"I left Baidi in the morning and the colorful clouds, and Jiangling thousands of miles away in one day. The two sides of the straits... the two sides of the straits..." A girl of four or five years old could not remember the words behind her, and she couldn't recite them with her cheeks. "The two sides of the straits..." She was trying hard to recall, but she couldn't recall anything. Because of her anxiety, tears were already in her eyes.

Looking at the little girl's pitiful appearance, Liu Chong hurriedly reminded: "The apes on both sides of the strait can't stop crying."

But it was useless at this time. The little girl suddenly started to cry with her mouth flattened and turned her head to throw herself into her mother's arms next to her while crying.

Looking at the situation, Liu Chong felt so embarrassed. He looked up at the father of the little girl next to him, but when he saw the eldest brother, he looked embarrassed. During the previous trip, the two actually had a good chat. He was happy and wanted his daughter to learn to recite a poem with Liu Chong, but in the end he did this.

Both of them were embarrassed, so Liu Chong could only say a few words and then ran to the bow of the boat to see the scenery, allowing the parents to comfort the child.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Liu Chong looked at the lighthouse in the distance and couldn't help but chant in a low voice: "The monkeys on both sides of the shore can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed thousands of mountains."

More than 500 years have passed since Li Taibai wrote this poem to the 320 years of the Song Dynasty. When he returned home here, Liu Chong felt that his eagerness was able to express his feelings with this poem. When he lamented the talents of his ancestors, he also felt that his mood was a little calmer.

After counting it, this was the third day since I set off from the Dengzhou Wharf, Shandong. At this time, the north wind had already started, and the ships were riding the wind and waves, and were guided by the lighthouse and heading south day and night. I think it should have reached the estuary of the Yangtze River.

Just as I was thinking, I heard the iron bell ringing on the boat. Then I heard the people on the boat shouting: "In another hour, we will arrive at the Songjiang Mansion Wharf. If you want to walk the Zhejiang East Canal, you don't have to get off the boat. If you want to rush back to Hangzhou, then get off the boat in Songjiang Mansion. There is a new boat that can arrive in Hangzhou in two days."

Liu Chong was very surprised when he went from Songjiang Prefecture to Hangzhou in two days. Under normal circumstances, from Songjiang Prefecture to Hangzhou in the estuary of the Yangtze River, they all walked on the eastern Zhejiang Canal. It was very difficult to flow up from the estuary of the Yangtze River, and it took longer than walking on the eastern Zhejiang Canal. So Liu Chong asked quickly: "Boatman, what you said is true?"

"This guest official, what are the benefits for me to lie to you?" The crew laughed and said, "If I asked you to get off the boat, I would just make less money. If the shipping company had not ordered it to inform us, we would not do so."

When they heard the orders issued by an official agency such as the shipping company, many people showed a little disapproval. Everyone would naturally give a discount on what the government said. As the ship owner said, the ship arrived at Songjiang Harbour in an hour. Only Liu Chong chose to disembark, and the others chose the traditional route. It is said that the new route only takes two days, while the old route only takes more than three days.

However, Liu Chong felt that he was closer to the government. He had not returned home for more than a year, and he was indeed homesick at this time. If he had just set off, he knew that the journey was far away and could still bear it. The closer he was to home, the more he was, he would be more heartbroken. He could not bear it for more than this day.

At the port ticket sales place, Liu Chong first showed his ID. It was a beautifully printed document. The Information Department of the Song Dynasty did not state his identity, so it was hanged under the army. Military personnel had various privileges.

After the port ticket salesperson saw Liu Chong wearing a uniform, he immediately became enthusiastic when he saw that he was wearing a uniform.

Liu Chong asked, "I heard from the people on the boat that there is a boat that can be reached in Hangzhou for two days, but I don't know how to buy a ticket."

"Oh? Did the people on the ship really promote this?" said the port ticket seller in surprise.

"Have he said it wrong?" Liu Chong was very surprised.

"No, no, no. He was right. I just thought that if they said it, wouldn't it be... nothing." The ticket seller said halfway, and then transferred back, "You buy the ticket quickly, this ship will leave the port."

Liu Chong hurriedly paid for the ticket and found that the ticket price was not cheap. After buying it, he carried his luggage bag and quickly cleared it. At the same time, he thought about the ticket seller's words. Liu Chong guessed that the ticket seller probably thought that if the people on the boat didn't say it, he would not have to lose the guests. Although this idea was correct, the order was given by the shipping company, and in theory all ships must obey. So the ticket seller's words were a little wrong.

While thinking, he walked quickly through the corridor and took the ticket to pass the ticket gate. He saw a medium-sized ship parked on the berth in the distance. After carefully looking at the ship, Liu Chong looked around and saw that there was only one ship on all berths, and the other berths were empty. Looking into the distance, he did not see the ship coming. From all the signs, the ship with two paddlewheels in the middle and rear of the ship should be the fast ship mentioned by the ticket seller.

Paddle ships are not very rare in the Song Dynasty. In the Yangtze River, paddle ships can be seen in various canals. From human-powered to large ones that drive the main power shaft with three cows and mills. Liu Chong looked at the size of the ship and felt that there might be three decks inside, and there were a large group of cows pulling machinery in each deck. If this was not the case, it would probably be impossible to arrive in Hangzhou from Songjiang Prefecture within two days.

With disappointment, Liu Chong went to the side of the ship to check the ticket. After the ticket inspection, the staff urged: "Hurry up, the ship is about to start."

When he thought of smelling the smell of cattle excrement, Liu Chong got on the boat slowly. If he had known this was the case, he would have taken the traditional route honestly.

As soon as I got on the boat, I heard a long loud noise. It was a horn. If it was a person with a very high lung capacity, he could make a huge noise. However, the sound is so loud that he probably had to be a giant like a mountain.

Apart from being shocked, Liu Chong only felt something familiar. In the silk reeling workshop in Shandong, he often felt this kind of thing. Unlike the slow, solemn and soft animal, the feeling was full of heat, vibration, and hardness. When the steam engine started to operate, he could even feel the vibration from the ground. Now this ship seems to have such a feeling.

Just as Liu Chong turned his head blankly, there was another loud noise. With this loud noise, the ship vibrated. It was not because of the collision, but because the vibration came from the inside of the hull. It was the huge power that could shake the entire ship.

The vibration did not stop. Although the force of the vibration was decreasing, the frequency of the vibration increased. Just when Liu Chong was surprised, he heard the sound of the water being stirred. He turned his head to find the source of the sound, but saw that the paddle wheels on both sides of the big ship had begun to rotate. The sound of stirring the water was made by the paddle wheel blades hitting the water surface. As the paddle wheel rotated, the ship began to move slowly but unstoppably.

Liu Chong had various thoughts in his mind, the clearest one was that "the ticket seller didn't tell any lies, the ship was really about to drive."

Ignoring Section Chief Liu Chong's feelings, the steam paddle ship drove out of Songjiang Prefecture Port under the operation of the driver and headed towards the Yangtze River Estuary. More than an hour later, the paddle ship broke through the waves and slashed the waves and flowed upstream in the Yangtze River. The long whistle echoed on the river surface, informing nearby ships that a large ship was approaching, so that all ships should not travel the wrong channel because of distractedness.

Standing on the tall deck and looking down at the scenery on the river, the paddle steamer was moving upstream like a galloping horse, and there was no slow feeling like a paddle steamer driven by human or animal power in Jiangnan. Section Chief Liu Chong believed at this time that he would be able to rush home in more than a day. The ship ticket was worth the money.

It was noon on October 17, and it was noon on October 18 when we arrived at Hangzhou Port. Section Chief Liu Chong stood on the dock with his luggage bag on his back, a little unwilling to get off the boat. He hadn't returned home for nearly two years, and the Hangzhou he saw in his eyes was beyond recognition. Ancient poems say that he wanted to see thousands of miles away and went up to a higher level. Standing on the deck, he could still stand high and stand high and look far. When he went down to a strange port, Liu Chong was not confident of finding the road.

However, the crew of the paddle steamer did not understand Liu Chong's uneasiness. They kept sending guests off the boat. As the number of customers decreased, the crew walked to Liu Chong, who was standing alone on the deck and said politely: "This, it's time to get off the boat."

There is no banquet that never ends. After Section Chief Liu Chong got off the boat, he looked back and saw the boat put away the springboard. He could only look forward and try to find his way home by himself. Then he saw three or five people rushing to Liu Chong, and the one in front asked, "Call, is this your first time in Hangzhou?"

Liu Chong listened to this foreign accent and said in an authentic Hangzhou: "My home is from Hangzhou. What does it mean to be in Hangzhou for the first time?"

Hearing this, the man immediately laughed and said, "Then hire our donkey from Didi Donkeys to go home. We will definitely send it to you at your doorstep."

"Why are you given such a strange name?" Liu Chong said to the guest seeker of Didi Duxing.

"Keep, you're doing this in another place, right? Don't worry, our Didi Dushang has already occupied half of the cars in Hangzhou. We will never cheat you, and you will never cheat."

Liu Chong felt even more curious, and he continued his question: "I'll ask you why you call it Didi with such a name."

"This is the guest. Come with me."

When the other passengers saw that Didi donkeys had already received the guests, they headed towards other passengers. Liu Chong and the others walked forward for more than ten meters before reaching a donkey circle. The passengers pointed at a thing installed on the donkey cart and let Liu Chong see it. It looked like a small trumpet with an oval thing behind it. The passengers pinched it with their hands. The oval thing was actually made of rubber and blew out under pressure, so the trumpet made a sound.

After conducting two demonstrations, the passengers smiled and said, "We use this warning to warn that we are afraid of hitting others."
Chapter completed!