usatvline Chapter 1035 What kind of big-tailed wolf are you pretending to be!
Chapter 1035 What kind of big-tailed wolf are you pretending to be!
The most popular transportation is that of agricultural materials - bulk goods such as pesticides and fertilizers are cheap and can be transported by water. Dozens of towns along the coast rely on the river for their livelihood.
It was the hottest time of the afternoon, and the river was bustling with boats shuttling back and forth.
"Among so many ships, which one belongs to your father?"
"My father works as a boatman and earns about ten yuan a month."
Li Jianghe stood on tiptoe and looked around: "Usually, we should be at the shore at this time... Hey? Why are the fleets anchoring together today?"
Where there are many people, there are interests, and where there is profit, disputes are inevitable.
I saw more than a dozen cargo ships huddled together, neither docking nor dropping anchor, just lying abruptly in the middle of the river.
"Why are there so many boats gathered near Dad's boat? Something doesn't look right!"
"Don't guess blindly, just go over and take a look and you'll know." Zhou Qi stepped on the accelerator and the motorcycle roared forward.
More than a dozen small boats on the river surrounded Li Jiang and his father's cargo ship. They were all single-paddle speedboats, and there were ferocious men standing on each boat.
"Something's going to happen!" Zhou Qi braked suddenly on the river bank and looked down with squinted eyes.
"Dad!" Li Jianghe jumped down from the back seat and crawled down the embankment.
On the deck of the cargo ship, Uncle Li held a harpoon and confronted the others: "You bastards, don't think you can steal things just because you have more people!"
"Don't touch my dad, you bastard!" Li Jianghe rushed to the water and yelled at the top of his voice.
Road robbery is common these days, but robbery in the river in broad daylight is something new.
Zhou Qi observed as he ran and found that all the gangsters had the words "Iron Blood" tattooed on the back of their necks and right arms, with a few drops of blood tattooed below the words.
The bald fat man in the lead shook his arms and shouted, "Li Dao! Leave the goods here if you know what's best for you, and don't sail on this river anymore. Otherwise, I'll break your legs and feed them to the fish today!"
"I'm just a sailor, the goods belong to the boss!"
Uncle Li's harpoon was shaking: "If you guys steal the goods, how can I pay my son's tuition?"
"Your boss has offended us, and we have to punish him, both the people and the ship!"
The bald man approached the bow and said, "Brothers, come on! If he dares to attack, it will be considered as intentional injury. He will spend half his life in jail!"
"You are going too far! It was clearly your people who started the fight a few days ago..."
"Stop talking nonsense! Today I not only want the goods, but also your two legs as an apology!"
Li Jianghe stamped his feet in anxiety, and his shouts were blown away by the river wind. Only then did he realize that sailing was a hundred times more dangerous than he had imagined.
"Are you all from the Iron Blood Society?" Zhou Qi suddenly interrupted loudly.
In fact, he had no idea of the other party's background and was just bluffing.
The surface of the river suddenly exploded.
The boatmen who were originally resting under the scorching sun were all aroused by the conflict, and dozens of wooden boats gathered around like a school of fish smelling fishy smell.
Most of these old-fashioned wooden boats are rowed and poled manually, and only a few are equipped with diesel engines. The creaking sound of planks colliding mixed with a cacophony of chatter is heard in the waves.
"Those bastards from the Iron Blood Society are out to cause trouble again!"
"He uses the name of a gang to do rogue things, and he is a coward who only picks on the weak."
"Why did this taciturn guy Li Dao attract them?"
"Do you still need to make trouble? Why would the Iron Blood Society need a reason to pick a fight? Most likely they have their eyes on the goods on his ship!"
A hoarse voice came out from the crowd: "Their boss Liu Yidao is not a good guy. He used to chop off people's ears and thighs at a fried dough stick stall. After three years in prison, he became a big brother."
Twenty meters away in the middle of the river, five speedboats were circling a dilapidated cargo ship.
Li Jianghe clenched his sweaty fists, his thin body swaying on the shore. The poor boy ran three miles to get here, but now he didn't even have the strength to jump onto the boat.
Zhou Qi yelled again at the top of his voice: "Iron Blood Society! Are you going to follow the rules?"
The bald fat man on the bow of the east side chuckled, and the fat on his belly trembled: "Where did this fool come from? I, Liu Daliang's eldest brother, is Liu Yidao. If you know what's good for you, get out of here!"
His greasy forehead shone in the sun, looking like an overcooked tea egg.
Zhou** sneered, saying that people these days really don't care about naming their children. He's probably never heard of the story about Liu Daliang being killed instantly by Lu Bu in the Three Kingdoms.
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a dark shadow out of the corner of his eye - Li Jianghe swung his arm and threw a brick-sized stone, which brushed Liu Daliang's ear and hit the river, splashing water three feet high.
There were crisp crashing sounds along the river bank.
A stone about the size of an egg flew out of Li Jianghe's hand and hit Liu Daliang's greasy forehead accurately, instantly causing a purple bump the size of a pigeon egg to appear on his forehead.
"The little bastard is looking for death!"
Liu Daliang wiped his nosebleed and was furious. Li Dao, who was tied to the bow, realized that his son had followed him and stamped his feet anxiously:
"Jiang He, run! How dare you get involved in the affairs of the Iron Blood Society?"
Before he finished speaking, two more stones flew through the air. Liu Daliang, with his dark eyes, was about to curse when the third stone directly broke off his two front teeth.
The crowd of onlookers gasped, no one expected that a twelve-year-old boy could have such a great skill in throwing stones.
"Catch this brat and feed him to the fish!"
Liu Daliang roared with a leaky mouth. More than a dozen speedboats dispersed in response, and the members of the Iron Blood Society grabbed the oars and rushed to the shore.
Stones flew between Li Jianghe's fingers like a string of arrows, each hitting the boatman in the face.
It was not until the boy searched his pockets and could not find any stones that he realized that more than a dozen boats were approaching the river beach.
"I will skin you today!" The sturdy man at the bow was about to jump ashore when he was suddenly kicked back into the cabin by Zhou Qi who appeared from the side.
The grain store owner, who had always been cautious and self-protective, grabbed the bamboo pole and held it across his body, shouting at the young man, "Hurry up and leave!"
Seven or eight oars came at him with the sound of wind. Zhou Qi flipped his wrist to deflect the attack, but he always guarded the beach and did not let anyone go ashore.
The members of the Iron Blood Society were cursing and swearing. They originally wanted to arrest someone and force Li Dao to repay his debt, but they didn't expect a tough guy to show up halfway.
The conflict on the riverbank was about to break out, but Zhou Qi calmly protected Li Jianghe behind him.
The fourteen-year-old boy's hands were shaking as he held the stone. He didn't expect that this stranger boat owner would suddenly recognize him as a friend.
"Misunderstanding is too much to say three times!"
The sturdy man who was kicked down earlier spat out a mouthful of blood foam: "Our Brother Sandao has said that he can take care of anyone who is killed!"
Liu Daliang, standing on the water, had swollen and purple eyelids, looking like a toad that had been stung by a wasp.
He wiped the beads of sweat that blurred his vision, raised his fish-chopping knife and howled, "If you don't sink the father and son of the Li family into the river to feed the fish today, I will write the word Liu upside down!"
Li Dao picked up the rusty harpoon on the bow and pointed the tip of the harpoon at the other side of the river: "You son of a bitch, just try to touch my son!"
Veins bulged on the back of the old boatman's cracked hands, and the boat shook violently with his roar.
Zhou Qi took half a step forward to block Li Jianghe, and his eyes swept over the dozen or so bamboo poles that were surrounding him.
These thugs are obviously well versed in water fighting, and their movements of using poles to jump to the shore are more agile than those of water snakes.
He lowered his voice and said to the person behind him: "Jiang He, go to the reed marsh later."
"Why are you pretending to be so high and mighty!"
The leading thug poked Zhou Qi's nose with the tip of his bamboo pole: "The Iron Blood Society will do things, even the King of Hell will have to offer a cigarette!"