In summer, the mouth of the Yellow River is a sea of reeds.

Standing here, there is often a feeling of being smoky, submerged and intoxicated by this natural, frank, clumsy, and vast green waves.

The reeds here, by the river and the sea, one after another, one after another, go hundreds of miles, pull the sky and the earth, continuously. They are like thousands of troops, reckless and wide, boundless; They are born from the ground, cover the sky and grow, and are as magnificent as the opening and closing of a large array; The wind is surging from grass to grass, and the lilac reed flowers are just like the waves on the horizon, the waves are turbulent, and they roll wave after wave......

Here, the grass is like the sea, the flowers are like brocade, the sky is high and the clouds are light, the deep and beautiful, plus the dotted sheep and cattle are dotted, just like a sky and wild, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep outside the outside of the customs.

Looking far away, the vast wilderness, thousands of green fields, and the blue water flows for a long time, like a blue cloud inadvertently splashed by the heavens, and like a huge ink scroll.

On a small wooden boat in the depths of the reeds, the black brother Fu Ruiwu was sitting on the bow of the boat, carefully planning something with the old Sanyun Shangren and the old Liuyun Shangyi on the opposite side, and the five or six wooden boats behind him were full of anxiously waiting brothers.

"-Good! That's it! ”

After some intense discussions, the three of them shook hands excitedly, and their eyes looked in the direction of Jinan in the distance.

After half a year, in order to escape the pursuit of the government and the persecution of foreigners, he had no choice but to lead some brothers back to his hometown at the mouth of the Yellow River.

The unique location advantage of the confluence of the Haihe River at the mouth of the Yellow River, and the natural environment of tens of thousands of acres of grassland and ravines, have become their best natural shelter. Here, Brother Hei led his brothers to dry salt and make salt, fish and shrimp on the surface, but secretly used the conch as the name to continue to do some big things such as killing the rich and helping the poor, and robbing families and houses.

On the other side, in the courtyard of the Wugu Daoyun family. Since the martyrdom of Wang Xunyun Shangzhong and the decline of the Red Gun Society, Lao Sanyun Shangren has locked himself in the house all day long, borrowing wine to kill his sorrows, and thinking hard about his future way out.

Suddenly, one day, the sixth brother Yun Shangyi, who had been away for many years, hurriedly returned to his hometown and came to the side of the third brother Yun Shangren. Although the brothers hadn't seen each other for many days, they saw that Lao Liuyun Shangyi was in a hurry, so they didn't care about greetings and politeness, and hurriedly talked about the reason.

It turned out that over the years, due to the combination of Shanglanting and Yunshangyi, the company's business expanded rapidly, and soon the company's headquarters moved from Zhoucun to Jinan. Not long ago, the company invested heavily in the opening of the first cottonseed oil production factory in Jinan - Tongxing Oil Mill, due to the advanced production equipment, coupled with the operation method, the purchase and sale of oil products are booming, so as to obtain higher returns.

The booming business and the rolling profits made the Japanese businessman "Mitsubishi & Co." very popular. As a result, the Japanese businessmen tried to exert pressure through the troops, first changing the Tongxing Oil Mill into a Japanese-Chinese joint venture, and then slowly eating it all in at the right time. Of course, Shang Lanting and Yun Shangyi saw through the thoughts of the Japanese at a glance, so they sternly refused to cooperate with the Japanese side.

One night in early summer, the embarrassed and angry Japanese gendarmerie found an excuse to arrest Shang Lanting in the prison and beat him to the point where he was bruised and dying, so as to force Shang Lanting to submit.

This time, Yun Shangyi hurriedly returned to his hometown, just to find the third brother Yun Shangren to discuss how to rescue Shang Lanting, seeing that there were not enough people, and because he had long known that the black brother Fu Ruiwu and a group of brothers were active in the area of the Yellow River estuary, he hurriedly took the third brother to the Yellow River estuary to find the black brother for help.

A few days later, one night, the sky was dotted with shining stars, the quicksand-like Milky Way was scattered on the blue sky, the earth was already asleep, the breeze was gentle, and the breeze was gently and slightly drunk, except for the occasional dog barking or two nearby, and the quiet Jinan No. 1 Prison was even more silent.

Suddenly, in the night, a team of black-clothed people quietly flashed into the side door of Jinan Prison at the signal of a guard...... It turned out that Fu Ruiwu, Yun Shangren, Yun Shangyi and others had bought off the puppet army guarding in advance, and led a group of brothers to sneak into the prison quietly under the cover of the night, and unknowingly, they killed several guards one after another, and then joined forces inside and outside, and successfully rescued Shang Lanting.

On this day, in a reed shed in the deepest part of the Yellow River estuary, the black brothers Fu Ruiwu and Yun Shangren were having dinner with the brothers, eating meat in large pieces and drinking wine, and the days were not comfortable. When he was talking about wine, he suddenly received an urgent secret letter from Yun Shangxiao, the second eldest of the Yun family, who was far away in Tianjin.

After reading the secret letter, the black brother Fu Ruiwu was suddenly ecstatic, so he immediately took action, took his daughter-in-law Xue Xiaoying, Yun Shangren and about 20 capable brothers, and hurriedly left the Yellow River estuary overnight.