Detective in the Red Chamber

More than three years but less than ten years!

More than three years but less than ten years!

More than three years but less than ten years!

This is like a blow to the head, sobering up a lot.

But it is said that a group of more than ten people rode horses and cars, and went straight to the pier in a mighty way. When they arrived at the destination, local officials were waiting to greet them.

It was difficult for Sun Shaozong to come forward to replace this matter, so he entrusted Jia Yucun to deal with it - anyway, many of them came to see him off.

Sun Shaozong settled the female relatives first, then put their luggage in the cabin, and finally even tidied up his own cabin. When he came out, he saw Jia Yucun was still greeting people on the pier, as if he was writing some sour words for farewell. Sao Shi had no choice but to hang out on the deck.

This ship is probably an improved building ship. It is about 25 meters from head to tail and about [-] meters wide. There are three cabins on the upper and lower decks. A large scull seven or eight meters long - it looks a little different from a passenger ship on the Yangtze River.

After asking the boatman, I learned that the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is not like the Yangtze River. There are many shoals in it. At that time, the rudder will not only be unable to control the direction, but may get stuck on the bottom of the water. Therefore, it is necessary to raise the rudder and shake the scull to control the advance and retreat.

I was lying on the stern of the boat looking at the 'live rudder' carefully, when someone patted me on the shoulder suddenly.

Sun Shaozong knew it was Ruan Rong without looking back, so he smiled and said, "Why, can't you be bored down here?"

Ruan Rong squeezed to his side, first glanced down curiously, but didn't see anything unusual, then raised her head and smiled and said, "Do you want to know what Sister Lin said about you just now?"

But it turned out that when Sun Shaozong was spying on Daiyu, Daiyu also observed Sun Shaozong quietly.

Although he was very curious, how could Sun Shaozong be so stupid as to show it directly?

Seeing that no one was paying attention, he lowered his head and pecked her on the face, and said with a smile, "I don't care what she says, as long as you like it when you look at it."

"Hate it, then I won't tell you!"

Ruan Rong punched him coquettishly on the chest, but couldn't hold it back after all, and broke the news with a smile, "Just now in the cabin, Daiyu said that you are the heart of a fox, but you are wrapped in a bear's skin. Tell me to be careful not to be fooled by your appearance."

As he spoke, he couldn't help laughing.

Bear fur and fox heart?

This little girl is really mean when she speaks!

But this description is really a bit apt. Isn't a time traveler like Sun Shaozong stuffing his "heart" into someone else's skin?

The two chatted for a few more words, and then a young man came over and said that Jia Yucun had already boarded the boat, and asked if he wanted to leave immediately.

Sun Shaozong was naturally eager to get on the road quickly, so he gave an order, and the boatmen yelled to untie the cables, pull up the springboard, and took out a few poles, and carefully propped the boat out from the pier, and then raised the sails along the river. And up.

--split line--

Along the way, Sun Shaozong either drank and sang with Jia Lian, or talked with Jia Yucun. Occasionally, he had the opportunity to hang out with Ruan Rong, but he rarely bumped into Daiyu.

Because of this, it was mid-winter, and the wind was blowing on the river. Lin Daiyu's small body couldn't bear it, so she had no choice but to lie in the cabin, dance and write, or chat with Ruan Rong to relieve boredom.

But said this afternoon.

Sun Shaozong tricked Ruan Rong into his own cabin, and coaxed her to do the thing of flying a shuttle with her slender hands. When she was happy, she couldn't help being greedy again, and gently lowered her beautiful head. One press...

touch~

It just so happened that at this moment, I don't know what hit something, the body of the boat shook violently, Ruan Rong couldn't stand firmly on her feet, so she followed Sun Shaozong's pressure and slammed into the vital point between his legs!

Just this collision almost caused a 'chicken and egg fight'!

"Ah~!!!"

Sun Shaozong screamed, clamped his legs in pain, and rolled from the bed to the bottom of the bed, groaning 'woo hoo hoo', gasping for air.

Seeing this, Ruan Rong was so frightened that her face turned pale, she hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and asked with concern, "Brother Sun?! Are you all right? Do you want to see a doctor?!"

She is also concerned but confused. Right now the passenger ship is passing through a hilly area, with cliffs more than [-] meters high along both sides of the river, but where can I find a doctor?

Sun Shaozong snorted again for a while, before he managed to lift his veined face, and forced a smile, "It's nothing... it's okay, just wait for me to slow down... hiss~ just take it easy, you...you go back to the cabin first Well, it sounds like a mess on this deck, if someone comes looking for me, you won't be able to leave."

At this moment, there was indeed noise everywhere on the deck, as if two groups of people were yelling at each other.

Although Ruan Rong was worried about Sun Shaozong's 'injury', she was also afraid of being blocked in the cabin, so under Sun Shaozong's repeated urging, she finally walked out of the cabin door step by step.

But after she left, Sun Shaozong immediately locked the door and jumped up and down like a rabbit with his 'tail' between his legs. Does that still look like a half-tough guy?

Chapter 19 Salt Lock Hengjiang

As mentioned earlier, the ship is divided into three floors. The floor below the deck is the cargo warehouse and the boatmen's rooms, and the passenger cabin above the deck is occupied by people from the Jia family.

And because the second floor is more closed, it was allocated to the female relatives.

But Ruan Rong walked up to the second floor worriedly, and ran into two flustered women head-on. She had a ghost in her heart, so she didn't dare to stop her to ask why, but dodged to the side.

Unexpectedly, those two women didn't care about being polite, they just accused their crimes without looking back, and hurried downstairs.

The slaves of wealthy and powerful families have always been the most particular about the word 'etiquette', if something important happened, they would never panic like this.

Ruan Rong couldn't help being curious about what was going on outside, so she went to Daiyu's room. As the hostess of the ship, Daiyu's room happened to overlook the bow of the ship.

Pushing open the cabin door, I saw Lin Daiyu, Zijuan, and Xueyan were lying on the window, looking down through a gap, except Daiyu who was barely calm, the other two maidservants looked panic-stricken color.

"What happened?" Ruan Rong quickly walked behind the three of them, and asked curiously, "Look at all of you, it's like the sky is falling."

The three girls were all taken aback, and when they turned around to see Ruan Rong, Daiyu stepped aside and said, "Sister, you can tell just by looking at it!"

Ruan Rong didn't want to be polite to her, she went to the window and saw that they had only opened a gap carefully, so she stretched out her hand to push it round, and looked out.

But on the river nearly 80 meters wide, there are six large tank boats lined up with geese wings, traversing the entire river, and the deck is dark and dense, there are at least [-] or [-] people. The slaves shouted and cursed.

"Could it be that you met a water bandit?"

Ruan Rong muttered something casually, and the faces of the two maidservants turned pale, especially the younger Xue Yan, whose eyes were red and almost shed tears.

Daiyu hurriedly pushed Ruan Rong, and protested dissatisfiedly, "Sister, don't scare people! How come there are so many water bandits on the canal? Besides, how can water bandits use tank boats? There must be some other reason for this!"

As she said that, she turned her head to comfort Xueyan and said, "Don't panic, you'll know what's going on when Nanny Zhang comes back."

Coincidentally, that Mammy Zhang broke in at this moment, and before she could catch her breath, she replied, "Don't be afraid, girl, there are no strong men in front, but a group of salt dealers!"

But it turned out that the six tank boats were actually a caravan transporting salt to the north. Because the load was too much and the draft was too deep, one of them accidentally got stuck on a submerged reef, and a small hole was broken in the bottom of the boat.

Seeing that if this delay continued, the salt boat would probably be lost, so the salt dealers simply cut off the river, intending to forcibly confiscate the passing passenger ships and transport the salt to the ferry thirty miles away.

If Jia Lian had set off two days later in the evening, others would have had to bear this misfortune—it happened that with Sun Shaozong's help, everyone in Jia's residence set off a few days earlier, and they ran into this group of 'blockers'!

Just now, the ship's body suddenly shook violently, which was caused by the boatmen throwing down the four-claw iron anchor in an emergency.

If it was an ordinary passenger ship, they might be scared when they saw such a large number of people on the other side—but the slaves of Jia’s mansion, if they don’t bully others, they are doing good deeds, so how many salt dealers are willing to be coerced?

So the two sides yelled at each other when they disagreed!

But he said that Jia Yucun was taking a nap in the room, and after hearing the report from the servants, he quickly put on his clothes and hurried to the deck. Stop scolding, and shut up!"

However, how did the noble slaves of Jia's mansion take his "poor settlement" seriously?

Hearing Jia Yucun's scolding, the slaves scolded even more cheerfully, and some people deliberately shouted at the top of their voices, "Jinling prefect Jia Yucun, Mr. Jia, is here, you donkeys stabbing dogs, don't move quickly!" open!"

Jia Yucun was so angry that his hands and feet trembled wildly, and he had nothing to do with them, so he went to Jia Lian's side and tried to persuade him, "My second master Lian! Please tell them to stop scolding, what will happen if something happens?!"

It is said that "where there is a master, there must be a servant". In fact, the same is true in reverse - the slaves of Jia's mansion, even if they don't pay attention to the salt dealers opposite, Jia Lian is used to being a master. Yes, how can we be afraid of them?

"A disaster?"

Seeing him turn his mouth away, he said, "Rongguo Mansion's boat dared to stop, I think they are the ones who got into trouble! When we get to Qingzhou Mansion, Second Master, I will let this screwdriver be a bastard, I know what regret is." !"

Jia Yucun couldn't laugh or cry when he heard Jia Lian's arrogance, and quickly pointed to the tank boats in front of him, saying, "I'm afraid the second master doesn't know something, but whenever the official salt is transported, the flag of the Yandao Yamen must be planted on the boat, but these boats are There are no signs, so it must be private salt! If you dare to transport so much private salt in a tank boat, there must be someone who hides extravagance behind you, so we may not be afraid of our Rongguo Mansion!"

After saying these words, Jia Lian showed a hesitant look on his face, but because of face, he was still a little bit reluctant to step down for a while.

Jia Yucun hurriedly said while the iron was hot, "Furthermore, private salt dealers are mostly outlaws. When I was in Jinling, I heard of several incidents of salt lords killing officials and rebelling. If they really make them anxious..."

Hearing the words 'killing officials and rebelling', Jia Lian shuddered immediately, so what's the point of losing face?

Quickly jumped up and scolded, "Stop scolding, don't scold at all! Quick mother, shut up second master!"

His yelling and cursing had immediate effect, and all the slaves immediately fell silent.

However, it was too late to give in at this time, and the five large ships on the opposite side had already surrounded them like fans. The passenger ship of Pian Jia's mansion just got off the anchor, and before it had time to change the sail, it was paralyzed for a while. There is no way to advance or retreat!

At this time, all the slaves finally realized that the one they had been provoking just now was actually a strong man with a sharp knife in his hand!

As a result, each one of them suddenly seemed to be strangled by someone, and could not even speak a whole sentence. How about the eloquent teeth just now?

Seeing that he was getting close, he saw a middle-aged fat man in a brocade sable robe on the opposite boat, surrounded by many salt lords, pointing fingers and cursing, "What kind of shit is the magistrate of Jinling, a small official as big as a sesame mung bean, how dare you come here?" Counting in front of the uncle?! After a while, I will drive all the people on this boat into the water, and wash that stinky mouth that can spray dung!"

Everyone in Jia's mansion changed their colors after hearing the words, as if these pampered bastards were thrown into the water in the winter, they might not die or be half crippled!

In desperation, the slaves were forced to show some courage again, and hurriedly turned out their cards, "What do you want to do? The master of this boat is the Second Master Lian of our Rongguo Mansion!"

"Yes, we are from Rongguo Mansion!"

"My second master's Yue's family is the elder king of the Nine Provinces!"

The hole cards turned out were bigger and bigger, and the backs of the slaves stood up again, and there were more dirty words in the words.

The fat man on the opposite side laughed when he heard the words, "I don't know who it is, so it's the precious son of first-class general Jia She! Anyway, I'll save some face for the Rongguo Mansion—except for Jia Lian, throw everyone into the water!"

After listening to the first half, the slaves thought that the opponent had already been bluffed, and they were waiting to take the opportunity to show off their power again, but they didn't expect the last sentence to turn sharply, and they were all dumbfounded with fright.

It was only at this time that Jia Lian realized that Jia Yucun's expectations were correct, and that there were indeed extravagant people behind him, and he didn't even pay attention to Rongguo Mansion and Wang Ziteng.

While speaking, seeing the big ships approaching, the salt owls worked together to put the springboard on the side of the ship, and they rushed up like a tide with their swords and guns!

All the slaves immediately exploded, some froze on the spot and couldn't move; some uttered a cry, turned around and fled into the cabin; even the soft-boned slaves knelt on the ground and screamed.

The situation suddenly collapsed to such an extent that Jia Lian and Jia Yucun's faces were also ashen - especially Jia Yucun, his intestines were already green with regret, and he would not have rushed here if he had known that he would encounter such a disaster Going with Jia Lian!

But they said that everyone was panicking, when they saw the slaves who fled into the cabin just now rushed out again, all of them looked like they had seen a ghost.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a large wooden pole with the thickness of a pillar, 'jumping' out of the cabin, and wobbled straight to the bow!

Chapter 20

But in Daiyu's room, all the girls watched through the window for a long time, and saw the situation turn sharply downwards.

Snow Goose clenched its neckline in fright, and yelled like a quail, "What to do, what to do? Those thieves are about to rush aboard!"

But who here can give her an answer?

Zijuan was also in a panic, but a figure suddenly flashed in his mind, as if he had found a life-saving straw, he shouted, "By the way, where is the second master of the Sun family? Maybe he knows how to deal with these thieves!"

Hearing this, everyone focused their attention on Ruan Rong.

Ruan Rong couldn't help groaning secretly, if she was in normal times, she would naturally believe in Sun Shaozong's ability - but just now she accidentally injured Sun Shaozong's "vital point", and now she doesn't know how much he has recovered, but how can she bear to let Ailang go into battle with injuries ?

However, this reason is really difficult to export.

So she faltered a few times in a panic, and in the eyes of the girls, she was full of guilt.

Although Zijuan and Xueyan were disappointed, due to their identities, they didn't say anything.

However, Daiyu thinks about Sister Ruan these days, boasting that Sun Shaozong is rare in the sky and unparalleled in the earth, and even her brother Baobao is pale. Who knows that she has met the real one now, but there is no one surnamed Sun.

She couldn't hold back in her heart, and blurted out, "My sister usually praises him like a reborn king, but she doesn't want to be a donkey dung! I think my sister should think twice, don't miss the end..."

Before the word 'body' was uttered, another change occurred on the deck!

The slaves who fled into the cabin escaped by rolling and crawling again. Immediately afterwards, a large wooden pole like a pillar jumped out of the cabin, swaying and heading straight for the bow!

After the big wooden pole was more than four meters long, I saw a burly man hugging the pole, but who else could it be if it wasn't Sun Shaozong? !

It turned out that just now Sun Shaozong suppressed the pain a little bit, and heard the noise outside, so he called Feng Xin to go to the deck to find out the truth.

After hearing that there were five boats of salt owls, they surrounded the passenger boat and kept saying that they wanted to throw everyone into the water, but how could Sun Shaozong sit still?

Without even thinking about it, he went to the stern and pulled up the big oar that could only be moved by six people, enduring the pain in his crotch and ran out.

At this time, his face had long since lost the simple and honest face of the past, his forehead had bulging veins, his brows were ferocious like a ghost, and he was holding a large oar that was more than seven meters long and weighed more than three hundred kilograms in his hand.

"Get out of the way! Let me get out of the way!"

After rushing out of the cabin, I heard Sun Shaozong yell loudly, the sound was like thunder and lightning, and the sound was like Hong Zhong Dalu. The echoes along the two sides of the river were echoed continuously, and the ears of everyone on the boat were buzzing!

All the girls on the second floor were dumbfounded when they saw the figure from behind. How could those slaves on the deck dare to stand in their way?

When the tide ebbs early, it usually avoids the two sides. If there were no railings blocking it, there might be those who panicked and fell into the river.

Only Jia Yucun was a bit hesitant, and hurriedly warned, "Brother Sun, don't hurt anyone's life!"

Sun Shaozong paused a little when he heard this, and then rushed towards the bow of the ship like a wolf.

Everyone in Jia's mansion can dodge, but how can Yan Xiao, who just jumped onto the bow of the boat, dodge?