Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

What Zhang Shun wanted was to lure Li Kui onto the boat.Seeing that Li Kui had fallen for the trick, he looked at the penny a little to the shore, kicked his foot, and the fishing boat seemed to be thrown into the river like an arrow.

Although Li Kui also knew water, his suffering was not very high, so he panicked at that time.

Zhang Shun stopped yelling and scolding, he threw away the penny and shouted to Li Kui: "Black man, come here! This time we will meet you!"

Li Kui's feet were unsteady, he lost some strength at first, but now he couldn't help Zhang Shun.

Seeing that Li Kui didn't dare to go forward, Zhang Shun took Li Kui by the arm and said, "I won't fight with you, I'll teach you to drink some water first!"

All of Zhang Shun's abilities were in the water, he swung the boat with both feet, deliberately turned the boat upside down, and the bottom of the boat came, and he threw Li Kui into the river with a thumping somersault.

Three to five hundred people gathered on the bank of the river to watch the fun under the shade of willows.Seeing the boat capsized in the middle of the river, everyone laughed and said, "This big black man is playing tricks now! He struggled to his death! He also ate a lot of water!"

Ximenqing, Jiang Zhong, Jiao Ting and others all came to the shore to watch Li Kui and Zhang Shun merge.

I saw that at the opening of the river, Zhang Shun had the upper hand, lifted Li Kui up, and then drowned the general.These two people are in the middle of the river, among the clear waves and green waves, one is covered in black flesh, the other is covered in creamy skin, they are beaten into a ball, twisted into a piece, but they also complement each other.

Seeing that Li Kui, who had been beating someone fiercely just now, was drowned half to death by Zhang Shun, none of the 500 people on the river bank did not applaud.Especially those fishermen and peddlers who were injured by Li Kui looked happily at Zhang Shun flooding the black guy Li Kui.

Seeing Li Kui being caught by Zhang Shun in the water, Ximenqing saw that the whites of his eyes were soaked, he lifted it up and took it down again.

Ximen Qing gave Jiao Ting and Shi Yong a wink, and when Jiao Ting saw him, he rushed to the bank and shouted to Zhang Shungao: "Brother, be careful, this big black man is not a good man! Come ashore quickly, let brother help you!" "

The words of Jiao Ting and Shi Yong reached the ears of the two fighting in the middle of the river, but Zhang Shun and Li Kui each had their own thoughts.

When Zhang Shun ate wine, Shi Yong and Jiao Ting were regarded as brothers, so now they didn't hear anything wrong with what they said.He thought that Shi Yong and Shi Yong were worried about his safety, so he shouted in the water: "Brother, don't worry, this fellow is not my opponent!"

After Li Kui was beaten outside the gambling room, he always thought that Jiao Ting was the "boat fire" Zhang Heng.At this moment in the river, he saw the two enemies who had beaten him and wanted to help his brother Zhang Shun, he couldn't help but grow out of his guts, and he opened his mouth and bit Zhang Shun's neck.

Zhang Heng, you wait for the master, the master will kill your brother first!Li Kui is now full of killing intent.

"Langli Baitiao" Zhang Shun originally just wanted to teach Li Kui, a rude savage, a lesson, and had no intention of killing Li Kui.Therefore, after he gained the upper hand on the river, he just pressed Li Kui to the surface of the river and poured water, and never thought about drowning him.

Caught off guard at this moment, being hugged and bitten by Li Kui, Zhang Shun lost his hands and feet for a moment.

Li Kui went berserk, his arms were full of strength, and he hugged Zhang Shun tightly.Zhang Shun struggled a few times, but failed to break free from Li Kui's arms.

Zhang Shun only felt a sharp pain in his neck, and felt that Li Kui was sucking his own blood, so he couldn't help being terrified.Seeing that there was nothing Li Kui could do on the river, he had an idea, and hurriedly dragged Li Kui to the bottom of the river, trying to use his proficient water skills to drown Li Kui first.

The people on the bank of the river saw that the two men with one white and one black in their hearts suddenly sank into the water, and they couldn't see anyone anymore. also!"

All the fishermen by the river knew that Zhang Shun was very skilled in the water, and they were not worried that Zhang Shun would suffocate to death underwater.They all sat leisurely on the fishing boat, watching the sunset, half the river rustling and half the river red, waiting for their boss to emerge from the river.

Ximen Qing was also counting the time silently in his heart. Judging from the time it took for the two of them to sink to the bottom of the river, the "Black Whirlwind" Li Kui, who was proficient in water, drowned in the river in all likelihood. Fifty miles above the water, Zhang Shun, who stayed under the water for seven days and seven nights, did he escape from that guy Li Kui?

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Ximen Qing gave Jiao Ting and Shi Yong a wink. The two understood, and immediately ran to the riverside to ask the fishermen to salvage the place where Zhang Shun and Li Kui sank in the middle of the river. It is life or death.

These fishermen heard that Jiao Ting and Shi Yong were called Zhang Shun brothers, they thought these two were friends of their Yuya owner's family, they dared not disobey their wishes, so they had to obey.

In a short while, forty or fifty small boats propped up from the riverside to the center of the river. The fishermen either cast nets or pulled them under the water with pennies to salvage them in a serious manner.

After a while, a fisherman screamed, and the fishermen around him also changed their relaxed expressions, and leaned over with their boats one after another.I saw them hurriedly pulling up a ball with a net, and hurriedly propped the boat towards the river.

Ximen Qing took advantage of the afterglow of the sunset to see clearly that the fishing nets on the boat were white and black, and he was secretly happy, thinking that this must be Zhang Shun and Li Kui, it seems that the two died together.

After the boat docked, Jiao Ting and Shi Yong were the first to jump on board to check what happened, only to see that Li Kui and Zhang Shun were entangled in the fishing net.

Jiao Ting and Shi Yong immediately asked the fishermen to carry them ashore, cut open the nets, and inspected them carefully.

At this time, Jiang Zhong also squeezed out from the crowd, shouting "Brother Tieniu", and rushed to Li Kui's side.

Jiang Zhong pulled Li Kui, Jiao Ting pulled Zhang Shun, and the two used brute force to separate Li Kui and Zhang Shun who were hugging each other, and each checked whether Li Kui and Zhang Shun were still alive.Ximen Qing and Lu Xiaoyi also stood not far away and watched coldly.

According to the original plan, at this time Jiang Zhong and Jiao Ting will rush to check whether the two are dead.If any of them still had breath, Jiang Zhong and Jiao Ting would quietly make up the knife and crush their neck bones.

For Jiao Ting and Jiang Zhong, who are amazingly powerful and proficient in sumo wrestling, they can do it in the twilight without anyone noticing.

Chapter 228 God blesses the boat fire

After Jiang Zhong and Jiao Ting checked Zhang Shun and Li Kui carefully, they confirmed that there was no need to make up the knife.Li Kui was not good at swimming, and was drowned by Zhang Shun in the heart of the river, and he had already lost his breath.Although Zhang Shun could lurk in the water for a long time, it was a pity that he met Li Kui, a lunatic, and his throat was bitten off by Li Kui, and he died in the water.The two had a fight and died together, it was really the best ending.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhong immediately jumped up, yelled loudly, "It's a fatality", and told the spectators by the river to report to the officials.

The people watching the opera under the shade of the poplar trees saw that there was a life, and immediately dispersed, taking advantage of the twilight to go home.None of these people wanted to have anything to do with this life lawsuit.

Because of their relationship with the owner of Yuya, Zhang Shun, the fishermen knew Zhang Shun's death, and they couldn't get rid of the relationship easily, so they had to select two people to go to the city to report to the officials, and the rest of them waited by the river with the beaten peddler. Testify to this matter.

After Ximen Qing confirmed that Li Kui and Zhang Shun had fought to their deaths as planned, he, Lu Xiaoyi and Jiang Zhong quietly retreated with the spectators, and went stealthily to the restaurant by the river to continue watching the play.

But Jiao Ting and Shi Yong called the fishermen over one by one, and asked them if anyone knew where Zhang Shun's family lived, and said that he was going to send the body of his friend Zhang Shun home.

Among these fishermen, some of them had seen Zhang Shun and Jiao Ting having a drink together, and they had heard Jiao Ting and Zhang Shun calling brothers and sisters at the riverside earlier, so they all thought that Jiao Ting The two have a very good relationship with Zhang Shun, and Jiao Ting and Shi Yong's words undoubtedly have it.

Among these fishermen, there were naturally a few of Zhang Shun's confidantes, they knew where Zhang Shun's home was, so they told Jiao Ting and Shi Yong.

After Jiao Ting and Shi Yong heard this, they told these fishermen that after the government came to inspect, they would hire a big boat to transport Zhang Shun back to his hometown and give him to his relatives for burial.

While everyone was talking, the officials in the Jiangzhou Mansion got the news from the fisherman and rushed to the riverside with lanterns and torches.After examining the corpses of Li Kui and Zhang Shun, and interrogating and recording the confessions of the people by the river, Li Kui was appointed to provoke trouble and fight to kill Zhang Shun, the owner of Yuya.Because prisoner Li Kui also fell into the water and drowned during the fight, the case was closed.

While asking the fishermen to collect Zhang Shun's body, the official sent someone to inform Dai Zong to collect Li Kui's body, so he packed up the team and left the Xunyang River.

Not long after, Jiao Ting and Shi Yong hired a large boat from the pier, asked the fishermen to help carry Zhang Shun's body onto the boat, raised the sails, and went downstream along the river.

After a while, "Shenxing Taibao" Dai Zong came to the riverside with a livid face, and led people to restrain Li Kui's body.This time, everyone confirmed that it was Li Kui who caused the trouble. The officials all knew that Li Kui was Dai Zong's younger brother, so they gave him a face and did not implicate him.

Dai Zong saw that the thug boy he had accepted died like this. Although he was unwilling, he was also a dumb eater of coptis. ?

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The lower reaches of the Xunyang River in Jiangzhou, after passing the Hukou, the opposite side of the river is Susong County, Shuzhou, Huainan West Road.In the east of Susong County, on the north bank of the Yangtze River, there is a mountain standing in the middle of the river, with a circumference of one mile and a height of more than 20 feet.The mountain peaks in this river have unique shapes, and the isolated peaks stand tall, which is a well-known small isolated mountain.

Xiaogushan is famous for its strangeness, peril, solitude, and solitude. It is said that this Xiaogushan is "looking at the Taishi chair in the east, looking at a pen in the south, looking like a hanging bell in the west, and looking at the roaring dragon in the north". At this moment, the stone has recorded merits; when Qin Shihuang visited the east, he also put the "mainstay" on the stone. Unfortunately, the stone carvings of Dayu and Qin Shihuang have been annihilated and difficult to distinguish with the vicissitudes of time.

At this time, there was only one small temple on Xiaogu Mountain, named Huiji Temple, which worshiped "Mrs. Zhushun Anji Guangji Huiji", who was later the sea god Mazu.

In Huiji Temple, it was pitch black without any lights, and there was no sound of chanting sutras and chanting Buddha.At the foot of the Xiaogu Mountain, a little bean-like fire flickers on and off, gradually moving towards the Huiji Temple on the mountain.There was also a faint singing voice: "The master grew up by the river, he doesn't like to make friends, he only loves money. Last night, Hua Guang came to take advantage of me and grabbed a gold brick before leaving!"

After a while, the flames came to the outside of Huiji Temple, but a stout man with a burden on his back came to the gate of the temple with a lantern.

The man didn't even knock on the door, he just opened the temple door and walked into the temple, straight into the main hall.The man came to the statue, respectfully put a stick of incense, opened the bag on his back, checked the belongings in the bag, and said in his mouth: "Bless the gods! Let me get a few more licensed heads in the river today." Hey hey hey~ These licensed goods are carrying a lot of money! I can go to gamble for a few days again, it’s really a pleasure! The gods bless me to continue to make money, and I’ll burn some incense sticks for you later!”

On this small lonely mountain, the person in Huiji Temple is none other than "Langli Baitiao" Zhang Shun's elder brother, "Chuan Huo'er" Zhang Heng.

Brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Shun are from Jiangzhou, but they grew up under this small lonely mountain and are most familiar with the geography of this area.When they grew up, the two brothers drove away all the monks from Huiji Temple in this small lonely mountain, and monopolized this small mountain in the river for the convenience of doing "steady and good" careers on the river, that is, blocking the river and looting.

After several years of robbery and extortion, Zhang Shun went to become a fish tyrant outside Jiangzhou City, but Zhang Heng still carried on his old business, killing people and robbing people on the Xunyang River.

Every time he robs property, Zhang Heng has to go back to Xiaogu Mountain to burn a stick of incense to the gods in Huiji Temple, so that the gods can bless his business prosperity.In Zhang Heng's view, since this small lonely mountain has been occupied by him, it has become the lair of his two brothers.Then the gods on this mountain are naturally the family gods who specialize in protecting their two brothers.