The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has a wide water surface, with tank boats and civilian ships traveling from south to north, making it a busy and prosperous scene.
Ships in the canal rely on smooth currents and favorable winds to travel. When the winds and currents are not favorable, they have to rely on trackers to pull the fibers.
From Yangzhou to the capital, we go from south to north. To sail in the canal is to sail against the current. Unless there is an occasional favorable wind, most of the time we can only rely on trackers to pull the fibers forward.
The three Dasha spaceships on the return journey are indeed magnificent, and two of them are filled with heavy silver. Naturally, there are many trackers on such a ship.
However, those who pulled the fiber for the official ship that Jia Lian was riding on were not ordinary trackers, but Cao Gang chief Ding Rongliang and other Cao Gang leaders.
Jia Lian ordered people to tie a big red pennant on each of these people. On one side of the flag, it was written in white "Caogang has no faith" and on the other side it was written "Caogang is incompetent".
Dozens of people, dozens of flags, regardless of whether there is wind in the sky, they can bring the wind themselves.
And the bigger wind they brought was the "biggest gang in the world" Caobang who broke his word and the Caobang Gang's inability to control the rumors in the world. The ship hadn't even gone ten miles away, but the news had already spread around.
Baili.
All the major gangs in the rivers and lakes came one after another to mix in with the common people and watch the fun, or pretended to be cheering and cheering, which made the people of the Cao Gang look like the soles of their shoes.
In fact, the people in the Cao Gang are not freeloaders. They have long since traced out that the ones who stole the Qingya Flag from Jia Lian's ship were indeed not members of the Cao Gang, but two boys from the Cao Army.
Gao Qigong, the governor of water transportation, forced Ding Rongliang, the chief of the canal gang, to hand over the Qingya flag. Ding Rongliang was confused about Gao Qigong's intention for a while, so he had to ask Gao Qigong to check the canal that had besieged Jia Lian's ship that day.
Army.
But Gao Qigong insisted that the Cao Gang must have stolen the Qingya Flag, and he pressured the Cao Gang to hand over the flag to others.
Ding Rongliang was also angry, and he simply led his people to plead guilty to Gao Qigong directly - what he actually meant was: no flag, but one life.
Gao Qigong's original intention was to give Ding Rongliang a huge sum of money, but who knew that this old guy came with a "hob meat"? Gao Qigong laughed and threw all the hot potatoes directly to Jia Lian.
Jia Lian doesn't care whether this pile of potatoes is hot to the touch or not. Anyway, they are not our potatoes. If you dare to throw them over, I will kill you.
The Caogang people were really at a loss, so they scraped together 20,000 taels of silver overnight and sent it to the Yamen of the Governor's Water Transport Department at night.
Therefore, before Jia Lian's ship sailed out of Jiangsu, someone from the Cao Gang sent two blue tooth flags, four corpses and 10,000 taels of silver, begging Master Jia to release the old gang leader.
Jia Lian accepted the Qingya Banner and released the Caobang people, but returned four corpses and ten thousand taels of silver, and gently said:
"Whose business comes to whom."
Jia Lian didn't want the money, and the people in Caogang were completely panicked. Two days later, the old gang leader personally sent another 20,000 taels of silver, and he knelt down and begged, and Jia Lian accepted it.
Twenty thousand taels of silver is really not a small amount. Jia Lian accepted it and had other plans.
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Everything went smoothly, and Jia Lian couldn't help but feel a little proud. He strolled up to the second floor with his hands behind his back.
The situation on the ship was not as good as on land. By the time the maid saw Jia Lian’s announcement, Jia Lian had already appeared at the staircase on the second floor.
The girls slept in their own cabins, and spent the day living in the large cabin with open flower windows.
Daiyu was still weak and did not dare to go near the window, so she sat next to the fine silk carved screen on the east side, holding her chin in one hand and reading quietly.
Miaoyu sat at the table to the west, playing chess with herself. Four bronze incense burners were placed around her, all of which were lit with fine water agarwood, and the smoke curled up, filled with fairy spirit.
Qingwen was attached to the embroidery frame in the northeast corner of the cabin, concentrating on embroidery. She was so intoxicated that she couldn't even hear the thunder. The flower window beside her was half-closed, so that she could see clearly by the skylight outside without being distracted.
Let the river wind mess up the silk threads of seventy-two colors.
There was only Dogwood, lying down on the imperial concubine's couch in the southwest corner, sitting up, looking out of the east window, and grabbing a handful of melon seeds, so that the whole table was covered with melon seed rinds.
When she saw Jia Lian coming upstairs, Daiyu pursed her lips and smiled:
"Except when eating, it's hard to see Mr. Lian coming up once."
Miaoyu didn't move, her face was still as cold as ice, and she pretended not to see Jia Lian, but the chess pieces she held in her hand filled several "eyes" one after another.
Qingwen really didn't see it. She held up the original inkstone screen with both hands and looked at it carefully. She used her fingers to imitate embroidery needles and traced back and forth along with the stitches on the inkstone screen. She frowned again and held her chin to think hard.
, as if everything in the world has died, and only the embroidery is left.
There was still only Dogwood, and she jumped to Jia Lian's side, stamping her feet and complaining:
"It's so annoying! It's so boring! Qingwen doesn't care about me anymore. If this continues, I'm going to hit a wall."
Jia Lian knew that she had tossed through the things she bought several times in the past few days. She had read more than 30 books and novels she bought in Suzhou, and she had eaten almost a basket of melon seeds, pine nuts, peanuts and hazelnuts. p>
Really having nothing to do, she took a slingshot early this morning and hit the longan on the table into other people's boats. Fortunately, Jia Lian caught up and stopped her.
For a master like Cornel who can't sit still for a moment, it would be great if he could find a cage to lock him up in.
Otherwise, she has too much energy and is like a husky, tearing the house apart.
Just as Jia Lian was about to speak, Xing'er's voice came from below:
"Second Master, there is a boat chasing us."
Just when Jia Lian said "ah", Cornus was already jumping up and down with excitement:
"Great! Maybe it's a water thief!"
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Jia Lian thought:
Thank God!
In time-travel novels, all the protagonists can encounter water thieves. How long have I been here? I have waited until the water thieves came to my door.
This water thief came at the right time. It would be best if he could fight the husky dogwood all the way like a whack-a-mole.
"If it's really a water thief, no one is allowed to rob it from Master Juyu!
Mr. Zhuyu beat them all by himself, and then he jumped in and beat them one by one!"
Juyu, who was even more excited than the husky, ran straight away from Jia Lian, and was grabbed by the collar of the back of her neck:
"Master Juyu, go change your clothes first!"
Cornus officinalis slapped her head:
"That's right! Mr. Zhuyu must be wearing men's clothing."
She was as excited as a dog after seeing a rabbit. She jumped up and turned around and ran towards the cubicle. The little girl quickly chased after her.
Daiyu glanced at Zhuyu's back and said calmly:
"Amitabha, a damn ghost has come to your door."
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Jia Lian looked out from the flower window and smiled: