"Zhang San?" The shopkeeper frowned and thought about it, shook his head for a long time, and finally shook his head and sighed: "Hey, I don't remember." We have too many guests here every day to remember. ”

"Don't remember? Think about it again. Ren Laifeng's palm was like a juggler, and there was a shining silver dollar. The two fingers pinched and shook twice in front of the shopkeeper's eyes, "Do you remember?" ”

"Uh-huh, remembered, remembered!" The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, staring at the silver dollar and swallowing hard, "Zhang San is a guest who came to eat with us, a total of three times, I heard someone call him Zhang San." He is about five feet two inches and three minutes tall, with a slender face, a high nose bridge, thin lips, and a slight figure of eight when he walks. He had only come to dinner at noon the day before yesterday, and had heard that he was going to cross the river. ”

In the end, the shopkeeper opened a restaurant, and the observer was careful, and when the adjectives of his appearance were spoken, the appearance of the orderly Zhang Sheng immediately appeared in Ren Laifeng's mind. Zhang Sheng has a nickname called Zhang San, and his height and appearance are exactly the same as the description of the restaurant shopkeeper.

Ren Laifeng put the silver dollar on the shopkeeper's accounting table, "How much is our dinner in total?" I'll settle the bill first. ”

"Three yuan, six cents and seven cents, count you three yuan, six cents and five cents." The shopkeeper stood up. This is the rule, and you have to stand to pick up the food money of the guests as a sign of respect.

Ren Laifeng took out the banknotes from his pocket and counted a few and handed them over, "Give you four yuan, don't look for it." ”

"Yo, thank you. I heard that Zhang San had worked in the army before, and now he specializes in trade on both sides of the New Yellow River. If you look for him here, he will be here in a few days. ”

Ren Laifeng smiled and patted the shopkeeper's shoulder and returned to his seat. Everyone immediately stopped their chopsticks and looked at him. "Keep eating, we'll cross the Yellow River after eating."

This is not a banquet, how long can a meal last if you eat it slowly? The meal was soon over, and by the time we got to the dock, the boat crossing the river was already waiting there. It is a small boat with a canopy in the middle, which looks a bit like a fishing boat used by fishermen.

Someone on the dock told Ren Laifeng that the boatman had already returned home from work, and if he wanted to use the boat, he would either have to row himself or have to wait for the boatman to come to work tomorrow. I really have to row by myself, this two-stroke is really amazing! Ren Laifeng scolded fiercely in his heart and led everyone to board the ship.

After Xiao Qingfa got on the boat, he took the initiative to go to the captain's seat at the stern of the boat, and began to row the boat in a decent manner. The fishing boat slowly left the dock and sailed towards the middle of the river. Sailing in the Yellow River is not as simple as it seems, and there are many undercurrents in the Yellow River, even if the new river channel formed last year is still full of undercurrents. This can be seen from Xiao Qingfa's serious expression.

Ren Laifeng's heart began to hang upward, he wouldn't have taken another risk, right?

It can be seen that Xiao Qingfa did make a boat before, but it is estimated that he should not have done this job for a long time, and he was a little raw when he first came up. As the boat moved forward, the bow of the boat would be washed away when it encountered a slightly stronger current, and he would adjust back after he had passed the current. In this way, the route is changed again and again, and the correction is made scary every time.

At this moment, Yu Xiaoqian suddenly made a sound and operated an oar. He stretched the oar into the water and paddled the water skillfully. It wasn't until this time that Ren Laifeng suddenly remembered that this little fishergirl who seemed to need to be taken care of everywhere turned out to be a capable person on the water! People have been fishing in fishing boats since they were children, can they not drive fishing boats?

Rowing with oars looks inconspicuous, but an expert like Yu Xiaoqian seems to be paddling just right every time. She rowed a few times, and the boat was noticeably steady. The expression on Xiao Qingfa's face also relaxed, and the heart that Ren Laifeng was carrying finally returned to its original place.

"Wenying, can you swim?" Once Ren Laifeng relaxed, he couldn't be idle. He had nowhere to go on the boat, so he chatted with the beautiful women around him.

"What is this for?" Feng Wenying looked at the man beside him puzzled.

"If you can't, I can teach you. If you fall overboard, I'll be able to get you out. I'm telling you, I'm very good at water. I don't want you to call me master, you just need to call Brother Feng, I am on call. What do you think? It's safe to follow me, right? ”

"A sense of security? Brother Feng? Feng Wenying was a little surprised by Ren Laifeng's boldness, he had rarely laughed at himself like this before. However, this level of ridicule did not disgust her, so although she was surprised, the smile on the corner of her mouth was still inadvertently revealed.

"Hey." Ren Laifeng agreed casually, and Feng Wenying glared at him fiercely. It's just that no matter how she looks at it, it's more like an eyebrow flirt between lovers.

Ren Laifeng and Feng Wenying sat on the bow of the boat and fell in love, while the others observed the water intently. Yu Xiaoqian, the little fishing girl who should have noticed this scene the most, was controlling the boat with Xiao Qingfa at the stern of the boat at this time, and she didn't have time to distract herself from observing what the people on the boat were doing.

With Yu Xiaoqian's joining, the boat quickly arrived at the opposite shore smoothly. Everyone abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, and their feet stepped on the ground, and then each breathed a sigh of relief. No one spoke when they were on the boat, and it wasn't until they got ashore that they realized that everyone had a heart.

After the New Yellow River, it is Zhongmu County. Although most of the county's jurisdiction has become a yellow flood area, the main body of the county is still there. There are puppet soldiers stationed in Zhongmu County, and there are also a small number of devils. said that it was a garrison, but in fact, these devils were more like the supervisors of the puppet army.

There are few devils and many puppet armies, and the formation is that the devils don't care about things and the puppet army doesn't care about anything. So much so that the army and merchants in Hexi often rowed boats to smuggle across the New Yellow River, passed through the territory of Zhongmu and entered Hedong to buy all kinds of urgently needed materials, and then crossed the New Yellow River to the interior of Hexi to sell.

After a long time, all kinds of materials in Hedong began to concentrate in Zhongmu. Originally, this inconspicuous small county town has gradually become a famous cargo distribution center in Henan. Cloth, oil, salt, grain, meat, etc., all kinds of materials were piled up in Zhongmu County and the nearby villages and towns that were fortunate enough not to be reduced to the Yellow Flood Area.

Before Ren Laifeng entered Zhongmu, he found a big market in a village called Liu Zhai to the west of the county seat. Before I entered the village, I saw people coming and going at the entrance of the village, and it was not lively. This is like a village, obviously like a town store. There were even more people entering the village, and almost all the peasant houses had people or vehicles entering and leaving the gates.

Ren Laifeng casually found a house and followed the people in front of him into this courtyard. I saw rolls of cloth piled up in the courtyard, and several people were approaching to choose them. Is this a cloth wholesaler?