After a day's trekking, Qi Yunshu arrived in Chuzhou at dusk.

Chuzhou is located in the southeast of the capital, with a natural river connecting with the capital on one side and an artificially dug canal connecting the south of the Yangtze River on the other side, so it is easy to transport the rice grain and products from the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River to Kyoto and other areas in the north.

Relying on the busy river transportation, this place has been unprecedentedly prosperous, and has developed into a bustling city in the North Zhili area.

Even at this time, the main person in charge of the transportation of imperial grain and military grain was out of the problem, the river was still busy, and the ships came and went of different sizes, but the draft was very deep, and they were undoubtedly fully loaded.

Qi Yunshu got off the station and looked at the river embankment for a while, feeling that this place was faintly as busy as the dock seen in modern times.

"Looking at it like this, it seems that Chuzhou doesn't look like something happened!" Qi Yunshu sighed.

Bowen approached and said: "Young grandmother doesn't know, a few days ago, when there was a lot of precipitation in Chuzhou, the water in this Yuntong River rose and the boat rose, and sometimes there were torrential rains, and the wind and waves were strong, and many merchant ships did not dare to go here easily. ”

Qi Yunshu raised her eyebrows: "Oh, it used to rain heavily here?" Asking, she looked around and saw that there were indeed traces of flooding by the waterline on the embankment along the shore.

It can be seen that Bowen is true. Qi Yunshu looked at him: "Uncle Wen seems to be very familiar with this Chuzhou, but is there any other news?" ”

Bowen humbly bowed his head: "I can't say that I am familiar, it's just that the incident in Chuzhou made a lot of noise a few days ago, and the reason why the young grandmother didn't know it was because you were in northern Xinjiang at that time, the mountains were high and the roads were far away, and there were news barriers that could not be passed on." ”

Hearing him say this, Qi Yunshu wanted to know more and more, and hurriedly asked what happened in Chuzhou.

"The waves of the river are so high that the merchant ships dare not leave, although there are losses, but no one can afford such a big risk, so they can only retreat.

If they sail forward with their boat, they will only send the river god to death. But the ship of the official family in charge of Cao Yun has a lot of people on the tip of the ship, coupled with the war in the northern Xinjiang, the imperial court is in a hurry to ask for grain and grass, and they only have the courage to be lucky.

In the past, nothing happened to the adventure, but at the beginning of June, the river god suddenly became angry and left the entire public ship in the Huitong River, and the grain of 50,000 stone was cheapened by the river god.

In addition, the dozens of shipwrights on the ship and the dozen or so people who were specially responsible for escorting grain and grass were all buried in it, Qi Yunshu heard that his body was numb, such a big thing, so many lives!

Bowen thought about it, and sighed and persuaded: "Young grandma doesn't have to worry about this matter anymore, this is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster!" "No matter how tangled it is, it's in vain!

Qi Yunshu's heart tightened, but she couldn't help but ask, since she knew that the rain and waves were heavy, and it was not suitable for sailing, why was no one to stop her?

"The war in Northern Xinjiang is not endless, and the grain and grass raised by the young master and grandmother are only enough for the rations of the soldiers in the early stage, but they still need to continuously transport the official grain to the north through this river, so they can't stop.

Once stopped, not only will the supply of the army be insufficient, but even the food of the people in the capital will be in short supply.

Qi Yunshu had nothing to say, speaking of which, as a businessman, she was indeed very clear about the current situation of Da Liang.

The land in the north is barren, and many people depend on this river for their rations, and if it stops, it will indeed have a far-reaching impact.

However, according to the reserves of previous years in Kyoto's major grain stores, it is not so serious.

So Qi Yunshu intuitively felt that there was something greasy in this.

A sensitive person like Zhao Jing must have found out something through these clues, and offended something that some people didn't want him to come into contact with, so his information channel was blocked!

Qi Yunshu overlooks, the water and the sky are connected, the three mountains in front of the water mist are swirling under the transpiration, as if it has become a fairy mountain resort, across the distance, Qi Yunshu can vaguely see that there are some eaves and corners above the clouds, pavilions and pavilions, and the construction is exquisite.

"Hey, where is that?" Qi Yunshu was slightly surprised.

Bowen was stunned for a moment and shook his head: "I don't know about this, let me inquire about it!" ”

Qi Yunshu originally only saw it occasionally, and asked casually on a whim, not expecting Bowen to know, but seeing that his business ability was really strong, he asked in a moment.

"Yunhu Mountain Villa in Yunhu Mountain!"

The two had little to do with each other, and Qi Yunshu was not interested in hearing the name, so he turned from a distance to the nearby embankment.

Suddenly, her eyes tightened, and she saw a middle-aged woman hiding in the low reeds under the river embankment, kneeling in the mud with chopsticks and cups.

The sewage was so dirty that it wet her trouser legs, and she knelt reverently as if she hadn't noticed it, clasped her hands together and whispered something in a low voice.

Qi Yunshu beckoned the magpie to sneak over to see what she was doing, the look was weird, and it was in harmony with the busy crowd around her.

The magpie tiptoed over to take a look, and soon came back to tell Qi Yunshu.

"That aunt's surname is Hu, it seems to be worshipping her husband and her daughter!"

Qi Yunshu frowned: "Did all her family members leave when the flood crossed?" ”

In the story just now, Qi Yunshu did not hear that there was a flood that could drown people in the Huitong River.

"They weren't swept away by the flood...... Old Nantou died in that official ship, and my daughter Yingying ...... She was thrown alive into the river! ”

I don't know when, the middle-aged woman who was hiding and worshiping just now had actually stood behind Qi Yunshu, she heard the magpie's words, and actually went into battle to talk to her in person.

It's just that Qi Yunshu couldn't believe it.

Hu said that her man was one of the eighteen shipwrights who escorted the official rations, which she could barely accept.

But to say that the daughter of the Hu family was said to be an unlucky person, so she was thrown down alive to worship the river god, she didn't believe it.

Although it is not the 21st century, breaking the four olds and destroying feudalism, it is also a time of national peace and security, and there will be such a suffocating operation in such a prosperous commercial place.

Don't say that Qi Yunshu doesn't believe it, she doesn't even believe it, and her calm voice tells her not to talk nonsense, there are people everywhere who are Cao Yun's envoys, and if she accidentally provokes it, she suffers.

The middle-aged woman, with her hair disheveled, began to cry with tears in her voice.

"Who lies and deceives people, my family of four is now left with me and my son! The old Nantou is gone, my family is gone, it's gone, it's gone!

I'm still afraid of something, at least they just cut me down alone, I'm not afraid! ”

The more Hu Shi spoke, the more excited he became, and his voice became louder and louder, seeing that he was about to attract the attention of others, Qi Yunshu hurriedly asked the magpie to hold her and found a nearby Linjiang teahouse to take a seat.

Qi Yunshu's consciousness told her that this middle-aged woman was not crazy, let alone lying, when she said those words, Qi Yunshu kept staring at her, and the pupils and eyes in her eyes had no symptoms of lying.

So she agreed with the middle-aged woman's statement, and keenly felt that the news seemed to have some connection to what she wanted to know about now.

She came here and listened to it, and she didn't care about listening to it any more.

Good tea and snacks came up, Hu Shi poured a bowl of hot tea, her face was flushed, her facial features were upright, if it weren't for her dark skin, Qi Yunshu could still see her youthful charm from her face, "You...... Who are you, and are you really going to kill me together? Hu Shi was stimulated by the temperature of the hot tea, and seemed to open his mind, looking at the Bowen and magpie standing beside him, his face was shocked.

Qi Yunshu raised her lips and tried her best to be kind.

"Aunt Hu, don't get me wrong. It was you who were yelling at the riverbank and almost attracted the attention of others, and we were afraid that something would happen to you, so we brought you here.

Seeing that you are thirsty, I will warm a pot of tea for you to drink, and you ...... Why don't you know the hearts of good people, but blame us? Qi Yunshu was slightly responsible and controlled her emotions just right.

Qi Yunshu was born good-looking, and her aggrieved appearance at this time made people feel so pitiful, but it was a woman who was at fault, and she couldn't help but be at a loss by her, and hurriedly explained: "No, I don't mean that, I just ...... I just got dizzy and said something I shouldn't have said, I ...... I thank you for the tea, I'm going back! ”

Qi Yunshu looked sideways, Hu Shi's preface did not match the afterword, it looked very abnormal, but she wanted to find out what secrets were hidden in her, and whether it was related to the Chuzhou incident?