The sons and daughters of Jiangnan have been accustomed to boats since childhood. Although the five of them were not very old, none of them were seasick.

For the first two or three days, everyone looked east and west on the boat and felt very novel, but after three days, the novelty passed, and everyone felt bored again.

Zhao Chongyang asked Liu Qiaoling to teach them arithmetic, and let Red Sleeves and Ziyan also learn. Zhao Chongyang took this opportunity to review his homework, and began to continue to write "Journey to the West" according to his memory, preparing to have time to print and sell, and by the way, open a storytelling field to talk about flat books.

Writing "Journey to the West" began when I was studying in Nanjing, and I have already completed a third of it.

In the afternoon, after the girls studied for a while, Zhao Chongyang taught them to play Go and poker.

Go was prepared for them by Zhao Wuji, and the poker was drawn by Zhao Chongyang himself with a paper shell.

In this way, after nearly 20 days on the water, the fleet traveled west along the Huai River to Xinyang Mansion according to the planned route. Xinyang can be upgraded from a state to a government, which is naturally larger and more prosperous than ordinary state-level cities. Here, the Vantone Chamber of Commerce still plans to have a relatively large foothold.

So as early as when Zhao Chongyang had this idea, Hangzhou and other places sent speedboats to bring people to prepare in the early stage, first rented a few farmhouse yards on the riverside not far from the wharf, so that the fleet could have a foothold, and then sold a vacant land by the river to build their own wharf, and built a simple small shopping mall, with warehouses, shops, restaurants and wine cooking workshops.

Zhao Chongyang and they stayed here for three days, disposed of some glass products, sold more than 150,000 yuan, spent money to sell 150 carriages, more than 200 horses, and after transferring the goods to the car, left 200 sailors here to guard the wharf and ships, and helped build a shopping mall at the wharf, leaving a group of management and technical personnel for commerce, shops, and wineries.

Zhao Chongyang left her 100,000 copper coins as funds for the construction and development of this place. He only brought 30,000 taels of silver and 1,000 taels of gold to Tongbai County.

In order to avoid detours, go directly to Anpeng, and open up the situation as soon as possible, they hired a guide to take them there at a high price in Xinyang.

On the first day, after traveling seventy or eighty miles, seeing that it was getting late, everyone was afraid of missing the accommodation, so the guide suggested that they should stay in this market town called Wakou for the first night. They provided for seven or eight hundred people, leaving more than 200 people in Xinyang, and a total of more than 500 people, filling all the vacant hotels in the town, and temporarily setting up some bunks to barely stay.

Zhao Chongyang believed that this is the only place for the commercial bank to transport goods to Xinyang in the future, so he discussed with Shi Bao and others to buy a piece of land in the village and build a large inn, mainly for the convoy of the commercial bank to and from the people to share food and lodging, and sent a couple of domestic slaves to be the boss here, and the inn can also provide food and accommodation for other travelers.

There were not enough clerks to ask for in the town, and at the same time five veterans were left here to do chores, leaving two carriages to sell vegetables and grain in Xinyang. Zhao Chongyang asked Shi Bao to leave them 10,000 yuan for repairing the inn and making utensils, and the rest for the capital.

After arranging things here, after breakfast, the convoy continued to set off. Because of the horse-drawn carriage walking, you can't go over the mountains and mountains to take shortcuts, so you can only go along the official road.

At this time, it reflects the superiority of the carriage of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce. Zhao Chongyang: They brought a total of two luxury carriages on board this time. One is the dowry gift of the Zhao family to Pang Qiuxia, this time the two brothers and sisters are gone, and the carriage is left at home and no one uses it, before leaving, Pang Wanchun took it on the boat, and when he arrived in Nanjing, Wang Zhennan asked Zhao Chongzu to bring two carriages on the ship, and it was easy to use after getting on land. Pang Qiuxia said that there was one on the ship, so she only needed one.

After arriving in Xinyang, Zhao Chongyang and the four daughters took one car, and the two pairs of domestic slave mother and daughter took one. Although these official roads are relatively wide, because the roads have never been maintained, the whole road seems uneven, sitting in the carriage for a long time, the whole body seems to be scattered skeleton, it is not as comfortable as walking. Therefore, many bodyguards and staff members sitting in the carriage simply came down to walk, and some members of the team on horseback also came down to lead the horses.

Because this area is located at the junction of the two provinces, it is wild and sparsely populated, and it is almost evening, so I have not found a suitable village to stay. Xinghao guide said that after walking this uphill and reaching the ridge, there is a small village for everyone to settle down.

Everyone mustered up their courage, and when they were finally about to finish this slope, they saw some houses sparsely located on both sides of the official road on the ridge, and it turned out that this was a small village with about 20 families.

The first one in Lingshang Village, is the only building in the whole village, and the downstairs gate is written in the middle of the "Cross Slope Inn". The rest of the houses are placed along the official road from west to east, only this inn is not placed vertically on the official road, the inn gate is facing the official road to the side, and you can see the words above the inn gate a few hundred meters away.

"Cross Slope Inn", Zhao Chongyang said in his mouth, and suddenly felt that the three words "Cross Slope" were very familiar, and suddenly remembered that in another time and space, "Water Margin" said that Sun Erniang and her husband Zhang Qing in the vegetable garden opened a black shop in the cross slope, but I don't know if the cross slope inn in this time and space was opened by Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang in the vegetable garden.

Coming to an open field in front of the inn, the guide asked everyone to park the car on that wasteland, turned to Shi Bao and Zhao Chongyang and said that there are nearly eighty miles from here to Tongbai County, just enough to walk for a day.

Therefore, people who travel between Xinyang and Nanyang generally have to come here to rest overnight. So don't look at the small scale of this inn, and it is located in this remote village, but the business continues all year round.

The guide continued, "There is still a place to stay forty or fifty miles further on the cross slope, and it is said that a group of strong men came to occupy the mountain as the king last year, and robbed the passing merchants, and no one dared to cross the ridge easily at night.

But there is only one inn here, one floor and one bottom, with five rooms on the upper floor, and a kitchen, storeroom, and room made by the store below, and the largest one is the dining hall for the guests.

Shi Bao calculated, it seems that the few empty rooms upstairs can only be used by Zhao Chongyang and a few main leaders, and the rest of the people can only set up tents.

So Shi Bao issued an order, and each squad of the bodyguard team set up tents around the carriage in the unit, and then buried the pot in the platoon unit to make rice and make their own meals. Among the staff, the women live upstairs, the men set up tents in groups of 10, and the men cook in pots in groups of 30. Three people in each class are assigned to feed the horses.

After the arrangement, Shi Bao took Bao Daoyi, Pang Wanchun, and Nangong Yongjie to find the store. Zhao Chongyang also followed behind with a few little beauties.

Hundreds of people came to the entrance of the village, and the people shouted and neighed, which had already alarmed the residents, and the shopkeepers also stood at the door to watch the excitement. The men, women and children of the village all stood in the distance and watched this group of unscrupulous guests.

Although it is the main road connecting Nanyang and Xinyang, there are only more than ten people and three or five carriages staying here.

Therefore, when the proprietress saw so many guests coming to her store and seeing that they were setting up tents, she knew that the guests could not receive food and accommodation in their store, and they might not come to stay, so they did not take the initiative to come up to greet the guests.

Seeing the guests come to the door, the proprietress and a young woman dressed up in a fancy way smiled at everyone and asked, "May I ask the guest officers, what do you need us to serve?" ”

Shi Bao arched his hand forward and said: "We are a caravan from Xinyang to Tongbai County, because we have too many people, and we can't eat and live in the store, most of us don't bother the boss, but our young master and a few young ladies will trouble the boss lady to entertain her, and clean up several rooms for them to stay. ”

The proprietress said happily: "Okay, don't worry, this big brother is the most fair, and he will definitely serve this son and a few young ladies thoughtfully." Erlang, come and prepare tea with the sons and young ladies, and your brother and I will go and get the dishes ready. ”

"Okay sister-in-law." A peugeot-looking Xiao Langjun responded, "This son and a few young ladies, please come with Wu Song." ”

Hearing the word Wu Song, Zhao Chongyang was stunned for a moment: "Wait, are you Wu Song, the registered disciple of Zhou Dong and Zhou Daxia?" ”

"Zhou Daxia is under his mentor, I don't know how this son knows?"

Zhao Chongyang stepped forward and bowed solemnly to Wu Song: "Senior brother and second brother Wu are above, junior brother Zhao Chongyang is polite." I don't know why the senior brother is doing chores in the store as a junior? ”

Wu Song said: "Could it be that this little brother is a new disciple of the master in the past two years?" ”

Zhao Chongyang said: "Although I officially worshiped under the name of my master a few years ago and became an official disciple of Jinjianmen, but when I was five years old, I worshipped Zhou Daxing, my cousin, as a teacher, so I should have learned Jinjianmen kung fu earlier than my senior brother." ”

"Oh, it turns out that you are a disciple of Uncle Daxing. Due to my brother's incident, there was a major change in my family, so I took refuge here temporarily. ”

What happened to Wu Song Wu Erlang's family that made him go away to avoid trouble, and listen to the following breakdown.