On the eastern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, a fleet of ships loaded with grain and grass marched north against the cold wind and snow.

There was no end in sight to the fleet, and every ship was guarded by soldiers, and their armor had turned white, showing the dust.

The sky was gray and a little depressing, and the snowflakes floating over the canal did not look good.

The people were holding the pulp hard, and there were ropes pulling on the riverbank, accompanied by the shouts of the soldiers.

The wind is almost always north during this season, and the sails of the ship cannot be used on the narrow canals.

It's just that the people are suffering, but fortunately, there is food to eat, and a few copper plates can be saved for the family, and when they return to their hometown at the end of the year, they see that their wives and children and parents can eat a full meal, and the family celebrates the New Year happily, and the people don't feel how tired they are.

Most of the people were recruited from the Shaanxi and Gansu regions of Henan, and these places have been in drought for two or three consecutive years, with no clothes and no food, how hard are people's lives?

In such a famine year, there were a few grains of rice in a bowl of clear water, which could not be compared to the delicacies of the mountains and seas in the prosperous era.

The people of the Central Plains and Shaanxi and Gansu in the northwest are the most hard-working, unlike the fish and rice raised in the south of the Yangtze River, who will do these coolies.

Chen Qingyang, the head of the Jiangnan Caoyun Envoy and the leader of the Qingyang Gang of the White Lotus Sect, sat in the cabin, the window was always open, whether he was sleeping or not sleeping, his eyes and ears were staring at the fleet.

The grain and grass transported by Cao Yun are not only the rations of the officials and nobles of the Beijing Division, but also the military rations of the front-line soldiers at the Ningjin Border Pass.

Chen Qingyang's eyes were bloodshot.

It took more than 20 days from Jinling to walk most of the way, and there was still half a month to get to Tongzhou Wharf.

He could also breathe a sigh of relief, and found the commander of the Jingshi Jinyi Guard to make Wan Wushui drink wine for two days, and then went to see her, Chen Qingyang suddenly felt a little excited in his heart.

I haven't seen her for almost ten years, Wan Wushui meets every year, and he is half a class younger than Chen Qingyang, but he is the same as a brother.

She is okay, it must be much colder than Jingshi, Chen Qingyang smiled, closed his eyes and leaned against the cabin wall of the ship, his ears still listening to the movement outside.

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"My lord! It has been half a day since Jining Mansion, and the boundary of Dongping County is in front of it, so there is no need to say hello to local officials and let them cooperate on alert, in the past two years, the Jin soldiers have gone south and arrived in Jinan Mansion several times. ”

A master entered the cabin and whispered.

"It's okay, you arrange for someone to go, and then go to Dongping Post Station to ask if Chu Liufeng has rushed over."

The master answered and walked out.

Chen Qingyang still couldn't sleep, picked up the official hat on the table and put it on his head, and saw that it was a robe and casual clothes on his body, so he had to put it down again.

The wind and snow blew on my face and hurt a little, and my ears were cold all of a sudden.

Chen Qingyang moved his neck, secretly lucked the qi of the dantian, and his mind turned as he wished, and his whole body suddenly warmed up.

Seeing Chen Qingyang get on the boat, the soldiers and the people were a little nervous, Chen Qingyang pulled the rope that tied the goods tightly with his hands, as well as the iron cable between the boats, and was very satisfied.

Suddenly, Chen Qingyang's face changed, and the person jumped into another boat, as if flying away.

In the distance, fireworks rose into the air, accompanied by several figures flying across the fleet, more and more grain and grass ignited a fire, some people were fighting with the soldiers, and people kept falling into the river.

"Hurry up and put out the fire, stop rowing."

Chen Qingyang had already arrived at a boat that was on fire, knocked down a few strangers with a wave of his palm, and then went to another boat that was on fire.

The north wind suddenly became stronger, and the fire suddenly burned bigger and bigger, Chen Qingyang's face was pale, shouting everywhere, and his voice was full of sadness and helplessness.

At this moment, a man with a blank face came over, holding an oar in his hand.

The oars suddenly cracked, revealing that it was a Zen stick, and the folk man had already hit Chen Qingyang's back with the Zen stick.

Chen Qingyang was in mid-air, and the Zen staff also changed direction and struck upward.

The strength intersected, and the man Teng Teng took a few steps back, and the soldiers who surrounded him swarmed up, but they were swept away by the people with a Zen staff and knocked into the water.

Chen Qingyang was furious, the person had already arrived in front of the minfu, his left palm slapped down, the minfu snorted, the Zen staff in his hand almost flew out, and he still danced towards Chen Qingyang.

"Venerable Longxing! You are too despicable, pretending to be a man mixed with my fleet, Chen Qingyang suffered this catastrophe, and no one wants to get out of this Grand Canal alive today. ”

Chen Qingyang was extremely angry, and Venerable Long Xing only cared about dancing the Zen staff, trying his best to resist.

"Gang Leader Chen! I left that Maxima to you in Jinling, why do you want to give me a gift, this is not rude. ”

Suo Wuchang smiled with red hair, lit grain and grass on a boat, and jumped to the shore again, teasing Chen Qingyang.

In Chen Qingyang's roar, his palms slammed vigorously towards Venerable Longxing, and at this time, an extremely fast figure came behind Chen Qingyang, the person who came was dressed in green clothes, his face was covered with a black cloth, and the sword in his hand instantly passed through Chen Qingyang's back.

Chen Qingyang roared wildly, and his palms shook the Dragon Xing Venerable, and the person fell.

"Please! Pour also! ”

"Let's go, thank you Gang Master Chen for your generous gift, if you don't die, we will have a date later."

The old monster of the black water, Suo Wuchang, clapped his hands and laughed on the shore, and the soldiers on the ship shot arrows one after another.

At this time, the masked man led the Venerable Long Xing, leaped over the water to the shore, and the three of them disappeared in the wind and snow after a while.

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Chen Qingyang was covered in blood, lying in the cabin, looking at the fire outside, another mouthful of blood spurted out, and the person also passed out.

With the help of the north wind, the grain and grass of the fleet burned almost seven or eight times out of ten, and only the fleet in front was fine, and the soldiers untied the iron locks that were tied together, and let the grain and grass behind burn.

The water of the Grand Canal was red by the light of fire, and the river was full of corpses of soldiers and civilians.

There was also the earth-shattering cry on the fleet ahead, which resounded through the sky.

On the official road on the shore, two horses galloped over, and immediately a man and a woman saw such a scene, and their faces turned pale with fright, urging the horses to hurry by, but they heard the woman say from a distance: "Senior brother! Could it be that it is the work of the golden man again. ”

The man did not speak, but sighed, and the sound of hooves grew farther and farther away, until at last he could no longer hear it.

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Suddenly, a whistling sound came, the whistling sound was still far away at first, but it was very close in an instant, Chen Qingyang was awakened by this whistling sound, and looked outside with his support for the ship's cabin wall.

A nun does not touch the ground, flying in the wind and snow, it is extremely fine to step on the snow without a trace.

At this time, the nun saw the convoy that was still on fire, slowed down and laughed, laughed a few times and cried again, and the person disappeared into the wind and snow at once.

"This must be one of the four martial arts sisters of the year, why did someone among the four sisters become a nun? It seems that he is still crazy, there are so many unspeakable things in this world, who would have thought that my head was about to move. ”

Chen Qingyang muttered to himself, closed his eyes in despair, and his face was full of pain.