Lin Wanwan never left the Lin Family Manor throughout the twelfth lunar month, but sometimes she would close the door and meditate for a while. At such times, not even Little Qingyu could disturb her.
Kunlun stands guard at the door like a black tower, not even a single insect can fly in.
Xiao Chong would occasionally come over these days to eat and drink, and he would never forget Lin Wanwan's family's dishes and fine wines.
Of course, more importantly, Lin Wanwan's views on Taishanyan really impressed him. When he encountered obstacles, he would ride over and have a chat with Lin Wanwan to find some inspiration.
On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, a sampan suddenly arrived at the small pier in Linjiazhuang, with two strangers standing on it.
"That fisherman, is there a lady named Lin Wanwan here?" The tall one with broad ears asked Lin Mengjin, who was maintaining the fishing boat on the dock.
Lin Mengjin looked at the other person up and down, frowned and asked, "Who are you? Why are you here at our Linjiazhuang?"
"How brave! How dare you talk to the official like this." The big man jumped from the sampan to the pier without waiting for the boat to stop.
He looked up and said to himself: "That's right, it's right here. There is such a majestic building in front of it. It must be the mansion of Lady Wan of the Lin family."
Then he said to the person behind him: "Just wait here and I'll notify you."
After saying that, he didn't care about anyone else and strode towards the school, a landmark building in the village.
Lin Mengjin hurriedly threw away the work in his hands, grabbed a big harpoon, jumped out of the boat as quickly as an ape, and chased after the tall man: "Stop, we Lin Family Village dare to come in casually."
!Come here! A stranger breaks in, grab the guy!"
As Lin Mengjin shouted, the young and middle-aged people who were busy in Lin's village picked up their tools and rushed out of the house to the village road.
The tall man was immediately surrounded by nearly a hundred young and middle-aged men with harpoons, farm tools, axes, bows and arrows rushing out from the broken houses in all directions. He was startled and said inwardly: "What are you doing? You want to rebel.
Really? Grandpa, I am from the government!"
Lin Mengjin snorted coldly: "My grandson, if you say it's a government, it's a government. Your grandfather and I are still members of the royal family! Tell me honestly, why are you looking for our Wan Niang? Look at your sly eyebrows, are you in the family of some ignorant squire?
Sent out? Are you still unwilling to give up after being beaten by us? If you take one more step forward, believe it or not, I will stab you to death and throw you into the sea to feed the fishes!"
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" The slightly thin man behind heard the commotion, quickly tied the sampan to the pier of the pier, and ran over to explain, "We are really from the government. This is Linjiazhuang, right? We are
The yamen responsible for managing the feudal ships at the South Pier. A ship from Qiongzhou docked at the pier this morning, and the roll call was for Lin Wanwan, the Lin clan of Hou Tao, and we were ordered to report the news."
"A ship from Qiongzhou?"
"Brother, where is Qiongzhou?"
"Well, it's probably a very poor place. You might even hear it called a poor state."
The tall man said unhappily: "Ah San, what are you telling these peasant country bumpkins? We are still afraid of them."
The man called Asan walked up to him, shook his head slightly, and whispered: "Poor mountains and harsh waters breed unruly people. Look at the ferocious looks on the faces of these people. They all have their heads tied to their trousers."
Hai Min. Forget it, there’s no point in fighting with them.”
The tall man muttered and didn't say anything else. They were used to being arrogant on their own one-third of an acre of land. Ordinary people would walk around with their tails between their legs when they saw them, so their behavior gradually became a little arrogant.
This time I did not expect to come to a village full of unruly people. Although I felt very unhappy, I still held back my anger.
When a quail is in front of you, you can kick it if you are unhappy; but when a wolf is in front of you, you still have to be reasonable.
We are all civilized people, why should we fight and kill?
The sea dwellers along the coast have always been the most difficult to mess with among all the fishermen, and the sea dwellers are very united. When they are in trouble at sea, if they call for help, they will lend a helping hand regardless of whether they recognize them or not. This is a common practice at sea.
The sea people who go out to sea are even more cruel, because they sometimes have to fight with pirates, and they usually have several lives under their control. They are not as honest as the fishermen who fish in the river and are easy to bully.
The fishermen who live on boats in the river are the lowest among all fishermen. They don't even have a home of their own. They live on boats. People don't call them fishermen, but call them boat people.
Seeing that the two outside strangers had calmed down, the young people in the crowd gradually dispersed.
Since they are from the government and are not here to cause trouble, it is hard for them to really offend anyone. Anyway, on the land of Linjiazhuang, if you say hello at any time, everyone will come. I understand that these two outsiders will not be able to turn over.
Come out.
A ghost ghost had already sent a message to Lin Wanwan in the school. Lin Wanwan was giving an arithmetic class to the children. When she heard the news, her face lit up and she said she understood.
In the past few days, she was counting the days and felt that the ship should be arriving soon. It had already been nearly a month. Being able to get a whole shipload of harvest before the year was considered to be her wish.
Lin Wanwan took Huanong and Kunlun to meet the two people who came to report the news, asked them about the procedures for the ship to enter Guanjin, gave each of them twenty tea money, and sent them off.
Not long after the two left, everyone in the Lin family village knew that Lin Wanwan's senior brother had sent her a boatload of annual gifts, and the whole village was shocked.
The first person to know about this matter was Xiao Chong, the magistrate of Luan County. As the local magistrate in charge of all matters in Luang County, of course the dock matters were also under his control.
When he got the news, he was on-site at the construction site of Taishanyan.
He was surprised when he heard that a ship was coming to the dock looking for him by name. Without thinking much, he rushed to the dock on horseback and met the slaves and crew members on the merchant ship.
The crew members didn't know anything about the shipowner. They were all hired. And the Qiongzhou native named Sun Cuiyao handed Xiao Chong an unsealed letter and gift list, claiming that the owner was Zhen Shiyin, and gave it to the junior sister
Lin Wanwan came to give New Year's gifts, and he himself was one of the New Year's gifts. At the same time, he presented the deed of sale of his whole family.
Xiao Chong has already seen the gift list, which is basically all rare treasures, such as cotton, cotton seeds, cotton cloth, palm trees, spinning wheels, spices, peanuts, melon seeds, etc., many of which he has never heard of.
Xiao Chong decided to personally supervise the customs procedures for this ship in order to see clearly what was on board.
When asking about Sun Chue's medicine, Xiao Chong looked a little weird when he learned that the gift giver not only sent a boatload of rare treasures to Lin Wanwan, but also ten beggars and a baby elephant. This was too random.