According to Zhang Yu's idea, if you want to avoid the ears of the government on this way north, the best way is to take the land route, and you can't take the official road, take the sparsely populated path that the government rarely sets up for inspection, and rush to Beiping all the way, but Yuan Hui opposed Zhang Yu's idea, "It seems that you have never been to the Central Plains, and there are few rivers and lakes, how can it be as easy as you said, cross the Yangtze River all the way to the north, the land route is especially difficult to walk, it is really a stuffy stick, there are bags during the day, and there are thieves at night." With just the three of us, I'm afraid that we won't be able to walk half of the way, and before we reach Jinan, we will have to let people hack it. You are worried about the government's investigation, in fact, you have a ghost in your heart, only Jinyiwei will be concerned about arresting you, the following officials, one by one, only care about their official position and life to protect their lives, those local officials, only think about how to get stuck in some oil and water, no one takes arresting you as a serious matter all day long. I dare to pack a ticket, you are standing in front of those officials, and they don't recognize you. ”

Note: "There are stuffy sticks in the morning, bags are dropped during the day, and there are thieves at night." It is not the author's nonsense to deliberately slander the social security of the Ming Dynasty, which is contained in the "History of the Ming Dynasty".

In this way, the three of them decided to follow Yuan Hui's plan and take a boat along the Grand Canal to the north, and thanks to Yuan Hui's friend Duolu Ziye, they were able to find a boat from the imperial court to the north to transport official salt, and the three of them swaggered north on the boat. Before getting on the boat, Yao Guangqi saw Yuan Heng talking to a military attache on the shore for a long time. If it was a month ago, knowing that Yuan Hui was still so familiar with officials, Zhang Yu and Yao Guangqi might have been surprised, in the past month, seeing Yuan Heng have such a wide range of contacts and so many doors, Yao Guangqi was not surprised at all to see such a scene at this time. Looking at the state of the two, you and I seem to be very familiar with each other, and when the two were separated, the military attache secretly stuffed Yuan Hui with something, and said something in Yuan Hui's ear.

After Yuan Hui and the official separated, before the three of them boarded the boat, Yuan Hui smiled and said to Zhang Yu and Yao Guangqi: "How about it, it's good, believe me." There will be no government officials coming up to check on this boat. ”

Yao Guangqi asked, "Then now can you tell us where we are going?" ”

Yuan Hui hesitated, looked at Zhang Yu, and said for a long time: "To be exact, I went with you, he couldn't go to that place." ”

Zhang Yu punched Yuan Heng's chest: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, where to go?" ”

Yuan Heng rubbed his chest, but still said very seriously: "Penglaizhou" stopped opening his mouth to speak.

Where is Penglai Island? Yao Guangqi was stunned, Yao Guangqi had read in the book, there was a fairyland called Penglai in the land outside the square, and Xu Fu led five hundred boys and girls overseas to find Penglai Immortal Island when he was the ancestral dragon, but Xu Fu and those boys and girls did not come back, and he always thought that it was just a lie by Fang Shi to deceive the king.

Zhang Yu was also stunned, he had never heard of the place Yuan Heng said, he had only heard of Penglai Wonderland, and it was a fairy story passed down by the elders, but Yuan Heng said it so formally, so seriously, and Yuan Hui had also shown his ability many times before, no matter in any aspect, Yuan Hui didn't seem to be joking.

All three fell silent at the same time.

Three people on it, is a large flat-bottomed boat, because the canal water level is shallow, so all the boats in the Ming Dynasty are flat-bottomed boats, Yao Guangqi they boarded this kind of boat, called Caofang, is the standard means of transport on the canal, according to our modern research to restore, this kind of boat is 22 meters long, 4.4 meters wide, the sail and the hull of the same width (in order to facilitate the two ships to go in the opposite direction when the wrong car is convenient), the standard grain volume in the early Ming Dynasty is 472 stone / boat, about more than 40,000 kilograms, later in order to reduce the cost of transportation, The volume of transportation per ship increased to 780 stones/ship.

The three of them boarded the first ship of this batch of Cao transport fleets, which was both the head ship and the flagship, and the three of them boarded the ship, as well as a military attache and a young woman, this military attache was in his forties, although his face looked a little vicissitudes, but it was difficult to hide his heroic spirit. The woman was very young, she looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old. An official was followed by a young woman, according to Yuan Hui's consistent thoughts, it must be the official's concubine or friend, brought out to relax. If you follow Yao Guangqi's thoughts, it may be the daughter of a military attaché. But there was something interesting about the woman, because she had a sword on her.

Maybe someone had already greeted this official before, so when the military attache saw Yao Guangqi and the three of them boarding the boat, he didn't look surprised, and nodded slightly to greet the three of them. The woman stared at the three of them with very indifferent eyes for a long time, in Yao Guangqi's view, this woman's eyes were not only indifferent, it could be said that she was interrogating the three suspects with the eyes of a prisoner, she had a murderous look, which made Yao Guangqi very uncomfortable.

Contrary to Yao Guangqi's discomfort, Yuan Hui seemed very adaptable, he took Yao Guangqi and Zhang Yu directly into the cabin in the middle of the ship, pushed open the window, sat down comfortably by the window, and looked at the scenery outside the window, looking very comfortable.

Zhang Yu was still a little uneasy, and said to Yuan Hui in a low voice: "Old Yuan, who is the official, it will be fine, the woman looks at our eyes, I think there is a problem." ”

Yuan Heng said confidently: "You have been bitten by a snake for ten years and are afraid of the well rope, if he thinks you have a problem, you can still get on the boat now?" I'll catch you under the boat, don't worry, there are no brocade guards, and they're not coming for you. The official is Shandong's salt and iron transport envoy, and people are here to charge salt, don't look at that woman and look at you very fiercely, maybe it's because you are handsome, and you already look down on you in your heart. ”

Zhang Yu's face flushed: "You, you don't have a serious person at any time." ”

Although Yao Guangqi is not worried about safety, he has always been obsessed with what Yuan Heng said about Penglai Zhou, what kind of place is it, and will it help his revenge? Looking at the scenery outside the window, he actually fell asleep.

This sleep actually slept until midnight, Yao Guangqi was awakened by a soak of urine, got up and wanted to find a place to pee, and felt out of the cabin in a daze, wanting to go back to sleep after peeing on the bow of the boat.

But after he had finished peeing, and before he had reached the door of the cabin, he heard the sound of Si scrubbing behind the cabin, not loud, but very strange, this sound was completely different from the sound of water, and it was especially special to listen to at night.

Yao Guangqi was about to go around to the back of the warehouse, but suddenly the hatch opened, and the two figures shook, Yao Guangqi was startled, and looked at it to see that it was Zhang Yu and Yuan Hui, Zhang Yu made a silent gesture to Yao Guangqi, Yuan Hui pointed to the back, Yao Guangqi immediately understood, and the two of them also heard the voice.