Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 653 Notice

Taking the water route was indeed unexpected for Scar and others. Three days later, Song Ying and others successfully passed Jining and arrived at Yanzhou Prefecture.

This place is nearly three hundred or four hundred miles away from Dongchang Prefecture. Even if Scar and others have set up surveillance, it will definitely not be strict.

Having previously deceived Scar and the others in person, Song Ying and Yuan Qing decided to take the risk and go to Yanzhou Prefecture to purchase some necessary supplies.

Song Ying divided the required medicinal materials into several prescriptions and bought them from several pharmacies. After getting the medicine from Jishengtang, he was on his way to another pharmacy when he suddenly saw a huge crowd of people in front of Shenming Pavilion.

She craned her neck to take a look. There was a notice that was obviously newly posted, and the glue around it had not completely dried.

The people crowded below were talking about it:

"Arrogant! Too arrogant! They simply don't take us Daqian seriously!"

"It's so tragic! All the people on three ships are gone!"

"There's no way. It happened in the middle of the Grand Canal, and it was raining heavily, so the water level was high. Unless they had wings, there was no way they could escape."

"He deserves it! They took advantage of us common people. My third aunt's son was slandered by them and wrecked a canal boat. He couldn't afford to pay for the damage and is still in jail. This is what they call evildoers getting what they deserve. He deserves it!"

"You brag all the time about how great you are on the river, like you're on flat ground, but you still capsize in the ditch!"

"I say, you guys are heartless? So many lives have been lost, and you're still gloating over it. Wang Mazi, I remember the transport soldiers who sent your cousin to jail were from Pingshan Guard, right? The transport soldiers involved this time are from Jiaxing Guard, so they have nothing to do with it."

"Humph! None of the officials are good!"

"I heard that there's a Hanlin scholar on this canal boat who's returning home for mourning?"

"I know, I know. This Hanlin is amazing. I heard he passed the imperial examination at the age of eleven. He's a famous child prodigy..."

It was obvious that the content of the notice was related to them. Song Ying and Yuan Qing looked at each other and began to squeeze in. When they reached the bottom of the notice, they finally saw the content clearly.

It says that Japanese pirates have been rampant recently, even grain ships have been looted and sunk by them. All the people on board have not been found alive and their lives and deaths are unknown.

Song Ying was horrified. There were three boats full of people. She didn't believe that there was no evidence left on the river bank, and she didn't believe that the nearby fishermen didn't see it the next morning.

The government still does this, which only shows that the person behind Scarface has great power. Along the Grand Canal, he can be said to have connections everywhere and can suppress such things.

She took a deep breath and tried to calm her anger so as not to let anyone notice.

"Let's go." She tugged at Yuan Qing's sleeve, turned around and squeezed out.

When I turned around, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar face out of the corner of my eye.

The man was very sensitive. As soon as she looked at him carefully, he immediately raised his eyes and looked at her, then quickly lowered his head and pressed down the front of his hat to cover most of his face.

Captain Chu?

Song Ying was surprised, and then delighted, he also escaped!

She tugged at Yuan Qing's sleeve again, leaned over and said in a low voice, "Look over there."

Yuan Qing didn't understand what was going on, but she still looked in the direction of her gaze. At this time, Chu Dajiang had already turned around and was facing away from them, so Yuan Qing could only see his back.

Even so, he still recognized them, "They are no good! Let's go back!"

they?

Who else besides Chu Dajiang?

Why is it suddenly not getting better?

Song Ying had a lot of questions in her mind, but Yuan Qing didn't explain to her. He didn't even bother to buy other food and supplies. He pulled Song Ying out of the crowd and was about to leave the city.

After leaving the city and seeing that there were few people around, Song Yingcai asked, "What's wrong?"

Yuan Qing took a deep breath. "Brother Chu Dajiang is an expert in water transport. They also escaped. Do you think Scar and the others won't search the river system?"

Song Ying blinked his eyes, trying to figure out the key point, and was suddenly shocked.

They decided to take a boat because they were all landlubbers and had little experience in sailing. According to common sense, when escaping, they would naturally not choose a method that would not allow them to have any advantages or allow the enemy to appear.

Therefore, Scar and the others could not imagine that they would take a boat.

But it was different if Chu Dajiang escaped. He was the captain of the grain transport troops and had rich experience in water navigation.

Since Scar couldn't find any trace of him on land, he would definitely think of going to the water.

The small river they were sailing through now, which could avoid the sluice gates, was what Chu Dajiang told Yuan Qing about. In other words, Scar and the others probably knew about it as well, so he would certainly think of avoiding the sluice gates through these small rivers.

On their black-sailed boats, there were newborn babies and women who had just given birth. Their characteristics were so obvious that if they were found, Scar would definitely be suspicious.

The two of them walked quickly towards the place where the boat was moored, and after they were away from the city gate, they ran directly.

Yanqiu and Nanny Zhang were digging wild vegetables by the riverbank. When they heard the noise, they stood up, surprised. "Why are you back so soon? Didn't you say you were going to visit several herbal medicine shops?"

Yuan Qing picked up the bamboo basket next to Nanny Zhang and gave her a hand, "Hurry up and get on the boat! We have to leave!"

Nanny Zhang and Yanqiu suddenly became nervous and asked as they ran to the boat, "Did something happen to you in the city?"

After getting on the boat, Yuan Qing and Nanny Zhang each took a bamboo pole and rowed the black-sailed boat as fast as they could.

It was not until then that Yuan Qing explained the reason.

After hearing this, Aunt Zhang became anxious. "The small tributaries are so winding, how can they be faster than the canal? If they really think of this, they will catch up with us sooner or later!"

The road was bumpy and my wife had just given birth and couldn't stand being drunk.

Yuan Qing took a deep breath and said, "Let's take the canal!"

"Ah?" Aunt Zhang's eyes widened. "Isn't this going right under their noses?"

Song Ying was also a little worried, but at this point, taking the canal was the best option.

She whispered, "Let's go through the canal. We can go as far as we can before they find us. If they find Captain Chu and his men in the small river, it will be safer for us to go through the canal..."

Before he could finish his words, a simple little boat suddenly emerged from the reeds in front of him. It was made of several wooden boards connected together and didn't even have a shed.

The two big men wearing conical hats on the boat were none other than Chu Dajiang whom he had met under the notice earlier. Song Ying only then saw the face of the man next to him. He was a captain on the grain boat and Chu Dajiang's cousin from the same clan.

Chu Dajiang's eyes flashed across the faces of the four people on the deck, his expression becoming suspicious and cautious. "Who are you?"

Fishermen would not bring so many people with them when they go fishing, including two young girls who look very weak.

The most important thing is that he had just seen two of them under the notice, and now they appeared on the boat again, which was really suspicious.

Yuan Qing quickly weighed the pros and cons and said, "Captain Chu, it's us."