At dawn, Fang Jinshi woke up and heard the rushing wind on the bow of the ship outside, and the sound of flags blowing. The cabin where he slept was not far under the sail mast, so he heard it even more distinctly.
Yun Nuer said: "It's windy outside." Fang Jinshi turned around and saw that she had woken up a long time ago, or maybe she hadn't slept well all night. Fang Jinshi asked: "What time is it?"
Yun Nuer said: "I don't know, maybe it's going to be dawn." The small cabin was airtight and very dark. Fang Jinshi climbed up to put on his shoes and said to Yun Nuer: "Get up too, I'll Go out and have a look.¡±
He was lowering his head to put on his shoes when he heard footsteps outside. Then someone knocked on the cabin door and shouted: "Leader Fang, Leader Fang, something bad is going to happen." The voice belonged to Shi Hu.
Fang Jinshi¡¯s heart tightened and he quickly asked: ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±
Shi Hu said outside: "All my boatmen died suddenly."
Fang Jinshi's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to open the cabin door. He saw Shi Hu standing in front of the door with a panicked face. Fang Jinshi put on his clothes and said, "I'll go take a look." He just took two steps, and Yun Nuer was there. He said in the cabin: "Bring a knife."
She was too disheveled to bring the knife out. After listening to her words, Fang Jinshi turned back to the cabin and took out the knife on the bedside. He said to Yun Nuer, "Close the cabin door." He turned around and came out, following Shi Hu. Walked towards the bow of the ship.
At this time, the sky was already bright, the wind was blowing on the river, and the flags were blowing loudly. The sky was full of dark clouds. The sun rose from the eastern sky, only half of its face was exposed, and the sunlight penetrated one or two beams of light from the dark clouds. , in such a weather, there was deathly silence on the big ship, without any movement.
Fang Jinshi's heart was lifted, and he followed Shi Hu to the bow of the ship. He saw that the bow of the ship was in a mess, with more than 20 boatmen lying in a mess. These boatmen who died suddenly had no external injuries on their bodies, and most of them died with their faces on the ground. .
Fang Jinshi stood far away and did not step forward. Shi Hu said: "Maybe it was the people from the Pai Gang who poisoned these innocent boatmen. They really deserve to be killed!"
Fang Jin and Shi Tie looked at him with a livid face for a moment without saying anything. Then his expression changed and he turned around sharply. Shi Hu was stunned and followed a few steps behind him, asking: "Where are you going, Leader Fang?"
Fang Jinshi stopped, turned around, and said to Shi Hu: "I'm going to see my person, it's you" His expression suddenly changed, and the words "It's you" were shouted out, as if he saw To his great surprise and surprise, Shi Hu couldn't help but turn his head to look, but there was no one behind him. When he turned around, he heard the sound of the blade of the knife, and subconsciously lowered his head to dodge, and the tip of the knife scratched his fat face. There was a scar on his face.
Shi Hu concentrated his attention and saw Fang Jinshi standing in front of him with a knife in his hand. It turned out that Fang Jinshi just lured him back and went for a sneak attack. But Fang Jinshi wanted to capture Shi Hu alive. Secondly, because of his poor martial arts, he had a great opportunity. All wasted.
Shi Hu was furious and stabbed straight with his spear. Fang Jinshi hurriedly swung his knife to block. Shi Hu's spear hit him at the edge of the knife. Fang Jinshi couldn't hold on to the knife and flew out of the boat and fell into the river.
Shi Hu's spear went straight forward and was already pointed at his chest. Fang Jinshi took a step back and his back was already leaning on the wooden pillar. Shi Hu said angrily: "Why did you sneak attack on me?"
Fang Jinshi was not afraid at all and shouted: "Then why did you harm me?"
Shi Hu stared at him blankly for a moment, put away the spear, and said after a long time: "How do you know?"
Fang Jinshi looked coldly at the corpses of the boatmen on the bow of the ship in the distance and said, "Those people are all pretending to be dead."
Shi Hu also looked at the boatmen and shouted: "Let's all get up." As expected, the twenty or so people slowly got up from the ground. Most of them had weapons hidden under their bodies, and they gathered around them.
Shi Hu praised: "Sure enough, you have some skills, but you didn't look closely, how could you tell?"
Fang Jinshi was too lazy to tell him, but he couldn't help but said: "There are three more boatmen than last night, and there is no fattest one." It turned out that he had already counted the dead bodies on the ground in the distance, and I noticed that the fattest boatman was not among these people. That man was too fat and had the most obvious features. It turned out that overnight, these boatmen had all changed.
Shi Hu said: "I didn't expect you to be so attentive. Two of your old acquaintances want to ask you to meet, so let me invite you. Let's go now."
Fang Jinshi asked: "Where are my followers?"
Shi Hu said: "They are still sleeping, so don't disturb their good dreams. Although Uncle Shi is cruel, his hands are not cruel, and he does not want to offend the government too much. Don't worry, as long as you obey, they will not die." worries."
Fang Jinshi only saw such movement on the bow of the ship in front, but no one from Wei Chong and others behind him came to check, and there was no movement. For Coach Lin and others, unlessIt has been plotted, otherwise it would never be like this.
Fang Jinshi took a step toward the rear cabin, and immediately several boatmen crowded up and stood in front of him. These boatmen were naturally different from those before last night and would not be polite to him.
Shi Hu said contemptuously: "You don't have to worry about your beautiful wife, she has already taken the first step." Then he waved to the boatmen: "Bring him up."
Several boatmen pushed Fang Jinshi to the bow of the ship. Fang Jinshi looked towards the stern of the ship and saw a small boat going down the river under the morning glow. There were three or four people sitting on the boat. Although a woman in the middle could not be seen clearly. From his face, it can be seen that the clothes on his body are none other than Yun Nuer.
Fang Jinshi's heart gradually sank. He understood that what awaited him must be an extremely difficult test, and he might really risk his life here. He took another look at the mountain with the inscriptions upstream, although he could no longer see it at this time. There is a square stone wall, but the bright red three characters "Duanshiji" still seem to be right in front of us. Is Duanshiji the place where we entered the stone and broke the stone? If I had known better, I wouldn't have changed a name like this.
Shi Hu shouted: "Pull the boat over." One of his men rowed another small boat to the side of the big ship. These small boats were all rowed over by these people last night. Shi Hu jumped out of the boat and called to his men. They tied Fang Jinshi's hands and took him to the small boat. Before setting off, Shi Hu said to Fang Jinshi: "If you want to jump into the river and escape, I will never stop you."
Fang Jinshi knew that what he said was ironic. Not to mention that he was not good at water and his hands were tied. These boatmen must have been hanging out on the river for a long time. He might have jumped into the river just to suffer more humiliation. Shi Hu would definitely not let him escape. Chances are, I just want to play tricks on him.
The small boat went down the river, getting farther and farther away from the big boat, and finally lost sight of it. Fang Jinshi raised his head and saw that the glow in the sky was gradually disappearing, the sun was no longer visible, there were more and more dark clouds, the wind was blowing and the waves were bumpy. The boat goes straight up and down, making you feel stomach-churning.
Rain and snow are coming.
Shi Hu's small boats rowed forward for a while, and arrived at a flat beach on the left bank. Shi Hu arranged for two people to guard the boats, and the remaining people escorted Fang Jinshi, stepping on the slippery grass on the shore, towards the hillside not far away. Climb away.
The wind on the hillside was stronger, making it difficult for people to walk, and the dust was all over their faces. Shihu led Fang Jinshi up the hillside, and then down the hillside to a pine and cypress forest. Although the pine and cypress forest seems to have been planted by people, the forest is full of dead branches and leaves, and there are no traces of people on the path. As I walk, branches block the road and hit me from time to time, and there are "bah bang" sounds from time to time when the branches are broken under my feet. , none of these twenty or thirty people spoke, only the rustling of footsteps was heard.
Fang Jinshi finally couldn't help but asked, "Where are you taking me?"
Shi Hu said: "It's almost here, are you so anxious to see your own cemetery?" Fang Jinshi looked at him bitterly and stopped talking.
More than 20 people walked through the pine and cypress forest and finally arrived at several houses. Most of these houses were dilapidated, and a few houses were only half collapsed or had no roofs. It was unclear whether they were the old residences of farmers in the mountains or the old temples. Fang Jinshi was so far away. Then I heard the sound of someone taking a chisel and chipping away at the stone. I turned the corner and went to the front door. Sure enough, I saw two people who looked like masons chipping away at the stone monument. There were two more people watching beside me. One of them saw Fang Jinshi and others came over and looked up at them. The person monitoring him whipped his horse whip on his back and cursed angrily: "What are you looking at? Why don't you do it quickly!" The man did not dare to say a word and quickly continued to cut the stone with his head lowered.
Shi Hu actually smiled and said, "Go over and have a look." He asked Fang Jinshi to be escorted to the stone tablet that the two craftsmen were cutting. Fang Jinshi lowered his head to look and saw that although the stone tablet had not been cut yet, it had been written in black. A few big characters were written on it, "The son of a bitch enters the place where his head is buried." The word "burial" was replaced with the word "pig" in white ash. It seemed that the previous scolding was not harsh enough. There were also several smaller stone slabs. "The bastard enters the place where the stone is buried at the feet," "The bastard enters the place where the stone is buried on the hand," and "The bastard enters the place where the stone is buried on the belly." There are six such stone slabs, all with only black writing. , waiting for the two stonemasons to chisel the words on it.
Normally, Fang Jinshi would have laughed knowingly when he saw such a stone tablet. But at this moment, cold sweat was pouring down his back. This was obviously because he wanted to cut him into eight pieces and bury him separately. For fear that others would not know, I specially carved a stone tablet for him as a record.
These inscriptions clearly show that the person who wants to kill him hates him deeply and wants to kill him. Even if he kowtows to this person and begs for mercy, this person will never show him any mercy.
These dilapidated houses may be where he is buried. Fang Jinshi hesitated a little. Shi Hu pushed him on the shoulder and said coldly: "Others don't shed tears until they see the coffin, but you can't even see your own." You can see the tombstones, how many people in the world can see you??Tombstone? It sounds like you are very lucky. "
Hearing his sarcasm, Fang Jinshi said bitterly: "If the future comes, I will make you remember what you said today!" Shi Hu laughed and said loudly: "Then just wait for the future!"