Chapter 540: A Dead Man on the Boat
Yang Congyi doesn't care much about family affairs, he knows that she is kind-hearted, and she is determined to be a qualified lady and a qualified housewife, for him, these are enough.
After staying at home with them for two days and hiring two subordinates, he left in a hurry and rushed to Xinghua Port.
The two ships of the shopkeeper Lu are not big, about 2,000 materials, but the goods are very full, and I will make a lot of money when I go back this time.
It took nearly half a month for the merchant ship to go north, stop and go, and it took nearly half a month to arrive at the sea off Mingzhou, near Changguo.
The two merchant ships of the shopkeeper Lu docked in Changguo, replenished fresh water, and rested for a while, waiting for Yang Congyi to straighten out the fleet.
There are only three ships of goods that can be sold to the outside world, and if all of them are sold in the Great Song Dynasty, it will not be a problem to exchange them for two million yuan, but the people of the Northern Jin Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty are different, and it is difficult to say whether they can be sold at a good price.
Yang Congyi means that part of the goods are exchanged for gold and silver, and the other part is only exchanged for cattle and horses, and the camp is to be cleared and a horse farm to be built, and there is a shortage of such things.
Shen Jin had no objection.
As soon as the two of them combined, if they could successfully exchange cattle and horses, they would need a lot of ships to transport, so the empty ships that temporarily stayed in Changguo, including Shenzhou, all followed north.
When Shopkeeper Lu saw Yang Congyi's fleet, his jaw was about to fall in shock, because this fleet is too huge, so many ships, isn't it a trip to make millions of yuan?
As he thought that the other party was from Lin'an, Shaoxing, and Mingzhou, which were the richest areas in the Great Song Dynasty, he was slowly relieved in his heart, which of the businessmen from these places was not extremely rich, and a dozen ships should be nothing in their own eyes.
However, that Shenzhou was a behemoth he had never seen before.
After the end of the Huiyi, there are not too many valuables on the Shenzhou, as long as you are not an outsider, you can go up at will to experience and observe.
Yang Congyi saw the look of shopkeeper Lu's eagerness for Shenzhou, so he immediately invited the other party to board the ship to visit.
even invited him to live on the Shenzhou together, so that they could communicate more, and maybe there would be more opportunities for cooperation in business in the future.
The other party is a huge rich man with more than a dozen big ships, if he can cooperate, it will not be a problem to make a lot of money with him, after the Lu shopkeeper thanked him, he immediately took a few entourages to visit Shenzhou, and then lived directly on Shenzhou without thanks.
Speaking of the trip to the north, according to the shopkeeper Lu, because their boat is small, it does not resist wind and waves, and can only sail along the coast, if they encounter strong winds and waves, they can quickly dock and land to take shelter, so it will take them at least a month and a half to return to Mizhou.
A month and a half?
This time is not only unacceptable to Yang Congyi, but even Shen Jin, who doesn't know where Mizhou is, can't accept it, in a month and a half, they can go from Mingzhou to Qiongzhou, time is precious, where can it be wasted on the sea.
So as soon as the two of them summed it up, they made a suggestion to the shopkeeper Lu, their fleet has a lot of empty ships, and they are all big ships, which can resist wind and waves, and it is relatively safe to sail at sea, and his two ships of cargo can be moved to their ship, so that they can save a lot of time when they return to Michigan.
Shopkeeper Lu did not agree immediately, hesitated again and again, until Yang Congyi told him that when he arrived in Dengzhou, the business was done and they could give him two new ships, so he agreed to transfer the goods and lose his two old ships.
Three days later, the fleet went offshore into the sea, sailed all the sails, and headed north with the wind, according to the chart given by Yang Congyi, led by a merchant ship, and went straight to Dengzhou.
One day, Yang Congyi was blowing the wind on the deck, enjoying the boundless sea view, but he was shocked when he heard someone behind him suddenly call "Lord Yang" softly.
After deciding to go north, the word "adult" was forbidden to be mentioned inside and outside the fleet, and Yang Congyi was called the big shopkeeper and Shen Jin was the second shopkeeper, just to avoid trouble.
didn't know where the other party came from, so Yang Congyi pretended not to hear it, didn't look back, and continued to look at the blue and empty sea.
"The sea is vast and remote, it is beautiful at first, it has a special meaning, but after seeing it for a long time, it will make people feel a sense of insignificance and powerlessness, infinite sadness, and it will arise spontaneously, and I dare not look at it again. I wonder what Lord Yang is looking at? ”
Soft words continued to sound behind him, with endless melancholy between the words.
The voice was soft, like a woman's voice, and it was familiar.
Suddenly turned around, and a familiar face was three feet behind Yang Congyi.
"How are you?"
"Like a bird, when you are tired of staying at home, you want to fly out to see it, but this sea is just like that, it is not as beautiful as you imagined."
The person who spoke was not someone else, but Meng Yunniang, who had not been seen for many years, and now she was dressed as a man, although she did not wear makeup, her face was easy to identify.
"How did you come to sea? Does Master Meng know? ”
Seeing her, Yang Congyi was very shocked, she was the daughter of an official family, and she rarely went out on the street, how could Lord Meng agree to let her come out alone and run to such a dangerous sea?
"My father is about to cut off the father-daughter relationship with me, how can he care about me."
Meng Yunniang glanced at Yang Congyi, smiled lightly with some self-deprecation, and then moved her eyes to the vast sea.
"How so?"
Yang Congyi was in a state of confusion at this time, he was not fine when he saw Master Meng before, looking at his mood, he didn't look like he was in conflict with his daughter, how could it be like this?
"Don't ask, Lord Yang, can you still solve the father-daughter relationship for us?"
Meng Yunniang looked like she had a smile on her face, but from between her words, she could hear the helplessness in her heart.
Faced with this situation, Yang Congyi didn't know what to say, he and her only had a few faces, and they would not see each other more than five times, and they only had a few words.
It's just that she, a young woman, suddenly appeared on the ship to Jinguo, which made him very incomprehensible, Lord Meng had a good relationship with him, and he was a friend of the year, and now that his daughter came to the sea, he had to figure out the reason anyway, and then bring her back completely, otherwise he would not be able to see Lord Meng again in the future.
"Where do you want to go north with the ship?"
Yang Congyi smiled slightly, let's get closer to her first and get acquainted with her, now that the fleet has left the Great Song Dynasty, it will be impossible to return halfway.
"Whatever you want, I'll go wherever the fleet goes. The world is so big, but for more than 20 years, I have only wandered back and forth between a few houses, while I am not married, I want to come out to see, see the scenery outside, and when I get married in the future, I am afraid that I will never have the opportunity to move around again. Look, this sea, this sky, how beautiful and clean! ”
Meng Yunniang suddenly laughed, happy like a child.
She is actually a child, in Yang Congyi's view, unmarried little women are children, even if she should be in her twenties.
"The world is very big, the Great Song Dynasty is also very big, you can go anywhere, and it is very safe, why go to the north? To suffer from this bump? ”
Yang Congyi didn't understand her thoughts very well, and wanted to go out to see, in fact, she could go anywhere, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, or Nanjianzhou near Xinghua, there are many places with beautiful mountains and rivers, if you really want to go, you won't have no chance.
"I've never been to sea before, and I rarely even take a boat, but then I liked it, I think it's very good to take a boat, the water is very clean. Listen to you, the farthest place you have ever been is the Seljuk state of the West, how far is it, how many months can you get there? I'd love to see it in my lifetime! ”
Meng Yunniang smiled, turned her head to look at Yang Congyi, and something indescribable flashed in her eyes.
At this moment, Yang Congyi seemed to remember something, but it was difficult to extract it clearly.
"Seljuk, it's a very far place, from Quanzhou to the sea, if it goes well, it will take more than a year to stop and go, and it will take two years to go back and forth, in fact, there is nothing to see over there, it is not as good as the Great Song Dynasty, if it is not for the return of Yi, who will go to such a place." The mountains and rivers of the Great Song Dynasty are beautiful, and if you want to see the scenery, there is really no need to go out. ”
"If I don't have acquaintances, I don't want to go, I don't want to go anywhere, in fact, I just say casually, if I really want to go to the South Seas and the West, my father won't beat me to death."
The smile on Meng Yunniang's face was very warm, and the tone of her speech became more and more relaxed.
Looking at the smile on her face and meeting her flashing gaze, Yang Congyi suddenly realized that she was no longer a child, and she had already been an adult with something on her mind.
He took his eyes off her and continued to look out into the open sea, trying to calm the waves that had swelled up in his heart.
But no matter how hard he tried to suppress it, the figure of the woman in green clothes and pink arms that suddenly appeared in the living room of Nanjianzhou many years ago kept appearing in front of him, and it was clearly visible, not to mention that the woman was now in front of him.
His heart was in turmoil, just as he had seen it then.
I don't know if I felt something, Meng Yunniang also looked at the sea and stopped talking.
On the deck, the two stood three feet apart, silent.
The sea ship cleaves the waves and moves forward smoothly.
I don't know how long it took, Meng Yunniang broke the silence and asked, "I haven't seen you for a few years, are you okay?" ”
"It's good, my limbs are sound, my ears are clear. What about you? ”
Yang Congyi replied casually, and he didn't know why he asked.
Meng Yunniang turned her head to look at Yang Congyi, and said with a slight smile: "I, I can't say it's good, it's not bad, in the eyes of others, I'm carefree, I read books every day, paint, and live a good life." But who knows what is in my heart! There are some things that you can't tell outsiders. ”
Yang Congyi replied: "In Xinghua before, didn't you often go to Qingchen, she is now in Quanzhou, she is at home all day, and rarely goes out, you can go to Quanzhou to walk around if you have nothing to do, there are some things on your mind, you should be able to talk about it, talk about it." ”
Meng Yunniang said with a smile: "I really can't talk to Sister Qingchen about my affairs, I'm afraid that after talking, the pots at home will have to be smashed." ”
After speaking, the roots of his ears were slightly red, his heart beat faster, and he hurriedly looked away and looked at the sea.
There are some words, if she doesn't find a chance to say them, I'm afraid she won't have a chance to say them again in the future, but when the words come to her mouth, she still stops in her throat.