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The next day, the clouds and rain stopped, the weather was clear and sunny. Since we came out for fun, we planned to stay here for a day or two and walk around.

In the early morning, breathing the fresh air after the heavy rain, Li Mu, Su Tan'er and a few little girls walked down from the pleasure boat.

The bluestone road washed by rain became bright and clean. Along the long street, the few of them found a good restaurant, had breakfast, and began to stroll around Changzhou city leisurely.

After playing for half a day and buying a lot of snacks and local specialties, the little girls were obviously a little tired, so they returned to the houseboat.

On the other side, Lou Shuwan was dealing with the cargo ship early in the morning. Because there was a problem with the ship, it would take some time to repair and it would be impossible to set off in a short time.

Most of the goods on the ship were not so urgent, but a small part of them were quite valuable. Since they had promised others and agreed on a delivery time in Hangzhou, they could not delay here and had to charter a ship to transport them back.

Fortunately, this part of the cargo is not large and is easy to handle.

Lou Shuwan walked out of the dock and suddenly saw a familiar figure in the distance. After seeing the face clearly, she suddenly remembered who it was. It was Su Tan'er from the Jiangning Su family. They had met several times a few years ago. Although they were not familiar with each other, they got along well when chatting.

Just as she was about to go over to say hello, Su Tan'er apparently noticed her and came over with a bright smile.

When old friends meet, and since they are both daughters of merchants, they naturally become closer. They reminisced about the past for a while, and made an appointment to go out for tea together in the afternoon, and then parted ways.

After watching Su Tan'er and her group return to the pleasure boat, a young man dressed as a scholar and holding a folding fan walked quickly to Lou Shuwan's side and asked politely, "Shuwan, what are you looking at?"

Lou Shuwan glanced at him and said, "Nothing, just met an old friend!"

The man followed his gaze and saw the huge pleasure boat at first sight: "Such a grand display, which noble family is going on a trip?"

Then he looked at Lou Shuwan again: "Could it be the old friend you mentioned?"

Lou Shuwan nodded without saying much, but she was a little confused. The Su family was just a merchant family, similar to hers, so this show was indeed a bit too much.

"But..." She looked at the pleasure boat thoughtfully, "It seems that the pleasure boat is also heading south..."

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A day later, the pleasure boat set sail again, heading towards Suzhou, but there was an additional person, Lou Shuwan, on board.

Lou Shuwan and Su Tan'er had tea together in a teahouse yesterday afternoon and reminisced about the past. After learning that the pleasure boat would be heading south to Hangzhou, they talked about the damage to the cargo ship yesterday. A batch of goods needed to be transported to Hangzhou for urgent delivery, and wondered if the pleasure boat could carry them along the way.

Su Tan'er did not agree immediately. After returning, she asked Li Mu for his opinion. In fact, she was planning to agree. Apart from the fact that they were old friends, the Lou family was a wealthy family in Hangzhou. If the Su family wanted to expand the scale of their industry in Hangzhou, it was necessary to establish a good relationship with the Lou family.

Li Mu just smiled and said, "It's fine to put the goods on the pleasure boat, but the main purpose of our trip is to travel. We have to stop for two days when we pass by Suzhou, Taihu Lake... these beautiful places. We can't rush all the way to Hangzhou just because she is in a hurry to deliver the goods. Ask her if she can accept it?"

Lou Shuwan naturally had to listen to her husband when compared to her husband. They didn't have a very deep friendship originally, they just knew each other when they were girls, and both of them were strong women, so the impression was quite deep.

What's more, this trip was originally intended to be a trip and to travel around. Going all the way to Hangzhou just for an old friend was not in line with her original intention.

So, she explained her intention in a tactful way. Lou Shuwan was surprised by Su Tan'er's attitude. They were both career-oriented women. The Su family needed to build a good relationship with the Lou family to expand their business in Hangzhou. Even if they didn't meet this time, they would visit her at the Lou family when they arrived in Hangzhou.

I thought Su Tan'er would agree and would not interfere with the family business for the sake of traveling.

Lou Shuwan was helpless. Her cargo could not wait for them to travel along the way, so she could only hire a smaller cargo ship.

I originally wanted to take a cargo ship back to Hangzhou to see Su Tan'er's three-decker pleasure boat, but then I looked at the cargo ship and found that the conditions were completely different.

So she let the cargo ship return to Hangzhou alone, and she went back with Su Tan'er on the pleasure boat.

This was naturally no problem, and Su Tan'er agreed readily.

Li Mu had no problem either, but he had taken precautions in advance. There was no problem for Lou Shuwan and her maids to take the pleasure boat along the way.

But friends of bad character should not come.

Su Tan'er was a little confused at first, until she saw Lou Shuwan flirting with a man. When they were drinking tea and chatting yesterday, she learned that Lou Shuwan was married. She thought it was her husband, but after asking around, she found out that her husband was still in Hangzhou, so the identity of the man was obvious.

After seeing that Lou Shuwan was actually planning to bring the man on board the houseboat, Su Tan'er finally understood what Li Mu meant by Lou Shuwan's questionable friends.

The two of them didn't have a very deep friendship to begin with, and they probably wouldn't have a very deep friendship in the future, but there was no need to tear each other apart, so they could only say it in a euphemistic way.

Lou Shuwan hesitated for a long time. It was still far away from Hangzhou. The conditions on both the cargo ship and the passenger ship were far inferior to those on the pleasure boat. In the end, she left the man dressed as a scholar in Changzhou and boarded the pleasure boat with her maid.

Li Mu did not delay and set off for Suzhou.

It was on this day that the news of the war between Jin and Liao finally reached the south, causing countless waves.

Some were shocked, some were excited, some were worried, some were scared...

Some people shouted that while the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman benefits, and both the Jin and Liao countries suffered losses; some people excitedly asked the court to send troops north as soon as possible to join forces with the Jin to attack the Liao, and take the opportunity to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun that had been lost for hundreds of years and complete this unprecedented feat.

Some people also looked at the Jin Kingdom with vigilance. The Liao Kingdom was no match for the Jin Kingdom. The Wu Kingdom couldn't even defeat the Liao Kingdom, so how could it defeat the Jin Kingdom? After the Liao Kingdom was gone, would the Jin Kingdom continue to move south?
No one knows the answer, and no one can influence the situation between Jin and Liao. Everyone can only watch silently, hoping that the court will cheer up, seize the opportunity, or face reality.

Similarly, as the news of the war between Jin and Liao spread across the country, a less eye-catching piece of news also spread. Qin Siyuan, who had signed the Black Water Alliance, was formally reinstated by the court and directly promoted to the position of Shangshu You Pushe and Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, that is, the right prime minister, only below the emperor and the left prime minister. It can be said that he was second only to the two of them, and above ten thousand people.

The reason for his revival was not made clear to the world, but many people thought of the rumors about Qin Siyuan instigating the Jin and Liao countries some time ago. Now it seems that they have been confirmed, and his reputation has soared for a while.

At the same time, as the power of the Liao Dynasty declined and its control over the grassland weakened, a nomadic tribe on the grassland began to conquer the south and the north. Although still weak, it gradually showed its edge.

The wheel of history seems to have started rolling.

(End of this chapter)