Ah Fei and Little Bell traveled for more than a day before entering Tanzhou City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The ancient Tanzhou, that is, today's Changsha, Hunan, the Song Dynasty was the Jinghu South Road Road, although it is not as rich as the land of Jiangnan and Zhejiang, but it is also a prosperous atmosphere, with its own cultural heritage, leading the coquettish in the land of Sanxiang.

Therefore, the Tang poet Li Yishan once wrote a poem: "The official building in Tanzhou is empty, and the ancient times are in sight for no reason." Hunan tears are shallow and deep bamboo-colored, and Chu Ge overlaps the orchid bushes. Tao Gong's battleship rained in the air, and Jia Fu Chengchen broke the temple wind. Seeing that the people in the hometown are not coming, who is the same as the pine mash drunk. Although this poem is Li Yishan's lyrical use of scenery and satire of the past and the present, expressing his personal career and feeling of depression and injustice, the legend of the Xiang concubine, Qu Yuan's Chu Ge, and the Changsha County Gong Tao Kan of the Jin Dynasty and the Changsha Prince of the Han Dynasty Fu Jiayi show the long history and culture of Tanzhou.

However, for many heroes in the rivers and lakes, when it comes to Tanzhou, the first thing they think of is still the Dongting Thirteen Water Gang, which is famous in the north and south of the river, and the black dragon entrenched in Tanzhou City-Zhao Yong.

Today's Zhao Yong is a well-known figure in the Thirteen Water Gangs of Dongting, with a wide range of black and white friends, and his reputation spreads far and wide, and even in some places, his reputation is even louder than the name of Jiang Chengyi, the old leader of the Water Gang. Within the Dongting Thirteen Water Gang, Zhao Yong's status is also close to that of the big housekeeper Tan Daozhong, as if he has the potential to take the second place in the Water Gang. And the Tanzhou gang under his rule is the most powerful group of brothers in the Thirteen Water Gang.

But who would have thought that seven years ago, when Zhao Yong took over all the affairs of the Thirteen Water Gang in Tanzhou from Li Zhenze, what he faced was just a mess.

In order to satisfy their selfish desires, they took advantage of the prestige of the Dongting Thirteen Water Gang to do misdeeds in Tanzhou, did many unjust things, and even dared to openly oppose the government, making the Thirteen Water Gang infamous in Tanzhou, and even directly regarded by the people as those bandits and robbers who occupied the mountains as kings.

After Zhao Yong came to Tanzhou, he first repaired relations with the government, and at the same time took his brothers who came from Mingzhou to appease the people of Tanzhou, re-manage the water transportation business that was despised by the Li brothers, and acted with chivalry as the first place, and within a few years, he once again established the prestige of the water gang in Tanzhou. And he is not soft on those gangsters who dare to make trouble in Tanzhou, and he almost does not leave a living mouth for those who are caught, so that many underworld villains dare not step into the border of Tanzhou without authorization.

Little Bell inquired about the location of the eldest brother Zhao Yong from the brothers, and learned that he was watching fish by the Xiangshui at the moment, so he took Ah Fei there to find him.

But before he could reach the bank of the Xiangshui River, Ah Fei had already heard a burst of noisy voices, which turned out to be the brothers of the Water Gang who were driving a boat by the water to release fish. Although the Dongting Thirteen Water Gang mainly controls the water transportation business on Jinghu South Road and Jinghu North Road, and most of the gang's income comes from here, Zhao Yong's favorite thing is the job of buying and selling fish, shrimp and river fresh, so every time he opens a boat to release fish, he will come to check it in person.

Ah Fei saw a big black-skinned man sitting on a low stool, pointing at everyone and saying something, looking at the back very much like Zhao Yong, but he hadn't seen him for many years, and he didn't dare to confirm it, so he didn't dare to say hello.

"Brother, I'm back!" Little Bell smiled on his face, left Ah Fei, and ran to the big black man.

"Hahaha, the girl is back! is it going well this time?" Zhao Yong sat on the low stool and moved his body, turned to the little bell and said.

"Hmm...... It's okay!" Although it was said that Hu Yuedao was solved this time, but after all, the silver was not a penny, and the little bell squeezed his eyes, but he didn't know what to say. After all, the matter of not receiving money for two months was also decided by her privately, and she didn't know whether the eldest brother would agree to it.

"What, I didn't come up again?" Zhao Yong saw that the little bell was empty-handed, so he said, "What do you mean by that group of merchants? I have already reduced many cases of silver for them, why do you still want to owe them and not pay them? If you don't want to join our water gang, you let them tell us clearly, so that I can let Sun Bao inform the brothers that they don't have to take care of their business in the future." He saw that the little bell had red eyes and didn't speak, so he said angrily: "Are they still bullying you? You tell my brother, I'll clean them up!"

"No, no, they don't. Little Bell pouted, "Brother, do you think I can't do anything?"

Zhao Yongdao: "No, no." My sister is so smart and clever, where can there be something that can't be done?"

"But listening to you, I always feel like you still treat me like a child, you want to take care of everything, and you want to do everything for me. ”

"Look at what you said, you are my only sister, that is the tip of my heart, I don't take care of you, who will I take care of?" Zhao Yong smiled, "If you want me not to take care of you, you can quickly find me a brother-in-law, with a brother-in-law to take care of you, I also have to worry about it." ”

"Oh, what nonsense are you talking about!" Little Bell was a little embarrassed when he thought that Ah Fei was also there, so he quickly interrupted. She saw that Ah Fei was still standing in the distance, and remembered that she hadn't introduced it yet, so she happily pointed at Ah Fei and said to Zhao Yong: "Brother, who do you think is that?"

"Who?" I haven't seen him for a few years, Ah Fei's appearance has already changed greatly, and Zhao Yong naturally won't recognize it. He was overjoyed when he saw a dignified young man standing not far away, got up and pulled the little bell and whispered in her ear: "Sister, I said that you didn't bring money back, why did you bring a man back? Well, look at the appearance, I look pretty good, but I don't know how people are. Where does his family live? Are his parents still there? Do you have any brothers and sisters or something? What does he do? Your brother is also a well-known figure in the rivers and lakes, and my brother-in-law can't be too mediocre!"

"Oh, brother!" Little Bell listened to Zhao Yong's series of questions, his face was already red to the root of his ears, and he said loudly: "Take a closer look, he is Brother Ah Fei!"

"What, are you Ah Fei?" Zhao Yong couldn't help but exclaim.

"Big brother!" Ah Fei said with a smile.

"Ahaha, Brother Ah Fei, you want to kill me, we have to have ...... I haven't seen you for six, seven, or eight years!" Zhao Yong patted Ah Fei's shoulder and laughed.

The little bell frowned, grabbed Zhao Yong's hand and said, "I haven't seen you for six, seven or eight years, it's obviously seven years! And you start a little lighter, he has a wound on his back, you be careful!"

"Okay, okay, don't I know?" Zhao Yong looked at the little bell's angry eyes, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, but he couldn't help but be happy in his heart. Because when he saw the reaction of the little bell, he had already guessed seven or eight points in his heart - his little sister, except for himself, rarely cared so much about other men.

"Ah Fei, how long do you plan to stay in Tanzhou this time?" Zhao Yong laughed.

"This ...... I didn't plan to, I just wanted to come and see you. ”

"Then after you watched us, is there anything else?"

"Not really. ”

"Then watch it for a few more days and leave later. You see that my Tanzhou scenery is beautiful, the scenery is very good, I let my sister, nothing to take you to go around, you can see how much worse we can be here than your Hangzhou......! I see, you will live with me for more than half a year!" his sister finally had a more desirable person, and Zhao Yongke had to keep him anyway.

"It's been so long!" Ah Fei frowned.

Zhao Yongdao: "What are you afraid of, I don't need you to eat here, there is no problem for you to live here for three years and five years, you will treat this place as your home!"

"Oh, brother, why don't you tie him up to our house!" called the little bell.

"If you think it's okay, then I'll tie him up, hahaha!"

Little Bell looked at Zhao Yong with disgust, only to feel that his stupid big brother was really embarrassing, so he blushed and didn't want to pay attention to him.

"You say, how long do you want to stay?" Zhao Yong said, holding Ah Fei's shoulder.

Ah Fei blinked, only feeling as if he had entered a den of thieves, and the person holding him was the king of the mountain who liked to eat people's hearts. "The eldest brother said that if you live for as long as you want, then you should live for as long as you want. Ah Fei looked at Zhao Yong, only feeling a little weak.

"Okay, hahaha, okay!" Zhao Yonghaha laughed a few times, then sat down again and said, "Why did you two meet together?"

"That, I was originally going to come to Tanzhou, but it was a coincidence that I was able to meet the bell girl. Ah Fei smiled and gave a general explanation of how he met the little bell.

"Haha, are a group of men kneeling? Yes, this is my black dragon's sister, ruthless enough! But don't do this next time, let's be polite to those merchants. Zhao Yong smiled, "By the way, sister, I haven't asked you yet, what is the reason why those merchants don't pay the silver?"

The little bell nodded, and told Zhao Yong about Hu Yuedaoren, and also told Li Shen about ignoring Hu Yuedaoren. "What bullshit Hu Yue Daoist, I have never heard of this character at all, it must be some kind of unpopular goods on the rivers and lakes, such a person dares to trouble my water gang, it is really tired and crooked. Zhao Yong angrily spit out a puddle of blood-red things from his mouth, and then pointed to a brother in the water gang who was weighing fish by the river and said, "You, just you, come here!"

"Boss, what's the matter?" said the man, putting down his work.

"Where is Li Shen now?"

"Fourth Brother Li should be at home now! He and Third Brother Sun just came back from Junshan this morning, and they are probably asleep at home at this time!"

"You go and find him for me!" Zhao Yong waved his hand, "If he dares not to come, you will bring him over with a knife, and say that I said it!"

"Yes!" the water gang brother received the order and immediately ran away.

"Big brother, what are you ......" Ah Fei looked at the red puddle on the ground, his brows tightened, for fear that Zhao Yong was suffering from some disease.

"This, hahaha, this is a betel nut!" Zhao Yong took out a jade betel nut from a cloth bag and said, "This is a fresh betel nut that I rushed from Lingnan at a high price, do you want one?" He bared his teeth and smiled, and Ah Fei found that Zhao Yong's teeth were also blood-red, and he looked very terrifying.

Ah Fei looked at the green betel nut, and suddenly remembered the sick Brother Ah Fu who kept coughing. The man with a face as pale as ice had given him a copy of the essence of Yunmeng swordsmanship before he died, and this essence has now disappeared with Zhang Baiqiao. "I'm still not used to eating this stuff. Ah Fei remembered the scene of everyone chewing betel nut and crying in front of Brother Afu's grave that day, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

"This is much better than Ah Fu's dried betel nut, as soon as I eat it, I am addicted, and I can't quit if I want to, I can now understand why Brother Ah Fu loves to chew this thing. Zhao Yong laughed and threw an entrance.

Ah Fei smiled: "How addictive can it be, is it more fascinating than fine wine?"

"It's really like this, since my brother fell in love with eating betel nut, he even drank a lot less. Little Bell smiled and said, "He eats every day until his teeth are red, as if he drank blood." The way he bared his teeth, others didn't feel scared when they saw it, and of course no woman wanted to look at him, so he couldn't get a wife. ”

"Nonsense, if I have a mother-in-law, and my mind is on my mother-in-law, then what should you do? I have to wait for you to get married, and then I will marry. Hehe, if you want to marry me Zhao Yong, don't have too many women!" Zhao Yong said, but squinted at Ah Fei again.

"Oh, no shame!" the little bell scratched her face and said, "You don't have to worry about my family affairs, you go and ask for a wife, I'm still waiting to call my sister-in-law!"

"Hmph, stinky girl, don't worry, when I become the old leader, I'll find you a bunch of sisters-in-law to come out!" Zhao Yong said with a smile.

"A bunch of sisters-in-law? I'm by your side every day, you are noisy, if you marry a bunch of women and go home, you still have to hit your head and die?"

"No, if you get bored, you will go to the temple to hide for a few days, quiet and quiet. Zhao Yong looked at the busy brothers by the river and said.

After a while, Li Shen ran back with the Shui Gang brothers who had just left. The water gang brother reported to Zhao Yong that Li Shen had arrived, so he went to weigh the fish again. That Li Shen ran all the way, and his already red face looked even redder at the moment. I heard him pant and said, "Boss, you are looking for me, what is the matter, so urgent?"

"Li Shen, let me ask you, have you heard of any Hu Yue Dao people?" Zhao Yong didn't go around the bush and asked directly.

"Hu Yue Daoren?" Li Shen felt as if he had heard this name, thought for a long time, and suddenly patted his head and said: "Ah, I've heard of it, I've heard of it! I was a little busy a while ago, so I forgot about it!"

Seeing Zhao Yong's gloomy face, he said again: "Boss, don't be angry, I'll take a few brothers and clean up that thief!"

"No need!" Zhao Yong shouted, "People are already dead, what are you going to pack up, to collect the corpses? How busy can you be, to forget this kind of thing? If you do this, it will only ruin the reputation of our Water Gang! If you encounter this kind of thing in the future, you should deal with it immediately, and you are not allowed to delay! We must be faithful, otherwise how can we gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes?"

"The boss has learned a lesson, I don't dare in the future. Li Shen lowered his head and said.

"Don't talk nonsense! You bring some things tomorrow morning to compensate those merchants who have been oppressed by Hu Yuedao! Remember, be sincere, you are the one who made mistakes!" Zhao Yong turned his back and didn't look at Li Shen.

"Yes, I'll do it!" Li Shen responded, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and hurriedly retreated.