The cold moon is like frost, the river is like ink, and the three ferries carrying the last batch of hostages redeemed from the Seven Stars and their families sailed to the south bank of the Xinjiang River, and when they reached the center of the river, there were two patrol clippers of the lead mountain guard approaching to investigate, and it was clear that they were the released hostages and their families, and then they were released——

At the beginning of the offshore, everyone was silent and did not dare to make a sound, for fear that the bandits would catch up and catch them back, until the ferry sailed to the center of the river, the noise of the bandits on the north bank was getting farther and fater, the lights on the south bank were near, and they saw officers and soldiers patrolling the shore, everyone was frightened for a while, coughing, and the sound of stretching muscles and bones was released, and then they cursed quietly, scolded the bandits, and the crowd was angry, and suddenly one person scolded: "The show surnamed Zeng is even worse, and the thief first asked for a ransom of two hundred taels of silver, The surname Zeng Xiucai has been raised to two hundred and fifty taels, and my family has been bankrupt to make up enough ransom money, what kind of sage book did the black-hearted Xiucai read, it is clearly for the tiger to help and abuse, this black-hearted thief"

At first, these released hostages were only glad that they had escaped, and they didn't have the heart to think about other things, all of them seemed to have realized that the seven emotions and six desires were all light, and money and other things were outside the body, and it was good to be able to live, but now that the ferry was far away from the north shore, thinking that this life should be saved, the mind became alive, and when they heard someone scolding Zeng Yu, the pain of breaking the wealth was immediately piercing, and they also scolded the black-hearted Zeng Xiucai, and the more they scolded, the more energetic, Zeng Yu became the culprit, and it was even more hateful than the thieves who robbed them and beat them. This made Yu Xuandao and Zhang Guangwei on the ship extremely annoyed, Zhang Guangwei was straightforward, and immediately said crisply: "You people are really good and bad, Zeng Xiucai took a great risk to save you hostages, but you still scolded him, it's like a dog biting Lu Dongbin who doesn't know the hearts of good people."

Most of these redeemed hostages are relatively well-off, and they are also decent people in the local area, and they were afraid of the obscenity of the thieves in the Guangsi Palace, and they didn't dare to speak or be angry, and then they dared to be angry and dared to speak, seeing that it was such a thin and small manservant who scolded them for being good or bad, they couldn't help but be furious, and scolded the little manservant, and someone asked: "What did the black-hearted showman save us, isn't it all our own family who scraped together to redeem us with silver, but the black-hearted showman let us each add fifty taels of ransom silver, Is this his kindness?

The girl from the Ji family sitting next to Zhang Guangwei argued in a low voice: "Zeng Xianggong is a good person. The girl's voice was so soft that no one could hear it except her sister-in-law, Li.

Daoist Yu Xuan said: "Zeng Xiucai was also arrested, why did he raise the hostages to ransom the silver, this is all a thief who framed him——"

"Why did the thief frame him?"

Someone sneered and interrupted Yu Xuan's words: "He is clearly a gang of thieves, we are imprisoned and starved and cold, but he has good wine and meat to enjoy, I heard the thieves say that Zeng Xiu is their military advisor, and those bad ideas are all from this thief military division." ”

Someone chimed in: "Xiucai is a thief, and the ink in his belly turns bad." ”

Zhang Guang was slightly angry, and said loudly: "How did Zeng Xiucai become a thief, robbed you or beat you?" ”

Someone on the same boat asked Zhang Guangwei: "Who are you, so presumptuous?" ”

Someone replied: "It's someone from the Goose Lake Ji family who ransomes this aunt and sister-in-law back." ”

The man then questioned Zhang Guangwei: "Don't you want money to redeem people?" ”

Zhang Guangwei still had to be recognized, and the Yuxuan Daoist on the side was worried that Zhang Guangwei had missed his mouth and delayed the big thing, so he hurriedly whispered: "Little Fairy Gu, you don't have to argue with these people who don't know what to do, we still have big things to do."

Zhang Guangwei had no choice but to hold back his anger and keep silent, but those people thought that Zhang Guangwei was poor in reasoning, and they became more and more unpleasant, and even scolded Zhang Guangwei: "Are you a little slave raised by a thief, saying good things for thieves like this, and the thief is your father?" ”

This person sat next to Zhang Guangwei, bullying Zhang Guangwei to be thin, and while scolding, he stretched out his hand and almost poked Zhang Guangwei's face, this guy was so frightened in the Guangsi Hall earlier that he didn't dare to come out, and at this time, in the face of someone who seemed to be weaker than himself, he was not inferior to a thief-

Zhang Guangwei was furious, and suddenly reached out and twisted the index finger of the person's right hand, and squeezed it vigorously, the man screamed in pain, and scolded in his mouth: "Little thief, you dare-"

Zhang Guangwei flew up and kicked the person into the water, and with a "plop" sound, the cold water splashed up.

The boat was in an uproar, disturbed and shaking, but Zhang Guangwei cried, although she was not a deep girl who did not go out of the door, but she had never experienced this kind of thing, and she was a little scared when she kicked people into the water in a fit of anger, and felt aggrieved and unfair-

Fortunately, the ferry boat was close to the river bank, and the person who fell into the water was quickly dragged onto the boat, and the water of the river was cold to the bone, and the man shouted while trembling: "Catch him, catch the thief, beat him, beat him to death-", his two family members wanted to come and attack Zhang Guangwei with great momentum.

Yu Xuandao stepped forward to protect him and shouted: "Whoever dares to come up, Poor Dao will let him drink a stomach of cold water." "Yu Xuan has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and even three or five strong men with his bare hands can't get close.

In the midst of the commotion, the three ferries docked one after another, and some officers and soldiers approached and asked loudly: "Has Master Yu Xuan returned?" Is Master Yu Xuan back? ”

Yu Xuan replied loudly: "Over here." While escorting Zhang Guangwei and the Ji family's aunt and sister-in-law, they walked to the bow of the boat and prepared to go ashore.

The chicken-like creature fought with two rows of teeth, shouting, "Catch him, catch him." ”

Two rows of bright lanterns suddenly lined up on the shore, and a general in military uniforms and straddled horses led a group of officers and soldiers to the riverside, and the voice was like a bell: "Which boat are Natural Immortal Gu and Master Yu Xuan on?" ”

Yu Xuan Dao raised his voice and said: "He Qianhu, the poor road is here." ”

Those few people who wanted to stop Zhang Guangwei saw that the Qianhu adults who were the lead mountain guard were here, how could they dare to make a mistake, let the four of Yu Xuan go ashore, and the soup chicken who scolded Zhang Guangwei didn't dare to scold anymore, thinking when did the Goose Lake Ji family get in touch with He Qianhu?

He Qianhu jumped off the horse, looked at Zhang Guangwei by the light of the lantern, and said with a smile: "It's all back, it's good to come back, my mother is very worried about the safety of the little fairy - hey, why is the little fairy girl crying?" ”

He Qianhu already knew that Zhang Guangwei was the daughter of Zhang Dazhen's uncle in Longhu Mountain, and his identity was noble, if Zhang Guangwei had any accident on the side of Lead Mountain, then he would be unable to escape the blame for guarding Qianhu, so he tried his best to prevent Zhang Guangwei from following Yuxuandao people to the north bank of Zheting Mountain to redeem people, but Zhang Guangwei insisted on going, and He Qianhu didn't know what the two Xiucai that Zhang Guangwei wanted to redeem were coming from, and he asked Zhang Dazhen's aunt to go out to redeem them. I'm afraid that Zhang Guangwei will also be detained by the thief, so it will be a big trouble, and I'm glad that Zhang Guangwei came back safely, but why is he crying like this?

Yu Xuan Daoist explained: "There were people on the boat who were rude, and the little fairy girl argued with them for a few words, and she was angry and cried. ”

He Qianhu glared: "Who dares to be disrespectful to the little fairy girl, Ben Wei can't spare him"

Yu Xuandao was anxious to go to Xinzhou, and he didn't want to have more branches, so he said to He Qianhu: "Little Fairy Gu will not worry more about those foolish people, my lord, there is something important to report to the adults in the poor Dao, please take a step to speak." ”

He Qianhu said: "Then please go to the riverside inspection department to speak." He ordered his sergeant guards to open the way.

Yu Xuandao turned around and saw that the Ji family's sister-in-law was still following behind, so he asked, "Don't you have any family to pick you up?" ”

Li Shi turned his head to look, the dock was full of layers of people, where could he tell who was who in the dark night, and said, "Master Lao Fu sent the two of me to the Wang's house in the east of the town, so that the ransom money can be returned." "Li already knew that the man dressed as a servant was a Taoist priest of Longhu Mountain, and he had raised a ransom to save Zeng Xiucai and Zheng Xiucai, Zeng Xiucai was detained by the thief and could not get out for the time being, so he let the Taoist priest redeem her two, and he was grateful to himself, and asked Yu Xuan to send her two to Wang's house for safety on the road, and secondly, to return the silver to Yu Xuan, and Xie Yi was also indispensable, her sister-in-law's husband's family lived in Wangjia Lane before she passed the door, and she could afford this silver, but I don't know why the Wang family didn't send someone to ransom them. Could they not have known that the two of them had been taken captive by thieves?

Yu Xuandao people have important matters in their bodies, and they have no time to send these two sisters-in-law, but since Zeng Yu asked him to redeem these two sisters-in-law, then there must be a beginning and an end, otherwise the two weak women on this chaotic dock walk at night Who knows what accidents will happen, just about to ask He Qianhu to send two sergeants to send this sister-in-law to Wang's alley, suddenly saw that the crowd at the dock was in a commotion, and many people rushed over to this side-

The day before yesterday, more than 200 people were taken captive by thieves, and the redeemed ones were only more than 100 people together with the last batch of Fang Cai, and more than 100 people could not raise the ransom because of their poor family background, and their families could only stand by the river and shed tears, at this time they saw three ferries docking, although they knew that they could not be released without paying the ransom silver, but they also had the idea of luck and squeezed up to shout their names to find someone, and when they met acquaintances, they hurriedly inquired, until all the people on the boat went ashore, and there was no trace of their relatives. Suddenly someone proposed to ask He Qianhu to lead the troops to save people, and as soon as the call was answered, hundreds of people rushed over to stop He Qianhu and knelt down to beg He Qianhu to save the hostages on the other side.

Although there are 800 officers and soldiers in the lead mountain guard, but less than half of them can fight, He Qianhu knows very well in his heart that there are more than 10,000 bandits, he led these 400 people across the river to save people is to kill himself, now he only wants to be able to hold the line on the south bank to prevent the thieves from coming to loot again It is a blessing, where do you dare to save people, and immediately ordered the guards under his command to stop these people, and said loudly: "The bandits are powerful, the guards are few, we must wait for the reinforcements to arrive before suppressing the thieves, you all go home separately, don't gather here to hinder the patrol of the officers and soldiers." ”

The officers and soldiers dispersed the crowd to open the way, letting He Qianhu and others leave, and the people cried and scolded.

The Ji family's sister-in-law had to follow Yu Xuan and Zhang Guangwei out of the dock at this time, and before she could go out for a few feet, the Ji girl suddenly shouted: "Sister-in-law, I heard my brother calling us." ”

Li also faintly heard it, turned around to search around, suddenly turned around and ran back, screaming: "Erlang, we are here, this way-"

The two sisters-in-law waved their hands vigorously, several people in the crowd squeezed out, and the two sisters-in-law also walked back, He Qianhu's guards did not stop them, and the two sisters-in-law finally saw their relatives and cried.

The person who came was Ji Erlang, the husband of the Li family, and several servants of the Ji family, Ji Erlang saw that his wife and little sister were safe, and said in surprise: "Qingfeng, Xiaozhi, you have nothing to do." ”

The girl of the Ji family just cried, and the Li family complained while crying: "Why did you come, if it wasn't for the noble rescue, Xiaozhi and I would almost die over there." ”

Ji Erlang said: "I got a report from the Wang family, so I immediately took the silver and rushed over——"

When Li heard this, he was annoyed: "It turns out that the Wang family knows that we are being taken captive, and if you don't hurry up to redeem us and report the news forty miles away, will our Ji family send him five hundred taels of silver?"

Yu Xuandao saw that the relatives of this sister-in-law arrived, of course, he didn't need him to escort him to Wang's house, so he came over to greet and wanted to leave with He Qianhu, then Li called "Engong wait", knelt down on both knees, and asked her husband to kneel with her to thank the benefactor, and the Ji girl knelt down.

Although Ji Erlang still didn't understand what was going on, when he saw his wife and little sister kneeling, he hurriedly knelt down to thank the benefactor, and invited the benefactor to live temporarily at his Goose Lake Ji family, so that he could bow down to his Ji family.

Yu Xuandao waved his hand and said: "Poor Dao is entrusted by others to redeem her aunt and sister-in-law by the way, there is no kindness, a few of you please hurry up, Poor Dao still has important matters, you can't stay for a long time, you should also leave here quickly." ”

Li vaguely guessed that Zeng Xiucai should be an important matter to entrust this Taoist priest to do, so he didn't dare to try his best to keep it, so he only asked his husband: "Erlang, did you bring the ransom silver, five hundred taels, and return it to these two benefactors quickly, this benefactor is still a young lady." Saying that, she bowed to Zhang Guangwei, she had already seen that this little guy was dressed as a girl, and along the way, the Taoist Yu Xuan was very respectful to this girl, but it was a little strange to call her "little fairy girl", Li pointed out that Zhang Guangwei was a woman in front of her husband, and it was also to prove her innocence.

Ji Erlang hurriedly asked the servant to take out two bags of silver, which were heavy enough to be five or six hundred taels, and Yu Xuandao didn't have time to count them, so he took the silver and said, "Heavenly officials bless, there will be a period later", and Zhang Guangwei turned around and left.

When He Qianhu and his entourage went far away, Ji Erlang asked his wife and little sister to pass by when they were thieves, and Li Bei said in detail, even Zeng Xiucai, who was sent by the thief to wait, also said, without the slightest concealment, Li is a smart person, rather than letting others spread rumors, it is better to make it clear now, and finally said: "You ask Xiaozhi, what the slave family said is half a lie." ”

The girl Ji Zhi nodded forcefully.

Ji Erlang looked at his pretty wife and little sister's dresses were still neat, what should be said was not a lie, the sister Xiaozhi was even more honest and couldn't lie, thinking that the two of them could return it all when they fell into the hands of thieves, it was really a fairy to bless the ancestors and have a spirit, and said: "Then it seems that Zeng Xianggong is the real benefactor of my Ji family, and he will be rewarded heavily in the future, but I don't know who Zeng Xianggong is?" ”

Li said: "Zeng Xianggong is from Shangrao County, and his cousin Zheng Xiu is from Yingtanfang, and he can always visit him after he has the heart to repay his kindness." ”

Ji Erlang nodded, and asked in a low voice: "Why are those thieves polite to Zeng Xianggong, do Zeng Xianggong really want to join the gang?" ”

Li said: "Zeng Xianggong Bodhisattva is not a thief, we don't want to speculate, just remember that Zeng Xianggong is our benefactor." ”

Only then did Ji Erlang know that the Ludao thieves stipulated that they would kill the hostages before dark, and they couldn't help but be afraid, and then said angrily: "The Wang family is so affectionate, they don't even give money to ransom you, so I'll come to ask them." "Let his wife and little sister get into the carriage and go to Wang's alley a few miles away.

There's another chapter in the night.