In the middle of the night, Xiao Yu was lying on the bed in the inn, and his heart was still very excited.

This Liu Palace Master is really a model for my generation, more than half of the money earned in a year is used to relieve the poor, and when he left, he also gave thousands of instructions, which must make the three of me remember the common people. Don't worry, I Xiao Yu has nothing else, I still have a lot of enthusiasm, and in the future, I must take the palace master as a model and do my best to relieve the hardship.

Xiao Yu secretly made up his mind.

After the wine party, Xiao Yu originally wanted to talk to the palace master by candle, but Han Liyan deduced that her father's business group had something to do tomorrow and begged Xiao Yu to leave with her. Xiao Yu had to reluctantly say goodbye to everyone, but Qinghua Daoist stayed, and when he left, he was reluctant to give up with Han Liyan, making outsiders think that the two had been friends for many years.

Xiao Yu lay on the bed without sleep, so he simply sat up, lit an oil lamp, and carefully measured the waist card given to him by the palace master.

Before leaving, Xiao Yu excused himself from what he had gained at the matchmaking conference. After refusing to leave, Xiao Yu only took a few gold ingots, and the rest had to be given to the faction to distribute to the poor, and the palace master praised Xiao Yu for what he did. In the end, the palace master gave Xiao Yu a waist card, saying that this was Xiao Yu's reward for passing the third level, and Xiao Yu accepted it as a souvenir.

There is nothing special about the waist card, but in the middle of the neatly carved three big characters of "Sheyu faction" with the official calligraphy.

Xiao Yu was playing with the waist card while thinking about all kinds of things with Han Liyan today.

On the way back to the restaurant from Sheyu, as soon as she got into the carriage, Han Liyan was impatient to persuade Xiao Yu to return to the Central Plains with the business group.

It turned out that the major event of the merchant group was that they would return to the Central Plains by water tomorrow afternoon.

Originally, Xiao Yu wanted to stay in Goguryeo to inquire about the whereabouts of the Nayang couple, but he was ridiculed by Han Liyan for a long time.

"Mud, no, Brother Xiao, why are you so stupid, my father knows a lot of people who can help you inquire, it's better than you alone, I'll notify you immediately if I find out, it's not too late for you to come over again."

"Didn't you say that you want to travel around, how can this little Goguryeo catch up with my Central Plains, maybe your two friends were taken to the Central Plains, who said they must be here."

"You can be a guard in my father's caravan, and you won't eat and drink for nothing, how about it?

......

In the end, he was persuaded by Han Liyan to return to the Central Plains with the business group.

Xiao Yu remembered again that at the marriage conference today, when Han Liyan was lying in her ear, the girl's fragrance and the smoothness of her hair...

In the afternoon, the ferry crossing of Alisu (river name) outside the city of Pyongyang.

Han Liyan and Xiao Yu stood side by side, and in the distance was the calm and turquoise Ali water. Nearby, there are people who are busy with the merchants. In this trade, the entire business group purchased a lot of things, and dozens of migrant workers hired temporarily were still busy.

The caravan was aboard an unusually large merchant ship. The ship is about 30 feet high, and there are two floors on the deck, which serve as the main hall and the senior dormitory, and a large flag with the character "Han" stands in the wind on the top of the second floor. The hull of the ship was about ninety feet long, and at the bow of the ship, the captain was making final preparations for sailing, and at the stern was a mast dozens of feet high, and under the mast was full of cargo.

"It's so beautiful, this is my first time on a boat, the first time I've been to the ferry, I didn't expect the humble ferry to be so beautiful." Han Liyan opened her arms, closed her eyes, and let the cold wind pass through her body.

"The spring water of the Long Causeway is green and long, and it flows into the Zhanghe River", although it is winter now, but there is no more appropriate sentence than this sentence to describe this situation. Ali water is not that big, but it is clear. The clear water and blue sky, the cold wind is slight, and the sound of the boatman shouting slogans is really a good picture.

"But," Han Liyan stopped talking, "I haven't ever been on a boat, and I heard that it will be very shaky when I get to the ocean." ”

Xiao Yu has never been on a boat before, and he is a little nervous in addition to looking forward to it. Hearing Han Liyan's words, Xiao Yu smiled, "Don't worry, hearsay is exaggerated, and I will protect you." ”

"Hmm." Hearing Xiao Yu's somewhat affectionate words, Han Liyan was overjoyed in her heart.

"Let's go, we're about to sail." Xiao Yu said.

"Hmm." Han Liyan, who is lively on weekdays, was as well-behaved as a kitten at this time, and followed Xiao Yu and carefully stepped on the springboard.

"Come, Brother Xiao, this way." Li Li stood on the second floor of the deck and said loudly.

On the second floor, Han Yi and Li Li, who have been to sea many times, do not have as many feelings as the two of them, and they are sitting on the deck on the second floor while drinking and looking at the scenery in the distance.

"Yan'er and Brother Xiao are taking a boat for the first time, it's okay, it's not much different from land, we are in the inland river, it won't be too shaky." Han Yi pointed to the seat next to him and said with a smile.

"Father, what about the river?" Han Liyan was still a little uneasy.

"You'll get used to it after crossing the river, haha." Han Yi rarely joked with his daughter.

Han Liyan pursed her mouth, and when she saw Xiao Yu's encouraging eyes next to her, her heart calmed down again.

"Anchor." The captain of the ship stood at the bow and shouted.

"Hey, hey," several boatmen standing at the sails shouted slogans and raised their white sails.

The ship broke free from the rope and sped a few meters ahead at once, as if it had suddenly regained its freedom.

"Oops." Han Liyan looked at the dishes on the table that moved with the boat and screamed worriedly.

"It's okay, it's a normal reaction when the ship is offshore, and it will be fine after a while." Li Li said busily.

Sure enough, as Li Li said, the ship returned to calm after galloping for a while. The captain of the ship was nervously observing in the command position, and commanded the boatman to change the direction of the white sail at any time.

After Han Liyan got used to it completely, she began to talk more, drinking wine with a few people, chatting without a word, and sitting for a while, everyone went back to their cabins to rest.

About two hours later, the sky was getting dark, and the merchant ships finally left Ali and entered the East China Sea (now known as the Yellow Sea).

At the confluence of the Ali Water and the East China Sea, the current is the most turbulent. As soon as it entered the East China Sea, the speed of the ship increased sharply, and the white sails were also wide open to eat the wind. The boat began to creak, and the hull began to slowly sway from side to side.

Xiao Yu came down from the deck, meditated in the cabin for a while, and then rested directly. But he didn't rest for long, and Xiao Yu was woken up by the sound of "squeak" on the boat. The noise was bearable, but Xiao Yu was a little uncomfortable with swaying from side to side.

The small stool in the cabin swayed from left to right, and from right to left, and Xiao Yu also swayed left and right.

After a while, Xiao Yu's nausea increased dramatically, only to feel that the entire cabin was like a whirlwind, he couldn't stand in the cabin at all, his whole body was drenched in cold sweat, his limbs were weak, and he was as uncomfortable as drinking too much, to be precise, it was even more uncomfortable than drinking too much, and he wanted to vomit but couldn't vomit.

It was already completely dark, and the ships had not yet left the meeting area. After all, the sea is different from the internal water, the cold sea breeze is howling, and the huge hull is like a feather on the sea, inconspicuous, and has long lost the poetic and picturesque feeling when it first set off.

"Wow, vomit" There was a mess on the deck, especially the Turks who vomited the most ferociously. Xiao Yu was also uncomfortable, but he still struggled to walk and climb to the deck.

As soon as the Shanghai breeze blew on the deck, Xiao Yu's dizziness disappeared a lot.

"Wow" another Turk spat directly onto the deck.

"Huh?" The pungent smell came to the wind, Xiao Yu pinched his nose and frowned.

Suddenly, Xiao Yu seemed to have forgotten something.

What about Han Liyan?

Xiao Yu was shocked, endured the discomfort in his heart, and crawled to Han Liyan's cabin again.

"Liyan! Liyan! Xiao Yu banged on the door and shouted, but there was no reaction from the door.

Xiao Yu panicked, and in desperation, he secretly offended, and slapped his right hand on the cabin door.

The "bang" hatch was vigorously slammed open, and Han Liyan was lying unconscious on the ground, and the whole cabin was filled with an unpleasant smell of vomit.

Xiao Yu couldn't care about so much, so he hurriedly carried Han Liyan to the bed and pinched the person, and after a while, Han Liyan woke up leisurely.

As soon as Han Liyan saw Xiao Yu, her mouth pursed, and she suddenly pounced on Xiao Yu and sobbed, "I, I will never be a boat again, wow." ”

Xiao Yu looked at Han Liyan, who was vomiting on his body, and closed his eyes helplessly......

Early in the morning, on the second floor deck.

Han Liyan, who had adapted to the turbulence of merchant ships, looked at Xiao Yu slightly apologetically.

Xiao Yu changed his clothes and unnaturally avoided Han Liyan's tender gaze, but listened to the conversation between Han Yi and the ship boss in his ears.

"Lao Hu, I will change the course and drive south."

"Ah, group leader, aren't we at Dengzhou Port? Where are you heading south? The boat boss was puzzled.

"I have an appointment with someone to trade goods on a small island to the south, and you can just do it." Han Yi threw a map to the boat boss.

"However, if you go south, you will be out of the protection of the imperial court's sailors, and you may encounter pirates." The boat boss said eagerly.

"It's okay, I have my own plans, when I go back, all of you will be paid three times the salary, and there will be other remuneration." Han Yi said coldly.

"But," the boat boss couldn't help but say when he saw Han Yi's unkind eyes, "Okay then..."

Of course, Xiao Yu did not have the right to ask about the specific itinerary of the business group, and although he was strange in his heart, he did not ask.

After a while, the merchant ship began to turn south under the command of the ship's boss. Although the captain of the ship still had no bottom in his heart, he didn't find any pirates after driving for nearly a day, so he was relieved immediately.

The wind on the sea was much stronger than yesterday, and it was impossible to drink on the deck. After a toss last night, Han Liyan's body was weak, and she went to sleep early before it was dark, leaving Xiao Yu alone to watch the ship boss command the ship with great interest.

The ships went faster and faster like arrows off the string, and after turning south, there were many fewer other ships on the sea.

"Brother Hu, you've been driving a boat for several years."

"Hehe, that's it, my old Hu has lived on the boat since he was a child, and I haven't seen any strong winds and waves, and it's been more than 40 years." The captain of the ship was quite fond of this young offspring.

"Have you ever seen a pirate?"

"Alas, I've seen it, it's really a bunch of murderous beasts, the sea is not as good as the land, there is nowhere to run, and I can only consider myself unlucky when I encounter it." The boat boss shook his head and sighed, remembering some of the unbearable past again.

"Actually, the most ruthless pirate is not the kind of shouting and shouting to kill, but the most feared kind of pirate who wants to torture you," the captain continued, "In the summer of my twenties, I went to sea with a few families in my village, but unfortunately, I ran into it just a few days after I came out. The pirates came up and asked for money, but we haven't opened it yet, where is the money? The pirates were so angry that they came up with a shady way to torment us, and I'm still terrified when I think about it. ”

Xiao Yu became interested, "What's the way, Brother Hu, say it quickly." ”

"Little brother wait first, I'll let the ship in front of me avoid it first, or it will collide, alas, how did this ship go."

Xiao Yu moved when he heard this, and about a few hundred zhang in front of him, he could vaguely see a sea ship that was much smaller than the merchant group's ship speeding towards it, and it was swarthy and terrifying from a distance.

"Zhang Danzi, you kill a thousand knives, let you be on duty on the second floor, you sleep like a dead dog. Hurry up and hit the flag, it's going to crash. The boat boss yelled towards the second floor.

Zhang Danzi on the second floor was a young man in his twenties, who had long been sleepy when he was scolded by the boat boss, so he quickly got up and put on the flag.

Seeing that Zhang Erdan was busy with the front and back, the boat boss was still indignant, "The current young offspring, alas, is really not reassuring at all." ”

"Leave him alone, Brother Hu, what is the torture method you just said?" Xiao Yu's heart itched.

"Haha, don't worry." The captain of the ship said while looking at the ship in the distance, "Those pirates who killed a thousand knives made a few of us take the lead naked, and we knelt on the deck all day, and there was nothing to eat or drink, it was the height of summer, and the sun was so poisonous." Well, that doesn't seem right. ”

Xiao Yu was shocked when he heard this, knelt all day, and was naked, he was really unimaginable.

"That..." Xiao Yu just wanted to ask the boat boss what happened next, but he saw that the boat boss's face was pale, his breathing became short, and his face was full of fear.

"Sea, sea, pirate, pirate! Quick, let everyone know! "The captain of the ship can't even speak.