Chapter 20, the master of light skills, a word of disagreement
Since the spectator wanted to explain the ins and outs of the matter to Pan Long, he naturally wouldn't just say a word. Hengzhu was idle at the moment, so he talked about it in detail.
Walking upstream from here is a section of the Tongtian River that is also known as the "Dragon Roar River". The so-called "dragon roar" refers to the fact that in this section of the river, there are more than one narrow river, the water flow is turbulent, and the sound is like thunder, like the roar of a giant dragon.
As the name suggests, the river is so turbulent that it is naturally extremely difficult to swim upstream. Since ancient times, in addition to relying on spells, they can only rely on the slender men to pull and pull hard, in order to cross the rapids and help the boats to go to the upper reaches of the Tongtian River.
This process is naturally very dangerous, and if you are not careful, the ship may be destroyed and people will die. Therefore, most ship owners are not stingy when hiring porters - the price of saving money is their own small life, and no one dares to save this money.
But "generosity" is only relative after all, and the money that the slender men can earn is still not much.
In this case, the life of the slender men is very hard. It's just a matter of being in danger while working, and once you get sick and temporarily lose your labor, you will starve to death.
So the slender men organized a guild, led by a respected old man, and everyone contributed a sum of money to save. If anyone has a headache and brain fever and is temporarily unable to work, the guild will come forward and help him hire a doctor to provide him with money to support his family for a while.
Naturally, this money will have to be repaid, but as long as it can get through the difficulties, nothing else is a problem.
The Slender Men Guild has a long history and great influence, and it can be regarded as having some status in society. Even the imperial court will find them as intermediaries to negotiate a suitable price with each other, so as not to persecute those bitter slender men too much and make a mess.
The Flying Dragon Gang was originally a group of robbers who occupied the mountains as kings, but later they were whitewashed by fate, and turned into reclamation people who collected tolls and cultivated in the mountains - Yizhou encouraged reclamation, as long as the reclamation was successful, they could be canonized by the imperial court, and it was not a problem to add officials to the knighthood.
But reclamation is not easy, and the biggest problem is the lack of people. The Wyvern Gang is seriously short of manpower, so they are eyeing the slender man guild with many people.
They approached the Slender Men Guild and demanded that the Slender Men pay them 20% of their income as protection money, or else they would send someone to participate in the reclamation.
Of course, the slender men did not agree, and there was a conflict between the two sides today.
"I kind of don't get it. Pan Long asked, "Since the scale of the Slender Men Guild is so large, doesn't it have a little bit of its own force? Could it be that they can have a place in the realm here with just these Slender Men alone?"
In the land of Kyushu, if an organization is to gain a foothold, the first thing it needs is to have enough force.
If there is enough force, things may not be able to be accomplished, but if there is not enough force, things will certainly not be done.
According to this spectator, the slender man will have a lot of influence, and he can even bargain with the local government, but how can he not even take out a few decent masters when he is bullied, so he can only let these slender men come out on their own?
He could see that those slender men really didn't know martial arts.
Although they are outnumbered, their actual combat effectiveness is not high. There is not even a need for Pan Long, as long as a few ordinary martial artists can kill them with their heads rolling and blood flowing.
The spectator sighed: "The slender men usually have a hard time, how can there be masters? As for this slender man's guild...... They do have backers - alas, when it comes to that, their backers are coming!"
Looking in the direction of his finger, Pan Long saw a fat man with seven or eight young men in strong suits, hurrying over.
Now that the weather is quite hot, this fat man trotted all the way, his round face was covered with sweat, and he looked quite embarrassed.
Before the others arrived, they shouted from afar: "Don't do it, everyone!"
In fact, there is no need for him to shout, and the two sides have no intention of doing anything. It was just taking advantage of this opportunity to ease the original tense situation.
"Well, this is the backer of the Slender Men Guild. The spectator said, "The steward of the Giant Whale Gang here, 'Flying Fish' is in charge." ”
Pan Long was slightly stunned and asked, "Is his surname Ren related to the Qionglai Sect Elder Ren?"
"How is that possible!" the spectator smiled, "The surname Ren is the surname of Yizhou, and in our area alone, there are at least hundreds of families with the surname Ren - my wife's sister-in-law, the family is surnamed Ren." The Ren family is a famous family in the world, how can we have anything to do with them. ”
Pan Long realized this, and immediately solved his previous doubts.
Let's just say, my grandfather's family is nothing more than a family of scholars who live in the mountains, and the family is just practicing internal skills, where can it be a famous family in the world!
As he was talking, the fat man Ren Fengtao had already rushed to the middle of the two sides of the confrontation. He first bowed his hand to the slender man side again and again, and comforted the emotional slender man a little, and then he raised his eyebrows at the Wyvern gang and said loudly: "Let the people in charge of your gang come out! Why did the Wyvern Gang put their hands into the river? This matter has to be explained to our giant whale gang!"
His voice was extremely loud, and when he roared, it really shook the field. Pan Long was more than 20 zhang away, and he felt that the sound was a little too loud, and the few Flying Dragon Gang members in front of him could eat, and they were suddenly dizzy, and some people couldn't even stand, and sat on the ground.
The slender men laughed, and many of the spectators laughed.
The most important thing to come out to mix is to stand up, even if someone cuts it, you have to stand still, but the Wyvern Gang is good, and others yelled at them, and they sat down.
"Just kidding, just kidding!"
"The Wyvern Gang is also a bit of a shame!"
For a while, everyone was talking, the morale of the slender man was greatly boosted, and the morale of the Flying Dragon Gang was low, and many people showed hesitation and fear.
Pan Long smiled secretly in his heart - that Ren Fengtao is obviously a master of internal strength, and he may also be talented. He roared loudly, but it was a combination of internal force and innate loud voice, comparable to the sound attack martial arts such as the lion's roar, if he was caught off guard, even Pan Long himself would suffer a loss, not to mention those ordinary gangs of the Flying Dragon Gang?
But since the Wyvern Gang dared to cause trouble, they naturally wouldn't be completely unprepared. Ren Fengtao only roared for the second time, and then he heard someone say: "Fatty fish, you have a loud voice, you can go to the grave for people, no matter how loud you shout here, we won't give you a copper coin." ”
The voice of the person who spoke was not loud, and it could be called a soft and slow voice, but at the beginning of the words, it was still nearly a hundred zhang away, and when he was talking, he came suddenly, and when the words all fell, there was already a half-old between the people of the Feilong Gang, who was smiling kindly, and Ren Fengtao was only ten steps apart.
"What a light skill!" Pan Long couldn't help but praise.
A few words of effort crossed nearly a hundred zhang, and he couldn't do it anyway. Even if you run wildly with all your strength and barely catch up, it will make a huge noise and chaos. This woman can do it with an understatement, and the light work is indeed far above him.
Although the two sides haven't fought yet, they can't see other aspects, but just this light skill is enough for him to take a look at the Flying Dragon Gang.
"Of course!" the spectator nodded and said, "This 'Flying Phoenix' Qian Sanniang is the sister of 'Flying Dragon' Qian Dazhong, Qian Dazhong is known for his light skills, and is known as the first in the seven counties of Jiangyou. How could Qian Sanniang's light skills be bad?"
When he saw that Pan Long also agreed with his statement, he suddenly became energetic, and said, "However, Qian Sanniang is going to hit the iron plate this time!"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Do you know what 'Flying Fish' Ren Fengtao is best at?"
Pan Long thought for a while, suddenly understood, and asked with a smile: "Could it be that it is also light work?"
"Haha! Exactly!" said the visitor proudly, "looking at his fat appearance, ordinary people would never think that he is a master of light skills." But I was fortunate enough to see him perform light skills, and he was really galloping like a tiger leaping like a fly. Although we don't have the momentum of a master like Qian Sanniang, after all, we still have to rely on our fists to speak, and our momentum can't be eaten, right?"
"That's right. ”
"So I bet, wait for the two sides to make a move, Qian Sanniang will suffer a big loss!"
Pan Long smiled and nodded, but he didn't believe it in his heart.
No matter how good that fat man is, what can he do? Looking at the way he walks and sweats, his endurance must be extremely poor. If it really starts, he estimates that he will only be able to do it with three axes.
Rely on the three-board axe to defeat the enemy? This is not a singing opera!
So, he was secretly prepared.
Once the two sides fight, it is just that the Giant Whale Gang has the advantage, if they fall behind, the slender men will definitely go up to help, but with that group of slender men who don't know martial arts, even if they risk their lives, they won't help much, but they are afraid that they will be killed all over the field.
If that happens, Pan Long will help.
At the beginning, he had heard Kong Zhang say that the Giant Whale Gang was the main sect of the Tongtian River to make a living, but their main business was not protection money or anything else, but fish farming - they were able to breed several kinds of fish that grew in the rapids and supplied high-end hotels in major cities in Yizhou, especially Jinguancheng.
Such a gang, coupled with that group of slender men, is obviously more worthy of help than a group of bandit-turned-reclamation people!
Sure enough, as he expected, Ren Fengtao and Qian Sanniang did not speculate, and after only a few words, the conversation collapsed, and the two sides started to move.
But with this move, Pan Long realized that his prediction was still a little wrong.
Where is Ren Fengtao's "only three-plate axe, not endurance", he doesn't even have a three-plate axe at all, he can only work lightly!
The two leaders of the two sides fought very wildly, hitting the river from the land, and even running wildly on the surging river, the scene was very beautiful, but in fact, it was ......
Ren Fengtao was simply being chased and beaten by Qian Sanniang!
In Pan Long's opinion, Qian Sanniang's martial arts are actually very average, no matter how light skills are deducted, other skills are much worse than himself. Even if he didn't use stealth assassination or the like, he was confident that he would exchange his injuries for his life and kill the other party by hard fighting.
And Ren Fengtao...... So far, he hasn't seen this person use any decent kung fu.
Looking at the somewhat embarrassing scene, he couldn't help but mutter: "Could it be that this 'flying fish' can only do light work and lion roar?"