Although Qin Bai didn't know what Huang Jincheng was going to deal with when he stayed in Yangzhou, he could only guess that it was probably related to his clansmen or relatives, but judging from the previous letter from Jinling, the prince should be safe and sound in Jinling, and they would meet the prince one day later, and it would not be a big problem. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

They had been in a hurry to get south all the way, and had arrived in Yangzhou much earlier than expected. Spending an extra day won't slow down their trip too much.

However, Qin Bai thought of the next way to go, so he still sent Zhou Xiangnian to discuss with Huang Jincheng's personal soldiers and remind them to pay attention to crossing the river. Crossing the Yangtze River is not the same as taking the canal, and there is still a lot of preparation to be done. Although they had to stay in Yangzhou for a day, they could have sent people to the riverside in advance to complete the preparations that needed to be done first, so that they would not lose time.

Huang Jincheng's personal soldiers were very calm about this: "Thank you Yongjiahou for reminding me." Our adults have also thought about this, and have already sent people to the riverside to prepare. ”

Qin Bai got Zhou Xiangnian's return, and his heart was suddenly certain. It seems that Huang Jincheng has not lost his sense of proportion, he has counted it in his heart.

Without any worries, Qin Bai also began to have leisure to think about tomorrow's plans. After dinner, Qin Jian and Zhao Mo discussed with great interest where they would go to play after going ashore tomorrow, and by the way, they completed the routine homework assigned to them by Qin Bai. At this time, Qin Bai asked his wife Niu and granddaughter Qin Hanzhen: "Let's go to the city tomorrow to have a look, what do you think?"

Qin Hanzhen was pleasantly surprised: "Really? That's great!" Along the way, she rarely had the opportunity to go ashore to shop, and she was always trapped on the boat, but now she can be regarded as able to let off steam.

Niu Shi hesitated: "What is there to visit on this cold day? Winter is coming, both sides of the canal are dusty, and there are few trees with green leaves." Even if there was a good scenery originally, it is now impossible to see. ”

Qin Hanzhen hurriedly said: "Grandmother, let's not go to see the scenery, it's okay, just go shopping! I heard that there is a Dongguan Street not far from the wharf, which is very prosperous, and there are all kinds of shops." Let's just go and see the world. We have never seen this prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, and compared with the capital, it must have something interesting. ”

Qin Bai smiled and nodded, "Indeed." Yangzhou City has the best spring scenery, Slender West Lake is a little far away, and the weather is cold, if you don't want to go, then talk about it later. Dongguan Street is not far away, and it is also very interesting. Let's take a stroll around and see what shops are interesting, so we go in and see what you want to buy. It is difficult to get out of the door, and you always have to look around to live up to the hard work of this road. ”

Niu Shi was moved by what he said, and said with a smile: "Okay, since you all say so, then I will go shopping with you tomorrow." ”

When Zhao Mo saw this, he regretted it a little. He and Qin Jian had been saying that they wanted the two of them to act alone, but they didn't expect that Qin Baizu and Sun would also go ashore to go shopping. He quickly asked, "Uncle, why don't we go with you?" ”

Qin Jian was taken aback, and hurriedly gave him a look secretly. He just didn't see it.

Qin Hanzhen saw it, and said with a smile: "Cousin Zhao, you should go shopping with Brother Lobby." Didn't Grandfather give you homework? We just walked around Dongguan Street, and if you stayed with us, you would have to go around that street, which was a waste of time. ”

Qin Jian nodded when he heard this, and continued to wink at Zhao Mo desperately, so obvious that the Niu clan saw it and wanted to laugh.

Zhao Mo was helpless, and secretly glared at Qin Jian before nodding to Qin Hanzhen with a smile: "Cousin is right." Then I'll go to other places in the city first, and if I come across something interesting, I'll bring it back to my cousin. ”

This night, everyone was a little excited, and few of them could sleep peacefully. Everyone is thinking about being able to go to Yangzhou City tomorrow, and they are very excited. Qin Hanzhen had already told Qingxing that he would let her be a guide tomorrow, and the master and servant whispered about what gifts to buy for Qin Jinhua and them, and they didn't fall asleep until it was almost the third watch.

Huang Jincheng did not return to the ship that night.

Early the next morning, everyone in the Qin family got up and finished freshening up, and Zhou Xiangnian ordered two tables from a restaurant on the dock to come over early. Qin Hanzhen followed his grandfather and grandmother to eat three buns, steamed dumplings with crab roe and glutinous rice siu mai, and when he saw that Qin Jian, the elder brother in the lobby, hurriedly stuffed a few buns, he urged Zhao Mo to finish eating and get off the boat. She hurriedly told them not to panic, to be more careful on the road, and asked the accompanying Li Zi to remember to keep an eye on the two of them, and not to ask their purses to be picked up by pickpockets.

She heard Qingxing say last night that Yangzhou is prosperous, but there are also a lot of pickpockets among the people, probably because there are a lot of fat sheep.

After breakfast, Qin Hanzhen went back to the room to change his clothes. She is now out of filial piety, and the clothes on her body can finally have a little color, today she is wearing a goose yellow thin cotton brocade jacket, a green silk skirt, and a silk cloak with a clip, her hair is combed into a double mustache, and she simply has a silk yarn flower in the style of a golden chrysanthemum, and she stands on the deck with tenderness and water to wait for her grandparents to come out.

Zhao Mo saw her from a distance on the dock, and the pace under his feet involuntarily slowed down. Qin Jian was very anxious, and when he turned around and saw that he hadn't followed, he hurriedly urged: "Guanglu, what are you doing there stupidly? Why don't you leave quickly? We only have one day, we have to go to a few more places!"

Zhao Mo knew in his heart that he couldn't help but glance at Qin Hanzhen from a distance a few more times before he followed Qin Jian's footsteps and hurriedly walked towards the city.

Qin Hanzhen didn't know that Zhao Mo was looking at herself, she was curling her hands in her sleeves, muttering in her heart that the wind on the dock was quite strong, and the weather was getting colder and colder. If it was ten or eight days later, it would be even colder, and maybe she wouldn't have bothered to go ashore.

Qin Bai helped Niu Shi and walked out, and the two of them have now changed into clothes, covering their whole bodies tightly, especially Niu's family, who directly changed the cotton jacket he wore in early winter, just because he was afraid that the wind would blow when he went out. She actually felt that her husband Qin Bai and her henchman Mama Hu were too careful, and Lily Baihui and Mama Wei refused to stand on her side, so she needed to dress so bulky to go out. But to be honest, her concern for her husband is still very useful.

Although Qin Bai traveled with his family in a low-key manner, the pomp was not small at all. Zhou Changnian and Uncle Hu walked in front, Qin Bai and Niu pulled their granddaughter Qin Hanzhen to follow, Qingxing accompanied Qin Hanzhen, and Mama Wei and Mama Hu accompanied her mother-in-law on the left and right, followed by more than a dozen family members and long-term followers. Few of the young girls came out with them, and they were afraid of trouble.

They took the car first, and it didn't take long to get out of the car and walk around slowly. There are all kinds of shops here, such as Lu Chen Xing, Oil and Rice Shop, Baxian Shop, Melon and Fruit Shop, Bamboo and Wood Shop, Incense Powder Shop, Tofu Shop, Pickle Shop, Sugar Shop, Silk Zhuangzi, Cloth Shop, Jewelry Shop, Shoe Shop, Hat Shop, Embroidery Shop, South Goods Shop, Scholar Shop, Antique Shop, Jade Shop, Lacquer Workshop, Porcelain Shop...... The dazzling array is dizzying.

Qin Hanzhen followed his grandparents all the way, and Qingxing was introduced in his ears at any time, and his grandfather Qin Bai was in front of him to explain, and he really gained a lot of knowledge.

For example, she didn't know until today that "Lu Chenxing" turned out to be a grain store. The so-called "Lu Chen" actually refers to six kinds of grains that are born every other year, which should be entered into the "six mills", that is, wheat into the mill, yuan wheat into the dregs, barley into the sugar mill, rapeseed into the oil mill, broad beans into the sauce mill, and peas into the flour mill. However, there is another way of saying that Lu Chen refers to the six grains of rice, barley, wheat, soybeans, adzuki beans and sesame seeds, which are called "six chens" because they can be stored for a long time. Qin Hanzhen didn't know which statement was right, anyway, Lu Chenxing was right to sell grain.

Yangzhou incense powder is very famous, although Niu's rarely pays attention to these, but it is not bad to buy some back as gifts. Qingxing introduced several skin care products suitable for elderly wives for Niu's family, and Qin Bai also instigated it, and Niu's scavenged a lot of things to go back.

There are some varieties of candy in the sugar shop that people in the north have not eaten, Qin Hanzhen looked curious, bought some of everything, and planned to send half of them back to the capital to ask his cousins to share.

Many of the clothes in the silk village and cloth village were new flowers that they had never seen before, and the Niu family had the desire to buy them when they saw it, so they added two horses to themselves, four horses to each of their husbands and sons, and eight horses to dress up their granddaughters, even Qin Jian and Zhao Mo were not left behind. Zhou Xiangnian had to send someone to send a batch of the things he bought back to the ship first, otherwise the entourage would have no spare hands to hold things for a while.

Qin Jian went around the study shop and bought a few exquisite study supplies, ready to give them away, reward the juniors, and use them for his own use. He walked around the antique shop again, but when he came out empty-handed, he bought a few knick-knacks from the lacquerware workshop next door.

For lunch, they were served in the rice village on Dongguan Street. Now that the hairy crabs are in season, they ordered a few cages, and when the guys brought the crabs to the table, they served them with eight delicate copper crabs. Qin Hanzhen had heard of it a long time ago, but it was the first time he used this. Thanks to her grandfather's personal demonstration, Qingxing is also an expert and has guided her a lot. After a meal, she can also fiddle with these complex gadgets in a decent way.

Everyone was having a good time. However, Niu Shi was a little troublesome: "This Laoshzi thing, it will take half a day to eat it." She prefers to boil dried shreds, five-spice tea or whatever, and also praises the store's old goose for doing well. After coming out of the restaurant, she took people to the pickle shop, collected a few good pickles, and prepared to accompany the meal on the boat.

Everyone strolled around Dongguan Street until the sun set in the west, and then turned back to the boat. The entourage held a hand full of things. Qin Baizu and grandson were all quite satisfied. I ate and played on this day, and bought a lot of souvenirs and gifts. Although I didn't get to visit more places, the harvest was good.

It's just a little tired.

After returning to the ship, Niu shouted that his legs were sore, and helped Mama Tiger and them back to the cabin. I bought a lot of things today, so I'm sorting and sorting them out. Qin Hanzhen pulled Qingxing and returned to the room with a smile. It's inconvenient to be outside, but now that she's back to her own place, she wants to have a good taste of Dong candy strongly recommended by Qingxing, I don't know if it's as delicious as Qingxing said.

Qin Bai was there, but he ushered in Imperial Doctor Shen with a displeased face.

Imperial Physician Shen also went ashore to go shopping for a long time, but he came back a little earlier than Qin Bai and the others. But it was this little moment that made him even more unhappy. Because Huang Jincheng also came back, he brought one more person back, and now he is arranged on his boat.

This person is said to be from the Huang family. If Huang Jincheng is purely going to Jinling to take up his post, it will not be a big deal to bring a clansman. But for this fleet with a secret mission, the Huang clan was a completely unfamiliar face.

This is what Imperial Physician Shen is dissatisfied with. What exactly does Huang Jincheng want to do?!