In the elegant room of the West Garden of the Estuary Bamboo Hall, sandalwood lingers. Outdoor heat is scorching, walking from the outside, hair and skin like burning, I don't know what technique Li Zu Ghost used to build the bamboo hall, into the house, only feel the shade cool heart.

Sun Jingxuan's face was sallow, his forehead was oozing beads of sweat, and he was lying on the bed with a pillow under his neck, looking sick; Wu Yanqing took his pulse with a serious expression, and Sun Wenwan, who looked haggard, stood aside, Sun Jingxuan was sick for five days, and Sun Wenwan served day and night for five days, and people were naturally exhausted.

Lin Lian and Fu Qinghe, who came to visit, sat on the Huali high chair on the side, and Ao Canghai stood aside, like a majestic mountain.

After Wu Yanqing finished taking Sun Jingxuan's pulse, Lin Jian asked, "Can Sun Huishou's condition be relieved?" ”

"It's better than yesterday." Wu Yanqing said ominously.

"That's good," Lin Lian said with a little peace of mind, "Let Sun Huishou get sick from fatigue, it's all Lin Bin's fault, and seeing Sun Huishou recover in sight, I can finally feel a little relieved......

"I'm already fine," Sun Jingxuan struggled to prop himself up and said to Lin Bin, "Lord Lin, the matter of going to Dongyang can't be delayed any longer, I sweat again, and I can barely accompany Lord Lin to Dongyang." ”

"Sun Huishou wants others to say that I am not very kind," Lin Jian said with a smile, "It's been enough trouble for the Xihe Society in the past few days, Sun Huishou is tired of it, how can I bear to pull Sun Huishou, who has not recovered from his illness, to work on the boat again?" When you go to Dongyang, you don't have to worry about Sun Huishou. ”

"This trip to Dongyang, the journey may not be able to stop, suddenly encountering an accident, those congregations are not restrained, I am afraid that it will cause chaos to Lord Lin, but unfortunately Jingtang, Wen Yao, and Wen Bing are not in Jiangning at this time," Sun Jingxuan frowned and thought for a moment, "Lord Lin, do you think this is good?" Wan Niang and her mother died early, and I won't discipline her, she was born with a wild temperament, and her daughter's family has nothing to shy away from showing up, but it is not without benefits, and it will not be a big problem to restrain a hundred and ten congregations......" Speaking of this, he couldn't help coughing violently.

"How does this work?" Lin Jian refused, "The Lin family also has a boat, and the Tuoxi River Association was afraid that the Lin family's boat would not be enough, so the Tuoxi River would meet." Now that the Longjiang Shipyard has delivered two more big ships, it is barely enough to transport these materials to Dongyang, so don't worry about Sun Huishou," and said to Wu Yanqing, "A few days ago, the pharmacy collected more than a dozen old ginseng from other places, and I asked people to send two over, please trouble Mr. Wu to dispense medicine for Sun Huishou, and let Sun Huishou recuperate as soon as possible, so that Xia Cao's matter cannot be delayed......"

At that moment, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe said goodbye and left, and after a while, they asked people to send two old ginseng wrapped in brocade pads.

Looking at the two old ginseng sent by Lin Lian, Wu Yanqing sighed lightly, opened a prescription for recuperation, handed it to Sun Wenwan and asked her to take the medicine according to the prescription, and without saying anything, she packed up the medicine box and prepared to leave.

"It's embarrassing for Mr. Wu......" Sun Jingxuan retracted his sick face, he knew that his illness couldn't be pretended in front of Wu Yanqing.

"I'm just an old man, healing the sick and healing, no matter what happens between you, but you think that Lord Lin can't see that you are pretending to be sick, it is a big mistake," Wu Yanqing sighed softly, "Wan Niang's injuries can be healed, and others only think that the old and decrepit medical skills are much better than in the past, but they don't know that this bone solid thaumaturgy is actually created by Lord Lin......"

"......" Sun Jingxuan was slightly stunned, he knew that he was sick at the right time to make Lin Jian suspicious, but he didn't know that Lin Lian was simply cooperating with himself in acting, his old face was red, and he couldn't help but defend himself in front of Wu Yanqing, "Xihe will be passed on to me, it is already the fourth generation, and the ups and downs of the river gang have seen a lot." Lin Jian has the talent of heaven, the factions of the DPRK and China are contending, and the Chu party also has the upper hand, these Jingxuan are not unaware. But the Xihe Society is just a group of poor brothers who are bitter and haha get together to sell coolies to earn a living, what qualifications do they have to participate in these major events? Jing Xuan didn't dare to get rich for a while, so that the century-old foundation of the Xihe Society would be in danger. ”

"You have your concerns, you have your considerations, I'm just one of the old men, and I don't care much about these things, I really can't evaluate anything." Wu Yanqing said, summoned the apprentice who was helping to decoct the medicine outside, and took a boat back to Prison Island.

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Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe went to the riverbank wharf and looked into the distance.

In the past few days, Lin Jian has spent a lot of energy to organize the township warriors into the armed guards according to the new formation method. The foundation of these townsmen is very good, although they have not had time for more rigorous training, but they are barely usable, and at this time, they are all clearly lined up on the riverbank dock.

"Jing Xuan is always too worried," Fu Qinghe sighed slightly, "It's not easy for Xihe to pass on to him for four generations." ”

At this time, Lin Xulu came over and asked, "Why, don't you need the boat of the Xihe Society?" It's all said that it's all right, how can they say that they won't leave if they don't leave? ”

"It's better not to trouble others, or less trouble," Lin Jian said, "Our ship is barely enough, and we will leave after loading." ”

Since Xihe would see the danger, Lin Jian knew that at this time, he was not qualified to let Xihe would be desperate to follow him.

On the second day of asking the Tuoxi River Association to purchase supplies, Sun Jingxuan fell ill at the right time, and his illness became worse day by day, so Lin Lian mobilized the Lin family's ships in Jiangning to the estuary for backup, but fortunately, the two Qianshi fast sailing boats in the Longjiang Shipyard were also delivered in the past few days.

Little Loach Master Ge Cunxiong, Chen Enze and others have been training in Longjiang Lake with more than 60 boatmen and sailors selected from the recruiters and displaced people during this time, and they are almost familiar with the two boats, at least there is no big problem in driving these two ships in the inland river, and Lin Tie also wants to save convenience, and the two ships are directly named "Jiyun 1" and "Jiyun 2".

Lin Tie has three thousand stone ships in his hands, and the Lin family also has more than 20 wooden boats, with a total capacity of nearly 7,000 stones, and the shipment of polished rice can exceed one million catties at a time.

Lin Mengde, Lin Jingzhong, Ge Cunxin, Ge Cunxiong and others supervised nearly 300 wharf laborers in the warehouse, berth and ship, respectively, to classify and load steel bars, rice sugar, medicinal materials, cloth and other materials in the warehouse onto the ship.

At this time, there are many empty ships parked on the river outside the wharf, Dongyang is parked at the berth, Dongyang is full, and "Jiyun 1", "Jiyun 2" and Linjia Wupeng wooden ships and so on are loaded at the berth in turn. The goods are scattered, the varieties are complex, and there is no container in the world that can provide loading efficiency tools, although there are many workers on the wharf, there are corner tower lights to provide light at night, and there is no stop at night, or until the afternoon of the next day to make all the ships loaded.

At dusk, it rained, but the wind was southeast, and it was time to sail west.

Hearing that the maid came back and said that the dock was ready to depart, Sun Wenwan held up an oil-paper umbrella, walked out of the bamboo hall with the maid, climbed the embankment and walked onto the riverbank, overlooking the boats and boats in the smoke and rain, and the guards on the dock wearing rain also boarded the boat one after another.

So many people were on the dock and on the boat, all wearing rain and rain, and they couldn't tell which one was Lin Bin.

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On the west side of Prison Island, a Upong boat floated in the smoke and rain, and several fishing boats were scattered left and right.

After Li Zhuo arrived in Jiangning, he strictly forbade the water camp warships to go down to the river to collect donations on the occasion of patrolling, and if the donation boats of the Hebo Division were robbed, the prefecture and county should send horse infantry and sword archers to help first, which actually tore open the mouth of the river ban.

Don't say that the smoke and rain at this time are a few points, no matter how much wind and rain are bigger, there will be no fewer small fishing boats in the sky.

Extravagant Feihu sat in the cabin of the Wupeng boat, looking at the situation on the dock on the riverbank in the distance, and just put his pocket knife on his knee and played with the knife tassel.

Song Jia's eyes looked at the green-clothed girl holding an oil-paper umbrella on the riverbank, she couldn't see her face clearly, but she was walking with an umbrella in the smoke and rain, like a person in a painting, and asked, "Who is that girl?" ”

"Maybe it's Wan Niang......, the daughter of Sun Jingxuan of the Xihe Society," Du Rong said, "Lin Lian asked the Xihe Society to send a fanfare to purchase materials, but in the end, he didn't ask the Xihe Society to send a boat to transport it, it's really strange - the three ships of 'Dongyang', 'Jiyun 1' and 'Jiyun 2' are indeed full of goods, and they are not fake." ”

"Maybe please, I'm afraid that the Xihe Society will see the danger and pull out at the last moment, I heard that Sun Jingxuan has been 'serious' in the past two days," Zitan said with a smile, usually they don't pay special attention to small forces like the Xihe Society, but the vortex has already swept the Xihe Society in, so they can't afford not to pay attention, "Sun Jingxuan may be willing to send his daughter out, but he doesn't dare to easily take the Xihe Society in. ”

"Lin Jian finally caught most of the Xiangyong in his hands just after being incorporated into the Wuwei and all of them were withdrawn, so there was really no other backhand?" Song Jiaxiu asked with a slight frown.

"What can he keep behind?" Hao Fei asked, "Taking Gu Wuchen into account, how many troops can they transfer in Jiangning?" According to the inspection envoy, most of the cavalry is in Jiangbei, even if it is in Jiangning City, even if Gu Wuchen comes over in person, Jia Pengyu will allow him to transfer all the cavalry? The number of men they can transfer is less than 200 prison guards, 200 sword archers from Moling County, and 1,200 'elite' soldiers from the two battalions of Dongcheng Captain...... The only thing that can make the Qu family taboo is the elite of the two battalions of Dongcheng Wei," Yu Feihu laughed contemptuously.

The others also laughed with the Flying Tiger.

Although the two battalions of the Dongcheng Lieutenant Horse Infantry were well-equipped and had a large number of personnel, their combat effectiveness had been fully tested by the Dongshi incident two months ago, and Lin Jian only used two or three hundred blood warriors to scare the first battalion of the Dongcheng Horse Infantry into abandoning their armor and returning defeated. Although after the Dongshi incident, the Dongcheng Lieutenant was actually in the hands of Gu Wuchen, and Gu Wuchen also transferred the young general Liu Xilin from Dongyang to serve as the Dongcheng Captain to command the two battalions of horse infantry, but the two battalions of the Dongcheng Lieutenant Horse Infantry were rotten to the bones from military attachés to soldiers, and it was possible to improve combat effectiveness only by disbanding and requisitioning the new Ding for training. To do this, let alone Liu Xilin, even if Gu Wuchen personally went out, it would be impossible to do it silently in a short period of time. To defeat the two battalions of horse infantry of Dongcheng Wei, it is a waste for the luxury family to send a hundred elite armor soldiers.

The same is true for the sword and archer in Moling County, how much combat effectiveness can the old soldier who only bully and bully in the city on weekdays have?

Zitan said: "Lin Jian should not be underestimated at this time, maybe the two hundred warriors on the prison island are more of a headache. ”

"No matter how strong Lin Lian's ability is, what?" Extravagant Feihu said disdainfully, "There are only sixty old soldiers on Prison Island, and the other soldiers are all newly recruited, I'm afraid that I haven't even seen blood, how strong can I train my combat power in two months?" Besides, after the incident, Lin Jian really dared to abandon Prison Island and transfer all the soldiers to the estuary? We don't care how the Qu family arranges, Lin Jian dares to transfer the military guards to leave the prison island, we will either attack it at the end of the crossing, or go directly to the island to kill people. In short, this is a knife in the back, and the basket is so big that no one can cover it for Lin Tie. ”

Lin Jian could not transfer his soldiers to the estuary, and the guards at the estuary were extremely limited.

"Will Lin Jian secretly transfer two hundred martial guards back?" Song Jia asked.

"The Qu family will not be stupid, Lin Jian plays 'soldiers are divided into two ways and leads the snake out of the hole', is the Qu family not guarded at all? I think the composer will also play 'soldiers are divided into two ways, and fiction is real'! Extravagant Feihu said, "Could it be that Lin Lian is really willing to throw this fleet that he has built up with great difficulty to the wanton attacks of water bandits and lake pirates?" Lin Jian spent nearly 20,000 taels of silver on the purchase of materials in Jiangning, and there was also a large amount of cash on the ship. The news has already spread, and even without the Qu family coming forward, all the Shuizhai forces will be moved. ”

"We still have to prevent the forest from going sideways, and we have to send detectives to keep an eye on the fleet." Zitan said.

"What about Li Zhuo?" Du Rong asked, "When Lin Lian returned to Jiangning this time, he said that Li Zhuo's confidant Gao Zongting had several contacts with Lin Lian, and the matter of the displaced people on the river beach was that Zhang Yubo, Lin Lian and Gao Zongting forced Gutang County to bow their heads. ”

"Li Zhuo won't get involved in this matter," Zitan was more sure of this, and said, "If Li Zhuo gets involved, a few qu artists will not be enough to fight, and we will directly admit to this matter." ”