A knife in love

Chapter 1104

The boatman said with a smile: "Master, you don't have to be polite. You took care of my business twice and paid so much money for the boat. If I don't try my best, I'm not as good as a pig or a dog?"

Li Qiufeng glanced back and forth, then turned to the boatman and said, "Uncle, where have we been?"

The boatman said: "More than an hour ago, we passed a town. Judging from the lights on the pier, the size of the town is really not small. Although I have never walked the waterway from Yibin Mansion to Leshan, I have heard from many friends who sail As I said before. From Yibin Mansion to Leshan, there are only two big towns on the way. One is Erlang Town, which is [-] miles away from Yibin Mansion, and the second big town is called Sunjiapu, which is [-] miles northward from Erlang Town. From Sunjiapu to Leshan, the remaining distance is only forty miles. If my guess is correct, the town we passed just now is Erlang Town. We have already traveled half the distance, and we will reach Leshan around noon today. I will not miss the matter of the uncle."

The two were talking, when they heard footsteps, a boatman came out from the back cabin, wiped his eyes, and said to the boatman: "Uncle San, go and rest for a while, I will steer the helm for you."

The boatman said: "In another hour, the sky will be bright. I don't feel at ease if you two monkeys steer the rudder and move the sail alone. You go and replace Xiao Wu. I can rest assured that I will steer the rudder myself."

At this point, the boatman waved his hand at the boatman, and then turned his head to Li Qiufeng and said, "It's too late to be disobedient. I think I was only fifteen or sixteen years old when I first ran the boat. At that time, I traveled from Jingzhou to Chongqing. Whether it is day or night, even if you don’t close your eyes for a few days and nights, you still look like a dragon and a tiger. But it’s not good now. If it weren’t for the uncle’s urgent business, I wouldn’t dare to leave this night if I was killed. These two monkeys One is my nephew and the other is my nephew. They are not very familiar with each other. They take turns to rest this night. I have to keep my eyes on it, otherwise the boat capsizes and everyone will fall off. Go feed the fish in the river!"

At this moment, the two boatmen had changed hands, and the boatman standing at the bow staggered up to the boatman and Li Qiufeng, said "Offended", and went to the back cabin to rest.Li Qiufeng said to the boatman: "Uncle, I will steer the helm for you, and you can also rest for a while."

He stretched out his hand to take over the rudder while talking, but the boatman did not let go of the rudder, and said with a smile: "Master, this is impossible. I can see how my uncle walks and talks, and he is very strong. It's just that the rudder depends on the rudder." But it’s not just strength, if you don’t go through ten or eight years of experience, this rudder is not easy to control.”

Li Qiufeng knew what the boatman said was right, so he had no choice but to stop forcing it.He stood at the stern with the boatman, listening to the boatman talk about the strange things he encountered while sailing, but he was not lonely.Hearing the continuous sound of the river rushing, and the whistling of the river wind, it was only then that he realized that people were so insignificant that they could be ignored between the heaven and the earth.

The big boat went on for more than half an hour, and the boatman suddenly let out a "huh" and said, "It's strange, how could there be such a strange thing?"

Although Li Qiufeng couldn't see the boatman's face clearly, but listening to his tone, he seemed to have discovered something extremely strange.He turned his head and looked around. Although there was a big lantern hanging from the mast, it was tightly shrouded in the night and could only emit a faint yellow halo, so he couldn't see what was going on around the big ship at all.He turned to the boatman and said, "Uncle, what's wrong?"

The boatman shook his head and said, "Maybe I misheard. How can there be any other boats dare to go north in the middle of the night besides us?"

Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, and he said, "According to Uncle's intention, can there be a boat following us?"

The boatman shook his head and said, "I heard a strange noise just now, it seems that there are boats on our left and right sides going north..."

Li Qiufeng became more and more suspicious, and said, "Uncle, don't you hear me wrong?"

The boatman said: "I did hear the sound of the bow of the boat breaking the water just now, but the sound can no longer be heard in a blink of an eye. Maybe this section of the river is turbulent, maybe I heard it wrong."

Li Qiufeng turned his head and looked left and right. As far as he could see, it was all pitch black, and he couldn't see anything.He was about to speak, but the boatman continued: "I heard that the wharf in Erlang Town is not small, and it's not too big compared to Yibin Mansion. It's already four o'clock now, and maybe some early guests have paid a lot of money. Maybe even hire a boat to go north.”

When he said this, he held the rudder tightly with his right hand, and said in his mouth: "Before dawn, we have to cheer up. Although the river here is gentle, the river is not wide. If there are boats following us, we will be killed if we are not careful." If you hit it, it would be a catastrophe.”

Li Qiufeng's voice trembled slightly when he heard what the boatman said, knowing that he was absolutely not lying to himself by shocking the boatman who had been sailing for decades.He thought to himself, Master once said that the masters of Dongchang would intercept and kill them on the way. Could it be that these people rushed overland to Erlang Town, boarded a boat and followed us?

When he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the boatman standing at the bow holding a lantern and said loudly: "Second uncle, this, this is so strange!"

Li Qiufeng and the boatman were terrified when they heard the boatman's voice, each of them became suspicious.The boatman said: "I'm the one who took care of something big, what are you doing in such a panic?"

The boatman tremblingly said: "There seems to be a boat ahead..."

Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, and with a touch of his right foot, he soared into the air like a big bird, and landed steadily beside the boatman.The boatman had never seen Li Qiufeng perform martial arts before, seeing him jumping up suddenly at this moment, he was shocked, thinking to himself how could this young master have such strength at such a young age?

Li Qiufeng stood at the bow of the boat, reached out and snatched the lantern from the boatman, held it in front of him, and looked out of the bow of the boat intently.It's just that the night is too dark, you can only see the billowing river rushing towards you about a few feet away from the bow of the boat, and there is darkness in the distance.

Li Qiufeng turned to the boatman and said, "Brother, why can't I see a boat?"

The boatman pointed to the river under the bow of the boat, and said in a trembling voice: "Master, look at the river at the bow of the boat, it has clearly turned into two pieces. There must be a huge reef in front, so that when the river encounters a reef, it will go away." That is to say, separate to the left and right. However, if there are reefs in the river, the two waterlines separating the river will continue to tighten and become smaller and smaller. But I just stared at the two separate rivers at the bow. There has been no change. That is to say, our ship is heading north against the current, and there is another ship ahead of us that is going north like us, and its speed is roughly the same as ours..."

When the boatman said this, he made a "grunt" in his throat and swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, and then continued: "Damn it, I don't know which bastard is going crazy. If he runs ahead of us this night, one mistake will kill him." I bumped into it. At that time...at that time, I'm afraid..."

Seeing the boatman's dumbfounded, Li Qiufeng couldn't even speak for a while, obviously extremely horrified.Li Qiufeng had no choice but to tell him in a low voice to watch the front carefully in case there was any change.At this time, the boatman had already called out another boatman who was resting in the back cabin, and asked him to hold the rudder, and walked quickly to the bow to ask what happened.After the boatman finished speaking, he poked his head out and looked at the river near the bow, his face changed drastically, and he said in a trembling voice: "Damn, I'm really afraid of something! Could it be that this night? All the lunatics in Yibin Mansion have come to Minjiang River?!"

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and yelled at the boatman who was steering the rudder at the stern: "Hold on to the rudder! If it's half way off, we'll have to go see Dragon Lord together!"

When Li Qiufeng saw the boatman talking, his voice trembled slightly, knowing that he was also extremely nervous, so he asked: "Uncle, in your opinion, what is the plan of the boat ahead?"

The boatman took a look at Li Qiufeng, shook his head, and said, "One? Hehe, if I guessed right, there are at least three boats not far in front of us. The boss of the boat is either crazy or just like us, I don't know. There were other lunatics who sailed the boat onto the river overnight."

When he said this, he sighed, and said: "It's my fault for being careless. Thinking about it now, these boats must have been launched at the wharf of Erlang Town, so they ran ahead of us. If I had been a little more cautious then , found that there was a boat on the big river and moored in Erlang Town, so the situation would not be so dangerous. Now we are going northward against the current, and there is no dock to the left, so we can only follow them very carefully. If the other party is a big ship , once collided, our ship will capsize, and whether we can escape with a life, we can only see if the Dragon King is merciful."

(End of this chapter)