Junze vomited and came back to his senses. Just now he felt like he was going to die in the water, and he was still thinking about how unjust his death was.
His mother once said that sooner or later you will die with this mouth.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a prophecy.
As soon as he woke up, he felt someone kissing him mouth to mouth, trying to calm him down.
He couldn't breathe at first, then he spit out the water and came to life, realizing that the person who saved his life was Gu Yu.
Among those nonsense rumors, there is someone he cannot love.
He had the idea of striking first, letting others embarrass him first, so that he would not be embarrassed anymore, so he said that Gu Yu took advantage of others' danger, but he did not expect to be beaten severely.
How cruel.
As expected, I took advantage of the fact that no one else saw me here, so I did the following.
When I return to Kyoto, I will take care of you slowly.
Junze vomited heartbrokenly.
After the fight, Gu Yu regained some sense. After all, this person was King Xiaoyao. Although he had become familiar with him during this period, it was not advisable to go too far.
She sat alone in the stern of the boat and sulked, feeling like her chest was about to explode.
It was daybreak, and Gu Yu squeezed the water out of her body. The morning in the south of the Yangtze River had begun to get hot. The river breeze blew her clothes, and they dried quickly.
After Junze finished vomiting, he saw Gu Yu sitting in the bow of the boat with a muffled voice. He had just been rescued from the hell gate by Gu Yu and was beaten by Gu Yu. He did not dare to touch her for the time being.
I rowed the boat honestly with a long pole. Although the boat was rowed crookedly, it finally made it to the Nanwang County Pier.
After getting off the boat, Gu Yu picked up the luggage left in the cabin and gave Junze a cold look.
Although he didn't say anything, his eyes said everything.
This look of not letting strangers in made Junze give up the idea of going with her.
She sat on the boat until she walked into the crowd and then jumped off the boat.
He took out a bag of money from his half-dried clothes, threw it into the sky, whistled, then grinned as he pulled the wound on his face, and disappeared into the crowd.
Jiangnan is a prosperous place in the world, and its prosperity is very different from Kyoto.
It has become a fashion for men to wear hairpins on their temples. Women in Jiangnan are more gentle and reserved than those in Kyoto. They wear veils and hats when going out, so that no one can see their beauty.
After struggling for most of the night, Gu Yu walked into a well-decorated restaurant with her luggage.
I had been traveling for days and didn't find anything good, so I ordered a table of food.
The taste was a bit sweet, and I was very hungry, so I couldn't accept it. After finishing the meal, I felt a little better, so I asked the waiter to pay the bill as a matter of course.
"Sir, one tael and one penny." The waiter bowed his body and said with a smile.
Prices in Jiangnan were as good as those in Kyoto. Gu Yu didn't care about the amount of money he had. He dug into his luggage and his expression changed instantly.
The waiter was hunched over waiting for her. When he saw her inserting his hand, he stopped responding. The smile on his face faded a little, and he emphasized again: "Sir, one tael and one penny."
Gu Yu withdrew her empty hand from the bag. She didn't know what kind of signal the waiter had with the people in the building. She heard two people coming up outside the door. They sounded tall and tall.
Half a quarter of an hour later, Prince Gu, who was a wealthy and elegant man in Kyoto, walked out onto the street wearing a coarse shorts that no servant in the Duke's palace wore.
Passing by a stall selling rouge and gouache, Gu Yu saw her own appearance in the bronze mirror.
There was a bruise on the corner of his mouth, and the clothes were extremely ill-fitting, with one arm and ankle exposed, and his hair was only fixed with a chopstick. Although his brows and eyes were not concealing his elegance, he looked funny no matter how he looked.
Broom star!
Gu Yu felt depressed for a while.
She was really too gentle.
There weren't many things in the bag, just common medicine, the Gu family's token, her three-edged sword wrapped in cotton cloth, and a small coat to wrap her breasts.
None of them can be suppressed in a restaurant.
Everything about him, including his clothes that had been soaked in water, and the ebony hairpin on his head were worth a bit.
Fortunately, the clothes the waiter changed for her were clean, otherwise she would have been so angry that she fainted.
After the talk, she has already allowed the Gu family's business to develop in the south of the Yangtze River. The rise of new forces will inevitably attract attention.
If she wanted to investigate secretly, she would have to be more cautious.
The foundation of Xiao Xing's family was in Jiangnan. With the help of him, Gu Yu quickly found a bank of the Xiao family. After checking the password with the shopkeeper, he waited in a room for Pingsha to come over.
When Pingsha came over, he was shocked when he saw Gu Yu. Why did his eldest son behave like this? He hurriedly asked: "My eldest son, who is so bold as to hit you in the face?"
Gu Yu secretly grinded his molar teeth and said nothing.
Pingsha was considerate and quickly got her a hard-boiled egg to rub on her face.
Gu Yu rubbed his face and asked, "What happened to the salt field?"
Pingsha said with a serious face: "Before the Yang family ransacked their property, the Li family, which was of the same size as him, bought a salt farm, and no one from the court paid any attention to it.
I dressed up as a salt worker these days and entered the salt field. I discovered that the original Yang family and now the Li family salt field are divided into outer salt field and inner salt field.
A salt worker like me can only work in the outer salt field. I heard that the people in the inner salt field are all slaves who have signed death contracts and are locked up inside. No one has ever come out."
Gu Yu pointed her finger at the table and murmured: "Is the salt farm really producing salt?"
Pingsha said: "Yes, I also learned a lot of salt-making techniques."
Gu Yu had some ideas and said, "How to make salt? Let me tell you."
Pingsha briefly explained, and then added: "Private salt sales in Jiangnan have been repeatedly banned. The salt workers in the salt field are paid very little, so they will touch some salt and sell it when they are off work. The supervisors also know that and do not suppress this matter."
Gu Yu put down the egg in his hand and said, "Is there any way to get me in?"
Pingsha said: "I have developed some friendship with the steward of the salt field. Tomorrow, Your Majesty, you will enter the salt field with me first. Not many of the salt workers in the salt field are literate. I will find a way to prevent the supervisor in charge of bookkeeping from doing his work. You
See you on the top of the plane then.”
Gu Yu said: "Okay."
Pingsha hesitated for a moment, then reminded: "It's just that the salt field is very hot, and there are a lot of things to do, so you're going to have to suffer a lot."
Gu Yu said: "No problem."
Early the next morning, Gu Yu was still wearing the coarse cloth that didn't fit yesterday. Because she was worried about her thin skin and tender flesh, she also smeared a lot of plant ash on her face, neck and arms, and her hair was messed up.
Despite this, when he actually arrived at the saltworks, he was still disliked by the steward.
"Can someone with thin arms and legs do this job?" The steward said, holding a pipe in his mouth and looking askance at her.
Pingsha shrewdly stuffed a handful of tobacco leaves into his hand and said flatteringly: "I'm here to honor you with the new tobacco leaves from Tongxingzhai. My cousin was born a child at the age of ten and has never taken the exam.
When I become a scholar, I really can't get rid of the trouble at home, so I'm looking for a job. Please do a good job and reward her with a meal."
The steward kicked the cigarette leaf into his arms and said impatiently: "She doesn't seem to be very good at it. I'll deduct ten cents from my wages today. Try it. If you can't do it, don't come tomorrow. Just go in."
Not long after Gu Yu just entered, another wave of young and strong laborers came. Even though the man in the middle made a mess, Gu Yu could still see that he stood out from the crowd.
The man felt her gaze and turned around to meet Gu Yu's eyes.