The awning boat continued westward and reached the watershed before noon. It was also lunch time, and the boatman had to stop the boat and dock according to the rules of a good family in the watershed.
The watershed is a small island in the middle of the Danxia River. It is surrounded by water, with Chuanyun Mountain high in the middle, and Liangjia Village halfway up the mountain.
The watershed has been a gathering place for water thieves since ancient times. The recorded time of the Danxia River can be traced back hundreds of years, decades earlier than the founding of the current Zhou Dynasty.
The Liang family was not the head of the watershed before. The grandfather of the current head of the village, Liang Xiake, was Liang Zhongting’s father, Liang Shangjun, whom the two siblings mentioned earlier, Liang Shangjun. Back then, he was just a patrolman on the watershed. I don’t know how many lifetimes of blessing I have cultivated. When I was patrolling the back mountain, I lost my footing and rolled down a slope. I fell to pieces all the way down and fell into a cave that existed in an unknown year. Then, just like the protagonist in the story told by the storyteller, he picked up a secret book and a magic weapon, and by chance, he actually developed a real skill. Later, in the turbulent era at the end of the previous dynasty, Liangshangjun impulsively killed the leader at the time and became the king of the mountain himself.
After Liangshangjun became the uncompromising local emperor, he didn't know what he thought, but he actually recruited a group of poor and unsuccessful scholars from several nearby cities to serve as military advisors. Not to mention, within a few years this watershed had allowed him to flourish, and he actually became the dominant family among the water thieves in the Danxia River waterway, and had the potential to be the leader.
There were already a lot of thieves on the rivers and waterways, but they became more serious after Liang Shangjun became bigger, which made some merchants who had to take boats miserable. Someone complained to the government, and there was a lot of shouting in the government. Afterwards, few things were actually done. Who made Liang Shangjun's monthly filial piety money so much that he couldn't even count it? In the end, some boat owners had no choice but to spend more money to buy safety. After all, the whole family depended on this boat for food and livelihood.
This continued for decades until it was passed down to Liang Shangke. Although Liang Zhongting’s generation later engaged in legitimate business that they were not good at, the Liang family had already made a lot of money in the waters of Danxia River. .
For these trivial matters in the world, Ye San Geng has never cared much about these trivial matters in the world, especially such disputes in the world. Things that have nothing to do with him naturally cannot attract his attention.
Just like what the boatman mentioned last night, the clans on both sides of the river have joined forces to sanction the watershed. They only know that the watershed is a village of water thieves, but they don't know that they have "returned their evil ways and returned to the right way."
In the middle of the night, he led his sister off the boat and went ashore for dinner. The shore of the watershed looked like a market. There were all kinds of pubs, inns, shops and tea stalls. In the middle of the night, he had to sigh that a good family deserved to be a dominant family for nearly a hundred years. This development and management method alone It's not something that bandits and bandits can do.
I randomly found a clean tavern, and still had the same four dishes and one soup, plus the best wine in the shop. The food was almost done, so I was not in a hurry to pay the bill in the middle of the night. I waited for my sister to finish eating and turned to look at the people passing by outside.
They must be patrolling soldiers, six people in a team, making trips for a cup of tea, which made the shopkeeper sitting at the door of the tavern mutter: "I'm so full after all, I'm disturbing the guests with each trip."
In the middle of the night, something moved in his heart, and he asked, "Why, it's not like this usually?"
"Normally?" The store owner sneered and said, "I don't see them usually, so the monthly rent collection time wakes up earlier than the chickens."
As if the conversation started, the store owner took a pot of peanuts and sat directly in front of the midnight, saying: "Brother, I see that you two are so kind, and you two..."
"She is my sister." Ye Sangeng interrupted hurriedly, "Brother, please don't mess with your status."
The store owner smiled awkwardly and said: "I'm mistaken, haha. Let me tell you two, I also heard that something seems to have been lost in the cottage above today, so these patrol soldiers were wandering around so hard. If it had been before , I’m not sure which woman’s nest I’ll be having fun in now.”
"Things?" Ye San Geng asked, "I heard that strangers are not allowed to enter the village, so why did you lose something?"
"I also heard from the group of mountain patrols that I have something to say. We don't know what it is exactly." The store owner threw peanuts into his mouth and kept letting him eat them in the middle of the night.
"Brother, what are you two siblings doing here?" The store owner raised another topic.
"Go to Wudang Mountain to fulfill your wish."
In the middle of the night, I watched my sister finish eating, but the store owner didn't seem to have any intention of paying the bill. He kept chattering endlessly, so he had to drag the store owner to chat for a while. If the boatman hadn't come to urge him, the store owner would have been able to chat over peanuts until dark. .
The shop owner was also a cheerful person. After chattering for a while, he told in detail how Xin Ruhai, the owner of Phoenix Villa, united with several large and small families to exterminate the water thieves many years ago.
It was nothing more than a group of water thieves who got into trouble with Xin Ruhai. They raised the price to pay for the road and the price was ridiculous. The rabbits bit people when they were anxious. Xin Ruhai then invited several families to do it together, which was considered as a benefit for himself and the area near the Danxia River Waterway. The common people solved their inner worries.
The story told by the store owner was so exciting that Ye Hao suddenly joked with the store owner before going out that he could make more money by setting up a storytelling stall in the store.
Ye San Geng led her sister out with the store's polite courtesy. Ye San Geng, who was walking in the front, bumped into a person who was about to enter the store. It was only because that person ran faster. He staggered and almost fell down. If it weren't for his quick hands and eyes in the middle of the night, he stretched out his hand to catch him. I'm afraid the three or four steps would have knocked this man to pieces.
The visitor had someone block his way and was about to get angry when he saw that he was an acquaintance in front of him. He was overjoyed, but then he thought of something. With a look of panic, he squeezed into the tavern from the side of the two siblings in the middle of the night and said hurriedly. : "Don't say you've seen me!" Before he finished speaking, he hid behind the counter in the stunned eyes of the owner of the tavern.
The person who was panicking was none other than the woman in fur who had rescued the woman who almost fell into the river at midnight. This girl didn't know why she was following Zhao Yun out. She had lunch early and was sent back by someone sent by Zhao Yun. I don’t know if she offended Fenshuiling Water Village or for some other reason. She hid on the shore and was discovered by the patrolling soldiers. It was no coincidence that the scene just happened.
Regarding this little girl's instructions, Ye Sangen didn't take it to heart at all. It was just a face-to-face meeting. He didn't know who she was or what her identity was. He and his sister would never be asked about it for no reason.
Taking another look at the hiding woman in fur, he led his sister out of the tavern in the middle of the night. He happened to run into the patrolman he had just seen running over, disturbing the roadside vendors, and none of them responded. I walked through the shops looking for something. In the middle of the night, a sudden realization dawned on me. Thinking back to what the tavern owner had just said, could it be that this woman had stolen something from a good family?
Leading her sister to hide aside, Ye San was somewhat impressed by how brave and careful this woman was. She stole something from the Liang family and then hid on the Song family's boat, which was a good friend of the Liang family. It was really clever.
The patrolman did not conduct a thorough search of the tavern. He seemed not to believe that there was any hiding place in such a small tavern. He only took a cursory look around and then went to the next place.
Even in the middle of the night, he would not interfere without any reason, so he led his sister towards the place where the boat was parked.
But it was said that the woman in fur was looking around the counter of the tavern. After seeing the pair of patrolmen walking away, she came out. She thanked the owner of the tavern for saving her life and ignored the shop owner who seemed to have thought of something. With a surprised expression, he left the tavern.
He looked left and right at the entrance of the tavern and found the figure who had saved him that morning. He ran after him and shouted, "Wait for me, hey, wait for me, Ye..." I thought about calling out and guessing. The name of the person he mentioned suddenly felt inappropriate, so he quickened his pace and chased him away.
"Hello!" The woman in fur said, quite familiarly.
In the middle of the night, who was helping her sister to dodge passers-by, she was patted from behind. When she turned around, she saw the woman in fur.
"Why didn't you wait for me?" The woman in fur said in a slightly aggressive tone, with a hint of blame.
My sister didn't know who it was, so she held her hand tightly on the late night's arm. The two siblings had the same mind, and could guess the question in her mind with just one movement. He said in the middle of the night: "It's the little girl who helped me rescue her this morning."
The woman in fur also heard it clearly and said coquettishly: "What do you mean, little girl? Are you very old?"
Hearing the arrogant tone of the woman in fur, Ye Xiayou said, "What's wrong with you?"
"What does it have to do with you?" The woman in fur has been used to being coquettish since she was a child. She seems to dislike the tone of questioning. She frowns slightly, with an unhappy look on her face, "Why do you interrupt me when I'm talking to him? "
Ye Xiayou was amused by the little girl's unreasonableness, and ignored the woman in fur, and whispered to Ye Sangen: "Let's go."
Midnight nodded in agreement and turned around to leave with her sister, but the woman in fur stopped her, "You are not allowed to leave, you have to help me."
Ye San was stunned, showing a hint of helplessness as the unruly woman in fur who choked her words seemed to be very familiar to her, and said: "Girl, we don't seem to be familiar with each other."
"Why aren't you familiar?" The woman in fur was very angry at the late night sentence, which made her sound very irresponsible, and said accusingly: "You saved me."
"It's just a helping hand." Ye Sangeng said easily, "Why are you so serious?"
The woman in fur lost her temper and was so arrogant that she didn't know how to find an excuse at this time, so she could only continue to make trouble unreasonably: "I don't care, if you save me once, you have to save me a second time."
In the middle of the night, she burst into laughter, and even her articulate sister was speechless by this little girl.
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Halfway up the mountainside of the watershed, there is a mansion of a good family.
The open space carved out of the mountainside is enough to show the strength of this water thief who started a good family and became famous in Danxia River. From a distance, it looks like a huge mouth of blood, swallowing up a hundred acres of courtyard.
At the end of the stone steps going down from the entrance of the mansion, a middle-aged man in Tsing Yi looked sickly. He covered his mouth with a brocade handkerchief and coughed from time to time. The mountain wind blew gusts, causing the middle-aged man in Qingyi to sway as if he was about to fall.
Another charming and beautiful woman came out of the courtyard gate, holding a thick cotton cloak to cover the middle-aged man in Qingyi, and reproached: "Why did you sneak out again? No matter how worried about Chun'er, you should pay attention to your own health, Chun'er is not Children, where else can they run?"
The middle-aged man in green coughed twice again, tightened his cloak, and said with a smile: "Don't worry now, look who it is."
Following the direction indicated by the middle-aged man in Qingyi, the charming and beautiful woman looked at the small town below the mountain, where people were coming and going like ants, but after all, it was her own child, and she could still recognize her naughty daughter no matter how far away she was.
"Chun'er is actually hiding down there? It's so hard to find us." The charming and beautiful woman showed a helpless expression. It seemed that she couldn't do anything to deal with her pretty daughter. After taking a closer look, she asked again, "Is Chun'er following this? Who is arguing?"
The young man in green clothes smiled, "Absolutely not. Come, follow me down the mountain to pick up the noble man."
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In the middle of the night, he felt a big headache for the little girl who was holding him unreasonably and not letting go. He didn't hit her or scold her. The most important thing was that she refused to listen to him when he tried to reason with her.
"Midnight! You can't help me!"
The woman in fur said something shocking in anger.
Ye San Geng, who was pushing and shoving with her, was startled.
Just as he was laughing and listening to the noisy two people, Ye Xia was stunned.
She actually knew that he was late at night?
The woman in fur knew she had made a mistake and looked embarrassed. She looked around and said to him, "It's just a small favor. Please help me."
"How do you know who I am?" Ye Sangen asked.
The woman in fur hesitated and couldn't speak.
Ye Xiayou gently let go of the hand holding Ye Zangeng's arm. In this watershed territory of a good family, the result of being recognized was that the brother and sister might not know how they died. The only way now is to shut up this unreasonable little girl temporarily.
When faced with something he had to do, Ye Xiayou was more cruel than Ye San.
So Ye Xiayou took another step back. She was afraid that she would hinder her brother.
Ye San understood what her sister meant.
"How do you know me?" In the middle of the night, he frowned slightly and asked again.
The woman in fur had never experienced such a battle. She was momentarily breathless by Ye San's stronger aura. Her heart was trembling a little. She instinctively took a step back and said, "I don't even know you?" Although her words were still tough, However, the confidence has been weakened by three points.
In the middle of the night, he extended his palm like a knife and struck directly at the back of the woman's neck.
The strength of his hand was precise, and Ye San knew that his palm would not cause any harm, but when the little girl woke up, he and his sister would arrive in Wudang no matter what.
In the middle of the night, his movements were extremely fast, and his strikes were like lightning. However, his movements were stopped midway because someone shouted "show mercy."
In the middle of the night, he turned to look at the middle-aged man in Tsing Yi who trotted up to him, stopped, covered his mouth with the brocade handkerchief in his hand, and coughed violently.
"Dad." The woman in fur panicked and hurriedly stepped forward to pat the middle-aged man in Tsing Yi's back. The charming and beautiful woman who followed him also responded favorably.
The middle-aged man in Qingyi used his other hand and waved it repeatedly to indicate that he was fine, but he kept coughing and could not speak. Watching Ye San Geng, I thought this man was going to die, but when he heard Ye Xia You frowned, he took his brother's arm and said softly: "This man has severe consumption, and he doesn't have much time left."
Ye Xia You's voice was not loud, but it could still reach the ears of the middle-aged man in Qingyi. Whether intentionally or not, his coughing was a little louder, just covering up the sound of Ye Xia You's voice.
"This is an old illness, please forgive me, Third Young Master."
The first words of the middle-aged man in Qingyi who finally stopped coughing were as shocking as the woman who called him daddy.
"I am a distinguished guest of the good family in Fenshui Ridge. I respectfully invite Mr. Ye to come up the mountain and have a talk."
In the middle of the night, he frowned and moved to protect his sister with an invisible movement.
"If I remember correctly, he must be the deputy head of the watershed village who is known in the world as a man who divides water between guests and guests."
There was another cough, and the middle-aged man in Qingyi, who claimed to be a good guest, waved his hands and said with regret: "I don't think I should take it seriously, it's just me."
The sea of air was churning, and the strong wind suddenly rose. In the middle of the night, his eyes tightened, piercing the middle-aged man in Tsing Yi with a gentle smile on his face.
Feeling the aggressive gaze, Liang Xiabin still couldn't stop coughing and couldn't hide his gentle smile. He just felt calm and felt better. He stopped smiling and clasped his fists again, with a respectful tone.
"A good guest, I would like to respectfully ask you, Third Young Master, to leave me alone."
Just because he was afraid of being rude to the noble man, his sickly cheeks turned red due to suppressing the itch in his throat, but he still did not cough.
"I respectfully ask you, Third Young Master, to condescend me."
The old man is no longer confused, and he bends down.
There is gold under a man's knees, but it is a bit heavier around a man's waist than under his knees.
