Chapter 5: Way out

Update time 2014-12-1418:41:31 Words: 3296
Ling Qingyu took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly.
Although she had seen the picture of Shanghe River on Qingming Festival before, and had imagined the prosperous reality, she was still shocked by the scenery in front of her.
Along the edge of the Qiantang River, there is a busy wharf, where boats go from end to end. On the wharf, porters unload goods up and down. There are also various vendors, some selling food and some groceries. From the pier, extending out is a neighborhood, row upon row of houses, there are tea shops, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, there are also special operations such as silk, jewellery and spices, incense paper horses, etc. In addition, there are medical clinics and cart repairs. , Fortune-telling, face-lifting and cosmetic surgery, all walks of life, everything is available, the pedestrians in the streets, the constant flow.
Ling Qingyu has already figured out the current era. This should be a parallel world. History turned a corner at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Zhao Kuangyin did not have a yellow robe, but became a national duke. The founder of the country was the Great Zhou Shizong Chai Rong, but in the early days of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Wars continued. After the two generations of King Sejong for 30 years, he finally unified the South and reached a peace agreement with Daliao. In another 60 years of peace and prosperity, the sea was opened up, the restrictions on industry and commerce were gradually relaxed, and the economy of Dazhou was prosperous. Ling Qingyu compared what he knew. Is this basically the Northern Song Dynasty? It's just a little different. In the Northern Song Dynasty, because Zhao Kuangyin was added with a yellow robe, he always emphasized civility and despised martial arts, and the emperors behind were not reliable. In the Great Zhou Dynasty, the position of generals was still relatively Gao, but the emperor is less reliable than the Northern Song Dynasty. The emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty Xiwen, and the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty likes luxury goods, especially the current emperor Xiwen, who has good jewelry and spices. He needs to renovate the palace every year. The finest woods, gold, silver and jade are countless. The treasury was empty, so shipping was released. In the past, only licensed shipping lines could be registered with the government to conduct overseas trade. Now, as long as you pay a certain amount of silver, you can get a license, but no matter what the ship is, when you return All must pay a certain amount of spice treasures. As a result, shipping became popular and ports became prosperous.
However, Ling Qingyu did not expect such prosperity.
I think of what I heard on the road, the drought in the north and the flood in the south. These years, there have been natural disasters and refugees have emerged in some places.
"Girl, girl," Zheng Xi's call made Ling Qingyu come back to his senses, not realizing that he chuckled slightly. Even if this week has been riddled with holes, it will not be a short-term problem. The most important thing is now. Yes, accumulate your own strength, and then take revenge.
"I've asked," Zheng Xi ran to Ling Qingyu, wiped his sweat, and said: "There is a boat going to Quanzhou today. It was originally a big family who chartered the boat, but I heard that the girl is a female household. With kindness, let us take a boat."
Ling Qingyu nodded, and Zheng Xi was the son of Zheng Xi. When he came out, he found out that Zheng was the mother's dowry nanny. The mother had already returned their family's body deeds. The eldest son Zheng Dong helped his mother manage the dowry shop. Son Zheng Xi followed his father to run errands in the boat. A year ago, his father sent Zheng Xi back to Wuxian to deliver the letter, only to turn around the disaster.
After Ling Qingyu buried his parents together, he let Mama Zheng and Lvxiu stay in Wuxian. First, he and Zheng Dong continued to look at the remaining two shops. For a while, he watched the movement of Lin and Wu's family, and only took Zheng Xi. To Quanzhou, there is also father's Fengshen.
Ling Qingyu pressed her chest and took out the banknotes from her mother's dressing box. Later, when they counted them, they were counted as ten thousand. Ling Qingyu kept putting them in the pouch made on her chest. When she came out of Wu County, Ling Qingyu didn't bring anything else. What he carried with him was only these ten thousand taels of cash and the veil for his mother to vomit blood before his death.
The ship bound for Quanzhou was a medium-sized passenger ship. Ling Qingyu and Zheng Xi got off the small springboard in the rear cabin. Zheng Xi followed the sailor to the sailor cabin. A maid wearing a yellow shoulder-to-shoulder took Ling Qingyu to a small ship in the rear cabin. Room, said: "Please trouble the girl to squeeze with us."
"Sister trouble," Ling Qingyu gave a deep salute, smiled and thanked, she was dressed in a clean cyan dress, without a bun, but combed her hair into a big braid and a hairpin with a white fluffy flower. She was tall. Although he has a plump body, the whole person looks clean and healthy, and even his smile is simple, which makes people happy.
The maid felt like it in her heart, she said a few more words, and said: "My wife is the most kind. I heard from the Wangcheng family that your servant is looking for a boat and that you are an orphan and opened a female account by yourself. Blocking the door alone, only to say that it is pitiful, otherwise, ordinary people, there can be a boat of our Fan family."
Ling Qingyu didn't know how powerful this Fan family was, but just smiled and said, "Thanks to the kindness of the wife, I have to trouble my sister to help me tell the wife. Thank you very much. If possible, the little girl also wants to kowtow to the wife."
"That's not necessary, my wife, it's not anyone who wants to see it,"
"So, please trouble my sister to help me convey the little girl's feelings." Ling Qingyu took the maid's hand and stuffed an ingot of silver.
The maid lifted it up, guessing it was about one or two, she couldn't help but smile more sincerely, and said: "You can rest here, our boat is fast, and we will be in Quanzhou in a few days."
Ling Qingyu gave another gift and gave the maid out. Fang relaxed and began to carefully consider how Quanzhou would act.
In the main cabin of the ship, a young woman is rolling up her sleeves, holding a Jun kiln pot of old plum blossoms in her slender hand and pouring it into the cup. The clear tea soup is refreshing with a delicate fragrance.
"Good tea," the blue-clothed boy praised involuntarily.
"It was brought here by Ming Liang. Biluochun before the Ming Dynasty is naturally a good tea." Fan Ye took a sip of the tea and squinted at the person who was sitting opposite, eating and drinking, and said: "You are a fan. My daughter-in-law, who is so idle every day, is not afraid of his uncle being sad.
Fan Yu, the youngest son of Fan Zedi, the official secretary of the dynasty, has always had a bad reputation. He was hit by Juren at the age of fifteen, but he did not continue to go to school. Instead, he began to travel in mountains and rivers. It is really an odd number in Fan's family.
"With my eldest brother here, my father has always been assured of me," Fan Xu smiled and leaned in Fan Ye: "But I still want to congratulate my cousin on this promotion and get a good position."
"What a good position," Fan Ye sighed, and said, "This time the establishment of the Shibo Division in Quanzhou, of course it is a good thing for the management of maritime transport. I will do my best to fulfill my mission. However, it turns out that Guangzhou Shibo is responsible for the trade. The company’s control has always been controlled by the royal family. Nowadays, because the sage is so fragrant and luxurious, Luoyang Bianliang, along with the Hangzhou Sichuan and Shu areas, and the Duxing spice treasures, the profits of the trade with Fan have soared, the sea merchants have also increased a lot, and the transaction amount is huge. , I’m afraid you and I know, but one or two of them, and more, were swallowed by the Wang family."
"That's why I set up the Shibo Division in Quanzhou this time, and let the neutral Fan family be the Shibo Division?" Fan Yu played with the empty cup in his hand and the first-class Jun kiln porcelain. It was crystal clear and delightful to watch. Said: "The shipping is booming nowadays, and my cousin is a lack of fat."
Fan Ye glared at him and said, "Fatty, I am afraid it is a deadly lack! The royal concubine is supported by the royal family and controls the shipping. Dong Shoufu has appeared in the Queen Dong family, and the directors have all become the household secretary. Quanzhou opened a new market. Boss, with such a big fat shortage, both families are staring at me. Your brother, I am not careful, and I don't know how to die. Your kid, did you come here to entertain me?"
Just as Fan Yu was about to speak, he heard footsteps outside the door, so he stopped and looked at the door.
"Madam," the footsteps stopped outside the door, calling out softly.
Mrs. Fan Yang glanced at the two of them, put down the bead curtain, and said, "It's yam, come in."
Yam bowed his head into the cabin, glanced at the hanging bead curtain from the corner of his eyes, bowed a bow, and said, "Madam, that little lady, the slave and maidservant has been brought into the slave's cabin."
"Oh," Yang glanced at Fan Yu's figure behind the curtain and smiled: "How about the little lady? Can you still be polite?"
"Although the little lady is not old, she is very polite and looks like an honest girl." Yam bowed her head and replied.
"It's also pitiful. Young and gentle, so he opened a female household." Yang waved the yam to retreat, hung the bead curtain, and smiled to Fan Yu: "It is rare that the sixth brother will show kindness."
Fan Yu smiled and didn't answer. Before he got on the boat, he saw the little lady from Wu County taking a servant everywhere to inquire about the boat to Quanzhou. He felt compassionate and knew that Yang was kind, so he told Yang Mrs. Yang made a few words, and Mrs. Yang did let the little lady get on the boat, but when he heard this, he thought it was his own romantic debt outside, so he didn't reply, just laughed and said nothing.
"Sixth brother, you're not too young anymore, it's time to get married seriously," Fan Ye frowned and said.
"Wu did mention a few to his father. One is the second lady in the third room of the Wang family, one is the fifth lady in the Wu family, and the other is the concubine sister of the second prince's concubine's family. Cousin, do you think that is the right kid?" Fan He said with a smile, but that smile was cold.
Fan Ye was dumb, his uncle, the successor, forced Fan Yu away, and wanted to manipulate Fan Yu’s marriage. The Fan family has always been neutral in the court and never participated in the battle to win the grandfather in order to continue undefeated for a hundred years. Wu Clan made it clear that he wanted the Fan family to board the second prince’s boat. Is it stupid to be a Fan family man? Thinking of his uncle's love for Wu Clan, he shook his head.
"The little lady's father is originally a sea merchant," Fan Yu thought for a while before saying: "The little lady is going to Quanzhou. If my cousin can help, please help."
"Heh," Fan Ye said with a smile: "A woman, okay, if she also goes to sea, I can help."
Seeing him with a smile full of contempt, Fan Yi shook his head and said nothing. He looked out the window and looked at the bustling scene. His thoughts turned to other things. He talked to Fan Ye about the spring drought on Henan Road. That little lady, It was like a water wave passing by, without a trace.