After rebirth, I became a national teacher

The two boats met briefly.

The ship that Chen Qingzhu was on continued to move north along the canal.

Zuo Yujiang and his crew's boat remained where it was, waiting for the local government to send someone over.

The people who went out to deliver the letter were Zuo Yujiang's servants and the guards on the boat.

They were looking for the magistrate of Jiyuan County, which was closest to the river.

Seeing Zuo Yujiang's seal, the magistrate of Jiyuan County did not dare to delay and quickly organized a large number of people and vehicles in the county to come and receive the passengers on the ship.

After all, there were many injured people on the ship and they had to be properly treated by doctors.

The hull was also damaged and needed to be repaired before it could sail further.

Therefore, all passengers had to temporarily disembark and rest in Jiyuan County before continuing their journey.

The bodies of the bandits filled more than a dozen carts, and there was also a long line of living bandits.

Such a large event entering the county town naturally caused quite a stir.

The miraculous deeds of a deity named Du'e Zunzhe, who killed the bandits and saved the passengers on the boat, were also widely circulated throughout Jiyuan County.

Among them, all the dignitaries who were rescued donated money to build a temple near the river for the gods who saved them.

Although not everyone is as wealthy as the wealthy businessman named Jiang, who was able to donate one thousand taels at a time, but there are many people, and the people who survived the entire ship raised a total of more than two thousand taels of charity.

They did not have much time to stay here and wait for the temple to be built, so they sent the money to the county government with drums and gongs, and entrusted the county magistrate to send people to build the Temple of Du'e Venerable.

The reason for doing this is naturally to prevent the county magistrate from embezzling charity funds.

Of course, they were not completely ignorant. In addition to the donations, they also gave an extra 500 taels to the county magistrate as a reward for his hard work.

Such a scene once again became a legend in Jiyuan County.

When the temple was completed, it became very popular.

When the passengers on the ship arrived at their destinations or returned to their hometowns, the miracles of Venerable Du'e spread again in a small area.

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Chen Qingzhu and others continued to move north.

During this period, no other pirates were encountered.

Because only three days after passing Jeju, the canal was no longer passable.

The captain sent a small boat forward to investigate the situation, and when he came back he said apologetically:

"Boss, I'm really sorry. I heard that it hasn't rained in Liaozhou Prefecture for a month. The water in the canal is not deep enough for our ship to pass. How about I refund you half of the fare?"

Chen Qingzhu looked at the river in the distance. There was only two meters of water in the widest place, and the rest was full of exposed silt, which could only barely allow small boats to pass. The two-story boat they were riding on was completely useless.

She did not embarrass the captain and said directly:

"Then let's go back to the last dock and take the land route instead."

Now that we are close to Liaozhou, we are only halfway to the capital. Since the canal is impassable, we can only take the land route first.

The ship docked at a county pier called Hexing. Chen Qingzhu gave Qin Yongming 1,200 taels of silver and asked him to take people to the county to buy a carriage.

The group purchased a total of ten carriages to accommodate people and luggage.

Although traveling by land is bumpy, it is more interesting than traveling by water.

Qin Yongming planned the itinerary very well. They could rest in different counties almost every day, stay in inns and have a good night's sleep, and taste delicacies from different places.

Even a nice bath is available.

However, there has been a long period of drought in Liaozhou, and the water from the wells in the city is very slow. Water has to be drawn from outside the city every day to meet the water demand, so hot water in the inn is very expensive.

What's worse is that after leaving Liaozhou and entering Linzhou, the weather became drier and hotter.

The sky was clear, high and vast, as blue as a mirror, with not even a few clouds to be seen.