Jia Yun struggled and finally hung up in front of Wang Xifeng. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info On the day of the trip, Jia Zheng and the Qingke Xiaowu and others rushed out, leading the horses and the cars. Daiyu took Zijuan, Snow Goose, Qingwen Wang Mama and others in a carriage at the gate of the garden, led by the servants, and came directly to the gate. Baoyu and Mingyan led the horse to look left and right, and suddenly saw Jia Yun carrying a burden next to the carriage, and they were immediately very happy. A group of people chatted at the door for a long time before slowly leaving the city.

From the capital to Suzhou, the waterway is more convenient than the land route, saving the trouble of staying in the hotel along the way. Jia Zheng chartered three boats to transport passengers, one boat was inhabited by the masters and the people who were waiting for them, one was given to the Qing passengers, and the other boat was given to the housekeepers. Daiyu and Zijuan, Snow Goose, Qingwen and others live in the back cabin, and the autumn pattern in Baoyu's room also lives next to Daiyu, occupying a small five cabins. Jia Zheng lived near the front cabin, drinking tea and chatting with Bu Guxiu and Shan Pingren, and Baoyu lived next to Jia Zheng with a cigarette.

Zijuan and Qingwen packed up the cabin for Daiyu to rest first, and ate some snacks and dry food brought out from Jiafu at noon. In the evening, the boat lady made a few dishes with the live fish that was caught freshly and stewed a pot of fish soup and sent it over. When Qingwen first got on the boat, she felt that everything was fresh, but in the afternoon she began to turn pale and dizzy. Daiyu knew that Qingwen should be seasick, and instructed Zijuan to take a pill for seasickness and feed her a pill for seasickness, so that she could recuperate in the cabin.

The same is true of Mingyan on Baoyu's side, when he first got on the boat, he was still alive like a monkey, and when the boat drove for less than a quarter of an hour, Mingyan vomited in the dark, and after a night, he couldn't even climb up. Baoyu came over and asked for a pill for him to eat, but in less than a quarter of an hour he retched again, and Baoyu had no choice but to go over and tell Jia Zheng, who ordered Lin Zhixiao and others to take the tea and smoke to the shore, find a medical center to treat him, and then follow him when he is better.

Two shifts of shipwrights sailed day and night, and they came to the border of Jiangnan in about a month, not far from Suzhou. Baoyu stood on the deck and looked at the willows on both sides of the river, rippling in the microwave, and felt relaxed and happy. Daiyu, Zijuan, and Snow Goose moved a small bench to sit on the back deck, and asked the boat lady for fishing with a fishing rod and bait, and Qiuwen also came over to join in the fun.

Qingwen first lay on the boat for more than half a month, and then gradually got up, as soon as she saw the rippling blue water, she still felt bitter in her mouth, and her face was green, so she stayed in the cabin, opened the cabin door to do needlework, occasionally glanced at the scenery on both sides of the river, the bustle of people coming and going on the dock, and listened to the cheers of purple cuckoos and snow geese on the back deck.

After another ten days, Jia Zheng's ship finally came to Suzhou Mansion. Here they met two passenger ships from the same capital as them. Jia Zheng saw that the two ships were probably also eunuchs, and they should have traveled earlier than them, so he ordered the boatmen to slow down and not have to fight with them.

The two Beijing ships were also unceremonious, and they had been walking steadily in front of the Jia family's ship, and the little servants and the owners on the ships were very self-assured, and they didn't talk to them. Jia Zheng also had no intention of sticking his face to other people's cold butts, plus he had just received an errand out, it was when the spring breeze was proud, and he didn't care about this also coming out of Beijing, he still drank tea and enjoyed the scenery with the Qing guests, talked loudly, and his interest was not damaged at all.

At this time, there were many people crowded on the docks of Suzhou, and as soon as the people and merchants saw those burly guards, they knew that the identity of these people was not ordinary, and they took a detour. Several people surrounded by the guards held silk handkerchiefs and anxiously wiped the sweat from their faces. The prefect of Suzhou, who was guarded by everyone in the middle, said: "Why haven't you come yet?" Didn't you say it was time to arrive today? ”

Someone beside him immediately replied, "The news came in the morning, saying that it should arrive at noon." Then someone said flatteringly: "If you are tired, you might as well go back and rest first, and let the lowly people wait here." ”

The prefect of Suzhou, who was known as an adult, thought for a moment and shook his head. They sent people to inquire about Jia Zheng's boat along the way early in the morning, and made sure that Jia Zheng and the others would arrive today, so they all gathered here to greet them. Although Jia Zheng is only a member of the fifth grade, he came to supervise the construction of the academy on behalf of the new emperor, and has the right to directly fold to the new emperor, and there is a noble concubine in the family, so they dare not underestimate it.

Besides, in case the new emperor took this Lord Jia as his own family on a whim, gave him a decree called the construction of the academy, and secretly asked him to inspect the south of the Yangtze River, these officials of Suzhou Prefecture were in control of the salt and grain, and none of them were clean, and they were worried that Jia Zheng would hand it over with a fold, and the family business and official position that he had been running for several years would come to an end.

Moreover, they had already heard through various channels that the silver used to repair the academy was several million taels. Millions of taels, they seemed to have seen a glittering silver mountain slowly floating along the river. How much money can be spent on a ruined academy for indiscriminate repairs? Presumably, this Lord Jia is also distressed that so many good silver have been wasted in vain, if he can form an alliance with them and everyone will keep the silver together, this Lord Jia should not mind having more silver in his private treasury.

Although these officials came to welcome Jia Zheng on the surface, they were calculating in their hearts: the opportunity to make a fortune was sent to the door. Suddenly, someone in front of me shouted, "It's coming, it's coming!" It should be Lord Jia's ship! The prefect of Suzhou Prefecture hurriedly opened everyone to look, only to see two Beijing ships slowly coming along the river, and another boat coming behind them, and they all hurriedly cheered up.

The man in front of him was startled when he saw a large crowd of people crowded on the dock, and hurriedly returned to the cabin to make a report. A young man in his twenties came out of the cabin, and when he saw that the people on the dock did not look like gangsters but looked like officials, he returned to the cabin and said goodbye. In the cabin sat a middle-aged man of nearly fifty, with a beard and a sallow face, who was a "Zhishi" for more than two or three months.

Like Jia Zheng, he also rented two Beijing boats, took a son and housekeepers, and sailed all the way along the river to enjoy the scenery, so although he traveled for more than two months, a month earlier than Jia Zheng, he had just arrived in Suzhou.

This official is also for the matter of repairing the academy. Jia Yuanchun returned to the palace and told the queen that Lin Daiyu was willing to donate her family property to repair the academy, and the queen told the new emperor. As soon as the new emperor was happy, he brought this matter to the court and said it, and the speaker suddenly felt that he had pinched the pigtail of the new emperor: The trivial things in the harem were also taken to the court, isn't this the harem interfering in politics?

So after the official went down to the court, he wrote a full fold of folds, and presented it when he went to the court the next day, criticizing the new emperor for conniving at the harem, defiling the court, and making the new emperor so angry that his face was red. The official was still triumphant, and the people next to him saw him for fear of being implicated, so they came out to play a round. In contrast, this official felt that he was high-spirited, and decided to use his resignation as a threat to admonish the new emperor again. Who would have thought that as soon as the excerpt of the resignation was put on, there was not even a will to keep it, and the new emperor would approve it.

Just got on the excerpt of the resignation official, and it was approved?

This official is still dizzy after two or three months. At this moment, I came to Suzhou Wharf, ready to abandon the boat from here and go ashore, and then change the car and horse to Huzhou, and heard that there were many people waiting at Suzhou Wharf, and I was very excited: the people's heart is here, the new emperor is perverse, and it is really a big mistake to connive at the harem to cause chaos in the court! He excitedly ordered the young man who went into the cabin to report: "Let the boatman bring the boat over, it must be the officials of Suzhou who have learned about the affairs of the court, inquired about our ship today, and came to meet us." ”

The young man walked out of the cabin and saw that although the guards were wearing civilian clothes, and the few people in front of him were not wearing official uniforms, but when he looked at his bearing, and then looked at the people around him who were far away, he knew that it was undoubtedly an official from Suzhou Prefecture. So he hurriedly asked the boatman to bring the boat over.

The Suzhou government officials waiting on the dock were looking forward to it for nearly two hours, and were warmly basked by the sun of early spring, and their whole bodies were covered with a layer of oil and sweat. The boatman pulled the boat over, and when everyone on the shore saw that the young man was in his twenties, the prefect of Suzhou led by him asked to both sides: "Didn't you say that Lord Jia's son is only thirteen or fourteen years old?" The person next to him who had inquired about the news of the Jia family in advance thought about it for a while, and hurriedly came over and replied: "I heard that Lord Jia has a nephew in his twenties, so he will follow Lord Jia to deal with the chores." Presumably this is the nephew. ”

The prefect of Suzhou nodded, only to see the young man on the other side return to the cabin and help out a man in a civilian robe, about fifty years old, with an official bearing, thinking that this was Jia Zheng, and he was suddenly excited.

The young man helped Yanguan onto the dock, and as soon as he stepped on the ground on the dock, he saw that the group of officials from Suzhou Prefecture surrounded him, and the prefect led by him came over and cordially held Yanguan's hand, and warmly condoled: "Lord Jia, you have worked hard all the way. ”

This Yanguan was excited and unspeakable, and suddenly heard the official of Suzhou Mansion in front of him call him "Lord Jia", and suddenly thought of the concubine in the harem who made him lose his official position was surnamed Jia, and his excitement turned into embarrassment, shame, resentment and other emotions. He shook his beard, squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, and said, "The old man's surname is Yang, not Jia!" ”

This Yang Yanguan stubbornly stacked this sentence, and he was very embarrassed in his heart. At this moment, the sharp-eyed official saw that the Beijing ship behind him had turned around, and his heart moved, and he couldn't help shouting: "That must be Lord Jia's boat!" When the prefect of Suzhou saw that the boat was really a Beijing ship, and was about to turn around and run, he hurriedly squeezed forward and shouted: "Lord Jia, quickly leave Lord Jia behind!" ”