The separation of the family was finally completed, He Hai and his = mother left the He family, and after settling his mother in the new house, he and Duan Fei came to Helai Tower, He Hai asked for a private room, and after ordering wine and food, He Hai suddenly started to stay, Duan Fei knew that he had something to say, so he didn't say anything.

After the wine and food were delivered, He Hai ordered that no one should come in to harass him, and when Xiao Er left, He Hai personally poured a glass of wine for Duan Fei, knelt down to Duan Fei, raised the wine glass with both hands and said gratefully: "Brother Fei, if you hadn't found out the real murderer and cleared my name, I would have been a death row prisoner today......"

"Brother Fei's kindness is beyond return, please drink this wine! In the future, this life of the little brother will be yours of Feige! ”

"My own brother, who else will I help if I don't help you, hurry up, I can't afford such a big gift." Duan Fei stretched out his hand to help, but He Hai insisted on refusing to get up, and said, "Brother Fei, you drank this glass of wine, I still have something to say, I won't get up if I don't finish speaking." ”

Duan Fei had no choice but to take the wine glass and drink it all in one gulp.

He Hai knelt and poured him another glass of wine, raised his hands and continued: "Brother Fei, in the past few years, thanks to your care, although I have done a lot of foolish things, but I am finally free of illness and disaster, today Brother Fei stood up for me again, if it weren't for Brother Fei's face enough to suppress those people, I am afraid that I will not have a chance to prove my ability, I can only spend this life as a young man, this second glass of wine is thanks to Brother Fei's care and maintenance all the time!" ”

Duan Fei drank it all with a sigh, and then said with a smile: "There are only three good things, do you want to entrust the second aunt to me to take care of your third glass of wine?" ”

He Hai smiled and said, "Brother Fei is really like a god, auntie...... No, my mother stayed at my eldest brother's house, I was afraid that she would be angry, the only person I can fully believe in in Baoying County is Fei Ge you, as a son, you can't be with your mother, I am really unfilial, here are two thousand taels of silver tickets, one thousand taels is a thank you gift for Fei Ge, and the other thousand is used as a reserve, whether my mother or Fei Ge you need, you can deal with it. ”

Duan Fei unceremoniously took it and hid it in his arms, and after drying the wine, he held He Hai's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I will definitely live up to my trust." ”

He Hai bowed three more times before getting up and returning to his seat, he picked up his chopsticks and said, "Brother Fei, eat, the dishes are cold." ”

Duan Fei put a piece of lotus root in his mouth, chewed it and asked, "Where are you going to do business?" ”

He Hai hesitated for a moment, and Duan Fei said: "If you can't say it, don't say it, I just want to remind you that with so much money alone, everything must be careful!" ”

He Hai Huoran said: "I believe in Brother Fei, I am going to Ningbo to find Uncle Cheng, I want to go to sea!" ”

When he said the word 'go to sea', He Hai's voice was pressed to the lowest, and he looked worried that the wall had ears, Duan Fei thought for a while before remembering that he had seen the announcement of the ban on the sea on the bulletin board in front of the county office, the Ming Dynasty had ordered the ban on the sea since Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and the ban on the sea was loose and tight.

He Hai thought that Duan Fei would strongly oppose it, but he didn't expect Duan Fei to nod and say after pondering for a while: "It is more dangerous to go to sea, but the profits are indeed huge, alas, forbidding the sea is a big mistake, if the sea is open to free trade, not to mention the wealth of the people, there will be less than ninety percent of the widows, so why should the rest be troubled?" ”

He Hai patted his thigh and said in surprise: "Ah, the eldest brother said that my heart is on the road, in fact, I have forbidden the sea for more than 100 years, how can I really ban it?" Not only are there more and more private smuggling boats, but even the government is secretly smuggling, and the chief eunuch of Ningbo City, Lai En, smuggled four large ships of tea, porcelain, and silk to Ryukyu last month, earning 100,000 taels of silver. ”

"Alas, alas, alas." Duan Fei shook his head and sighed lightly, and drank a glass of stuffy wine.

"That's it," He Hai echoed and continued: "Many people don't have that power, and they don't want to dredge the yamen like flowing money, so they have to pretend to be pirates, half-black and half-white, and sometimes meeting these half-hung pirates is worse than meeting real pirates." ”

Duan Fei shook his head and said: "Forget it, don't talk about this, I will be panicked when I talk about it, by the way, you are going to go to sea to do business, do you understand water?" Do you know how to sail a seagoing boat? Do you know where to produce what is produced and where it is better to sell it? ”

He Hai smiled: "Big brother, don't you know my details?" I don't understand anything, but Uncle Cheng does, and I heard that he has a nautical chart that he bought with a lot of money, and there are many countries and places on which he has never heard of it. ”

Duan Fei sneered disdainfully, and said: "What are they called broken charts, you can't understand the bag in front of you, so let's go to the yamen treasury to help you find it, maybe I can find a good chart for you to copy, and ensure that you will crisscross the ocean from now on and become the most powerful navigator ever!" ”

"Okay......" He Hai didn't seem to be very enthusiastic, because he knew where the charts came from in the yamen, and I heard that even the charts drawn by the eunuchs of Sanbao when they went to the West a hundred years ago had been ordered to be burned by the emperor, so how dare the county yali keep any charts.

Duan Fei began to talk to He Hai about what he knew about the overseas world and some basic knowledge that he should have when going to sea, and what Duan Fei knew was quite shallow, but it had opened He Hai's eyes and made him suspicious.

"What the fairy told me in my dream, whether you believe it or not, you will know it in the future." Duan Fei didn't have much explanation for his question, so He Hai believed it, and kept his words in his heart, after he was full of wine and food, the two made an appointment to reunite in three days, and then parted ways, Duan Fei returned to the county office, and first went to the mortuary to take a look, Yang Sen, this kid is quite loyal to his duties, and he can actually hold on to this boring work.

"Brother Fei, it's been a few days since the case was solved, do you want to continue this research?" Yang Sen said with a smile when he saw Duan Fei.

"Of course, I want to continue, I plan to get a few more pigs and study it for more than half a year." Duan Fei joked.

Yang Sen's face turned bitter gourd-shaped: "Brother Fei, this pig has died of trouble, the corpse has to be washed with medicinal water after being sent to the mortuary, how can it be so stinky, now even my grandfather doesn't enter the mortuary, I have to keep guarding." ”

"If you have to endure hardship, you will become a master, come on." Duan Fei laughed a few times and walked away, leaving Yang Sen alone to vent his anger on the ground.

Duan Fei went to the kitchen again, and then came to the signing room.

The signing room is the office of the county government, in the signing room of Baoying County, Min County Order and Xu Dianshi each have a separate office, and the rest of the rooms are the six rooms corresponding to the six departments of the Criminal Department, now no one is working, each room has been closed and locked, but there are still many empty houses in the signing room, sometimes when the space in the six rooms is not enough for official business, some scribes who temporarily invited to help work in these empty rooms, so there are all kinds of pen, ink, paper and inkstone inside, Duan Fei lit the candle flame and spliced the two long pieces of white paper into a square, Then he took out a knife and slashed the duck feathers he had gotten from the kitchen.

Drawing a map with a brush is obviously a wasted effort, and the charcoal (for thrushes, relatively thick and soft) is not easy to use, ballpoint pens and fountain pens are not easy to use, and quill pens have become the only choice.

Duck feathers are short and hairy = capsule is fine and soft, not as easy to use as goose feathers, but it is okay, after grinding the ink, Duan Fei began to use a homemade duck quill pen to write and draw on white paper.

Duan Fei doesn't know much about the current situation in the world, but he still has a general impression of world geography, at least he won't draw fishing = fish = island to Japan, Japan was not a country during this period, and the four major islands were divided by hundreds of local warlords, and the emperor had been on the throne for more than ten years, and there was no money for the enthronement ceremony.

It took three drawings in a row to barely draw a slightly satisfactory map of Southeast Asia, including Australia and New Zealand, and at this time it was already the third watch, Duan Fei yawned, packed up his things and went to sleep.

The next day was not the day of the announcement, Duan Fei wanted to sleep lazily, but who would have thought that someone would wake up early in the morning.

"Brother Fei, hurry up, the master told you to go to the court!" Shi Bin pushed Duan Fei's body and called out with some excitement.

"Upper class? What kind of church? It's not a proclamation day, don't I have to go to court? Is anyone suing me? Duan Fei was sleep-deprived, rubbing his eyes and said in a daze.

Shi Bin couldn't help laughing and said, "It's not that someone sued you, but someone told Lord Xu Dian Shi Xu, and Lord Min sent you to cooperate with Yan Zhutou to investigate this case!" ”

"Oh!" Duan Fei suddenly came to his senses and asked, "What case?" Malfeasance or bribery? ”

"It's a homicide!" Shi Bin said with a twinkle in his eyes, and when Duan Fei was washing and dressing, he briefly explained the ins and outs.

PS: Mao = sac has become a forbidden word......