Fights and even armed fights on the canal due to disputes over waterways, loading and unloading, and even other disputes have always been commonplace. This is especially true in a place like Cangzhou where martial arts are very popular. At this moment, after the loud shout of "kill you", there were only noises of people watching the fun, and no one was heard shouting to stop it.
Zhang Shou didn't expect that he would see a fight on his first visit to the canal wharf. He glanced at Ah Liu and saw that the boy was very excited, as if he was looking forward to watching a high-level fight. He was a little worried that someone might get killed, but then he found that someone had snatched his reins.
"You are a kind-hearted man, you must be worried about something going wrong. I am familiar with this dock, I will take you there!" The man in the white turban had a flattering smile on his face, even ignoring his own business cart for the time being, especially when he saw that Ah Liu glanced at him but did not mean to stop him, he quickly led Zhang Shou's horse and walked into the crowd... To be precise, he squeezed in.
With such a local snake leading the way, Zhang Shou, relying on the advantage of being on horseback, soon saw the fight on the canal. Unlike the fight on land, here the two sides were poking each other with bamboo poles at the bow of the boat, one side was a flexible small boat, and the other side was an obviously fully loaded cargo ship.
However, the three boatmen on the cargo ship worked together with bamboo poles, but they were still unable to defeat the boatman on the small boat.
Seeing that there was only one person on the boat, he used the bamboo pole steadily and accurately, fighting with the three people over there. Zhang Shou became more and more curious. Was the reason for the fight really just for such a small matter as who left first and who left later? Just as he was wondering, someone in the cabin of the boat shouted loudly: "Don't forget that you have already collected a deposit of 100 strings of cash from me. Hurry up and start the boat!"
Zhang Shou felt vaguely that the voice sounded familiar. Just as he was trying to recall where he had heard it before, he heard Ah Liu's cold voice behind him: "It's that damn prefect's son."
Zhang Shou laughed at first when he heard Ah Liu say the word "shit", but when he thought about how Manager Hua had sent Bi to the county government, and now Mr. Huang had paid a large sum of money to get on the ship, obviously to run away, he immediately raised his eyebrows. But just when he was about to ask Ah Liu to get involved, the man with the white turban holding the reins of his mount noticed something was wrong.
"Dr. Zhang, are the people on that boat your enemies?"
Hearing the word "old man" again, Zhang Shou was immediately amused. God has mercy on him, he is only seventeen now... No wonder the emperor couldn't stand being called "grandpa" by people in the palace and outside the palace every day. He is not even old yet, but he is called old!
But this was definitely not the time to correct the address, so he said lightly: "People treat me as an enemy, but I still look down on him. It's just that someone around him is still in the county government with a case that has not been cleared, but he can't get away so easily... Ah Liu!"
Ah Liu agreed and was about to dismount and jump onto the boat to catch the man, but the man with the white turban immediately dropped the reins of Zhang Shou's horse and walked forward, shouting, "Don't let the man on the boat go. He is the one that Doctor Zhang of the Imperial College specifically wants!"