The news that the auxiliary general Qin Chengbo was robbed and killed in Hongzepu and that Hongzepu Water Village raised the flag to rebel shook both sides of the Shiliang River, and the displaced people stranded on both sides of the Shiliang River were immediately ready to move.

The Dongyang did not move when it withdrew from Shanglindu, but on the way to retreat to Savage, it encountered five rogue robbers.

When I went to the forest, it was a south wind, and the sail was very fast; When going south, the north wind comes and goes, when there is a wind, the sail goes, when there is no wind or headwind, they can only swing the oars and prop up, the speed of the boat is much slower all of a sudden, and there are constantly rogue attacks on both sides of the strait, so they take a boat until noon the next day to arrive at the savage crossing.

The rogues are not large-scale, and the weapons are also rudimentary, and many people even take the risk of swimming in the water to seize the boat, and it is very easy to send these rogues, but Lin Jian looks at the rippling Shiliang River and frowns. Although the displaced people on both sides of the embankment may not all dare to take risks, the displaced people gathered on the embankment seem to have a fire hidden in their eyes when they look at the Hongzepu incident, and it is already a critical moment that is about to erupt.

In the past few months, local governments such as Jiangning and Pingjiang have blockaded Jiangdu to ensure that the local areas are not affected, leaving hundreds of thousands of displaced people stranded north of Chaotiandang. The vast majority of these displaced people are trying to earn a living ration to survive in this bad world, but they are drowned in the northern part of Jiangning Prefecture and on both sides of the Shiliang River, unable to work and have no land to plant.

The officials and masters of Jiangdong County have been stumbling in the officialdom for more than ten or decades, all of them are human spirits, all of them are scheming and good at scheming, but they are all blind and blind to this huge and dangerous powder keg on the north bank of the sky, and the three divisions of Jiangdong County and the yamen of Jiangning Mansion have discussed the resettlement of the displaced people on the north bank several times, and they have been separated several times due to various excuses, sitting and watching the homeless people on the north bank starving and accumulating corpses, but I don't know what decision these officials can make about the critical situation at this time!

The boat is close to the savage crossing.

The last time I passed through the savage crossing, it was night after the rain, there were restaurants, inns, tax offices, and sentry posts at the ferry, and the surrounding area was the shacks where the homeless people lived, which looked dilapidated, but it was a quite prosperous ferry port in the south of Shiliang County, and there were also cars and horses going to the east of Weiyang Mansion, and countless homeless people were drowned here to beg and work.

At this time, looking around, in the deepening twilight of the four fields, I saw countless pillars of black smoke rising in the sky above the savage ferry and connecting with the canopy, not only the restaurant, inn and the official office of the tax department post were only left with broken walls, but also the surrounding homeless shacks were also burned to ashes, and there were several corpses of soldiers and corpses wearing low-level official robes lying on the ferry wharf, in addition to a white female corpse naked across the pier, which was killed by rape and killing, and several ferries were also burned and scuttled near the shore.

The large number of displaced people who had been drowned in the wild people had disappeared, and only a few people rummaged through the ruins and broken walls to find valuable objects, and when they saw the Dongyang ships coming, they looked at the river a few times, and then fled towards the woods to the east.

After the Dongyang withdrew from Shanglindu at noon, there was no delay on the way, and saw that many ferries and villages along the way were looted and burned by the Liukou, Lin Jian speculated that someone made a special trip to spread the news that Liu An'er had gathered people in Hongzepu to make an incident, and thought that these leaders of the water village were really careful and interlocking.

Originally, I wanted to stop for a while in the Savage Crossing, but seeing the Savage Crossing in such a situation, this idea could only be lost, Lin Jian asked the big loach master Ge Cunxin to signal the other ships, and continue sailing by the bright moonlight, and always return to the south bank of Chaotiandang to really breathe a sigh of relief.

"Further south is the Jiangning Mansion, the banner of the second son of Qin is done, is it hanging up at this time?" Cao Ziang asked.

"Hang up." Lin Jian said.

I don't know if the warships of the Jiangning Water Camp were dispatched to avoid a sudden encounter and misunderstanding, Lin Jian asked people to raise the banner of "Zhaowu Captain Qin" on the mainmast and press on his banner of "Jiangdong Press Inspector Si Jinchuan Si Prison Lin".

Lin Mengde, Zhou Pu, Ge Cunxin, Zhao Hu and others looked up at the "Zhaowu Captain Qin" flag unfurled in the wind on the main mast, and they all looked at each other tacitly and smiled.

Qin Chengbo's eldest son died early, and the second son Qin Shizheng entered the military gate because of the shadow of the door, and has been serving in front of his old son Qin Chengbo's account, and he is already a captain of Zhaowu at a young age. Qin Chengbo died in Luoyang Lake, and when the Dongyang withdrew, Qin Shizheng and more than 100 other Qin family members were rescued, and the Qin family on the Dongyang should be dominated by Qin Shizheng, but the second son of Qin, who was afraid of two hundred catties of good meat, was not injured in an inch, but he had a high fever due to fright, and he was lying unconscious in the cabin from early morning to now. Lin Jian prepared more bone-setting trauma medicine on the boat, and he couldn't apply the medicine to Qin Shizheng, so he could only rush to Jiangning as soon as possible to extend medical treatment, and the Qin family was in a panic.

"Lord Lin," a maid dressed in green came out of the cabin and called out to Lin Bin, "Lord Lin, my wife asked why you didn't dock to rest for a while, and the cabin was about to suffocate to death." ”

Counting Gu Yingsleeve, Lin Tingxun, a half-dead man, has five ladies on this boat, Lin Tie couldn't recognize which lady's maid this girl was for a while, waved his hand and said, "I'll have to wait for a while......"

The Dongyang only has two cabins on the stern deck that can accommodate people, with open windows, and the thirteen cabins below the deck are all watertight compartments for loading, with poor ventilation conditions, dim and fire-prohibited, and it is uncomfortable for people to live in it.

It's just that the tail cabin room is limited, it was designed according to the sixteen crew members, and it can only squeeze in thirty or forty people, Lin Jian cleared the cabin to house the wounded and take care of the wounded, he and Cao Ziang, Zhou Pu, Lin Mengde, Zhao Hu and others, as well as all the armored soldiers and Xiang Yong were tired, and they just made do with resting on the deck, whether it was the Qin family or the Lin family, they all drove him down to sit in the cargo hold.

At first, these people ran to the deck to breathe, but along the way, they encountered five rogue robbers in a row, and they refused to come out without being driven by the forest, and it was of course uncomfortable to be stuffed in the cargo hold for a long time.

The maid was a little afraid of Lin Lian, looking at his face gloomy and ugly, and said hesitantly: "My wife said ......."

"Ziling, what did the third lady say?" Gu Yingsleeve came out of the cabin, she couldn't be too intimate with Lin Jian in front of outsiders, and most of the time she was stuffed in a lower cabin with other female dependents, and at this time she went to the deck to breathe.

"Madame asked if she could clear a stern cabin? It is enough to put the wounded in the cabin, there is no reason in the world for servants to enjoy happiness and for the master's family to suffer. The Ziling maid watched the Seventh Lady come over, became a little bolder, and finished her words with sharp teeth.

"Where is this nonsense, if you don't feel comfortable living in the cabin, get ashore and go to Jiangning," Lin Jian scolded mercilessly, seeing that the maid was about to cry with a deflated face, and saw that he was upset, he scolded again, "Get down." ”

Where did the Ziling maid think that Lin Xiucai, who was dignified, would speak ill of her mouth so disregarding her manners, her little face turned pale with fright, she didn't dare to take a breath, she wanted to cry but didn't dare to cry, and she got out of the cabin in a gloomy manner.

"The third lady is a person who is used to enjoying happiness, she has never suffered like this, don't be angry about this," Gu Yingsleeve saw that Lin Lian was angry about this matter, and came over to persuade him, "She usually treats people well." ”

"I think she's got water in her head, and without us lowly servants desperately resisting in front, they would have escaped from the forest unscathed?" Lin Jian frowned and asked sharply.

Although Lin Mengde also had the opinion of the lord and the servant in his heart, he also knew the priorities, and at this time, he also felt that the third lady's request was really a bit excessive, but Lin Lian's reprimand was too ruthless, he thought to himself: Regardless of whether Lin Lian's words were sincere or not, the surrounding villagers and Zhu Wuwei must be warm in their hearts after hearing it. He also saw that the surrounding village warriors and Wu Wei all tightened their weapons and puffed up their chests at this time.

Lin Mengde thought to himself that some people were probably born to be able to convince others, just like Lin Lian's words just now, it is very simple, anyone can learn to say it, but how many people can say it like Lin Lian in such a strong and natural way, so that others feel that it is worth it to give him his life at this time?

The key is that Lin Tie is not just verbal, after withdrawing from Shanglinli, Lin Tie does not perfunctory the Qin family or the Lin family, and is attentive to the Xiangyong, Wuwei and the ordinary people who took refuge in Jiangning; When sailing, regardless of the danger of falling into the water, he personally ran to the fast oars boat to check the vigilance, and gave food and water to the boat Xiang Yong personally sent over.

No one on the ship is better at treating Jin Chuang's external injuries than Lin Lian, and when the situation eases a little, Lin Lian lets the others take turns to rest, while he works tirelessly to stop bleeding and wrap up the wounds.

Lin Jian was tired and tired, so he just sat on the deck with his clothes and squinted on the side of the boat to rest for a while.

Lin Mengde thought to himself that they fled south in a hurry, and they were constantly harassed by rogues along the way, but everyone's morale was not bad, and it had nothing to do with Lin Lian's intentions. Especially when the enemy boats in the water village were attached to the forest crossing like an ant colony, Lin Tie was stunned and had the courage to lead six boats to confront the enemy ships at the mouth of the river for a long time, so that the Xihe Hui Cao boat received the fleeing people along the Shiliang River, many of whom were the families of the village Yong, and finally Lin Tie could also take everyone to retreat, which left a very deep impression on everyone.

Since Lin Tie came to Jiangning in the winter of last year, Lin Mengde has been in contact with him, from making a big fuss in the feudal mansion to Lin Tie in Jiangning's self-reliance, from the homeless tragedy to the Dongshi incident, and then to these Luoyang Lake water battles and withdrawal from Shanglin, Lin Mengde has shown a talent that Lin Mengde feels is far behind.

In particular, in the case of the homeless people, if it were someone else, most of the first batch of displaced people recruited would be panicked when the tragedy occurred, but the forest binding can make the tragedy a key opportunity for the cohesion of the estuary homeless people to suddenly increase.

This seems to be beyond the scope of talent or talent, and it is more appropriate to let Lin Mengde judge accurately, or to say that Lin Jian is a natural general.

Gu Yingsleeve thought that it was indeed too much for the third lady to make such a request at this time, and she persuaded Lin Lian again: "I'll go and tell her, the life and death of the master are unknown, the second master and the eldest son are not here, and the second son died of martyrdom, this family still needs the third lady to preside, if they make them resentful, I am afraid that you will come to take the family property." ”

Lin Lian sighed slightly, this ship contained about 160,000 taels of gold and silver in the Lin family's gold and silver wealth, but Lin Tingli might make up for the lack of the Dongyang prefect, and the eldest son Lin Xuwen was in Yanjing as the head of the Zhengwupin Ministry of Labor, so he couldn't confiscate this huge amount of money into the name of Jiyun Society.

Lin Jian exhaled lightly, his tone slowed down and said to Yingsleeve: "You go and sing red-faced." And after arriving in Jiangning, where do they want to settle down, you can also discuss it first, and this way will not stop, and you will be able to reach Jiangning before dusk tomorrow. ”

Gu Yingsleeve nodded, the immortal Lin Tingxun and the ladies all went to Jiangning to flee, she couldn't live alone in the Gu family or elsewhere, not to mention that the Lin family dragged a hundred and ten people, and there was no one else in Jiangning to take charge, this family wanted her and Lin Mengde to take charge, but she had to avoid suspicion with Lin Binding, and many feelings had to be buried in her heart first.