Yao Sanxing is about to set off from Meigong County with the goods. This batch of goods is very important, Ningxia Qing is determined to follow the ship in person, this decision has frightened many people, but her attitude is resolute, and no one else can stop her.

The reason why she wanted to follow the boat in person was actually because she heard a message from Gu Xuesong.

It turned out that the reason why Ah Zheng had not come back was because the emperor was going to Zhou Zeshan, where the climate had been abnormal in recent years, to worship the sky, and hand-picked Ah Zheng to accompany him. The emperor's itinerary was naturally a secret, if it wasn't for the purpose of informing her of Ah Zheng's whereabouts, Gu Xuesong would not have revealed this matter to her.

However, when she heard the three words Zhou Zeshan, she suddenly remembered what the major events in the world she had forgotten!

Zhou Zeshan is located in the south of Meigong County, and Yao Sanxing's cargo ship is also going to sea from the south, just passing by Zhou Zeshan!

Before leaving with the ship, Dong Zizhen told her that after hearing that Xiao Jingyuan returned to Meigong County, the office had a deal from the south, and it was a trade from another country, and the day of the ship was similar to the day when Ningxia Qing set out of the ship.

Ning Xia Qing thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Is it a deal in Western Xia?" ”

"What?" Dong Zizhen was confused: "Boss, didn't you hear clearly, I said that the deal came from the south, why did you suddenly go to Western Xia......"

Ning Ningqing's brows became more and more furrowed, and Xiao Jingyuan went out to the south at this time......

Ningxia Qing told Dong Zizhen what Du Qiutong said before he died. Dong Zizhen frowned and thought for a while, and said, "I feel that eighty percent of the cousins have misremembered...... Or, the other party deliberately concealed it and lied that he was from Western Xia, but the southern accent couldn't be changed for a while, so the cousin said that the other party was from the south. ”

Cuiyu on the side didn't understand: "But it's so decent, why do you want to lie that you are from Western Xia?" ”

Dong Zizhen explained: "Isn't there a war going on in the south now? The other party may be a merchant from Nanyue, afraid of getting into trouble because of his identity, so he lied that he was a Tangut. After all, the two countries of Nanyue and Western Xia are the most common ones to trade with us. ”

Ningxia Qing couldn't help but groan, could it be that the other party was really a Nanyue who lied to Western Xia? Could it be that the buyer of Xiao Jingyuan's deal was a South Vietnamese?

Yao Sanxing's line was a total of ten cargo ships. Yao Sanxing, Ningxia Qing, and Ning San were all on the main ship.

Ning Xia Qing stood on the deck almost every day, looking at the south side of the advance. Master Ning couldn't stand it anymore, and persuaded: "Even if you watch it every day, we can't fly over all at once, how good is it for you to stay in the cabin honestly, blowing the wind here every day, what if you get sick?" There's no one to treat you here! ”

Ningxia glanced at Master Ning San and asked, "When will we go to Zhou Zeshan?" ”

Yao Sanxing approached here from the side, leaning on the railing on the side of the deck casually, and the experienced Yao Sanxing said firmly: "Two days at most, I will definitely be able to arrive." ”

Ning Xia Qing nodded, glanced back, and said unintentionally, "Has that ship been following us all along?" ”

"yes, I found out too." Yao Sanxing took it seriously: "Eighty percent are merchant ships on the same road." ”

Master Ning San couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with that ship?" ”

Ning Xia Qing frowned slightly, and said hesitantly: "I don't know what's wrong, I've always thought that ship was weird." ”

"What's wrong...... "Ning San glanced back.

Ning Xia Qing looked at the ship, thought about it for a long time and didn't figure it out, but he still kept staring at it, and said, "I just think it's a little strange, I can't say it......"

Yao Sanxing, who was quoted by Ning Xia Qing's words, couldn't help but notice the boat behind. Yao Sanxing took a closer look, his expression suddenly changed, and he immediately said, "That ship is indeed a bit weird!" The ship's waterline was wrong, as if it wasn't loaded! ”

Ning Xia Qing looked at the boat, and then at the other nine boats on Yao Sanxing's side, and when he boarded, he clapped his hands and said, "By the way, I have always felt strange but I can't say it, it turns out that it is because the ship looks too light!" ”

Yao Sanxing glanced at Ning Xia Qing and asked, "When did Ning Dangjia start paying attention to that ship?" ”

Ningxia Qing replied: "Hasn't that ship always been on the same road with us?" When I passed the previous pass, they cleared the customs at the same time as us, and I heard their accents strange at that time, so I paid more attention to them. ”

Yao Sanxing shook his head and said, "It should not be surprising that the merchants who come and go from the south to the north have different accents. However, Ning Dangjia paid attention to the ship by mistake, and only then did he realize that there was a problem with the waterline of the ship. ”

It is not surprising to say that there is no loading and only going on the ship, after all, it may also be a cargo ship returning after transporting the cargo, but then there is no need to clear customs. After all, you have to pay a large amount of tax silver when you clear customs, and you don't need to pay tax silver if you don't ship the goods. But isn't it strange that the ship obviously has no goods but does not land to clear customs and pay taxes and silver?

Ning Xia Qing glanced at Yao Sanxing and asked, "Boss Yao thinks that why should a ship that does not carry goods have to pay taxes and silver?" ”

Yao Sanxing whispered: "According to my experience, eighty percent of ships like this are filled with things that cannot be seen. This is generally the case with smuggling ships, as well as with ships carrying smuggled salt. ”

In order to avoid high taxes, some cargo ships would be disguised as passenger ships. In order to find out this situation, the government will carefully check every large ship that passes by but does not take the initiative to clear customs, and the government can almost turn such a ship upside down, and everyone carefully and carefully investigates it, which is often tedious and time-consuming.

There are only two exceptions to this process.

The first type of ship is a ship that does not transport goods but is in a hurry, which will stuff silver when the government comes on board to check it, and then it can be quickly released, which is faster and cheaper than going to the customs to clear and pay taxes from one pass to another.

The second type of ship does not transport goods but takes the initiative to go ashore for customs clearance, and there is only one possibility, that is, there are things on the ship that cannot be seen by the government. Therefore, it is better to pay high taxes than to let the government get on its own ship.

Ning Ningqing shook his head and said, "This ship doesn't look like it's loaded, and smuggling and smuggling salt are impossible." ”

Master Ning San was stunned when he heard this: "What the hell is going on?" ”

Yao Sanxing shook his head puzzled, and Ning Ningqing shook his head puzzled.

Two days later, Yao Sanxing's boat stopped at the pass at the foot of Zhou Zeshan. Ning Xia Qing saw that the strange ship that followed them also stopped near the pass.

When Ning Xia Qing was about to get off the ship, he was told by the soldiers at the pass that only one person from each group of caravans could get off the ship, that is, only Yao Sanxing could get off the ship, and Ning Xia Qing and Ning San and others had to stay on the ship.

Ning Xia Qing knew that since the soldiers were so cautious, it seemed that the emperor was now on Zhou Ze Mountain.

If it weren't for Zhou Zeshan's bad climate in recent years, the emperor would not have come here to worship the sky. In fact, even if the climate is bad, the labor emperor will not come in person.

The emperor's preference for travel is well known to the world, and the emperor is often dissuaded by officials, and some people quietly criticize it as a waste of money and labor.

According to Gu Xuesong, in order to avoid listening to the nagging of officials in the court, the emperor made Zhou Zeshan's matter a secret, and there were no more than ten eunuchs in the palace who knew about it. The emperor didn't even notice the officials of the county where Zhou Zeshan was located, and came with a team of personal soldiers. Even the concubines in the palace thought that the emperor had gone to another palace to escape the summer.

Only the crown prince and the fifth prince know the inside story because they have eyeliner in the palace.

This emperor is ridiculous enough, the emperor of a country is not good to stay in the capital, so he has to go to Zhou Zeshan to play, and he hastily notified the officials at the local pass when he arrived at Zhou Zeshan.

There are only about 20 permanent soldiers in this pass, and the emperor is pinning his safety on these 20 permanent soldiers.

No wonder these soldiers look bitter and hateful.

While the ship was stopped, Ning Xia Qing found a sailor from the ship and told him to go into the water and quietly investigate the strange ship.

At this moment, it was almost dusk, Yao Sanxing went to go through customs clearance at this moment, and he would not be able to return to the ship at least tomorrow morning, so he entrusted the boat to Master Ning San and Ning Xia Qing to watch before getting off the boat.

At night, Ning Xia Qing persuaded Ning San to rest and guard on the deck on the grounds that Ning San was too old to stay up all night.

In the middle of the night, the sailor who had been sent to inquire about the news returned to the deck in a panic, trembling with fright, and with a white face, saying that he had found that the strange ship was full of South Vietnamese soldiers disguised as merchants!

The sailor traveled north and south for many years, and most often interacted with two kinds of people—merchants and soldiers. A sailor can never be mistaken!

Really! All this is the same as the fragment in Ningxia Qing's memory! The South Vietnamese soldiers assassinated on Zhou Ze Mountain, and the emperor thoroughly investigated the matter after returning to Luan, and brought out the five princes, so the court was bloody and bloody, implicating the lives of countless low-level people!

These were all revealed to her by Tan Wenshi. In his previous life, Tan Wenshi was still Ning San's person on the surface, but secretly colluded with Xiao Jingyuan, so Tan Wenshi was not implicated, but he learned the details of the matter from Xiao Jingyuan! And then told her!

Ning Xia Qing only pondered for a while, then reached out and took off the wolf tooth from his neck, handed it to the sailor, and said, "You go to Zhou Zeshan now, find a person named Ah Zheng, and give him this wolf tooth!" Tell him what's going on! ”

The sailor stood there stunned, and Ning Ningqing reprimanded: "If you don't go, the Nanyue Kingdom will make a big incident on Zhou Ze Mountain, and your life will not be saved!" ”

The sailor was still at a loss, so Ning Xia Qing had no choice but to knock on the door of Master Ning San's room, and without hesitation, he pulled out the scolding Master Ning San who was awakened from his sleep, and asked Master Ning San to go up the mountain with the sailor to find Ah Zheng after telling the matter.

After sending away Master Ning San and the sailor, Cuiyu asked in a trembling voice, "Auntie...... Girl, is it too late for them to deliver the letter? ”

"Eighty percent is too late." Ningxia Qing answered without thinking about it.

"Huh?" Cuiyu was stunned, but she had already seen Ning Ningqing rush into the cabin, pulling what the boatman at the helm said, arguing for a long time, the helpless boatman had no choice but to start the boat and hit the boat straight behind!

Three or four people with confused faces instantly popped out of the other party's boat, looking at Ning Ningqing's boat in a daze, and then began to scold. Ning Ningqing was on the boat with a lot of sailors and stewards, all of whom were woken up, and after hearing the movement, they rushed to the deck, and saw that the other party was scolding their side, so they naturally scolded back first!

On the water in the middle of the night, it is so noisy! Alarmed the soldiers at the pass!

The soldiers at the pass couldn't help but come over to check the situation, and when they saw that there was a quarrel on the water in the middle of the night, they hurriedly scolded them, but the two sides insisted on their own words, saying that it was the other party's reason, and the soldiers at the pass couldn't hold it down for a while, and there was chaos on the water!

Neither side is willing to give in, coupled with the language barrier, Ningxia Qing took the lead in messing around, and the sailors below also followed the strong words, Ningxia Qing said that his ship was hundreds of thousands of taels of goods, and now they were all damaged by the other party, and they had to pay for the other party!

The soldiers at the pass are here, even if the other party turns around and runs, they can't really pay Ningxia Qing hundreds of thousands of taels! can only argue with Ning Ningqing like this, so he has been arguing unknowingly for more than an hour!

At this moment, there was a thunderous sound not far away, and I saw a group of people riding horses from the north and wearing the uniforms of the forbidden army suddenly descended from the mountain, and not far away, there was the sound of local garrisons hurrying in.

Ning Xia Qing pulled Cuiyu and turned her head and ran back to her room, and the sailors and stewards below saw her like this, and they scattered in a hurry for no reason.

In the cramped room, she heard the constant noise of swords clashing outside, and she did not dare to go out to check the situation. When the soldiers at the gate came and knocked politely on her door, it was all daylight, and the night had passed!

For so many years, the five princes who were used by the emperor to practice in the East Palace were beheaded, and the Xiao family, who stood on the side of the five princes, was punished by the nine clans. Ah Zheng and Ning Xia Qing won the glory given by the emperor because of their meritorious escort, and this glory will become the eternal baohusan on the heads of their husband and wife.

For Ning Xia Qing, all this was too far away, and when these distant things suddenly happened in front of her, she only felt unreal, and it was a little difficult to deal with herself. Although everything was planted by her, this fruit really made her a little hard to believe.

In fact, she really just wanted to avenge her father.

When Ningxia Qing returned to Meigong County, she learned that all of them were imprisoned because of Xiao Jingyuan's involvement, including Tan Wenshi. The government investigated for several months and learned that the people in the public office did not participate in Zhou Zeshan's assassination, but in the past few months, the family property of the people in the public office has also been confiscated by the government under various names.

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Tan Wenshi, who had been imprisoned for several months and was destitute, was released from prison.

Later, Ningxia Qing heard that Tan Wenshi drove a dilapidated donkey cart back to his hometown where he had not set foot for more than ten years, and his donkey cart only had his seriously ill mother, crazy brother, Du Qiutong's son, and Xue Qianqian's coffin.

A year later, the heirloom glaze was born, and the delivery was made according to the amount ordered by the prince, and the heirloom glaze replaced the imperial satin, and the Ning family replaced the former Xiao family's position in the material industry, or rather, the Ning family finally got back the glory and status that belonged to him.