Mother Xu has been away from Chongming for too long. The life of a small household made her forget even the minimum etiquette, and when she walked to the riverside and saw the Wusong River flowing slowly, she remembered that she had not contacted her mother's family, and it was probably very rude to rush over.

Xu Yuanzuo stood by the river, a few ancient poems flashed in his mind, but more of them lamented that the water flow of the Wusong River was too small and the flow rate was too slow, and it was impossible to build a hydraulic machinery workshop. Then after thinking about the two years of "Huangpu Tuosong", what kind of changes will happen to the land layout here, I heard my mother call him in a low voice.

"Otherwise, let's wait a day before crossing the river?" Xu Mu whispered.

Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile: "Mother, don't worry, I have already asked someone to go to Chongming to deliver the letter two days before you arrived in Xiawei. I didn't get a reply, so I guess it was delivered. ”

In this era, there is no postal service, no express delivery, unless you send someone yourself, you can only entrust relatives and friends.

These entrusted people also have their own affairs, and after helping to deliver the letter, they go to their own business, and they will not immediately turn around and give you a receipt. Even if the host's family has a reply, it will be brought by someone else.

In this case, if it cannot be delivered to the place for various reasons, the entrusted person will find someone to bring a letter to the client to inform the client.

So Xu Yuanzuo didn't receive bad news, which is already good news.

Mother Xu listened to her son's words, a stone fell to the ground in her heart, and she was relieved: "Fortunately, you are now productive and can do things, otherwise wouldn't it be a shame for us to rush over." ”

Xu Yuanzuo smiled and instructed Qi Miao to take the servant health woman to the dock to find a reliable ship first. In this era, there is a lack of registration and monitoring, and when you encounter a black boat and eat someone's "Jiangxin wonton" or "bandao noodles", it is really unjustly killed.

After a while, the chess trick pedaled and ran back. Panting and said: "Grandma, Brother Zuo, may I ask: Our Chongming relatives are surnamed Shen?" Changsha Shen family? ”

Mother Xu responded: "It is the Shen family in Changsha." ”

Qi Miao calmed down her breath, raised her hand and pointed back, and said, "There are a few boats on the dock, and they say that they belong to the Shen family in Changsha." I heard that it was my own family, so I asked my grandmother to move. ”

Mother Xu suddenly felt a little timid about her hometown, and while urging the car to leave quickly, she asked again: "What is that person?" How old is it? ”

"The one in charge is a young man, who looks whiter and more tender than Brother Zuo, and is probably about the same age as Brother Zuo." Qi Miao replied.

Mother Xu's heart was relieved: this is obviously the third generation of the family, the first generation of her children and nephews. If you meet two brothers here, I really don't know how to reminisce about the past.

After a while, the car arrived at the pier. I saw a building ship, three stories high. There are also small boats of various sizes around the building ship, mostly covered with straw mats, and the draft is quite deep, and they are obviously fully loaded.

Xu Yuanzuo saw the port of the Ming Dynasty for the first time, but he felt fresh and looked around. When I looked at it, I saw a young man dressed as a man walking towards him. Wearing a loose and loose moon-white robe, he walked although he was not swaying. But there is also some temperament.

Xu Yuanzuo couldn't help but marvel at her height because he saw that this person was dressed as a woman: There are also girls of 1.7 meters in this era! And the shoulders are slightly wider, no wonder Qi Miao's uninformed people didn't recognize her as a woman.

The son-in-law was followed by four or five murderous strong men, each with horizontal flesh on their faces, and they were by no means good. However, in front of her, she couldn't take away the limelight, which shows that the woman is strong.

Xu Yuanzuo secretly speculated: Could this be a female pirate rampaging in the waters?

The "female pirate" actually walked to the front of the Xu family's car before stopping. The strong men behind him were lined up on both sides, like geese walking, obviously having practiced the military formation.

Xu Yuanzuo greeted him, hugged his fists and said, "Is there anything wrong with this son?" ”

Qi Miao had already shouted: "Zuo Ge'er, it's him." said that he was the son of the Shen family in Changsha. ”

The female pirate also looked at Xu Yuanzuo. put away half of his arrogance, and hurriedly arched his hand: "This is probably the cousin of the Xu family, right?" My father's name is secretive, but it's my aunt in the car? ”

Mother Xu lifted the curtain and only glanced at the female pirate, and she was already in tears: "It's your second uncle's son, and it's already so old." ”

The female pirate pouted at Xu Yuanzuo, bypassed everyone, walked to the back of the car, saw the tail curtain lifted, and walked down Xu's mother, so she bowed: "Auntie, my name is Shen Yujun." ”

"Good, good, handsome man!" Mother Xu gently wiped her tears: "Is your sister and young lady okay?" When I got married, my second brother had only one daughter, and I didn't even know that he had a son. Thinking that the second brother who was originally close to him turned out to be a stranger, Xu Shen was even more sad.

Xu Yuanzuo looked at it coldly on the side, and said secretly: Most of it is the young lady's sister.

"Ahem, my aunt will be able to see her when she gets home. She also thinks about her aunt. The female pirate said, "Auntie, I received a letter a few days ago, saying that you are coming to congratulate my father on his birthday, and my father asked me to leave a boat to wait for you, please come on board." ”

Xu Shen said yes again and again, got out of the car and changed ships.

Xu Yuanzuo was about to ask someone to move things, but Shen Yujun had already preemptively said: "Call someone to come and carry it, the car will stay here, scrub it clean and let it survive, don't let the sun and rain get rid of it, and the patent leather will be damaged." The horses should also be fed with good feed, and they should not be called thin. ”

Xu Yuanzuo said secretly: He is a careful person.

Those strong men did not move, and many dock workers rushed nearby, carrying and carrying, each with its own division of labor and orderly.

Shen Yujun said to Xu Shen's family: "Auntie, this dock belongs to our Shen family, and they are all our own people, so you can rest assured." ”

Xu Shen said again and again: "It seems that the family is becoming more and more prosperous, and when I got married, there were only twenty or thirty boats in the family." ”

Although there were only a few steps, Shen Yujun still insisted on inviting Xu Shen to go on his shoulders, walked beside him, and said: "In the past few years, my father has sold the land in Xisha, and he has taken over a part of the shipping business in Taicang Mishangjing, and the fleet has more than 50 shallow ships and 30 foreign ships. ”

Xu Yuanzuo knew that the so-called ocean-shading ship was a large offshore ship, which could also be used in the wide and deep waters of the Yangtze River, and it was not a regular sea vessel. He looked at the laden boats, held his hand and asked, "Cousin, are those boats?" ”

Shen Yujun sneered: "Of course it's a shallow boat that is so small." ”

Xu Yuanzuo was a little sorry, looked at these shallow boats that were larger than the hundreds of tons of fishing boats in the later world, and said secretly: I underestimated the ancients again.

Xu Shen heard that his mother's family was becoming more and more prosperous, and he said yes repeatedly.

The shoulder directly carried Xu Shen onto the boat, and a feast had been arranged in the boat hall on the second floor, with fish, meat, vegetables and fruits.

Xu Yuanzuo originally thought that there would be some bloody dramas of wealthy relatives bullying the poor, but now it seems that except for the pirate cousin, who is a little cold and arrogant to outsiders, no one has anything to be rude. Even so, the pirate cousin is still respectful to Mother Xu, and it is normal for her to laugh at her cousin.

Who let this cousin not even see the boat. (To be continued......)

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