Chapter 1 Sending the Coffin
As soon as October began, Daganchao ushered in the first snow. This snow came very quickly. Many areas in Shanxi, Hubei and Shandong were affected. Su Yang's original period of entry to Beijing was postponed for several days until the ice and snow melted and the road was unobstructed. He took a carriage and headed towards the capital.
The person who drove the carriage in front of this carriage was the adopted son who followed Su Yang into Baochan Temple.
After Su Yang forgives him, the adopted son has been working for the orphan garden with corpses, diligent and honest. Then Su Yang also promoted him. Now that he is going to the capital, Su Yang brings the adopted son with him again. He is the eunuch of the inner palace and escapes from the capital with Chen Yang. He is also familiar with the capital. With him on his side, Su Yang is more calm when he arrives in the capital.
The adopted son was driving the carriage in front. Su Yang sat inside the carriage and lifted the cotton curtain. Su Yang watched as the snow on the hill had not melted yet, and the carriage slipped a few steps.
"Little adopted son, how many people will welcome the orphans back?"
In this carriage, Su Yang naturally fiddled with the demeanor that Xiao adopted son and others worked hard to teach Su Yang.
After activate the body consciousness, Su Yang is now fiddling with all this, and he is completely familiar with it.
The adopted son who was driving the car in front turned his head and saw Su Yang fiddling with this demeanor, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Now, the young master is more than the crown prince. If your highness returns to the capital, there will naturally be someone in the capital to welcome him."
Chen Yang was very quick to evacuate the capital, but when he evacuated, he also laid many secret tricks in the capital. Now Chen Yang has been sent to hell by Su Yang, so these secret tricks are naturally used by Su Yang.
With his adopted son, he wanted to use Chen Yang's old subordinates.
When the adopted son was lying on the cart, he repeatedly called Su Yang to use his old subordinates. Now the time has come.
Su Yang closed the curtain and opened the map in his hand. This border map of approximately 16 million square kilometers extends from the Arctic Ocean to the north and the Caspian Sea to the west. It is not far from the Caspian Sea. It is Erlong Pass. There is Liusha River and Fire Mountain in that area. After passing Erlong Pass, it is Xifan Land.
Such territory is unprecedented, but in Su Yang's view, some places that belonged to China in later generations are now not marked on the map.
This is considered to be Su Yang’s historical responsibility.
After all, there is only one China in the world, so all the territory is mine...
As he reached out to point and drew on the map, Su Yang suddenly felt the passion of the Chairman to open Xinjiang on the map. He looked at the Siberian Plain, and then looked at Lake Baikal and Sakhalin Island. Su Yang couldn't help but roar, and the Russians returned my rivers and mountains!
"Your Highness, the road ahead has changed."
The adopted son shouted in front of him.
Su Yang lifted the cotton curtain and saw a wide stream outside, light and shadow. However, there was no bridge around the place, so it was naturally difficult for the carriage to cross the river.
"It should be the Jiashen Rebellion that Qi thieves broke through the bridge, making it difficult for us to cross the carriage."
When the adopted son saw that there was no bridge on the water, he said indignantly.
Even though he completely surrendered to Su Yang's side, his disgust against King Qi did not change at all.
“What’s the difficulty?”
Su Yang jumped off the carriage. It was near the river and there was still frost on the road next to it. After jumping down, a cold wind blew.
"Now, there is a ferry in front of you."
Su Yang pointed to the ferry in front and said to his adopted son: "Let's go over by boat."
If the country experiences war, domestic construction will naturally not be able to keep up for a long time. At this time, many places have relied on donating money to build roads and bridges, and they have won a good reputation.
"What about our carriage?"
The adopted son turned around and looked at the carriage.
"Of course I gave up."
Su Yang reached out and unbuttoned the reins of the dark horse, slapped his hand and released the dark horse.
"But……"
The adopted son looked at the running dark horse.
"hehe."
Su Yang packed the things in the carriage, moved them out, handed them to the adopted son, and said calmly: "After crossing the river, we still have to abandon the boat. Why do you have to be attached to this unusable thing?"
This is just a boat, not a ferry from later generations. On the ferry from later generations, you can carry a car across the river, and the boat in front of you obviously does not meet the standards.
Knowing that one does not know that one is giving up is the state before the Buddha Buddha attained enlightenment.
The adopted son naturally didn't understand these things. He looked at the dark horse that was leaving, but he felt a pity. When he looked at Su Yang again, he felt that "I don't know that the firewood and rice are expensive if I don't take charge."
The boatman from afar rowed over the boat and saw Su Yang in luxurious clothes and extraordinary manners. When he looked at the adopted son and servant beside him, he knew that this was a noble young man. He just looked at Su Yang and did not want Su Yang to board the boat.
"What's wrong? You don't want to attract customers?"
Su Yang looked at the boatman and asked.
"No."
The boatman looked at Su Yang, pursed his lips and said, "Last night I dreamed of a god man. He asked me to wait for someone here. This person would come to rent a boat and send bamboo. He also asked me to charge him 1,000 taels of silver, saying that it would not work if it was not available."
One thousand taels of silver are not a small amount.
This time when Su Yang and his adopted son went out, they only brought 1,000 taels of silver. Of course, this was travel expenses. When they arrived in the capital, Su Yang summoned Chen Yang's old subordinates, so he naturally had no shortage of money.
"One thousand taels of silver, why don't you grab it?"
When the adopted son heard this, he shouted dissatisfiedly: "You are slaughtering the customer!"
To the adopted son, this is obviously a means for the ship's owner to raise prices.
"Don't dare, don't dare."
The boatman waved his hands repeatedly and said, "When the fuss was the most serious two years ago, there were indeed many people slaughtering tourists on the road, and some people swaying their wives and daughters on the boat. But I am different. I have always been a fair deal. I have never dared to do this illegal thing."
Su Yang looked at the boatman with a smile and said, "You are a pure and kind person and should make this fortune. Since that's the case, we will wait here. When you transport the bamboo poles, you will take us along the way."
Su Yang had a wise eye and could see that this person had no evil. After a brief calculation, he calculated that this person should have wealth and even had some connection with Su Yang.
When the adopted son heard Su Yang's words, he stopped talking at this time. He stood in front of Su Yang with his package on his back. A gust of cold wind came over. Su Yang was tall and the adopted son was shivering from the cold.
"Keep, I have a few fish I caught here. If you want it, you can buy it and stew it, which can relieve the cold."
The boatman is in his fifties. He has been on this river for more time and has done more business. When he saw the adopted son trembling with cold, he began to sell the fish in his boat.
“Hmph…”
The adopted son smiled and did not smile, and did not answer.
The boatman saw that the adopted son was unwilling to buy it, so he stopped talking. Seeing that Su Yang and Xiao adoptive son were outside, they moved the stove inside the cabin, found weeds and branches next to it, burning the fire, and let Su Yang and Xiao adoptive son come here to cook the fire. With this warmth, the adopted son changed his face again when he saw the boatman.
Maybe this is the face of Yin and Yang people...
Su Yang also stood in front of the fire and chatted with the boatman for a few words, knowing that he was just an ordinary boatman in Tianjin. It was because of yesterday's dream that he came here to squat.
"What if you want one thousand taels of silver and people don't give it to you?"
Su Yang asked the boat family.
When the boatman heard the words, his dark face showed a real smile and said to Su Yang: "I'm not hiding the guest official, the gods also explained to me last night, and even gave me a reminder that if he doesn't want to give it, then I'll just write three words. Although I can't read, I've learned those three words in my dream."
The boatman said it was very certain. It was because of the words in the dream that he was so confident.
Could it be those three words?
Su Yang's heart moved and thought of a small story in the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. However, that story should be related to Wu Sangui. In today's world, there was no Wu Sangui. King Qi entered the capital, but he was not from the Qing court.
While Su Yang was thinking, someone was driving a mule, carrying a bamboo tube, and was rushing here. After seeing Su Yang, the adopted son, and the boatman next to the fire here, he leaned over here.
"Boatman, I want to rent your boat."
The man who drove the mule was only in his thirties, but his beard was full of beards and looked like a rough man. When he came here, he shouted to the boatman.
"One thousand taels!"
The boatman shouted.
"What?"
The mule-driver heard the words and sneered, "You are really crazy about money. Do you know how much silver you have for a thousand taels?"
"It must be one thousand taels!"
The boatman said surely: "If you don't give me a thousand taels, I won't let you cross the river."
The mule-driver heard the words and sneered again, saying, "I don't have that much money, but I should be able to find someone to send me across the river."
As he said that, the mule-driver was watching around.
"You wait a moment."
When the boatman heard the words of driving the mule, he was a little panicked. He walked to the mule driver, held the man's hand, and said, "I will write three words on your hand and you will understand." As he said that, he started writing on the mule driver's hand.
Su Yang was right beside him, glanced at the man's fingers and strokes, and saw the boatman writing "Crown Prince's Receive" on the hand of the mule-driven person.
"What?"
The person who drove the mule was shocked and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
The boatman was surprised to see this scene and looked for someone everywhere, but the man who had just passed was completely gone and disappeared out of thin air.
"Little adopted son, give him one thousand taels!"
Su Yang came over and said, "These goods are mine."
As he said that, Su Yang walked to the front of the mule cart, took off the bamboo tube on the mule cart, and after lifting it up, he saw that the bamboo tube was filled with coffins that were all long with one finger. When he opened the small coffin, there was a drop of essence and blood inside.
Looking at the entire mule cart, Su Yang estimated that there would be about tens of thousands of small coffins placed there.
Is this prepared for King Qi?
Or for me?
Chapter completed!