Chapter 122: Parting Brothers
Kong Ke rushed to Wuyue Town alone, Liu Jin took a day to complete the journey, but Kong Ke only took less than an afternoon.
Naturally, it is impossible for the young man to send him alone for this operation, and now the young man's order has already been passed out with the longing figure in the small courtyard, and it will not be long before the manpower required for this operation will be assembled, and Kong Ke is here alone just to facilitate the monitoring of the target.
It is impossible for him to have not heard of the name of Wuyue Town, and he knows that this is not a simple market town, and it will be bad if there are many people who come, and it is not easy for him to attract the attention of people who are monks.
Liu Jin and the others made a stir in Wuyue Town today is really too big! Daoist Kong didn't think much to find the inn where Liu Jin was staying, after all, even at night, Liu Jin and the others still set up a stall in the hall on the first floor of the inn and then bought goods, and Daoist Kong only had to follow the merchants.
Kong Ke entered the inn, asked the shopkeeper for a room, and went upstairs to rest, Liu Jin's movement was so big, he didn't need to sit downstairs and stare at them.
Soon, the night gradually thickened, and Liu Jin and the others made trouble until midnight before they finished work and went back to the room to rest. At this time, a black-faced boy also appeared in Kong Ke's room, the young man they called "Little Four".
"Little Four, are all the people here?" Kong Ke felt the movement in the room, but he still maintained the posture of meditating on the couch with his eyes closed and asked lightly, and his eyes did not open.
The black-faced young man picked up the kettle on the desk and poured a few sips of cold water, slumped on the tatami mat, and then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "O military advisor, everyone has arrived! This way really drove me to death!"
"Hehe, young people should move more! You see that my old bones have walked so many miles and haven't said anything, what are you talking about!"
"Can you compare to you old goblin?" the black-faced boy muttered softly with his head down.
There was a "bang", followed by a painful "ouch" sound from the black-faced boy.
A small pebble flew out of Kong Ke's sleeve and the wide head of the black-faced young man in the middle, this sound, that is called a crisp!
"Boy, what are you talking about? Say it louder, my old man can't hear it clearly behind his ears!" Kong Ke said lightly.
"I mean, the old man, the military advisor, is not old, and the martial arts are strong, where can we be compared with the younger generations!"
"Hmm!" Kong Ke replied with his nostrils in satisfaction, and then fell silent.
Looking at the appearance of the military advisor meditating with his eyes closed, the black-faced young man breathed a sigh of relief, and just wanted to say something more, but before he could say anything, he covered his mouth with his hands.
After that, the room was quiet, and Daoist Kong still meditated quietly, but the black-faced young man was left alone to sit and lie restlessly, and the young man was already fond of moving, and he really wanted to die in a hurry if he didn't make a sound!
In this way, the black-faced boy struggled all night, holding on to the eyelids that were about to fall, and he didn't dare to sleep, because the snoring would also make noise to the military advisor......
Finally, when the day dawned, Kong Ke ended his meditation, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the haggard appearance of the black-faced young man, but fortunately, the young man's face was too dark and he couldn't see any dark circles under his eyes.
"Stinky boy, why don't you sleep!" Kong Ke asked with a frown.
"Don't dare to sleep!" replied the black-faced boy with a sad face.
"Why?" asked Kong Ke suspiciously.
"I'm afraid to snore ......," the black-faced boy muttered.
"You...... I ......" Kong Ke was speechless by the young man's answer, and then scolded with tears and laughter: "Hurry up and sleep for Lao Tzu!
"Oh......" The black-faced young man who heard this sentence fell asleep without going to the couch, and after a while, a thunderous snoring sounded sound.
Kong Ke looked at the naïve young man, smiled helplessly, took a sheet from the couch and put it on the sleeping young man, and left the room lightly.
Liu Jin and the others spent a whole day yesterday and still didn't spend the money, and they went to the door of the tooth store to set up a stall at dawn today.
After resting for a night, the energetic Taoist Confucius found a teahouse near Yaxing, sat down in a window seat on the second floor, and looked at Liu Jin who was busy downstairs while drinking tea......
It took Liu Jin and the others another half a day to finally spend the nearly one million copper coins, and the more than ten double-decker ships and ships full of goods that were exchanged for were now docked at the wharf in Wuyue Town.
In the afternoon, Liu Jin once again counted the number of ships and goods, and after checking that they were correct, he followed Xu Chen's order and ordered the boatmen to set sail quickly.
Xu Chen's manpower was strictly insufficient, so the sailors and boatmen on these dozen ships were all hired at the expense of Wuyue Town, which was the starting point of a maritime trade, and naturally gathered a large number of sailors who relied on their skills and strength to eat. They do not belong to any family, in fact, those maritime families have their own boatmen and sailors, so naturally they will not hire this group of people who do not know the details, and this group of people are mostly bankrupt water fishermen, and have no land, so they have to rely on this strength to earn food.
And most of the sailors who can mix out in Wuyue Town are excellent skills, and at the same time people with good reputation, as long as they sign a contract with the employer, they will sell their lives to the employer, although the loyalty is not as good as those domestic slaves, but at least in this trip is still worth trusting and lazy, this is also the foundation of these sailors' lives, but if you break the rules of this line, you don't want to mix anymore, so the sailors will consciously abide by these and consider everything for the employers.
At the next hour in the afternoon, Liu Jin ordered the fleet to set sail, and more than a dozen double-decker ships slowly left the dock.
The not-so-small fleet gradually moved away, leaving only a group of people sighing in the air above the dock, but there were still some people who did not give up, such as the one-eyed He Laosan.
He Laosan squinted at the fleet, looking at the distant fleet with one eye, with a resolute expression on his face.
"Big, big brother, the boat is gone, what should we do?" the bald man next to He Laosan asked at him.
"It's good to go! We can't move in this Wuyue Town, and when they go away, we'll be able to do it!" He Laosan still looked at the fleet, as if he was answering, and seemed to be just talking to himself.
Liu Jin's fleet gradually increased its speed, and more than a dozen large ships galloped quickly on the rippling blue waters of Poyang Lake.
Soon they sailed to Changshan Island, but the fleet did not stop, turned around, and headed towards the mouth of Poyang Lake in the north.
At this time, on the hill on Changshan Island, Xu Chenzheng had just put down a slender bamboo tube in his hand, and said to the old third iron bull beside him: "Liu Jin and the fourth child are gone, you will also set off later!"
Since the auction, at dawn the next day, after Liu Jin carried the copper coins out of the city, Xu Chen also took a small boat and rushed to Changshan Island, leaving behind a large number of family members who came to the door. These people all inquired about the appearance of such treasures as Liuli at the auction last night, and they were all smart people, so they could naturally guess that Xu Chen was tired here, so they came to the door.
It's just that I didn't expect Xu Chen's movements to be so fast, he left Yuzhang City as soon as dawn, and everyone went to Xu Chen's house, only to see Lu Hao who stayed at home, Lu Hao was also from an official family, and he was okay with these people.
The people who couldn't get an answer on Lu Hao's side pointed the finger at Xu Fan, but Taoyuan was the territory of the Huang family, although Xu Fan seemed to be just a demeaning petty official, but he was well-informed, and the stronger families also had some of their own sources, knowing that this Xu Fan was unusual, they naturally didn't dare to go rashly, and those weak families, the big signboard of the Huang family was enough to discourage them.
Therefore, so far, Xu Chen's whereabouts have always been a mystery, of course, only for those families with slightly weaker strength, and those who are strong enough will not offend Xu Fan for a few things, so Xu Chen stayed on Changshan Island freely.
Tie Niu could hear the reluctance and faint worry in the eldest brother's tone, after all, this was the first real separation between their brothers, but at this time, sad words were not as important as a few words of relief, so Tie Niu smiled and said: "Big brother, you can rest assured! The fourth brother is accompanied by Liu Jin, his old slippery head can live for so long, and he is not a person who will be bullied, as for me, I don't have Zheng Tai here! We will discuss everything!"
Xu Chen smiled, he knew that Tie Niu was comforting him, so he scolded with a smile: "I still need you kid to comfort me!
"Hehe, big brother, take care! I'm leaving!" said Tie Niu with a smirk.
"Oh, by the way, remember to ask Zheng Tai to send a few binoculars to the fourth! those bed bugs behind them are too annoying!" Xu Chen waved the slender bamboo tube in his hand and said to Tie Niu.
With the glass, this simple telescope is not difficult, but this thing is too rough nowadays! At most, people can see things a few miles away, and even a master with better eyesight can't compare to it, but it's better than nothing.
"Got it, big brother, we'll catch up later, and send all those bed bugs to the water to feed Wang Ba!" said Tie Niu, pulling Zheng Tai away with a smile.
Xu Chen looked at the distant figures of his brothers, and fell silent for a while, this is indeed the first separation between their brothers, but everyone needs to grow, and the process of growing up is always difficult to avoid these partings.
All we can do is to pray silently and bless those relatives who have traveled far away in our hearts......