Night Lights

Chapter 190

Linqing Yellow River, the water god of the ferry, surnamed Zhang Duan, named God of jealous women; the god is curious, jealous, and spares his life, because of jealousy sinking into the river, he throws himself into the river to become a god; when ships pass by, there are women crossing the river, looking beautiful , the gods will be jealous, stir up the wind and waves, and throw the boat into the water; ——Excerpted from the eighth volume of Jiangyin in "The Book of Words Without Words".

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When he was panicking, a person stepped forward to meet him!
Before Bai Shibao had time to see the man's face clearly, the horse blinked his eyes first.Suddenly, I remembered a sentence in the storytelling paragraph... The whole body of this horse is like brocade charcoal, with white moonlight shining from the forehead, bony protrusions under the ears, brown hair swirling around the belly, and curved like a hook under the dead body.This means: horns on the head, scales under the belly, claws on the hooves, as fierce as a tiger on the hills, like a dragon in the sea, bear the brunt, the red rabbit and rouge beast!
Of course, this is all made up by storytellers, for the sake of the story.

This horse is a good horse, true, but not so evil!
Looking carefully, the horse is tall and slender, with red hair and black hooves, a pinch of white hair printed on its forehead, and four legs that look like four iron rods. There is a white line under the belly and inside each of the four legs, which is called For: 'Four feet covered with silver'.Look at the man on the horse, not tall, with a ruddy complexion, bird dropping spots on his face, a long gun on his shoulder, high-waisted leather boots on his feet, and a pair of round eyes chaotically looking around sweep……

At this moment, Pang Gouzi glanced at Lingyao secretly, seeing that his body was still, he thought to himself: "It's better to ask first than to be asked. Why don't you find out the bottom line first..." After thinking about it, he then Ying stepped forward and cupped his hands and asked, "I don't know which route you are from, why did you surround us?"

"Soldiers?"

After hearing this, everyone looked at each other and burst out laughing.Immediately afterwards, someone joked: "It's true: people rely on clothes and Buddhas rely on gold clothes. I didn't expect to be dazzled by people who changed their skins. They really regarded us as soldiers!"

Pang Gouzi's face darkened, secretly thinking that something is wrong!

"It's not a soldier, is it a bandit?"

At this moment, an officer and soldier couldn't bear it any longer, so he became impatient, holding a long gun and shouting urgently: "Damn it! I knew I was going to commit evil today, and I burned the incense of evil deeds last night! What's the matter, follow me!" Did they fight?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the rider on horseback pulled out a short gun from the back of his neck, without raising his eyelids, and with a flick of his wrist, two gunshots "slapped" the officer and soldier who was speaking, and lifted the head of the officer and soldier on the spot. Fall to the ground!
All the officers and soldiers trembled in fright, and wanted to raise their guns, but their hands seemed to be filled with lead.Bai Shibao was taken aback for a moment, and secretly shouted from the side: "This is when I beat the dog and ran into a wolf, and I met a more ruthless one!"

Whoosh!
The man tucked the short spear back into his neck, grabbed the reins and pulled it horizontally, and shouted: "The mountains don't turn and the water turns!... Those who are dry will eat dry rice, those who are not dry will drink gruel, and those with sharp ears will be given to me." Listen up!... Laozi eats the bowl of rice from the muzzle of a gun!"

Eat muzzle rice?

It really is a bandit, not an army!
Pang Gouzi couldn't help frowning...

As the saying goes: In troubled times, heroes rise from all directions, and if they have a gun, they are the grass head king.The man who rides a big horse, crosses foreign guns, and wears leather boots is none other than Megatron. He claims to be the king and sets up a stick, forms gangs, and takes risks. ——You Mazi!

This 'Yanbei bandit leader' You Mazi is different from Yuan Longzhao and Jiang Laoguai, he does not rely on mountains to enclose land!

Known as: the sky is high and the horseshoe is long, don't settle down.

Whenever the green gauze tent was set up, You Mazi led all his brothers to rob houses and move around, causing a commotion in the area of ​​Yanbei, "the cloud base is dark, and the sky is full of boiling water".The local garrison has nothing to do with them, they have to show some face, dare not provoke him, and never touch his territory!As a result, the Yanbei area became a wasteland of "Huawai", and You Mazi became the grass head king in this "poor mountains and bad waters" with "sparsely populated" and no valuable resources.

lord it over!

You Mazi doesn't set up a nest, and his brothers all have their own residences, and they are always there when they are called.Originally, when the crops came into the courtyard in this clear autumn, You Mazi usually didn't "make kiln money", but distributed dividends, settled accounts, and told his brothers who had families to go home, and those who didn't have families to visit relatives and friends, or bring money and concubines. away from home.

This is also the season for them to squander their wealth and have fun. Some use the money they get to smoke cigarettes and listen to small plays; The women in the village spend their days fooling around, until the spring and summer of the next year, when the green gauze tents are set up, they return to the pre-arranged place to gather, continue to rob some wealthy households and famous merchants, and make money from kilns!

Today is different.

You Mazi received a secret report from the spies, and heard that Fang Yan. Soil was going to be transported under his nose... how could You Mazi be willing to put the "fat" that was brought to his mouth if he didn't put it in his mouth?
When You Mazi inquired, it turned out to be 'Jun. Team Huyan'!
The smoke and soil were escorted by the army, and there was a lot of tricks in it.Tobacco merchants entrust the army to transport tobacco and soil, and only need to pay some "protection fee", which is safe and economical. The "protection fee" of the army is negotiated with the army and tobacco merchants in advance by the leader of the tobacco gang as an intermediary , take the tobacco from Yunnan, Guizhou and other places to the north and cross the river, and the protection fee for every two cigarettes will be charged at a cost of three cents. The big part will go to the army. Escort, of course no one dares to check, the checkpoints along the way are naturally broken through easily!

At that time, the officers and officers stationed in various places had close contacts with tobacco merchants, and they were doing things in the name, but they were actually transporting cigarettes.

Snowflakes and silvery eyes pass by, who makes the heartbeat not jealous?
You Mazi thought about it for a long time, then he rolled his sleeves and gritted his teeth, and decided to do it!Then they recruited all the brothers, spent some money to buy clothes from a garrison commander, and pretended to be soldiers, planning to plunder the smoke and soil halfway, exchange some money, and earn a fortune!
You Mazi hunted geese to the north to the south of the wing, and ran along the border for more than a hundred miles. The 'big smoke' was nowhere to be seen, but the smoke. There were scattered gunshots, and he gave an order and rushed over with all the brothers...

I never thought that I would bump into this scene!
You Mazi looked at Bai Shibao and the others who were tightly bound with hemp rope, and they were all dressed in various styles, including Taoist robes, plain clothes and trousers, gown gowns, red-faced fortune-tellers, yellow-faced Taoist priests, and black-faced hexagrams. Holding a gun... I can't help but stare blankly, for some reason.

"The shopkeeper!"

At this time, a man with a thin face and monkey cheeks came forward, pointed at the distance with his hand, and shouted to You Mazi: "Look quickly, that coffin seems to be made of pure gold!"

"Oh?"

You Mazi took a look and saw a large coffin was being carried on the carriage in the distance, the lacquer leather was shining golden and dazzling, his eyes lit up immediately, his white eyes were covered with black ones, and he asked loudly: "What's in the coffin?"

Pang Gouzi has a sharp mind, many ideas, quick eyes, and a lively tongue. He was about to strike up a conversation, but his eyes rolled and he didn't make a sound!But Bai Shibao was afraid that the gang would lift the lid of the coffin, and was about to reply when he saw Lin Jiu winking at him, signaling to keep quiet and play by ear.

You Mazi was taken aback and said, "Why, are they all dumb?"

"Boss!" the thin-faced man bit You Mazi's ear and whispered, "I see that these people are coming from a wrong path!"

"How do you see it?"

"Where are the officers and soldiers armed with guns and live ammunition in broad daylight, while escorting the prisoner, while dragging the coffin for the funeral?...Could it be a 'disguise', that the coffin is filled with soil?"

As soon as the word 'earth' came out, You Mazi's heart was shocked!
I only heard the man continue to say: "The shopkeeper! This is not a place to talk, why don't we take the guy in their hands first, and then take them back with the coffin!"

You Mazi was stunned, "What's the use of asking for someone?"

"Tie it back and use it as a 'ticket', and let the employer take the money to redeem the person. Although it is deadly, but there are too many people, let alone the 'ticket price' is worth a few taels of silver..."

You Mazi nodded after hearing this, and thought it made sense. With a wave of his hand, the bandits jumped off their horses, handed over the guns of the officers and soldiers with three punches and two kicks, fell to the ground, turned over and tied them up, and then covered them with red cloth. eyes!
The movement is quick and clean.

At this time, You Mazi got off his horse, walked to the coffin, and patted the coffin lid with his hands. The 'bang bang bang' earthquake made his palms hurt, and he grinned and said, "God open your eyes and give me a big golden coffin! You Mazibai didn’t make me work so hard to run such a long distance, it’s enough money! Go back and burn it, and every brother will make a pair of bracelets for the girls!”

call out……!
Bang bang bang!

After hearing this, the bandits whistled excitedly on their horses, and fired their spears into the air.While talking, You Mazi took out a gleaming sharp knife from his pocket, and slashed hard on the coffin lid, and with a bang, he cut the hemp rope binding the coffin in two...

Seeing this, Bai Shibao shouted anxiously: "You can't open the coffin, there are zombies inside!"

"Zombie?"

You Mazi was startled, staring at the coffin with staring eyes, and suddenly sneered, "I, You Mazi, have never seen anything before. I am not afraid of the living, but afraid of the dead?" Knocking the handle of the knife, the blade was inserted into the coffin...

Ah!
At this moment, a bandit in the distance suddenly hissed and screamed!
You Mazi shook his hand, turned his head and saw the man lying on his back on the ground, foaming at the mouth, convulsing, his face was red and swollen, with countless pustules bulging, densely packed with white tips, oozing blood !
Poison!

Lingyao?

Bai Shibao hastily turned his head to look at Lingyao, and saw her expressionless, her eyes glazed over, her hands hanging down, she stood motionless in the distance.Bai Shibao's face darkened, and he couldn't help but asked in shock, "Why, she didn't inflict the poison?"

At this time, Pang Gouzi was being stepped on by a bandit, his chest was pressed against the ground, and his hands were tightly tied behind his back. Seeing this scene, he suddenly laughed loudly and said, "Hahaha...it's the Great Master! Already!"

(End of this chapter)