Thanks to Shui Sheng's reminder, Wu Jie and the others rushed through the night, and they arrived in Nanjing City when the sunset stained the western sky red.

Worthy of being the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, Nanjing's prosperity is better than Beijing's. Looking at the past from the Yangtze River, the city has been lit up, although it is not real under the cover of the city wall, but the lights have been illuminated by the whole city, even the fiery sunset, in this lamplight.

Under the illumination of the light, it adds a kind of gloom that is difficult to describe in words.

In terms of population and city size, Nanjing is more than twice the size of Beijing. After all, it has been the political, economic, and cultural center of the South for thousands of years. And Beijing is just a new city, after Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, on the basis of the Yuan capital demolished and rebuilt, it has only been more than 100 years.

Compared with Beijing, which is like an explosive household, Nanjing is more restrained and graceful, or more like a declining old aristocracy.

This is the first time Wu Jie has been to Nanjing, and the body of Wu Jie before the crossing is not counted, and the remaining memories in his mind have gradually faded over time. Now as soon as I saw this evening scenery like a modern city, Wu Jie was a little distracted for a moment.

Moth was also very happy, and came to the boat with the child in his arms, his face full of anticipation and surprise: "I finally went home, and I remembered how I left here two years ago...... Me, I thought I would never come back......"

His voice was a little choked.

Wu Jie sighed and gently patted her shoulder with his hand: "I'm back." ”

Shui Sheng looked at Wu Jie more and more unpleasantly: "It turns out that Boss Wu is also from Yingtianfu, and he has only been out for two years, and I don't know where I lived before, maybe we are still neighbors, I live in Wuyi Lane." ”

Wu Jie: "Two years ago, I lived on West Chang'an Street. "In memory. The home was as blurry as a yellowed photograph, including the body's childhood.

Shui Sheng sneered: "Yo." It turns out that you are a dignitary who lives in the imperial city. It's no wonder that I hold a book and read books all day long. "West Chang'an Avenue is located directly south of the imperial city, and this generation was a semi-public place for officials, nobles and a big yamen. In addition to the mansions of the princes and uncles in Nanjing, there are also six ministries and major government agencies. The people who live in the imperial city are like living in a different world from the ordinary people outside.

Aquatic: "Bragging who wouldn't." I know best what you are good businessmen, and you only talk three points when you meet people. Never throw a heart away. When I see people, I always lift my identity to the big inside, in order to be afraid of being bullied. This is a good heart, but it is actually very empty. ”

Wu Jie and Mozi looked at each other and smiled. didn't say much, just asked: "Shuisheng, there are many wharves in this Nanjing City, where are official ships like us moored?" ”

Nanjing is different from small places with only one wharf, from Dashengguan to Shangyuanmen to Menjie and Jinchuanmen, there are six or seven wharves of all sizes. Officials like Wu Jie who came down from the central government. Locally there is usually a staff member who will go to the pier to greet you.

This is also Wu Jie's negligence, and he didn't ask which dock he should dock at before coming to Nanjing.

"Hey. You pretend to be a nobleman and are addicted, let me tell you, generally speaking, the official ships are docked at the Jiangdong Gate. ”

Wu nodded and instructed the boatman to sail the boat to the Jiangdong Gate.

"It's okay if you really go there, my family lives there, it's convenient."

At the moment, the two have nothing to say.

Yingtianfu is too big, and it takes half of Nanjing City to go from Dasheng Pass to Jiangdong Gate. This journey was not smooth, along the way there were constantly government boats to come to investigate, before and after there were as many as three or four dials, it was really found that people wanted to vomit blood. The main reason is that Wu Jie's ship is big, and it is an official ship, which looks ostentatious, and it is difficult not to attract attention. ..., but as soon as I saw Wu Jie's license, I said a "tired" and waved my hand to rest assured.

Even so, the boat moved slowly, and the aquatic life gradually grew impatient.

When the boat was still two miles away from the Jiangdong Gate, a small fishing boat happened to pass by. On the boat was an old fisherman of sixty or seventy years old, and when he saw the sound of water, he shouted with a smile: "Xiaoshui, you're back, I heard that you have been to Yangzhou for more than half a month, but you have made a fortune?" I haven't seen you for many days, but I miss you. Come on, come on, today I went down the net, and I happened to get a few saury fish, and I took two of them home. ”

As soon as he saw the aquatic life on the boat, he thought that Wu Jie's boat was a fake official boat, and he was not afraid.

"That's good. Uncle Zong, wait until I go to my house for wine. ”

"Eat a fart drink!" Uncle Zong scolded loudly: "You little rabbit cub also knows that when you come back, you have been gone for half a month, don't you know how many days your family has been out of food?" Mom, your mother, sister-in-law and nephews have not stuck to their teeth for three days, and they all rely on eating a few hairy crabs to hang their lives, do you still have the heart to tell me this? ”

"Ah, my family is out of food." Shui Sheng was so frightened that he couldn't sit still anymore, his right foot was on the side of the boat, so he jumped onto Zongbo's boat, turned around and shouted to Wu Jie: "I'll go first, his grandmother's, you wilted man, the more I look at it, the more angry I become, I can't stay here anymore." ”

As he spoke, he kept urging Uncle Zongbo to leave quickly.

The boat is fast, and you can't see the shadow for a while.

Wu Jie listened to it funny, he was so poor that he could only eat hairy crabs, this thing is more than twenty taels in modern society, but it is not something that ordinary people can enjoy. In the past, I only had to look at the drooling, but this time I finally came to Jiangnan, and I had to enjoy it.

Strange to say, Yun Yi hid in the cabin and didn't come out all the way. However, that Mu En has been standing at the bow of the ship and dealing with the boatmen and the officials at various gates, and he seems to be very capable.

It was also Wu Jie's luck that they didn't meet anyone from the Lijin Bureau along the way.

But today's checkpoint of the Lijin Bureau has penetrated into the daily life of ordinary businessmen, and it is impossible to avoid it at all.

After about half an hour, the official ship finally sailed into the water of Jiangdong Gate, and saw a dark city wall and ants like ships in the distance, because the sky was already dark, but it was not real.

This area is a backwater bay, and the river is very gentle and deep.

The water surface is also full of garbage, and there are more large and small boats that do not live around and swarm in and out, and the materials of the entire Jiangnan have to be gathered and dispersed in this place, and it is extremely difficult to rely on a wharf.

At this time, a fast boat rushed over, and the bow of the ship split a white wave on the surface of the river, and there were three or four soldiers standing on the boat, all with open chests, and long knives at their waists, and they looked evil.

When the other ships saw them, they thought they were ghosts, and quickly avoided them.

The soldiers are all dressed as field troops, and the serious Ming border army, if you don't guess wrong, it should be someone from the Lijin Bureau, and the target is Wu Jie's official ship: "The official ship in front stops, and the Lijin Bureau is on an errand!" ”

When Mozi saw someone coming, he was afraid of startling his son, so he hurried back to the cabin.

"Dang!" With a bang, a flying claw hung on the side of the ship, and then several soldiers jumped on the boat and asked, "Which yamen is it, take a look at the license papers." ”

"His grandmother's, there are many people who pretend to be official ships to evade taxes these years, and my family has a life, no matter what the origins are, they must be carefully investigated, and Hugh will let others pass the customs."

Several soldiers stood in front of Mu En scolding, and kept looking east and west with their eyes.

Some people even stretched out their hands to touch the waist of the fat man to see if they could get some benefits.

Mu En, who was good at dancing with long sleeves, kept arching his hand, pointed at Wu Jiefu and said with a smile: "This is our Lord Wu, who came to respond to Tianfu's business trip, and must not be rude." ”…,

"My lord, there are a lot of adults these years, I don't believe you are going to visit this Nanjing city, the prince and the uncle, what Fengguo, Zhenguo generals, not 10,000, but also 8,000, is it worth a few dollars? How big is it, can it be bigger than our Hu Butang? ”

Sure enough, it was Hu Zongxian's soldiers, who were really arrogant and arrogant, Wu Jie smiled secretly in his heart, and reached out to touch the documents in his arms, indicating his identity, so that he could send these soldiers away.

The hour is not early, it is estimated that the officials of Ying Tianfu and Gongyuan have been waiting on the dock for a whole day, and if they let them wait, wouldn't it seem that I Wu Jie has a shelf, and it is not easy to get close?

This is just a trivial matter, and Wu Jie didn't take it to heart. Although these soldiers were rude, they were not stupid, and they naturally knew the weight of a scholar and academic magistrate of the Hanlin Academy.

But at this time, Yun Yi, who had not shown his head all day, didn't know where he came from, ran to those soldiers in a smoke, and couldn't help but arch his hand: "In Xia Yunyi, he was originally a businessman from Liaodong, and he came to Nanjing to do business, and he was a great good citizen. I also asked a few military masters to make it convenient for us to dock. ”

As soon as these words were spoken, several soldiers were shocked at the same time, and then showed expressions of surprise.

"Ha, you're a businessman, I thought it was an official ship, but it turned out to be a fake one."

"In that case, grandpa is welcome, open all the cabin doors, and let me wait to count the goods and calculate the taxes!"

This sudden scene made Wu Jie stunned, and he couldn't help but change color on his face: this guy obviously sent his own fat sheep to someone else's knife, is he brainless, what do he want to do?

Mu En's face turned blue with shock, and he pointed at Wu Jie and roared angrily: "Yun Yi, what do you want to do, don't implicate Boss Wu." ”

"Haha, Boss Wu, it turns out that you are Boss Wu, not some adult?" A soldier walked up to Wu Jie fiercely and looked up and down: "Pretending to be an official and taking an official ship, your crime is big!" ”

A murderous aura surged up on Lian Laosan's face, and he glanced at Wu Jie.

Wu Jie shook his head at him, signaling patience, he also wondered what kind of devil this Yun Yi was doing, and wait and see.

Yun Yi walked over and waved at the soldier, pretending to be panicked: "This matter has nothing to do with Boss Wu, it's all the villain's fault." General, I always have an old relationship with your family, does he have it at this dock? ”

So saying, he shoved a piece of silver into the soldier's hand.