After a farewell for nearly three years, there are naturally endless words and chatters.

Shui Qingrou and Ying Shiyan Mengwan and others sat in Chen Xu's spacious Taishi special carriage with Xia Zijin, and now they are all mothers, and the topics discussed are naturally inseparable from their children, and Chen Xu and Yu Wuya exchanged everything about sailing on the sea in the past two or three years and everything about Yingzhou.

Half an hour later, when he returned to the Qinghe Courtyard, in the face of the 20,000 catties of silver and almost 10,000 catties of sulfur that were suddenly transported back, the Qinghe Marquis Mansion was suddenly busy, and hundreds of housekeepers and servants were busy back and forth, packing up the warehouses and stables and arranging the transportation of goods and horses, and a group of servants were also busy preparing clean clothes, hot water, and dinner for the young men of the musket team and the coachmen and grooms who drove the cars, etc.

The servants in the house are busy, and they have little to do with the master, all these old housekeepers are arranged in an orderly manner on weekdays, Yu Wuya couldn't wait to urge the meal to start the meal as soon as he entered the gate of the other courtyard, leaving a group of people and running directly to the kitchen to find food, fortunately, at this time of the day, the kitchen workers of the Hou Mansion have already prepared the meal, and when Chen Xu washed his face and washed his hands and arranged the food, Yu Wuya was already sitting in the restaurant and eating alone.

"Wow, delicious...... Delicious, simply the most beautiful ...... in the world"

Yu Wuya is like a hungry ghost who has been hungry for countless years released from a starvation prison, and he doesn't use chopsticks, he grabs a duck leg and a fragrant braised lamb chop with both hands, and the juice he eats is splashed left and right, and the state of crazy eating is like a storm.

By the time Shui gently accompanied Xia Zijin to the restaurant after washing, the plates of dishes in front of Yu Wuya were already half empty.

"Sister Zijin, don't be polite, hurry up and eat!" Shui Qingrou looked at the posture and knew that the two of them hadn't eaten well in the past two or three years, so he hurriedly beckoned Xia Zijin to eat.

Xia Zijin gently and helplessly pinched Yu Wuya's back before sitting down.

"Hmm, Zijin don't want to be polite to his junior sister Engong, eat quickly......" Yu Wuya didn't look up at all, and made a whining sound while eating.

Xia Zijin was originally a Taoist child who cultivated immortals, and he didn't care much about mundane etiquette, and after sitting down, he picked up chopsticks like a dragonfly and dotted water, and was soon tempted by the delicious food on the table to lose his not too much reserve, and buried himself in eating and eating as if there was no one around.

Chen Xu, Shui Qingrou and the others all chewed slowly as usual, eating and drinking while observing the frenzied eating of the two, and their faces couldn't help but smile happily.

"Daddy, eat slowly, be careful of choking!" Yu Ji obediently sat next to Yu Wuya and gently patted her father on the back.

"Woo...... My daughter is good, my father hasn't eaten a bite of food for three years...... Those Yingzhou savages like to eat raw fish and raw meat, and I have lost my appetite when I see it, and I think about the delicious food made by Engong every day, and I dream of eating a bite of crispy roast duck......"

Yu Wuya kept stuffing all kinds of food into his mouth while hesitating, and after eating for nearly twenty minutes in one breath, he finally felt a little spiritual satisfaction, sat down with a full burp, raised his head with a wine glass, and poured a large glass of red wine.

"Huh~~ cool ......"

Yu Wuya leaned on the back of the chair with a long sigh of relief, his eyes fell on Xia Zijin, who was still eating and eating vegetables next to him, and shook his head with emotion and said: "Engong don't want to joke, then the natives of Yingzhou can't make food, either raw food, or roasting, no seasonings except salt, they can't eat at all, and they especially like to eat raw fish!" ”

"I know, it's sliced, right?" Chen Xu poured a full glass of wine for Yu Wuya and said with a smile.

"Wrong, it's raw!" Xia Zijin, who had already eaten a little full, answered.

"Zijin is right, Engong guessed wrong, there are no local barbarian knives, how to slice them, just eat them raw, Ru Mao wants to vomit when he drinks blood...... ......"Yu Wuya rubbed his belly and almost threw up."

Chen Xuleng shook his head and said: "No wonder, in fact, raw fish is not unpalatable, we have long had fish in the Central Plains, but there are very few people who eat it now, and the indigenous people of Yingzhou were the earliest descendants of the ancient Yiyue who fled from the vicinity of the East China Sea, and there is a tradition of eating raw fish, but it is best not to eat fish in rivers and lakes, the fish and shellfish in the sea are still very delicious, and it is a unique delicacy that is no less than frying and frying, next time I go to the East China Sea, I will make it for you to eat......

"Engong Mo wants to talk about seafood, Wuya will tumble in his stomach when he listens, those Yingzhou natives also like to fish some seaweed from the sea and eat it with raw meat, the taste is even more disgusting......" Yu Wuya's face instantly distorted like bitter melon, and he hurriedly drank a glass of red wine to suppress his shock.

"Seaweed...... Well, it's probably seaweed or kelp, it's all good things, you say raw fish is not delicious, that's because there is no good production method and sauce, okay, don't talk about these, next time you cook seafood, a garlic vermicelli scallop can let you know that seafood is really delicious, and other beef, mutton and fish are just ordinary food to satisfy hunger! Chen Xu said with a smile while drinking.

"I don't want to, I don't want to see seafood now, I want to eat some grains and cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks from my Central Plains, by the way, and dog meat...... There are also flower cakes, glutinous rice cakes, egg cakes, cakes, and baked bread...... There are also stinky tofu, spicy snails, braised beef noodles, bean dregs cake, spring rolls, and fried kidney flowers with green onions...... Hey, can't say it...... Wuya is already hungry and can't sit still, by the way, Engong, what are these dishes, just don't care about eating and watching......" Yu Wuya picked up a piece of onion with chopsticks and asked curiously.

"Daddy, this is called onion, it is a cabbage planted by Brother Xiao Xu, in addition to onions, there are cucumbers, eggplants, watermelons, cantaloupe, by the way, there is also one of the most unpalatable coriander, Brother Xiao Xu took a name called coriander, but it is not fragrant at all, but Dr. Meng loves to eat it very much......"

Yu Ji sat next to her and began to introduce the new vegetables that have been produced in the past two years.

Yu Wuya threw the onion into his mouth and tasted it carefully, nodded again and again: "Not bad, this is indeed a vegetable that has not been eaten, the taste is crisp, sweet and refreshing, with a strange fragrance, it is indeed not the style of my Central Plains vegetables, delicious, delicious......"

In the following time, the family could finally get together to eat, drink and chat, and the women still talked about the children, mainly Xia Zijin talked about some of Yingzhou's customs and experiences and the process of pregnancy and childbirth, Yu Wuya and Chen Xu also talked about navigation and Yingzhou's development of silver mines and sulfur, as well as the distribution of indigenous people on Yingzhou Islands, etc., and of course, by the way, they also figured out the information of Gongsun Beiyan, Gai Nie, Xiang Jing and some explorers who had a keen eye to build sea ships in advance to make a fortune in Yingzhou.

"Engong, I originally planned to go back to the Central Plains to tell you the news after finding the silver mine last year, but at that time, Zijin happened to be pregnant, and I was afraid that the sea would bump and damage the fetus, so I delayed the journey until the beginning of spring this year......

"Maofeng Shipping...... Could it be the merchant ship of the righteous businessman? Chen Xu was surprised.

"Yes, it's him, when Zijin and I went to Langya to prepare the supplies for going to sea, Qi Mao and a few businessmen also went to Langya, bringing a lot of money to order five three-masted ships in the shipyard, because they are not familiar with the sea, Cao Shen also rented them a sea ship to train near Langya, and sent people to guide the navigation experience, and then we went to Yingzhou to find Gongsun Beiyan, and soon after Qi Mao's merchant ship also arrived in Yingzhou......"

When they came back, most of what Yu Wuya said was what they had experienced, and now that they were full of food and drink, Yu Wuya also had enough strength and interest to explain it clearly and in detail after going to Yingzhou.

"You said Qi Mao, they even found a gold mine?" After listening, Chen Xu was surprised.

"Yes, Qi Mao and we almost all landed on the coast of Yingzhou, the closest to North Korea, because there are too many islands, and there are almost countless large and small, so it took more than a month to find a gathering place for a group of local natives and kill their leader, and then slowly find out the situation on Yingzhou Island......"

"Gai Nie and Xiang Ji were anxious to find Gongsun Beiyan and Xiang Jing, so we have been chasing everywhere to find the gathering place of those Yingzhou natives, and when we found Gongsun Beiyan and Xiang Jing and returned to the docking place of the sea ship, we met Qi Mao and others who caught up behind......"

"Gongsun Beiyan founded the Wei State with the help of Han Zheng, called herself the princess of Wei, and also founded the country and appointed the prime minister and the general and other civil and military officials, gathered tens of thousands of natives from dozens of nearby tribes, and the power was very good, we used her power to search for the silver and sulfur mentioned by Engong on the island, and sure enough, we still found a lot, and also found a large silver mine, Gongsun Beiyan also sent the indigenous people of Yingzhou to help open the mine, and those ink disciples and scholars helped smelt, so the rest of the year got 20,000 catties of silver, At the same time, tens of thousands of pounds of sulfur were dug up from under several volcanoes......"

"After the autumn of last year, we arranged for people to transport silver and sulfur to the sea ships one after another, and met a few Central Plains merchant ships that came to Yingzhou, and only after talking about it was Qi Mao that they found a small gold mine not far from our shore, but the lack of tools is difficult to mine, they went back to the Central Plains to build tools to buy coal and stone to recruit people, these merchant ships were invited by them to develop gold mines, we were curious to go to the gold mine to see, there is indeed an obvious vein, The exposed part can be seen with golden ore......"

Chen Xu: ......

He knew that Japan had gold and silver mines and was rich in sulfur, but this kind of thing was not familiar with the locals as guides, and it was like looking for a needle in a haystack to find it, but he didn't expect Qi Mao and the others to find it so quickly.

"By the way, Engong, that Qi Mao also gave you five hundred taels of gold, and this time we brought them all back, right in the carriage!" Yu Wuya reminded.

"And he gave me gold?" Chen Xu was even more surprised.

"That's natural, if there is no Engong to guide them to find Yingzhou, how can they be so lucky, but if that gold mine is to be developed, there are thousands or even tens of thousands of people who can't do it, what they lack most at the moment is manpower, and with manpower there must be a shortage of food, and they also have to transport steel and coal back and forth to make tools and smelt, and now the output is only three or four thousand taels a year, far less than we find a silver mine to make a fortune......"

Chen Xu nodded slightly after listening, three or four thousand taels of gold a year, the value is only more than one million yuan, compared to building a big ship and recruiting people to toss back and forth, it is indeed not a big fortune, but after all, it is a gold mine, and the amount of mining will be large in the future, and the source of wealth will naturally roll in, this is an extremely long-term fortune business, and after ten or twenty years, it will inevitably get the wealth of the rich country.

As for Qi Mao giving him five hundred taels of gold, it was just to open up the joints in advance, the whole world is not the king's land, even if Yingzhou is overseas, it is also the property of the first emperor, if there is no one in the court to help, as long as the emperor says a word, the gold mine he found will be under the jurisdiction of Shaofu.