The South Canal and the Yangtze River meet. Ships traveling from south to north are waiting to pass the gate here. The Jingkou Wharf is very lively.
The boss of the boat paid the gate fee, and the two boats waited in line.
Huo Xi led the two servant girls, and got off the boat with Shen Qianzhong and Lei Da.
Vanilla and Xia He have gained a lot of knowledge along the way. Vanilla is okay. She also stayed on the boat with her grandfather when she was a child, but Xia He is only nine years old and has never been out of Ningbo as long as she can remember. This time her eyes are straight again.
But it was vanilla that fell when walking.
Staring at the bustle of the pier had a good look, and almost fell, but was helped by Xia He.
Shen Qianzhong laughed: "It's still the boss who has a good eye, and the two maids he took in are smart and steady."
Huo Xi turned to look at the two of them, shook his head and laughed. That vanilla is six years older than Xia He, and looks less stable than Xia He.
Guangfengshui has a shop in Jingkou, and the group went all the way to find it.
When I arrived at the door of the shop, I saw that there were quite a lot of people coming and going at the door, so I didn't rush in. I didn't move until there were fewer people at the door.
Fan Yongnan was about to enter the shop after seeing off the guests, when he saw a group of people walking towards him, took a closer look, and trotted over: "Boss shopkeeper, why are you here?"
"It happened to be on the way to Ningbo to do some goods." Shen Qianzhong smiled at him.
Huo Xi asked Lei Da to take two maids to drink tea in an outside tea shop, and followed him into the shop.
The three arrived in the backyard, Fan Yongnan took a look at Huo Xi: "Is this the son of the shopkeeper?"
Shopkeeper Shen only smiled and said, "No."
Fan Yongnan didn't look at Huo Xi any more when he saw that it wasn't, maybe he was the nephew of shopkeeper Shen. Then he talked about the things in the shop with Shen Qianzhong, and saw that the big shopkeeper let the child listen, but he didn't care, he just thought that the big shopkeeper brought the child by his side to train him.
Huo Xi didn't say a word, just listened attentively from the side.
The Jingkou Wharf is where the canal meets the Yangtze River. It goes south to Zhejiang and Fujian, goes north to Huai’an, and goes north to the same level. Ships going south and north will be repaired at Jingkou, so the location is important.
Huo Xi opened a shop in Jingkou two years earlier. Buy goods from south to north and transport them to the capital and the north.
This Fan Yongnan is Shen Qianzhong's fellow villager, Shen Qianzhong knew him well, and said he knew everything, so Huo Xi put him in Jingkou. It has done well in the past two years, and its income has been increasing every year.
Shen Qianzhong glanced at the account book, then pushed it towards Huo Xi.
Fan Yongnan was slightly surprised, but he didn't take it too seriously.
Huo Xi flipped through the account book, looking at the names of the incoming and outgoing goods, as well as the prices of incoming and outgoing goods.
Since this account book is for people to see, of course it is done properly and dares to be seen by others. It is very easy for the shopkeeper to play tricks on the entry and exit prices, and there is not much to see in the account book.
The hemp material is bought for five renminbi a catty, remember six renminbi, sell for seven renminbi, and say it sells for six and a half renminbi. There are a lot of articles that can be written here.
And the prices of all these goods are different from month to month. Even during the day, the collection at different time periods may be very different.
There are many factors that affect the price of goods bought and sold by water transport.
The price was still the same a few days ago. In a few days, it may be due to the weather, or it may be just because the waiting time for the gate is too long, the goods are delayed, and the price may be affected.
These cannot be peeked at.
Besides, when the water is clear, there will be no fish. As long as the price fluctuations are not large, Huo Xi generally doesn't care.
Huo Xi has seen many piers along the way, and found that each piers have their own characteristics and are not the same.
For example, Songjiang Wharf, because Songjiang is a major cotton-producing county, ships from south to north come to do cloth trading. There are many fans in Ningbo Port, and they are all engaged in fan business.
As for Yuegang, I heard that because there are many shipbuilding workshops in Fujian, most of the ships at the wharf transport wood, iron, tung oil, lacquer, oyster ash, rattan palm hemp and other shipbuilding materials.
And in this Jingkou Wharf, ships transporting grain, cloth and various materials can be seen everywhere. The two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are full of abundant water, and the grain from the two provinces passes through the Jingkou Wharf and is shipped to other provinces.
Because Beiping was going to be built as a city, all kinds of materials were transported to Beiping, and everything was transported by boat.
While watching it lively, he saw a few guards in brocade clothes wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives around their waists escorting a young man past, and soon boarded a boat, which sailed away from the pier.
The people around only dared to quietly watch quietly, and didn't dare to discuss a few words until the people from Jin Yiwei left.
"I don't know what crime I committed. This was caught by the people of Jinyiwei. If I don't die, I have to take off a few layers of skin."
"It doesn't necessarily mean that he committed a crime, maybe he was just taken for questioning. He was not tied. It seems that he is not afraid of running away."
"The four Jinyi guards are in custody, and they still dare to run, are they going to die?"
Jin Yiwei's vicious image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, making people afraid to peek at it. With a cold face, he looked like a paralyzed face, but he was quite similar to the noble young man she knew.
Huo Xi shook vigorously, shaking off the paralyzed image of the noble young man. I don't know which lady the facial paralysis will match, life is so difficult, isn't it better to find an interesting soul than a facial paralysis?
Several people sat in the tea shop for a while, and when Shen Qianzhong came out, they left and boarded the ship.
Waiting to pass the lock, and another half an hour before the boat left the pier.
At dusk, while the sky was still bright, the boss cooked the meal, and the group ate on the deck. The boat boss asked Vanilla about the weather tonight.
Vanilla looked up at the sky again, and replied, "Don't worry, there will be no rain or wind tonight."
"That's good." The boss of the boat was relieved. Thinking about where this section of the waterway is suitable for parking the boat, and prepare to dock the boat in a while.
After Xiangcao finished talking with the boat boss, Xia He looked at her adoringly, feeling a little proud.
Glancing at Lei Da and the others, he said to Huo Xi: "Young master, we will be able to arrive at the capital tomorrow morning. This trip is going well, and the **** money for this trip is wasted."
Lei Da’s ears were sharp, and when he heard it, his eyes widened: “The captain didn’t care about the dart money, but you did. How do you know that it wasn’t a water thief who saw our Shengtian dart flag and scared him away?”
Xiang Cao nodded seriously: "Of course it is also possible. But this trip is going well, you can't charge less money? I think it should be like this in the future. If there is something to do on the way, add money to the body, and if there is nothing to do, reduce money. silver."
Huo Xi, Shen Qianzhong and the others all laughed: "The Escort has another paid job."
"What's the work for the money?"
"According to what you mean, the Escort Bureau let their own people pretend to be water thieves all the way, so wouldn't they be able to charge a lot more money for the Escort?"
Shen Qiandao also nodded: "Exactly. And what if the bodyguards become malicious, and they pretend to be real, and see that they have robbed more property than bodyguards, so what if they become water thieves? When the white and the underworld are all eaten up, then who can cure them."
Seeing everyone looking at him, Lei Da jumped up: "We won't do such inhumane things! Wouldn't it be good to earn our money?"
After speaking, he glared at Vanilla.
Vanilla is not afraid, she pulls him and asks him endlessly. It annoyed Ray very much.
Where did the girl who knelt and begged to cry that night went? A poor girl has become difficult.
Everyone was joking around Lei Da, saying that they didn't know whether they were lucky along the way, or they planted dart flags to deter the water thieves, and then they heard the boss of the boat say that something happened ahead.