Sleepless nights. By the time Xiao Hu Tan, who had slept well, got up and shouted that he was hungry, it was the beginning of the day, and the light was shining through the window, and many merchants outside who were in a hurry got up to act.

Hu Buwei fell into a coma because of the bumps on the road. Fan Tongyou and Qin Su thought that his body needed to recuperate for the first time, so they were not in a hurry to leave. On this day, I will still stay in Linqing Town, and I will wait to see how the situation is tomorrow.

After dawn, I ordered some food and made a reservation for the boat. Fan Tongyou and Qin Su returned to the room to exercise their own skills and spirits. Hu Buwei leaned on the head of the bed, and he didn't feel sleepy. Seeing Qin Su sitting cross-legged beside him, his delicate face gradually calmed down, how could his heart calm down, and his mind was like a marquee, replaying all the experiences of the past year.

Half a month has passed since the soul was restored. In the past half a month, Old Man He, Fan Tongyou has already explained to him how Qin Su brought him from Yuanzhou to Jiangning Mansion. Although the details are unknown, Hu Buwei is shrewd, and he has walked on the rivers and lakes, how can he not know the danger involved? Imagine how a little woman who has never set foot in the rivers and lakes can drag thousands of miles from south to north, and all the way to avoid the pursuit of evil people and fight to the death with monsters and beasts...... What a difficult experience!

This kindness and this affection, but how should I repay it?!

Hu Buwei secretly sighed, not only feeling Qin Su's affectionate companionship, but also feeling sad about his own situation. not only admired her decisive division to defend it, but also ashamed of her neglect and indebtedness for many days. Thinking of last night's absurdity for a while, hugging Qin Su, the faint fragrance penetrated into his nose, and his blood was boiling.

It's like a big dream. This kind of strange and bizarre experience is something that Hu Buwei never imagined, such twists and turns. It's never been a dream that you can only appreciate a thing or two. I can't imagine that now I should be in myself one by one, but I don't know if it is a person in a dream or a dream in the world.

The past is over. The future is still to be planned. No matter how long the dream is, there will eventually be a time to wake up. Now that a person is awake, it is time to do what he should do when he is sober. Hu is not a decision. From now on, we must treat Qin Su well, and we must not let this kind and infatuated girl be treated coldly again.

Nothing to say for a day.

By dawn the next day, Hu Buwei felt much more refreshed, and his hands and siblings had some strength, so he refused to stay in the inn anymore. After beating the five drums, he rushed to the ferry with Fan Tongyou and Qin Su, found the boat owner who had made an appointment yesterday, untied the cable and set sail. Follow the Huai River to the southwest of Gwangju.

The source of the Huai River originates from Tongbai Mountain, flows through the three provinces of Henan, Anhui and Suzhou, because the river bank is plain on both sides, the embankment is not high, every time the summer solstice rain comes, many river sections are always flooded. But by this time the season was already in autumn, the rainy season had passed early, and the river had rained a lot. From Linqing Town to the west, the sight of both sides of the strait is wide. Looking into the distance, yellow and green are the same color, the autumn grass and wild trees are connected to the sky, and sometimes there are flocks of egrets flying obliquely into the clouds. Over the sound of geese, the scenery of this road is more than the water in the high gorge in the south. The majestic and steep of the Fog Hidden Sword Peak is strange, but it has a unique taste.

Hu Buwei has never been on a boat. The first time I sailed down the river, I felt very fresh. I used a little fish rice on the stove. He sat on the bow of the boat with Hu Tan in his arms and enjoyed the scenery along the river.

Unexpectedly, the wind on the river was bad, and the father and son looked at the boat with great interest for a while, and then let the cold wind beat the whole body goosebumps. I had to stay happy and return to the capsule to be warmed. I heard from the boatman that the wind has been against the wind these days, the ship has slowed down, and it will not arrive in Gwangju until noon tomorrow.

In the evening, I listened to Fan Tongyou tell the story of the rivers and lakes.

Needless to say, the old drunkard's boastful heroic past is needless to say, what makes Hu Buwei really listen to it is some information about the water gang.

The old drunkard said that many gateway gangs in the world are born from water, but in this sect that relies on water, they are divided into two categories, one is specialized in the method of water control, using spells, and defeating the enemy with water. One type specializes in water, passes the world's waterways, gathers into gangs, or engages in business or martial arts. The former type of sect is the leader of the Twelve Bridges and the women's sect Qingye Gate in the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou, especially the Qingye Gate, which specializes in the art of controlling water, and its prestige shakes the rivers and lakes.

Hu Buwei had seen the female disciple of the Twelve Bridges, and the girl surnamed Qi could instantly freeze ice and turn water at her fingertips, and her spells were indeed extremely powerful. He has also seen the disciples of the Aoba Gate, speaking of which, his son Hu Tan was born because Zhao Funan gave him the elixir and resurrected his wife. How Zhao Funan's kung fu spells are, he has not seen it, but Fan Tongyou is well-informed, and he said that Qingye Gate is powerful, it must be extraordinary.

The latter type of gang is much more complicated. As long as there are rivers and lakes in the world, there are such sects, and there are as many of them as as cattle hairs. Because you are familiar with the water, you can join the gang, and the threshold is very low, so many people who grow up by the river do not want to suffer from the suffering of fishing in the sun, and would rather join the gang to become a gang.

And these gangs rely on nothing more than two things to make a living, one is to rely on water to trade, goods from the south to the north and things to the west to the east, and the other type is a green forest in the river, relying on the water to be familiar, and robbing merchants who come and go. Merchants also have to spend their hearts and energy, and they also need to have a large amount of money as capital, and robbery does not have to be so troublesome, as long as there are dozens of brothers in the gang who are water-based, the river is covered with a barrage, and the open fire knife is scared on the boat, and the harvest is very rich. As a result, the latter group of gangs makes up the majority.

For hundreds of years, I don't know how many heroes and heroes have been planted in the water. Because the water nature is not as good as others, some heroes are strong in martial arts, or they specialize in the five elements spells, but they can't be used in the water, and they are pulled into the river by the water ghosts who have been prepared, and no matter how brave the heroes are, they can't hold a stick of incense.

Hu Bu was afraid of Fan Tongyou's words. Old man Hu is a full landlubber, in case he is really unlucky to meet a robbery, needless to say, landlubbers only have the share of people to slaughter. Fan Tongyou also listed all kinds of tragic conditions of the drowned, what eyes bulged out of their mouths, and their bodies were swollen like sheepskin air bags, Hu Buwei listened to the hair in his heart, and for a while he only felt that the wind outside the ship was loud, and it was very dangerous, and there seemed to be thousands of wicked people in the shadows who were eyeing the ship he was on.

Frightened by this terrible conjecture, how could I sleep this night? Leaning on the bulkhead with great vigilance, I pricked up my ears and listened only to the underwater movements.

Fortunately, there was nothing to do all night, although Jiang Tao was anxious at night. But I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary. I don't know if those heroes in the green forest in the river can't look down on this little broken boat. When it was dawn, no one came to rob him. Hu Buwei is extremely tired. When he saw the daylight, he was relieved and fell into a deep sleep. The sky is clear. In broad daylight, I don't think those water thieves will choose such a time to do evil.

This sleep was in Gwangju. By noon, Qin Su gently shook him awake, listening to the noise of people outside, the boat had arrived on the ground.

Drilling out of the cabin, the sun was dazzling. The dock is full of people coming and going, and it is very lively. There are many passenger ships and merchant ships parked everywhere on the water, and there are many exquisite buildings with carved railings and paintings, and there are even 100-foot giant merchant ships anchored near the shore. The masts and the sails cover the sky, these are all merchant ships transporting cloth feet and rice goods, and they stop in Gwangju to replenish.

The three of them paid the fare and stepped onto the dock, Fan Tongyou said with a smile: "Have a good meal here, and buy a few horses to go in the afternoon." We went west to Tangzhou, then to Jinzhou, and then turned north. Change the waterway from Jingzhao Mansion and go west along the Wei River for four days to reach Xizhou. ”

Qin and Hu had no objections, and walked towards the city in the crowd. Hu Buwei saw the hustle and bustle of the boatmen around him, and the noise was deafening. I remembered what happened last year, when I was in Gwangju, surrounded by a group of indiscriminate characters. These people are shameless and cooperate against him. almost took the lives of his Hu family's father and son. If it weren't for the fact that there was a Qinglong warrior who took action at that time, there would be no one Hu who would set foot in Gwangju again at this moment.

This is not a good place. Hu Buwei really doesn't want to be fun in this city. However, the old drunkard surnamed Fan stayed on the boat for two days, and the wine insects were infested, and last night he was impatient to say that he wanted to go to Gwangju to satisfy his hunger, and he nagged for half a night, only saying how the aged osmanthus wine in Gwangju City was mellow and sweet, and smacking his lips while talking...... How can a person who has been addicted to alcohol have a reason to listen to persuasion? I had no choice but to relieve his addiction to alcohol first, and then try to plan slowly, I just hope that this half day will be safe and sound, and no accidents will happen.

The three followed each other and headed south from the port. Hu Buwei was uneasy because of his knots, so he always looked into the crowd when he shrank his head and opened his eyes, and always felt that everyone who passed by seemed to be a suspicious person.

Seeing that he was about to walk out of the long bridge on the wharf, Hu Buwei suddenly saw that at the gate ahead, there were four officials standing in the crowd! Several officials were dressed in tie clothes, their hands hanging down the hilts of their swords, and their eyes were blazing, and they were only looking inside the crowd, obviously looking for someone. Hu Buwei was shocked in his heart, he is now a wanted criminal in the government, although he has been hiding and escaped for a year, but who knows if the prefect surnamed Chen will forget him. If these officials really come to arrest him, it will be a big deal.

For a while, he beat a drum in his heart, and quietly pulled Qin Su's clothes. Qin Su turned around and wanted to ask him. But Hu Buwei saw that those officials were looking at this side, how dare they speak, and their faces were forced to be calm, for fear that the slightest panic would fall into their eyes and arouse suspicion.

The more he was afraid of accidents, the more things would happen.

Just when he was nervous, he saw four officials gathered together to talk to each other, and after a while, one of them left in a hurry, and the other three pulled out their swords and unsheathed them at the same time, occupying the entrance and exit crossings, and raised their voices and shouted: "Everyone on the wharf is listening! The government has arrested Wang Yanhui, the thief of Jiangyang, and has been ordered to search all the ferries! Everyone should stop where they are and must not move without permission!"

The shout was like thunder, and everyone on the dock stopped. The shipwrights who carried the goods all laid down their shoulders and listened to the arrangement, and the merchants whispered to each other for news.

Seeing that everyone was quiet, another official said softly: "We have learned that this thief has hurt heaven and reason, robbed Cao Yun along the Huai River, attacked merchants and injured many lives. Now he is being arrested by the imperial court, and he has changed his disguise and wants to blend into Gwangju City. We only take the robber surnamed Wang, and have nothing to do with the rest of the people, don't be afraid, good people, if you want to enter the city, please go yourself, line up to enter and exit, and you can pass after routine inspection. ”

As they spoke, six or seven men ran away from behind them, and only hurried towards the city. The officials shouted a few times, but they did not chase after them, but only shouted to the people on the dock: "Queue!

Everyone was afraid of the authority of the official and did not dare to disobey, so they obediently automatically merged into two columns and went in and out under the inspection of the officials.

The Huai River is an important transportation waterway in the Central Plains, there are more than thousands of merchant ships coming and going every day, shipping is prosperous, and there are many bandits, and most of the merchants who come and go from the south to the north have the experience of being robbed. When it comes to water bandits, everyone hates them. Therefore, when the government heard that the robbers were arrested, no one objected.

In a group of people, they are only suspicious.

Why didn't these officials set up a card before they said they were arresting the bandits? Why did they suddenly shout that they wanted to take the thieves after seeing the three of them? Could it really be such a coincidence? Did the robber Wang Yanhui really go ashore at this hour? Second, since the cross-dressing robber was arrested. Then everyone on this dock is suspicious, why did six or seven people flee in a hurry. Hu Buwei's eyesight was extremely poisonous, and he had already seen clearly the faces of the few people who fled in a hurry in the moment just now, and he concluded that these people were definitely not part of the official errands. There is a man with purple and red faces, thick hands and feet, obviously from a farmer, and there is also a martial arts skill, agile, three or two ups and downs disappeared in the distance, if these two people are also in the government on an errand, it is absolutely unreasonable.

So it's weird. Since taking the thief. But what is the reason for not chasing the escaped suspect?

Hu Buwei faintly felt that things were not so simple. It seemed that a huge conspiracy was looming over the three of them, but he couldn't be sure. The words of the three officials are conclusive, and they do not seem to be fake. And after listening to the conversation of the merchants near Zuo, it seems that there is really a big thief who is escaping, and the government is arresting him everywhere.

Could it be that he is too timid and suspicious?

Hu Buwei didn't know. However, from my own experience years ago, it seems that being suspicious is a good thing. Prudence is the best way to save lives. If you take everything for granted and don't think about it, maybe the next moment will be the time to die.

With this layer of doubt in his heart, he became vigilant in every possible way and took Qin Su's hand. Whisper to her to be on guard. The old ghost surnamed Fan didn't have these concerns, he was thirsty and thirsty, but he cared about Hu Buwei and the three of them. It's not good to cast spells to break through the enclosure, and all that comes out of my mouth is cursing.

Hu Buwei found out. After several officials said that they wanted to arrest the thief, several people disappeared from the crowd unconsciously. I don't know where I'm hiding.

The crowd moved slowly forward. Hu Buwei and the three of them were sandwiched in the middle of the queue and at the back, and when they saw that the official in front of them really took out the arrest notice, compared the pedestrians one by one according to the portrait album, and then let them go.

"Seeing that they are so careful with their inspection, maybe they really caught the thief. Hu Buwei thought to himself. The officials were very patient in the inspection, carefully looked at the people's appearances, removed the hats, and pulled out the beards with their hands, as if they were really comparing the atlas. And he didn't give Hu Buwei another glance at the three of them from the beginning to the end.

"I've been hiding my tracks for more than a year, so if Governor Chen can't find it, he should forget me. He doesn't always want to catch me. Hu Buwei thought about it without luck, losing a criminal soldier iron order, it was not worth it for Master Chen to sleep and eat for more than a year. In comparison, he found the characters who kept saying that he had killed dozens of people were tricky. These people don't listen to reason, and they kill as soon as they strike, alas, I just hope that I don't run into them.

Just as he was thinking wildly, he heard a sudden commotion in the crowd in front of him.

The two young men in the queue in front of them blushed and grabbed each other by the necks, and both of them rushed out of the queue. One person said angrily: "I treat you as a good brother and treat each other with sincerity everywhere, why are you cursing me? What is my father and mother hindering you in the way and letting you do this? Are you talking about human words?"

Another young man's cheeks were sharpened, and he also had an angry face: "I just said it casually, and you just hold on to it, what is the reason? The eldest husband is broad-minded, so he is a little offended, and he should be forgiving, you say that you treat me with sincerity, where does this sincerity come from?"

"You can insult me as much as you want, but you can't insult my parents!"

The two argued, and the merchants before and after persuaded each other. But the two of them didn't seem to listen to it, one sentence on the left and one sentence on the right, and after arguing for a while, the sharp-faced man was not angry, and suddenly punched the chest, beating the young man who spoke and scolded first. Now the feud is big, the man who was beaten was furious, pounced forward, and the two instantly became a ball, and everyone next to them avoided it.

After only a short fight, the battle situation was already clear, and the sharp-faced man was victorious, pushing his companion to the rear with a push, impartially, and just fell at the feet of Fan Tongyou and Hu Buwei. Hu Buwei didn't want to cause trouble, so he raised his feet and was about to avoid it, but unexpectedly, he heard the man on the ground say in a low voice: "Uncle Fan, it turns out that you are here! ”

Fan Tongyou and Hu Buwei were surprised, turned their eyes to him, and listened to him say: "The government has mobilized people to arrest you, you go quickly! Master Yun and Master Mu have arrived in Gwangju, and I will inform them. ”

Fan Tongyou was shocked when he heard this, and before he could ask, he saw an official hurriedly running over here to dissuade him, and the young man hurriedly turned over, scolded angrily, and rushed forward to beat his companions.

Sure enough, there was a conspiracy! That old man Chen was really like a maggot attached to the bones, and he caught up with him! Hu Buwei was so shocked that his face turned pale.

It has only been half a month since the soul was restored, who knows that he has only run out of Hejiazhuang for a few days, and he has fallen into a new round of pursuit, is it true that God can't see him live a comfortable life for a few days?

Hu Buwei was full of sadness and resentment, but now that the timing was critical, he could no longer sigh. Seeing the two Hejiazhuang outer helm disciples pretending to push for a moment, they chased and fled, and instantly jumped over the pass guarded by the three officials and ran towards the city. The officials had other plans, and they did not chase after them.

Hu Buwei's brain teaser also began to think of a way to get out.

Their goal is to punish the iron order.

I don't know if if Master Chen will let them go if he returns the iron order to them? Hu Buwei is not actually greedy for treasures, this piece of iron obtained by mistake has caused him to die for nine lives, he has long wanted to get rid of it, but he has never been able to get it. If at this time, he could exchange the iron order of the criminal soldiers with both hands in exchange for peaceful coexistence with the government, then he would return it immediately without hesitation.

But today's situation is complicated. If you return the iron order, can you really get peace? Hu Buwei didn't know, so he hesitated in his heart.

"Let's go back to the boat!" When Hu Buwei had no good solution, he heard Fan Tongyou in front of him speak in a deep voice. The old drunkard obviously realized that the situation was urgent, and changed his previous chaotic and mediocre appearance, and his face was extremely serious. Although he wasn't quite sure what was going on, it seemed that the two elders of Yunmu were alarmed, and the matter was quite troublesome. The wise man seeks good fortune and avoids disaster, and the best strategy now is to leave Gwangju as soon as possible.

The three of them hurriedly pulled out of the crowd and ran against the river.

Seeing this, the three officials shouted in unison, left the people in front of them to be investigated, and chased after them with knives.

"Stop!

"If you run again, you will abscond in fear of crime, and after you are caught, the crime will be increased!"

These officials really used tricks to stumble them, and the so-called arrest of the thieves and strict investigation were all aimed at deceiving the three of them!

Hearing the shouts of several officials, the three of them were willing to stop, and their footsteps were dusty, and they ran to the boarding port after a while. But in the middle of the river there was no longer the passenger boat that had brought them before, and there was now a dilapidated fishing boat parked in that place, and the old fisherman and fisherwoman were cooking in the bow.

Fan Tongyou shouted: "Jump down! Let's go down the river!" Qin and Hu didn't dare to slack off, and jumped off the dock, the boat was shaken from side to side, and the water sounded continuously. The old couple did not expect this accident, and they screamed in astonishment, and fell in one direction. The iron pot on the stove overturned, the water poured into the fire, the smoke filled the air, the steamer fell to the ship's board, and the couple's lunch rolled out, a bowl of small fish and shrimp, four black-flour steamed buns, and suddenly stained with stucco.

Fan Tongyou's palm was like the wind, and he cut off the rope on the dock at once, jumped into the boat, and held up his penny.

"Drink!" exhaled, and the strength passed through the penny to point the wooden stake in the water, only to "tuk!", the dock platform made of wooden planks shook sharply, and a penny with the thickness of an arm bent into a full moon. After the boat was supported by this full of strength, it was as fast as an arrow from the string, shooting straight into the river, and the waves splashed on both sides of the board formed a whole water curtain.

"Stop! Stop! Those who dare to resist arrest will not be punished with the law!" The three officials on the shore stopped at the ferry and shouted at the boat in the river.

Fan Tongyou was silent, holding the basket and slowly ferrying, rowing the boat to the center of the river, surging in the middle of the river, and after a few turns of the boat, it slowly drifted downstream with the rolling waves.