Liu Yong's home is in Xunnan Village, two miles away from Jili Village, Liu Yong first went to Xunnan Liu Qiang's home to visit, Liu Qiang's parents, wife and children are at home, Liu Yong greeted them, presented the gifts he brought, and told them that Liu Qiang was all right in Shanghai, so that they could rest assured that they did not have to worry.

Liu Qi's mother insisted on leaving Liu Yong to eat at home, but Liu Yong was so enthusiastic that she had to accompany Liu Yong's father to have a few drinks.

According to the family arrangement, Liu Yong and Liu Qi are the same great-grandfather, Liu Yong's father and Liu Qi's father are cousins, and Liu Qi's father is the third, so everyone calls him the third uncle. The third uncle opened a cigarette paper shop in Xunnan Village, and now his son Liu Qi follows Liu Yong to work in Liu Hengshun Silk Shop, and he has saved some money in his hands, and his life is relatively rich.

The third uncle sighed: Ah Yong, when your father left, I happened to be sick, and I couldn't send him off, after all, brother, I panicked when I thought of this.

Liu Yong was relieved: In this troubled world, it is a great blessing for my father to die in his hometown and be buried in the ancestral grave.

Third Uncle Dao: Who says it's not, many people don't have this blessing. This world is chaotic, I don't know if I can see the peaceful days.

Coming out of Liu Qi's house, Liu Yong hurriedly walked to the Song family in Jili Village with his bags on his back, standing at the door of the Song family, full of emotion, because of the silk line to the cocoon farmer, he met Song Hongsheng's family, and also met Hong Ying, never thought that the Song family would become his own family-in-law. It's a pity that it was short-lived, and Hong Ying didn't know where to go. God willing, I hope I'll see her here later. If she is here, even if you tie her up, you have to tie her back, and I will bear the big thing.

Countrymen don't have the habit of closing the door in broad daylight, the door of the Song family was open, and Liu Yong walked straight in.

Hong Yingniang was peeling silk at home alone, she saw Liu Yong, got up in surprise and said: Ah, the son-in-law is here? What about Hong Young? Why didn't she come back with you?

When Liu Yong heard this, his heart was cold. He thought that Hong Ying had nowhere to go but to return to her mother's house in Jili Village, but he didn't expect her to come, so he deliberately hid far away, deliberately not letting others find her.

Liu Yong didn't dare to mention Hong Ying again, and then said: The children can't do without her, and the road is not smooth, so they can't come together. He took out the foreign cloth and candy, and said: Mom, this is what Hong Ying asked me to bring to you, the foreign cloth will make clothes for you and your sister-in-law, and the candy will satisfy the children's hunger. ”

Hong Yingniang took the gift, and she was not suspicious, she happily made tea for Liu Yong. Then he asked, "You haven't been to town yet, have you?" I advise you not to go, it's a mess. A few days ago, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court recovered Nanxun, but only three days later, the "spear" was killed again. There were a few men in the town who were anxious, and when they saw that Nanxun had recovered, they hurriedly shaved their heads and waited until the "spear" came back, guess what? was pulled out and beheaded.

Liu Yong touched his head and felt a chill in his neck.

Hong Yingzhuo glanced at Liu Yong and said: You have a hair, you can't go to the town, now the king is like crazy, outsiders come to the town, and those who shave their heads have to be arrested and locked up in prison until their hair grows out.

Liu Yongdao: Don't worry, I didn't come back this time to go to the town, but to discuss something with my eldest brother.

Hong Sheng is one year younger than Liu Yong, but Liu Yong should follow Hong Ying and call him "big brother".

Hong Yingniang said with a smile: Hong Shenghe accompanied his daughter-in-law and children back to his grandmother's house, and only came back in the evening.

Liu Yong asked: What about my father-in-law?

Hong Yingniang said: He has gone to work in the field and will be back soon.

As he was talking, Hong Ying's father came back with a hoe, and when he saw Liu Yong, he said happily: The magpie in the tree in front of the door early in the morning came, and it turned out that the distinguished guest had arrived.

Hong Ying's father looked around and asked: Where is Hong Ying, why didn't you see her?

Hong Yingniang said: The girl didn't come back.

Hong Ying's father said angrily: These girls, when they have a husband's family, they forget their mother's family, and they don't know that we miss her.

Hong Yingniang said: Don't talk nonsense, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and now there are a lot of old people and children in her family, where can she get away. Isn't it different if a daughter doesn't come and a son-in-law comes.

When Hong Ying's father and Hong Yingniang said this, Liu Yong felt uncomfortable, thinking: I originally thought that Hong Ying had returned to her parents' home, but now her mother's house is not, where did she go? Originally, I wanted to inquire if the Song family had any relatives in other places, but I didn't dare to open my mouth at this time. I had to pretend that everything was fine, otherwise it would also cause the two old men to worry. If you provoke something again, it will be even more troublesome.

Liu Yong walked out of the door and saw that the original warehouse for sorting soil and silk was gone, and it had become a threshing field, so he asked Hong Ying's father: Dad, why have these houses been demolished?

Hong Ying's father said: Since the second half of last year, the official village set up by the gambling king does not allow the people to shake the silk privately, and there are often Taiping troops to the countryside to inspect, I am afraid of causing trouble, so I dismantle the warehouse of finishing the silk.

Liu Yong nodded: It's good to dismantle it, so as not to get into trouble.

Hong Ying's father said: But this year, the situation has changed, the official village of the king has been withdrawn, and the Taiping army has not come to the countryside, so this season the spring silkworms everyone shook the soil silk and stored it at home, and now they are in a hurry to sell it, but if you silk merchants don't come back, we can't help it.

Liu Yong stared at Hong Ying's father and said: When I came back this time, I wanted to discuss with Brother Hong Sheng whether there was a way to transport all the soil and silk to Shanghai.

Hong Ying's father said excitedly: Now every family has soil silk, if you can really transport the soil silk out, it would be great, I am old, and I can't think of any way, when Hong Sheng comes back, you can discuss it.

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After dinner, Song Hongsheng went home with his wife and children.

Knowing that Liu Yong came to discuss the matter of Tusi this time, Hong Sheng went to the village and called a few young adults to participate in the discussion.

Hong Sheng introduced: This is Johnson & Johnson, this is Bacon, the eldest son of Uncle Ren's neighbor, and this is Bacon's cousin Peifa.

The three young men all arched their hands to Liu Yong and said, "Hello Boss Liu!"

Hong Sheng smiled and said: My brother-in-law Liu Yong, you all know each other, so I won't be verbose.

Liu Yong bowed his hand to the three young people and said: Hello everyone! Liu Yong is polite!

Johnson & Johnson took the lead and said: I heard Hong Sheng say that Boss Liu wants to transport all the soil silk in the village to Shanghai, and I am very happy to hear it, and my father instructed me to assist Boss Liu in this matter. ”

Bacon echoed: The silk can't be sold, and life is sad, who in the village doesn't worry? Boss Liu, if there is a place for me, I will obey your dispatch.

Peifa patted his chest and said: Yes, yes, we all listen to you, you just say what to do!

Liu Yong hurriedly got up and arched his hand: Thank you for your willingness to help, but I am ashamed, and I didn't come up with any ideas, so I would like to ask you to discuss together.

Hong Sheng also said: As the saying goes, three stinkers, race over Zhuge Liang, let's think about how to transport the soil and silk out.

Liu Yongdao: Brother Hong Sheng is right, everyone has some ideas, maybe there is a way.

Pei Fa took the lead in coming up with an idea: I have an idea, now from Nanxun to Shanghai, whether by water or land, there are checkpoints of the Taiping Army, and if you want to transport the earth silk, you must be inspected for the road. Now there are long-haired private road strips in the town, and if the price is higher, the freight road strips may be able to be obtained.

Liu Yonghu looked at Zu He suspiciously, only to see Zu He shaking his head and saying: I'm afraid this plan is not appropriate! There are indeed 'spears' in the town who sell road strips in violation of the order, but once they are found, the 'spears' who violate the order will be tortured, so they only dare to sell some inconsequential road strips, freight road strips for transporting raw silk, and they never dare to sell them privately.

Liu Yong then said: Yes, it's best not to deal with the Taiping army.

Everyone chatted hotly, but Johnson & Johnson remained silent.

Liu Yong asked: Brother Johnson & Johnson, do you have any ideas?

Johnson & Johnson frowned and said: I'm thinking, although there are long-haired checkpoints on both the water and land routes, they are not all full of people along the way, and there are always some gaps.

Everyone didn't understand what Johnson & Johnson meant, but Liu Yong patted his thigh and said: I understand what you mean.

Liu Yong continued: As soon as the Taiping army sets up a card on the main road, as long as you want to avoid the Taiping army's card. I have a friend Boss Guo, who specializes in transport, and he is familiar with waterways.

Johnson & Johnson also said: I have a friend, he is specially to the sea to transport salt, and he knows the land checkpoints, so that the water cannot be changed to land, and the land is not changed to water, and the two-pronged approach is to avoid the jam.

When Liu Yong heard this, he said happily: You mean that the land checkpoint and the waterway checkpoint are far apart, we can walk a section of the waterway, then a section of the land route, and then return to the waterway, and so on several times, we can avoid the checkpoint?

It dawned on everyone that it was feasible.

Everyone was overjoyed, and Hong Sheng high-fived and said: Great! When everyone is connected, we can try it out first to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Liu Yong then assigned the task, and Hong Sheng and Qiang Sheng were responsible for organizing the people in the village to drive the donkey carts to form a transport team, and Bacon and Peifa went door-to-door to inform the silkworm farmers to pack the soil and silk into square bags for easy transportation.

Calculate it, the fastest speed, and it will take half a month to set sail.

Time did not wait, and Liu Yong hurried back to Shanghai early the next morning.