Chapter 12 Drawing Water Town

After a thrilling descent, the two ships headed north from a waterway to a noisy dock. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Longchen, this is the Jishui Wharf in Jishui Town. ”

At his suggestion, the boatman on the boat immediately erected a large flag on the bow of the boat, and the flag fluttered in the wind so that I could see the words on the flag, and the letter of the village.

"What is this?"

I looked at the boatman's actions with some confusion, and then Wan Sheng explained: "This is the code for us to communicate with the people who answered on the road!"

"This flag is the number of Washin Ryokan, and if this flag appears on the ship that comes to the dock, Washin Ryokan stationed at the dock will send someone to deliver the goods to us. ”

Hearing this, I roughly understood what was going on, but what made me feel a little weird was this Washin Hotel!

The land transportation part of this transportation, from the manpower to the route, is in the hands of Hexin Travel. If something goes wrong with Hexin Travel, then this transportation will become a big piece of fat that everyone wants to take a bite of!

Thanks to the efforts of the boatmen, the boat landed steadily. The boatman put the cable on the stake, laid up a few planks, and then a stout man came aboard the boat with a few men.

"This is the Young Master of Wansheng!"

The stout man clasped his fist at Wan Sheng, and then asked.

Wan Sheng nodded, returned the salute with a smile, and said, "You are the head of Hexin Lvzhuang in Jishui Town?"

When the man heard this, he immediately took out a stone talisman and showed it to Wan Sheng, and Wan Sheng also took out a stone talisman to show the man.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and then the man said: "In Xia Manxing, it is the head of Hexin Lvzhuang in Jishui Town, Young Master Wansheng, you can be regarded as looking forward to you!"

Wan Sheng shook his head and said, "Mr. Manxing, I don't know if you have ready manpower, we want to get on the road as soon as possible!"

When Wan Sheng said this, Man Xing looked embarrassed and said, "Young Master Wan Sheng, you don't know, Jishui Town has not been very peaceful recently, and something has happened, so it is difficult to gather manpower! If you are in a hurry to get on the road, you will have to wait until tomorrow!"

When we arrived in Jishui Town, it was already close to evening in the afternoon, so Wan Sheng didn't think much about it and immediately decided to stay here for one night.

Man Xing left with a few of his subordinates after greeting Wan Sheng, and during this time, I had been silent, quietly observing a few people.

I don't know why, I have a slight sense of weirdness in my heart, and I feel that there is a sense of disharmony in this happy words and deeds.

After Manxing and the others left, we started to have dinner on the boat. At Wansheng's strong request, I ate at the same table with him.

At the dinner table, after eating for a while, Wan Sheng first looked around to make sure that no one would hear it, and then whispered to me: "Long Chen, do you feel that there is something strange about those people in Manxing!"

Hearing this, I was slightly surprised in my heart, I didn't expect him to feel this way, but I didn't say it directly, "Tell me, what's strange?"

Wan Sheng said: "I came out with my father before, and the head of Hexin Travel Village turned out to be not this person! This kind of position is very important, and Hexin Travel Village will not change the head of the company without notifying the employer! This is one of them." ”

"Second, he said that there has been some chaos in Jishui Town recently, but when I asked about this point, he deliberately avoided it! This is different from the purpose of Hexin Travel Village to ensure the smooth flow of information from employers!"

Speaking of this, Wan Sheng paused for a moment, and then continued: "Third, for a large organization like Hexin Lvzhuang, it is impossible to have insufficient manpower! If he had to say that there was not enough manpower, there was only one possibility, and that was that he could not use such a part of the people......"

The next words were picked up by me, "This means that he is not Manxing, or he is not the real head of Hexin Travel, although he holds the token of Hexin Travel, but there is still no way to use some of the resources of Hexin Travel!"

"That's right, that's pretty much it!"

At this time, I have a lot of high opinion of Wan Sheng in my heart, although his martial arts are mediocre, but he is indeed outstanding.

Next, I also told Wansheng the results of my observations,

"While Manxing is talking to you, his men's eyes are always vaguely looking at the two ships, as if they are counting our numbers. The observation was hidden, but it didn't escape my eyes!"

"Besides, what Man Xing said is also very problematic! I remember that he said something that finally brought you to life. As the head of Hexin Inn, there are so many things that he needs to deal with every day, how can he come here to wait for us!"

"Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if he has a friendship with Wan Lao and wants to take special care of us, but as soon as we hung the flag, he immediately got on the boat, as a general leader, why should he stay on the dock and wait for us to come!"

"From this, it can be seen that he should have received the news from somewhere, knowing that our group was going to transport a large amount of goods over, so he designed to get rid of the real head of Hexin Travel and replace it, and estimated our number of people in advance, spying on our strength, and preparing for the design of us!"

I coincide with Wansheng, now that the situation has been clarified, it is now time to think about how to deal with it!

I thought for a while and said, "Wansheng, our ship has stopped at the water drawing dock, so there is no way out, only by land!"

Wan Sheng nodded approvingly and said, "That's right, that's why I promised them to leave tomorrow." ”

"Then do you think they might be bandits of that force?"

"Hmm...... Well, this one!"

Wan Sheng thought for a moment before replying: "I think it should be the people of the Green Forest, the Green Forest is entrenched in the southern part of the section from Jishui Town to Tianshui City, and it is more likely that it will extend its tentacles to Hexin Hostel!"

I smiled after hearing this, and said, "I think it's more likely that this matter was planned by the Blood Knife from the north!"

"Oh, what does Long Chen think, might as well speak it out and listen to it!"

"Haha...... We'll see you in the future, so let's not talk about it today!"

Wan Sheng was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "That's right! Look at it like this, you already have a good idea of this matter Long Chen!"

"I can't talk about it, but I have some ideas!"

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At the table, Wansheng and I exchanged opinions with each other, and from here on, the estrangement between us was truly eliminated.

It's night

I sat cross-legged on my bed, crossed the sword given by Qingling on my lap, and waited quietly, knowing that there would be an uninvited guest tonight.

In the middle of the night, a faint sound came from not far away, the sound of feet stepping on the planks of the ship. As the voice moved slowly, I got up slightly, picked up my sword, and peered out at the hatch.

I saw a masked man in a night suit tiptoeing over the bow of the boat. Judging by his appearance, I could probably guess who he was! It was the joy of talking to Wansheng in the evening that confirmed my suspicion that there was something wrong with these guys.

He first looked around the bow of the ship, and when he was sure that no one was outside, he walked over to the ship's hold.

On the ship, there was a vigil in the hold, and he looked outside for a moment, and then he didn't know what he had pulled out.

Peeking through the crack in the door, I saw only a little fire, apparently he was burning something with a fire breaker.

At this time, I remembered the old man's words: the bandits are a bunch of unscrupulous guys, and poison and smoke are their most common methods.

When the night watchman is smitten, he thinks he has accidentally dozed off. As long as it is not known the next day, the night watchman himself will not say anything.

In this case, the caravan members have no idea that they have been spied on!

As I had conceived, after enchanting the night watchman, Man Xing descended lightly into the hold, and after half a pillar of incense, he hurried out of the hold, and then left!

After Manxing left, I went to wake up Wansheng and asked him to act according to the original plan. After that, I went back to rest, and it all went according to my plan.

At dawn the next day, Wan Sheng and I stood at the bow of the boat, and Man Xing came here with a group of people and six carriages with a red face!

Seeing this scene, Wan Sheng and I just snickered secretly, it seems that this guy has already regarded us as big fat sheep!

"Young Master Wansheng, everything is ready!"

"Okay, let's get started. ”

"Gotcha!"

With Wan Sheng's permission, Man Xing waved his hand, and his men and the boatmen on the ship started to transport the things on the ship together. Looking at the large package that pressed his hands to the waist, the joy in Manxing's eyes was irrepressible.

By the time we started the move, the ships that had only come upstream last night were also unloading, and there were several earlier convoys already departing.

Looking at these convoys that had left, looking at the flags flying in the front of the car, my eyes were slightly condensed, and I still had a conjecture that I didn't say.

This town may have been completely invaded by a certain force! In other words, not only the team led by Wan Sheng, but all the merchant ships have been targeted.

When encountering these locust-like bandits, I'm afraid that no cargo can be spared!

How many of these convoys of convoys slowly moving in front of them were like opening open mouths to swallow giant mouths, and how many of them could reach Tianshui City unharmed?

I don't know, I really don't know!

I don't have the ability to protect so many people! All I can do now is to do my best to protect the convoy of all beings to reach Tianshui City safely.

This is my promise to Wan Zhangyan, and it is also the price for me to accept the Frost Sword, and it is the responsibility I must bear!

Looking at the busy boatmen below, I clenched the sword in my hand and said in my heart: Your safety will be guarded by me and my sword!

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To be continued......