Luan's return today

Chapter 26 Water Bandits
"If there is a way to leave the line, it has already been proposed. How can you wait until now? It's useless to talk about it here. It's better to go back and rest earlier." Jiang Yue's expression was light, her tone was gentle, and she was quite calm in the face of the imminent death.

"Princess, the subordinate is incompetent!"

Li Xing's face was full of guilt. He knew that the blood seal throat would happen faster than he imagined, so he shouldn't have proposed this method. Now on this river, he has nowhere to rely on, even if he wants to send a message to his son, he can't do it.

Jiang Yue didn't mind, she looked at it openly, "Although I, Jiang Yue, don't believe in fate, but now I have to say that life and death are fate, we have done everything we can, and there is nothing to regret."

Suddenly there was a loud "bang" in the distance, shaking the entire water surface. Jiang Yue staggered on the soles of her feet and almost fell off the stool when she didn't pay attention.

"Princess, are you okay!"

Jiang Yue shook her head, wondering why it was so quiet in the dead of night, she and Li Xing looked at each other, got up and walked out under the boat curtain.

I saw the flames in front of me, as if a big ship was on fire in front, and people could be seen flickering in the flames, as if people fell into the water one by one.

Following the sound of the wind, Jiang Yue faintly heard cries and begging for mercy, and from time to time there were some swords and swords fighting.

An uneasiness welled up in Jiang Yue's heart, and she asked Li Yuan who was standing at the bow, "What's going on in front?"

Li Yuan turned his head to look at Jiang Yue, and shook his head at her, "I don't know yet, but Ming Yu has already stepped forward to inquire about the news."

Jiang Yue nodded.

After a while, Mingyu stepped on the water marks and flew onto the boat, with a nervous expression, and said to Jiang Yue, "Princess, the boat ahead has encountered water bandits, and we may not be able to get through here."

water bandit?This place is only a few hundred miles away from the capital, and water bandits came here to commit crimes.

"How many people are on the boat ahead?" Jiang Yue asked immediately.

"Twenty or so, all of them are a group of old men. They should be a wealthy businessman in their clothes. Somehow they are on their way late at night." Ming Yu was also unequivocal.

After Jiang Yue listened, she pondered for a moment, "I didn't expect that I, Jiang Yue, could save a few people before I died. It's not in vain to save the country from a disaster."

Not listening to the dissuasion of Ming Yu and the others, he stepped onto the side of the boat and walked forward.

Mingyu and the others didn't expect Jiang Yue to launch suddenly, and they couldn't stop it in time, so they had to hurry to keep up.

When they got to the boat ahead, they saw some young servants with pale faces, and were forced to squat at the stern in a panic. The fire on the boat had already been extinguished.

A few rough and shirtless water bandits stood in front of them with gleaming knives, questioning them from time to time, and throwing people into the river with ropes from time to time, pulling them up again half a moment later, non-stop round trip.

Jiang Yue and the others circled the boat a few times, and saw that the number of water bandits was not too many, estimated to be around [-], and they were able to enter the cargo ship so easily, presumably because of the convenience of being unknown at night, and most of the boats were narrow. Therefore, it is inconvenient for the victims to hide, so they let the water bandits succeed.

It is easy for Jiang Yue and the others to deal with these water bandits, but it is difficult not to harm the people in their hands. It doesn't work.

After some planning, the four of them ran in one direction. Jiang Yuemao walked forward cautiously, and finally heard what Shui Zai was saying.

"Where is the thing? Take it out quickly, or you will be thrown into the river to feed the fish."

The servants all lowered their heads and remained silent. They were all rescued by the master, how could they betray the master, it is not a pity for them to die, the master must live.

Therefore, when they saw that the situation was not right, they asked someone to stun the master and hide him. I don't know if they have found the master now. Just as they were thinking, a crisp voice suddenly entered their ears.

"Wait, I know where the stuff is?"

They looked up and saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy appearing behind the water bandit. They were about to let him go, but they saw Jiang Yue blinking at them, and his subordinates made a gesture of calm down .

"You?" One of the water bandits turned around, apparently this was their leader.

Jiang Yue nodded solemnly, pointed at the boy squatting at the stern and said, "Yes, I am their master, of course I know."

The bandit leader turned his head to confirm with the boys at the stern, and saw that they nodded repeatedly under Jiang Yue's instructions. One of the children wanted to refute, but his mouth was covered by the adults next to him.

"I know where it is, and I'll take you there, but the premise is to let them go." Jiang Yue tried to negotiate terms with them.

When the leader of the water bandit heard this, he refused without even thinking, "No, what if you lie to us, I want to see what I got first."

"Alright, I'll take you there, but there are a lot of things and more people."

After a cup of tea, the leader of the water bandits agreed, and asked half of the people to follow Jiang Yue. Jiang Yue also took the water bandits to the cabin. Suddenly, several people from Mingyu came out of the cabin, Before these people could react, their necks were wiped and they died.

Jiang Yue nodded to Mingyu and the others, arranged her clothes, and walked outside.

The water bandit leader saw that Jiang Yue had come out so quickly, and he was only alone. His eyes were fierce, and the blade turned to face Jiang Yue, "Where are they?"

"They are moving things inside, and they will come out later." Jiang Yue walked towards the water bandit leader while talking.

Hearing this, the leader of the water bandits relaxed slightly, his tense nerves relaxed, and he didn't notice that Jiang Yue was approaching him. Suddenly, he saw Jiang Yue's foot move, and in the blink of an eye, his hand hurt, and a knife was slightly laid across him. neck.

He looked down and saw that his hand was empty.

"Don't move, or I'll kill him." Jiang Yue sternly said, the killing breath on the battlefield emerged unconsciously.

The rest of the water bandits who were about to move stopped, and Ming Yu and the others climbed up from the bottom of the boat along the side of the boat.

Without Jiang Yue's command, they took the initiative to loosen the ropes on the boys and tied them to the water bandits.

After doing these things, Jiang Yue breathed a sigh of relief, staggered on the soles of her feet, and fell to the ground.

Mingyu hurried forward to support Jiang Yue, and shouted, "Where is there a room?"

An older servant came out tremblingly and led them to the cabin on the ship.

Sitting by Jiang Yue's bed, Li Xing felt his pulse, sighed, and shook his head.

"What's wrong with this young man?"

A middle-aged man in his forties next to him asked worriedly, this person is the master of this boat, Li Gu.

He was originally a medicine merchant from a declining family in the south, but he heard that someone in Danyang County was paying a high price for red-backed bamboo stalks. In order to save his family, he went to Danyang County without hesitation, but he encountered water bandits on the way. With the help of these few strong men, Xin was saved.

(End of this chapter)