Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 75
"His father."

Qiu looked at Lu Quan worriedly, opened his mouth to say something, but didn't know where to start.

Lu Quan focused his eyes slightly, shook his head slightly at Qiu Shi, and told Qiu Shi pretending not to care: "You cook first, and I'll go see if Xiao Wu is awake."

The Qiu family is just a woman, and she doesn't feel much about the Shen family being wiped out by the government. The only thing she worries about is Xiaosi.

She was afraid that Xiao Si would miss her aunt and cousin, and that the Shen family's troubles were caused by the Lu family.

Xiao Si's aunt and cousin are still in Nanyang County, so I don't know if the child will miss it.

Last time, Xiao Si's aunt left the county prison, Xiao Si went to see it and came back without saying a word.Qiu's heart was always up and down, and he didn't know whether the child was thinking about it or not.

Now that something happened to the Shen family, will Xiao Si think of what happened to the Lu family?

Lu Quan raised the gauze curtain and entered the cabin. In the cabin, Xiao Wu was still sleeping soundly, and Xiao Si lay beside him, eating the lotus seeds that Lu Xiaoli had peeled one by one.

Hearing the movement, she got up and looked at Lu Quan: "What's the matter?"

At this time, Lu Quan is usually busy outside, and he is rarely seen in the cabin.

In summer, three layers of gauze curtains were nailed in the cabin, and the wind blows cool and refreshing. The family, Xiao Wu and Xiao Si, almost grew up in the cabin, and Xiaoqing, Xiaoyu and Xiaoyu would come in from time to time to enjoy the cool breeze.Even Qiu Shi would take a break in the cabin while breastfeeding Xiao Wu.

Only Lu Quan, who went out in the morning and came back in the evening, rarely came to the cabin.

"Um,"

Lu Quan carefully covered the curtain, and sat cross-legged on the open space outside the bamboo mat: "Xiao Si, the Shen family in Nanyang County has also been besieged by the government."

Speaking of Wei, the fate of the Shen family should be the same as that of the Lu family, and the family property will be confiscated in the end.

I just don't know if the whole family of the Shen family can survive.

Lu Yange narrowed his eyes, the Shen family in Nanyang County was also besieged?

She immediately sat up straight, and asked with some urgency: "Father, what news is there in Dongyang County?"

Lu Quan was taken aback, and said, what does the Shen family in Nanyang have to do with Dongyang County?
Seeing that Lu Quan didn't understand, Lu Yange simply opened it up and said: "I mean, after Lujiazhuang was burned, are there any big households in Dongyang County who were directly confiscated by the government in the name of gangsters?"

"This?"

Lu Quan frowned and pondered, he really didn't pay attention to this.

Although Jiangjiaba is considered to be between Dongyang County and Nanyang County, the transportation is not very convenient because Jiangjiaba is separated from these two places by rivers and lakes.

Unless you take the waterway, the waterway can only go to Nanyang. If you want to go to Dongyang County, you have to stop the boat and walk for half a day to reach Dongyang County.

If you really want to go, everyone would rather go over mountains and ridges than save these twenty articles.

Lu Quan thought for a moment before replying cautiously: "I vaguely heard that Dongyang County is in chaos now, but I don't know the specifics."

"Father, go to the pier and ask, or ask shopkeeper Li."

Lu Quan was a little confused: "What are you asking?"

"Inquire about the current situation in Dongyang County, and also inquire about it by the way. Is it because the government surrounded the Shen family, like the Lu family, because of gangsters?"

Lu Yange remembered what Lai Fushun Li's shopkeeper said some time ago, that the Hongying Army will move probably after the autumn harvest, and then told him: "Father, go now, bring your money bag, those ships coming from Huaicheng or passing by Nanyang County, if If there is a dock at Jiangjiaba, Dad can go up and ask. If there is a familiar steward at the pier, we can also find a place to have a drink or two together. In short, Dad should not be reluctant to spend money, it would be best if he can get news .if not..."

Lu Yange paused for a moment, but did not continue.

If not, maybe she will find a way to go to Nanyang County to have a look.

But it's still early to say this, even if she wants to go, Lu Quan and Qiu's may not agree.

Lu Quan asked curiously, "What if you can't find out?"

"If you can't find out, it's fine, dad will do his best."

Lu Yangge didn't say what was in her heart. Seeing Lu Quan go out, she slowly picked up a lotus seed and put it in her mouth, but she was thinking in her heart that she didn't know if such an honest person like Dad was reliable or not.

She wanted to find out more by herself, but she gave up again when she thought of the way shopkeeper Li looked at her.

Forget it, let's do it.

Lu Quan left the complicated and trivial things on the pier and ran to the town. He is a simple and straightforward person, and the things that Xiaosi wants to ask must be the most important, and nothing else is as important as Xiaosi's.

Lu Quan went to Lai Fushun first, met shopkeeper Li, came out and went to Ding's butcher's shop on the way, chatted a few words, and went straight to the pier with his wallet in his pocket.

In the past two months, the eel cage business at the wild wharf has been going well, and the three little stewards on the wharf and Lu Quan have gotten acquainted with each other a lot.

Hearing that Lu Quan was going to invite them to drink, he immediately called his subordinates to look at the pier, and they went straight to Lai Fushun.

Although Lu Quan and Lai Fushun's shopkeeper Li had already started to do business together, it was the first time for Lu Quan to pay for dinner at Lai Fushun by himself.

Seeing that it was Lu Quan's treat, shopkeeper Li specially prepared a private room for them, and took the time to deliver two jars of wine, and came up to drink two glasses with the three little stewards.

This face is enough.

On weekdays, the chief stewards on the pier respect Li Fushun's steward Li.

Now, Lu Quan treats guests as a fisherman, and the three small stewards can come, and he still feels that this is for Lu Quan's face.

Unexpectedly, shopkeeper Li would come to accompany him, and he also treated Lu Quan one by one.

Immediately, the three port stewards did not dare to underestimate Lu Quan. After the banquet, they really knew everything and told Lu Quan everything they knew.

On a small fishing boat at night, the wind blows across the water along the river, penetrates layers of gauze curtains, and blows into the narrow cabin.

In the cabin, it is rare to light a lamp.

Xiaoqing put the soles of the shoes under the lamp, while Lu Xiaoli and Qiu Shi Bibihuahua were cutting a piece of material they had just bought. On the other side, Lu Xiaoyu coaxed Lu Xiaowu, who could already walk, to take a few more steps.

"The big households in Dongyang County had accidents more than a month ago? Two households, like the owner of Lu Dazhuang, were charged with banditry. There are also a few households who donated their property to the court. They said yes, It is said that it is for the imperial court to provide disaster relief."

Last year and the year before last were all famine years, and I didn't see them donating.The weather is good this year, the famine has just begun to ease, and these big households have started to donate food to the court?
Lu Yange put down the charcoal pencil in his hand, and frowned.

Did these big households know that the food they donated might fall into the hands of the rebel army?
Lu Quan blushed, drank the herbal tea that Lu Yange handed over in one gulp, and continued: "The shopkeeper Li said, I'm afraid it will be unstable in the future!"

Lu Yange raised his hand to fill the tea bowl in front of Lu Quanquan, and asked softly, "Did shopkeeper Li say when he will return to Yangzhou?"

"Back to Yangzhou?"

Lu Quan had a lot of wine today, so he didn't understand the meaning of Lu Yange's words for a while.

"The shopkeeper Li's wife and children are all in Jiangjiaba, why is he going back to Yangzhou?"

"Go back to Yangzhou for refuge!" Lu Yange looked at the people in the cabin, and sighed softly: "Maybe, we have to go too, Jiangjiaba may not be safe!"

Of course, it's best not to go.

Although it is said that the people on board are all drifters, they may spend their days in one place safely, and it is better to go to other places to make a living.

(End of this chapter)