The other party spoke Hakka, Zhu Beiguo basically couldn't understand it, but Liu Yishuang, who was standing next to him, understood it, so he immediately replied, a certain ancestral home is Ruitong County, Linzhang County, southern Fujian, I don't know where this old man's hometown is?

The other party listened to the tears on his face, and returned to the road, his ancestral home is Zhaojiahe Village, Yongning County, and he never thought that outside of this wilderness, he would have to meet the Linzhang Township Party, so he stepped forward and bowed to Liu Yishuang, and sang a big wow, this kind of etiquette is probably inherited from the Tang and Song dynasties, and there is no official canon, Liu Yishuang naturally does not know, and is in a daze, fortunately, Zhu Beiguo knows a little about this folk gift, so he stepped forward and pulled Guan Hongyu, and took Liu Yishuang to accompany this ceremony.

As the saying goes, when this fellow sees his fellow countryman, his eyes are full of tears, and the man wiped his tears, then turned around and introduced his own lady, who was the indigenous woman just now, and then ordered the lady to go to the back room to make tea and entertain guests.

The next thing is to introduce each other, under Liu Yishuang's translation, Zhu Beiguo Guan Hongyu stepped forward one by one, each of them saluted, and each other's hometown, this Han ancestral home in southern Fujian, and Liu Yishuang Guan Hongyu's hometown is only separated by a mountain and a river in the neighboring county area, so the language is roughly the same.

At this moment, Zhu Beiguo sighed in his heart, when he was in college, he listened to the old professor, saying that there are many ancient Chinese elements contained in this Hakka......

Zhu Beiguo was grateful and did not forget his task, so Zhu Beiguo and the Han man began to exchange questions and answers with the help of Liu Yishuang and Guan Hongyu.

After a conversation, Zhu Beiguo learned that the man named Chen Dian was originally in Binnan, Manila, all by weaving and making ropes to make a living, when he was an apprentice in his early years, he followed his fellow villagers into the Xiyi people's God Religion, and then became self-reliant, because he was single and an orphan, he was recruited here by the "Xiyangyi monk" from the south, and there were more than 200 households with him, however, because of the unsuitable water and soil and the barbaric remoteness, most of the immigrants later found a way to take a boat back to Manila. The reason why he didn't run away was that he met his own lady---- the woman just now was the daughter of the local chief, and she married her with a dowry, so Chen Dian stayed in the local area.

When Zhu Beiguo asked why the Han people ran back to most of them, Chen Dian smiled and said, this is a long sentence, these monks who came to recruit said that when they went to the south, there were fields to divide, and there were farm tools, and after three years, they would pay one-twentieth of the output, and after three years, one-tenth of the output of the land would be given to the church every year, and the land would always belong to the cultivators, and the descendants of the deed could be passed on.

This promise attracted a large number of applicants, as long as they were devout believers.

After everyone arrived here, these Xiyi monks kept their promises, and they fulfilled their promises to give fields and farm tools one by one, but there was only one requirement - to believe in God and not to worship idols, including their own ancestors.

The clergy also made frequent rounds and found worshippers of the gods, ranging from confiscation of money to the resumption of land.

However, the customs of the Han people, all year round, Guanyin, Rulai, Guan Gong, Mazu, and the Lord of the Stove are all worshiped at four o'clock, and the sequence of time is long, how to adapt to it for a while?

Thinking that when the Han people were in Binnandu, the Westerners entrusted the religious Jiabidan to control, in addition to the collection of taxes, the Han people's internal litigation and punishment, completely entrusted to the Jiabidan, that Jiabidan is also a Han people, usually sacrificed, only acted in private, did not perform sacrifices openly, and turned a blind eye to get by, and the church was also not responsible for this, helpless.

But now the situation here is different, there are only hundreds of Han families, and the priests have to control everything, but how can the Han people suffer?

So there were those who stole sacrifices, and there were also those who secretly sold the melons and fruits produced in the field, and secretly took a boat back with farm tools, and now there are less than 100 of the more than 200 households left, all of whom are like me who married local women and started families.

Zhu Beiguo smiled when he heard this, can Brother Chen really worship God? Chen Dian responded, how insincere, we can start a family, marry a wife and have children, all thanks to God's gift, if I were not recruited by this missionary, in that Binnandu, I want to marry a wife and have children and get more than ten acres of fertile land, I am afraid it will be difficult......

Liu Yishuang asked if this was true?

Chen Dian sighed and said that he was an orphan, his background was unknown, and he had no ancestors to worship, as for the Guanyin Buddha Guan Gong Mazu, it was even more nothing, although he had sincere thoughts, it was enough to worship God......

Zhu Beiguo nodded secretly when he heard this, it seems that the priests' methods of recruiting people to preach are not very smart, how can this Han customs be changed if they should be changed, the priests are too serious, and the natural effect is not good.

He smiled secretly in his heart, although this Han man is hardworking and capable, he is also pragmatic and cunning, and even his faith is very utilitarian and practical......

Now that I know that there are less than 100 Han families in these three boanga, and they all marry wives and have children to settle here, it seems that if there is no big change, this group of people is estimated not to immigrate to us, Zhu Beiguo thought of this, so he went to see Chen Dian's shop, which has all kinds of woven goods and thick and thin ropes, and some jars, asked about business matters, Chen Dian said that he is mainly farming, this shop is taken care of by his own lady on weekdays, the business is light, there is to do, there is nothing to be idle, it is better to talk than nothing.

Zhu Beiguo listened and nodded, and asked what was in this jar, Chen Dian said, it is coconut oil, the local people take coconut shells to make coarse cloth for fiber weaving, make wine with coconut milk, and the rest are discarded, Chen Dian learned a handicraft from the Western monks, peeling coconut shells to take its inner skin, rolling coconut oil, every time a ship comes to the port, or can be sold to the sailors of the Naxi people.

Zhu Beiguo knew that coconut oil was a very high-quality edible oil, and if some chemicals were added, it would still be a very good industrial lubricant, and Boss Luo had already talked to him many times.

It's just that the local aborigines don't have the habit of making coconut oil, so coconut oil is rare now, and most of them are eaten at home, so it is not easy to buy.

However, Zhu Beiguo felt that Chen Dian would make homemade coconut oil, which might turn into a big business, so he said that he wanted to take a look at the goods.

Chen Dian was very happy to hear it, and immediately led his brother into the back room, where there are three large altars, which are all coconut oil, and very fresh, smelling the smell of fresh coconut shells, Zhu Beiguo immediately inquired, Chen Dian said that it is sold to Westerners and sailors on weekdays, five eagles and one altar, and now since it is a fellow countryman to buy, four eagles and one altar, Zhu Beiguo said that we want all three altars, Chen Dian immediately responded and said, even so, all ten eagles can be taken away.

Next, Zhu Beiguo saw some yellow lumps piled up in another basket, and when he went up to take a closer look, he realized that it was yellow wax, which obviously came from the hive of local bees.

Zhu Beiguo knew that this thing was actually very common in the Nanyang region, and the natives mostly used it for medicine or lighting, but he also knew that it could also be used for pharmaceutical and industrial antiseptic and sealing materials, just because it had never formed a large-scale industry, and in the Nanyang trade system, yellow wax was a small material that could only be purchased sporadically.

Chen Dian found that Zhu Beiguo was interested in this, so he said to him that there are many Han people in the village, mostly used to treat dysentery and stomach discomfort and the like, sometimes used as candles to illuminate, this jungle is full of wild bees, every dry season, the native people often go into the forest to collect honey, and the beehive is discarded, and the Han people pick it up, boil it with warm water, remove the foam and dry it to form a yellow wax block for later use.

It's just that now it's the rainy season, and the Han people may have some stock in their homes, and if Brother Zhu wants a large amount of goods, he needs to wait until the dry season to go into the village to buy them.

As for the price, Chen Dian smiled: You just look at it.

Zhu Beiguo immediately agreed, he knew that the price of buying this kind of yellow wax in Macao was actually not cheap, and if he had agreed with the villagers here in advance that he would come directly to this source to buy it during the dry season, it would naturally be cheap and of guaranteed quality.

Thinking of this, Zhu Beiguo decided to go to the Han village to have a look, and paid the coconut oil on the spot, at this time Guan Hongyu said that he wanted to go back to the pride to call someone to carry the jar, but Chen Dian said no, I saw him whistle, a few indigenous women came out of the coconut grove in the distance, Chen Dian said for a while, so the two women carried an altar and moved straight to the trestle, and the crew on the Pride saw it, knowing that Brother Zhu had bought the goods again, so he got off the ship to help carry the jar into the cabin without mentioning.