Daming Haikou

On the whole, the people on the island are simple and honest, which is very in line with the essence of the Chinese people. The old guys are not counted, and almost all the young people on the island are very simple, and there is nothing wrong with them. The newcomers were a bit repulsive, but under the deliberate friendship of Yu Xiaotian, Liu Tong and others, this group of young people quickly eliminated the estrangement with them, which made Yu Xiaotian quite fortunate, and secretly rejoiced He didn't abandon Liu Laoliu and jump into the sea to escape, otherwise, he really doesn't know what the situation will be now.

It’s just that Yu Xiaotian is not used to the eating habits here. On this island, the diet of the daily people is not much better than when they were on the boat, or even worse. However, on the island, probably because of the lack of food and materials, the people on the island still follow the two meals a day. They eat breakfast very late in the morning and do not eat at noon. The islanders have to work until After returning to the village at night, they will have dinner.

This kind of eating habit makes Yu Xiaotian quite unhappy, he always feels that it is difficult to maintain enough physical strength, although he deliberately proposes to change to three meals a day, but because he said it is not enough for the time being, so he can only endure it for the time being.

In addition, although the islanders are mainly engaged in fishing, they do not live a better life than those on land as Yu Xiaotian imagined, and eat more seafood. Their limited catch is not for themselves. For food, it is mainly sent to the land to be sold for money in exchange for other daily necessities. Only a few catches or worthless catches will be left to dry and marinate, as their supplementary food to improve their lives, even so , These worthless dried salted fish are also used during the festivals to improve life. The meals on weekdays are also extremely simple, basically using brown rice and some sweet potatoes produced on the island as the main food.

A lot of exercise and labor, and there is hardly much oil and water in the meals. The only way for the islanders to get nutrition is through some brown rice, a small amount of sea vegetables or sweet potatoes to get protein. This also makes the appetite of people in this era It is very large. Generally, it is normal for young people to eat a catty of brown rice for a meal. If they have a larger appetite, they will not be able to eat two catties of brown rice a day.

This is especially true for Yu Xiaotian. After getting used to the food here, his appetite has become astonishing. Every day he has to eat almost three catties of brown rice to be half full. From time to time, he will feel a little hungry in the middle of the night. See De Malian and the others shook their heads, feeling a little unbearable for his way of eating, and worried that the island's food reserves would soon be exhausted.

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian has just arrived, and it is inconvenient to cause trouble to the people on the island. In order to maintain his health, he has no choice but to use the evening time, alone or with the young people on the island, to take advantage of the time before going to bed. Collect some seafood such as crab shells, cook them directly in a pot, and add a little seasoning to make them good seafood. It is also quite good to subsidize and supplement their stomachs as a supper, and it also provides them with some extra nutrition.

For such a life, Yu Xiaotian can only enjoy himself while suffering.

But the life on the island still lies in the fact that after Xiaotian and Liu Laoliu came here, the situation began to change, because they brought a boat full of goods to the people on the island, these goods were very valuable, at least It was many times more than what they had caught fishing in the past few years. This gave everyone on the island a glimmer of hope for a better life in the future.

Therefore, Ma Lian and the others are grinning from ear to ear these days, while they are busy greeting Liu Lao Liu, Yu Xiaotian and the others to settle down, and on the other hand, they are also thinking about how to sell this cargo as soon as possible, quickly convert it into silver, and then The big guy divided the money so that the young people on the island could arrange to marry a wife on land.

Regarding this matter, Yu Xiaotian is not concerned about it, because even if the cargo is his now, he has no way to find a place to sell it. If so, his head would be kicked by a donkey, so he left it to Liu Laoliu and Ma Lian to be responsible for how to sell the cargo. As for how they found a way to sell the cargo, how much could they get? Yu Xiaotian doesn't care about money at all.

And he put all his energy on this boat belonging to his name. Although this boat is not big, it is still quite big compared to the small fishing boat owned by Malian and the others on the island. With their arrival, the attention of the group of young people on the island was also attracted to this boat, so that even their main livelihood, fishing, was put on hold.

So after Yu Xiaotian settled down on the island, he asked everyone on the island to help him, and began to check the boat carefully. After checking inside and out, Yu Xiaotian found that the boat was really not a The broken boat, Liu Laoliu didn't lie to him, it is true that this boat has not been built for a long time, that is, just three or four years ago, and the wood for the hull is mostly durable and good wood.

The whole ship has a total of eight compartments, and the whole is in the style of a standard Chinese sailboat. Each compartment is separated by a partition, which enhances the anti-sinking performance of the ship. The watertight compartment is also a unique invention of the Chinese ancestors. Well, the ships manufactured in this way will not sink easily even if one or two cabins are flooded. Therefore, before the Ming Dynasty, and even before the Qing Dynasty, the wooden sailboats built in China basically adopted this method. Modern ships also adopt this compartment design.

The two masts on the ship are made of a complete piece of Chinese fir, without a joint in the whole body. Such a mast has better strength and toughness, and is very conducive to the lifting and lowering of hard sails. After inspection, the two masts are both It was still very strong, and there was no moth-eaten situation, only a crack appeared on the upper part of the fore-mast, which made Yu Xiaotian a little uneasy, and wanted to change the fore-mast later, so as to save trouble when going out to sea.

But when Liu Laoliu heard about the crack, he went to the boat to see the crack, then shook his head and said, "The crack is not a big deal, and there is no need to replace it, not to mention that it takes a lot of manpower to replace the mast, and it has to be sent to the shiphouse on land for a long time." It’s a big price, in my opinion, I’ll ask the blacksmith to make two iron hoops, and it’ll be all right! It’s still very strong!”

So after a preliminary inspection, Yu Xiaotian came to the conclusion that this boat is relatively strong and durable, but because of poor maintenance, the bottom of the boat is covered with a thick layer of sea creatures. There are a lot of sea maggots, which will be a big hidden danger to the strength of the hull, and it needs to be solved as soon as possible!

In addition, the hull and the interior of the cabin are very dirty, which is what Yu Xiaotian is most dissatisfied with about this boat. He will live on this boat for a long time in the future, and the rats, mosquitoes and fleas on the boat will cause serious damage to the crew. This is unacceptable to him.

So Yu Xiaotian made up his mind to let the gang of young people on the island serve as his crew, firstly carry out a large-scale cleaning and repair of the ship, and then think about what to do next.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's proposal, Ma Lian shook his head and said: "Brother Yu, it's not that we guys are unwilling to help you. Although this boat is really good, it's not easy for you to repair it. !

You have also seen that our island has limited manpower. The goods on the ship have not yet been sold, and the people on the island still have to live. People eating has become a problem!It's been a few days since you've been here, and our fishing guys have stopped for many days, and the food stock on this island will soon bottom out, so I figured out that I'm thinking about going out to sea to catch some fish, to exchange for some food and come back. So for the time being, I can't spare many people to get that boat for you!

Besides, if you want to shovel the bottom of this boat, I’m afraid we can’t do this job here. I don’t think you know how to make this kind of boat. Either send it to the shipyard, pull the boat ashore and shovel the bottom of the boat, or hire someone to help, remove the mast, bring the boat ashore and buckle it upside down on the shore, and shovel the bottom of the boat.

The manpower on our island may not be able to do it!Besides, a lot of wood is needed to repair a ship. You have seen our island. There are many small trees on the mountain, and there is not enough wood for building a house. How can there be enough wood for you to repair the ship?

In my opinion, let's let go of the ship repairing business first!Only after we have given away the goods on the ship can we spare our hands to do this matter!Do you think so? "

Ma Lian was very polite to Xiaotian, although he rejected Yu Xiaotian's request, he still agreed that as long as he sold the cargo, he would help Yu Xiaotian and tidy up the boat.

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian was a little disappointed. At least Ma Lian and his gang didn't plan to help him right now. The ship was in his name in name, so Ma Lian and these old fellows were not interested in the repair of the ship. Not very attentive.

Liu Laoliu also walked over with a limp at this time. After a few days of rest after going to the island, the wound on his buttocks has basically healed, and walking by himself is no longer a big problem. , he is really in a good mood, cheerful all day long, and the wrinkles on his old face seem to have deepened because of laughing too much.

"I said horse face! This is your fault! How many fish can your small fishing boat go out to sea! Look at this boat. It turns out that the Liu family built it according to the style of a fishing boat in order to hide people's eyes and ears. Compared with you That small broken boat is much stronger, but this boat is used by the Liu family to sail the sea. If we tidy up this boat well, it will be ten times better than you using this small broken boat now!

What's more, your small broken boat only needs four or five people to go out to sea, and the dozen or so young people on the island are idle, and there is no need to take care of the dozens of acres of land!Wouldn't it be better to leave some manpower for Brother Yu to help repair the ship?

You say that there is no wood on this island, and that's easy to handle. You can fool Brother Yu, but you can't fool me Liu Laoliu!Don't think I don't know, this small Huangdao is indeed not full of wood, but there are many trees on the big Huangdao to the east, and the big Huangdao is also unoccupied, no one lives on it, it is the ship repairer Good place!

Originally, the boat was hidden on the small Huangdao, and it was a bit eye-catching. People would come from the land from time to time, and they might be spotted by them. In my opinion, it would be better to hide the boat somewhere on Dahuangdao!

Didn't Zhao Mazi go to Luoyuan to look for the shopkeeper Li the day before yesterday for the goods on this ship?With the financial resources of the surname Li, it is nothing to eat this cargo, and it is estimated that this cargo will be sold soon!

With the money from this cargo, do you guys still go out fishing every day to make a living?You can't push this matter away, otherwise, my sixth brother won't recognize you as a brother!What do you say? "

After hearing Liu Laoliu's words, Ma's face blushed slightly, and after a dry smile, he said, "I said brother Liu! You are making things difficult for me! You were not on the island before, and you only care about the things here. Knowing one but not knowing the other!

This island is said to be occupied by our brothers, but in essence it is still under the control of Jiang Baihu. You are not unaware of Jiang Baihu. The reason why he turned a blind eye to us occupying this island is that, to put it bluntly, let us fish for him and make money for him!

We haven't sent the fish to land for such a long time, so maybe Jiang Baihu will come to trouble us!That's why I thought about going out to catch some fish in the past two days, to deal with errands, and to inquire about the Liu family's news by the way!

As for the youngsters on the island, your sixth son is also an uncle, if you want to use them, if anyone doesn't obey, see if I don't break his leg!

There is also Dahuang Island. It is good to hide the boat there for repairs. But recently, a group of pirates on Shuangfeng Island often haunt the sea in this area. From time to time, they will go to Dahuang Island to settle down. Where should we repair The boat, if they run into it, wouldn't this boat be given to them for nothing?I'm afraid those who go will have their lives in danger!

So it's not that I don't want to help my brother, this matter still needs to be discussed in the long run! "

After Liu Laoliu listened to what Ma Lian said, he stretched out his hand to touch the goatee on his chin, looked eastward after thinking for a while, then nodded and said: "What you said makes sense! This matter really needs to be discussed in a long-term way! How about it! You should say hello When people go out to sea to fish, just make arrangements. When we go to sea tomorrow, brother Yu and I will also go out by boat and take a tour of Dahuang Island!

Dahuang Island is very large and has many bays. It is not difficult to find a place that can hide ships and repair ships. Although pirates will stop at Dahuang Island, they usually land on the east and north sides of the island, and on the southwest side. As far as I know, very few people go there! "

After listening to Liu Lao Liu's words, Ma Lian quickly nodded and said, "It's a success! Just do as your Lao Liu said!"

Yu Xiaotian was also very satisfied, nodding his head again and again.

(I feel very depressed today. My grandmother, who loved me the most since I was a child, was admitted to the hospital due to illness the night before, and passed away suddenly yesterday afternoon. Hanfeng has been in the hospital for the past two days. Now I have to help send the elderly home! I will try to keep the new book updated. As for the new book list I will thank everyone for your help! Come back to pick up things now and update a chapter. It is estimated that there will not be many updates in these two days. I hope everyone will forgive me!)