Escort system

Chapter 102

Chapter 102

Ye Di's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears. After a long time, he asked in a trembling voice, "Did you die under the magic power of Tai Chi?"

Xie Xingnan sighed for a long time, nodded and continued: "The truth of this matter will be known in a few days. The younger brother came here today to ask Brother Ye for another matter."

Ye Di said: "Well, what's the matter?"

Xie Xingnan said: "My little brother would like to ask Brother Ye to bring a sentence to Wudang, just say August [-]th, on the top of Wudang Mountain; the Hainan beggar gang, come to question the crime together."

After Ye Di heard these sixteen words, although he was shocked in his heart, his face remained calm and he said, "What day is today?"

Xie Xingnan smiled faintly, took out a piece of gold from his arms, threw it to Ye Di and said: "The ninth day of August..."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Ye Di to ask any more questions, the body with a little tiptoes swept up in the air, and the person was already far away.

Ye Di stretched out his hand to take the ingot of gold, and carefully chewed the few words Xie Xingnan said, only to feel that more and more people were involved in this matter, Ye Di just wanted to get out of this matter, I'm afraid Don't even think about it...

Ye Di turned around, looked up at the tall building that had already taken shape, and walked downstairs to the old Qiantou who was gesticulating and directing all the craftsmen, and asked, "Uncle Qian, is it easy to take the road from Fuzhou to Wudang?" How many days will it take to arrive?"

When the old Qiantou heard Ye Di ask about Wudang Mountain, he showed a slightly surprised look on his face, and asked: "Young escort, why did you ask about Wudang, where are Xie Tanhuatuo's escorts going?"

Ye Di nodded, smiled wryly and said, "It's sort of."

The old moneyman showed a hesitant look on his face, and after thinking for a while, he said: "We can travel from Fujian to Hubei by land or by water. If we go by land, even the first-class fast horses will have to run for six or seven days. If we go by water, Hurry up, take us to the Minjiang River to the north, and then the Yangtze River to the west, and it will take about three or four days."

When Ye Di heard the old Qiantou say that Wudang would take seven or eight days, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley, and then he was slightly relieved when he said that he could walk through the water.

But the old Qiantou continued: "However, I heard that the Yangtze River has not been peaceful these years, and there are some powerful water bandits and robbers. Young escort, are we rushing to deliver the escort?"

Ye Di smiled wryly, and said: "It must be delivered before August [-]th, do you think it is in a hurry?"

When the old money heard this, his old face suddenly turned bitter, and he hurriedly said: "This Xie Tanhua is too much trouble, I'm going to prepare dry food for the livestock now, and I'm going to go on the road tonight."

Ye Di reached out to stop Old Qian's head, shook his head and said, "Uncle Qian, there's no need. I'll just go for a walk by myself, and I'll go now."

The old Qiantou wondered: "Hey, what about the batch of goods to be insured?"

But Ye Di didn't answer him, stretched out his hand to pat him on the shoulder a few times, and said, "Uncle Qian, I'm not going to return until after August [-]th, so you're too worried about the affairs in the bureau. "

Saying that, he took out the ingot of silver delivered by Xie Xingnan from his bosom and handed it to the old Qiantou, and went back to the study to properly hide more than a dozen cheat books, only taking two copies of Xiao Wuxiang Gong and Beiming Shen Gong with him. cheats.

He also took out a long string of pearls from his bosom, which Ye Di grabbed from the treasure chest that day to confuse the knights of the Zhen Yusi. Things in my arms.

Ye Di took this string of pearls to the pawnshop and bought several hundred taels of silver bills and some broken silver, bought some dry food, water and wine, bid farewell to everyone in Laoqian's first-class escort agency, and went straight to the pier.

Ye Di's body is strong, and his footsteps are extremely fast, and he arrived at a pier in the west of Fuzhou City in a short time.Ye Di looked up at the sky, but saw the stars in the night sky like chess, a small white eagle circling back and forth in the night sky, but it was the sea dongqing that Ye Di got newly.

Ye Di looked up to the sky and whistled, and the Hai Dongqing leaned over and rushed in front of Ye Di with a roar, and stood on Ye Di's shoulder, looking very handsome and full of aura.

Ye Di smiled slightly, and strolled to the pier, looking for a fast boat to go to Wudang Mountain, who knew that after looking left and right, he asked five or six boat owners one after another, but none of them were willing to sail in the Yangtze River.

One of the old boatmen looked at Ye Di's good-natured face, and explained to Ye Di with a smile: "This young man is a native of Fuzhou, and this is the first time he has been driven by water?"

Ye Di nodded, and the old boatman continued: "It's no wonder, sir, you don't know something. Nowadays, the road in the Yangtze River is not easy to walk on."

Ye Di frowned, remembering what old Qiantou said before leaving, and asked, "Well, what do you mean by this old man?"

The old boatman took a long shisha pipe from his bosom in his spare time, knocked a few times on the side of the boat, and said: "In recent years, for some reason, a group of water thieves came from the river. He was born with a big shoulder and a round waist, and he can dive seven or eight miles into the water with a fierce one. However, all ships that come and go, no matter whether they are passenger merchant ships or fishing boats and sampans, as long as they meet them, they have to pay for their lives, otherwise they will be killed. Chop it up and throw it in the river to feed the fish."

Ye Diqi said: "This group of gangsters are so arrogant, the government doesn't care about it?"

The old boatman curled his lips, blinked at Ye Di mysteriously, and said, "The government will take care of it? Hehe, I heard that even the government's big bird boat that transported salt was robbed by them a few days ago." Yes. My son, you said, it’s not a bad idea for us to run boats in the Minjiang River, what are we doing to touch the bad luck if we have nothing to do, otherwise the boat and the head will be lost together.”

Ye Di nodded, bowed his hands to the boatman, and said, "Thank you, old man."

Then he went forward and asked seven or eight boats one after another. The money for running the boats had been doubled, but the boatmen shook their heads like rattles whenever they heard that they were going to the Yangtze River.

Ye Di was a little discouraged, intending to grab a boat by force and set out on the road. Suddenly, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a small black boat parked by the river not far away.

Sitting at the bow of the boat was a man wearing a bamboo hat and a coarse blouse, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but the boat was parked far away from other boats, and the boatman didn't cross his shoulders like other boatmen and shouted loudly. Talking, laughing and scolding, it seems that they disdain to be with these people.

What surprised Ye Di the most was that a long pole with a length of two feet lay flat on his lap.

You must know that when sailing on the Yangtze River, the bottom of the river bed is often far away from the river surface. It is not like sailing on a shoal. You only need a bamboo raft at the bottom of the shoal to float.Not to mention whether ordinary bamboo poles can reach the bottom of the river, even if only a long pole is used to propel a boat to break through the wind and waves in the river, it takes at least seven or eight hundred catties of strength between the arms.

Therefore, when sailing on the big river, most of the boatmen hold oars in their hands, and they use big oars to move the water forward.But I didn't expect to meet a boatman with a long pole today, it is really a strange thing.

Ye Di couldn't help becoming interested, and walked towards the strange man.When he got close, Ye Di glanced at the weird man's exposed shoulders intentionally or unintentionally, and couldn't help but secretly startled again.

Although most of the boatmen work hard, there are few who do not have strong muscles on their shoulders.But on this man's arms, there are muscles made of steel and meridians that twist and wriggle like small snakes. People can't help but think that he only needs to pinch lightly, and other people's heads will immediately become a big one. Rotten watermelon.

(End of this chapter)