Chapter Ninety-Eight: Stopping the Boat and Taking People Away Halfway

The spring is sunny, and the turbidity surge has not stopped.

The largest boat on the river, that is, the same as the big boat in the fleet, there are more small boats, and even worse, a small boat is rocking back and forth, the waves are rolling, and the boat is like a leaf.

Many of the people in the fleet were coming to the Yellow River for the first time, and they were shocked when they looked at the turbulent appearance of the Yellow River and the small boats that rose and fell.

When praising the ability of the person who rocks the boat, he can't help but secretly sigh that the life of the poor is not easy, if he has the money to buy a big boat, who would want to rock such a boat? If you don't get it right, you can tumble into the water.

"Xiaobao, let me show you." Wang Juan stood on the lookout of the ship, holding clairvoyance and said to Zhang Xiaobao, who was crowded next to her.

Zhang Xiaobao looked towards the place where Wang Juan pointed, and saw that there was a twelve- or thirteen-year-old baby, dragging a carp nearly two feet long to the shore, the fish was still swinging its tail vigorously, making a big splash, the little baby looked very difficult, but very firm, and was stunned to drag the fish up little by little.

"The Yellow River catches carp with bare hands? Yes, there are two hits. Zhang Xiaobao nodded in praise.

"Can you?" Wang Juan asked.

"When I'm his age, I'll be able to, and you'll kick me out of the water from the lookout now, and see if I can swim to shore?" There are people who can cross the Yangtze River, let alone the Yellow River. Zhang Xiaobao is confident.

Since Zhang Zhong saw the emperor, he took his family out by boat, walked the Yellow River, entered the canal, entered the sea in Hangzhou, walked by the sea, and went to the place, which can be said to be the farthest distance from north to south, if it comes out of Sichuan and Shu, it will be a little farther than this.

On the road from the Yellow River to the canal, the fleet is not ready to stop to replenish and sell things, and wait until it reaches the area of Chuzhou, other small boats or cargo ships may not be able to support such a long time without supply, but the Zhang family's fleet has no problem at all, a fleet that can enter the sea, there is no supply.

Weiwei and Liu Er also watched curiously on the boat, two people and one clairvoyant, this clairvoyant no longer needs to be made of crystal, there are some kilns, occasionally can burn some transparent colored glass, find no color, transparent polishing.

Weiwei is more familiar with the water than Liu'er, who made her family a boat, looked at the boat on the river and said to Liu'er: "Sister Liu'er, it is very dangerous to rock the boat at such a time, sometimes the waves come, and if the oars do not unload the strength of the waves, the boat will capsize." ”

"It's dangerous, it's scary to look at being in the water for a while and coming out of it will be covered, slightly, will you row? Can you swim? Liu Er's heart fluctuated with the ups and downs of the boat, a little sad and a little lucky, her family fled to Zhangjia Zhuangzi.

At that time, he was going to starve to death, and his younger brother Xiaoman no longer had the strength to cry, but he met a kind-hearted person, and until now, the family is getting better and better.

And who will help these people on the Yellow River? The master of the Zhang family? If you can be an official here, it's okay, otherwise even if you want to help, you can only help one or two.

Weiwei also knows the hard work of the boatman, sometimes he doesn't catch enough fishing during the day, and his brother has to stay up late to fish for shrimp at night, and the money he can earn every day is basically the money he needs to spend every day, and there is rarely a surplus.

Listening to Sister Liu'er's question, she nodded and shook her head, "I know how to row a boat, I've never rowed, I'm still young, swimming, how can any children on the water not know how to swim?" Sister Liu'er, don't be afraid if you fall into the water, I'll save you, I'll save you so big, there's no problem at all. ”

"I don't want to wait for someone to save me, I will learn by myself in the future, I heard that the water nature of the little boy and the little lady is very good, the next time I study, follow the little boy and the little lady to learn to swim, I heard that the place where we are going has the sea, the sea is blue, and there are very big fish, catch one enough to eat for many days."

Liu Er looked at the big boat under her feet, felt stable, and longingly talked about what she had heard from others.

Eighteen large ships held their sails and sailed with the wind and current, and the speed was not slow, and these eighteen ships were slightly different from the others, in the mast, there were two more masts, one in front and one behind, and there were no sails on them at this time.

Only those who knew understood that these two masts were used to hang the spinnakers, and that other ships would drop their sails against the wind, and that there would be slender men when they were against the current.

These eighteen ships will drop the sails when they encounter headwinds, raise their spinnakers, and sail in a zigzag, which has been sealed by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, except for the warships of the Zhang family and the imperial court, the rest of the people don't want to get it at all.

Li Xun was not idle, when he came, his father gave him the task, let him write down what he saw and heard along the way, he brought a lot of people, both literary and martial, at this time there were three literati there to write, he was responsible for telling what he saw.

"Thousands of sails are racing, or there are small boats floating in the waves, the shore is weedy, the water is turbid, the children enter the water with their bare hands to catch fish, strange, surprised, sighing, we are waiting for the boat to be mighty, ordinary people are ferrying, brocade clothes and jade, how many people know what the common people want? Hearing that the people of Luzhou are even harder, I, Li Xun, swore that when I returned, the people of Luzhou would have enough food and clothing, and the people would have a place to live. ”

Li Xun stood on the deck with his hands in his hands, the wind blew his clothes, and began to speak, two of the three people did not move, and one person wrote quickly.

"Little Master Hou has the world in his heart, and I admire it." The man finished writing and said a word to Li Xun.

"I have the ambition of peace in the world, but I don't have that ability, wait for the Zhang family, the Zhang family has always been extraordinary, hehe, you are still used to it these days?" Li Xun is still a little self-aware, he swears, and then waits for the Zhang family to do it, he can only follow the helper.

"Back to the little waiting master, I eat well on weekdays, but I am always uncomfortable in my stomach when I float on the water, I don't know why?" The man replied.

Li Xun smiled and said, "Seasickness is like this, do you feel curious to see that the people of the Zhang and Wang families are fine?" They fainted, before they came, they practiced for a few days for this, and in the lake of Yaowang Mountain, they passed after a while, I don't know when, the people of the world will be able to live a good life. ”

Li Xun said and watched Yiye Qingzhou being overtaken by the fleet, and felt that if the bridge was closed here, it would be convenient for people to come and go.

In the past, he would never care about this, since that time he saw that something was given to the Liu Er family, he contacted the Zhang family from time to time, and this has changed, the edge has converged, knowing that he is helping the weak, and he also feels the joy of helping others, especially some people who can't eat, first get something to eat, and then help find a job to do, there will be a good mood that has not been experienced before.

What touched him the most was the scene of Zhang Zhong leaving Huayuan County to see off the people and crying, he also wanted to have that opportunity, and decided to wait for the time to have a fief, find Zhang Zhong to be an official, help govern it, and go out like that, and the people he saw were all smiling.

After another two days, the fleet came to Kaifeng, and the next step was to change lanes from here, and from there to Chuzhou, and then replenish it, and at the same time sell and buy some goods.

There is a big wharf here in Kaifeng, which is dedicated to stopping ships, and eighteen ships are thinking of going directly from the side, but who knows that there is something that makes people look at it.

There were more than thirty people at the dock, young and old, who were not allowed to get close to a boat than others who were waiting for the boat, and then more people joined in and pushed together.

The people on the Zhang family's side saw it, but they didn't understand what was going on, but Li Xun was bent on letting the people live a good life, and he wanted to take care of the injustice when he saw it.

"Stop the boat, the other ships go first, my ship has stopped, go down and ask, what's going on?"

With Li Xun's shout, the boat stopped, and someone immediately went down to ask.

The other boats continued to move, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan also saw it, glanced at each other, didn't say anything, and waited for Li Xun to finish dealing with it and catch up.

Seventeen boats went out for more than half an hour, Li Xun's boat chased after him from behind, and from the splash that came out of the back of the boat, he knew that he used a propeller, and there were only two boats in the team that were equipped, Zhang Xiaobao's side, Li Xun's, and usually not used.

After waiting for Li Xun's boat to approach, an arrow was shot from the boat, and a letter was tied to the arrow, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan did not read the letter first, but looked at the place where the ship was shot just now.

"Loser's stuff." Zhang Xiaobao scolded, and then opened the letter and looked at it, and Wang Juan also leaned his head over.

"There is still a local drought? Why is there no one to report it? Wang Juan read the letter and muttered.

"Isn't it all the same, several other counties have been affected by the disaster, and they can hide it, so there are people who have fled the famine? Why can't there be a thousand eight hundred? Go back to the ship and pick up all the people who fled the famine here in Kaifeng. ”

Zhang Xiaobao suddenly thought that the place he went to had a small population, and he was fleeing from the famine here, so it was better to take it to other places, they were all people of the Tang Dynasty, where could they live?

The letter said that the people who had fled the famine had no money to take a boat or food, and that they wanted to beg another boat to take them elsewhere, or to give them something to eat, and if someone was willing to take them in, they could help them do something.

As a result, the people at the dock saw that they were wearing tattered clothes and had stolen goods on them, and they were afraid that they would spread the disease, so they let them leave, and the people on the dock were still waiting to work.

began to expel them, as soon as Li Xun's people arrived, things were easy to do, no one dared to offend, waiting for Li Xun's orders, Li Xun's ambition in his stomach, naturally took people to the boat, let people go to get something to eat, and let people prepare water to scrub, so he caught up.

Zhang Xiaobao's words were decided, and he ordered to go down, and the first two half-full cargo ships went to the wharf to unload the goods, and sent people to inquire about the fugitives everywhere.

The other ships were unable to move for a while, so they had to anchor at the dock for simple supplies.

"It's going to be delayed for a few more days, and the trip will be accelerated in the future." Zhang Xiaobao said a word and went into the cabin to sleep.