Catkins flying, people on the water. Xintianyou, cast a net to fish for shrimp. The wind comes with the branches, and the geese and ducks are idle.
"Father, daddy, come and see, a basket of shrimps, I caught a basket of prawns last night after I fished all night, dad, look at it."
Not far from the pier, in the house of a ship-based home, a five-year-old girl with two horns pierced and tugged, jumped into the cabin from the outside, and pulled a face full of wind and frost. Middle-aged people of a specific age go away.
"Be careful, don't fall down and climb up wet again. Go, a prawn can change two buckets of rice, and you can pull a few feet of cloth to make a piece of clothing."
The middle-aged man touched the little girl's head affectionately, and said as he walked, he had been pulled by the little girl to the deck of the boat outside. At this time, there was a fifteen-year-old child, or a little man, on the bow of the boat. He set up a thin line for shrimp fishing, and stood beside a shrimp basket, grinning.
"Feng'er, did you fish a lot yesterday?" the middle-aged man asked while looking at his son.
"Father, you see, the place chosen last night is good. You can catch one in a while and put a basket in it." The big boy called Feng'er pointed to the shrimp basket happily.
The middle-aged man walked up to look at the lively shrimps in the shrimp basket. He quickly took a big wooden basin, filled it with water, and poured the shrimps into it.
"Father, I just poured the shrimp from the net bag into the Louzi. What are you doing? Didn't you sell it to the dock?" Feng'er felt sorry for the results of his work just now.
The middle-aged man saw that only two shrimps had died, and he was relieved, “It’s for sale, but don’t sell it to the wharf here. If you sell it here, you can only exchange it for a bucket of rice. Sell it in Shuiyun. The price is high, Feng'er will go to rest first, father and your mother will stay together, and will be there in half a day."
"Brother, go to bed, Dad said to make clothes for me, not to buy them here." The little girl persuaded there too, ran in front of her brother, took her brother's big hand, and dragged it into the cabin.
With the joint efforts of the parents of the two children, the boat as a family headed upstream, waiting for the water and clouds to sell for a higher price.
The people on the wharf did not stop it. The price they charged was indeed low. The restaurant has not been built yet. There is only a simple house to make something for people to eat. The food can’t be sold at high prices, and it’s just waiting to learn from Shuiyun in the future. Then buy some special seasoning from Zhang's family.
The pier here is really not far from the water and clouds. If you are going down from the upper reaches of the boat, you will be able to get there in two hours, and it will be slower if you go boating against the current.
The husband and wife had a tacit understanding of cooperating with the boat. The boat was facing the water and the speed was not too slow for people to watch. After traveling for nearly two hours, when they could get to the place for a while, the two began to rest one by one, and wait for a while. Changing.
At this moment, more than 20 people suddenly appeared on both sides of the strait. Just like that day, a rope was thrown to the opposite side and blocked in front of the boat.
A person on the right bank shouted: "The people on the boat, throw 20 live fish over, take money if there is no live fish, and want to go there and get ten wen."
The man on the boat was taken aback for a moment. They didn’t expect these people to be so courageous that their house would not go down because of the unstable conditions. They were only on the part of the road between the wharf and the water and clouds. Today, there are people who dare to be here. Where to stop the boat
"Let you take the money, why be in a daze? If you don't take it, don't blame the stone in our hand for not having eyes." A man on the left bank threw a stone up and down there, shouting to the middle-aged man in a boat.
The middle-aged man glanced at the wooden basin on the boat and sighed, "Everyone, do I have spare money in my house? There is also a pot of shrimps here. It's better to take half of it and sell it for less than ten cents."
"Bring the boat here, I'll take a look." The man on the right bank beckoned when he heard the shrimp, and had made up his mind to get everything.
A man holding a stone next to him was flattering there at this time. "The boss is amazing. These days, more than 200 people have been found. The night before, more than 20 boats were intercepted. The goods on it were worth 300. Guan, the river that the boss chose is really profitable."
Someone said it first, and others followed, and a voice of flattery sounded from the shore on the right.
The middle-aged man pushed the boat to the shore slowly, and someone immediately jumped onto the boat, looked down at the shrimp in the basin, and shouted to the bottom: "Come on, the shrimp is good. I will sell it to others later. Take it away together."
"This little brother, it's not possible. I just said that it's half good. Leave some for my house. The pots can't be taken." The middle-aged people didn't expect that they were going to take these shrimps with the pots, and they mourned anxiously. Said the voice.
"If you want to die and want to live? Don't move if you want to live." The man ignored it at all and shouted at the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man took two steps back in fright, his eyes full of helplessness and panic.
"If you want to die and live, don't move if you want to live." Another voice came, the same as the man on the boat yelled.
People on both sides of the strait looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw nearly a hundred horses coming from both sides of the water and clouds, immediately sitting one by one in Sanshui County's yads, and on the water in some places, it was vaguely able to I saw several boats being rowed down the current.
The Yamen in Sanshui County pulled their bows one by one, and flashing arrows pointed at the robbers on both sides of the strait.
The robber really didn't dare to move this time. Someone who wanted to jump into the river and escape, saw the boat getting closer and closer, and gave up this plan.
"You're so courageous, you just stopped the boat down there a few days ago, asking for a little less money. I thought you couldn't find a way to survive, so I didn't spare your hands to clean up you. I didn't expect that there were too many people, so I dared to snatch them. When the goods are available, I ran to this side, and I have gained a lot of skills."
One person rushed out of the yakuza and shouted to the people on both sides with a sneer.
They were the news they received the night before. They rushed to Shuiyunjian from the Yamen yesterday. They wanted to patrol here today, but they met people as soon as they arrived.
Being pointed at by a bow and arrow, the culprit did not dare to move, and the person in the lead also changed his complexion. Didn’t you forget the result of the yamen who went to Sanshui County from Huayuan County?”
"Hahahaha." The public servants laughed at the same time. The servants who had previously shouted said to the head of the gangster: "You still know a lot, and you still remember the original things. Then why don't you know the magistrate of Huayuan County? Who is it? Isn't it pretending to be confused with us? It's all tied up, who dares to resist and kill!"
"Yes." The public officials lowered their bows, took out the knives and rushed to the front, and immediately used the back of the knives to knock down some people who dared to stand.
The gangsters didn't dare to resist, but it seemed that they were not too scared. They were tied up one by one, connected with a rope, and stood there, raising their heads to look at the re-installed government servants.
"Let's talk about it, anyone else, where are they, solved it at exactly one time, and no one is allowed to make trouble in this river."
The leader of the government servant put the knife on the head of the culprit and asked.
"If you want to arrest someone, then follow me and tell you that it is not good for you to arrest us, and it will cause you trouble." The culprit said with an ugly face, and headed towards the downstream direction for the convenience of supervision. The patrol boats of the government officials came over and sent the gangsters on the left bank to the right bank, where they were put under custody.
"Brother, if you continue on the road, we won't accompany you." The last yaman said to the middle-aged man on the boat and rode away.
The middle-aged man exhaled and looked at those leaving figures, and shouted into the cabin: "It's okay, the government officials in Sanshui County are really powerful, and they will look mighty one by one. We won't go to other places in the future. Just on this river, with their protection, you are not afraid."
A small head with two horns on its head emerged from the cabin first, and looked around, then the whole body jumped out, patted his chest with his small hands, and said to the middle-aged man: "Father, it was really scary just now. I thought my shrimp would be snatched away."
"Don't be afraid. The official staff is here. After a while, I will be more stable when I get to Shuiyunjian. Dad wants to send you to the school of Zhangjiazhuangzi. In the future, if you learn something, the girl can't be worse than others. Then Dad will do it everyday Go over when you sell things, give them some money, and you will be there for your board and lodging."
The middle-aged man thought of the government servants in Sanshui County just now, and thought of Zhangjiazhuangzi, thinking that his daughter should also go to school, so that he could marry a good family in the future.
The little girl blinked her big eyes and nodded. She didn’t know what’s going to happen in the future. She just thought that there would be many children playing together. When she learned it, she would teach her to her brother. I heard that there was a good study, and we would give some back. Things that can be used at ordinary times.
When the gang escorted a group of gangsters to the pier, Zhang Zhong also came here. After hearing that a merchant ship had been robbed the night before, he wanted to send people from the county to take a look. For training, people had to go to Sanshui County to say hello, where the government officials were much better than those in Huayuan County.
Before dawn today, I set off from the foot of the mountain and came over to take a look for myself. I didn't realize that, as soon as I arrived at the dock, I saw that the Yamen in Sanshui County had captured some people first.
Under the protection of the guards, they stepped forward and looked at them one by one.
"My lord, this is the leader among them. It seems to be instructed to come over. The younger one asked him, but he didn't say anything." The leader of the government was Chen Dong. Seeing Zhang Zhong came, he respectfully stepped forward and pointed to the gangster's leader. .
Zhang Zhong is now a bit adaptable to his official position. Since he cleaned up Xiao Chi once the day before yesterday, his heart has also become cruel. He glanced at the head of the gangster and told the guard: "You come and ask. Said that he intended to assassinate the court commander and was killed on the spot."
"Yes." The two guards untied the culprit's head, and at the same time pulled the culprit's head by the shoulders and twisted vigorously. When the scream and a clear dislocation sounded at the same time, the culprit's head arm had been removed. , Let the two people drag to the side.
"You can't kill me, you just wait for revenge if you kill me." The head of the gangster was finally frightened at this time, and shouted when he was dragged away, the two guards were completely indifferent.