The more Chen Guanglu thought about it, the more annoyed he became, so he simply took his men and walked out of the inn.
"Hey! Be careful, your enemies might come to you soon."
Huang Xiwen called out behind him.
He was a retainer of Prince Cheng's Mansion, and collected grain in Qinchuan County together with Chen Guanglu, and they had a restraining relationship with each other.
Huang Xiwen felt very relieved to see Chen Guanglu getting into trouble today.
Chen Guanglu ignored him but was extremely alert in his heart.
The Jiang family is not a good group of people, and I have to work for Prince Cheng, so I dare not act too ostentatiously. Otherwise, my revenge would not be so troublesome.
But killing a few people was not something Chen Guanglu had not done before. He could just take a few people and kill them directly.
But after the murder, he could no longer move around in Qinchuan County and Zhouhe County, and he would be of little use to Prince Cheng.
That's why Chen Guanglu has been holding back his anger until now.
Chen Guanglu only breathed a sigh of relief when the Prince of Cheng gave him an order to take Zhou Wuchang's young disciple Jiang Yingbao to the county town.
This is great, I don’t have to worry about anything.
However, there has been no news from the three people sent out yesterday. I don’t know whether they were delayed because they didn’t have the chance to take action, or they were captured by someone.
Chen Guanglu looked around and walked towards the dock.
If the mission to capture someone failed, he could just walk away. Prince Cheng didn't require him to complete the mission, so he was not in a hurry.
Arriving at the dock, I looked at the big ship with satisfaction.
With this shipload of food, I can consider myself to have accomplished a great deed.
He did not ask for anything else. As long as he succeeded in becoming a prince and was awarded a title, his Chen family would become a noble family and his descendants would enjoy endless wealth and glory for generations.
By then, let alone the small Jiang family, even that Wu Shi would be as easy to kill as killing an ant.
Just as he was thinking, a little kid suddenly ran towards him and shouted, "My dear, someone is waiting for you over there. He said he has something important to report!"
Chen Guanglu's heart skipped a beat and he asked the kid, "Who asked you to deliver the message?"
The little kid was eating a piece of sugar cake in his hand and mumbled, "A black-faced uncle."
"How many people does he have?" Chen Guanglu looked around.
The little kid stuffed the last bit of the cake into his mouth and said loudly, "A man said that his leg was broken and he couldn't walk."
Chen Guanglu signaled his men to look in the direction the little boy pointed, and he quickly ran towards the big ship.
He was sure that the idiot Gao Xun had messed up the job.
And his intuition told him that the Jiang family would never let it go.
The only option now was to avoid all dangers and hide himself until he left Qinchuan County.
When he arrived at the sampan, there were porters carrying food in front and behind. He followed one of the porters and stepped onto the sampan.
When he was halfway there, someone bumped into him from behind.
Chen Guanglu was caught off guard and was knocked into the river.
He could swim normally, so he calmed down after being frightened.
But for some reason, his feet seemed to be tightly entangled by something, dragging him straight to the bottom of the water.
Chen Guanglu was shocked and tried to struggle but to no avail.
The thing swam deeper and deeper into the water, like a haunted water ghost.
Gradually, Chen Guanglu's mind became blurred and he finally fell into darkness.
On the shore, several people emerged from the water, swam to the shore, and waved to the people in the boat: "There is no one underwater. They must have been swept to the bottom of the river."
Everyone sighed.
"Alas, why did he run to the sampan for no reason? Now he is dead."
Someone asked: "Who bumped into Mr. Chen just now? Why didn't he get ashore?"
"Who knows? The sacks are pressing us down so hard that we can't even lift our heads. Who would care who is in front or behind us?"
"That's right. That person also fell into the river and hasn't shown up since. He's probably dead too."
"Oh, what bad luck!"
Everyone was talking about it, but soon someone came over and ordered them to shut up and forget about what happened today.
It’s no big deal if a few people don’t drown in the river one day.
Huang Xiwen immediately ordered people to transport the food as quickly as possible and leave Qinchuan County by boat tonight.
Far downstream from the pier, a large gourd emerged from the bottom of the water, and at one end of the gourd there was a little girl paddling hard.
It was she, together with her father, who tied a rope around the tail of a big fish and tied the other end to Chen Guanglu's feet, allowing the fish to send Chen Guanglu to heaven.
The difficulty is neither big nor small.
Because she had to catch a big fish with a pill first, and then put it into the cave.
Afterwards, the old man disguised himself as a porter and knocked Chen Guanglu off the sampan.
Then, Jiang Sanlang used the rope thrown by the little girl to tie it around Chen Guanglu's feet.
No matter how good Chen Guanglu is at swimming, he cannot escape death this time.
Yingbao climbed ashore and it was already dark.
She took out a set of dry clothes and changed into them before letting her father and the horse out.
When Jiang Sanlang came out, he breathed a sigh of relief to see that his daughter was fine.
The little girl took him into a cave at the bottom of the river, and along with it a large amount of river water, which washed away many fungi growing by the pool.
Fortunately, only a small area was washed away and other places were not affected.
However, it seems that a lot of fish and shrimps have been washed into the pond, and I don’t know whether they will affect the pond water.
The father and daughter returned home overnight, and it was almost dawn.
Chunniang was so worried that she didn't sleep a wink all night. When she saw her husband and daughter return safely, she immediately went to cook for them.
"Don't worry, we've already eaten, you should take a rest. Baoer is tired too, let her have a good sleep." Jiang Sanlang stopped his wife from working and lay back on the kang.
My daughter has been soaking in the cold water for quite some time, and I don’t know if she will get sick.
Jiang Sanlang briefly recounted the whole story, saying only that Chen Guanglu fell into the river and disappeared, and he did not mention anything else to his wife.
Chunniang did not ask any further questions. She added some wheat straw under her daughter's kang, and then went back to the room and lay down side by side with her husband.
In the blink of an eye, it was March and the spring rain kept falling.
Although the rain was not heavy, it rained continuously all day without sunshine, causing the crops to begin to grow mold.
As May approached, it was still rainy and cloudy, and the crops showed signs of abnormality. The newly mature wheat ears and millet began to sprout, which made the villagers extremely anxious.
It is too early to harvest now, as most of the wheat is still green and cannot be stored.
But if they are not harvested, large fields of wheat ears will sprout and we can barely eat them, but this kind of wheat is extremely easy to mold and cannot be preserved.
The villagers were in tears and came to ask Jiang Sanlang what to do.
Jiang Sanlang was helpless.
This year, not only did the wheat ears sprout and become moldy, but even the growth of fungus began to deteriorate.
Many of them were infested with worms and turned black before they even grew up.
There was no other choice but to discard this batch of mushroom ears, re-steam the nutrient medium, and cultivate the next batch of mushroom ears.
The Jiang family's mushrooms were not affected, especially the mushrooms grown by Yingbao, which were still plump and big.
That day, Yingbao and Erni went outside the village to pick locust tree flowers, when they suddenly saw a large group of soldiers riding horses galloping towards them.
They were all wearing armor and carrying bows and arrows, looking like they had just come down from the battlefield.
Yingbao instinctively pulled Erni sister to hide behind a tree and told her not to make any sound, but Dahuang, who came with them, didn't know what his little master meant and barked at the cavalrymen frantically.
Then Yingbao saw the group of cavalry galloping towards this side.