Long Song Wanli Dingshan River

The gagged Jiang Pirate stomped his feet when he heard it?

Stupid listen? Confused: "What kind of sharp fruit?"

Chang Ge immediately gave Zhu Zheng a look of "what a fool".

Zhu Zheng replied calmly with his eyes, "It's good to get used to it."

Jiang Huairen laughed, and answered questions with the foolish captain: "Fruits, sweet and delicious are called sweet fruits. Spicy ones are called Cangguo, beautiful ones are called sharp fruits, and those that fade in color can only be called hollow fruits." gone."

Didn't you hear me? Do you understand? "What are you talking about? Is it for food? Why do I think, instead? It's like talking about women..."

He suddenly covered his mouth and looked at Jiang Pirate who was on the ground.

The disgust on Chang Ge's face was undisguised: "It's a woman. Guo'er, it's a disgusting saying in Taoism. This matter is obvious-there is only one difference between the first floor ship and the rest of the fleet."

Although there are many wedding fleets, most of them are mainly carrying cargo. There are only boatmen and Chu army sailors on board.Only on the building boat where Princess Yingchuan is, there are maids.

The confused man shouted in a flash: "Okay? You are so courageous! Princess? You dare to think!"

"We never thought of robbing the princess!" Kuai Dayan stood up and defended, "At most? Steal one or two maids. This boat is full of northern women. They are rare and can be sold at a high price——"

Chang Ge was so angry that he kicked him on the shoulder, causing the man to turn over several times on the ground.

Chang Ge said sharply: "You yourself have a wife and children, so you can do it!"

Kuai Dayan didn't dare to get up, and replied with a sinking head: "I... I was forced to do so... If it wasn't because I couldn't survive..."

"Shut up!" Chang Ge interrupted him directly, "You are miserable, much worse than you!"

He sat back on the wooden barrel, and got a headache from anger, Zhu Zheng then softly comforted him: "Don't get angry, be careful not to get angry."

Kuai Dayan was still narrating in a mess, Chang Ge listened to it for a while, and it was basically the same as what he guessed.

Chang Ge became suspicious when it was said that there was a ghost ship on board and He Bo snatched the bride.

That night, the black-faced Jiang bandit gleefully talked about He Bo's robbing the bride, and Chang Ge associated it with the disappearance of the woman in Jiangling City. This matter was obviously not about "He Bo", but someone pretending to be a ghost and trying to fish in troubled waters.

According to Kuai Dayan, the gang of Zijiang pirates usually? Just help to secure the goods, the boat is not big, so they can't make much money.

The black-faced man that Chang Ge picked out was the leader of the gang of Jiang Pirates. He was able to pick up some big orders from time to time, mostly in the evening, put the wooden boxes full of goods on the boat, and ferry them to the center of the river. Afterwards, everyone abandoned the ship and dived away. The next day, the ship would return to the dock with a full load of gold.

After counting too many times, Kuai Dayan couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he pried open the wooden box in the cabin and took a look, and found that there were unconscious women in the cargo box.

Although the business was profitable, the order was extremely unstable, and the other party contacted through a single line. Although they wanted to take a few more deals, the boss behind the scenes didn't have that intention at all.

In the past few days, Hei Lian heard that there were many northern women on Princess Yingchuan's wedding boat, and they wanted to kidnap a few to claim credit, and it would be best if they could talk about a long-term cooperation, so they took the courage Come on board.

As for Wu Guochang Shi Jiang Huairen, he said that he lost all his money in gambling, and was beaten out of the restaurant together with the black-faced Jiang Pirate. Talking about books is just for fun, that's all.

The muddleheaded man picked up the tone, touched the handle of the knife, and asked slowly: "The ghost ship was also made up by you for the sake of luck?"

Kuai Dayan turned over and knelt straight: "No, this is really not! The story of Hebo is an old legend in Jiangling area, a bit? All experienced boatmen know it. If you don't believe it, you can just ask one of them."

"Okay!" Chang Ge interrupted him, "The matter is clear, shake up the previous five."

Kuai Dayan grasped the words: "The first five?"

The wooden turning machine on the deck creaked and turned, and the spare wooden boat on the side of the boat rose slowly. Five or six sailors jumped off the boat first, and the last one to get off was holding a hemp rope and pulling the string of river pirates that had just been pushed down. When they got on the boat, they were all gagged and soaked like soaked rats.

Is this what Chang Ge told me in advance? Binding is real, and kicking into the water is also real kicking, but they are all tied with ropes, and their mouths and noses are blocked underwater, and they are taken to the spare wooden boat on the river to wait. , When the recruiting is over, pull it up again.

Kuai stared wide-eyed: "This... this..."

The seventh Jiang Pirate saw that this was a game, and became more and more angry, wishing he could bite Kuai Dayan.

"Take all seven of them down to me." Chang Ge ordered, "Watch carefully for me. When you go ashore, hand them over to the Jiangling prefect. Whether it's beheading or showing them to the public, you should be sentenced."

Zhu Zheng added: "Tell the prefect of Jiangling to conduct a careful trial. I will continue to intervene in this matter."

"Here."

The sailor pushed and pushed the river bandits forward. Although the first few were not angry, they walked in a correct manner. By the end of the last river bandit, not only his nose and eyes were smeared with river mud, but he could not see clearly. Like ooze, straight to the ground.

The Chu navy who was escorting him got angry and kicked the muddy Jiang Pirate: "Get up!"

This man is really a bag of mud and sand, he got kicked and didn't move a muscle.

Several Jiang Pirates were all tied to a hemp rope, and if this one didn't leave, the others could only stop and turn around to look at him.

The leader of the black-faced Jiang Pirates went back and forth to count the number of people several times, and suddenly began to whine desperately.

Chang Ge ordered someone to remove the rag in his mouth, and the black face immediately yelled: "We are only seven brothers, where did the eighth come from?"

When Chang Ge heard this, he ordered it immediately.

Five people were pushed into the water, one was stuffed with a rag on the deck, plus Kuai Dayan, there were indeed seven people in total.

The Chu army sailor became more and more anxious when he heard the words, and kept kicking the man on the ground, trying to get him up quickly.But no matter how he kicked, the man on the ground was like mud, motionless.

Jiang Huairen said coldly: "Dead people, of course they won't move."

Upon hearing this, the navy master of Chu State panicked, and hurriedly argued: "We rescued in time? It's true that no one was killed!"

Chang Ge and Zhu Zheng looked at each other. He frowned slightly, lowered his eyes, and only looked at the clay figurines on the ground from the corner of his eye.

Chang Ge asked in a low voice: "Sir, you also feel strange?"

"It's not strange." Zhu Zheng lowered his voice, "It's obviously aimed at you and me."

Chang Ge secretly squeezed his wrist, and the cool breeze from the river made his wrist as cold as iron.Seeing him calm down, Chang Ge just took a few steps forward and lowered his head to examine the clay figurine carefully.

The river mud was so sticky that the man was beyond recognition, and he couldn't distinguish it. He has not moved since it was fished out, and he may have been dead for a long time.Just in case, Chang Ge pinched his wrist and checked his pulse. Sure enough, he had been gone for a long time.

Zhu Zheng followed up: "How is it?"

Chang Ge shook his head and carefully looked at the corpse on the ground.

This man was short and bloated, obviously not Jiang Pirate's material.

Chang Ge squatted down, at first he just looked at it, but then he reached out and gently wiped the man's fingers away.His ring finger was already swollen and turned white, and his flesh was also soaked into layers of wrinkles. It looked like it had been soaked for at least several hours.

Chang Ge then swept away the leather belt around the man's waist. When he swept it away, all the Chu soldiers around were shocked.

Looking at the pattern pendant on the leather belt, this person must be a member of the Chu court!

Chang Ge moved his hand up, and then swept away the sand on the front of the front, revealing the thick and complicated piping pattern.Although he was not familiar with the ranks of Chu State's official uniforms, just looking at this person's clothes, they were a little more refined than the third-rank Lu Huhu, so he must be a rank higher than the third rank.

Chang Ge pulled up the pattern on the man's collar: "Come and see, sir."

Zhu Zheng said: "Zheng Er? Grade official uniform."

Chang Ge wiped away the man's face, and the fool suddenly screamed.

"What?" Chang Ge looked up at him, "You know him?"

The muddleheaded man was terrified and didn't dare to open his mouth. Zhu Zheng explained, "This is Cheng Bang, the chief minister of Chu State."

Chang Ge paused.

Da Si Nong, the lifeline minister in charge of farming and money, not only died inexplicably, but also appeared on the Chu Guoxi ship.

Could this be a coincidence?

When the black face heard this, he glanced at himself again and again: "I don't know this person. He didn't come on the boat with us either."

Chang Ge turned his head and glanced at Zhu Zheng. He looked worried, but Zhu Zheng himself was calm and calm. He just handed over a handkerchief and said in a warm voice, "Dirty. General, clean your hands and let me do it."

Chang Ge took the handkerchief, took a step back, and wiped her hands casually.Zhu Zheng knelt down beside the man, squeezed his chin, opened his mouth, and examined it carefully.

Neither of them felt dirty, on the contrary, the fool took the lead, and the Chu sailors neatly covered their mouths and noses.

"The body is still soft, and the soaked hair is not serious." Chang Ge said, "I think I just drowned not long ago."

Zhu Zheng said softly, "It's not drowning."

The people around are quiet.

"There is no filth in the mouth and nose, which means that this person did not go through the process of suffocation and choking after entering the water, and he may have died before entering the water."

Chang Ge asked someone to call Bai? Su Zi. Bai? ?, this Mr. Sinong's meridians are not smooth, and his hands and feet are weak? This should be..."

Bai? Su Zi lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment before he said, "Ruanjinsan."

These three words resounded loudly, and the boat was suddenly silent for a moment.

The night wind caressed Zhu Zheng's sleeves like clouds on the river.

He seemed unafraid, still looking down for clues carefully, but his fingertips paused for a moment.Chang Ge knew at a glance that he really listened to the three words Ruanjinsan.

As soon as Situ Kong died, the thread of Ruanjinsan was broken. Unexpectedly, it reappeared here!

Chang Ge: "Xiao Bai?, have you traveled all over the rivers and lakes before, do you know where you can get this soft tendon powder?"

Bai? Su Zi just stared down at a certain place on the deck, his eyes flickering left and right: "General, this thing is precious. It is said that the king of medicine only made a few bottles. I have never seen it in Jianghu."

"Ruan Jin San, made by Medicine King?"

Bai Suzi nodded his head: "Situ Wen's Quenching Flower Poison is said to be made by the King of Medicine."

Chang Ge: "When you were decocting medicines in Yaowang Valley? Have you seen these medicines before? Do you know how to make them?"

Bai Suzi thought about it carefully, and shook his head: "To prevent the secret recipe from being leaked, the king of medicine divides the same medicine into four or five teams. The drug disciples in the Yaowang Valley have never actually met the Yaowang, so what they have learned is not as good as when they walked the streets."

Changge has nothing to say.

This route was stopped at Yaowang again, it seemed that he really had to find time to find Yaowang.

At this moment, Bai Suzi saw that the man's right hand was entangled strangely by water plants. He wanted to untie it, but the water plants were flexible and different.

"Give way."

Chang Ge casually drew the sailor's knife, and two cold lights flashed across the water and plants. The dead man's hand suddenly let go, revealing a red hydrangea the size of a fingertip in his palm.

This thing is exquisitely made, the whole body is inlaid with gold thread, exquisite and translucent, with red ears hanging on both sides, and numbers engraved on eight sides, it looks like a dice.

Jiang Huairen exclaimed pretentiously: "—Hydrangea Ball Casino!"