In front of the mourning hall, the people of the three gangs of the five lakes in Dongting all knelt down and bowed, and after the ceremony, the leader stepped forward to offer incense. Seeing that the top layer of the coffin covered with a golden dragon was a golden cloth, he presented it to the Taoist next to the coffin and said, "Please also cover it for us, and talk about our respect and sorrow for the real person." ”

The Taoist priest answered, and after sending someone to set it up, the group of people was led by the Taoist boy to rest in the living room of the side hall.

When Chen Renhai in the mourning hall saw this person, he whispered to Pu Mu and the others: "Why did they come?"

Duan Gan also echoed: "Yes, there are also people from the underworld. I heard that their money bank on the waterway has a lot of black money in the account. ”

"Today we are ordered to guard the spirit, not to conflict with them, they are guests today, and it seems that they have never had a grudge against Wudang, otherwise the Taoist leaders will not allow their ......" Pu Mu said.

The other three all nodded, and at this time, someone came to pay respects, and the four immediately knelt down and saluted.

"They're here too?" In the courtyard, Governor Liu was surprised.

"What does Governor Liu mean by that?" Bai Yang asked.

Governor Liu said: "Lord Bai doesn't know, they are the Five Lakes and Three Gangs, and they are a major force on the waterway of Dongting Lake, and they are doing business on the underworld. ”

Governor Zhang said: "It's really unreasonable, my lords, let the lower officials go down the mountain and send someone to arrest them." Don't let them disturb this funeral—"

Governor Liu echoed: "Yes, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, what do you think?" and the other magistrates also nodded frequently. They were all waiting for a nod from the four in front of them, even if it was an affirmative look.

"Don't-" Long Xiang Tiandao, "Today, we are waiting for the real people to hang filial piety, how can the descendants of filial piety go out to catch up with guests, and they all have incense, worship the real people, and think that they are also sincerely coming to pay respects, how can they say that they disturbed the funeral?

When all the officials heard this, they all panicked, and they all knelt down and bowed: "This is not my intention, my lords forgive me-"

Guo Yu immediately helped up the officials, and Bai Yang asked Governor Liu: "May I ask Lord Liu, where did these Five Lakes and Three Gangs come from?"

Governor Liu replied: "Back to Lord Guo's words, these five lakes do not refer to the five lakes, but the lower officials are in charge of Dongting Lake, and they are divided into five lake areas, which is what the five lakes mean, and later the people also called them so." These three gangs refer to the three gangs on the waterway in Dongting: the Yellow Lion Society, the Black Wolf Gang, and the Iron Leopard Village. ”

"What do these three gangs do for a living?" Wang Yu asked.

Governor Liu replied: "What I do is shipping, that is, to help some chambers of commerce transport goods, and also to attract guests by flowering boats on the waterway." It's just that the money banks on their waterways are not clean. ”

"In that case, why didn't you send someone to interrogate you earlier?" Long Xiangtian asked.

Governor Liu said: "The three gangs have the support of many local noble clans, and we have no ironclad evidence to arrest them, and after arresting people many times, the Hope clan came to defend them again, so the lower officials had to let them go." ”

"You are the officials of the imperial court, if they really commit adultery and criminal crimes, and the wealthy businessmen come to the door to defend themselves, you will be afraid to release them? However, if there is no evidence, do not arrest people indiscriminately and use sexual coercion indiscriminately. Well, since I am a guest, I will go and meet them-" Long Xiangtian said, and got up and left the hospital.

The officials wanted to get up and go with him, and Long Xiangtian said: "Your Excellency, sit down and drink tea, I am a person of filial piety, just go and see them-"

Guo Yu, Wang Yu, and Bai Yang looked at Long Xiangtian, and immediately said to the officials: "Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to go, just let Brother Long go." I'll wait here for tea, and I'll pass the meal in a while, so I'll wait here for Brother Long to come. ”

The officials also sat down like this--Long Xiangtian felt that the officials' words were a little strange, since they had released people many times, how could they arrest people now? I don't think they want those people to meet with the eight of them, or some other purpose, in short, only by going and leaving them behind can we ask for more clues.

The other three heard about the livelihood on the waterway and the money was not clean, so they thought of the corruption case of the Ministry of Rites—there was also a secretary in the Dongting Mansion who should be imprisoned for his crimes, and he was also one of the officials who died violently. In this way, these three gangs are even more suspicious, and the attitudes and explanations of the officials just now contradict themselves. Thinking of this, Long Xiangtian wanted to investigate, and the three of them naturally wanted to help Long Xiangtian keep these officials.

It was only said that Long Xiangtian came out of the living room and asked Daotong where the people from the Five Lakes and Three Gangs went to rest, and Daotong led the way, and then entered the side hall and found the table of people.

When the group of people saw the filial piety clothes that Long Xiangtian was wearing, and the official boots that Long Xiangtian was wearing, the person who had just worshiped for the head got up and said, "It was the lord of the imperial court, I don't know what the lord came to order?"

Long Xiangtian walked to the table and said, "Today I am not an adult of the imperial court, just a junior of filial piety. You are all guests who have come from afar to pay your respects, how dare I tell you?"

The leader said: "Hahaha...... Thinking about it, Xiao Taiyi is really a martial arts master, and now the saints have sent high-ranking officials to guard his spirit. Why did the official come?"

"Yes, I don't need to add tea, fruits, and pastries to the tea I'm waiting for now—" Someone next to him laughed.

Long Xiangtian said with a smile: "Brothers, I want to stay on your flower boat for a few days after keeping filial piety, I don't know if you can tell me, how to find your flower boat?"

"Hahaha......" led the way, "If you want to come to the gentle township, this Dongting generation is our flower boat." ”

"Can the shopkeeper have time to accompany him?" Long Xiang said.

The leader said, "Now that the emperor's cronies are coming, how dare the old man not accompany him, I don't know when the lord wants me to come to greet him?"

"Three days later, at noon, at the foot of Wudang Mountain, I called a few of my brothers to have some fun on your flower boat and then return to the palace to resume their lives-" Long Xiangtian said with a smile. "I don't know what you call them?"

The leader smiled: "Haha, I'm here to introduce you, this is Fan Yun, the head of the Yellow Lion Club, this is Hu Hao, the leader of the Black Wolf Gang, and this is Xiahou Xue, the owner of the Iron Leopard Village." I am the shopkeeper of the Dongting Prefecture Water Transport Chamber of Commerce, and I am called the shopkeeper. ”

Long Xiangtian visited everyone one by one, and smiled at Xiahou Xue: "I didn't expect that the head of the Iron Leopard Village is still such a handsome woman——"

Xiahou Xue said with a smile: "The adults said that they were laughing, when the adults came to my flower boat, I accompanied the adults to drink." ”

"Okay, when the time comes, everyone should appreciate their faces-" With that, Long Xiangtian said goodbye to everyone and returned to the courtyard of the living room where he was.

After dinner, there were still people who came to mourn, and many people went down to Wudang Mountain. Just after nightfall, the officials said goodbye to Long Xiangtian and the others, and also went down the mountain.

There are many fewer people in the living room, and many of the many sects that come to worship have to stay overnight today and leave tomorrow, so many people in the living room have moved to their own rooms or those of their friends to chat.

The four people who guarded the spirit were chatting with the Taoist priest who was guarding the spirit - these four people also thought about the corruption case of the Ministry of Rites, so they asked the people from the Five Lakes and Three Gangs who came to pay tribute, and the Taoist priests had only heard that there was this sect in the rivers and lakes, and what they knew was not much different from Pu Mu and others, so they didn't find too many clues.

At this time, Long Xiangtian and the other four people came to replace the four people, the four of them greeted each other, and Bai Yang easily stuffed a letter into Li Defei's hand. Li Defei and the others had been on guard for six hours, and at this time they were physically and mentally exhausted, so they left the mourning hall and went straight to their respective rooms under the guidance of several Taoist children.

After opening the envelope, Li Defei knew that the four of them had privately found out some clues - they had already discussed a plan in the Longxiang Heavenly House, and in order to prevent the partition wall from having ears, Long Xiangtian and the others had just written a conversation with a pen, and after the conversation, they drew up a plan again. This was given to Li Defei and others, Li Defei understood, and immediately called the other three to the room together, and after reading the letter, he burned the letter.

After the three-day vigil, the eight people bid farewell to the Taoist priests and went down to Wudang Mountain. At the bottom of Wudang Mountain, there was indeed a team of people waiting, and the leader said, "It's a few adults from the imperial court, right?"

"Exactly—" Long Xiang Heavenly Dao.

"Come, wait for your lords to get into the carriage—" Then a couple of women came and led eight men into the carriage, which at first glance was very imposing, with a roof made of purple brocade, a wide frame, three pairs of wheels, four horses tied to the front, and two coachmen.

The carriage then left Wudang, all the way through the downtown area, to a riverside road, there were few pedestrians on the riverside, the carriage gradually accelerated, but the car was a different appearance: the car was as luxurious as its appearance, the car was full of heavy makeup women, the clothes worn by those women were leaking fragrant shoulders, some shoulders were draped with a wisp of tulle, and some were looming at the waist. The men and women in the car laughed and played, the river outside the car was fast, the carriage was not running slowly, and it seemed that the river was still at first glance.

"Why don't adults wear official uniforms?" said a woman, tugging at Duan Gan's treacherous chest clothes.

"Hahaha...... Since we are here to have fun, I am afraid that it is not good to wear official uniforms? We are all dressed in civilian clothes, and the girl wants to see our official uniforms?" Duan Gan took the woman into his arms and said with a smile. The finger tapped the woman's nose.

The woman next to Chen Renhai said, "Don't adults want to drink?"

"The carriage and horses are bumpy, this wine is not fast......" Chen Renhai was not used to this situation, so he had to laugh all the way.

"You're talking nonsense—" Long Xiangtian pointed at Chen Renhai, picked up a large glass of wine, and drank it all, and the women around him were all applauding and laughing. "It's okay to have a bad amount of alcohol, please drink it for you by the woman next to you—" He sat back down.

A few people next to him were also laughing and laughing, "Drink—don't lose face—" Pu Mu also echoed.

Chen Renhai knew that this was a play set up by a few colleagues for himself, so he avoided him from playing head-on with those women, so he naturally continued to act, so he picked up the wine jug and said, "This wine is too little, go and bring me a jar." ”

The woman naturally picked up the jar of wine at her feet and said, "Here, my lord-" Chen Renhai grabbed it and drank it directly to his mouth, laughter sounded around him again, and the cheers of those women became louder and louder, and after a while, the small jar of wine bottomed out.

"How?" Chen Renhai said to Long Xiang Tiandao.

Long Xiangtian hugged the two women left and right, and said, "Okay, good-hahaha......"

The laughter and laughter in the carriage echoed on the riverside road, and the occasional passer-by would look back at the carriage and imagine the scene in the carriage.

There was already a flower boat waiting here at the wharf by the river, and everyone got out of the carriage, and more girls from the flower boat waved their silk scarves and handkerchiefs to the eight people. The eight of them got into the flower boat, and the flower boat slowly sailed away from the shore and into the river.

The days in the southern winter are not too short, and although it has passed the Shen time, the sun is still higher than when it was in the capital. Today's weather is fine, the river surface is not foggy, and the open river surface can be seen ten miles away at this time. This is one of the tributaries of the river, and there are some cargo ships on the river, but there are not too many. And the flower boat is even rarer, this flower boat on both sides of the river is particularly attention-grabbing, the flower boat cruised the river all night, the boat sang and laughed, even Li Defei played music and sang with these girls.

Huafang arrived at a dock again, and the eight people who came to greet him at this time were a few people who met with Long Xiangtian that day, and the eight people came forward to pay a visit, Long Xiangtian said: "Everything has been arranged in the shopkeeper?"

"Your lords come here, how dare we slack off? Everything has been arranged-Master Xiahou, accompany a few adults to the flower boat-" At this time, what came into front of everyone's eyes was a boat that was nearly twice as large as yesterday's flower boat, and this boat was naturally also a flower boat, Xiahou Xue said: "Everyone, please-"

Everyone got on the boat with Xiahou Xue, Long Xiangtian's hand was on Xiahou Xue's shoulder, and said, "Master Xiahou, don't you have two drinks with me?"

Xiahou Xue said: "I'm afraid that adults will be drunk by me-"

"Is it dangerous to be drunk by you?" Long Xiangtian said with a smile.

"Well, adults will know when they are drunk. "Xiahou Snow Road.

The flower boat started again, and the shopkeeper Yu on the dock, Hu Hao and Fan Yun whispered for a while, and the two retreated.

I don't know which state and county I have reached, there is still laughter and laughter on the flower boat, the woman playing the guzheng on the boat was grabbed by Li Defei at this time, Li Defei smiled and said: "Girl, this piano should be played like this to ......" said that he taught the woman to play the piano, Pu Mu stepped forward and smiled: "Look, he teaches the piano like this-" After that, he patted Li Defei on the shoulder three times, and knocked twice heavily-Li Defei stood up, pushed Pu Mu away, and said: "You are bad for me again-" After that, he scuffled with Pu Mu, and the two scuffled directly to the ground.

The women on the boat were all laughing and leaning back, and Poplar was lying on the bed at this time, and a woman was feeding him dried fruit snacks, turned over, and watched the two scuffle on the floor.

"Okay—don't be rude—" Wang Yu helped the two of them up, and the two of them stopped their hands, and one walked out of the front and back of the cabin with his back to him, each looking outside.

Guo Yu entered the cabin from outside the cabin at this time, and said, "Which girl can sing a little song? ”

"That's it, that's it—everybody's got it. Then he took out a few ingots of silver, and gave them to the women one by one, "Sing in turn, my lord, and I'll hear who sings well—" and one of the women began to sing.

After Xiahou Xue and Long Xiangtian drank a few glasses of wine, Long Xiangtian said: "So you have a cup, and I have no fun." ”

Xiahou Xue said: "What kind of fun do adults want?"

"It's not like this, I'll play a trick, can the owner of Xiahou Zhuang be able to draw a fist?" asked Long Xiangtian.

"Yes—what do you command?" said Xiahou Xue.

"The two of us can punch each other, and if you win, you can ask each other, and if you lose, you need to answer truthfully. We need to keep the covenant of a gentleman and not deceive each other, how?"

Xiahou Xue smiled: "How can I be a gentleman?"

"If you don't play, please—" Long Xiangtian got up to leave.

"Don't be angry, adults, I'll play with adults—" Xiahou Xue directly pulled Long Xiangtian down to the seat.

The boat had reached the widest part of the river, and saw a single flower boat slowly sliding in the middle of the river. In the mountains on both sides, many trees have withered, and at this time, many trees have lost their leaves, and the mountains are not as beautiful as they were in spring, summer and autumn.

"Why did the owner of Xiahou Zhuang introduce a female stream, but he opened a gang called Iron Leopard Village?" Long Xiangtian asked.

"The Iron Leopard Village was started by my father, and if I take over, do I need to change it to a jade cat?"

"Do you have any other livelihood besides making a living as a flower boat?" asked Long Xiangtian.

"Hahaha...... Adults ask this...... Are you interrogating the slave family?" Xiahou Xue said with a smile, "Answer quickly—" Long Xiangtian said as he poured wine from Xiahou Xue's wine glass.

"Your Excellency...... That's all my gang does. "But the truth?" "It's true—"

"Okay, in this way, your gang has seen the stolen silver confiscated by the imperial court?"

"Ah-of course I haven't seen it, I'm only doing this flower boat for a living, where do I get the eyes to see the stolen silver?"

Long Xiangtian took a glass of wine into his mouth and said, "Okay, so, let's draw three more plates." ——The three sets just now were all won by Long Xiangtian.

"Okay, you ask first-" Long Xiang Heavenly Dao.

"Then I can ask, what is your surname?"

"If you don't change your name, you don't change your surname. Ouchi Ryushoten-"

"Does Lord Long know that you're about to return to the West? Xiahou Xue didn't cover her mouth and laughed.

Long Xiangtian's smile froze, and he saw that his eyes were closed, and before he could spit out the words in his mouth, he lay on the table. The other seven fell as if so.

Xiahou Xue said: "Send a signal quickly-" With that, a woman jumped out of the cabin, a firework hit the sky, and after a while, different ships came from all directions, and those women couldn't pull the eight people, so they stayed where they were.

The men on the boat all jumped onto the flower boat, "Kill-" Hu Hao handed Xiahou Xue a small bottle, "Just now I can do it directly, why bother so much?"

"Only this method is the cleanest way to kill people, so I will only let you take drugs, otherwise it will leave a disaster?" Hu Hao said.

"Is this insect so powerful?" asked Xiahou Xue.

"Don't ask, do you know why the secretary died and couldn't see the clue, it was his credit. Hu Hao said, "I won't talk to you more, let's do it-" After that, Xiahou Xue picked up Long Xiangtian's head, raised his face, opened the bottle, and a centipede-like insect crawled out, about to enter his body through his nostrils.

At this time, Xiahou Xue suddenly felt that the situation was not good, she felt that there was an internal force surging in Long Xiangtian's neck, and before she could react, she was entangled by Long Xiangtian and turned to her to lock her throat, and the insect was stuffed into her mouth by Long Xiangtian, and she was directly lifted up and thrown into the river before she could resist.

Hu Hao looked back, and the rest of the people woke up and subdued the people who had just come to deliver the bugs. Just as he was about to turn back, Long Xiangtian unsheathed his sword, and a sword directly scraped Hu Hao's cheek, Hu Hao flipped back, and pulled out two short knives from his waist and exchanged hands with Long Xiangtian.

The weapons of the other seven men were all unsheathed, and the men were armed with swords, and the women drew daggers from their ankles, and fought with the other seven men.

-- It turned out that when Fang had just boarded the ship, the eight people became suspicious, and the shopkeeper did not get on the ship—such a big opportunity to meet the Beijing officials, but a merchant only let Xiahou Xue accompany him; and when everyone got on the boat, they also paid attention to the whispers between the shopkeeper and Hu Hao and Fan Yun after the boat left; and there is only one flower boat on the river today, and the Chamber of Commerce will not give up a day's business in order to entertain the officials.

In this way, the eight people took precautions, and everyone quietly took the dispelling confusion given by the Elixir Division when they were playing and frolicking, and Xiahou Xue's eyes did not pay much attention to the actions of several people when they were playing, and then they were pulled by Long Xiangtian, who had taken the medicine, to drink, and at that time, the remaining Li Defei and Pu Mu were handed the medicine by Wang Yu during the scuffle, and the two also took the medicine by the way. So that no one will be smitten by drugs.

There was a scuffle on the ship, and the minions were killed in a short time. Hu Hao's short knife move was cracked by Long Xiangtian, and Long Xiang's angel continued to kill Hu Hao with a strange body method, and after Hu Hao fought with him for more than ten rounds, he jumped directly into the river with a fish jump.

At this time, the flower boat was surrounded by a group of boats, and the eight people were surrounded again.