Chapter 595: Endless trouble
More than an hour later.
Something happened that dumbfounded Gu Chan and others!
Just as they were waiting impatiently on the boat, a fire suddenly burst into the sky in the direction of the village ahead. The villagers screamed and everyone ran to put out the fire.
Cheng Hao stood on the bow, looked in the direction of the fire and said, "Master, should we go down and have a look?"
"Don't go. We are outsiders after all. This is someone else's village. No matter what happens, it has nothing to do with us. Don't make trouble." Gu Chan waved his hand to stop it.
Cheng Hao then calmed down and continued to wait.
After a while, I saw Qilang carrying a baggage, running toward the small dock like a thief, and then quickly climbed up the escalator and climbed onto the boat.
As soon as he got on the boat, he shouted, "Shopkeeper Gu, let's sail the boat!"
"Set the boat." Gu Chan ordered.
Several boatmen immediately rocked the oars and set sail, and the merchant ship quickly left the small pier and headed downstream.
"Huhuhu..."
Shichiro was sitting on the bow of the boat, looking in the direction of the village and breathing heavily.
Gu Chan stood beside him and asked, "What's going on?"
"I secretly burned down the village chief's house just now." Qilang said with a sneer.
"Why are you doing this?" Gu Chan said in surprise.
Qilang's face darkened, "Over the years, he has bullied the villagers a lot because he is the village chief. Recently, didn't the city lord let the villagers in our village fish out corpses, and give the villagers five taels of silver for each corpse they fished out? ? But when the money is in his hands, he has to keep every corpse Two taels of silver, and finally only three taels of silver in the hands of the villagers. No one dared to resist. Now that I have two hundred taels of silver, I am still afraid of him."
"Then you are really cheating. Are you determined to come back again?" Gu Chan sighed.
Shichiro nodded affirmatively.
Based on the price of living in Yexing Kingdom, with the two hundred taels of silver given to him by Gu Chan, he can definitely go to a better place to live. There is no need to stay in this poor village and suffer. The village chief squeezed.
Sure enough, no matter what time, money is always a person's greatest confidence.
As the saying goes, if you have money, you can travel all over the world, but if you don’t have money, you can’t move anywhere. This sentence is absolutely correct.
Gu Chan had also been poor, so she understood these truths, so she didn't say much, she just reached out and patted Qi Lang on the shoulder and said, "Go back to the cabin! Let's continue drinking and chatting."< br>
“Yes, Shopkeeper Gu.” Qilang responded respectfully.
Then he and Gu Chan returned to the cabin and sat down, continuing to drink the fragrant rice wine.
After drinking for thirty years and getting a little tipsy, Gu Chan cut to the chase and said, "Qi Lang, let me ask you, what kind of person is your city lord of Yaoye City? How is your conduct?"
"Our city lord is a young man. He has only been in office for half a year. He is a very good person and treats the people on the border well. Everyone supports him," Qilang said with a smile. "That's good. It just so happens that I have something to talk to him about this time. If you are a good person, you don't have to worry too much." Gu Chan said with peace of mind.
"Shopkeeper Gu, since you are here to do business, you don’t need to talk to the city lord! There are many merchants coming and going from the border of Yexing Kingdom. As long as your merchant ship enters Yaoye City, it will naturally If someone comes to discuss business with you, you don’t have to worry so much," Shichiro said.
Gu Chan frowned and said, "How come merchant ships can still enter Yaoye City?"
"You didn't know this! The Lanxing River passes directly through Yaoye City, so when merchant ships come to our border with Yexing Kingdom, they need to pass through Yaoye City. There are many docks in the city, and they are full of ships every day! "Shichiro explained.
Gu Chan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he intuitively felt that Yaoye City's location was really good! Compared with Jiangnan City in the Jiangnan area, Yaoye City has its natural geographical advantages. As a result, the development of this city will inevitably be better than that of Jiangnan City, and the people's lives will be more prosperous.
Of course, this can also explain why the mayor of Yaoye City paid people to fish out the corpses.
If these corpses are not fished out and continue to enter Yaoye City along the river, once the corpses rot and cause diseases such as plague, it will also be a huge disaster for the people of the entire city.
This can be said to be the biggest shortcoming of Yaoye City.
After understanding the situation, Gu Chan stopped asking any more questions and just ordered Cheng Hao to take Qi Lang to the cabin to rest, while she went back to sleep in her main cabin.
In the next three days, Gu Chan and others got along very happily with Qilang.
Due to being without a father or a mother since he was a child, and living in poverty, Shichiro was very diligent on the boat. Not only did he help everyone with work every day, he also helped the boatmen avoid the shallower sections of the river in front of the merchant ships. Stranded and hit against rocks.
Therefore, the journey to Yaoye City went smoothly. Three days later, at dusk in the afternoon, the Great China finally arrived at Yaoye City. When they came here, Gu Chan and others were shocked by the scene before them.
As Qilang said, the Lanxing River does indeed pass through Yaoye City. The tall round-arched city gate of Yaoye City is built on the narrow channel where Lanxing River enters the city. During the day, the city gate hangs above it. The huge hanging iron net rises and opens the river. Boats of all sizes can enter the city in an orderly manner from the river below the city gate.
At night, the huge iron net will be lowered to seal the river. Ships that cannot enter the city can dock at the docks outside the city, waiting for the river to open the next day and inspect the ships entering the city.
As for Yaoye City, it is full of high-rise buildings, bustling and prosperous.
Gu Chan stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the prosperous scene in front of her, and couldn't help but say with emotion, "Looking at it like this, the strength of Yexing Kingdom is probably much stronger than that of Tiancang Kingdom. It's rare that the two countries can still have good relations. Otherwise, if the Night Star Kingdom really invades from the border like the Earth and Moon Kingdom, the sky will be broken. The Jiangnan area may really be ruined!”
“Master, you don’t have to worry about this. Our tenth princess of Tiancang Kingdom is the crown princess of Yexing Kingdom, and she will definitely be the queen of Yexing Kingdom in the future. , so our two countries will always have good relations and there will be no war," Cheng Hao said standing nearby.
"Yes, Shopkeeper Gu, let alone the fact that your ten princesses are crown princes, just say that the old emperors of the two countries had a good relationship when they were young, so there would be no hostility between the two countries." Qilang added. explain.
Gu Chan shook his head, with a wry smile on his face.
The old emperors of the two countries have a good relationship. It is a friendship between the older generation. It is hard to say whether this friendship can be maintained after the new emperors of the two countries succeed to the throne.
And the crown prince of Tiancang Kingdom is so ruthless. In order to deal with her, a small lord, he could even abandon millions of people in the Jiangnan area. Then he will care about the two countries. friendship?
Gu Chan now only hopes that the country of Tiancang will be peaceful in the future. It is best for the prince not to become the emperor, otherwise there will be endless troubles!