Chapter 257: Take a boat

Lei Jingjun came back to his senses at this time, laughed and filled the wine glass, and handed it to him with both hands: "Big brother, it's still up to you, I think about more people than I grew up by the sea!"

The wooden boat where Li Chongyuan and others live is the last ship in the fleet, and such a ship is often used for pressure formation, because the water escort dart boat is different from the land escort dart car, the more dangerous the land dart car is, and the more the dart boat is in the back, the more dangerous it is.

Because the robbers on the water all took advantage of the lack of attention of the people on the boat and touched the boat at the stern. Usually the head of the dart himself sits on the tail boat, and only goes to the head boat when he is almost at the resting place. Of course, Wang Xinze's arrangement was not to put them in danger, but to facilitate the nearby care of Hao Li and the others, because he also lived on this boat.

However, it is a pity that the fleet has to wait here for three days, because it is now the time for the southern Caoyin to escort into Beijing, and the various states and counties in the south will collect the taxes and silver payable in the previous year and transport them to the Chang'an Household Department by ship by the governor of Caoyun, and then submit them to the national treasury after the delivery is clear. This tax is the most problematic in the process of transporting silver.

Outlaws from all walks of life are staring at this boatload of gold and silver, maybe some people are not afraid of death and reach out to grab it, so the Yunding of the Caoyun Yamen, the Kuding of the Hubu Yamen, and the soldiers and horses of the garrisons along the road must be in strict formation.

No one dared to be careless, and in order to prevent any incident, the Caoyun Yamen had to block off the nearby waters when the boats crossed the river, and no other boats would be allowed to pass through, and they could only be allowed to pass after the boats had passed.

Later, Wang Xinze said that the cabin was too cramped, and he tried his best to invite them to the inn to rest, and invited them to eat and drink with good wine and food every day, which made Li Chongyuan embarrassed. also went to Henan Mansion to buy a few jars of good daughter Hong, and invited Wang Xinze, Lei Jingjun and others to eat and drink to repay the love. Li Chongyuan was anxious, and when he ate good wine and meat, it tasted the same as chewing wax in his mouth. Hao Li and the others didn't have anything on their minds, but they had a good time.

Fortunately, three days is not a long time, eating and drinking will pass, during which Li Chongyuan also asked if there are any people in their team who are missing two fingers, Wang Xinze said that there is no dart shop, but it is not easy to say the accompanying cargo owner and the shipowner's men. However, it is taboo to interrogate the owner of the cargo and the ship, so he doesn't care about it and hasn't paid attention to it.

On the morning of the fourth day, the executioner sent by Wang Xinze to inquire about the news came to report that the boat had passed and the river had been reopened. Wang Xinze is naturally very happy, you must know that you can't let go of the burden of his dart head if you don't hand over the dart for a day, and the bodyguard has a saying: If you are not afraid of moving, you are afraid of quiet. Whether it's a dart boat or a dart cart.

As long as you walk on the road, it is not easy for thieves to find opportunities, but once they stop, they are prone to variables. This is a wedding gift that the owner bought for the head of the Kongtong faction, in case there is a mistake, it is said that he can't afford to pay for it, but he can afford to pay for the Qingyuan head who delayed the wedding, and he will definitely not be spared if he loses face, so he has to sleep with one eye open these days.

He immediately beckoned the people to pack up their belongings and go aboard the ship, and arranged for them to take turns on duty, and the brothers who had been on duty the previous night went to the cabin to catch up on sleep. Sailors hoist their sails and prop up the freighter off the riverbank. The cargo ship slowly left the dock and headed towards Luoyang.

Li Chongyuan, Hao Li and others belong to several adjacent cabins, although Wang Xinze is extremely dedicated in arrangement. But after all, it is on a ship, and the space is extremely narrow due to the environment, basically except for a bed, there are no other things in the cabin, such as teapots and other bits and pieces can only be stuffed under the bed, Hao Li and Wu Zhenyu are extremely sad and angry to find that their teapots are stacked with night pots and placed next to the pillows!

Poor Wang Xinze, this is still a detail that took a lot of effort to come up with. Usually there are men on the boat, if you pee, no matter day or night, you can pee directly into the river, but now that there are two women, you can't let these two delicate girls pee in the river in broad daylight like men, right?

So I sent someone to Henan Mansion to buy two night pots with white stubble and fine porcelain, and put them next to their bedside for emergency use. They were embarrassed by this. But I can't say it yet, let alone calm down and think about it, this Wang Xinze is really thoughtful, and this night pot is really inseparable.

That night, everyone else slept, but Wu Zhenyu couldn't sleep, Li Chongyuan and Hao Li were both born in the rivers and lakes, and they were used to sleeping in the open air, sometimes they had to sleep on the ground when they ran around the rivers and lakes, and now they were very content to have a bed to sleep, Guo Ziyi is a child, and she is thin and can stretch out her body when she has a free time.

But Wu Zhenyu is usually comfortable, and now he lives on a wooden bed less than two feet wide, and he is afraid of falling off even if he turns over, how can he rest in peace, the planks of the compartment on this ship are extremely thin, and even the sailors on both sides grit their teeth and fart and snoring when they sleep can be clearly heard, and from time to time I can smell the smell of sweat wafting from the cracks in the wooden plank.

The dart masters and sailors who were on night duty outside walked up and down the deck, sometimes asking each other and shouting, which made her even more sleepless, and finally she simply stopped sleeping, opened the porthole and lay down at the window to watch the moon.

When the wooden ship sails at night, red lanterns are hung on the mast to prevent the ship from getting lost and lost, and it is also so that the opposite ship can avoid it in time to prevent collisions. In the distance, the leading wooden boat was hung with three red lanterns. Watching the red lanterns loom in the gentle night mist on the river, the whole fleet is like a dragon silently passing through the clouds.

Wu Zhenyu's eyes gradually blurred in his thoughts, just half-asleep and half-awake. She seemed to feel that someone was staring at her in the water, and she opened her eyes in a daze, and found that a human face was within her reach, and that face was looking at her intently!

She screamed in fright, Li Chongyuan and Hao Li immediately came over when they heard the sound, and the dart master who was patrolling nearby immediately jumped over and shouted and asked what was the matter, Wu Zhenyu was so frightened that he couldn't speak, just pointed to the water with his hand, but there was someone in the water.

It's still sparkling.

Some dart masters felt that she was half-asleep and half-awake and saw that her eyes were dazzled by the river water reflecting the moonlight, after Lei Jingjun came over, he didn't say anything but immediately jumped into the water, this person's water kung fu is extremely exquisite,

There was no splash when the body entered the water, just like a silver needle falling into the water. Just when everyone was amazed, the "wave" on the water sounded softly, and Lei Jingjun had already jumped from the water to the deck.

He said with a gloomy face: "That female doll didn't look dazzled, there were indeed people in the water just now." But the man was stabbed by me with a splitting stab and ran away. Although the others ran away, I left him with one thing. ”

After that, he threw things on the deck, and some dart masters picked them up and looked at it, but it was a scimitar more than a foot long, the scimitar was a little strange, the handle was slightly long, and the blade was more than two fingers wide, slightly bent upward. (To be continued......)