Chapter 306: The Third Day

What's going on?

What happened?

What occurred?

The water bandits were blank-faced, their brains empty.

Liang Qu didn't have the habit of leaving his opponents time to react; he reached out to draw an arrow, the sound of breaking through the air whistling, covering the vast heavy rain.

Thunder exploded, and straight lightning remained in the air.

The lightning sank into the long raft, the sheepskin exploded, and half of the entire large raft flew up out of thin air, smashing into the water.

"Help!"

"Boss! Save me!"

"Boss, hurry and strike!"

Screams continued one after another, and wooden oil-painted masks stained with blood floated on the water surface.

The Thunder Character Seal Technique, besides its own offensive power, could also condense thunder force, blessing martial arts and weapons!

Enhanced Falling Star Arrow!

The destructive power was several times greater!

Liang Qu didn't even need to aim specifically at people.

A group of martial artists who were at most one or two passes, with their bamboo rafts broken, couldn't resist the wrapping of the turbulent current at all, and in the blink of an eye, they sank into the Heishuihe and disappeared.

Only two had strong swimming abilities, but just as they surfaced, a broken log as thick as a bowl, carrying rolling momentum, smashed down on their heads.

Two blood flowers bloomed on the water surface and disappeared.

In an instant, the sheepskin rafts disappeared one after another; when Lu Xinqing came back to his senses, four of the five sheepskin rafts had been destroyed, leaving only the one under him.

The two water bandits on the same sheepskin raft had long been scared out of their wits; their legs went soft, they fell backward, and tumbled into the Heishuihe themselves.

Lu Xinqing, as a four-pass martial artist, had a foundation in body-refining techniques and possessed quite a bit of stance skill, so he didn't kneel down with a plop.

From beginning to end, his so-called perfected tendon tips hadn't been used at all.

Liang Qu used water flow to control the sheepskin raft, letting the pleasure boat approach the water bay and come before the sheepskin raft.

Awei flew out from the dense forest, folded its wings, and landed on the bow of the boat.

Liang Qu reached out and shook his hand in front of the stunned Lu Xinqing.

"Hey! Are you stupid?"

Lu Xinqing trembled violently, his eyeballs turned under the mask, his pupils shrank to the size of needle eyes, and just as he was about to kneel, he was grabbed by the collar by Liang Qu and lifted onto the boat.

The finless porpoises underwater wagged their tails to accelerate, continuing to move toward Huazhu County.

The uncontrolled sheepskin raft fell behind, crashing into the rock wall one after another under the washing of the water flow; not long after, the rattan rope broke, the wooden raft fell apart, and a dozen sheepskins, bulging like balloons, floated on the water, buoyant and not sinking.

Liang Qu threw Lu Xinqing down.

Lu Xinqing rolled twice, hugged his head, curled up on the bow of the boat, and trembled all over.

"My lord, don't kill me, don't kill me! The small one had eyes but didn't recognize Mount Tai; you are a great person with a great heart, let me go, let me go, the small one will work like a cow or a horse to repay your kindness!"

Rainwater, tears, and snot mixed together, all flowing inside the mask, but none flowed out from the two holes.

However, the extremely terrified Lu Xinqing didn't notice the abnormality at all.

Liang Qu felt disgusted seeing this; he pulled out an arrow, kicked Lu Xinqing on the shoulder, and kicked him over.

The tears and snot in the mask mixed with the rainwater, smearing Lu Xinqing's face, and flowed down both sides of his temples into the Great Marsh.

Just as Lu Xinqing was about to continue begging for mercy, a sharp arrow pierced through his mask, sending several wood splinters flying.

The arrowhead pierced through the wooden mask and slightly pricked his cheek.

The begging for mercy stopped abruptly.

Liang Qu gripped the arrow shaft, tore off the mask, and threw it into the Heishuihe.

A tiny red dot remained below Lu Xinqing's eye bag; as he twitched, the red dot slowly expanded, became full, and dripped a bead of bright red blood.

"You have quite some guts! Seeing a Dragon Blood Horse and a seventh-rank uniform of the River Bo Office, you still dared to come forward!"

Dragon Blood Horse?

River Bo Office seventh-rank uniform?

Lu Xinqing's brain felt like it was about to explode; although he hadn't heard much about Dragon Blood Horses, and his impression of the River Bo Office wasn't deep, he heard the words "seventh-rank" clearly, and his body shook like chaff.

The magistrate of Huazhu County was only seventh-rank!

In other words, he had robbed the magistrate of Huazhu County!

Damn it!

Seeing Liang Qu's cold face, Lu Xinqing forced a smile and chuckled twice.

"No wonder the lord is so wise and martial, truly young and promising, young and promising, ah, ha, hahaha..."

Liang Qu didn't do the "White Dragon Fish Suit" thing; he wore the official uniform of a Water Minister before coming.

It was completely different from the River Bo attire, changing from dark blue to indigo, with cloud patterns on both sides, and a cloud-brocade white fish on the chest!

A Dragon Blood Horse plus a seventh-rank uniform; anyone with a bit of vision and background could recognize it.

It just happened to run into a group of ignorant water bandits; it was purely winking at a blind person.

It was just right; since Yan Qingshan and the others hadn't arrived, he would catch a local Heishuihe water bandit to serve as a guide.

Liang Qu brought a stool and sat in the middle like a boss: "Local of Huazhu County?"

Lu Xinqing kowtowed like pounding garlic: "Yes, yes, the small one is a local of Huazhu County, grew up in Huazhu County since childhood."

"Huazhu County is flooded; do you know the exact time?"

Lu Xinqing was sweating profusely: "The, the small one doesn't dare to deceive the lord, but the small one spends most of the time on the shore as a water bandit, rarely going to the villages and towns, only knowing that there is a flood; as for exactly when it started, I, I don't know very clearly."

"Then I ask you, when did the water level of the Heishuihe start to drop?"

"Water level dropping?" Lu Xinqing was stunned, and immediately understood the cause and effect, "The small one's brain is stupid, didn't think of it for a moment, I know the water level dropped, it was about noon the day before yesterday!"

The levee broke at noon the day before yesterday, Pingyang County received notice near noon the next morning, today is the dusk of the third day; counting it up, two days and twenty-four hours...

Liang Qu calculated in his heart, and it matched up.

"How long have you been a water bandit?"

"Three, four, three years and more, almost four years..."

"Three years and more? Three years and more and you have such poor judgment?"

Lu Xinqing choked: "The lord doesn't know, we have always been cautious in our work, never robbing big boats, only attacking small boats; furthermore, we don't hurt people, only seek money!"

Liang Qu narrowed his eyes, scanning up and down, his gaze seeming to carry great momentum, with some kind of terrifying spiritual power surging deep inside.

Lu Xinqing's eyes dodged, not daring to meet his gaze.

Liang Qu sneered: "Only robbing small boats, I'm afraid it's only seeking small money and not hurting people; for big money, you hurt, or even kill, right?

Robbing a few taels of silver, even if someone reports it to the government, the government will mostly dismiss it.

But if you rob several hundred taels, besides the huge amount, would you let the robbed person go back?

You robbed me earlier, does it look like you only seek money!"

With a sharp shout, the cold sweat Lu Xinqing had been holding in his body seemed to have opened a gate, and it all drained out instantly; he jumped up violently and jumped into the water with a plop.

His little brothers were at most one or two-pass martial artists, lacking strength, naturally afraid of the turbulent water, but he wasn't!

Born in a water town, as long as he found the right opportunity, even if the other party was a Galloping Horse martial artist, Lu Xinqing had the confidence to escape from this turbid water and turbulent current!

Liang Qu sat on the long chair, motionless, quietly watching the whirlpool rolled up by Lu Xinqing falling into the water.

After a while.

The Fatty Catfish wagged its tail, and Lu Xinqing, with torn clothes, was thrown onto the bow of the boat, his whole body covered in bruises.

"Water monster, there's a water monster!"

Lu Xinqing hugged his knees, curled up his body, not daring to expose his limbs outside the boat, screaming in panic.

Liang Qu's face was cold.

Lu Xinqing screamed to himself, and with no response, it was quite awkward; he finally realized what was going on.

"The small one, the small one just wanted to help the lord measure the depth of the Heishuihe..."

Liang Qu opened the volume and swept a glance: "I ask, you answer; if you dare to deceive again, this official will throw you into the water to feed the spirit monsters!"

The Fatty Catfish by the boat pouted after hearing this, as if something dirty had entered its mouth.

Lu Xinqing didn't see it, terrified, goosebumps rising all over his body.

Turbid waters, man-eating spirit monsters, were almost the nightmare of every water town person.

"Name!"

"Lu Xinqing..." ===== CHAPTER 307 =====