Chapter 150: Boating in the rivers and lakes
There are many scenes, but they have aesthetic value when viewed from a distance.
For example, if you see a man in white, waiting for you with an umbrella on a rainy night, you may feel very romantic.
But when you walk in, you will find that his whole body is wet, the corners of his clothes are full of mud spots, the autumn rain in the south of the Yangtze River is not vegetarian, and the water flows down the street and merges into a small river.
came out of the incense-spraying palace and rejected the life arrangement of the son of heaven.
When you go to the street and see Childe shivering in the autumn rain, he gives you a request to travel with you.
Xiaogui feels like this now, Xu Yongzhi, what are you doing blindly?
"I'm going to Taihu Lake." Xu Yongzhi saw Xiao Gui wearing a cloak and hat.
"I'll go with you." Xiaogui did not hesitate at all.
"Let's go now." Xu Yongzhi said.
"Change into dry clothes." Xiao Gui pulled him into the studio.
It was very warm in the studio, and even though it was autumn, Xiaogui lit a fire in the house.
"Take your clothes off." Xiaogui said.
Xu Yongzhi took off his clothes, and the scars on his back that were beaten by Li Forsythia were still vivid.
It's only been a year.
Even the scars haven't faded yet.
It's not easy for this man to come back to life and start a new career line.
Xiaogui was stunned for a moment, and Xu Yongzhi opened his mouth to ask her:
"What's wrong?"
"Dry yourself."
Xu Yongzhi obediently dried her body, she took the handkerchief and took a sheet for Xu Yongzhi to put on.
Xiaogui washed his wet clothes briefly and roasted them on the shelf next to the fire.
"I don't have any clothes for you to wear, so I'll ask you to wait a little longer."
Xu Yongzhi looked at the charcoal fire and was fascinated.
Xiaogui sat beside Xu Yongzhi and gently rested his head on his shoulder.
"I rejected him." Xiaogui said.
"Hmm......" Xu Yongzhi understood what she was talking about.
"I don't want to be his woman." Xiaogui said.
"Thank you." Xu Yongzhi said.
"I want to be your medicine again, and I want to be your woman." Xiaogui said.
Xu Yongzhi gently hugged Xiaogui's shoulder, Xiaogui's shoulder, and it felt very good.
"But I still have to repay his kindness." Xiaogui said.
"We'll pay it back together." Xu Yongzhi said.
After a year, Xu Yongzhi can already treat Li Yu calmly.
This man, who is related to him by blood, bears some responsibility for the death of his parents.
But he saved his most important person, and he had some hatred, and it was time to put it down for the time being.
Under the lights, Xu Yongzhi's side face was as steep as a knife, and Xiaogui liked it.
She couldn't help but kiss him on the cheek and then his lips.
Xu Yongzhi let go of her mouth and just hugged her tightly.
"What's wrong? No one will come here, don't worry. ”
"This is his studio, and I don't want to ...... in his studio," Xu Yongzhi said.
"Well, I understand, I understand." Xiaogui said.
"Flip it over, it'll burn!" Xu Yongzhi looked at the clothes by the fire.
"Ahh My bad! Xiaogui hurried to get the clothes.
After the clothes were tossed, the rain outside stopped, the clouds dispersed, and the stars were brilliant, all of which seemed to be in this small courtyard.
"Let's go." Xu Yongzhi said.
Xiaogui looked at Xu Yongzhi riding a white horse and knew that this was Duan Meimei's kindness.
On top of an absolutely correct secret rivalry, there is a more correct premise, that is, they all love this man.
This man loves them too.
The water thieves camp in Feiyang Valley is on the west shore of Taihu Lake.
The richest and most suitable stronghold for Taihu Lake is East Dongting Mountain in the east.
Today's Dongshan belongs to Suzhou, which has become a peninsula, and many of the seas will be turned into mulberry fields after thousands of years of human activity.
During the Sui Dynasty, East Dongting Mountain was 30 miles away from the lake, and at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was still a lake island far from the lakeshore.
When Feiyang Valley first came to Taihu Lake, there was not even a boat, and some of them were this gang of solidarity and brothers, who were regarded as water thieves, but they insisted that they were just mercenaries.
"Are you afraid of water thieves? I'm afraid, okay, I'll help you do protection, I have soldiers, I'm from a bad handsome background. ”
This is the opening remark of Feiyang Valley.
But this kind of protection service is actually very difficult.
Because the water thieves who are fed well also provide protection services.
Merchants shook their heads:
If enough money is given, the water thieves will not kill, so why should we provoke them?
The point is, hiring Feiyang Valley to deal with water thieves is too risky.
If Feiyang Valley is defeated, or if the situation is not good, then the water thieves may kill all the people in the town.
"No, no, absolutely not." That's what all the big merchants say.
Feiyang Valley defeated several small bands of water thieves on the west side of the lake, and obtained a small camp and dozens of small boats, but the merchants on the west side were relatively small, and they could not receive enough funding.
Feiyang Valley also once went to the east to negotiate business, and he found Master Huang of Fengqiao Town's Silk Village, the leader of the local merchants.
"Hire us," he said, pulling out a blueprint of the town.
This is a modification of the blueprint of Linquan Town.
"Build this place into a merchant's castle and solve the problem of water thieves once and for all." Fei Yanggu said.
Master Huang shook his head like a rattle.
"Shopkeeper Qiu and we are also old acquaintances, we have always been safe, I don't want to provoke him."
This Qiu shopkeeper is Qiu Yinlin, a water thief in East Dongting Mountain, Qiu Yinlin's Dongshan is rich in products, fruits, fish and shrimp and tea are excellent, but he feels that it is too troublesome to develop those, so he still collects protection fees from the surrounding businesses for a living.
Qiu Yinlin has also been in pain recently, and Li Chongjin is trying to woo him.
Li Chongjin also thought of the force of Taihu Lake water thieves, and he sent his men to contact Qiu Yinlin, the strongest water thief in Taihu Lake.
"If Prince Li defeats Zhao Kuangyin, he will restore the Great Zhou Dynasty and become the emperor, and at that time, he will make you the envoy of Yangzhou Festival and the governor of the navy." That's what the messenger said.
Qiu Yinlin had no feeling about how strong Zhao Kuangyin was, because Tokyo City was too far away.
But Qiu Yinlin has a clear understanding of how strong Li Chongjin is, because Yangzhou is very close.
"Reply to Li Wangye, Qiu will go north with the whole army and sweep away the Song army!"
The promise was very good, but to mobilize these troops, grain and grass and new boats, especially river boats, were needed.
Since you have decided to go to Yangzhou Flower World to be an official, you can loot the towns around Taihu Lake.
In the past, Qiu Yinlin has always been very restrained.
There is a saying that there is a way to steal, to put it simply, it is okay to cut leeks, but not to dig roots.
If you loot a town, the merchants and the people hand over their food and money, but if you want to burn the house and kill people, then everyone will not accept it, don't think that the merchants are easy to bully, maybe the merchants can't mobilize the official army, but building earthen walls, hiring gunmen and archers are also the methods that merchants often use.
So, this time, the people of Fengqiao Town didn't take it seriously at first, so they put money and food on the street and closed the door, which has always been the case in the past.
But this time was different.
The person sent by Qiu Yinlin to Fengqiao Town was his own nephew Qiu Xiaoyi, this kid is only nineteen this year, he is clumsy and sullen, and he is an unsuccessful kid, but if you want him to sabotage, he is so happy.
Seeing this little bit of food and money, Qiu Xiaoyi pursed his lips and sent someone to smash Master Huang's silk village.
He ordered his men to smash the town's silk village.
Silk village is a good place, the silk of the five dynasties and the Song Dynasty, but not just a luxury, in most of the time, silk can be used as currency, at that time there was a lack of copper, copper money is not enough, silver has not been popularized (China uses silver on a large scale, is the Ming Dynasty after the development of silver in the Americas), silk village is the financial institution at that time.
"Young shopkeeper, the old man and your uncle have also been friends for many years, and it has always been this amount in the past, why can't it be this time?" Master Huang was also taken aback, why did he still smash into the store.
"Old man, this time, it just won't work!" Qiu Xiaoyi smiled evilly.
In fact, after a good discussion, I am short of money, I am going to support Li Chongjin, and the other party may give you the amount you want.
But without saying anything, just suddenly hollowing out people's storage, how can there be such a thing!
Qiu Xiaoyi commanded the minions:
"Wrap me up with the silver and take it away!"
"Wrap up the copper coin for me and take it away!"
"Wrap me in silk and take it away!"
Qiu Yinlin's nephew Qiu Xiaoyi, commanded the minions to rob the silk village, Qiu Xiaoyi's martial arts were mediocre, and he had no strategy, relying on his uncle being the big shopkeeper, and he was honored as a "young owner" in the water thieves.
They snatched all the money and goods from Boss Huang and shipped them onto the ship.
Boss Huang screamed twice, and that's it, but Qiu Xiaoyi also saw Boss Huang's daughter.
Sixteen-year-old Miss Huang is as old as a flower and jade, with a pink face and black hair like a waterfall.
When the young shopkeeper saw Miss Huang's appearance, he was moved with a bad heart.
"Wrap this up for me and take it away!"
When the order came down, the minions were stunned.
"Young shopkeeper, this big girl, how to wrap it up?"
"Find a quilt!"
The poor and delicate eldest lady was wrapped in a quilt by the minions, tied up with rope outside, and carried onto the boat.
Boss Huang complained bitterly, you must know that just three days ago, he also rejected the proposal of Feiyang Valley to defend this town.
The water thieves whistled and walked away.
When Qiu Xiaoyi returned to Shuizhai, he asked his uncle to allow him to marry Miss Huang, but he didn't expect his uncle to be furious.
"I told you again and again, don't rob women, lower our reputation, and it's easy to make enemies, you're only nineteen, and soon your uncle will be a festival envoy, and I'll find you a young lady from an official eunuch's family, what kind of relatives are you now?" Qiu Yinlin also considered not to push the businessman too hard.
"This woman is very beautiful, and her nephew is also the eldest child, is it like your uncle, who has been a bachelor all his life? Isn't the old Qiu family broken? Qiu Xiaoyi begged bitterly.
In the end, it was the uncle who loved the nephew, and after thinking about it, he thought of a way.
"Son, go and send this girl back." Qiu Yinlin said.
"Huh? Send it back? Qiu Xiaoyi was confused.
"Send it back, you give them back thirty percent of the silk you robbed, and say that it is our family's bride price." Qiu Yinlin said.
"Bride price?" Qiu Xiaoyi said.
"Yes, I also figured out this matter, you are not a water thief, uncle, I will plan for you in the future, Lao Huang has power in the local area, and there is no son yet, we married his family, and then you went into the past, and afterwards we found a poor Xiucai, took his name, deceived his fame, donated a Xiucai and a prison student to you, you go to be a serious rich man, and then your uncle will be an official in Da Zhou, and you will be an official in the Southern Tang Dynasty, so we can live a transnational smuggling business." Qiu Yinlin said.
This plan is very clever, but Qiu Xiaoyi quarreled with his uncle at the time, because his uncle said that he was "not a dry water thief".
Qiu Xiaoyi's psychology was very hurt, he insisted on asking his uncle to apologize, and his uncle was also a stubborn donkey, so it was a stalemate.
The two quarreled for an hour, and Qiu Yinlin finally used the advantage of martial arts to persuade Qiu Xiaoyi and beat him up.
"Stop making noise?" Qiu Yinlin looked at him, "Then let's go see the new daughter-in-law." ”
Qiu Xiaoyi led his uncle to his room and released the new daughter-in-law.
Oops.
Miss Huang was tied up in the quilt, stuffy and hot, and she was already dead of anger.
Qiu Xiaoyi sat on the chair as if he had been hammered.
Qiu Yinlin was also taken aback, he might have to face the anger of all the merchants in Fengqiao Town.
"You've done a good job!" Qiu Yinlin scolded angrily.
"It's not that you have to belittle me, so I quarreled with you for so long!" Qiu Xiaoyi returned to the top of the road.
"Why the hell do you tie people up like this! Rubbish! You've lost all the faces of the water thieves! Qiu Yinlin pointed his nose and scolded Qiu Xiaoyi.
"Send the girl's body back to Lao Huang, return the silk and money to him, remember to explain clearly, this is an accident!" Qiu Yinlin said.
"Yes......" Qiu Xiaoyi was listless.
"Wipe the dead man's face clean, the family feels better!" Qiu Yinlin said.
Qiu Xiaoyi didn't have a maid and an old mother by his side, so he could only clean the girl's face and body by himself, and change the girl's robbed clothes.
It was also while he was doing this that he suddenly had an evil thought.
"Nobody knows, right?"
"Anyway, it's my daughter-in-law......
"Hey, hey, hey."
What Qiu Xiaoyi didn't know was that the evil of his thoughts had caused the situation in various countries to take a turn.
As for himself, death was already beckoning to him.