It is actually quite profitable to buy goods like Jiang Zhen and sell goods to various villages, but not many people choose to do this. At least none of the seafood merchants in Hecheng County who went to purchase goods with Jiang Zhen chose to do this because it is actually very dangerous to do this.

If the little peddler picks up goods and sells them in familiar villages, there will definitely be no danger. After all, everyone knows them. People who are so poor that they are jingling poor, such as Wang Haisheng, who was shaking a broken boat to a strange place, generally will not be dangerous. After all, even if such people rob, they will not make much money.

But a small businessman like Jiang Zhen who brought a batch of goods to a completely unfamiliar place...

Most of the people in this world are honest ordinary people, but they have never shortage of robbers and bandits. Those robbers and bandits like to rob are small businessmen like Jiang Zhen.

Small businessmen generally don’t bring too many people, and it’s easy to deal with them. Moreover, they definitely have no power or power, and they are robbed and have no ability to cause trouble for those robbers and bandits. They can only admit that they are unlucky and if they are killed...

These days, I died in a different place, and I died if I die. Even if my family wants to find someone, I can’t find anyone. As for reporting to the official... Who would report to the official if someone I don’t know died?

Even if you report to the official, the government usually throws the body into the mass grave.

If there was a rampant bandit group that had gathered dozens or hundreds of people under the rule, and these people even caused trouble, the government might send people to wipe out it, but if a few people gathered together to steal a small businessman, the government would not care about it at all and could not catch anyone.

The person who stopped Jiang Zhen this time was a young water bandit.

They were originally just ordinary people nearby, but they didn't like to go to work in the fields, so they started to do evil things. First, the boss stole a chicken and a dog, and then stole a small businessman and found that the robbery was very quick, which was much better than stealing a dog, so they simply became water bandits.

They had two boats, taking turns to find targets for robbery in this area of ​​water, and specifically picked small merchants carrying goods. Although they did not become a mogul by robbery, they could usually eat big fish, meat, and drink spicy food, and live an extremely happy life.

And this time, they set their sights on Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng.

At a glance, these two people knew that they were foreigners. Not only did they have a lot of goods on the ship, but they probably had some money in their hands. They could make a fortune no matter what they snatched them.

"You hand over all the money and goods obediently, and we will give you a way out. Otherwise... there will be more people drowned in this river!" The water bandit in the lead said, waiting for Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng to hand over all the things.

Little businessmen like this basically dare not resist them.

However, Jiang Zhen is an exception.

Jiang Zhen always knew that this ancient times was not as safe as modern times, but he did not retreat because of this. He only dared to do business in the city because he knew one thing, that is, in the Jiangnan area, there was actually no large gang of robbers except for the group of people who specialize in selling private salt.

There are many wealthy families and big landlords here, and they will not allow large robbers and bandits to appear on their territory.

And those small bandits... guys who can't even get a steel knife, actually Jiang Zhen is not afraid.

He not only brought his own weapons on the boat, but also some small things like lime powder. Even if he encountered danger, it would be fine to escape.

"What should I do if Jiang... Jiang Zhen...?" Wang Haisheng asked tremblingly. He had encountered a water bandit who was hungry and even he wanted to rob. At that time, he had no money at all, so he simply asked someone to go on the boat to search, and those people did not find anything from his boat.

But now...their ship not only has cargo, but also silver and copper plates, and there are two boxes of copper plates alone!

"What else can I do? Take out the money quickly!" A water bandit laughed.

"Their ship is pretty good, we'll have it too." Someone said again.

The moonlight tonight is very good. The lake is sparkling with the moonlight, and these bandits laughing and laughing in the moonlight are terrifying.

The leading bandit looked at Jiang Zhen's ship and smiled and said, "This ship is good! You two come here, search us and you can leave, and leave everything else!"

These people didn't take Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng seriously at all. They opened their mouths and took all their belongings.

Jiang Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly, and he observed the surrounding situation. At this moment, he suddenly heard some whimpers.

That... it was like a woman's crying? Jiang Zhen glanced at the cabin of the ship that hit him and suddenly took action.

Taking a bamboo pole from the boat, Jiang Zhen stabbed directly into the abdomen of a person on the boat.

If the energy has become hot today, these people are not wearing much. When Jiang Zhen deliberately sharpened the bamboo pole, the man's abdomen suddenly flows blood.

Before, Jiang Zhen was very careful when he was in Hexi Village. The medical conditions are very poor these days, and even if he accidentally gets infected, he can die. Since he doesn't want to kill people, he naturally has to be careful.

But you don’t have to show mercy to such water bandits.

The water bandit who was stabbed by Jiang Zhen a little screamed and fell backwards and had lost the ability to move. The people around him were startled. Before he could react, Jiang Zhen jumped onto their boat with a bamboo pole.

Jiang Zhen swept one of them into the water with a bamboo pole, and then shouted at Wang Haisheng: "What are you doing when you stand there? Can't fight?"

Wang Haisheng...he really doesn't know how to fight.

But he couldn't do anything.

He also took a bamboo pole and poked it with the bamboo pole when the man on another ship tried to come and attack him.

At first, he was a little scared, but after discovering that the water bandits on the ship were also afraid of his bamboo pole, he also made a ruthless move: "You bastards, I will kill you! I will kill you!"

Compared to Jiang Zhen, Wang Haisheng actually hated these water bandits even more. He has always lived on the water and has seen those water bandits robbers and killing people. He has always wanted to die. Although he has never fought, he has made him very strong after many years of paddles. At this moment, he has made a bamboo pole shine and made people unable to get close to him for a while.

But they had bamboo poles and similar ones on the boats of the bandits. One of them took a bamboo pole to support the boat. However, at this time, Jiang Zhen threw the bamboo pole again, grabbed the boat pole in the man's hand and pushed and pulled it. He snatched the bamboo pole in his hand and hit him hard on the neck.

Even the officers, soldiers, yamen runners have not received special training these days, let alone these water bandits. Jiang Zhen came up and let them see blood. Later, he dealt with several people one after another, which immediately scared the rest.

"They are only two of them, why are they afraid of?" The leader of the group of water bandits scolded the people around him. He was very tall and fierce, and he was not as scared as others to Jiang Zhen.

However, he was not afraid, but the people around him were afraid: "We are only two of us..." The human being around the leader said, and just as they were talking, another person was poked by Jiang Zhen with a long bamboo pole...

They... are encountering tough guys!

Two of the five water bandits were swept into the water by Jiang Zhen and ran away, but the rest were all subdued.

When he subdued the leader of the water bandit, even Jiang Zhen was beaten by him several times, and finally fell into the water with him. However, Jiang Zhen had always been able to swim and had adapted to it these days, and finally took the people off.

When he tied the four arrested water bandits together, Jiang Zhen began to search their bodies without hesitation, and asked Wang Haisheng to go to the cabin where he had heard some movement before.

Wang Haisheng responded, carefully lifted the curtain of the cabin and walked in. As a result, he had just entered the cabin, he ran out in panic: "Jiang Zhen, there is someone inside... inside!"

"There is someone inside, what's wrong?" Jiang Zhen was a little puzzled. The person inside should not be a water bandit. Why is Wang Haisheng so scared?

Jiang Zhen walked over and lifted the curtain, looked around with caution, and then frowned.

With the moonlight, Jiang Zhen found that there were two naked women lying in the cabin!

The two women's hands were tied, and there was probably something in their mouths, so they could only make some intermittent whimpers.

These two women are definitely not the wives of the water bandits. They were probably robbed by these water bandits and locked in the cabin as a tool for venting.

When Jiang Zhen saw a quilt next to him, he directly took it and covered them, cut open the rope on their wrists, and found two candles and lit them. Only then did he see clearly what the two women looked like.

One of them is older, probably twenty-seven or eight years old, and the other is younger, at most twenty years old. Both of them are actually very average, but they are not bad in the countryside.

The two women tightened the quilt given by Jiang Zhen, took off the cloth from their mouths, and let out a "wow" sound, and finally burst into tears.

"Where are you from? How could you be on this boat?" Jiang Zhen asked.

The two women were still crying. After a while, the older one finally spoke: "Sir, I am from a nearby village. I was tied up when I came out to visit relatives..." She said and started crying again.

Another woman was still crying. At this time, the woman from the previous one said, "This girl next to me was originally doing some small business with her husband, but later she was stolen and her husband was thrown into the river..." She was tied up earlier. They would let her go and let her cook and wash clothes before, but they knew something.

As for why they look like this today, they are caught back because they want to run away.

"A person dies and everything is gone. The most painful thing is your parents and relatives." Jiang Zhen looked at the woman who had been silent and said, "This person's condition is a bit wrong, and Jiang Zhen is really afraid that she will commit suicide."

He doesn't know how to enlighten people... In fact, he feels that it's not a woman who encounters such a bad thing, but others obviously don't think so, and these women themselves won't think so.

"I have children at home and I will not seek death." The older woman said, pulling the remaining woman to speak.

"You guys clean up." Jiang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this and left the cabin.

"What should we do now?" Wang Haisheng asked when he saw Jiang Zhen coming out, and looked at the cabin with a complicated expression. He was startled as soon as he entered, and then he ran out in a hurry. He didn't dare to look at the two women inside at all, but Jiang Zhen stayed inside for a while.

This... Jiang Zhen has Brother Zhao Jin, isn't that good?

"What should I do next tomorrow morning," Jiang Zhen said, then took a knife and walked towards the bandit leader.

He still knows a little about torture and confession.

After knowing that these water bandits had killed people, Jiang Zhen no longer had any mercy on them. When torture, he naturally took out some real guys, which was considered to have dug out all the old foundations of these water bandits.

These bandits have a nest, but most of the money they robbed was carried with them and placed on the boat.

Jiang Zhen followed what they called out and finally found more than 200 taels of silver and some copper coins and jewelry from the two ships.

When Jiang Zhen left the Jiang family, he had thirty-seven taels of silver. He spent some to give Wang Haisheng twenty taels, and only a dozen taels. It was Brother Zhao Jin who gave him some, so he had almost twenty taels of silver as capital.

Later, he earned some and used some and gave the Zhao family ten taels of dowry. Now, even if the goods on the ship were included, the total was only about sixty taels of silver. Of course, if all the goods could be sold and the price would be sold, there would be about seventy or eighty taels of silver.

He had been struggling for so long, and he couldn't sleep well, and he still had only such a little money. Now he just spent one night robbing a few water bandits and got more than 200 taels of silver at once.

If he went back to buy land with this money, he could buy paddy fields and another two acres of dry land, he would no longer have to worry about going hungry... Of course, he did not intend to take out all his money to buy land.

Jiang Zhen moved the heavy silver to his boat and went to see the two women again: "What are you going to do?"

"We're leaving now." The older woman said. Jiang Zhen saved her. She was grateful, but she was also a little afraid of Jiang Zhen and was afraid that she would be imprisoned again, so she wanted to leave as soon as possible.

Jiang Zhen actually wanted them to leave quickly. He and Wang Haisheng were both families, so it would be better to keep such two women.

"Okay." Jiang Zhen nodded and threw a pack of things to them: "I'm giving this to you."

These water bandits had a lot of jewelry on their hands, and they didn't want these things, and they were troublesome to deal with them, so they simply gave it to these two women... They were in the end.

There were still the clothes of these two women on the boat. They put on their clothes, supported each other and left in the night.

Jiang Zhen looked at the sky and said to Wang Haisheng: "Let's send these people to the yamen."

It is better to send these people to the yamen. Of course, he would not send them to him in person. After all, compared with these miserable people, he is more like a robber now.
Chapter completed!