In the past few months, there have been far more things happening on the river than anyone on the shore can imagine.

Most of the water locusts in the Yangtze River come from the various lakes in the tributaries of the Yangtze River, and in a battle, armed bandits have fled into the Yangtze River.

Chen Pi has heard that the Huangkui water locust first came from Dongting Lake, and the first person in charge was a Taoist priest, who placed orders in the Huangkui Temple, and the first batch of people who came out were Taoist priests in the Taoist temple, and after coming out to be a water bandit, they called themselves Huang Kui.

The locusts are generally divided into two kinds, one is the boat bandits, in addition to robbing the merchant ships on weekdays, their main income comes from smuggling and salt trafficking, and occasionally robbing the merchant ships, often because they get accurate news, and the other is the dry bandits, who are on the ship from the shore, rob the crew and passengers, and then are picked up in the river. The former is large and well-behaved, the latter is cruel and cunning.

Now dozens of water locusts have been washed into the Yangtze River, like raising Gu, robbing the river and seizing boats, hundreds of people and hundreds of people have died, and the surviving water bandits are said to be classified as Huang Kui, Huang Kui has slowly become the largest water gang in Hankou, the composition is complex, this Huang Kui ancestor, it seems that he has some ability. It's just that Huang Kui's subordinates, it is said that there are seventy-eight flags for free donations, and it is really difficult to tell whose flag it is.

Chen Pi dragged his own wooden signboard, hung a string of copper coins around his neck, and held a no-donation flag, swaggering through the market.

His image is getting more and more funny, and people passing by are pointing and thinking it's funny. But Chen Pi didn't know it, and he simply showed off his might.

Baiping Lou is on the side of the river embankment, outside the building is a wild stall, all kinds of snacks open the stalls in the river breeze, after 4 o'clock in the evening, the stalls are successively out to do the next day, it is said that it is a snack, but it is not a coolie to eat, these stalls are patronized by the sailors of the merchant ship, Baiping Lou is the industry of the Cao Gang, here the dragons and snakes are mixed, and many water locusts are mixed in it to listen to the news.

Chen Pi went in to find a noodle stall and sat down, put his signboard on the edge of the table, and slapped the copper coin. The owner of this noodle stall is called Cai Mingwei, who has been doing business on Long Beach Street all the year round, and now Long Beach Street is repairing fortifications, and the stall has arrived here. The noodle soup is excellent, and the queue is crowded. The tangerine peel waited for half an hour to eat the noodles, and then served six bowls, mixed with two plates of red oil side dishes with spicy sesame oil, and then opened a bottle of old wine, and the tangerine peel was really open to eat. Eat until your stomach is bulging like a drum, and then you turn over to the riverside.

Spicy and liquor, tangerine peel is hot, tangerine peel is holding the bamboo pole of the free flag, but his brain is extremely clear, he looks at the surrounding fires stir-frying, watching the sailors come and go, several people pass by him, their eyes glance at his flag. He looked into their eyes, and finally there was one, and he saw a flicker.

The man lowered his head and walked up the embankment into the darkness, and Chen Pi got up and stumbled up.

He kept his distance, and saw from a distance that there was a lonely stall on the river embankment, far away from Baiping Tower, and the man walked into the stall and sat down.

Chen Pi followed, it was a stall with soup powder and fried dough sticks, there was no flow of people here, but it was full of people, all whispering, obviously abnormal. Chen Pi didn't get close, and as soon as he took off his clothes, he jumped into the river.

The cold river water made the green tendons on his head burst out, and he gritted his teeth and held on to the edge of the river embankment, and sneaked to the edge of the stall little by little. I wanted to look at it, but I saw that on the riverside opposite the stall, there was a single-sail passenger boat moored with lights out, which was a few years old but much larger than a fishing boat, so it couldn't stop too close to the embankment. The embankment was bright, and the river was pitch black, so nothing could be seen.

He wondered in his heart, and suddenly his eyes were in a trance, and he saw a person standing in the darkness on the bow of this passenger boat, also looking at him in wonder.

Chen Pi looked bad, careless, kicked the river embankment, he sank into the water, turned under the boat twice, turned out nine claws to hook out of the water, he hooked the side of the boat and turned over, just saw that the person wanted to light the lantern, he turned out the pineapple knife and aimed at the throat of the other party, the person instantly turned over and went into the water, Chen Pi rushed to the side of the boat, and instantly heard the sound of the stern out of the water, the boat shook, this person has excellent water nature, obviously has climbed back on the boat at the stern.

Chen Pi stepped on the middle line of the boat and turned onto the top of the boat, and saw that the wind lantern at the stern had been lit and hung on the tailframe, he leaned over to look at the stern, and the person at the stern also looked up at him, it turned out to be a petite young girl, older than the four years of spring, and her body was more plump and fair, she combed two braids, and the red juan coat on her body had been all wet, sticking to her body, outlining a few moving lines.

The river dripped down the planks of the boat, making the sound of drumming and beating. It's like the heartbeat of tangerine peel.