When I woke up from the dream, the sky was still covered with a thin gray mist, and the stars were hidden, only the morning star hung down at the place where the sea and the sky met, and the whole sky was quiet like the lapis marble paved with the manor castle corridor, which seemed to reflect the shadow of people. The sea under the canopy is also tranquil, as if it had not yet woken up from its sleep in the strong arms of the bay. The wind blew in through the half-open window, the pages of the book in my hand rattled, and the tiger skin blanket covered with it had slipped under the chair at some point, no wonder I woke up feeling cold.

It was the day of the rotation patrol, Liu Jin went to the sea a few days earlier, and a few hours before the heavy goods were out of the warehouse, Lin Wanjing couldn't sleep well, so she simply stopped sleeping, she sat up from the sofa, picked up the blanket and draped it on her shoulders, the morning light was slightly dewed, and the objects in the study had vaguely appeared in the morning light.

Under the west wall of the study is a sand table, with a burgundy velvet table edge, and a whole row of golden tassels naturally hanging down and swaying slowly in the morning breeze. Inside the five-meter-square glass platform, sand and green velvet outline the winding coastline of Luzhou, down to a boat and a ship, and a fishing house lighthouse, all of which are lifelike.

In the afternoon three days ago, Lin Wanjing woke up from a nap, but saw Liu Jin sitting in the living room, looking comfortable.

"Why are you here?" Lin Wanjing asked.

"It's nothing to do in the afternoon, and as the host of the dinner, isn't it rude that I'm not there?" Liu Jin replied, with a somewhat unpredictable look in his smile.

Lin Wanjing only noticed the abnormality of the atmosphere, she walked quickly to the corridor, but saw the attendants busy downstairs to arrange the venue, flowers and ribbons were colorful and gorgeous, porcelain plates and silver ornaments were wiped fresh, Ah Ling took out the bone china tea set she brought back from abroad from the storage room, this tea set has never been taken out and used since she brought it back. Just when Lin Wanjing was wondering, her waist was gently hugged by Liu Jin:

"I didn't tell you before that I was afraid of your objections, but I invited consuls and dignitaries from various countries to come here for dinner in my name, as a thank you to them for taking care of you."

"Didn't you get a fever from the sea breeze? At this time, inviting foreign guests to eat at home is not nothing to do? Lin Wanjing turned around and frowned at him, and raised her hand to wipe his forehead with an anxious expression.

Liu Jin smiled and pushed her hand away: "I'm sober." ”

Now that he has been branded as a "foreigner", he doesn't care about getting closer to foreigners.

"After all this time, don't you want to meet your blonde friend? She's worried about you. Seeing that she was unhappy, Liu Jin changed the topic, but Lin Wanjing didn't appreciate it:

"What if you want to see it, you can see it at any time after this time, do you have to pick now? What the hell are you thinking? ”

"Aren't you happy?"

"No, high, happy." Lin Wanjing paused word by word, pouting and breaking free from his arms.

When did he start to be so childish and disregard for the overall situation.

"Even then, it's too late to withdraw the invitation." Liu Jin looked scoundrel, "Could it be that you want to let the guests eat closed?" ”

Lin Wanjing didn't want her, she just didn't want to be angry.

"Alright, go change into nice clothes, the guests are coming."

Liu Jin half-pushed and half-coaxed Lin Wanjing back to the master bedroom, and the beautiful clothes were changed, Lin Wanjing was angry and wondering, and she didn't give Liu Jin a smile until the end of the dinner. When the guests left, Liu Jin couldn't help but say that she took Lin Wanjing to the second floor, and went straight to the study after the bedroom.

The attendants on the second floor had already been withdrawn, leaving only Ah Ling waiting outside the door, and when she saw Liu Jin, she respectfully shouted the young marshal.

"Nothing, right?" Liu Jin asked.

"No," Ah Ling shook her head, "I just replaced Qiongge, she went to dinner, and I guarded the second half." ”

"Okay, thank you."

Lin Wanjing listened to the conversation between the two, and her doubts became more and more serious: "Yunrou, what kind of medicine are you selling in the gourd, what kind of dinner party are you holding inexplicably, and when it's over, you will pull me into the study again, I am not in the mood to accompany you to taste poetry and words tonight!" ”

Liu Jin smiled and didn't say anything, just raised his hand and pushed the door of the study through a crack, and after dodging in the door, he dragged Lin Wanjing in and locked the door in a hurry.

Li Lingrui and his wife have been waiting in the study for a long time, Gu Yiguang rarely wore a dress, and his playful goose egg face was a little cute against the big lace collar, and he heard Lin Wanjing and Liu Jin talking in the corridor, and the two of them had already stood up at this time, turned around and waited for them to enter the door.

"How did you come!"

Lin Wanjing was surprised and delighted, turned her head to look at Liu Jin beside her, but saw him leave her and go to the table alone, the fire was extinguished, and the light smoke curled up, he only took a puff and put the cigarette on the ashtray on the side.

"Didn't I say I was going to talk to you about that batch of goods, why, forgot?" Li Lingrui said with a smile.

Of course Lin Wanjing remembers, but the delivery date is approaching, but Li Lingrui has no news at all, and Lin Wanjing is almost about to give up.

"We thought of a way, but it was inconvenient to get close to you, and I knew your intention to involve us, so I had to skip you and go directly to the young marshal." Gu Yiguang walked towards her, took her hand and walked to the middle of the study.

"You went straight to him?" Lin Wanjing looked at Li Lingrui and asked.

"If he comes to me directly, he will definitely have to eat the closed door." Liu Jin replied.

"It was the young marshal who came to me personally." Li Lingrui answered.

The lighter in Liu Jin's hand slammed on the ashtray on the side - what did he say?

"I turned myself in fifty boxes of undeclared goods."

"That's a fine for you?"

"Official," Liu Jin raised three fingers, "three times." This is still based on the fact that he was given a lenient punishment in the circumstances of his surrender. ”

"You have to pay back the money in private!"

After Lin Wanjing finished speaking, Liu Jin raised her eyebrows: "It's late, I will charge the military expenses right now." ”

"You ......"

"Okay Wanjing, don't play tricks with the young marshal, those money should be gifts for you, and we didn't give any good gifts on your wedding day. Besides, it's good to see you anyway, if it weren't for the young marshal's excuse to hold a dinner party for us to let us in today, we don't know how to discuss with you. Gu Yiguang insisted on pulling Lin Wanjing to Liu Jin's side and putting her hand on Liu Jin's shoulder, "Okay Wanjing, the young marshal is right about this, you have to blame me for the idea, huh?" ”

Lin Wanjing treated Gu Yiguang's sisters with each other, where could she be ruthless and angry with her, she couldn't hold it up, and burst out laughing.

"Madam, do you still blame me for holding a dinner party and singing and dancing?" Liu Jin didn't look at her, his eyes were fixed on the burning half of the cigarette, as if he was smiling.

"You're not such a stingy person, are you?"

As soon as the words fell, Liu Jin had already stood up, Lin Wanjing thought he was really angry, and took half a step back to make way for him, but he reached out and took her to his side, the tip of his nose almost came to her, her cheeks were red, and she reached out to block:

"Yunrou, there are guests......"

"Where do you want to go!" Liu Jin kissed her on the forehead, and then let her go, leaving her alone in Gu Yiguang's snickering like a red glow in the evening.

After enough chat, Li Lingrui finally brought the topic back to the right path:

"Young marshal, I have some ideas about that shipment, do you have a map here?"

"Maps?" Liu Jin pondered for a moment, "You don't need something backward like that. Saying that, she stood up and went straight down to the west wall, raised her hand to lift the red flannel covered, Lin Wanjing and Li Lingrui and his wife followed closely, and when she saw the sand table covered under the flannel, she clearly heard a sigh of admiration from Li Lingrui's lips.

"How?" Liu Jin looked at him sideways.

"Beautiful." Li Lingrui has always praised the things that can conquer him, "Win any sand table I see at St. Andrew's School." ”

"On this sand table, you can see everything within 20 miles of the coastline of Luzhou and the hinterland of the port," Liu Jin circled around one of the areas with a pusher, "This is the market, that is, the street where Wanli Trading Company is located, and beyond that is the British Concession." ”

"I think that Yu Shuai's forces are concentrated on land, and as long as the goods leave the port and reach the sea, he will be helpless." Li Lingrui said.

"Hmm, so how are you going to lay it out?" Liu Jin handed a box of glass-molded ship models to Li Lingrui, the box was divided into a nine-square grid, one of which was pasted with the words "Hengguang Far East", which was actually a model of all the ships registered in the name of Hengguang Far East Group, although it was not exquisite, but the name of the ship could be recognized.

Li Lingrui turned around and handed the Jiugong box into Gu Yiguang's hands, and he picked up another pusher: "Let's put the matter at sea for the time being, I estimate that Yu Shuai will send someone to search the goods shipped out of the warehouse on the day of shipment, and the place to check the goods should be near the commercial port, and an informant will be arranged to follow along the way, and we will not have the opportunity to transfer or divert the contract." Young marshal, the area on this sand table should be under your control, right? ”

"Yes." Liu Jin nodded, and then added: "To be precise, it is bigger than this, as long as my ship can enter, I can control it within the range of guns." ”

This is the first time Lin Wanjing has heard Liu Jin talk about his power, in other words, the canals and waterways in Luzhou City, but anyone who has not crossed the waterline of the ship, Liu Jin has the right to speak, so it seems that the rumors that "Liu Jin occupies most of the country in Luzhou" are true.

"My plan is like this, as long as we can ensure that the goods leave the port safely, we can steal the day at sea, and when Yushuai thoroughly inspects the warehouse, we will transport the goods back intact, and they have no result after checking once, and they have no reason to check the second time."

"Let's not talk about leaving the port safely, I want to know how you can steal the sky at sea." Liu Jin raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Lingrui, "The terrain near Luzhou Commercial Port is flat and the water is open, but there is not even a reef that can provide shelter, if Qingyu has laid eyeliner in this generation," Liu Jin pointed at the higher places near the commercial port one by one with a push rod, "Once we find that we have traces of transfer, I am afraid that we will have to act immediately, and we have to guard against it." ”

"On March 27, the ocean-going freighter Alpha under the name of our company will dock and unload, 500 boxes of rubber products will be shipped to two warehouses in 46 days, and another 120 boxes of bulk cargo will be unloaded to our company's warehouse." Li Lingrui took the ship model handed by his wife and put it next to the commercial port, "After unloading, reload 500 boxes of bulk cargo in my warehouse to Malaya, and leave the port on the 30th."

"According to the cargo arrangement provided to me by the foreign bank, the British freighters 'Ios' and 'Ophiuchus' will call at the port on the 29th and 31st respectively, of which the 'Ophiuchus' will be picked up in empty holds, and it is expected to load 300 boxes of cheese, more than 200 boxes of porcelain, and 500 boxes of bulk cargo in warehouse No. 1 on the 31st."

While listening to him, Liu Jin paced to the desk and took two ship models painted with rice flags back to the sand table, and silently placed the two boats off the coast of the commercial port.

"On the 27th, Wanjing, you evacuate all the workers in the No. 1 warehouse, leaving only the henchmen to guard outside the warehouse, I will take my people to deliberately put the goods unloaded on the alpha with your goods, it was just a purchase that day, I expected that Yushuai would not send someone to check the goods, even if he came, what was found was not contraband, and he couldn't pick anything to say.

"If the five hundred boxes of goods are transported to the No. 1 warehouse, the space is bound to be tight, I will arrange to transport forty percent of the goods to my company's warehouse together with your goods in the afternoon, and then load the ship with the five hundred boxes of bulk cargo in my warehouse at night, and the port curfew at night, even if Yu Shuai transfers people to check, one is the young marshal you can block it, and the other is dark at night, even if it is really checked, it is not real, and the goods are loaded, the young marshal, you will find an excuse to let Alpha leave the port immediately to the offshore standby, and you must not return to Hong Kong if you are not recalled, so as not to stay on the coast for a long time and have a long night."

Liu Jin thought for a moment and nodded: "No problem." You continue. ”

"After Alpha leaves the port smoothly, I will count the goods with the ship, take the opportunity to separate your 100 boxes of goods and say that it is the wrong ship to be transported back to the warehouse, mixed loading to separate out the workload is huge, I expect to call Xunlong flagship around the 29th to ask to return to the port to unload, then you will return to my port berth is full, not allowed to turn back, after receiving the reply, I will arrange the transfer of the ship as an agent, the 100 boxes of goods with the 'Ios' into the port,' The Ios is listed in the name of the Emperor, and this time the port unloaded hundreds of boxes of goods are all valuable gold and silverware, and the British Embassy will send troops to escort it. ”

"...... on the 29th," Liu Jin repeated in a low voice, and asked after a while, "so I need to find a way to change the port time of these two British ships, allowing the 'Ophiuchus' to dock and load in advance, and at the same time delay the time for the 'Ios' to dock and unload." ”

"Yes. Not only that, the loading time of 'Ophiuchus' is best set on the 28th and 29th, when a large number of goods will be out of the warehouse at the No. 1 warehouse, Yu Shuai is bound to send troops to strictly investigate, we must do enough posture, so that they feel that we are indeed transferring arms, and when Yu Shuai leads the heavy troops to check, simply open the warehouse door and let them check the warehouse together, and they can't find out why, and then it will no longer be so easy to make waves. During this period, I will let out a word, and I will say that the emperor has heavy goods in storage, and after a while, the No. 1 warehouse will be strictly guarded by the British army. When he finishes checking, the heavy goods are in storage, the seals are properly affixed, and the British troops are on alert, we will be able to breathe a sigh of relief for the time being. That's what I can plan so far. ”

Li Lingrui's words were contained here, and Liu Jin went through Li Lingrui's deployment in his mind, frowning for a long time and nodded. Seeing him in a daze, Lin Wanjing called him softly:

"Yun Rou?"

Liu Jin came back to his senses: "Well, although it is a bit risky, it is indeed feasible. ”

Seeing that he agreed, Lin Wanjing finally smiled.

"I will assist you as much as possible and provide you with convenience," Liu Jin finished speaking, and took a deep breath, "Whether it is successful or not, I, Liu Yunrou, have thanked you here in advance." ”

……

The knock sounded, Lin Wanjing looked up at the door and answered, "Come in", Ah Ling poked her head in from outside the door and said:

"Miss, it's almost time, let's freshen up and get ready to go out."

Lin Wanjing nodded in agreement and followed Ah Ling out of the study. Behind her, the first rays of dawn erupted from under the sea level, and a golden light spread out in the study, and the golden light sprinkled through the study on the sand table, and was refracted into a rainbow of light by the ships on the sand table, which was indescribably dreamlike.