The southeast is beautiful, with the three Wushu metropolises and Qiantang has been prosperous since ancient times. It has painted bridges with smoke and willows, wind curtains and green curtains, and 100,000 families.

Although Wang Fulin had also been to Hangzhou in his previous life, this time he arrived at Hangzhou by a pleasure boat through the 750-mile waterways of Xin'an River, Tongjiang, Fuchun River and Qiantang River. It felt completely different. This was his first time leaving Huizhou, but Ye Junyao was from Ningbo Prefecture. In addition, there were also those who traveled outside all year round like Mr. Fang, Ke, and He Xinyin, so he heard them say that Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, the real population of the three southeastern cities is not only not inferior to that of the capital, but even has it. For example, Hangzhou is known to have a population of millions of people living inside and outside the city walls, and consumes 300,000 stones of grain a month.

This is also the reason why once the local harvest in Hangzhou fails, the rice price will suddenly rise, and too much rice is flocking to the outside, and the rice price will drop sharply.

In later generations, if you take a passenger ferry to take a waterway, most of them would not go through the inland river, but from Qiantang River to Hangzhou Bay, and from the sea to the Zhenhai, which is now the Dinghai. But of course you won’t walk like this now. Even if you open the sea, the danger of the seaway is much greater than that of the inland river. What’s more, there is a canal that is older than the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, Xixing Canal. It is said that this canal was already in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the Yue Kingdom called it the ancient river channel of Shanyin. It was one of the indispensable waterways at that time. After thousands of years of continuous dredging and remediation, it was communicated with the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui, and it is even more important now. {

As for the Qiantang River waterway and the canal, they are also connected, but the wharfs are different. Today, there are ten city gates in Hangzhou, five waterway gates and five dry gates. You can go directly to the city by boat. Wang Fulin and his party were passing by Qiantang River waterway. They could enter the city directly from Yongkinen Gate Waterway, and then arrive at the place they want to go through the city waterway, and then get off the boat and change cars. These were all told by Manager Xie that although he was inconvenient, he did not come, but according to the inn informed by Wang Fulin, the Cheng family was booked in the room early.

There are many small wharfs in Yongkinmen. Among them, there are also many large hotels and large inns that have built small wharfs for passenger ships to dock. The same is true for many shops, and they are all loaded by water. Since the inns that everyone wants to stay in are well-known in Hangzhou city and have a wharf near Shuimen. As soon as the boatman entered Yongkinmen, he was familiar with the way along the waterway, and walked strangely through the houses on both sides of the shore, and finally stopped at the back door of an inn. Here, the manager Zhao and a follower who came to pick up the Cheng family had been waiting for a long time. However, the Ye family members who said they would wait here were nowhere to be seen.

From Manager Zhao's knowledge that there was no Ye family in the inn, let alone set up the room in advance, Wang Fulin frowned. According to his wishes, since the waterway is so convenient, Mrs. Su and Ye Mingyue and Xiaobei don't have to stop in Hangzhou. Waiting for those unreliable Ye family members to pick them up, it would be better to just go straight from the ancient canal leading to Ningbo, and at most he would transfer a few more followers. However, Mrs. Su shook her head.

"The Ye family said they would come to pick them up, so they were unable to stop talking about it after they went back. Let's do this, we will stay here for two or three days. If people don't come, it's not too late for us to set off."

Xiaobei, who suffered from seasickness, certainly hoped to find a place to stay and take a breath. As for Ye Mingyue, she came to Hangzhou City when she was a child, and now she has no impression of it. She also hopes to go out for a walk in the past two days. So things settled down.

The inn was quiet and elegant. Manager Zhao originally booked only a small courtyard. Now there are many people, and naturally they can't stay there. When they learned that there was a small courtyard next to him, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. There were two courtyards, and the people living in the Ye family and Wang Fulin's side were just right. After settling down, Wang Fulin asked Yu Wen to ask Wu Xingcai and Zhang Xingzhe if they were willing to go out for a walk. When they learned that these two people only felt that their bodies were still shaking after getting off the boat. He really had no strength, so he stopped trying. He wanted to bring only Yu Wen, but as soon as he left the house, he found that there was a person following him, which was Aheng.

Wang Fulin had long been accustomed to being taciturn and quick-witted Ah Heng. Seeing her following her without saying a word, he ordered: "I'm going to go around the town. You're tired of taking a boat, so stay."

Ah Heng hesitated for a moment before he said in a very low voice: "I heard that Hangzhou is very messy, so the little officials remember to bring more people."

Wang Fulin did not take such a request seriously, but after he walked out of the inn, except for the two managers Zhao, the master and servant who led the way, he had to face the reality that there were more than ten people behind him. Among them were Xu family, Cheng family, Qi family army... Only Yu Wen was recruited by him. When he went out in such a mighty group, his attributes were too eye-catching. He had to persuade him, and in the end he only accompanied him with two old soldiers with strong military power. All the others were toughly asked to stay and rest.

According to Wang Fulin's meaning, it is natural that he would go around the city first, but Manager Zhao had already learned from Manager Xie's message that Wang Fulin's purpose of this trip, and he could not explain it: "Although there are markets in the city, the night market in Shou'an is also very famous, but if you want to talk about rice market, it is not better than Huzhou City outside Wulin Gate to the north. From Wulin Gate to Beixinguan, it is called Hushu, also known as Huzhou City, which stretches for more than ten miles. Because it is right by the canal, it is also a must-pass place for returning from West Lake. There is no curfew at night, and the lively atmosphere is not available anywhere else, so people who come to Hangzhou will visit here. And all the grain boats gather there."

At the end, he smiled and said, "Dongmen cuisine, Ximen fish, Nanmen firewood, and Beimen rice. Hangzhou city is surrounded by towns and the layout has gradually been decided since the Song Dynasty."

Since Manager Zhao, the old man who has been living in Hangzhou for many years, said this, Wang Fulin naturally acted like a good person. If he wanted to appreciate the Beiguan Night Market, he would probably not be able to come back at night, so he would have to send someone back to say hello. Sure enough, as soon as everyone rode out of the Wulin Gate, they saw houses and streets lined up with various hawkings. Immediately afterwards, Wang Fulin deeply realized how lively and prosperous this famous city in the southeast that could be ranked at least in the top three in the Ming Dynasty. Even outside the city, it was common to get traffic jams all the way. As for women who showed up in public, it was not uncommon. They did not dodge or avoid men when they saw them.

What makes people feel most intimate is that the familiar accent of She County often comes around. Of course, the other five counties in Huizhou also have many accents, so he can barely distinguish between Jixi and Wuyuan.

When the guy went down to deliver the food, Wang Fulin couldn't help but glanced at him in surprise when he heard nothing around. But when he looked over, he found that everyone was looking at him. He suddenly felt that the monk was confused. But the next moment, he understood what was going on. Because the big man who had dominated the table before actually took Yu Wen aside and squeezed directly to his table!

"Where did you come from my little brother?" The man spoke in a casual tone, and his words were also casual, "It's fate that happens. Can you add a pair of chopsticks?"
Chapter completed!