Chapter six hundred and forty-eight reverse black and white
As the hull of the big ship shook slightly, the big ship that Yan Liqiang and his friends were on had already docked on the dock of Huizhou City. The passengers in the cabin squeezed towards the deck, and the scene was a bit noisy...
"Our ship has arrived at Huizhou Pier. Dear passengers in the cabin, please pack up your luggage and personal belongings and prepare to get off the boat. There is snow on the deck, be careful to be slippery..." Several sailors on the boat shouted loudly on the deck, holding hands to maintain order to get off the boat. "Although the river water has not frozen yet, it is still very cold. If it really falls into the water, it will lose half of its life even if it is fished out. Be careful..."
"Also, when you get off the boat, don't leave the dock directly. You have to go to the yamen of the Cao Transport Department next to you and lead the road. When you want to leave in two days, you have to use the road you lead today to exchange for the official road guide, otherwise you will have big trouble when you encounter inspections at the ancient ferry on the road..."
The sound of the sailors on the boat was thick and loud. After several times of shouting, almost all the people on the boat heard it. After getting off the boat, they had to go and take a road.
"Brother Gu, I'll leave. If Brother Gu is free to come to Suzhou, remember to come to me and let's have a good time. This is fate. I didn't expect that I would meet Brother Gu this time, hahahaha..."
In front of the subordinates of the escort agency and the others on the boat, An Shidao shouted Yan Liqiang's pseudonym and said goodbye to Yan Liqiang on the deck.
"Brother An should take care of himself. If Brother An comes to Ganzhou in the future, he will have enough wine..."
"Okay, I remember, brothers, let's go..." An Shidao was also a generous person. After saying goodbye, he waved his hand directly, took his men's escorts, carried a few boxes of not too big and small, and got off the boat from the deck. Finally, he waved to Yan Liqiang on the dock. In just a blink of an eye, he disappeared among the crowd at the dock.
Yan Liqiang took his bag and followed the crowd, almost only got off the boat at the end.
The dock in Huizhou City is very large, and ships are parked on both sides of the dock. Although it is still snowing in the sky, because the Huichun River has not yet frozen, the dock is still busy.
If possible, Yan Liqiang would rather see a deserted pier than see such a dock that could still be lively in the evening of cold weather. This bustling scene made Yan Liqiang feel a little heavy.
The atmosphere on the dock seemed to be similar to Yan Liqiang's last time, but when he looked closely, it seemed to be a little different. There seemed to be a little more nervous. There were many more people on the dock wearing the uniform of the official officer of the Cao Transportation Department on the dock than last time, and there were also more people who looked like a policeman. In the past, the coolies gathered at the edge of the warehouse and were not as casual as before. They sat around everywhere, looking at the passengers disembarking with an indescribable look. Several yamen runners of the Cao Transportation Department were wandering around them, scolding loudly.
On a bulletin board where the ship was disembarking, there were wanted orders for capturing the White Lotus bandits. Yan Liqiang took a look and the wanted order was really terrible. Yan Liqiang, who had got off the ship, did not make any trouble. Instead, he followed other passengers to the yamen of the Cao Transportation Department not far away, lined up to receive some shitty roads. This road was also new. He came to Huizhou City before and came to Huizhou City to come and go freely, so he needed any roads.
In just a while, it was Yan Liqiang's turn. The person who handled the road was like a thin taxi. Yan Liqiang walked to the table. The man raised his eyes and glanced at Yan Liqiang, lowered his head, picked up his pen and wrote a line of words on a piece of paper. He was about 18 years old, about five feet and six inches tall, with a pretty face, and had a red mole on his left ear earlobe. He arrived at Huizhou City Wharf on December 22nd!
After writing these, the scribe-like man picked up the red mark next to him and made a red mark on the road strip with a snap.
"Okay, this is your road. I will pay twenty copper plates over there. Here I will just press a handprint with my right thumb..." The scholar pushed the paper in front of Yan Liqiang, and then shouted, "Next, hurry up..."
Yan Liqiang handed over twenty copper plates, left a comparison fingerprint on the road strip, and then closed the road strip and left the Cao Transport Department's yamen.
When Yan Liqiang left, a passenger disembarked a big fuss at the yamen of the Cao Transport Department and shouted loudly, "There are only twenty copper coins in this way, why is it so expensive..."
"You can do not have a road line, but you just want to leave and be arrested by someone as a bandit, don't howl. Moreover, people from the White Lotus Sect have been catching in the capital these days. Those people from the White Lotus Sect have no road line. If you catch them, you will be chopped down your head. If you don't do it, you will be able to do it..."
When I heard the people from the yamen of the Cao Transport Department say this, the voice of the person who was still yelling just now suddenly became weaker...
When I walked out of Huizhou Wharf and came to the street outside the Wharf, it was getting dusk and the snow seemed to be getting heavier. The pedestrians, cars and horses on the street were all in a hurry.
"Brother, do you want to read the newspaper? The "Han Empire Times" just released yesterday..." A eleven or twelve-year-old boy wearing a bullshit hat and gloves saw Yan Liqiang coming out of the dock, and immediately ran to Yan Liqiang, holding a newspaper and swaying in front of Yan Liqiang for a while.
"Okay, I'll give me one..." Yan Liqiang took out a small piece of silver and handed it to the little boy who sold the newspaper, and then took a newspaper from the "Han Empire Times"...
"This... brother, do you have a copper coin? I can't find the change on this silver..." The little boy selling the newspaper looked at Yan Liqiang with a disgrace.
"No need to find it, you can give it more. It's dark, go home early, don't let your family wait..." Yan Liqiang photographed the little boy selling newspapers's face, which was as cold as an apple.
The little boy selling the newspaper was overjoyed and quickly bowed to Yan Liqiang, "Ah, thank you brother, thank you brother..."
"Don't thank you, go back..."
"Okay, okay..." The little boy selling newspaper grinned, showed his white teeth, and then carefully took the piece of silver into his clothes, then trotted and disappeared at the corner of the street...
Yan Liqiang withdrew his gaze and landed on the latest issue of the "Han Empire Times" newspaper...
The headline of this issue of the "Han Empire Times" newspaper is "The Ling'an River Stone Turtle is a fraudulent, and the mastermind has been arrested and confessed."
Just looking at this news title, Yan Liqiang's brows frowned suddenly. Looking at the content below the title, it was said that the master of the Ministry of Justice of the Imperial Capital arrested several gangsters in the west of the Imperial Capital a few days ago. After an interrogation, the gangsters confessed that the stone turtle in the Ling'an River in March this year was carved by someone and threw it into the river. What the stone turtle said on the back was that they made a fool of themselves, but they didn't expect such a big stir...
The second news below this headline is "Auspicious snow falls from the sky in Zhuzhou, and a bumper harvest is already in sight for the next year"...
Turning over the page, another news that occupied the second page of the page "The Imperial Heavenly Supervision of the Han Empire confirmed: The Sun of Tiangou in Liuzhou in May is actually dark clouds covering the sun"
Just after looking at the two news in the newspaper, Yan Liqiang was sure that something must have happened to Fang Beidou and the others. Otherwise, the "Han Empire Times" would not have shamelessly published such articles that distorted the people in black and white. Most ordinary people in this era have been blocked and had no more sources of information. The articles in the "Han Empire Times" cannot deceive smart people, but it is enough to deceive the people...
Chapter completed!