"Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular."

Thinking of this ancient saying, Zhao Youju smiled slightly, picked up the quill pen in his hand, and wrote the word "boat" on the white paper.

The news he has received recently is very different from this ancient precept, and it can be said that in the past few days, he has been full of happy events. First the new Zhuangzi was built, then it was made in a quarter of an hour, and before the day came, Hu Fulang returned to Yuzhang Villa with seven or eight people, and now, he sat in front of him.

The oldest of the people he brought with him was over seventy, and although he still seemed to be deaf and clear-sighted, his legs and feet were extremely inconvenient. If it weren't for the boat all the way, Zhao Youju doubted that the old man would have been able to come out of Quanzhou safely.

All the people who came were surnamed Hu, which had some fate with Hu Fulang, thinking of this, Zhao and Ju wrote the word "Hu" on the paper again.

On that day, Hu Fulang came out of Mao's shipyard and met a half-old boy, about fourteen or fifteen years old, pointing at him and scolding. Hu Fulang was extremely surprised, thinking to himself that he had never known this kid, how could he dare to scold himself for no reason.

He didn't come to Quanzhou alone, he brought two of his family's companions, and one of them went to grab the kid, and between pulling, the kid realized that Hu Fulang was not from the Mao family's shipyard, and he scolded him wrong. Although that kid is reckless, he is not a dead-faced person, and he will kowtow to Hu Fulang right now. Hu Fulang didn't think much of himself, but only asked a few more words to find out what happened.

This kid is also surnamed Hu, the family has been building ships in Quanzhou for more than 100 years, but it is a family of shipbuilders, his father and brother were originally working in the Mao family shipyard, because of an accident some time ago, unfortunately died, the owner of the wool farm saw that his family was only old and weak, and he gave a few rounds of money and drove his family out of the shipyard. Although his family is only a boatman, there are also some relatives and friends, and they have to go to the wool farm owner to argue.

But at this time, the rules are like this, the wool farmer sent his family out, at best, it can only be regarded as a mean and unkind, but it does not hinder the law of the country. After the trouble, even the relatives and friends of the Hu family lost patience, and only this half-grown kid still went to the Mao family's boat yard every day to make trouble.

He didn't ask for much, but he just begged the Mao family shipyard to accept him as a boatsmith, so that he could earn a few copper coins to support the old and weak in his family. But the previous two conveniences had broken their faces, and he was only a half-grown boy, so he couldn't do anything, so he was rejected by the wool owner.

After asking carefully, Hu Fulang learned that this kid's name was Hu You, and this name almost made Hu Fulang laugh, Hu You Hu You, isn't it a "fool"?

He originally wanted to send this kid away for two copper coins, but his words made Hu Fulang change his mind.

"All of my family are good shipwrights, and my family's Ah Weng was this in his Mao family's shipyard back then." Hu You also gave a thumbs up when he said: "If he hadn't been sick and had difficulty moving his feet, the Mao family would have cried and shouted for him to come to the old man's house." ”

"Oh?" The real so-called drowsiness meets pillows, Hu Fulang was originally a shipwright who was ordered by Zhao and Ju to find a ship in Quanzhou to benefit the ship. Although it is said that it is a shop to sell the silk of Changlong, because the new cocoon has not been out of stock, it has been very free recently, so I came out to find a shipwright. He had heard that the owner of the wool farm was deliberately cutting off manpower in the yard because of the recession, so he came to him. However, these days, he also knows that each shipyard attaches great importance to its own skilled craftsmen, and it is easy to pull them away, and the wool farm owner will only cut those apprentices, so an experienced old shipwright like Hu You's grandfather, even if his legs and feet are inconvenient, it is worth wooing.

The next thing is simple, Hu Fulang followed Hu You to his house, visited Hu You's grandfather Hu Ke, and said that he would leave the sad place of Quanzhou, and the family took a boat north to Qingyuan Mansion, and then took a big car from Qingyuan Mansion to Yuzhang Villa.

"Da Lang, in order to bring them in, I am good at making decisions on how to place them." Hu Fulang saw that Zhao Heju was happy, and his heart was also happy, he was impressed when Zhao Heju was preparing for "Baoxing", so he was also very polite when he spoke: "I have seen it in Quanzhou, and I always feel that although Quanzhou is good, it is not my homeland, and it is far away from our villa. When I came ashore from Yingyuan Mansion, I felt that although there were fewer seafarers in Qingyuan Mansion than in Quanzhou, it was also extremely prosperous, and it was not as good as ......"

"What Brother Jiu said is very true, it was because I thought badly at the beginning." Zhao and Ju to their own mistakes to admit it, although he is thoughtful, but occasionally will still look at things with the eyes of later generations, let Hu Fulang go to Quanzhou to open a shop is so, although the shipping in Quanzhou is very smooth, but the land route is not as convenient as later generations, the raw silk of Yuzhuang Villa is transported, or have to take the waterway.

Therefore, Zhao and Ju wrote two words on the white paper: "Qingyuan".

"Since this is the case, I closed the shop in Quanzhou and opened another one in Qingyuan Mansion." Hu Fulang's spirits were lifted, Zhao and Ju were as good as flowing, not as stubborn and stubborn as others, which made him feel that he could show his strengths by doing things for Yuzhang Villa.

"I heard that Brother Jiu recognized that old Hu shipwright as his father-in-law?" Zhao Youju nodded, expressing his approval of Hu Fulang's proposal, and then said with a smile: "Since he is the father-in-law of the ninth brother, he is also my elder, today I saw that he was tired, so I didn't talk about it, and I have to talk to his old man about shipbuilding tomorrow." ”

Hu Fulang smiled, but did not answer, his parents died early, and he lived to the age of thirteen or fourteen by relying on the pull of his relatives, and he relied on his own efforts to become an apprentice in the millet store. Since being used by Zhao and Ju, he has not worried about his livelihood, and when he saw that Hu You, he couldn't help but think of himself back then.

"To build a boat yard in Qingyuan Mansion, let's make some fishing boats first." Zhao Heju knocked lightly on the table twice, and said in a deep voice: "Please bring more apprentices to Uncle Hu, and Brother Jiu is also looking in the Qingyuan shipyard to see if he can recruit the rest of the shipwrights, even if he is an apprentice who has worked in the shipyard for some time." ”

"Da Lang is in a hurry to build a ship and go to sea?" Hu Fulang was taken aback, this was not the same as what he had heard from Zhao Heju's mouth.

Zhao Youju nodded, and then smiled: "Brother Jiu, don't worry, you won't let Brother Jiu go abroad for adventure." ”

Hu Fulang smiled a little embarrassedly, and the two discussed the matter of building a shipyard in Qingyuan Mansion for a while, and Zhao Heju mentioned the matter of recruiting craftsmen: "If there is also a shipwright like Uncle Hu, Brother Jiu can only recruit it, and you don't have to worry about the things on Qian Tian." ”

"I see the Zhuangzi behind me, this year's spring cocoon comes up, our Zhuangzi can do a big job, I naturally won't save money for you." Hu Fulang made a joke, and suddenly remembered something: "To go to Qingyuan Mansion, you have to deal with the Coastal Preparation Division, and Dalang must also make a charter." ”

"Coastal Division?" Zhao Youju was slightly stunned.