The line is re-lined, and the king is separated. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info more than 10,000 miles apart, each in the end of the world. The road is blocked and long, and the meeting is safe?

With Su Jingyi's entrustment and Cheng Rui's heavy payment, Shen He and Xiaocui embarked on the road to Beiyan.

The carriage stopped and stopped, and walked for half a month in succession, before coming to the Huai'an River, a big river on the border between the Southern Chu State and the Northern Yan State.

The Huai'an River is located at the junction of Northern Yan and Southern Chu, and it is also the key point of the north-south thoroughfare. From here to Shangjing in Beiyan, you have to pass through dozens of gates along the way. It is also the fact that civilian ships have to avoid official ships, and in the case of the peak season of water transportation, the ships are getting slower and slower, and the journey that was originally only a month is often delayed for several months. Therefore, in order to be in a hurry, if it is not a bulk cargo, merchants who go north will often go ashore here and take the land route.

It's just that now the relationship between the two countries is tense, and the coachman refuses to follow the two to Beiyan Kingdom, and Shen He doesn't force it, but just hands over the money and silver for this journey to the coachman.

It was not easy to find the coachman who was willing to take them here, if it weren't for Su Jingyi's help, no one would want to go out to do such a business in this chaotic time, so Shen He also gave the coachman an extra five taels of silver, saying that he was grateful for taking care of Yunyun along the way.

The coachman did not refuse, accepted the silver taels, but gave them a few words.

It turns out that this driver often does this kind of business of soliciting passengers between the two countries for long distances, so he is more familiar with this river basin.

He reminded Shen He that this river is relatively smooth, and the speed to Shangjing will be faster, but there are often river bandits on this river, specializing in robbing the money of merchants on the ship, if you take the river, you must be careful.

Shen He secretly wrote down these words, thanked the coachman for the reminder, and the two walked on the road.

The farther he walked in the direction of Beiyan, Shen He felt that the weather was getting colder and colder, and the solar terms here seemed to be a little later than in Nanchu, where there were already signs of spring, but it was still cold winter weather here.

Fortunately, both of them are dressed in men's clothes, and in order to cover up their daughter's figure, they specially put on thick cotton clothes inside their coats, so now because of this outfit, they help block the cold weather.

Therefore, although both of them had red cheeks from the cold, they didn't feel so cold on their bodies.

Seeing that it was not early, and the daylight here was slightly shorter than that of Nanchu, and it was darker earlier, the two decided to find an inn to live in first, and wait until tomorrow to inquire about the ship to Beijing, and then it would not be too late to leave.

The two of them walked around the town, which was not very large, and there seemed to be only two streets from south to north, and the sides could be seen at a glance.

From the south to the north of the town, the two walked around and saw a total of three inns.

One is called "Yuelai Inn", which looks clean and tidy, and the price is more fair after asking, and the other is called "Xiangfu Inn", which is larger than Yuelai Inn, but the price is also much higher, and there is a hotel run by the government, which is specially for officials of the imperial court to stay.

The two weighed it and decided to stay at the first Yuelai Inn.

Perhaps because of the recent uneven border relations, the identity review of the hotel is now stricter than usual.

If the officials of the imperial court and the merchants who come and go to stay in the hotel, they now have to go to the "letter card" provided by the government, while ordinary people have to carry a special kind of "post roll", if they do not have these certificates, they will not be able to stay in the hotel, especially the official hotel is impossible to receive.

If you don't have identification, you can't stay at the hotel, but you need to have a mortgage or an acquaintance. If there is no credit certificate, and no one is willing to guarantee, then there is only "camping", and the hotel does not dare to accept them, and these people are called "non-orderers".

This kind of hard and fast regulation is mainly the need of the government's public security management, and there is a fear that there will be traitors.

Entering the Yuelai Inn, the two took out the "letter card" prepared in advance, which was also thanks to Su Jingyi's thoughtfulness and preparation for the two of them in advance.

Xiao Er in the store looked at the letter card and found that it was from the capital, so he was much more polite.

Xiao Er registered the detailed identity information of the two people on the letter board on the special "store book" in the store, and kept it for the record, so as to be submitted to the official inspection on a regular basis every month.

There are three kinds of guest rooms in general hotels, one is the "head room", which generally comes out for office work, and because of the identity relationship, it is not possible to live in a government-run hotel to live in such a first-class room, so it is also called "official room"; The second-class rooms are ordinary or poor rooms, called "slightly rooms" and "burrows", in which tables, chairs, and beds are also complete, but they do not have the exquisite decoration of the official rooms, and the items provided are less; The most inferior one is the "Tong Pu" and "Big Bun", which has only one large bed, which can be used for many people, such rooms are generally lived in by those who work hard or are poor, and many people are crowded into one bed, and that kind of feeling is so uncomfortable to think about.

Of course, Shen He and Xiaocui will not live in the last type, and the two finally decided to live in the first type, although it costs a little more silver, but it is safe, comfortable, and they are treated better.

After registering the letter card and handing over the silver, Xiao Er took the two to a head room on the second floor, and when the two took their luggage to the room, they washed the dust on their faces a little, and when they went downstairs to eat, it was already dark.

The two asked for some porridge and side dishes, each drank a cup of tea, and added a few snacks from the store, and the two of them had already eaten and had a full stomach, and were about to go upstairs to sleep when the government came to check on the guests.

Now is a time of war, and the government has paid more attention to the management and registration of merchants.

Today, a local management official and a secretary came to the store, and the two ordered the shopkeeper to call out all the guests who stayed in the house, and made a roll call one by one, and then instructed the shopkeeper to close the door of the store after stamping, and the guests went back to their rooms to sleep peacefully.

At dawn the next morning, the officials and secretaries returned, and summoned the guests according to the list to make a certificate.

When Shen He saw that the officials were so strict, he knew that this place must not be peaceful recently, and he Xiaocui became more and more cautious.

After a simple breakfast, the two were ready to leave the room and set off on the road.

When I went out, I inquired about the shopkeeper of the store, and the shopkeeper heard that the two were going to go to Beijing across the Huai'an River, so he shook his head at the two and said, "The two of you can't leave today, let's stay for two more days." ”

When Shen He heard this, he hurriedly asked the reason.

It turned out that since noon yesterday, the waterway in front of the Huai'an River somehow began to slowly accumulate boats, blocking the channel, and the speed of the boat slowed down again and again, like a turtle.

After Shen He heard this, he was anxious, and Xiaocui hired a carriage to come to the edge of the river, and sure enough, standing on the shore and looking around, the river in front of him was densely packed with boats of all sizes, and new boats were constantly coming up behind, and the entire river was blocked tightly.

Shen He inquired about the reason from the people next to him, and it turned out that the last gate to enter Beijing a few miles ahead was actually closed by officers and soldiers, and no matter whether it was official ships or civilian ships, they would not be allowed to pass. It is said that not only the water routes, but also the land routes, and the only official road leading to Shangjing has also been blocked.

As for the reason, the people on the nearby ships have different opinions, and there is no conclusion for a while, but one thing is certain, that is, something big must have happened in the capital.

Shen He and Xiaocui saw that there was no hope for traffic, and they didn't know how long it would take to dredge the river, so they had to return to the store.