Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 91 I'm here at the foot of Phoenix Mountain

"Yes, yes, my nephew has a bad temper. He couldn't find his relatives, so he was a little irritable. Please be magnanimous and don't take it to heart."

The clan leader said with a smile, glared at his nephew who was squatting on the ground wailing with his calves in his arms, and scolded, "Get out of here, you unpresentable bastard."

Then, he bowed and nodded to the two detectives, saying, "This child is ignorant. I will teach him a lesson. Please calm down, officer."

The constable who beat him put the iron bar on his waist and waved his hand impatiently, "Since you can't find your relatives, then go to the side and wait for them to come back. Don't cause trouble for me here."

"Yes Yes Yes……"

The tribe leader quickly led a group of tribesmen to retreat. Tiger boy stepped forward to help up the beaten Fang Jiao and limped over.

The tribesmen gathered together to discuss it. If they wanted to wait for Dan Niang to come back, they didn’t know how long they would have to wait.

The sky looks a bit cloudy. It's already the beginning of the plum rain season. I hope it doesn't rain again soon.

Besides, there are always a few constables hanging around here. Even if Dan Niang comes back, it would be difficult for them to put pressure on the young widow in front of the officers.

Patriarch Fang said, "She just left a while ago. Let's find out where Phoenix Mountain is and chase her."

So, a group of Fang family members asked tourists by the lake about the location, and then chased towards Phoenix Mountain.

Fang Jiao, who had just been beaten, could not walk any more. His uncle refused to give up the sedan chair for him to sit on, so he had to break off a branch and use it as a crutch, and then he staggered along at the back alone.

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At the Longshan Ferry southwest of Lin'an City, Kou Heiyi and Yang Che, both in casual clothes, were eating fried shrimp and eel noodles at a small stall.

There are many boats on the river, and passengers and cargo are coming and going day and night.

Although the sky is a bit gloomy today, the forest of sails still makes people feel the vitality.

There are not only passenger ships from the north and south, but also foreign merchants who have come from Srivijaya, the Arabs, and Sri Lanka.

Their ships were loaded with exotic goods.

There are all kinds of luxury goods such as agarwood, borneol, rare pearls, scented cloth, and sumac.

Longshan City, which was established based on Longshan Ferry and mainly engaged in wholesale, is even more lively.

With the assistance of the "Ice Well" secret agent, the two are now much more relaxed.

At least they don't need to do everything themselves and follow the whole process.

Otherwise, if you don't change people, not only will you have to consider the possibility of being discovered, but it will also be physically and mentally unbearable.

Guan Hao was a big sea merchant, and his most common routes were Fuso and Goryeo.

At this moment, his large merchant ship was anchored at the dock, and bulk commodities such as silk and porcelain were being loaded onto the ship.

Kou Heiyi said: "Guan Hao has started loading cargo onto the ship. Could it be that he is leaving Lin'an?"

Yang Che said: "It's hard to judge. Li Lin is in charge of the city's shipping department. All the records of entry and exit may have been forged or altered. We can't make a judgment based on the previous intelligence."

Kou Heiyi said, "Don't worry about him. We just need to keep a close eye on him. Let Bingjingwu prepare a few good boats. If he really wants to leave, we will intercept him at the seaport to prevent the news from leaking out."

At the dock, where the crowd was dense, a man dressed as a wealthy man came over with a few servants, smiling.

As they looked around, their eyes would occasionally pass over Kou Heiyi and Yang Che who were eating noodles on the dock.

The man who looked like a wealthy man was smiling, but his voice was cold and stern which did not match the expression on his face.

"Huang Sichou, are they all ready?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhang, the people from the 'Three Watches' have already set up an ambush.

Our people, Shen He, Cen Ben, Chen Chusheng, and Mu Wen, each led fifty soldiers and ambushed at several exits."

Zhang Gongfeng smiled slightly: "Very good! Remember, after the 'Three Gentlemen' take action, all the aftermath will be our responsibility, and we must be clean!"

This Zhang Gongfeng’s name was Zhang Dingbang. He was not a guest official like in martial arts novels, but an official position in the Song Dynasty.

The official positions in the Song Dynasty were always strange, and many of their names were inexplicable, neither inheriting the Han and Tang dynasties nor preceeding the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

Not to mention the official position, even the title of emperor "official" seems inexplicable.

Although later experts have given many explanations for this name.

But in fact, even the emperor of the Song Dynasty did not understand why he was called "Guan Jia".

Emperor Taizong and Emperor Zhenzong of Song both asked their learned ministers out of curiosity: "Why is the emperor called an official?"

The ministers gave a variety of answers, but in short, they just tried to flatter the emperor, and the emperor just let it go.

"Let's go, it's time to lure the snake out of its hole!" After saying this, Zhang Gongfeng walked towards a large ship on the dock.

The big ship was using several steps on the dock to load boxes and baskets of cargo onto the ship.

That ship was none other than the merchant ship of the great sea merchant Guan Hao.

Kou Heiyi was staring at the Guan family's cargo ship when he suddenly saw a wealthy man leading a few followers towards the ship. His posture and steps were obviously unusual, and his eyes lit up.

He swallowed the remaining mouthful of noodles with a gulp.

Kou Heiyi grabbed the sword on the table and whispered to Yang Che: "Someone has appeared!"...

Phoenix Mountain is also known as Yue Mountain.

Legend has it that Gou Jian, King of Yue, once built a hundred-foot tower on Phoenix Mountain to overlook the sea and spy on the State of Wu.

That should be considered the first Wanghai Tower.

Today's Wanghai Tower is no longer the one built by King Gou Jian of Yue, but it is also quite old.

Yang Yuan and his party drove to the foot of Phoenix Mountain and stopped the car.

Dan Niang and Qing Tang got off the carriage. The two coachmen and two servants carried tea sets, mats, food boxes and other items to the mountain according to Yang Yuan's instructions.

The mountain is not very high, only about fifty feet, but it takes some time to carry things up.

Below the dike in front is a concave river bay. When the tide reaches here, it will form waves several meters high due to the influence of the terrain.

The waves were like a group of angry lions, surging forward and backward, rolling up and down, and rushing endlessly.

Because it was cloudy, the sky seemed especially low today.

Therefore, although today's tide is not as grand as that on August 18th, it is also quite powerful.

Yang Yuan said to Dan Niang, "It will take some time for them to move things up the mountain. Let's go to the riverside to see Brother Ya and the others first."

Dan Niang naturally agreed, and took Qingtang and Yang Yuan down the dam.

Qingtang followed the two of them, carrying three oil-paper umbrellas. He found them too cumbersome and simply carried them on his shoulders.

The young lady, who was walking with an umbrella and looked very graceful, suddenly turned into a silly and adorable girl.

After the beginning of the plum rain season, the rain comes suddenly and frequently, so you should always carry rain gear with you.

There is still a width of more than ten feet below the embankment towards the river. There are more than a dozen red flags planted on the river bank, fluttering in the wind.

Brother Ya led the twenty or so surfers he had called over, divided into two groups, and they were chatting and exercising on the riverside with their backs bare.

Yang Yuan and others went down the dike, and their figures could no longer be seen from the dike.

At this time, two more carriages slowly drove over and arrived at the foot of Phoenix Mountain.

These were two extremely luxurious and spacious carriages, much larger than Yang Yuan’s two carriages.

Each of the two carriages was pulled by two white horses without a single hair on them, looking very charming.

The carriage stopped at the foot of the mountain. When the curtain was lifted, one after another pretty and lovely girls jumped down from the carriage.

One, two, three...

Five girls jumped out of each car.

Although the car is spacious enough, with five people sitting in it, it would probably be packed.

Unexpectedly, despite this, there was someone else in the car in front.

As soon as the five women in the rear car got out, they flocked to the front car like butterflies.

The last two girls who came out of the front car did not rush to get out. Instead, they bent down and put half of their bodies into the car.

"Hurry up, don't dawdle." A girl outside slapped the woman who was bending over on the butt, and the other girls started laughing.

Then, the two girls in the car pulled a young man in brocade robe out of the car.

The young man was in his early twenties, with handsome features, a string of jasmine coquettishly pinned in his hair, a folding fan stuck in the back of his neck, and four or five red lipstick marks of varying depths on his cheeks.

He was helped out of the car by several girls on and off the car.
During this period, he even took some time out from his busy schedule to pinch one girl's cheek and touch another girl's chest, which made the girls angry.

The young man laughed a few times and said, "Okay, okay, move all the things up the mountain. If Cao Yong has arrived, ask him to give me the best spot for watching the tide!"

The young man pulled out the folding fan from behind his neck and pointed casually at the mountain.

The four attendants and two driver's began to carry the picnic utensils tied on the roof and the back of the car up the mountain.

His two large carts were extremely luxurious, with space reserved on the roof and at the back for bundling luggage.

The young man looked up at the mountain and called out to the group of girls surrounding him, "Let's go, let's walk slowly. What good tides can we see on May 19th?"

Just as he was about to walk up the mountain, a group of people from the Fang family caught up with him carrying their clan leader's sedan chair.

When the Fang family saw several large trucks parked at the foot of the mountain, how could they tell which one belonged to Dan Niang?
They wanted to call Fang Jiao forward to identify him, but then they realized that Fang Jiao had fallen behind due to a leg injury and had not even turned the corner of the mountain.

Seeing that those people were about to go up the mountain, Fang Hu suddenly had an idea. He jumped forward and shouted, "Where is Dan Niang? Dan Niang, stay!"

A young girl in a light green shirt was about to go up the mountain with her arm around a young man with lip marks all over his face, when she heard Fang Hu shouting, she was stunned.

The young man was also a little stunned. He looked at the girl in the light green shirt and said, "Ah Dan, looking for you?"

The girl in green was a little confused. She didn't recognize this group of people.

The girl in green let go of the young man's arm, walked up to Fang Hu, and asked curiously, "What do you want from me?"

(End of this chapter)