Chapter 72 Taihu Water Pirates
Ling Muyun and Huang Rong talked for a moment, then blew out the candlelight and clothes and lay down, and fell asleep. After sleeping until midnight, a whimpering sound came from a distance. Ling Muyun and Huang Rong both woke up and listened, as if someone was blowing a conch. After a while, the whimpering sounded again, one after another, not one person. The snail blower was far apart, and it was obviously a response.
Huang Rong whispered: "Brother Yun, let's take a look?"
Ling Muyun knew that this should be Lu Guanying gathered the Taihu Lake thieves to prepare for robbery, but he didn't know that because of his influence, was it not the Jin Dynasty envoy who robbed this time, and was it Yang Kang, or was it the Jin Dynasty envoy? He became curious, so he nodded to Huang Rong and said, "Okay, Rong'er, let's go and have a look."
The two of them gently pushed open the window and looked out. They saw many people in the courtyard carrying lanterns, and many people came and went, not knowing what they were busy with. Huang Rong raised her head and saw three or four people squatting there on the roof, obviously looking down from a high place to watch. When the lanterns moved, the light flashed, and the weapons in the hands of these people shot out light.
After waiting for a while, everyone was walking outside the village. So Ling Muyun and Huang Rong walked around the west window and saw that there was no one outside the window, so they jumped out gently. They were both extremely skilled and floating on the ground quietly like fallen leaves. The alert people on the roof were unaware of it.
Huang Rong made a gesture to Ling Muyun and walked backwards. The road in Zhuangzhong was turning around and twists and turns. What was particularly strange was that the railings and pavilions at the turn were exactly the same. After a few turns, how could they tell where they were east, south and north? Huang Rong was as if she had arrived at her home, and walked without hesitation. Sometimes there was no way in front of her, she drilled in the rockery, surrounded by flowers, and turned into the corridor again. Sometimes it seemed that it had reached its end, but there was another secluded place behind the big tree on the back of the screen. When the moon cave door was wide open, she didn't leave, but pushed open a completely invisible portal on the wall.
Seeing this scene, Ling Muyun couldn't help but secretly admired that the Qimen Formation technique was really wonderful. If it weren't for Huang Rong who was also proficient in the Qimen Formation this time, he would have to get lost by himself.
The two of them turned seven or eight more turns and came to the wall of the backyard. Huang Rong looked at the terrain, calculated silently several times with her fingers, and took a few steps underground. Ling Muyun heard her chant in a low voice: "Zhen Yi, Tun San, Yi Wu, Refive, Seven, Kun..." She knew that she should be using the Bagua numerology and numerology to calculate the way out.
Huang Rong walked while counting, stopped when she reached a place, turned around and said to Ling Muyun: "Only here can go out, and there are all organs in the other place."
As he spoke, Huang Rong jumped to the wall first, and Ling Muyun also followed her out of the wall. The two left the farm. Huang Rong said to Ling Muyun with a slight pride: "Brother Yun, Master Lu's farm was created according to the direction of Fuxi's sixty-four hexagrams, and it was all over the place. However, my father is the best at these Qimen Eight Trigrams techniques. Master Lu is rare to defeat others, but it is not difficult for me."
Ling Muyun smiled and praised: "That's right, don't look at who my Rong'er is, how can you be stumped by this little situation?"
Huang Rong blushed when she heard his praise and said coquettishly: "Brother Yun, you make fun of me, I ignore you."
"Rong'er, you misunderstood me. I really praise you, without any false words."
The two of them whispered a few words, then climbed up the hill behind the village and looked east. They saw a group of people holding up lanterns and torches and walking towards the lake. Huang Rong pulled Ling Muyun's sleeves, and the two carried out their light skills to chase them. They rushed to the nearest and lay behind a rock. They saw a row of fishing boats moored by the lake. People gathered on the boat, and then turned off the lights after they got on the boat.
The two of them waited for the last group of people to board the boat, and the shore was completely black, and then they quietly jumped out and landed on the back of the largest sacrificial boat. With the sound of pulling the oars and opening the boat, they flew lightly like goose feathers falling, and the people on the boat did not notice it. The two looked down from the gap in the bamboo tent, and saw a person sitting in the middle in the cabin, and it was the young owner Lu Guanying.
The boats were about to sway, and the sound of conchs in the lake was whimpering again. One person on the scheduling boat walked to the bow and blew the conchs. After shaking it for several miles, he saw rows of boats on the lake surface. Looking around, the boats were like ants gathering, countless, like a large piece of green paper splashing ink. The man on the bow of the scheduling boat blew three times, and the big boat dropped the anchor in the middle of the lake. More than ten small boats flew closer from all directions. Ling Muyun knew that the next battle would be a fight, so he looked down at the boat, but he saw that Lu Guanying was calm and calm, and he was not as nervous as before facing the enemy, so he couldn't help but nod. Although Lu Guanying's martial arts skills were not very high, his demeanor was still good.
After a while, each ship approached. Some people came over each ship, one or two, or three or four. Each of them entered the cabin of the big ship, saluted Lu Guanying and sat down, and respected him. The seat order seemed to have been arranged long ago. Some came first and sat behind, while others sat on the upper head. With just one cup of tea, everyone sat down. These people looked rough and tough, and although they were dressed as fishermen, they seemed to be all fishermen who were carrying martial arts and were definitely not ordinary fishermen who made a living by fishing. Huang Rong was secretly surprised in her heart, but Ling Muyun knew that these people were all the leaders of Taihu water bandits.
Lu Guanying bowed and asked one of them, "Brother Zhang, how are you doing inquiring?"
A thin man in the seat stood up and said, "Report to the young owner of the house, the Jin Guoqin envoy was scheduled to cross the lake overnight tonight. The commander named Duan will arrive in more than an hour. This time, he searched all the way in the name of greeting the Jin Guoqin envoy, so he came too late and has not yet met with the Jin Guoqin envoy."
Lu Guanying said: "How many soldiers did he loot? How many more soldiers did he bring?"
The man said, "Every prefecture and county have received a reward. His soldiers are still plundering in the countryside. When I saw him on board the boat, they were carrying more than twenty boxes of property. They all seemed very heavy. They should be all gold and silver. It is estimated that there are more than 100,000 taels of silver. The horse and infantry army led a total of two thousand, of which were all infantry soldiers. Because there were not enough ships, there were about one thousand people boarding the boat."
Lu Guanying nodded when he heard this, and then said to everyone: "Brothers, what are you talking about?"
Everyone said in unison: "I wish to listen to the orders of the young owner of the manor."
Lu Guanying hugged her arms with both hands and said, "These are all the people's wealth and bad fortunes that the corrupt officials have plundered. Since we have passed by our Taihu Lake and it is contrary to the laws of nature, we will simply take them all, and half of them will be scattered to the poor people nearby, and the other half will be divided into various villages."
Everyone applauded. Huang Rong then realized that these people were all thieves in Taihu Lake. It seemed that Lu Guanying was also the chief leader of each village.
Lu Guanying said: "It's not too late, do it immediately. Brother Zhang, take five small boats and then go to the quest to detect the situation." The thin man received the order from the cabin. Lu Guanying followed the dispatch, whoever attacked the vanguard, who would respond, who would lead the water ghost to drill into the bottom of the enemy ship, who would take property, who would capture the officer, and command in an orderly manner.
Lu Guanying had finished his orders, and everyone was about to go out to do things separately. One of the seats stood up and said coldly: "It's enough for us to do this kind of business without capital, and eat wealthy businessmen. If we fight with the government in this way, can we still stay by the lake? The Qin envoy of the Great Jin Kingdom is even more offensive."
Ling Muyun and Huang Rong heard the sound very familiar. Following the sound, they turned out to be Sha Tongtian's disciples, Ma Qingxiong, the Soul-Saving Whip among the Four Ghosts of the Yellow River, had somehow gotten here.
The two of them didn't know that the reason why Ma Qingxiong came here was Huang Rong's credit. It turned out that the four ghosts of the Yellow River were played repeatedly by Huang Rong, which made Sha Tongtian lose face in front of Wanyan Honglie and others. Sha Tongtian was already irritable and drove the four ghosts of the Yellow River out of the sect in anger. After the four ghosts of the Yellow River were expelled, each looking for a way out. Among them, Ma Qingxiong went south and came to Taihu Lake. After being introduced by someone, he joined the water thief. Because he was originally a thief in the Yellow River, he had good martial arts skills and proficient in water warfare, he was directly promoted to the leader, so he was able to attend the meeting this time.
As soon as Ma Qingxiong finished speaking, Lu Guanying's face changed color. Before he could speak, three or four people among the thieves shouted and scolded each other.
Lu Guanying forced a smile and said, "Don't be angry, brothers, brother Ma just came here, I don't know the rules here. Since we are working together to do it, we will die without regrets even if we are wiped out."
Ma Qingxiong said, "Okay, you do it, I won't make this pot of water." After that, he ignored everyone's reaction and turned around and was about to leave the cabin.
Seeing this scene, Huang Rong attached it to Ling Muyun's ear and said, "Brother Yun, this guy is probably going to be a ghost this time!"
Ling Muyun nodded in agreement. How could Lu Guanying let Ma Qingxiong leave at this time? If Ma Qingxiong really wants Ma Qingxiong to leave like this, Lu Guanying not only has his prestige ruined the floor, but also has to bear the risk of leaking secrets. Which one of the four ghosts of the Yellow River will do this? Ma Qingxiong's move is tantamount to seeking death. He is probably one of the four ghosts of the Yellow River, he will be a water ghost in Taihu tonight.
The development of the matter was indeed not as expected by Ling Muyun and Huang Rong. As soon as Ma Qingxiong was about to leave, two more men stopped the hatch and shouted: "Brother Ma, you have cut off the chicken's head and made an oath. Everyone has the blessings and the difficulties are the same. It is probably inappropriate to leave like this!"
"Get out!" Ma Qingxiong cursed, waved his hands, and immediately threw the two of them to both sides, and was about to continue out of the cabin.
"Stand for me if you are surnamed Ma!" Seeing this scene, Lu Guanying shouted and rushed up, slapped Ma Qingxiong's back with a palm.
Ma Qingxiong noticed a palm wind coming from behind, and quickly turned around and let him go. He pulled out a dagger from the boot with his left hand and poked it backwards. Lu Guanying stretched out his left hand and placed his left arm on the outer door, stepping into his palm. Ma Qingxiong lifted his right hand away, and handed the dagger with his left hand out. The two immediately fought close to each other in the narrow cabin.
Ling Muyun glanced at him and knew that Ma Qingxiong was not Lu Guanying's opponent. Although Lu Guanying's martial arts skills were not high, they were just between third and second levels, but it was enough to deal with third-rate experts like Ma Qingxiong.
As expected, as Ling Muyun expected, Lu Guanying fought for the first time as soon as he fought, and after more than a dozen moves, Lu Guanying suddenly grabbed Ma Qingxiong's wrist holding the dagger with one hand, and clenched his fist with the other hand, and slammed Ma Qingxiong's chest with a "bang". Ma Qingxiong immediately cried backwards and fell backwards. The two men behind him who had been smashed by him raised their swords and slashed them. The two swords were used together. Ma Qingxiong had no time to scream and died on the spot.
Lu Guanying asked the two men to throw Ma Qingxiong's body into the lake, and then said to the thieves: "My brothers, now the traitor is dead, everyone must strive for the first place in a while."
Chapter completed!