The boat is trapped in Qingjiangpu, and there are a few teenagers who are used to water, but they need to stay on the boat to take care of others; The next day, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe went ashore.

The north bank is Tinghu County, Huai'an Prefecture, the Huai River has been diverted many times in history, and there is no very accurate map in this era, Lin Jian can only roughly estimate that Tinghu County is located between Lianyungang and Yancheng in later generations. Because the north bank of Qingjiangpu is Tinghu County, the south bank is Yancheng County, and the north of Tinghu Lake is Xinpu County, all of which belong to Huai'an Prefecture.

The reeds on the north bank are almost twenty miles deep, and in the early winter of October, the cold snap hit, although it was only after the sun rose before going into the water, Lin Lian and Fu Qinghe went ashore, and their lips were still purple from the cold.

Fu Qinghe is a person who practices martial arts, and his muscles and bones are strong, but he is already in his fifties, and no matter how strong his body is, there is a limit; Lin Jian also consciously strengthened his physique during this time, but a good physique is not something that can be exercised in a short time, and it is also cold enough; The two of them changed into dry clothes wrapped in oiled paper cloth on the shore, ate dry food, and basked in the sun before their hands and feet gradually recovered.

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe went ashore, planning to make a small boat that could pass through the shallow water and reeds, and then pick everyone ashore first.

After walking twenty or thirty miles west along the riverbank, I did not see any boat parked on the shore.

The shallow water is full of endless reeds, and the water is shallow and impossible to sail, where will the big boats and small boats stop on this shore? It was only when I walked to Qingpu Jindu in Tinghu County that I saw that there were suitable boats.

Qingpujin is said to be a ferry, prosperous but like a town, all industries are salty, stalls are opened, boats, cars and horses pass by, and travelers in a hurry will make this place so lively. This is the traffic artery in the east of Huai'an Prefecture, in addition to the Qingjiangpu waterway that can be passed upstream, there are also north-south official roads that converge here, Tinghu County has a water and land post office here, and there is a patrol inspection department yamen.

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe sat in a food shop at the ferry, sitting next to the window, observing the situation at the ferry, and discussing in a low voice: "If you pay for a boat, I am afraid that in the eyes of others, you will be suspicious......

In front of the ferry, there are more than a dozen soldiers belonging to the Qingpujin Inspection Division, and after inquiring, there are more than 80 sword archers in the entire Inspection Division, and there are more than 20 post guards in the Qingpujin Station. It's okay to spend money to hire a boat, if you buy a boat directly, it's too difficult to want others not to be suspicious, Lin Jian nodded and said, "I can only wait until it's dark......"

Lin Tie and Fu Qinghe sat in the store and drank, the fruit wine was slightly astringent and sweet, far from being comparable to the strong liquor of later generations, Lin Tie and Fu Qinghe drank slowly, and there was no drunkenness at all.

When it was almost dusk, four men walked into the shop, three long and one young, wearing long robes, but they were all strong and sturdy people, walking and looking, which was very different from ordinary people.

Lin Tie and Fu Qinghe sat next to the window, you can sit on the window to see the situation of the ferry, the four people who just walked in were sitting on the Eight Immortals table next door, the younger black-faced man looked at Lin Tie here, and whispered to his accomplices: "You said that you can't bring knives at the ferry, why do they carry knives?" ”

Although the black-faced young man spoke softly, Lin Jian heard clearly at the tips of his ears; The accomplice of the black-faced young man was a middle-aged man, who wanted to be the leader, and his eyes were stern to stop the black-faced young man from talking nonsense again, and he glanced at Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe vigilantly.

Lin Jian looked at the vendor selling sugar sand chestnuts passing by outside the window, he called out to the vendor, and was about to ask the vendor to come over with a handful of chestnuts in a lotus leaf bag as if nothing happened, but when he saw the middle-aged man's eyes sweeping Fu Qinghe's face, he hesitated to look twice, and there was a puzzled look in his eyes that could not be concealed.

Lin Jian glanced at Fu Qinghe, Fu Qinghe frowned slightly, gave him a look, and signaled to go out first before talking. Lin Jian took the waist knife, followed Fu Qinghe to the elm counter at the entrance of the store to settle the bill, and walked to the opposite side of the official road.

The four men had moved to their table—the table was next to the window, which was more suitable for observing the ferry—and the four men were observing the situation in front of the ferry.

Seeing that Fu Qinghe was thoughtful, Lin Jian asked softly, "Master Fu knows where they came from?" The black-faced young man inadvertently revealed that they had weapons with them, but they were only worried about the cross-border investigation so they hid their weapons elsewhere, and maybe they had accomplices; Besides, they don't look like ordinary business travelers.

"Ten years ago," Fu Qinghe said, "they don't recognize me anymore." ”

"Oh?" Lin Jian thought back to the situation when the middle-aged man looked at Fu Qinghe, thinking that Fu Qinghe should have changed a lot in the past ten years, he glanced at the shop window again, those men were staring at the officers and soldiers of the inspection department of the ferry, and they couldn't see what they were going to do here, seeing Fu Qinghe's brows tightly knit and thoughtful, he was probably thinking about this problem.

"Regardless of them, let's go see the ship first." Fu Qinghe said.

Lin Jian followed Fu Qinghe to the ferry without saying a word, and it could be seen that Fu Qinghe was very concerned about the four people who suddenly appeared at the ferry, but they first had to take the second daughter and the teenagers ashore and hide, and they couldn't take care of too many things.

Lin Lian's identity tooth tag was not lost, and he and Fu Qinghe were not afraid of interrogation with weapons with them.

Although Lin Jian is a side branch of the Lin family in Dongyang, after being admitted to Xiucai, it was also the seventh lady Gu Yingsleeve who helped him speak, and the family allowed him to return to the sect. Different from the bamboo and wooden tooth tags of the Han people, his identity tooth tag is bronze, which indicates his status as a talent and his origin as a meritorious family in Shiliang County, Dongyang, and he also has the privilege of servants to follow and carry talisman weapons.

In this era, even if you want to take a sword and walk the rivers and lakes, you need a good background; Although the government's control over the people's armed weapons is not strict to the extent that several families share a kitchen knife, ordinary people do not have special identity and certificates, and the public is swaggering through the city with swords in the public court, and it is strange that they are not arrested as bandits, and they will be killed if they resist the slightest.

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe squatted on the bank to observe the light boat in the river, intending to start at night, when they heard the sound of ruts coming from the distance, and stood up to see a team of officers and soldiers escorting four prisoner carts from the official road in the north.

The officers and soldiers escorted the prisoner cart across the border, which always attracted the interest of the ordinary people, and the travelers and traders at the ferry immediately gathered to watch, and Lin Tie them far away, only to see a woman in a red jacket and a cloak sitting in the last prisoner car, and the four men just now also came out of the shop and mixed in the crowd to watch.

Lin Lian subconsciously thought that these four men appeared here to rob the prisoner car, and saw Fu Qinghe's expression change greatly, so he turned around and walked towards the official road, Lin Lian didn't ask much, and followed Fu Qinghe behind.

When they approached, the team of officers and soldiers were escorting the prisoner cart into the post house, Lin Jian only saw the face of the young woman in the red jacket on the last prisoner car, her face was withered and haggard, and she looked closely at the face of the Peugeot to make two thin cuts, and the red jacket on the body was cut by the knife in many places, revealing the yellowed cotton wool inside, and a small piece of meat was exposed behind the left flank, which blew white to the cold wind in early winter, but the young woman's hands were shackled, and she couldn't reach out to cover it.

Depending on the situation, the escort officers and soldiers will have to spend the night in the post house and will not leave until tomorrow.

The four men had already turned around and entered the shop first, Fu Qinghe's expression was solemn, and Lin Jian asked softly, "Is it also an old man?" ”

Fu Qinghe walked to no one's place, and said to Lin Jian with a solemn expression: "The old man is in trouble, Fu can't stand by and watch; If Fu is unlucky, the young lady and the sons can only ask Lin Ye. As he spoke, he bowed down.

Lin Jian stretched out his hand to hug Fu Qinghe and said, "The cause of the incident is still unknown, Fu Ye will take care of the future at this time, will it be too early?" ”

"......" Fu Qinghe didn't know what to say for a while.

"Master Fu, I am a person who is afraid of things?" Lin Jian said, "It's better to see the old man first." ”

Fu Qinghe gratefully pressed Lin Lian's shoulder, and without saying much in gratitude, the two of them turned back to the food shop to find the four men. The four men had already left, and asked the shopkeeper about the direction they left, and Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe chased them all the way north.

On both sides of the official road are endless fields, and there is a maple forest more than two miles to the north. The autumn leaves are dyed frost red like fire, and from a distance, it looks like a large handful of wildfire burning in the field, which is very gorgeous.

The four men left from this direction, they were going to hijack the prisoner car, they would not be too far from the ferry, the maple forest was most likely their hiding place, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe walked straight into the woods.

Walking in a hundred and ten steps, I suddenly heard footsteps behind me, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe turned around, sixteen or seventeen men wearing strong suits and holding swords surrounded them in the middle, and the middle-aged man in the food shop stared at Fu Qinghe and said, "Sure enough, it's you, I thought I had lost my eyes." If you survived back then, why do you want to follow you today? His agitation could be heard in his hoarse voice.

"Don't be busy talking about the old things for the time being, you have been active in Huaishang all these years, even if Ziang and they are arrested by the government, they should be sent from Huaishang to Liangjing, why did the prisoner car pass through here?" Fu Qinghe asked, "Are you planning to hijack the prisoner car here?" ”

Huai'an Mansion is the downstream of Huaishui, which is thousands of miles away from Huaishang.

"Whether you can save Ziang or not, it's your business," a short and stout man beside the middle-aged man scolded in a rough voice, "You eggless thing, what qualifications do you have to pretend to be a good person here?" I can't save Ziang and the four ladies, it's a big deal to go on the road together, brothers walk together on Huangquan Road, and they are not lonely......"

"You followed the prisoner car all the way, why didn't you rob it on the road and drag it out until now?" Lin Jian ignored Fu Qinghe's old grudges with the group of people in front of him, and it was imperative that he figure out some key issues.

"They are Liuma Kou on the Huai, the imperial court has been arrested for many years, and even set up a special anti-theft department yamen in Huaishang Prefecture for them," Fu Qinghe didn't mind that these people in front of him were speaking ill of him, and introduced them to Lin Xuan, "If such a heavy prisoner is successfully taken away by his accomplices, the escort officers and soldiers will be immediately beheaded, and even their families will be punished-if they rob the prisoner on the road, the escort officers and soldiers will not hesitate to kill the prisoner first, they must wait until the officers and soldiers are separated from the prisoner car before they dare to attack." ”

"Gao Sanhu, who is he?" The middle-aged man stared at Lin Jian with a slight frown, and asked Fu Qinghe, "The apprentice you accepted?" ”

"Tan Ye has a great kindness to me, and you don't have to worry that Tan Ye will leak the matter of Liumakou."

"Barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, but he is afraid of a bird." The short and stout man took a sip, there were outsiders present, and his speech was a little restrained, and he didn't mention anything about driving Fu Qinghe away.

Fu Qinghe smiled bitterly and explained to Lin Bin: "Gao Sanhu was my cheap name ten years ago, if the old people don't mention it, I will forget it myself." He also explained to the people in front of him, "I have lived in Jiangning for nearly ten years, if the ancestor is willing, just call me Fu Qinghe, just think that Gao Sanhu has died ten years ago......"

"The double halberd is high and the three tigers, there were many men in the army back then, and you also know that you have no face to spoil this name!" A man with half of his left ear mutilated stood up and ridiculed Fu Qinghe resentfully.

Lin Lian thought that Fu Qinghe really annoyed everyone back then, there were old people in front of him, and none of them had a good face for him, he arched his hand to everyone, and said: "Dongyang Tan Zong has seen all the ......masters, "Barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes, Fu Qinghe concealed his true identity for him, and he didn't want him to be too involved, so he followed Fu Qinghe's meaning and reported his pseudonym.

Fu Qinghe said sincerely to the middle-aged man led by him: "Ancestor, don't mention him back then; If you want to save Ziang and the four girls, I can always do my little bit, if you really want to save people, you can't drive us away. ”

Lin Jian thought to himself that the "four ladies" in the mouth of the short and sturdy man and the "four girls" in Fu Qinghe's mouth should be the young woman in the red jacket in the prisoner car. He listened to Fu Qinghe call the middle-aged man in front of him "Chengzu", and instantly remembered who he was, Qin Chengzu and other Liumakou's sea fishing documents were also posted in Dongyang Mansion, but he didn't expect that the middle-aged man in front of him who looked a little elegant turned out to be the famous leader of Liumakou.

Qin Chengzu pondered for a moment and explained to Fu Qinghe: "After the Huaishang Prefectures established the Anti-Theft Division Yamen, each prefecture allocated money to set up a new anti-theft camp to exterminate horse thieves such as us, and it became increasingly difficult to carry out activities in Huaishang. Chen Hansan joined the government again this year, and we were active in Jiangling, but we did not get the news in time, and after the autumn, Chen Hansan, a dead dog, led the officers and soldiers of the third battalion of anti-theft battalions in Jiangling, and more than 200 brothers, less than 50 brothers rushed out. Huaishang couldn't wait, so we went downstream, Ziang and Siniangzi led the two brothers into Xinpu City to inquire about the news, and they couldn't get out of the anti-theft camp that Chen Hansan led the crowd to chase...... Chen Hansan sent his cronies to escort them to Jiangning to ask for merit. When the name Chen Hansan was mentioned, the middle-aged man gritted his teeth and wanted to swallow it alive.

"What about the others?" Fu Qinghe asked, there were nearly fifty people who broke out after the autumn, and there were only sixteen people in front of them.

"Brothers with complete siblings, it's you who saw these people, Sanhei and Wu Qi guarding outside the forest." The middle-aged man said with a gloomy expression.

"There are only eighteen people, and you want to rob the official post?" Fu Qinghe's eyebrows furrowed, and he asked, "You also know that the team of officers and soldiers escorting the prisoner car are all elite of Chen Hansan's department, there are more than 80 swordsmen and archers in Qingpujin, and they are stationed near the left, and there are more than 30 post guards in the post house, so you want to rob the official post?" ”

"What's the way, only after entering the post station, Ziang and they will be imprisoned in a separate room...... After leaving Qingpujin, this group of officers and men had to take the waterway and take an official ship to Jiangning, and the chances of making a move were even slimmer. The middle-aged man said, and from his tone, he could hear that he was still willing to discuss with Fu Qinghe how to save people.

The water depth of the Qingjiangpu estuary is very shallow, which is not conducive to the passage of large ships, and the channel conditions are much superior to the upward movement from Qingpujin, as long as the shallow water beach is avoided, the passage of medium-sized boats of three to five hundred stones is very convenient. From the territory of Huai'an Province through Fanliang Lake and across Hongzepu, you can enter the territory of Dongyang Province, and there is a river that runs through Jiangning Province. When the officers and soldiers escorted the prisoner car onto the official ship and wanted to snatch the people out unscathed, it was really difficult to get to the sky. But just these people rushed into the post house to save people, what is the difference between sending them to death?

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