"No, not really." Bai Yunyao hurriedly denied:

"Sister Li'er, you're thinking too much. In fact, we won't encounter any difficulties at all, but because my mother wanted to rest today, I closed the door of the shop. ”’

Qin Li didn't believe it, and asked Bai Yunyao:

"Really?"

She stretched out her hand and pointed in the direction where the Qin Mansion was located, and said, "But I remember very clearly, when you walked with me in the backyard of my house, you didn't say that to me. ”

When strolling in the backyard, she also mentioned to Bai Yunyao, saying that she hadn't seen Aunt Bai for a few days and missed it very much.

After Bai Yunyao heard this, she said, "When you recover, I will take my mother to see you." Today, I was cleaning the house at home, and by the way, I fried fried melon seeds and even prepared for it. My mother was busy in the shop and was not at home. ”

But when the three of them came to the dock in a carriage, she got off the carriage and stood by the river, and she could see the shop opened by Aunt Bai. Bai Yunyao told her that Aunt Bai was not in the shop.

No matter how stupid a person is, he can hear it, Bai Yunyao didn't tell the truth.

Qin Li looked at Bai Yunyao's eyes, and could still catch a glimpse of the helplessness in Bai Yunyao's eyes, knowing that Bai Yunyao didn't tell her the truth, there must be something unspeakable.

At this time, they were all outside, and she didn't ask any more questions.

Holding Bai Yunyao's hand, he pretended to smile easily, and said, "Okay, Sister Yun'er, since Aunt Bai is resting today, let's go to the merchant ship first." We'll come back to see her in a few days. ”

A layer of mist appeared in Bai Yunyao's eyes, and her voice was a little choked:

"Okay."

As long as Li'er's sister stopped asking her these questions, she wouldn't feel so embarrassed.

Qin Li and Bai Yunyao both followed Guo Shi's side, walked into the gate of the port, took out their respective fish talismans, and handed them to the soldiers standing by the gate to check.

Several of the most prosperous commercial ports in the world are in the Daning Dynasty, and Jiayu Port is one of them.

Every year, I don't know how many luxury merchant ships depart from Jiayu Port and pass through Liuyuan Sea and other places to transport antiques, silk, tea, porcelain and other items of the Daning Dynasty to some neighboring countries. Then bring the gems, amethysts and other items produced over there back to the Daning Dynasty.

In the same way, merchants from Ryuhara and other countries would also take large merchant ships to Jiayu Port, pay some taxes and silver here, and sell the goods they brought on the merchant ships.

Merchant ships from Ryubara Province and other countries cannot dock at Jiayu Port for a long time.

Under normal circumstances, it is today, and at most you can dock at Jiayu Port for two or three days, and then you have to return.

But for the merchant ships of the Daning Imperial City, there are not too many restrictions. It's just that some large merchant ships returned to Jiayu Port and brought back more treasures.

Some famous ladies of the Daning Dynasty, as well as aristocratic sons, generally inquired about the people of Jiayu City in advance. It is good to know on which day the large merchant ships of the Daning Imperial City will dock.

This makes it easier for them to choose what they want.

The items selected on the merchant ship will be more complete than those they can in the shops outside. The shopkeepers of some shops outside will also come to the merchant ship to buy goods and then take them back to sell.

But when the shopkeeper bought the goods back, the price doubled. The customers went a little later, the good items have been selected and bought by others, and the rest are more expensive.

Qin Li understood that Guo was willing to take her and Sister Yun'er out to have a look on the merchant ship, so that they could both choose the objects they liked.

The winter sun shines on the earth, bringing warmth to the people who go to the port.

Qin Li deliberately slowed down his pace, basking in the sun for a while, enjoying the warm sunshine. After she came to this time and space, today can be regarded as a real shopping mall, and came to the port to bask in the sun.

It's nice to be free without the constraints of high walls!

Qin Li walked slowly, and Bai Yunyao deliberately slowed down. Guo Shi, who was following them, was also very considerate of them when he saw them like this, and walked slowly.

As an elder, after Guo got out of the carriage, he had been doing his duty as an elder and taking care of Qin Li and them on the side.

On the port side, the crowd is surging and extremely lively.

Most of the people who go to the port come with their families. Because of this, the women who came to the harbor, whether they were gray-haired women or young women, did not wear veils.

Everyone went to the merchant ship to pick up the goods.

Merchant ships are also divided into luxury, medium, and ordinary.

They all took their families out to pick up their belongings, and as soon as they came to the dock and found the merchant ship they wanted to go to, they took their families there. No matter who you meet along the way, you won't have time to stop and chat.

Therefore, it is not too important to wear a veil or not.

Qin Li came to the barge and soon saw a giant passenger boat docked in front of the right, decorated magnificently. The golden plaque on it is antique and eye-catching:

【Joy Jubilee】.

The handwriting of the three dragons flying and phoenix dancing on the plaque is vigorous and powerful, and it is written by the current emperor himself.

Just as Qin Li was admiring the large merchant ships, the words of an old man came to his ears:

"Look, look, look, look. What we Wen'er said is really right. Today, it's the merchant ship of our folks in Jiayu Mansion, and it's back! As soon as I saw that boat, I would inevitably think of Lord Yuan, who helped us donate money. In order to help us raise money to build merchant ships, he donated almost half of his ancestral property......"

As soon as Qin Li heard the words "Lord Yuan", she quickly searched for information related to Lord Yuan in the memory left by the original owner.

It turned out that Lord Yuan was the former prefect of Jiayu Mansion, and in the year that Prefect Chu came to serve in Jiayu Mansion, Lord Yuan returned to the imperial city to take up his post.

Anyway, it's a promotion.

At the beginning, Yuan Daren took the lead in donating money to build a merchant ship for the villagers of Jiayu Mansion, and it was still a large merchant ship built. Its merchant ships are so big that they rank among the top three in the world.

It is precisely because of this that the emperor will personally inscribe a few big characters for the merchant ship, [Yuexi].

The ship was built with donations from the people of Jiayu Mansion, and every year when they go to sea, they have to give priority to helping the people of Jiayu Mansion to bring out silk, tea, porcelain and other things from here to sell.

In the same way, the goods brought back by the merchant ship from other countries, the villagers of Jiayu Province can also go to the merchant ship in advance to choose.

Enjoy preferential selection.

After they have chosen, some of the shopkeepers who have opened shops here can go and negotiate business with the merchants who have come from afar.

During his tenure as the prefect of Jiayu Mansion, Yuan helped people dredge rivers, expand official roads, buy merchant ships, and did many good things.

Therefore, on the day when Lord Yuan left Jiayu City and returned to the imperial city to take office, the people of the whole city went out of the city to see each other off. Many people were reluctant to go back, crying and staying, and not letting them go.

That scene really touched many people.

is not like the legendary Fu someone's father, when he was a magistrate elsewhere in his early years, he bullied the locals a lot.

Qin Li heard Ziqin say that when Zhao's father left a county in Qizhou, the local people directly set off fireworks and killed the sheep to celebrate at home.

Thinking about that scene, it's quite "touching".