"Last night, when I came back from the street, I heard that the rich Songshan Manor had also been raided by the Crow Gang!" the fisherman sighed, "These bandits who do all kinds of evil, who in the world does not panic now!"

Then he said, "Girl, it's not safe here, if you can trust us and your wife, then go to our boat and take shelter, besides, in such a season, the wind is high and the frost is cold, and the children are also vulnerable to cold here!"

"But we're going to wait for someone here. Yu Biyuan said. He felt kindness in the other party's simple words and deeds, and she did not doubt them.

"This is easy to do," said the fisherman heartily, "you tell me what the man I am waiting for is like, I will wait for him here, you and my mother-in-law and the children will be led to our boat!"

So, the fisherman stayed, and he asked his mother-in-law to lead Yu Biyuan and the two children to the boat first.

It didn't take long for the fisherman to see a blood-stained young man carrying a black-sheathed sword, approaching in a panic. At first, the fisherman did not dare to confirm it, for fear that admitting it would bring trouble. Therefore, he hid in the depths of the reeds and watched again.

When he saw the young man looking back and forth, and running up and down the slope and looking anxiously around, he was sure that the young man in front of him, anxiously looking for something, must be the young man named Niu Fen that the girl had said.

So he got up, walked over, and patted the young man on the shoulder.

Unexpectedly, the other party was agile, and immediately pinned his arm to his back, and suddenly he was in pain, howling like a pig.

"Young man spares his life...... Young man spare his life!" he mourned.

"Who are you?" asked Niu Fen.

"My name is Li Dajiang, and I am a fisherman. The fisherman said, "Your wife and children are on my boat." ”

"You took them?"

"No, I'm a good person. Li Dajiang said, "Just now the Crow Gang passed by on the slope, and it was very unsafe here, so I asked your wife and children to take shelter on my boat, so I waited here for you to come back!"

"Come on, take me to see," said Niu Fen, "and it is better not to play any tricks on me, or I will kill you." ”

"Okay! Go down this reed slope, and you'll be there. The fisherman said.

"Your boat is down there?"

"That's right. ”

"Let's go!" Niu Fen said as he pushed him from behind.

"Let's go, let's see if there's anyone in the reeds ahead!" muttered a fierce voice in the distance.

"Niu Shaoxia, did you hear that? The people of the Crow Gang have already chased after us!" Li Dajiang said, "Let's not let it take time, you have to let go of me, so that we can go faster!"

So, Niu Fen let go of the fisherman, and the two walked down the slope, using reeds as cover, and quietly got on the fishing boat.

It was a small fishing boat, pointed at the ends and wide in the middle, with an arched canopy made of bamboo strips and canvas and dumpling leaves, and plywood to distinguish the front and rear cabins. Beneath the lid of the shed was a bed of embroidered red quilts, a wooden comb and a small bronze mirror hung from the walls, and in the corner lay a few children's clothes and a half-worn rattle. At the stern of the boat, next to the wall of the shed, there was a stucco stove, and on the wall of the shed was covered with a small black iron pot, and on the deck below the small iron pot lay a clay basin, in which there was still a little uneaten white porridge and a small wooden spoon sticky with white porridge, and a stack of coarse porcelain rice bowls and vegetable plates, and a handful of freshly washed bamboo chopsticks.

All this constitutes a picture of the warm life of a fisherman's family. In addition, under the back cover of this boat, there is a small partition, in which some fresh live fish are kept, and these fish, they originally planned to go to Luoyan City in the morning to take advantage of the morning market, and get a good price. Unexpectedly, the sky is unpredictable - but the Raven Gang disrupts their good plan.

Yu Biyuan followed the fisherman's mother-in-law to the boat. In order not to be seen by those passing by the reed slope, they all entered the cabin.

"Just sit on the bed, and sit as you please!" said the woman. Immediately, she scooped a spoonful of peanuts and fried beans from a cloth bag with a large wooden spoon from under a mobile letterpress at the head of the bed, and put it in a clean bamboo dustpan and handed it to the bed board in front of them.

"Eat, these are some snacks from my hometown. "I know you haven't eaten yet, and you're hungry!" said the woman, "and she was very courteous and simple, and had the typical style of a peasant woman." Her clothes seemed to be old, the colors of the fabric were blurred, and she was bare like her husband, with the ends of her trousers pulled up and barefoot. However, she was concentrating on pinning a freshly picked mountain chrysanthemum to her sideburns.

From this point, it can be shown that her busy life has not worn out her yearning for beauty.

"Judging by your dress, you must be from a big family!" the woman said as she looked at Yu Biyuan. She peeled the peanuts and stuffed the kernels into the mouth of the little girl in her arms, so the little girl ate the peanuts that her mother had peeled and played intently with the peanut shells that her mother had thrown on the bed. Sometimes she pushes the peanut shells like a boat, sometimes she stacks several peanut shells on top of each other so that they all collapse on their own, and sometimes she looks at the little friends opposite, these new guests, with her innocent eyes.

Yu Biyuan did not answer the other party's question, but she did not deny it, she just asked the other party instead.

"Sister-in-law, where are you from?" she asked, peeling peanuts and stuffing them into the child's mouth, as she did.

"We are from Lujiang!" said the woman, "For fishermen like us, the boat is our home, and the rivers and mountains are the fields where we cultivate, and wherever the river flows, our cultivation goes!"

"Then you don't have a permanent home?"

"There is a house in my hometown," said the woman, "and we have seldom been back to our hometown since the death of her grandparents, and it has been almost two or three years now! ”

"This place must be far away from the Lujiang River!" Yu Biyuan asked again.

"It's not far! It's three to five days down the river. The woman said.

"Go and see the reeds!" Suddenly they heard someone shouting on the reed slope, and they were so frightened that they did not dare to speak.

"The wicked ones are here again!" whispered the woman, who cautiously poked out half of her face to spy out the movement, and saw that the reed slopes were crowded with men, all of whom had sharp weapons in their hands.

The woman's face turned pale with fright, and the people in the boat were terrified.

At that moment, the hull of the ship suddenly shook, as if it was moving towards the center of the river, and then there was a bang! Someone jumped onto the boat. Then, there was the sound of pulling out the water.