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In the starlight, you can see the white swaying post road. The sharp-billed crocodile drove the carriage and galloped southward in a hurry, behind the thin monkey and Lang Qi rushed and followed in the shade of the roadside trees, and ran for a while, Lang Qi first gasped for breath, changed to walking, and ran for a while, the thin monkey was not good, watching the carriage go away, becoming smaller and smaller, and suddenly, a figure came out in the distance, sticking to the back of the carriage like flying flotsam. The carriage turned a corner and vanished.

Lang Qi and the thin monkey all saw it, and Lang Qi asked: "What a handsome light skill, could it be that Ding Piaopeng is injured?"

The thin monkey said: "How can it get better so quickly, no." ”

Lang Qidao: "Who is it?"

The thin monkey said: "The ever-changing third brother Liu." ”

Lang Qi said suspiciously: "You have really become an immortal, how do you know?"

The thin monkey said: "I feel that I am indeed a little immortal. ”

The thin monkey smiled mysteriously and stopped squeaking. If they did, no one would believe it, and no one would believe that there would be such poisonous ears in the world that could hear and distinguish people. Lang Qi's face was suspicious, and he said in his heart: I said that you were fat, but you were still panting. What are you selling, Lao Tzu complimented you a few words, but I don't know how many catties I have, and my tail is up to the sky. What kind of god is God, it's not like a bear like Lao Tzu, an unlucky runner who runs errands and follows the team......

The ghost-headed crocodile Cao Dayuan and the ecstasy wolf sat in the car, the two of them had swords on their waists, the doors and windows were closed, there were no lights in the car, it was pitch black, the ecstasy wolf leaned on Cao Dayuan's thick shoulder, leaning on the man's shoulder, she was not afraid of anything.

The sound of horses' hooves knocking on the road, even and fine, the carriage runs very rhythmically, the road is very good, the carriage is only slightly bumpy, the night is peaceful, the sound of horses' hooves is like a lullaby, the carriage is like a cradle, if the world is peaceful, sitting in such a carriage, it is easiest to fall asleep. However, if it is not peaceful today, there may be swords, guns and arrows waiting for them in front of them.

Lost soul wolf Yang Xiangxiang said: "Ah Yuan, the second brother said that someone is eyeing us in Huaiyang Restaurant, will he be mistaken?"

Cao Dayuan said: "No, the second brother's eyes are sharp." ”

The ecstasy wolf said again: "We live in the Donglaishun Inn, no one is watching, right?"

Cao Dayuan said: "I didn't notice it, it doesn't mean that no one is staring." ”

The ecstasy wolf said: "Ah Yuan, are you a little too careful?" ”

Cao Dayuan said: "Be careful to gallop the ship of ten thousand years." ”

Ecstasy wolf Yang Xiangxiang understands Cao Dayuan's words logically, but she feels that it is really a bit choking to always move the nest so late at night. It's not once or twice that a late-night transfer like this has been made.

Cao Dayuan said: "Xiangxiang, if there is an accident, you should run first, and we will cover you." ”

Yang Xiangxiang said: "Then how do you get out?"

Cao Dayuan said: "We are now running along the post road of Baima Lake and Baoying Lake, as long as you run away, we will jump into the lake and escape." Diving in the water, my second brother and I are among the best characters in the rivers and lakes, and no one can catch us. All I'm worried about is you. ”

Yang Xiangxiang's heart was hot, she raised her head and kissed him on the face.

Cao Dayuan said: "In case you run away, remember, meet in the southern suburbs of Gaoyou County, you have been to that place once, and you will not forget it." ”

Yang Xiangxiang said: "I can't forget, the double yellow salted duck eggs there are so delicious." ”

Cao Dayuan said: "When the time comes, delay for a few more days, so that you can eat enough." ”

The person who was clinging to the back of the car was indeed Third Brother Liu, and he heard what Cao Dayuan and Ecstasy Xiang said clearly. Liu Sange grabbed the raised edge of the top of the back of the car with both hands, and stepped on the protruding horizontal bar at the bottom of the back of the car with his toes, which were adsorbed on the back wall of the car like a suction cup, and the sharp-billed crocodile who was driving the car did not notice it at all. At this point, he knew where they were going, so he let go, and with a touch of his feet, the man fell like a flocculent into the bushes by the roadside.

There was no sound, no movement, as if it was a wisp of fog, Liu Sange disappeared into the bushes on the side of the road, and it was impossible for the people in the car to notice, and the carriage was still running freely.

There was no one on the road late at night, not even a ghost. On one side of the road are the cottages and fields, and on the other side are the reed wetlands and the white White Horse Lake. He ran out for three or four miles, and came to a fork in the road, when suddenly, a gong sounded in front of the carriage, and immediately, the sound of shouting was everywhere, and dozens of people shouted in unison: "Catch the ghost-headed crocodile alive, catch the sharp-billed crocodile alive." Don't let them run. "It turned out that it was the second son of the old dragon head, and the brothers who led the pursuit team to divide the helm with Huai'an in the rolling angry waves Long Huanghe have been waiting here for a long time.

The sharp-billed crocodile shouted, "Brother, it's not good, come out quickly." Before the voice fell, the doors on both sides of the carriage opened at the same time, Cao Dayuan and Yang Xiangxiang came out from both sides, carrying knives, and the sharp-billed crocodile carried a harpoon, jumped out of the seat, and shouted to Yang Xiangxiang: "Sister-in-law, get on the seat, drive the car, and rush out." ”

Yang Xiangxiang rushed onto the saddle with a "whoosh", waved her whip, and rushed forward with the carriage. Cao Dayuan and the sharp-billed crocodile galloped in front of the car to open the way, one carrying a ghost-headed knife, slashing and slashing, and the other brandishing a steel harpoon and smashing with a stabbing belt.

Rolling angry waves of the Yellow River, carrying a knife, entangled Cao Dayuan, the knife hands of the killer group have swarmed up, Cao Dayuan's ghost head knife danced wildly, the knife saw the true chapter, the knife move was erratic, the force was heavy, and he rushed out of a way, he shouted: "Xiangxiang run." ”

Don't look at the sharp-billed crocodile like a tuberculosis ghost, in fact, the whole body is full of muscles, the eyes are quick and the hands are fast, the harpoon picks and thorns are weird, and the forks and forks are stacked, and they can't take him for a while.

"Driving" the ecstasy wolf Yang Xiangxiang shouted coquettishly, and then "snapped" and shook two whips, the horses "whined" and neighed in unison, and the carriage rushed out of the sword bush.

The carriage sped away, and no one chased the ecstasy wolf, and the pursuit team asked for the heads of the ghost-headed crocodile and the sharp-billed crocodile. Forty or fifty people surrounded them, one after another, and attacked them in batches.

The Pu knife of the rolling angry dragon and the Yellow River is not easy to entangle, the ghost head crocodile has been torn by the Pu knife, and if it continues to fight like this, it will definitely die.

The ghost-headed crocodile and the sharp-billed crocodile fought back to back, fighting everyone. The ghost-headed crocodile supported the back of the sharp-billed crocodile with his elbow and said, "Second brother, flash man." ”

The two of them shouted violently, waved their weapons, and rushed towards the lake, as if they were two trapped beasts, and came with a fatal fierce attack, and actually tore a hole in them and ran into the reeds.

Long Huanghe shouted: "Release the arrows." ”

Ten archers immediately drew their bows and brushed their arrows, and fired a volley of arrows, which flew wildly through the reeds, one of which grazed the crocodile's shoulder, and its clothes were torn and a bloody mark was cut on its shoulder, and the other shot the knot of the crocodile's hair, causing him to break into a cold sweat. It wasn't until they ran to the edge of the lake, fluttered and tom, and jumped into the White Horse Lake, that the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, and at the bottom of the water, the brothers were as active as fish, as free as fish, one in front of the other, and swimming fast.

This is their best way to escape, underwater, the safest, no one in the world can catch up with them.

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In the southeast of Huai'an City, there is a prosperous township called Xiasha, next to the Grand Canal. On both sides of the canal, there are many wharves of different sizes, and there are many masts on the riverside, and the wharves are full of goods. More than half of the wharves here belong to the assets of the 36 waterways, and in Xiasha, the business of the 36 waterways has an absolute advantage.

Along the east bank of the Grand Canal, there are countless dwellings, including inns with high-rise mansions, low-rise and simple thatched huts, deep mansion compounds, taverns and brothels, quiet and simple shiku wall gates, and loud casinos and teahouses. The ground of this alley is paved with bluestone slabs in the middle, and the two sides are all paved with irregular granite, and the narrow place of the alley can only accommodate one cart to pass through, and the wide place can accommodate four or five carriages at the same time.

There are countless streets and alleys on both sides of Qingyin Lane, some are as narrow as a flat shoulder, seven turns and eight bends, only one person is allowed to pass, and some are the thoroughfares leading to the wharf, therefore, although Qingyin Lane is noisy with cars and horses, people come and go, but there will be no traffic jam, the front is blocked, and you can bypass from the fork road. On both sides of Qingyin Alley, there are many wide streets and narrow alleys, dense as spider webs, interspersed and tangled, forming streets and alleys twisted and coiled like a labyrinth.

Qingyin Lane, a good and elegant name, has become a commercial port with miscellaneous places.

In the former dynasty, it is said that in the slums of Qingyin Lane, there was a champion, he was the son of a sailor, but he was gifted and intelligent, and he never forgot to read since he was a child, which impressed Mr. Private School, and when he grew up, he was talented and wrote beautiful articles. Many of his poems are well-known and popular, and readers are vying to copy them, and they have spread all over the north and south of the Great River, inside and outside the Great Wall. It's a pity that God is jealous of the talent, and he only lived to be thirty-three years old, and died of illness in the Hanlin Academy in the capital. In order to commemorate him, the Huai'an people named the alley where he was born "Qingyin Lane". As for the thatched hut where he lived when he was low, it has long been blown away by the autumn wind, and to this day, the great-grandson of the champion Gong, nicknamed "hemp to death", but he is a guy who has a headache when he sees books, but he has a soft spot for mahjong, and he is an authentic mahjong fan. On the original site where the champion lived in the first place, he built a row of two-story large tiled houses facing the street, with a mahjong hall downstairs and a foot bath room upstairs. The sky-high price of mahjong has long buried the sound of Lang Lang's reading. In the middle of the tile house hangs a black lacquer gold signboard, with five big characters on it: Tiantian Mahjong Hall.

It is said that this is a treasure land of feng shui, what to do, to study to become a champion, open a mahjong parlor, foot bath room, business is prosperous, and the wealth is rolling.

Huizhou salt merchants paid a huge amount of money to buy this land, the grandson of the champion said nothing to agree, one, that is the ancestral property, sold ominous, can not be sold; moreover, the "mahjong to death" itself is a mahjong fan, left the mahjong sound, he was sick, as soon as he heard the mahjong sound, the disease is cured, people are also spiritual, he is particularly good at cards, the mahjong table is invincible, nine out of ten wins, others can not bet on him, no one rubs mahjong with him. "Ma to death" all day to listen to it, see also to satisfy the cravings, if you really can't survive, you will make an agreement with the poker friends; he wins, he pays the silver to the loser, he loses, the winner pays the silver to him. In this way, he always wins, always pays money to others, he is not happy, am I not a fool, this family business will not be long in turn, will be lost, no, Lao Tzu will not do it; if you pretend to lose, he will not do it, my dignified Hanlin disciple, mahjong master fame, isn't it going to be ruined, fame is big, silver is bigger, simply come less. When the technique is itchy, I call my friends to have a hand, and I have a good time. Usually, he just wanders around the mahjong table, it is said that it can also be enjoyable, he is not sleepy, sleepy, go upstairs to the foot bath room to wash the feet for an hour, and the spirit comes again. You say, blame it or not.

No. 66 Qingyin Lane is a shikumen walled mansion, with a high fire wall, which cuts off secular suspicion and reverie. It was a quiet area, and there were a dozen or so houses like this in the vicinity, with almost identical faces, all facing the street and the river, the alley at the front door large enough for two carriages to pass through, and the stone steps at the back door leading to the Grand Canal. There are locals living in the house, and more people are outsiders, no one knows their background, the family does not communicate with each other, and the people do not communicate with each other until they are old and dead, even if the neighbors who have lived for more than ten years do not even know the surname of the house next door.

Third Brother Liu lived in No. 66 yesterday, the door was closed, the courtyard was deep, very elegant and quiet, and all the hustle and bustle of the rivers and lakes were closed out.

This is an extremely ideal self-cultivation house, which is a house that Liu Sange likes very much.

No. 66 Qingyin Lane is the secret stronghold of the Huai'an rudder of the 36 waterways, and a canopy boat is tethered under the crooked neck willow tree next to the canal at the back gate, just in case of emergency.

In Huai'an, No. 66 Qingyin Lane can only be used in times of crisis, Huai'an branch rudder pottery helm master, usually, even the pottery rudder master rarely goes to live, this is the secret residence of the old dragon head to Huai'an, he likes to be quiet. This secret, even the wife and children of the Tao Helm Master can't reveal it, this is the rule of the thirty-six waterways.

In the rivers and lakes, secrecy is sometimes to save your life, your own life, and the lives of your family and brothers. In the rivers and lakes, a tight mouth is everything, and a tight mouth is more important than martial arts, which is the golden rule of the world of rivers and lakes.

There is a side door at No. 66 Qingyin Lane, which is open in the copper lane on one side, and Liu Sange's carriage enters through the side door.

Master Tao Duo received the third brother Liu, about the news brought by the carrier pigeon of the old dragon's head, he had cleaned up the study and bedroom two days ago.

Master Tao Helm is a red-faced man, more than thirty years old, at a glance he knows that he is a sailor, he is outgoing, and he does not see life, and said with a smile: "Hey, you are the ever-changing third brother Liu?"

Third Brother Liu said: "Yes." ”

Master Tao Helm really didn't believe it, that thin white-faced scholar was the third brother Liu who was the first in swordsmanship, the first in disguise, and the first in wit in the world.

The Tao Duo Lord sighed: "Since ancient times, heroes have come out of youth. ”

Third Brother Liu said with a smile: "The words uploaded by the rivers and lakes are all. ”

Tao Duo said: "There is no wind and no waves, and there will be wind if there are waves." The third brother is young and promising, and he can do it. Admire it below. ”

Third Brother Liu shook his head and said, "It's over, it's over." Master Tao Helm, I heard that the market in Huai'an seems to be a little chaotic these days. ”

Tao Duo said: "Yes, all my spies have been released." In normal times, the most merchants in Huai'an are merchants, and most of the merchants are Huizhou salt merchants. Recently, it has been unusual, and the number of people in the martial arts has suddenly increased, and they have formed gangs and groups. It's full of gunpowder, if there is a situation, I will inform the third brother in time. ”

Third Brother Liu said: "Do you know that there is a fox island in Hongze Lake?"

Tao Duo said, "That's a lair of the Golden Retriever Monster. ”

Third Brother Liu said, "How many nests does he have?"

Tao Duo said: "The current situation is that he has three nests, in addition to Fox Island, there are two other islands, one in Baoying Hunan, and one in Gaoyou Hubei. I heard that he also has a lair, which is an island where the fleet is assembled to train sailors, called 'Tibetan Soldier Island'. There must be, but I don't know where to hide?"

Third Brother Liu said: "Be quick, be sure to find the 'Hidden Soldier Island' before Old Man Long arrives." ”

Tao Duo said: "Yes, we are looking everywhere. ”

Liu Sange remembered the incoherent words he heard outside the secret room of Fox Island: "Old Dragon's Head", "Canal", "Gaoyou Lake", and "Fire Attack", so he asked: "Master Taorudder, between Gaoyou Lake and the canal, which section of the waterway has the most complex terrain?"

Tao Duo said: "Yes, yes, the Grand Canal is next to Gaoyou Lake, between Gaoyou Lake and the Grand Canal, the width is only one or two miles away, and the narrow place is half a mile away. At the southernmost end of Gaoyou Lake, close to the Grand Canal, there is about a radius of about ten miles of water surface, the beach here is deep and the water is urgent, there are many islands, the open reef and reef, the dog's teeth are staggered, the harbor is dense, the water and grass are dense, if it encounters wind and rain weather, the wind is high and the waves are urgent, the boats in the lake hit the reef and capsize, and the loss of people and property often happens. On this water, there are two rivers connected to the Grand Canal, the one in the north is called the Shangtang River, and the one in the south is called the Xintang River. Over the years, bandits have been haunted in this area, rushing ashore from this lake, or entering the Grand Canal from the Shangtang River and Xintang River, killing people and looting goods on the canal, and then returning from the original road and escaping into Gaoyou Lake. The sailors called this water surface 'Ghost Gate Beach', and there was a local slip road 'After one beach after another, the front is the Ghost Gate Beach, the cargo is safe and the people are safe, and it is a good man to cross the Ghost Gate. You can see the danger of this water. ”

Liu Sange said: "Oh, Ghost Gate Beach? ”

Tao Duo said, "Do you want to go and see? I'll accompany you." ”

Third Brother Liu said: "No. ”

Actually, he was saying in his heart: Will the fire attack be chosen here? Of course, I want to go and see it, but I want to go myself.