The next day, Chu Huaixian called the Lou officials to come and told him: "I want a few big boats, don't be too good, I want ...... That's it. Lou Daguan understood as soon as he heard it, and smiled at Chu Huaixian and said, "The business that the son is doing, why don't you call me to do a part." Chu Huaixian said: "It's not me, this idea, it's not me, it's a narrow ghost who came up with it." ”

"It's a good idea, but you can only do it this time, and if you do too much, you will be beaten." Lou Daguan grinned. Chu Huaixian also smiled: "Just this once, if you want to intervene, you can mix it up in the past two days." Two days at most, be sure to get it right. ”

Lou Daguan shook his head with a smile: "I can't prepare much goods in two days, forget it, next time I am in trouble, please ask her to give me an idea." Chu Huaixian heard it, and he also felt that his face was quite bright, but he said: "This is a narrow ghost, the idea of the next time, maybe it is, I don't guarantee the ticket." ”

Everyone laughed, and Lou Daguan went back to prepare the ship.

The autumn wind is colder, Zheng Erguan has let a son go to the boring building these days, he takes a turn around the shops every day, and then comes back to have a good time.

Calling out to his daughter, "Get an extra dish at noon," and then humming a little tune to rest.

When I was about to fall asleep, I was woken up by a shout.

"Daddy, get up, there's an accident on the dock." With the shouting, Zheng Erguan woke up suddenly. When I opened my eyes, there were five or six people standing in front of me, my two sons, and a few of them were competent stewards.

Zheng Erguan also panicked all of a sudden: "What's wrong?" The sons said, "Today's cargo ship is stuck on the river. Zheng Erguan was a little relieved, and said slowly: "Stuck? Who is it? Is it money or ......"

"Dad, it's not artificial, it's ......." As soon as the sons said this, Zheng Erguan put down some of his heart and waved his hand: "It's not artificial, so you don't have to be so panicked." We're going to panic, and others can jump into the river. Take your time and don't rush. ”

A steward of the ship is now coming back from the ship. Everyone looked at him and listened to him: "It is less than a hundred miles from the capital, and on the banks of the river on both sides are the gardens of the princes and princes. It's the same as before, they want to have a good view, and they all occupy their own ponds in the river.

Originally, there were merchant ships stationed here, and the river was narrow enough. Speaking of this, Zheng Erguan understands a lot, how many times he has seen that section of the river with his own eyes. Zheng Erguan stared: "How can this be reasonable!" These magnates are only for their own enjoyment, and they don't care about how others sail. ”

The steward continued: "That's it." Today we arrived there, and the four or five big ships in front of us were all broken down in the river, blocking this section very tightly. The merchant ships behind were all crowded there, and none of them could get by. ”

"Is that so?" Zheng Erguan's face was somewhat serious, and he said first: "The goods on our dock are enough to be sent for a few days?" The son said: "There is only one day's goods every day, and after it is sent today, you have to wait for tomorrow's ship, if the ship is blocked for a few days, the price in Beijing will be the same again." One of them walked up to Zheng Erguan and whispered, "Is it ...... Mrs. Chu?" It's better for you to check it out. ”

Zheng Erguan got up now, the food on the table was ready, and he had no intention of eating. The boring building is what he has been keeping in his heart recently, when will he squeeze Mrs. Chu Shao, and when will it be best to bring the real estate in.

Compared with money and means in the market, Zheng Erguan is not afraid of anyone.

went out to catch the car, and a group of more than a dozen people went outside Beijing. This time it is, it is hundreds of miles. The overland route had to be detoured, and it was not until evening that we arrived at the jammed place.

In the car, Zheng Erguan also discussed with his sons: "Young Mrs. Chu is young, how can she know that it is our family's means?" The boss didn't let him know, just because he was afraid that he would say it. ”

"Oh, Dad, Jingli is in the market, not all eyes are on our family." The sons said: "Besides, Dad, have you been staring at other people's restaurants lately, staring too closely, making her suspicious?" ”

Zheng Erguan didn't have anything to say, blinked his eyes and thought, this little girl, is she really so shrewd? It's just that she is right to get a restaurant, the house is good, and the Chu family has her backing, but that's it.

The more he thought about it, the more unbelieving Zheng Erguan said to himself: "Does she have such a ability? ”

When it got dark, the car stopped under the embankment. A few more panicked stewards came down from the embankment, led them up to the embankment, and pointed out to them with lanterns high: "It's those ghost boats, which suddenly went crazy in broad daylight and stopped." ”

On the river, it is brightly lit. There are hundreds of boats parked behind them waiting here, and there are people jumping on them and scolding: "Lao Tzu can't make it to Beijing tonight, and you will stew your whole family!" ”

Before the lights were bright, there were several large black ships, all of which were unlit, and there was not a single person in sight.

"Bad luck! This is a short-lived ghost ship. During the day, it was already crowded, and the boat was heavy. Breaking into the narrowest place, the anchor said that the ship was broken. The other one was even more weird, it could have crossed the boat on both sides, but it said it was in a hurry, and it was stuck here again all of a sudden. The other one hit something even more, and it broke here. These boats are stuck here, and they can't move a bit. ”

The steward scolded as he spoke.

Zheng Erguan asked people to light torches and get on a small boat to look. The steward said: "Now you don't need a boat, you see that the boat here is connected to the boat, you can't retreat and retreat, you can't enter or not, you can pass through someone else's boat." ”

The group shouted, "Excuse me, let's take a look," passing by someone else's boat. Someone was anxious and scolded them together: "Look at what to see! Can you get through? ”

Everyone didn't speak, but endured to come and watch. Zheng Erguan gasped, turned around and said to his sons: "This, this is intentional!" ”

Several boats were stuck tightly, and there was no gap between the boats, and they were so tight that it was not easy to separate. If you want to separate, unless you chisel with an axe.

"What's on this ship?" Zheng Erguan asked in a panic, and a steward went on the boat to see it, and scolded Zheng Erguan: "Evil thing! A boatload of clay! ”

Several large boats of clay are piled up here, and even if the ship is destroyed, the river will be blocked at once. It's hard to get it for the time being.

"The people on this boat would have run out a long time ago, or they would have been killed! Everyone was angry and went to the government to find out that it was the Lou family's ship, and the yamen did things quickly this time, and several fallen Cao transport ships were also blocked here. In the afternoon, someone from the Lou family came and said that the boat was rented by someone else, and who rented it, but it has not been found out until now. ”

The whole thing is blocked. Zheng Erguan pondered and said: "There has always been something wrong in the yamen, and for a few days here, they have to squeeze out, so they will squeeze some oil and water out, and if they want to take people and ask them to track them down, they have to treat them." Even tomorrow they will clear the ship, and they will not be able to clear it without four or five days' work. If they delay for a few more days, it will take them ten days and half a month. ”

"Dad, Caoyun's ship is also blocked here, do they dare to be unhappy?" A steward said, Zheng Erguan shook his head in a scheming manner: "This is not the main way to enter Beijing, the boat in front is blocked here, there is no way to get out, I don't believe you go to the back to take a look, the boat blocked at the back must be the most noisy and unwilling to move." This one! It's really high! ”

As long as it is blocked for two days, the price in Beijing will rise again. Now it is to abandon the ship and use the porter to transport it to Beijing, and it is a hundred miles away. Although it does not take long for the ship to arrive, it is undoubtedly a lot of cost to load the goods by porter or horse-drawn cart.

Zheng Erguan's fingers moved, counting them one by one: "The Zhang family, the Wang family, Mrs. Chu, the Wu family....... these people are all possible." ”

He patted his head sadly: "This person, his heart is ruthless!" ”

At this time, if you want to say who is the most suspicious, which opponent may look at.

Zheng Erguan, who was returning to Beijing, suddenly remembered on the way and called out to his sons: "Go and see the empty houses on both sides of the strait, there are people to rent." That night, I rested at an acquaintance's house outside Beijing, and the next morning, my son, who went to see it, came with red silk in his eyes: "Dad, the empty house on both sides of the strait was rented a few days ago. There should be no warehouses and empty rooms. And today, there are already small merchants who can't wait any longer, selling the things on the ship on the spot. ”

"This person ......" Zheng Erguan's face was bruised, and he couldn't think of anything to say. He is the same as Xiao Chu, he just makes less money by fighting back and forth like this. However, I have been in the mall for many years, and I feel that I can't afford to lose.

After a few more days, the steward Zheng Erguan went back and forth: "The last boat was taken away by the Lou family." In addition to our family can wait, there are also two or three families such as the Qian family. Other small merchants sold their goods on the spot and left early. The price went up for two days, and then it went down again. Mrs. Chu Shao had a lot of goods for no reason, and it can be seen that the people who received the goods on both sides of the shore were her doing. This boat, now that I think about it, in the second room of the Chu family, it is not close to the Lou family. ”

Zheng Erguan sighed: "The goose pecks at the eyes, I have said it a long time ago." He waved his hand weakly: "The people don't mess with the officials, and sure enough, she is powerful." Forget it, go back and raise the price. ”

"According to me, as soon as this incident came out, rumors spread outside. said that our families are fighting in Beijing, and other people dare not come to Beijing now, let's reduce the price again, Mrs. Chu has the goods that come in at a low price in her hands, and she is no longer at a loss. The steward said, Zheng Erguan's body seemed to have a spring under his body, he sat up unconvinced, pointed to the void in the air and said sharply: "What about this boat, the clay on the boat, isn't it money?" ”

"Daddy, this time it's really planted. Later, I inquired clearly, and the boat was the ship that the Lou family planned to abandon. The top is more than a foot thick and all clay, and the bottom is all wood. The clay was gone, the boat was destroyed, the wood floated on the water, and it went downstream. People can just salvage downstream. ”

Zheng Erguan was angry for a long time, and suddenly beat his chest: "It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense!" Zheng Erguan suffered a loss, which was stuffy in his heart, and he was more angry than Mrs. Chu at the beginning.

He was so angry that he actually stopped for two days and was like no one, and then appeared upstairs in the boring building.

When Gong Miao'er saw him coming again, she said enviously: "This old man eats average every day, and he works like a cow, such a big loss, he is actually fine." ”

"Their family can afford to lose, and they don't care about this little money." The steward of Zhuang said, and suddenly said: "Whether he lost money or not, it is estimated that the loss is ability." ”

The two of them snickered and left Zheng Erguan alone.

Second Mrs. Chu came to Xiao Chu: "The price has risen again, you haven't sold those goods yet, it's just right to sell them now." No, I'll send you the money back. Xiao Chu had to accept it. Without saying a few words, Mrs. Chu San also came. She is not as thick-skinned as the second lady, so let's take a look at Xiao Chu's mood first.

In the evening, Mrs. Chu invited the second and third ladies to the room, and said to them solemnly: "I heard that you and Brother Yu's mother have broken up, and this has been scattered and reunited. In my opinion, it doesn't have to be. Brother Yu's mother is a young child, and I understand what she does. Good luck didn't look for her, but she was lucky. No, I let the second brother and sister get the silver back, you take it, don't worry about her in the future, let her toss. Tossing things out, I've been back to my lord, and we don't care. ”

The second lady accepted the silver shyly, walked out of the room and said to the third lady: "Sister-in-law is now eccentric, this is not the season of Caoyun, or a few ships that have fallen behind, the people on Caoyun, he dares to come?" ”

When Mrs. Chu San listened, she could only smile.