Gongsun Zheng folded a bamboo branch, drew the Yangtze River waterline from Huangzhou to Jiangning Mansion on the ground, and said: "This ten thousand families have grain boats walking on the river, naturally it is the meat in the eyes of the waves, and there are mountains all over the river, if there is no reliance, how dare you go to the boat, so the grain ships of the ten thousand families from Jiangning Mansion to Huangzhou This line of waterway, they invited the Huanghuadang master Langli Ghost Baicheng all the way to take care of it, so I am afraid that there have been more than ten years, and there has been no accident. ”

"Who knows......" Gongsun Zheng said a place, and wrote the word Qi County in the middle of the waterline with bamboo branches, and circled: "In April this year, when the green and yellow were not connected, the Wanjia family purchased 8,000 stone rice grain from Jiangnan, and hired a boat from Jiangning Mansion to consign Huangzhou. ”

"Strange!" The scalper listened and said: "Didn't the Wanjia family ask Huanghuadang to take care of the water village, and the green forests that want to come elsewhere also know, who dares to start in Qi County?" There are clearly ghosts! ”

The location of this Qi County is the center of the two hundred miles of Huanghuadang, Huanghuadang is Cehu Lake in the north, Chilong Lake in the southeast, Qinglong Lake in the southwest, and the Yangtze River passes through the center of this triangle.

"Not bad! There are ghosts! Gongsun Zheng smiled, wrote the word Shouzhou in the north of Qi County, and continued: "It is reported that the thief who robbed this time was the thief who fell into the grass in Bagong Mountain, Shouzhou, and there were more than 200 people. Qi County got the news, and hurriedly sent the official to catch the head and a hundred archers to rescue, but the result was not far from the lower river at the foot of the Mopan Mountain to find two boats with broken sails and empty rice grain, and there were more than a dozen injured people lying on the boat, all of them were domestic servants of ten thousand families, and the thieves had unloaded the rice and grain and fled. ”

Gongsun Zheng threw away the bead branch in his hand, then clapped his hands and said: "But who knows, some people in this Qi County recognize that among these people, one of them is actually the second son of the Huanghuadang family, the white cow who is called the mountain cow, and even if he is taken out of prison." ”

When the scalper heard this, he said, "It's also called a cow?" In this way, what is the rumor that Master Wan will recognize the leader of the bandits, that is, to recognize this white cow? Thinking that Master Wan would not admit to colluding with the thieves of Huanghuadang, he could only identify this white cow as having nothing to do with the robbery of his own grain ship. ”

"Not bad!" Gongsun Zheng clapped his hands and said with a smile: "This white cow also has a few lives in his hands, and he caught the documents in the morning, and then Qi County was going to transfer the white cow to Jiangling, so the big boss led people to rob half of the way, who knew that in the melee, it was to let people kill the white cow with an arrow through the heart, so the ghost Bai Chengcai in this wave was angry and wiped out the ten thousand families." ”

The scalper turned his head and looked at the Wan family sisters and brothers who were shocked when they heard it, but they also sighed helplessly: "Speaking of which, this is also a blessing and a curse." Although Master Wan has colluded with the waves in Huanghuadang, he can also be regarded as doing good deeds and accumulating virtue on weekdays, giving clothes and medicines, building bridges and paving roads, and doing all good deeds. It is these 8,000 stone rice grains that are also used to rescue the summer famine in Huangzhou, but who would have thought that the thieves called Bagong Mountain have done a good thing. And Master Wan is right not to recognize the white cow, but Bai Cheng can't save his son, but he is angry with thousands of families, and he also destroys people, which is really unreasonable. ”

Gongsun Zheng listened, but said with a smile: "There is one more thing, junior brother might as well guess, how did this thief who is far away in Shouzhou learn the news of the Wanjia grain ship?" ”

The scalper patted his head, but said, "It must have nothing to do with that Wang Guinian." ”

Gongsun Zheng clapped his hands and laughed: "Not bad! Afterwards, it was rumored on the green forest road that Bagong Mountain only got more than 1,000 stone of grain in this battle, but it was a loss of 100 people, so it was rumored that it was two months earlier that the news of Wanjia's purchase of grain was known. ”

"This is strange again...... scalper scratched his head and thought for a while: "It stands to reason that Wang Guinian is the housekeeper of the Wan family, and in his early years, he was the foundation of the giant Kou, unless there is any big battle, he will not dare to harm the master family...... No, I see! ”

"What does the junior brother understand?" Gongsun was busy asking.

The scalper turned in his mind and remembered the conversation he overheard in the afternoon, so he said: "Let's talk about one thing first, this morning my mother and I went to cook food for my uncle, and I want to borrow some silver money from my uncle to redeem the ancestral old shop." Later, Uncle Yao, the uncle's housekeeper, went to the Changlong to get two hundred taels of silver, but they were all brand new silver judgments, saying that there were guests in the Changlong who wanted to make flying money, so he put together the scattered silver at the bottom of the warehouse and smelted it, thinking that the amount of flying money must be huge. ”

The scalper thought about it and continued: "Come again, that is, in the afternoon, I listened to Wang Guinian negotiate with the seven masters on the boat, Wang Guinian first said that the big boss had emptied the family property and floating wealth of the ten thousand families on the day of the extinction, and the ten families had no living money in their hands, but then they threw out the flying money of the Baiguan Changlong, and ate and drank with the seven masters and others, so that the person who wants to make the flying money in the Changlong is afraid that he will not be able to get rid of the king turtle year. Even...... The death of the white cow is also related to him. ”

"Hmmm! Wang Guinian talked to Na Du Zhong, and a certain person was also listening. Thinking about it this way, the words of the junior brother are very reasonable! Gongsun Zheng didn't expect it at this time, of course, he didn't know about the Changlong smelting silver judgment, but he did see Wang Guinian casually take out the Changlong Hundred Flying Money.

After thinking about it, Gongsun Zheng took out a stack of things from his arms, handed them to the scalper, and said, "Senior brother, look, this is really the flying money of the Changlong?" ”

The scalper took a look, and what he started was a flying money ticket made of Chu paper, with a big Changlong number written on his head, and a ticket was written in the middle to redeem the city's plain silver ten times, Gongsun Zheng said with a smile: "Shicai and that Du Zhong handed, so I came by the way, and the right to be a meeting gift for senior brothers!" ”

"This ......" the scalper was surprised when he heard it, but he didn't dare to bear the meeting gift of 100 yuan, so the scalper hurriedly stood up and wanted to postpone it, but Gongsun Zheng said: "Senior brother Hugh has to say more, this is ill-gotten wealth, everyone gets it, and the junior brother is in trouble at home now, it is the time to make money, and if you want to resign, you will look down on this senior brother." ”

"Alas! The junior brother thanked the senior brother! The scalper couldn't shirk it, so he could only thank him.

When he was about to say some gossip, he heard Wan Jinbao say: "Brother, listen, there is movement on the river." ”

The ox hurriedly took the flint on the side to press the earthen stove, and then turned out of the clothes tent to look at the river, and sure enough, he saw two fishing boats with many lanterns hanging on the river going upstream.