Chapter 317 Accidentally Stumbling Upon a Wedding
As the ship slowly set sail, the wind on the deck grew stronger, making everyone feel refreshed and relaxed.
Du Wanchun and Aunt Zhou stood on the deck, looking at the riverbank and the scenery on both sides, feeling refreshed.
After some time, Madam Wu came over and said, "Wanchun, look, there's a boat following us."
Du Wanchun glanced back, then smiled and said, "Don't worry about them, let's keep going."
Madam Wu nodded in agreement and relayed her words to the servant manning the boat.
The servant pulled the sail, making the boat go faster and faster, and soon left Young Master You behind.
Young Master You also stood on the deck watching, and asked in confusion, "What's going on? Why can't we catch up with our ship?"
After he finished speaking, he turned to the servant behind him and asked, "Go and see what's going on?"
"Yes, young master."
Upon hearing this, the servant hurried to the cockpit and saw that the boatman had already raised the sails to their highest position.
They all looked puzzled. "This isn't right. The sail is pulled up so high, how come the boat can't move?"
Just as they were completely bewildered, a servant rushed in and said in a panic, "Something terrible has happened! The cabin below is leaking!"
"What?" The servants were all startled.
"Quickly, tell the young master about this."
They shouted in a panic.
When Young Master You received the news, he was also shocked. "What did you say? The ship is leaking?"
"You're saying our ship is leaking? How could a perfectly good ship be leaking?"
He found it difficult to find a passage.
The servants all shook their heads and said, "We don't know either. The boat was perfectly fine when it came here."
Young Master You was furious. Looking at the rushing river beside him, his legs began to weaken. "Quick, quick, prepare a small boat so we can leave."
The bottom of the boat is leaking; it won't be long before it sinks.
He never expected that what he originally wanted to see was the sinking of the Zhou family's ship, but instead his own ship was about to sink.
Just as he was anxiously thinking about how to escape, a servant pointed to the river and said, "Boat, our little boat!"
Each large ship would have a small boat on hand, just in case.
Young Master You looked up in the direction they were pointing and saw his little follower.
After the henchman and a few others followed Young Master You's instructions to drill a hole in the boat, they secretly boarded a small boat and left.
When he realized that it was Young Master You standing on the deck, he was completely stunned.
The person traveling with them was so shocked his jaw almost dropped. "Boss, what are we going to do? We've scuttled the wrong ship."
The henchman gritted his teeth and said seriously, "What else can we do but run? While he's still on the boat, let's quickly take our families and run!"
“He’s just the son of a county magistrate. We’ll go to other prefectures, but they won’t be able to find him right away.”
Everyone waited for his reply after hearing this.
Young Master You stood on the deck, trembling with rage. "That idiot! He even got the ship wrong! When I get back, I'll definitely teach him a lesson!"
He had barely finished speaking when he noticed the boat starting to tilt. Terrified, his legs trembled, and he clung tightly to the railing.
Meanwhile, the Zhou family's ship had already docked.
As Aunt Zhou watched the boat dock, she asked in surprise, "It docked so quickly?"
Du Wanchun took her arm and said, "Yes, there's a village here called Xiangyue Village. They're having a wedding there. Let's go take a look."
Aunt Zhou was delighted that there was a happy event in the village and wanted to go and see it.
The family disembarked from the boat one after the other.
When we arrived in the village, the suona horns and firecrackers were already going off.
The villagers all gathered around to watch the spectacle.
Aunt Zhou, holding Du Wanchun's hand, stood on tiptoe to look.
Suddenly, the village chief shouted, "Something terrible has happened! The bride and groom have both disappeared!"
"What? How could they just disappear like that?" The villagers were all shocked.
Aunt Zhou also became puzzled upon hearing this.
She asked the villagers in front of her, "What happened up ahead?"
The villagers replied, "They said the bride and groom have disappeared."
Aunt Zhou asked in surprise, "Is that so? Aren't their parents worried?"
The villagers shook their heads and said, "No, they are from out of town. We have a custom in our village that we help an out-of-towner with a wedding every year so that our village can have good weather and abundant harvests. We never expected that these out-of-towners would run away while we were helping them with their wedding. This is bad for our village's fortune!"
This was the first time Aunt Zhou had ever heard of such a custom.
Just as the villagers were in a state of panic, someone turned their attention to Du Wanchun and his group.
"Aren't there some outsiders here? Why don't we ask them to put on a show for God, to see if He will take away our village's good fortune?"
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