The convoy stopped again not long after, and Zhou Tingyan asked a little strangely, "Why did it stop again?" When he asked, Zhou Tingjie just happened to rush over.

"I've arrived at the ferry, and I need to take a boat this time!" The old lady said a kind word and was helped out of the car first.

"Arrived at the ferry?"

Zhou Tingyan looked puzzled, and said in his heart that he could ride a motorcycle from Chen Yao Lake to Qingshan at the speed of drag racing, how could he get here and have a ferry?

I followed with a puzzled face, but I didn't expect to see the scene outside the car, as if I had entered an ancient era, and the Chen Yao Lake I saw was a big lake, similar to the sea, and the Garden Street in Chen Yaohu Town was on the other side of the lake in the south.

And the small village of Shuanghekou is now a mound estuary, and several small villages such as Wangjiashan and Zhouzhuang are now a small lake island, and you need to take a boat to go to Nashuiwei Village!

At the same time, I sighed in my heart and suddenly realized that what I saw now was that the place was either a town or a small village, and the farms in the lake in the east were all picked out by the toiling masses after liberation with a spade, shovel and burden, and it was also piled up by people to make Jiangti higher and stronger.

While he was still thinking, Zhou Shan and Xiao Min called him back to his senses and wanted to take him to board the ship.

"Grandma, how big is this lake? And besides, how come I still see that the lake seems to be inhabited? "The scene here is very different from what I have seen since I was sensible, and if I want to know the cause and effect, I still have to ask the current people.

The procession boarded the ship one after another, and the wagons of the convoy were placed at the dock post on the shore.

After getting on the boat and sitting down, the old lady shook her head and couldn't say clearly, so Zhou Tingjie took the opportunity to explain to him: "This lake is 200,000 acres large, connected to Fengsha Lake in the east, and has raised tens of thousands of people on this side!" As for the people in the lake, they did live there, and where the rows of piers were, the people who lived on it also lived on the things in the lake! Do you see those lotus leaves and water chestnuts and chicken chestnuts, those things can make the family have a good year when they are in the picking season! ”

"So is there someone here who contracts, or is there no one to take care of the fishing?"

"Contracting?" Zhou Tingjie said with a smile: "Who can be contracted for such a big lake?" ”

After listening to it, I remembered that the matter of contracting fish ponds seemed to come later, but now it seems that the land and mountains and forests belong to the landlords, and the ponds are almost wild ponds, and the fish and shrimp can be sold for money as long as the fishermen can raise them.

"How are we going to get to Chase now? Do you just row over? Zhou Tingyan asked in a different way, and looked at the backward Garden Street by the way, he wanted to go over and take a trip, but his body didn't allow it, so he could only wait for time.

"There is a river there, and if you want to cross the river, you have to change boats!"

Looking at the past along what she pointed to, there are indeed people living on the water a few miles away, such a scene can really be described as a scene, a few cooking smoke, small shadows and nets weaving yarn, people and guests on the water, a good scenery!

While the boat was moving, Zhou Tingyan asked the people and places he saw from time to time, although there are many familiar village names, but they are unfamiliar places, and it is inevitable that there will be some sighs when the water dries up here after a few decades.

The boat moves by a man, so the speed is not too fast, and it is a little stronger than walking.

After eating a meal on the boat, he directly scooped a bowl of clear river water to drink, about two hours later, the ship docked at the shore of the river, and the leading Zhu Jia gave the boatman a fee, and then beckoned to get off the boat to the simple dock, and then bargained with the person in charge, and finally negotiated the payment, and the Zhou family got on the boat.

Zhou Tingyan looked at the river in front of him, the river was still the same river when he was a child, but the scenery was no longer the one he once saw; The future Yangtze River Bridge is now a small mountain on the riverbank, and the green color outlines the great mountains and rivers.

When I arrived at the wharf of Datong Town on the other side, looking at the riverside town in front of me, Zhou Tingyan almost didn't drop his jaw, although there are no high-rise buildings and buildings here, but it is the same as the small town in the south of the Yangtze River, and what he has seen and what he has seen is completely different from what he is now.

"Tingjie, this is Datong? How do I feel like I'm entering Shanghai? After going ashore, it was inevitable that they were surprised to inquire, and the others also went ashore one after another, and the things were taken by the next person, as for the old lady, where was Zhou Tingqing with her.

Zhou Tingjie was no longer surprised that he could tell the place in Shanghai, and came over to help him and said with a smile: "This really makes you right, this place is called Little Shanghai ......."

In her introduction, Zhou Tingyan, a native of the city, also recognised everything here, at this time Datong Town has been an important market and wharf since ancient times, and there is an ancient poem that reads: "The reeds are partial to the cable, and the fishing is the most hindering to the boat." He once complained about the river, and the fish and crabs didn't care about the money. "You can see how prosperous it is.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, a commercial port has been developed here, although the Ming Dynasty implemented a sea ban, but the country's merchants still like to do business here; In the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, due to the incompetence of the Qingzheng government, it was forced to sign a treaty with foreigners, adding the right of navigation on the Yangtze River to foreigners and the right to preach in the hinterland, and the ancient town of Datong has since become one of the targets of the great powers.

Although it was carved up a lot of territory by the great powers, it also drove the economic development here, and there were four major shops of the Republic of China in the evening, in addition to this Datong, which has the reputation of small Shanghai, there are also Anqing, Wuhu and Bengbu.

Zhou Tingjie told him the story of Huiwan while walking, and he also listened and looked around.

In the river, there are countless sailboats, small boats and freighters, dock workers and goods on the shore, shops in the style of Hui style shops on the streets, buying and selling, shouting and bargaining, and people in suits and long coats, pulling rickshaws and shining shoes, and those people with yellow hair and blue eyes shuttling here, as if it was time to visit the temple fair, the traffic is prosperous beyond his imagination.

In the introduction, I also learned that in addition to shops, there are many small factories and workshops that produce people's daily necessities, and there are also foreign missionaries and churches. In addition to these, there is also the official yamen, but at this moment it is the Republic of China, it has been changed to the police station of the tax bureau, and the sailors of the Qing Dynasty have also become the navy of the Republic of China, but here it should be called the navy yamen.

Walking all the way, the sky gradually got dark, and now it was too late to go to Jiuhua, so the old lady decided to live here. A group of people arrived at the Zhoujia Restaurant here, and it was also a meal at the moment, and the restaurant was almost full.

The old lady smiled when she saw this, the shopkeeper was new, so she didn't know the rest of the Zhou family, so she came over and politely said that it was full, and Zhou Tingqing directly ordered: "We don't eat here, you just go and send the food to your shopkeeper's room!" After saying that, he helped the old lady to go inside.

The shopkeeper was very unhappy, stopped and said coldly: "This guest officer, please don't have nothing to do!" ”

"I'm fine?" Zhou Tingqing was angry and funny: "Do you know who we are? ”

"You can't even be the governor, our guests are indeed full now, and I'm very busy now, so I don't have time to talk to you."

The shopkeeper said: "Either way, if you have to eat in our store, it's okay, there are no vacancies now, so please go over there and wait first, don't stand in the way here." And our shopkeeper's room, don't think about it. ”

Zhou Tingjie on the side couldn't listen to it at first, and directly rolled up her sleeves to teach him a lesson, when suddenly a loud scolding came from the back hall: "Martin, where did you die, ...... you are so busy here"

Before the words were finished, the shopkeeper Martin hurried over, nodded to the person who spoke, and pointed to Zhou Tingqing and said that they were not.

"Third brother, you're really busy, busy letting him drive us out?" Zhou Tingjie pretended to blame the visitor, but actually smiled kindly.

Martin was so frightened that he sweated profusely and hurriedly compensated them.

Zhou Tingsi directly blamed Martin, kicked him in the ass, scolded him and told him to hurry up and take care of the guests, after Martin left, he greeted them with a smile and asked the old lady: "Grandma, why are you here, are my mother and Xiaoniang at home now?" And why did Tingyan come over too? ”

When asking, take everyone to the back, as for the guests in front of it, there are naturally others to take care of.

"Ting Yan's condition is not good, Ting Jie and Ting Qing said that it might be better to go to Jiuhua to worship, no, I'll try it with them!" The old lady said: "And your mother and your little lady are at home Zhang Luo Tingyan's marriage!" ”

"Zhang Luo's marriage?" Zhou Tingyan was a little shocked and said, "Grandma, I'm terminally ill now, why do you still give me Zhang Luo's marriage?" ”