Martial Arts: Opening Awakening

Chapter 139

Zhou Yunlong and others came much later than Jiangnan expected.

Seeing Jiangnan jumping from the big tree, Zhao Wu, one of the bodyguards, immediately looked around and asked, "Brother Li, where is the horse? Could it be that it has been snatched away by the Changhe Gang?"

Jiang Nan shook his head, took a few steps forward, clasped his fists at Zhou Yunlong and said, "Chief Escort, luckily he did not disgrace his life."

"Good! Well done!"

Zhou Yunlong patted Jiangnan on the shoulder and praised.

"As a person, I have always paid attention to rewards for meritorious deeds and punishment for demerits. Don't worry, when you arrive at Jiangnan Road, the rewards that should be given to you will not be less than one or two."

"Then thank you, Chief Escort!"

"Ah."

Zhou Yunlong nodded, and took off a bundle from his back, revealing a pile of silver and a large paper bag inside.

"In this paper bag is a medicinal powder of a white dye." Zhou Yunlong glanced at the remaining bodyguards: "I will give you a task now. Each of you will take a share of silver and medicinal powder to buy a good horse nearby. The hair was quietly dyed white. Then, it broke out from different directions."

"What I want is to spread doubts and disperse the members of the Changhe Gang."

"So, the longer it takes, the better."

"If it really doesn't work, then abandon the horse and flee."

"After we're done, let's meet again at Jiangnan Road. I will distribute the rewards and rewards to everyone together."

"Do you understand everything?" Zhou Yunlong deliberately emphasized his tone.

"Understood!" All escorts agreed with different expressions.

Thinking of Zhou Xiaomeng who disappeared quietly and the white horse ridden by Jiangnan, I still don't understand the routine.

Although it is dangerous to ride a fake Zhaoye jade lion to attract attention, since Zhou Yunlong allowed him to abandon the horse and escape, it is not unacceptable.

When to abandon the horse and when to escape, in the absence of supervision, you can make your own decisions.

It's better than fighting directly with the members of the Changhe Gang.

Soon, the dyes and silver in the burden were distributed.

"Everyone take care, see you on Jiangnan Road."

Zhou Yunlong watched the bodyguards leave one by one, leaving Jiangnan alone.

"Brother Li, I think you are good at lightness kung fu, so you don't have to act alone. Come with me to find Xiaomeng." Zhou Yunlong said kindly to Jiangnan.

"The Chief Escort is being polite. Just call me Li Qingshan."

"Alright. I'll call you Qingshan. Qingshan, I heard that your hometown is Shannan Road?"

"Yes."

"Have you joined the sect?"

"No."

"Looking at your age, you are still under 20 years old. It is amazing to have the current martial arts, especially the lightness martial arts." Zhou Yunlong praised again, "I wonder if you have ever thought about joining the martial arts school to continue your studies?"

"As you know, Xiaomeng is the disciple of the elder of the Huashan Sword Sect. If you have an idea, I can ask Xiaomeng to recommend you to join the Huashan Sword Sect to study after this trip is over."

"Huashan Sword Sect is one of the top ten sword sects in the world, with strong strength, including several innate masters."

"With your talent, if you have a famous teacher to guide you, you will definitely soar into the sky."

Zhou Yunlong looked at Jiangnan expectantly.

"This, is it really possible?" Jiang Nan was surprised.

"Xiaomeng is highly valued by the younger generation of Huashan Sword Sect. If she recommends it, there will be no problem." Zhou Yunlong's face turned pale when he said this.It seems that he is extremely satisfied and proud of his daughter.

"Thank you, Chief Escort, for your kindness. Allow me to think about it for a few days."

Seeing that Jiangnan didn't immediately agree, Zhou Yunlong's face flashed a look of surprise, but he nodded immediately: "That's fine. You should think more about such a big matter."

Zhou Yunlong took Jiangnan around the densely populated market town, and immediately turned into a clothing store, and began to dress up in disguise.

When they came out, the images of both of them had changed a lot.

Jiangnan turned into a young man in brocade clothes waving a folding fan.Zhou Yunlong pretended to be an unattractive middle-aged guard.

After that, Zhou Yunlong did not continue to head south in the direction of Daliu Town, but turned back to the ferry and rented a large boat.

The boatman is a father and son.

As soon as the boat left the shore, Zhou Yunlong immediately signaled Jiangnan to control the father and son together.

Zhou Yunlong forcibly fed the father and son two dark pills.

"What did you feed us?"

As soon as the old boatman was free, he asked in a startled voice.

"These two pills are called bone erosion pills. They are made from my exclusive secret recipe. If you don't take my unique antidote within seven days, you will suffer from bone erosion pain and die from pain." Zhou Yunlong Open your mouth coldly.

When the father and son heard the words, their expressions changed dramatically.

The old boatman knelt down on the ground with a plop, and begged, "Hero, spare your life! We are just two miserable boatmen who can't even maintain food and clothing, and those who have no money..."

"Hmph! Who wants your money?" Zhou Yunlong snorted coldly: "I just let you know that your life is in my hands, Zhang Kaishan. Next, you must obey my orders."

"Yes yes yes! Hero, just give me orders!" The old boatman hurriedly agreed.

"Next, I will pick up the boat one by one. Don't be surprised, don't make any noise. If you meet someone from the Changhe Gang on the water, you need to help cover it up..."

"Hero, please spare us. People who deceive the Changhe Gang will die!" The old boatman said with a bitter face.

The young boatman also followed suit: "Yes, yes. The members of the Changhe Gang are fierce. They like to tie other people's hands and feet and throw them into the water to feed the fish."

"Hey... If you don't listen to me, I'll let you go into the water and feed the fish right now." Zhou Yunlong said with a sinister smile, "Besides, I will not only tie your hands and feet, but also tie your father and son back to back..."

When the father and son heard the words, their faces turned pale with fright.

With hands and feet tied back to back, that simply doesn't give them a chance to survive!

"Hero, spare your life, we are all at your command."

"Yes, it's all up to you!"

Seeing the compromise between the father and son, Zhou Yunlong regained his normal expression, took out a piece of silver, and handed it to the old boatman: "Don't worry, I will do things for me, as long as you are obedient, I will not treat you badly."

The father and son were pleasantly surprised.

This ingot of silver is enough to cover the income of the father and son for several months.If you are lucky, you can even marry a young boatman with a daughter-in-law.

The boatman and his son immediately expressed their gratitude.

Zhou Yunlong's kindness and prestige temporarily subdued the two boatmen and ordered them to continue sailing.

"Qingshan, you can use extraordinary means in extraordinary times, do you understand?"

Zhou Yunlong approached Jiangnan and whispered.

"Understood. The Changhe gang is huge, so we should be careful like this. Chief escort, where are we going? Didn't you say that we are going to meet up with Miss Zhou in Daliu Town?" Jiang Nan took the opportunity to ask.

"Haha. You'll know later." Zhou Yunlong smiled mysteriously.

In fact, Jiang Nan already had a vague guess in his heart.

It was just to prevent Zhou Yunlong from thinking that he was too smart, so he asked on purpose.

really.

After traveling for more than ten miles, the boat arrived at a place where the river bank was relatively gentle.Zhou Yunlong directly ordered the boatman to pull the big boat aside.

On the shore, Zhou Xiaomeng was waiting there leading a black horse.

The boat was too big, and the water beside the river was shallow, so it was difficult for the boatman and his son to get the boat completely close to the water.

Zhou Yunlong untied the cable on the boat and threw it to the shore.

Zhou Xiaomeng reached out to grab the cable and tied it to a big tree on the shore, and then the boat stabilized.

Zhou Yunlong glanced at Jiangnan, and ordered in a low voice: "Qingshan, look at them."

Jiang Nan understood that Zhou Yunlong was afraid that he would be run away by the boatman and his son after he landed.

Returned a reassuring look.

Zhou Yunlong leaped onto the shore.With a wave of his palm, he broke a tree as thick as a bowl, and built it on the side of the boat as a single-plank bridge.

Then, he grabbed the black horse's legs with both hands, put his back on the black horse's belly, and carried the black horse directly, step by step from the single-plank bridge to the big boat.

The boatman and his son were dumbfounded.

Jiang Nan couldn't help but secretly applaud.

It is not uncommon to carry a horse that weighs seven to eight hundred catties, and one who has reached the sixth rank Qi Sea or above in martial arts can basically do it.

The key is Zhou Yunlong's method of avoiding the tracking of the Changhe Gang.

It's a ring of rings!

First, Li Daitao stiffened, causing Zhou Xiaomeng to ride away the real Zhaoye Jade Lion quietly, and then ordered his bodyguards to set up suspicious formations to break out of the siege on all sides on white horses.When the members of the Changhe Gang found out that the white horses they were following were all fake, they found out that the "real horses" had already followed Zhou Xiaomeng to Daliu Town, a hundred miles away, and they would definitely go after them with all their strength.

Little did they know, Zhou's father and daughter had already got on the big ship in different ways, and left Fenglingdu down the river to the west.

The Changhe Gang is doing business on the water, so there must be a lot of eyeliners at the pier.If you take a horse and board the boat directly at the pier, even a "dark horse" is still a bit eye-catching.

Therefore, Zhou Yunlong only took Jiangnan in disguise to rent a boat at the pier, and asked Zhou Xiaomeng to wait by the downstream river in advance.

No one would have imagined that without passing the trestle bridge at the pier, something as heavy as a horse could be carried on the single-plank bridge to the boat.

In addition, the boatman has been controlled and cannot deliver messages when the boats meet.

In this way, all witnesses are perfectly avoided.

It can be said that there are almost no loopholes in Zhou Yunlong's operation.

As long as they were not stopped by the Changhe gang on the water and checked in the cabin, Zhang Sanshun and the others realized that the Zhaoye Jade Lion had already been transported hundreds of miles along the Changhe River after they made an empty pass in Daliu Town.

The Changhe River is wide, and boats come and go on the water. Even with the power of the Changhe Gang, it is impossible to search all passing boats.

In addition to consuming too much manpower and material resources, it is also to avoid breaking taboos and causing public anger.

The big ship sailed all the way west, and soon it was night.

Remembering that he hadn't used his supernatural powers today, Jiang Nan had no choice but to give in and use his supernatural powers on Zhou Yunlong.

Obtained a "Swordsmanship of Luoying", the level is slightly better than Tiejianmen's "Swordsmanship of Thousand Mountains", but it is also better than nothing.

In the morning of the next day, the ship sailed out of Chang'an Road and entered the territory of Henan Road.

There were more and more boats on the river.

In the meantime, from time to time, you can see the large and small ships of the Changhe Gang flying the "Changhe" flag.

The old boatman explained that this is for the toll.

Whenever foreign ships enter the waters of another place from one place, they have to pay tolls to the Changhe Gang.

As the old boatman said, he subconsciously looked at the dark horse in the cabin that was secretly hidden by the three villains.

Zhou Yunlong's expression froze slightly.

They asked about the family status of the boatman and his son in detail, including detailed addresses, relatives and clans, and so on.

The old boatman was taken aback for a moment, then his face turned pale.

It is said that people grow old.At this point, the old boatman still doesn't understand that this villain named Zhang Kaishan is increasing the weight of threatening his father and son.

If he dared to be disobedient or inform the Changhe Gang, not only would he not get the antidote for the bone erosion pill, he would die, and his relatives and clan would also be implicated.

After the old boatman swears and swears, Zhou Yunlong's expression eases down.

Soon, the toll-collecting boat of the Changhe Gang also rowed closer.

"Old guy, what's that stuff on the boat?"

People from the Changhe Gang on the boat shouted and asked.

"Masters, they are three guests who are going to the imperial capital. I heard that they are going to seek refuge with relatives in the imperial capital." The old boatman stood on the bow of the boat and replied cautiously.

"Old guy, you didn't lie to me, there are only three people?" The person on the boat questioned.

"You're joking." The old boatman explained with a wry smile, "I, Lao Li, have rowed boats on the long river for more than 20 years, and I know the rules very well. How dare I cheat?"

The members of the Changhe Gang on the small boat were just doing a bluff to scare them.At the moment, without further questioning, he shouted directly: "One tael for one person, three taels for three."

After the words fell, a companion stretched out a bamboo pole three or four feet long to the big boat.

"okay."

The old boatman agreed, and put three taels of silver into a cloth pocket on the top of the bamboo pole with a painful expression on his face.

The boat is on the water, and it is troublesome to get from one boat to another. For ordinary passenger ships, the people of the Changhe Gang usually collect tolls in this way.

The members of the Changhe Gang on the small boat withdrew their bamboo poles and weighed the silver in their cloth pockets, which was enough.

Just about to row the boat to another target.

"Eh, no!"

Another man from the Changhe Gang on the small boat suddenly stared at the big boat and shouted.

"Old Mao, what's wrong?"

"Look at the draft of this boat, there are obviously more than three people on board, there must be something else!" the man named Lao Mao shouted, pointing at the big boat.

Several people took a closer look, and it was indeed so.

These rich wolves skinned on the water, not to mention other skills, their eyes are trained viciously.

How many things are loaded on the ship, you can judge with a glance.

The Zhaoye Jade Lion, which was dyed black, was tall and weighed seven to eight hundred catties, and the weight of a horse was enough to weigh five or six adults.The draft of a large ship is naturally different from carrying only three people.

"Old man, you want to embezzle the old man's money?" Someone yelled at the old boatman.

Underreporting five or six people means underpaying five or six taels of silver.

"My lord, forgive me. Apart from our father and son, there are really only three guests on board." The old boatman explained tremblingly.

"Do you think I'm blind?" The man pointed to the depth of the draft.

"Don't dare!" The old boatman hurriedly waved his hands: "That's..."

Just about to explain that the draft is so deep because he brought a guest's horse.

Suddenly, the middle-aged villain named "Zhang Kaishan" whispered in his ear: "Give them the money."

As he spoke, he threw a piece of silver at the old boatman's feet.

The old boatman suddenly understood what he meant, and immediately changed his words: "Forgive me, sir, I was confused for a moment, and I will make up the money immediately."

He bent down and picked up the silver on the ground, and handed it out.

Who knows.

The members of the Changhe Gang didn't use bamboo poles to pick up the money, but rowed a small boat towards the big boat, and asked in a cold voice:
"What is that? Could it be that you brought private goods on board?"

It seems to go directly to the ship for inspection.

(End of this chapter)