The next day.

Di Gongming, Li Chongming and the drunk Taoist came out of the room early and handed over a breakfast in the lobby of the inn.

When the three of them finished their breakfast, Chu Ci and Leng Ruxue hadn't come out of the room yet.

Di Gongming struck his beard when he saw this and said, "Why Master Chu hasn't come out yet?"

"Is something delayed?"

The drunk Taoist waved his hand disapprovingly.

"Master Di, you don't have to be offended!"

"After all, why don't men get up late?"

Di Gongming was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized the woman who was inseparable from Chuci's side.

"Ahem!"

"Since Master Chu hasn't gotten up yet, let's wait again."

Di Gongming ordered a pot of tea from Xiaoer, and the three gathered around the table to taste tea.

Si Shi.

Chuci and Leng Ruxue walked out of the room slowly one after another.

"Chu boy, finally came out!"

When the drunk Taoist saw Chuci, he greeted him with a smile.

"How is it? Did you sleep well last night?"

Chuci sat down and said with a smile, "It's refreshing, great!"

"It's the Taoist leader, it's been a long time since I got up too late, right?"

The drunk Taoist's face became stiff, and he said nonchalantly, "Pan Dao goes to bed early, and naturally wakes up early!"

Di Gongming greeted Xiao Er and handed in another copy earlier.

"Master Chu, eat early, we are going to set off!"

After eating early, everyone came to Chaozhou City Pier and boarded a merchant ship about to sail south.

Wow!

The sails rose, and the merchant ship quickly left the pier, heading south towards Yuanzhou all the way.

Yuanzhou City is the closest town to Xiancheng.

After Yuanzhou is Xiancheng.

Zhangzhou City is nine hundred miles away from Yuanzhou City. At the speed of a three-masted sailboat, it takes a day to sail downwind to reach it.

In the cabin of the merchant ship, a few people from Chuci were sitting on the seats in the rest area.

A pair of hardwood carved wooden signs was placed on the desk in front of him.

The wooden sign is a rectangular parallelepiped with a thick thumb and the size of a palm.

Very similar to the current Mahjong.

This is called Kun Pai, and it is a popular entertainment in the Southern Region.

The people of Chuci were bored, so the merchant sailor found a set of Kun cards and sat in the rest area to play.

Kun card is limited to three to five players, and a few people from Chuci just form a table.

The gameplay of Kun is similar to that of Mahjong, depending on who can form a specific suit first.

"Mei San!"

"No, Juwu!"

"Yes! Bamboo One!"

"I want, Lan Jiu!"

"Haha... made up!"

"Give me money! Give me money!"

···

The Snow Girl River was rough.

A three-masted merchant ship is going down the river.

Between Zhangzhou City and Yuanzhou City, the Snow Girl River flows through a piece of Qiandao Lake.

This Qiandao Lake is hundreds of miles in radius, and there are many islands in the lake, covered with clouds and mist, like a fairyland.

Although the scenery of Qiandao Lake is good, the merchant ships are having a headache.

Because there are many water bandits hiding in Qiandao Lake.

These water bandits, large and small, have more than a dozen strands, and they flee between the thousands of islands, specializing in looting passing merchant ships.

The water bandits don't have much money each time they robbed. Although the merchants in the past were painful, they did not bleed.

However, there are too many water bandits in Qiandao Lake, and this wave has gone from another wave.

It is not enough to be robbed once, there is a second time, a third time!

This is too many times, no one can stand it on anyone!

Therefore, every time the merchants pass by Qiandao Lake, they are terrified once.

When you are lucky, you are robbed by a wave of water bandits, and you just pay some tolls.

In case of bad luck, three or four waves of water bandits come to rob, it will be enough for the merchants to feel heartache!

At this moment, the merchant ship aboard a few people from Chuci came to this Qiandao Lake.

The second mate of the merchant ship personally boarded the observation deck and watched the wind and grass on the surrounding water with wide-eyed eyes.

If there is any abnormality, the second officer shakes the flag in his hand to tell the crew to prepare for battle.

I don't know if the owner of this merchant ship was too lucky. The merchant ship went to more than half of Qiandao Lake and still did not encounter any wave of bandits.

The owner of the ship was standing in the captain's room, listening to the crew's report, with a sigh of relief.

"It's safe after the tiger jumps ahead!"

"Unexpectedly, I didn't encounter a wave of water bandits this time. It was really luck!"

The chief mate of the merchant ship was manipulating the tuo and said worriedly after hearing the words, "Owner, let's be careful and vigilant!"

"Tiger Leaping Stream is the most dangerous, I'm afraid that there will be water bandits lying in ambush here!"

The ship owner glared at the chief mate upon hearing this, and said in a displeased tone, "Bah baah bah..."

"What nonsense!"

What are you really afraid of?

As soon as the merchant ship entered the Tiger Leaping Stream, the hull suddenly stopped!

Huh boo...

A series of sounds of tight chains came from below the surface of the water.

When the experienced crew heard it, they knew that someone had blocked the iron rope underwater to prevent the ship from moving forward!

The second mate stood on the observation deck, and the hull shook suddenly and almost threw the second mate off.

After getting upright, the second officer raised his eyes to look at the cliffs on both sides of Tiger Leaping Stream, his expression suddenly changed!

"There are water bandits!"

"alert!"