The rough servants shuttled back and forth from the carriage to the cabin carrying the boxes, a few wide planks from the Dongbianmen Pier to the deck, the sails of the five masts fluttered with the wind, the anchor was thrown on the shore, and the ship shook slightly in the water.

Jia Cong, Jia Lian, and Daiyu entered the cabin early, Xue Pan originally intended to take out their merchant ship and put up the imperial merchant signboard, the Grand Canal was unimpeded, Jia Lian was not satisfied, and transported one to the Wang family's side of Jiangnan City.

The cabin is divided into four floors, the bottom floor has the helmsman, sailor, porter, etc., the second and third floors are inhabited, and they live separately on the third floor, and the fourth floor is the watchtower, and the canopy is erected on the top of their heads. The length of the ship is several feet, and the thickness of the side is several inches.

Jia Cong came out of the third floor, surrounded by iron guardrails, the sailors and slender men shouted to anchor, and went south to Tongzhou, Jia Lian tied a mink cloak, and the cloak flew in the wind: "Brother Cong simply went to Wujiang first, we are estimated to stay in Yangzhou for a while, Aunt Lin's illness does not know how, it will inevitably delay your studies, you simply buy a boat to go to Gusu, the family is not at ease, I am relieved." ”

"Xing's family is in Shengze Town, Wujiang, or if you go to Wujiang and then go to Wuxian and Suzhou Fucheng, why is it not Jiading, Xinnijing Town is much more prosperous than Shengze Town." Jia Cong said.

Jia Lian smiled sympathetically: "Yes, but you have to have fun, every county in Suzhou has it, isn't Shengze Town good, when Liu Ru was in Shengze Town, he was more famous." Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Songjiang, the taxes of these five prefectures account for a quarter of my Dashun treasury, you still can't say it? ”

"I know this, if there are no mulberry trees and cotton, it's hard to say, the second brother only knows that Jiangnan is rich, but I saw in miscellaneous books that the local Qingxing thugs and tooth pickers are not easy to mess with."

"Don't you say that I forgot, Qingxing and Yaxing must be guarded against." Jia Lian is full of expectations for this trip, with 100,000 yuan wrapped around his waist, riding a crane down to Yangzhou, the place in the south of the Yangtze River is not enough for him to be romantic, Yangzhou thin horse, Suzhou fireworks, Qinhuai River's old courtyard in Quzhong, and the quality of women is the best in the world.

As for Sister Lin's matter, Second Master Lian doesn't care much about it, but he only likes Lin Ruhai's family property, and after a few years of salt patrol and imperial history, there should be millions, right?

The bow of the boat rowed the water, the waves on both sides squeezed away, Jia Cong turned around and saw Mama Wang and Zijuan in the compartment coming out to serve food, this Mama Wang is Dai's mother, but she has the same surname as the Yingchun nursing mother, Zijuan tied her double bun and said with a smile: "Master Cong also came out to breathe?" Beware of the wind and cold, the smell of the bilge is strong, if I serve one, what does Master Cong want to eat? ”

"I've taken it, do you girls still take medicine?" Jia Cong replied casually.

"Well, Ginseng Yoeimaru." Zijuan wanted to say something more, but seeing Mama Wang's urging and the corridor was full of people, she closed her mouth slightly, lifted the skirt under her vest and folded it down.

Jia Cong was born on the Lancang River in his previous life, and he has been on a boat since he was a child, although the action of ancient and modern boats is different, he feels that the difference is still not big, and there is such a scene in front of his eyes:

"Ruth, don't jump, the water is cold."

"Jack, Jack......"

……

Sitting on the edge of the bed in the cabin, the wooden table was set over, Jia Cong silently wrote "Mao's Poems" on bamboo paper, looked at the homework arrangement of the Guozijian Seminary, and then roughly read the book arithmetic and law, and lay down boredly.

The water surface is calm and fluctuating, and the people's hearts are faint, and the mountains and inlets outside the cabin window seem to be moving.

He took out his jacket and spread out Wang Dacheng's letter to see that the Jiangsu Governor was stationed in Suzhou, the Domain Division was stationed in Jinling, the General Army was stationed in Zhenjiang, the Governor of the River was stationed in Huai'an, and the Governor of Liangjiang was stationed in Anqing (Anhui did not have a province and was incorporated into Jiangsu and Jiangxi). Wang Dacheng is a sub-inspector under the command of the inspector, between the three divisions of the governor and the prefect, and there is always a time to meet.

Sun Fu added an oil lamp, Long Aotian summoned in the side cabin, Sun Fu asked, "Is the master going to rest?" But what kind of push-ups are you going to do? ”

"Of course you have to do it, you have to be as strong as Long Aotian." Jia Cong did it again, and his face and neck were sweaty.

Sun Fu came over and sat at the wooden table, looked at the bulkhead on the right, and opened his mouth and said, "Master Cong, you said that if Aunt Lin is gone, my Dashun woman has no inheritance right, will his hundreds of thousands, millions of family property be consigned back to the north?" That's developed. ”

"It's hard to say, it's none of my business." Jia Cong didn't care.

Sun Fu nodded and sighed: "Miss Lin is really pitiful, I heard that Aunt Lin originally had a son, but he died young, although this Miss Lin is beautiful and wise, she is not a man in the end, and she can't start a family." Miss Lin is not like Miss Bao who can be a person, and she has been sick and weak since she was a child, and it is said that she loves to cry and cry, so that she has a small temper, and Bao Er Ye can't coax her...... Master Cong, in the future, if you marry grandma, you can't marry like this, if we are slaves, won't we be guilty......"

Jia Cong was amused, and threw the blanket in his hand: "The emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuch is in a hurry, I don't know that this is the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, it's early." ”

……

Since receiving the letter from Lin Ruhai who is critically ill, Daiyu has been washing her face with tears every day, crying at the desk, but she is still silent, and the spring water in her eyes is coming, and she coughs non-stop.

Zijuan saw that the food did not have much stomach, and brought it to the snow goose to pour, the snow goose had a pink face, which was brought by Daiyu from Yangzhou, who was younger and less sophisticated, as if there was no such person. Zijuan helped Dai Yuxiang on the shoulder, "Girl, what do you want to do with those troubles, it's better to look forward to it first, when you arrive in Yangzhou, you will know, Aunt Lin is looking forward to the girl, this time, see the girl come out and fall in a few years, maybe she can be happy, it is always a good time to be sick." ”

Lin Daiyu was as if she hadn't seen or heard it, Zijuan saw the girl's fallen horse bun on her side, the light green gauze upper garment, and the jade belt around her waist, Zijuan smacked her mouth, and slowly persuaded: "Girl, Second Master Lian may not be reliable, and he can't take care of it himself, how can he take care of the girl kindly, the good thing is that Master Cong has also come down, he is the most capable of making up his mind, and even Prince Yu named him to be a staff officer......"

"What does he have to do with me?" Lin Daiyu raised her head, tears flowed down her cheeks, and Zijuan felt distressed for a while.

"We don't understand men's affairs, and we don't understand Bao Erye's boudoir either, if it ...... The girl will be helpless in the future, I heard that the clansmen of your own family are all distant relatives of Wuzhong, how can this be good, the girl and I can't be the master......" Zijuan took the trouble to comfort.

In case the father dies, it is really under the fence, the mother has already been buried in the ground, a few years away, the parents are still there, the appearance of Xiaojin Mountain and Desheng Mountain is vaguely recognizable, that Liang Hongyu drumming to resist the Jin soldiers' Huaiyang hometown, the ancestral hometown of the three Wu Jiali, the middle of the Jinling Imperial State, the six dynasties gold powder, Wang Xie Menting, the shore of Taihu Lake, the hometown of Wuzhong, this time to the south, is it going to say goodbye forever?

"I'm a girl, how can I talk to him." Lin Daiyu refused.

"The girl is petty again, you can't talk to Master Cong for a long time, can't my aunt still be? The girl was raised by a pretending to be a man, please Xixi, learn poetry and books, that gentleman is Ying Tianfu Taishou, the girl only needs to talk to her aunt. ”

……

The ship passed through Huai'an and entered Yangzhou Baoying and Gaoyou.

Yangzhou Mansion, Jiangdu Port, the merchant ships, civilian ships, and official ships that shuttle back and forth extend in all directions, filling the entire river, and suddenly there is a ship hanging the flag of "Jiangnan City Bo Division" rushing over, and other ships have given way.

On the port, the depressed housekeeper of the Lin Mansion stretched out his head and said, "Here, here, our young lady is back, quickly carry the sedan chair." ”