Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

Chapter 467: The old driver and the rookie

  Li Baolu silently pinched the letter in the palm of his hand and crushed it, and when he opened it again, it became a pile of powder.

  Gu Jingyun also rubbed his forehead with a headache, turned around and said, "You go to Patriarch Li to ask for a carriage, and I'll go to Cousin Jun to discuss it. Let's go to Yazhou first, and then go to Qiongzhou after finishing the sect."

Gu Jingyun calculated the schedule in his mind, and quickly worked out the best route, "It's summer, we will travel in the morning and evening, rest more at noon, and use two horses and one mule to pull the cart. If the road goes smoothly, we can go to Wuchang in eight days. Take the waterway to Jiading Prefecture, and then from Jiading to Yazhou, it only takes one day to expose. In this way, you can reach Yazhou in half a month.”

"But Yazhou is very far from Qiongzhou." One was inland, the other was at sea, Li Baolu had a headache, "Let's not say that there are only forty days of vacation, we can't make it back to the capital even in two months. If you’re not busy, you may or may not go to the Hanlin Academy, but we can’t always be absent from Qingxi Academy. Aren’t your students going to take the Tongsheng exam next year, and those who have passed the Tongsheng exam will have to take the Xiucai exam?”

Gu Jingyun thought about it for a while, and reassured her: "It's okay, I'll ask someone to help me take the class for half a month. When we go to Qiongzhou, we will go to Jiading and take the waterway to Suzhou, and then change from Suzhou to Qiongzhou by sea. It can be reached in ten days. It takes at least half the time by land."

   "But who in the academy can replace you?"

   "Qi Lekang is a good person. We kept in touch after the last academy competition. He is also free in the Hanlin Academy. I will send a letter to ask him what he means. If he doesn't want me to ask other gentlemen in the academy for help."

  Qi Lekang has good knowledge and character, and he will not have any objection if he takes his place in the academy.

   Instead, it's Li Baolu...

  Gu Jingyun looked at Li Baolu, "What do you do, I'm afraid there is no husband who can replace you in the women's court."

  Li Baolu thought for a while and said, "Let me and other gentlemen transfer classes. I will transfer all my first half-month classes to the back, and then temporarily hand over the responsibility of the head teacher to Mr. Yuan."

   "Okay!" The couple decided to act separately.

Gu Jingyun found Li Jun and said, "We need to divert to Yazhou, and we are not expected to arrive in Qiongzhou until the first day of August. You should bring them back to the capital to complete the rest of the things. You can leave around the tenth of July, and go south by water or sea, halfway through the sea. It will arrive in a month. When you arrive in Qiongzhou, start preparing, and when we arrive, we will be able to open the grave. "

   "Yazhou?" Li Jun pondered for a long time without thinking where it was, but he looked at Gu Jingyun's expression as if something had happened, and nodded hurriedly: "Okay, then we'll see you on the first day of August."

Li Xie was just about to lie down and go to sleep. He was exhausted from the opening of the ancestral hall for the past two days. Today, he stood for most of the day, so he was so tired that he fell asleep after dinner, but he didn't lie down. I heard that Li Baolu is here.

   He didn't dare to neglect, and immediately got up again, for fear that something happened to the fifth room to trouble him again.

   "Leaving the day after tomorrow?" Li Xie said in shock, "Didn't you say you only leave on the first day of the new year?"

  Li Baolu reluctantly said: "My husband and I have something to do and we have to go somewhere else first, so we need to leave as soon as possible. Because the time is too short, we will not be able to buy the carriage by ourselves, so we also ask the grandfather for help."

  Li Xie was very happy to help them, he was afraid that if they would not find him, even relatives would have to come and go frequently before kissing. So he smiled and said, "It's not a big deal. There's not much else at home. Because I often go out to buy and transport medicinal materials, there are quite a few carriages."

Moreover, the Lai family has a great business, so they will not feel wronged. There are various types of carriages, the space is huge, and the layout is luxurious, but they did not dare to go too far. They did not dare to use a double horse-drawn carriage, only two mules or one horse. horse.

   Now Li Baolu wants a big and fast carriage, but it is very simple. With a little modification, two horses and one mule can pull the carriage.

   If it wasn't for fear of breaking the rules, it would be faster to use three horses.

But this is not slow. Although it is not as fast as a fast horse and whip, it can exceed the average riding speed. Moreover, their carriage is covered with soft bedding, and there are soft sofas in the middle and under the left and right windows, and a table is fixed in the middle. , a hole was dug on it, just enough to put down the teapot and teacup.

They opened the mechanism, took the table away and opened the wooden board. Below is the space for their daily necessities. There are towels, wooden basins, some dried meat, dried vegetables, rice noodles, etc. Because it was summer, they only brought three thin sheets. blanket.

   Li Baolu was so happy when she saw this carriage that she wanted to fly. If it weren't for the purpose of reducing the weight and making the carriage faster, she would have liked to bring all the delicious things in Shunde.

   It is said that this is the biggest and best carriage of the Lai clan, even the Li Xie has not used it a few times.

Seeing Li Baolu's glowing eyes, Li Xie gave the car to them and said with a smile, "We rarely go out, and this car is rarely used. The limit is that you can only use two mules at most, unlike you, you can use two horses. This cart is not considered a humiliation in your hands."

  Li Baolu wants to refuse. Although she likes this car, there is no need to rob him. Wouldn't it be better for her to build one in the future?

   But before she even spoke, Gu Jingyun agreed.

"Our involvement in the Wufangguizu has already made them panic. If you don't accept them, you still don't know what to think. If you accept this carriage, they will feel at ease, and we will be cheap. If you feel bad, go back and pass Juntang Brother, just give them something of equal value."

   "Alright."

   So they drove this luxury cart to Wuchang.

   Bai Yitang had already brought Qin Wenyin to Tianjin Wei to take a sea boat.

   Qin Wenyin was in poor health. Back then, they stopped and walked from Qiongzhou to the capital, almost half-playing and half-hurrying, and she still felt uncomfortable, let alone rushing on the road now.

   Naturally, he didn't want her to suffer, so he decided to go by water.

   Qin Wenyin can take a boat, so he prepared a lot of fruits and vegetables to eat on the boat, and then he boarded the boat with her.

   They took a sea boat to Suzhou first, because it was smooth sailing and the sea route, so the speed was extremely fast, and they could reach Suzhou in four days.

   Then transfer from Suzhou to Jiading. If there is no boat to Jiading, then go to Wuchang, and then transfer to Wuchang.

   Don't look at the trouble, it's actually very convenient, because the boats on the water often stop for supplies, which can be as short as half an hour, or as long as a day. If they can find the boat quickly, they will not waste time.

   And it is not difficult to find a transfer boat, as long as the information is well-informed, who can compare to Bai Yitang in this regard?

   Therefore, when his stupid apprentice Kankan rode the carriage to Wuchang, Bai Yitang and Qin Wenyin, who were originally farther away than them, had already boarded the boat to Jiading.

  Li Baolu and Gu Jingyun stood on the pier in Wuchang, staring blankly at the endless stream of ships, "Why don't they put up a sign with so many ships? Do you want to ask them one by one?"

  Nanfeng immediately said: "How about looking for an inn to rest, Mr. and Mrs., let's go and ask about it first?"

Li Baolu lowered her eyes and thought for a while, and finally remembered that she was still the head of Lingtianmen, and there was still a force in her hand that she had not used before, she immediately said to Nanfeng: "You don't need to go, you help your master to find a nearby inn to rest, I Go to the boat and come back to you later."

  Gu Jingyun also thought of her identity, glanced around, pointed to a nearby inn and said, "I'll wait for you there, you don't have to worry, we arrived more than a day earlier than expected."

  Because the car was good, Baolu and Nanfeng switched cars on the road, and Gu Jingyun also took over in the morning and evening when it was not too hot, letting the two do other things or rest. The horses changed twice on the road, except for the time when the sun was hottest and the night darkest, the carriage hardly stopped, so they arrived a day and a half earlier.

   They thought they were fast, but they didn't expect Bai Yitang to walk ahead of them.

   The Anbu businessman who was found by Sect Leader Li was very helpless. He had just sent the two away, so why did they come again?

   Can the master and apprentice go together?

  The merchant invited his buddy to whisper a few words. After a quarter of an hour, the buddy came back and reported: "Master Hui, there are only four boats left at the dock to pass by Jiading. Three of them are leaving today, and the other one is leaving early tomorrow."

"Have you asked them which ports they need to stop at on the way? Give me the one with the fewest stops, the fastest speed, the best reputation, and the best cabin environment." The businessman turned his head to Li Baolu and said, "Sect Master Li is two early. When the time comes, we can take our family's boat and leave, we must know that our family's boat is the largest in Wuchang Mansion."

   Li Baolu felt sensitive and immediately asked, "But someone from Lingtianmen took your boat to leave?"

   "Yeah, isn't that the teacher of the head of Li, the head of Xiaobai, he also brought a wife."

  Li Baolu looked annoyed, "They left two hours ago?"

"Yes."

   Li Baolu immediately said, "What else does my master want you to prepare besides asking you to find a boat for him?"

  The businessman was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said: "I also prepared some sundries for use on the road."

   "Very good, prepare a copy for me according to his list."

   The businessman twitched the corners of his mouth, a little unwilling to move.

Li Baolu immediately took out the bank note and stuffed it to him, "I know the rules, although Anbu also belongs to Lingtianmen, but the head of Lingtianmen can't take things from it, don't worry, I will pay for it. I also know that my brothers are for me. Running errands is hard, and the rest of the money will buy them alcohol.”

  The businessman looked at the denomination of the bank note and sighed: "Okay, I'll prepare it for you."

The guy who went out to find out the news soon came back to report, and the businessman turned his head to Li Baolu and said, "The best and fastest boat will leave in an hour. Lady Li might as well wait at the pier first. You bring something."

   "Okay, then I'll trouble you."

The guy looked up at Li Baolu curiously, but was slapped on the head by the businessman, and took out a list and a silver note from his arms, "What are you doing, taking a snapshot of the list to prepare things, everything is If you want to be good, if you do well, you will be rewarded with a coin or two. I'll get the rest of the coins back, you know?"

The guy held the silver note in his hand and felt that the heroine was too generous, and she would be fifty taels as soon as she shot, so she asked curiously, "Master, who is this person? Like sir?"

"Can they be different from master and apprentice?" the businessman told him: "These two are from the Jianghu, and they are famous in the Jianghu, you can be careful, you will be provoked by them, otherwise I will not be able to protect you. ."

   The guy shuddered, and immediately said, "You know, I must not dare to read or say more."

  The merchant was satisfied and asked him to retire. No one knew that he was a member of Lingtianmen, who was in the same vein as Bai Yitang and Li Baolu.

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