After a night's rest, refreshed, Yi Yun stretched out and got up from the bed, without any clothes, and shouted into the empty room, "Sister Death, are you there?"

"I'm ......" Death's girl's voice came from the corner of the house, there was nothing there, but her voice could be heard, it was a very strange feeling: "Get dressed and talk to me again." ”

"It's so hard for you, you actually watched me in the corner of the house all night. Yi Yun smiled: "Next time, remember to go to bed to rest, how tired it is to huddle in the corner of the house." ”

The Grim Reaper girl showed her figure angrily: "If you are in bed, I will die and not sleep in bed." ”

"Wow! So you don't like anything in bed, you like to fight in the field! I see, next time we'll go to the garden." Yi Yun said strange words, so angry that the Death Girl almost vomited blood.

"Okay, let's get down to business, today you're going to take me to the beggars and the Cao gang!" Yi Yun quickly got dressed and said, "It's dawn, it's time to go." ”

"Okay!" When the girl heard that she was doing the right thing, she also perked up: "Let's find the Cao Gang first, because the head of the Cao Gang is in this Hangzhou City." ”

"Shrimp?" Yi Yun Daqi: "It's in Hangzhou?"

"That's right. The Grim Reaper girl explained carefully: "The Cao Gang is a gang that relies on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to survive, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, of course, is the canal between the capital and Hangzhou, the capital is the territory of the Son of Heaven, and the Cao Gang is not arrogant enough to establish a general rudder under the nose of the Son of Heaven, so the general rudder was built in Hangzhou." ”

"Oh!" Yi Yun understood now: "The helm of the Cao Gang is at the Hangzhou Wharf of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, right?"

"Exactly!" The Grim Reaper girl waved her hand: "Let's go, let's go see the leader of the Cao Gang and ask him for help." ”

The two said hello to Cai Rou, said goodbye to the Qiantang Palace, and walked towards the canal wharf. The wharf of the canal in Hangzhou is called Wulinmen, which is a famous boat dock and grain transfer station, which is a little north of the center of Hangzhou. Therefore, after the two of them left the Qiantang Palace. Keep going north.

The two of them walked a few steps before they heard the sound of rumbling cannons from the east, which turned out to be the red-coated cannons on the head of the city firing to deter the Japanese invaders outside the city and deter them from attacking the city. Although the Japanese did not attack the city on a large scale today, they sent a small force to roam the city, and the posture of "finding a flaw and hitting it" caused the officers and soldiers at the head of the city to be blind and nervous. Shoot the cannon out of the city.

It's a pity that the hit rate of the cannon is really not good, even if someone from the "artillery" profession comes to open fire, it is very difficult to hit such a small target with a human body. Not to mention ordinary people who don't have a career. Although the cannon on the head of the city roared, in fact, not a single shot hit.

But the sound of the cannon brought tension to the city's residents, and as they walked down the streets, most of them walked around the corners, and few walked in the middle of the avenue.

Only Yi Yun and Sister Death had more nerves, and they walked in the middle of the road with a swagger: "By the way, is the Cao Gang very powerful, how many gangs can you take out to help us?"

"The Cao Gang is extremely powerful, with a total of seventy-two and a half docks in charge, consisting of one hundred and twenty-eight and a half small gangs. 9,999 ships and a half ...... As for the specific number of gangs, it is impossible for us outsiders to know, this is a secret of others, but ...... There are definitely hundreds of thousands of people in total. The Grim Reaper girl introduced: "Of course, most of these 100,000 people are just ordinary people, and there may not be many people with careers." ”

Iwan Khan: "Half a dock, half a gang, half a boat? How did this come about?"

"Seventy-two and a half docks, seventy-two of which are serious grain docks. The other half of the wharf is a small wharf for the transportation of general goods from north to south, and it is not included in the main 72 wharves, so it is only half of it. The Grim Reaper girl talked eloquently: "As for the half-gang, that refers to the incense boat handed down by the ancestors." There is a handmade handicraft boat parked in the rudder of the Cao Gang, which is enshrined on the table, and all the disciples of the Cao Gang have to pay incense to this incense boat and worship. It's half gang, and it's half a boat. ”...,

Yi Yun now understood. He clapped his hands at the Grim Reaper sister and said, "Awesome, your Sanjiang Pavilion's intelligence work is really good, you know everything in the sky and on the earth." Huh, you suddenly reminded me of a woman, Chen Yuanyuan by the Qinhuai River, she is also very knowledgeable, ask her to know a little bit of everything. The two of you are quite alike. ”

The Grim Reaper girl was taken aback by this sentence, and almost thought that her identity had been recognized, so she quickly snorted coldly and said: "Hmph, Chen Yuanyuan, the wind and dust girl who sells her art and body by the Qinhuai River, can she compare with me, the pavilion master of Sanjiang Pavilion?"

"Well...... This really can't be compared to ......" Yi Yun spread his hands and said: "Compared to her seductive style, you are far inferior to others." ”

"You ......" The Grim Reaper girl was half angry.

However, hearing that there was no problem in Yi Yun's tone, the Grim Reaper girl breathed a sigh of relief, she still felt uneasy, and had the intention to draw a clear line between herself and Chen Yuanyuan, so she said coldly: "Okay, my style is not as good as hers, you can play with her in the future, don't come to me." By the way, you are not allowed to mention my name and her name at the same time in the future, hmph! Don't tarnish my identity, I am a good woman who is clear and jade, and I don't want to put myself with that kind of prostitute. ”

"Okay, don't say it, don't say it!" Yi Yun spread his hands.

The two of them talked and laughed as they came to the Wulin Gate, and a beautiful canal immediately appeared in front of Yi Yun.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is not a natural river, it has many traces of artificial axe chisel, the two banks of this river are not as winding and rugged as other rivers, the rocks are craggy, but flat and neat, the two sides of the river are actually built with neat bluestone strips, planted with two rows of beautiful weeping willows. The river is also flowing with water, not quicksand, and the smooth river course gives people a feeling of relaxation and happiness.

The canals were full of boats, most of which were grain carriers, with flat bottoms and wide decks, which were not loaded with cannons or anything like that, but made room for the transportation of goods as much as possible.

A row of wooden stakes were nailed to the river, and the wooden shelves stretched out into the river, guiding the grain boats to line up neatly beside these wooden stakes, and hundreds of sailors moved nearby, some on boats, some on stones by the pier, and some simply swimming in the river...... They are idle...... Hangzhou was at war with the Japanese Invaders, and the grain from all over the country had stopped being transported to the city of Hangzhou, so they naturally had nothing to send to the north. What's more, the river outside the city has been blocked by the Japanese bandits, and it is not that you can get out of it.

The Grim Reaper girl walked up to a sailor and said casually, "Send me a message, I want to see your helper." ”

"Huh?" The waterman raised his head, saw the masked woman in black, and immediately smiled: "The girl is looking for our helper, let's tell me your identity first, not just anyone, everyone is qualified to see her." If you were a handsome guy, maybe I would have taken you directly to her, but you're a woman...... Hey...... It's not so easy to meet the helper. ”

The girl of death smiled and said casually: "If you pass a word to her, the three rivers will enter, and the Yangtze River will see her." She heard that and met me. ”

"The three rivers are about to enter, Zhenze is determined, and the Yangtze River wants to see her?" the water man repeated this sentence, and couldn't help but pout: "An inexplicable sentence, I don't understand it at all, but...... It looks like it's very powerful. ”

The confident and determined momentum of the Death Girl shocked the sailor, and he dared to slack off, got up from the edge of the dock, and ran towards a big boat on the river, Yi Yun only then noticed the ship, this ship is a building ship, but the building is not high, only one floor. The black hull is very inconspicuous, but looking through its dark windows, you can faintly see that the decoration of the ship is very prosperous, and it is not an ordinary grain ship. ...,

"Huh, the leader of the Cao Gang is on this boat?" said Iyunqi.

The Grim Reaper girl nodded: "This ship is the rudder of the Cao Gang!"

Yi Yun flattened his mouth: "A group of poor ghosts, can't even afford a house? ”

"Haha! Caochuan is a gang on the water, of course the helm must be on the water, it's not that they don't have money. ”

Yi Yun spread his hands, this gang is like the water fire and water police stations in later generations, deliberately built the house in a big boat on the water...... It's so funny.

After the waterman went in to report, it didn't take long for him to run over, his face full of panic. When she arrived in front of the Death Girl, she almost reached the ground and said loudly: "It turned out that the pavilion master of Sanjiang Pavilion is here, and the little one really has eyes and doesn't know the rivers and lakes, so the helper invites you to go in......"

The Grim Reaper girl smiled, raised her feet and walked towards the rudder of the Cao Gang.

Yi Yun flattened his mouth and followed inside.

Although the big boat stopped on the water, it had a wide board with the shore, and I didn't feel shaky when I walked on it, but after getting on the boat, I found that the big ship was also very stable, and it almost didn't shake with the fluctuations of the water surface, I don't know how it stopped?

Walking into the cabin, the first thing that catches Yi Yun's eye is a huge table, a bit like the kind of large desk that later real estate developers placed in the middle of the hall to display the model of the house. On this large desk, there is a small handicraft boat about forty or fifty centimeters long, this small boat is an ancient building ship, with a three-story shipyard on it, and a beautiful small sail the size of a palm, which looks very beautiful.

"This is the incense boat of the Cao Gang, which has been passed down from the time the gang was established to this day!" The Grim Reaper girl introduced in a low voice: "You must salute when you see this boat, otherwise it will be disrespectful to the Cao Gang, and the Cao Gang will mobilize 100,000 gangs to fight with you endlessly." ”

The Grim Reaper girl introduced her and bowed to the incense boat as a sign of respect. Yi Yun also did the same, he didn't want to provoke 100,000 people to fight with him because of a etiquette problem.