Lao Xu said: "Speaking of today, the saint is still very kind, after those people worked for the emperor, the emperor did not treat them badly, they were originally smuggled to the Tang Dynasty, and the emperor ordered the Ministry of Rites to change their status to send Tang envoys and place them in the military guard yamen, which can be regarded as a positive result." ”

Lei Jingjun pondered for a long time and said: "This matter is troublesome, did those Dongying people come to us on the emperor's order?"

Wang Xinze said: "It shouldn't be like this, one is that although we are from the rivers and lakes, we don't have any festivals with the officials; second, even if there are any festivals, as long as the government sends a few officials over, if we don't want to kill the officials and rebel, we have to obediently obey orders, and we don't need to use this kind of Jianghu means." ”

After that, he took out a cloth bag from his arms, which naturally contained money, and he said: "Brother Xu, listen to my brother's advice, quit gambling in the future, otherwise you will have to die in this matter sooner or later, our brothers, this is ten taels of gold, you can buy dozens of acres of land in the countryside, and it is also a great blessing for us to be a landlord in the rivers and lakes, and I will not keep you." "Then I threw my pockets over.

Lao Xu took the gold, nodded gratefully with his eyes, walked to the hatch of the ship, and suddenly turned his head and said: "Big darthead, I just remembered that this Dongying people are also divided into two branches!"

Wang Xinzeqi said: "What is the division of labor in them?"

Lao Xu said: "In fact, it is not a division of labor, but there were many young Dongying people on Cuizhu Island back then, Sha Tonghai was unwilling to ask them, then Huang Shan couldn't bear to see them being bullied, so she told Sha Tonghai to take these people into her door, Sha Tonghai naturally agreed, and Huang Shan led them out of the martial arts training camp.

went to the depths of Cuizhu Island to open up the world and train martial arts, but he didn't expect Huang Shanji to be able to regulate his subordinates. And can be taught according to their aptitude, and later these people's martial arts are better than the people in the martial arts training camp, these people are strong in martial arts, and live in the dense bamboo forest, rarely see people, and are called hermits by the people in the martial arts training camp.

Sha Tonghai originally regretted it. wanted to bring these people back, but Huang Shan had already led those people to take refuge under Princess Taiping, who had great powers, gave these people the identity of sending Tang envoys, and also incorporated them into the guards under the princess's mansion. Sha Tonghai didn't even dare to think about it after learning about it.

When these hermits were on Cuizhu Island, I didn't have much contact with them, and then they entered the princess's mansion, and I couldn't see them anymore, so I really don't know what part this person belongs to tonight. Maybe someone broke away from the team and ran to the rivers and lakes to eat on their own. Lao Xu Neng knew that he had already finished speaking, so he said goodbye. ”

After speaking, he took a penny to support him, jumped from the boat to the shore, and his figure disappeared in the darkness.

Wang Xinze smiled bitterly: "This matter is getting more and more complicated!"

Lei Jingjun persuaded: "We don't care what his origin is, as long as we can take care of the goods." We can pay for the reward, and we don't have to spend all this brain!"

It was almost dawn that night. A few people chatted a few words and went to rest.

Strange to say, in the next few days, although the dart boat was heavily guarded, the water ghost did not come to harass again, and after the fleet turned the Huai River, it entered Luoshui, and the junction of the Huai River and Luoshui was a dangerous shoal.

At this time, the water is turbulent. The reefs are dense, and many ships run aground and sink when passing here, and most of the sailors cannot get out of the water because of the many underwater undercurrents after falling into the water, and they are drowned in the water. Legend has it that whenever the moon rises, the waters are chirping. Some people say that it is the dead water ghost who is homesick and crying, so this body of water is also called the Dead Man's Beach.

When the fleet approached Dead Man's Beach, everyone was on deck doing their duty and dealing with it carefully. After all, this is a very dangerous location, and you can't be careless. What's even more nerve-wracking is that there are many outlaws in the vicinity who will risk their lives to rob passing cargo ships. The executioners are all bent and ready to shoot at any moment. The dart masters who are good at darts and hidden weapons also hold hidden weapons in their hands.

When the fleet sailed into the Dead Man's Beach, the current was stirring. Wang Xinze passed down the order, all those who had nothing to do with the boat went to the cabin to hide, the boat bosses shouted one after another, and struggled to rock the oars to control the wooden boats to avoid one reef after another, and the heavy big boats were like duckweed in the turbid water.

Suddenly pressed to the bottom of the valley and suddenly thrown up to the peak of the waves, Li Chongyuan and others were bumped in the cabin, especially Wu Zhenyu and Guo Ziyi had already vomited, causing the surrounding dart masters to laugh.

The wooden boat was rocked and creaked, making people feel like they were about to fall apart in the next moment, but the water suddenly calmed down, just when people thought that the dangerous shoal had passed.

Suddenly, the boss of the boat shouted and shouted: "Dead man's beach, dead man's beach, just past Hades' Bay! Old and young masters work hard, cross the dangerous beach and worship the gods!"

As soon as the words passed, everyone screamed, and the wooden boat was suddenly thrown into the air, and then fell down heavily.

The dart masters were already surprised, but Wu Zhenyu was so frightened that he shouted wildly, seeing that the water wall was about to rush into the cabin, the wooden boat suddenly flew straight up again, and there was a light all around, it had already rushed out of the water, but the next moment it was thrown into the air, and it fell back to the water with Wu Zhenyu's long scream.

I don't know how long it took for the wooden boat to calm down again, Wu Zhenyu spat bitter water, and said with a pale face: "It's finally over!" The dart masters quipped: "It's still early! There is a dangerous shoal waiting behind!" Before he finished speaking, Wu Zhenyu spit out again, and everyone laughed.

In the distance, the song of the boat boss came out: "The river god shows mercy and crosses the two bays of Hades." Old and young masters, take a breath, let's break into three bays in a row!"

It turns out that there are three rapids near this dead man's beach, which is the most dangerous. Two rapids have already passed, and there is a last rapids not far ahead. As long as you can survive the last rapids safely, you will have a wide river to Luoyang.

At this moment, the boss of the ship suddenly shouted and dropped anchor, and the sailors did not dare to slack off and hurriedly pushed the heavy iron anchor into the river.

The captain of the boat pointed to the distance and shouted, "Big darthead, there are red-headed fish, and there are drifting down the river, let's not get into bad luck! Let's go around!"

Wang Xinze looked up and saw a black oil-wood boat one hundred and ten paces ahead, the black-oil-wood boat seemed to be a ship that trafficked rice grain, and there were many rice grains flowing into the river from the broken tarpaulin, and there were several corpses on the boat. The boat must have lowered its anchor, so it floated in the river and did not get swept away.

Hao Li stretched out her hand to pick up the floating rice grains from the river, which were mixed with a lot of rice bran and wheat bran, because the rice bran and wheat bran were very light and not easy to be soaked by water, so they floated on the water. (To be continued......)