Hu Zhanshan and I took a group of people to leave at night and walked the whole night in the dark. By the time of daybreak, they were already far away from Niutou Mountain.
Hu Zhanshan still didn't want to leave too far, but if he is close here, it is difficult to guarantee that Dashahe will continue to find trouble. Under my persuasion, a group of people dispersed and walked for several days. Finally, he came to a backer. Zhuangzi.
I have passed by this village before. Most of the land on the river beach is not fat, it is sandy land, and only peanuts and watermelons can be planted. The crops do not grow well when planted.
The Zhuangzi is called the Whistle Zhuang, and it is the property of a nearby owner's house. According to people, the owner of the whistlezhuang smoked a lot of cigarettes in the past two years and didn't care about the housework. In addition, the land of the whistlezhuang was very barren, so it was left unused, and no one took a look for more than a year.
Hu Zhanshan and I ran to the neighborhood to inquire about it, and then we found the owner of Zhuangzi. The owner of the whistlezhuang was anxious to spend the money. There was such a broken zhuangzi at home, and no one wanted it. When I heard that I was here to buy the zhuangzi, I was overjoyed, and soon negotiated the price and signed the land lease.
After taking the Zhuangzi down, a group of people tidied up, renovated the house, and then lived here.
Afterwards, I hurriedly asked Hu Zhanshan to send someone to report to Mu Jiu, telling him the address of the whistle village, so as not to run the wrong way.
Chaozizhuang is actually a good place, the terrain is more favorable, it can be offensive and defensive, except that the land is barren and it is not convenient to grow crops, it has no shortcomings. Anyway, these people are not farmers, just have such a place to stay.
Settling down in the whistle village, the people who had been sent by Hu Zhanshan to contact him also came every few times. I still followed the old method and refused to stay and gave the money to be dismissed. When Mu Jiu arrived here when he heard the news, there was almost no one hundred and ten in the whistle village.
Although there are not many people on the Hundred and Ten, they are all veterans who act appropriately and have their own strengths. The most important thing is that almost everyone has conflicts and grievances with Qiankun Dao or the families under Qiankun Dao. As long as they fight with Qiankun Dao, they will not shrink back.
I lived in seclusion in Shaozizhuang for about a month, and the weather was getting warmer and warmer, and the people who were sent out to inquire about the news kept returning the latest information. Zhang Guandai was right. The suppression of bandits this time was really not for fun. In the past month, more than a dozen litters of bandits, large and small, were taken away from the river beach. The banditry that had plagued the riverbank for thousands of years was wiped out.
Seeing that the banditry was wiped out, the soldiers gradually withdrew. In fact, everyone knows that the banditry can't be completely eliminated at once. When the bandits are gone, the sand bandits will slowly show up. It's just that the soldiers only asked for promotion and fortune, and they didn't even think about whether there would be sand bandits in the future.
There are probably more than a hundred people in the whistle village, plus Mu Jiu’s people. I thought about it, I can’t eat idle here all the time. Although the power is still very weak now, it’s not enough to compete directly with the Qiankun Dao, but they have to be given to them. Add chaos.
I know very well that Qiankun Road occupies Huangquan Road and needs a lot of firewood, rice, oil and salt. These materials are raised by the following schools and then mainly delivered by Dashahe. Those people in Niutoushan left their homes, but in the final analysis, it was because of Dashahe.
, So after I said my thoughts, Hu Zhanshan and the others went outside to inquire about it without saying anything.
After inquiring into it clearly, Chaozizhuang dispatched seventy to eighty people, leaving dozens of housekeepers. Hu Zhanshan and I took these people to a place called Panshan Bay. This is a section of the river, and the water flow is relatively slow. If you go upstream, the boat will not go fast here. Moreover, this is the only way to go. Any boat going north must pass through here.
We made the arrangement in advance, and we waited for the grain-carrying ships on the Dasha River to pass by. The news was inquired in advance. Two days ago, the grain boat in the Dasha River was still carrying grains downstream. Calculating the distance, it should be almost here.
Sure enough, the next day we were ambushing here, the three grain boats in Dashahe drove slowly to the river course of Panshan Bay.
When the grain ship approached, the iron ropes that had been placed in the river in advance were straightened, invisibly blocking the way of the ship. The grain ship was large and heavy, and it was not flexible at all in the water. When the ship was temporarily grounded, a few The boat rushed up immediately.
The boat was filled with kerosene, and the people on the boat surrounded the three grain boats and splashed the kerosene in a circle. The torch moved up, and the kerosene burned suddenly, and the people on the grain boat were rushing to put out the fire, but they were not in the right position and could not reach it.
The food ship is so big, there must be someone escorting it. When the other party saw someone coming to make trouble, he immediately dropped the boat from the big ship, and a group of people chased Hu Zhanshan and them on the boat.
Hu Zhanshan and this group of people have long been angry with Dashahe. They didn't need to urge them at all. They were fighting each other like a lifelike one. The people who got off the food boat were entangled to death, and they didn't even bother to fight the fire.
In this way, fighting on the river for more than a moment, the fire was getting bigger and bigger. The people below, fearing that the fire would not burn enough, took the jar with kerosene and threw it on the boat. The jar was damaged and the kerosene leaked out. The fire was lifted up.
The fire burned very violently, and those who wanted to fight the fire were blocked by us. If there were no accidents, the food and wood fire on the three outboard ships would have been burned.
"It's a pity, the food on this boat." Mu Jiu looked at the three food boats raging on fire and said, "It's a pity that we can't get it."
"As long as the road to the universe is cut off, these grains will not be a pity."
As I talked to Mu Jiu, the people on the three grain boats could no longer stay. They jumped into the water from the boats. Our people were cruising around the river. When they met the diving people, they went up and beat them up. After tossing for a while, the river was chaotic.
I was riding in a small boat and wanted to go and help. Just as I was about to approach one of the food boats, a bunch of bubbles gurgled up from the water under the food boat.
Immediately afterwards, a group of shadows emerged from the water. I vaguely saw that it should be a person, but I can't think of anyone who has such good water quality and can stay under the surface of the river for such a long time.
I immediately became alert, picked up a harpoon on the boat, and approached quietly. When the underwater person came to the surface, I stabbed the harpoon in my hand.
Unexpectedly, the person who had just emerged from the water was not only watery, but also quick to react. The harpoon stabbed him less than a foot away, and this person raised his hand and grabbed it.
Harpoon.
His strength was so great that the harpoon seemed to have taken root in his hand, and he couldn't get it back. I was about to drop the harpoon and pull out the knife from my waist, but suddenly I saw the person's face.
Although the other party was soaked in water from head to toe, I could recognize him. This person was surprisingly the scholar who mastered the Nether Map.
I recognized the scholar, and the scholar recognized me. I was taken aback for a moment, then dropped the harpoon in my hand and sighed, "What are you doing again?"
"What am I messing up?" I was a little confused for a while, but I was very puzzled: "Are you helping Qian Kun Dao?"
I doubted whether the scholar was helping Qiankun Dao to escort food, but as soon as this idea came out, I was denied it again. How could a scholar with such a great ability escort food? What's more, he is basically the same as an anonymous person and a passerby, and it is impossible to be threatened by Qian Kun Dao.
I probably know what the scholar is. He is different from Wuming, low-key and gentle. The last time I was put in the Nether Map, it was purely unintentional.
"What do I do for Qiankun Dao?" The scholar stepped on the water, looked at the grain boat that had been immersed in the sea of flames, and the people who were constantly fighting on the water. Oh my god, finally you're almost done, so that you will get mixed up on top, and your success will fall short."
"What are you doing here?"
"Catch a fish."
"Fish? What fish?"
Before the scholar had time to answer, on the surface of the river about six or seven feet away behind us, a wave turned up, and between the rolling waves, I vaguely saw a white fish.
That fish is very rare, it may be more than two feet long, almost three feet long, and it is like jade, exuding a faint fluorescence. I don't recognize this fish, let alone such a pure white jade fish.
"Catch it! Hurry up!" When the scholar saw the fish, he was refreshed and swam over without time to say anything.
The scholar's water is really superb. He swims fast, but the fish swims faster. I rowed the boat, turned off, and hurriedly chased it.
The rare fish flashed on the surface of the water, and then submerged. The scholar followed and dived into the water. After a while, he resurfaced several feet away.
"Hurry, hurry!" The scholar hurriedly climbed into my boat and said: "That fish is going downstream, go rowing!"
I don't know what this fish is for, but looking at the scholar's expression, I think he is very anxious. At this time, the situation on the river was basically under control. Our people steadily gained the upper hand. The three grain boats will inevitably be burned. The goal this time has been achieved. Therefore, I hesitated for a while and rowed immediately. The water rushed downstream.
The scholar stood by the boat, watching the water continuously while his hands were still moving. I saw him holding a very thin rope in his two fingers.
The scholar was probably chasing that rare white fish based on this very thin rope.
"Quick! Up front!"
Suddenly, the scholar yelled, and I tried my best to hold the boat, and the boat followed the water like an arrow from the string, rushing forward. When he rushed to the front about ten feet away, the scholar plunged into the water.
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