In the Mo Mansion, Ash Mian, who was originally rushing to nibble on something to eat, suddenly stopped, and Yi Shuyuan's voice came from its ears.

"Still eating? Why don't you stay in Mingzhou? Mofu will definitely not treat you badly, and the two juniors will also serve you well. ”

Mr!

Gray Mian raised his head, already realizing something, and the gentleman didn't seem to like parting in person.

Mo Shisheng, who had been standing on the chair and lying on the table watching the mink eat, looked at it and wondered.

"What's wrong, mink?"

Gray glanced at Shi Sheng, this little guy is not big or small.

"It's called Gray Senpai!"

"Oh, Gray Senpai, have you finally eaten enough?"

Ash Mian put down the food in his hand, licked his paws with his tongue to clean them up, and looked at Qi Zhongbin, who closed his eyes and felt the vitality of heaven and earth.

"Qi boy."

"In the gray seniors!"

Qi Zhongbin opened his eyes.

"Qi boy, take care of the ink boy, and Ling, compared to cultivating immortals, first ensure that you don't wet the bed!"

"I, how can I wet the bed"

"The sheets are still dry, don't be ashamed!"

Hearing these words of Gray Mian, Mo Shisheng puffed out his mouth, and Qi Zhongbin realized something, approached the table and asked with concern.

"Senior Gray, is the master leaving?"

Gray Mian clapped his hands and jumped from the table to the ground.

"Sir, it doesn't matter what you say, in fact, he's also a sentimental person, he doesn't like to say goodbye, in short, you guys, practice hard!"

"Gray Senior!"

Qi Zhongbin shouted, and Ash Mian, who had already arrived at the door, turned his head to look at the latter and saw the latter bowing down.

"On my behalf and my brother, please say goodbye to Master!"

"Well, I'm leaving!"

After speaking, Gray Mian jumped out, and his figure disappeared directly.

After hesitating in place for a moment, Qi Zhongbin looked at Mo Shisheng.

"Senior brother, let's go and see off Master!"

As he spoke, Qi Zhongbin picked up Mo Shisheng, walked outside the door and said to the subordinates of the Mo Mansion, and then jumped out of the Mo Mansion with light skills.

After stepping into the Immortal Dao, although he had not yet cast an immortal foundation, Qi Zhongbin also found that his original martial arts internal qi had gradually transformed into innate true qi, which made even light martial arts far surpass the past.

Where will it be, in which direction?

Qi Zhongbin rushed out of the Mo Mansion, but his figure fell into the street but he was suddenly a little dazed, because he didn't know which direction the master and the gray seniors were going, let alone find them accurately.

"Senior brother, west!"

Shi Sheng suddenly had a vague feeling in his heart, and he immediately said it.

Qi Zhongbin did not hesitate, and moved forward quickly.

Directly avoiding the crowd and walking on the wall, he finally reached the outside of the west of the city, Qi Zhongbin kept his footsteps and chased him outside the outskirts of the city.

But apart from a few pedestrians, cars and sparse buildings, there is only one ancient bluestone road that stretches far outside the city, connecting with the old official road.

"Master, it's already gone."

Qi Zhongbin put Mo Shisheng down, and then knelt directly at the end of the bluestone road, kneeling and kowtowing to the distance.

Master didn't allow it before, but Qi Zhongbin still did it.

"Master, disciple sends Master off-"

Mo Shisheng also seemed to be influenced by Qi Zhongbin, and he also knelt down on the side, learned to kowtow to his junior brother, and then covered his forehead and got up.

"Master, Shi Sheng also sends you off-"

An old man and a young man shouted twice into the distance, and only the scattered passers-by around looked at them in a little surprise, but no one stopped when the cars and pedestrians passed, at most they talked about it after being a little away.

Yi Shuyuan, who was in the official road outside the city, looked back in the direction of Mingzhou City, and could vaguely hear two distant calls coming with the wind.

"It feels good to accept apprentices!"

With a whisper, Yi Shuyuan stood towards Mingzhou City for a while, and then left again.

"Sir, are you going to find that guy Chu Hang?"

"I'm not in a hurry."

Yi Shuyuan replied, his steps became faster, and his figure became more ethereal.

It's spring soon, Chu Hang will definitely participate in the imperial examination this year, Yi Shuyuan is not in a hurry to find him, just walk in the direction of Chengtianfu.

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There is the Kaiyang Grand Canal that runs through the north and south near Mingzhou City, the river transportation on the river is extremely busy, from the west gate of the city, the number of miles to the northwest is the Mingzhou Wharf.

The land transportation in Mingzhou is no longer busy, but the water transportation is very developed.

Although Yi Shuyuan has been in Mingzhou City for two years, he has never been to the wharf outside the city.

"Hey, it's more lively than Mingzhou City!"

Compared with the wharf in Yuanjiang County, the scale of the canal wharf in Mingzhou is quite amazing, and there are not only berths for ships, but also many buildings, restaurants, restaurants, inns, warehouses, etc.

Yi Shuyuan entered the dock, as if he had entered a small city.

The dock was filled with the hustle and bustle of shouting and shouting, and just outside the tavern where Yi Shuyuan was passing by, there were even people who set up tables and openly waged dice to start a gambling game.

"Big big—" "Little little little—"

"One, two, three, small!"

"Oops-" "Hahahahahaha"

The crowd around shouted excitedly, and some of them were shirtless in the cold, slapping the table and slapping their legs.

Yi Shuyuan swept it away, and the person who lost the money was already in a hurry, and he was touching up and down his body at the moment, as if he wanted to find the last copper.

Yi Shuyuan stood outside the crowd of gambling and stared at the one who lost the worst.

Interestingly, the original complexion of that person was okay, but as he lost his eyes, the top of his head began to darken, showing a musty cloud.

Gambling can't be contaminated.

"Don't gamble, don't gamble, I've lost all my wages for months." "yes, we can't play with them."

At this time, someone who knew him was persuading the man to stop, but instead of a good word, he angered the other person, and the man stared at the other person viciously.

"What is lost? Will Lao Tzu care about these two little money? ”

"Do you still bet? If you don't have any money, let's go, I'm going to collect the bank. ”

"Bet, don't go, losers don't speak, winners aren't allowed to go-"

Looking at the appearance of a red face and a thick neck, Yi Shuyuan shook his head and turned around and left, this kind of person can't listen to persuasion anymore.

There are a lot of boats on the dock, and what Yi Shuyuan is looking for is a boat to Chengtianfu, and then he needs the right price.

In the end, a passenger and cargo ship was favored by Yi Shuyuan.

This is a ship more than ten zhang long, mainly to carry cargo, but the bow of the ship with a sign can carry passengers to Chengtianfu, and set sail early tomorrow morning, which is relatively fast.

Some people ask for a price at the gangplank, some leave and some get on board.

Yi Shuyuan walked over, and the steward at the bow of the boat over there happened to be talking to a man who looked like a scholar in front of him.

This scholar wears a scarf on his head, wears a Taoist robe, and carries a bookcase, and at first glance he is a candidate who has entered Beijing to take the exam.

"Boatman, these five taels of silver are too expensive, can it be cheaper."

The boatman on the dock sat behind a small table with small scales.

"Hey, too expensive? Then you go by land, two legs to hurry, wind food and sleep, that is cheap! ”

The scholar's face suddenly turned angry.

"You don't have to be sarcastic, you say why it's so expensive, and you don't provide food, and you charge five taels by water for ten days, this, this is too treacherous"

"Sir, five taels alas!"

Gray Mian also whispered in Yi Shuyuan's ear, this money seemed too expensive to it.

The man at the bow of the boat smiled.

"Then I'll really tell you, our ship can load goods and carry people, why do you have to pay hundreds of pounds with a bookcase? If you don't carry you, the shipowner will exchange it for 100 catties of tea, even if it is of bad quality, if you go to Chengtianfu, is it more than enough to make a few taels of profit? ”

"Then let me ask you, is it appropriate not to charge you five taels?"

At this time, the scholar was suddenly speechless, as if this was indeed the case, if the fare brought by his 100 catties of people was not as good as the goods, why should he carry people?

"Okay, if you are reasonable, five taels will be five taels!"

Yi Shuyuan laughed a little in the back.

The shipwreck seems to be very reasonable, but in fact, it is a concept of stealing, not to mention the space occupied by the goods and the problem of people, let's talk about the tea it refers to.

Good tea is not something that can be received after receiving it, how many businessmen are staring at it, even if the bad tea can be received, it may not be easy to sell, and the so-called profit is a castle in the air.

Manning is a last resort to make up for the lack of profits.

The scholar walked on the gangplank and got on the boat, and the boatman looked at Yi Shuyuan behind him.

"You also want to take a boat to Chengtianfu?"

"Exactly, but I didn't get off the boat at the pier at the foot of Yanshan Mountain."

"The same, five taels!"

Hearing the words of the boatman, Yi Shuyuan glanced at the hungry scholar on the boat and replied.

"He brought a bookcase for 100 pounds, and the weight of the books in it was not light, I was alone without luggage, and the weight was twenty or thirty pounds less than him, so I would be four taels!"

The boatman was also happy, looking Yi Shuyuan up and down.

"I don't look like you're short of a tael of silver!"

If you don't even bring a bag, you must be someone who will buy all kinds of things at the docks along the way, and even buy food on the boat.

Yi Shuyuan replied with a smile.

"I see that your ship will not be able to attract guests until tomorrow morning, and there will be a lot of empty seats, so it is better to let me get four taels of silver on the ship than to be empty."

As he spoke, Yi Shuyuan had already taken out some broken silver and put it on the scale.

The boatman looked at Yi Shuyuan's relaxed and calm look, and nodded after thinking about it.

"Alright, alright, let's go up."

Yi Shuyuan arched his hand, stepped on the gangplank and got on the boat in a few steps.

In addition to not going to some specific cabins, you can basically move around casually, and there is no restriction on where you live, you can find a place to nest or lay on the floor in the cabin.

In the cabin where the goods were piled up, Yi Shuyuan saw the scholar just now, who was setting up a bookcase and laying bedding in a corner place, and after seeing Yi Shuyuan enter the warehouse, the scholar stood up.

"This brother Tai, Yang Bencai in Xiadonglu, I don't know the name of Brother Taizun, but I also have to go to Beijing to take the exam?"

Yi Shuyuan replied with a salute.

"In Xia Yi Shuyuan, he is not a candidate."

"Oh"

Yang Bencai nodded, thinking that he was also a scholar who was rushing to take the exam, and it was almost good to take care of it, but it turned out that it was not.

Yi Shuyuan didn't say anything more and walked towards the interior of the cabin.

There were not many passengers on the ship, except for the scholars and Yi Shuyuan who had just boarded the ship, there were only seven or eight sporadic ones.

There were a lot of empty places in the warehouse, and it was clear that the shipowner did not receive the goods too smoothly this time.

In the evening, some people eat dry food, some people get off the boat to eat, and some people go to the dock to buy some things, so as not to have nothing to eat during the journey.

Yi Shuyuan stood on the bow deck and looked at the bright lights on the dock, which seemed very lively.

On the other side of the gangplank, there were some new passengers, old and young, and a couple with two children, one of whom was only six or seven years old, and the other who still needed to be held by hand.

The price of boarding the ship is obviously decreasing with time, although Yi Shuyuan is far away, but he can hear it clearly, although few people go directly to Chengtianfu, most of them will get off the ship halfway, but the people who get on the boat behind are less than one or two.

"Dead profiteers!"

Yi Shuyuan scolded secretly, he knew that he would get on the boat late.

A little farther away, someone cursed and forgot the ship.

"Fuck, fucking bad luck!" "Tell me if those guys are out of the woods?"

"Then you won't be able to go back."

When the men reached the bow of the boat, the voices became quieter.

The middle-aged man who collected the fare stood up.

"Why did you come back? At the latest, bring the tables aboard the ship, get ready, and set sail tomorrow morning. ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" "Playing at the dock and delayed."

"Humph!"

The steward came on board with a bag of money, and a few of the shipwrights under the ship cursed a few words, and carried tables and stools on board.

In the dim evening evening, Yi Shuyuan was thinking on the deck, the rotten gambler was actually the shipwright on this ship.

(End of chapter)