The sailor who recognized Chen Xiucai as a bandit shouted, and more than a dozen sailors came out of the cabin, and Qianhu with a bearded face stood on the deck.

Chiho waved his hand, and several sailors pulled out a dinghy from the cabin, put it into the water, and sailed over. Chen Xiucai was poured by the rain all night, and after being roasted by the scorching sun during the day, the wounds on his body collapsed, and he was scorching and painful, he didn't eat for a day and a night, his stomach was hungry and weak, and he couldn't stand. The sailor only recognized him as a bandit, tied him with ropes, and carried him to the big ship. Chen Xiucai's feet just touched the deck and the people fainted as soon as they became soft, and before closing his eyes, he heard the sailor who tied him say don't see us deliberately pretending to be dizzy, Chen Xiucai wanted to refute a few words, but he didn't have any strength in his body, his eyelids sank, and he fell asleep.

When he woke up, he found himself lying on the bed, and there were beautiful calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall. He reached out and pressed the corner of his forehead, he had been mistaken for a water bandit in the water, and he thought he would be imprisoned.

He propped up his arms, because he was lying on the rocky beach to prevent the bandits from seeing, and his arms were hung by stones. A piece of blue and a piece of purple, a plaster was applied to the shoulder and the open wound, and it didn't hurt to press it.

Before he could recognize where this was, the little guy who broke in rushed out and shouted, "Governor, Governor, wake up, wake up." Chen Xiucai reacted for a while, until the other party said, "I'm Xu Guozhi." Chen Xiucai held his hand with his backhand.

Since Xu Guozhi was robbed by bandits in Shandong, after 20 years, I thought he was dead, but I didn't expect him to be alive and become the governor of Yuhang.

The two men spoke to the seat. Encountering Chen Xiucai was purely by mistake, and Xu Guozhi was only appointed as the governor of Yuhang last year. In recent years, with the increasing number of merchants on the water, water bandits have become more and more rampant, and the first thing Xu Guozhi did when he came to Yuhang was to suppress bandits. In addition, he was captured by bandits when he was young, and he revealed his hatred for bandits with all his heart, and vowed to pay off the Jiangnan water bandits.

A few days ago, the official grain of Shisou transported from Jiangnan to Jingshi was robbed by water bandits. Dare to rob under the nose of Xu Guozhi, if he, the governor, does not exterminate these water rats, he will not be in the position of governor. He personally went into battle, patrolling the water day and night on a warship, and the warship did not carry the official flag, but only made an ordinary merchant ship to attract water bandits. In the middle of the night the day before, news came that a group of bandits had entered a merchant ship and killed all the people inside. This merchant ship happened to meet Xu Guozhi's ship on a narrow road. A group of sailors went up and intercepted all the bandits. Just as Xu Guozhi's boat turned around, he saw someone in the shallow water desperately waving to the boat, and the sailors thought it was a water bandit. tied it up with hemp rope and escorted it to Xu Guozhi.

Acquaintances meet very cordially, and the two of them didn't expect to meet in one place. They talked for half the night over wine, and they all explained their lives clearly.

"I never thought I would ever meet you again." Xu Guozhi took a sip of wine and said eagerly.

At that time, he was kidnapped by robbers, and he couldn't get out of Shuibo Liangshan. But he pretended to be entangled with the robbers, because he was literate and hyphenated, and the robber leader wanted to expand his territory and keep him as a master. So he didn't start killing him. At that time, he was captured with a big merchant, surnamed Tao, and it was because of his persuasion that the Tao merchant's life was saved.

Later, the robbers caught fire, and the cottage caught fire, and he and the pottery merchant escaped.

Because he had a life-saving grace for the pottery merchants. The pottery merchant had the intention of repaying him and wanted to bring him to his hometown in Shaanxi. Xu Guozhi's father ran away when he was a teenager, and his mother pulled him to be admitted to Xiucai, and his mother went west, in order to repay his debts, he had to follow the horse team to go south and north, plus his sweetheart Wenxiu had married to the Wang family, he felt that it was meaningless to go back to his hometown, so he followed Tao Keshang to Shaanxi. The potter merchant has a big business, and his brother is an official in the imperial court, so he originally wanted to give Xu Guozhi the capital to do business, but Xu Guozhi was not interested in doing business and was bent on taking the road of the imperial examination.

The Tao merchant split a single door for him, and the Tao family is a first-class family in Shaanxi, whether it is the government or other merchants, they sell the Tao family for three points of face. Xu Guozhi is not such an embroidered pillow, but he is a talent with ink in his stomach, he studied hard for three years, and entered the thirty-six Jinshi in the first imperial examination.

When the elder brother of the Tao merchant returned to his hometown, he recommended Xu Guozhi to the imperial court, he did the wine of the prince of the country for three years, and released two places for ten years, and every time he returned to Beijing to report on his work and evaluate his work, he was appointed as the governor of Yuhang by the saint last year.

Knowing that Chen Xiucai came out to sell silk for a living, Xu Guozhi understood his personality and opened the door to convenience. Being an official is like this, if the water is clear, there will be no fish, as long as the surface is good, it is still possible to help former friends. And Chen Xiucai's character Xu Guozhi is very clear, knowing that he is the most courteous and law-abiding, providing him with the convenience of doing business, and he will not run rampant under the banner of the governor.

Speaking of the dead embroidery, Xu Guozhi sat all night with the lamp lit in the small study.

After Xu Guozhi entered the Jinshi, he married a cousin of a pottery merchant, and Mrs. Xu gave birth to a son, who studied at the age of fifteen in Beijing at the age of fifteen. Mrs. Xu left the west in the winter of the previous year, and now serving Xu Guozhi is a singer who was rescued on the way to work.

Chen Xiucai lived in the Governor's Palace, which was a big mansion, and he was specially allocated an independent courtyard. Walked all the way through the flowers and willows, and went around the covered bridge to see clusters of flowers and trees in the south of the Yangtze River, blooming vigorous flowers. Chen Xiucai walked around the yard, there was a patio and a kitchen, and there was a roll shed in the yard, which was full of wisteria, creeper and other climbing plants, purple flowers spread, and the green leaves of the creeper were in a good mood.

The small courtyard is full of colors, followed by the servants, the maid serving tea, the woman burning the fire under the stove, and the gardener doing chores in the yard. The little guy who followed led Xiucai all the way to Tibet: "Master Chen is the brother of the governor, and the governor instructed that Master Chen likes it the most, and ordered me to lead you to Tibet." Our family has a collection, the amount of books in the entire Jiangnan is not one or two, all of them are books collected by the governor, all the way from Beijing to Yuhang. ”

The little maid chattered all the way and talked all the way, and all he saw was an ordinary servant woman, and there was no young and gorgeous maid. Chen Xiucai naturally knew about Xu Guozhi's heart disease, his family had a little family background when he was young, otherwise it would be impossible for him to study. His father is a romantic ghost who loves flowers and moons, after the death of his grandfather, the only bit of family wealth was lost, when Xu Guozhi was eleven or twelve years old, his father scavenged the remaining silver in the family and went to Jiangnan to sell silk, all thought he had learned well, who knew that he met a kiln sister in Jiangnan, threw his wife and children away, and ransomed the kiln sister and flew away. For this, Xu Guozhi hated those prostitutes who laughed on the street since he was a child, and his only son was also managed by the old master, and not a single young maid in the house was released.

Crossing a nine-curved bridge, a river appears in front of you, the bank is planted with willow trees, a piece of land is split out behind the willow trees, the green rice ears are full of grains, and there is a thatched house next to the rice field.

Chen Xiucai didn't expect that there would be such an idyllic scenery in the huge Governor's Palace. Chen Xiucai is familiar with this scene, Xu Guozhi's hometown in the past is like this, but the rice field has been replaced by a wheat field. At that time, Chen Xiucai shouted across the riverbank, and Xu Guozhi would poke his head out and agree. In the summer, the two of them would tie their fierce sons to the river, and they would not come out for a long time, often making Wen Xiu, who was washing clothes on the shore, cry out loudly in fright.

Seeing Chen Xiucai looking at the thatched hut, the little guy next to him said with a smile: "The governor likes rural life, and every time he takes office, he will build such a similar house and field, and there is also such a place in our Jingshi's mansion, but wheat is planted there, and rice can only be planted in the south of the Yangtze River." It is said that the governor nostalgies the place where he lived in his childhood, and he specially cultivated such a place, in the past, in Beijing, every year when the wheat was ripe, the governor would personally cut the wheat with a sickle. ”

As he was talking, he saw a blue figure appear in the rice field. A palm-sized goose egg face, a pair of clear eyes, a handful of green silk tied with the same blue ribbon, except for a gardenia pinned to the placket, there is no other jewelry.

Chen Xiucai "chuckled" in his heart, but looking at the back, it looked like his sister Wenxiu. My sister also loves to wear blue clothes, often standing at the end of the wheat field and talking to Xu Xiucai, every summer when the acacia flowers are in full bloom, she often picks one and wears it on her chest, the color is as white as the gardenia in the south of the Yangtze River.

Seeing the blue figure, the little maid looked over, and shouted softly: "Aunt Xue is good." ”

Aunt Xue nodded lightly, raised her eyes and saw Chen Xiucai beside the little girl, made a half salute, lowered her head and went to the thatched house.

This Aunt Xue must be the only concubine by Xu Guozhi's side, and she is the singer girl he rescued on the way to his appointment. Chen Xiucai knew why Xu Guozhi brought her into the mansion this time, her whole person's charm was very similar to her sister, but there was still a difference when she looked closely, her sister was used to doing farm work, and her delicate face had an exposed coolness, and this Aunt Xue was too delicate.

When he arrived in Tibet, Chen Xiucai did not rush to read the books on the wall, but sharpened the ink and cut the paper and wrote letters to his family. Half of the merchants in the boat he sat in were from Xuzhou, and after staying for two days, he was afraid that the funeral table would arrive home, and if the family thought he was dead, he didn't know what would happen.

After writing the letter and sealing it, Xu Guozhi and Chen Xiucai thought the same, and specially sent a family member to send the letter to Chen's house in a hurry.

Rao is like this, still a few days late.