188 [The Storm is Coming]
Watching the team of dusty horses slowly approaching, when he saw that the horses were indeed soldiers in armor, the horseman's heart was broken, Lin Zhiqi was surprised by his own words, and Rong Ziqi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and finally arrived.
Lin Zhiqi stopped to catch up with Rongzi, although she asked the front team to go first, but the shopkeeper in the lead was waiting for her, and when she saw this scene, she stepped forward and persuaded: "Miss, get in the carriage first!" Since someone has come to pick up the third young master Rong, you don't have to worry about it. ”
Lin Zhiqi thought about it right, so she went back to her carriage and went first, while the shopkeeper stayed behind to deal with the Rong Mansion soldiers who were chasing.
Although there was still some distance, Lin Zhiqi still recognized the one who led the horse just now as Wei Xing, whom she had seen when she first went to the Guogong Mansion.
Lin Zhiqi thought that she could travel with peace of mind now, but as a result, not long after, the shopkeeper caught up with the caravan and told her that Wei Xing was accompanied by Rong Ziyu, who should have been "detained" at home, in other words, the brothers' escape operation was legalized.
So, after a while, Rong Ziyu rode over and knocked on the carriage here. and informed Lin Zhiqi that they were going to follow the caravan of the Four Seas Commercial Bank.
Lin Zhiqi pulled the curtain of the car window and looked at Rong Ziyu suspiciously, "Since you can go by yourself, what are you going to do with my caravan?" ”
Rong Ziyu smiled, "Because it's lively!" As he spoke, he also looked meaningfully at the carriage he had brought behind him, and at this time Rong Ziqi was already sitting in it.
In fact, the two brothers did not follow the caravan. It's all indifferent. However, when the carriage was changed during the Eiko period, the groom may have been paid two wages. As a result, he didn't have to work, and he was in a very happy mood, so he said enthusiastically to Rong Ziqi when he left: "This young master, I think you are a good person, I advise you!" This daughter-in-law is to be coaxed. You always talk to that girl, and you can't get married. ”
Eiko's mood at that time was "......"
Why did he tell the groom just now that he was here to chase his daughter-in-law?
Thinking like this, he glared at Jin Zhu fiercely again. warned him that if Lin Zhiqi knew, he would kick him out of the carriage and run all the way behind.
And Rong Ziyu was on the side at the time and listened to the words of the groom. Seeing that Rong Ziqi wanted to follow the caravan, he agreed for the sake of his brother's happiness, and came over to tell the shopkeeper of the caravan in person. came over to inform Lin Zhiqi again.
Although the Rongzi period is depressed. However, this is the same as his purpose, and it is not explained.
Huo Huo, who went back to the city last night to see the situation, rode a horse openly and followed the carriage at this time, and whispered to Rong Ziqi about the situation last night.
"That's about it. Wei Xing said, Grandpa Guo's order to him is to listen to you, I don't know how much he knows, but he is the general of the Rong family. There should be no problem. ”
"I see." Eiko closed the windows and began to think about what he could do next.
The other side. Lin Zhiqi didn't follow the Rong brothers, but she was a little depressed and left it behind, anyway, it would be good if she didn't need to be a nanny.
She began to take the map that Yang Jue had given her before to see the route this time.
Every spring and summer, the Four Seas Trading Company will bring things from the north and west to the coastal and southern areas, and then bring things from these places back to Xingzhou and Jiaozhou, and some may be sold to the north and west. As for whether it was smuggling or legal, Lin Zhiqi didn't know. She is not interested in how the Yang family does business.
The caravan that followed this time was not large, and it was only one of the many caravans of the Four Seas Trading Company traveling south, and the things they brought were mainly spices, including dry goods that Lin Zhiqi had unearthed that could be used as seasonings, and some animal skins or something.
The reason why Lin Zhiqi chose to follow this team is because it has passed through the most places. First walk east for three or four days, and then, take a boat from Shouzhou, this waterway is directly to Jingzhou, before Rong Zishu and they went to Beijing to take this waterway.
However, since the caravan did not go to Beijing, it would disembark in Shouzhou on the way, then take the land route, and then pass through part of Yuzhou, and then take a boat to Yizhou.
This is several days slower than going directly to Yuzhou and taking a boat. But it's absolutely fine to arrive before the start of the world's No. 1 Oiran convention.
The weather was good in the next few days, the caravan went very fast, there were post stations along the way, and Lin Zhiqi also ran to climb a mountain halfway, anyway, when the caravan arrived at the dock, it would take a day to queue up for loading, and she was not afraid that she would not be able to catch up.
Four days later, at the only wharf in Xingzhou, Lin Zhiqi boarded the boat, which belonged to the water gang that had business dealings with the Four Seas Commercial Bank, and the safety on the road was basically the responsibility of the other party.
Because the ships are all pre-determined cabins and so on, they didn't follow the ship because of the large number of people in the Rongzi period, but they let them squeeze into an official ship that went to Beijing, and they just got off the ship halfway anyway.
On the first day on the boat, Lin Zhiqi was glad that she had no symptoms of seasickness, but unfortunately, the people around her were poured, looking at the apples that had lost weight in an instant, the longan that spit out black circles under her eyes, the lychees with white faces and peeled lychees, and the double peaches that were stuffy in the cabin and circled in circles, Lin Zhiqi laughed at them more than once.
However, fortunately, there are still two people left, Miao Gu and Grape, so she doesn't have to be the first young lady to serve her maid.
threw all the seasickness to the grapes to take care of, and Aunt Miao took care of both ends, which is also the reason why Lin Zhiqi didn't need to take too much care of the boat.
This is just a small episode in the trip, and it also made Lin Zhiqi have seen enough of the scenery on the river, so she went to see if the seasickness symptoms of these people had been reduced when she was bored.
I thought that more than ten days on the river would be spent in such a comfortable way, but on the ninth day, they encountered a sudden storm.
The rain seemed to come without warning, at noon, one moment it was cloudless, and the next second, the sky was already covered with dark clouds, just like a trick.
Fortunately, the waterways in Shouzhou are not all between mountains and rivers like Xingzhou, and both sides of the river are mainly plains, and there are still many wharves in villages, towns and counties.
The ship on which the Four Seas Trading Company was sitting stopped at a nearby wharf called Ping County. At the same time, they also relied on the two ships that were similar to each other, as well as the official ship they were on during the Rongzi period.
After a night of storms and rains, for the sake of safety, the shopkeeper let Lin Zhiqi and his party get off the boat first and live in an inn in the county seat.
Because the official ship in front of it was parked first, a good inn was naturally occupied by them first, but since there is a dock in Pingxian County that can dock so many ships, the prosperity is naturally not low, and there are many inns.
It's just that I thought it was just a passing place to avoid the wind and rain, but it has become a way for some people to break their souls. (To be continued......)