"I'm not here to listen to Liuniang's pipa, I'm here to ask you this time. ”

"Since you didn't come to see me, you still beg me, I won't help you. ”

Then Aunt Jin Zhengu sucked her mouth and said coquettishly: "Asking me to help such a thing? ”

"Oh, look at our Miss Jin's little temperament! But seriously, it's actually Ling Zun who can help me with this. I've been here for two days, and I was very disappointed to find out that Ling Zun had moved to Liuyezhou to close my doors, and I was originally looking for Pipa Liuniang to find a way to meet Ling Zun. I just found out that you were plotted by someone, so you can only dive to the water pavilion and wait for the opportunity. Luckily, you didn't have an accident. ”

Listening to Xu Feilong's words, Jin Zhengu was overjoyed, she knew the mechanism in this lake, and the danger of diving to the Water Pavilion was not as simple as Xu Feilong said.

"Brother Zhou, will you go with me to see my father today? Last time you left, I was complained by my father, and my father wanted to thank you in person, so let's leave after eating! ”

"That's fine, I was just thinking about how to urge you to go. ”

"Brother Zhou, are you in such a hurry, what is it for?"

"It's not a big deal, I just want to ask Fenzun to find a way to let me be a boatman for a few days. ”

"What? Why do you think you're going to be a boatman?

"Don't worry, what can I say about such a fuss so uncontrollably. I am going to Nanchang to do business, this ship must be sailing to Nanchang, and it must not be a ship that can stay along the way, it doesn't matter if it is a passenger ship or cargo ship, and if it is not a privately owned ship, it will attract people's attention. Ling Zun has a wide range of people on the river, and it shouldn't be a problem to arrange a boatman, but the problem is that it's best not to let Ling Zun come forward in this matter, because it will be clumsy to make a big move. ”

"Brother Zhou, why did you sneak into Nanchang like this?"

"You don't have to ask, knowing too much will get you in trouble. ”

It's just that arranging for a person to get on the boat is just a piece of cake for a character like the iron-backed dragon.

What he found for Xu Feilong was the boat that jumped into the Sanjiang Boat Company, which was headquartered in Wuchang and was a huge time-honored ship company with hundreds of large and small passenger and cargo ships.

Their ships generally take three voyages, in fact, two to be exact, one is the route from Yichang to Nanjing, with Nanchang as the center in the middle, and the other route is to take Yueyang.

Every day, Sanjiang Shipping Company has a regular passenger ship and cargo ship that goes straight to Nanjing. There will be a stop in Nanchang for a while. The return trip is the same route. It's just a lot slower than going downstream.

At dawn that day, a medium-sized passenger ship departing from Nanjing docked at the Chizhou wharf. There were no passengers who disembarked from the ship, but there were as many as six people on board.

Two gentry-dressed people, a gray-haired couple, two middle-aged people who look like hillbillies.

Zhou Yong, the new partner on the ship, naturally also boarded the boat and replaced a boatman who was suffering from an emergency.

The captain of the ship was a middle-aged man with slender hands and feet, and his brown face covered with wind and frost marks did not look inconspicuous at all, but his eyes, which were still sharp despite the red silk, were quite majestic enough to command the eighteen boatmen on board. In ancient times, the ship was like a closed small world, and if the captain was not majestic enough to suppress people, it was easy for accidents.

This medium-sized passenger ship is divided into three cabins, which are basically divided into three classes, that is, upper class, middle class, and lower class. The front compartment is a medium compartment that accommodates some of the more affluent passengers. The medium cabin is the most comfortable, and the passengers who live in the medium cabin are those who have a decent status. As for the rear cabin, passengers who want to save some travel expenses are naturally lower class.

As a boatman, he naturally has no high-class position, and can only live next to those travelers who can't afford to pay, and everyone is indistinguishable from this, and they are the lowest level of society.

Under the careful arrangement of the iron-backed Canglong, Xu Feilong really got on the boat without any difficulty.

On the same day, he found out the general details of the passengers on the ship.

The passengers in the front and rear cabins did not see anything unusual, but only the passengers in the middle cabin aroused his suspicion and curiosity.

According to the other guys on the ship, the middle cabin was occupied by the relatives of the Nanchang Xiong family, and they chartered the entire middle cabin, and only one of the six passengers in total was an old servant, and the other five were all young girls.

And he also inquired that the old couple who boarded the ship from Chizhou were also from the Xiong family, as for why they got on the boat in Chizhou, the boat guys had no way of knowing, probably only the boat boss knew, but no one dared to ship the boss on the ship.

The boat boss is another name for the ancient captain, the ship's boss is surnamed Ao, and the boat guys call him Ao Boss, who has 30 years of life on the water, has experienced countless ups and downs, and has never made a big mistake. He is generous and heroic, but he has a strange temper, some moody and uncertain, and the men respect him and fear him.

The Xiong family in Nanchang is a prominent family in Nanchang, and there are many adults in the family, including local gentry, ordinary people who work to make ends meet, and a few local officials who are three or four officials in other places, and even people who are called Huazi Toutou.

The people in the middle cabin only knew that they were the family members of the Xiong family, and it was impossible to find out their true origin with this information, and Xu Feilong didn't bother to inquire about it.

In this way, Xu Feilong quietly left Chizhou safe and sound, and went to Nanchang.

And on both sides of the land and water, the eyeliners who tracked down the scholar surnamed Zhou and the living king of Hades were miserable, and they stepped up their investigation, and they couldn't imagine that he had gone to Nanchang when they saw through Qiushui.

In fact, if Xu Feilong hadn't gone fast, the people arranged by Ning Wangfu would have come to Chizhou Wharf in the afternoon of the same day, this time it can be said that the masters came out, obviously getting accurate information, but unfortunately they were busy for a time and didn't get any news at all, they wanted to get Xu Feilong to become a boatman. They asked for information about passengers at the dock, how could they have clues!

The next day the ship came to Anqing, anchored for the night, and there was nothing to do all night, except for the old couple of the Xiong family who boarded the shore after the boat stopped, and did not return in a hurry until the next morning.

After another three days, the ship had already entered Jiangxi, and Xiaogushan was far away. Xiaogu Mountain is an independent peak in the Yangtze River, the terrain is steep, Xiaogu Mountain is not far from Penglang Rock, and the two also have an allusion to a sister-in-law marrying Peng Lang.

And just as Xu Feilong was looking at this beautiful scenery, a shuttle-shaped speedboat with eight long pulps was rushing from behind at full speed, and the speedboat began to wave a big red flag and blow a bullhorn a few hundred meters away. As soon as Xu Feilong heard the words of the other guys next to him, he understood the meaning of this behavior on the boat behind, which was to ask them to give way.