Early the next morning, Wang Yin went to the head of Wu County to gather all the fellow villagers, and returned to the station in the middle of the morning.

After that, he was immersed in work, Wang Yin was a stonemason, but he could also find the center and support point of the stone, and in the afternoon he carried the giant flower stone on the barge to a special car, and the work was done very beautifully, and then naturally went to Suzhou with the team.

From Wu County to Suzhou, although the road is not far and only more than 80 miles, it is not as simple as towing such a huge flower and stone to arrive safely. After setting off early in the morning of the second day, although eight healthy oxen were found to drag, it still took nearly 100 people to drag and control the balance with the rope, and when the road was uneven, they had to stop and re-pave the road, and they only walked fifteen miles after a day's fatigue.

Therefore, this is only more than 80 miles of days, counting the day of loading, it took ten days to walk outside the west gate of Suzhou City, and then I was stumped by the city gate, so I stopped outside the city and waited.

Ying Feng Bureau is also a headache for this giant flower stone, so he quickly went to Hangzhou to invite a few courtiers, but several of the courtiers of the Bureau of Fabrication took a closer look and felt that this flower stone was big and inappropriate, and the whole looked useless, and if it was dismembered, it could also be made into several good pieces. The courtiers in these bureaus are not officials of the imperial court, but the flower and stone experts specially found by Zhu Mian and his son, so their opinions are naturally valued, so after several stewards of the Ying Feng Bureau discussed for several days, they felt that the flower and stone should be transferred to the Hangzhou Fabrication Bureau, and the Fabrication Bureau would be responsible for the design and modification.

Moreover, this flower stone is too huge, and it can't go through the canal, so it can only be transported to Hangzhou by land, so the people of Wu County are not allowed to disband.

This back and forth, and the extension of more than ten days, also made Wang Yin and others earn a lot of hard money in vain. And during this period in Suzhou City, Wang Yin also got two news, one of which is that Zhu Mian's father and son are neither in Suzhou nor Hangzhou now, and it is very likely that they went to Bianliang with Cai Jing, and it is unknown what to do in Bianliang. The second is that in October, the heroes of the Heavenly Dao League actually showed their faces in Qizhou, this time it is said that tens of thousands of dollars are diverged, and even fought with the public in Qichun County, only to hear Wang Yin and the Mingjiao brothers under his order The blood is boiling, but Wang Yin explained the truth of Wu Xing and his explanation to the brothers in detail, so he can only endure it.

However, no one expected that the variables would come so quickly.

On this day, it was already the second day of the first month of November, and the Zhou envoy came to the car shop where the people outside the city lived early, and announced: "There is a decision in the bureau to send this big flower stone to Hangzhou for a solution. ”

As soon as these words came out, in addition to Wang Yin and others who had already been mentally prepared, many people glared, and an old man boldly stepped forward and said: "Zhou Zhizhi, it is said that it will not be my turn to speak, but now it is the winter moon, and the flowers and stones are huge and difficult to walk, and I can't go through the canal." Now it has taken more than ten days from Wu County to Suzhou. Then take the land from Suzhou to Hangzhou, I am afraid that there are no two or three months how to reach, if I let me go home for the New Year, and then transport the flowers and stones with the system in the spring of the next year, how about? ”

When Zhou Zhienvoy heard this, he also nodded and admitted that he wanted to transport this huge flower and stone to Hangzhou, and it was estimated that it would not take two or three months, but he also said: "Seeing that this is a recent year, I am not an unreasonable person, but this matter is very important, whether to go or not, but it is not my master." If not, I will discuss with everyone, everyone will help to put this flower stone on the road first, and then recruit people along the way, and on the tenth day of the lunar month, I will let you wait to return home for the New Year. Anyway, as long as Huashi is on the road, go fast and slowly, when you go to Hangzhou, I will be in charge, and it will not be difficult for me to do it! ”

After hearing it, everyone thought about it and felt that it was a reason, so they also agreed, and the villagers who came with Wang Yin saw that Wang Yin was silent, so they didn't make a sound.

On the morning of the third day of the new year, everyone set off again and sent the flowers and stones on the road.

However, only three days away, away from Suzhou is only more than 30 miles, but there are dozens of officials who should be served to catch up with the team, the leading young envoy came up with a stick and knocked off the official hat of the Zhou envoy, and said Zhou Gui your incident happened, so he took him with a forty pound of flail, and more than a dozen servants under the Zhou system envoy were also tied up with a rope and escorted back to Suzhou, and then the arrogant young envoy drank and ordered everyone to speed up the journey, and must arrive in Hangzhou before the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

The gathering of Suzhou and Hangzhou is only about 500 miles, and it is said that you can walk 15 miles every day, and a month is enough. But in fact, because the flower stone is too huge, that is, there are many sections of the official road that can not be walked, and it is necessary to make people pave the road and fill it, if you meet people on the side of the road along the way, you may have to try to divert the road, and if you encounter a stream on the road, you have to try to build a temporary bridge, so you can walk more than ten miles on this day, or because you are out of Suzhou, it is difficult for some strong people to arrive in Hangzhou before the thirtieth day of the lunar month.

Here to say, the ancient road is divided into the royal road, the gallop road, the post road, the official road and the county road, the widest of the royal road has nine lanes about six zhang to nine zhang (18 meters to 27 meters), the width of the car at that time was about six feet, it is indeed very wide, and the official road is just a two-lane rammed earth road, the width is only one zhang two feet (3.6 meters), the county road is only one car pass.

And they are going to transport this huge flower stone, the total length is almost ten feet (Zhou eight feet, Han seven feet, Song Ji Han ruler, Song ruler one foot is about 31 centimeters, both one thousand about 2.1 meters), two thousand three feet wide (about 5 meters), the special large axle carried by the car is three feet wide (6.3 meters), eleven feet long, and there are no steering wheels, and the load is high, how can you go fast?

In this way, the people naturally did not dare, an old craftsman who should be in charge of the bureau to manage the car could only come forward to say to the young envoy, who knew that he was whipped on the façade before he finished speaking, and the old craftsman was stunned, only to hear him say: "You and I have listened well, I Zhu Rong received the order of today's Xiangye, and will send this flower stone to Hangzhou before the thirtieth day of the lunar month. ”

With this Zhu Rong scolding, more than a dozen officials who came with him also scolded and pulled out the Pu knife to drive the people to start transporting the flower stone, and everyone endured it when they saw him. How do you know that at night, this Zhu Rong did not let people buy grain, vegetables, firewood and grass, and after the team stopped, they could not make a fire to make food, and everyone thought about it and could only recommend an old craftsman to ask for it, Zhu Rong then asked the official to go to buy it, and when the grain, vegetables, firewood and grass were bought, it was already the second watch.

What's even more infuriating is that this dish is a stinky pickle, not to mention, the grain is actually old grain mixed with grain bran, not to mention a little oily, the people gritted their teeth to make rice and ate it, Wang Yin was eating, while looking at Zhu Rong, who was sitting around the fire and drinking wine and eating meat, laughing recklessly, with a playful smile on his face.