A thunderclap suddenly sounded in the night sky, and the dust deposited in the shaking roof tiles fell down.

Duan Jie was also stunned on the spot, he slowly turned around, and saw a dazzling light flashing outside the door, and a thunder that sounded like a sound, the bad feeling in his heart rose and gradually wrapped him.

The rain fell like beads, rhythmically beating on the roof tiles and window lattices.

also hit Duan Jie's heart.

He took a few steps back in despair, slammed his body against the bookshelf, and said to himself, "When did she start calculating all this?" ”

Duan Jie thought of the time he met with Miss Mei a few months ago, when he talked about gambling contracts, why didn't Miss Mei's calmness attract his attention!

Could it be that she had already thought of the result at that time? How is this possible!? It's kind of scary! ”

Think of her smiling as if she were watching a monkey show, and the few of them were the monkeys who were acting.

Duan Jie smiled self-deprecatingly, and the laughter slowly grew louder, and then became crazy.

The morning on the canal is cool and pleasant, and the river breeze is still a little cool.

Fang Jin stood by the string of the boat, looking at the three large ships full of goods in front of him, they had been driving on the canal for twelve days, and yesterday they crossed the boundary of Xuzhou and headed towards Tengzhou.

A guard approached Fang Jin and said, "Seventh Master Fang, those two boats have caught up again." ”

Fang Jin looked back at the two boats following in the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Find two people with good water quality, go and help them open two holes under the boat." ”

The guard grinned, "Okay! "I turned around and went to arrange for the staff.

In the distance, at the end of the sky, there was a chirping birdsong.

Fang Jin put his finger in his mouth and whistled vigorously, he looked up in the air to find the figure of the falcon.

A black dot on the edge of the sky slowly grew larger, hovering in the air a few times, and swooping down towards them.

A guard walked behind Fang Jin and handed him a leather bracer, Fang Jin put on the bracer and stretched out his arm, and the falcon fluttered its wings and landed on his arm.

Fang Jin raised his other hand and stroked the eagle falcon's neck twice, "Thank you for your hard work!" He said.

He untied the bamboo tube containing the letter paper from the eagle's leg, turned around and motioned to the guards beside him to take the eagle away, and said, "Give it the big fish you caught yesterday." ”

The guard hugged the flapping falcon, answered with a "yes", and turned away.

Fang Jinkou opened the wax seal, poured out the letter paper inside, and when he unfolded it, only two words were written on it, and a seal of the head of the Mei family.

"Burn the ship!"

He muttered those two words in his mouth.

Fang Jin squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the boats in front of him, and then turned his head to look at the boats in front of him, which were loaded with silk worth 160,000 taels of silver.

This is the amount purchased at a low price, if this batch of silk is calculated according to the price of previous years, I am afraid that 300,000 taels of silver will not be able to buy so much silk.

This is going to be burned, but it's a bit tyrannical!

Fang Jin picked up the letter again and looked at it, he didn't look at the words on it, but looked at the red round seal.

This is the seal that the eldest lady specially added for fear that he would not carry out her orders!?

Fang Jin kneaded the letter paper in his hand a few times, raised his hand and threw it into the turbulent canal, and disappeared in an instant.

He looked at the boats in front of him again, if the boats were burned in broad daylight, someone nearby would definitely come to the rescue.

The day passed in an ordinary way, nothing big happened, and there was a little twist and turn in the middle, that is, the two boats that had been following them for more than ten days had docked at the nearby dock because of water leakage.

In the dead of night, Fang Jin called up a few of his cronies on the boat, told them what the eldest lady had ordered, and told them to get ready, and after the fire burned for a while, he jumped into the river and swam to the shore.

When several people heard that they were going to burn more than 100,000 goods on the ship, they all looked at Fang Jin in disbelief and asked if he had made a mistake.

Fang Jin couldn't take out the letter with the seal of the head of the family, he was a little annoyed why he threw the letter away in the first place! "Can I coax you with this? If this wasn't what the eldest lady ordered, then if I burned the boat, I wouldn't let the eldest lady send it to the government for punishment after I went back?! He said.

A few people thought about it, and asked Fang Jin what to do next.

Fang Jin asked a few people to go to the cabin to find some lamp oil and cooking oil, pour them on the silk, and wait for the fire to burn, and then call the others to escape.

A few people nodded "yes" and turned to look for something that started the fire.

After a while, a few people came back, and only four taels of lamp oil were found.

"That's enough." Fang Jin said.

He jumped up with the oil bottle, and after a few ups and downs to the front boat, he did not see how he spilled the oil, and when he flew back again, the first three boats were already on fire.

When Ruoxue received the news, it was already six days later.

On the third day after Mrs. Cao woke up, she fell into a coma again, and Dr. Qi stroked her pulse and said that her heart was exhausted, and it was just a long time to wither.

Hearing Doctor Qi's words, the Mei family was crying mournfully.

The second old man Mei Jishan wrote a letter to the third old man Mei Jitan, asking him to ride a horse and send it to Gaochun County, saying that Mrs. Cao was critically ill and asked him to return quickly.

After three days, Mei Jitan came back in the dust, and cried in front of Mrs. Cao's bed for a long time before being persuaded by everyone to go back to the house and wash up.

The next day, Mrs. Cao woke up, she looked at the children and grandchildren around her, and the corners of her mouth raised a smile.

"It's all here! That's it. ”

When the people knew that her time had come, they asked her what she had to command, and told them that they could do it.

Mrs. Cao really thought about it, so she said that she should not make a big deal after her death, and a few grandchildren and grandchildren can keep filial piety for half a year, "Let them marry a few children who should marry, marry those who should marry, don't delay the good years!" She said.

Mei Zhiyuan and Ruoxian cried and kowtowed to Mrs. Cao, and cried bitterly on the ground.

Mei Jishan and Mei Jitan responded in unison: "My son wrote it down." ”

Mrs. Cao looked at the two grandchildren kneeling on the ground, the smile on her face did not change, she turned her head to look at the three sisters Tian and Ruoxue who were standing next to the bed, and when she opened her mouth to say something, a maid came in outside and shouted "Miss".

Everyone in the room looked at her in unison, and she took two steps back in fright.

The smile on Mrs. Cao's face couldn't be maintained, she quickly looked back at Ruoxue, wanting to know what happened again, so that a maid broke in without scruples.

Ruoxue hesitated for a moment, looked at the maid and said, "What's the matter?" Go ahead. ”

The maid swallowed her saliva and said, "Go back to ...... Miss Hui, Qiu Lin came in just now and said that our yarn transport boat caught fire and sank on the canal near Tengzhou, and all four boats were ...... Sunk. ”