As mentioned earlier, the ship is divided into three floors, the first floor below the deck is the cargo hold and the boatmen's rooms, and the cabins above the deck are occupied by the people of Jiafu.

And because the second floor was more closed, it was allocated to the female dependents.

But it was said that Ruan Rong went up to the second floor all the way worried, and bumped into two panicked mothers-in-law head-on, she had a ghost in her heart, so she didn't dare to stop and ask the reason, but dodged and retreated to the side.

Who knew that the two mothers-in-law didn't care about being polite, so they didn't look back and confessed their crimes, and hurried downstairs.

The slaves of wealthy families have always paid the most attention to the word 'etiquette', and if something important happened, they would never panic like this.

Ruan Rong couldn't help but be a little curious about what was going on outside, so she went straight to Daiyu's room, as the hostess of the ship, Daiyu's guest room just overlooked the bow of the boat.

Pushing open the hatch, I saw Lin Daiyu, Zijuan, and Snow Goose lying on the window, looking down through the gap, except for Daiyu, who was barely calm, the remaining two maids were all worried.

"What the hell is going on?" Ruan Rong walked quickly behind the three of them and asked curiously, "Look at you one by one, it's like the sky is falling." ”

The three girls were taken aback, and when they turned around and saw that it was Ruan Rong, Daiyu hurriedly moved out of the way and said, "Sister will know by herself!" ”

Ruan Rong wouldn't be polite to her, so she went straight to the window, and saw that they had carefully only opened a gap, so she directly reached out and pushed the circle, and looked out.

But I saw that on the river nearly 100 meters wide, there were six big boats with goose wings lined up, crossing the entire river, and the black pressure on the deck, not to mention seventy or eighty people, was across the river and the slaves on the Cao family's boat were shouting and scolding.

"Could it be that you have met a water coward?"

Ruan Rong muttered casually, and the two maids who were bluffing lost their faces, especially the younger snow goose, whose eyes were red and almost burst into tears.

Daiyu hurriedly pushed Ruan Rong and protested dissatisfiedly: "Sister don't scare people!" Where did all this water come from on the canal? Besides, how can the water cowards have a boat? There must be some other reason for this! ”

Saying that, she turned back to comfort Xue Yan and said, "Don't panic first, when Mama Zhang comes back, you will know what's going on." ”

Coincidentally, that Mama Zhang broke in at this time, and without waiting for her breath to be even, she replied: "Don't be afraid, girl, there is not a strong man in front, but a group of salt dealers!" ”

However, it turned out that the six ships were actually caravans carrying salt from the north, and because of the excessive amount of goods loaded with the draft, one of them accidentally got stuck on the reef, and the bottom of the ship was also broken.

Seeing that if this delay continued, the salt would be lost, so the salt dealers simply cut off the river, trying to forcibly requisition the passing passenger ships and transport the salt to the ferry thirty miles away.

If Jia Lian had left two days later, this unfortunate thing should have been borne by others - it happened that with Sun Shaozong's help, the day when everyone in Jiafu set off a few days earlier, they just ran into this group of 'roadblockers'!

The sudden earthquake in the hull of the ship was caused by the boatmen urgently dropping the four-claw iron anchor.

If it is an ordinary passenger ship, seeing that the other party is so large and powerful, maybe it will be cowardly - but the wealthy slaves of Jiafu usually do good deeds and accumulate virtue if they don't bully others, so they are willing to be coerced by a few salt dealers?

So the two sides scolded when they didn't agree!

But it was said that Na Jia Yucun was taking a nap in the room, and after listening to the people's return, he hurriedly got up in his clothes and hurried to the deck. ”

However, the wealthy slaves of Jiafu never took his 'broken household' seriously?

Listening to Jia Yucun's scolding, the slaves scolded even more happily, and some people deliberately shouted at the top of their throats: "Lord Jia of Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling, is here, you donkeys stabbing dog days, don't quickly dodge!" ”

Jia Yucun's hands and feet trembled, and he couldn't help them, so he had to come to Jia Lian's side and persuade bitterly: "My second master Lian! Hurry up and let them stop scolding, what if they get into trouble?! ”

The capital is 'there is a master, there must be a servant', in fact, this is actually the same in the opposite way - the rich slaves of Jiafu still don't take those salt dealers on the other side in their eyes, Jia Lian, who is used to being an uncle, how can he be afraid of them?

"Woe?"

I saw him pouting his mouth and said: "The ships of Rongguo Mansion dare to stop them, I think they are causing trouble!" When I arrived at Qingzhou Mansion in front, the second master, I had to let this bastard do it, and I knew what regret was! ”

Jia Lian said with pride, but Jia Yucun couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, and hurriedly pointed to the boats in front of him, and said: "The second master is afraid that he doesn't know anything, but whenever he escorts the official salt, there must be a flag of the salt road yamen on the ship, but there is no sign on these ships, it must be private salt!" If you dare to swagger to transport this lot of private salt by boat, there must be extravagant people behind you, and you may not be afraid of our Rongguo Mansion! ”

After saying this, Jia Lian's face showed hesitation, but for the sake of face, he couldn't get off the stage for a while.

Jia Yucun hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and said: "Besides, most of the smugglers are outlaws, and when I was in Jinling, I heard about the rebellion of the salt barons killing officials several times, if it really provokes them......

Hearing the words 'killing officials and rebelling', Jia Lian shuddered when he landed, so what kind of face can he take care of?

Hurriedly jumped to his feet and scolded: "Don't scold, don't scold!" Shut up the second master! ”

His scolding was immediate, and all the slaves were immediately silenced.

However, at this time, it was too late to give in, and I saw that the five big ships on the opposite side had already surrounded them like fans, and the passenger ship of Bijia Mansion had just gotten off the iron anchor, and had not had time to change the sails to the direction of the wind, and for a time it was paralyzed there and could not advance or retreat!

At this time, the rich slaves finally discovered that the person they had just been provoking was actually a strong man with more than 100 fierce gods and evil blades!

So one by one, it was as if someone had choked their throats, and they couldn't even say a whole sentence, so there were still talented teeth?

Seeing that he was getting closer, he saw a middle-aged fat man in a brocade mink robe on the opposite boat, surrounded by many salt lords, pointing and poking and scolding: "What kind of bullshit Jinling prefect, a small official with a sesame mung bean, dares to charge in front of the uncle?!" Later, I will drive all the people on this boat into the water and wash the stinky mouth that can spray feces! ”

Everyone in Jiafu changed color when they heard the words, like these pampered goods, who were thrown into the water in the winter, afraid that they would be half-crippled if they were not dead!

In a hurry, the slaves were forced to show some courage again, and hurriedly turned over the hole cards: "What do you want to do?" The one who is in charge of this ship is the second master of our Rongguo Mansion! ”

"Yes, we are from Rongguo Mansion!"

"The second master of my family's Yue family, but the lord of the nine provinces is the king!"

The hole cards turned over were bigger than the other, and the waists of the slaves were re-erected, and there were more dirty words between the words.

The fat man on the other side laughed when he heard this: "Who am I, it turns out to be the precious son of the first-class general Jia Yu!" Anyway, I'll save some face for Rongguo Mansion - except for Jia Lian, throw them all into the water for me! ”

After listening to the first half, the slaves thought that the other side had been bluffed, and they were about to take the opportunity to show off their might again, but the last sentence was a sharp turn, and they were all stunned.

It was only at this time that Jia Lian knew that Jia Yucun was not bad, and there were really extravagant figures behind the other party, and he didn't even pay attention to Rongguofu and Wang Ziteng.

As he spoke, he saw that the big ships had already approached, and the salt lords worked together to put the gangplank on the side of the ship, and they each raised their swords and guns and rushed up!

The slaves immediately blew up their nests, and some of them froze on the spot and couldn't move; Some shouted, turned around and fled into the cabin; There was even the soft-boned minion, who knelt directly on the ground and screamed from his grandfather's ancestors.

The situation suddenly collapsed to such a point, Jia Lian and Jia Yucun were also like dirt - especially Jia Yucun, the intestines that had already regretted it in his heart were green, and he knew that he would encounter such a catastrophe, so he wouldn't have come to walk with Jia Lian!

But everyone was panicking, and they saw that the slaves who had fled into the cabin just now rushed out again, and all of them looked like they had seen a ghost.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a large wooden pole with the thickness of the top beams and pillars, 'jumping' out of the cabin, swaying and going straight to the bow of the ship!