Chapter 51: Two Gangs of Vendetta

It is the cool weather of the north wind, the willows on both sides of the bank have turned yellow, the long strips are still draped, reflected in the turquoise river, Leng Yuhu and the two feel as if they are swimming in the middle of the painting. Leng Yuhu stood at the bow of the boat, holding a folding fan in his right hand, holding a volume of "Li Taibai Collection" in his left hand, chanting poems in the wind, and sometimes coming to the cabin to discuss with Zhao Yu, realizing that he had grown a lot in poetry, but he was not very attentive to swordsmanship. Zhao Yu sat in the cabin, watching the scenery on both sides of the strait, and composed several poems in his belly.

The cargo ship docked, Leng Yuhu and the two went ashore, went to the market town to eat, and wandered around. On the road, I didn't realize that I had already left Shandong and entered Jiangsu. After walking for a few more days, the weather is warm, the grass and trees are still green, the green mountains are faint, the blue waves are rippling, and the beautiful Jiangnan is not far away. Leng Yuhu thought to herself: "Cui Mei once said to me that she wants to visit Jiangnan, I wonder if she is in Wudang now?"

On this day, when I walked into Huai'an, I suddenly saw a boat pointing to the front and shouting, "Look, there is a person there." ”

The people looked forward, and sure enough, they saw a man on the surface of the river. When the boat approached, he turned over the man's head and face with a penny, and he was soaked beyond recognition, and the boat said sadly: "It's our people from the Canal Gang." ”

Leng Yuhu asked, "How do you know it's from the Canal Gang?"

The boat said, "We in the Canal Gang have this mark. As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeve and had a boat tattooed on his arm.

Leng Yuhu looked at the dead body on the river, and on his exposed right arm, there was indeed a small boat tattooed on it.

The boats on the cargo ship were furious, and they all wanted to kill all the people of the Hongze Gang. Leng Yuhu hurriedly asked the reason, and a boat told him that the Canal Gang only begged for business on the canal, and the Hongze Gang only fished on the lake, and the well water did not interfere with the river water, but this year, the old gang leader of the Hongze Gang passed away, and the young gang leader succeeded to the throne, and began to play the idea of the Canal Gang, wanting to annex the Canal Gang, and the two gangs also fought several times, and both sides suffered casualties. When the two gang leaders met and negotiated, they both retreated a few steps and returned to the border, no longer looking for provocations and causing trouble, not wanting this Hongze gang to secretly kill my canal gang brother again.

Leng Yuhu wanted to calm things down, and said, "Maybe I fell into the river after drinking." ”

The boat sneered: "Our canal gang walks on the river all year round, how can we drown in the water?

At this time, the dead body had already been fished up, and the clothes on the chest were torn, and sure enough, there was a deep knife wound on the chest. By this time, the cargo ship had docked, and several boats had gone ashore to buy coffins in a nearby town. Half an hour later, he pulled the coffin back, carried it to the ship, put the dead body in the coffin, and placed it in the stern. The cargo ship continued to sail south.

In the distance, he saw a small boat rowing upstream, and there were five men in the boat, and when they came near, they gave up their oars, drew their swords, and were about to jump over the ship. The cargo ship here was already prepared, and asked, "Who are you, and what enmity do we have with you?"

The man on the small boat: "We are from the Hongze Gang, and we want to avenge my brother's death." ”

Zhouzi on the cargo ship here said: "The matter of the two gangs has long been resolved, not to mention that many people have died in our gang." "Zhouzi here doesn't want to make more trouble, he just wants to come to the gang as soon as possible, and then discuss countermeasures after meeting the gang leader.

The people on the other side stopped talking, and jumped into the big boat, and there was no chance to speak, and the people on both sides were killed together. The other party is all good hands, not to mention ruthless, all the boats on this cargo ship are injured, barely supporting, it seems that they will be soaked in the river like the person in the coffin in a short time.

Leng Yuhu is known as the "King of Justice", and he likes to help the poor and solve problems the most, and how can he not care about such a thing? However, he could not judge who was right and who was wrong before, and he could not meddle rashly, but now he saw that the other party was fierce and wanted to kill people, and he already understood who was right and wrong. Leng Yuhu put down the book, ran over, and faced these five people, using the Wudang boxing technique, "lunge punching" and "King Kong side kicking", kicking two of them off the boat and falling into the river.

The other three saw that Leng Yuhu had good martial arts, gave up the other boats, and all surrounded Leng Yuhu to fight. The sword light flashed, and the three long knives surrounded Leng Yuhu in the center, and there was a burst of slashing and chopping, Leng Yuhu didn't care, just walked around in the gap of the knife light. There can be a big place in the cargo ship, and Leng Yuhu can avoid the blade every time. Zhao Yu had already walked out of the cabin, watching nervously without blinking. Zhouzi on the cargo ship saw Leng Yuhu, who was holding a scroll of poems all day, to help, and killed him in the light of the sword, as if he was about to die at any time, and shouted: "Next." Hurriedly threw a long knife to Leng Yuhu.

Leng Yuhu took the knife in his hand, made a move "waist around the jade belt", turned around and swung it out, drawing a circle of knife light, forcing the three of them back immediately, and said: "The grievance has been resolved, it is not appropriate to settle the knot, the two families sit down to discuss, the more trouble goes on like this, the more people are killed and injured, and the injured are their own brothers." ”

The three of them glanced at each other and didn't speak, just swung their knives and slashed at Leng Yuhu. Leng Yuhu dodged, pressed the opponent's long knife under with a knife, and swung forward, the other party hurriedly retreated, Leng Yuhu caught up with a step, and swung it again, the other party flashed back again and again, Leng Yuhu stepped forward and kicked him into the river. Seeing that they were no rivals, the two men turned back and jumped into their own boat, rowed their oars, landed on the shore, and fled.

The boats on this cargo ship all came over to thank Leng Yuhu for saving his life. Leng Yuhu said with a smile: "It's not enough to worry about it, but the people of this Hongze Gang are too vicious." ”

One of the boats sighed: "Who says it isn't? The two gangs killed each other, and there were so many people who died, and the river was dyed red, and it didn't run clean for several days." Although the gang leaders of the two families have shaken hands and made peace, this hatred will not be dissipated for a while. Alas, I don't know when it's the head. ”

The cargo ship docked, and the boats thanked Leng Yuhu for saving his life, and invited Leng Yuhu and Zhao Yu to the market town for a drink. Zhao Yu suddenly said: "This Hongze Gang is bent on revenge, and it may also take advantage of the fact that everyone goes to drink, and they will come back." It turned out that Zhao Yu thought of the "Five Ghosts of the Yellow River" on the side of the Yellow River, and he kept pestering him, trying his best to frame him.

The boats said: "This is very likely, the five of them are all vicious, maybe we will go to drink, they will come and burn the cargo ship." Shall we not drink?"

Leng Yuhu said: "This is easy to do, the market town is not far from here, I will stand in a place where I can see on both sides, and when you carry the wine and food to the boat, we will have a drunk on the boat." ”

The boats roared and cheered. A few fast boats got off the boat, Leng Yuhu followed them to the equidistant places on both sides and stopped, and the boats ran quickly towards the market town.

After a while, the boats came back with wine and food, boarded the cargo ship together, and laid out the food in the cabin, and everyone sat in a circle, drinking wine and eating meat. The food of Huai'an is different from the flavor of Shandong, there are salted duck, vegetarian roast goose, fish, meat, etc., fresh and peaceful, thick but not greasy, light but not thin, among which there is a plate of eel fillet, Zhao Yu even clamped two chopsticks, praised: "so fresh and tender." ”

Today, in order to thank Leng Yuhu for saving his life, everyone pooled money to buy some wine and meat, and only then did they start to worry about Zhao Yu, and after a while, they saw her eat a few bites and walked into the cabin, and these people had no scruples and began to eat and drink.

In the evening, everyone was a little drunk, and they didn't go on the boat, but fell asleep in the cabin one by one, snoring, calling the sky and grabbing the sky, one after another. Leng Yuhu also walked into the cabin and slept in his clothes.

In the middle of the night, he suddenly felt that the hull of the ship was lightly on one side, and Leng Yuhu sat up at once. The gangsters on the rivers and lakes act ruthlessly and unscrupulously, Leng Yuhu walks the rivers and lakes all the year round, how can he not be vigilant night and night?