Chapter 3317 The Monkey King and the Crown
Five days after the transportation team left, Yang Ruoqing received a letter from Brother Baozhu.
Baozhu said in the letter that the team had just left the territory of Qing'an County. In front of Jiujiang County, it had rained for a while since the beginning of winter and there were landslides. About three miles of official roads were blocked. If it is buried, the convoy will not be able to get through at all.
The transportation team has found an inn in Jiujiang County for the time being and has not yet settled down. They sent Yuzhu to inquire about the situation ahead and said that there were landslides like this in several places ahead.
The merchants who were passing by had to abandon their cars and take boats, board the boat from the dock in Jiujiang County, go south along a section of the Grand Canal, pass Baidi Canyon, and then go around to the south of Yuncheng. Landing at Baiyang Pier.
Because the convoy has traveled overland for so many years, using your own convoy can rest on the spot and make a fire for cooking along the way.
Everyone has almost never walked by water, and Yang Ruoqing herself rarely takes a boat.
She can swim, and she doesn’t get seasick. She just doesn’t like the feeling of sitting on the bed and floating in the water, unable to reach the sky or the ground.
After receiving Baozhu’s letter, Yang Ruoqing knew that everyone was still in Jiujiang waiting for her reply.
Yang Ruoqing put down the letter and walked around the room.
If you take the water route, then the goods will be unloaded and transported to merchant ships, and then someone will be sent to send a convoy or something back to Changping Village.
As for the boat, you cannot share the ride with others. It is best to rent a merchant ship by yourself to go to Yuncheng.
Baozhu also said in the letter that it should take three days to go to Yuncheng by water, which is shorter than taking the land route.
However, with so many people still having goods to take a boat, the cost is high. If they have to take a boat when they come back, then they will hardly make much money on this trip to Licheng, the terminal.
Baozhu and the others cannot make a decision and can only let their boss Yang Ruoqing make the decision.
But what Yang Ruoqing is thinking about now is not how much money she can make on this trip, but the safety of everyone's lives. Even if she loses money on this trip, she doesn't care. She, Yang Ruoqing, is not short of the money.
After thinking for a while, Yang Ruoqing sat back at her desk, took a deep breath, organized her thoughts and words in her mind, and then wrote a reply to Baozhu.
In the letter, she asked them to change the water route, not only to spend money to hire a special merchant ship, but also to have a place for the women to rest on the water route for three days.
In addition, following the usual trend, there are some escort agencies soliciting business in places like the big pier.
Yang Ruoqing asked Baozhu in the letter to find a bodyguard agency with a good reputation in the local area and find a few bodyguards to escort him all the way south.
These are troubled times, and you are always afraid of encountering river bandits when traveling by water.
Although Baozhu and the others are armed with weapons and have two ways to get close to them, they have no experience in fighting on the water.
Besides, there is still light rain on the ship. The three women and children, Ping'er and Huahua, must arrive at Yuncheng safely at any cost. They drop off Ping'er and Huahua at Baiyang Wharf in Yuncheng. The merchant ship continues southward. Xiujiang arrived at Licheng and landed, and then changed the land route to deliver the medicinal materials and cotton clothes to the soldiers of Xiushui Town.
Watching the homing pigeon spread its wings and fly away, heading south, and finally turned into a small black dot in the sky, and then disappeared completely.
From this moment on, Yang Ruoqing felt another concern in her heart.
I miss Tangyazi and Da'an in the north, and I miss them going south.
Fortunately, under her careful care in the past few days, Baby Luo's illness has recovered and the child is back to full health, which somewhat relieved Yang Ruoqing.
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"Just counting on my fingers, it's been almost half a month since Xiaoyu and the others left the village. Logically speaking, it's time to go to Xiushui Town?" Aunt Guihua came over to inquire with Yang Ruoqing. .
"Qing'er, have Xiaoyu and the others sent a message back?" she asked again.
Yang Ruoqing can understand Guihua's anxious mood, because in the eyes of Aunt Guihua, this trip south is different from previous trips south. This trip is a turning point in the marriage between her daughter and her son-in-law.
"Auntie, don't worry, because of the heavy rain in the south, some sections of the road cannot be walked this time. They are taking the water route instead," Yang Ruoqing patiently coaxed.
"It might be slower if we take the water route. If everyone gets very seasick along the way, we have to stop at the shore to rest temporarily."
Yang Ruoqing actually didn't believe these words.
Baozhu made it clear in his letter before that it would be faster to take the water route because it is not as winding as the land route.
But before it arrived, Yang Ruoqing was wondering whether it was because that section of the land route was difficult to travel, so many people took the water route instead, and there were only a few fixed routes on the water route.
< br>In addition, the Chinese New Year is coming in one and a half months. Officials, businessmen, and many people traveling abroad are rushing back to their hometowns for reunions, or to visit relatives and friends.
So there was traffic jam on the waterway, which delayed it for so many days?
Yang Ruoqing didn't tell Guihua this, and Aunt Guihua might not be able to understand if she said too much, but she was even more worried.
"Auntie, don't worry. No news is good news. There are so many of them and they individually chartered a large merchant ship to go south. The men on the bed all know how to swim."
"And they paid a lot of money to hire them. It should be very safe for several escorts to go on the road together, Auntie, don’t worry.”
After Yang Ruoqing’s coaxing, Guihua felt a little more relaxed.
He then went to chat with Dayun and Sun next to him.
Dayun said: "I haven't seen Xiaoqin for several days. She doesn't come out to visit, and I don't know what she is up to."
Sun said: "Maybe it's getting colder. Damo has to go to school during the day, and Xiaoqin is home alone to take care of his second daughter."
Guihua said: "These days go by so fast. Xiaoqin and Damo got married in the blink of an eye. It’s been a month. Hey, this Daping girl has figured it out, right? She doesn’t even want to go to Xiaoqin’s house to scold her.” During this period of time, there are no At home, I heard that she was going to the county jail to wait.”
“She now tells everyone she meets that the new emperor has ascended the throne and wants to grant amnesty to the world. Many death row inmates in the cells in the capital have been released. Wang You can get 80% luck After she comes out, she waits at the gate of the county jail every now and then!"
Yang Ruoqing sneered: "What kind of new emperor is just a monkey wearing a crown? Many local officials are not convinced by the new emperor."
Sun's face turned pale with fright, and she hurriedly reached out to cover Yang Ruoqing's mouth, "Qing'er, that's the emperor. You can't say such things. Our family is on the cusp of the storm right now..."
Yang Ruoqing took off Sun's hand and said with a smile: "Mom, don't be too nervous. Am I, your daughter, the kind of person who speaks out and causes trouble for the family?"
"I To tell the truth, if the new emperor can really shock the world, then our old Yang family, Sun family, and old Luo family have all been raided."
"It's because of his unfair reputation and his unjust words. Fang Lili is not convinced, so even though Tang Yazi has been stigmatized, we can still sit here and chat."
There are some things that Yang Ruoqing is not comfortable talking to Sun and the other women.
That is, over at Helanzhou, Luo Fengtang wrote a secret letter and returned.
(End of this chapter)