The old man and his entourage landed in Xiuying Port, Lai Yu had been waiting here for a long time, as soon as they met, they hurried to meet him, the old man also saw it for the first time, he looked at Lai Yu's generous face and smiled, a pair of hands to move around I don't know where to put it, especially the big double eyelids unique to Qiongzhou people, I was embarrassed and shy, this is too nervous to see the owner. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The old man smiled and hammered two punches in his chest, the old man smiled and nodded, and asked Li Lao:

"Brother, it's the first time I've set foot on this Qiongzhou, since ancient times Qiongzhou is the land of three seasons, today it's really the case, now it's winter, although Guangdong is south, but it's also quite cold, but it's warm and humid here, why don't you choose a prosperous place to go around?"

"As the owner said, Qiongzhou is a treasure land for us cultivators, the climate here is pleasant, the air is comfortable, otherwise the white jade toad will not return here to open the mountain and enlighten the Tao. The owner knows that there is a large rocky mountain area here, and the **** told me about the volcano, I thought about it, if my guess is right, there are a few there, and the top of the mountain is like being smashed into a pit. ”

"Oh? Far away? To tell you the truth, I'm just a literal knowledge, I haven't seen this volcano in the end, according to Grandpa Lai Yu, you can't go to sea until the end of the month, why don't we travel? ”

"It's all up to the owner."

The old man turned around and was about to issue an order, but when he looked at the outfits of several of his subordinates, he immediately frowned, they were all first-class men, but this perennial wind and waves fought and killed, and scars were inevitable, but they didn't bother to change their clothes, this rags are suitable for the sea, but not for a prosperous place.

So, he instructed Lai Yu to take a few brothers to find a ready-to-wear shop, not to ask for rich clothes, at least clean, even if he is a subordinate, he can't be dirty, a group of rough men shook their heads in a row, especially people and bears, a hundred unwilling.

"The owner, you have good intentions, but our group of people are vulgar, and they are too hot on the boat to take off their essence, but now that they accompany the owner to go out, they can't break your face, you might as well do this, please ask the eighth master to reward a little money, and I will go to the villager's house to change a few clean coarse cloth clothes, in this way, the next person is still the next person, but it is clean and refreshing, and a few of us are also comfortable dressing, the owner is good?"

"Eighth child, go ahead, I and you Li Ye are waiting for you here."

Everyone left, and the old man and Li Lao began to discuss.

"The owner, since there is plenty of time, I see that we set off from Haikou to the Shishan area to observe the volcano, and then go all the way south to Tanmen, in the meantime, you might as well ask Lai Yu more about his grandfather's life, and there is also an assessment, I always feel that the old man is so positive, he must have some past with Hades Wanghai."

"Listen to the old brother, what Lai Yu did on the Nanyang chain will definitely not be hidden from his grandfather, so we are in the open, the old man may have heard of the land of eternal life or is purely a treasure hunting thought, I think, it is estimated that I have to bother the old brother, treat his old man or put some magical powers, so that he can quickly get closer to the relationship, and he has the right to accumulate virtue and do good."

"Hahaha, follow the owner's arrangement."

As the two were talking, they saw that the eighth man came back with a man and a bear, and this look, hey, in addition to the black skin, a coarse cloth shirt was worn, and it was really a lot more energetic.

"Lai Yu, there is a place for fun in the local area, take us to have a look?"

When Lai Yu heard this, his eyes were stunned, he frowned and thought about it, and it took a long time to open his mouth, and his face was black, red, black, and red.

"The owner, I was born in poverty, and I can eat with you, but I am ready to honor my grandfather, and I haven't been to the place where I am happy, but I know that there is a Nanyang flower building in Haikou, but the women in it are estimated that they can't get into the eyes of the two masters, and...

When Lao Ba heard this, he hurriedly went up to cover Lai Yu, the old man and Li Lao were also happy, this was a misunderstanding at all, thinking that the two masters were going to prostitute the night, and now Lai Yu was even more embarrassed, and he couldn't wait to stuff his square face into his crotch.

"All the brothers are here today, Li Ye is a cultivator, and he pays the most attention to cultivating essence, I will talk about this kind of next thing, listen to it, I advise everyone not to be contaminated with this matter, do you know the bayberry sores?"

"The owner, but it's a kind of willow?"

"It can be said that it is all the disease of looking for flowers and asking willows, but this bayberry sores are not from China, Li Shizhen said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "The ancient prescription does not contain it, and there are no diseases, which have recently started in Lingnan and spread to the four directions." Europeans call this Sphyllis, that is, syphilis, and finally festered and died of this disease, with sores and holes all over the body, and even more paralyzed and could only wait for death. This disease is almost terminal, and it is caused by sexual misconduct. If there is a girl you like, the owner will be a matchmaker for you, although we are going through the secret door, but which is not a well-known man, the boss is not small, and the daughter-in-law will have a home, at that time, give birth to a child, eighteen kinds of martial arts to greet the mother-in-law, is it not more comfortable than the death of lewd pleasure? Do you understand?! ”

"Follow the instructions of the owner!"

Lao Batui pushed Lai Yu, who was desperately lowering his head, and hurriedly made up for it, and saw that Lai Yu looked up at the old man with blazing eyes.

"Dongjia, before I finished speaking, my father died of that bayberry sore, in just a few weeks, the words were like cauliflower, and then the whole body festered like rotten tofu, Lang Zhong was completely at a loss, and his grandfather ordered him to be isolated in a hut alone, and after his death, he burned all the fires. Grandpa said, although it is a shame for the Venerable, but this is the evil result of not cultivating virtue, you can't hide it as a writer's ugly, everyone is running a boat, and it's normal to have a girl who wants to be a girl, but you have to know the evil consequences of chaos. So, I wanted to persuade the two masters. ”

"Lai Yu, your grandfather is a good person, and he warns the people around him through the tragic situation of his heirs, this is not something that ordinary people do, it is a matter of privacy, and he wants to destroy the corpse, but your grandfather thinks of what others call it noble. I don't mean to blame you, I just want to educate everyone, you don't have to think too much. Come on! Lai Yu leads the way, let's go around. ”

Sitting in the rickshaw, the old man found that the backward Qiongzhou was so prosperous, the roads were flat and there were cars driving around, but the car was awkward no matter how it looked, and there was no iron sheet.

"Don't be surprised, Qiongzhou has a tradition of sailing since ancient times, and the late Qing Dynasty has become the earliest place of trade, those who went to Nanyang to make a living, once they made a fortune, they have poured back, and their hearts are still thinking of falling leaves and returning to their roots, so they will invest in construction here, and Qiongzhou has brought their culture since trade, so it can be said that it is a hodgepodge of Chinese and Western cultures and Nanyang cultures."

"Indeed, I just saw people in Western clothes plowing the fields! So why are these cars like this? ”

"Hehe, Qiongzhou people were the first to come into contact with foreign cultures, and gradually became more and more exquisite, and the wonders you see are also in the Haikou area, which is also a kind of baked bun. As for the car, Haikou had the first road in the early years of the Republic of China, and later some old cars were transported from Hong Kong, and I came back to this tour, and learned that because the island was hot and humid and difficult to maintain, and the locals hoped to be able to transport more people and goods, they simply dismantled the iron sheet. However, when we leave Haikou, if we don't want to work hard in the mountains, we have to rely on our pockets. You see, that's it, we call it a sliding rod in the north. ”

Looking along the direction of Li Lao, I saw that the two people in front and behind were walking with one person, and the middle part of the two bamboo poles was fixed with a short bamboo and rope to fix a seat, and a wooden board was raised on the seat to support the waist, and the seat was also wrapped around and under the board with a wooden plank, and some small luggage could also be placed.

"Lai Yu, where are we going?!"

"Back to the east, let's go to Zhongshan Road, the most prosperous boundary in Haikou."

Sure enough, I saw a block in the distance, where there were white buildings on both sides, up to four floors, all of which were the structure of the upper and lower corridors, with stone pillars and arched corridors and tall windows on the top neatly forming a rigorous layout, which was the arcade.

The whole street is rich in arcade styles, some with Chinese mascots carved on the walls and windows, some purely baroque, but more of them are standard Nanyang regulations.

The old man only then understood the prosperity of Haikou, people come and go endlessly, some groups of women carry pigs to sell, Chinese and foreign people are leisurely enjoying the good time, all kinds of advertisements are everywhere, and under the billboards, the old people are drinking tea in groups of three or five, and all kinds of foreign procurement and men are chasing business in a hurry.

"Lai Yu, was this place also called Zhongshan Road before?"

"Back to the east, this land used to be called Huanhaifang, and later it was called the street, and it was changed to Zhongshan Road in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China. Here are all the rich people who returned from Nanyang to build a new building, the top residents and the bottom of the shop, just recklessly told you that the flower building is in front, but the owner warns that I might as well take the owner and Li Ye around to play. In the evening, you two stayed at the Daya Hotel, and I took my brothers to the inn next to the house, and asked the owner to come with me. ”

Daya Hotel, the most luxurious hotel in Haikou, the whole building is solemn, the first floor is a clothing department store, the second and third floors are guest rooms, the dome stone pillars on the street face constitute three balconies up and down, and the windows of Mushan are very noble. Next door is a teahouse that combines soil and ocean, and when everyone was helping to send the luggage to the second floor, the old man grabbed Lai Yu and said meaningfully.

"Lai Yu, you were originally born in Tanmen, and later entered my chain, although you also go home to save your relatives in your spare time, how can you know so much about the prosperous area of Haikou, say, what kind of charter?"

Lai Yu is an introverted person, today is the first time he has seen the big boss, and he has been assigned to follow him, he has been nervous since he said the wrong thing, and now he is even more embarrassed to be asked.

At this time, a person walked out of the door of the hotel, dressed in a dress, a small man with an oval face, a slightly chubby body, estimated to be in his early forties, but a pair of large eyelids looked like Lai Yu.

"It's Zhou Dongjia? Please also blame my nephew, the contemptible Zhang Jianyang, the uncle of Lai Yu, I have told him to report the invitation to you early, I don't want this child to be so old, or honest character, always say that I am worried that the owner is suspected of something wrong, but I am careful to lure you over, sorry! ”

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly returned the salute.

"Don't blame Lai Yu, he didn't play any tricks today, he didn't want to lure me here, it was really me and my brother who wanted to come around, Lai Yu, this brother is honest, and it is the first time to meet me, in case I decide to go straight to Tanmen, if he says that someone wants to see me, he must be worried that I will be suspicious, reasonable, now it is logical to come here, I don't know what to teach?"

"The owner, please, we will talk in the private room next door."

The old man and Li Lao took Lai Yu to the teahouse next door with Zhang Jianyang, went up to the second floor to a single room, and after setting up the tea and snacks, Lai Yu was guarding at the door, Zhang Jianyang closed the door, and bowed deeply to the old man.

"The owner is going to the Hades Sea to explore the treasure this time, and my father insists on going with him, and I ask the owner to do his best to ensure that my father is thorough, thank you here in advance."

"Oh? From the excerpt of "Thinner Road" given to me by the old man, I felt that he wanted to go with him, but I don't know why, at such an old age, is he still willing to go to sea? ”

"Alas, that's the past left by the ancestors, I only know that my father was still a teenager at that time, and his grandfather and a Taoist priest drove to the Hades Sea, but in the end, only the Taoist priest came back with a few people, and this heart knot was left, so many years I always talked about going to the Hades Sea again, but never told us the reason, I think his old man will tell you Hepan."

As soon as the old man and Li Lao heard the word Taoist, they looked at each other, could this be the senior who left the note? If this is the case, Grandpa Lai Yu must have some understanding of the situation back then, and it is really valuable if he can get first-hand information.

"Brother Zhang doesn't have to worry too much, if the old man insists on going, I will definitely ensure that the old man returns safely, if he can get rid of the knot, it will be even better."

"Thank you for your care, I came today, but there is actually a message that must be notified to the owner. After Yoriyu told my father's wishes that day, at first I was just worried about his safety and wanted to meet the owner in person, but I recently learned that a group of people from the Japanese trading company where I worked, claiming to be from a hydrological expedition, were going to survey the East China Sea. ”

"Oh? Are there many Japanese people on this island? ”

"The proprietor doesn't know, there are very few Japanese people on this Qiongzhou Island, and the only permanent residence is the Japanese businessman Katsumata family where I work, so many years, he has trusted me, these correspondence and reception I have participated in the company, I saw that there are other biochemical experts in the list of people, and, at the dinner, I heard them mention that there are relics in the East China Sea Jianshizhi, and I clearly heard the word immortal. Therefore, I waited specifically for the proprietor to inform about this. The Japanese ships were more advanced than ours, they were all diesel ships, they could not rely on ocean currents, and they planned to set off in a month, first to conduct regular surveys, and finally to Jianshizhi. ”

The old man frowned, clucked the tea bowl in his hand, took a deep breath and said angrily.

"Back then, the Lushan incident was that the Japanese wanted to take away my Chinese treasure, and I was alone at that time, barely trying to deal with the past, and now they want to covet our treasures in the sea, where is this to survey the hydrology, it is clear that they are eyeing the islands and reefs, and they are preparing to seize resources. Back then, it was not as good as today, if you meet them and have a conflict, you will definitely bury the thief's hand! ”

When Li Lao saw that the old man's temper was rising, he quickly took the tea bowl out of his hand.

"Boss, in that case, why don't you just set off tomorrow to study the volcano."

"Thank you Brother Zhang for giving us such important information, if there are any new discoveries in the future, please let me know quickly, if you can see the information of the Japanese, it would be better, I am tired. Don't worry, I will swear to protect the elderly! ”

"Lai Yu!! You and Lao Ba go to arrange tomorrow's journey, inform the brothers, go to bed early tonight, recuperate, and set off for Shishan District early tomorrow morning, it is estimated that this trip will not be easy! ”