Zhu Shunming has never been a person who is beaten and does not fight back. He has always believed in the first strike.

Cai Gongzi's people hadn't made a move yet, and Zhu Shunming's people had already formed a formation, like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and Cai Gongzi's people were knocked to the ground one after another.

How could the yacha, who scares people on weekdays, be the opponent of Zhu Shunming's family, who has undergone strict training and experienced bloody battles of life and death?

In the blink of an eye, dozens of yacha fell to the ground, hugged their arms and legs, and wailed in pain.

Cai Gongzi was dumbfounded.

In Xinye County, someone dared to make a move on the son of the county lieutenant Cai? Dozens of yacha are actually not the opponents of the other party's dozen or so people? With just such a effort, you can't afford to fall to the ground?

Zhu Shunming walked up to Cai Gongzi and said indifferently: "You really don't have the ability to ride this rouge horse." Let it go and go back to riding your skinny horse. Be careful of knocking your teeth. ”

After that, Zhu Shunming turned around and left with his second daughter and his family.

"Hey, your silver ......," the red lady shouted.

"You are like an old man," Zhu Shunming turned around and said seriously: "Just treat it as a gift from the old man, and you can't push it away." ”

Zhu Shunming looked at the red lady. The heroic red lady is indeed not the mainstream beauty of this era.

The face is handsome, the body is healthy and full, high-handsome, Tianzu, wheat-colored skin brought by walking the rivers and lakes, and a wild and uninhibited temperament......

"Where are you going after leaving Shinno?"

"Dad said he was going north to Shandong."

Under Zhu Shunming's gaze, the red lady rarely showed a shy look, and she was so gentle that even she herself was a little incredible.

"If you can, it's better not to go north," Zhu Shunming comforted: "The north is too chaotic for girls to wander outside." ”

The red lady was gloomy in her heart and asked, "Can women only depend on men to survive?" ”

"An independent and strong woman is admirable, but she will live a hard life."

Then he shook his head, showing a look of reminiscence, and sighed: "Maybe she enjoys it." ”

The red lady's eyes lit up, her tone was slightly urgent, and she asked, "Do you really think so?" ”

Seeing Zhu Shunming nodding, the red lady smiled very brightly.

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The relationship between Ruyu and Li Cuiwei gradually improved.

First, Zhu Shunming is very strong, whether in life or on the bed; Second, Li Cuiwei did not put on the shelf of the housewife, and still let Ruyu manage the money and personnel of the back house.

"Young master picks up girls, do you say déjà vu every time?" Ruyu asked. Of course, the word pickle girl was said by Zhu Shunming.

Although she didn't understand the word "pickled girl" very well, Li Cuiwei still understood the meaning of Ruyu.

recalled the scene when he and Zhu Shunming first met, Zhu Shunming shouted "Cuiwei" like a lost soul, a picture of an old acquaintance. Thinking about it again, today he said to the red lady, "like an old man".

Li Cuiwei couldn't help but nod and said, "Xianggong is indeed like this...... But this red lady is rough and ugly, and the husband should not like her......"

"Ruyu, you say, if Xianggong takes a fancy to other women, what should I do?" Li Cuiwei began to think from the mind of the housemother.

"Of course, it's to find an opportunity to get started," Ruyu took it for granted: "How can a husband not have three wives and four concubines?" The young master is a person who does big things, and if he has too few wives and concubines, he will be very faceless. Ruyu replied with selfish intentions.

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Zhu Shunming repaired in Xinye for three days.

Personnel and horses rest, carts are repaired and maintained, and materials and food are procured...... Zhu Shunming also rented two flat-bottomed sand boats of 600 stones.

The further south you go, the more developed the water system becomes.

Zhu Shunming planned to go south by boat to avoid the pain of a long journey. The old people and female dependents in the team could not withstand such a difficult journey.

Cai Gongzi did not come to retaliate, and saved a fight.

The red lady said goodbye to Zhu Shunming the next day and went north to Shandong.

The red lady was a little reluctant, but the old man showed rare toughness, dragging the lost red lady away angrily.

Zhu Shunming did not express his position, which made the red lady a little disappointed. If Zhu Shunming stays, he has the ability to keep her.

The Red Lady only left a faint mark in Zhu Shunming's life, and time will gradually erase the traces until it disappears - if there is no reunion.

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On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhu Shunming spent time on the White River.

Heading south along the White River, the journey becomes leisurely and quick. You don't have to rush hard, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery along the way, and there are beauties with you, and the boat shakes from time to time, and life is happy.

Of course, there is also a discordant side.

Most of Zhu Shunming's people are from Shaanxi and don't know water. When I first got on the boat, I was dizzy and vomited all over the world, and the whole ship was filled with a sour and unpleasant smell.

Li Cuiwei and Ruyu also vomited unhumanly, and the little girl who served them even vomited out yellow bile.

Zhu Shunming had no choice but to take matters into his own hands, serving tea and pouring water to feed the rice, which moved the two women to a mess, completely opened their hearts and unlocked their bodies.

Within two days, the sand boat entered the boundary of Xiangyang in Huguang Province. Another day, arrive at Shuanggou Town, where the White River and the Tang River converge to form the Tangbai River with a wider river surface.

Entering the Tangbai River, it is obvious that the temperature is rising, the humidity in the air is increasing, the banks are lush, the rice field seedlings have been half a foot high, neatly swaying with the wind, and occasionally there are shepherd boys herding cattle, laughing and chasing, showing childlike fun.

The existential crisis in the North does not seem to have affected the life of the South, whether it is poor or leisurely, luxurious or lascivious, and there is no sign of the decay of the last dynasty.

Li Cuiwei basically adapted to life on the ship, although she was still a little unaccustomed to it, but she would not vomit and be weak in the dark.

"The lake is wide and the world is full. The people here are so happy. Li Cuiwei sat at the bow of the boat, the breeze blowing over her, blowing her sideburns and skirt, blowing on her youthful and slightly amorous face.

She has never seen the customs of the southern water towns, and what she sees is quiet, leisurely, and beautiful, and she can't help but sigh: "It's good to be able to eat and clothe and stay away from the war." ”

Of course, Zhu Shunming will not say inappropriate words in a bad way. Although no matter how beautiful the scenery is, there is always darkness and sin hidden; Although no matter how rich the place is, there will always be abject poverty that is difficult to sustain with food and clothing; Although no matter how leisurely the place is, there will always be people who are running around day and night and struggling to survive.

"In the future, we will have large fertile paddy fields, countless gold, silver and jewelry, and endless silk and satin ......"

“…… There are also a lot of wives and concubines......" Li Cuiwei said with a smile. Feeling Zhu Shunming's favor, Li Cuiwei already dared to joke with him.

Maybe it's not a joke.

Zhu Shunming's physical strength is incomparably strong, and his recovery power is amazing.

There is no need to work the ship, Zhu Shunming's bed activity has increased significantly, Li Cuiwei and Ruyu take turns to fight, and the two of them are difficult to resist when they join forces, and they are often killed to the point of losing their armor.

Li Cuiwei has already moved the idea of taking a concubine for Zhu Shunming.

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The Tangbai River flows into the Han River twenty miles northeast of Xiangyang City.

Above the Han River is Xiangyang, the first important town in the north of Huguang and a battleground for soldiers.

Yangyang City is surrounded by water on all sides, bordered by Xiangqu Canal in the south, and the wide Han River in the northwest. The moat has been repaired and dredged several times, and the river is nearly 100 zhang wide (not bragging B), and it is up to 3 zhang deep.

Historically, when Mengyuan was rampant in the world without any rivals, Xiangyang used a lonely city to resist the iron hooves of Mengyuan for decades, and Mengyuan returned here several times.

It's a pity that no matter how good a castle is, it will collapse from the inside, and no matter how strong the city is, it can't withstand the hearts of the people.

More than ten years later, the strong Xiangyang City fell several times, the head of the city changed the banner of the king, and the people and vassal kings all suffered.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, attacked Xiangyang, captured Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, burned the palace of Xiangwang, killed all the soldiers and soldiers, and swept away a large amount of property.

In the same year, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, could not ask for military salaries in Xiangyang, and the soldiers committed murder, killing rivers of blood.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, King Li Zicheng fell into Xiangyang, and was called "King Xinshun" in Xiangyang, which opened the trend of fighting against the Central Plains with the Ming Dynasty.

"In the words of the world, the emphasis is on Xiangyang; In the southeast, it is important to focus on Wuchang; In terms of Huguang, the emphasis is on Jingzhou...... Why is it important to be in Xiangyang? The husband of Xiangyang is also the waist of the world. Central Plains, can be merged to the southeast; The southeast can also map the northwest. Therefore, it is said that it is important in Xiangyang. ”

Zhu Shunming did not go to Xiangyang, but went down the river, passed through Yicheng and Zhongxiang, and entered the Jianghan Canal in Shayang Town.

The Jianghan Canal is far less famous than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but it has a much longer history.

The predecessor of the Jianghan Canal, the Yunmengtong Canal, was dug in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, the Yunmeng Canal connected Jingzhou and Shayang, forming the prototype of the Daming Jianghan Canal.

After several repairs and widening, the Jianghan Canal has been able to sail large ships below 2,000 stones, and has become a busy waterway in the northern part of Huguang.

When the boat passed through Changhu, all the people in Shaanxi, who had never seen the big rivers and seas, showed incredible expressions.

"When you have seen the Yangtze River five or six miles wide, the eight hundred miles of caves with vast smoke and waves, and the boundless and endless sea, you will know the insignificance and narrowness of your vision."

Li Cuiwei looked up at Zhu Shunming adoringly; Ruyu felt that the young master knew everything for granted; The fast-growing Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others yearn for the future and are full of hope for the future.

The Han River flows into the Yangtze River in Jingzhou.

Descend the Yangtze River and enter Dongting Lake from Xiangyin County, Changsha Prefecture.

The vast Dongting Lake completely conquered everyone. No wonder the south has a high grain production! If there were so many water sources in the north, the yield of irrigated land would not be low. Old Man Zhu sighed the deepest.

Farmland is the soul pillar of Old Man Zhu, and it may also be a profound imprint in the genes of the Ming and Han people.

Old Man Zhu, who has no land, has not recovered his former spirit after a serious illness. Now that he has entered the territory of Huguang and seen so many fertile fields and such abundant water sources, Old Man Zhu's heart has come alive again.

"Is there really a lot of fields?" Old Man Zhu asked no less than five times for such words.

"Don't worry, the fields are there," Zhu Shunming explained, "but it's just wasteland, and it needs to be cleared." ”

"I'm not afraid of wasteland," Old Man Zhu was full of confidence: "I want to ...... back then"

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Follow Dongting Lake all the way west into Yiyang County, Changsha Prefecture. From Yiyang Ganxi Port, go upriver and enter the Zijiang River.

The water potential in the lower reaches of the Zijiang River is gentle, the river surface is open, and the boat is quite convenient.

After passing through Anhua County and entering the Xuefeng Mountains, the water becomes turbulent and the river narrows. Zhu Shunming's sand boat traveled with great difficulty.

The cliffs on both sides of the bank are towering, and all you can see is the narrow sky and hovering vultures, and the sound of rushing water and palpitating chirping is all in your ears.

Fortunately, the boss of the boat rented by Zhu Shunming is experienced, skillful and careful in handling the sails and helm, and there are no dangers along the way.

After Xinhua County, Zijiang became gentle and docile again. went all the way to the west, entered Baoqing Mansion, and finally approached the destination of Zhu Shunming's southward migration.

Continue upstream, go to the mouth of the Shuangjiang River, and divert to the river. Advance westward along the river, pass through Wugang Prefecture, and enter Chengbu County.

Disembarked in Maoping Town, Chengbu County, the team traveled by land, passed through Chengbu County, and continued to walk for five days. On the sixth day of June, he finally arrived at the destination of Zhu Shunming's southward migration - Chang'an Camp.