At this time, when Chang Yilin returned home, he was thinking about finding Wei Yushui's stand-in, and he sent people to cast a net to find people who looked similar to Wei Yushui's age, preferably someone who was seriously ill and was dying. It is indeed extremely difficult to find people who meet the requirements among the 400,000 people in Yangzhou, but Chang Yilin must also do it head-on.

Although he was a little disdainful of his father's proposal, he was also resentful of Wei Yushui, feeling that his father was old and did not distinguish between right and wrong, and missed the old feelings too much. But in order to maintain his father's prestige, he also had to do his best.

At this time, Teng Liqun's dilapidated home was empty, and his family was arranged by Meng Ming to go to Tokyo, and he wrote a letter to Wang Weiyi, asking him to treat Teng Liqun's wife and let him treat it with penicillin.

His house was given to a family who had fled from Hebei East Road, along with his own boat, and the family was immediately grateful.

The head of the family is called Zha Yunpeng, a native of Cangzhou, about forty-five or sixteen years old, quite proficient in martial arts, leading his wife and four children, wandering to Yangzhou, but thanks to Teng Liqun's help, he usually hires him to run boats, so he survives a full meal. His wife, Cha Wang, is forty-one years old. His eldest son was twenty-two years old and named Zha Lianghong; The second son is eighteen years old and named Zha Liangwei.

The two have been practicing martial arts with their father since they were children, and they are also good at martial arts, and now Zha Yunpeng is not an opponent when compared with them.

There are also two daughters, the eldest daughter Cha Yuniang is sixteen years old, and the youngest daughter Cha Zhenniang is thirteen years old, both of whom are proficient in martial arts, and this family is simply a martial arts family.

Since Teng Liqun gave him all the belongings, his family's life has also improved a lot, usually with his two sons to run the boat to pull goods, because his freight is lower than others, he is also loyal and honest, quite recognized by the owner, plus Teng Liqun's original old customers, so the business is also good. Life is getting better, and I can eat meat every day.

On this day, he took a single business, that is, to transport grain from the north of Yangzhou to the railway station in the south of the city, he and his two sons filled the cabin with grain, and then pulled the employer to the south of the city. The boats on the canal come and go endlessly, and the sea boats, large ships, net boats, large and small boats, ferries such as public and private Zhejiang fishing, and passenger ships are all berthed on the riverbank. Gaiyangzhou's large districts, the most vendors, and eunuchs, all gathered here.

He rowed with his sons, shouting from time to time, and the oars parted and the waves moved forward rapidly but steadily, and the scenery on both sides of the canal moved quickly backwards. There is a customs dock in front of it, which collects taxes from ships entering and leaving; Since there is no tax on transporting grain, Cha Yunpeng waved the flag and drove directly over.

The boat traveled for half an hour to the railway station and dock in the south of the city. I saw a big boat rampage in the canal, so that the small boat in the river hurriedly dodged, for a while people turned on their backs, scolding everywhere, the boat still didn't care, only to see a few people on the boat are still pointing and pointing, laughing, for fun.

At this time, the boat rushed towards the river on Cha Yunpeng's side, and when he saw that it was not good, he hurriedly turned to dodge, and finally avoided it. His two sons were so angry that they shouted at the people on board.

I saw that the people on the big boat heard the scolding, and when they turned around, it seemed that the employer had recognized the ship as the Yangzhou Boat Gang's Cao Transport Boat, and immediately wilted, hid in the cabin and stopped making a sound.

He hurriedly called Zha Yunpeng again, and told Zha Yunpeng that the big ship was the transport ship of the Snake Boat Gang, and asked his son to stop scolding, so as not to cause trouble.

Cha Yunpeng stopped the two sons' yelling and told them to paddle in peace, he didn't notice that there was a man in a robe staring at him on the boat.

This man has a lewd face, eyebrows like brooms, a pair of triangular eyes, a mustache on the upper lip, a rat-tailed beard on the chin, and a treacherous and difficult appearance.

He hurriedly called the person next to him and asked this person to also observe Zha Yunpeng.

He asked the man: "Fifth Brother Ma, do you see if this person is eight points similar to Hall Master Wei, you send a few good hands to keep an eye on him, and I will go back to report to the young helper." ”

At this time, Zha Yunpeng parked the boat on the dock on the shore, and saw a train of steel like a dragon in the distance, parked on two railroad tracks.

The owner of the goods introduced him: "Brother Cha, you see that the steel thing is a train, it can run only by eating coal, it does not know fatigue, it travels more than 2,000 miles a day, and can pull 40,000 loads of goods at a time, you say it is amazing." In the future, when you go to Bianliang, Tokyo, you don't have to go by water. The shipping cost is twice as fast as shipping, but the speed is five times that of it, so it's quite cost-effective. ”

At this time, Zha Yunpeng also realized that the river transportation of the canal would decline, and the long-distance ship transportation would not be long before it would be replaced by rail transportation. As a result, a large number of ships will lose their long-distance business and will only be able to transport them for short distances, so their own business will become more and more difficult.

At this time, they heard a loud noise on the river, which shocked everyone to feel a little deaf, and everyone hurriedly looked for the sound, only to see that the rampant big ship just now was broken into several sections, and it was constantly sinking, and there were people in the river who were constantly falling into the water, and many sailors were hit by scattered rough wood and broken wooden boards, and they were directly disemboweled, and their brains burst out, and they died tragically on the spot.

The blood also spread quickly, the surrounding water surface was dyed red, and the people on the boat around were stunned by the tragic scene in front of them, and no one dared to go down to search for and rescue the person who fell into the water.

At this moment, a long whistle woke everyone up from the shock, and a boat emitting black smoke appeared in front of them, and the strings of this boat were actually smooth, and there was no place to shake the pulp.

The boat was retreating, and no one was rowing, and I didn't know how the boat was going.

But everyone thought the ship was so sturdy that it smashed the larger one to pieces.

I saw that this strange boat released a few small boats and began to rescue, and rescued more than 30 people from the river one after another, and then began to salvage the remains of the deceased, and finally the salvage was basically completed.

At this moment a boat almost identical to this one appeared from the north side of the river, also emitting black smoke and whistle and speeding over, and the wooden boat in front of it was soon left far behind.

These two ships are the iron-hulled steamships developed by the University of Tokyo, and they wanted to wait for Meng Ming to go back and try again, but who knew that Meng Ming couldn't get away in Yangzhou, so he sent a message to Chen Qiming, so that Chen Qiming didn't have to wait for him to go back and try again, and he could try the sea immediately.

So they chose an auspicious day, held a trial ceremony, and then followed the Bianhe River into the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, all the way to Yangzhou.

The accompanying personnel included Yan Shu, Chen Zhizhong, Lu Zongdao, and Chen Qiming, teachers and students, and the two ships carried a total of 35 people.

Chen Qiming personally piloted the first ship, the "Chengfeng", and his student Yang Wenqi piloted the second ship, the "Yangfan".

Chen Qiming has been driving the "Chengfeng" smoothly, who knew that there was a collision with a local boat in the canal section of Yangzhou.

The main local ship did not shy away from seeing their ship, and went on a rampage, going straight to each other, and the "Chengfeng" could not dodge, so this accident occurred, so the scene that happened in front of people's eyes appeared.

At this time, Yan Shu, Chen Zhizhong and Lu Zongdao were on the "Chengfeng", although the hull was fine, but the shock wave after the collision also made everyone fall to the ground, and they all suffered some bumps, especially Yan Shu's head