Walked all the way back to the dormitory building, went upstairs and returned to his room, Zhao Lin helped Qi Ke take off her cloak and hang it on the hanger, watched her open an entrance and exit of the Thousand Lotus Realm in the room, went back to change into home clothes, and brought out a plate of food.

"I'm hungry." Qi Ke will always love all kinds of grilled chicken wings, pull out a chair and sit down to eat, dismantling chicken bones is already an expert, while talking, the bone and flesh of a chicken wing are perfectly separated, the bones are thrown aside, and the chicken is stuffed in one bite, which is really fragrant.

"I haven't seen it, but I just found out that you have made great progress since you came to the workshop."

"What?" Qi Ke was busy dismantling the bones of the second chicken wing, and he didn't hear what Zhaolin said, "What is progress?" ”

"Your physical strength, just this trip around, if you had been gasping for such a distance before."

"Huh?" Qi Ke thought about it with the chicken in his mouth, and then smiled and squinted his eyes, "It seems to be eh~Exercising every day will finally see the effect~"

"Since it is effective, will you come back after the New Year?"

"Well, let's settle the accounts first, and see if the 1,000 taels in the village can be drawn out with interest, and say that I will build a school and a clinic in the future, and I will definitely stay in the village for a while once the construction starts."

"Yes, settle the account first."

So in the following time, Qi Ke concentrated on eating roast chicken wings, and got the account book from the maid who acted as a bookkeeper to calculate income and expenditure and dividends.

As soon as Zhao Lin came back, Qi Ke was much more relaxed, unlike before, she had been holding a string in her head, for fear that those apprentice-level female workers would have any emergencies that she needed to decide, and she had to leave some thoughts on the outside when reading and studying. Heyuan Book Bar

Qi Ke didn't finish a plate of chicken wings, so he finished the account according to Lin, and the only big order to be delivered at present is General Bai's processing with incoming materials, and the rest of the yarn income comes from the retail of the cotton cloth store in the county.

"Judging from the gossip brought by the old side, the news must have spread across the local area, and the businessmen who do textile business may still be waiting, our cotton comes from overseas, and in the eyes of others, shipping is risky, and there are pirates at sea who want to make a vote at any time, the supply is too unstable, and no matter how good the quality of cotton is, it is not worth the risk." According to the analysis.

"So we have to give confidence to our peers, and confidence is more important than gold." Qi Ke smiled playfully.

"When the ocean fleet returns, confidence will be there." As long as the wait-and-see businessmen believe that the supply is stable, business will come, and who doesn't want high-quality goods that are worth their money.

"That's going to be fast." Qi Ke opened his mouth wide with a smile, stuffed the last chicken wing meat into his mouth and munched happily.

The arrival of the ocean fleet is fast and really fast, the next day on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Zhao Lin received the news that the ocean ship encountered a pirate patrol ship, the two sides are separated by a distance, there are two patrol ships, but the size of the hull is about the same as the bucket boat that was grabbed last time, in the face of such a behemoth as the ocean fleet, the pirates did not move, just followed all the way.

The pirates didn't make a move, Qi Ke and Zhaolin meant to maintain the status quo, if the enemy didn't move, I wouldn't move, if the pirates kept following, simply let them see where the ocean fleet was berthed.

The pirate alliance has always been a big hidden danger on shipping, and now the pirates do not go ashore, and the Bai family army does not go into the water, and it is in the stage of mutual provocation between the two sides.

From training soldiers to being able to go to sea to fight, it takes ten or eight years and a lot of money to invest, and the hundred-year-old navy is not just a joke, and the navy is the most money-burning in the navy.

Under the premise that it is difficult for the Bai family army to form a combat force at sea in the short term, it can only expect pirates to be stupid.