Chapter 98: Guazhou Gudu
Guazhoudu is located at the confluence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Yangtze River, and is one of the important passages of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal into the Yangtze River. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Previously, the boatman deceived Dong Rengui when he was young and did not know geography, and lied to him that he was going to Guazhou to make a detour, but he didn't know that Guazhou was the only place they had to pass through to change the canal.
Li Chao and others on the boat were afraid of Dong Rengui's face, and they didn't know that the boatman took Dong Rengui's silver, so they didn't expose the boatman's deception.
Dong Rengui didn't get angry after knowing that he was deceived, and he didn't ask the boatman to get back the ten taels of silver in advance, but just laughed and got off the boat and left.
However, Dong Rengui's magnanimity does not mean that others can also spare the boatman in large quantities.
"Bang! squeak...... Boom!" Dong Rengui had just walked out of the dock ship berthing area when he heard a loud noise, and when he looked back, he saw that the mast of the awning boat he had just ridden suddenly broke and smashed into the river, causing a huge noise.
"Brother Dong stay!" Dong Rengui shook his head, and was about to continue walking, but saw Li Chao chasing after him with an axe.
"Brother Dong, it's my brother, I'm wrong, I don't know that it's the first time you've gone out, and you've been deceived by that boatman, but my brother has already been angry for you. Li Chao pointed to the collapsed mast and said, "Brother, I taught the boatmen a lesson, and cut down the mast on their ship to make them ......."
From Li Chao's mouth, Dong Rengui learned that Li Chao was angry and went to the boatman to theorize after knowing that the boatman had cheated him of his money, but he didn't expect that the boatman not only didn't admit the battle, but also unreasonably asked someone to drive him and his family off the boat, and even tried to beat them.
At this moment, Li Chao was furious, and knocked the boatman and the boatman to the ground with three punches and two kicks, and beat him violently.
After that, he still felt that he was not relieved enough, so he found an axe and cut off the mast of the ship's ship......
After listening to Li Chao, Dong Rengui was speechless, it was just a matter of ten taels of silver, why bother like this?
"Brother Li, it's just a mere ten taels of silver, why do you have to do this?" Dong Rengui shook his head and sighed: "If you make such a fuss, the boatman is bound to take revenge and come back, whether it is to report the case to the yamen or find someone on the helm to deal with it, it is always a trouble, why should this be?"
"Just ten taels of silver?" Li Chao looked at Dong Rengui with wide eyes and said: "Brother Dong, you are really a rich child, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are! You must know that hiring a boat from Beijing to Shandong is only twenty taels of silver at most! That son of a bitch actually deceived you of ten taels, I ......"
"Alright, let's stop talking about it, let's find another boat and settle down. Dong Rengui interrupted Li Chao's words, pulled him to find the official teeth on the dock, spent fifty taels of silver to board an official ship to Shandong, and settled down.
This official ship is the ship of the new Shandong Inspector Yushi, and the inspector went to visit the city in the same year, and he will not be able to leave until noon tomorrow, so Dong Rengui took Li Chao around after settling down, and did not return to the ship until the beginning of the lantern.
Nothing was said all night.
In the early morning of the next day, Dong Rengui finished collecting Chaoyang purple gas on the top floor of the official ship, and was about to return to the cabin, when he suddenly found that something seemed to have happened on the nearby ship, and the surrounding spectators were blocked.
I saw a nearby Guangzhou boat bow, a beautiful woman in about twenty years old was standing in front of a piece of gold-painted stationery, and asked a young scholar dressed as a scholar to pull out a box of treasures from it to display, and then the beauty threw it into the river, causing the surrounding onlookers to shout pity.
Dong Rengui only felt that the scene was inexplicably familiar, so he looked at it carefully, only to see that the beautiful man in gorgeous clothes ordered the scholar to draw a box from the gold-painted stationery, which was a jade flute and gold pipe, and another box, all the ancient jade and purple gold toys, worth about thousands of taels of silver, and all the beauties were poured into the river.
"It's a pity, it's a pity!" shouted the onlookers in unison.
But the beauty ignored it, and took out a box, opened it, and saw that the night pearls, emeralds, cat's eyes, all kinds of strange treasures, a box full of dollars, worth a huge million, and wanted to be thrown into the river, and the surrounding people cheered in unison, and the noise was like thunder.
"Shi Niang, I was wrong...... the young scholar couldn't hold back any longer, hugged the beauty and cried loudly, and a young man with a smooth face on the side also stepped forward to dissuade him.
Liren pushed the scholar aside and pointed at the oily young man and scolded loudly, "Li Lang and I have experienced hardships, and it is not easy to get here." Thou shalt ...... with ***"
The beauty's angry scolding spread around, but Dong Rengui didn't pay attention at all, his attention was completely attracted by a pearl in the box in the beauty's arms.
It was a crystal pearl the size of a pigeon's egg, and under the morning sun, a wisp of gray air actually rose inside the pearl, like clouds and fog constantly changing all kinds of wonders, which firmly attracted Dong Rengui's attention, and he was fascinated by it, but the beauty suddenly jumped into the rolling river with the box.
Dong Rengui didn't have time to think about it, he immediately jumped down, and immediately cast a spell to escape after entering the water, almost in the blink of an eye, he crossed a distance of hundreds of meters, and caught up with the beauty who was sinking to the bottom of the river, of course, and the treasure box in her arms.
"Whew~" After catching up with the beauty and the treasure box, Dong Rengui hurriedly exhaled a breath and turned into a huge bubble to separate the water flow, enveloping the beauty and himself.
"Cough cough cough ......" Because Dong Rengui's rescue was very timely, the beauty had not lost consciousness, but she choked on two mouthfuls of water, and her face turned blue after being frozen.
"Who are you, why did you save me?" Liren lay flat on the bubble and coughed a few times, looked at the bubble wrapped around them, looked up and down at Dong Rengui, who was dry, and asked.
"Why, don't you be surprised to see this?" Dong Rengui was embarrassed to say that he had fallen in love with the jewels in someone's treasure box, so he casually talked about a topic.
"Surprised?hehe......" A flash of brilliance appeared in the beauty Mu Ran's eyes, she sneered twice, and looked at Dong Rengui silently.
"Cough," Dong Rengui was embarrassed by the beauty, coughed vigorously, waved his hand to steam the beauty's clothes and hair, raised the temperature inside the bubble, and said, "What's your name? What happened just now? Why can't you think of jumping into the river to commit suicide?"
"Why did I commit suicide by throwing myself into the river?" Liren felt the rise in body temperature, her cold blue face gradually recovered, and she couldn't help but be a little surprised when she heard the name of Dong Rengui's problem and the reason for jumping into the river.
She looked Dong Rengui up and down in surprise, sat up, clasped her knees with her hands, and said slowly with a trance: "The slave's surname is Du, the name is ...... girl, and the small character is ten mothers."