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Volume 4: A glass of drunken cold wine 2, retrospective 2

Driving on the river itself is much smoother than on the sea, and the current on this part of the river is slow, and even if there is wind, there are no waves. Xia Xiaoman also dared to go to the deck and take a look around.

When she used to read books, she longed for boating between the mountains and rivers, but unfortunately she had never taken a boat seriously.

Although I grew up by the sea, I didn't live in a port, so there were only fishing boats nearby. When I was a child, I was just playing on that kind of small fishing boat, and the anchor was still in the water, and it was simply stationary and not moving, not to mention it. And the kind of sea skiing for water entertainment...... Don't count the ship......

Later, I went out to travel, sat in the park and sat in the antique painting boat, thinking about the vassal elegance, tasting tea and scenery, very unfortunate to meet a person is shoddy, looking at the dragon head and phoenix tail carved beams and paintings, the ticket price is also extremely "noble", a person into the heart immediately cold half, impressively placed the most common plastic tables and chairs in the public canteen,—— what is called gold and jade outside the ruined in it? What is called excessive packaging to deceive consumers? …… Tea? No equipment! The bottled iced black tea iced green tea is still a pirated brand, the same bottle is not the same factory, do you still need to mention the taste? There are also countless people who come from time to time to sell all kinds of tourist souvenirs.

It was so desperate that she refused to go to the painting boat after sitting once, and she always felt that her idea of classical complex was killed in this way.

The one who can barely be regarded as using a boat as a means of transportation is to take a short sea ferry. Short, very short, only 10 minutes each way! The ferry is just a bigger speedboat, how to describe the equipment. Let's put it this way, the package is tight, and the bus is on the road......

She was so happy to be on a serious passenger ship at this time, as if she hadn't been so excited when she first flew - well, of course, no matter how anyone else was on the plane, she would not be allowed to wander around, but now she could slip from the bow to the stern. Glance at the cabin from cabin to cabin, touch the mast and touch the pulp.

There were six ships in this line of "fleet".

Nian forgive this time to go to Meizhou. The servants only brought more than forty people, and the rest were ready to be promoted in Meizhou Zhuangzi. He has a bit of a resolute meaning of "one go for a lifetime", this servant is to try to pick the whole family to take it, and the whole family is willing to go and the children have nowhere to send it, so they are allowed to bring even the children. Where there are couples and children in three rooms and four houses, they do not ask for it, or stay in the so-called "house" of the eternal residence. Or hang the name of the big house, ask the second grandmother and the fourth grandmother to do another errand - this also has a precedent, the big house and the five-room and two-room masters are all in the field, and there are still named housekeepers in Beijing.

His forty or so people, plus more than a dozen servants brought over by the Ji family, and several masters, a group of nearly seventy people, needless to mention countless luggage. There are also some gifts from relatives and friends in Meizhou prepared by the family, and thinking that there is no need to buy some local products in the past, so they hired six boats, in order to have a more prosperous place, so as to save the time to buy things and not be able to fill them again.

These six boats. There is one large passenger ship, three medium passenger ships, and two cargo ships.

The cargo ship is a full-time cargo puller, and the cabin is only for the shipwright to live, not for the guests. It has four floors, the lowest earth and stone ballast warehouse, and the remaining three floors are tall, wide and uninterrupted cabins for inventory.

The first-class large passenger ship is a five-storey one, with the deck as the dividing line, two on the top and three on the bottom, with many floors, many cabins, and extremely sophisticated facilities - it belongs to the luxury cruise ship of the Great Qin Dynasty. Generally, only large families can afford to travel. The bottom layer is also ballasted soil and stone. The upper floor is dedicated to luggage and cargo. The upper and lower decks are inhabited, and there are nearly fifty cabins on these two floors. The hall and bedroom are all available. If the weather is warm and it is okay to live on the upper deck, but the weather is still warm in the bilge, Nian Liang and the others will be placed on the lower deck. The large and small halls on the top floor are all used for guests to drink and enjoy the river view.

The medium-sized passenger ship is also four-storey, and several floors are set up in the same way as the first-class passenger ship, except for the "entertainment hall" on the top floor, and there are not so many cabins.

This big passenger ship is really not small, Xia Xiaoman only walked a small half circle on the deck, and it took a lot of time without looking too closely. The river breeze was not small, it made her face hurt, and her body seemed to be blown through, although she was wearing a cloak and holding a hand stove, she still felt cold. Fennel followed behind her, saw that the master shrunk his neck a little, hurriedly walked two steps to her side, and said: "It's the slave who is negligent, the master should go back quickly, what is good if you are affected by the wind!" ”

Xia Xiaoman's eyes were still rolling around the hull, and when she heard her say this, she said with a smile: "I feel cold, but I still want to see it again." ”

Fennel laughed and said, "We still have to live on this ship for seven or eight days, another day when the wind is lighter, or the weather is warmer in the south, and the master can see it again." The slave and maid are only afraid that when the time comes, the master will look at it day by day, and I am afraid that it will be boring. ”

Xia Xiaoman smiled: "Well, it's only been fresh for a while." Let's go, let's go back first, and keep a little fresh tomorrow. ”

The two laughed and went back to the bilge, and Cai Shu came over and said with a smile: "The slave is waiting to find the master, and Miss Biao has come to send six." ”

At that time, when I left, all the luggage was packed, and I didn't know how to place the crested red six, Xia Xiaoman remembered the zoo in Ji Lingshu, presumably she knew how to put live birds in the box, so someone sent her the six.

Ji Lingshu was so happy that he couldn't get the crested red, he fed it with all kinds of fruits, called it by various names, and still tried to correct its inferior taste for recognition. This guy is hard-mouthed, stunned without a name, and put up an uncle's shelf - the fruit is eaten, and the name other than the six is ignored. Ji Lingshu had been depressed for a while, and he only packed the box this morning.

Fang just got on the boat and had to pack everything, so he didn't pay attention to it, but somehow the six parrots were not in harmony with Ji Lingshu's parrots, and they were chirping with their arms tied up, if they weren't all tied with chains on their feet, they were afraid that they would be able to fly to a peck. And the snow on the cat's forehead also joined in the fun, jumping around next to the parrot shelf. Ji Lingshu still wanted to detain it for two days, so that it had to recognize a nice name, but now it was out of line, so he had to send it early to keep his babies peaceful.

Xia Xiaoman first went back to the cabin to change his clothes, and then came to the small hall next to the cabin room in previous years. I picked up the curtain and entered the door, and suddenly saw six fluttering wings flying towards me. I don't know if Rokujo wants to express happiness or dissatisfaction, but this is just running for her head, she reflexively tilts her head, closes her eyes and covers her face, and then, Rokujo stands firm on the high bun above her head, shaking her wings. Don't move. It made her head sink, but fortunately, her hair was long. The hair is combed in a thick bun and does not scratch the scalp.

Everyone in the house was frightened, and the little maids hurriedly came over to round up Liu.

Xia Xiaoman woke up, shook his head, touched his face, and was fine, so he patted the shoulder of Qing Ying, who was rushing to the front. smiled: "It's okay, I'll clean it up in a while." You'll be enough when I sit down......"

Qing Ying hurriedly helped her to the chair, and Ji Lingshu also stood up and came over to help, and only said: "This strange spirit book, I just sent it over with a chain, because I thought that I saw it here with no chain at my cousin's place, so I gave it to ......."

I was stunned at first. Then he laughed out loud very unkindly.

Xia Xiaoman gave him a blank look, asked people to grab the six and throw them on the table, and then pulled out a bead hairpin and beat the six in one meal. Rokujo dodged twice, but in the end he was still beaten. But he was not annoyed, so he jumped over and pecked her hand lightly, chirping a few times. Xia Xiaoman's face was full, and he muttered in a low voice: "It's useless to please, you still throw yourself in my face, how can you fix it?!" ”

Although Liujo had fallen on her head before, it was not as fierce as this time, Xia Xiaoman was somewhat afraid, and Liujo's claws were not blunt, but blunt. It's enough to choke on your eyes. She thought about getting a whole piece of skin in the future. Make a shoulder pad and wrist guard, and then the whole badge. Specially trained to identify landing sites and reduce danger.

Nian Liang smiled and teased her in a low voice: "Didn't you tell me that you should give lessons and sweetness, but you want to ask someone to bring fruit to ......?" ”

Xia Xiaoman glanced over with another big eye, and in front of Ji Lingshu, he couldn't contradict it, so he had to say, "What the master said is very true." Then while instructing the little maid to fetch nuts, he quickly changed the topic and smiled at Ji Lingshu: "Why didn't Miss Biao stay for six or two days?" ”

Ji Lingshu heard this depression, she wanted to stay, but people didn't listen to her. She only smiled reluctantly and said, "Sage Yun, the gentleman is not ......."

Xia Xiaoman's reaction to the tightening spell is getting faster and faster, and he immediately cut it off and said, "I understand what Miss Watch means." Also, it seems that Rokujo is still a little wild, and Miss Cousin's daughter can't be called hurt. In this way, Miss Biao will come over and see it next time she wants to see it. "I can't help but slander, these six are really frizzy today, could it be that Ji Lingshu is also chanting scriptures against it? Poor Rokujo, if that's the case, I forgive you, Amen. =_=

It was not the first time that Ji Lingshu was interrupted by Xia Xiaoman before he finished speaking, and he knew what she meant, so he had to smile awkwardly and nodded, but he didn't know what to say.

It happened that Qing Ying and Xia Xiaoman had a cup of tea, and they changed to a charcoal hand stove and handed it over, and said with a smile: "Second grandma, drink tea to warm up, her face is a little red." ”

Ji Lingshu said: "Little sister-in-law, sit by the fireside and warm up, just came in with a cold air." But to the river? ”

Xia Xiaoman moved to the side of the copper stove and sat down, and replied with a smile: "Hmm." I hadn't been on a boat before, but I just thought it was fresh, so I watched it for a while. It's windy and cold. ”

Ji Lingshu said: "The Lingshu is also the first time I have seen it, and I also thought about going up, only my mother said that the Lingshu had just cried, and it was not appropriate to go up to blow the wind at this time......" She paused, with a slight pleading tone, and said: "Ming'er's sister-in-law will go again, is it okay to call the Lingshu?" If...... The mother didn't allow it, and asked the sister-in-law to help the spirit book and say the first two. ”

Xia Xiaoman replied: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." "The heart is good, it's easy to say, if you don't recite the scriptures, we can say anything.

Nian Liang wanted to ask Manniang, she once said that she lived by the sea for a while when she was young, why hasn't she been on a boat? As soon as she opened her mouth, she remembered that she had forgotten it, so she swallowed it again. At this time, I heard the two of them say that they wanted to see the river view, Fang put down the teacup and persuaded: "It's windy today, look at this, it's time for Ming'er to enter the realm of Shenzhou, Shenzhou is colder than Fuze, and it's not fun to be frozen." You still have to wait for two days and turn south to the border of Yaozhou, and you are willing to see the river view above, even if you walk on the shore for half a day. ”

Xia Xiaomanqi said: "Turned south? Isn't it all the way south now?!"

Nian Liang shook his head and said: "It's to go along the Dingwu River, and first go north to cross the southern boundary of Shenzhou." Then he turned south and went through Yaozhou and Zhanzhou to Meizhou. ”

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On this day, the wind was strong and the speed of the ship was fast, and sure enough, on the eighth day of the first month, it entered the boundary of Shenzhou and continued to go north.

Shenzhou is only much north of Fuze, but the temperature is going to drop by several degrees.

Xia Xiaoman was accustomed to the environment of the house with hot walls and warm walls, so he was a little uncomfortable on the boat, and he felt even more cold when he entered Shenzhou. Although the cabin is also full of copper stoves. The futon is also vacated by the soup woman, and the ambient temperature is low. I don't feel a little hot on my body.

There are quite a lot of heating equipment in the master's cabin, and the people under them only have a copper stove in a cabin, but they are frozen enough.

Nian Liang is the key protection object, his cabin is the hottest, he didn't feel anything after sleeping all night, and the next day he walked around on crutches in the bilge and casually entered a room. But I noticed that it was cold. Because it was really dangerous to make a brazier directly with a copper basin on an all-wooden ship, Nian Yu had to summon the chief butler Wei Di and tell him to tell the ship to go faster, so that the dock in front of him stopped and went ashore to buy a sealed copper furnace and charcoal.

Wei Di had traveled to several state capitals in his early years, and he was very familiar with this area, so he went on deck and asked the ship's family a few words. came back and said: "Master, there are two small docks in front, and the small land is the place of knowing, there is no serious market, and I can't find anything after a delay." To the next day can go to Chou Rendu, Chou Ren Mansion is the city of Shenzhou. It's much cheaper to buy anything. ”

Nian Liang nodded and said, "Then stop at the Chouren Ferry." Buy more heating, and if you have a living room, you must have three stoves in a room to keep warm. ”

Wei Di responded, thought for a while, and couldn't help but say: "Master, speaking of which, I will go out of Shenzhou in a day or two, and I will say that the north of Yaozhou can be colder, and it will be warmer and warmer if I go south, and I am afraid that it will be useless to go to Meizhou, and now I will buy so many stoves - how much charcoal will be added." Beyond the silver. It is not to take up space on the ship. The little ones are all able to endure it, and Shan Heye has added a few ...... here."

Nian Liang frowned. Shaking his head, he said, "Buy as I say." Why not save on this? This is not a matter of forbearance. If it freezes like this for two days, I am afraid that when I leave Shenzhou, I will have to stop the ship and ask the doctor to come and see the disease one by one! ”

He paused and said: "Thinking about it now, I don't know if the Meizhou house has changed the hot fire wall, if it is changed now, I am afraid that it will only be changed in the upper house." If the rooms down there were still the same as they were, they would have frozen. It's better to prepare more, even if you don't need to pile it up in the warehouse at that time, it's better than adding it to make people freeze. ”

Wei Di sighed in his heart, and said in his mouth that the sixth master was benevolent and righteous, and went up to find the boat family to explain.

The boatman sped up, and Shen Shi (three or four o'clock in the afternoon) arrived at Chou Rendu, but although he arrived early, he could not find a place to stop the boat.

Chou Rendu is the place where the water and the Ding Wu River converge, the water surface is wide, and several wharves, it is the first goods distribution center near and far, many people from the north come to the east and west to reload here, to the east, west, south three directions of transshipment, Chou Renfu has therefore become the second most prosperous city in Shenzhou in addition to the state capital.

In the past, there was a lot of congestion here, but it was not as powerful as it is today, there were ships everywhere in front of and after a few miles of the wharf, and the ships of the Nian family were also a little bigger, and they couldn't find a place to moor for a while.

At this time, Xia Xiaoman sat in the cabin on the upper deck, looked at the bustling crowd with interest through the window, and said with a smile: "This looks almost as lively as Taipingdu in Beijing." ”

Nian Liang got the letter to come up to see the situation, but he had a headache and sighed: "Today is not a good day to travel, why are there so many people?" Later, if you can't stop, you have to go out a few miles and ask Wei Di to go back to the city to buy it. It's just that there are so many people, and I'm afraid the horses won't be easy to find when I go......"

Xia Xiaoman said in his heart, it is profitable to open a rental company at this time, it depends on whether to rent a stove or a horse......

She was thinking wildly, looking aimlessly, when suddenly a bright light came from somewhere, and she shook her eyes, and she looked over, and saw a porter carrying a boxy body wrapped in dirty material on his shoulders to the ship, and the material just spread out, revealing a white and clear corner. She couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly tugged on Nian Liang's sleeve, pointed and asked, "What is that?" Ice?! ”

Nian Liang looked in the direction of her finger, frowned, and nodded, "It's ice." …… Could it be that today is the day to sacrifice to the gods and open the ice? Well, Xu yes, no wonder the ship is so ......"...

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