The little sister cares about him very much, and Zhang Ning knows it completely.
He sat in the chair and closed his eyes to rest for a while, and kept thinking about this in his heart: he went to Beijing like this and didn't even say hello, and he could be said to have no news about life and death. How anxious should my little sister be?
He wanted to find someone to send at least a letter to his home, and considered two solutions: one was to find Fang Ling from Fuleyuan. Although she had little friendship with her, she should be willing and should be a person who is trustworthy to a certain extent; the other was to seek help from Yu Qian's entourage.
But no matter what method, you have to send information from this inn to achieve it. Zhang Ning can imagine that there will be eyeliners in every direction outside this inn. Wherever the few people here go, they will immediately be involved...
In the end, others followed the clues and must have touched the Zhang family. They would find ways to figure out what news Zhang Ning and Yu Qian had delivered to the Zhang family at this time.
Zhang Ning really didn't want to implicate his family anymore, so he thought about swallowing this idea.
It didn't take long to rest, and it was dawn.There were a total of five people in the suite who had breakfast and were about to set off.
Wang Jian couldn't help but say: Let's go out of Tongji Gate later, will the officials in Nanjing come to see you off?If the inspector Zhou Ne also came and asked where Brother Ping'an and us were going, what would you say?
Yu Qian said: Ping An would not ask this question.Then Wang Jian didn't explain and let him think about it himself.
Zhang Ning felt that he was being praised, but he really would not ask such a question: the inspector and censor went to the local area with great power and low rank. If he had to manage the cases of six ministers, there must be accomplices, but it is impossible for the entire Nanjing officials to be their accomplices. It is an international joke that Emperor Yongle would allow the Nanjing officialdom to be a monolith?
If Zhou Ne comes to see off, he specifically asks Zhang Ning where he is going, which means that Zhou Ne is still very concerned about Zhang Ning's whereabouts; what if Zhang Ning and Yu Qian tell me halfway, Zhou Ne is afraid that he will not be covered in fishy clothes?
Conspiracy is to do things secretly, afraid that others will know, and it is more difficult to operate than to open up plots...
In fact, the group of people who used Lu Zhen to attack the prince used open conspiracy at the beginning, but they didn't expect that Zhang Ning was arrested openly and killed by the prison and went wrong, so they had to use conspiracy to wipe their butts.
Zhang Ning had no idea how Lu Zhen was sent to the imperial prison, but he could guess that the inspector Zhou Ne and some bureaucrats did not first move Lu Zhen, and directly took Zhang Ning to the prison for confession, and then submitted a memorial to impeach Lu Zhen. As the saying goes, "Reporting big things and making decisions for small things"; Lu Zhen's arrest by the Jinyiwei should be the emperor's personal imperial edict.
A group of five people left Tongji Gate to the pier of Qinhuai River. Sure enough, no one came to see him off.
They boarded a large ship for transporting grain, as if they really wanted to take a boat to Beijing in such a big way. They had a plank road in Ming, but they didn't see where Chen Cang was.
This sailboat for transporting grain is very spectacular and as tall as a building. After coming to the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Ning was really shocked to see such an ancient ship for the first time...
However, thinking that Zheng He's World Invincible Fleet still existed in the world at this time, and the total displacement of thousands of ships in the Ming Dynasty was greater than that of other countries in the world, such a transport ship was not worth making too much fuss.
As soon as Zhang Ning got on the deck, he couldn't help but notice a cannon at the bow of the ship. He couldn't help but take a look. Wang Jian, who was traveling with him, said: "Bowl gun, this is the transport ship of the court, equipped with military equipment."
Zhang Ning nodded and observed some sailors holding muskets on the deck. He thought that these firearms might not be advanced, but suddenly he saw that ancient soldiers had guns and cannons, which was a bit different from what he imagined, so he was a little surprised.
After all, the grain transport ship was not a military ship. Only a bowl gun and a dozen sailors were seen on the deck. In addition, the most were sailors and men in short clothes, as well as some traveling literati and merchant passengers. The crew was quite complicated and officials, and there were really everyone.
Yu Qian has an official position, and there are preferential treatments for taking a boat: a separate cabin is for them to live in for five men.
This is indeed a preferential treatment. After all, sailing boats are not yachts, and they also have to carry a lot of food and cargo. The space for coolie men can only squeeze in the cabin on the second floor, and there is only a small hammock in the resting place and have to take turns to sleep.
The ship stayed on the dock, loading the cargo departed from Nanjing, and it looked slow and there was no tension at all. The busy sailors on the deck saw a woman washing clothes by the river in the distance. They took the time to yell a few sarcastic rhymes, which made everyone on the boat laugh.
Yu Qian was also quite calm, sitting next to the bamboo curtain, drinking tea and waiting, and said slowly: This ship will probably not be able to enter the Grand Canal tomorrow, and join with other grain transport ships to form a fleet to head north. At that time, the fleet will definitely be in a mighty way.
Yes... Wang Jian looked a little restless and looked out the window from time to time.
Only Yu Qian was the most calm in the five people in the cabin. He looked back at the faces of the three subordinates, but he was quite satisfied with Zhang Ning's performance. However, Zhang Ning was not as casual as Yu Qian. He looked very melancholy, probably because he was worried about safety?
The one Zhang Ning thinks the most is actually the girl at home. I don’t know what she is anxious about now.
After a long struggle, the Yungrain ship finally broke down and set sail.
The five people seemed very silent. Yu Qian did not mention the serious matters, and the others were tactfully not mentioning them, and they were not in the mood to talk about other things. So the atmosphere was very dull. Yu Qian sat there and closed his eyes to rest, and the others were silently and bored.
Zhang Ning reached into his underwear pocket and touched it. He found a red auspicious talisman. He took it under the window and looked around and played with it.
Suddenly Yu Qian said: Ping An believes this?
Zhang Ning raised his head and saw Yu Qian smiling, so he pretended to be relaxed: The saint said nothing about the power god, the things were given by someone else.
Wang Jian said in a fitting voice: Which girl must have given it? Who can I give this kind of thing?
Zhang Ning smiled but did not answer, thinking that in ancient times, a group of men actually had some similarities with modern times. The topic was easily related to a beautiful girl. If everyone had met her, it would be more harmonious to talk about her.
Yu Qian said: By the way, Ping'an is from Nanjing, can he swim?
Zhang Ning replied: Yes, when I was a child, I liked to secretly go to the river to play with my friends, and I learned to swim.But later, I became very worried and sluggish, and rarely went to the river to swim shirtlessly, and the water quality was not very good.
Yu Qian nodded: It’s true that it is a scholar.
Everyone chatted all the time, sometimes leaned against the bulkhead and was still calm until they had supper.
The wind on Jiangsu Water Network was good these days, and after nightfall, the food and grass were still rising and sailing without stopping.
The five people went to Nanjing all night last night, swaying on the boat during the day without resting well. Most of them fell asleep tiredly, and Zhang Ning didn't know why he fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Ning was suddenly woken up. When he opened his eyes, there was darkness around him. It took a moment before he came to his senses and came to his senses on a boat in the Ming Dynasty.
Shh!A sound came from beside him, and Zhang Ning remained motionless.Yu Qian's voice: Wake up?Zhang Ning whispered in a low voice.
Yu Qian said in a deep voice: After we arrived in Nanjing, Lord Yang was worried that he sent two good-skilled people to come.In other words, since we were exposed last night, there are two of us who don’t know about it, and they are also on this boat now.When I finish speaking, you go out and go to the stern of the boat to go to the toilet. Someone will take you off the boat and take you by land.There is a man named Luo Mo Niang who is the daughter of Lord Yang Shiqi. You can trust her and just follow her arrangements.
Zhang Ning, who just woke up, was a little confused and thought to himself: Yang Shiqi's daughter's surname is Luo. Can he, a daughter of a court minister, have the surname of a mother?
I also swayed from Nanjing to take a boat. The boat was delayed at the dock for most of the day. The other party must have arranged staff on the boat. There is no need to guess that there must be eyeliners around the cabin. If you go out to use the toilet, you will run away. Think he is a fool?
Yu Qian's so-called trick to repair the plank road openly and secretly pass through Chen Cang is not just this bad trick!
He also felt that Yu Qian was not that kind of person, and then he saw him calmly at first, I believe it was not that simple.
So Zhang Ning stood up and bowed to Qian with a fist.
Yu Qian said: Let’s go.
But Zhang Ning found the fire stone and knocked the fire note first, and then he took the fire note out of the cabin.
As soon as he arrived at the deck, the wind and fire broke out immediately. He blocked the sparks with his sleeves and walked quietly to the stern.
The lower crew member wearing short clothes on the boat usually urinates into the river on the deck, but it is more dangerous and embarrassing to squat on the side of the boat. Also, passengers with some status will also pay attention to their image, so in addition to a small number of toilets on the boat, there is also a public toilet.
After getting on the boat, Zhang Ning went to the toilet twice. The thing is similar to the modern train toilet. There is a slope where the dirt is discharged straight into the river.
The wind on the deck was crackling with flag sails, and the rustling waves in the river. There were very few people outside in the second half of the night. Zhang Ning could see only two. It was probably the sailor on duty. The others were all in the cabin. It was really cold outside. The two people on the deck were dressed like they were in the winter.
They saw Zhang Ning walking toward the stern with a spark covered in it, but they ignored it.
When I reached the stern of the boat, I could no longer see anyone. The lively and busy scenes on the deck during the day had disappeared, leaving only the cold night wind, with a fishy smell like rotten fish and shrimps.
The toilet was right in front, and there was a dark lantern hanging at the door that seemed to be extinguished at any time.
Zhang Ning didn't stop pretending to be normal and walked over. He couldn't see anyone there, but he knew in his heart that there were eyes staring at him outside except for someone in the toilet. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
He sat in the chair and closed his eyes to rest for a while, and kept thinking about this in his heart: he went to Beijing like this and didn't even say hello, and he could be said to have no news about life and death. How anxious should my little sister be?
He wanted to find someone to send at least a letter to his home, and considered two solutions: one was to find Fang Ling from Fuleyuan. Although she had little friendship with her, she should be willing and should be a person who is trustworthy to a certain extent; the other was to seek help from Yu Qian's entourage.
But no matter what method, you have to send information from this inn to achieve it. Zhang Ning can imagine that there will be eyeliners in every direction outside this inn. Wherever the few people here go, they will immediately be involved...
In the end, others followed the clues and must have touched the Zhang family. They would find ways to figure out what news Zhang Ning and Yu Qian had delivered to the Zhang family at this time.
Zhang Ning really didn't want to implicate his family anymore, so he thought about swallowing this idea.
It didn't take long to rest, and it was dawn.There were a total of five people in the suite who had breakfast and were about to set off.
Wang Jian couldn't help but say: Let's go out of Tongji Gate later, will the officials in Nanjing come to see you off?If the inspector Zhou Ne also came and asked where Brother Ping'an and us were going, what would you say?
Yu Qian said: Ping An would not ask this question.Then Wang Jian didn't explain and let him think about it himself.
Zhang Ning felt that he was being praised, but he really would not ask such a question: the inspector and censor went to the local area with great power and low rank. If he had to manage the cases of six ministers, there must be accomplices, but it is impossible for the entire Nanjing officials to be their accomplices. It is an international joke that Emperor Yongle would allow the Nanjing officialdom to be a monolith?
If Zhou Ne comes to see off, he specifically asks Zhang Ning where he is going, which means that Zhou Ne is still very concerned about Zhang Ning's whereabouts; what if Zhang Ning and Yu Qian tell me halfway, Zhou Ne is afraid that he will not be covered in fishy clothes?
Conspiracy is to do things secretly, afraid that others will know, and it is more difficult to operate than to open up plots...
In fact, the group of people who used Lu Zhen to attack the prince used open conspiracy at the beginning, but they didn't expect that Zhang Ning was arrested openly and killed by the prison and went wrong, so they had to use conspiracy to wipe their butts.
Zhang Ning had no idea how Lu Zhen was sent to the imperial prison, but he could guess that the inspector Zhou Ne and some bureaucrats did not first move Lu Zhen, and directly took Zhang Ning to the prison for confession, and then submitted a memorial to impeach Lu Zhen. As the saying goes, "Reporting big things and making decisions for small things"; Lu Zhen's arrest by the Jinyiwei should be the emperor's personal imperial edict.
A group of five people left Tongji Gate to the pier of Qinhuai River. Sure enough, no one came to see him off.
They boarded a large ship for transporting grain, as if they really wanted to take a boat to Beijing in such a big way. They had a plank road in Ming, but they didn't see where Chen Cang was.
This sailboat for transporting grain is very spectacular and as tall as a building. After coming to the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Ning was really shocked to see such an ancient ship for the first time...
However, thinking that Zheng He's World Invincible Fleet still existed in the world at this time, and the total displacement of thousands of ships in the Ming Dynasty was greater than that of other countries in the world, such a transport ship was not worth making too much fuss.
As soon as Zhang Ning got on the deck, he couldn't help but notice a cannon at the bow of the ship. He couldn't help but take a look. Wang Jian, who was traveling with him, said: "Bowl gun, this is the transport ship of the court, equipped with military equipment."
Zhang Ning nodded and observed some sailors holding muskets on the deck. He thought that these firearms might not be advanced, but suddenly he saw that ancient soldiers had guns and cannons, which was a bit different from what he imagined, so he was a little surprised.
After all, the grain transport ship was not a military ship. Only a bowl gun and a dozen sailors were seen on the deck. In addition, the most were sailors and men in short clothes, as well as some traveling literati and merchant passengers. The crew was quite complicated and officials, and there were really everyone.
Yu Qian has an official position, and there are preferential treatments for taking a boat: a separate cabin is for them to live in for five men.
This is indeed a preferential treatment. After all, sailing boats are not yachts, and they also have to carry a lot of food and cargo. The space for coolie men can only squeeze in the cabin on the second floor, and there is only a small hammock in the resting place and have to take turns to sleep.
The ship stayed on the dock, loading the cargo departed from Nanjing, and it looked slow and there was no tension at all. The busy sailors on the deck saw a woman washing clothes by the river in the distance. They took the time to yell a few sarcastic rhymes, which made everyone on the boat laugh.
Yu Qian was also quite calm, sitting next to the bamboo curtain, drinking tea and waiting, and said slowly: This ship will probably not be able to enter the Grand Canal tomorrow, and join with other grain transport ships to form a fleet to head north. At that time, the fleet will definitely be in a mighty way.
Yes... Wang Jian looked a little restless and looked out the window from time to time.
Only Yu Qian was the most calm in the five people in the cabin. He looked back at the faces of the three subordinates, but he was quite satisfied with Zhang Ning's performance. However, Zhang Ning was not as casual as Yu Qian. He looked very melancholy, probably because he was worried about safety?
The one Zhang Ning thinks the most is actually the girl at home. I don’t know what she is anxious about now.
After a long struggle, the Yungrain ship finally broke down and set sail.
The five people seemed very silent. Yu Qian did not mention the serious matters, and the others were tactfully not mentioning them, and they were not in the mood to talk about other things. So the atmosphere was very dull. Yu Qian sat there and closed his eyes to rest, and the others were silently and bored.
Zhang Ning reached into his underwear pocket and touched it. He found a red auspicious talisman. He took it under the window and looked around and played with it.
Suddenly Yu Qian said: Ping An believes this?
Zhang Ning raised his head and saw Yu Qian smiling, so he pretended to be relaxed: The saint said nothing about the power god, the things were given by someone else.
Wang Jian said in a fitting voice: Which girl must have given it? Who can I give this kind of thing?
Zhang Ning smiled but did not answer, thinking that in ancient times, a group of men actually had some similarities with modern times. The topic was easily related to a beautiful girl. If everyone had met her, it would be more harmonious to talk about her.
Yu Qian said: By the way, Ping'an is from Nanjing, can he swim?
Zhang Ning replied: Yes, when I was a child, I liked to secretly go to the river to play with my friends, and I learned to swim.But later, I became very worried and sluggish, and rarely went to the river to swim shirtlessly, and the water quality was not very good.
Yu Qian nodded: It’s true that it is a scholar.
Everyone chatted all the time, sometimes leaned against the bulkhead and was still calm until they had supper.
The wind on Jiangsu Water Network was good these days, and after nightfall, the food and grass were still rising and sailing without stopping.
The five people went to Nanjing all night last night, swaying on the boat during the day without resting well. Most of them fell asleep tiredly, and Zhang Ning didn't know why he fell asleep.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Ning was suddenly woken up. When he opened his eyes, there was darkness around him. It took a moment before he came to his senses and came to his senses on a boat in the Ming Dynasty.
Shh!A sound came from beside him, and Zhang Ning remained motionless.Yu Qian's voice: Wake up?Zhang Ning whispered in a low voice.
Yu Qian said in a deep voice: After we arrived in Nanjing, Lord Yang was worried that he sent two good-skilled people to come.In other words, since we were exposed last night, there are two of us who don’t know about it, and they are also on this boat now.When I finish speaking, you go out and go to the stern of the boat to go to the toilet. Someone will take you off the boat and take you by land.There is a man named Luo Mo Niang who is the daughter of Lord Yang Shiqi. You can trust her and just follow her arrangements.
Zhang Ning, who just woke up, was a little confused and thought to himself: Yang Shiqi's daughter's surname is Luo. Can he, a daughter of a court minister, have the surname of a mother?
I also swayed from Nanjing to take a boat. The boat was delayed at the dock for most of the day. The other party must have arranged staff on the boat. There is no need to guess that there must be eyeliners around the cabin. If you go out to use the toilet, you will run away. Think he is a fool?
Yu Qian's so-called trick to repair the plank road openly and secretly pass through Chen Cang is not just this bad trick!
He also felt that Yu Qian was not that kind of person, and then he saw him calmly at first, I believe it was not that simple.
So Zhang Ning stood up and bowed to Qian with a fist.
Yu Qian said: Let’s go.
But Zhang Ning found the fire stone and knocked the fire note first, and then he took the fire note out of the cabin.
As soon as he arrived at the deck, the wind and fire broke out immediately. He blocked the sparks with his sleeves and walked quietly to the stern.
The lower crew member wearing short clothes on the boat usually urinates into the river on the deck, but it is more dangerous and embarrassing to squat on the side of the boat. Also, passengers with some status will also pay attention to their image, so in addition to a small number of toilets on the boat, there is also a public toilet.
After getting on the boat, Zhang Ning went to the toilet twice. The thing is similar to the modern train toilet. There is a slope where the dirt is discharged straight into the river.
The wind on the deck was crackling with flag sails, and the rustling waves in the river. There were very few people outside in the second half of the night. Zhang Ning could see only two. It was probably the sailor on duty. The others were all in the cabin. It was really cold outside. The two people on the deck were dressed like they were in the winter.
They saw Zhang Ning walking toward the stern with a spark covered in it, but they ignored it.
When I reached the stern of the boat, I could no longer see anyone. The lively and busy scenes on the deck during the day had disappeared, leaving only the cold night wind, with a fishy smell like rotten fish and shrimps.
The toilet was right in front, and there was a dark lantern hanging at the door that seemed to be extinguished at any time.
Zhang Ning didn't stop pretending to be normal and walked over. He couldn't see anyone there, but he knew in his heart that there were eyes staring at him outside except for someone in the toilet. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous.