In the western suburbs outside Nanjing, a few miles away from the agricultural college that Tang Ming planned to build, there is a land temple. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The info temple is not very small, this temple was built by the villagers of several nearby villages, and it has been several years now, and the land temple has been very dilapidated in some places, so it can be seen that the incense is not prosperous.

Lai San was holding a dozen drawings drawn casually by Tang Ming in his arms, waiting anxiously here, at this moment the sky was almost dawn, it was the darkest period before dawn. Only one candle burned in the dark temple, and the light of the fire kept jumping when the breeze blew.

Lai San was very scared in his heart, the surrounding area was too quiet and the strange atmosphere made him tense his nerves. He had been waiting here for more than an hour, but no one had come to meet him, and seeing that the sky was about to dawn and the appointed time was getting closer and closer, Lai San's forehead began to break out in a cold sweat.

Worried about his fate, he also pinched a cold sweat for the person he was about to meet, knowing that although the surroundings seemed to be quiet, he clearly knew how many archers were hidden in the trees and grass.

After the next person comes, if you accidentally show any feet, you will be shot into a hornet's nest by those archers hiding in the shadows in minutes. Lai San kept reminding himself in his heart that he couldn't show his feet and couldn't be nervous.

Time passed quietly unconsciously, and the first sunlight of the morning pierced the dense fog and scattered at the entrance of the Land Temple. A figure came with his back to the sun, and Lai San tried his best to open his eyes, but he was always disturbed by the sunlight behind him, and he couldn't see who it was at all.

When the arrivals approached Lai San, they saw his appearance clearly, a very ordinary old man, still dressed in coarse cloth, carrying a hoe on his shoulder, his trouser legs were coiled up one high and one low, his bare feet were not wearing shoes, and his feet were covered with mud, obviously an old farmer who had just finished working in the field.

Seeing the comer's dress, Lai Sanyi was also very hesitant for a while, not knowing if the comer was the one who met him. He didn't greet him, but watched the old farmer come slowly towards the Land Temple.

The old peasant didn't seem to be interested in Lai San who was in a daze in the Land Temple, and after carrying a hoe directly into the Land Temple, he actually blew out the candle that was about to burn out, and turned his back to Lai Sanyan and said: "Young man, why are you still lighting candles when the day is bright, it's not good to waste it!" ”

Lai San saw that the old farmer directly blew out the candle, his body shook slightly, and it was only at this moment that he realized that this person was really here to meet him. It was such a seemingly harmless old farmer who came, and Lai San was secretly relieved and happy at the same time.

On the way, he has always been worried that the person who came to meet him was a fierce and vicious man, and if he didn't agree, he would take his own life. Meeting with such a person is the most unwilling and hated by him, and now he is an old man who seems to be dying, and his life is guaranteed, so it's no wonder if he can't be happy.

"Old man, you are the one who came to meet with me, have you brought your money!" Lai San has always been thinking about the high commission, and Hou Ye has promised himself that as long as he successfully completes the task this time, all the commissions he gets will still belong to him.

This gave Lai San a lot of encouragement and motivation, I didn't expect Hou Ye to be so generous, Lai San was not only happy, but also looked forward to doing things under him in the future. It's just that when this old man came, his hands were empty, and he couldn't see that he could hide the silver taels on his body, so Lai San asked such a question.

The old farmer nodded, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect your skills to be good, and in just a few days, you got the things and money that the lord wanted, and the old man prepared it early in the morning, but did you get your drawings?" ”

Seeing that the old man was so confident, Lai San didn't talk nonsense, directly took out the fake drawings given to him by Tang Ming from his arms, raised Yang Yang in front of the old man and sneered: "Old man, the drawings are here, the money you prepared a long time ago should also be taken out for me to see!" ”

The moment Lai San raised the drawings, the old farmer's originally cloudy eyes flashed with sharp light for a moment, and he clearly saw the unique seal of the Treasure Shipyard. He didn't know if the drawings were real or fake, but the seal of the Treasure Shipyard couldn't be faked.

At this moment, the old farmer had already determined that the drawings in Lai San's hand could not be faked, so he smiled, turned around and came to the clay sculpture of the land, bowed down and said that he was offended, and then held the clay sculpture of the land man with both hands and lifted it up.

Lai San saw that there was a hollow underneath the clay sculpture, and something seemed to be hidden inside. The old farmer gently put down the clay sculpture, took out a small cloth bag from it, put it in his hand, and threw it at Lai San's feet.

"20 taels of gold, the remaining ten taels and after we confirm the authenticity of the drawings, you can come here again to get them, now you can hand over the drawings to the old man!"

Lai San didn't bother to respond to the old farmer, so he immediately went to the ground and picked up the small cloth bag, took out a gold ingot from it, and after looking at it twice, he didn't feel at ease and sent it directly to his mouth and bit it with his teeth. After confirming that the gold was real, he handed the drawings in his arms into the hands of the old peasant.

"Hehe, the old man is really bold, I got this drawing from Lao He in the treasure shipyard, I have been staring at him for a few days, he looks at this drawing very carefully, it must not be fake. But if you take it and study it, will you pay off the rest of the money by the way? After I escaped last night, I found that a large number of people had come to the treasure shipyard, as if something big had happened, and I did not dare to go back, and I had to leave here immediately after taking this money, so as not to have too many dreams at night. ”

The old farmer who took over the drawings of the treasure ship listened to Lai San's verbosity and looked at the drawings carefully, and he couldn't see the reason why he didn't understand it at all. After all, this drawing was used to build a treasure ship, and Zheng He put a lot of thought into it. Drawings that have never been blown up in front of outsiders are generally seen and do not understand the technical terms and drawings inside.

However, the more you can't understand it, the more people often believe that this is true, and the old farmers inevitably think that this is the case. However, he was very convinced that Lai San said that the Bao Shipyard had gone to the officers and soldiers of the brigade, because when he came out in the morning, he had already received the news that something had been lost in the Bao Shipyard, and Wei Haihou was searching there in a rage.

In this way, the old man was more sure that the drawings were true, but for the sake of insurance, the old man still did not agree to Lai San's proposal to pay all the commissions at once, and after collecting the drawings, he hurriedly left the Land Temple.

As soon as the old man walked on his front feet, Lai San saw a few people dressed as farmers quietly following, and when the old man disappeared, Li Bacai took the rest of the people to pull up Lai San, who was still studying the twenty taels of gold, and hurriedly went to the treasure shipyard. (To be continued.) )