For several days in Bianjing, the weather was excellent.

The willow trees on both sides of the Bianhe River have already hung green, and three or two anxious peach blossoms have grown buds, revealing a little red.

The Grand Canal that crosses Bianjing City, leads the Yellow River water into the city from the West Water Gate, crosses thirteen bridges, and then exits from the East Water Gate, and is busy day and night.

As soon as the sky was bright, the cargo ships heading south to Yangzhou on the wharf had already loaded their goods, pulled anchors and sailed to start a new round of voyages.

On the sail of the first ship, embroidered with a long thorn full of spikes, the traders who often walked on the docks could tell at a glance its owner.

This is the caravan of Mrs. Wang Yushi, who is one of the famous female merchants in this Bianjing city.

Legend has it that she has dozens of big boats on the Bianhe River, shuttling between the north and the south every day. He was carrying goods at the dock day and night from the Warring States Period, and the money he earned was only a drop in the bucket for Mrs. Wang.

She is the most popular proprietor on this dock, because she does not owe her wages, and she distributes meat buns! Although most of the meat is vegetables, the meat is not only the size of a fingernail, but it is also meat!

No coolie can escape the clutches of meat.

Yu Youtian squatted on the side of the road, nibbling on the fragrant meat buns, he only ate one, and the rest was carefully wrapped up and put into his arms, he could already imagine the scene of joy when the children at home saw the meat buns.

The job of moving goods for Mrs. Wang is very sought-after, and the last time he grabbed it was a month ago.

A meat bun went down, Yu Youtian looked towards the Bianhe River, and a round of sun rose from the east, gilding the white wattle sail with a layer of golden light!

He thought with some envy, Yangzhou City didn't know what it was like, his second brother Yu Youdi followed the merchant ship there last month, and he didn't know what was going on now. He listened to the people who came back from the south and said that it was more prosperous than Bianjing, and it could be said that there was gold everywhere.

It is a place where women can support their families by handicrafts, and it is really like a place like Elysium.

Yu Youtian thought stupidly, and saw that the moving caravan suddenly stopped, and in the distance, someone was exclaiming......

Yu Youtian sighed in his heart, inexplicably a little nervous, he rushed towards the direction of the accident quickly, thinking that if the boat touched the reef and sank, he jumped into the Bianhe River to rescue the goods, can he make more money and get a few more meat buns!

He thought about looking to the left and right, but saw that the person who had been carrying the goods with him before was running up quickly, and his feet seemed to be stepping on Hot Wheels, and he picked out the afterimage.

Yu Youtian took a deep breath and rushed to the closest place to the head boat, this time he heard it really, "Dead!" Dead! ”

Dead? Yu Youtian was a little disappointed, it seemed that he didn't need to think about new meat buns.

The people who could beg for food on this canal were all good hands in the water, and after a while, someone jumped down the river with a few sounds, and scooped up the black spots floating in the river, and there was a steward of the Wang family on the bank, and let a small boat go down, and carried the body directly back to the shore.

The steward of the Wang family gestured, and the caravan continued to set sail, and the people who watched the excitement surrounded the things that had just been carried ashore on the inside and outside of the three layers.

It was a tattered straw mat, vaguely discernible of the body of a swollen man lying inside.

The shape of the corpse was strange, and the whole person looked like a steamed bun that had been soaked, as if it would be broken when he reached out and poked it, and he couldn't identify who it was.

The steward of the Wang family looked at it, his eyes didn't blink, he calmly beckoned people to come, and shouted, "Go to Kaifeng Mansion to report to the official, just say that we fished out a corpse in the Bianhe River, and the people are already swelling, and it doesn't look like they are dead, and they don't know who they are. ”

Yu Youtian only felt a buzz in his brain when he heard this, he stared at the person in the straw mat, couldn't help but take a step back, and shouted in horror, "This...... This...... This is my brother Yu Youland! ”

As soon as he said this, everyone looked towards Yu Youtian.

"My brother's middle finger was cut off by my aunt because of gambling money! And the jacket, there was a black patch sewn on the gray jacket on his body, which was the rag head that my mother had cut from a pair of torn pants. ”

"But that's not right, Li Yun told me that my brother followed the caravan to Suzhou......"

Yu Youtian said, looking at the deformed corpse lying on the ground with some horror and blankness, the bun in his arms was so hot that he felt that his heart didn't know that it hurt.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, what are you doing here? I'm Wu Jiang, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, make a way for me! ”

Wu Jiang said, opened his arms and stepped forward to open a way, he jumped on his legs, twisted his head and looked at Gu Shiwei and Han Shiyan behind him, "Gu family, Brother Shiyan, isn't it a coincidence that you take a look?" Let's come here to catch Li Mao, I don't want to have an unexpected gain! ”

As he spoke, he winked at Gu Jinwei, "Gu relatives, Gu relatives, please come in quickly!" ”

The surrounding onlookers heard a Gu word, and they all looked at it curiously, not because of anything else, it was really the most famous surname in Bianjing City in the past two days was Gu, but if there was a person who lived around and loved to go to the teahouse to listen to the story, it would be able to learn the ugly things of the Gu family vividly.

Gu Shiwei was very satisfied with the infamy of the Gu family, and Gu Yanzhi must have spent a few days as early as a year!

Yu Youtian saw that the person in the official robe came, and suddenly seemed to have a backbone, he had never read a book, and he didn't know what to do except sell coolies, so he could only kneel heavily on the ground with a puff after thinking about it.

He bowed his head with the greatest etiquette in his heart, and cried and shouted, "Lord Qingtian, my brother died unjustly!" Please also ask the eldest master to find out the truth, my brother obviously went to Suzhou a month ago, how could it be ......"

As he spoke, as if he remembered something, he looked around anxiously, and then his eyes fell on a little lady in the crowd, he stood up suddenly, rushed up, grabbed the little lady's hand and shouted, "Li Yun! You told me that my brother was on a merchant ship bound for Suzhou. ”

"He said that he was going to the Southland to make a lot of money, and you said that you saw it with your own eyes, and you still said it...... He also said that my brother told me that when he settled in the south, he would ask someone to write me a letter, which you said...... Now what's going on? ”

Yu Youtian said and roared excitedly.

The little lady named Li Yun's face changed drastically, and she struggled desperately.

Gu Shiwei hooked the corners of her mouth, her eyes moved away from Li Yun, and looked not far away, only to see the old man hurrying over with the box on his back, and he was out of breath when he walked a few steps when he was old.

Seeing Gu Shiwei, he couldn't help trotting a few steps and leaned over with a solemn expression.

He looked around and looked at Gu Shiwei with burning eyes, "In front of the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, there is a little lady named Gu Qi Niang, beating the drum and complaining about her father, Gu Changgeng...... Do you know? ”

Gu Shiwei's eyes widened in surprise, "There is such a thing?" ”