Chapter 54: The Road Meets a Water Thief
Kobayashi was originally on the boat to close his eyes and recuperate, because he was too tired during this time. I fought with Hu Jian for a long time just now, and finally I was scratched by an eagle, although the injury was not serious, but it was faintly painful. Since he got on the boat, the river was very fast, and the boat kept shaking on the water, and at first he was reluctant to insist, but when he couldn't hold on anymore, he fell asleep in a daze.
Just when he seemed to be asleep, he felt that the boat suddenly swirled in the water, and he heard a man talk about the place. Xiao Lin couldn't help but be stunned, and he raised his head suddenly. I saw the person rocking the oar in the bow of the boat, holding the oar with both hands, looking at the two of them coldly, with a sneer on his face. And the two people in the back also put down the boat oars in their hands. One person held a ghost-headed knife in his hand, and his eyebrows were angry. It's like two fierce gods.
Xiao Lin knew at a glance that he had met a water cardamom today. It's a water thief as usual. Xiao Lin thought that ordinary water thieves were nothing more than for two money, as long as they gave them money, they would be fine, and they would not kill for money at all. But I don't know where they were sent.
So Xiao Lin said, "Two brothers, why are you like this? Are you Hu Enan's people?" The man at the stern of the boat said, "Hu Enan, Phew, Bah." He is coming, as long as he dares to take my boat. Lao Tzu also killed correctly. Xiao Lin thought to himself, since he is not from the government, it will be easy to do. Just give him more money and you'll be fine.
Thinking of this, he said, "You see that we are going to the capital to do business, and we don't have much money with us." I don't think it's good, I'll give you three times the price on the other side. What do you think?" As soon as Xiao Lin finished speaking, he said, "What's the use of that money? Lao Tzu wants all the money on you." You take all the money out of your body and you jump into the water yourself, or the three of us throw you into the water. If we want to throw it, we will be broken by our legs and broken arms. Jump on your own, or you can save a whole corpse. ”
Xiao Lin saw that he was extremely calm when he said this, which showed that these three people did a lot of hurtful things. At this moment, Xiao Lin already has murderous intentions towards them. But he said calmly: "Brothers, how many years have you been here, why are you doing such a hurtful thing?"
"Do you know how much injustice there is in the world? Why do you people eat and drink spicy food all day long?" "You can work, you can work and support your family." "Don't say that pretty thing, get the money and jump into the water yourself. One of them said impatiently.
Xiao Lin said, "Don't worry? You haven't told you how many years you've been doing this business? One of them patiently said, "Let me tell you, the three of us have been doing this business for nearly ten years, and nearly 20 of us have fallen into the water to feed fish and shrimp." "You've done so many unseemly things, and you've killed so many people, isn't there anyone among them who makes you feel guilty?" Kobayashi said.
"Are you finished? so much nonsense?" one of them reprimanded loudly. The other waved his hand and said, "Forget it, forget it, a dying person, it's understandable to want to know something." Since you're curious, I'll tell you. "The year before last, there was a mother and daughter, the woman was in her thirties, and the little girl was eleven or twelve years old. They were taken to the river in a big cart, and when she saw us, she begged us to take them across the river. I pretended that we were no longer working as a ferryman, but the woman begged us in every possible way, saying that his parents were sick and that she was going back to her parents' house. ”
I pretended to sympathize with him and said, "Everyone respects you as a loyal and filial son, and I respect you for being a filial person, so I will send you across the river, but you can't give less money." In the end, she promised to give us an extra five taels of silver when we crossed the river. Then he got on board with joy. Seeing that he couldn't walk steadily, I stepped forward to help her, and accidentally came across a package hidden in his clothes, which turned out to be hard dry goods. At the time, I guessed that the package was either silver or gold. So I made eye contact with both of them. The two of them agreed and set sail. ”
"At that time, the ferry port was not here, but in a place with a lot of reeds. After saying this, he pointed to his left. Xiao Lin took a look, and sure enough, he saw that there were patches of reeds in it. We rocked the boat to a distance of about a hundred meters from the opposite shore, where there were many reeds and the water was calm. As soon as she came to the reed, the woman felt that something was wrong, and she immediately asked me, with some alarm, why I didn't paddle straight to the other side. Are you going to pass through here?" and we all laughed and said, "You're not too young, don't you know what a man needs?"