The sky was raining lightly in the late autumn season, and the river was covered with smoke. The canal is shrouded in this gray rain and fog, hazy, and has a kind of Jiangnan charm.

The scenery of Tongzhou is beautiful and pleasing to the eye, the river is clear and thorough, and there are endless Xiuba peaks along both sides of the river. The small wharf of Liujia Village is a T-shaped street, there are not many houses along the river, most of them are lived by boats, another vertical street, Tongzhou Academy leans against the mountain by the water, and the rafters are stacked on top of each other, the black tiles and white powder walls are not restricted to rain or shine, and the scenery is picturesque.

Xu Hao likes to walk here very much, and in recent days, he has to go to Uncle Mei's small lake every day, and he often meets the arrogant young master of the Liu family.

Several waterwheels were set up by the lake, and the villagers spontaneously came to help carry the water, and the small lake gradually dried up, and the reeds were exposed.

At night, Xu Hao and Uncle Mei ate wine, and with a little drunkenness, Uncle Mei picked up a pitchfork more than nine feet long and bent down into the reeds.

"The lake will dry up tomorrow, and the fish thieves will definitely do it tonight." Before leaving, Uncle Mei said through gritted teeth.

Because it was night, Xu Hao didn't go with him, Uncle Mei was in this line of food, and he could walk on Pingchuan in the mud.

Standing in front of the shack and staring at the dark lake, Xu Hao remembered his own Yanque Lake, this time it had been more than a year since he left Beijing, and he had to rush back before Chinese New Year's Eve no matter what.

The October wind was cold, the moon struggled through the clouds, and the stars shimmered brightly.

The power of liquor gradually surged, and Uncle Mei's vision began to blur a little, farming, not enough food to eat, being a boatman was too old, and he borrowed a sum of money from Young Master Liu and a high interest rate to Panhu, seeing that he had lost all his money, he was naturally in a very bad mood.

Fortunately, Uncle Mei maintained a stubborn mentality and did not give up on himself. Swaying, he unconsciously looked at the home bathed in the moonlight two or three miles away, and the low thatched hut of the widowed sister-in-law, one foot high and one foot low towards the reeds that made the sound of water.

"Who is it? The sound of water? Uncle Mei judged that the sound in the reeds was strange, and pinched the pitchfork in his hand vigorously, and cried out loudly.

"Which one is in the water?"

The sound came far away at midnight, Uncle Mei took a step forward, waited quietly for a while, and heard the strange sound of water again, "Okay! Lao Tzu forked you to death. ”

In an instant. Like a flock of water ducks out of the nest, six or seven black shadows dragging fish baskets came out of the reeds, climbed up the embankment of the lake without regard for their lives, and ran in all directions.

Uncle Mei burst out of sparks in his eyes, raised a pitchfork and chased after him, knocked over a long man with great force, and then chased after him, and put down a short man again. The basket was full of river fish, and they jumped into the lake again.

Uncle Mei's friends also surrounded him from all directions, caught a total of four fish thieves, and tied the captives with two straw ropes. Pushed to the front of the shack, Xu Hao lifted the air death lamp and took a closer look, and the big guy didn't feel out loud and laughed.

When the morning glow in the sky swept away the evacuated morning star, Uncle Mei was stepping on the waterwheel with his friends. On a winding path in the distance, there was a hunchbacked man in a robe and glasses, who came straight to this side with a long retinue.

Uncle Wang stopped moving. simply sat in the car, rubbed his small eyes, covered his forehead with his hand and glanced in the direction of the visitor, and said to Uncle Mei as if he had a lesson: "Don't make a noise, let Xu Gongzi come out in everything." ”

The old man unconsciously grimaced, and warned the others: "No one is allowed to laugh, or I will break your dog's head." ”

All four of them were gagged with rags and tied to the willow tree behind them.

Wang Lao Wuyi casually touched his sparse beard, put his hands behind his back, and tilted his head, as if he was wholeheartedly admiring the colorful sky.

Fourth Uncle Liu had a disdainful smile on his face, flicked the dust on his body, poured a sip of old wine, and took a sip of white mist.

Xu Hao walked a few steps forward with a smile, bowed his hand slightly, and the hunchbacked guy in a robe and glasses came.

"Morning! Young Master Liu. ”

"Oh, morning, Xu Gongzi!"

Compared with Xu Hao's calm and relaxed, Young Master Liu smiled unnaturally, and his embarrassed heavy feelings coerced his beating heart, and he reluctantly trembled his lips and asked, "Young Master Xu, do you see my family's long-term worker and my nephew?" ”

Xu Hao shook his head and said, "I didn't see it, early in the morning, your nephew and young master are probably still lying in the bed." Then he threw it over with a meaningful and sarcastic smile, and said unhurriedly: "Changgong, you must go to herd cattle and grass." ”

"No, I didn't go home last night."

"Let's play cards."

"No, they seem to be carrying fish baskets." In the face of the facts, Young Master Liu was not easy to deny, and gradually became a little embarrassed and embarrassed.

Xu Hao nodded and said, "In such a cold weather, does the nephew still want to touch the fish?" Alas, in the end, it is a rich family, such diligence and thrift, no wonder we should be poor. ”

Young Master Liu's face slowly turned red, red to the root of his ears, red to his neck, and hot air came out.

"Is it hot? Young Master Liu, it's a little spring in October! Xu Hao continued to say unhurriedly.

Young Master Liu didn't have such a deep city, and in front of so many people, his face soon changed from red to purple, from purple to white, and finally he was enraged, and shouted: "Dog, who the fuck listens to you fart?" Don't pretend to be deaf and dumb anymore, if you don't hand over my people, don't blame me for being polite. ”

Xu Hao's eyes narrowed, and he didn't move, but said with a smile: "Young Master Liu, what's wrong with your old man?" Looking for us poor people to be happy? Losing your temper early in the morning, who is it? I don't understand much. ”

"Good! You're not handing it over, are you? I'll walk with you dogs. Young Master Liu was furious and ready to leave.

I didn't think Uncle Mei couldn't hold it anymore, so he bounced up like an arrow with a bow, and said angrily: "Liu centipede, my grandson, I sue you, you just have to call someone, Lao Tzu is not afraid of you." Your thieves were all caught by Lao Tzu, come on! Your mother's, the richer you get, the more you become a thief, I cǎo your ancestor! ”

"Haha!" Fourth Uncle Liu crossed his waist and laughed.

"Haha!" Wang Lao Wu touched a few sparse beards and laughed.

"For the rich stinky centipede, we are not afraid of you! Ha ha! Liu Er and Liu San also laughed.

"You, you wait." Young Master Liu left in a rage.

Only Uncle Wang lowered his head, frowned without a sound, and interrupted everyone's laughter word by word, "What are you doing so impulsively?" Let Xu Gongzi taunt him, just vent his anger. Can people still give it back to him? More is better than less, offending the centipede spirit. Alas! You guys. ”

"Brother Wang, don't you understand?" Uncle Mei pointed to the lake angrily, "There are already a number of fish in the small lake, scold him, he will also harm me, if you don't scold him, it will also harm me." ”

Uncle Wang glanced at Liu Er and Liu San, who were eager to try, worriedly, and asked, "So, what about your plan?" ”

"Intended?" Uncle Mei hated: "I went to fight with him alone." ”

"Nope." Uncle Wang shook his head vigorously and said to the people on the waterwheel: "Stop for a while and then drive!" Come. Let's go to the shed and talk about it. ”

At the same time, the four brothers of the fish king Yang Carp saw that the eldest brother often dived into the water, occasionally peeking out of the Qingping lotus, peeking at Xiulan's sister-in-law, and then sinking into the water, relying on the dexterity of the fish in the water, there were only a few faint ripples in and out of the water, so Xiulan's sister-in-law has not noticed.

The brothers are very unimpressed with this, the leading brother in the Tongzhou area. As for following a pussy around behind her ass every day? What will it look like if it is preached?

It was also Xu Hao who gave the order, the government stopped martial law, and many people were released, and the tense wind was greatly eased.

The second brother Jiang Long persuaded: "Big brother." Why unrequited love? Capture that girl alive, and you go straight into the cave with her in the reed pond. ”

Yang Li shook his head and said, "People are married women. With that, he walked away.

Who doesn't know the details of Xiulan's sister-in-law? The fourth grass carp is a slender man on the Tonghui River, and he knows the details of the other party very well, "She is a widow." and his man Han Er are fools, and they have long been disconnected. ”

Mixed Jianglong said: "Then don't ink, take people to worship heaven and earth." ”

The grass carp smiled: "Since the eldest brother likes her very much." If you can't guarantee it, you will become our sister-in-law, so you have to salute first and then soldier, I will first release a clever starling to explore Xiulan's sister-in-law's style. ”

On the edge of the lake, Xu Hao listened to the discussion inside, in fact, no matter how he discussed, he couldn't change the pattern of disparity between strength and weakness, as the saying goes, the poor don't fight with the rich, and the rich don't fight with the officials. It's true that he caught Young Master Liu's sore feet, but even if he sued the county, stealing some fish was not a big crime, it was nothing more than damaging the reputation of the rich man Liu's family, but after this incident, it was a complete conclusion, and besides, who would like to alarm the government in these years?

Fighting is not the solution, in case of injury to a person's life, the sky will fall. There are only about twenty poor families in the village, and how many people have gathered the whole village? There is no threat of public outrage.

Of course, this matter is carried on, and it must be Young Master Liu who apologizes and loses money in the end, but in this way, it is completely knotted, the centipede is carefully narrow-chested, and his teeth will be reported, and he may not know how to harm everyone in the future.

In the final analysis, they are all ordinary people who have no power and no power, even if they are old, they can't think of a good plan once and for all, they talk about it and talk about it, it seems that the best way is to let people go first, ease the atmosphere, and let Young Master Liu promise not to embarrass Uncle Mei again, otherwise what else can be done?

Xu Hao is not good at talking much as an outsider, revealing his identity will inevitably bully the small, and for the sake of a few fish, what can he do to Young Master Liu? He will never admit that he is behind the scenes, it is nothing more than a few long-term workers to carry it down, at most a few boards.

This person must have his reasons for being bad, it is impossible for Young Master Liu to toss Uncle Mei for no reason, what can he do if Uncle Mei is ruined? With the kindness of the people in the village, Kenneng will not let the family starve to death, and it is a big deal to change places to run the pond.

Xu Hao's eyes stayed on the little granddaughter who came to deliver the meal, slim and beautiful this year, she was twelve years old this year, and she was born very pleasantly and lovely, according to the conversation in the shed, it seems that Young Master Liu's intention is nothing more than to force Uncle Mei to use his granddaughter to pay off his debts.

Let Young Master Liu not be humane in the future or will the world evaporate? Xu Hao also had a bad heart, we can't come to the dark if we can't do it.

That's right! King of Fish Yang Carp? (To be continued......)