The next morning, three or five coachmen pushed the chicken bus into the Cao family wine shop to rest at the door of the house over there.

Several helpers load soybeans in baskets in the house and put them all on the chicken cart.

When a coachman saw that his chicken bus was loaded with three baskets of soybeans, he took a sign from Cao Hongyou, who was standing nearby, and pushed the chicken bus away. The other coachmen, like the previous one, took the sign and pushed the chicken bus in turn.

Wu Daode came in from the door of the archway and looked around at the door of the house where the goods were delivered.

Cao Hongyou saw that this was a little familiar, so he asked if he was looking for Cao Yang?

Wu Daode said "um" and nodded.

Cao Hongyou said, he has something to do, what do you tell me is the same.

Wu Daode said, okay, let me tell you, I have prepared a big boat at Chibi Wharf, and your family will transport the soybeans over just to load my boat.

Cao Hongyou took out 10 hangings of money on his body and handed it to him and said, "Young man, you threw a bag of soybeans weighing about 10 catties yesterday on the pile of soybeans in my house, and you didn't ask for money, so I gave you 10 hangings worth of soybeans today."

Wu Daode shook his hand and said, who wants money? Your family can give me the business of transporting soybeans across the river.

Cao Hongyou said, I'm sorry, our Cao family drives our own boat and doesn't need your boat. He stuffed the 10 hanging money in his hand to him and said, the 10 hanging money is still for you.

Wu Daodao's face sank, he didn't want it, but he still took the 10 hanging money, shook his hand and said: Forget it.

Wu Daode turned around and left, walked to the door of the archway, and followed a coachman who pushed a chicken bus. He opened his voice and asked, "Man, what is the role of you getting a sign from Old Man Cao?"

The driver said that if you get a brand to push a cart of goods, you will count a lot of money, and when the time comes, you will complete the payment, and you will settle the bill with the number of brands you receive. After finishing speaking, he continued to push the chicken bus into North Street.

Wu Daode followed. After walking for a while, he asked, man, where do you transport the Cao family's soybeans?

The coachman replied that he would transport it to the North Gate Ferry, and then load it on the boat, and transport it from the Lushui River to the Chibi Wharf to load the big ship to Jiangbei. Of course, we don't care about those things, our cart is only responsible for pushing the soybeans from the Caojia Distillery to the North Gate Ferry.

Wu Daode asked again, who loaded the ship at the North Gate Ferry?

The coachman replied that Cao Yang had brought a few hired men to load the ship there.

Wu Daode stopped, and he let out another "oh", a strange smile line appeared on his face.

At this moment, I saw that there were four wooden boats moored neatly at the North Gate Ferry, and the wooden planks were put on the side of the boat at one end and the other end on the tidal flats, becoming a wooden boardwalk and bridge connecting the water and land.

Cao Yang instructed the coachman to push the chicken cart onto the boat along the boardwalk bridge, and then unloaded the baskets full of soybeans into the cabin.

The cabin was full of cargo, and the boatman pulled out the planks that had built the road and bridge, rowed the boat, and slowly sailed away from the North Gate Ferry and rowed towards the sparkling Lushui River.

Another small wooden boat loaded with soybeans started up, and Cao Yang waved to the boatman.

Wu Daode suddenly appeared at the North Gate Ferry. He approached Cao Yang and pretended to be humble and shouted, Boss Cao, I have prepared a big boat for your Cao family to transport soybeans across the river at Chibi Wharf.

Cao Yang said, alas, I'm really sorry, my father didn't agree, and asked me to rent a big boat to drive to Jiangbei by myself. I've sailed a boat, and I've made a living.

Wu Daode said, then you shouldn't have promised me to get a boat yesterday!

Cao Yang smiled slightly, and argued, I didn't fully agree, just an intention, and there was no writing paper, signature and drawing, you can't blame me!

Wu Daode said angrily,. Then he turned around and left the North Gate Ferry.

On that day, the Linjiang Wharf in Jiayu County, near Chibi, was a different scene. On the side of the shore there is a wooden bench on the side, on which are lined with thick bowls of bamboo. Wu Daode and his accomplice Qian Wanguan respectively held down one end of the bamboo, and his accomplice Wu Liangjin took a ruler and made a mark with firewood and charcoal, and his accomplice Kan Neng came to cut off the Nanzhu with a big saw. In this way, many bamboos were sawn off repeatedly, rolling to the ground, and becoming a large pile.

The accomplices have always taken a knife to sawn into a section of the bamboo tube of appropriate length, and then split it into pieces of bamboo, which are still in piles.

His accomplice, Cai Wanmin, squatted on the ground and drilled holes in the bamboo pieces, then put on iron wires, put them together to form several large patchwork bamboo boards, and then riveted nails to fix them without loosening.

The group worked all morning, and a bamboo raft about five or six square meters in size was made.

They carried the bamboo raft down the wharf, placed it at the riverside ferry, jumped on it one by one, applauded and cheered in the river breeze, and were very addicted.

Wu Daode propped up the pole, and the bamboo raft left the ferry and drifted towards the center of the river.

Suddenly, a man carrying a cloth bag on the riverside pier beckoned and shouted: Alas, bring the raft together, and buy all the black hats you want.

That person is Hu Xiangcai. Wu Daode asked loudly at him, thinking about wealth, is there an eye hole on the edge of the black hat?

Hu Xiangcai took out a black hat from the cloth bag and put it on his head, pulled the brim of the hat downward, covering his entire head, but there were two obvious eye holes under his forehead.

Hu Xiangcai said loudly that it is this kind of hat with a hole in the dog, which can hide the face, and because it has eye holes, it does not affect people's vision.

In a moment, the bamboo raft rowed from the center of the river to the ferry, and then anchored the shore.

Hu Xiangcai jumped on the bamboo raft and issued a dog burrowing hat for each person.

The other six tried them on one after another, and the brim of their hats was pulled down to cover their faces. Some looked at each other and said in a teasing way, that we had become masked men.

Another morning, it was particularly cold at the North Gate Ferry in Puqi County, due to the overcast sky and occasional drizzle. Four rickshaws came out of the North Gate City in turn, and then stopped on the bluestone revetment of the North Gate River Beach.

Cao Hongyou sat on the first rickshaw, wearing a top hat and a robe, holding a seven-star cane, got off the car, and immediately took out a bunch of money and handed it to the driver.

In the second rickshaw sat the gray-haired old lady Xiao Huaihua, who got out of the rickshaw and walked directly to a wooden boat moored at the ferry, with a dragon and phoenix pattern walking stick.

On the third rickshaw sat Huqin, and on her lap sat her five-year-old daughter, Cao Tingting. At this moment, they got out of the rickshaw and walked straight to a wooden boat moored at the ferry.

In the fourth rickshaw sat Huqin's nine-year-old son, Cao Gaofeng, and on Cao Gaofeng's lap sat his seven-year-old brother Cao Xiaofeng.

Cao Hongyou gave the second, third, and fourth rickshaw drivers money to their feet, and also walked towards a wooden boat moored at the ferry.

The six ancestors and grandchildren of the Cao family all got on the wooden boat, and the cat got into the cabin and sat down one after another.

Cao Tingting stretched out her ruddy and round little hand and gently tugged at Huqin's sleeve and asked, Mom, where is Dad?

Hu Qin said, your father went to the Chibi ferry yesterday.

The boatman held the handle of the oar and wanted to shake it, and asked loudly, "Have you all come up?"

Cao Hongyou took a look at his wife, daughter-in-law and three grandsons, and looked at the boatman's handle: drive the boat.