The big ship sailed into Honghu Lake, only to see the vast world and the water waves.

Lu Yangge sat by the window and raised a glass to the lake.

is probably broken by Zhou Yang, or she naturally likes the mellowness of wine.

Ever since she got the small silver kettle, she often filled the pot with fine wine, and took it out for a drink when she had nothing to do.

When Zhexue saw it, she also specially asked someone to make a wine jug similar to a small silver kettle, and also learned that she filled it with fine wine so that it could be drunk at any time.

However, she drank just a drink and enjoyed the feeling of being slightly drunk.

Zhexue is different, she has a high amount of alcohol, drinking like drinking water, quite a bit of Liangshan heroes three bowls of imposing momentum.

Fortunately, I watched Zhixue drinking, one pot or two pots, but I never saw her drunk, and I knew it in my heart.

A plate of salted peanuts, a plate of spiced broad beans, a plate of boiled peas, and a plate of boiled edamame......

Lu Yangge raised his hand and poured a glass of wine for Chen Xiaohu: "Brother Xiaohu, you should drink less, I have something to ask you." ”

Chen Xiaohu is not hungry for wine, because he is poor, it is even more rare to drink, when he heard Lu Yangge ask him, he didn't even take the wine glass, and asked busily: "What's the matter?" ”

Lu Yangge said: "I have one thing, I have always wondered, why did the county lieutenant Shen use the river worker to impersonate you, is it because of your strong kung fu that makes him jealous, or is it because you know people from the government?" ”

After the county lieutenant Shen was arrested, he was escorted into Beijing by a special person, and Lu Yangge did not interfere in the affairs of the court and went to interrogate the county lieutenant Shen.

However, she always felt that something was wrong.

If Chen Xiaohu and the others really lived by collecting tolls on the boat, they shouldn't have lived in such embarrassment, and they had to ask their sister to borrow money to eat a bowl of noodles.

Hearing this, Chen Xiaohu smiled bitterly: "Does everyone say that we are water bandits, specializing in intercepting merchant ships on Honghu Lake and charging fees?" ”

"Yes, that's what someone did. He also said that you use bamboo sticks to mark it, and you can reduce half of the fee for the second time you cross Honghu Lake that month......" Lu Yangge told Chen Xiaohu in detail what he said on the winter solstice that day.

Finally, he asked: "Brother Xiaohu, why do I think you don't look like water bandits, but like fishermen who have been sacked by water bandits?" ”

"We're not water bandits in the first place."

If others ask, Chen Xiaohu may not be able to explain, he is too lazy to say some things, and no one will believe them. But it was his sister who asked this, and he definitely couldn't let his sister misunderstand him like this.

"After I left the capital, I went to Dongyang County, originally planning to follow the dart game with a few brothers, so that I could eat. But who knows......"

Chen Xiaohu paused here before continuing, "Song Yunfei was cut off by me, how can he swallow this breath, naturally he is trying to find a way to find out about me everywhere. Fortunately, I am lucky, the Li family and the Lu family of Dongyang County Dart Bureau are in-laws, for the sake of your father, my uncle can also take care of me. When Song Yunfei found Dongyang County, it was Uncle Li who secretly told me to let me and a few brothers escape overnight......"

In the middle, they did suffer a lot, but fortunately, when the Song family had an accident, Song Yunfei was not in the mood to chase down Chen Xiaohu with manpower.

Chen Xiaohu returned to Nanyang and settled in Zhou's family.

"We're not bandits, and we've confiscated the tolls of merchant ships." Chen Xiaohu clenched his fists and said indignantly, "Sister, you don't know which water bandits are all pretended to be by County Lieutenant Shen. If the passing boats did not pay the fee, the county lieutenant Shen asked his brother-in-law to take a group of officials to rob them in the name of suppressing bandits. Which merchant ships would rather pay a few taels of silver for peace in order not to cause trouble. ”

"Then you ......"

"We're unlucky, too." Speaking of this, Chen Xiaohu was even more angry, he took a drink of his wine glass before continuing: "That time, another merchant ship was stopped, and when the toll was collected, our fishing boat happened to pass by. Zhou Quan grew up in Nanyang County, and he recognized that the leader who stopped the boat and asked for money was the county government's catcher, but he just changed into a fisherman's rags. ”

"Originally, they collected money, and we passed by, and it was irrelevant. Coincidentally, the owner of the cargo ship was preparing to go to Huaicheng with his family to visit relatives on the ship. The owner of the goods has a little girl, who is fifteen or sixteen years old. That...... That ......"

Speaking of which, Chen Xiaohu really couldn't go on.

He never thought that these pretending to be water bandits would pull and pull other people's little girls, and shouted that they would take other people's little girls home to be the wife of the village. Chen Xiaohu was angry for a while, so he didn't care about anything else, jumped on the big boat and started with those people.

"So, the county government issued a reward, saying that you are water bandits?"

"Yes."

Chen Xiaohu was also very helpless, after that, their brothers who had fought with Yukuai did not dare to show their heads again, even if they were fishing, they were going to that secluded place with few people.

Lu Yangge still couldn't figure it out: "Since you have seen through the identities of those water bandits, why don't they arrest you, but let you go in and out of Nanyang?" ”

As soon as he said this, Chen Xiaohu also felt incredible.

That's right, they had a fight with those poor masters, although the two sides only used their fists, that is, some minor injuries that did not need to be bandaged, and no one was killed without using knives, but why did those poor masters know that they had broken what they did, but they didn't find an excuse to arrest them?

In the past, he had always been lucky, thinking that maybe those bad masters didn't recognize them at all.

Now that I think about it, it shouldn't be.

Chen Xiaohu thought for a while and asked, "Could it be that they need to use us to pretend to be water bandits to facilitate their work?" ”

After all, there are so many fishing boats on Honghu Lake, and most of the fishing boats are family couples or brothers fishing together, or father and son.

Like them, there are very few boats like them, and there are very few boats with seven or eight men coming out to fish, almost none.

"A stand-in for cover-up? It's really possible! ”

Lu Yangge felt that what Chen Xiaohu said was right, but she always felt that Zhou Yang had intervened in this matter.

Zhou Yang knew that Chen Xiaohu was not a water bandit, but he didn't tell her the truth.

If it weren't for Zhou Yang interfering in it, it stands to reason that those yacha who are used to being domineering in the township would not let Chen Xiaohu go easily.

The reason why these yacha have not touched Chen Xiaohu is that they feel that they are a piece of meat to their mouths, and they can be eaten at any time if they want to eat it.

Unexpectedly, the meat used as bait was not eaten, but it was secretly caught by Zhou Yang.

"This Week's ......"

Lu Yangge picked up the small silver kettle and squinted at it, "It's like this wine kettle, it's a bit vicious!" ”

"What?"

Chen Xiaohu didn't hear what Lu Yangge said clearly for a while, and asked, "Sister, who do you say is vicious?" ”

"An old friend." Lu Yangge poured another glass of wine for Chen Xiaohu, "When you went back to find your uncle, he sent me to the Lu family in Jiangjiaba. ”

"Who is this man?"

Chen Xiaohu's eyes widened and he sat up straight suddenly.

If it weren't for this troubled person, he wouldn't have lost his sister. He's wrong, and he's not a good guy either.

It was because of his events that their brother and sister had been separated for so many years.