Five days after the transportation team left, Yang Ruoqing received a letter from Brother Baozhu.

Baozhu said in the letter that the team had just left the territory of Qing'an County. In front of Jiujiang County, it had rained for a while since the beginning of winter and there were landslides. About three miles of official roads were buried, making it impossible for the team to pass.

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The transport team has found an inn in Jiujiang County for the time being, and sent Yuzhu to inquire about the situation ahead. He said that there were landslides like this in several places ahead.

Passing merchants had to abandon their cars and take boats, board the ship from the dock in Jiujiang County, go south along a section of the Grand Canal, pass through the Baidi Gorge, and then go around to Baiyang Wharf in the south of Yuncheng to land.

Because the convoys used to travel overland for many years, using your own convoy allowed you to rest on the spot and make a fire for cooking along the way.

Everyone has almost never traveled by water, and Yang Ruoqing herself rarely takes a boat.

She can swim, and she doesn't get seasick. She just doesn't like the feeling of sitting on the bed and floating in the water, without being able to reach the sky or the ground.

After receiving Baozhu's letter, Yang Ruoqing knew that everyone was still in Jiujiang waiting for her reply.

Yang Ruoqing put down the letter and walked around the room.

If we take the water route, then the goods will have to be unloaded and transported onto merchant ships, and then someone will be sent to take the convoy back to Changping Village.

As for the boat, you cannot share the ride with others. It is best to rent a merchant ship by yourself to go to Yuncheng.

Baozhu also said in the letter that it should take three days to go to Yuncheng by water, which is shorter than taking the land route.

However, so many people still have goods to take the boat, and the cost is high. If they have to take the boat back, then they will hardly make much money on this trip to Licheng, the terminal.

Baozhu and the others couldn't make up their minds, so they had to let their boss Yang Ruoqing make the decision.

But what Yang Ruoqing is thinking about now is not how much money she can make on this trip, but the safety of everyone's lives. Even if she loses money on this trip, she doesn't care. She, Yang Ruoqing, is not short of the money.

After thinking for a while, Yang Ruoqing sat back at her desk, took a deep breath, organized her thoughts and words in her mind, and then wrote a reply to Baozhu.

In the letter, she asked them to change the water route, not only to spend money to hire a special merchant ship, but also to have a three-day water route, and the merchant ship must have a place for the women to rest.

In addition, as usual, there are some escort agencies soliciting business in areas such as the main pier.

In the letter, Yang Ruoqing told Baozhu to find a bodyguard agency with a good reputation in the local area and find a few bodyguards to escort him all the way south.

These are troubled times, and we are always afraid of encountering river bandits when traveling by water.

Although Baozhu and the others were armed with weapons and had some means of getting close to them, they had no experience in fighting on the water.

What's more, there are three women and children, Xiao Yu, Ping'er and Huahua, on the ship, so they must arrive at Yuncheng safely at any cost. They drop off Ping'er and Huahua at Baiyang Wharf in Yuncheng. The merchant ship continues southward and arrives at Licheng via Xiujiang.

, and then changed the land route to deliver the medicinal materials and cotton clothes to the soldiers of Xiushui Town.

Watching the homing pigeon spread its wings and fly away, heading south, and finally turned into a small black dot in the sky, and then disappeared completely.

From this moment on, Yang Ruoqing felt another concern in her heart.

I miss Tangyazi and Da'an in the north, and I miss them going south.

Fortunately, under her careful care in the past few days, Baby Luo's illness has recovered and the child is back to full health, which somewhat relieved Yang Ruoqing.

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“If you count on your fingers, it’s been almost half a month since Xiaoyu and the others left the village. Logically speaking, it’s time for them to arrive at Xiushui Town, right?”

Aunt Osmanthus came over to inquire about Yang Ruoqing.

"Qing'er, have Xiaoyu and the others sent a message back?" she asked again.

Yang Ruoqing could understand Guihua's anxious mood, because in the eyes of Aunt Guihua, this trip south was different from previous trips south. This trip was a turning point in the marriage between her daughter and her son-in-law.

"Auntie, don't worry, because of the heavy rain in the south, some sections of the road cannot be walked on this trip. They are taking the water route instead," Yang Ruoqing patiently coaxed.

"If you take the water route, it may be slower. If you get severely seasick along the way, you will have to stop at the shore to rest temporarily."

Yang Ruoqing actually didn't believe these words herself.

Baozhu made it very clear in his letter before that it would be faster to take the water route because it is not as winding as the land route.

But before it arrived, Yang Ruoqing was wondering whether it was because that section of the land route was difficult to travel, so many people took the water route instead, and there were only a few fixed routes on the water route.

In addition, the Chinese New Year is coming up in a month and a half, and many officials, businessmen, and people traveling abroad are rushing back to their hometowns for reunions, or to visit relatives and friends.

So there was traffic jam on the waterway, which delayed it for so many days?

Yang Ruoqing didn't tell Guihua this, and Aunt Guihua might not be able to understand her if she said too much, but she was even more worried.

"Auntie, don't worry. No news is good news. There are so many of them and they individually chartered a large merchant ship to go south. The men on the bed all know how to swim."

"And we also spent a lot of money to hire a few escorts to go on the road with us. It should be very safe. Auntie, don't worry."

After Yang Ruoqing's coaxing, Guihua felt a little more relaxed.

Then he went to chat with Dayun and Sun next to him.

Dayun said: "I haven't seen Xiaoqin for several days. She doesn't come out to visit, and I don't know what she is up to."

Sun said: "Maybe it's getting colder. Damo has to go to school during the day, and Xiaoqin is home alone taking care of his second daughter."

Osmanthus said: "These days go by so fast. Xiaoqin and Damo have been married for a month in the blink of an eye. Hey, Dapingniang must have figured it out, right? She didn't even go to Xiaoqin's house to scold her.

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Dayun curled his lips and said, "Ms. Daping has no intention of going. She has been away from home every now and then. I heard she went to the county jail to wait."

"Now she tells everyone she meets that the new emperor has ascended the throne and will offer amnesty to the world. Many prisoners on death row in the prison cells in the capital have been released. Wangfu will probably be released. She goes to the county prison door every now and then to wait!"

Yang Ruoqing sneered: "The new emperor is just a crown prince. Many local officials are not convinced by the new emperor."

Sun's face turned pale with fright, and she hurriedly reached out to cover Yang Ruoqing's mouth, "Qing'er, that's the emperor, you can't say such things, our family is at the cusp of the storm right now..."

Yang Ruoqing took off Sun's hand and said with a smile: "Mom, don't be too nervous. Am I, your daughter, the kind of person who talks unabashedly and causes trouble for the family?"

"I'm telling the truth. If the new emperor can really shock the world, then our old Yang family, Sun family, and old Luo family will all be raided now."

"It's because his reputation is not justified and all the forces are dissatisfied with him, so even though Tang Yazi has been stigmatized, we can still sit here and chat."

There are still some things that Yang Ruoqing is not comfortable telling Sun and the other women.
Chapter completed!