Do you know: I’m Xu Jiazi

On the Bian River, the boat sailed for two days.

Under a clear sky, you can vaguely see some villages and cooking smoke on the river bank.

The sun was shining brightly, and there were curious urchins watching the passing ships by the river.

The river ahead is about to turn a corner.

On top of the passenger ship,

Feeling the slightly chilly breeze blowing in front of you,

Xu Zaijing quickly sidestepped Gu Tingye, and then grabbed Gu Tingye's arm.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

Gu Tingye yelled, shouting with his hands. Just now he wanted to tease Xu Zaijing, but he almost fell off the top of the boat.

"Brother Jing, why did you react so quickly?"

"Stop teasing like this from now on." Xu Zaijing said.

Gu Tingye patted his chest to calm his frightened beating heart and said, "I originally thought about grabbing your clothes and shaking you, but who knew you would react so quickly."

Xu Zaijing looked at him.

Gu Tingye smiled awkwardly and said, "Actually, I still remember what my eldest brother's aunt said on the polo field when I was a kid?"

"Aunt? The second girl of the Qin family?"

"Yes, my mother was pregnant with my sister at that time. She hugged you on the polo field instead of me. When we came out of the tent, that person said something similar to my ear."

Xu Zaijing looked at Gu Tingye and said, "I haven't seen you do it since then."

Gu Tingye hesitated, touched the bridge of his nose, and looked away.

Xu Zaijing smiled and said: "It's not that you don't want to co-write, it's that you don't have the chance, right?"

"After I read the book and often talked with my elder brother, I slowly realized that I was being used."

While the two were talking, Zhique came up from below and said, "You two gentlemen, please come down. A river soldier rowed a boat over and said that we will need trackers ahead."

Gu Tingye asked with confusion: "Why? What are you doing with trackers in such a cold weather?"

Xu Zaijing said from the side: "It should be that there is less water at this time, and there is siltation at the bottom of the river. The water flow is slow and has to turn, so the boat cannot pass by itself."

"Oh, the river outside Bianjing still has a lot of water and a shortage of water?"

Xu Zaijing ignored him.

The three passenger ships slowly passed through the curved river, and a faint chorus of chants came from them.

Dozens of passenger and cargo ships were parked ahead, waiting for the trackers to tow them.

The passenger ship slowly slowed down,

Standing on the bow of the boat, Xu Zaijing saw trackers dragging long ropes by the river in the distance.

The ship being towed was a ship carrying the flag of 'Zhongqin Earl Yuan'. Xu Zaijing narrowed his eyes slightly.

At this time, Gu Tingye, who was standing next to him, pointed to his left hand angrily and said, "Brother Jing, are they whipping people over there?"

Xu Zaijing frowned and looked over, then nodded.

The boatman on the side said: "You two young masters, those are the convicts who were sent here to do hard labor. If you don't work hard, you will naturally be whipped."

The boatman pointed to the right again and said: "Look over there are the river soldiers and the people in the nearby villages. Naturally, they don't need whips."

As the distance got closer, the chant became much clearer.

First a small sound

‘You can’t stand the wind’

Behind it was the muffled sound of the river tracker.

"Ho hey"

The Yuan family's boat began to move forward.

‘Yoyoula’

"Ho hey"

The boat was pulled by trackers and turned around on the river.

Qingcao walked over from the boat, holding two hand stoves, handed one over and said: "Sir, the eldest lady asked me to give it to you."

"Brother Ye, this is for you."

The two men were wearing thick cotton clothes and holding hand stoves.

Xu Zaijing looked quietly at the river not far away,

With his good eyesight, he saw a village high on the river bank, with a relatively new courtyard surrounded by mud walls.

The village is close to the shore where trackers are pulling boats.

Beside the trackers, there was a child who was probably a boat puller. He had a big gray-yellow gourd tied to his back, and two big noses were frozen under his nose.

The child rubbed his nose with his hands that were red from the cold.

Then someone from the side seemed to call him, and the child hurriedly ran a few steps, handed the gourd, and rubbed his head with a pair of big hands.

Xu Zaijing looked at the warm hand stove in his hand,

We returned to the cabin amid the chants of the river trackers.

After a little while, the boatman shouted outside: "Dear ladies, come to the boat and tie the rope!"

This is to remind the female relatives to avoid it.

inside the cabin,

Xu Zaijing asked Qingyun and Zhique to carry a basket of copper coins and walked out of the cabin.

At this time, many trackers on the shore were standing not far from the shore.

Three river soldiers approached slowly on a small sampan. There was a young man on the boat who was no more than fourteen or fifteen years old and said, "Fourth uncle, what are the words on this flag?"

"Literature? I can't read! But I know that you can't be offended. If I accidentally kill you, no one will dare to hold you accountable."

Xu Zaijing walked out at this time and saw the three people on the sampan.

He cupped his hands and said, "Is there a Marquis Yu who can make the decision?"

The three people in the boat looked at each other in astonishment as they looked at this rich and noble young master who could make them work for half a year with just one piece of material.

"Young master, we are river pawns and we cannot deserve this title. I wonder what the noble man has to do?"

Xu Zaijing said: "There are many boats, so please ask Marquis Yu to give such small money to the boat trackers."

The three of them were stunned and quickly handed over their hands.

"Noble people are kind."

A basket of copper coins was handed down, with three pieces of silver in it.

Soon the rope was tied and the sampan left the big ship.

"Fourth uncle, he is not as vicious as you said."

"You brat, you're here to kill me!"

Xu Zaijing stood on the bow of the boat. Three river soldiers carried the copper coins to the shore and said something to a soldier.

The soldier saw Xu Zaijing and bowed on the shore.

Soon, the voice of the leader shouting loudly just now came: "You are kind-hearted, and I will reward each person with five hundred coins!"

In Xu Zaijing's sight, the boy carrying the big gourd came to the trackers and picked up a rope from the ground.

"Hahahaha, this kid is so interesting." Gu Tingye laughed.

Xu Zaijing didn't smile and looked at the grass.

"Which noble family is this? Please tell me his name." Someone in the crowd shouted.

Gu Tingye said proudly to the side: "Here you go! We are from the Gu family, Xu family in Bianjing and the Bai family in Yangzhou!"

"We remember it! Boys and girls! Get up!"

The rope was straightened and the trumpet sounded again.

"Bianjing Gu, ah"

"OK!"

"Bianjingxu, ah"

Ahead, the Yuan family members who were frowning on the boat looked at each other when they heard the chants behind them.

"Father, behind us are the Gu family and the Xu family. I don't think we will go to Yangzhou."

"Shut up! You little beast."

Hearing Yuan Bingkai's roar, everyone in the Yuan family trembled.

"When the Sheng family finds out, they will naturally stop our family's hiring boat halfway. Why do you think I erect such a high flagpole? Do you want people who know the truth to laugh? Whether you can go or not, you have to make a breakthrough. "

Several members of the Yuan family looked embarrassed and did not dare to speak.

Yuan Bingkai added in his heart that if he had not come to Yangzhou, which is 1,500 miles away, and around Bianjing, his Yuan family's reputation would have been ruined!

Three large passenger ships were pulled over. On the last ship, Zhu Qinghu looked at the soldiers on the shore who were handing out money, nodded and entered the cabin.

After patting the horse who was in good spirits, he came to the small table fixed on the ship's plank in the cabin, with a long strip-like thing wrapped in black cloth.

During this time, the eight members of Jingzhong and him had already sent the pensions of the two brothers who were in custody to more than 40 people to their respective homes.

Inside the black cloth are the relics of Liu Mao Mao, a comrade from Yangzhou who is farthest away.

Zhu Qinghu touched the black cloth, took out a silver wine flask from his arms, and knocked it against the black cloth.

He raised his head and took a sip.

Yangzhou

Tongbenfu

Linqi Pavilion,

Lin Sushuang looked at her daughter who was copying the copybook, her eyes full of pride.

Mrs. Zhou, who was close to her, came to her side and looked at Lin Sushuang without saying anything.

Lin Xiaoniang understood and went outside.

"Detained?"

"Yes, little girl, I asked the Guan family to push off the carbon before she bought it, so I gave her a pound of charcoal and sent it away."

"One pound is too much. Let's try less tomorrow."

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