The moon hangs in the sky, the night is getting deeper, Luoshui City, which is already the second watch, except for the rows of green buildings on the side of Guixiangfang in the east city, is still hung with red lights until the night sky, but there are few lights on the west side of the water, especially Xirenfang, which has always been a place where poor households, beggars, and homeless people live together, has long been silent, and there is no one in the dark night, which is also a common thing, who calls this huge Luoshui City, only this Xirenfang is the only one in the eight squares of the east and west cities that has been curfew by the prefect.

If it is the same as usual, then naturally there is nothing to say, but seeing that it is almost the third watch, more than a dozen thieves and thieves come out of several dilapidated houses on the tail of the south side of Xirenfang, these people are dressed in tatters, but all of them are armed with sticks, and after leaving the house, this group of people walked south, and soon arrived at Bian and the street where Xirenfang and Taoyuan Fang are next door.

Although there is no curfew here, most of the people living in this square are ordinary people who have families and businesses, the sun rises and the sun sets, the flower world outside has nothing to do with them, ordinary people live a small life, so at this time Taoyuan Fang is also quiet, occasionally snoring from nowhere mixed with the wind, but it makes this Taoyuan Fang appear more quiet.

After a dozen or so dilapidated houses from Xirenfang entered an alley at the east end of Bian He Street, they finally stopped, and by the cold moonlight, they could see that these people were basically teenage dolls, most of them were skinny, short, and their faces full of vegetables were almost full of nervousness.

And the only little fat man who can be called strong among the dozen or so people is shaking his legs, clutching the stick in his hand with both hands, looking at a young man with a cloak next to him, a grass in his mouth, and a ruffian face, his mouth trembled and said: "Brother Dao, do you say you can do it tonight?" ”

The ruffian-looking young man looked no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, and he was definitely not the oldest in this group, but as soon as the little fat man spoke, everyone's eyes were focused on this young man. Seeing this, the young man casually teased the scattered bangs in front of his forehead, his narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and he spit out the grass in his mouth with disdain: "Phew! What does it mean to be okay? Before coming out, Lao Tzu told you, if you still want to live like a person in the future, you have to do it, you have to do it, you have to do it, if you have cowardice, make up your mind to be a flower child who asks for food everywhere in the future, then hurry up and go back to Lao Tzu, and wait for the next shame to Lao Tzu!

Nowadays, in this world, if you want to earn your life, you have to be open-minded, there is a saying in the rivers and lakes called the soft is afraid of the hard, the hard is afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal is afraid of not dying! From now on, I forget your identity before you came to Luoshui City, as long as you think about the miserable life you will live in the future if you can't get out tonight, so you are all people who are not afraid of death now, understand? We're all muddy people now! ”

The young man's voice was not loud, but there was a unique appeal, and when the other teenagers next to him heard his words, many people's eyes became firm, and the firmness was even more fierce, but the little fat man was still afraid of it, and said casually: "Brother Dao, can we be regarded as Jianghu people?" Some time ago, a few beggars from the Bamboo Flower Gang came to Xirenfang to pick people, but none of us were selected, and..."

The little fat man wanted to say something, but the young man suddenly kicked out, right on the chest of the little fat man, seeing the little fat man rolling on the ground like a gourd scoop, the young man said viciously: "Chen Yuan, if you are afraid, hurry up and roll back to Lao Tzu, don't say frustrating words here, what's wrong with the Bamboo Flower Gang if you don't want us?" Tell you, that's Liu Youren's dog thing blind!

Besides, what is the Bamboo Flower Gang? Lao Tzu swore today that in the future, he will take everyone to mix up on the rivers and lakes, at least no worse than 'him'! ”

Speaking, the young man stretched out his hand and pointed to the east, although he couldn't see anything in the dark night, but everyone understood what the young man meant, he was referring to the ten-zhang tall golden statue standing in the center of Luoshuifang, the originator of the power gang, and the portrait of Li Shenzhou, who was called the 'world's ding' two hundred years ago.

The power gang is now the head of the five gangs in the "one palace, two islands, three doors, four factions and five gangs" on the rivers and lakes, although Li Shenzhou has been a hundred years, but his prestige is still widely spread in the rivers and lakes, this golden statue that has been tacitly approved by the official family to stand under the blue sky and white sun is enough to show the momentum of the power gang and Li Shenzhou's influence.

The young man's rhetoric was more like a nonsense, but many people present were enthusiastic when they heard it, and even two or three people looked at the little fat man named Chen Yuan with a look of disdain in their eyes, and they intuitively felt that they and others were doing great things, and they disdained to be in the company of such an eggless guy.

Of course, not everyone was so easily fooled by the young man, only to hear another voice say: "Dao boy, your habit of talking nonsense should really be changed, what kind of person is Grandmaster Li, and what kind of power is the power gang?" If you continue to brag in front of people in the future, you will only cause trouble for your brothers for no reason. ”

The person who spoke was a tall and thin young man, who looked a few years older than everyone in the room, eighteen or nineteen years old, he was wearing a long gown and combing his hair in a bun, quite a bit of the elegance of a scholar, and the temperament of the other people in the room was completely different, but for some reason he was also stirred here.

"What? When it comes, are you Wen Guangshan also afraid? ”

The young man turned his head and looked coldly at the tall thin young man named Wen Guangshan, and couldn't stop sneering in his mouth. However, this thin and tall young man also has temperament, and his face immediately turned cold, and he said, "Afraid? My Wen family was originally a Xihe Wang clan, cultivating and reading heirlooms, but since a hundred years ago, people began to wither, to me it has been seven generations of single transmission, now a flood and a plague, the family has died, if I go back like this, those jackals who have long been eyeing our Wen family will definitely peel my skin and bones and swallow my family business, how can I Wenguangshan go to see my ancestors when the time comes?

You don't understand my thoughts? So don't provoke me with words! This is the cannibalistic world, I want to keep my family business, and I don't want to be beaten as a lowly person and lose the opportunity to gain fame from now on, since I am here tonight, I will not take a step back. ”

Wen Guangshan was very excited, he almost roared, he didn't hold a stick, but in the end, he took out a dagger with a sheath from his sleeve robe, and then pulled it out, the cold light of the dagger under the cold moonlight was inexplicably impressive, several people who were consciously familiar with Wen Guangshan, looked at Wen Guangshan at the moment and couldn't help but feel a little frightened, it seemed that at this moment he knew that the reader was forced to kill people in a hurry.

The young man looked at Wen Guangshan's behavior but smiled, he has long understood Wen Guangshan's life experience and what has happened in the past year, and it can even be said that he has seen with his own eyes how a rich boy has become what he is today, and now Wen Guangshan has experienced the death of his parents from plague, and the old friends in the family turned their faces and did not recognize people, and they were repeatedly squeezed by those tricky officials, and finally the servants in the family swept away the only remaining money, this scholar is indeed desperate, and the young man is to provoke his ferocity.

The young man's purpose was successful, he knew that Wen Guangshan would become the most ferocious of his dozen hungry wolves, he smiled faintly, and said: "Put it away, I just hope that when the white knife enters and the red knife comes out, you Wenxiu will not be soft." ”

As he spoke, the young man who was called the knife boy by Wen Guangshan walked towards the little fat man Chen Yuan, who was still lying on the ground, and then squatted down and looked at the little fat man with a smile, and said, "Are you still afraid?" ”

"No... Don't be afraid. ”

The little fat man stumbled and replied, obviously insincere, the knife boy smiled, and said: "Actually, I'm afraid of nothing, I said, let's start today to be a muddy person on the rivers and lakes, and we're going to live the days of swords and swords, you're afraid just because you're not confident and don't believe that you're a person who is super in the rivers and lakes, so, you follow me, understand?" ”

The little fat man nodded, and then listened to the knife boy read: "Lao Tzu is on the rivers and lakes." ”

"Lao Tzu is on the rivers and lakes."

"Lao Tzu on the rivers and lakes, eat Jiang crisp duck and drink champion red."

"Lao Tzu on the rivers and lakes, Lao Tzu on the rivers and lakes, Lao Tzu on the rivers and lakes, go to Yipinlou when you sleep, and hug the flowers and the moon!"

Daozi read it up in a rhythm and tone that is not like ordinary speaking, at first everyone listened to it and felt strange, only the little fat man followed the reading, but later, except for Kaiwen Guangshan, everyone else seemed to involuntarily follow the reading, because their life is too bitter, two meals a day of gruel on wild vegetables, no meat all day long, the famous Jiang Crisp Duck of Guangnan Province and the champion of the first wine in Guangnan are not available in their dreams, not to mention the sound of the dog and horse Yipinlou, the top brand of the Yan Gai Luoshui Hua Yuehong, If they really become Jianghu people, they can live such a life, even if they are willing to die.

It's just a few simple words, everyone should follow the rhythm and tone of the knife boy, read it over and over again, gradually, only to hear someone's breathing sound getting heavier and heavier, some people's eyes are becoming more and more fierce, some people's eyes are longing, and in the end, even Wen Guangshan was affected, looked at the knife boy and said: "You, you are a natural Jianghu person, take the lead big brother, even I just flashed my mind that if we really get ahead, I won't go back to Xihe, just live such a day with you in Luoshui." ”

"Hahaha."

Daozi laughed loudly, but before the laughter fell, there was a sound of footsteps outside the alley, followed by the man who had been squatting at the entrance of the alley to watch the wind, turned his head and said with a pale face: "There are people, there are many people!" ”