The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 7 Gateways
Seeing Jia Yucun's expression, Leng Zixing knew the difficulty.He touched Jia Yucun's arm and laughed.

"Brother?" Jia Yucun expressed doubts.

"Just now you laughed at me as a fan of the authorities. Didn't you commit a crime yourself? Why don't you ask Master Lin."

"Although Mr. Lin is powerful, he is far away from the imperial court. I'm afraid he won't be able to get away with this relationship."

"You, you are wise and confused for a while."

Leng Zixing asked Jia Yucun to beg Lin Ruhai, and asked Lin Ruhai to write a letter to Jia Zheng, the second master of Jia's mansion. Jia Yucun took the letter to the capital and paid homage to Jia's mansion.

Don't mention the reinstatement of the official, and even promotion to the first rank is not a problem.

Jia Yucun suddenly realized, bid farewell to Leng Zixing and returned to Lin's mansion, found the mansion and reported it to confirm, and met Lin Ruhai the next day, begging for help.Since his resignation, he has been a teacher in the Lin Mansion to teach Lin Daiyu, the only daughter of the Lin Mansion who is five years old, to study for more than a year.

Lin Ruhai readily agreed, and continued to inform.

"Because Jianjing passed away, the parents-in-law missed the little girl, so they sent a man and a woman to pick him up on a boat. We have chosen the second day of the first lunar month for the little girl to go to Beijing. Wouldn't it be convenient for the elder brother to go on the same road?"

Thank you Jia Yucun.

……

Jinling Pier.

Tang Qing'an finally saw Liu Chengmin, heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "I thought you weren't coming?"

"My family only has a few dozen acres of land, and my younger brothers are about to grow up. How can I get enough? Just let you mess around."

Thousands of sails are stirring on the pier, and people are coming and going.

On the boat in Jia's house, Tang Qing'an said goodbye to his younger brothers, Liu Chengmin said goodbye to his family, and the boat slowly left the pier and entered the center of the river.

Tang Qing'an was full of pride in his heart, and Liu Chengmin looked at Jinling with longing.

On the pier, a young man quietly wiped his tears.

He had known for a long time that his eldest brother and his second brother were leaving. Unlike his elder brother, he seemed to be confident and confident in everything he did.

It's not like the second brother is good at martial arts and can crack rocks with his hands.

I am just an ordinary guy in the Xue family. The eldest brother and the second brother never dislike me. The eldest brother says he is very delicate, and the second brother says he can do things.

Only you know that you are the most useless.

Even so, he still wanted to follow his elder brother and second brother.

However, he cannot go.

"Woooooo~"

After a long distance, maybe I will never see the eldest brother and the second brother again. The young man who couldn't help himself couldn't help crying anymore.

The Jia boat sailed into the Yangtze River, and the water rolled eastward, and the waves washed away the heroes.

There are three places to enter Caohe from the Yangtze River, one is Baita River in Anhui, and the other is Guazhou and Yizhen in Yangzhou.

Since the water level of the Cao River is higher than that of the Yangtze River, the three entrances are built with stones in the shape of slopes.

In order to enter the Cao River, the boat needs to be winched first and dragged across the slope.

If it is a ship carrying goods, the coolies on the shore need to unload the goods first, and transport the goods to the shore along the Cao River.

There are hundreds of boats waiting in line at the pier, and it is not surprising to wait for ten days and a half months for this.

During the years when the Supreme Emperor was enthroned as a young man, the auxiliary ministers of the court were still politically clear, and several gates and waterways were built here to control the water level to allow ships to pass.

The sides of the channel are one foot high, the bottom is fifty feet wide, and the total length is 220 feet.

The gate is made of nine thick steel plates, connected by eighteen thick linseed ropes, the thickness of a fist, operated by a total of [-] hard laborers in two shifts.

During the flood season, there are often thousands of tank boats full of grain waiting for the sluice to open. There are as many as a hundred ships and as few as dozens of ships that can pass through in a day and night.

Now in October, the water level is getting low, and officials do not want to take responsibility for the trouble, so they have closed the floodgates long ago.

Therefore, to use the old method, two or three hundred hard laborers are needed to pull a ship like the Jia Mansion.

The person who came to pick up Miss Lin from the boat was Mrs. Wang's companion, Leng Zixing's father-in-law, Zhou Rui, the housekeeper of the second room.

Zhou Rui went to find the chief official of the waterway yamen, and handed over the signboard of Jia's mansion. The official was very polite and told someone to arrange for a boat from Jia's mansion to go there tomorrow.

But it's impossible to open the floodgates and waterways, he can't be the master.

Zhou Rui was helpless, so he hurriedly sent someone to Zhen's house to borrow a sedan chair.

The young lady of the Lin family was in the cabin on the ship, she didn't step out of the door, she was served by maids for food and drink, and there were several women outside guarding her.

The leader was the nanny personally sent by Mrs. Shi, and even Zhou Rui dared not offend her.

There are many people on the pier, boats are everywhere, black coolies are waiting for work on the shore, and some people fight for work from time to time.

Zhou Rui knew that Tang Qing'an had a good relationship with his son-in-law, and that he was Wuzhuangtou's nephew, so he could be regarded as his own, so he also called them.

"You guard here." Zhou Rui instructed everyone.

Together with the servants who came with the boat, more than a dozen men guarded the outside of the boat, and there were underage servants guarding the inside of the boat.

After several layers of protection, even flies would not be able to fly in, and guarded Miss Lin's security with all her heart to avoid being disturbed by unconscious rough men.

If it really disturbed Miss Lin's family, it would not help even if the person was dismembered afterwards, so Zhou Rui was careful and careful.

As for Jia Yucun who was on the same boat, it is said that the master of the Lin family gave him 5000 taels of silver as an administrative fee for his reinstatement in the capital.

Just having the sympathy of Jia's family can't break the rules of the official department.

Jia Yucun knew that there were all kinds of villains in these places, and all kinds of weird things could happen, so he guarded his money and didn't go out.

By the second day.

Tolerance came up to direct the rest of the boats to get out of the way. The boys got off the boat and surrounded the shore with the curtains held high.

Even if there is a curtain, I don't feel at ease, for fear that a corner will be seen by outsiders.

The Zhen family delivered the sedan chair overnight, and sent it into the mantle, waiting for the girl from the Lin family to sit on it, and the underage servants lifted it up.

Under Zhou Rui's command, Tang Qing'an and others blocked a passage on the shore, allowing the group to walk to the other side smoothly.

Even the river soldiers were sent to stare at the crowd viciously with spears in their hands.

Here is the north-south main road, the young ladies of high-ranking officials and noble families have never seen it before, but they have never seen such a grandeur. Thousands of people on the shore were shocked and fell silent.

Jia's boats were dragged to the top by winches, and three hundred coolies held tight to the ropes, and slowly slid down the slope into the water, splashing waves, and waited for the wind to calm down.

After a lot of busy work, when Miss Lin boarded the boat, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, even the bitter haha ​​swallowed.

I wish this pedestrian would leave quickly, it would be too late.

Jia boat sailed away.

Jia Yucun just came to the deck and looked at the gate behind him with emotion for a moment.

"Mr. finally came out."

Zhou Rui stepped forward to joke.

Jia Yucun didn't change his face, and said with a smile, "The weather is not good. If the flood season in June, July and August can be released by the sluice, it will be much easier."

Zhou Rui knew that Jia Yucun was a magistrate, so he had a lot of experience.

"It was August when we came, and the gate was open at that time, and it was unimpeded. It took a lot of favors like this time. In fact, there will be no consequences if the gate is opened for two more months, but the yamen is afraid of trouble."

Hearing Zhou Rui's complaint, Jia Yucun laughed and didn't say much about it. How could Bai Ding understand the official's mentality.

(End of this chapter)