In the hospitality room, there was silence.

Zhou Yang didn't know where to start for a while.

As early as the accident in Beijing, Song Yunfei's arm was cut off, and Song Yunfei has been tracking down Chen Xiaohu's whereabouts.

He had seen Chen Xiaohu, and he was not without suspicion of Lu Yangge in his heart, but when something happened to the Song family, Song Yunfei knew that he was difficult to protect, and with the guilt of the Lu family, he could only leave the country in the end, and Chen Xiaohu's matter was over.

It is said that after Chen Xiaohu left the capital, he took a group of brothers to his hometown Dongyang County, and then followed a group of brothers to Nanyang.

Originally, Chen Xiaohu wanted to follow a dart game to mess around, but because Song Yunfei was tight, the dart game could not be accommodated. There was no way, Chen Xiaohu could only take his brothers to hide in the house of one of them, Brother Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng's parents were gone a few years ago, he grew up with his grandparents, and when his grandparents were still there, Zhou Sheng was often bullied by other children.

Later, I met Chen Xiaohu and a group of other children, most of whom were also taken care of by Zhou Sheng's grandparents.

The two old men died one after another, and Zhou Sheng also followed Chen Xiaohu to the capital. When I came back this time, the house at home was uninhabitable, but the foundation was still there.

The big guy had the strength to cut down the wood and mud by himself, and just built two earthen houses on the original foundation.

Zhou Sheng's home is in a shantytown in the west of the city, and the people here are poor. Either rely on stealing or begging, or work as a coolie at Nanyang Wharf to make ends meet.

When Chen Xiaohu and the others came back from the capital, they didn't have much money on them, so the big guy scraped together, bought two broken boats, and took turns fishing to go to the dock to carry the work, and he could earn some rice and grain money.

Originally, everyone thought that it was very simple, there was a place to live, and two boats, as long as they could support themselves.

More than a dozen men can save money on food and clothing, but the injured brother can't help but take medicine to heal his injuries.

First of all, Zhou Sheng found a merchant ship while fishing with Chen Xiaohu on his back, and borrowed a few taels of silver to spend it.

I borrowed it two or three times, but I don't know why there was a rumor that there were water bandits on Honghu Lake, and if they didn't kill people or cross the goods, they just wanted to charge a few taels of silver to cross the river.

In this way, Chen Xiaohu and his group of brothers became water bandits on Honghu Lake.

After listening to Zhou Yang, Lu Yangge asked, "Then where are they now?" ”

"It's in Nanyang County." Zhou Yang got up, "Let's go, I'll take you to have a look." ”

The west of the city is bordered by water, and it is the poorest place in the whole Nanyang County. The place is mixed, and most of the people who live there are people who steal chickens and dogs.

The area near the wild wharf is the most lively area in the entire Xicheng District.

Those who sell vegetables buy vegetables, those who sell fish buy fish, and those who mend pots, grind scissors, and burn clay pots.

In the morning, the young men came out of the thatched hut, buttoned the from the corners of their eyes, yawned a long time, went to the grass behind the house to untie their belts and sprinkle hot urine, and then shivered and put on their pants and went straight to the wild dock.

A bowl of bean curd, a pancake with fried dough sticks. Or a bowl of bud rice porridge, and then take two real three-way noodles steamed buns.

It can't be regarded as having enough to eat and drink, and after filling their stomachs slightly, they separated, a few people went to the dock to find work, and a few people got on the boat and went to the center of Honghu Lake.

I have to go and see the net last night, if there are more fish, you can exchange it for dozens of copper coins, if there are few fish, I don't dislike it, take it back and clean it up, and everyone can fill their stomachs.

If you are lucky, when you meet a merchant ship passing by, you will borrow three or five taels of silver by the way, and you will not have to worry about eating and drinking for at least a few days.

This group of people has different places to get off the net every day, and the chances of meeting merchant ships are also different.

Sometimes, I don't see a single merchant ship for several days, and sometimes I can run into two or three merchant ships a day.

Fortunately, they have food and clothing, and they are not real bandits.

didn't hover in Honghu all day long for a few taels of silver.

They are said to be bandits, but they live by fishing most of the time.

They say that they are fishermen, but when they encounter merchant ships, they will stop the boats and ask for money, and they will not eat and drink nonsense after receiving the money, and after buying rice and grain, they will also give a large part of it to the poor neighbors nearby.

Chen Xiaohu thought that he would probably stay in the west of the city for the rest of his life.

If you are lucky, you can earn some money, and you can build two or three thatched huts for yourself, and if you are lucky, you can marry a daughter-in-law and have two or three dolls.

But he always felt that this was not the day he wanted.

I heard that Sister Yang Ge entered the palace and was named the county lord.

Chen Quan died, and the Song family fell......

The news of the capital came one after another, and there were always seven points of falsehood in three points.

Fortunately, he can be sure that his sister is doing well. As long as his sister is doing well, he has nothing to ask for.

On this day, when Chen Xiaohu got up to collect the fishing nets, he only felt that his eyelids jumped.

Something seems to be happening......

It is rare that Chen Xiaohu did not wander around Honghu Lake today, but collected the net early and went ashore.

It was also their luck today, the two boats went out, and the fish they caught together had to be more than 30 catties.

If you send it to a restaurant, you can sell it for about 100 yuan, and if you sell it on the wild wharf, you can sell it for an extra 20 or 30 yuan.

Don't underestimate the twenty or thirty dollars, people who are not particular about it, buy two catties of brown rice, which is enough for a dozen or so young men to eat half full.

When Chen Xiaohu took his two brothers and squatted in the small vegetable market on the wild pier to sell fish, Lu Yangge followed Zhou Yang to the west of the city.

For fear of alarming Chen Xiaohu, Zhou Yang and Lu Yangge only took Sihai and Zhexue, and the four of them entered the poor area, and the more they went inside, the tighter Lu Yangge's brows wrinkled.

The weather in March is just beginning to warm up, and there is already a foul smell all around.

On both sides of the road, most of the houses are low mud-walled thatched huts, and some families cannot even afford mud huts, so they have to live in shacks paved with sticks and thatch. There are branches and garbage piled up between the houses and the shacks, and the road in the middle is only about half a foot wide, and some families do not clean the drains on both sides of the road in order to drain the sewage from their homes, but dig a small ditch and let the sewage flow everywhere.

The fat rat was so bold that it swaggered out of the gutter, jumped over the child's bare instep, and got into a corner.

The rat ran past his feet, and the child was not alarmed, and with a long snot he dragged on, he looked curiously at the four people who had suddenly appeared here.

Chen Xiaohu and a dozen brothers live in three mud-walled thatched houses in the far corners of the city, which are not much more spacious than shacks, but they are also a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Before I got closer, I saw a young man chopping wood with his bare back in the yard, and several other young people were spreading wet fishing nets to dry.

Seeing a group of four people coming, the wood-splitter vigilantly carried an axe and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”

As soon as his voice fell, several young people who had been drying fishing nets not far away surrounded him, all of them vigilant.

(End of chapter)