Ling Muyun and Huang Rong talked for a while, then blew out the candle and lay down in their clothes, and fell asleep. slept until the middle of the night, suddenly there was a whining sound in the distance, Ling Muyun and Huang Rong both woke up, listening to it, it seemed that someone was blowing the conch, and after a while, the whining sound sounded again, one and the other, not one person, the person who blew the snail was far away, obviously greeting and answering.

Huang Rong said in a low voice: "Brother Yun, let's take a look?" ”

Ling Muyun knew that this should be Lu Guanying gathering Taihu Lake water thieves to prepare for robbery, but he didn't know that under his influence, this time Lu Guanying and they robbed it was not the Jin State envoy, and this Jin Guo envoy was still not Yang Kang? Curiosity rose, so he nodded to Huang Rong and said, "Okay, Rong'er, let's go and take a look." ”

The two gently pushed open the window and looked out, only to see many people in the courtyard with lanterns, and many people coming and going, not knowing what to do. Huang Rong raised her head, only to see three or four people squatting there on the roof, obviously condescending to be on guard, the lantern flashed brightly when it moved, and the blades in the hands of these people shot light.

After waiting for a while, I saw that everyone was walking outside the village, so Ling Muyun and Huang Rong went around to the west window, and when they saw that there was no one outside the window, they jumped out gently.

Huang Rong made a gesture to Ling Muyun, reversed the reverse, Zhuangzhong Road turned east and west, zigzag, especially strange is that the bars and pavilions at the turn are exactly the same, a few turns, where can you tell the east and west, north and south? Huang Rong walked without hesitation as if she had arrived at her own home, sometimes there was no way in front of her, she drilled in the rockery, walked around the flowers, and turned to the corridor again. Sometimes it seems that it has come to an end, but there is another secluded place behind the screen and behind the big tree. When the road was wide open, she didn't leave, but pushed open a completely invisible portal on the wall.

Seeing this scene, Ling Muyun couldn't help but secretly admire, this Qimen Formation Technique was really wonderful, if it wasn't for Huang Rong, who was also proficient in Qimen Formation, he would have to get lost on his own.

The two of them turned seven or eight more corners to the fence in the backyard. Huang Rong inspected the terrain, counted silently a few times with her fingers, and took a few steps on the ground, Ling Muyun heard her whisper: "Zhenyi, Tunsan, Yiwu, Fuqi, Kun ......" knew that she should be using the study of Bagua to calculate the way out.

Huang Rong counted and walked, stopped when he counted to one place, turned his head and said to Ling Muyun: "Only here can you go out, and there are all other places." ”

As she spoke, Huang Rong jumped on the wall first, Ling Muyun also jumped out of the wall with her, and the two of them came out of the Zhuangzi, Huang Rong said to Ling Muyun with a slight expression: "Brother Yun, Master Lu Zhuang's Zhuangzi was made according to the direction of the sixty-four hexagrams of Fuxi, and there are organs all over it. However, my father is the best at these strange gossip techniques. It is rare for the owner of Lu Zhuang to fall down on others, but it is difficult for me. ”

Ling Muyun smiled and praised: "That's, don't look at who my Rong'er is, how can you be stumped by this little bit of momentum?" ”

Huang Rong's face turned red when she heard him compliment, and she said coquettishly: "Brother Yun, you make fun of me, I ignore you." ”

"Rong'er, you misunderstood me, I really praised it, and there was no lie."

The two whispered and laughed, then climbed the hill behind the village and looked east, only to see a group of people holding lanterns and torches high and walking towards the lake. Huang Rong pulled Ling Muyun's sleeve, and the two started to chase after him. When I got closer, I lay behind a rock, and saw a row of fishing boats moored on the shore of the lake, and the crowd of people got on the boats, and the lights were extinguished when they got on the boats.

When the last group of men were on the boat, and it was completely dark on the shore, the two men quietly jumped out and landed on the back of one of the largest canopies, and jumped onto the top of the canopy with the sound of pulling out the boat, fluttering like goose feathers, and the people on board were unaware. The two looked down from the gap in the bamboo canopy, and saw one person sitting in the middle of the cabin, and it was Lu Guanying, the owner of the young village.

The boats shook out of the river, and the sound of conch in the lake whined again, and one of the men in the caravan went to the bow of the boat and blew the conch. After shaking out a few more miles, I saw that the rows on the lake were full of small boats, and as far as the eye could see, the boats seemed to be full of ants, and there were countless of them, like a large green paper splashed with ink spots. The man at the bow of the caravan blew three times, and the big boat dropped anchor in the middle of the lake, and more than a dozen small boats flew closer from all directions. Ling Muyun knew that there would be a fight next, and looked down at the boat, only to see that Lu Guanying was calm and relaxed, and there was no tension at all before the enemy responded to the battle, and he couldn't help nodding secretly, although this Lu Guanying's martial arts are not high, this temperament is still good.

After a short time, the boats approached. There were people from each ship, one or two, or three or four. When everyone entered the cabin of the big ship, they all saluted Lu Guanying and sat down, and saluted him very respectfully, and the order of seating seemed to have been arranged a long time ago, some of them came first and sat in the back, and some of them sat in the top of the house. With just one cup of tea, everyone sat down. These people have rough expressions and fierce manners, and although they are dressed as fishermen, they all seem to be equipped with martial arts, and they are by no means ordinary fishermen who make a living by fishing. Huang Rong was secretly surprised in her heart, but Ling Muyun knew that these people were the leaders of the Taihu Lake bandits.

Lu Guanying arched his hand to one of them and asked, "Brother Zhang, how are you listening?" ”

A thin man in the seat stood up and said, "Back to the young master, the envoy of Jin Guoqin is scheduled to cross the lake overnight tonight, and the commander surnamed Duan will arrive in more than an hour." This time, in the name of welcoming the Jin Guoqin envoy, he searched all the way, so he came late, and he has not yet met with the Jin Guoqin envoy. ”

Lu Guanying said: "How much did he find?" How many soldiers and horses did you bring with you? ”

The man said: "Every state and county has a reward, his soldiers are still looting in the countryside, I saw that when he got on the boat, all his relatives carried more than 20 boxes of property, it seems that they are very heavy, it should be gold and silver and other things, it is estimated that there are more than 100,000 taels of silver." There were 2,000 horse infantry troops under his leadership, of which those who crossed the lake were infantry troops, and because there were not enough boats, about 1,000 people boarded the boats. ”

Lu Guanying nodded when he heard this, and then said to everyone: "Brothers, what do you say?" ”

Everyone said in unison: "I am willing to listen to the orders of the young master." ”

Lu Guanying hugged his hands into his arms and said: "These are all the people's fat and people's ointment looted by the dog corrupt officials, ill-gotten gains, since we have passed through our Taihu Lake, it is against the way of heaven not to take it, we will take all the surnames, half of them will be distributed to the poor people nearby, and the other half will be divided into each village." ”

The crowd applauded. Only then did Huang Rong understand that this group of people were all thieves in Taihu Lake, and it seemed that this Lu Guanying was still the chief leader of each village.

Lu Guanying said: "Without further ado, let's do it immediately." Brother Zhang, you take five small boats and go to the sentinel again. The thin man was ordered to get out of the cabin. Lu Guanying followed the assignment, who fought the vanguard, who responded, who led the water ghosts to drill through the bottom of the enemy ship, who took the property, and who captured the officers, and commanded in an orderly manner.

Lu Guanying's instructions were finished, and everyone was about to go out to do their own work, when one of the people in the audience stood up and said coldly: "Let's do this business without capital, and it is enough to eat rich businessmen." Fighting with the officials like this, can we still stay by the lake? The envoy of Dajin Guoqin was even more offended. ”

Ling Muyun and Huang Rong were familiar with this voice, and when they followed the sound, it turned out to be Sha Tongtian's disciple, Ma Qingxiong, one of the four ghosts of the Yellow River, who somehow got mixed up here.

The two didn't know that the reason why Ma Qingxiong came here was due to Huang Rong, it turned out that the four ghosts of the Yellow River were repeatedly played by Huang Rong, which made Sha Tongtian lose face in front of Wanyan Honglie and others, Sha Tongtian was already short-tempered, and directly expelled the four ghosts of the Yellow River from the division in a fit of anger. After the four ghosts of the Yellow River were expelled to find a way to live, among them, the whip Ma Qingxiong came all the way south to this Taihu Lake, and joined the water thieves all the way after being introduced, because he was born as a thief of the Yellow River, and his martial arts were good and proficient in water warfare, so he was directly promoted to the leader, so he was able to attend the meeting this time.

As soon as Ma Qingxiong finished speaking, Lu Guanying's face changed color, and before he could speak, three or four people in the group of thieves were already shouting and scolding in unison.

Lu Guanying smiled reluctantly: "Big brother don't be angry, Brother Ma just came, I don't know the rules here, since everyone is going to do it together, we will make a whole mess, and we will die without regrets." ”

Ma Qingxiong said: "Okay, you do yours, I don't want to mess with this pot." After speaking, he ignored the reactions of the crowd, and turned around to leave the cabin.

Seeing this scene, Huang Rong attached to Ling Muyun's ear and said, "Brother Yun, this time this guy is probably going to really be a ghost!" ”

Ling Muyun nodded approvingly, how could Lu Guanying let Ma Qingxiong leave at this time? If you really want Ma Qingxiong to leave like this, Lu Guanying will not only lose his prestige, but also take the risk of leaking secrets, which person will do this kind of thing? Ma Qingxiong's move is tantamount to looking for death, and it is estimated that he, one of the four ghosts of the Yellow River, will be a water ghost of Taihu Lake tonight.

The development of things really did not meet the expectations of Ling Muyun and Huang Rong, and as soon as Ma Qingxiong was about to leave, two more men suddenly stopped at the hatch and shouted: "Brother Ma, you have cut off the head of the chicken and sworn an oath, everyone has shared blessings and difficulties, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to leave like this!" ”

"Get out of here!" Ma Qingxiong scolded, waved his hands out, and immediately threw the two people to the sides, and was about to continue to leave the cabin.

"The surname is Ma, leave it for me!" Seeing this scene, Lu Guanying swept up with a snort and slapped his palm at Ma Qingxiong's back.

Ma Qingxiong sensed a palm wind coming from behind, and hurriedly turned over, pulled out a dagger from his boot with his left hand, and poked it back with his backhand. Lu Guanying stretched out his left hand, latched his left arm to the outer door, and stepped into the palm. Ma Qingxiong opened his right hand, and handed out the dagger in his left hand, and the two immediately fought hand-to-hand in the narrow cabin.

Ling Muyun glanced at it twice, and knew that Ma Qingxiong was not Lu Guanying's opponent, although Lu Guanying's martial arts were not high, and he was between the third and second ranks, but it was enough to deal with a third-rate master like Ma Qingxiong.

Sure enough, just as Ling Muyun expected, as soon as the two fought, Lu Guanying made a move to gain the upper hand, and after fighting for more than a dozen moves, Lu Guanying suddenly grabbed Ma Qingxiong's wrist holding the dagger with one hand, and the other hand clenched his fist and blasted out, and the "bang" hit Ma Qingxiong's chest firmly. Ma Qingxiong immediately fell backwards with a painful cry, and the two men behind him who had been thrown down by him immediately raised their knives and slashed, both knives were slashed, and Ma Qingxiong died on the spot before he could scream.

Lu Guanying asked the two men to throw Ma Qingxiong's body into the lake, and then said to the group of thieves: "Brother of the family, now that the traitor is dead, everyone must fight bravely for a while." ”

The group of thieves agreed and returned to the ship. In a few moments, the boats were moving side by side. Lu Guanying's big boat pressed behind and headed towards the east of the lake.