Chapter 369: A Safe Return
In the darkness, after a storm and clouds, the sky suddenly brightened, and the surroundings began to calm down, the water waves returned to their original regular fluctuations, and the ships only slowly rippled.
The wailing gradually weakened, and when the last person to wail with his eyes closed secretly opened his eyes, the cry of suffering finally disappeared.
"Hey, why are there three more ships!" The bold boatman leaned against the fence and looked out into the water, and cried out in amazement.
"That's the Xu family's ship, and it has the Xu family's signboard on it!" A guy next to him also shouted.
Yu Xiaohuan hugged the mast and climbed up, looking calm and calm.
Li Bai does things, she can definitely put a hundred hearts.
People also appeared on a boat on the opposite side, until a middle-aged man who was a little haggard appeared on the bow of the boat, and Yu Xiaohuan had a guy on the boat shouting: "Steward Cui!" That's Steward Cui! ”
"Ask them, and the people on board are all right." Yu Xiaohuan instructed the guys around him.
The guys around him talked to Steward Cui, briefly explained that they were paying the ransom with the young grandmother, and then conveyed Yu Xiaohuan's words.
Steward Cui replied loudly: "We are all fine, all the goods are still on board, but a few guys have been slightly injured." ”
"It's all your own people on board?" The guy asked again.
"It's all my own." Steward Cui looked around before saying, "The water bandits drove a big boat out earlier, maybe they came to ask you for ransom, why, didn't you see it?" ”
As he spoke, the two ships had come together.
"I saw it from afar." The guy looked at Yu Xiaohuan's face before he replied, "But before we could get closer, it suddenly got dark." When it was dawn again, the ship was gone, but you appeared. ”
"That's strange," Steward Choi wondered, "they detained our ship in a field of reeds, and there were a number of bandits guarding it outside. As soon as it got dark, our ships were in a commotion, and we thought that the bandits had used some evil magic to poison us. Who knows, the tea kung fu, at dawn, we are here. ”
"Maybe God has eyes, and he can't stand them doing evil, so he rescued us." Yu Xiaohuan explained casually.
These people already believe in the gods, but now that they have received this great favor, they can't think of anything that they can't figure out, even if Yu Xiaohuan doesn't say so, they will attribute this to God's eyes.
Seeing that everyone was a little calm, Yu Xiaohuan said: "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's leave first." ”
The boatman received the order and immediately drove the boat out of this place of right and wrong.
Although the boatmen and their men, who had been trapped by the bandits for three days, were exhausted, they were so frightened that they did not dare to hide in the cabin to rest, and they stayed on the deck to pay attention to the movements around the ship. At night, they were reluctant to stop and rest for a while, so they rushed back overnight, not knowing whether they didn't feel at peace in their hearts, or if they missed their relatives at home.
Before dawn the ship reached the dock from which they departed, the boatmen and men on the three ships hurriedly jumped off the ship, ignoring the cargo on board.
Yu Xiaohuan saw that they were like arrows, so he took matters into his own hands and asked them to go home first to report their safety, and then go to Xu's house to report their work before lunch. As for the goods, she asked the more than 20 people she brought with her to count and unload the goods.
Knowing that they had returned smoothly, the steward of the Xu family immediately came over with torches and lanterns to help. Knowing that Yu Xiaohuan had brought back the trapped goods and his men without spending a penny, the housekeeper of the Xu family was shocked.
The news of the young grandmother's triumphant return soon spread back to the Xu Mansion, and the two "bedridden" new and old patients were so shocked that they jumped up from the bed like a corpse.
"How is that possible?" Mr. Xu was frightened.
"How is that possible?" Xu Anan was pleasantly surprised!
Xu An'an was served by the girl, put on his clothes and went outside, and as soon as he walked to the gate, he met Mr. Xu, who was also in a hurry to go out.
"Hey, Mr. Xu, what a coincidence." Xu Anan immediately tilted his body and let Xiao Guiyuan on the side support him.
"Young master, what a coincidence." Manager Xu smiled a little embarrassedly, looked up at the sky that was not yet bright and said, "You are not in good health, why did you get up so early?" ”
"Oh, yes, hasn't Mr. Xu also fallen ill these days?" Xu Anan said weakly, "I heard the doctor say, you have to stay in bed for a few days, why did you get up?" ”
"It's not, thanks to the young grandmother!" Manager Xu had already recovered his expression, pushed away the entourage who was supporting him and said, "I heard that she returned triumphantly without losing a single soldier, I am so happy, my illness is more than half cured!" ”
"Hehe, so am I." Xu Anan also straightened his body and said with some spirit, "Although my wife is not very good-tempered, and her usual style of acting is a little domineering, she is really a prosperous husband!" ”
If it weren't for the fact that both of them were surnamed Xu and cousins of the same clan, Mr. Xu almost couldn't help but greet Xu An'an's ancestors for the eighteenth generation in his heart.
He smiled appingly, then pointed to the carriage that had just stopped, changed the subject, and said, "Young Master, my carriage is here." ”
Xu Anan looked at a carriage coming behind him, and said with a smile: "My carriage is also here." ”
"Then, let's go to the docks." Manager Xu said very politely, "Young Master, your body has just improved, don't rush to hurry, just pass slowly, I'll take the first step." ”
"Yes," Xu An'an said quietly despite the fact that Manager Xu had already walked to the carriage, "We husband and wife are of the same heart, and if you slow down, she will probably not blame me." ”
Manager Xu was suddenly so angry that he almost vomited blood, but on the surface, he turned a deaf ear, continued to get into the carriage, and set off in a hurry.
Xu Anan said that he was not in a hurry, but this rare opportunity to compete with Mr. Xu, how could he let it go easily? What's more, it was the young grandmother who gave him a long face who went out to greet him this time, how could he be willing to lag behind Manager Xu, so he secretly asked the groom who was driving the carriage to speed up desperately and overtake Manager Xu's carriage.
Seeing this, Manager Xu was not to be outdone, and secretly asked his groom to speed up and overtake.
So, on the road to the dock, two carriages are like a race, you hurry, I overtake, you chase me and rush to the dock.
However, in the end, they did not decide the winner, because the dock is spacious, and they are almost tied. And when they arrived at the dock, there were so many people that they could not care to check who was coming out quickly.
The guys unloaded the goods first, and when Xu Anan and Manager Xu arrived, the two boats of 100,000 taels of silver had not been unloaded, and Manager Xu couldn't help but get on the ship to check it out in person. He wondered how this was done, but he wanted to pretend to be unfazed and refused to ask.
If it weren't for the fact that he was still pretending to be sick, Xu Anan really couldn't wait to pick up Yu Xiaohuan and turn around a few circles, and at this time he could only rely on words to express his inner excitement.