Ziyan insisted on going back to Gusu with Qu Wu first, but Qu Wu knew that once she decided, it would be difficult to persuade her, so she had to fulfill her wish and go to Maoyuan to say goodbye to Mi Hong and his wife and board the Taiwu.

In addition to a few living cabins, the other cabins of the Taiwu were filled with grain, and there were ten ships full of grain, all of which were hung with the flag of Da Chu, waiting for the signal of the Taiwu to sail.

Just after noon, the Taiwu let out a whistle and slowly began to sail away from the dock, followed by the other ten ships that left the dock in turn, and followed the Taihe downstream.

Due to the importance of the cargo, Qi Hong arranged four armed shipwrights on each of the ten ships, plus the Taiwu, and there was an escort team of nearly 50 people.

It is now late spring, and the snow melt and rainwater from the upstream have increased the water and speed of the river, and the boats going down the river are much less laborious than when they came, and the boatmen take turns to carry the pulp and guard in shifts.

Qu Wu and Zi Yan stood at the bow of the boat, looking at Yingdu on the shore gradually moving away, the strangeness of the previous few days had been replaced by the sense of mission at this time, and the future life seemed to be closely related to here.

The experience of the past few days has made Zi Yan have mixed feelings, Yingdu, this place that once made her suffer a lot of physical and mental damage, but these days have made her taste the sweetness of her first kiss and first love. Although the grandfather and father cannot be said to be wronged, they can be regarded as giving up their past suspicions with the King of Chu. And restoring the ancestral business of the Zi family, this alone is enough to comfort their spirits in the sky.

Although Qu Wu didn't feel the kind of surprise that Zi Yan had lost and regained, he was still happy for Zi Yan.

Going down the river, the grain ship went smoothly, because there had been a conflict with the water pirates when it came, and for safety reasons, Qu Wu let the Taiwu walk at the back of the fleet to ensure that the grain ship in front was not disturbed.

Qu Wu's fears were not unfounded, the people of Chu were famous for their fierceness, and in addition to the courtesy of the officials and soldiers, these water pirates were all deeply disturbed by the other civilian ships. But the Taiwu let more than a dozen water thieves return in vain, not to mention, and also suffered a lot, and the possibility of revenge for these water thieves who rarely suffered losses is extremely high.

It was just around noon the next day when we reached the location of the waters where the water had clashed with the pirates that day.

To be on the safe side, Qu Wu stood at the top of the ship, patrolling ahead with a telescope.

Just after noon, Qu Wu found that a boat was rowing towards the fleet, and then the small boat was close to the fleet, and after approaching the Taiwu, the boat followed the Taiwu, and there was a person on the boat who signaled to the shore with a flag, and Qu Wu suddenly had a sense of foreboding.

After a while, he saw six small boats rowing towards him on the left and right shores in front of him, and Qu Wu immediately issued a warning to Ximen Fox, who immediately stood on the high place of the boat upstairs and signaled to the ship in front.

There were three men in each of the twelve boats, and the most terrifying thing was that the man at the bow of each boat held a burning torch, and the archer in the middle held a bow and arrow.

Qu Wu asked Ziyan to hide in the warehouse, and immediately took out two fire extinguishers that he had removed from the car last time and put them at hand, ready to extinguish the fire at any time.

After Simon Fox signaled, all the boats sped up to try to get rid of the entanglement of these water thieves.

But these small boats were very fast, and they were obviously aiming at the Taiwu, and if the ships in front did not help, the Taiwu would definitely not be an opponent with one enemy and thirteen.

Ximen Fox immediately used the flag to signal the ship in front to ask for support, just halfway through, an arrow flew over, Qu Wu standing next to him was quick, and immediately used the copper flute to pull away the arrow, and pushed Ximen Fox to the ground and lay on the roof of the ship.

At this time, the nearest boat was only about 20 meters away from the building boat, and someone shouted to the Taiwu on the small boat: "Listen to the people on the building boat, someone has reported that your ship has items prohibited by the government, stop the ship immediately and accept inspection."

Qu Wu knew that these people were pretending to be the government in order to force the Taiwu to stop and prevent other ships from rescuing.

However, when the ten boats saw that the boats were coming towards the Taiwu, they all began to row back, dividing five boats on the left and two on the left and two on the left and right, so as to deal with the thirteen boats together.

Qu Wu and Ximen Hu picked up a fire extinguisher and quickly jumped off the top of the boat, and the two stood on the right side of the boat.

"Whether there are any prohibited items must be checked before we can determine, stop the ship immediately, otherwise you will bear the consequences." Said the man on the boat.

"Brother, it's okay to check, but I wonder if you have an official token?" Qu Wu asked.

"How can this be reasonable, why do I need a token for the people of Chu to inspect your Wu country's cargo ship? Stop the ship immediately for inspection. The man on the small boat was a little anxious, because he saw that the ten big ships in front of him were approaching this side to outflank them, although they had thirteen of them, but after all, they were small boats, how could they withstand the impact of the big ships?

"If you don't have a token, don't blame me for not cooperating, brothers, please go back." Simon Fox said.

"Brothers, up." At this time, the people on the boat were impatient, and with this order, the boats approached the building boat one after another, and several ropes with hooks were thrown to the side of the building boat.

Qu Wu and the six men on the boat did not dare to slack off, rolling and crawling to the side of the ship, cutting off the rope of the hooked ship.

Seeing that the rope had been cut off, the people on the boat began to throw fist-sized stones at the ship, and several boatmen were smashed.

The people in the small boat took two more bamboo ladders, and after a while, people's heads were exposed.

Ignoring the attack of the stones, Qu Wu and one of the boatmen swung the slurry to the side of the ship, repelled the two men who were about to board the ship, and then pushed the bamboo ladder out with the slurry.

When the people in the boat saw that the attack was not successful, they began to fire arrows and continue to throw stones, and the people on the boat also began to fight back with stones, condescendingly smashing the people in the boat to the point of crying wolf.

"Stop, stop, stop." Suddenly, someone in the boat shouted.

So the people in the boat stopped throwing stones and arrows, and when they saw that they had stopped, they stopped.

"Listen, the people on the boat, I count three times, if you don't stop, your boat will become a fire boat." Said the man on the boat.

Qu Wu and Simon Fox hurriedly latched the safety bolt of the fire extinguisher and prepared to deal with the attack of the twelve torches.

"One, two......" Before the three words were counted, Qu Wu and Ximen Fox's fire extinguisher nozzles sprayed at the torch on the boat, and a thick white fog shrouded these small boats, and the torches were all extinguished.

The people on the boat laughed, and rowed forward quickly while they were in confusion, and in a few moments they threw themselves away, and the boats did not dare to chase them anymore, so they had to go back.