A medium-sized cargo ship was moving slowly in the river with a full load of goods, and a large pottery character was written on the dizzy lantern of the ship.
The owner of the boat, surnamed Tao, does some trafficking business along the banks of the Huaihe River and Huaihe River. Recently, there have been frequent water bandits, resulting in the destruction of many accompanying boats. When they waited, they tried to hire some bodyguards who were familiar with water to escort the goods and talk to support their family.
As the night got darker, Tao Daguan calculated that he still had two days to go before he could sail to the shore and deliver the goods to the buyer.
Tao Shuo was in his late forties, when he was in his prime. The bodyguards hired this time were all introduced by friends. , but she was accompanied by a dozen men with murderous expressions on their faces, and her friends repeatedly assured each other's abilities, so she went with the boat from Gaoyou.
After a while, the cabin door was knocked from the outside, and Boss Tao went to open the door himself. Seeing Su Dart leaning against the cabin door lazily, the feeling of being unreliable came up again, but his face was still very polite: "Su Dart head please come in."
Su Datou stood at the door of the cabin, seemingly reluctant, and yawned: "The owner of the ship doesn't rest in the middle of the night, I don't know what to do with Su?"
Tao Shuo was very uneasy tonight. He was just looking for Su Dart to strengthen his courage. Seeing her lazy appearance, he secretly wondered if he had entrusted the wrong person. It's too late, so I can only use the dead horse as a live horse doctor: "Su Biaotou, I've been in shock tonight. I always feel that something is going to happen, and I have to trouble you to accompany you here."
Su Datou whispered: "Does the escort ship also work part-time to solve psychological problems for the ship owner?"
Tao Shuo: "What did Su Datou say?"
Su Datou: "...It's been a long night, I wonder if the owner has something to pass the time?"
Tao Shuo is diligent and responsible, and the accumulation of family wealth also depends on his parents Yu Yin and himself. The business depends entirely on the word prudence, and hobbies such as drinking and gambling for money to make my sister sing songs have not been cultivated. I was stunned by Su Datou's question, and he touched the abacus skillfully and pulled it twice: "Check the account?"
Su Dart: …
The two sat in the inner room, and Su Dart was bored, and soon sat drowsy, dozing off against the bulkhead.
I don't know if it was her determined expression that made people feel reassured, or if there was someone to accompany him to reduce his worries by half. Su Dart, who was dozing close to the bulkhead, had already sat up abruptly, his eyes were sharp, and he said lightly, "Come on."
With a puff, she blew out the candles in the cabin: "Boss Tao, please control your servants and don't run around." She pushed open the window and jumped out silently, before closing the window and facing him With a slight smile, it seems that the fisherman who can't wait to rush to collect the net.
Tao Shuo was at a loss, so he quietly opened the window and looked through the white moonlight on the river, but when he saw several figures flashing over the boat, they gathered around Su Dart's head and whispered a few words, and then they dispersed, and then walked from the side of the boat. A wet head appeared on the side, and just after the probe was pulled up by Su Dart's neck, the light flashed in his hand, and the water thief fell to the ground before he could make a sound.
His palms were sweating, and he immediately looked at Su Biaotou with admiration—don't look at him as a very handsome young brother, since he got on the boat, he was lazy and couldn't keep his spirits up, but the shot was really quick.
Perhaps the accomplices who started the first did not return the news, and then there were water pirates climbing up from both sides of the ship one after another. Tao Shuo gathered all the people on the ship in his room, and everyone held their breaths through the window, listening to the fighting outside. The voices were all trembling, and a young man whispered: "In the past, there were only sporadic water bandits, but this year there seem to be a lot more water bandits?"
Tao Shuo vaguely heard a friend mention that there may be a turmoil in the officialdom of the two Huaihe Rivers recently, so strange things happen frequently, the price of salt has soared, many people have come out to fish in the water, there are even groups of water bandits in various places, and local law and order is lax.
The people along the banks of the Huai River and the Huai River are sturdy, and many young people who are proletarian and unemployed do not want to sell themselves as slaves. Among the lucrative professions, many people are willing to go there. Thirty to fifty partners and crime tools such as harpoons, axes, large knives, or small and medium-sized boats carrying people and goods can make a few votes on both sides of the river. .
While talking, several water bandits had already been brought down on the boat, and after the news was leaked, someone could be heard shouting: "Brothers, hurry up, some of us are on the boat, and we can't teach them if we don't want the cargo. Go ashore!"
Tao Shuo felt a chill in his heart. He touched the banknotes and other items wrapped in oilcloth around his waist. His heart became more and more lost, and he whispered: "If they can't protect Su Datou for a while, then you can run for your own lives." The guys who followed him to make a living in the river were all about water. They were not afraid of jumping down and drowning, but being hacked to death by the water bandits in the river.
Suddenly someone shouted, "Young gang master, they're going to dig a boat—"
Tao Shuo didn't understand who was the leader of the young gang, and his heart suddenly froze, and he saw Su Dart on the boat took off his robe, and he was wearing a tight-fitting water pad. The man also jumped into the river, and he wondered in his heart: Could it be that Su Datou is the leader of the young gang
After arguing for half an hour, the noise of fighting all around finally quieted down. Tao Shuo took the lead to get up and get out of the cabin. The rear cabin, or the cargo hold at the bottom, he went to the deck by himself. Under the dim light, there was a mess everywhere, and there were more than a dozen corpses in sight, lying or reclining in a pool of blood. I don't know if all of them are water bandits or people with Su Dart's head.
On the deck, there were two men with knives standing on the deck, Tao Shuo's feet were stagnant, and he thought it was the remnants of the water bandits, and heard one of them speak: "Tao boat owner, the water bandits have been cleared, teach them all to use the torches to clean up. "
It turned out to be the head of Su Dart.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and went up to him and said, "Where's your Su Datou?"
Suddenly I heard the sound of "crashing" water, and the man standing on the side of the boat smiled and said, "Isn't this coming?"
Tao Shuo hurriedly walked over a few steps, but saw someone's head emerge from the water along the hook rope thrown by the water bandit, with a cold dagger in his mouth, and he was smiling at him. , and then grabbed the rope and rushed up, with a light posture, as if walking on the ground, climbed up in the blink of an eye, and sat on the side of the boat.
At the end of the year, Jiang Shui was cold to the bone, and Su Dart climbed up wet with wet head, but he didn't seem to notice it, and only carefully wiped the dagger in his hand: "Boss Tao is scared?"
Tao Shuo murmured: "It's okay, okay." Recalling the neat way she used to kill people, she thought in shock, if at this moment they killed the whole boat and robbed his goods, and then pushed it to the water bandits, I'm afraid... he Even Su Datou's origin is unclear.
One of the men stepped forward and said, "Young gang master has worked hard! What's going on under the water?"
Then the man who climbed up from the water said with a smile: "If you can't beat this group of offal, then people will scuttle boats. There are seven or eight, and they fall into the hands of our young gang master, and they only have to feed the fish!"
- So the water bandits were all killed
Tao Shuo was startled: "Less... little gang leader?"
"My surname is Bai, and I belong to the Cao Gang. Because I was afraid of leaking the news, I called my surname Su in a panic. I also ask the owner of the boat to forgive me."
Tao Shuo runs on the water all the year round, but compared to many wealthy businessmen who make a lot of money in the water, he can only be regarded as a small shrimp. The leader of the Jiangsu Cao Gang was surnamed Bai, but he did not know each other.
He never expected that his friend would recommend the Cao Gang's young gang leader to escort him, and he was immediately excited: "Bai Young gang leader, thank you for saving your life, if you didn't help, maybe all of us in this boat would die today. Thieves!" He was about to say a lot of polite words, but he was interrupted by the impatient Bai Shiqi: "Boss Tao, I have been tracking the water bandits along the coast with my men recently, and found that many of them are collusion inside and outside. , I got the news of the boat, and then I set my sights on it. Why don't you take advantage of the undecided people's hearts, and bring everyone on the boat to the first trial?"
When Tao Shuo, a businessman, had ever tried a case, he immediately asked her for help: "Master Bai, this matter... Can this matter be entrusted to you?"
Bai Shiqi chuckled: "Okay, anyway, I'll be idle when I'm idle, wait until I go back to my room to change my clothes."
She got up and went to change her clothes. The people under her hands divided them into two groups. Those who went into the water went to change their soaked clothes, while those who were not in the water went to call the boatman on the boat. Another person was sent to the kitchen to make ginger soup. They cleaned up the water bandits. It's all a matter of holding his head, and he has always been cautious about eating and eating for fear of revenge for the water bandits who slipped through the net.
Bai Shiqi's manpower was dispatched. Only Tao Shuo was standing on the deck blowing the cold wind. His mind was spinning like a revolving lantern. He recalled the abnormal situation of the crew on the ship, and he was also wondering if there would be any water thieves who would respond, and then he would leak his actions. Water thief, I almost lost my life.