As soon as the name came out, except for Qi Zehui and Tie Niu, everyone was in awe.

The young woman laughed, laughing with tears in her eyes, and she nodded, and said softly:

"The young man is a big hero, the slave family believes your words......"

Xiao Yan smiled and nodded, but when he turned around, he couldn't help but burst into tears.

The canopy boat left the shallow beach below the cliff and slowly made its way towards the center of the wide river.

......

When he walked a few feet away, Qi Zehui, who was standing stupidly in place, suddenly thought of something, poked his head out of the cabin, and looked behind.

I saw that in the reeds, the figure of the water bandit Hu Ye was gone.

In the weedy mud, there was a long, shocking streak of blood, leading into the deep river.

It seems that the water bandit Hu Ye used his last strength and desperately climbed into the river to end his pain.

Although he deserves it, he is also a big living person anyway, and this kind of torture is inevitably a little cruel to anyone.

And Xiao Yan's eyes at that time did not have the slightest pity and sympathy, if Qi Zehui did not come forward to stop it, he was afraid that he would torture that person even more unscrupulously.

This is completely different from the kind and dumbfounded boy in the past, it is like two people, which makes Qi Zehui feel a little uncomfortable.

Thinking of this, Qi Zehui couldn't help but turn his head and look at his companion Xiao Yan. At this time, Xiao Yan had already untied the strip of cloth that was wrapped around the vajra seat, and stood silently on the deck of the bow of the ship.

The evening breeze blew his long hair, but it could not blow away the gloom on his face. His deep gaze looked straight into the mist in the distance, as if to pierce it.

The black-blackened cloth on the canopy cabin had been completely torn off, and the vajra seat stood straight on the deck, one end touching the ground, and the other end, held tightly by a rough palm.

Now the people on the ship are no longer hiding and hiding in order to avoid the water bandits, and some even hope to meet the water bandits who don't know what to do, so that the god-like young man at the bow of the ship can show his skills.

However, it backfired, and in the next few days, the river was as calm as if it had entered the reckless era of a thousand years ago, not to mention the water bandits, even a bamboo raft for fishing, and it never appeared.

Although Xiao Yan slept during the day every day and waited all night during this time, the fire behind him was also burning extremely arrogantly, almost illuminating half of the sky. However, even so, there was no more water bandit ship with the sound of flower drums.

Heaven and earth are as calm and comfortable as if there were only a few of them.

Interestingly, when the "ambitious" young man woke up and saw the legendary Xiao Yan Shaoxia, he invited the latter with great interest to go to Nanning County with him to join Liu Fu'an Liu. Of course, Xiao Yan only glanced at this lightly, and then refused with a face full of disdain.

On the sixth day, the boat docked at the boundary of Shenzhou. On the bank of the river, a woman full of grief said goodbye to everyone with the sack of bloody money.

Before leaving, she looked at the long river, and then at Xiao Yan, whose face was full of complexity, but she just shook her head and left without looking back.

Xiao Yan didn't want to know what this meant, perhaps, he always knew, but the two of them never broke it.

The old peasant and the young man also disembarked after him, although the former did not say anything, but everyone knew that he was not willing to continue to take this thief ship that might kill him no matter what, while the latter was disgusted that the environment of this black canopy boat was too bad, and he was very hostile to Qi Zehui, who had knocked him unconscious, and when he heard that Shenzhou would soon be a big ship, he resolutely decided to leave.

came and went, and on the canopy boat, only Xiao Yan, Tie Niu, and Qi Zehui were left.

"A few heroes, the little old man is very guilty, and he doesn't dare to continue to send a few more to the distance......" Seeing this situation, Lao Li Tou immediately had an apologetic smile on his face, and said along the river: "Or a few heroes, just go with them to take someone else's boat, and the little old man will go back now......"

"Go back, what are you going to do?" Qi Zehui raised his eyebrows, hugged his arms, and said rather coldly: "Go back and continue to cheat and deceive, and bring innocent foreigners to the water bandits to fight for tooth sacrifice?"

"What the good man said, where is the ......" Lao Li Tou heard this, and hurriedly waved his hand in a panic, explaining: "Little Lao'er will never dare to go into the water anymore, so I will go back to my hometown in Shouzhou, buy a few thin fields, and honestly cultivate the fields and farm the land to ......."

"Hmph, I hope it......" Qi Zehui shrugged his shoulders, just go, he didn't have any opinion. Seeing this, Lao Li immediately kowtowed a few more times, and was about to get on the boat with a thousand thanks, but he didn't think that a strong big hand suddenly stretched out and tightly held his arm.

"Xiao ...... Xiao Shaoxia?" Lao Li Tou was startled, and immediately turned around in panic, looked at Xiao Yan in front of him and said tremblingly: "You...... You're ......"

"Their matter is over, but the matter between us will have to be delayed for a few more days......" Xiao Yan stared at Lao Li's eyes and said lightly.

"What...... What's ...... "A bean-sized cold sweat poured out of Lao Litou's head. After all, he had seen Xiao Yan's cruel methods, and the screams of the water bandit Hu Ye were still vaguely echoing in his ears.

But he saw that Xiao Yan let go of his hand, and he didn't mean to hurt Lao Litou, he looked at the canopy boat, and then looked at the river channel when it looked, and after a long time, he said lightly: "Of course, it's an account with the water bandits, you have to calculate it well......"

"Water...... Water bandits?" Lao Li Tou was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked strangely: "That...... Xiao Shaoxia, the Flower Drum Festival has ended, and it will not be until the beginning of spring next year, so I'm afraid I won't be able to see the faces of the bandits......"

"I know......" Xiao Yan clenched his fists and raised his head, but his eyes looked at the distant horizon:

"So I'm going to let you ...... Take me to the bandits' lair!"

"What?" Lao Li was stunned, Qi Zehui and Tie Niu were also stunned, they never thought that the anger in Xiao Yan's chest had not subsided until now.

This time, without waiting for Lao Li Tou to reply, Qi Zehui had already frowned, and said quite unhappily: "Banzha, are you crazy? Don't forget what we are going to do on this trip, but we are not here to accompany you to be a hero of bandits!"

"Yes, Xiao Shaoxia," the honest and honest Tie Niu also persuaded, "Besides, the Huaihe River is full of bandits, and everyone in the Central Plains knows that the government has sent troops to encircle and suppress it many times in vain.

"Yes, yes, Xiao Shaoxia, you must not do anything stupid......" Lao Li Tou also recovered from his surprise, and immediately hurriedly persuaded, "Old man, I have a handful of old bones, I really can't afford to toss......"

Xiao Yan was undeniable, he looked at Qi Zehui and Tie Niu, his resolute face was full of stubbornness.

"What's the matter?" he said, "are you afraid?"

"Enough! You really should wake up!" Qi Zehui grabbed Xiao Yan's collar with some annoyance, and roared angrily: "Who do you think you are? Savior? No. 1 in the world? Don't look too highly at your decades of internal strength!"

Xiao Yan watched his friend's every move indifferently, but he was still silent.

This move angered Qi Zehui even more, and he couldn't help but push the former, pointing at Xiao Yan's nose and scolding:

"How many damn traitors and thieves are there in the whole world? Can you kill them cleanly by yourself? Ahhh

In the face of his friend's indiscriminate bombardment, Xiao Yan still looked indifferent. After the former finished speaking, he raised his head, glanced at Qi Zehui lightly, and then said something that almost made the latter vomit blood:

"It's because there are too many people like you who don't care about yourself and hang high, so a person like the red-faced old devil can do evil in the rivers and lakes for so long!"

"You ......" Qi Zehui was so angry that his face was flushed, he immediately rolled up his sleeves, and was about to step forward to "theorize" with his friends, but Xiao Yan ignored him anymore, jumped on the canopy boat, and said without looking back:

"If you don't go, I'll go myself...... Uncle Li, lead the way!"

"I ...... This ......" Lao Li Tou rubbed his hands anxiously, his face was full of struggle and entanglement, he looked at Qi Zehui and Tie Niu as if asking for help, and was about to say something, when he heard Xiao Yan's cold and threatening voice from the boat:

"Don't make me say it a second time......"

"Yes...... I'm coming ...... now" Old Li Tou's eyes showed fear, and in desperation, he had to reluctantly grab the oars and prop the canopy boat away from the riverbank.

Through the bursts of golden light reflected on the surface of the river, Qi Zehui could clearly see Xiao Yan standing on the deck, who stood with his hands on the Vajra throne on his back, never looking back at himself, just standing quietly, like a stone pillar, looking into the distance.

Looking at the figure of the boat gradually moving away, Tie Niu couldn't help but turn his head, looked at Qi Zehui, who was still angry, and asked tentatively:

"Helmsman, are we really not on the boat, and now call them over, and you can still hear ......."

"What's it called? Don't scream! Let them go......" Qi Zehui glared at the canopy boat angrily, and said angrily: "Just let that wood go with his little broken boat to die!

With that, he turned around and walked forward without looking back......