With the sound of the boat rushing in the river, Qizhou City is getting farther and farther away in our sight. Crisis and risks seem to be gone away from me.

Although there were officers and soldiers rowing boats coming to interrogate and investigate, under the lubrication of some money and material, they just looked at the deck a few times, shouted a few times, and then responded to the situation.

Although the boat dealers equipped with bows, arrows, swords, guns, etc. are just under their noses.

In order to avoid possible variables, Su Changsheng and I acted separately. Because we were injured and needed to recuperate, he took the initiative to ask for a step later on the land.

Because we were temporarily, we hurriedly spent a lot of money to stuff it in, so as an extra private customer, the treatment would not be much better, that is, when the boatman started a group, he would just bring a copy.

The yellowed brown rice, a few green leafy vegetables like aquatic plants, the only meaty fish is half a boiled fish that lacks oil and salt, but I still dip it in some of the sauce I brought with me and force myself to eat it.

After the days of wandering in the wild, I got used to this kind of life with my head in my arms and squatted. I swallowed it in a quiet voice. The only way to relax was to lie in the wet and stuffy cabin of the boat, leaning with me, and listening to me telling stories to relieve my boredom.

Then the sound of water and moonlight are filled with water plants and river ponds, and they are filled with mud. They embrace each other and fall asleep, maintain enough physical strength and energy to deal with various situations.

I also use the opportunity of daily contact to understand the situation around me.

This is a flat-panel water ship unique to the Caohe River. It has three-story cabins, two of which are under the board and one on the deck, which are enough to distribute people and cargo, as well as corresponding animals. After filling, it can transport about 300 stones of cargo, or dozens of people.

Therefore, the most obvious thing is the huge water wheel that can be adjusted at the stern, the wet wooden wheel blades, which are a bit of the nostalgic style of the steam era.

Moreover, in the superstructure, there are also traditional sail cables. Boats and oars can be used as support when they enter narrow river lanes or when they need to go backwards, and when they enter narrow river lanes or need to countercurrent, they use the pedal wheels of multiple shafts to speed up the sails when they reach wide waters.

Then form a team of three or five, relying on the self-sustaining ability of the materials they carry, as long as there are enough manpower, you can probably complete a voyage of hundreds of miles alone.

So the crowds on both sides of the river usually became watermen who pedaled the water wheels on the boat. They also hired from the guilds along the coast according to their mileage, and divided into different village groups according to their different sections of the river. There are special people to protect and make bookkeeping. They bring their own food when boarding the boat. The boatman only needs to pay their leaders.

Therefore, there are always many people among the Caohe River and its tributaries in the north and south. But in this era, it is another matter.

The fleet heading south passes

After leaving the canal of the Jishui tributary, the water surface suddenly became wider and our boat speed also became faster.

After entering the vast river, they finally relaxed their guard a little and let our "uncle and nephew" go to the deck to breathe.

Only then did I realize that there were more than a dozen other guests who were traveling with us, all gathered on the deck of the last steamer, which was a brief encounter and hid in their respective cabins. Obviously, everyone had secrets or other hidden information.

The so-called Caohe scenery is not always accompanied by the scenery of spring blooming. It should have been the dense and prosperous banks of the Caohe River. Most of the time, it was sparsely populated and lonely, and there were even traces of being burned and flew past.

A few popular market towns are also full of whistles, bows and arrows, high walls and heavy sieges, and weapons are on their own, patrolling and guarding the inside and outside. As for the suspected floating corpses and other water objects that are wandering in the river, it is even more common.

This makes people realize again.

The prosperity and comfort of Qizhou to a certain extent are just a few examples in this chaotic era with hunger and death as the main theme.

Although we are walking on the old path of Caohe,

As the grand occasion of the hundreds of years since Emperor Yang of Sui visited Yangzhou, the water palace dragon boats traveled north and south, and the crowds and goods were thousands of miles away, it no longer existed; the tribute ships on the crossroads of the Yangtze River and Huai River were loaded with light and expensive goods, and they traveled far and wide to the Jishui Pond outside the west gate of Chang'an, and the best prosperous years have become a passing yellow flower.

Only the mottled grass and trees along the coast are left, and various ferry terminals hidden deep in the green of moss and grass. The occasional outlines ripples with the wind, and they also tell the glory and prosperity of the past.

After all, it has been chaotic for more than a hundred years. The subtle power of time and nature is long enough to re-occupy and seize the grass, and the artificial traces accumulated by human society for generations,

In fact, since the Qianyuan period of this timeline, the large-scale maritime transportation trend that emerged due to the fall of the Central Plains and the chaos of the Jianghuai River and the prosperous southeastern canal transportation has inevitably turned to a decay.

After the Yiwei Rebellion, the chaos in the court and the turmoil in the world further caused the depression of the Caohe waterways, disrepair and man-made damage in the war, causing serious collapse of the canal water system.

Floods and rivers that have lost their constraints have led to various silts and diverted routes, and large tracts of fertile fields have also created large tracts of water, making the banks of the Caohe River beyond recognition.

With the gradually abandoned embankments and water conservancy facilities, the water transport artery between the two capitals, which originally ran through the center of power in the world, and the important financial resources in the southeast, has also become a series of inland rivers of varying depths. The stalemate and stalemate in the war further artificially blocked the Caohe River Basin into a sphere of influence of all sizes.

Plus,

Because of hunger and no food or other reasons, the refugees and numerous bandits all over the ground also posed a considerable threat to the canal.

Therefore, only a few boat guilds with strong strength and regional background, including the Chuang Ship Club I was riding can continue to use some of the functions and legacies of the Caohe River to maintain their own means of making a living in this troubled era.

However, the risks still exist, because the official or local tyrants and bandits still have the fact that they can negotiate to reach a certain conditional pass. However, for those bandits and thieves who appear from time to time and never kill them, they can only rely on character and luck.

Therefore, I have seen at least twice during the trip. The ships suspected to have been burned after being robbed and were stranded on the shore. They will make them feel sad when they die, and they will be on guard for a while as if they are facing a great enemy.

Whenever the boat stops and rests, they are the most vigilant. They must arrange enough people to hold bows and arrows to patrol around. Unless other reasons such as serious ship damage is necessary, they must resolutely avoid getting close to shallow water.

When I was mooring the boat at night, I walked on the deck to move and could see the flames in the weeds on the far shore. It is said that those who were unidentified were following and peeking at this small fleet.

Therefore, although the boat is on the water, it is still armed to a considerable extent, including large poles, forks, and personal weapons in the traditional sense.

However, these swords, guns, bows and arrows are used to deal with the endless stream of water thieves along the way, as well as various displaced bandits and hungry people on the water. In this chaotic era, the most important thing is the source of the desperate people, and the price of working hard may be just a bite of food.

Therefore, there are more watermen and boatmen on the ship than normal for rotation. In this way, half of the people have enough staff to correspond to emergencies when driving the ship and driving the water wheel. In addition, there are corresponding hardware smiths, carpenters and boatmen in the fleet, which can maintain and improve the fleet's self-sustaining ability and avoid excessive docking in addition to the destination.

It is normal for travelers on the boat to bring their own weapons, whether they are travelers or ordinary guests. As long as you don’t act like NC, pull them out.

However, the crossbow that I had experienced a lot of things was also taken away by me and brought it up smoothly. Every night, I fastened the strings and placed them with a short horizontal knife beside the bed made of felt.

This is a little bit of experience after just experiencing the robbery of the head-to-head squatting. Even in a stronghold that you think is safe is not such a safe lesson.

Although the boaters are known for making business on the water and have been reputed for hundreds of years, they will not be known for killing and robbing people because they seem to have little value.

My men's clothing and I were nominally "uncle and nephew" who was eager to go home to attend the funeral. I was publicly known as the doctor of You Fang. As a role-playing prop, they were all bought in pieces from Su Jingxian's shop.

She kept saying "uncle" after another, and shouting very smoothly, somewhat concealing her true nature as a girl.

But this is the power of sailing in troubled times. It cannot be guaranteed to be abandoned as a burden for special needs and changes at some time, or sacrificed for other reasons. This requires corresponding self-protection and preparation.

At least I can swim, and I masturbate in this way. As for girls who hold their heads and squat, wandering and in troubled times, it is a very tragic thing in itself, if I hadn't picked it up.

We took a boat all the way, passed Licheng and mountain villas along the Ji River, and arrived at Changqing County in Jeju, where we stopped for a day.

A large group of officials closed the boat from the water, causing most people to be in a terrible shock. Then they found that they had just moved a batch of wine and silk from the boat as agreed in advance, and then they relaxed the supervision of the fleet.

After the official army moved this batch of goods, the fleet was obviously relieved, relaxing our range of activities and relaxing the time until the whole day.

Obviously, they were carrying some military funds before, so they were quite taboo and guarded against us, the guests who were brought by us. On weekdays, even when the upper warehouses were close to each other, there were people coming up to block the way, and the boatmen also acted like a stranger to enter.

Most of the passengers who took the boat did not take the flight to get ashore. They just bought some seasonal fruits, vegetables, vegetables, dried goods, fish, fresh fish, etc. from the small rowing boat owners who were scrambling to buy some seasonal fruits, vegetables, vegetables, dried goods, fish, fresh fish, etc., and then retreated to stay in the warehouse.

The owner of the ship, who was about to finish the journey, replenished ingredients and other items from familiar places, shipped a batch of new bulk cargo and passengers, and set off again.

Just as I completed an important business, I had local supplements and the overall food conditions improved a lot. Small fish cooked with sour bamboo shoots and bacon slices with fur appeared in the contents of the rice.

Then the tight itinerary also slowed down a lot, and the waterman who was driving the boat changed from two shifts to three shifts, with more rest and mooring time.

Continue to go south along the Ji River, Pingyin County, and then arrive at Yushan, the landmark on the border of Hunzhou, which is said to be a very powerful bandit here, but we really don’t have much to do with the water.

The Jishui turned a big turn south here. The water flow and the wind and waves became much more turbulent. The water wheel was completely raised, and the sails were pulled over and began to accelerate again.

As I ran down the water, even the 300-stone ship could not help but shaking, so I began to feel seasick when I hugged my head and started to squat. I could only accompany her to divert my attention to distract my symptoms.

After passing Xuchang County in Hunzhou, you enter the big lake commonly known as Juyeze. Here, there are thousands of waves, water and sky, which makes people feel new to their body and mind.

Because Huncheng, where the Hunzhou Prefecture capital is located, is located next to Juyeze, and there is a navy army to control the pass, so it looks more peaceful than other places, and you can even see some rare fishing boats and no villages.

"Dr. Xia?"

I suddenly heard the sound of knocking on the partition.

"Have you ever rested..."

"What's up.."

I responded loudly, and squatted with my eyes and she crawled up with her head. She put it on as fast as possible, then took out the short blade and put it in her arms.

Then aim the upper crossbow at the partition door and make some sounds of flipping and dressing quietly.

"In some cases, you must rely on the skills of a doctor..."

A sound came from outside the door again, and I was finally sure it was the bow of the ship.

"Isn't there a medical worker on the ship?"

I slightly opened the line of the partition, pressed my feet against the other end, and looked impatient.

"That's not a question, I'm drunk again, and I can't count on it now..."

The bow of this ship is a short man with thick and dark skin, and he complained politely to me.

"I just happened to think that you, the doctor, was on the tail boat..."

"I specialize in the pain of the falls and the blood, but I'm afraid it's not right."

I shirk it

"It's okay to go and have a look,"

He shook his head and responded

"It's a good fate to be on the same boat. My shipowner will definitely pay you a reward and make this good fate..."

"Okay, I can only check it out before talking about it..."

But I could only signal to hold my head and squat, and wait for me to come back.

Walking past the narrow side of the boat, I saw the bow of the boat for a group of people, mainly the boatmen and watermen, and the sound of begging.

However, a young water man who had just gotten on board suddenly had serious symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, which made the cabin smell bad and rolled his eyes and twitched, which also caused panic among his companions.

When we walked over, we heard that they were constantly worried, worried that they were infected with the epidemic, and were discussing whether to throw each other into the water to fend for themselves.

Then his brother refused and begged everyone to send the patient to the shore to see the doctor, but as the owner, he would not easily interrupt the trip just because I was a water husband.

However, there were many fellow villagers among the patients, so things started to quarrel.

"What are you all gathering to do... are you looking for death?"

The short black man shouted

"Why don't you get out of here, doctor."

The word "Doctor" seems to have great magic, and they all avoided it.

I calmed down with a serious expression, and walked forward with the medicine box. Well, it's time for role-playing.
Chapter completed!