As night fell, the escort team anchored near the canal dock to rest.

This section of the river is called the Wei River and is located in the northern section of the Jeju River. The Wei River is relatively long, twice as long as the Jeju River.

There are two large river bandits and seven nests of local snakes in this section of the river. The group of local snakes encountered during the day belonged to one of the nests.

Yan Shaoting didn't realize the hard work of guarding escorts until he was tired after a long day. He chose the best hotel in the riverside station for dinner. He, two lieutenants and Yuan Tai sat at the same table.

After the four people sat down, Yan Shaoting said without batting an eyelid: "The store will serve the best wine and the best dishes!"

Because Yan Shaoting was wearing the clothes of a bodyguard, the shopkeeper thought he was Yuan Tai's soldier, shook his head and said with a smile: "The best wine is the sealed flower wine, and the best dish is the dragon and phoenix in auspiciousness."

The best food and drinks are only ordered when high officials from the imperial court pass by, so please stop joking with me, Mr. Yuan."

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he ordered the waiter: "The waiter quickly delivers the dishes for Yuan Biaotou, enough for four people."

"Okay!" The waiter brought up four plates of home-cooked dishes, including boiled pork slices, spicy tofu, scrambled eggs with clams and Sixi meatballs. The portions were very generous.

Yuan Tai said happily: "These four dishes are what I often order when I eat at the inn. Although they are home-cooked dishes, they taste good. Master, just make do with them."

Yan Shaoting stared at the four plates and said angrily: "Are these dishes for human consumption? Believe it or not, I burned down this hotel!"

Yuan Tai was so frightened that he said flatteringly: "Master Jun, don't be angry, I will ask the store to serve the most expensive dishes!"

He ran to the shopkeeper and said softly: "Just order the most expensive Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang Reunion. Every penny is worth, so hurry up and do it."

The shopkeeper glared and said unhappily: "Are you serious about coming here? Are you worthy of eating those dishes?"

Yuan Tai asked seriously: "How much does that table of food cost?"

The shopkeeper said arrogantly: "Can you afford eight hundred and eighty-eight taels of silver? Come on, hurry up, don't delay my business."

Yuan Tai returned to the table and asked Yuan Shaoting for a thousand taels of silver and put it on the counter. He said helplessly: "The situation this time is a bit special. I will explain it later. Please hurry up and help with the cooking!"

The shopkeeper picked up the banknote and was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped: "So much money!"

Yuan Tai reminded: "Be low-key and don't make a fuss. Serve the food quickly."

The shopkeeper said in surprise: "Yes!"

Not long after, the shopkeeper personally served a table of dragons and phoenixes for a happy reunion, which astonished all the guests in the hotel.

They gathered around to watch the grand reunion of dragon and phoenix, and they were filled with envy and said: "Butterhead Yuan is rich! Bouncer Yuan is rich!"

Yuan Tai didn't dare to use chopsticks to eat, for fear of causing others to say that Yuan Biaotou could afford a dragon-feng auspicious reunion, and that in the future it would be too easy to give out gifts for love, which would not be good for him.

Yan Shaoting took a few bites of the food and saw that Yuan Tai refused to move his chopsticks, so he ordered: "Eat!"

Yuan Tai had to use his chopsticks to pick up the food, and he complained in his heart.

Yan Shaoting was full in just a few chopsticks, and the deputy general was also full soon.

Yuan Tai was not even half-full when he saw that the three of them had stopped using their chopsticks and had to stop. It was uncomfortable to eat with an official.

I order such an expensive dish and only eat a few bites. Do you think it's irritating or not?

The hotel was crowded with people, some of whom were local gangsters, and they started talking after seeing this situation.

"Boss leader Yuan must have made a fortune from being a bodyguard."

"It's normal for Mr. Yuan to eat at the inn. Why did he order such a table of expensive dishes today? He must be famous!"

"Yuan Biaotou has been very popular recently! I ordered a table full of delicacies for a reunion dinner, and the price was eight hundred and eighty-eight taels of silver. He is really rich!"

"It means that escort leader Yuan's escort trip is very profitable. Otherwise, why would he be willing to eat like this?"

"The biggest problem is that after ordering such a table of dishes and only eating a few bites, he is obviously showing that he looks down on us!"

As soon as there were more people talking, public outrage arose. Someone said angrily: "Yuan Tai has made a fortune, so he should do more. As a result, he didn't even send a gift this year. Does he still care about us?"

"A strong dragon can't suppress a local snake. It's obvious that he doesn't take us seriously!"

The local gangsters became angrier and angrier as they discussed, and finally decided to invite the river bandit Lao Liu to come and rob the escort tonight!

After dinner, Yuan Shaoting chose the most expensive room to rest in and ordered the most expensive beauty.

In the middle of the night, he was sleeping soundly with a beautiful woman in his arms. Suddenly, the inn was filled with shouts of murder, and Lao Liu led the river bandits to launch a surprise attack on the sleeping fake escort team.

The fake escort team was caught off guard and quickly killed hundreds of people. The people who were killed screamed so much that Yan Shaoting woke up.

Yan Shaoting hurriedly put on his clothes and was about to run away. The woman hugged him and said, "Don't be afraid. I'm here to protect you. They won't kill you if they see me."

Yan Shaoting was relieved that he had not escaped.

When the river bandits slaughtered the fake escorts, Yuan Tai went to stop them but no one listened to him.

At that time, Yuan Tai was concerned about his feelings and did not fight back with his sword. Anyway, the fake bodyguard was not one of his own.

But when I saw the bandits starting to snatch the escort items, I had to fight back in order to protect the reputation of the Iron Gate Escort Agency.

Yuan Tai used Wudang swordsmanship to kill more than a dozen river bandits and captured Lao Liu alive, thus frightening the river bandits.

Yuan Tai scolded Lao Liu: "You are so shameless, Lao Liu, that you dare to rob my bodyguard. Are you too brave to take advantage of me?"

Lao Liu argued: "You are allowed to eat meat and we are not allowed to drink soup? We can't afford Longfeng Auspicious Reunion in our lives, why can you afford it?"

Yuan Tai was speechless and said: "This..."

Lao Liu said angrily: "You have made a lot of money and you don't take care of us. You still order the expensive dishes that high officials eat to show off. Do you regard us as human beings?"

Yuan Tai couldn't explain it, because the escort agency was imprisoned and the lives of hundreds of people were in doubt. He didn't dare to say that the escorts were fake officers and soldiers, so he could only explain: "What are you in a hurry for? Wait until I get back.

It’s true that this escort trip was very profitable, but most of the balance has not been received! You asked me to take care of it now, how can I have the money to take care of it!

As for the Dragon and Phoenix Reunion, that is a happy event in my family. My brother from my hometown got a son in middle age. Can't I order a big dish to make him happy?

If you had a son in middle age, wouldn't you spend money to celebrate?"

With Yuan Tai's explanation, all misunderstandings were gone. Lao Liu apologized and said, "We didn't do the right thing. We can kill or chop him as you please!"

The bandits apologized one after another: "I'm sorry, chief escort!"

It was useless to say anything at this point, Yuan Tai pretended to be sad and sat on the ground. Lao Liu and the bandits quietly slipped away.

Yan Shaoting walked out without any danger, and said thanks: "Let's go quickly, this is not a place to stay for a long time, escorting escorts is really too dangerous!"

So the fake escort team left a hundred corpses behind and set off. Yuan Tai, the escort leader, felt really wronged.

Along the way, the fake escort team had another misunderstanding with another group of river bandits in Weihe. Fortunately, Yuan Tai came out in time to rescue the siege and prevent the escort robbery from happening again. 33

Yan Shaoting was afraid and said: "It's a good thing I called you to accompany me, otherwise I wouldn't be able to pass through this section of the Wei River."

Three days later, the fleet of fake escorts arrived in front of the iron chain. Yuan Tai called the river officials to untie the iron chain and let them go.

The river official knew Yuan Tai and explained: "This is an order from the Hedao Yamen. I can't open the lock."

Yuan Tai stuffed his hands with ten taels of silver and said, "Buy wine for the brothers!"

The river official took the money and said softly: "I quietly unlocked the door at midnight. If it wasn't for the sake of your escort Yuan, I wouldn't have gotten up at midnight."

Yuan Tai thanked him and said, "We brothers won't talk so much between us."

Yan Shaoting was secretly happy. It was thanks to Yuan's reputation that it was difficult for others to get through. It was indeed a wise move to pretend to be the Iron Gate Escort to pass through the river blockade.
Chapter completed!