When the boat arrived at the boundary of Shandong, it was catching up with a rare drought that had not been encountered for many years, and the canal channel was silted up, making it difficult for the boat to move forward, and the speed of travel was unusually slow. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn some sections, the boat can only be pulled by the strength of Mrs. Xian, barely moving forward.

But when the fleet arrived at the boundary of Jining, the day suddenly changed.

As arranged in advance, as soon as the ship arrived in Jining, the original Chidi Qianli turned into lightning and thunder in an instant. In the middle of the night, which was as dark as night, heavy rain mixed with hail the size of beans poured down instantly.

This heavy rain made the yellow soup water mixed with dust and mud in the canal also overflow quickly, and the water rose and the ship was high, and the shipping route was instantly unblocked.

This is a good time for the fleet to get out of trouble, and Lei Ah Niu and they have been delayed in Shandong for too long, taking advantage of this golden opportunity, Ah Niu's fleet did not take shelter from the wind and rain, but took advantage of the turbulent water to quickly go north, trying to make up for the lost voyage.

However, as the saying goes, "if you want to be fast, you can't reach it", in this kind of turbulent and temporary current, the direction of the speed of the ship is extremely difficult to grasp, coupled with the double action of the howling wind, the boat soon had an accident.

Just when Lei Ah Niu was trying his best to rein in the rope, he suddenly felt a swaying under his feet, and then saw the helmsman on the boat suddenly change his face! Shouted "not good"!

Immediately, his own boat scraped against an oncoming awning boat under the action of turbulence.

The boat is much larger than the awning boat, so the shaking itself is not serious, but the small canopy boat, which can only be used for manned navigation, is much more unlucky.

Lei Niu suddenly saw that the canopy boat suddenly shook violently a few times after scratching, and then "goo-goo-goo" into the water.

The canopy and his helmsman, amid hysterical shouts, quickly sank.

Ah Niu looked at the man who was struggling powerlessly in the pouring rain, and wanted to stretch out his oars to save him, but he was stopped by his own stick.

The head of the gang reached out and gave Lei Ah Niu a big mouth, and then snatched the water oar, only to throw down a sentence: "Boat!" ”

"It's the one we bumped into!" Lei Niu retorted unconvinced.

But at this time, the stick head pulled out the box cannon on his waist, viciously pressed it on the head of Lei Aniu, and repeated: "Give Lao Tzu a boat!" ”

The ferocity of the stick head made all the boatmen and levy men completely speechless, which means very clearly, not only will they not save themselves in the face of death, but they must speed up.

In silence, the fleet drifted away. The boatman, who was constantly struggling and cruising in the water, quickly disappeared into the rain.

After the rain passed, Lei Aniu thought about the shocking scene, and felt his heart beat. He was greatly stimulated in his heart, and thinking back to the ferocity of the bow just now made him even more frightened and restless.

Because of this, Lei Ah Niu was uneasy in the cabin, so when the stick head called someone to go to the cabinet to raise the sails, he was the first to rush out. I want to use labor to distract myself from my fear and attention.

So, Ah Niu ran out of the cabin while he was closed, and as he spoke, he looked up at the cabinet pole to find the rope for raising the sail.

But when he looked up, he was so shocked that he almost dropped his eyes.

Because he suddenly saw a person standing on the top of the cabinet pole that was one foot and two feet high.

At first, Rea Niu thought his eyes were spent.

But when he looked at it again, it was clearly a man in a homespun shirt.

Lei Ah Niu looked at the person on the pole, and immediately peed his pants in fright, and he shouted, "Pole ghost!" So he ran into the cabin and called the clubhead.

It turned out that Lei Ah Niu thought that he had seen the legendary "pole ghost" in the sea.

The so-called pole ghost is a kind of legendary ghost that appears on a sea ship in foggy weather.

According to legend, the ghosts were incarnated by sailors who drowned in the voyage, and often appeared in dense fog, standing on the top cabinet pole of the ship with their heads drooped, staring at the whole ship with a pair of dead eyes. Occasionally, he would shout one or two voices to avenge his "unfortunate death".

Na Rea Niu thought of the canopy boat that had just been overturned, and his first reaction was that the drowning helmsman in the boat had turned into a pole ghost and came to them to ask for his life.

With this in mind, Rea Niu could still stay there, and he immediately ran back to the cabin with a rolling belt.

In the cabin, the first thing he saw was the "stick head" of the Cao gang that pressed the ship Zhenwei

Ah Niu grabbed the corner of the stick's coat and said hysterically: "Pole ghost! The helmsman of that canopy has turned into a ghost to ask for his life! ”

As soon as the head of the Cao boat was heard of the "pole ghost", he was not afraid, he immediately pulled out the box cannon with a black face, and regardless of Lei Aniu's kneeling and begging for mercy, he directly picked him up, called two helpers, and was about to go out to "catch ghosts".

However, at this juncture, something happened that opened everyone's eyes.

The pole ghost came in by himself!

In a trance, Lei Ah Niu thought that his eyes were glazed, and he saw a dark shadow "floating" in the hatch of the ship.

The shadow loomed, and after swaying around the cabin at an extremely fast pace, it suddenly stood still. When everyone looked at it, they were stunned to find that it was a thin and cold, blue-faced and bearded man, but wet and damp.

In the dimness of the oil lamp, Ah Niu recognized it at the first time, and the black shadow floating in was undoubtedly the "ghost" on the cabinet pole!

Half of a boatload of levy men collapsed in fright.

But the head of the stick of the ship looked at the "ghost", but suddenly laughed, he put away the box cannon, hugged his fist slightly at the blue-faced man and said: "This big brother is very skilled, ask us to discuss something?" Why do you want to pretend to be a ghost? ”

The blue-faced man's eyes were very sharp, like two lights in the dark night, and after he glanced around the gloomy cabin, he replied to the stick head: "Do you want to run away if you hit someone on the Jining realm?" That's what the Cao Gang people do? ”

The man's words made the "boat pressure stick head" wide-eyed, which made Lei Aniu even more inexplicable.

Ah Niu, who had just recovered from the "haunted" mood, really couldn't figure out how this man got on the boat, and why he stood so steady on the cabinet of the battle.

But what he couldn't figure out the most was that such a thin man had the capital to dare to argue with the head of the boat? Even if you stretch out your hand, don't you know that two fists are no match for four hands? Isn't he afraid of foreign guns and box guns?

And the next development of things was as Ah Niu expected.

As soon as the stick head saw that the comer was not good, he took out the box cannon again.

The wicked man sued first, scolding the boatman who fell into the water for hitting them on his own initiative and deserving of death, and said that this man was nosy, get out of here, or he would be shot at him.

Then, the stick head pressed the box cannon against the door of the blue-faced man's face, and laughed viciously.

But at this time, the expressionless blue-faced man suddenly stretched out his hand and handed the head of the Cao Gang a thing.

The boss was dumbfounded when he saw the object handed to him by the blue-faced man.

...... in his hand It's a box of bullets.

The head of the stick immediately realized what the man meant, and he hurriedly withdrew his gun, and hurried to see that his gun magazine was empty, no doubt.

The appearance of this blue-faced man immediately shocked everyone present.

How fast can a person be to disassemble the magazine in someone else's hand the moment he enters the cabin...... No one dared to think about it.

Seeing that the situation was reversed, the stick head admitted it at that time. The face turned from yin to smile like turning a book, hehe, not with him.

"I don't want anything else!" The blue-faced man stretched out his hand, threw the bullet back to him, and said to the head of the stick, "Six foreign dollars, the money for hitting the canopy boat." ”

People are powerful, and they naturally have the confidence to speak, and the blue-faced man made a request after showing his "ability", and the head of the Cao Bang naturally didn't dare not listen, so he took out ten foreign coins at that time and sent them to the man respectfully.

After the man got the money, he didn't leave immediately, but continued to look at the stick head coldly and sneered slightly.

In the eyes of the knife, the head of the stick is uncomfortable to look at.

"You've got all the money! Why don't you go! The head of the stick asked tentatively.

The blue-faced man was still smiling, and after a while, he spoke, and said in a surprising voice: "You are not from the Cao Gang, this Cao boat...... It is not food that people eat! ”

These words were like throwing a thunderbolt in the crowd.

Not to mention that Lei Ah Niu, who had already seen some strange things, was even more shocked and angry just by knowing the head of the stick and the bow of the ship, and resented this mouthy man.

At that time, there were three or four people on the scene who took out daggers and other guy styles, and they were about to start beating them to death when they waited for the stick head to give an order.

The gloomy face of the stick head was like a dark cloud, but he was afraid of the skills of the man in green clothes, but he did not act rashly.

The stick head suddenly clenched his fists and said, "What is this brother called?" Why wade into the troubled waters? ”

But the man's answer made everyone's eyes wider.

The man replied: "I don't care what you escort. It's just pity for these conscripts......"

The meaning words of the blue-faced man made a husband like Lei Aniu muttered heartily.

None of them could figure out what the man meant. Everyone couldn't figure out what else could be transported if the rice that didn't carry people on this boat could be transported.

What else can there be in the sea tank besides rice?

What was even more surprising was that the blue-faced man didn't say anything more, and turned to leave.

However, as he was leaving, he suddenly stretched out his hand, patted Lei Niu and several other conquerors on the shoulder, and only said to them meaningfully: "Take care ......" and went out of the cabin.

Lea followed the man, and was the first to chase him out. But what he didn't expect was that he chased him out as soon as possible, and the person was nowhere to be found.

The bow and the pole were empty, and in the calm of the rain and the sunny day, it seemed as if everything had just been like a dream.

Just when Lei Aniu was surprised and inexplicable, he suddenly felt a strange texture coming from the palm of his right hand.

Ah Niu hurriedly looked down, but was stunned to find that he didn't know when there was an extra piece of paper in his palm, and two words were written with an ink pen on it.

Ah Niu didn't know how to read, but he reacted quickly.

At the first time, Ah Niu quickly gathered the note that appeared inexplicably, and in the evening, he found a companion with the same fate as himself but was roughly literate to read the note.

The man told Rea Niu that the words on it were...... Run away!

Lei Niu knew that this note must have been given to him by the blue-faced man inadvertently, and only his elusive skills could do all this.

The appearance of this note undoubtedly intensified Ah Niu's doubts and fears. Moreover, he had long doubted the true purpose of this trip. The yellow talismans and copper coin swords on the bows of the ship, and the sinking rice in the sea jar with a heavy musty smell, are all so strange and weird.

Ah Niu is a man who takes up and puts down, he feels more and more that the form is wrong, weighing the pros and cons, so he made up his mind that night, after a little hesitation, he felt that it was safer to take advantage of the night to get up at night and paddle away, and he would rather not make money, and could not continue to follow the boat, otherwise I am afraid that I will not taste loss.

So in the second half of the night, Lei Aniu got up in a hurry, trying to be flexible in the dead of night.

However, just as he walked out of the aisle and passed by the rice barn. But suddenly he heard a different voice in the originally silent aisle in front of him.

The sound of "popping ......" was crisp and cracking, like the sound of porcelain colliding and falling.

When he heard the voice, the alert Rea Niu stopped his progress at that time. He pricked up his ears and looked at the straight corridors of the cabin.

"Click......" was another crisp sound.

This time, Lei Aniu heard it clearly, and the voice was transmitted from the end of the corridor where he was in the dark chaos, as if something was about to move.

Lei Niu was dumbfounded, he suddenly understood that he was in a dilemma, and although the darkness and strange noise in front of him were terrifying, if he returned to the cabin, it would be equivalent to sitting still.

But just when Lei Aniu had no way to advance or retreat, he suddenly heard a faint voice behind him.

The voice said coldly, "What are you doing? Want to run?! ”

Lei Ah Niu was so frightened by the sudden scolding behind him that he immediately turned his head and looked at the man.

The person who appeared behind him was the head of his own boat.

The stick head was sleepy-eyed, but he still had a fierce face, and when he was talking to Lei Aniu, he had slowly taken out the box cannon on his waist.

That's not a joke.

Seeing that he could not escape, Rea Niu was immediately softened by the momentum of the stick head and the musket. He knelt on the ground straight at the muzzle of the gun, his mouth opening and closing, and wanted to say something begging for mercy, but he couldn't say it dryly.

But just when Lei Ah Niu wanted to cry without tears and argue silently, the characteristic sound of broken porcelain sounded at the end of the dark corridor.

"Click, click......" This time the sound was crisp and long, as if it were ...... The sound of a chick breaking its shell.

The face of the stick head who heard the voice changed sharply!

"Not good! It's out......" The stick head twisted his eyebrows and stared, and said this inexplicably, while giving up the deterrence of Ah Niu.

As he spoke, he turned the muzzle of his gun, plucked the slightly moist yellow talisman from his neck, and walked in the direction of the strange sound in the darkness.

The figure of the stick head quickly disappeared into the darkness completely.

There was a silence at the end of the corridor, and then there was a burst of gunfire!

In the chaos of gunfire, Ah Niu crawled on the ground, not daring to raise his head at all, he had been completely blinded in this inexplicable encounter, and he did not dare to make any action except to hold his head to save his life.

After the gunfire calmed down, Ah Niu slowly raised his head.

Immediately afterward, Lei Ah Niu was completely stupefied by what he saw in front of him!