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Chapter 50
Ships sailed on the clear Xishui River outside the West City Gate, and the docks were crowded with many traveling merchants and farmers from the countryside who came to the city to purchase daily necessities.

Wu Qing withdrew her gaze, and tentatively asked Mr. Wu,
"Shall we go back to the country by boat?"

Seeing that Wu Qing didn't say anything about staying behind, Wu Laosan breathed a sigh of relief, but still held Wu Qing's hand tightly.
"Okay, let's go to the country by boat."

Although it is by boat, it is not a fashionable passenger ship.

Next to the stone-built ferry, there are several black shed boats and small sampans connected to the pontoon bridge. Wu Laosan and one of the boatmen agreed on the price of the boat and the location of disembarkation, and then dragged Wu Qing to sit on the side of the boat.

The sampan, which can only seat six people, was soon full of passengers after Wu Qing, Wu, and Lao San sat down. Swing away at the stern.

Seeing this situation, Wu Lao San let go of Wu Qing's hands, but after this release, Wu Qing grabbed the red fine grain knife wrapped in newspaper, stood up suddenly, took two eagle steps, and stepped on the ground with one foot. The bow of the boat leaped high and landed on the ferry, turned around and bowed like flowing clouds and flowing water, and said,
"Third Uncle, you go to the countryside first, and I'll be back in two days. You must not go back to the city, or you will drag me down, and maybe cause me an accident. Take care."

After finishing speaking, he rushed into the crowd with a dull head.

Wu Laosan also wanted to stand up, but was held back by the boat passenger beside him.

Just now, Wu Qing's two leaps have caused the small sampan to shake left and right, how can Wu Laosan be allowed to move wantonly again.

Wu Laosan wanted to cry but was dragged to sit down.He wanted to ask the boatman to transfer, but Wu Qing said "it must be dragged down" before he left, and Wu Laosan didn't know what to do.Secondly, I am afraid that the remaining passengers and boatmen are unwilling to take the time to turn around.

The boat going down the current is several feet long, Wu Laosan is thinking about it, and the stone ferry is getting smaller and smaller.

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A few days ago, they set up cards to block people, and the Changing Gang also sent out people.

The fourth brother led Zhang Zaiqi, including Kuo Yazi, and a dozen or so named righteous brothers, who were actually helpers who changed positions and set up a road card on the street next door.

Last night's actions in Li's Mansion were aimed at the eleven big gangs that occupy the public docks. The Changing Gang didn't suffer any harm, but after hearing many gunshots, the Changing Gang and others were terrified, for fear of harming Chi Yu. The whole nest went back to the communal house.

Only the gang leader Wang Agui and his second and third brothers, who stayed overnight in the kiln, did not return.There are also the old five and the six who were brought along by them.

This morning, it happened that it was Zhang Ziqi and Kuo Ya Zaiwen's turn to have breakfast. The other brothers were frightened and sleepless all night, and they just fell asleep now. They were unlucky, they had to cook breakfast.

It doesn't matter if no one eats, if the leader Wang Agui returns and doesn't see breakfast, then the two of them will have to be punished.

rule!

In the south room of the communal house used as a canteen, Zhang Zaiqi was serving firewood behind the stove, and Huo Yazi was chopping beans in front of the stove, which would be thrown into the pot to cook bean porridge.

The pot was steaming, and occasionally a few grains of rice emerged with the bursting of the bubbles.

A pot of gruel.

They hadn't slept all night last night, and the speculation about the gunshot had been exhausted. At this moment, the conversation between the two was inconsistent.

"There was so much commotion last night, I don't know if I should go out today."

"If you want to go out, read the almanac."

Zhang Ziqi pressed a piece of dry wood into the stove, and cursed with a smile,
"Look at the almanac? I can't read it, but you pretend to be literate, but read it to me."

"Which one can't read? I can read all the characters on the bamboo sign." Huo Yazi pouted.

"Return the bamboo cards? Is it possible that the almanac is full of bamboo cards?"

Zhang Zaiqi pointed at the yellow calendar hanging on the beam with the pitch-black torch in his hand,
"Do you read me?"

Huoyazi glanced at it casually, and made it up casually,
"On the fourteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, it is forbidden to open the pool and take a bath. It is better to make an alliance, open the book, make a deal, ask for an heir, and go to office."

Zhang Zaiqi was happy when he heard it,

"Where did you come to open the book? My mother has only heard of the book."

Huoyazi still argues to himself,
"Hey, if you can't read, you should know how to count, right? Two taboos and five benefits, you count?"

Zhang Ziqi also let out a "tss",
"I don't even need to count, you read what you just read again? Can you read it?"

Toothless shook his head,
"Don't open the pool and take a bath. It's better...to make alliances, to go to office, to repair graves..."

The movements of the two hands stopped at the same time.

Zhang Zaiqi's hard-won peace of mind in the past few days was disturbed by Huo Yazi's words "repair the grave", he pretended to be nonchalant,

"Xiao Ersi, should he feed the fish clean?"

Huo Yazi's tone was not as relaxed as before, "Ah, yes."

Zhang Zi murmured,

"Would you like to get him a grave or something? I heard that he still has his parents in the country. There is a grave for this dead man..."

"Stomp."

Huo Yazai slammed the kitchen knife heavily on the knife board,

"I've talked to you a hundred and eighty times. The matter of Xiao Er Si has nothing to do with us. It has nothing to do with you in the past, and it will have nothing to do with you in the future. No one has anything to do with you. No one knows that the Yi'an Church came that day, and no one knows. Your cousin has been here, and no one knows that the lost knife is..."

"Have people from Yi'an Hall come here? The day the knife was lost? The day Xiao Ersi died?"

A seemingly ordinary question was inserted between the two of them.

The two of them each have a heart while cooking, but they both seem to be soaked in a layer of ice.All sleepiness disappeared.

The two turned their heads in amazement.The fourth brother stood at the door of the South House with an intriguing smile on his face.

Fourth brother.One of Wang Agui's confidantes.

Shouldn't he be sleeping?He heard?

Xiao Ersi's face that had been soaked in the rain and turned pale came to mind again.

Zhang Ziqi trembled his lips and dared not speak.

Exhausted Tooth Boy trembled, and his words leaked out,
"No, I haven't been here."

"Oh?" With a meaningful sound, the fourth brother looked back and forth between Zhang Ziqi and Huo Yazi,

"If you haven't been here, you haven't been here. It's nothing important. That's okay, I'll go back to the house first."

The two hearts of Huo Yazai and Zhang Ziqi are so hanging, they haven't fallen yet.

The fourth brother who turned around turned his back to the two, and suddenly said,
"Next month, after your monthly routine is issued, please give it to me."

Zhang Zaiqi blurted out, "Fourth brother, that's my mother's sickness money."

The fourth brother shrugged his shoulders,

"Why don't you save yourselves first? If I tell Grandpa what you just said, what will you two do?"

The fourth brother's seemingly caring words made Zhang Zi and Qi Huo Yazi fall into an abyss.

Hearing that there was no movement behind him, the fourth brother smiled and walked towards the east room without looking back.He's going to catch up on sleep.

Does he not know yet?These two people, especially Zhang Ziqi, are cowardly and afraid of death.The cowhide on his mouth can blow loudly, and when something happens, he is so afraid that he almost ran a hundred and eighty miles away. This threat will definitely succeed.Next month there will be more than a dozen pieces of lace, Cuixiang wants the bracelet, but she has it.

Thinking of Cuixiang's soft fragrance, the fourth brother felt very happy.

"Fourth brother?"

Suddenly, the fourth brother heard Zhang Ziqi yelling behind him, his eyelids twitched, and he turned his head unhappily,
"what?"

The sound of "Well" just fell, and the kitchen knife that was still stained with crushed beans slashed head-on. Before the fourth brother groaned, there was only a layer of skin on the neck and head, and the pink stubble was exposed to the air, bubbling blood .

Zhang Ziqi, who was sprayed with blood all over his face, had a hideous face.

(End of this chapter)