Traveling through the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, a story of survival in troubled tim

Although Jueyu didn't say anything, he nodded in approval.

The people on the boat breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this. They were assigned a mission to pick up some distinguished guest.

At first, it was not clear why they got a small broken boat and took the wrong path.

But when the clan elders left, they repeatedly reminded us to receive the distinguished guests well and not to offend them.

At the beginning, the two of them were not serious about the task, but after the second master, who was in charge of the clan, spoke, they began to take it seriously.

The second master is old and has not been in charge for many years. Some time ago, for some unknown reason, the second master rushed back from the Taoist temple.

In addition to purging the clan, those who were outward-looking and the third young master who had always been in close contact with outsiders were also driven out of the clan.

The clan became even more lively, and some of the younger generations who were doing business, studying, or traveling outside also came back one after another.

He is one of them. Over the years, he has been hanging around on the waterway and knows all the black and white people on this waterway.

But at critical moments, some docks still had to give him some face. After all, the business he was running had also earned him some fame.

Although he didn't know what major event had happened in the family, he also didn't know who the distinguished guest he was asked to pick up was.

However, such a large event also forced him to be serious.

……

Seeing the woman on the shore, she took the rope steadily and plunged the pole in her hand into the water with force.

As the pole entered the water, the boat slowly moved along the hull with him as the center.

"Duan, the pole is stuck in the mud. Row hard towards the shore."

"Okay, Brother Ming, you hold on."

The man called "Duan" heard the words and paddled hard in the water with his arms, adjusted the hull, and tried his best to move towards the shore.

……

Wen Shu's attention never left the boat. The moment she saw the pole enter the water, the boat swung sharply towards the middle of the river.

She was not good at swimming and was even less familiar with boats. Seeing this situation, she wanted to help but was worried that she would make things worse.

After seeing the two people on the boat cooperating and stabilizing the boat, I thought they were moving slowly.

Wen Shu pulled the rope in her hand and began to exert force slowly.

Because of the terrain, they didn't dare to use brute force, and they had to consider the direction of the water. The two of them pulled the rope in their hands and exerted force downstream towards the eucalyptus tree.

After the two people on the boat felt that the "weak woman" on the shore was not as weak as she appeared, they felt a lot easier to control the boat.

Originally there was only a six-point chance, but now it has increased to nine points.

They had more energy to control and manage the hull, and their confidence increased a little more.

The four of them worked together to move the boat away from the main river channel and into a sunken bend.

Du Ming shouted to the people on the shore, "Girl, wait a minute, wait a minute..."

Dense beads of sweat covered her forehead. At this moment, Wen Shu felt the rope in her hand biting her hand tightly. Looking at the calmness around the boat, she didn't know why the boat seemed to be nailed to the spot.

I tried my best, but it was of little use. The boat didn't move at all. It was even more difficult than in the middle of the river.

Hearing the call from the people on the boat, Wen Shu stopped dragging the boat towards the shore. This was a professional matter that needed to be handled with the advice of professionals.

……

Seeing that Wen Shu stopped moving, Du Ming reinserted the pole into the side of the boat and fixed it in place, thus preventing the boat from drifting outward.

The helpers on the side were also watching and on standby at any time.

"Don't worry, there's a dark hole underneath..."

After saying that, he took out a wooden pole the size of an arm from the edge of the boat.

He seemed to have eyes in the water. He dived hard towards the place where the hull was close to the shore, and then repeated the previous action, stabbing two pieces of wood in a row.

He took out an iron rod as thick as his arm and five feet long and stabbed it hard into the place where the wood had been placed.

The iron rod was heavy and Du Ming was quite strong, so after a few strokes he had filled the hole with the wooden block.

It was from this time that Wen Shu could clearly feel the ship slowly approaching the shore even though she was on the shore.

……

"Okay, that's all right now."

Du Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief and pulled out the pole that had been inserted into the water to fix the hull.

He thrust the pole into the river, grasped the other end of the pole tightly, and exerted force in the opposite direction...

Wen Shu and Jue Yu were quick-witted and took advantage of the momentum to pull the rope towards the eucalyptus tree.

……

After the boat was placed, Du Ming and Du An jumped off the boat.

Du Ming has been on the waterway for so many years, and his eyes are sharp. He has mastered the skill of identification.

Although there was not much communication with the two people on the shore, and no one introduced them, they could see it at a glance.

I only know these two, the main one is the girl in the gray shorts.

As for why the person the Second Master asked him to contact was a girl, he had no idea and couldn't figure out what the Second Master was up to. But the Second Master was now in charge of the clan members and was the one in charge of the clan.

Over the years, there have been several times when people caused trouble, and it was always Erye who stepped in to settle it.

Although it was not as expected before, the patriarch led them to a further step. Over the years, he has protected the safety of the tribe members and allowed them to live in peace.

"Hello, young lady. I was sent by the tribe to pick you up. My name is Du Ming."

After saying that, he pointed behind him and said, "This is also a member of the Du family, his name is Du An."

"I've seen a girl"

After hearing him being introduced, Duan tied the rope and nodded to Wen Shu as a greeting.

……

"I'm sorry for the trouble you've taken on this trip."

Wenshu did not introduce herself. She had no idea about the current situation of the tribe, nor did she know how the tribe members treated her.

She was unsure about this trip, so if she was accepted, she could plan her next move.

If there is any unusual situation in the clan, she will be ready to activate her PLAN-B.

"The river is turbulent now. Now is not the best time. Let's go to the upper reaches to rest first and then set off when the water level slows down. What do you think?"

After saying that, he pointed to the wooden house halfway up the mountain.

Duan didn't have any objection and turned to look at the person next to him.

"All is up to the girl's arrangement"

"Yes, I'll do as you say." Du An nodded in agreement after hearing Du Ming's words.

……

Wen Shu led the group back to the wooden house where they had rested before. Sure enough, less than half an hour after they returned, the water level in the river rose even more.

I asked Du Ming, "Brother Du Ming, there is no rain in this place, and there is no mountain torrent, so why is the river water rising so high?"

Speaking of this, it was the right question to ask. Du Ming knew the entire river upstream and downstream very well. Although he had not seen it with his own eyes, he had a rough guess based on the rising water level.

"Girl, this Bashu region is full of mountains and hills, and it's the rainy season right now, so flash floods are most likely to occur..."

When Wen Shu heard the word "mountain torrent", she frowned slightly.

"Flash flood, look how serious the water is!"

"This flash flood is not big. The water level is probably a localized flood, so the impact is not significant."

That's good.

……

It took a while, until the afternoon, for the water level of the river to return to its previous level.

Duan rowed the boat and led the group down the narrow road.

……

Anhan, restaurant.

"Madam, our people were... last night..."

A man in his forties, bent over, reported to the woman above, and made a gesture of wiping his neck with his hand.