Chapter 167: Yu Da Niang's Boat
'Master, I'm finally catching up with you. If you want to go, you don't take us with you. Catching up with Li Chen and his entourage, it was Li Chen who bought those house slaves, and Yunqing was the leader. If you forget who she is, remind you that she is Li Chen who asked Yang Er to buy it back at a high price and play the heroine of Cui Yingying.
'Didn't they all let you go?' Li Chen was a little surprised that he would be caught up by these house slaves, "Anyway, how did you catch up." Before Li Chen left, he returned the contracts of these house slaves to them, on the grounds that Bliss had changed hands, and he had no intention of continuing.
Actually, of course, I'm afraid of trouble. Although it is troublesome to retrain manpower, Yang Er has experience, and when he reaches his heart, he can quickly rerecruit manpower. So he simply let these house slaves go for good, so as not to be a burden when he ran away, in case there was that person who was dissatisfied, and played some tricks on him on the way, it would be a lot of fun.
'Master, because we have heard that the master is going to build another paradise here, we want to try our luck here. ’。 Yun Qing replied, 'Isn't it good to stay in Pengcheng?' I'm going to run here. We are very grateful that the master let us go, although the master does not want me to wait, but we are not good to continue to stay in Pengcheng. Li Chen nodded, implying that they were unwilling to stay under the hands of a scheming former master and a villain.
You didn't tell anyone, did you get noticed? Li Chen asked, Yun Qing showed a rare look, "Just this group of people know where we are going, and there is no special publicity, but..." That is, it is not particularly secret.
'Xiaohu, are you going to have a boat, can you carry so many people?' Li Chen asked Xiaohu, they can chase after them, and so can others. Although they successfully escaped to Barrel Bridge Town, it means that the news should not have leaked, otherwise it should be a trap for the Silver Sword Army waiting for them, but it is better to leave quickly.
'No problem, don't worry. The answer was not Xiaohu, but Fubo. Yesterday Xiaohu only arranged all his ships, no problem, Fu Bo also nodded, so Li Chen didn't ask much, today it was a temporary addition, so he had to ask.
Without further ado, let's go. Li Chen led a group of people to the dock quickly, this group of people was so loud that they had to leave in batches, otherwise the defenders would be nervous about these hundreds of people.
The children accounted for a hundred people, Yang Er brought a cadre of people, etc., Li Chen didn't know each other, and there were more than ten people. It's a pity that because of the batch, Li Chen still couldn't see Xiaohong.
Zheng Duzhi knew that there were few people, and she only brought a white rabbit, of course, she also had some house slaves, but she was in a hurry and didn't have time to take them out. I had to give up. In the end, there is the group of slaves that Li Chen bought, and now they are ordinary lovers, and there are about ten or twenty people. In fact, there should have been more manpower at the beginning, but not so many people were willing to come to Barrel Bridge Town, and many people were looking for their own way out.
This ship is really not small. Li Chen came to the dock, and under the guidance of Xiaohu, he arrived at the ship they had rented. If it weren't for the fact that the price was too expensive, Xiaohu would have planned to buy one.
Now the ship is parked here at the dock, and there are dozens of single boatmen on board, and there are dozens of them as far as you can see. Its size is also unique on the docks. Not only that, but after Li Chen got on the boat, he realized that this was the boatman.
Not only is the ship big, it has a lot of load, and even there are things planted on it. In some places, soil is laid and vegetables are planted. When a ship has to take a stance, the ship will make such a use of space on board. I don't know if this kind of ship can go to sea.
Li Chen found that there were hundreds of boatmen on this ship. Moreover, it is not only the boatman, but the boatman's family is on this ship.
'This ship is so big, is it a ship of the sea?' After Li Chen boarded the ship, he stood at the bow of the ship, next to the boss of the ship, looked in the direction of the stern, and supervised the boarding. The total length of this ship now seems to be more than ten meters, which may not be large in modern terms, but its size is unique on the pier.
And don't look at this ship is not big, but maybe it can really go to sea, hundreds of ships have more boatmen, but when Columbus arrived in the New World to get the Santa Maria, it seems that it was only 120 tons. And this ship, Li Chen's visual inspection is more than 400 tons.
'Out to sea? When the bow of the boat heard this, he asked, "This ship has never been out to sea, but it is sailing on the river." Whether I can go to sea or not, I don't know. The bow replied.
I don't know the bow of the boat, but in Li Chen's opinion, probably not, this is not like the appearance of a sea boat, mainly because there are too few masts, there is only one, this is what a traditional river boat looks like, he remembers that he seems to have seen such a boat in some Qing court dramas, as if in a film like some overseas Chinese compound. With only one mast, how can you use the wind power at sea to cope with the long voyage?
'I haven't had time to ask yet, you old Taifu, what do you call it.' "What Taifu, it's just a boatman when you go down, just call me Lao Lin." ’
"Lin Chuantou, please take care of it in the future." Li Chen still respectfully called him the bow of the ship, and asked more, "Does this ship have a name?" ’。 'Yu Da Niang's boat. Li Chen asked what the name of the ship was, but the bow thought that it was the shape of the ship, so he replied.
'Oh..., Aunt Yu's boat. ''This boat is the largest in the entire river. Except for the same Yu boat, nothing else is bigger than this. The bow said proudly.
Yu Da Niang's boat, this ship is famous, Li Chen has heard of it. In the Tang Dynasty, in addition to what sand boats, Guangzhou ships, and Fu boats, it was probably the largest Yu Da Niang ship. If this is Yu Damiang's ship, then his estimate of just four hundred tons is wrong.
Yu Da Niang ship, will be named Yu Da Niang ship, it was originally built by a generation of wealthy businessman Yu Da Niang, its age is probably in the Suzong period, that is, after Anshi, if you want to see this kind of ship in the early Tang Dynasty, unless Yu Da Niang crossed.
This ship is so famous because before Yu Damiang's boat, the Jianghu saying said: "Water does not carry ten thousand", which means that the big ship does not carry eight or nine thousand stones. But Yu Chuan broke this record. Up to 10,000 stones. How much load does Wanshi have? About six hundred tons.
In this era, it is the largest riverboat, known as 'the residents of the health of the dead and marrying in the meantime', and you can also open the alley as a nursery, that is, use the space to plant some vegetables and fruits on the boat.
Among them, there are up to 100 shipwrights on board, as Li Chen saw. The annual cost is staggering, hundreds of boatmen, and the monthly cost alone is hundreds. It's not a wealthy family, a wealthy businessman, and he can't afford to raise such a ship.
However, there are many expenses, and they are still circulated, which means that he has a large income. This time the delivery went north, Xiaohu smashed a lot of money, hundreds of times, and people were willing to give them a ride by the way.
'Hey! Hey! Yo. At this time, the bow of the ship saw that it was almost time to board the ship, and began to direct the departure. The big boat slowly walked up the canal with the cooperation of nearly 100 sailors, the bow shouted the trumpet, the boat dozens of meters long, about one meter on both sides of the ship, stood a boatman, with the trumpet, the long rod propped up into the bottom of the river, and slowly adjusted the course of the boat.
Because of the season, under the tailwind, the boat boss also put up the sail, looking at the sail, Li Chen wondered in his heart, whether this sail is better than a Chinese-style hard sail or a Western-style soft sail. He has seen such posts on the Internet, and there are all kinds of arguments, and it is really difficult to judge.
After watching the meeting and setting sail, Li Chen returned to the warehouse, there was nothing to distract him from this time, and he remembered Xiaohong again. At this time, a teacup was placed in front of him by a white and tender hand.
"Please use it, this is your new tea, I tried to make a pot, please Li Jun, the tea master, taste it." "Whatever, everyone, I just drink the tea leaves that put a lot of stuff in it, and it covers up the taste." The person who came was Zheng Duzhi, Li Chen's heart was a little relaxed, not because she was a beauty, but because he thanked him for saving Xiaohong and Yang Er.
"I haven't thanked you yet, I saved Xiaohong and Yang Niangzi" It's nothing, it's just the right time. "Then again, Pepe, you're really willing to let go of all this, leave Pengcheng, and start over." Since people are unwilling to take this credit, Li Chen will not continue the topic just now and talk about other things. The great kindness is not grateful, record this kindness in your heart, and have the opportunity to be repaid in the future.
Timing the meeting? The previous arrogance, sneering at them, originally thought that she was shallow, turned her face and didn't recognize anyone, and helped them at the last moment, not just at the right time.
Before, she spoke coldly and deliberately showed off to herself and Yang Erde, and seriously, she actually deliberately persuaded them to leave here. It's just that under the circumstances at that time, she couldn't explain it too clearly. Sometimes, people who are kind to you are not necessarily good people. Scolding you may be the real good for you.
It's just that she let Yang Er and Xiaohong leave safely, and she herself left without any nostalgia, which really surprised Li Chen. After all, her connections and relationships are all in this Pengcheng, Yang Er is gone, just enough to continue to be hers, the first flower in Pengcheng, Zheng Duzhi.
The slave family has some savings, and the rest of their lives are not a problem, so where to go is not to go. Zheng Peipeiyun said lightly, "It's you, a big man, with a group of children, who are really ruthless." ''Anyway, they weren't there at that time.'' ''When you get to the place, do you plan how to live?'' ''Probably, find a place where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and spend the lower half of your body leisurely, and anything else, I really don't force it. ’
'Uncle, come and see, I don't know what I'm doing. After chatting with Zheng Duzhi, Li Chen thought about something alone. After dinner, Li Chen was about to sleep, but was pulled away by Ah Xiang, "Yixin hasn't slept at night in the past few days, uncle, you go and talk about him." The housekeeper's wife got Ah Xiang and pulled Li Chen to the bow of the boat, but she saw that she was a stupid baby who had changed her name, and she was very focused on holding a pipe with a protractor, and she was doing the stupid thing that Ah Xiang said.
Seeing this scene, Li Chen smiled, this single-mindedness, who said he was stupid, he was really just concentrating. Maybe the achievement will be the highest among these children in the future. (To be continued.) )