Chapter 45:

A medium-sized cargo ship was slowly moving in the river full of cargo, with a big pottery written on the dizzy lantern.
The owner was named Tao, and he did some trafficking business along the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River. Recently, the frequent emergence of water bandits has caused the destruction of many accompanying ships. When they waited for them, they tried to hire some bodyguards who were familiar with water to the goods and talk to support the family.
As the night darkened, Tao officials counted that there were still two days left before they could sail to shore and deliver the goods to the buyer. With a sigh of relief in his heart, he invited the dart head to come.
Tao Shuo was nearly forty years old, just when he was young and strong. The bodyguards hired this time were all introduced by friends. The dart head was named Su. He was a handsome and white young man with a smile on his face. , But she was accompanied by more than a dozen men with murderous faces. Coupled with her friends' repeated guarantees of each other's abilities, she went with the ship from Gaoyou.
But after a while, the cabin door was knocked from outside, and Boss Tao went to open the door himself, and saw Su Biao head lazily leaning on the cabin door, and the feeling of insecurity came up again, but the face was still very polite: "Su Dart head, please come in."
Su Biaotou stood in the doorway, seemingly reluctant, and yawned: "The owner of the ship doesn't rest in the middle of the night. I don't know what to do with Su?"
Tao Shuo was very disturbed tonight. He came to Su Biao to be brave for himself. Seeing her lazy appearance, he secretly wondered if he had entrusted the wrong person. Now halfway through the trip, he regrets looking for another bodyguard. It's too late, so I can only use a dead horse as a living horse doctor: "Su Biaotou, I have been shocked tonight, I always feel that something is going to happen, and I have to trouble you to accompany you here."
Su Biaotou whispered: "Does the for the delivery ship still work part-time to solve the psychological questions of the ship owner?"
Tao Shuo: "What did Su Biaotou say?"
Su Biaotou: "...The night is long, I wonder if the ship owner has any gadgets to pass the time?"
Tao Shuo is diligent, and the accumulation of family wealth depends on his parents Yu Yin and his own diligence. Since he was a teenager, he has been running a boat and collateral to start a small business. He took on the livelihood of his family when he was less than 20 years old. Business depends on the word "cautious". The hobby of drinking and gambling to make sisters sing music has never been cultivated. Su Biao was taken aback by the question, and he flicked twice after touching the abacus: "Check the accounts?"
Su Biaotou:...
The two of them sat in the inner room, Su Biao was bored, and quickly sat drowsy, leaning against the bulkhead to doze.
I don’t know if it’s her determined expression that makes people feel at ease, or if she is accompanied by someone to halve her anxiety. Tao Shuo gradually settled, opening the account and looking at it slowly. When he was entering the world, he heard a slight noise outside. He did not react. Su Biao, who was dozing close to the bulkhead, had already sat up straight, his eyes sharp, and said softly: "Here."
"Puff" blew out the candles in the cabin: "Boss Tao, take care of your servants and don't run around." She opened the window, leaped out quietly, and turned towards him before closing the window. He smiled slightly, like a fisherman who couldn't wait to get his net.
Tao Shuo had no bottom in his heart, quietly opened a little window, and looked through the white moonlight on the river, but saw a few celebrities flashing over on the boat, gathering around Su Biaotou to whisper a few words, and then each dispersed, and then from the ship’s side. A drenched head appeared on the side, and Su Biao's head was stuck in the neck just after the probe was dragged up. The light flashed in his hand. The water pirate fell to the ground before he could even make a sound.
With sweaty palms, he immediately looked at Su Biaotou with admiration--don't look at him as a very handsome young man. Since he got on the boat, he has been lazily unable to lift his energy, but he is really quick to act.
Maybe it was because the accomplices who started the first time did not send back any news. Following one after another, pirates climbed up from both sides of the ship's side. Tao Shuo gathered all the guys on the ship in his room. Everyone held their breath through the window and listened to the fighting outside. The sound was frightening, and a young guy whispered: "In previous years, there were only sporadic water bandits. This year, there seem to be more water bandits?"
Tao Shuo vaguely heard from a friend who mentioned that there may be a turmoil in the officialdom of the Lianghuai, so strange incidents have occurred frequently, salt prices have soared, many people have come out to fish in troubled waters, water bandits in various places are swarms, and local security is lax.
The people along the Huaihe River are sturdy. Many unemployed young people don’t want to sell themselves as slaves. In order to get food and eat, they either join the salt gang or the water gang. There are also various occupations along the river. Among the lucrative professions, many people happily go. With thirty or fifty partners and tools such as harpoons, axes, and swords, or small and medium-sized ships carrying people and goods, they can do a few votes on both sides of the river. .
At the time of speaking, several water bandits have been brought down on the ship. In the end, they missed the news, and they heard someone yelling: "Brothers hurry up, some of us have folded on the ship, fighting for the cargo, and can’t teach them. Go ashore!"
Tao Shuo felt a chill in his heart, touched the silver bills and other things wrapped in oilcloth around his waist, his heart became more and more bottomless, and he whispered: "If Su Biaotou can't be protected by them for a while, you will all run away." Perennial. The guys who followed him in the river to beg for life in Metropolitan Water are not afraid of jumping and drowning, but being hacked to death in the river by water bandits.
Suddenly, someone yelled: "Little helper, they are going to chisel the ship—"
Tao Shuo still didn't understand who the young leader was, and his heart suddenly stunned, and he saw Su Biao on the boat take off his outer robe. He was wearing a tight water lean on his body. He jumped into the river and followed the two under her hand. The man jumped out of the river too, and he was puzzled: Could it be that Su Biaotou is actually the young leader?
After clamoring for more than half an hour, the noise of fighting around finally calmed down. Tao Shuo took the lead to get up and out of the cabin, and ordered the crew on the ship to go and investigate. If you are timid, you can get together or go forward. In the rear cabin, or to the bottom cargo hold, he went to the deck by himself, and under the dim light, there was a mess everywhere. There were more than a dozen corpses in the sight, or lying or reclining in a pool of blood. I don't know if they are all water bandits or Su Biaotou.
On the deck, there were two men with knives standing on the deck. Tao Shuo's feet were stagnant, and he was still regarded as a remnant of the water bandit. One of them could say: "Ship Tao, the water bandit is cleared, teach them all to beat the torch and clean it. "
It turned out to be from Su Biaotou.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, greeted him and said, "Where is your Su Biaotou?"
Suddenly heard the sound of water, the man standing on the side of the ship smiled and said, "Isn't this here?"
Tao Shuo walked a few steps quickly, but saw someone head out in the water along the hook and claw rope thrown by the water bandit, with a cold dagger in his mouth, smiling at him. , Then grabbed the rope and rushed up, his posture light and agile, as if walking on the ground, he had climbed up in the blink of an eye and sat on the ship's side.
Towards the end of the year, the river was so cold that Su Biao climbed up wet with his head, but he didn't seem to notice it, and only carefully wiped the dagger in his hand: "Is Mr. Tao terrified?"
Tao Shuo murmured: "It's okay." Recalling her previous abrupt methods of killing people, she was in shock and thought, if at this moment their gang killed the entire ship and grabbed his cargo, and then pushed it to the water bandits, I'm afraid... He didn't even know the origin of Su Biaotou.
One of the men stepped forward and said, "You have worked hard for the young master! What's the situation underwater?"
Then the man who climbed up from the water smiled and said: "This group of gangsters can't beat them so they can chisel the boat. There are seven or eight in all, and they fall into the hands of our young master, and only feed the fish!"
So the water bandits were killed?
Tao Shuo was shocked: "Small... little helper?"
"My surname is Bai, I am a member of the Caobang, because I am afraid of leaking the news, so I panic calling my surname Su. Please forgive me.
Tao Shuo runs on the water all year round, but compared to many wealthy businessmen who have made a lot of money in the water, he can only be regarded as a small shrimp. He does not need to use the water to help him when he is in the water. He is far away in Gaoyou and he only listens. The main surname of the Cao Gang in Jiangsu Province was Bai, but he did not know each other.
He never expected that his friend would recommend the Young Leader of the Cao Gang to him, and he was immediately excited: "Young Master Bai, thank you for your kindness. If you hadn't helped, maybe the people on our ship would have died today. The thief!" The nagging and babbling to say a lot of kind words were cut off by Bai Shiqi who was impatiently listening: "Boss Tao, recently I have been tracking coastal water bandits with my subordinates and found that many are colluding inside and out. , I got the news of the sailing, and then I focused on it. Why not take advantage of the uncertainty of the people and pull everyone on the boat for a trial?"
Tao Shuo asked a businessman when he had been involved in the trial, and he immediately asked her for help: "Ban Master Bai, this matter...can this matter be entrusted to you?"
Bai Shiqi chuckled softly: "Okay, anyway, I'm idle, and I'll change clothes when I get back to the room."
She got up to change clothes. The people under her hand were divided into two groups. Those who went into the water changed their soaked clothes. Someone who had not got into the water went to call the crew of the boat. Another person was sent to the kitchen to make a fire and make soup. They cleaned the water bandits. It's all about carrying his head. After acting, he will retaliate for the water bandits who are afraid of slipping through the net, and he has always been cautious in eating.
Bai Shiqi’s manpower was dispatched. Only Tao Shuo was standing on the deck and blowing in the cold wind, spinning in his head, recalling the strange situation of the crew on the ship, and also wondering if there would be a pirate who would respond to it. The water pirate, almost lost his life.