"Third son, are you tired?" Zhao Yong asked with great concern.

Zhao Jiaren laughed dryly, but did not answer. Zhao Yong's eager appearance showed his desire to learn to take the helm at a glance. Zhao Jiaren didn't want to hand over important work to Zhao Yong, a layman. The ship left the shipyard early in the morning, and at this time it went all the way to the south, and it took most of the day to reach the sea area of Fuqing County. Keeping an eye on the changes on the shore, in the last dusk after the sun set, Zhao Jiaren finally saw the yellow light emitted by the lighthouse.

After raising his left hand and comparing it to the lighthouse for a moment, Zhao Jiaren shook the steering wheel with his right hand. The ship made an arc and sailed into the harbor under the blowing of the sea breeze. It didn't take long for the ship to arrive at Zhao Jiaren's preferred location, and Zhao Jiaren shouted: "Drop the sail, drop anchor!" ”

With a pop, the anchor was thrown into the sea, the sails were lowered, and the journey, which had been more than a day's long, was completed in just one day. It can be seen that the sailors are very happy.

As soon as the ship stopped, the sailors came up and said, "Zhao Daguan, you must hire us next time you go out on the ship." ”

Zhao Jiaren was extremely tired at this time, and he tried his best to squeeze out a smile to say that he would not forget everyone. Halfway through the way, the paychecks had already been paid, and the sailors who had returned home disembarked from the big boat along the rope ladder and boarded the small boat to reach the shore. Everyone wants to be able to get home and reunite with their families as soon as possible.

The successful sailing back made Zhao Jiaren feel very happy, and the huge consumption of physical strength also made Zhao Jiaren's eyelids almost stick together. Fearing for the safety of the ship, he was not ready to leave at night. He told Li Yong to watch the ship carefully, and he almost crawled back to the cabin and fell asleep in the hammock.

When he woke up the next morning, Zhao Jiaren rolled over from the hammock. This device is much stronger than the bunk on the plank, at least Zhao Jiaren will not roll in his sleep because of the swing of the boat. Zhao Yong was sleeping in the hammock next to Zhao Jiaren at this time, and the other two crew members were also sleeping on the ship.

The security of Fuqing is so-so, and people who make a living by robbing on the open sea can occasionally be seen, but those who come to the port to rob have not been seen for the time being. Even so, Zhao Jiaren was very unhappy. Such an attitude is too child's play.

went to the toilet, and Zhao Jiaren went on the boat to check. There was nothing unusual in the cabin below deck, and when I went on deck, I saw a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old sitting next to the steering wheel and looking closely. Zhao Jiaren had already locked the steering wheel, and he was not too worried about what someone would do. However, the young man's actions made Zhao Jiaren find it interesting, and he did not try to fiddle with the steering wheel, but sat on the deck two or three feet away from the steering wheel and looked carefully.

"Lin Siquan, why didn't you get off the boat." Zhao Jiaren shouted to the young man.

The young man named Lin Siquan was frightened by Zhao Jiaren's voice, and when he saw Zhao Jiaren on deck, he hurriedly said: "I ......, Zhao Guanren, I want to be a sailor on this ship." ”

"I remember that your family didn't want you to study?" Zhao Jiaren has been a county lieutenant in Fuqing County for a year, and he also knows a little about many people. What's more, the people who get on the boat must be reliable, and Zhao Jiaren will not allow people from unknown sources to get on the boat.

Lin Siquan immediately replied: "Zhao Guanren, I have also tried to study, and I feel that I am really not this material. I also have two younger brothers at home, and the third brother is better at reading than me, so I let him study on his own. I want to get on board. ”

Zhao Jiaren did not answer immediately. Studying or being a sailor are the two better ways out for Fujian at this time. But both of these are serious ways out, and it is probably no fun to let these decent people from decent families become pirates. However, in order not to collapse his spirit, Zhao Jiaren has decided to take action against the Pu family as soon as possible. A baby like Lin Siquan doesn't seem to be particularly reliable.

Probably seeing that Zhao Jiaren's silence represented negation, Lin Siquan immediately said: "Zhao Guanren, I will definitely work well on the ship." ”

Seeing that the child's attitude was quite sincere, Zhao Jiaren smiled and said, "Okay, then come to my boat." ”

Although Zhao Jiaren wanted to attack the Pu family as soon as possible, after being impulsive, he also knew that he could only let the Pu family continue to be free now. A county lieutenant, without the support of his family, wants to thank for something special is to kill himself.

The sun rose, and Zhao Yong and they all woke up. Leaving two people in the port to guard the ship, Zhao Jiaren suddenly wondered if he could do something in the port of Fuqing. The port of Fuqing County is very close to Fuzhou, and there are usually few ships stopping here. Since the construction of the lighthouse in Fuqing, there have been more and more ships staying overnight here. If you have a lot of boats, you can charge a small parking fee for the boats as long as you can use the local boats to cruise here.

However, Zhao Jiaren just thought that Fuzhou was very close to Fuqing, and if something happened to Fuqing, he could send a letter to Fuzhou in two days by land. After not receiving news for a month, Zhao Jiaren thought it was okay at the time, but now he suddenly began to worry. His eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin didn't make a mistake, but he didn't want to make everyone not want to see him.

When he returned home in the bright sunshine, Zhao Jiaren was stunned. I haven't seen each other for a month, and my family has changed a lot. The first thing that catches your eye is the ground in the front and back yards of your house, which was originally just the floor of an ordinary house, which means that there are no traces of people coming and going. Now the house was still the same, and the ground seemed to have become much smoother as if it had passed thousands of troops.

Zhao Jiaren was stunned, what happened at home? He took three steps and two steps to the door of the house, and after knocking on the door knocker, he heard the eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin yawning in the house and responded, "Who is it?" ”

"Big brother, it's me. Open the door. Zhao Jiaren hurriedly replied.

A few seconds later, Zhao Jiaxin opened the door with joy. He said happily: "Third brother, you're back!" ”

After a while, the two brothers sat down in the courtyard, and Zhao Jiaxin talked about his experience in the past month. Planting chrysanthemums is more difficult than imagined, not that no one is willing to contribute, but that the county commander Li Yong hopes to find a few plots of land to plant chrysanthemums in some remote places. However, Zhao Jiaxin felt that the land was too far away to take care of. Fight with the prefectural order. even threatened the county commander Li Yong, if he did this, Zhao Jiaxin would not plant chrysanthemums in the county.

Under the power of money, the county commander Li Yong finally succumbed. He agreed to plant chrysanthemums on relatively good mountain terrain.

Zhao Jiaxin then began to promote the work of raising earthworms to the people in the county according to the plan. It's pretty much the same as I originally thought, and the people who are really interested are actually good. However, to Zhao Jiaxin's surprise, the people who were fooled by the county order saw the terraces built by Zhao Jiaxin, and many people became interested.

Fujian has many mountainous areas and very little flat land. The land is sloping and unable to store water, either washed away by heavy rains or without water at all. Depending on the local conditions, terraces can transform land that is not very steep into land that can grow crops. So recently, there have been a lot of people who have come to watch and asked.

After talking about what happened, Zhao Jiaxin said with some embarrassment: "Third brother, I don't want to shirk it, it's just that this terraced method was thought up by the third brother." I'm just using it. So some people who seem to want to build terraces, I'll ask them to wait until you come back. ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't answer immediately, at this moment he suddenly remembered a sentence, and the eyes of the people were bright. He originally built this terrace solely for the purpose of growing chrysanthemums, and had no other ideas. However, whether Zhao Jiaren has other ideas, the people don't care, as long as they see an opportunity that can improve their lives, the people will not let it go.

Feeling this, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but feel admiration in his heart.