"The Grand Canal is 3,500 miles long. If you transport goods from Hangzhou to the capital, it will take at least 17 or 18 days to travel and stay overnight every day."

While fucking the boat, the old man introduced the situation to Chen Chong, looking like he knew the matter of river transportation.

Chen Chong sat on the railing, watching the boats coming and going on the river. Countless boatmen downstream were naked, with crotch cloth tied around his waist, and shouting the Hegongzi and moving forward with great effort.

He turned around and asked in confusion: "Brother, you said it will take seventeen or eighteen days to go upstream, so how long will it take for us to go downstream?"

The old man pressed his elbow against the rudder and was filling the tobacco pipe in the tobacco pot. After hearing Chen Chong's question, he knew that the young man had not walked through the world.

He then explained: "Young Master, from Hangzhou to Beijing is a boat ride against the current. There are very few river sections where you can borrow wind power, and most of them have to rely on river workers to pull fibers.

The seventeen or eighteen days I said were the time spent on the imperial court to transport grain. Starting from Hangzhou, people would never change people or ships along the way. People would always feel tired when pulling ships, so those who went from south to north were accurate.

But it’s different for us to go down. We are sailing along the river from north to south. The rowing can be faster than the oars, and Zhang Fan holds the oars for 30%. If he is more courageous and does not stop at night, it is not impossible to walk hundreds of miles a day and night."

Chen Chong nodded thoughtfully and settled the account in his heart.

Three thousand and five hundred miles away. If you calculate the journey of five days and nights, you only need to run thirty miles per hour. With the ability of the heaven and earth to meet those people, this is simply a breeze.

It has been seven days since Oboi was killed. Chen Jinnan has probably arrived in Fuzhou long ago.

Chen Chong was also quite helpless when he got this result.

After catching Xia Lao Er and some beasts, he originally hoped to catch up with Chen Jinnan halfway and to transfer some experts to him for help.

There are many black shops along the canal. Although he is not afraid of his martial arts, fighting alone is not good. After all, he doesn't want to have a fish that misses the net.

But now this idea is mostly lost. In the end, it can only rely on yourself, and at most A Ke and Shuang'er are added.

However, these three people have very average martial arts. The martial arts of two Shuang'er are okay to deal with ordinary people, and A Ke is not as good as two Shuang'er. If you really encounter a tough idea, you may even get hurt.

As for Princess Jianning, just her shooting skills are good enough to listen to the excitement. I am afraid that I will drag you down if I shake the flag and shout...

While I was thinking about it, I heard the old man shouting: "Young Master, Luzigou has arrived, and that should be where you are looking for."

The old man took a cigarette pole and there was a reed marsh on the shore. There was a path in the reed marsh, which led to the distant hillside, and the wine shop was located on the top of the slope.

Chen Chong narrowed his eyes and could see a small pier in the reed marsh. The green-brown aquatic plants hidden the pier, which looked very unreal.

"Can our big ship pass?"

He used an inquiring tone, but before the old man could answer, he added: "I think the pier is not big, it seems that it was not prepared for the big ship, right?"

The old man opened his mouth and said after a moment: "Young master has good eyesight, that is a small dock, which will allow small vendors from all over the country to rest. The big ship will naturally not be able to go there, but your ship should be fine."

Chen Chong shook his head, "Forget it, if it gets stuck, it will be troublesome. My father-in-law, you can take me over with a boat."

The old man was about to say something, but he saw him whispering at the two little boys.

"As for your grandson, just keep it on the boat to fish. At noon, my inner friend wanted to drink fish soup. I left two people to take care of them and stared at the two water bandits."

Looking at Chen Chong's smile, the old man felt a little nervous, knowing that the other party did not believe in him and wanted to take his two grandsons as hostages.

He actually wanted to refuse, but with the other party's unquestionable appearance, it would be useless to say it.

Alas, forgot!

After a moment of silence, the old man nodded and responded, "Then come according to the instructions of the young master. I will give two monkeys a few instructions, and you will also prepare."

Chen Chong waved his hand to ask him to prepare, and he went to find A Ke and the others - good guy, can fishing be so vigorous?

It seems to be really boring.

"A Ke, Xiao Shuanger, Jianning, you three stay on the boat. Da Shuanger and I will go to the black shop to check it out. Be careful of those two children, don't let the two water bandits escape. If you have any problems, you will know Da Shuanger. I will come over immediately."

After last night's incident, A Ke was full of distrust of outsiders. After hearing what Chen Chong said, he immediately promised to keep an eye on the child to death.

But Jianning is different. She has been looking forward to the fact that she is a chivalrous and righteous person for a long time. She is not willing to let go of the black shop this time, and she insists on upholding justice for innocent people.

And her reason is very good: "The two dogs were hungry all night, and they were lit with acupoints, and tied up tightly. What's there to worry about?"

After saying that, she held A Ke and Xiao Shuang'er's shoulders again, looking like 'I'm relieved to do things': "Besides, with the skills of A Ke and Shuang'er, are you still afraid of those two little kids?"

A Ke was agitated by Jianning and was immediately shaken. Just as he was about to agree, he saw Jianning being pulled aside by Chen Chong.

Jianning even used the method of provoking generals, and Chen Chong could no longer sit idly.

He lowered his voice and said, "None of us has any experience in the world. You have seen what happened last night. There are bad people everywhere when we go out. The three on the boat are not clear. I really don't feel at ease if I don't stare at it.

Besides, your martial arts are a bit weaker. Those who open black shops are all heartless and heartless. They can use all kinds of deceptive methods. I feel sorry for any of you who are injured, right?"

The little princess rolled her eyes and looked angry: "You can't blame me if you don't have good martial arts skills. You just tell me how to teach me martial arts skills and don't keep your word..."

"Okay, okay, I'll teach you later."

Chen Chong had no choice but to raise his hand and surrender immediately: "I taught you together today and I promise not to go back on my word."

"Okay."

Jianning then reluctantly agreed, turned around and walked towards the cabin: "Then I'll go play with muskets, you guys come back soon."

After comforting Jianning, Chen Chong made up his mind to improve the martial arts of the four girls as soon as possible no matter what he wanted.

It is indeed natural to protect a woman, but he doesn't like vases, and it is definitely not possible to protect himself without any ability.

After experiencing the incident of Jianning being captured by Jiunan, he never wanted to see his woman being captured and then being used to threaten him.

However, if you don’t want to be a nanny all the time, you can only find a way to make a few people self-reliant.

Among the heavens and the worlds, there are countless treasures that can improve their strength, but those things are still a little far from Chen Chong. The only thing they can do now is to urge a few people to practice martial arts.

He was picking his scalp and thinking hard about how many women could teach martial arts, but the old man was ready.

He stood on the black-sailed boat and shouted to Chen Chong and the others: "Young Master, I can set off at any time. What are your instructions?"
Chapter completed!