Carriage Back Lane is an ordinary alley, but it is also an unusual alley. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The legendary carriage lane, used to be an unknown alley, during the Warring States period, Lin Xiangru of Zhao State in order to defend the country, against the tyrannical Qin, tried to do a good job with the general Lian Po, to avoid conflicts, saw Lian Po chariot and horse, drove his chariot and horse into an alley to avoid. Lin Xiangru has left a good memory for the people of Handan, and in the future, this alley will be called "Carriage Lane". It is said that after Lian Po learned about this incident afterwards, he was very ashamed, and he still carried thorns on his back and went to Lin Xiangru's house to "bear the guilt of Jing and ask for it".

The story is very interesting, but the carriage back alley is an ordinary alley after all, which is often mentioned in people's conversations, and the alley itself is rarely frequented by people. But this afternoon, the alley was lively.

Qiao Wanquan led the fast soldiers to surround No. 97 in the back lane, everywhere was the footsteps of the soldiers running fast, the whistle, after a while, and saw the smoke coming out of the fire wall of No. 97, the fast soldiers smashed open the front door and the back door, and saw that the fire in the courtyard had rushed to the roof, and the fire burned in an instant, followed by a boom, the wall collapsed, the house collapsed, a sea of fire, unable to approach. A search turned into firefighting, and the soldiers who caught the fire together with the people put out the fire, and finally put out the fire.

The courtyard of No. 97 is full of wet ruins, rubble and scorched earth, how can there be half a human figure, not even a ghost.

Fortunately, I found a secret door, the secret door leads to two connected courtyards, all the doors are hidden, the last exit, leading to a quiet alley a mile away, out of the alley, is a big road in Handan City, there, people and cars come and go, very prosperous, perhaps, Liu Sange, Ding Piaopeng is from here disappeared. Qiao Wanquan looked at this secret door and sighed, this kind of back door set back door is not new, what is fresh is that the passage is actually a mile long, this is the first time he has encountered this length. This time, Qiao Wanquan miscalculated, he didn't think about it at all, perhaps, there would be a longer tunnel that could send Ding Piaopeng out of the city smoothly.

However, Ding Piaopeng should still be in the city. The city gates were very strict about going out of the city, and with a Ding Piaopeng who couldn't move, they couldn't get out of the city.

Qiao Wanquan gritted his teeth and said, "Search." ”

As a result, the fast soldiers carried out a carpet search of the households in this area of the city, which caused the people to be full of grievances and complaints.

Check back the owner of No. 97 Chexiang and the two empty courtyards, all belong to the idle house of a wealthy man in Luoyang, and then check, the roots of the rich man are in Beijing, in the court, Qiao Wanquan can only press, if you check again, I am afraid that even your own position will not be able to keep. After that, it was over.

The result of the search, of course, was nothing. Qiao Wanquan knew that Ding Piaopeng and the others had already escaped, and they had to think about it in the long run.

Five days later, Qiao Wanquan led the owl Hu Dafa, the thunderbolt pioneer Lei Wei and the crowd to return to Beijing due to the redundancy of the affairs in Beijing. Only the father-in-law of the land, Chu Ke and his wife, and five elite hunters were left behind, and continued to track down Ding Piaopeng's whereabouts.

On the Fuyang River, with a smooth wind, the old dragon's boat opened a page of bulging white sails, and sailed downstream like an arrow.

The old dragon head planted a small red and yellow pennant on the cabin, which was the symbol of the carrier pigeon. Sure enough, after a while, a white pigeon flew and stopped next to the small flag, and the old dragon head grabbed the white pigeon, took down the letter of the white pigeon's foot-shin bamboo tube, smiled slightly after reading, tore up the letter, and sprinkled it into the river. He took out the letter paper and charcoal pen, wrote a short message, stuffed it into a bamboo tube, and released the carrier pigeon. After a while, carrier pigeons kept flying, and the old dragon head kept reading and writing letters, without saying a word, and was mentally focused. This is what the old dragon head often does.

After a while, a falcon flew from the sky, the red feathers of the falcon at one end, about the size of a goose, looking forward to it, seemed to be very proud, and there was a small bamboo tube hanging on its shins, it grabbed a dead pigeon under its claws, threw the dead pigeon on the board, and chirped, standing on the top of the cabin, the eagle's eyes were shining, and the bones were spinning. The old dragon head picked up the dead pigeon, and the dead pigeon also had a small bamboo tube hanging on its feet, which turned out to be a carrier pigeon, and he took out the letter, looked at it, and tore it. Then he took out the letter that the falcon had brought, tore it up, and threw it into the river. When the little dragon head saw it, he took a piece of beef from the kitchen, cut off a few pieces of meat with a dagger, and threw it to the eagle falcon, who stretched out his neck and swallowed it, and the little dragon head beckoned: "Male head, eat, male head, eat." "Feed it while cutting meat.

Third Brother Liu smiled at the old dragon's head and asked, "The 'male head' is used for hunting?"

The old dragon said, "Oh, no, no. The 'male head' is specially used to hunt other carrier pigeons, after pecking other carrier pigeons, he will take the dead carrier pigeon back, from the bamboo tube of other carrier pigeons, we can sometimes get the information we want. However, this kind of information is often not targeted, and there is a lot of junk information; if you want to get useful information, you have to hunt down the carrier pigeons of a specific gang or an official, and this kind of information is very precious, but it cannot be used much, and it can only be used at important moments, otherwise, the source of information will be cut off. For example, if you want to get a letter from a carrier pigeon in the Criminal Department for a certain period of time, you only need to hold a bamboo tube of the same orange in your hand and shake it three times in front of the 'male head', and the 'male head' will go to catch and peck at the carrier pigeon carrying this color bamboo tube, and I will be able to get very precious information; but not to use it more, after using it more, the criminal department will constantly change the color of the bamboo tube, so that you can't get the information you want at all. If you want to cancel it, you only need to hold the orange bamboo tube in one hand and swing it three times with the other hand, and the 'male head' will not catch and peck the carrier pigeon carrying the orange bamboo tube. At the same time, the falcon can also act as a carrier pigeon, and within a few hours, it can deliver a letter to a distant posting location, for example, from here, to my son in Wuhan, and he will receive it in five or six hours. Two or three times faster than a pigeon. Its wings are very long, its ability to fly is particularly good, its speed is faster, it flies in a straight line, and flies directly towards the aura of the target, not only can it fly during the day, but also can fly at night when there is no star and moon, wind, rain, and snow; During the snowy night, they can only roost on their way, and only at dawn do they start flying again, and if this is counted, the pigeons are even slower to deliver letters. However, the falcon's delivery points are not as many as pigeons, only six points can be delivered, Nanjing, Luoyang, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chongqing, Beijing, as long as he stretches out an index finger and shakes it, it is to fly to Nanjing, stretch out two fingers, that is, Luoyang, and so on, five fingers are Chongqing, thumb plus little finger is six, that is, to fly to Beijing. Enough for me. Of course, sometimes we will get some inconsequential information, like the carrier pigeon that the 'male head' pecked to death just now, but it is just a letter to report the safety of someone's family, and it has no value at all. I don't know if you have noticed, I helped the pigeon on the bamboo tube are painted with a circle of red paint, see the pigeon with a circle of red lacquer bamboo tube tied to the shins, it will not go to hunt, lest its own family beat its own family. You'd better also paint your pigeon bamboo tube with a circle of red paint. ”

Third Brother Liu said: "Oh, true God." However, no, since the falcon can only deliver six points, how can it find you, and besides, you are on the move. ”

The old dragon head said: "Oh, I said that I leaked my mouth, and there is another flow point, and that is me." If Xiongtou is in Wuhan and my son sends him to deliver a letter to me, he will clench his hands into fists, stretch out his thumbs, and shake them in front of Xiongtou, and Xiongtou will come to me. The marker of my point is who I am. Everyone has a unique aura, for example, the smell of the breath on the body, the turbidity of the voice, the black and white of the complexion, the severity of the movements, the slow and rapid thickness of the breath, no one in the world will be exactly the same, and the twins are also different. People can only tell when they meet each other. The falcon has a higher than human aura identification and search function, it flies high in the air, circled, can identify my aura at a glance, as the flight time progresses, my aura direction is constantly fine-tuned, and then can effortlessly find the exact address of my aura. If my life is in danger and the 'male head' happens to be nearby, it will sacrifice itself as a savior, and its sharp beak and claws sharper than a razor are the sharp weapons of the enemy. ”

Third Brother Liu said: "Amazing, Divine Eagle." ”

The old dragon head said: "This is the value of falcons. ”

Third Brother Liu said: "How many such falcons do you have?"

The old dragon head smiled and said, "How many? Ha, how can there be many, there are only two ends." The male head with red feathers on the top of the head is male, and there is one with white feathers on the top of the head, which is called the 'mother's head', which is female. The year before last, when the male head and the mother-in-law were very young, I spent 50,000 taels of silver to buy these two purebred Persian falcons from the Persians, and then, at a high price, I hired a professional Persian falconer, and domesticated them for two years, and spent another 50,000 taels of silver to successfully domesticate the male head and the mother-in-law. ”

Liu Sange asked again: "As far as you know, how many falcons like this are there in China today?"

The old dragon head said: "I heard that the iron-faced god Qiao Wanquan also has two such falcons, and the others, I haven't heard of them, so there shouldn't be any." To domesticate such a falcon requires not only a pure Persian falcon, but also a skilled Persian falconer, without one can not be, even if there are both, but also luck, the possibility of successful domestication, according to the Persian falconer, is only two or three percent. As he spoke, he wrote a short message, stuffed it into the bamboo tube of the shin of the "male head", sealed the soft wax, stretched out four fingers to the "male head" and shook it, and said to Liu Sange: "I want him to go to Wuhan." The "male head" chirped, and his wings fluttered, and he flew into the air.

The old dragon head looked at Third Brother Liu with a smile and said, "All this is for you." ”

Third Brother Liu was surprised: "Where do you start with this?"

The old dragon head said: "As long as you promise to be the chief scoop of the thirty-six waterways, all this is yours." ”

Xiao Longtou interjected: "Third uncle, let's be it, I don't want to be it." As long as you agree, my little dragon head is willing to go to the soup for you, and I will not give up. ”

Third Brother Liu smiled and said: "No, no, it's still the same old saying, I'm an idle cloud and a wild crane, I can't be restrained, I can't do it." ”

The old dragon head said: "Then let's talk about it." ”

A few people talked and laughed, about two hours after the boat traveled, saw a passenger boat moored on the shore, and someone on the board waved to the boat, the waving posture was clear and clear, like the sign language of the deaf and dumb, which means: the chief scoop handle is hard, and the Handan rudder is here to greet you. The old dragon head also waved his arms, meaning: Please drive the boat over and change boats in the middle of the river.

Third Brother Liu asked, "Brother Long, can this sign language convey various meanings?"

The old dragon head said: "Sign language is handed down by the ancestors of the waterway, passed down from generation to generation, there is no sign language can not express the meaning, in the water shipping, very effective." There are also those who hold a small flag in each hand, wave the small flag, and communicate with each other from a distance. ”

Liu Sange asked, "What should I do at night?"

The old dragon head said: "At night, each hand holds a wind lantern, waving the wind lantern, and communicating from a distance can see farther." ”

Brother Liu asked, "Do the brothers on the thirty-six waterways know sign language?"

The old dragon said: "Then how can it be, there are usually one or two people on a ship who can sign language." The number one, two, and three people who split the rudder must know. ”

Liu Sange said: "In other words, the ghost-headed crocodile Cao Ayuan can also sign language?"

The old dragon head said: "Of course, he can't just know sign language, he should be called proficient, the ghost crocodile is very smart, and I also had the idea of giving up my seat to him." Unexpectedly, he had a bad heart and conspired to kill the lord and usurp the throne, if there were no brothers, perhaps, the thirty-six waterways would have become his world today. ”

Third Brother Liu said: "Where is it, that is Brother Long's blessing and fortune, by chance, he was able to turn evil into good fortune and become auspicious in trouble." ”

As he was talking, the passenger ship and the boat went hand in hand, the two sides collected the sails, and the two boats were fixed with bamboo rafts and drifted down the river. There were only two people on the passenger ship, one was the helmsman of Handan, and the other was a tall and sturdy sailor with a bow and arrow on his back.

Handan divided the helmsman, jumped onto the boat, greeted the old dragon head, and introduced that the sailor's surname was Yang Mingqian, absolutely reliable, he was a sharpshooter, and he was also a good hand at watching the wind and making the rudder, and asked the old dragon head and others to rest on the passenger ship. Soon, the two sides changed boats, and the sailor of the passenger ship, Yang Qian, left the old dragon head, and the rudder owner also wanted to stay, but the old dragon head did not allow it, and the rudder master chirped continuously, so he drove the boat to the shore, and when he reached the shore, he scuttled the boat and left. The old dragon head looked at his back, silently bowed his head, and looked very approving.

The passenger ship is quite spacious, the rear cabin is a galley, the middle cabin has four small beds, Ding Piaopeng now sleeps on the small bed, the front cabin has a spacious living room, the table is furnished with fresh fruit and refreshments, the little dragon head is hungry, can not help but eat.

The sailor stretched the sails at the stern of the ship, and sat very calmly on the boat, only the sound of the wind and the water could be heard. Outside the window, the fields are green, the clouds are light and the wind is light.

The cabin of the passenger ship is now also planted with a small red and yellow flag, a gray carrier pigeon, landed next to the small flag, the old dragon head took out the letter brought by the carrier pigeon, began to read, and said: "Liu Sange's carriage is at Jiubao Wharf, and Wang Xiaoer is also there." ”

Third Brother Liu said: "Hey, I think about it, there is still something to do, Brother Long, how far is it from Jiubao?"

The old dragon head said: "There are still twenty miles of waterway, and it will be an hour." ”

Third Brother Liu said: "With Brother Long here, Ding Daxia will be safe." After a while, when I arrived in Jiubao, the younger brother was going to pick up the carriage and horses, and he had to rush to Baoying County for some personal matters. Ding Daxia handed it over to Brother Long. Brother Long is going to Nanjing, right?"

The old dragon head said, "Yes." "Nanjing is one of the headquarters of the 36 waterways, and two are also located: one in Guangzhou and one in Luoyang. That's what the three holes of the cunning rabbit mean. In fact, the 36 waterways are also full of competition and crisis, not only to compete with peers in a different way to compete for business, but also to beware of robberies and robbers from all over the world.

Liu Sange said: "Then let's meet in Huai'an, I can also go to the front station, if there is something to pass the book on the carrier pigeon." ”

The old dragon head said, "Okay." ”

The old dragon head whispered to him the address of a meeting in Huai'an: No. 66 Qingyin Lane, which was also the secret den of the helmsman of Huai'an, and handed him a key.

In the evening, at the Jiubao Wharf, Liu Sange retrieved the carriage and horses from the Shuidao brothers. The black horse "Big Black" neighed and signaled hello to him, and the black mountain cat "Erhei" returned to the car at some point, jumped off the footboard, rubbed against his ankle, meowed and meowed, looking very affectionate, and Liu Sange's heart was very warm. Wang Xiaoer also got out of the car, and he said, "Ding Daxia's injury is serious, I can't leave him at this time." Wang Xiaoer got on the old dragon's boat and went to serve Ding Piaopeng. Liu Sange said goodbye to the old dragon head, the little dragon head, Ding Piaopeng and others, jumped on the saddle, flicked the whip, and the carriage marched towards Jinan. His career in the rivers and lakes is inextricably linked with this carriage. This is a carriage with an extremely ordinary appearance, and there are carriages running everywhere on the avenue that look almost exactly the same as his, and it is like looking for a needle in a haystack to find someone with a car, but his carriage is actually very unusual, the material is not ordinary, the design in the carriage is not ordinary, the tenacity and firmness of the inner quality are absolutely unusual, and what is even more unusual is his affection for this carriage, and his many joyful sorrows, happy and melancholy feelings, are closely related to this carriage, in his opinion, this car is alive, and this car is simply connected with him。

Getting back in the car is like coming home. He planted a small triangular yellow flag on the roof of the car, the small yellow flag painted a gourd, the small yellow flag is very small, so small that it is a little inconspicuous, no one will pay attention to this corner of the small flag, but the white dove and blue pigeon in the air can be seen at a glance, and the small yellow flag with the gourd will fly back to the car. The last time he released Xiaobai and Xiaolan was five days ago, Xiaobai flew to Baoying County, and Xiaolan flew to Yangzhou Prefecture, what news could Xiaobai and Xiaolan bring him? Was it good news or bad news? He couldn't guess, no one could guess what was going on in the rivers and lakes.

The ancient road is shining, and people are on the road. Liu Sange parked the car on the side of the road, entered the carriage, closed the door, and after a while, he came out of the carriage, and had changed into a middle-aged scholar-like person, with a clear face, a sleepy expression, a green shirt, and a sword hanging from his waist.

On the way the next day, the carrier pigeon "Xiaobai" fluttered and landed on the roof of Liu Sange's car, bringing him a letter from Baoying County, the letter wrote: Hello third brother, now the younger brother has fallen into the catastrophe of life and death, life is boring, shameful, at a loss, I hope the third brother will come to Baoying Lake as soon as possible, and the younger brother lives at No. 106, Hangou Street, Baoying County. The one who can save the little brother is none other than the third brother. The heart is anxious, the head is bitter, the original situation, and the narrative will be later. Don't say anything, pause your head. A certain day of the month.

After reading the letter, Liu Sange was shocked, driving, with a shout, the whip sounded, and Da Hei quickly rushed in the direction of Baoying County......

Ghost head crocodile Cao Dayuan, endured severe pain and swam upstream, in order to escape, he tried all his strength, came out of the water, looked back, saw that the sailboat had gone away, there seemed to be no one behind him, he struggled to swim to the shore, climbed into the reeds on the shore, and saw that the left leg cut a three-inch long hole, fortunately, the mouth was not deep, otherwise, An You's life was there, the wound was still bubbling blood, and he hurriedly tore off the water ghost suit and tied the wound up. He gasped for breath and lay weak in the reeds, when a voice on the shore shouted: "Da Yuan, Da Yuan." He heard that it was Yang Xiangxiang shouting, so he struggled to sit up and shouted, "Xiangxiang, Xiangxiang, I'm here." ”

Yang Xiangxiang had a burden on her body and ran towards him, and when the two saw each other, they hugged their heads and cried. After crying enough, Yang Xiangxiang took out the golden medicine, applied the wound, and took out the gauze to tie it for him. She took out the bath towel from the baggage, wiped the blood and sludge off his body, took out clean clothes, pants, shoes and socks, and helped him put them on. The two of them moved to a clean place and sat down.

Cao Dayuan asked, "What about your people?"

Yang Xiangxiang said: "It's all gone." ”

Cao Dayuan said: "The ambush of so many people was unsuccessful?"

Yang Xiangxiang said: "It's only a little bit missing." ”

Cao Dayuan said: "It's just a little bit worse than a lot of it, and if you don't succeed, you don't succeed." ”

Cao Dayuan said angrily again: "We made an appointment, I worked underwater, and you answered on the shore, why, you didn't come up?"

Yang Xiangxiang said: "The sixth brother (one-eyed wolf) was hit by a poison dart and almost died, but fortunately, the seventh brother had an antidote, so he picked up a life; The army was defeated, so it was delayed. ”

Cao Dayuan was a little angry, and said: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid of Third Brother Liu's skills." If you were afraid, don't do it in the first place, since you did it, what are you afraid of! It turns out that a litter of wolves in Yinshan is just a tiger and a snake's tail. The blowing is quite big, which is a little bit of ability. Lao Tzu almost took his life and let Lao Tzu fight alone, is there such a boss? God knows, how did this boss make him a boss!"

Yang Xiangxiang said: "Da Yuan, don't say it. ”

Cao Dayuan asked: "What is the boss's attitude towards my joining the gang?"

Yang Xiangxiang said: "The boss said, we have to see it." ”

Cao Dayuan said: "Hmph, there is no master here, there is a place to keep the master." Lao Tzu is not rare. ”

Yang Xiangxiang said: "Are you angry?"

Cao Dayuan said: "Clay people also have an earthy nature. ”

Yang Xiangxiang said: "Don't be angry, you are injured, don't be angry." Let's find a place to recuperate. My horse is nearby, so I'm going to bring it to me, find a clean place, and heal my wounds first. As she spoke, she took out Cao Dayuan's clothes and pants that she carried with her and helped him put them on.

Yang Xiangxiang ran out of the reeds and brought the horse in a while. He helped Cao Dayuan onto his horse, led him by himself, and the two walked towards the village on the shore.

Yang Xiangxiang was actually not lightly injured, she was slapped by Third Brother Liu, her chest hurt faintly, and she coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood just now. When she saw Cao Dayuan, she seemed to be healed from her injury, and her spirit suddenly became much stronger. She said: "Dayuan, let's quit the rivers and lakes, find a place to live, and enjoy Qingfu, over the years, I have saved a lot of money, which is enough for the two of us to live comfortably for a lifetime." Fighting, killing, I'm tired of it. ”

Cao Dayuan said categorically: "No." I don't share the sky with the old dragon, with him without me, with me without him, the gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late. In this life, I, Cao Dayuan, will never die, and I will be consumed with the surname Long. ”

Yang Xiangxiang looked up at Cao Dayuan, his face was flushed, the flames of hatred seemed to be burning in his heart, Yang Xiangxiang felt that he was more like a man, so he sighed and comforted in a soft voice: "Dayuan, think about it a little bit, and think about it in the long run." ”

Cao Dayuan looked at the burning clouds in the sky, gritted his teeth, and said, "I hate!"