Li Guo's fleet stopped, waiting for Qian Duoduo and Ma Shiyao, who were catching up.

The boat slowly approached, Qian Duoduo and Ma Shiyao took a few people, hurriedly sat in the dinghy, climbed the rope ladder, and boarded Li Guo's boat.

Li Guo stood on the side of the boat to greet them, looking at the excited looks on Qian Duoduo and Ma Shiyao's faces, Li Guo asked hopefully, "I heard you shouting about sap and rubber, could it be that the rubber was found so quickly?" Don't lie! ”

Qian Duoduo and Ma Shiyao were stunned, looked at each other, and felt a little reckless.

Ma Shiyao raised the small bowl in his hand and stammered to Li Guo, "Master, this thing is very similar to the rubber you said, so Lao Qian and I hurriedly came to you, whether it is rubber or not, we really don't know." ”

Li Guo took the bowl, and saw that there was some yellowed white liquid in the small bowl, which was now half-dry, and the dry place was a little black. Li Guo pinched it with his hand, it was sticky, but is this thing rubber? Li Guo didn't know either. In the original time and space, Li Guo was just a poor student, living and studying in the north, and he had never seen rubber trees and the rubber produced by rubber trees. Fortunately, there is a lot of information about the original time and space, and Li Guo has learned about some of the characteristics and properties of rubber on the information of the original time and space. For the things in the small bowl in front of him, Li Guo felt very similar to rubber according to his memory. Therefore, Li Guo thinks that this thing, nine times out of ten, is really rubber.

Li Guo suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked Qian Duoduo and Ma Shiyao, "Who found this?" Where did you find it? ”

Ma Shiyao hurriedly turned around and shouted at the two people who followed behind him, "When you see our tiger master, don't kneel down quickly!" ”

Li had already seen the two people behind Ma Shiyao. It was a man and a woman. Both of them were wearing batik bright yellow, floral cloth shorts and trousers, and they were fat. It looks cool. It can be seen that the two people are indigenous people from the Nanyang area.

The man was about thirty years old. The skin is slightly blackened by the tropical sun, and the thick eyebrows and big eyes are a little lean.

And the girl was only about seventeen or eighteen, not only did she not tan under the scorching sun, but she was as white as mutton fat jade, and under the scorching heat, her face was pink, as if it had penetrated from her skin. Because the two of them were not wearing shoes, Li Guo saw the girl's feet. It's as delicate and delicate as a green onion. It's beautiful! Li Guo admired from the bottom of his heart.

The two men heard Ma Shiyao's angry shouts and hurriedly knelt on the deck. Since Zheng He's seven voyages to the West in the Ming Dynasty, many countries or tribes in Southeast Asia and the South Seas have established close relations with the Ming Dynasty, so many people can write and speak Chinese.

The man was still old, and he knelt on the ground and refused to look up. But after kneeling down, the girl raised her head and looked at Li Guo, and when she saw that Li Guo was looking at her, the girl quickly lowered her head. But then he raised his head again. looked at Li Guo without fear, and the bright eyes seemed to be asking Li Guo, who are you? It looks delicate and playful, and it's very cute.

Li Guo smiled. Ask the girl, "What are your names?" You discovered the rubber? Where was it found? Hurry up and tell me about it! ”

It turned out that the two men were now living in Malacca. Li Guo ordered Ma Shiyao to put up notices in search of rubber trees in Nanyang and South Asia. Ma Shiyao did things quickly and posted one in Malacca first. Outcome. The man and the woman saw it, and they took the notice. The tree was found in Malacca, and rubber was also removed.

Hearing Li Guo speak, the girl had already stood up, "Yes, we found this thing, but there are very few trees like Malacca, but there are more of them in our place, and the liquid in that bowl is actually the tears of the tree." ”

"Tears of the tree?" Li Guo listened fresh.

"Yes, if something cuts the bark, the tree hurts, and it sheds white sap, so these are the tears of the tree." The girl chirped, her voice crisp.

"Hmm!" Li couldn't help but nod his head, which is the same as the characteristics of natural rubber. It's just a miracle that rubber can be found in Asia at this age. Li Guo didn't understand this, maybe he was traveling through parallel time and space, or maybe the historical records were wrong, in short, it couldn't be confirmed.

"It seems that you are not native to Malacca! You say you have a lot of tear-shedding trees, but is it true? Li Guo asked.

"Of course, it's all over the mountains." The girl replied, curling the corners of her mouth.

"Huh? So much? Li Guo still didn't believe it.

"Of course, who would lie to you?" The girl looked at Li Guo with some disdain.

"Can that girl take us to see it?" Li Guo's mouth was gentle, for fear of scaring the girl.

"Okay!" The girl was cheerful, and just stretched out her hand.

Li Guo was stunned, what is this for?

The girl was a little unhappy, "I said that if I found the tears of the tree, I would give a thousand taels of silver, do you still want to repay the debt?" ”

Oh, so, it is for silver! Lee couldn't stop laughing. When the girl saw Li Guo laughing at her, she couldn't help but glare at Li Guo.

"Take the silver, get it to them!" Li Guo said with a smile.

Qian Duoduo and Ma Shiyao hurriedly pulled Li Guo aside and said in a low voice, "Master Hu, is it too much, just this thing is worth a thousand taels of silver?" ”

Li Guo shook his head: "Not much!" First, this money was promised by us, and second, you really don't know that this thing is very useful! Alright, give someone money! ”

Li Guo walked towards the girl, but suddenly heard the red lady and Talina chattering behind him, "Probably our lord has taken a fancy to that little girl." ”

Li Guo frowned and ignored it. After a while, a thousand taels of silver were brought, and Li Guo wrapped the silver and put it at the girl's feet.

The girl flipped the package, it was too heavy to hold. But he also said to the man next to him, "Brother, now we have money, and there is hope for the great cause of recovery." ”

Oh, it turns out that these two people are brother and sister, but what great cause do they want to restore? Li Guo said, "The two of you have helped me, and you will take me to see the kind of tree that will shed tears in the future, and I am grateful, if the two of you need my help, I Li Guo is duty-bound!" ”

The girl was about to speak, but the man hurriedly replied, "It's okay, it's okay!" ”

Seeing that these two men seemed to have a hidden secret, Li Guo did not ask questions, and returned to Malacca with some of them, and drove towards the place where there were rubber trees. The rest of the fleet escorted Song Yingxing's broken steam engine ship back to Guangxi for repairs.

On the way, Li Guo inquired from the girl's mouth and understood that the place where the girl was located was called Dulu. According to the girl's words and the guide's description, Li Guo estimated that the place was Malay Island.

But seeing the warships lined up, the tiger flag fluttering, and the group was in high spirits. Li Guo sincerely hopes that there are enough rubber trees there, and there can also produce enough rubber that can be used.

In Li Guo's hopeful mood, Du Lu has arrived! (To be continued......)