The people in the cabin listened to Du Chenchen's inexplicable words, and they didn't understand what they meant for a while, only Zhu Youzhen and Jinxiu knew the reason for Du Chenchen's words.

Du Dongshan glanced at Zhu Youzhen apologetically, and then chased Du Chenchen out, and the brother and sister stood on the pier until the shadow of the sail was out of sight of the treasure boat.

In the cabin, Jinxiu has been looking at Zhu Youzhen since Du Chenchen left, and Zhu Youzhen didn't say a word, everyone didn't notice the strange appearance of Zhu Youzhen and the others, and still watched Hu Erbao perform tricks over there.

In the midst of the noise, Zhu Youzhen slowly shook his head and said to himself softly, "It's the hardest thing to accept the grace of a beauty." ”

After speaking, Zhu Youzhen raised his head and said to Hu Erbao: "Okay, it's not good to rest and still show off there, stop, don't disturb my son's sleep." ”

When Hu Erbao heard this, he accepted the trick in his hand, and a big man in his early thirties curled his lips and said aggrievedly: "Son, do you really want to slander people like this?" ”

Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and ignored him.

At this time, watching Hu Erbao's performance was stopped in Xingtou, as soon as Hu Erbao stopped, the other passengers in the cabin were suddenly unhappy, and many people took out the silver and handed it to Hu Erbao and said: "We will pay the silver, please continue to perform." ”

Hu Erbao looked at the silver taels handed over, the lowest ones were one tael of silver, and the most were ten taels of silver, and there were at least a hundred taels of silver in the end, he glanced at Zhu Youzhen, and saw that Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and did not react, so he stretched out his hand and wanted to collect the silver one by one, and said in his heart: "Why didn't I think that this business before, the ability of one body can actually support my brother to death." ”

Just when Hu Erbao stretched out his hand, he only heard Hu Bao coughing not far away, Hu Erbao turned his head to look, and saw Hu Bao shook his head slightly, Hu Erbao hurriedly turned his palm upward, and then pushed the silver that was handed over back, and said righteously: "Thank you for your kindness, it is really inconvenient today, and please accept the silver taels, it should be for you to pass the time, how can I collect your money, I am indeed injured now, and please forgive me." ”

Those people saw that there was really no way, so they had to take the silver and return to their seats, so the cabin on the third floor was quiet, and Hu Erbao could even hear the sound of his heart dripping blood.

Zhu Youzhen and a group of people slept very late yesterday night, the two hours of the boat ride was idle, everyone dozed off, I don't know how long it took, the people in the cabin only felt a violent shaking under their feet, those who dozed off woke up, people who often take the boat are accustomed to it, but Zhu Youzhen is the first time to take the boat, Zhu Youzhen woke up and asked in a panic: "What's wrong?" Hit the rocks? ”

Zhang Zhiji and Luo Yangxing said in panic: "The ground has moved." ”

Hearing the words of a few people, and seeing the panicked looks of a few people, a middle-aged man in a fancy costume who was very close to Zhu Youzhen smiled at these people and said, "It's the first time for you to take a boat, right?" It's not ground moving, it's not hitting the rocks, it's ships docking. ”

After listening to the middle-aged man's words, Zhu Youzhen hid the panic on his face, he sat up straight and said to the man with some embarrassment: "It's indeed the first time to take a boat, and I'm smiling." ”

The man said, "I was just like you when I first took the boat, and now it's been almost twenty years. ”

Zhu Youzhen just smiled and didn't answer.

At this time, I heard the voice of the boatman outside the boat, "Huai'an Mansion has arrived." ”

Zhu Youzhen patted the sweet splendor, and greeted, "Get off the boat." ”

A group of people got off the boat, and Zhu Youzhen said to Gao Han: "Go find a few more carriages to Suzhou, and we won't delay in Huai'an, let's set off today." ”

Zhu Youzhen's voice fell, and he heard a familiar voice behind him: "Are you also going to Suzhou Mansion?" ”

A few people looked back, and it turned out to be the middle-aged man who reminded them that the ship had docked, and Zhu Youzhen said: "It's about to go to Suzhou Mansion." ”

The middle-aged man said: "Since you are going to Suzhou Mansion, why do you want to go far and near?" If you take a horse-drawn carriage to Suzhou Mansion to travel for at least one or two days, if you take a boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the south, you will arrive in Suzhou before dawn tomorrow, and there are rooms on the ship to rest, so why be bumped by the carriage. ”

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen hurriedly said: "We are going to Suzhou for the first time, and the road is not familiar, thank you for reminding us." ”

The middle-aged man was quite talkative, he waved his hand and said: "A few don't be polite, I also want to go back to Suzhou Mansion, get off the boat and hear the words of the son and remind a sentence, all say that a hundred years of repair to the same ship, I and you may really be a hundred years of fate to meet today, since a few are also ready to go to Suzhou, it is better for you to go with the ship of our firm, just be a companion all the way." ”

Zhu Youzhen and this person are only one-sided, and he hasn't even said a few words, let alone know something about this person, how could he accept this person's invitation, so he excused himself and said: "Thank you for your kindness, but we have a large number of people, so I won't bother." ”

The middle-aged man was not reluctant, he was too eager but made people feel that there was a plan, since a few people were unwilling to accept the kindness, he smiled and said goodbye to Zhu Youzhen and a few others.

Gao Han inquired with the boatman, and then led Zhu Youzhen and the others to the canal wharf.

The Canal Wharf and the Yellow River Wharf are not too far apart, but not long after walking, the group met the middle-aged man from before, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but feel that it was a coincidence, it was better to follow this person directly, why bother to ask the boatman.

The middle-aged man quickly noticed Zhu Youzhen's group of people, so he slowed down and waited for a few people to catch up and said, "A few people have caught up so quickly, and there is a canal wharf not far ahead, so let's go together." ”

Since he went to the canal wharf on the same road, he couldn't think of a different line, so Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to smile and nod.

The middle-aged man chatted with a few people from time to time along the way, and Zhu Youzhen replied without a word, and soon arrived at the canal wharf.

This canal wharf is much larger than the Yellow River wharf, and the ships docked here are mostly some ships of light transport and many merchant ships of merchants.

Gao Han grabbed a man who walked past him with a sack on his shoulder and asked, "Tired, may I ask where is the passenger ship to Suzhou Mansion?" ”

The person who was pulled by Gao Han had some difficulty carrying the bag, and at this time he was already full of sweat, how could he pay attention to Gao Han, he replied "I don't know" and prepared to leave.

Gao Han took out a small piece of broken silver and handed it over, saying, "Brother, take a break and take a breath." ”

The man looked at the face of the broken silver, put down the sack on his shoulder, pointed to the distance with his finger, and said, "Do you see that white sail?" It is a passenger ship that has just left, if you want to take a boat today, you can only go to discuss with those merchants, pay some silver to see if they are willing to take you, the passenger ship to Suzhou Mansion will be one by one sooner or later, if you can't find a merchant ship, then you can only catch up early tomorrow. With that, the man put on his sack again and turned to leave.

What the bag bearer said, a group of people also heard it, and everyone turned their eyes to Zhu Youzhen, who had invited Zhu Youzhen to ride with him, but Zhu Youzhen refused, and at this time he had to go to the merchant ship to discuss boarding.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Gao Han and Hu Bao and said, "You can go to the merchant ships to discuss and have a look, and give more silver." ”

Just when Gao Han and Hu Erbao were about to leave, the middle-aged man from before appeared in front of a few people again, and he looked at a few people: "I heard from the people on the boat below that the passenger ship to Suzhou Mansion had left, and I thought that a few of them would still go to Suzhou Mansion by boat, so I specially came over to ask if they were willing to go with them." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, this person looked a little rich, wearing a high-quality silk dress, wearing an emerald ring on his hand, he didn't look like a villain, but he couldn't figure out why this person was so attentive for a while, even if he got on the boat, he specially came down to greet a few people to ride together, he asked the middle-aged man: "In Xia Zhu Wu, I haven't asked your Excellency for your name." ”

The middle-aged man said: "Don't dare, Xu Yun, the shopkeeper of Xia Wan Yutai." Then he stretched out his hand into the canal and said, "There are the merchant ships of our firm." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at Xu Yun's finger with confidence, and saw a two-story big ship with a "10,000" flag erected on it.

Looking at the "Wan" flag, after pondering what Xu Yun said about Wan Yutai, I felt a little familiar in my heart, as if I had mentioned it in Qian Cai's heart.

Zhu Youzhen arched his hand towards Xu Yun and said, "Then thank you to the shopkeeper Xu." ”