This merchant ship is not small, and the cabin is half loaded and half manned.

In fact, you also need a guide paperwork to take a boat, but there are workarounds for such things. After Chen Tang paid double the price, he passed the inspection and came to the cabin. It is a small room of about four or five square meters, poorly furnished, without a bed, only a bunk on the floor.

Chen Tang didn't care about this condition, he was even more worried about the shyness in his pocket, and there was not much left. Now, although I am on the boat, the food and drink on the ship, including the forage for the rouge horses, etc., cost money, and it is not cheap. If you don't have money, whether it's people or horses, you'll have to go hungry.

Chen Tang asked, the destination of this ship is not Qinzhou, but a dock in Qinzhou, and at that time, he can get off the boat. This waterway voyage takes about ten days.

That's pretty fast. If you go by land, it will take at least a month. If you don't take the official road and cross the mountains and mountains, the time is even more incalculable, and I don't know if I can get there after the New Year.

The reason why Chen Tang did not hesitate to spend money to get on the boat was to ask for the word "fast". Leave the boundary of Ningzhou as soon as possible and get rid of the Yang family's recourse entanglement.

Ten days is not a small amount. With his current entanglement, he can only support it for three days at most, and the rest is not settled.

You have to find a way to make money.

Chen Tang sighed and thought about it. He practiced martial arts and cultivated qi, but he couldn't become an immortal and didn't eat the fireworks in the world. On the contrary, the consumption is much greater than that of ordinary people, and if you don't eat a meal, if you don't eat well, you will be hungry and panic. On this boat, he could hunt between the different mountains and wilderness, and he could not always carry a fishing rod to the deck to fish. It's one thing to have no fishing rod, and it's nonsense to go fishing during a cruise.

It was just past noon, and there was still half a day before the boat started, Chen Tang was lying in the cabin, thinking about things to himself.

Thinking about it, I thought of the grandfather and grandson who met by chance on the dock. He can be sure that the other party definitely has a great background, but it is not easy to say the specific identity.

So he took out the black token. Although it felt like iron, the iron was unusual, with an indescribable chill, like ice. If you hold it for a long time, the cold air will enter the body, and it can make people shiver.

In fact, although he doesn't have much cash on him, he has a lot of treasures. Tanhua pens, frog inkstones, paperweights, etc., can be sold for a large sum of silver if you take one out at will. However, these things are all gifts from others, and they are gifts, not desperate, and there is no reason to take them out and sell them.

In that case, let's take it step by step. There are many people on this merchant ship, and he doesn't believe that he can't make money.

After thinking about it for a while, I gradually fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, Chen Tang was woken up by a shaking. When I opened my eyes, I saw that the room was dark, and it was already evening. He felt the boat moving and sailed.

At that moment, I carried the book on my back, opened the door and walked out, crossed the corridor, climbed a wooden ladder, and went out of the deck.

There were quite a few people on deck, some of them crew members, some of them caravanserais. Some people are waving goodbye to the docks. And a number of lanterns have been set up on the shore, and the lanterns are written on them, basically all of them are surnames, in order to show their identity.

Chen Tang glanced at it and turned to the second floor, where the place to eat was.

Merchant sailing is a small world in itself, especially for long-distance voyages, with all kinds of equipment on board and quite complete staffing. It mainly relies on the trafficking of goods to make profits, carrying guests, purely by the way, after all, the fee is not low, there are dozens of merchants, just the ship fare, it is quite considerable.

It is said that the owner of this ship belongs to the Jiang family, a shipbuilding family in the south of the Yangtze River, and occupies almost half of the waterway business in the water.

At this time, it was meal, and the nearly ten tables in the hall were basically full.

Chen Tang's arrival attracted a burst of attention. Carrying a book and a long sword with a belt is actually a very normal match for a scholar - this world has been chaotic, and those who dare to go out will basically carry weapons to defend themselves. Regardless of whether you can martial arts or not, it is better to have a sword in your body than to use your bare hands. Weapons can bring courage and courage to people, and they are also a kind of vigilance, and when others see them, they will subconsciously feel that they are not easy to provoke.

Chen Tang stepped over to buy rice, and saw that the rice was packed in a large wooden barrel, and there were not many choices of vegetables and vegetables, and the appearance was average, but the price was honestly not cheap. But there is no way, this is the only one, and if you want to eat, you have to pay for it.

After hastily eating his stomach, he returned to the cabin, which was pitch black and unlit, and if he wanted to light it, he had to buy candles.

There is still a candle left in Chen Tang's book, but it is the length of a finger, and he is reluctant to light it now. So he meditated in the dark and did his homework.

About half an hour later, there was a knock at the door.

Chen Tang frowned and asked, "Who?"

"The people of the boat family. ”

Chen Tang frowned, opened the hatch, and saw a lantern outside and three people standing. Two strong men surrounded a short and fat middle-aged man, on the two strong men, Chen Tang felt two blood qi, obviously a martial artist, but he should not have entered the inner family, they are all practicing foreign kung fu, and their arms are extremely thick.

The middle-aged man hugged his fists and saluted, and smiled: "Is it convenient to go in and talk?"

"Please!"

Chen Tang stepped out of the way.

The middle-aged man entered with a lantern, and the two strong men stayed outside, after all, it was narrow inside, and it was difficult for so many people to come in.

After a glance, the middle-aged man's gaze fell on the broken jade sword, and he asked, "Your Excellency is a ranger?"

Chen Tang shook his head: "No, it's a scholar." ”

The middle-aged man sighed: "I forgot to introduce myself, my surname is Jiang, my name is Wei, and I didn't ask for advice?"

"Chen Wuji. ”

Chen Tang said casually.

Jiang Wei nodded: "It turned out to be Chen Gongzi, listen to the accent, you are not from Ningzhou?"

"I fled from Panzhou and had to go to Qinzhou to join my relatives. ”

Chen Tang explained.

When Jiang Wei heard this, he smiled: "I see, but I heard that Qinzhou is also in chaos." ”

Chen Tang sighed: "What can it be? After all, Ningzhou's side has also become a little unpeaceful. And Qinzhou, there are still relatives there, looking for it, maybe there is something to rely on. ”

"That's too. ”

Jiang Wei smiled: "Don't blame me for coming here to ask, Chen Gongzi doesn't have a road guide document, to be honest, it is no longer in line with the rules to let you get on the boat." In some cases, I have to ask a few more words. ”

Chen Tang replied: "I understand. ”

"It's best to understand, when you're out and about, everyone wants to have a smooth journey and be safe. ”

After saying a few more words, Jiang Wei said goodbye and went out with two strong men to another cabin room.

It can be seen that Chen Tang is not the only passenger who does not have a road guide document. And it's not the first time the other party has done such a thing. In troubled times, displaced people are fleeing, and more and more people will lose their identities.

The order in this world is constantly collapsing, and the rules have become scattered.