The old and new cities in Yangzhou are intertwined and square in the old city, but the new city includes the Shugang and the Shugang. Therefore, many residential buildings are adapted to local conditions. Even locals cannot fully understand the small paths that are surrounded by the windings, let alone outsiders... Because the new city is a city wall raised by the government from salt merchants, the residents are naturally mainly these salt merchants. In order to seize the geographical advantage of the canal, and even build private docks close to the canal, many salt merchants have set up their houses near the canal. Therefore, the canal is overflowing this time, and many people naturally flood the Jinshan.

When Wang Fulin came down from the old Cheng family house on Shugang, he saw that every household was blocking the water and saving himself. Of course, there were also many of them, so in the whole house, important buildings were built on rammed earth platforms, which could be barely maintained in the flood. But most families could only rely on sand and soil bags to block the water. Fortunately, the residential buildings in the new city have been built for 20 or 30 years, and the water level of the canal in Yangzhou City is not as high as that of Gaoyoubao. Therefore, although they have already seen the sea everywhere, they have not yet become a water town.

With the ruthless feeling of water and fire, Wang Fulin rushed to the Yanyunsi first. Since Ye Mingyue brought Xiaobei to move here, he only relied on Yan's mother to contact each other and never saw two sisters again. But now that the flood is in front of him, he has to hurry to go to Zhenjiang again. Yan's mother can no longer slip out as easily as before, so he had to come here in person. At this moment, he was wearing a straw raincoat and hat, followed by the four people before, and just rode a horse to Yunsi Street. He found that there were about two feet of water accumulated here. Although the rain was not heavy rain, it was not very small, but in such bad weather, there were more than a dozen carriages parked in front of the Yanyunsi gate.

This made the coachman and the followers who were accompanying the car. They couldn't hide outside and could only soak in the water and wait for their master.

Since Wang Fulin had officially identified his identity in front of Wang Daomin today, he rode his horse directly to the gate of the Salt Transport Department. His intention was to draw out Wang Daomun's famous post. Then he asked to meet Gu Tingzhen, a salt transport commander. He came here not only to inform the whereabouts of the two sisters of the Ye family, but considering that the flood was extraordinary, the matter about the salt industry was basically over, so he planned to persuade them to go back. But just as he was about to speak, he suddenly caught a middle-aged man dressed in the same color as him and walked out of the lobby.

"Uncle Lu"

Wang Fulin was shocked and forgot to take out the post, and quickly called out. Lu Guangwu naturally saw Wang Fulin and quickly accelerated his pace. When the Salt Transportation Department came out, he smiled and nodded, "I plan to go to the Cheng family to find you. I didn't expect it to happen. I had already agreed to them and escort them away from Yangzhou immediately. After all, it is difficult to say when this flood will be returned, and it is likely that there will be a famine that will be unacceptable next. Even if Yangzhou City was prosperous and prosperous in the past, it will be severely damaged this time, and it may be a few months of chaos. What's more, Lord Gu is still too busy to take care of himself, so it's better not to continue disturbing him."

"That would save me a trip." Wang Fulin felt relieved and was not ready to use Wang Daokun's favor to meet people. After all, it would be troublesome to be asked about things at that time. "When will we set off?"

"Today." Seeing Wang Fulin suddenly stunned. Lu Guangwu said with a smile, "It's better to choose a day than to meet the day. Besides, did Brother Cheng not invite you to go out to Zhenjiang Prefecture to buy food?"

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Wang Fulin stared at Lu Guangwu with wide eyes. Only then did he realize for the first time that this young master Lu, who seemed to be free and easy, did not care about the worldly affairs, actually knew Mr. Cheng, and he seemed quite familiar with him.

"Otherwise, why do you think I'm going to talk to those two girls, the Ye family's eldest daughters, is a person who can listen to advice. Xiaobei will be different. If you don't leave Yangzhou with them, she will definitely not leave. I've been here yesterday and decided on this matter. Now they have already packed up. You and I will wait for them here and go out of the city and go out south. I've been out of the city before. The situation of the official road from Yangzhou to the Yangtze River is pretty good, and the water is just a knee. However, this time, Yangzhou City is not the place with the worst disaster. On the contrary, Huaian Prefecture, Gaoyou and Baoying are already in a terrible state."

All the things that should be said were asked by Lu Guangwu. What else could Wang Fulin say, he could only nod and agree. Of course, seeing the carriages of salt merchants outside, he had to ask Lu Guangwu again. As expected, although there have been rumors of floods this summer and autumn this year, because the news was related to Mr. Cheng, many salt merchants did not believe it. Even though not everyone's salt goods were stacked on the east side of the banknote, many of them were in low-lying places, and because they often had tens of thousands of pounds and hundreds of thousands of pounds, they could not be easily moved.

Since this flood suddenly hit overnight, it is not an exaggeration to describe these salt merchants as the word "heavy losses".

After about two quarters of an hour, Wang Fulin saw two carriages coming from the other end of Yunsi Street. Because it was raining, there were glass lamps hanging in front of the carriage, and the lights were marked with the word "ye". It was obvious that the carriage came out of the back door of the Salt Transportation Department and then went around to the front door to meet them. When the two cars were close to each other, he saw a small gap in the curtains, and then a familiar voice came.

"Didn't Uncle Lu say that he would go back to Cheng's house and pick you up with him? Why are you here too?"

"Don't ask me, my little fox is being circulated by two old foxes this time." Wang Fulin spread his hands and reminded him, "It's raining, remember to seal the windows on the road so that it will be a big trouble if the water enters the carriage is turned back. This time it's a road in the rain, and the weather is not better than last time. If there is any situation in the carriage, say it as soon as possible."

"I know, I know, it's so long-winded." Xiaobei turned around and asked Ye Mingyue, "Sister, what do you want to say to him?"

Ye Mingyue said in a long story: "It's not too early, let's hurry up first."

Since that was the case, Wang Fulin was too lazy to nag in the rain. He immediately ordered the two corpses who followed him to take the luggage wrapped in oil-coated clothes to the next carriage, and then set off immediately. Lu Guangwu's two companions had already been waiting at the gate of the south city. After everyone met, they immediately followed the official road out of the city. Along the way, the water had already filled half of the wheels, which was half of the horse's legs. The speed of travel was very slow, but after about one and a half hours of walking, the water gradually became much smaller. The group finally got faster. Even so, when everyone arrived at the ferry, it was already evening.

In this kind of season, naturally, few boats dare to cross the Yangtze River at night. Even if others dare, Wang Fulin would never dare to take such risks. So he led people to stay in a hotel with Lu Guangwu. Lu Gongzi, who often went out, led the way, and of course he would not be unlucky to stay in the black store again. But after staying, Wang Fulin found Ye Mingyue and Xiaobei and immediately aroused a fierce reaction.

"Let's go back by boat first. Why didn't Uncle Lu say that you would wait for you to buy food in Zhenjiang and go back to Huizhou together?"

"First of all, when you come, you are riding a horse instead of taking a car. There is no problem with the ferry on the Yangtze River carrying two horses. But it is impossible to accommodate you two carriages. After you cross the Yangtze River, you will have to hire a car in the rain. And whether you can hire a clean carriage temporarily is a big problem."

Seeing Xiaobei, Wang Fulin continued slowly, "Second, I went to see Zhang Jiayin, the governor of Yingtian. It was not to ask him to help the food, but to buy the food with money. This was written by the two major salt merchants of Wang Cheng in Yangzhou City. But after all, it was impossible to bring cash silver. Uncle Lu and I had only one hundred taels of gold in the bag. At that time, I was afraid that I would go back to Yangzhou to settle the food payment. Could it be that you would follow me and have another trip to the third time. Gaoge stepped down and Shao Fang was also losing power. Don't worry about what he did to me again. After all, he has been in my hands three times, and it's only three things."

Hearing that Wang Fulin was orderly and reasonable, Ye Mingyue looked at Xiaobei again. Seeing that although her boss was unhappy, her eyes were swaying, she simply asked for it: "Don't worry, let's go back like this."

"Although the wife sent a lot of people to come, I will lend you two escorts on my side, as well as Min Fu and Wu Liuyi, and it's enough to have Uncle Lu here." Wang Fulin had already thought about it, calculated with his fingers, and finally raised his head and said, "At most ten to fifteen days, Cheng Naixuan and I will definitely return to Huizhou. If I don't go back, Mr. Ke will have to nag me a hundred times when he turns around, and he will be holding his whip and bringing his life."

"It's really going back in half a month at most." Xiaobei stared at Wang Fulin. Seeing that he nodded very simply, she suddenly stood up and opened a vine box containing her luggage. After rummaging and searching for a while, she actually took out the four treasures of the study and then put them on the table.

Seeing Wang Fulin's eyes widened when he saw this scene, she obviously had some guesses. She smiled and said, "Do you think I'm asking you to make a letter to avoid being fooled. You guys say one thing and do another, and the black and white text may not work. I'm asking you to write a letter to your parents, older sister, second sister, Jin Bao and Qiu Feng, and I will take it back to you."

Wang Fulin almost misled the idea just now. He felt very uncomfortable when he heard Xiaobei say this. No matter what, even if he had sent a message back before, and after seeing Mr. Cheng and Cheng Naixuan, he wrote a letter to send it back. But after all, after all, the old and small guys at home may have thought about what they were like. Jin Bao even failed the exam because of this exam. Seeing that Xiaobei was smiling and grinding ink and spreading paper, he held a heavy pen, even though his literary talent was very good at writing eight-legged essays, it was really difficult to start with this letter.

In the end, he had to work a lot more effort. From the parents of Wang Daoyun and Wu, the three sisters of Wang Yuanguan and Wang Erniang and Wang Xiaomei, Jin Bao Qiufeng, and even Ye County Zun and Mrs. Su, he wrote four letters in total, using a stack of small paper and his hands were sore. Fortunately, they were all plain vernacular, and they didn't need to carefully consider the words. But when Ye Mingyue found a bunch of envelopes and asked Xiaobei, who had dried the ink, to help pretend, Wang Fulin noticed that there was one more envelope, and he couldn't help but look at Miss Ye in wonder.
Chapter completed!