The passenger ship made a muffled "thud" and pressed against the wooden stakes of the pier.

The water bandit driving the boat, Xu Aliu, threw the three oars, turned around and kicked open the hatch, a trace of lust flashed in his single eye, and scolded him in the cabin: "Come out for Lao Tzu." ”

Zheng Haizhu stood up first and said softly to Han Ximeng, "Miss, don't be afraid. ”

In the dark, she could feel that Han Ximeng, who was relatively calm after encountering the robbers at dusk, was obviously becoming a little more rapid at this time.

But this daughter of the family of Songjiang Mansion still tried to stabilize her slightly trembling body, said a gentle "um" to Zheng Haizhu, got up and followed her, and walked out of the cabin.

Suddenly the eyes brightened.

It is a sizable dock, with bright torches, and a dozen or so large and small ships moored, and there are shirtless men on the shore and on the boat, pulling up their trousers, or packing up cables, or carrying goods.

After his eyes adjusted to the light, Zheng Haizhu saw the bodies of the ship's boss and his daughter-in-law horizontally on the side of the ship.

In the Jiangnan water town of this world, sailing boats and artemisia boats are more convenient means of transportation than horse-drawn carriages. Starting from Suzhou Changmen, the boat travels more than 100 miles to Songjiang Fu Wharf. People travel on a regular basis, but whenever the distance is a little longer, they will take a boat.

More than half a month ago, the eldest lady Han Ximeng was eager to learn art, and it happened that the newly acquired Zheng aunt and nephew had a commercial "Giving Citation", so she asked Zheng Haizhu to buy off the guards of the Chengguan Wharf in Songjiang Prefecture with silver, and used that road to get on the internal ship to Suzhou.

On the return trip, the three masters and servants wanted to avoid people from Songjiang Mansion in the same boat from recognizing Han Ximeng, so they abandoned those big boats with grand structures and many passengers, and chartered a rocking "sheep's head boat" operated by only the husband and wife.

Unexpectedly, at dusk today, I sailed to the waters near Qiandun Town, and suddenly encountered water bandits.

At this moment, Xu Aliu saw two delicate young women, whose wrists were bound by hemp rope, trembling onto the narrow deck, just about to taste the pleasure of smacking cats and mice, when he suddenly frowned, and said, "There is also a little ghost!" ”

Immediately, one of his men had a younger bandit rushing into the cabin to check, and after a moment he came out and reported: "There is no one, there is a hole in the bamboo strip baffle at the stern, I want to escape from there." ”

Xu Aliu sneered, glared at Han Ximeng and said: "This little coffin you raise at home is not authentic, you have the ability to break your own rope, and I don't know how to help you untie the rope." ”

Han Ximeng respected his identity and did not answer the tone of this bandit.

Zheng Haizhu pondered, no matter whether this gang of bandits kidnapped people to blackmail or robbed sex for self-entertainment, before his nephew Zheng Shoukuan succeeded in asking for help, it was best not to show arrogance and disdain, so as not to anger the bandits.

She immediately took over and said lightly: "Miss and I, we don't know water, and it's useless to loosen the tie." ”

When Xu Aliu heard this, he looked at Zheng Haizhu carefully.

The little woman's face darkened, but she couldn't hide her good looks. Judging by the texture of her clothes, she should be a descendant of the Han family, looking at the black hair combed into a big bun, it looks like she is married, no wonder although she is young, she is not as timid and careless as ordinary maids.

Today's business, the big boss explained that as long as Miss Han is captured, it doesn't hurt to run a small house. Even if that little ghost goes to report the news, with the backstage of the big boss, he is afraid of a bird.

Xu Aliu didn't ask any more questions, raised his face, escorted Han and Zheng to the shore, and walked to the village a hundred steps away.

The bandits' nest here, the battle is really not small, the walled wall is built with stones, more than three zhang, the top shape is even the appearance of some state city female walls, the wall is full of people, and some people walk around and patrol.

When I entered the gate, the stench came to my face, and it turned out to be a long row of stables.

Zheng Haizhu was even more surprised.

Since traveling to the late Ming Dynasty two years ago, whether it is in Zhangzhou, the "hometown" of God, or the state capital through which he passed all the way north, if it were not for the guards of the guards, the stables near those ordinary official offices would not have such a scale.

When she was pondering what kind of thieves had been in the Sujia Lake area in the late Ming Dynasty, she suddenly slipped under her feet, lost her center of gravity, and fell to the ground.

The summer has not really passed, and the women's clothes are thinner. Xu Aliu stared at Zheng Haizhu's graceful back all the way, and seven or eight evil fires had already arched in his abdomen.

At this moment, he finally seized the opportunity, and immediately stepped forward, bent down, and made a gesture to drag Zheng Haizhu up, but in fact, his left hand pressed her spine, and his right hand touched her waist and hips.

Zheng Haizhu only felt a burst of nausea, and was about to struggle hard to shake off this pair of salty pig hands, when he suddenly felt a lightness on his back.

I only heard Xu Aliu's soft voice: "Hey, the second master, why did you come to brush the horse in person?" ”

……

A man with a long figure but not very strong man, holding a broom brush in one hand and holding Xu Aliu's shoulder in the other.

It was he who snatched a rabbit and slipped Xu Aliu away from Zheng Haizhu's back.

Zheng Haizhu struggled to get up, stood firm and looked at the man who was called by Xu Aliu as the "second master".

The pine resin lamp in front of the stable was flaming, reflecting the man's facial features and eyes very clearly.

The moment his eyes touched, Zheng Haizhu was stunned.

She comes from the world four hundred years later.

In that world, she always looked at men on an equal footing, whether it was a boss, a client or a peer, so she accumulated more material about men's eyes than the various women in this life who often lowered their heads to look at the tips of their shoes.

The second master in front of him, Mo looked at a circle of stubble that was denser than Xu Aliu, and there was a deep scar from the sideburns to the wings of the nose, but the light in his eyes was not similar to the eyes of the bandits who were fierce, cunning, or obscene, and it was also completely different from the arrogance of the Ming Dynasty officials and gentry and the ignorance of the commoners that Zheng Haizhu was already familiar with.

There is a strong heroism and kindness in his eyes, and this brilliance of fortitude and compassion is mixed with a bit of wisdom, so that a pair of eyes are particularly bright and dazzling.

Han Ximeng, who was beside Zheng Haizhu, looked at the man from the side, and the fear that haunted her body was temporarily replaced by curiosity.

Unexpectedly, a bandit leader, ignoring that scar, his facial features and face frame were even more handsome and domineering than Lingzi Xiaosheng, who specialized in Songjiang Mansion as a general.

At this time, I only heard Xu Aliu begging for mercy: "The second master let go, Ah Liu's bones are about to break." ”

The man said to Xu Aliu in a frosty tone: "You are a gentleman, bullying weak women, don't you panic?"

Xu Aliu said "hehe" twice with shamelessness and laughter: "The second master said yes, aren't the brothers doing this business just for money and women?" It's the official lady, who also sleeps when she wants. Besides, Ah Liu, I touched this maid, and she is not the young lady who is the big boss. ”

When the second master heard this, he was silent for a few breaths, and suddenly pulled out the horsewhip on his waist at lightning speed, and whipped it on Xu Aliu's leg with a "swish".

Xu Aliu suffered an unsuspecting severe pain, and with an "ah" scream, his knees folded forward, and he fell to the ground.

The second master raised his voice and said: "I don't know if this little girl is a maid, Lao Tzu can only see that your surname is Xu and you regard yourself as the master." The rice raised by the big boss (referring to the kidnapped person), whether it is the master or the servant, you are also worthy of it? ”

After that, another whip was whipped on Xu Aliu's back.

This whip is condescending and draws harder.

But Xu Aliu was awakened by the severe pain, bit his tooth socket, stood up on the ground, and scolded angrily, "Niu Chengzhong, Lao Tzu is your mother", and then rushed over to fight the second master.

The big and small bandits who passed by or fed the horses immediately gathered around and came to pull the rack in a noisy.

"Fuck me, stop it!"

In the chaos, the thin man who stopped outside the crowd let out a loud shout.

Everyone looked distracted, and saw that it was the big boss Qiu Wanliang who had arrived, and they hurriedly brushed the stone road out.