Evening. The merchant ship was suddenly forced to stop.

"Hey, what are you doing? Get out of the way! The captain at the helm shouted at a passenger boat across the river.

The canal itself is not wide, and Song Che and the others are big water ships, which often cannot be side by side with other ships, and this passenger ship cannot be bypassed in the middle of the river.

Song Che walked onto the deck when he heard the news, and the female swordsmen also stepped out with their swords.

"Aren't you a water thief who barrages the river and hijacks the ship?" Nangong Yue said vigilantly. Song Che shook his head,

"This place has just passed Suzhou, the government is harmonious, the people live in peace and prosperity, and being a thief is insulting himself." Then look at the passenger boat in the middle of the river, it was not much bigger than the fishing boat, half of it was sunk into the water, and there was a horse lantern on the bow of the boat, and I saw that three or five people were constantly scooping out the water, and it seemed that the boat was broken.

There was also a conversation on the boat: "Boatman, can you still use this boat?" Why is the hole getting bigger and bigger? ”

"Oh, it's in disrepair! You can help scoop the water out first, and I'll fill it up with a stake later. ”

"You...... Didn't you say that your boat was fast and steady when you got on board? ”

"Yes, go fast, sink fast!"

"It's really been eight lifetimes of bad luck to get on your broken ship, you ...... You give us back the money! ”

"Two sons, you have to speak with your conscience, you have been shouting at the ferry for a long time, and no one has paid attention to you, if it weren't for your pity, I wouldn't have run the night boat...... I only gave half a tael of silver, and the ghost was too lazy to earn you, if you don't sit down, you can jump down! ”

"How can this be justified, how can this be justified!" Listening to the conversation, the passenger was crepe, but the person in charge of the ship was very rude.

But one thing to say, it's going to get dark soon, and it's quite unlucky to be shipwrecked in the middle of the river.

"Hey, didn't you hear me? Shall we go over and drive your broken ship aside, and don't get in the way of the great officials!" The captain shouted at the top of his voice.

The response of the passenger ship: "Fellow, the boat is half leaking, we don't dare to row again, otherwise it will really sink!" ”

"Then sink to the side! Look at your ghostly appearance, eighty percent of them can't be repaired! ”

"Yo, you Hangzhou native, why are you talking so impulsively? Everyone is running a boat, which one doesn't encounter some accidents! Lao Tzu is here today, what do you want? ”

"Mom's Suzhou guy, if you don't have a good boat, don't learn to solicit customers, you know who I'm carrying on the boat!"

"I don't care which ghost you're carrying, I won't leave if I can't fix it!"

"Hey!" The captain is also short-tempered, rolls up his sleeves, summons sailors, and the long pole, to do it!

"Hey, boat boss, don't be angry, when you go out, anyone will have an accident, we won't be in a hurry." Song Che smiled bitterly and hurriedly went to stop the captain and the sailor.

This is a good boat, why is it still dark? Song Che's mother's family is in Suzhou, his family is in Hangzhou, and the Suzhou and Hangzhou families should help each other.

"Ship boss, you can find a way to help them, it's convenient for us, isn't it?" Song Che persuaded.

Gong Gong said: "Song Daguan, you have to have more eyes, like this kind of three or five people, most of the people who run the boat at night are not good people, they may be thieves!" ”

"It's okay, I don't look like them, besides, there are so many people on our ship, are you still scared of three or five of them?" Song Che's insistence, the captain was not easy to refuse, so he instructed the sailor to use a rope to lasso the small passenger boat, while pulling back, while using a bamboo pole to the shore, and in a short time, the passenger boat was pushed to the shore.

"Thank you!" Suzhou people are still very polite! Gong Gong said: "Don't thank me, if you want to thank us, thank us Song officials." Song Che smiled and let him continue on his way.

"Hey, brother! Where are you going? Can you give us a ride? Two guests who had just come ashore from the passenger ship waved hello.

Song Che just wanted to open his mouth to agree, but Tang Hulu came to stop him at this time: "No, Boss Song, our batch of goods is too valuable, these two strangers are of unknown origin, so leave them alone." But the one who listened to them was a scholar, and Song Che didn't agree first, but asked the other party who was from where he came from.

Listening to the people on the shore replied with their throats pulling: "We are from Xuanzhou, and we are going to Jinling to catch the exam, because we are too anxious so we sail at night, brother Tai, rest assured, we are not bad people!" "It turned out to be a candidate for the imperial examination, no wonder he spoke in a crepe.

Song Che had previously proposed to Liao Heng that he wanted to cultivate his cronies, and the most direct way was to select talents through the imperial examination.

These two people have the ability to go to Beijing to participate in the palace examination, and they must be the talents who won the first place in the township examination.

Song Che let the big ship dock, and the captain lowered the gangway and greeted the two. The two of them are not tall, one is about twenty years old, the other is sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a coarse cloth robe, tied hair and crown, and the face is like a crown of jade.

The two boarded the boat, twisted the water stains on the Confucian robe, bowed their hands, and thanked Song Che.

"Under Liu Xingnan, this is my scholar Lu An, thank you brother for your generosity and let us ride together."

"Uh......" Liu Xingnan, who doesn't look like a man, with a scholar named Lu An who almost sank halfway, and ...... It's really contrasting and wonderful.

Song Che also learned from their appearance and performed a personal Confucian etiquette,

"Under Chen Rencai, Brother Liu doesn't have to be polite, we happen to pass Jinling, and the ship won't sink if there are two more people."

"Huh? That's great! If his younger brother can go to high school, he will not forget the grace of Brother Chen! Liu Xingnan made another big salute.

The corners of Song Che's mouth twitched twice, and he waved his hand, but he was curious: "This year's imperial examination will be held in mid-February, and our talented people from Hangzhou will go at the beginning of the year, today is the second day of the second month of February, and it will take four or five days to go to Jinling soon, Brother Liu went so late, but he didn't have time to review." Liu Xingnan shook his sleeves and sighed to Yuechang: "I also want to go earlier, but there are a lot of housework, and I don't have enough entanglements, and I have only collected enough money in recent days." "Look at him dressed in cloth, but he is full of poetry and books, he should be from a poor family.

It's not easy to do housework and prepare for exams while getting together. The Great Liang Dynasty just needed someone like him who was ambitious and knew how to persevere.

"However, Brother Liu is high school and Xie Yuan, and the government should contribute to help, right? Why can't you even get it together? "Song Che to these

"Ancient college entrance examination candidates" are still quite interested. Liu Xingnan shook his head,

"It's a shame to say that it's not Xie Yuan, but Ya Yuan. The government should have issued two silver grants to students, but in recent years, the war has been tight, and the Ningguo government has a financial deficit and there is no charity. "The first place in the township test is Xie Yuan, and the second place is called Yayuan.

The Great Liang Imperial Examination is thriving, and hundreds of students from every state and region take the exam, and being able to take the second place in the exam is quite powerful.

Besides, the Ningguo Mansion, although it is not as rich as Jiangning, is also the top boundary in the south of the Yangtze River, why can't you even make up a few dozen taels of silver?

"Not really! My son-in-law was obviously the first, but he was replaced by Wang Yanei of the Ning State Mansion! Wang Yanei has a grudge against my son-in-law, for fear that my son-in-law's knowledge will surpass him, so he will run everywhere and be reluctant to give silver, which will cause us to fall down! The little scholar was indignant and told the truth.