Chapter 295

Song Jiuyun couldn't help but frown.

The quarrel outside became even louder: "Okay, we won't take the boat on your boat anymore. You can return the rest of the ship fare to us. It's a total of two hundred taels of silver. You've traveled half the way, so you can pay us back one hundred taels of silver." That’s it.”

It was Hong Xi’s voice.

Song Jiyun couldn't help but walked over and opened the window.

Hong Xi supported the limp Hong Zhao and said in a cold voice to the captain: "Don't think that you can enjoy the cool weather just by leaning against the canal. I'll go to Yingtian Mansion and ask about it."

As he said that, he sat in his arms and took out a red post, and said loudly to the people around him: "I am a relative of the Yin family of Shuntian Prefecture. Can any kind person help us deliver a letter? I have something important to say." Remuneration."

Everyone watching the excitement was stunned.

The boat owner was a little panicked and said hurriedly: "I'll refund the money. Why are you so arrogant?" As he said that, he called his apprentice over and wanted the money back.

Hong Xi stopped arguing with him.

However, someone next to him asked: "Master, would you like our help to deliver the letter to Shuntian Mansion?"

Hong Xi thanked the man and said, "It's not good to just go to a relative's house like this. It's not too late for us to find an inn to freshen up before visiting."

No one dared to look down upon him, so he called the sedan and left the pier.

Song Jiyun smiled, feeling that the invitation in Hong Xi's hand was probably a lie.

She sat down in front of the desk again and went to sleep when she heard the third watch.

Zhou Zheng and others came back the next morning. They were all yawning and felt a little embarrassed when they saw Song Jiuyun walking on the deck.

Song Jiyun used to stay up all night, but he didn't think it was a big deal. He greeted them with a smile: "I'm back! Have you had breakfast? We made duck blood stew on the boat today, and it's okay to eat. Do you want to eat something quickly so that you can go to bed? .We will set off at noon."

Zhou Zheng nodded solemnly and ran away quickly.

Showing a bit of boyishness.

Song Jiuyun smiled slightly and continued to think about going to the capital while walking on the deck.

"Miss Song!" someone called her in surprise.

When she turned around, it was Hong Xi, accompanied by a fourteen or five-year-old man dressed as a boy. He was carrying a bag and helping Hong Xi, who was boarding the boat next to hers.

"It's really you!" He expressed the surprise of meeting an old friend in a foreign land, "Why are you here?"

He looked at Song Jiyun's boat.

It seems that he still doesn't know about her going to the capital.

Song Jiyun thought to himself, smiled and walked to the side of the ship to talk to him: "I will go to the capital and supply supplies here."

Hong Xi was obviously very happy and said: "I am also going to the capital, but I didn't expect us to go together."

While the two were talking, a quarrel came from his cabin.

After Song Jiyun and Hong Xichao had gotten over their quarrel, they saw a man who looked like a ship owner blocking the side of the ship to prevent Hong Zhao and the boy from entering: "I don't care who sold you the tickets, our ship has been chartered. Hurry up. Find another boat."

Hong Xi's expression changed, he walked over quickly and said, "What's going on?"

The captain said bluntly: "We don't accept guests like you on this ship."

Hong Xi was furious and said, "You promised well when I asked you yesterday."

The captain's voice gradually became louder and he said, "But you didn't say that your companion was sick."

"He's not sick." Hong Xi couldn't help but argue, "He's just seasick! If he was sick, I would definitely take him to seek medical treatment and not take him far away."

The captain was unwilling to let them into the cabin no matter what. In the end, he even begged Hong Xi: "Just please do it. I will refund you double, no, triple the ship's fare. You can't let my ship go because of your brother alone." Can’t the business be done?”

From time to time, people poked their heads out of the cabin to look around. From the looks of it, someone must have said something that made the people on the boat reluctant to accept the two Hong Xi brothers.

Hong Xi should have noticed it too. He was extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do.

Hong Zhao looked like he was not afraid of the height of the stage when watching a show. He smiled miserably at Hong Xi and said, "You don't have to act like a brother with me. Just throw me out of here. I don't want to live anymore anyway."

Hong Xi pursed his lips tightly and wanted to say something to the captain. Song Jiyun couldn't stand it anymore and sighed: "Mr. Hong, if you don't dislike it, be my companion!"

He was stunned.

Song Jiyun said: "I have to make you live at the stern of the ship. There are many people traveling with us, so we can't free up two cabins."

"Thank you, thank you so much!" Hong Xi was overjoyed.

When Song Jiyun looked at it, he always felt that the corners of his eyes were sparkling, as if there was sparkling water.

The Hong brothers got on the boat. Song Jiyun arranged for Zheng Quan to receive them and returned to the cabin himself.

After a while, Zheng Quan came over and said: "The second young master of the Hong family is really not sick. If I read it correctly, he should not want to live without eating or drinking."

This is even more troublesome.

If he committed suicide on the ship, the ship would probably be lost.

Song Jiyun felt that his thinking was too simple. I can only ask Zheng Quan: "I'd like to trouble you to let Dai Sishi watch more."

Zheng Quan agreed, turned around and ordered to go down.

At noon, they left Nanjing.

Hong Xi asked to see him.

Song Jiyun met him in the reception cabin.

"Things have changed and people have changed." He said with emotion, "Since I was recognized by the Hong family, I have looked at them a lot, but I still didn't expect that after the Hong family tree fell and the hozens dispersed, I would encounter more people than before. Unbearable people and things.”

It can be seen that he suffered a lot after the collapse of the Hong family.

Don't tell others to be kind if you haven't experienced their suffering.

Song Jiuyun could only comfort him in general terms: "Encounters in life are always like this. No one knows what tomorrow will be like."

Hong Xi was silent for a while as if he was reflecting on her words. He smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Don't worry, I will take good care of Hong Zhao." He also said, "I am going to the General Affairs Department this time. Mr. Cao, the right political envoy. He was a classmate and friend of my mentor when I was studying in Hangzhou. It was recommended by my mentor that I went to the capital this time."

He also told Song Jiyun that he went directly to Hangzhou after he was released from prison. He originally wanted to continue his studies, but for some reason, he could not calm down and study. His mentor suggested that he study abroad for a few years and also suggested that he visit the capital.

"I think what my teacher said makes sense." He smiled bitterly. "Unexpectedly, I met Hong Zhao in Nanjing. He was feverish, sick, and unconscious. He was thrown on the street by the owner of the inn. He wanted to It’s not that I took another look…”

He shook his head: "I originally thought I would hate him. I walked two streets away, but I still couldn't hold it back, so I went back and sent him to the hospital."

Almost everyone in Liang County knows about the Hong family, and everyone also knows about his grievances with Hong Zhao.

Song Jiyun felt that he didn't want her to comfort him or comment on these things, but that he was depressed and needed to talk to someone.

"I took him to the capital, but he still didn't want to. He kept fighting with me. People everywhere said that he was going to die. I don't know how much I explained to others along the way... But when I thought about my father, I couldn't bear it. When he was alive, he never wanted us brothers to recognize each other because his palms and backs were all flesh."

His chatter prompted Wang Hua to visit him frequently.