Lin Fu had only been asleep for a little over an hour when someone knocked on the door and called him "bang bang bang".
Hearing the voice of Wu Qi, the crow, Lin Fu put on his clothes and went outside, opened the door and let him in, and asked, "What happened?"
"There are many unknown ships coming down the river from the west. The boats are lit with torches, just like light boats swimming on the river. I don't know if they are coming for this side. There is no warning for the time being. There is also warning on the Prison Island. People have been sent to guard Ziang.
Letter, Lin Jingzhong and the others shouted..." Wu Qi said. Two warning calls in one night would seriously affect morale, so he wanted to come over and ask Lin Fu's opinion first.
Lin Fu frowned and thought carefully. He couldn't figure out who the female assassin was last night. These boats came with torches. It was obviously a demonstration to prevent the woman from being harmed. Moreover, they moved very fast. He thought he could sleep for a long time before returning.
Deal with this matter.
Lin Fu looked back. Xiaoman and Liu Yue'er each poked their heads out of the room to look. He waved his hand and said, "Go back to bed..." Lin Fu and Wu Qi walked towards Jiang'an Pier.
, I met Lin Jingzhong walking quickly on the way.
Lin Jingzhong said: "Master Da Loach got on the Dongyang, and Master Cao went up to the turret and stared. From a height, there were almost a hundred ships, mostly Wupeng cargo ships. There were people crowded in the bow and stern of the ship. I was afraid there were not more than two ships.
Thousands of people. These boats were parked one mile east of the boundary pile and were all anchored. A large ship sent a signal and asked to anchor by the river bank..." They all lived in enclosed houses behind the river embankment and could respond quickly to the boundary pile.
They were pillars on the river beach marking the distance between the river mouth and Prison Island. The lights of the turrets were refracted, and they were used as boundary pillars to identify the distance of the incoming enemy.
"It's a bluff, I'm scared all over in a cold sweat," Lin Fu stopped and said, "Let Mr. Da Loach be on guard on the Dongyang and call over. We just caught the female assassin at night. She will be sent to the Moling County Yamen for interrogation tomorrow. Jiang'an Wharf and
The river dock does not allow ships to dock at night, and unidentified ships approach. They treat it as illegal information and tell them to make their own decisions..." He gathered up his clothes and said, "I'll go back and get some sleep first. I won't care about that ship.
If other Wupeng boats pass the one-mile boundary, they will ring the alarm bell and call me."
"Isn't that the female assassin last night?" Lin Jingzhong asked.
"They neither broke their teeth and swallowed them, nor did they dare to steal people's courage," Lin Fu said with a smile, "They probably also want to postpone the matter until dawn before solving it, so let's postpone it first..."
Lin Fu returned to the thatched cottage and saw Liu Yue'er and Xiao Man all dressed up and sitting in the front hall, guarding a lone lamp, waiting for him to come back: "Didn't I tell you to go back to bed?"
"I'm not going out to cause trouble for you, why don't I just sit here and wait for you to come back?" Xiaoman laid his hands on the table, his chin on the back of his hands, and stared at Lin Fu with his dark eyes.
"Nothing happened?" Liu Yuer asked.
"It's no big deal. I'm here to beg someone. I've managed to accumulate some notoriety over the past few months, but it's so easy for someone to take it away from me." Lin Fu yawned and said, "I'm going to go again."
Take a nap, won’t you?”
"I'm worried that I won't be able to sleep. You go to sleep. I'll sit by your side and watch over you. If anything happens, I can wake you up." Xiaoman stood up and stared at Lin Fu pitifully.
Lin Fu felt a headache. Xiao Nizi definitely had no defense against him.
Liu Yue'er lifted the oil lamp on the table and said, "You guys should go back to the house in the dark. I'll take the lamp and go back to sleep..."
Xiaoman seemed to have won the battle and pushed Lin Fu back to his room. There were no lights on in the room, but when the thatched cottage was built, there was a gap between the eaves and the walls. Even if the windows were not opened, there would be a gap.
A little light came in, Lin Fu took off his boots and lay on the bed, asking Xiaoman: "Do you really want to sit here all night?"
"Well," Xiaoman nodded, took a square stool and sat on the head of Lin Fu's bed, and said, "This is how the personal servants of wealthy families keep vigil at night. There is no outer room here, so I can only stay in your room..."
Lin Fu smiled and said: "In a wealthy family, the personal maid even helps warm the bed..."
"Then I'll warm the bed for you too..." Xiaoman stood up and spread out the thin quilt for Lin Fu. He sat on the edge of the bed and was about to take off his shoes and get under the quilt.
"You should be a night watch maid first. It's too hot to sleep under a quilt in April." Lin Fu didn't know what Xiao Nizi was being so naughty, so he asked her to sit on the edge of the bed while he lay down.
"I've thought about it, I won't be your concubine..." Xiaoman looked at Lin Fu's face hidden in deeper shadows with bright eyes in the night, and suddenly said this.
"Ah?" Lin Fu asked doubtfully.
"I talked to Sister Yue'er. If you marry someone in the future, she might be more vicious than Sister Yue'er. I can hear you.
Lin Fu didn't even know what the two girls were talking about at that moment.
"I will be your personal maid, so I can spend more time with you..." Xiaoman said seriously.
"..." Lin Fu didn't know how to comfort the girl, and he was afraid that the girl would have random thoughts, so he said, "Then you can be my personal maid." Liu Yue'er was listening next door, and he couldn't let the little girl
Man was sleeping on his bed. Besides, Xiao Nizi should have known about the relationship between men and women a long time ago, let alone let her sleep on his bed.
Lin Fu felt sleepy, thinking that when Xiaoman got tired, he would go back to her room to sleep, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep, leaving Xiaoman sitting on the edge of the bed. In the hazy moment, Xiaonizi and a little boy
Turning upside down like an animal, Lin Fu waited for her to wake up. Unexpectedly, she put her head on his arm, curled up and shrank back and fell asleep peacefully. Lin Fu couldn't bear to wake her up and drive her away.
, and had to carefully pull out a corner of the quilt to cover her body.
Hearing the sound of carriages and horses outside, but no one calling, Lin Fu continued to sleep. Xiaoman had already crawled into his bed, and his hair was spread out under his neck and on his chest.
, like a black flower blooming in the morning light, you can't see where Xiaoman's little head and face are hidden, her bare feet are pressed against the instep of her own, and she doesn't know when she woke up and took off her socks, anyway.
He slept with his clothes on, as slippery as putty, so Lin Fu resigned himself to his fate and continued to sleep with his head covered. When he heard Liu Yue'er calling him, he opened his eyes, and half of Xiaoman's body was lying on him, his face
Close to his chest, chest close to his lower abdomen, legs slanted to one side, the fragrant person was covered by a thin quilt, but black flowers overflowed like night, and it seemed that Liu Yue'er did not wake up, Lin Fu was shy
He smiled at Liu Yue'er and asked her in a low voice what was going on.
"Miss Su Mei came by car with the Fourth Lady, and they are sitting in the front hall..." Liu Yue'er pretended not to see Lin Fu's chest exposed under the quilt.
Lin Fu was stunned after hearing this. He didn't know what Su Mei was doing out of the city so early in the morning. Could it be that the female assassin from yesterday knew her? Xiao Man, who was sleeping soundly on Lin Fu, was also subconsciously startled, and suddenly felt a pain under his chest.
Something made her panic, and she was startled. She didn't even notice that Liu Yue'er was also in the room. She jumped out of bed with a sweet cry. She was about to ask Lin Fu what the hell he was hiding to hit her, but she just opened her mouth.
, then he realized what the hard object like a wooden peg was, and his face, which had been late for sleeping in spring, suddenly turned crimson, and he picked up his shoes and sneaked back to his room barefoot.
"She is wearing clothes," Lin Fu said with a shy face. "
"What will I say if you take her in? Miss Su Mei is waiting outside," Liu Yue'er asked Lin Fu to get up quickly, knelt on the edge of the bed with one knee, and reached in to get Lin Fu's clothes, which were out of reach.
In the corner, she put one hand on Lin Fu's body, just on something hard like a wooden peg. She moved her hand and put it on Lin Fu's thigh, took the clothes over, and laughed at him, "Yes, wearing clothes."
Oh! Why did Xiao Nizi get so startled? Could it be that she didn’t know she was lying on top of you at night?"
If Su Mei hadn't arrived, Lin Fu would have pinned Liu Yue'er down on the bed and ravaged her. At this time, he could only put on his clothes properly. Xiaoman's matter was not easy to explain. Is it difficult to explain to Liu Yue'er that this was
Normal physiological reaction? Lin Fu washed up after arriving at the thatched cottage; Xiaoman had already washed up, his eyes flashed without looking at him, he lowered his head and said softly: "I'm going to see Sister Su Mei first..." and slipped away.
Lin Fu took a quick shower and then came to the front hall. Su Mei and the Fourth Lady were both there. Seeing Lin Fu coming out, Su Mei asked, "Did you not cause the female assassin last night any suffering?" She asked.
Xiaoman knew that the female assassin was imprisoned on Prison Island.
"Ah?" Lin Fu saw that Su Mei was definitely here for the female assassin last night and asked, "Who is she?"
"She is the daughter of Sun Jingxuan of Xihehui..."
"People from the He Gang?" Lin Fu was slightly startled, thinking that this was right. The hundreds of black-topped boats in Chaotiandang have not demonstrated yet. When the Yangtze River reaches the northern section of Jiangning City, it is Chaotiandang, with a long water system and water transportation.
Jiangning is an important starting point with great river transportation, but the hardships of river transportation are beyond imagination, especially the round trip from autumn to spring, which takes more than half a year. Jiangning is located in a prosperous area, and the locals have land to farm. They would rather be tenants than farmers.
Few people are willing to endure the hardships of boats; working as boatmen in Jiangning, the vast majority of sailors are landless farmers along the Cao River in the north. It is very difficult to make a living in a foreign place, so the local children all live together in groups, forming the river gangs in Jiangning City
When they are not on the river, they live concentratedly in the area around the mouth of the three branches of the Longzangpu River in the south of the city. A considerable number of people live on boats all year round. Although they are collectively called the river gang forces, in fact, the river gang forces in Jiangning are divided into eighteen branches according to region. Xihehui
It is one of the gangs, and most of them are villagers from Xihe County who know how to connect to the west bank of the river. The river gang can be said to be a variant of the township party. Although there are many people and strength, it is not a great force.
Civil and military officials related to water transportation, river affairs and river defense, no matter how big or small, will try every means to exploit the power of the river gang. After all, the vast majority of the members of the river gang are boatmen and sailors at the lowest level of society. Lin Fu is not afraid of Xihe.
Hui came to beg for help, and he asked Su Mei, "The boatmen who were robbed and killed in Baisha County last time were all descendants of the Xihe Society?"
"Yes," Su Mei was also very anxious, "Sun Jingxuan is still a friend of Master Fu. The letter that Master Fu sent a few days ago also included a letter for Sun Jingxuan..."
"Ah," Lin Fu was stunned again. Fu Qinghe didn't say that he still had friends in Jiangning who could depend on his life and death. He asked, "Did Master Fu tell Sun Jingxuan about Changshan Island?"
"No," Su Mei said, "Master Fu wants to go back to Jiangning in a while and wants to give you Sun Jingxuan's daughter as your wife. This idea was probably mentioned in the letter..."
Lin Fu wiped his forehead subconsciously and felt that cold sweat had broken out.