God bless the fortieth year, March 17th.

In the early morning, there was a drizzle in the sky, and a three-story building boat was sailing on the river, and on the mast, a huge flag was hung, and the book 'Jiangnan Daying. Guerrilla. Jia', there are two cargo ships in the back.

At this time, a month and a half has passed since the battle of Sanmen Bay, Jia Jue was promoted to a guerrilla general as he wished, and led a battalion of 3,000 elite soldiers in the Jiangnan battalion.

Jia Jue's fleet entered the Yangtze River from Jinling Wharf, and then headed north into the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, where it would take less than a day to reach Huai'an.

When the fleet passed through Yangzhou, Jia Jue suddenly remembered something, that is, Jia Min had just died a few years ago, and counting the days, Daiyu had been sent by Jia's mother to take her into Beijing.

After driving forward for an hour, he encountered the checkpoint set by the Caoyun Yamen, but after the officer saw the flag hanging on the mast, he hurriedly scolded his subordinates to let him go.

The fleet continued to move forward on the canal, the river wind blew the flags on the official ship, Jia Jue stood at the stern of the boat and silently looked at the scenery on both sides of the canal, "Third master, it's windy outside!" Jia Fu on the side whispered.

Just as he was about to return to the cabin, Jia Gui hurriedly came from the bow of the ship, "Third master, the situation is not right, I just found that there are a few clippers in front of us, and the people on them seem to be watching. ”

"What's going on in the river ahead?"

"There will be a little bend not far away, and all the ships will have to lower their sails and slow down..."

"How much longer?"

Jia Gui: "Tea Kung Fu." ”

As they spoke, the three of them came to the bow of the boat, and the bend was already in sight.

"Tell me to go down, get ready for a big battle, and shoot someone as soon as you find an unknown person!"

Jia Jue raised his clairvoyance to observe the front.

At this time, Jia Fu suddenly said: "Third master, listen, what kind of voice is this?" ”

Jia Jue listened carefully, and a shout of killing came from the water, and Jia Gui on the side was startled, "Second master, this is the water bandits robbing the passing merchant ships. ”

"This is the canal, where did the water bandits come from?!"

Jia Fu was puzzled.

Jia Jue nodded silently, Jia Fu is right, this is the canal, not only do the prefectures set up checkpoints in their jurisdictions, but there are patrol boats in the Caoyun Yamen that keep patrolling back and forth, so it shouldn't be a water bandit, but a vendetta!

Those who can be chased and killed on the canal are either high-ranking officials or wealthy businessmen, and since they have met, as an official and soldier, it is impossible for them to stand idly by, and they will not have a lot of gains.

Jia Jue had a guess in his heart, and there was no trace on his face, "Inform me and get ready!" ”

As the order passed down, the soldiers who had been resting in the cabin immediately rushed out, and after a while, the side of the ship was full of soldiers in armor and armed with bows and arrows, and their cold eyes were only staring ahead, and whenever there was a situation, they immediately opened their bows and arrows or lit the firearms in their hands to shoot.

The shouting of killing is getting closer and closer, Jia Jue's official ship turned the corner first, only to see that the two passenger ships were surrounded by a group of small boats, fortunately, there were not many people on the boat, there were no bows and arrows in their hands, and there were also family guards on the passenger ship, the two sides were fighting for their lives, one side wanted to board the passenger ship, and the other side was desperately trying to stop it, killing back and forth.

At this moment, I saw a few more clippers sailing on the river in the distance, it should be that they couldn't attack it for a long time, and the other party came to reinforcements, seeing this, Jia Jue frowned, because there was a clipper ship coming towards them, the other party knew that this was an official ship and was so blatant, this was fearless, it seems that the background is not small!

Jia Gui's eyes were sharp, "Third Master, it's our ship!" ”

Jia Fu also put down the clairvoyance in his hand, "Yes, it's our ship." ”

Jia Jue picked up the clairvoyance and looked at Jia Fu's gesture - there was a lantern hanging in front of each of the cabins of the two passenger ships, and the lantern was swaying by the river wind, but he still saw the words on it: Rongguo Mansion.

Jia Jue was stunned for a moment, and instantly reflected, this is the boat sent by Jia's mother to pick up Daiyu into Beijing, haven't I heard that they met robbers on the road?!

I didn't have time to think about it, so I ordered directly: "Raise the sails, prepare the bow and arrows, don't set fires, don't hurt the people on the ship." ”

At this time, the clipper had also arrived, and a leader-like man stood up and was about to speak, when several sharp arrows suddenly fired, and all the people on the boat were hit by arrows and fell into the river.

"Whew-"

The horn sounded, the two sides of the battle were shocked by the sudden sound of the horn, and then the arrow hit the sound of breaking the air, the arrow was very accurate, although a few missed, but most of them were shot on the killer's body, the family of Rongguo Mansion knew that the soldiers on the official ship were helping them, and the morale was strong for a while, killing the other party kept retreating, these killers not only had to deal with the family of Rongguo Mansion, but also had to be careful of the arrows that came at any time, and gradually they were chaotic, and from time to time someone was cut down and fell into the river.

The scuffle continues.

When the Jia family was fighting fiercely with the killer, in the cabin of the second passenger ship, Daiyu sat on the edge of the bed with a calm face, and the grandmother Wang Mama was holding her personal maid Snow Goose to wipe her tears, but the white hosta she held in her hand exposed her inner unpeace, at this time, she heard the horn sound from the window, paused, her face was relieved, and she was relieved.

She understands that this kind of horn sound is only available to officials and soldiers, and guesses that it should be the Cao Yun soldiers who patrol the river who discovered them besieged by the killers, she has long heard her mother talk about her grandfather's family, and knows that this is a real powerful family, and she has seen the power of her grandfather's family.

Two years ago, his three-year-old brother was bought to poison the maid in the house, this matter passed into Shenjing, not long after, Jinling came to a prince to personally sit in Yangzhou City, after a month, Yangzhou City was killing people every day, within a month, Yangzhou eight major salt road merchants changed three, as for the replacement of the three were all sent to the vegetable market, I heard that more than 3,000 people were killed that month.

Although he took revenge, it was a pity that his mother was heartbroken and couldn't afford to get sick, and finally died of illness on New Year's Eve.

Nanzhili is the base camp of the nobles, and these Cao Ding will definitely be desperate to rescue the two passenger ships of Rongguo Mansion, otherwise the matter will spread out, and even the governor of Cao Yun will not be able to afford it.

Suddenly, the cabin door snapped open!

All the sound came to an abrupt end.

Mama Wang stood up suddenly, and Daiyu also raised her head in surprise.

A second-class mother-in-law of the Jia family broke in like a gust of wind, "Girl, we are safe!" ”

Daiyu's heart was relieved when she heard this, and Mama Wang on the side bowed to the air, and said: "God and Buddha bless, fortunately, the people from Caoyun Yamen arrived in time!" ”

The mother-in-law: "Hey, it's not from Caoyun Yamen, it's the third master of our family...."

Mama Wang was stunned and asked anxiously, "The third master in the house?" ”

Daiyu and the maid Snow Goose looked at the woman together.

The mother-in-law was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly smiled: "Look at my mouth, the girl may not know, there are three sons in the big house in the house, come to worship Mrs. Gu, it is the second master Lian who takes the girl to Beijing, and there is a third son and the fourth son in the back, the third master is the brother of the second girl in the house, and the third master of our family is now on an errand in the Jiangnan camp, the official position is not big, the guerrilla general, by the grace of His Majesty, led a battalion of soldiers and horses. ”

Daiyu pondered for a moment, looked at Mama Wang, and said, "Mama Wang, give Mama Song five hundred yuan to drink and eat." ”

"Yes."

Mama Wang stepped aside in response and took out a string of money from the package, "Thank you Mama Song." As he spoke, he handed the string of money to Song's mother.

Mother Song took the money and buckled her head heavily, "Thank you girl for the reward." Then he got up and withdrew.

Looking at Mama Song's disappearing back, Mama Wang hesitated for a moment before she spoke, "Girl, according to Mama Song's words, the third master of this big house is the girl's brother, and he should meet him in a reasonable way..."

Daiyu was so little bit by Mama Wang, she also reacted, and nodded, "It's troublesome." ”

.....

Jia Jue stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the river in the distance, carefully pondering the confession he had just sent, these killers were not ordinary people, they were all smuggler salt dealers under the salt merchants, as for why they took the risk to intercept the ships of Rongguofu, it was still related to Lin Ruhai, they came to Daiyu, as for the reason, a month ago, the cabinet sent an official document, asking the Yandao Yamen to hand over 1.5 million taels of donated silver, saying that it was for the Yandao Yamen to hand over, and the meaning behind the scenes was to let the Yangzhou salt merchants donate this silver, Lin Ruhai, who already had a dirty relationship with the salt merchants, took the opportunity to suppress the large and small salt merchants, not only led the salt of the Bai family, the general merchant of Jiangxi, to the Peng family, but also successively captured a batch of private salt worth 500,000 taels, and the price of private salt was half the price of official salt, that is to say, Lin Ruhai robbed the emperor of another million taels of floating wealth, which completely annoyed the Bai family, and this is not the same as eyeing Daiyu who was picked up by the Jia family in Beijing.

Jia Jue realized that since he came to Zhejiang, many things have changed, and these things were not there before.

Damn the butterfly effect, I hope a few big things I remember don't get affected!

"Third master, someone asks to see you."

When he was thinking about what excuse to use to go to see Lin Daiyu, suddenly Jia Fu came over to report.

Hearing this, Jia Jue frowned slightly, and just sent Jia Lian and Jia Yucun away, who is this, "What person?" ”

"Back to the third master's words, it was Rongqingtang's mother-in-law Song Ma, she said that she came to ask the third master to speak with the words of the cousin, saying that she wanted to thank the third master..."

Seeing that Jia Jue's face was uneasy, Jia Fu hurriedly said.

Daiyu wants to thank me?

"Third master, it's not early."

At this time, Jia Fu reminded again.

Jia Jue came back to his senses, immediately understood what he meant, and smiled, "You pick two of those treasures that Lieberthal is filial piety and send them over later." ”

As he spoke, he stepped off the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back.

In the passenger ship, Daiyu sat quietly on a chair by the window, holding a roll of hands in her hand and watching it heartlessly, Xue Yan hesitated slightly, and then leaned over and persuaded in a low voice: "Don't worry, girl, just now Mama Wang and a few mothers-in-law inquired, although this third master is a martial artist, but he is not the kind of fierce and evil person, he is a courteous person, and he is very good to several girls in the house on weekdays, especially the fourth girl, who is really spoiled like a sister, and..."

"It's been a mess for most of the day, and you're not tired."

Daiyu's eyes were fixed on the book.

Xue Yan poured a bowl of tea and put it on the table on the side, and said with a smile: "Let's go, I don't know when we will come back, we always have to know a few people in the house." ”

Daiyu put the book in her hand on the desk, and suddenly a voice came from outside, "My cousin is fine, she is not frightened!" ”

"Third master, don't worry, no, it's okay."

This is Song Ma's voice.

Xue Yan listened, and hurriedly turned around to make tea, "Girl, here." ”

Daiyu hurriedly picked up the book she had put down earlier, thought about it, put it back again, stood up, and looked out the door.

After a while, I saw that the door was pushed open from the outside, and a young man walked in unhurriedly, followed by Mama Wang and Mama Song, who was still holding a wooden box in her hand.

The young man's sword eyebrows and starry eyes, handsome and extraordinary, a gentle and humble son, his black hair is only tied with a white hosta, but his face is slightly dark, it is estimated that it is because of leading troops in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Daiyu hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and before he could speak, Jia Jue spoke, "Sister doesn't need to be polite, just call me the third brother." ”

Daiyu was slightly blessed and called 'Third Brother', and her voice was pleasant.

Jia Jue looked at Daiyu in front of her, smiled slightly, got closer, and saw more clearly, she was different from Sister Yingchun, her eyebrows were slender and beautiful, her fair goose egg face was actually plain face to the sky, a pair of delicate phoenix eyes revealed a hint of sadness, just in response to Cao Gong's sentence 'Two bends seem to be frowning but not frowning, and a pair of eyes are like crying and not crying. Jia Jue was in good spirits, she was really a beautiful and dignified girl, a gust of river wind blew in, the hem of her long skirt seemed to float with the wind, and a crisp sound of wearing rings hitting each other came.

Seeing Jia Jue standing there looking at herself, Daiyu's little face was slightly red, she bowed slightly, and called again, "Third brother!" ”

Jia Jue came back to her senses and said with a smile: "Sister, don't be angry, I just think that my sister has a kind face, as if she has seen it somewhere, so she lost her temper, forgive me!" ”

As he spoke, he turned around and took the wooden box from Song's mother's hand and lifted the lid, "I didn't expect to see my sister here, I didn't have any preparations, a small gift, and I hope my sister won't dislike it!" ”

After speaking, he put the box on the table next to it.

Daiyu took a step forward, glanced at the gifts in the box, a white hosta, a hollow lotus pattern white jade swayed, slightly blessed, and smiled gently, "Thank you, third brother." ”

After a pause, he said, "I like it very much." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, a blush flew over her face, this was the first time she had received a gift from someone other than her parents, and she was still a man.

"Huh! It's good if my sister likes it. ”

Jia Jue was in a happy mood, and when he saw that Song's mother gave him a look, he understood that it was not early and he couldn't stay here longer, so he smiled and said: "I understand what my sister means, it's all my own family and I don't have to go outside." ”

Seeing that Daiyu was about to give herself a gift again, she waved her hand hurriedly, and then said: "I have also found out today's matter, Uncle Lin will send a letter to him, and if my sister is worried, I will send a letter together." By the way, for the sake of safety, the fleet will rush to Huai'an Wharf overnight, and tomorrow my sister and second brother Lian will transfer to my official ship to enter Beijing, and I will let Jia Gui lead a group of soldiers to escort you. ”

Daiyu's heart was like a mirror, knowing that the cause of this incident was her father, and smiled lightly at Jia Jue, "Trouble the third brother, I will hand over the letter to the third brother early tomorrow morning." ”

Without waiting for Jia Jue to speak, Mama Wang on the side spoke, "Girl, it's time to take medicine." ”

This is an era of strict etiquette, a group of mothers-in-law gathered here, and it was not good to say much, so she smiled and said directly: "Sister, rest early, and let's talk when I return to Beijing." ”

After speaking, he nodded to Song Ma again, and walked away in Daiyu's surprised gaze.

Daiyu's eyes froze, her brows furrowed slightly, and then she thought: This third brother is so strange....