retribution is approaching, and it is too late to repent. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.