"Let's go, I'll take you to the shipwright!" Huang Hai is also a person in his 50s, but his temperament is more lively, and his curiosity has not been extinguished by the hard life.

Leaving the rows of boats of the Weng family, Huang Hai took Hong Tao to drive a small wooden boat to the west along the coast, and walked about half a nautical mile, and found two rows of boats and three stilted bamboo buildings on the beach in a small bay, this is what he called the Tan family shipbuilders, the Wen family!

The three generations of the Wen family have a large population, but they do not go to the sea to fish, and they specialize in building ships and repairing ships for a living, and they only build and repair ships for the Tanka family, and outsiders do not care. In the entire Hainan Island, there are only four or five families who can build ships and repair ships, all of which are crafts handed down from their ancestors, and the Wen family is the best among them. The row boats built by his family were sturdy, stable, and watertight. However, the row boat built by his family is also the most expensive, the price is 500 yuan, all made of oil vertebral wood on the mountain, if it is properly maintained, it will be no problem to use it for decades, and when you can't go to the open sea, you can also park it on the shore as a house. A man from the Tan family on Hainan Island, when he got married, bought a row boat made by the Wen family, even if he won it in this life, it was more cost-effective than the commercial houses built of cement and steel bars in Nima's later life.

The Huang family and the Wen family are also family friends, although this generation is not married, but the previous generation is related. In fact, the phenomenon of close relatives of the Tan family marrying is very serious, because the Great Song Dynasty government does not allow them to marry other ethnic groups, they can only marry the Tan family, and the traffic in this era is inconvenient, and it is not close to be able to walk around a hundred and ten miles apart. It is precisely because of the relationship with the Yellow Sea that the old grandfather of the Wen family reluctantly agreed to let his youngest son accompany Hong Tao to toss around. If an outsider comes, let alone build a ship together, you can't even look at it a few more times, just wait to pick up the ship after paying the fixed money, don't care how you build it, don't look at it. This craft is the way of life that people's ancestors relied on, so if you steal it, people won't starve to death!

The youngest son of the Wen family is called Wen Qi, he is ranked seventh, so he is called Wen Qi, and his grandfather's name is Wen Er, which sounds the same as the two brothers, so he added an old word, called Wen Er. In the Song Dynasty, most of the people who were uneducated and illiterate used the ranking as their names, so you can meet a lot of Wang Xiaosan and Li Xiaosi on the street, and people who are not familiar with it can't tell who is who.

Wen Qi has 2 brothers and 2 sisters, so why is he ranked seventh, it's very simple, there are two sisters who were drowned, and the family can't afford to raise so many girls! Since ancient times, China has favored sons over women, this is because the productive forces are underdeveloped, only more boys can have more labor, raising girls, when they are more than ten years old, they have to prepare a dowry, marrying someone else's family is a person, a loss. Therefore, in many impoverished areas, not only the Tan people, but also the people on the land, the girls have too many births and can't support them, so simply don't let them come to the world to suffer, and drown them in water.

Some people may say that these parents are too cruel and cold-blooded, and if it were him or her, he would definitely eat bran and raise his children. In his or her eyes, eating bran vegetables may be the most bitter, but for many people in this era, eating bran vegetables is already a happy life. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, many people in rural China could only eat two meals a day, one porridge and one dry meal, without any non-staple food, and all millet. Even if such a family has food and clothing, there are many people who can't even eat two meals a day, and you let them raise a few girls, and when they grow up, they have to prepare a dowry, do they have the ability?

Then someone said, don't give birth if you can't afford it, you have to be responsible if you give birth! This is still standing and talking without back pain! In ancient China, the sun rose and the sun came to rest. After 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening, there is no TV, no computer to entertain, no radio, no newspaper, no food in the stomach, and no square dance in the park, so you can only make a villain in bed to play, otherwise you will eat and sleep, sleep enough, work, and then sleep, how different is it from animals? At that time, there was no means of family planning, so if you were pregnant, you had to give birth, and if you didn't give birth to a boy, how could you give birth to a boy? You can't let the pregnant women of the Song Dynasty take a B-ultrasound, if it's a boy, keep it, and if it's a girl, go to the big iron stick hospital to find the director of the stab.

Wen Qi's actual age is only 23 years old, but he looks about the same as almost 40, why? There is less white hair, gray hair, and long hair. Hong Tao thinks it is very stylish, if it is spread out, and then wash it with various ox X shampoos, and blow out the style, it is much more literary and artistic than Stephen Chow's gray hair. Hong Tao looked at him interestingly, he also looked at Hong Tao interestingly, it is estimated that he has never seen such a tall Tan family with an inch of hair, the tone of his voice is still so strange, and he can't understand the Tan family, so he has to let Huang Hai be the translator.

"What kind of boat do you want to build, I'll make a show first...... Wen Qi took Hong Tao and Huang Hai into a bamboo building on the beach early the next morning, there is no room partition here, even the walls are half-cut, and there are piles and hanging tools around it. At this loft, Wen Qi told Hong Tao through the Yellow Sea that he wanted to know the shape of Hong Tao's shipbuilding.

"Do you have any drawings? It's the drawings of the previous shipbuilding, can I see if it's done? "Hong Tao can draw shipbuilding drawings, he can only simply draw a look, and he can't guarantee the accuracy of the scale, so he plans to learn from it, if there is a similar appearance, then change it on the original basis, save more trouble.

"These are all looks!" Wen Qi was happy, not caring about the leakage of technology, and turned around to lift a broken canvas, revealing a row of things underneath.

"Ahh Models? Do you build ships on this? Hong Tao glanced at it, and then understood that the cost-effective Wen family shipbuilding did not have drawings, but replaced them with models. These models are all reduced according to the scale of the finished ship, and the data in them are only understood in their minds, and it is useless for others to take away this model, and they don't know those key data, how big the keel is used, how thick the ribs are used, and the boat cannot be built with big and small.

What should I do if I can't learn from other people's drawings? Hong Tao also has a way, isn't it just to make a ship model, it's a fart, Lao Tzu can make an aircraft carrier model when he is in elementary school. Come on, don't rely on your mouth, let's show you two brushes! At that moment, Hong Tao and Wen Qi took the gadgets for making models and began to work in the public loft. Although Wen Qi can't speak Chinese, but he can understand a lot, Hong Tao only needs to talk to him, with how wide, long, and thick the board, how thick, his skillful hands will use a few carving knives of different widths to carve out those soft paulownia wood, Hong Tao can just assemble, and the cooperation is quite tacit, which is called the heart of the master.