The boat is leisurely, swimming against the current, all the way down the canal. In the past few days, Wu Shijiu has been recuperating on a small boat, although Jia Yin Zheyi is short in stature, his face is actually very old, but he still has the habits of a naughty child, either jumping on the shore to pick wild fruits, or burrowing into the bottom of the water to touch the fish.

After a few days, the boat sailed into the territory of Yingtianfu, the shops on both sides of the river gradually increased, and the large cargo ships in the canal came and went. ”

That night, the boat was docked on the shore, Wu Shijiu and Jia Yinzheyi were lying in the cabin, and were asleep, when they suddenly heard a few night owl cries on the shore, one after another, and then there were night pedestrians speeding by. Wu Shijiu's strength recovered most of his strength at this time, and when he woke up first, he heard someone whisper: "There is a white pork with a fire, it is a leg, and it will be green tonight, it will be green?"

This is a charlatan, which means that there is a well-dressed literati who looks like he has a little money, and he wants to take this route tonight, to kill or not to kill?

Wu Shijiu is not as experienced as the fat man, and he is only confused, but he thinks that he is not a good person to do something unsightly here in the middle of the night.

Listen to another person: "But the sea wings?" (but is it an official?)

"Let's eat the scoop money, no matter what we do, it's all green. (Let's be water thieves, whatever we do, just kill them.) ）

"Okay, meet the plate, side by side. (Okay, we'll meet in a while, let's go together.) ）

Wu Shijiu looked back at Jia Yin Zheyi, and saw that he was breathing evenly and sleeping soundly, so he quietly got up and went to the shore with light skills. I vaguely saw a few people in black muttering together, thinking that it was these people, follow them to see what they were going to do.

It was not a long time, and there was a sound of horses' hooves and wheels in the distance, and a carriage came galloping, as if there was something urgent, and the coachman kept waving his whip, and the horse's hooves were in the air, and it was not slow.

Gradually, the carriage came to the hiding place of some night walkers, and at the sound of a whistle, five masked men in black suddenly burst out, and the horse was frightened, and its front hooves were raised high, and the coachman was almost thrown off the carriage.

"Who is it? Late in the middle of the night to stop the galloping horse, don't you want to die?"

One of the robbers said: "In the middle of the night, we walked our plates, handed over the money and belongings, spared your lives, broke your teeth, cut off your flesh one by one, and threw it into the river to feed the fish." ”

The coachman said angrily: "In the peaceful and prosperous world, where did the strongman cut the path? The chariot and horse sent by Nanjing Yan also dared to intercept it!"

Several robbers laughed at the same time, and one said: "Even if Yan stayed behind and came by himself, my Water Dragon Gang didn't pay attention to it, not to mention that you are a little coachman, brothers, greet you side by side." After saying a whistle, several people raised their knives and were about to go up and slash and kill.

Wu Shijiu deducted a few stones in his hand, and was about to make a move, when he suddenly heard someone in the carriage say loudly: "Why are the three sects and nine streams of the Water Dragon Gang recruited into the gang, and the ugly five marquis has not grown up more and more over the years." ”

Listening to the voice, the person who spoke in the carriage was very young, but he dared to call the leader of the Water Dragon Gang, and several masked black-clothed people were stunned. Wu Shijiu thought to himself, this person has a lot of temperament, as if he knows the roots of the Water Dragon Gang, I don't know what kind of character he is?

The robber at the head hurriedly stopped the others, arched his hand and said, "I don't know which friend is on the road, please speak face to face." ”

The curtain of the carriage was lifted, and a young and handsome scholar walked out, under the horse lamp, I saw that the scholar was wearing a scarf, wearing a white robe, a jade belt around his waist, and a folding fan in his hand, looking gentle and elegant, and arched his hand at a few black-clothed people and said: "Ying Tianfulou Xiaolou, go to pick up a distinguished guest of the academy, and hurry up late at night to disturb you, forgive me." ”

"You are Ying Tianfu's No. 1 God Capture Building?"

"Don't dare!"

"Hehe, it's okay if you don't report your name, since you know that you are Lou Xiaolou, this account has to be calculated. ”

"Oh, what are you going to do with me?"

"In the past few months, the brothers in the gang have folded a lot in your hands, what kind of account do you say?"

Lou Xiaolou laughed: "In the past few years, the Water Dragon Gang has robbed homes and houses, killed people and sold goods, and has done a lot of unconscionable things. Lou only catches the guilty, where the duty lies, and he doesn't dare to put a damn ghost wrong. ”

The robber at the head said angrily: "You are alone today, and you dare to be stubborn, and teach you the methods of my Ripper hairy ghost." As he spoke, he pulled a knife flower with a single knife in his right hand, and slashed across the green dragon with his tail in one move. Lou Xiaolou's body was slightly sideways, just to avoid it, and the hairy ghost shook his left hand, and an extra short-handled boning knife was picked up from the bottom to the top. This trick came very suddenly, Lou Xiaolou raised the folding fan to block, only to hear the sound of "Zheng", splashing a few sparks, it turned out that the folding fan was made of pure steel. Even so, a cut was made on the sleeve of his robe by the tip of the knife, which showed how fast the other party was stabbing out.

This hairy ghost is a incense master of the Water Dragon Gang, just because the left-handed boning knife is highly concealed, the knife is fast, and he is proficient in the way of hand-to-hand combat.

The hairy ghost drove straight into the right hand with a single knife, opened and closed, and the boning knife rotated and changed in the left hand.

But after a few moves, Lou Xiaolou knew the opponent's tricks and playing style, and a stainless steel folding fan flew up and down. Suddenly, his figure rushed forward, and the sky seemed to flicker. The hairy ghost held a single knife in the air, stopped suddenly, his two eyes bulged out, almost bulging out of his sockets, his mouth made a "harsh" sound, he threw two knives and pinched his neck and knelt on the ground, coughing violently.

The other robbers were all surprised, and they didn't see how the hairy ghost was knocked to the ground.

Wu Shijiu could see clearly on the side, Lou Xiaolou suddenly moved as fast as lightning for some reason, and hit the Lianquan point in the opponent's jaw with a folding fan at a very fast speed.

The Lianquan acupoint is the intersection of the Ren pulse and the Yin Wei vein, and the root of the tongue in the middle shrinks sharply, and even aphasia, which is often said to be "dumb acupoint". It's just that his acupoint technique is weird, and the hairy ghost seems to have been sucked away by someone, and his skills are soft and paralyzed.

"What? Do you want to try again?"

Lou Xiaolou put his hands behind his back, his eyes were like electricity, and swept over the faces of the other four people one by one: "I am on the orders of the prefect Yan today, I have something important to do, and I will teach you a lesson, otherwise it will be the ugly five marquis, and I will be just as welcome." Get out of the way!"

As he spoke, he turned around and got into the carriage, and the four robbers dared to stop him, and let the carriage gallop away. Waiting for the sound of hooves to go away, I went to see the hairy ghost kneeling on the ground, only to see that his Adam's apple was shattered, one mouth was deflated, and he died.

"Quick, go and report to the helper, Mao Xiang is broken. Several people carried the dead body and hurried away.

Wu Shijiu saw that he didn't have to do it himself, and when those people were far away, he wanted to go back to the boat and continue sleeping. Suddenly, someone behind him sighed softly: "I haven't been here for many years, and there are so many masters." ”

Wu Shijiu was startled, and when he turned around, he saw Jia Yinzhe sitting on a stepping stone on the side of the road with his face in his hand, looking at the moon in the sky and muttering to himself.

"When did the seniors come? I didn't notice it at all......

Jia Yin Zheyi didn't answer, but was stunned: "That young man just now actually knew how to shine the spirit, and he looked like five or six percent." ”

Wu Shijiu remembered that before coming to this world, Yue Yu Qia Man had said that when martial arts reached the pinnacle, after all, manpower was limited, but with the help of the art of the spirit, the spiritual breath of all things in heaven and earth could be appropriated for his own use. Spiritual arts were originally divided into metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the five elements were born together, but they were mutually reinforcing. Later, after Jia Yinzhe came to Middle-earth to compete in martial arts, Liu Zizai expanded the spiritual art to nine types: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, cloud, thunder, and electricity. Wu Shijiu's own practice is the fire spirit trick, Shuangxi Xi practiced the water spirit trick, Mang Yi monk is the gold spirit trick, Mo Qizi is the thunder spirit trick and so on, but this is the first time he has heard of the shining spirit trick.

"Senior, what is the Shining Spirit?"

"Uh...... How can I tell you about it......"

Jia Yin Zheyi said and got up slowly, Wu Shijiu only felt that there seemed to be a flash of lightning in front of him, Jia Yin Zheyi's two fingers were already against his Lianquan acupoint, and his technique and body shape were exactly the same as Lou Xiaolou's, but the speed was faster. With Wu Shijiu's skills, he didn't have time to react in the slightest.

"That's amazing......! How is this done?"

Jia Yinzhe stretched his waist and said, "Go back to sleep, I was woken up by you in the middle of the night, and I was still very sleepy." After saying that, his figure flashed, and he jumped into the boat and went to sleep.

Wu Shijiu followed back to the boat, and was completely sleepy for a while, sitting alone at the stern of the boat thinking about Lou Xiaolou's shining trick and thinking about the moves to deal with. About half an hour later, the sound of hooves was heard, and from far and near, some people came by night.

He was young and active, and he was curious, so he went ashore again and hid in a big tree. Not long after, under the moonlight, I saw a middle-aged scholar riding a mule, and a little scholar in front of him walked slowly with the reins, and the scholar was so sleepy that he yawned and complained.

"Sir...... Didn't the letter from the Governor of Yan make it clear that a special carriage and horse had been arranged to pick us up? But why did we have to travel at night? Didn't we miss the kindness of the Governor Yan? I heard that there are water thieves rampant in this area, in case ......

The middle-aged scholar raised his voice and said, "Duh, you crow's mouth." What's in case, I'm just a teacher, and I'm not a high-ranking official or a rich man, so what are the thieves looking for us?"

"I mean, just in case...... Even if we arrive at the academy before dawn, don't we have to take a break, so why don't we go to class again?"

"You're lazy! The ancients studied hard in the cold window, and would rather cut the wall to steal the light than be a little lazy. If we arrive one day earlier, we will be able to teach one day earlier, so as not to worry about the same book. ”

The two of them talked and walked, and gradually came to Wu Shijiu's hiding place.

At this time, an arrow shot in the air, and fireworks exploded with a thud, thinking that someone around was using this as a signal to mobilize people. The scholar didn't understand the rules of the rivers and lakes, raised his head and muttered: "The fifteenth day of the first lunar month has passed, why are there still people setting off fireworks in the middle of the night?"

Looking at it again, a group of people with torches in the distance swarmed over, and a rough voice said: "Dare to ask if you should catch the head of Tianfulou in front?"