As the grain and grass of the land valve, Tongluocang is stationed with 2,000 troops to guard day and night, and idle people are not allowed to approach. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It was Lu Yun who didn't dare to approach Cangcheng, so he could only rent a small boat and wait on the Luo River. After waiting for almost an hour, I saw the big ship of the firewood steward slowly sailing out of the water gate of Tongluocang. The hull of the ship was noticeably much lower than before, apparently because it was loaded with grain and grass.

Seeing that the boat entered the Luohe River from the Caoqu Canal and headed for Luoyang. Lu Yun rowed the boat and followed far behind. The boats on the Luo River come and go, but there is no need to worry about attracting the attention of the other party.

As soon as the ship entered the city, it stopped at the Changtong Wharf, the easternmost point on the south bank. On the wharf, there were already two horse-drawn carriages painted with the emblem of the Lu Valve waiting there, and the family members of the Lu Valve unloaded the grain from the ship, and the two carriages were filled with grain, and then went to the various Lu Valve porridge factories in Luonan to put the grain. But the steward did not get off the boat, but continued to move with the boat.

When he stalked for the first time, Lu Yun thought that the firewood steward would continue to unload the goods at other wharves in the city, because it could be seen from the change in the waterline of the ship that at most one-tenth of the grain in the cabin had been unloaded, and ninety percent of the remaining grain was left.

But what he didn't expect was that the boat of the firewood steward did not stop at all, but passed directly through the city, until it stopped at a small wharf more than ten miles outside the city.

The small dock was deserted, except for a cargo ship, which was waiting with a few businessmen-like guys and a bunch of men on board.

As soon as the ship of the steward arrived, several merchants hurriedly ordered the ship to pass over. The sailors fastened the two boats with cables, put them on the pedals, and began to transfer the grain from the ship's steward to the cargo ship.

Lu Yun completely understood now, it turned out that ninety percent of the grain had been sold by this guy!

Afraid of attracting the attention of the other party, Lu Yun couldn't stay, so he could only continue to move forward. When passing by with the two ships, he did not squint, but condensed his true qi in his ears and heard the conversation of the people on the boat clearly.

"What else is there to count?" This one with a Guanzhong accent is the chai steward. "Two hundred and forty bags, one hundred and twenty stones, not every day."

"It's not that you can't trust the big steward," he heard a businessman laugh and said: "Now rice is more expensive than money, we are afraid that there will be a few more bags, and you will be guilty of shortening!" ”

"Hahaha, well said!" The firewood steward laughed and said, "The price of grain in the east jumps every day, and we should also rise again!" ”

"Don't!" Several businessmen saw him sitting on the ground and raising the price, and hurriedly complained: "We just give you an errand, throw away some expenses, and you can't earn a hundred or ten yuan with one stone of rice......

"Nonsense...... "Steward Chai didn't believe it at all."

After that, Lu Yun couldn't hear the conversation.

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After following the Chai steward for two days in a row, Lu Yun has already figured out a lot of things. For example, he used the same boat every day to transport grain, and there were only six or seven people on board. Obviously, this is to avoid people talking too much, and the chai steward only dares to let his henchmen follow the ship.

Moreover, among these six or seven people, there are still five people who need to operate the boat, that is, there are only one or two people who can move freely on the boat, except for the firewood steward...... This made Lu Yun have a bold idea, he was going to sneak on the boat tomorrow!

Again, the risk is not personal safety, but once it is detected, the whole plan is likely to be lost!

For the sake of prudence, Lu Yun sneaked into the land valve dock in Luobei in the middle of the night, avoided the guards, and sneaked onto the boat. There were sailors sleeping on the ship, but as long as Lu Yun was willing, he would not make any footsteps, not even breathing......

Lu Yun walked up to the three sailors like a wandering soul and lit their sleeping holes, and the snoring of the three of them came and went, and they could all be heard clearly on the dock.

"Damn, I slept so soundly!" The soldiers on duty on the dock were very depressed when they heard this.

Amid the earth-shattering snoring, Lu Yun circled around the empty cabin and chose a location. I saw him leaning down, pressing his hand on the floor, and with a little effort, a wooden wedge on the floor was pulled out silently.

When the plank, which was eight feet long and a foot wide, was lifted, the keel at the bottom of the ship was seen. There is a gap less than a foot high between the keel and the plank, so that even if water seeps from the bottom of the ship, it will not wet the grain on it. Lu Yun didn't think it was damp and cramped, so he hid his whole body in it, and then covered the plank of the boat, like an old monk in a stabilizing, motionless and letting time pass.

At dawn, Steward Chai and three of his men arrived as scheduled and called out to the three sailors who were still asleep. "How fucking can you sleep?!"

The three sailors rubbed their sleepy eyes and got up, and they all felt that they had a good night's sleep. After another moment, the ship slowly sailed away from the dock, and no one noticed that there was a wooden wedge in the ship's board on the ground, and naturally Lu Yun would not be found hiding underneath.

Under the plank, Lu Yunyun heard with his ears, and all the sounds on the ship were in his ears.

In the cabin, one of his subordinates said to the firewood steward: "Childe's side urged again yesterday, can we get the money together within a month?" ”

"Lao Tzu is also in a hurry, but his mother has already sold ninety percent of the grain, so he can't let the porridge factory boil water, right?" Chai's steward Yu said: "Damn, we still have to let them with the surname Hou raise the price, otherwise we will sell it to other families!" ”

"Hey, that's all it takes...... the subordinate muttered, "Such a big hole for us to fill, and we're in such a hurry!" Childe didn't want to think about it, if something happened to the basket, would he be able to escape? ”

"It's really out of the basket," Steward Chai said with a desolate tone: "Of course, we moths are making trouble, and we have nothing to do with Childe." ”

"Ahh His subordinates were shocked and said: "You are always willing to be this black cauldron? ”

"Or what?" Steward Chai said in a low voice: "This time I bought land in the east, and I got a bloody loss, if we don't fill the hole, we won't be able to escape death if we reconcile the accounts in the middle of the year." After a pause, he smiled bitterly: "Childe has already made his words clear, if something really happens, we will have to carry this black cauldron, if he is involved, our whole family will have to die......"

"Is the problem that we are moving?" The subordinate said with grief and indignation.

"If you can't carry it, you have to carry it," Steward Chai could see it clearly, and said with a wry smile: "If it really happens, can the eldest master watch his son pay in?" It will definitely turn the big thing into a small one, and we will be settled if we kill it. ”

"Hey, you shouldn't have listened to Childe's nonsense in the first place, what are you messing with?!" The subordinate said with a crying voice: "What bought the mulberry seedlings in the middle of the land, and once you sell them, you can earn ten times...... It's good now, not to mention that there is no return, and you have to take your life! ”

"Alright, don't be so unproductive!" Although Steward Chai said this, his tone became more and more depressed: "Who would have expected that the newly repaired river embankment would collapse in the next year? It's all fate......" Realizing that he was going to cheer up the people below, he hurriedly cheered up and said, "Besides, it's unlikely that something will happen to us!" There is a son staring over there, as soon as the people from the upper faction cross the river, we immediately add rice to the pot, what can they see? ”

"Yes," the subordinate said slightly, "the grain sold is all in the stomachs of the victims, as long as you don't catch it, no one can find out the problem!" ”

Neither of them wanted to talk about this heavy topic anymore, so they turned their attention to Fengyue. The subordinates talked about the Luohe River, a newly opened green building is good, and proposed to go to the drunken dream at night.

Steward Chai refused at first, and felt that he should listen to the son's instructions not to go out recently. But his subordinates said that they would be beheaded at some point, so it was better to have fun in time. Steward Chai thought about it and agreed.

As they spoke, the ship arrived at Tongluocang, and the two stopped talking and went out of the warehouse to deal with the guards.

The next step is to enter the city and load the ship. For two months, this was repeated every day, and everyone was familiar with the road without any nonsense.

As usual, the big ship loaded with grain left Tongluo Cang, unloaded two truckloads of rice at Changtong Wharf, and then sailed out of the city to the small wharf outside the city.

On the dock, it was still yesterday's cargo ship, yesterday's merchants, everything was exactly the same as yesterday. When the grain was transferred to the ship, the firewood steward mentioned the price increase again, and this time he took an extremely tough attitude, and finally forced the other party, and gave two hundred and fifty yuan per stone of rice. The other party was very painful, but the chai steward was not satisfied at all. But he also knows that this kind of thing can't be done overnight, and he has to grind slowly with the other party......

On the ship back to the city, the firewood steward asked his men to bring the dwarf table over, and then knelt in the cabin full of grains of rice, and took out an account book and a brush.