I slept until the dead of night.

"Wake up, are you hungry?" Seeing him open his eyes, the golden retriever stretched out his head and asked with a smile.

During the whole day, the doctor came to check the pulse twice, and one time was better than the other, and his mood was much better.

"Hungry, Brother Mao, are you really?" Channeling looked at the golden retriever without blinking.

"Of course it's Lao Tzu! Silly? The golden retriever smiled, picked up the bowl, and fed the strips to eat the minced meat soup with minced greens.

"Brother Mao, I still can't believe it." Channeling took a few bites, licked his lips, and before he finished a sentence, tears flowed down his eyes.

"Don't cry! Look at you kid, don't cry! The golden retriever blinked hard, but couldn't blink back the tears.

"Eat meat well, eat and drink well, develop strength, then cry, and then talk." Lu Hepeng woke up, stepped forward, looked at the channeling strip and smiled.

"Did you hear what Mr. said? Don't cry, eat well. The golden retriever wiped tears from the back of his hand.

"They're all dead." Channeling looked at the Golden Retriever.

"I know, the boss knows, don't talk first, eat meat first, raise it first, the boss knows." The golden retriever choked in his throat.

Channeling stopped talking.

After eating half a bowl of minced vegetables and meat, and drinking half a bowl of thick rice soup, the golden retriever took the bowl.

The boss has confessed that people who are very hungry and sick should be fed little by little.

Lu Hepeng looked at half a bowl of minced vegetables and meat, like an undead grass drenched in water, and was amazed when he saw the scurrying strips that were fresh and spiritual.

"The boss said that people like us can live if they stutter, they can live if they have a breath, and those who live cheaply have a big life." The golden retriever looked at Lu Hepeng and smiled.

"Your boss is wise." Lu Hepeng sighed again.

"Brother Mao, where's the boss?" Channeling timidly glanced at Lu Hepeng, who was obviously extravagant.

"This is our Mr. Lu." The golden retriever introduced with a smile first.

"Your boss is in Jianle City, your boss is very powerful, I also followed your boss, I said it wrong, it's our boss." Lu Hepeng looked at the channel, and at the end, he laughed.

"When you get better, let's set off, go to Yangzhou first, the dark horse and Xiao Luzi are in Yangzhou, we met the dark horse, let the dark horse invite us to eat delicious food, eat well, and then go back to Jianle City together." The golden retriever laughed.

"Xiao Luzi asked me to go with them at that time." Tears fell, "I was talking about my daughter-in-law ...... at the time."

The golden retriever patted the strip and only sighed.

"After Xiao Luzi and they left, it was only half a month younger, General Dawu left, and a General Xiaowu came, I followed Tian Ji and them, and I went to see General Xiaowu enter the city, who knows ......"

Channeling wiped away tears.

"He entered the city, and on the fourth day, as soon as he went to sleep, he arrested all the people of our Yexiang Gang, and when he was caught, he was put on the boat, and before dawn, he said that he would cut off his head.

I didn't expect that the chickens were stupid.

Later, the front began to cut off the head, and Tian Ji said, his mother is really cutting off the head!

Tian Ji said: I have the best water nature, and I have to let me escape with my life, someone has to go to the boss and ...... with the boss."

I couldn't go on with a choked voice, and after a while, I continued: "Tian Ji and them, I hit them with knives, and while I was in chaos, Lao Huang kicked me into the river."

I was bound with my hands and feet, and I couldn't swim far, so I clinged to the boat and climbed to the rear rudder.

The chickens, twenty or thirty brothers, all cut off their heads, and the heads of the chickens floated in front of my face......"

He couldn't speak.

The golden retriever wiped his tears one after another, Lu Hepeng hung his head, walked to the window, put his hands behind his back, and looked at the dark night.

"Later, I followed the boat, returned to the dock, and found a place to hide for two days.

In the city, General Xiaowu hung up a notice, if anyone sees our Yexiang Gang and the people of the Beggar Gang, catch one, give five taels of silver, and report the news to five hundred big money.

I didn't dare to go into the city, so I was on the docks, looking for a place to hide during the day, and going out at night to find something to eat.

The days were getting colder and colder, and I was hungry all the time, and I didn't dare to swim across the river, for fear of dying halfway through.

Later, the day before yesterday, in the middle of the night, I heard movement, it was General Xiaowu's people.

There were twenty boats, with a number of water ghosts, and I lay down in the pile of rocks on the shore and listened to them.

Hearing that, they were going to Jiangning City, and I thought it was an opportunity, so I killed a water ghost, robbed him of his clothes, and mixed in with the water ghosts. ”

When Lu Hepeng heard this, he turned around and rushed to the front of the channel.

The golden retriever also stared at him when he heard this, "You go on, say it quickly!" ”

"I really came to Jiangning, as soon as it was dark, I pulled the boat with a water ghost and began to cross the river, and I arrived in the first half of the night, hiding not far from the Dragon King Temple.

Brother Mao, you know that piece, we used to hide the boat there.

In the middle of the night, a general stood at the bow of the ship and said, "A grain ship will come in a while, saying that he will kill all the people and scuttle the grain boat."

I was lying on the bow of the boat, and there was a man who shared the work with a few other water ghosts, and asked me to go with them to the bottom of the boat to scuttle the boat.

I followed the men and jumped into the water.

Later, a fight broke out, and I hurried to the shore, and was stabbed in the back, and when I climbed ashore, I was hit by another arrow. ”

"What else did you hear? What else? Think about it! Lu Hepeng's eyes widened.

This happened under Jiangning City, just by the river below the Dragon King Temple, but Jiangning City at this time is calm!

"I also heard ......" Channeling frowned, thinking hard, "By the way, I was the first to pull the boat, and when the boat reached the middle of the river, I changed it and sat on the side of the boat to rest."

There was a general standing next to me, not knowing who I was talking to, and I heard a few words.

The general said: I don't know if this letter is true or not, if it is fake, we will go this time and there will be no return.

Another person said: No, it's a long line in his hand. It is very reliable, and it is definitely not wrong to say that it is taking advantage of the military food ship to carry things, and that it has been staring at it since the unloading of things.

He also said that if there is a fake, he is also a dead word, and he doesn't want to die.

That's all for a few sentences. ”

Lu Hepeng's face turned gray.

"We have to hurry back to Jianle City, the sooner the better, you go, let the shopkeeper find someone who can carry a sedan chair and walk to carry him, hurry up!

I'll go to the Guard's Mansion, and when I come back, we'll leave immediately!"

Something is wrong! Lu Hepeng didn't finish speaking, and rushed out.

"Brother Mao." Channeling's frightened face turned blue.

"It's okay, it's not our business. You rest, I'll go to the shopkeeper and find a footman who can walk to carry you. The golden retriever comforted the channel, hurried out, and asked the shopkeeper to come over.

Lu Hepeng came back quickly, brought back more than a dozen strong soldiers, and without waiting for dawn, he opened the city gate and hurried to Jianle City.

The group traveled day and night, and a few days later, they entered Jianle City.

Lu Hepeng went straight to see Gu Xi, and the golden retriever took the strips and went back to Fried Rice Lane.

The excerpt of General Ning, the guard of Jiangning City, was handed into the palace on the same day.

The military rations transported by the imperial court to Jiangning City were quietly intercepted by the military army of Jiangdu City, chiseled through the bottom of the ship, and sank into the river.

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Lu Hepeng met Gu Xi, and on the same day, Wencheng went south along the canal and went straight to Yangzhou.

Half a month later, because of a trivial matter, Yongping Marquis Shen He was severely reprimanded by the emperor, dismissed the envoy of the Ministry of Rites, and deducted two years, Yongping Marquis's eldest son Shen Mingshu had a loss of virtue, and was pressed in front of the Chuifu Palace and beaten 30 boards, and ordered him to study in the house behind closed doors for half a year.

Gu Xi was busy for a few more days before he had time, sat behind the Shunfeng shop, and Li Sangrou blew the wind of the moat, talking about idleness.

"The youngest sister of Mrs. Han's relatives in Yongping Houfu, married into the Cao family of Yangzhou Wang, Mrs. Han and this sister have a very good relationship, and they often send things back and forth.

The youngest daughter of this young sister got married in the autumn, and Mrs. Tuo Han found a big red coral tree of about three feet and matched it with the original one in the family.

Mrs. Han found the coral tree and asked Shen Mingshu to find a way to send it to Cao's house in Yangzhou. Shen Mingshu found Yu Qingsheng, an official of the household department, and took the grain ship sent by the household department to Jiangning City to bring the coral trees to Yangzhou.

When Shen He was in charge of the household department, the Yongping Marquis Mansion often borrowed grain ships to and from Yangzhou to carry things, and this matter had long been targeted by Nanliang's spy reports, and someone was arranged next to the old lady of the Cao family to open and read the letters from the Yongning Marquis Mansion to the Cao family.

Shen Ming wrote a letter to the Cao family, and specially instructed that it was a military grain ship to Jiangning City, and the operation was secret, saying that this year was different from previous years, and Nanliang was about to break out, and now the household department was in charge of me. ”

Gu Xi said in the end, he was angry.

Li Sangrou listened silently and sighed.

Such stupidity, which damaged more than a dozen boatloads of grain and killed hundreds of people in vain, was only a punishment of two years and a beating.

Alas.

"It's thanks to you, otherwise, ......" Gu Xi kept patting the armrest of the chair angrily.

Li Sangrou looked at him and hummed paradoxically.

She was in a bad mood.

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In the evening, under the corridor of the main courtyard of Fried Rice Lane, Li Sangrou and the rice blind man each had a bamboo chair and a wine jug.

"People are different, how can people be the same?

There are big differences when they are born, some are high and some are low, some are light and some are heavy, some are expensive and some are cheap, some are smart and some are stupid, some are good-looking and some are ugly, some are lucky, some are bumpy steps, alas, there is no way. The blind man took a big sip of wine and smashed his mouth.

"It's different, but it shouldn't be like this." Li Sangrou sipped her wine.

"Why not? Isn't that all there is now?

One person, one life, different people, different lives.

If you die, that son will definitely have to kill a lot of people, and if the golden retriever dies, that son will definitely not kill, and if you want to kill, you will kill people.

You see that's different, isn't it?

If the Golden Retriever dies, you have to kill someone, and if I die, I see you sigh at most. The blind man sighed, "Human life is different." ”

"If you die, you must die of your own accord.

If you had not died yourself, I would have killed for you and avenged this for you. Li Sangrou straightened her long legs.

"Thank you for your love. Alas, don't think so much.

People are not the same. If it's all the same, you don't need fortune telling, you don't have to practice, you don't need anything, don't you?

The old woman at the door of the god temple, earn two cents, buy one penny fragrant flower offering, earn ten pennies, buy nine pennies fragrant flowers to worship, you listen to her prayers, just one thing, ask to be a master in the next life.

No one asks for equality for all beings, all they ask is to be a master. The blind man said, raising his glass to Li Sangrou.

Li Sangrou raised her glass and raised her head to drink the wine in the glass.

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After a day, Boss He, who had lost a lot of weight, arrived at the Shunfeng Express Shop.

Li Sangrou asked Datou to go to the Shaanxi restaurant two streets away to buy a jar of osmanthus thick wine to quench Boss He's thirst.

Boss He thanked him, sat on the edge of the moat, next to the vegetable patch, and talked to Li Sangrou.

"Fortunately, you ordered it early, our ship has not received goods to Jiangdu City for more than a year, and in the middle, that is, the two trips to pick up people, stopped twice, and those two times, I was concerned.

Thankfully. Boss He's face was palpitating and uncomfortable, "At the beginning, Wang Er, who lived in the same courtyard as me, was in charge, and the two boats were broken in Jiangdu City, the boats were burned, people were cut down, and the family was ...... Alas, miserable. ”

Li Sangrou had a calm face and did not speak.

"Those ships that smuggled goods, when they heard the rumors, how could anyone dare to make this money again, and cut off their heads, and after that, there were no more private cargo ships.

But this beheading, until two days before I came, I also caught two ships, both of which were serious cargo ships that earned some hard-earned money, alas. ”

Boss He looked sad.

"Along the way, I met a lot of boat bosses, saying that along the river, all the way up, all the way up is the same as the Jiangdu City, whether it is serious transportation of goods, or something else, say take it, and burn the boat and cut off the head when you get it. Alas. ”

"You're on your way, aren't you? I figured out that by the end of last month, you should have arrived. Li Sangrou changed the subject.

"Cao's sister-in-law's little daughter, when she was about to arrive in Yangzhou, she was sick, she was seriously ill, and she happened to meet Ma Ye, so she asked a famous doctor surnamed Qi in Yangzhou City, and she left after being cured, and it was delayed for half a month." Boss He hurriedly explained carefully.

"Everything else is okay?" Li Sangrou poured a glass of hot thick wine and pushed it to Boss He.

"Yes. Arrived yesterday and sent them to Sister-in-law Gu.

Sister-in-law Gu said that she was with Sister Zhang and took over your needlework here? I see that she is in full swing, why do I think she is talking faster than before?

I didn't have any big luggage, a little old clothes, pots and pans, and I carried it myself.

Look at this sister-in-law Gu, she was too busy to talk to me more, so she said that she didn't need me to take care of it, she must be fine.

I looked, in her big yard, there was chaos, but there was everything, and there was a smell of meat.

I stood for a while, and someone sent rice over, more than 100 catties.

Sister-in-law Gu said that I thought everyone was coming, so I grabbed a handful of rice and took a look, but it was good rice.

It's all very good, and the big boss is at ease. ”

Boss He drank thick wine and said the moment, his smile getting thicker.

"Well, Sister-in-law Gu and Zhang Mao are both bold and capable, and just after the New Year, they took over all my needlework here.

Jiangning City these people came just in time, my side, the Yangzhou line and the Taiyuan line, will soon be opened, to use clothes and pouches, than before I am afraid of only one or two times more. Li Sangrou smiled.

"If you are willing to do it, if you have work to do and make money, then everything is good." Boss He said, laughing.

"Recently, there is not much work to be done along the river, and the canal lines come and go, all of which are cooked, so you don't need to worry about it.

You rest for a few days, go to Dengzhou, Mizhou, Haizhou, and Xiuzhou to take a walk, see how the sea ship business is, if you think you can do it, meet a good ship boss, or a ship, you will be the master, and in the future, the sea line is a big business. ”

Li Sangrou confessed in a low voice.

"Okay." Boss He listened intently, nodded, and then said, "Xiuzhou is on the other side of the river." ”

"There are also half of them on this side of the river, and I think there should be a lot of boats docked, you go and see what the situation is." After a pause, Li Sangrou continued: "Along the way, I'm afraid that it won't be peaceful, I'll find two good kung fu people to be your subordinates." ”

Boss He nodded while listening, "Okay, I'm not tired, if you find someone on your side, I will be able to leave tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." ”

"Well, how's your house going?" Li Sangrou was concerned.

"All settled down, the first is settled in Jinju, where a distant relative is located.

Later, I thought, the big boss is in Jianle City, I come and go, Jianle City must be a frequent coming, simply moved home again, in Xiangfu County, set up a house.

Settle down early, and the big boss can rest assured. Boss He bowed and smiled.

"That's good, don't be in a hurry to leave, you go home and rest for a few days, at the end of the month and the beginning of the month, you pick an auspicious day and go south from Dengzhou." Li Sangrou smiled.

"Okay." Boss He readily agreed, stood up, and said goodbye and went back.