Jiang Beihai retorted: "Being wronged, how can it be called fear of crime! We are taking refuge temporarily."

Jin Lanye gave an approving look.

"It makes no difference."

He Yanzhi picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, Xiao Hongyin secretly tugged him a few times.

"What's the matter? Say."

Xiao Hongyin originally wanted to tell him quietly, but since He Yanzhi didn't care, he said it directly: "Wang's rice shop has a huge transaction volume recently, and I'm afraid it's hard not to attract the attention of the government."

He Yanzhi looked down at him: "How did you know that?"

Xiao Hongyin recounted what Wang Dafu found fault with that day, and changed the content of the letter to Wang Dafu's unintentional disclosure, saying that he had heard a few conversations before he remembered it unintentionally.

Jin Lanye sighed helplessly: "I'm going to go south along the waterway to Shaming Island for a few years. The journey is long, the number of people is large, and the preparation time is short. Only the Wang family has enough rice on hand in the entire Western Province, so I took the risk. .”

"It's really a desperate move. The government probably has found the Wang family." He Yanzhi took another sip of tea, and couldn't help feeling refreshed.

Jin Lanye frowned: "We have to leave quickly."

As soon as the words fell, he got up and planned to hurry up, but He Yanzhi stopped him: "If you can't leave, you won't leave."

Jin Lanye asked suspiciously, "Aren't you leaving?"

He Yanzhi said: "The boat leaves, but the people don't leave. Prison robbery is a felony, and the government will not let you off easily. Why don't you use this to procrastinate for a while, and when you catch the water bandit and make up for it, it's not too late for you to turn yourself in."

Jiang Beihai stroked the relationship in his words, and felt that it was very reasonable, so he couldn't help clapping his hands.

Jin Lanye turned around silently, her eyes dim.

He walked in front of He Yanzhi, his light blue eyes shimmered, and he said with a smile: "Young Master He has planned everything for us, Jin is so grateful, I don't know how to repay."

He Yanzhi smiled back: "The tea from Guibang is really delicious."

Jin Lanye nodded slightly: "Since this is the case, it would be better for Jin to make a pot for Mr. He after this matter is settled."

"Thank you."

After an agreement was made, He Yanzhi and Xiao Hongyin were arranged to live in the wooden building.

Out of consideration, Jin Lanye would not let them go, after all, not everyone is as easy to deceive as Jiang Beihai.

He Yanzhi and Xiao Hongyin were arranged on the top floor of the wooden building. The whole group of wooden buildings is small and large, and there is only a single attic at the highest point.

After climbing up the trembling bamboo ladder, Xiao Hongyin couldn't wait to come to the window after entering the house, and lay down on the window sill overlooking the entire river.

The rolling river flows continuously, and the territory on the other side is vast and boundless.

The howling wind from the river messed up his bun, and a few strands of black hair leaked out and drifted away with the wind.

"If you fall, swim back by yourself."

He Yanzhi suddenly appeared behind him, put Xiao Hongyin's shoulders on him, pulled him back, and silently closed the window.

"I don't know how to water." Xiao Hongyin blinked and looked at He Yanzhi.

He Yanzhi flicked his crooked bun: "Don't lie."

Xiao Hongyin shrank his head aggrievedly: "I didn't lie, why doesn't Brother Yan believe me?"

"If you don't know how to water, He Yu will throw you away..." Halfway through the sentence, He Yanzhi realized that he had said something wrong, and quickly changed the sentence: "Why are you so clear about the direction of the water in the river?"

He originally thought that at the end of the book, after Xiao Hongyin realized that he had been cheated, He Yu threw him into a water prison for three days and three nights. If he didn't know how to survive, how would he survive.

Xiao Hongyin heard that He Yanzhi deliberately concealed the words, pretended not to notice, and explained: "In the past, my father often took me to go fishing, and told me how to recognize fish by looking at the water."

"You know how to fish?" He Yanzhi was a little surprised. Generally, children of nobles, especially those from families with profound education, are either proficient in rites, music, poetry and books, or are proficient in riding and archery, so they rarely have fun fishing.

Xiao Hongyin nodded, quite complacently: "Yes, I have even caught a big fish that is half the height of a person."

He still remembered going out with his family when he was a child. Prime Minister Xiao and him each held a long pole, and under the supervision of the housekeeper, they saw who could catch more fish within two hours.

Prime Minister Xiao was very scheming, picking waters with plenty of fish and coaxing him to places with few fish, but unexpectedly Xiao Hongyin caught a fat red carp with the prepared bait.

The housekeeper couldn't decide the outcome, so the two of them ran to the prime minister's wife to draw a conclusion. The prime minister's wife didn't say anything, and set a fire to barbecue after receiving the fish. Whoever caught the fish would win.

The father and son fought for a long time that day, but neither of them accepted the other.

In order to show that the fish he caught were delicious, Xiao Hongyin ate the big fish until he was full, vomited most of it when he returned, and vowed never to eat fish again, until that day in He Yanzhi's yard, he saw those small fish in the pond. red carp.

"I didn't like to go at first, but my father said that I should have fun when I was young, and I was buried in the pile of books all day long, so old-fashioned and ugly."

The young man in front of him talked and laughed, and He Yanzhi unconsciously looked away.

"It's not too late to clean up."

Xiao Hongyin tidied up her hair neatly, and just in time, a human voice came from under her feet.

"Master He, the carrier pigeon you want."

The movement moved from directly below to the outside of the door. Ah Yong held the wooden ladder with his left hand and held a pigeon in his right hand, and nimbly flashed in front of the two of them.

"According to your request, the pigeons of the government were robbed."

"Thank you."

He Yanzhi took the pigeon and asked for a pen and paper. There was no furniture in the room except the bedding on the floor, so he simply spread the pen and paper on the ground.

He sat cross-legged and leaned over to dip in the ink, while Xiao Hongyin squatted obediently aside, watching him draw two lines of ink horizontally and vertically on the paper, dividing a piece of paper into four parts.

Xiao Hongyin opened his eyes wide unconsciously, carefully watching He Yanzhi's writing.

I saw that He Yanzhi drew a few circles in the upper right square, and then wrote a vertical line under the circle, with two fine ink strokes horizontally on both sides of the vertical line, and then dotted two dots and a short horizontal line in the circle, and finally in the A few knives are drawn on the body of the circle, and a few trees are drawn in the square.

After drawing the first square, He Yanzhi drew a few distorted lines on the lower right, and then drew a large square above the line, with a row of circles on the square.

This kind of confidential letter was novel and strange, but he had never seen it before.

Although Xiao Hongyin couldn't understand what he was drawing at all, seeing He Yanzhi's confident expression, he guessed that it must be a top-secret letter.

Since He Yanzhi is He Yu's person, he must also use this method in secret letters and correspondence on weekdays. If he learns the rules, it will be easy to deal with He Yu in the future.

Thinking of this, Xiao Hongyin looked more carefully.

He Yanzhi finished drawing the second square, and drew a trapezoidal building and a circular cave in the remaining two blocks.

When the ink was dry, he rolled up the paper and stuffed it into the wooden bucket on the pigeon's leg.

"Did Brother Yan send someone to save us?" Xiao Hongyin watched He Yanzhi open the window and let the pigeon go.

The homing pigeons, which had lost their confinement, took advantage of the wind and quickly flew high into the sky and flew to the opposite bank.

He Yanzhi watched the figure of the carrier pigeon shrink to a point, and when he was completely out of sight, he said: "No, you Big Brother Yang didn't know that we came to the head of the Cao Gang, and he was probably still looking for us. I asked him to lead someone first." Go to ambush and wait for the Cao Gang brothers to join them."

Is that right?

Xiao Hongyin recalled the contents of the painting, but really couldn't figure out how it was connected with his words.

"Guangzhu Jiang is a criminal, brother Yan trusts them like that?"

Ever since Xiao Hongyin saw Jinlan Ye, he felt that this person was elusive. On the surface, he was always gentle and kind, but inside he was a poisonous scorpion. He didn't know what he had put in the tea he had just brewed. After taking a sip, his lips and tongue became numb, and he lost consciousness for a long time. Only then slowed down.

He Yanzhi raised his eyebrows, looked at Xiao Hongyin who was also an "offender", and said: "The group of water bandits are very flexible and skilled in water, and the people in the yamen may not even see the shadow of the water bandits, and the Cao Gang People who rely on water to make their lives are mostly idiots, and it is natural to use their skills to arrest people."

Xiao Hongyin was silent, and asked tentatively: "The tea just now..."

"Isn't it delicious? This is their Miaojiang's unique spicy tea. When you eat it, your lips and tongue feel painful and numb. It's the first time you try it, and you don't like it normally."

He Yanzhi didn't feel that there was anything wrong, he let Xiao Hongyin rest at ease and recover his energy for emergencies.

The two rested in the house for half a day. In the evening, the window was pecked, and the carrier pigeon exchanged Yang Kuan's reply for a large bowl of rice kernels.

He Yanzhi shook off the note, and a circle was drawn on the top, with two drooping eyebrows and a curved mouth inside.

"Their attack failed, and the water bandits still occupied the mountain wall, and the two sides fell into a stalemate."

He Yanzhi burned the paper, and explained the meaning on the paper with Xiao Hongyin's incomprehensible expression.

He found Jiang Beihai and Jin Lanye, told them the news, and proposed to rush to Baoque Mountain as soon as possible.

"Prepare the boat to clear the way!"

Jiang Beihai was covered in bandages all over his body, but it didn't affect him in the slightest as he jumped onto the bow with a big knife. Jin Lanye was so angry that someone dragged him off the bow.

"You stay and recuperate."

"Why? Fighting can't be done without me!"

Unconvinced, Jiang Beihai argued with him, He Yanzhi and Xiao Hongyin passed by them silently, and were called by Jin Lanye.

"The leader of the gang is seriously injured and stays in the village, so I ask Mr. Xiao to stay and take care of him."

It was intended to take hostages.

Xiao Hongyin looked at He Yanzhi, who winked at him.

"Just wait until I come to pick you up."

After all, the two were left on the shore.

Watching the ship gradually go away, the people who were ordered to hang on Jiang Beihai's body also let go. Jiang Beihai waved his sword twice in aggrieved way, and patted Xiao Hongyin's shoulder.

"Brother, tell me, one of them is not tall and the other is not strong. They don't need more manpower, but they still dislike me. If they are injured, they are not dead. It's hypocritical!"

Xiao Hongyin frowned, and took a step away to keep a distance from him.

The two stood on the shore for a long time, and they turned around and went up to the wooden building when the boat was completely out of sight.

Xiao Hongyin returned to the house, took the pen and paper, turned over and sat on the window sill.

As the river breeze blew slowly at night, Xiao Hongyin bent one leg and stepped on the window sill, put the paper on it, and tried to restore He Yanzhi's painting from memory.

He Yanzhi's paintings are simple in brushwork and magnificent in composition, just like a flying dragon.

And Xiao Hongyin's brushstrokes are lines of uniform thickness, and the circles he draws are also well-proportioned, which is far from He Yanzhi's paintings.

He looked at the increasingly unrealistic paintings under his pen, and inevitably became irritable.

"Which genre is it..."

Xiao Hongyin was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and in his previous life he had to do some fake letters and fake handwriting when he was doing business. He claimed to be able to imitate it perfectly, but he stumbled when he came to He Yanzhi.

Xiao Hongyin threw away the pen holder after drawing on several sheets of paper, and let out a long sigh.

His eyes were dull, looking at the moonless night sky, listening to Jiang Feng's murmur, he felt drowsy.

When Xiao Hongyin was unconscious, the whole wooden building suddenly became noisy, and soon, Jiang Beihai's voice reached his ears.

"Officers and soldiers are here! Copy guys!"

Xiao Hongyin woke up immediately, and hurriedly looked out, only to see a long fire dragon suddenly rising from the other side of the river, occupying all the river section near the wooden building, and set up several catapults in the center of the fire.

"Didn't the officers and soldiers go to chase the boat going south? How could they come to attack the stronghold?"

Xiao Hongyin went through the crowd to find Jiang Beihai, who was instructing his brothers to prepare the boat and planned to fight the officers and soldiers to the death.

He scolded: "How the hell did I know!"

Xiao Hongyin looked to the opposite bank, and saw two familiar figures among a group of people in uniforms of officers and soldiers.

It's those two hidden guards again!

"Someone informs." Xiao Hongyin said coldly.

Jiang Beihai followed Xiao Hongyin's words, and he saw those two cowards, and scolded: "Your uncle, how do they know what we discussed?"

The wooden building is dangerous, and each room is connected by wooden ladders, so they can communicate with each other. There are many brothers in the gang, and people will find out if there is any movement. It is absolutely impossible to eavesdrop.

Xiao Hongyin didn't know how they saw through everyone's plan, but the facts were in front of him, so he had to think about how to deal with these officers and soldiers.

He said to Jiang Beihai: "It's not easy to fight hard because of the overall situation. If they find out that Deputy Gang Leader Jin is not there, they will definitely send people to chase after him. We have to find a way to delay the time."

Jiang Beihai was dumbfounded: "Then tell me, what should we do."

Xiao Hongyin looked towards the opposite bank. At this time, the catapult had been loaded with special boulders, and the whole body was burning with fire.

Suddenly, the corners of his mouth turned up, with a smile that was not a smile, and said to Jiang Beikai:

"Please lend me a set of clothes for Vice-Governor Jin."

The author has something to say: Guess what our brother Yan painted?

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