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Nightwatcher - Chapter 185

Published at 21st of April 2023 07:00:51 AM


Chapter 185

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The continuous blood light... All the villains on the official ship... Xu Qi'an was surprised.

But he didn't make a rash judgment, because there are always water bandits on the canal, and these officials may have just repulsed the bandits who tried to plunder.

"What kind of boat is that? Why is it different from ours?" Xu Qi'an looked at the nearer and nearer official ship and asked his colleagues casually.

There were a lot of old gongs on the scene and they were well-informed. After identification, they replied, "it's a barge. Look at the flag, it seems that it's from Yuzhou."

Barges are big flat bottomed ships, mostly used to carry goods.

Xu Qi'an gave a "Oh", his eyes flashed slightly, and continued to ask: "is there a bandit near Yuzhou?"

Song Tingfeng laughed and put his hand on Xu Qi'an's shoulder: "it's only half a day's journey from Yuzhou pass. Have you ever seen a robber blocking the road at yamen gate?"

"That's no problem." Xu Qi'an nodded, as if to determine the tone of something.

"What's all right?"

"There's no problem in getting credit." He looked at Song Tingfeng and saw that the two ships were about to pass by. He said quickly, "Tingfeng, go back to the cabin immediately to find Jiang Jinluo. He said there is something urgent."

He then swept the seven or eight gongs on the deck and said in a deep voice, "there's something wrong with that boat. Follow me."

Then he turned to the side barge and yelled, "stop!"

The sound is rolling and reverberating on the river.

The officials on the pontoon paid no attention and pretended not to hear. Even some boatman quietly adjusted the angle of the sails, and the pontoon slanted away from the official ship where the watchman was.

All of a sudden, other gongs also noticed something wrong. Before they spoke, they saw Xu Qi'an propping up the guardrail. The deck under his feet "snapped" and broke. His whole body shot out like a shell.

Instantly across the distance of tens of meters, safely landed on the deck of the pontoon.

"Kacha..."

the sound of deck breaking was heard all the time, and seven or eight gongs jumped up one after another. Relying on the exaggerated jumping force and air blower, they also jumped onto the pontoon.

Seeing a group of gongs "invading" the barges, several officials on the deck changed their faces slightly and quietly pressed the handle of the knife at the back.

"How many adults..." a bearded man came out of the cabin, wearing a yamen uniform, a high hat and a pair of black boots.

He looked around the gongs on the deck and said, "what can I do for you?"

Xu Qi'an did not speak, but carefully observed their micro expressions and movements. Zhu Guangxiao said in a deep voice:

"what kind of Yamen are you from?"

"I was the captain of the water transport yamen, escorting a group of iron ores to Beijing." The bearded man replied. The clothes they wear are printed with the patterns of water waves. They are the clothes of the water transport Yamen.

Yuzhou is rich in iron ore. both salt and iron belong to the lifeline of the country. Generally speaking, they are strategic resources as well as financial resources.

In this regard, the gongs were not surprised. They turned to look at Xu Qi'an. I don't understand why he stopped the ship suddenly.

Xu Qi'an squinted and noticed a detail. So far, the barge is still sailing and has not broken down.

"Guangxiao, stop the boat." Xu Qi'an said in a deep voice.

Zhu Guangxiao immediately went to the stern of the boat, kicked the huge heavy anchor into the water, and the pontoon came out slowly.

When the silent colleague returned, Xu Qian asked, "why didn't the ship stop just now?"

"This..." the bearded man looked embarrassed and said in a low voice, "adults, wait a moment."

He went back to the cabin, folded several silver tickets, handed them to me, and said with a smile:

"I know that no matter where I am, if I see the grown-ups of the watchman's Yamen, I have to be filial... I just want to muddle through. I deserve to die. Please forgive me."

Xu Qi'an glanced at them. They were all fifty taels of silver, about three hundred taels in total.

Does he think we're blocking ships to take bribes? The watchmen on the scene reacted, angry and funny.

Although the watchmen are not very clean, they are not as clean as the wild geese. However, the style of the watchmen is really bad, which is due to the dirty water splashed by the civil servants day after day, which makes the watchmen become Wei Yuan's eagle claws, doing evil deeds of killing the loyal and the good, taking bribes and bending the law.

The most skilled scholar is to use a pen to kill the heart.

"Ningyan..." Zhu Guangxiao frowned and turned his eyes to Xu Qian.

Many gongs, including him, don't believe that Xu Qi'an intercepts barges for silver. This guy who will cut silver gongs for an unrelated woman is pleasing. Another thing to say is that his character is worth affirming.

The bearded man saw that there had been no one to pick up the bank note for a long time, and his heart sank. He didn't feel that there was any problem in dealing with it, but it seemed that people didn't pay for it.

"Go to the cabin and take me." Xu Qi'an stepped forward and gazed at the bearded man.

At this time, Xu Qi'an stood in front of all the gongs, his right hand inadvertently negative behind, quickly made a gesture.The gestures are subtle and subtle, but the gongs behind them are quietly tense.

Because this is the sign language of Yamen.

"Take me to check it out." Xu Qian made a request.

"Yes, please." The bearded man agreed.

Is it too good to promise? Normally speaking, we should not protest that the water transport is not in the charge of the watchmen.

Well, it can also be he counseled... Xu Qi'an thought and led his colleagues into the cabin with his beard. He followed the narrow stairs to the bottom cabin.

Lighting the candles one by one, the bearded man led the watchmen to inspect the ore filled with containers.

A causeway grabbed a handful of fine iron ore and tut tut said, "they are all high-quality iron ore and have been screened."

The bearded man laughed a few times in response.

The Gong quietly dropped the iron ore and pushed Xu Qi'an's waist with the scabbard. His eyes indicated.

Xu Qi'an said: "you continue to check."

He went to one side with the gong and asked in a low voice, "what's the matter?"

The Gong lowered its voice: "the ore is too fine, the quality is too excellent."

Xu Qian didn't understand: "this is for the capital. What's the problem?"

Causeway looked at the people not far away, looked back and said in a low voice, "I investigated a corruption case in the Ministry of industry a few years ago, which is related to iron ore. Ore is calculated by weight, not by quality.

"In order to grab benefits and enrich their own pockets, officials will mix crushed stone or inferior iron ore into the iron ore. As long as we grasp a certain degree, there will be no problem. "

That is to say, the quality of iron ore here is so good... Xu Qi'an nodded.

After the inspection, there was no abnormality. When they returned to the cabin, Xu Qian asked again, "give me your documents."

After confirming the documents issued by the water transport yamen, Xu Qi'an said, "I didn't encounter any problems on the way."

"No, I just left Yuzhou." Said the bearded man.

Oh, then explain the green light on your head... No, what does blood light mean?

Xu Qi'an walked and observed the cabin, accompanied by a bearded man. He answered all questions and had an amazing attitude.

All the way to the kitchen, the four cooks sat on the small wooden bar and looked at Xu Qian and others in silence.

There are many seasonal vegetables in the basket of the kitchen, which looks quite fresh.

Xu Qi'an said with a smile: "now I see the leaves of vegetables, and my eyes are green. After eating fish on the boat for many days, it's fishy and hard to drink."

He scanned four cooks and said, "right."

A cook glanced at the bearded man, his eyes turned, his heart understood, and he showed a humble smile: "yes, the fish in the river can't help but smell of earth. It's normal for adults to get used to it. We are used to living on water all the year round. "

"Oh, you don't know how to get rid of the fishy smell." Xu Qi'an nodded with a smile.

Huh? The four cooks tasted a little queer from Xu Qian's meaningful smile.

The bearded man, too, said tentatively: "my lord..."

he didn't speak, so he slapped his chin from the bottom to the top by the Gong, and his gums collided, and he broke his teeth.

Then, the Gong hit him on the chest with great speed. Bang Bang... His strength ran through his back, tearing his suit.

The bearded man flew out, hit the wall and fell to the ground.

Suddenly, Xu Qi'an no longer pays attention to him. He turns around and sweeps his legs to break a cook's ribs. Then he smashes the sternum of the remaining three cooks with the speed of a warrior.

The whole process doesn't take more than five seconds.

Nevertheless, the fighting in the kitchen still attracted the attention of both sides outside.

"Take down all the people on the ship and keep them alive," Xu Qi'an said

The gongs, who had been reminded by hand gestures for a long time, responded very quickly and did not hesitate to knock down a boatman and an official.

For the watchmen who practice Qi per capita, it is no more difficult to subdue a group of good officials than Xu Qi'an to beat Xu Lingyin.

At this time, Xu Qi'an noticed that a powerful air jet landed on the deck. In order to protect the bearded man, he dived out of the cabin and came to the deck.

Jiang LV frowned and looked at him silently.

Xu Qi'an turned his head to look at the direction of his official ship, and found that governor Zhang was also shocked. He stood on the deck and looked at this side, with a solemn expression.

The pontoon was also an official ship belonging to the Yuzhou government. Xu Qi'an's actions were no different from those of the water bandits. It is not easy to deal with this matter without a reasonable reason.

"What are you doing?" Ginger law in cast to inquire of vision, aimed at eye Xu seven an hand of beard.

He recognized at a glance that it was the official uniform of the water transport Yamen.

"There's something wrong with the ship, but it's hard to say exactly what happened." Xu Qi'an explained."This is the pontoon of Yuzhou water transport yamen, escorting iron ore?" Jiang LV asked.

"Well."

Jiang LV nodded and said in a deep voice, "how did you find that there was something wrong with it?"

PS: happy children's day in advance. With our enthusiasm for playing games, shouldn't it be June 1? Shouldn't we live on June 1 when we are single since we were born?

PS: Thank you for your reward.




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