Chapter 4 Thief from Four Rivers and Lakes Leaked Seng Gelinqin's Military Deployment

The boat was launched quickly, and Xiao Bendao spent five days and nights anxiously on the boat. This afternoon, the boat arrived at Fuqiao Town in Hezhou, Anhui Province.Fuqiao Town is a small pier on the Yangtze River. There are several guests who want to disembark, and the boat owner berths the boat by the pier.Xiao Bendao thought that there was only more than 200 miles of waterway to go to Jiangning, and he could arrive in the afternoon tomorrow, and his nervous mood for a few days relaxed a little.He opened the wooden window door of the cabin, put his head out of the window, and looked at the market place of Boardwalk Town.

Just as he was watching, the burden that was on his knees and pressed with his left hand suddenly fell to the board of the boat, making a heavy sound.He quickly turned his face away, picked up the bag, and met a middle-aged man face to face.The man was a guest who disembarked from the boat. He was tall, thin and lean, with deep eyes. He had an unpredictable smile on his face. He said "I'm sorry" to him, and then he continued to walk, and soon passed by. Springboard, went ashore. "It seems that he accidentally touched my bag."Xiao Bendao guessed in his heart. He didn't think much, and continued to look at the scenery outside the window.

After a while, the boat started.After another 50 miles or so, it got dark and the boat berthed at Hengjiang Wharf, which is only ten miles away from Hezhou City.Many wealthy guests hired cars.He rushed to the city overnight to spend time, drink, eat, drink and have fun, and some people invited Xiao Bendao.In the past, he would have happily joined in the fun, but now he has no such leisure.After drinking a few cups of widow and hasty supper, he collapsed on the bunk and fell asleep. At some point, Xiao Bendao felt that his body seemed to be touched. He opened his eyes, and the cabin was pitch black.He touched his waist, no good, the baggage was stolen!His baggage is very precious.It turned out that when the soldiers discovered the secrets in the wooden boxes on the boat at Jiujiang Wharf, Xiao Bendao instinctively realized that the wooden boxes were about to change owners.Taking advantage of people's unpreparedness, he quietly took out eight gold ingots from a box containing gold ingots.These eight ingots are of different sizes, the big one weighs half a catty, and the small one weighs two taels.He put the eight gold ingots in his bag and carried them with him.He also brought it with him when he went to Jiangning this time.He was annoyed for a moment, and suddenly remembered that the thief must not be far away, so he hurried out of the cabin.

There was a half moon hanging in the sky, and the river was dark and dark, and there was nothing.He turned his face to look at Hengjiang Town, and there seemed to be a dark shadow moving in the distance.He wiped the corners of his eyes, opened them wide, and looked again carefully.There was indeed a man running along the stone steps towards town. "You son of a thief, you dare to steal from me. You really broke ground on Tai Sui!" Xiao Bendao cursed fiercely, jumped from the deck to the shore, and chased after him with two swift legs. Xiao Bendao defected to the Hunan Army at the age of seventeen, and spent six years in the army camp, practicing martial arts and courage.After chasing for a distance, he came to the foot of the stone step, and the black shadow had already run to the middle of the stone step.The sound of Xiao Bendao's footsteps startled Soi Ying, who turned his head and saw that the owner of the bag was coming, so he speeded up.When Xiao Bendao arrived at the middle of the stone step, the black shadow had already reached the top; when Xiao Bendao arrived at the top, the black shadow had already run a mile away along the path by the river.

Xiao Bendao was never reconciled to the eight gold ingots being stolen just like this.He was lucky, gritted his teeth, and quickened his pace.Gradually, he was about to approach the black shadow.At this time, a cock crowed in the distance, and it was almost dawn.Xiao Bendao thought, if he doesn't catch up, it will be even more difficult when the sky is bright.He ran vigorously for a while, and seeing that he was only ten feet away, he bent down and picked up a pebble the size of a duck's egg from the side of the road, and threw it hard at the black shadow in front of him.There was only an "ouch", and the black shadow fell to the ground.

Xiao Bendao ran over quickly, cursing in his mouth: "You son of a bitch, return the burden to me!" He was about to step forward to grab the burden.The black shadow suddenly kicked up and kicked at his head.He didn't expect this move, fortunately he had been in the battlefield for a long time, he reacted quickly, and dodged his head.At this moment, the man turned over with a kite, jumped up from the ground, stood opposite him, clenched his fists with both hands, and put on a stance. In the twilight of the morning light, Xiao Bendao saw that the man was carrying a burden on his back, and that burden belonged to him!Gritting his teeth angrily, he stretched out his fist and punched the man's heart.The man had been prepared for a long time, and with a flash of his body, he cleverly appeared on the left side of Xiao Bendao, and punched him hard on the left shoulder.Xiao Bendao was unprepared, and was in great pain.He secretly praised this person for his good boxing skills and fought back reluctantly.The two fought back and forth for dozens of rounds.Xiao Bendao took advantage of the opponent's gap, raised his right leg, and kicked the opponent's chest fiercely.It's a pity that Xiao Bendao has been obsessed with womanizing recently, his legs and feet are weak, the opponent flew up a palm and chopped at his toes.Xiao Bendao was in pain and could hardly stand up.

Suffering two losses in a row, Xiao Ben knew that the opponent's martial arts were very good, and he couldn't fight hard, so he resorted to his Xiao family's ancestral trick-acupuncture.He looked at the sky, and it was not yet Yin time, so he stared at the Zhongfu acupoint on the upper left chest of the opponent.Seeing that Xiao Bendao couldn't beat him, the man punched more and more fiercely.Xiao Bendao pretended to be overwhelmed and retreated step by step. The man became careless, and his punches became slower.Xiao Bendao aimed at the moment of his carelessness, raised his right index finger sharply, and stabbed directly under the man's left shoulder.He only heard the man yell, and then fell on his back and passed out unconsciously.At this time, the east has appeared gray and white, and the sky is getting brighter.

Xiao Bendao scolded "I'm raised by a thief mother", then bent down to untie the burden on the man's shoulders.With the morning light, he finally saw clearly that this person was the man who knocked off his bag when he disembarked from the boat in Pontoon Town yesterday afternoon.He suddenly understood that this was a very experienced thieves, who had already figured out the contents of the bag by the sound of the bag falling on the deck, and then came to steal in the middle of the night.Thinking of this, he picked up a stone and threw it at this person's head. Seeing that the person had deep eyes, a good appearance, and excellent martial arts, he couldn't bear it anymore.

Although Xiao Bendao is an officer of the Hunan Army, his nature is not much different from that of a hero in the forest and a thief in the rivers and lakes.In his view, stealing other people's property is not a shameful act. If he has no money around him and is in urgent need of money, he may also do things like robbing and stealing.Now, when the thief fell before him, with the burden already in hand, he felt compassion again.He dropped the stone and caught a glimpse of something bulging in the man's coat pocket.He took that thing out, and it turned out to be a wooden sign.A line of words was scalded on the card: Seng Gelinqin, Prince of Horqin of Mongolia, guarded Yunge under the tent.Xiao Bendao was startled: This person is actually an officer under the Monk King!Then I thought, why did this man come to the south of the Yangtze River when the monk king was stationed in Shandong? Why don't you wake him up and ask him in detail.He put away the wooden tablet, and pushed hard with the palm of his hand on the Guanyuan point under the man's navel.After a while, the man came to his senses and tried to get up, but his whole body was weak.Xiao Bendao helped him to a tree and let him sit down against the trunk.The man said: "A hero is capable, but I'm blind. I just want to see a fortune. I shouldn't steal a hero's baggage."

Xiao Bendao said: "Your kung fu is also good. I think you are a talent. I don't care about you. What's your name?" "My name is Li Yun." "What have you been doing?" "There is no set rule, running around business, helping others with chores, as long as there is money to be made, I will do anything." "Hahaha!" Xiao Bendao laughed loudly, "Don't play dumb in front of me, just look at this." As he spoke, he showed the wooden sign.The man was startled, and subconsciously touched his pocket, which was empty. "Since the hero knows my identity, return the wooden sign to me."

"It's not difficult to return it to you, but you have to tell me everything truthfully." "What does the hero want me to say?" Yunge asked in embarrassment. "I ask you, where did you come from? Where are you going now?" "I came from Nanchang, Jiangxi, and now I'm going to Chuzhou and Sizhou, Anhui to meet the Monk King." "I heard that Monk King is stationed in Jining, Shandong. How did you go to Chuzhou and Sizhou to find him?" Xiao Bendao felt strange. "The good man doesn't know, the monk king has already descended southeast from Shandong under the order of the queen mother and the emperor." Xiao Bendao thought to himself: What is he going south for?No major military operations have been heard in northern Anhui recently.He asked again, "What are you doing in Nanchang this time?" "Send an urgent official document to Jiangxi governor Shen Baozhen for the monk king." As soon as Shen Baozhen was mentioned, Xiao Bendao felt hatred suddenly.On board these few days, Xiao Bendao thought about being seized in Jiujiang every day.If it was really the robbers who searched and robbed the prince's treasury, why didn't we hear any news along the way, and didn't see anyone come to the pier to inquire?After the first group of people were sent away, the second group came. Of the hundreds of boats moored at the pier, only his family's boat had an accident.Isn't this obviously coming for his house?Why did Shen Baozhen make trouble with his family like this?Is there someone supporting and instigating behind it?When Xiao Bendao heard that Seng Gelinqin had sent a letter to Shen Baozhen, he immediately connected Seng Gelinqin with this matter.As an officer of the Hunan Army, he knew that Seng Gelinqin had always hated the Hunan Army.From this point of view, it was the Mongolian prince who ordered Shen Baozhen to seize his family's boat.Xiao Bendao was determined to take this opportunity to get to the bottom of this matter. "Brother, you are a garrison under the tent of the monk king, but you came to steal my baggage. It seems that you are short of money." Xiao Bendao untied the baggage, took out a gold ingot weighing two taels from it, and handed it over, "Take it and use it. Bar!" "This is the property you have accumulated so hard, I can't take it." In front of Xiao Bendao's bold demeanor, Yunge was ashamed of his theft. "Brother, you are so petty." Xiao Bendao stuffed the gold ingot into Yunge's pocket, "There is no fixed owner of the gold and silver treasures in the world, what is yours and mine? Didn't this ingot belong to someone else before?" ?" These two happy words reached Yunge's heart.He said emotionally, "I am really blind. I didn't know that brother, you are such a good man who despises wealth and values ​​righteousness. How can I redeem my sins?" "You don't need to talk about atonement, tell me, what official document is the Monk King asking you to send, and why did he go south again?" Yunge looked into Xiao Bendao's eyes, but didn't answer.After a while, he asked back, "Brother, what do you do?" "As for me, let me tell you the truth!" Xiao Bendao grinned and smiled heartily, "I am not as good as you. I am a dignified court military officer, and I am a private salt dealer on the Yangtze River. However, although what I did was not bright, He is an upright man, he loves the cause of heroes by nature, and he likes to hear about military affairs." "Hero!" Yunge stretched out his thumb in praise.He rolled his eyes and said, "I don't know about the official documents sent to Shen Zhongcheng by the monk king, and I can't ask, let alone open them. It was only the second day after Shen Zhongcheng received the letter that he rushed to Jiujiang in person, and later he heard rumors in the streets and alleys: Shen Zhongcheng seized the boat on which General Xiao Fusi of the Hunan Army returned home for the funeral, found dozens of boxes of gold and silver treasures on board, and took Xiao Fusi A group was escorted to Nanchang.I don't know if the monk king's official document has anything to do with this matter. " Xiao Bendao was secretly surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Have you seen Xiao Fusi and those people on his boat?" "I haven't. I really want to meet Xiao Fusi. I heard that he made great contributions to Jinling, captured the long-haired leader Li Xiucheng, and made him a baron. Unfortunately, I can't see him." Xiao Bendao was relieved, and asked again: "The Monk King is going south from Shandong, is it because Nianzi is making trouble in Huaibei?" "No. I can clearly tell my brother about this point. The Monk King once told Jiangning General Fu Ming'a that the Hunan Army might rebel. He took the soldiers to Chuzhou and Sizhou in Anhui, and the Hunan army dared to act rashly, so he acted as the commander, commanding Feng Zicai stationed in Zhenjiang, Dexinga stationed in Hezhou, Fuminga stationed in Yangzhou, official documents stationed in Wuchang, southeast and northwest regiments. Encircle and annihilate with one blow." The corner of Xiao Bendao's mouth twitched heavily.This young officer of the Hunan Army, who claims to be a hero, never dreamed that the Hunan Army is currently in such a dangerous situation. This important military situation must be told to the commander of the Hunan Army as soon as possible!Seeing that the sun had already appeared in the eastern sky, the boat he was on was about to weigh anchor, so he stood up and said, "Brother, it's getting late, the boat is about to leave, I will bid farewell to you and see you later." "Brother, please leave a name, and let me inquire about it in the future." Yun Ge said. Xiao Bendao thought for a while and said, "It's easy for you to find me. Up and down the Yangtze River, as long as you come across a salt boat and ask Xiao Guaizi, everyone will know. If you need money in the future, you can come to the Yangtze River Wharf to look for salt boats. "After finishing speaking, return the wooden sign to Yunge. Yunge was very happy to have met this rich and generous private salt dealer. After taking the wooden plaque, he added: "Brother, if you need Yunge in the future, just come to the monk king's old camp to find me." "Okay, there will be a period later!" After Xiao Bendao finished speaking, he picked up his burden, spread his long legs, and galloped towards Hengjiang Wharf.