Early in the morning of the second day, Wei Yaoqing was woken up by the sound of fierce arguments outside the cabin.

"Didn't you say to leave today? Why don't you leave again? ”

The second reckless voice of the boat boss sounded: "What is the trouble?" The government handled the case, but Lao Xiangtai didn't say anything, what are you making trouble? Can the loss be compared to the old Xiangtai? ”

"Of course, the loss can't compare to Lao Xiangtai, but do you think that our people can compare to the Xie family's great cause? I can't afford it if I delay it any longer! ”

"I'm annoyed, I'll ask the adults for you in a while, if they allow it, you can leave on another boat!"

The fragmentary disputes gradually subsided, and the ship's boss Ermang gave the biggest concession, and the merchants were mostly exquisite lords, knowing that it would be useless to force them any longer, and they would no longer force them.

The merchants can be appeased a little, but the shipwrights are not so easy to appease. After breakfast, the boatmen surrounded the ship's boss Ermang.

"Boss, the Juque stopped again today, and I don't know when it will be able to sail. The Irijiang next door departs at noon, and there is a shortage of manpower, do you think it is feasible for us to follow the Irijiang to take a trip? ”

Er Mang, who looked fierce and vicious on the outside, didn't get angry, just pondered for a moment and nodded, "I'll ask the adults...... You always have to eat, don't you? ”

He was so generous that several boatmen were even more embarrassed, and they explained it with a red face before retreating.

After the boatman left, Er Mang looked up, looked at the girl standing on the deck with an oil-paper umbrella and looked at the river, and walked over.

Before I could think of how to speak, I heard the girl speak: "The boatman can go, I'm ready." ”

The boat boss breathed a sigh of relief, clenched his fist at her, turned and strode away.

After giving the reply, most of the shipwrights followed the Irie, and except for the cook who was in charge of cooking, there were only two boatmen left.

Wei Yaoqing glanced at the two shipwrights who were seriously tying the flag, and retracted her gaze.

Standing on the deck facing the rainy Linjiang River for a morning, when it was close to noon, several soft sedan chairs and many yamen officials came over here. The soft sedan chair stopped on the dock, no longer dressed as a merchant, and several officials who had changed into official robes walked down from the soft sedan chair.

The movement here attracted many people on the boat docked at the pier to look over, Wei Yaoqing, Pei Zongzhi and more than a dozen merchants stood on the bow of the Juque and looked over here.

At a glance, she found an unfamiliar face from the group of officials she saw yesterday: about forty years old, with a white face, a long beard, ordinary facial features, and a thick bookish atmosphere, which is very consistent with the image of literati officials in ordinary people's impressions.

Wang Xu glanced at them, and saw that they were looking at him, and suddenly raised his voice and shouted "Lord Lin", and the middle-aged man answered "yes", which confirmed Wei Yaoqing's guess.

"I look like a very weak person." Wei Yaoqing said, "It's not like a wicked person." ”

"The wicked will not be written on their faces." Pei Zongzhi said, suddenly paused, and said to her, "Let's go to the city later." ”

Wei Yaoqing responded casually, but heard Pei Zongzhi say on the side: "I suddenly remembered that there is a spy from the actual temple in Linjiang City, who is over sixty years old, and he should know a lot of things. ”

"Why didn't you say it sooner?" Wei Yaoqing gave him a blank look and said.

Pei Zongzhi looked over, his eyes were a little subtle: "You only asked the Shi clan, but you didn't ask me." ”

Wei Yaoqing was stunned for a moment, and before she could say anything, she heard him say again: "Next time, you might as well ask me first, the spies in my actual temple are no worse than them." With that, he gave her the umbrella in his hand.

That's not happy! I didn't even hold an umbrella for her. Wei Yaoqing took the umbrella and raised it a little higher, the oil-paper umbrella was not large, but it was enough to cover the wind and rain for the two of them. Wei Yaoqing doesn't care, he holds an umbrella for her or she holds an umbrella for him, he always has to choose one!

They are all adults, naturally they won't get drenched in the rain, and there are officials on the side to help hold an umbrella, Lin Shitong was called over by Wang Xu and was explaining: "They all say that they are river gods...... But Xia Guan felt that this matter was not so simple......"

After listening to the explanation, Wang Xu was noncommittal, and his eyes turned to the Juque.

Lin Shitong followed his gaze and saw that many merchants of the Juque were standing on the bow of the ship looking over here, and after thinking about it, he said, "My lord, do you think that the matter of the Juque is related to the people on this ship?" ”

"It's not going to be suicidal." Wang Xu stretched out his umbrella and grabbed the rain in his hand, the rain in his palm was a little muddy, not like rain, but more like a muddy river. He withdrew his hand, wiped it with a handkerchief, and a white handkerchief was instantly stained with a few mud handprints, and he took the handkerchief casually, and said, "Whether it is a person or a ghost, you must find it out, and since you encounter it, you can't sit idly by." ”

Lord Nalin hurriedly responded, and then said: "But it may also be an accident, I heard that the flag of this giant has not been checked for a long time......"

"Then find out." Wang Xu said, his eyes skimmed over Lin Shitong's face, and saw that his expression was as usual when he heard this, but several officials of the yamen were a little disappointed and impatient on their faces.

Probably didn't expect the death of a boatman to attract these people, for a small city like Linjiang City, the five words "Tiangao Emperor Yuan" couldn't be more easily summarized, and a few Shengdou people were accidentally killed, and there were no adults in Su Ri who were full of food to take care of such idle things. This time, it inexplicably attracted these people, and it was extremely uncomfortable for the local officials to be ...... Not welcome.

However, compared to the obvious expressions on the faces of the officials, Lin Shitong's county order is obviously much more hidden than those officials.

"Didn't you say that there would be a sacrifice to the river god?" Cui Jing looked around on the side, and after a while, he spoke, he looked at Lin Shitong, "This official hasn't seen it yet, when will it start?" ”

Lin Shitong saluted him and then got up and said, "On rainy days, people generally don't worship the river god. ”

"It turns out that this sacrifice doesn't care if it doesn't rain in the world, it seems that this river god doesn't have a good deal with Lei Gongdian!" Cui Jing said.

Lin Shitong's face, which had always been calm, stiffened for a moment, and after a while, he said, "Master Cui said that he was laughing." ”

"The official didn't laugh." Cui Jing said, "It's just curious, I don't know if Lord Lin can solve the official's doubts?" ”

Lin Shitong saluted him again and said, "The lower officials also think that this matter is suspicious, so they don't treat this matter as a 'river god' to deal with it, I'm afraid that someone will pretend to be a ghost." ”

"Zi is silent, strange and confused?" Cui Jing glanced at him, ignored the gazes of several officials around him looking at him, and looked at Lin Shitongdao, "Lord Lin, do you say that what this official said makes sense?" ”

Lin Shitong was stunned for a moment and said, "What the adults said is true." ”