Today is the day when Qu Wu takes everyone back to Chen by boat. Early in the morning, Qu Wuding's building ship sailed to the dock of the prince's palace, and Prince Shoumeng personally went to the dock to see them off.

The shipbuilding technology of Wu is very developed, and the naval army is also first-class among all countries. This two-story building boat is a pleasure boat in peacetime, and it is also a tour on Taihu Lake; And in wartime it was warships. There are several large cabins on board, and it is as convenient as a modern yacht to sit on this boat, and you can also use it for fishing.

Qu Wu made full preparations for this long trip, eating snacks, playing cards, Go, chess, and the most special one, that is, two mahjong pairs, and two mahjong tables. The mahjong table is used as their dining table when eating, which is very convenient.

For the meal, there are stir-fried pots, condiments, butane-gas hot pots, semi-finished vegetables and meat prepared by the chefs of the Imperial Palace, and a lot of fruits.

Of course, gifts were also prepared for Da Mao's parents and Ji Zhi's family. For safety, Qu Wu also brought the fire extinguisher removed from the car to the ship.

Everyone worked together to put the two carriages on the big ship, and then pulled five horses and settled in the bilge, and then carried the luggage onto the boat. The reason for using five horses is that the carriage is too crowded, and there is a spare batch of horses, and there is no concern that any horse will affect the movement of the carriage.

After the boat was opened, everyone was excited, standing on the top of the boat, looking at the scenery in the distance, at this time Qu Wu took out a high-powered telescope for everyone to play. Zi Yan was the first to get it, but she didn't know what it was, when Qu Wu told her to use it, she saw the distant scenery clearly presented in front of her, and jumped up excitedly, exclaiming: "This thing is amazing, what is this." ”

"It's called a telescope." Qu Wu told her.

When everyone else saw her so excited, they all had to watch, one by one, which made the boatmen wonder why these people were so excited.

The boat walks slowly along the connecting river between Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River, the scenery on both sides of the river is as quiet and tranquil as a landscape painting, the sun shines on the river, sparkling, the water is murmuring, the peasant women washing clothes by the river, the farmers carrying the burden on the shore, and the children chasing and running along the river, combine into a vivid picture, which is intoxicating.

Everyone returned to the cabin when they were tired of playing on the top, ate the fruit snacks prepared by Qu Wu for everyone, and started the game of fighting the landlord again.

Seeing that they were having fun, Qu Wu ignored them, but went to chat with the boatmen.

The captain of the boat is very young, and he has a very special name---- Ximen Fox, who is about the same age as Qu Miao, because he has met and chatted for a long time yesterday, and he is already very familiar.

"Qu Gongzi, these friends of yours are very active."

"Everyone is young, we can play together, and today is the day to go home again, of course I am happy."

"That's it. I haven't been home for a long time, right? ”

"Actually, it didn't take long. It's just that I didn't go home for the New Year. Your ship of warriors is a warship, so are you considered military? ”

"When we don't fight, we are civilians, and when we wear war uniforms, we boatmen must contribute to the country as water bravery."

"Is there a lot of war in the Wu Kingdom?"

"Actually, it's not a lot, the relationship between Wu and its neighbors is good, but it's just that I've been eyeing Wu all the time."

Qu Wu knew very well in his heart that the Wu State was finally destroyed by the Yue Kingdom, and he had studied the war history of Wu Wangfucha and the Yue State Goujian. But that was hundreds of years later, and he didn't want to reveal what would happen in the future to anyone, history has its own laws of development, and even if he said it, no one would believe it.

"I don't think there is anything to fear at the moment, and going abroad is the threat. Chu is now a big country, and has always relied on annexing small countries to achieve territorial expansion, but in recent years, Chu has pointed the spearhead of expansion at his northern neighbor, but I don't know if it will be involved in Wu one day. Qu Wu said.

"Yes. However, there is no navy of our Wu State when they go abroad, they do not have warships, and they basically rely on land to fight, and we have an advantage in this regard. ”

"But once the land is captured, the navy has no foundation. I heard yesterday that the state of Chu is now preparing to attack the state of Zheng. ”

"As soon as the warriors open, I don't know how many people will be ruined, hey."

was chatting, and Ermao shouted at Qu Wu: "Boss, come over and play, there is one person missing us at this table." ”

Qu Wu had no choice but to stop chatting with the West Gate and enter the cabin.

"Boss, Chen Shi is not feeling well, go to sleep, you can replace him."

"Is he sick?" Qu Wu asked.

"I started to be depressed last night, I don't know why." Ermao said that he slept in the same room with Chen Shi.

"I guess I heard that Chu State was going to attack Zheng State, so I was worried about his family." Qu Wu said, first go to Chen Shi's room to see him.

"What's wrong, Chen Shi, is there something uncomfortable?"

"No, Boss. I didn't sleep well last night, and I was a little sleepy when I played cards just now. ”

"There will be nothing wrong with your family, even if the State of Chu attacks the State of Zheng, it will only attack the city, not the countryside. Besides, we are still preparing for it, and we haven't started a war yet, and by the time the real fight starts, we have already taken your sister away. ”

"Well, hopefully."

"Then you can sleep well, and call you again when you eat."

Qu Wu came out of Chen Shi's room and came to the cabin where they were playing, Ermao and Ziyan were missing Chen Shi, and the cards were not played.

"Why don't I teach you two how to play Go?"

But when Qu Wu spread out the Go board and took it out, Zi Yan said: "This is a game, but your game board has two more horizontal and vertical than ours, we have seventeen and yours nineteen." I'll play with this. ”

"Okay, then let's take a look at the next game first." Qu Wu said that Chen Ermao saw that there was nothing wrong with him, so he went to the side to cook rice and prepare hot pot.

So Zi Yan and Qu Wu began to play chess, it is estimated that Zi Yan is not suitable for the nineteen chessboards, and after a while, she will admit defeat in the middle of the game, but Qu Wu is still very surprised that Zi Yan has such a high level of Go, because her Go level has reached the modern professional level, and she has defeated many low-level professional chess players many times before when she was studying.

"Great, Ziyan, I always thought that there would be no one to play chess with me here, but I didn't expect your level to be so high."

"How can there be any high level, my brother is the master. I still used to ask my grandfather to play this game, you call it Go, but this word seems to reflect the essence of this kind of chess more than the game, the game focuses on siege, and the siege is more reflective of land grabbing. ”

"I didn't expect you to have such a mature side, good at discovering and summarizing, which makes me feel impressed." Qu Wu said.

"The two of you are touting each other, and the goosebumps on our bodies are round after round." Chen Damao said, and everyone laughed together.

At this time, Ermao's meal was also ready, and the hot pot was also settled, Qu Wu asked Ermao to arrange hot pot for the boatmen, and asked him to tell them how to use the butane gas boiler and how to eat hot pot.

Da Mao also called Chen Shi up, and everyone sat around and happily ate hot pot.