"If I had known that he was a piece of cake, why would Mr. Qin be wasting such words with him?" Seeing Fu Qinghe's serious expression, the short and sturdy man thought that Fu Qinghe wanted to back down again, and complained dissatisfiedly.
When Lin Fu saw Fu Qinghe looking at him with a solemn expression and about to speak, he said first: "Master Fu, please don't mention it again about the funeral arrangements..." He said to Qin Chengzu, "From Qingpujin to Dongning, the waterway is winding. More than a thousand miles away, there are plenty of opportunities, so why rush to die tonight?"
Lin Fu's tone was not polite. The short and stocky man's expression changed after hearing this and he wanted to scold him back. Qin Chengzu asked him to calm down and said to Lin Fu: "What good idea does Mr. Tan have?" He glanced at Fu Qinghe and thought to himself. Since the young man named Tan Zong in front of him could help Fu Qinghe survive, he must be a powerful character. He didn't have the energy to drive Fu Qinghe away just now because he was considering that their manpower was too limited. An extra helper would be an advantage. hope.
"We need four ships, three light boats, and one should be slightly larger. It is best to get these ships without disturbing the place. Can Mr. Qin do it?" Lin Fu asked. He imitated the short and sturdy man and called Qin Chengzu. As Mr. Qin, even though Qin Chengzu was holding a waist sword, he was somewhat Confucian and did not look like the famous leader of horse thieves at all.
"This is not difficult. Friends on the road may not openly help us kill our officers and soldiers. It is easy to buy a few ships." Qin Chengzu said.
"The rogue bandits also sell smuggled salt." Fu Qinghe was afraid that Lin Fu would not understand, so he explained a little bit.
The counties in Hailing Prefecture on the south bank of Qingjiangpu are one of the largest sea salt production areas in the country. There is official salt, and naturally there is also private salt. The two sides of Qingjiangpu are also the largest source of private salt in Jianghuai and Jianghuai. Since the Liuma bandits have colluded with private salt dealers , then it shouldn’t be difficult for Qin Chengzu and the others to get a few ships here.
"There's so much nonsense, what on earth can you do to just say it?" The short and stocky man asked impatiently, "I can't stand your entertainment." He hated Fu Qinghe deeply, and he naturally hated Lin Fu who came with Fu Qinghe. I don't have any good feelings either.
"Zhou Pu, you have to be patient," Qin Chengzu solemnly advised Zhou Pu, a short and sturdy man, to calm down, and then asked Lin Fu, "Do you want it immediately?"
"We still have people on Haikou, thirty miles away. We need to pick them up first, and then go upstream before dawn. The sooner we can get a boat, the better," Lin Fu said, "If it's convenient, there's also There are many things that Mr. Qin needs to prepare... We will first rent a black boat and launch it into the water." He looked up at the sky and then said, "When the moon reaches the zenith, we will wait for each other in the meandering bay ten miles down from the ferry."
"How many of you are there?" Qin Chengzu's eyes lit up, and he was worried about the lack of manpower. Even after leaving the ferry, there were still more than 20 escorting officers and soldiers, and they were the elites of Chen Hansan's command. They only had 18 people. When fighting on the battlefield, you are not afraid no matter how many times the enemy is, you are just afraid that when the officers and soldiers are attacked, they will kill the prisoners first.
"There are quite a lot of people, so I'm afraid I won't be able to help much. But I can wave the flag and distract the attention of the officers and soldiers, so that you can make it easier for Mr. Qin." Lin Fu said truthfully.
Qin Chengzu only thought that he was humble, and Lin Fu said again: "Master Fu and I will leave first. Is Mr. Qin relieved?"
"He, a cowardless rat, has the guts to tell the truth, how can he be a coward at this time?" Zhou Pu, a short and stocky man, said.
Fu Qinghe cupped his fists at Zhou Pu and smiled bitterly and said, "Thank you very much for still trusting me."
Zhou Pu turned his head to the side and ignored him.
They split up immediately. Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe returned to the ferry and bought several sets of women's clothes from the shop. They also bought a piano. Seeing the rough workmanship of the piano, Lin Fu smiled and said to Fu Qinghe: "I don't know if Su Mei
Can the girl play good music on this piano?"
"If we start in the river, if something goes wrong and the government investigates, I'm afraid they will find out your identity, Mr. Lin." Fu Qinghe said.
Lin Fu said easily: "The worst case scenario is that I will become a bandit. As for the Lin family, they will say that I was killed in Baisha County, but someone else used my tooth tag to impersonate me in Tinghu Lake - how much trouble can it cause?"
Then he asked Fu Qinghe, "Master Fu confirms the favor, and it doesn't matter if Qiao Zhong and the others see it?"
"They would rather die than surrender to the government," Fu Qinghe said with a touch of sadness on his brows, "But we have to prevent them from accidentally letting slip, Enze, Qiao Zhong and the others, we will also follow the previous instructions
There is no need to explain it to them in detail."
"Yeah." Lin Fu nodded.
They asked the food shop to prepare a table of dishes and some Tantinghu Shaolu rice wine and deliver them to the ferry. Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe rented a awning boat at the ferry.
Lin Fu excused himself by saying that he wanted to go to the river to enjoy the moon, and he didn't like the interference of outsiders. The boatman could get a large silver coin as a deposit, and the rent money Lin Fu gave was quite considerable. He even considered taking the deposit and flying away, so naturally he let it go.
They carried a table of wine and food on their own boat and headed downstream without asking Lin Fu for any documents.
It would be best not to leave any written evidence, so that even if Lin Fu didn't return the boat, he wouldn't have to worry about the written note leaving any loopholes for the government to investigate.
He rowed his boat with a pole in the shallow water and went down the river at a very fast speed. In three quarters, he had traveled twenty or thirty miles and met Su Mei and others who were trapped in the shallow water beach. Fu Qinghe did not delay and just followed Su Mei.
Mei said a few words alone, then took four strong young men to go to Hequ Bay to meet Qin Chengzu and others on poles. Lin Fu stayed on the boat to prepare. He thought that Fu Qinghe had parted ways with Qin Chengzu and others ten years ago, and Su
Mei was just a little girl of eight or nine years old at that time. I wonder if she and Qin Chengzu and others were old friends.
"I want to implicate Mr. Lin in danger again..." Su Mei was still wearing coarse cloth, with her sleeves rolled up, revealing her slender wrists like crystal clear jade, and handed a sweat towel to Lin Fu to wipe his sweat.
Lin Fu carried a large bundle of iron cluster arrows onto the deck. These would be moved to the boat later, as well as other materials. He took the sweat towel, wiped his face, and looked under the moonlight.
Su Mei's charming and beautiful face didn't expect that she was actually involved with Qin Chengzu and the others. She smiled and said: "We have been helping people in need for many days. Do you want me to abandon you now? How could I abandon you?"
He didn't say this casually. Since he fell into the water and came back to life, even with Lin Fu's memory from before, this era still gave him a sense of alienation like a veil. Suddenly encountering such a big change, he has been trying to survive these days.
, Lin Fu's closeness to Su Mei, Xiaoman, Fu Qinghe and the other young men was far stronger than that of the Lin family in Dongyang, which seemed to have only symbolic meaning. It was Su Mei, Xiaoman, Fu Qinghe and the other young men who made him feel
Now that I am truly living in this era, this feeling and emotion gradually sprout in my heart without even realizing it.
Su Mei raised her pretty face slightly, staring at Lin Fu's dark eyes under the moonlight, thinking carefully about what he just said, thinking that staying by his side would be so reassuring. A gust of cold wind blew.
, Su Meitai was suddenly shocked to realize that she had been staring at him for too long, and turned her face away pretending to be unintentional. She felt a little relieved when she saw that Lin Fu's attention seemed to be on moving the supplies in the cabin to the young men on the deck.
Qin Chengzu and others got the boat earlier than the agreed time. When the moon reached the middle of the sky, four small boats with black awnings came quietly.
Lin Fu stood at the bow of the ship and looked at Qin Chengzu. Zhou Pu and others followed Fu Qinghe and climbed up from the rope ladder to the deck. They noticed Qin Chengzu. Zhou Pu and others were shocked when they saw Su Mei's beauty that could not be concealed by her coarse clothes.
There was no other abnormality, and it was certain that they did not know Su Mei. However, it was difficult to say that it was ten years ago that Fu Qinghe, Qin Chengzu and others separated. Ten years ago, Su Mei was just an eight or nine-year-old little girl.
Not all Qin Chengzu and the others came over. Fu Qinghe was worried that the big ship Lin Fu wanted would get stuck in the shallow water, so he stopped in a meander more than ten miles away, leaving people to watch. Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu and other ten people
Follow Fu Qinghe in the boat to pick up Lin Fu, Su Mei, Xiaoman and other young people.
Zhou Pu saw that there was such a big ship hidden here, so he climbed on board and walked around the ship. When he came back, he asked Fu Qinghe doubtfully: "Where did you get this big ship? You have this big ship, do you want more?"
What kind of ship should we get? The 'big ship' Xiao Xiazi gave us is far less than half the size."
"The boat is too big and has a deep draft. We don't know the waterway of Qingjiangpu, so we accidentally got trapped here," Lin Fu said, "Now is not the time to go into details. Some things need to be moved to the Wupeng boat..."
As the boat approached, Chen Enze and the other young men began to move the necessary items from the big boat to the Wu Peng boat. Fu Qinghe took a mulberry bow and gave it to Qin Chengzu: "Try this."
"Good thing!" Zhou Pu took the mulberry bow in his hand first, pulled the string, took out an arrow, and shot into the night sky. He only heard the sound of "pop" breaking through the air, and he didn't know where the arrow went.
, Zhou Pu rubbed his hands and praised, "It's a good bow, but I'm afraid it won't be as powerful as one stone. Where did you get such a good thing from?"
Lin Fu had long suspected that Fu Qinghe had good archery skills because he was born in the military in his early years. Folk hunters mostly used soft bows, and not many people had the opportunity to come into contact with hard bows. Almost all the real archery masters came from the military camp. When he saw Fu Qinghe's "old friend"
Zhou Pu's posture of shooting with a bow and arrow, and knowing that he was an expert in archery, Lin Fu became more and more sure of his guess. Lin Fu thought to himself, since Fu Qinghe, Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu and others all came from the military camp, why did Fu Qinghe live in seclusion in the past ten years?
Why did Jiangning, Qin Chengzu, and Zhou Pu become horse thieves on the Huai River again?
Alas, everyone has their own privacy, and Lin Fu is not a talkative person.
Su Mei, Xiaoman and the younger boys stood aside quietly and did not come over to meet Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu and others.
"This bow belongs to me." Zhou Pu directly announced that the mulberry bow belonged to him.
The government has the strictest control over bows and arrows; and the production of a good bow is very complicated, and it often takes several years to make a good bow. Therefore, there are very few good bows with more than eight buckets left among the people. Qin Chengzu, Zhou Pu, etc.
When people invaded the Huai River, other weapons were easy to make, and they could also make their own bows and arrows, but it was difficult to find good materials and they didn't have enough time to make bows. It would be good if the homemade bows and arrows could be used as hunting bows, and they would not be better than those of the Inspection Department and County Government.
How much better is the inferior longbow used by the sword archers? How could Zhou Pu think that such an inferior bow is enough? Fu Qinghe threw the mulberry bow over, and he couldn't put it down after grabbing it. He played with it carefully. The bow was made of a century-old Sangjia old man.
It was made of sandalwood, and the string was twisted hemp rope. Under the moonlight, he saw the five small characters "Made by Ninghai Town Supervisor" carved on the tip of the bow, and asked Fu Qinghe: "Did you rob Ninghai Town's warship?"
No wonder Zhou Pu thought so, he had already seen two three-bow crossbows on the deck.
Fu Qinghe smiled without explaining, and said, "There are a few more bows here. If you like, take them all."
This three-masted sailing ship was the original pirate warship. Xiao Taoyuan, the second general of Ninghai Town and the deputy cavalry commander, let his subordinates sail this ship to sea because he wanted to cultivate pirate forces who were loyal to him. Naturally, he would not be too
Stingy. After Lin Fu and the others seized the boat, there were actually two three-bow crossbows on the boat, which were rare even in Ninghai Town. This was something they had not expected to get in advance. These were short spears used as arrows to kill.
A sharp weapon five to six hundred paces away.
Fifteen Ninghai Town elites died in the hands of Lin Fu and others. In addition to twenty-one long and short weapons, they also received a total of six strong bows, four-armed crossbows, and twelve pieces each of leather armor and black armor.
Archery skills cannot be achieved overnight. Except for Fu Qinghe who uses one of the six strong bows, the other five bows are given to Qin Chengzu and others. The four-arm crossbow is easy to operate and is not given away. Except for the five strong bows,
Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe had already discussed giving some medium-length weapons such as spears, spears, and swords to Qin Chengzu and the others. These weapons were heavy and the young men could not use them for the time being. Qin Chengzu and the others were horse thieves and used them on horseback.
Short and medium-sized weapons such as the straight-backed and straight-edged Huanshou Dao and waist knives come and go like the wind and are convenient for slashing and killing. However, medium and long weapons such as horse-mounted infantry fighting and water warfare are more powerful.
In addition, leather armor is light and can be worn by young people, so of course it is not allowed. Xuanjia is actually iron armor, and a complete set weighs nearly fifty or sixty pounds. Not to mention young people, Lin Fu cannot continue to move for a long time even if he puts on iron armor.
, the twelve sets of black armor were naturally given to Qin Chengzu and the others.
The plan is to use Qin Chengzu and others as the main combat force to rob ships and prisoners in the future. Naturally, Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe will spare no effort to equip them first.
Zhou Pu couldn't wait to get a bow and a sword. He also thought the iron armor was cumbersome, so he only wore half armor. With an excited look on his face, he patted Fu Qinghe on the shoulder and said, "I thought you were a coward before, and I wronged you."
; I didn’t expect you to have the guts to rob Ninghai Town’s warship!”
Fu Qinghe still smiled bitterly. He knew that Zhou Pu was a straight person and had nothing to worry about.
Qin Chengzu didn't say anything. He took another bow from Fu Qinghe. In addition to seeing the two three-bow crossbows on the deck, he also saw that the men Lin Fu said could only wave the flag and shout.
He wondered what Fu Qinghe and Lin Fu were doing in Qingjiangpu with these young men.
When he saw Fu Qinghe, Lin Fu had no intention of explaining. He knew enough not to ask any questions. Although these young men seemed to have done little help, Fu Qinghe and Lin Fu were willing to give them this batch of fine weapons.
Happy.
Watching the young men helping to carry the bed crossbow onto the black-capped boat, Zhou Pu screamed excitedly at the side: "Damn it, stop the official boat tomorrow and fuck your mother directly on the water!"
If the number of officers and soldiers escorted by the official ships does not increase tomorrow, and if there is no concern that the officers and soldiers will be killed first when attacked, with this batch of good things, Qin Chengzu will also have the confidence to rob and kill the official ships directly on the river - what he is most worried about now is the encounter between the officers and soldiers.
The attackers would kill the prisoners first, which was why they didn't dare to do it.
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