The pursuers on the shore pursued him for less than half an hour, until they were blocked by a branch that turned into the Baishui River.
Seeing the reinforcements on the shore blocking the way forward and getting further and further away, and no boats chasing after them on the water, Lin Fu knew that with the strength of him and Fu Qinghe, it would be impossible to save Su Mei, not to mention Fu Qinghe's injuries.
It's not too serious, so he told Fu Qinghe: "Your injury needs to be treated ashore..."
Fu Qinghe shook his head and said: "Master Lin, go ashore by yourself. I will come back and repay Master Lin's great kindness!" It looks like it will be out of the Baishui River mouth and into the Yangtze River before dawn. Now even this group of water bandits are
I don't know which force is there. Leaving the ship and going ashore at this time means letting Su Mei go.
"It's not a big favor, we're just running away together; let me help Mr. Fu take care of your wounds first, it will easily fester if immersed in water..." Lin Fu didn't say whether he would get ashore or not, and asked Fu Qinghe to turn around and lie on his back.
Rocking on the oar so that he could wrap up his wounds, even if he went ashore, Fu Qinghe would be able to fight. After all, Su Mei meant money to her, but she felt strange in her heart, thinking that Fu Qinghe was just taking money from the boat.
The hired guard had done his best to go ashore at this time. No one would blame him. No wonder he thought he could save people from seventy or eighty water bandits?
Fu Qinghe reluctantly asked Lin Fu to take off the broken knife. In order to distract him, he asked Lin Fu: "A few days ago, did you see Mr. Lin fall into the water and almost drown?"
"Somehow, I suddenly got it..." Lin Fu explained casually. He remembered that when he was learning to swim as a child, he couldn't float after learning for a long time. He threw him into the water and splashed in the water for several times.
He drooled until his feet stepped on the river mud and suddenly stopped - this is Tan Zong's memory, which has nothing to do with the previous Lin Fu. Others must have had this experience. He used it to prevaricate Fu Qinghe's questions.
I'm not afraid that he will see through anything.
Fu Qinghe thought that Lin Fu saved him in the water by chance, and didn't have much hope in him. Seeing that it was very convenient for him to treat his wounds with most of his body immersed in the water, he felt a little strange.
In addition to the two living people, Lin Fu had just tied two floating corpses and a short oar to the stern. Others might not have guessed Lin Fu's intention. Fu Qinghe was experienced and thought in the blink of an eye.
Understand: the two floating corpses can not only increase the buoyancy in the water and save physical strength when escaping; they can also attract the attention of water bandits at critical moments, and they will move from the water to other places; if the water bandits shoot random arrows, the floating corpse will still be a target.
Very resistant.
The two floating corpses were both boatmen on the boat. Even thinking of this, Fu Qinghe thought that he would probably hesitate to use these two floating corpses to escape. However, Lin Fu saw the opportunity quickly and made a decisive decision. Fu Qinghe and Lin Fu didn't have much contact.
, I thought that I usually see him being obsessed with the young lady, thinking that he is a useless scholar, but I didn't expect that he could be so alert and calm at this moment, which is impressive.
Fu Qinghe was about to persuade Lin Fu to stay and wait for an opportunity to rescue the young lady, when he felt the hull of the ship paused and seemed to be losing weight.
"What are you doing at this time?" Lin Fu was wondering. He asked Fu Qinghe to rest on the stern, trying to keep the wounds on his arms and shoulders from contacting the water as much as possible. He swam a little further and saw a black shadow on the water in front of him.
It was a fast oar boat coming upstream. Someone on the bow was holding a red lantern and waving it, as if it was a signal. Lin Fu couldn't recognize the lantern signal, so he swam back to the stern and said to Fu Qinghe, "There is a fast oar boat ahead.
The boat seems to be a reception..."
After a while, the oncoming fast paddle boat directly connected with the boat behind it. Listening to the footsteps, five or six people jumped on the boat and whispered in the distance, amid the sound of the waves, Lin Fu couldn't hear it.
Clearly, I heard this group of people walking towards the stern of the boat.
"This girl's life is in our hands. Master Du will go directly in to persuade her. If she wants to be honest and obedient, we will respectfully escort her to Jin'an..." It was a low and hoarse voice that sounded like his.
My throat was cut and there was some air leakage.
Jin'an? Lin Fu suppressed the surprise in his heart and glanced at Fu Qinghe. Although Lin Fu was a closed-door student before, Jin'an Mansion was the old camp of the southeastern rebel She family in East Fujian. It was almost the Fujian Province in Tan Zong's memory world.
Considering the location of Fuzhou, Lin Fu wondered whether this group of people came from Jin'an?
"Miss Su Mei has a strong temper, and I'm afraid she won't give in easily. It's good that she listened to the advice. If she didn't listen to the advice and let her know the whole story, wouldn't it be ruining the second young master's good deeds? I'd better not come forward. I'm not the only one.
If you come forward, the people around the Second Young Master cannot show their faces. They all come ashore with me and stay here temporarily to avoid any embarrassment in the future - the Second Young Master has taken a liking to both of them and wants to trouble Boss Zhao to take them out to sea.
, take good care of her, and the second young master will put on a good show with Mr. Zhao at sea to seize the ship and save the beauty."
The man in front of him had already shouted "Master Du". This familiar voice immediately made Lin Fu recognize that the person speaking was Du Rong, a wealthy businessman from Jiangning. He suddenly realized all the doubts he had had before: It turned out to be Du Rong who was behind the plan! But he didn't know this.
Who is the second young master of Jin'an? Lin Fu thought to himself that if this second young master of Jin'an only wanted to rob people, then he was really obsessed with Su Mei. He would spend so much effort and effort to rob people, and even arrange to act as a hero.
A great show to save the beauty!
"How could I, Lao Zhao, be so particular? I just pull open my pants and poke them in to make her happy. I'll keep her and keep her submissive! I don't have a dick that can't subdue a girl... Hahaha..." Presumptuous
He laughed. This was a loud and rude voice. Lin Fu guessed that he was probably the boss Zhao in Du Rong's mouth. He was the leader of this group of gangsters. He just had to obey Du Rong's orders. What else could the second young master of Jin'an do?
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Opposite Lin Fu, Fu Qinghe opened his mouth and made lip gestures: "East China Sea bandits!"
It's because Lin Fu was a bookworm who studied behind closed doors and didn't know what was going on outside the window. He couldn't connect Du Rong, the Eastern Pirates and the Second Young Master of Jin'an. The thief was walking above their heads, and Fu
Qinghe was unable to tell Lin Fu in detail about the rumors that Du Rong and the East Pirates were secretly colluding with the Jin Anshe family.
"Can the second young master be as good as us rough guys? Speaking of which, I still think that the more a woman struggles, the more interesting it becomes." At this time, another person on the deck above the head came in and said, "Boss Zhao, should you get those meatheads here too?"
Come and lock him up?”
"Okay. They are all half-babies with tender skin and tender flesh. If you accidentally kill one of them, you will be short of Qian'er's eight hundred taels of silver to redeem himself... You still have to talk about your credit when you release the money. Otherwise, how can you rob the meat ticket in the future?
Let the meat ticket family spit out the money obediently?" Boss Zhao said.
Lin Fu didn't expect that this group of East China Sea pirates had kidnapped Meupiao elsewhere before and planned to extort money from Meupiao's family. He patiently continued to hide under the stern with Fu Qinghe, listening to the pirates on the ship driving Meupiao onto the boat at the back.
, there were cries, scolds, shouts, and cries of pain, all from young children and teenagers, and then I heard some people borrowing from the Huafang and boarding the fast paddle boat Du Rong was riding.
The fast paddle boat Du Rong was on did not leave in a hurry. It traveled parallel to the painting boat and the pirate ship for a while. Even if Lin Fu wanted to leave and go ashore, he could not find a good opportunity.
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At dawn, I saw the mouth of the Baishui River, with the Yangtze River in front of me. The fast paddle boat Du Rong was riding deviated from the river channel and headed for the mouth of a river branch in the east. At this time, a thick fog began to form at the mouth of the river in front, and the wind blew Coming in, I quickly crawled across the river. In the blink of an eye, the trees and grass on the far bank were covered in the dawn light. My eyes were filled with white mist. When I looked up, the red light of the lantern hanging on the stern mast was also a little blurry. .
This fog came at the right time. Nearly seventy people robbed the ship last night, but the subordinates of the so-called second master of Jin'an all left with Du Rong on a fast paddle boat. There were less than thirty pirates left on the pirate ship and the boat. Most of them They were all on the three-masted ship in front. The boat was tied behind the ship and was towed, and there was no need for human hands to row the oars. Listening to the voices in front, only a few people were left on the boat to look after them, and they all gathered at the bow.
Lin Fu bit the broken knife in his mouth and climbed up the stern of the boat. The fog on the river became thicker and thicker. Most of the boat was hidden in the fog. He could not see the situation at the bow. He could only hear a few pirates in front. She was cursing and snoring. She couldn't tell where Su Mei and her maid were locked up. However, there were some people whimpering in the front cabin, which was about the flower hall. They must be those meatheads. I don't know how many people there were. ?
Lin Fu connected the two belts together, asked Fu Qinghe to tie them around his waist, and held the belt to help him climb onto the boat.
"Don't be busy rescuing people now; find some food, and then change into dry clothes..." Lin Fu whispered to Fu Qinghe in a low voice.
It was a cool autumn day in September. I soaked in the water for half the night, and I was so nervous that I didn’t feel anything. I got on the boat to let the river breeze blow. I was shivering, cold and hungry. Fu Qinghe’s injury was also troublesome and needed to be re-bandaged—— Even if everything is prepared, even if Fu Qinghe is not injured, it is still very difficult to rescue two helpless girls from the boat to the shore in front of nearly thirty East China Sea pirates, and requires careful planning.
Lin Fu is not a person who blindly pretends to be a hero, but if he has the opportunity to help others, he will not be a coward.
"Come with me." Fu Qinghe knew that rescuing people was urgent and he also knew the intentions of this group of thieves. He was not worried that the young lady would be harmed on the boat for the time being. He was familiar with the boat and led Lin Fu into the stern cabin.
The lower stern cabins where several boatmen and oarsmen sleep and rest were carefully searched by pirates. They were in a mess and there was a large sticky blood stain, which showed that this was also a slaughterhouse. Of course, valuable things were not found, but old clothes were. Scattered all over the floor, there were also a few wheat cakes that the pirates looked down upon scattered in the corner. Lin Fu didn't care that there was blood on the wheat cakes, picked it up and took a bite. When he chewed it in his mouth, he felt that the smell of blood was stronger. He gave Fu Qinghe two to fill his stomach and put on dry clothes. At this time, he couldn't be too particular, so Lin Fu found a few small packets of salt and dissolved it in water in a basin, washed Fu Qinghe's wounds, and then I picked a clean cloth and bandaged it for him.
There was also a broken spear handle in the corner of the tail cabin, which was about four feet long. Lin Fu picked it up and tested its strength. The handle was very hard, so he used a broken knife to sharpen the head, and in the blink of an eye it was cut into a spear. Fu Qinghe held the sharp short spear for self-defense.
Although a short spear is not powerful enough to break armor, for those practicing martial arts, having such a thing in their hands is enough to kill people.
While hiding under the boat, Fu Qinghe had already taken a new look at Lin Fu. He weighed the short spear in his hand and saw that he was still sitting there with his ear pressed against the bulkhead to listen to what was going on outside. He thought that he had really made a mistake before.
I don't think I can be more experienced than him.
"They are going out to sea. Beyond the mouth of the river is the Yangtze River. There will be boats on the river. If we encounter large ships or fleets on the way, we have a greater chance of success..." Lin Fu discussed with Fu Qinghe in a low voice.
When the situation was critical last night, the situation simply did not allow him to rescue Su Mei, so his first thought was to escape and get ashore; now the situation was different from last night, Fu Qinghe also had the strength to fight, and careful planning would not give him any chance of success.
It was not Lin Fu's style to act like a coward when he had the opportunity to help others out of trouble. Besides, even if Su Mei had no romantic feelings for him, she still had the intention of sparing money to save people in emergencies.
"It is necessary to plan carefully!" Fu Qinghe nodded, thinking that it would be great if Lin Fu could stay and help him save people. Judging from his performance just now, he might be better than the injured himself; think about his words again.
He also knew that he would not take action rashly. Of course, when asking for help, he could not force the other person to risk his life.
Lin Fu picked up the broken knife and said to Fu Qinghe: "Master Fu, rest here for a while. I will sneak to the front to take a look. When I come back, I will tap three times on the board of the boat." He stood up and said again
One sentence, "If anything happens, Master Fu still has to escape. After all, there is still a chance to save people in Jin'an..."
Fu Qinghe knew that Lin Fu was saying that this group of East China Sea bandits would deliver Su Mei to the so-called second young master of Jin'an, but he was thinking that this second young master of Jin'an might be an important figure in the She family.
Jin'an, how easy is it to rescue?
Fu Qinghe still knelt straight and put his hands against the board of the boat to bow to Lin Fu. He said: "Master Lin will leave now. He has done a great favor to Su and Miss..."
Although he knew that Fu Qinghe's move was more of a provocation, Lin Fu was still a little moved. After all, Fu Qinghe could just walk away without caring about Su Mei's life or death. Lin Fu knelt down, supported Fu Qinghe, and blamed him: "Master Fu, I
Who do you think you are? Let me go out and see first..."