"Naturally, I want to be at ease. ”

Lin Ning smiled calmly, looked at Jiang Xuanche, and said, "Don't you want it?"

Jiang Xuantho was determined, the light in his eyes gradually shone, and asked: "What is great freedom, how can we be at ease, and ask the Buddha to ask?" But Buddhism and Taoism don't ask about the world, and purifying the world is a dream after all, and I am unwilling to be alone, as long as I have responsibility, it is all obsession, and I can't be free?"

Lin Ning lowered his head and pondered, tapped his fingertips on the table, and said after a while: "I don't have an answer to this question yet." But I've been on the path of finding that answer. One day, the clouds will not cover my eyes, the sky will not cover the sun, and my heart will not be confused, although that day is still far away, but I always believe that I will arrive one day. ”

Jiang Xuanche was silent for a long time, exhaled lightly, and said, "May you and I get what we want." ”

Lin Ning smiled and nodded slightly.

They rested that night and said nothing.

On the second day, as soon as the fish belly turned white, Lin Ning dressed up as a man and walked around the dock with Jiang Xuanche.

The canal is not very large, the largest is the cao boat, which is only 400 materials, carrying grain on board, and the entourage is ten people.

The first emperor dug the canal to connect the north and the south and supply military rations for the northern battlefields. Now there has been no war for more than ten years, and the dredging of the river has been relaxed, and many sections of the river are impassable, and only the grain road that runs through Yangzhou and Yanzhou is retained.

The old system of transporting grain to the north every year still exists in name only, and it has not been laid off for many years because the Cao government has implicated the interests of all parties. In fact, if hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the northern frontier had relied on transporting grain to survive, they would have starved to death hundreds of times.

Now that the rule of officials is more chaotic, Cao Zheng is naturally very unbearable. Cao Guan Cao Bing couldn't receive money for a few years, so he would think of some other ways to make money.

The most common ones are to collect freight for merchants along the way to reload goods, and even carry people when business is sluggish. No matter how bold you are, you dare to sell illicit salt or something, and it is not an exaggeration to say that an official is a bandit, and a bandit is an official.

Lin Ning and Jiang Xuanche are not afraid of danger if they don't take the boat, but after all, the two of them need to cover up their tracks, no matter how unbearable the boat is, it is still an official ship, and the possibility of being exposed on the boat is very high.

Moreover, the place where the boat carries people is very small, and it is almost stuffed in the middle of the cargo, so the people who take the boat are all poor and white, and they don't want to take the boat unless they have to do it as a last resort. They also had to bring horses, and the boat couldn't sit at all.

The two searched for a long time, and luckily found a merchant ship of 200 materials, the merchant ship was from Yanzhou to the south to sell goods, and now they are returning with some local goods and ballast in Yangzhou, and there is still space left on the ship.

However, due to safety considerations, the boat boss did not plan to carry people, and Lin Ning and Jiang Xuanche were dressed as Jianghu people, which made the boat boss feel quite uneasy.

Lin Ning used a small change in the Returning to Truth Refining Technique, the internal force was in her throat, and the words were in the clear voice of a young man, and she spoke after Jiang Xuanche stuffed a bag of broken silver into the boat boss:

"This brother, my two brothers originally came to Yangzhou to do business, but they received an urgent call from the division and needed to rush back to Yanzhou. ”

Lin Ning slowed down, and said: "The two of us don't want to make trouble, we won't cause you trouble along the way, if we encounter the Shui Kou Jumping Gang, we can still help one or two, right?"

The boat boss was a little moved by what he said, pinched the silver money in his hand, and nodded. The two agreed with the captain of the ship to board the ship at dawn the next day, and set off as soon as it was dawn, so they exchanged names on the gate and went back to wait.

"There are more supply points like this in the south, and there are no more in Yanzhou as soon as you enter Yanzhou. We need to bring enough dry food...... If it is good, the section from Yanzhou to Jizhou has to hunt for a living. ”

Back in the small courtyard, Jiang Xuanche said so, with some unease between his eyebrows.

Lin Ning knew that he was used to living like this, and he was not afraid of difficulties, but he was worried that he would not be able to bear this kind of hardship. I didn't comfort me at the moment, but went back to pack my already thin luggage, so that I could bring more dry food.

Before the second day, the two men had led their horses to the docks, and the captain of the boat had been waiting, and when he saw the two of them, he beckoned them to board the boat, and drove the horses into the cabin that had been prepared long ago.

Bringing the two to their cabins, the boat boss went about his business.

Since Lin Ning was dressed in men's clothes, the cabin arranged by the ship's boss was naturally two people in one room. Lin Ning has nothing to worry about, Jiang Xuanche is quite well-educated, although she has a good relationship with Su Luoyu, she is both affectionate and polite, and she is not really a lady, and there is nothing embarrassing about the two of them being in the same room.

When it was really time to sail, Lin Ning realized that he had underestimated the turbulence of the ancient ship. It is said that there will be no wind and waves in inland river transportation, but Lin Ning still feels that the whole person is shaken badly.

At this time, no matter how much internal strength you have, it will not be a problem. I was still dizzy and nauseous, I ate and vomited, and I was groggy for the first two days, and I didn't get better until the third day.

In the past two days, Jiang Xuanche has been serving tea and water, sitting on the edge of the couch without leaving. By the time Lin Ning got better, when he looked at Jiang Xuanche, there were two huge dark circles under his eyes, and he was already haggard.

Seeing Lin Ning open his eyes on the couch, Jiang Xuanche's eyes were red, and he grabbed Lin Ning's sleeve and opened his mouth twice before he spoke: "You can be regarded as awake." ”

After saying this, he fell asleep on the edge of Lin Ning's couch, which startled Lin Ning.

Lin Ning didn't expect that he would be so seasick and dizzy. Although he was a northerner in his previous life, Su Luoyu grew up in the south, so he shouldn't be so afraid of sailing.

But thinking about it again, Su Luoyu has never been out of Shengjing since he was a child, and the Fufeng Su clan is an authentic northerner, who moved south because of the war, and he still has the genes of northerners in his bones. It's a little relieved when I think about it.

Fortunately, in the past two days, except for seasickness, which tossed the two of them enough, the river surface was very calm. The color on the face of the boat boss became more and more dull, Lin Ning once heard him talk to himself, this water bandit did not come to exploit, he was uneasy, and always felt that something big was about to happen.

On the evening of the third day, Lin Ning and Jiang Xuanche both fully recovered and adapted to the bumps on the boat.

At night, on a whim, Lin Ning went up and glanced into the distance by the railing, and at this glance, he saw a faint firelight from a distance.

The boss of the ship was also sinking like water at this time, and ordered the whole ship to stay on guard, for fear that there would be water bandits blocking the way.

When the ship approached, everyone was amazed by what they saw. Lin Ning saw a ship burning in the firelight, there were living figures on the ship screaming and twisting, and the whole ship was slowly sinking.

"Look at the shape, is this the boat that goes one step ahead of us?" Lin Ning asked the boat boss and received an affirmative answer.

Looking at the miscellaneous boats lined up not far from the boat, Lin Ning's heart felt a chill.

"After robbing the boat, they didn't rob people or goods, but directly set fire to it?