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Leaving Liangshan, Sun Lei did not go by land, but found a boat, hung up the cargo streamers and left the water.

In order to avoid the government's investigation, Sun Lei deliberately avoided the Bianhe River that leads directly to the Huaihe River, first turned into Surabaya and entered Xuzhou, then turned into the Nanqing River to Chuzhou and entered the Huaihe River, and then arrived at Yangzhou through the canal and entered the Yangtze River.

"Brother, it's been a peaceful journey!"

Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile while shaking the oars, the journey was smooth, and there was not even a single officer to ask questions.

"The remote river that my brother specifically looked for is naturally smooth and smooth. If you go to the Bianhe River, there will be more military villages."

Yang Zhi said, the Bianhe River is the main water transport route connecting the north and the south to Tokyo. There are many official ships and cargo ships, and there are many water villages to be inspected along the way.

After crossing Chuzhou and entering the canal, there were more boats all of a sudden, and the wide water surface was extremely crowded.

"This is?"

Sun Lei looked at the hundreds of large ships approaching slowly. There were many strange boulders on top of the large ships, especially the boulders on one large ship were particularly eye-catching. The boulders were nearly three feet high, crystal clear, and porous. , the shape is like a tiger roaring at the sky, it looks very strange.

The huge ship had a deep draft and was difficult to navigate. Even with full sail and oars, the movement was quite slow, and it could only barely move forward smoothly with the help of the trackers on the shore pulling the ropes.

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The horn sounded, and the fleet of ships hoisted the official flag, and the large and small civilian ships on the water pulled over one by one to avoid it.

"Could this be Hua Shi Gang? It really has some characteristics, no wonder Zhao Ji likes it so much."

Sun Lei looked at the ships, with banners waving and soldiers guarding the ship's side.

"Dugling rivers and breaking bridges, destroying weirs and demolishing gates, just for a piece of flower and stone, I don't know how many people have been harmed."

Yang Zhi looked at Hua Shigang who was going away and said with a complicated face, he had seen the bridge being demolished for the sake of transporting Hua Shigang. , Now that I think about it, I have long been a sinful person, so it is no wonder that my fate is ill-fated.

"It's a horrible thing."

Lu Zhishen looked at the huge ship passing by with an angry expression on his face. Hua Shigang has been in trouble for many years. Deng Fei, Meng Kang, and Yang Zhi were harmed by Hua Shigang just above Liangshan. !

"Things are dead things, they can't harm people, only people can harm people."

Sun Lei shook his head. These should be the flowers and rocks of Taihu Lake. They were originally well under the Taihu Lake, but they were dug up for no reason, so there is no need to give them a bad name.

"Transporting to Tokyo year after year is really a waste of national money. With this money, what can I do?"

Sun Lei shook his head and said helplessly, although the Song Dynasty was rich, there were constant internal and external troubles.

"What are you transporting this broken stone for? You can't eat or drink it. It's disgusting to use this as a mattress!"

Li Kui glanced at those and murmured, he couldn't see anything good about this thing, it didn't have a piece of meat, and a pot of wine was attractive.

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The boats on both sides of the canal continued sailing after Hua Shigang's boat faced the past.

After entering the Yangtze River, the wind and waves on the water surface gradually increased, and Sun Lei asked Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi to go down the river via Suzhou to Taihu Lake.

"Brother, this lake is comparable to our Liangshan Lake!"

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the Taihu Lake in front of him and sighed, this was the first time he saw a lake bigger than Liangshan Lake.

"Haha, this Taihu Lake is a natural lake, which is different from our water ponds. If it weren't for the fact that the Yellow River bursts every year, and a large amount of river water pours into the Liangshan Lake, our water pond would have dried up long ago. And this Taihu Lake has a fixed source, and it can't be easily done even after going through the vicissitudes of life. .”

Sun Lei said with a smile that as long as the Yellow River is well managed, Liangshanbo will eventually change from a sea to a mulberry field, and Taihu Lake will always exist.

"Brother, if the Yellow River is blocked, won't we run out of water?"

Li Kui listened thoughtfully.

"Is the Yellow River so easy to block? You thought it was a small ditch! It has been a hundred years since the third year of Tianxi, and the water has been controlled every year, and it floods every year, and the Liangshan Pond is getting bigger and bigger."

Ruan Xiaowu looked at Li Kui and said, the flooding of the Yellow River is so easy to control, and now Liangshanbo is the flood discharge point of the Yellow River, and the court has acquiesced.

"Brother, are we still on the lake tonight? The wind and waves are strong here, so I'm afraid it's not safe at night."

Ruan Xiaoqi looked at the endless Taihu Lake and said, the vastness of the water means strong wind and waves.

"Find a place to dock!"

Sun Lei looked at the darkening sky, Taihu Lake was very windy and rough, their boat was too small, it was too dangerous to spend the night on the lake.

Ruan Xiao held the flag with five palms, Ruan Xiaoqi rowed the oars, and the boat went straight to the shore.

"Brother, there is a port over there, and there seem to be houses on the shore."

Ruan Xiaoqi pointed to the shore and said that there seemed to be forty or fifty fishing boats entering the port.

"Stay overnight in the past!"

Sun Lei nodded.

"Brother, something is wrong, this fishing boat does not seem to be fishing!"

After the boat approached, Ruan Xiaowu frowned. He is an old fisherman, and he has been fishing in Shijie Lake since he was sensible. Although the fishing methods in the north and the south are different, the fishing boats are not so clean. There is not even a fishing net on the shore.

"I heard that many people in the south of the Yangtze River are doing private business on the river. Could it be that this is a private business den?"

Ruan Xiaoqi also found out that something was wrong at this time, there are very few private merchants in the north who do water business.

"Brother, little brother, go check it out!"

Wu Song became interested, so he got up and said.

"Come on, let's explore together, I want to see what the water bandits in the south of the Yangtze River are like."

Sun Lei said with a smile.

The boat entered the port directly, and the men on the boat looked wary at the unfamiliar boat and people.

"Several boatmen, it's getting late, and they want to go ashore for a night, and tomorrow I will have Sichuan's funds to provide it!"

Sun Lei looked at several boatmen and said.

"You want to stay overnight? There are vacant rooms in the village, but the cottages are shabby, so I don't know if guests can't live there!"

A boatman pointed to a row of houses on the shore and opened his mouth.

"When you go out, you only want a tile to cover your head, so you don't have the qualifications to be picky."

Sun Lei opened his mouth and looked towards the shore. There were more than twenty houses in the fenced courtyard behind the hunchback willows, shadowy but hidden.

"Since the guest doesn't mind, please go ashore."

Several boatmen tied the boat and went ashore, and two of them went straight back to the village.

"Boater, are you fishing? Or ferrying people?"

Sun Lei looked at the boatman and asked.

"The mouth of this lake on the water is used for both fishing and crossing people."

The boatman said with a smile.

"I see that you have a lot of boats. Are you fishing tonight? We brothers all love fish. It would be great if we had a few big carp weighing tens of catties."

Sun Lei asked again.

"The guest came just in time. I caught several big carp today, and it's on the farm. If the guest wants it, he can sell it at a cheap price. It's not worth much."

The boatman said with a smile.

"Isn't that just a coincidence? I'm lucky today, so I must try this Taihu carp."

Sun Lei winked at Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and others, Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi also put their hands behind their backs and held the knife, the boatman's words missed the point, this fish is fresh, and has always been raised in In the running water, how can any fisherman put large live fish in the Zhuangzi?

Water Margin people