Back in his house, Zhu Bushi went into the study until the lamp was in hand, and in fact, he didn't have anything to do, just grinning blankly at the thick stack of dragon boat patterns and smirking. Although the emperor ordered them to be responsible for supervising the construction of the dragon boat, he has been busy with Zhu Yishi, but when it comes to the specific design of the dragon boat, Zhu Yishi even hides it from him. This is the family rule of the Zhu family, the real secret, only the head of the family can grasp it and then pass it on to the eldest son, that is, the next head of the Zhu family.

Although Zhu Bushi has a high talent in shipbuilding, he is not qualified to come into contact with such secrets as dragon boat prototypes. Even the craftsmen who participated in the design and construction of the dragon boat have now almost been cleaned up by the imperial court. Naturally, the structure of what His Majesty wants to ride cannot be known to too many people. It is said that it was the people of the Long Tingwei in the palace who attacked, and even Yu Shihong, the county guard of Jiangdu County, did not know the details.

Anyway, the more than 1,800 craftsmen who participated in the construction of the dragon boat must have all died, and Zhu Bushi didn't dare to ask about it, and he didn't want to ask. He is self-aware, if it weren't for the fact that the imperial court still needs their Zhu family, he is afraid that except for the head of the family, Zhu Yishi, even he may disappear inexplicably.

The dragon boat is more than 200 zhang long, it rises four layers of wooden buildings, more than five zhang high, there are the main hall of the emperor to deal with the government and the east and west two court rooms on the top, there are also the emperor's residence, there are more than 120 houses on the upper and lower four floors, these are all court secrets, once the people with ill intentions know, it is inevitable that it will be completely unfavorable to His Majesty. Therefore, from the day the dragon boat was built, more than 1,800 craftsmen were transferred to the Suan Shipyard, and it is said that they wanted to build a "five-toothed" ship for the imperial navy to be used in the conquest of Goguryeo.

However, none of the more than 1,800 craftsmen made it to Shui'an alive.

Zhu Bushi looked at the sample of the dragon boat and breathed a long sigh of relief.

He carefully wrapped the dragon boat with oiled paper, then wrapped it in several layers of soft cloth, and then got up and lifted a few pieces of masonry from under the bed, revealing a boxy secret hole. He took out a stack of letters from the secret cave, looked at it and set it aside, then put the sample of the dragon boat inside. After laying out the bricks and stones, he picked up the letters and walked back to his desk and sat down.

After reading all the letters again, a layer of gloom gradually rose between Zhu Bushi's eyebrows.

"Who would have thought it would be over so quickly and so easily?"

He muttered a sigh and then shouted outside, "Someone! Come in with a brazier! ”

After a house slave came in, he glanced at Zhu Bushi and asked with some puzzlement: "Master, the weather is hot now, what do you want the brazier for?" ”

Zhu Bushi said angrily: "If you want to send a brazier in, you will send it, where is there so much gossip!" ”

The slave was so frightened that he shuddered for a moment, and hurriedly said, "I'll go now, the master will wait." ”

"Forget it!"

Zhu Bushi waved his hand and said, "You go out, no one can enter the study without me." Madame can't either! ”

"Got it."

The house slave replied resignedly, bowed and cautiously exited the study.

Jubushi got up and brought the basin for his washing, then put the thick stack of letters into the basin, picked up one of them and slowly lit it with a fire fold, and when the flame was burning, he threw the letter into the basin.

"Keeping these all the misfortunes, and I blame myself, I thought I could seize an opportunity to ascend to the sky in one step, who would have thought that you would have such a short life! What else do you say that you are the real son, I bah! ”

As he spoke, he burned the letters. Suddenly, there was a bang outside the window, and Zhu Bushi immediately stood up and asked loudly, "Who is outside!" ”

No one responded, Zhu Bushi walked quickly to the door and opened the door to look out, and saw a black shadow just disappearing at the corner of the courtyard gate, Zhu Bushi was shocked, and ran outside the courtyard gate to look around, but he could no longer see the black shadow. Frowning, Zhu Bushi immediately shouted loudly and called the family of the nursing home, only saying that he had just seen a thief come in and asked them to search the house carefully. More than 20 family members searched the house inside and out with sticks, but found nothing.

Zhu Bushi panicked in his heart, thinking that it might be the person from the Ye family's grass house that the eldest brother said came to probe the details, and then ordered strict precautions in the past few days, and then walked back to the study quickly. When he entered the door, he first glanced at the brazier and saw that all the letters had been burned to ashes, and then opened the secret hole under the bed to make sure that the sample of the dragon boat was still there, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. Standing in place and hesitating for a moment, Zhu Bushi still felt unsafe, so he walked out of the study with the sample of the dragon boat and walked straight to his bedroom.

As he walked on his front feet, a dark figure came out from behind the bookshelf in his study, looked at the brazier and the secret hole under the bed, seemed to sigh softly, and then carefully wiped the shallow footprints by the window, jumped out, and soon disappeared.

Zhu Bushi took the sample of the dragon boat to his bedroom, and there was no suitable place to hide it left and right, when he was annoyed, his wife Liu came in in a hurry, and when he saw Zhu Bushi, he asked in a panic: "The family was robbed?" Why do the nurses patrol the yard? ”

Seeing his wife, Zhu Bushi's eyes lit up.

"You're just in time!"

He laughed out loud and said proudly, "Quick, get your needle and thread, and help me sew all these things into my old clothes that I don't wear!" ”

Liu was stunned and subconsciously asked, "What is this?" ”

Zhu Bushi smiled: "This ...... It's a treasure worthy of life! ”

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West of the city, Yuelai Inn

Liu Heimin drove the inconspicuous carriage directly to the backyard of the Yuelai Inn, handed the carriage to the shopkeeper and let him serve him, and then carried a bunch of newly purchased things into the courtyard from the carriage. The shopkeeper looked at the things he was holding in his arms, and when he saw that there were things like rouge gouache, he smiled secretly. He said in his heart that this bearded man is pitiful enough, and he is not ashamed to go out to buy things like rouge gouache when he serves two flowery daughters alone, but when he thinks about it again, maybe the two delicate beauties may have bought the bandeau close to the big man, and then there was a burst of envy.

Liu Heimin couldn't guess the shopkeeper's dirty thoughts, if he could guess it, he might beat up the shopkeeper.

Entering the courtyard gate, Jia'er greeted her and said with a smile: "Brother Liu is back." ”

Liu Heimin hurriedly said: "Miss Jia'er, don't be so polite, the general asked me to help the second gear head do things, and I am the second gear head's subordinates, besides, you are always so polite, it seems that we are outsiders." ”

Ye Huaichong walked out of the room with a smile and said: "This second gear head should be Brother Niu's, and the third gear head is Brother Liu, the general transferred Brother Niu to the navy to be Chen Da's deputy, originally Chen Da's head was also going to you to go, but I begged the general to let you stay and help me first, but it delayed Brother Liu's a good place." ”

Liu Heimin hurriedly waved his hand and said: "It's all for the general, don't say such extraneous words at the head of the second gear." ”

He scratched his hair and smiled honestly: "But my surname is really not very suitable for doing things in secret spies, if you want me to say that it is still the pleasure of fighting on the battlefield." You can't fight on the battlefield, even if you go to the navy, it's good. When our trip is done, I'll rush to find the big stall to report! ”

He was stunned for a moment and then changed his words and said, "By then, it should be that everyone Ye has already made a big stall." ”

Ye Huaisleeve pursed his lips and smiled: "Like you said, it's all for the general." ”

Liu Heimin smiled with relief: "To say, the general really sees it accurately, it is just right for a rough person like us to lead the troops, and the matter of secret spies is still suitable for you to take care of the Ye family." You've only been taking over the secret spies for a few days, and they're not doing things the same way they really are! Those little rabbit cubs, now they are doing things like ghosts, they all have the ability, and they used to fool me! ”

Jia'er covered her mouth and chuckled, making a gesture of please.

Liu Heimin walked into the room, suddenly woke up and handed the things in his arms to Jia'er and said: "This is the thing that the secret spy got today, and this is the rouge gouache used for the second gear." ”

Jia'er looked at the top box of rouge and said in surprise: "Huh...... How does Brother Liu know that my young lady likes to use Sun Kum Kee's rouge? ”

Liu Heimin's face turned red, and he said, "How do I know, it was the general who told me when I was out of the ze......"

Jia'er was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Ye Huaisleeve. The latter pretended not to hear and see, and looked up at a white cloud in the sky that happened to be overhead, and the cloud was light and breezy.

"Zhu Yishi and Zhu Bushi thought that what we wanted was a dragon boat sample, so they were too cautious!"

Jia'er diverted the topic and said: "Yesterday I went to Zhu Bushi's house, and he was so careful that he hid the sample of the dragon boat in the secret cave under the bed!" But that's why I discovered those things. ”

She smiled and said: "A shipbuilder actually built a secret hole under the bed to hide things, so it can be seen that he is not a simple person, his eldest brother Zhu Yishi handed him the sample of the dragon boat, I am afraid it is really wrong!" ”

The three of them entered the house while talking, and Liu Heimin said: "It is precisely because of the discovery of Miss Jia'er yesterday that I took someone to check several merchant ships under the management of Zhu Bushi, and found that this guy is indeed not honest!" That's all the information I've gathered today, and after a few days of careful investigation, I'm sure I'll get something. ”

Jia'er smiled: "It's not that my young lady is powerful, I have long guessed that Zhu Bushi is not so simple." ”

Ye Huaisleeve smiled indifferently and said: "It's not as powerful as you say, it's just that I have seen more about the relationship between brothers in big families, for so many years, everything is hugely rich, and I haven't seen a brother who is harmonious, so I thought of checking it." ”

She said to Jia'er, "When you took those letters, you didn't leave any traces, did you?" ”

Jia'er nodded and said, "Miss, don't worry, I took out all the letters that were not burning in the brazier, and I was afraid that Zhu Bushi would see that something was wrong, so I added some paper to it and burned it." It's just a pity that I couldn't steal the sample of the dragon boat. ”

It turned out that the man in black who sighed lurking in Zhu Bushi's study was Jia'er.

"What's the use of asking for that?"

Ye Huaichong said with a smile: "If you really take the dragon boat sample that the Zhu family regards as a family heirloom and send it back to Juyeze, that guy ...... He might have dared to wipe his ass with that priceless sample! ”

What she said was a joke, but whether it was Jia'er or Liu Heimin, they all knew that what Ye Huaisleeve said was basically the truth, the current big boss in Juye Zezhong, their General Li, was really a person who could do such a thing. Therefore, this joke sounded a little serious, so that instead of laughing, Jia'er asked very seriously: "That...... He wiped it with such a thick, so hard parchment...... There, don't you feel panicked? ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Heimin couldn't help but laugh, and his face turned the color of pig liver.

Ye Huaisleeve looked at Jia'er with a strange look in his eyes, and Jia'er was flustered and blushed.

"I ...... I didn't mean that, I meant, not to say that parchment is bad......"

At this moment, thousands of miles away, Ju Yeze, who was usually majestic in front of people, suddenly felt a pain in his stomach, and then picked up an ancient bamboo slip book and took it in his hand and flew into the latrine. Squatting in the pit to read, sure enough, is the world's first pleasant thing, after a while, someone moaned comfortably, and when he wanted to wipe his buttocks, he suddenly remembered that he forgot to bring straw paper!

Someone looked at the ancient bamboo slips in his hand, gritted his teeth and it was still useless. There are two reasons, first, that the bamboo slip wipes the butt is really bad, and second, it is not as easy to wipe as a brick......

He's very tangled, very tangled.