Li Xiang stayed at the Yexian Post Station for three days, because the things that the Cheng officials took out as a transaction were urgently needed but very lacking in Mingyuezhuang at this time, that is, the boat.

It is not a big deal to have no boat in the era of Mingyuezhai, but Mingyuezhai has been renamed Mingyuezhuang, and led the establishment of Mingyueji, which is very inappropriate without its own boat. The Han River can reach the land of Hanzhong in the west, the mountains and mountains in the north and south, and then turn to the east and south to reach Xiangyang and Jingzhou, and lead directly to the Yangtze River.

Doing things in the mountains is very restrictive, and Mingyuezhuang occupies a large area in the northwest of Mingyueji, in order to accommodate ordinary workshops. Water transportation will definitely become the main force of transportation in Mingyuezhuang, and it will suffer a big loss if you don't have your own fleet and sufficient sailors, so Li Xiang quickly reached an agreement with the officials.

After seeing the tragic situation of the three brothers and their parents, the officials completely gave up on the people in the main lineage. Li Xiang asked for "the market for technology" conditions he accepted, Li Xiang asked him to pull away as much as possible boatwrights he also agreed, the clerks from Xunyang and Shiyan many officials heard about the principle of Mingyueji, feel very relieved.

The officials are a very strange group in the Great Zhou, they are very authoritative in the face of the common people, but most of them are poked in the backbone by the common people in the back; The clerical clerks of the county government can unite to set aside inexperienced county officials, but when they encounter county officials with skills, they will want to die; Although it is a hereditary position, at least you can eat and drink without worry, but there are few officials who don't want to change their fate.

This is the case with the Cheng Official, he admitted it as a Cheng official himself, but he didn't want his children and grandchildren to continue to work for the head of the Cheng family. usually has to wipe the butts of Shangguan and Chengjia, not to mention what he does is cursed by others, and he will be pulled out of the top tank when something big happens. The family does not have to worry about eating and drinking, but it is difficult to take off a hat that "knocks on the bone and sucks the marrow". In short, the thought that children and grandchildren can only be officials for generations, and the officials are shocked.

And the family is not a good man and a woman, the most ruthless to their own people is often their own people, now the main line of these people is really not good, the officials dare not imagine what will happen after the family does not raise people to support the scene. After being a Xu official for decades, the adult clerk knows very well that the current family is in danger and may collapse at any time.

Thinking of the tragic situation after those wealthy families broke down, the officials were trembling, which was terrible. There really is a day when he, the official who "looted the people's fat and ointment", must have ended up the worst, right?

Thinking of the second child who was the main line of the Cheng family, who was uneducated and unskilled, even remembered his oil and water in the yamen, the Cheng official sneered. The county order has to support the family, the court has to pay taxes, the archers and township soldiers have to feed, and the yamen officials have to eat. The big ones give so much, and they loot the people with infamy, and in the end they fall into such a bite, you have to rob it too?!

Therefore, no matter how harsh the conditions proposed by Mingyuezhuang, the officials will accept them, not to mention that the conditions of Mingyuezhuang are very generous, and the officials plan to send the starving shipwrights and their children and grandchildren to Mingyueji as soon as possible. After saying goodbye to Li Xiang, the official turned around and went home, planning to bribe his colleagues and superiors to "die of a violent illness".

The backyard of the family is full of gardens, rockeries and small lakes, in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, the second child of the family is drinking tea and playing with his own group of wives and concubines, and the drum girl of Nanyang Goolan is performing hard. Seeing the housekeeper greeting him from a distance, the second child of the family motioned for him to come over.

After hearing the news that the Cheng officials planned to take refuge in Mingyuezhuang, the second child of the Cheng family bit the grapes in his mouth and said lightly: "These side branches are not honest, and they have to take the boatwright who has no work to go with them." Let's go, when Lao Tzu went over to take over the shipyard he built, and wanted to set up his own door, hum! I don't believe that Mingyuezhuang is so rampant and can fight against the government. ”

Thinking of something again, the second child of the family looked happy, "It's good that he has been in the past like this, I heard that Mingyuezhuang has made great achievements in the art of craftsmanship, and he must make a good stroke when the time comes, hehehe......"

In the middle of the sexual intercourse, the housekeeper ran back again, looking very flustered, "Second master, the head of the house asked you to hurry over......"

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Li Xiang didn't ride a horse, he was bathing in the morning light and walking slowly, Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan were by his side, and Cheng Jianghai was also following. Cheng Jianghai cowered in the face of others, but seemed to have a good impression of Li Xiang, a person in his twenties like a child.

As for his brother Cheng Jianghu, he has long been mixed up with Xiong Chengwu, and Cheng Jianghu, who has a chaotic brain, feels that this is a no-fight deal, but Xiong Chengwu always feels tired, what's going on with a neurotic around him?

Zhang Qingping and Yang Yingdong were frightened by the Chengjianghu incident, and personally pressed Xiong Chengwu to act as a sentry agent, Liu Susu was a little cold, and was confined to a rented luxury carriage by Li Xiang.

Li Xiang motioned for Cheng Jianghai to approach, squinted at the orange morning sun, and felt the fog gradually dissipating, "Brother Jiang Hai, I'll call you Brother Jiang Hai." I know you're not just pretending to be stupid to avoid the second child of the family, and you're not just scared by your eldest brother's death, can you tell me what you're afraid of? ”

It's really a tear, since the eldest brother was killed, Cheng Jianghai has maintained a cowering appearance, but the first time he saw Li Xiang, he was exposed, which made him very embarrassed. Cheng Jianghai didn't know why, he always felt that Li Xiang's behavior was different from everyone he had seen, so he revealed that his hiding was broken by Li Xiang.

Cheng Jianghai, who was cowering and trembling, plus a really crazy brother, after the main line of the Cheng family sent someone to see it, he was relieved, what threat can a fool and a guy who can't hold a pen have? But Cheng Jianghu once ran to Nanyang after going crazy, but was actually blocked back by the person who jumped out, and Cheng Jianghai knew that someone had been watching the two brothers secretly.

There was still a hint of cringe on Cheng Jianghai's face, the previous look was all pretended, and Li Xiang was deeply impressed by his way of self-preservation. Cheng Jianghai also admired Li Xiang's vision, and actually knew that he did have great fear, not just self-preservation.

Cheng Jianghai no longer hid his selfishness, desperately suppressed his hands that were used to trembling slightly, and gave a deep salute, "No, Cheng Jianghai has seen the owner, the following is purely a rebellious remark from his subordinates, and after he finishes speaking, he will kill and chop, and his subordinates will never complain." ”

After that, Cheng Jianghai and Li Xiang had a long conversation, Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan naturally didn't hear it, what they saw was always Cheng Jianghai who was cowering and trembling. In the next few days, Li Xiang talked secretly with Cheng Jianghai every night, which made Liu Susu, Qin Zhong and others suspicious, and secretly said that the owner of Mingyue Village actually had this kind of habit, and liked weak men who trembled all over?

Fortunately, Liu Susu pretended to inadvertently break through, and only then did he return Li Xiang's "innocence". However, Liu Susu thought of Li Xiang and Cheng Jianghai's angry expressions when they saw him, and he always had a thorn in his heart, so he stared at Li Xiang from then on, preventing him from "meeting" with Cheng Jianghai at night.

Li Xiang and his entourage first set off from Mingyuezhuang, took a boat on the Han River, and went ashore to Nanyang. After that, Li Xiang rode a horse, Liu Susu rode a horse or rode a carriage, and the others practiced on foot.

The group met the brothers in Ye County, rested for a few days, and now has just arrived in Xuchang. Li Xiang wanted to go to Zhengzhou to have a look for some purpose, but Liu Susu had fallen ill because he was playing too crazy, and Li Xiang, who was worried about Susu, had to go straight to Bianjing.

When he was in Mingyuezhuang, Li Xiang fantasized more than a hundred times about what Bianjing was like and how prosperous it was. Is it like the ancient city in your memory? Is it like those tourist cities from another time and space?

Zhang Qingping, who took Xiong Chengwu to explore the road in front, came back, and Yang Yingdong, who was in charge of the broken back, came back, and they stared at the scene in front of them with wide eyes. Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan haven't seen much of the world, but they still fulfilled their duties as guards while they were dumbfounded.

Cheng Jianghai always looks obscene and trembling in front of people, but the excitement and surprise hidden in the depths of his eyes are a little exposed. Cheng Jianghu was so excited that he took out his Pu knife and made bold statements, saying that he wanted to dominate Bianjing Yunyun, but he was knocked down by Xiong Chengwu, who looked disgusted.

Today's weather is clear and the wind is smooth, Xu is the autumn wind blows the eyes uncomfortable, and the corners of Li Xiang's eyes are a little sour. Looking at the black line looming on the horizon, Li Xiang asked the owner of the ferry: "May I ask if the place where the black line is located is Bianjing?" How far is it from here? ”

The owner of the ship is a native of Gyeonggi Province, and he has seen too many dirt buns that have been scared silly by Bianjing. In addition to being proud of his identity as being born in Gyeonggi Province, the owner of the perennial boat and the rich experience of the rivers and lakes has already become sleek, "Childe is polite, the ferry here is over, and then through the two Cao Rivers, it is Bianjing City." If you want to say how far it is, it's just a day's journey. ”

Yang Yingdong and the others gasped, they had already seen the edge of the city wall, and they actually had to walk for another day?! Li Xiang was not much surprised, from here, if Bianjing City is compared to a house, then the clouds surrounding Bianjing City are the roof of the big house. The so-called Izumo Megacity is nothing more than that.

Passing by the first canal, Li Xiang and his team happened to encounter hundreds of boats transporting grain, and the people along the river stopped to watch. Xiong Chengwu unknowingly shed a lot of food! Cheng Jianghu finally stopped being crazy and arrogant, and watched quietly with Cheng Jianghai, who was still trembling. Liu Susu held up her spirits, opened the window of the carriage and looked out, her small mouth wide open.

Passing by the second canal, the group coincided with the passage of the boat transporting meat, eggs, fruits and vegetables, and most of the people on the boat were supplies provided by the people within more than 200 miles of Bianjing, so most of the people in Gyeonggi Province had some spare money in their hands. But the appetite of Bianjing City seems to be endless, and there are actually people from Ying Tianfu, that is, Shangqiu, who travel to and from Bianjing every day by fast boat, so as to sell the farmer's things at a good price.

Just after the autumn harvest, thousands of chariots and horses rushed to Bianjing City, and Li Xiang and the others hurried to hurry up but still failed to enter the city, so they had to rest in the temporary carriage and horse shop outside the city. The whole day was on the road, from the dawn of the rooster to the sunset, Li Xiang and his party watched in a daze as a black line slowly thickened, then turned into a jade belt, and finally became a Great Wall in front of their eyes.

Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan grabbed the rice bowl and ate violently, Xiong Chengwu on the side was helpless in the face of Cheng Jianghu's food-grabbing behavior, Qin Zhong gloated for a while, and then suddenly heard Yang Jianchuan say: "Damn, Bianjing is so big!" ”

Qin Zhong choked and said slowly: "Who said no, my hands and feet have been shaking all day, there is such a huge city in the world, I thought that the city wall of Nanyang Mansion for several miles was powerful enough." ”

Yang Jianchuan was full of longing for the future, "Hmph, our little master can let us eat meat in the mountains, let alone come to Bianjing." Eat more, and you have to take turns guarding it at night, otherwise my dad will curse again. ”