Elaborate on the world of mortals

Chapter 129 Yi Shuyuan Hates Parting
In the Mo Mansion, Hui Mian, who was eating happily, suddenly stopped, and Yi Shuyuan's voice came from its ear.

"Are you still eating? Why don't you stay in Mingzhou? Mofu will definitely not treat you badly, and the two juniors will take good care of you."

Mr!

Hui Mian raised her head, she had already realized something, the husband didn't seem to like to say goodbye in person.

Mo Shisheng, who had been standing on the chair and laying on the table to watch the little mink eat, looked at it and asked doubtfully.

"What's the matter, little mink?"

Hui Mian gave Shi Sheng a blank look, this little guy is neither big nor small.

"Called Senior Gray!"

"Oh, senior gray, are you finally full?"

Hui Mian put down the food in his hands, licked his paws with his tongue to clean them up, and looked at Qi Zhongbin who closed his eyes to feel the vitality of the world.

"Boy Qi."

"Here you are, Senior Gray!"

Qi Zhongbin opened his eyes.

"Boy Qi, take good care of Boy Mo, and you, before cultivating immortality, make sure you don't wet the bed first!"

"I, how can I wet the bed"

"The sheets are still drying, I'm not ashamed!"

Hearing Hui Mian's words, Mo Shisheng puffed up his mouth, and Qi Zhongbin realized something, and approached the table and asked with concern.

"Senior Gray, is Master leaving?"

Hui Mian clapped his hands and jumped from the table to the ground.

"Sir, it doesn't matter what you say. In fact, he is also a sentimental person. He doesn't like to say goodbye. In short, you guys, practice hard!"

"Senior Gray!"

Qi Zhongbin called out, and Hui Mian, who had already reached the door, turned his head and saw the latter bowing.

"Please say goodbye to Master on behalf of me and Senior Brother!"

"Well, I'm leaving!"

After speaking, Hui Mian jumped out, and his figure disappeared directly.

After hesitating on the spot for a while, Qi Zhongbin looked at Mo Shisheng.

"Brother, let's go see off Master!"

As he spoke, Qi Zhongbin picked up Mo Shisheng, walked outside the door and told the servants of the Mo House that he would know, and then jumped out of the Mo House with his lightness kung fu.

After stepping into the Immortal Dao, although he has not yet formed an immortal foundation, Qi Zhongbin also found that his original martial arts internal energy gradually transformed into innate true energy, which made even lightness skills far surpassed before.

Where will it be, in which direction will it be?

Qi Zhongbin rushed out of Mo Mansion, and when he landed on the street, he was suddenly a little dazed, because he didn't know where Master and Senior Gray were going, let alone find them accurately.

"Junior brother, to the west!"

Shi Sheng suddenly had a vague feeling in his heart, so he said it immediately.

Qi Zhongbin didn't hesitate, and moved forward quickly with lightness kung fu.

Directly avoiding the crowd and flying over the walls, he chased after him and finally reached the west side of the city. Qi Zhongbin kept on chasing to the outskirts of the city.

But apart from some pedestrians, horses and horses and sparse buildings, there is only an ancient bluestone road extending to the distance outside the city, connecting with the ancient official road.

"Master, let's go."

Qi Zhongbin put Mo Shisheng down, then directly knelt down at the end of Qingshi Road, kowtowed towards the distance.

Master didn't allow it before, but Qi Zhongbin still did it this time.

"Master, this disciple respectfully sends Master—"

Mo Shisheng also seemed to be influenced by Qi Zhongbin at this meeting, and he also knelt down on the side, kowtowed like his junior, and then stood up with his forehead covered.

"Master, Shi Sheng also sent you off—"

An old man and a young man shouted towards the distance, and only a few passers-by looked at them in surprise, but none of the carriages, horses and pedestrians stopped, at most they discussed after a little distance.

Yi Shuyuan, who was in the official road outside the city, looked back towards the direction of Mingzhou City, and vaguely heard two distant calls coming with the wind.

"The feeling of accepting apprentices is quite good!"

With a whisper, Yi Shuyuan stood towards Mingzhou City for a while, and then left again.

"Sir, are you going to find Chu Hang?"

"It's not in a hurry."

Yi Shuyuan replied, his steps became faster and his figure became more ethereal.

It will be Chunwei soon, this year Chu Hang will surely take part in the imperial examination, Yi Shuyuan is not in a hurry to find him, just walk in the direction of Chengtian Mansion.
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Near Mingzhou City is the Kaiyang Grand Canal, which runs from north to south. The river traffic on the river is extremely busy. From the west gate of the city, the Mingzhou Wharf is a few miles to the northwest.

The land transportation in Mingzhou is no longer busy, but the water transportation is very developed.

Although Yi Shuyuan has been in Mingzhou City for two years, he has never been to the pier outside the city. Today, when he is nearby, he feels that the busy scene of the pier is beyond imagination.

"Hey, it's more lively than Mingzhou city!"

Compared with the wharf in Yuanjiang County, the scale of the canal wharf in Mingzhou is quite astonishing, and there are not only berths for ships, but also a lot of buildings, restaurants, restaurants, inns, warehouses, etc.
Yi Shuyuan entered the pier, just like entering a small town.

The wharf was full of shouts and shouts, and just outside the tavern Yi Shuyuan passed by, someone even set up a table and blatantly rolled the dice to start a game.

"Big big—" "Little little——"

"One, two, three, little!"

"Oh--" "Hahahahaha"

The surrounding crowd shouted excitedly, and some of them were so cold that they were shirtless, clapping tables and legs.

Yi Shuyuan glanced at it, and the person who lost the money was already impatient, and he was groping all over his body at the moment, as if he wanted to get the last coin.

Yi Shuyuan stood outside the gambling crowd and stared at the one who lost the worst.

What's interesting is that originally the person's complexion was not bad, but as he lost his eyes, the top of his head began to darken, showing a moldy cloud.

Gambling should not be contaminated.

"Don't gamble, don't gamble, I have lost all my wages for several months." "Yeah, we can't play with them."

At this moment, someone acquainted with him was trying to persuade that person to stop, but he didn't have a good word to say. Instead, he offended the other person, and the person stared at the other person viciously.

"What did you lose? Will I care about these two small coins?"

"Do you still gamble or not? If you have no money, just leave. I'm going to close the bank too."

"Gambling, don't leave, losers don't talk, winners don't leave—"

Seeing the blushing and thick-necked appearance, Yi Shuyuan shook his head, turned around and left, this kind of person could no longer listen to persuasion.

There are many boats on the pier, what Yi Shuyuan is looking for is a boat to Chengtian Mansion, and the price is right.

In the end, Yi Shuyuan took a fancy to a ship for both passenger and cargo.

This is a ship of more than ten feet long, mainly carrying cargo, but there is a sign on the bow that can carry passengers to Chengtian Mansion, and it will set sail early tomorrow morning, which is relatively fast.

Some people ask the price on the springboard, some people leave and some people get on the boat.

Yi Shuyuan walked over, and the ship's steward over there happened to be talking to a man who looked like a scholar in front.

The scholar was wearing a Confucian scarf, Taoist gown, and a bookcase on his back. At first glance, he looked like a candidate who had come to Beijing to rush for the exam.

"Boater, these five taels of silver are too expensive, can you make it cheaper?"

The boatman on the pier sits behind a small table with a small scale.

"Hey, think it's expensive? Then you go by land, travel on two legs, eat and sleep in the open, that's cheaper!"

The scholar suddenly showed displeasure.

"Don't be sarcastic. Tell me why it's so expensive. You don't provide meals. You only charge five taels for the waterway for more than ten days. This, this is too treacherous."

"Sir, five taels!"

Hui Mian also whispered in Yi Shuyuan's ear that the money seemed expensive to him.

The man at the bow smiled.

"Then I'll really tell you, our ship can carry both cargo and people, you scholar, you have to pay hundreds of catties for the bookcase, right? If you don't carry you, the shipowner will replace it with hundreds of catties." Jin tea, even if it is of poor quality, if you go to Chengtian Mansion, a few taels of profit will be more than enough?"

"Then let me ask you, is it appropriate not to charge you five taels?"

At this moment, the scholar was at a loss for words. It seemed that this was the truth. If the freight he brought with a person of [-] catties was not as good as the cargo, why did he carry people?
"Okay, you're right, five taels is five taels!"

Yi Shuyuan laughed a little behind.

The boatman seems to make a lot of sense, but in fact, he changed the concept secretly, not to mention the space occupied by the goods and the problem of people, let's just talk about the tea it refers to.

Good tea is not something that can be received as soon as it is received. How many merchants are staring at it. Even if bad tea can be received, it may not be easy to sell. The so-called profit is a castle in the air.

Carrying people is a last resort to make up for the lack of profits.

The scholar walked on the gangway and boarded the boat, and the boatman looked at Yi Shuyuan behind him.

"Are you going to Chengtian Mansion by boat?"

"Exactly, but I will disembark at the pier at the foot of Yanshan Mountain as soon as I arrive at the Chengtianfu pier."

"Same, five taels!"

Hearing what the boatman said, Yi Shuyuan looked at the hungry scholar on board and replied.

"He carries a bookcase of about a hundred catties, and the books in it are quite heavy. I am alone and have no luggage, and the weight is twenty or thirty catties less than him. Then I will be four taels!"

The boatman was also happy, and looked up and down Yi Shuyuandao.

"It doesn't look like you are short of that one or two taels of silver!"

You don't even bring a bag, there must be people who buy things at the wharf along the way, and even buy food on the boat.

Yi Shuyuan replied with a smile.

"I see that your boat will not be able to accommodate guests until tomorrow morning, and there must be a lot of empty seats. It is better to let me board the boat for four taels of silver than to be empty."

With that said, Yi Shuyuan had already taken out some pieces of silver and put them on the scale.

Seeing Yi Shuyuan's relaxed and unhurried expression, the boatman nodded after thinking about it.

"All right, all right, let's go up."

Yi Shuyuan arched his hands, stepped on the springboard and got on the boat in a few steps.

In addition to not going to certain specific cabins on the boat, you can basically wander around at will, and there is no restriction on where you live, just find a place to nest in the cabin or lay a bed on the floor.

In the cabin where the goods were piled up, Yi Shuyuan saw the scholar just now, who was laying out bookcases and laying bedding in a corner. After seeing Yi Shuyuan enter the warehouse, the scholar stood up.

"This brother, Yang Bencai is in Xiadonglu. I don't know his name, but he has to go to Beijing to catch the exam?"

Yi Shuyuan saluted back.

"I, Yi Shuyuan, am not an examinee."

"Oh"

Yang Bencai nodded, thinking that he was also a scholar who was rushing for the exam, so that he could take care of him, but it turned out he was not.

Yi Shuyuan didn't say anything, and walked into the cabin.

There were not many passengers on board, except for the scholars and Yi Shuyuan who had just boarded the ship, there were only seven or eight here and there.

There are many empty spaces in the warehouse. Obviously, the shipowner did not receive the goods this time smoothly.

In the evening, some people ate dry food, some got off the boat to eat, and some went to the pier to buy something in order to avoid having nothing to eat during the boat trip. On this boat, the boatman didn’t care about anything except water, and he could buy something if he wanted to eat.

Yi Shuyuan stood on the bow deck and looked at the bright lights on the pier, which seemed very lively.

On the other side of the springboard, some new passengers boarded the boat, some old and some young, and there was a couple with two children, one child was only six or seven years old, and the other needed to be hugged.

The price of getting on the boat obviously decreases with time. Although Yi Shuyuan is far away, he can hear clearly. Although few people go directly to Chengtian Mansion, most of them will get off the boat halfway, but the average person who boards behind is one or two. arrive.

"Dead profiteer!"

Yi Shuyuan cursed secretly, he knew that he would be on board late.

A little farther away, someone cursed and forgot to walk by the ship.

"Damn it, it's really fucking unlucky!" "Tell me, are those guys cheating?"

"That will hold you back."

When the few people reached the bow, their voices became quieter.

The middle-aged man who collected the fare stood up.

"Why did you come back? You are the latest ones. Get the table on board and get ready. We will set sail tomorrow morning."

"Yes yes yes!" "I was delayed playing at the pier."

"Humph!"

The steward got on the boat with a bag of money, and the boatmen under the boat cursed a few words, and got on the boat with tables and stools.

In the darkness of the evening, Yi Shuyuan was thinking on the deck, and the bad gambler was actually the boatman on this ship.

(End of this chapter)