Han’s Son is Not a Slave

In October, the temperature in Guangdong has dropped significantly, but it is still much warmer compared to the north. However, in the middle of the night, it is still a little cold. In addition, the wind blowing from the river is strong, and only those who are hiding in the reeds by the river are allowed. A few men in black shuddered. The reeds all around are already withered and yellow, and they are full of dew. People hide in them and get stuck by the dew from time to time. In addition, the mudflats under their feet are very annoying.

There are only black clouds in the sky, and the moon covered by the black clouds only shows a small half of the body, emitting a bleak moonlight. It was dark in the reeds, and no sound could be heard, except for the occasional "coo" sound of unknown birds.

Several men in black have been lurking here for a long time, but none of them became impatient because of the long waiting time. Instead, they squatted there and didn't move. When their legs were numb, they only slightly stretched their legs forward. , rubbed it with his hand, but didn't even stand.

"Ah!"

Xu Shi's cold air entered his body, and a man in black endured a few times and finally couldn't help it. He sneezed out of control, and the people next to him were so frightened that they quickly turned around and stared at him.

The man in black who sneezed blushed a bit when his companions saw him, and then muttered disapprovingly, "Who would come here in the middle of the night, fourth brother, don't worry, we've all been here a few times. If the guard is not strict, no one will come to patrol, and no movement will be heard."

The man in black called fourth brother snorted slightly when he heard the words: "It's always right to be careful, if it's really called Qing Yaoxian, our little lives won't matter, but what about the things that Qianhu entrusted to us, how many people in the city? What about Qiankou?"

Hearing that the fourth brother had moved thousands of households and thousands of families out of the city, the man in black suddenly stopped talking when he sneezed, and lowered his head with some guilt.

Seeing this, the fourth brother didn't scold the man any more, and made a gesture to the other people. Everyone turned around immediately and continued to stare at the river motionlessly, as if nothing had been born just now.

Nothing could be seen on the black surface of the river. On the riverside, there was a burst of sound of river water lapping the shore, and the river breeze had a fishy smell unique to the river.

Another half of the incense passed. A man seemed to see something, but he didn't look carefully. He took a closer look and exclaimed in a low voice, "The ship is here!"

As soon as they heard the boat coming, several men in black hurriedly looked up to the river. Sure enough, there was a black thing in sight that was slowly heading towards the river.

Several people stared at the black thing for a while, and confirmed that it was a boat. The man in black called the fourth brother was relieved. He stood up and instructed: "Old rules, the two brothers of the Song family stay here, and the others follow me."

"Hey!"

The men in black responded and got up and followed the fourth brother to the river. After touching the edge of the river and seeing that the boat was about to dock, the fourth brother suddenly stopped, looked around again, and then squeezed his throat to learn the bird call: "Gugu, Gugu"

Others are vigilantly scattered around to observe the surrounding movement. After the fourth brother called twice. There was also a "coo" response from the boat that was rowed over.

Hearing the other party's response, the fourth brother really felt relieved, and said to his opponent, "It's them. Let's go!" After that, he stood there waiting for the boat to dock.

.........

Tonight, the river was windy, and the boat was tossing and turning on the river. Fortunately, the boat was an old sailor, and there was no danger all the way, and it landed safely. There were four people on the boat, and it was hard to see what they looked like in the dark. There were several packs piled up in the cabin, covered with burlap, and I didn't know what they were.

After seeing the fourth brother and others waiting on the shore. One person jumped off the boat, and there was no nonsense when he approached. He directly asked the man in black called fourth brother: "Qi Laosi, is the money ready?"

Qi Lao Si nodded slightly. Muffled: "Ready, one thousand taels, no more and no less." After a pause, he glanced at the ship warehouse, "How about you?"

The man who got off the boat pointed at the boat warehouse: "It's all here, absolutely no problem."

"Count the money, and deliver it if there is no problem."

Qi Laosi signaled to the men behind him to untie the cloth bag wrapped around his waist in front of the man.

The man took a few cloth bags on the ground one by one and passed them down, and then chuckled: "It's not wrong." Then he turned around and instructed his companions on the boat: "Give them five bags."

"Why are there only five bags?" When Qi Laosi heard that the number was wrong, his face changed greatly, and he said angrily, "Wang De, what do you mean, it was always ten bags before!"

"Ten bags?"

The man named Wang De said with a small smile: "Fourth Qi, the situation is different now, you can only buy five bags with the thousand taels of silver, if you don't want to, brother, I'll let the boat go and leave later. Let's not do this business either!"

After hearing Wang De's words, all the men in black couldn't help but want to scold others, and the fourth Qi stared at Wang De with a frosty expression on his face: "Wang De, you're going to hurt the brotherhood by doing this. !"

"You are in Caoying and I am in Han, what kind of brotherhood are you talking about?"

After saying this, Wang De felt a little empty in his heart. He was afraid that Qi Laosi would turn his back on him, so he changed the topic and said: "Qi Laosi, don't blame me for this, it really means the above, you know, brother do this. It’s impossible to buy and sell without someone to support it. It really doesn’t matter if the brother does the business on his own, but there is someone pressing on the brother, and that person will be ruthless. Most of the money will fall into his pocket, plus The investigation in the naval camp has been very tight recently. Brothers can't deal with you for nothing with their heads in their hands, and they can't afford to put too much into their own pockets. So the price has to be added up, not only this time, but the next time. This price, if you want more, you have to double the money! Otherwise, you can find someone else!"

Hearing this, the sneezing man in black said angrily, "Who else can we find besides you!"

The other black-clothed men were also full of anger, wishing they could raise their knives and chop up Wang De, who had a black conscience.

Wang De didn't even look at the men in black, but said disdainfully, "That's your business, I don't care."

Qi Lao Si frowned and signaled his subordinates not to move, staring at Wang De and said solemnly: "Wang De, you don't care about brotherhood, you have to tell the rules of the road."

"I'm a soldier, you're a thief, there are no rules between you and me, I said Qi Lao Si, you'll be content, and I, Wang De, who is alone and widowed, dares to do this business with you by putting my head on my trousers belt. Change someone else, you ask who dares in the navy?... If this matter leaks out, the first one to die will not be your fourth son, but my Wang De!"

Having said this, Wang De didn't want to be wordy any more, and asked directly: "To buy or not to sell, you can be accurate!"

Qi Laosi stood there silently, thinking about the instructions of the thousand households before coming, and then thinking about the impact of these bags of silver on the thousands of people in the city. After a while, he finally gritted his teeth: "Buy it!"

"That's right!" Wang De smiled and clapped his hands to the people on the boat: "Come on."

"Yes."

The three people on the boat were busy moving the bags in the cabin to the shore. In a blink of an eye, five large bags were placed on the shore. Afterwards, the three of them turned around and flipped onto the boat.

"Bring more money next time, and if you have money, you will have salt!"

The salt was given, and the money was received. Wang De did not dare to delay here any longer. If the green battalion soldier who called the patrol saw it, his head would fall off immediately. His words suddenly changed, and he instead asked: "Qi Laosi, I said that your Taiping army has been surrounded by the city for half a year. I'm afraid the city is about to run out of food, right?"

"It's none of your business if we run out of food?" Qi Lao Si was so angry that Wang De was sitting on the ground to raise prices, so how could he have any good words for him.

"Hey, although I only recognize money and not people, but after all, if I have fished rice in a pot, there is always love. I want to send you a good word. Before the city is broken, quickly break up and leave. Others can't escape, Can you run away? I really have to wait until the city is broken, then I just want to run and I’m afraid there’s nowhere to run.” Wang De said this with a sincere expression on his face, and he really didn’t want to see Qi Lao Si. die in the city.

Qi Lao Si said in a muffled voice, "I don't need you to worry about my affairs. You can leave if you have the money, and remember to come back in three days."

"Yes, I really can't help you if you don't leave, but when the old thieves besieged the city last year, the crime committed in this Xinhui city is not small. If you run out of food, hehe..."

Wang De didn't explain what he said, but Qi Lao Si couldn't hear what he wanted to say. He raised his eyebrows and said angrily, "Our Taiping Army is not clear about demons, and even if we starve to death, we won't do cannibalism!"

"People are hungry, what can't they do?"

Wang De shook his head, "But I think you haven't run out of food yet, or else you'll buy rice instead of salt. Even so, how long can you last? Xinhui is a dead city, don't expect anyone to come to rescue you, Also, brother explained the words to you, salt, brother, I can get a few bags, but the food, brother really can't get it, even if you get it, these bags of food can't be stuffed between your teeth, you can do it yourself Bar."

Qi Lao Si did not speak with a dark face.

Wang De knew that Qi Laosi had worked in Li Ding*, so he thought about it and said, "For the sake of silver, I'll send you another message."

Qi Lao Si was a little puzzled: "What news?"

Wang De opened his mouth and said something that made Qi Lao Si stunned. He said, "Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang have a fight."

"The king and the west mansion are fighting?" Qi Laosi was stunned there~www.NovelMTL.com~ did not respond for a long time.

"I've given you the news, I'm leaving too, bro, oh, by the way, go back to me and say hello to you, the thief Xiucai, and if he wants to run away, he can find me at that time, what about the price, hehe ."

After Wang De finished speaking, he ignored Qi Lao Si and his men who were stunned, and turned to board the boat. After a while, the boat was far away from the river and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

"Fourth brother, is it true or false that the king and the west manor are fighting?" The man surnamed Zhu who sneezed before also worked in the Daxi army with Qi Lao Si, so he was very worried about whether the king and the west manor really had a fight. .

"Mostly it's true. Wang De won't cheat on this kind of thing. When we worked under the West House before, it was not that we didn't know that the relationship between the West House and the king was not very good."

Qin Lao Si sighed, the country lord and the West Palace are really going to fight, isn't this bright sky really about to collapse?

"The ruler of the country is fighting with the West Palace, so isn't it true that our Taiping Army has no reinforcements to save him?" Looking at the dark river, the man surnamed Zhu showed a bitter look on his face. (To be continued)