Chapter 193 Departure
Chapter 193 Departure
Ye Xiaochuan stood on the deck with great dignity, shouting at Liba who was carrying bundles of silk cloth on board the ship. His face was vividly displayed by him as a fox pretending to be a tiger but a villain succeeding.
As the useless sister of this villain, Baili Yuan is much simpler. She sits on the deck and the old god is waiting for the cargo ship to leave the dock after loading.
Ye Xiaochuan is a familiar person, and he has a basic grasp of the general situation of the ship before it leaves the dock.
This cargo ship belongs to Jinyang Company, and the big owner behind it seems to be Princess Jinyang. His best friend Zhao Shilin in Cangyun Sect has a special status. Ye Xiaochuan knows that Zhao Shilin is a prince, and Princess Jinyang should be Zhao Shilin's aunt.
Now Ye Xiaochuan regrets very much. He has no experience in going down the mountain. If he asks Zhao Shilin for a death-free gold medal before going down the mountain, won't he walk sideways in this world?
This time the merchant ship came to buy silk, tea and nanmu. Nanmuye Xiaochuan knew that either the royal people used a piece of nanmu or overstepped the rules, and only the royal people could blatantly transport nanmu.
Silk and nanmu are loaded on the ship in Xifeng City. The tea needs to go to Junshan in Dongting Lake. After loading the silk and nanmu this afternoon, the merchant ship will go down the Yangtze River and turn into the Xiang River in three days. Dongting Lake.
Stay at the dock at the foot of Junshan Mountain in Dongting Lake for about three days, drive eastward along Dongting Lake for three days, enter the Yangtze River again from Bali Bay, and finally go north along the North-South Grand Canal, and enter the capital and other places through Huai River and Huangyan River for sale. .
Almost all merchants are rushing to transport goods before the Peach Blossom Flood in the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time transport food from the north to the mountainous areas of the south. Almost all waterways in the entire Central Plains are busy. The Yellow River water transport in the north, the water transport in the east. The water transportation from the Bohai Bay to the Qiantang River, the water transportation on the Grand Canal in the Central Plains, and the water transportation on the Yangtze River are all scenes of thousands of sails competing and hundreds of teams competing for the current.
That is to say, in this environment, good escorts are really hard to find, so Ye Xiaochuan was invited on board by the shopkeeper without any effort. Ye Xiaochuan didn't ask for any wages. He only needed to provide food, food and accommodation to his beautiful sister in a private room. Just a small cabin is enough, the shopkeeper never misses such a good thing.
The merchant ship set sail before dusk. Ye Xiaochuan stood on the deck and looked at the bundles of nanmu behind the ship with a strange expression.
In the Yangtze River, a piece of wood may not pose any danger to a boat. You can often see floating wood floating down the river.
But if ten pieces of nanmu are tied together, it will be different. No matter how big the ship is, it will probably end up with the ship destroyed and everyone killed.
Because it is very dangerous, a shirtless black-skinned man rides on top of each bundle of nanmu to remind the ships behind that there is wood under the water.
Ye Xiaochuan had never swum before. Seeing those men riding on nanmu trees and being dragged down the river by boats, he felt panicked. This was simply a waste of human life. No matter how good the water skills of those black-skinned men were, they would not be able to survive in the rolling Yangtze River. If you slip and fall into the water, there is basically no way to survive.
He frowned and said, "Aren't these people afraid of death?"
Baili Yuan said: "This is the human world, this is the mortal world we want to experience."
Ye Xiaochuan doesn't understand.
Baili Yuan said: "I used to think that the world was prosperous and the mortal world was vast. Even ordinary people in the city were singing and dancing every day, drunk and dreaming. But when I really came to the Central Plains and came into contact with many people, I realized that the world of mortals was not as beautiful as I thought. The world is so beautiful, many people can only fight with their lives for a bite to eat, and only a few are rich."
Ye Xiaochuan was speechless, because he had thought exactly the same as Baili Yuan before. Before going down the mountain, he heard the senior brothers and sisters who had gone down the mountain talk about how prosperous and beautiful the world is. Now it seems that he may have thought wrong. .
It's late at night, and the merchant ships have no intention of berthing yet. Sailing on the Yangtze River at night is a very dangerous thing. Not only is the water current very fast, but also fog will rise on the wide river. Lanterns alone cannot make the ships in front, behind, and left out of the way. , so just sing.
The boss of the boat and a few swarthy men were singing walking songs. The songs were loud and clear, penetrating the mist. Soon they would hear songs in the mist, and then the boss of the boat started to turn the rudder to avoid the other side's ships.
A poet described the Yangtze River: "Amidst the colorful clouds of the White Emperor, thousands of miles away, the tombs are returned in one day. The apes on both sides of the bank can't stop crying, and the light boat has passed the ten thousand mountains."
Going upstream requires paddling in the wind, but there is no such thing as going downriver.
Just one word, quick.
There is no need to open the main sail at all, just open a small sail to take advantage of the wind, and the boat will run as fast as an arrow leaving the string.
The merchant ships set off from the West Wind City Pier at dusk, and by the second watch, they were hundreds of miles away from West Wind City.
The boss of the ship finally gave the order to anchor and berth at Fengling Ferry because the waterway ahead would be very narrow and there were three dangerous places: Wu Gorge, Huyue Gorge, and Longwang Gorge. Sailing through the Three Gorges at night was like seeking death. Let's just wait for dawn tomorrow before moving on.
As expected, the fat shopkeeper complied with Ye Xiaochuan's request and prepared a very narrow cabin for Bailiyuan. After Bailiyuan entered, she ran to the deck with her nose covered and gasped for air.
It was so dirty and messy that she would rather sit on the deck and watch the stars in the Milky Way blowing in the night breeze than stay in the stuffy and smelly cabin for a moment longer.
But, what's going on with such an exquisite, charming and lovely person being together with a bunch of shirtless men?
There was more than just Ye Xiaochuan, the sailor guard, on the boat. There were at least 20 or 30 black-skinned brothers. Ever since Baili Yuan boarded the boat, their eyes had never stopped stealing glances at this peerless beauty.
Everyone had found out that the plump and beautiful young lady was the boy's sister. It was boring to be on the boat, so they had to find some fun.
It is said that heroes appear every year, and there was no shortage of them this year.
A black-skinned man who thought he was a good man walked up to Baili Yuan with courage, wanting to punch the skinny boy in the nose, and then he could drink with the boy's beautiful sister who was as beautiful as a fairy, and maybe do something else.
This black-skinned man was very brave, and as a result, another black-skinned man came up. There were five black-skinned men laughing and talking dirty.
Not far away, the captain of the ship and the fat shopkeeper who was holding the boat were watching with lanterns, but they did not come over.
The pretty young lady did not move, she just sat barefoot on the deck and looked sideways at the five perverts in front of her, no, to be precise, five dogs. Then she whispered a few words to the powerful boy beside her.
The thin boy jumped up, and before he could finish his dog-beating stick technique, the five black-skinned men were thrown into the cold Yangtze River. When they were fished out, they were still half dead.
The fat shopkeeper smiled so hard that his teeth were exposed. He didn't care about the sailors and guards fighting on the ship. He cared about the young man named Xiaoye who had good skills.