Although the soil is fertile, there is only one old well on the island that can supply fresh water, which is sufficient for drinking, but if it is used to irrigate the farmland, it is obviously not enough to meet the needs, so the land available for reclamation is limited.

Over the years, after Feng Jin and his family settled on the small island without a place, they only cultivated dozens of acres of land, mainly planting some crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes, and planting very little rice, relying on the weather as much as possible to eat, and not consuming fresh water to irrigate the land.

Therefore, in addition to cultivating this small amount of land, the people on the island mainly rely on their original small fishing boat to go to the sea to catch all kinds of shrimp and fish in the sea, some of which are salted or dried for their own use, and most of the rest are transported to the north to sell on land to make a living.

After getting acquainted with the people on the island, Li Mo learned more about the situation on this small island at first, and at the same time, he also began to gradually understand the living conditions of these people on the island.

After catching a few small shrimp in the sea, it is not easy for them to sell their catch on land in the northland.

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There is a small town on the coast of the northern country, which is the closest to the small island by sea, which can be reached in about a day, and the people on the island will almost always send the catch there to sell.

But helplessly, there is a big fishing tyrant called Wan Dahu in the small city of Liling, who controls the fishing market of the entire small city of Liling, and the people on the island can only sell the catch to them, and force them to buy and sell, as a result, most of the fishing income will fall into the hands of these big fishermen, and the fish that the people on the island have worked hard to catch, but the silver that actually falls into their hands is very small.

And Wan Dahu is a well-known snake in the area of Liling Town, Liling City is the closest city to the sea, and then to the east or west, you have to walk several hours by land to enter the next new city, and in this troubled times, whether they go east or west, there are big fishing tyrants in the local area to control the fishing market, and the results of selling fish are the same.

And the surrounding area of the small island is not very peaceful, although the island is not big, but according to Feng Jin, there are also a few groups of pirates entrenched on several barren and barren islands around, often plundering the coastal areas around them, because the island where they are located is very small, and these people on the island are poor and ding, and there is no oil and water to fish, so they have not been harmed by these pirates.

In short, these people are already living at the bottom of the ladder, and there is basically no way to live a good life, and if they encounter a natural disaster or something like that in a lifetime, it is common for them to starve.

Life on the island is very simple, the small island is surrounded by the vast sea, before Li Mo came, the young people here were almost every day either in the field to tending to the thin field, or repairing fishing nets or going out to sea to fish, only occasionally, they would follow Feng Jin and them back to the northern land for a trip, after selling the catch, buy something for the island, this is the biggest entertainment for the young people on the island.

In addition, these young people are idle as soon as it gets dark, and at best, they occasionally practice some simple punches and kicks with unsuitable practice, so the daily life of these young people on the island is almost no entertainment at all.

But after Li Moyi arrived, life on the island began to change, everyone knew that Li Moyi was a person who wandered in foreign countries, for them ordinary people who never left home, they couldn't understand what Li Moyi said about those things, let alone know a lot of strange things, so these young people were very curious about Li Moyi's growth experience, and from time to time they liked to ask Li Moyi about some foreign customs.

And Li Moyi himself is a person who is happy to tell stories, after arriving on the island, in order to integrate into the life of everyone on the island as soon as possible, he works with him during the day, and in his spare time, he will simply adapt some of his previous personal experiences to make them less terrifying, and then tell them to these young people.

These young people listened to it and shouted in amazement, plus Li Moyi has also read a lot of texts, whether it is Journey to the West, Water Margin, or Romance of the Three Kingdoms, even if Li Moyi can't remember the whole book, at least he still has a little impression of most of the stories, so he occasionally took them out as talking points to tell the young people on the island.

There are no literate people on the island, except for the newcomer Wang Tong, who knew some words when he was a child, the other young people are basically illiterate, so listening to Li Mo's small talk, for these young people, it can be regarded as an eye-opener, within a few days, these young people have become Li Moyi's loyal supporters, every day as soon as it gets dark, they surround Li Moyi with a rice bowl, and begin to listen to Li Mo's gossip in the north and south for a day.

Even a few old guys such as Feng Jin and Chang Mazi were also attracted to come, and they began to like to get together in the circle of young people when they had nothing to do, and listened to Li Moyi's fugue together, and at the same time they were greatly amazed at Li Moyi's knowledge, which made Li Moyi the most popular person on the island within a few days of working on the island.

Since eating Li Moyi's deflatedness, the discord has also restrained Bingzi, no longer so arrogant, Li Moyi did what he liked, and when he had nothing to do, he also taught some of the simple moves he learned to the discord hand-in-hand, after seeing Li Moyi's methods, he admired Li Moyi's skills and threw himself to the ground, and he knew that Li Moyi was merciful to him that day, which made Li Moyi very grateful to Li Moyi afterwards.

After a few days, he became Li Moyi's follower.

And Wang Gu, the son of Wang Lao Wu, because of the grace of saving his father and Li Moyi's generous gift of knives to him, regarded Li Moyi as his own brother, and became Li Moyi's little tail, following Li Moyi every day, and even living in Li Moyi's shed at night and refusing to go home.

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In general, the people on the island are simple and loyal, which is very in line with the ordinary people's Bingzi, the old guy is not counted, almost all the young people on the island are very simple, there is nothing crooked, although the first two days are still a little repulsive to Li Moyi and other newcomers, but under the friendship of Li Moyi and Wang and others for a few days, these young people quickly eliminated the estrangement with them, which made Li Moyi quite happy, and secretly glad that he did not abandon Wang Lao Wu and jump into the sea to escape, otherwise, Now he really didn't know what that would happen.

It's just that Li Moyi is a little unaccustomed to the eating habits here, on this island, the daily diet of people is not much better than when they were on the boat, or even a little worse.

In addition, don't look at the people on the island, although they are mainly engaged in fishing, but they are not as Li Moyi imagined, they will live a little better than the people on land, eat more seafood, their limited catch is not for their own consumption, mainly to be sent to the northern land to sell for silver, in exchange for other daily necessities, only a very small number of fish or worthless fish will be left to dry and pickle, as their supplementary food to improve the diet, even so, These worthless salted dried fish are also taken out during the New Year to improve their lives, and the daily meals are also very simple, basically based on brown rice and some sweet potatoes produced on the island.

The heavy load of exercise and labor during the day, coupled with the fact that there is hardly much oil and water in the meals, the people on the small island have to obtain nutrition through some brown rice, a small amount of sea vegetables or sweet potatoes, which also makes the people on the island eat a lot of food.

And Li Moyi is even more so, after getting used to the food here, the amount of food in his "dumb rice bucket" has also become amazing, almost three catties of brown rice every day to eat most of the full, and from time to time in the middle of the night will be a little gluttonous, seeing Feng Jin and the others shook their heads, feeling that it was really a little unbearable for him to eat like this, worried that the food on the island would be quickly exhausted.

In order to maintain his strong body, he had no choice but to use the evening time to collect some seafood such as crab shellfish on the beach alone or with the young people on the island while he was going to bed, and boiled them directly in a pot.

For such a life, Li Moyi can only be happy in bitterness.

However, life on the island began to change slightly after Li Moyi and Wang Lao Wu came here.

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Previously, they had brought a boatload of goods to the people of the island, which was worth a lot of money, at least many times more than the money and goods they had caught in a few years of fishing, which made the people of the island, who had lived a hard life, see a glimmer of hope for a better life in the future.

So Feng Jin and the others couldn't keep their mouths together happily these days, while they were busy greeting Wang Lao Wu and Li Mo to settle down, on the other hand, they also began to think about how to sell the cargo as soon as possible, and quickly cash it into silver, and then the big guy shared the silver so that the young people on the island could go to the north to marry a daughter-in-law.

For this matter of selling goods on land in the northern country, Li Moyi was of course happy to undertake it, he was thinking of finding an excuse to say goodbye to everyone and return to the land in the northern country, and now this sale of goods is the best opportunity.

Immediately, he put all his energy on this boat under his name, although this boat is not big, but compared to the small fishing boat owned by Feng Jin on the island, it is quite large, with their arrival, the attention of these young people on the island has also been attracted to this boat, so that even their main livelihood to go out to sea to fish has been put aside.

The safety of boat travel comes first, so before Li Moyi officially set off for the north, he asked the people on the island to help and began to carefully inspect the boat.

After some internal and external inspections, Li Moyi found that this boat was really not a broken ship, Wang Lao Wu did not lie to him, this boat has indeed not been built for many years, that is, it has only been three or four years, and the wood of the hull is mostly made of strong and durable good wood.

There are four compartments in the whole ship, the whole is the style of a standard wooden sailing ship, each compartment is separated by a layer of wooden partitions, which enhances the ship's ability to resist sinking, and the watertight compartment is also a unique invention of the people in the world, so the ship made in this way, even if one or two cabins enter the water, it will not sink easily, so in the world, even the wooden sailing ships built in nearby foreign countries are basically used in this way.

The two masts on the ship are made of a complete cedar wood, and there is no interface at all up and down, so the strength and toughness of the mast are relatively good, and it is very conducive to the lifting of wooden sails.

But after Wang Lao Wu heard about it, he went to the boat to see this crack and shook his head and said: "This crack is not a big deal, there is no need to replace it, not to mention that it takes a lot of manpower to change this mast, and it has to be specially sent to the land ship to spend a lot of money to change, I will look back and ask the blacksmith to hit two iron hoops, and it will be fine to clamp it, and it is still very strong and durable!!"

Therefore, after a preliminary inspection, Li Moyi concluded that this ship is still relatively strong and durable, but because of poor maintenance on weekdays, the bottom of this boat is covered with a thick layer of green vines and other things, and there are also a lot of conch in the wood of the lower part of the hull, which will be a big hidden danger to the solidity of the hull and needs to be solved as soon as possible.........

In addition, the hull and cabin are very dirty, which is also the most dissatisfied thing for Li Moyi with this boat, the rat infestation and mosquitoes on the ship will cause serious health risks to the boatman, which is unacceptable to him.

So Li Moyi thought about letting the young people on the island act as his crew, first carry out a large-scale cleaning and repair of the ship, and then consider the next departure.

After listening to Li Moyi's proposal, Feng Jin shook his head and said, "Brother Li, it's not that these guys don't want to help you, although this ship is really good, it's not easy for you to renovate this ship.........

“……… As you can see, we have limited manpower on the island, and now the goods on the ship have not yet been sold, and the people on the island still have to live, and dozens of people want to eat with their mouths open, and if they all go to help you get the boat, it will be a problem for the people on our island to eat......... You've been here for a few days, and our fishing guys have stopped for many days, and the grain stock on this island is about to bottom out, so I'm thinking about going out to sea to catch some fish and exchange for some food, so I can't spare many people to get that boat for you for the time being........."

"Besides, you want to flatten the bottom of this ship, I'm afraid we can't do this work here, I see you don't know how to get this kind of ship, you must know that if you want to shovel the bottom of the ship, the general owner will either send it to the ship's dormitory, pull the boat ashore and shovel the bottom of the ship, or hire someone to help, unload the ship's mast, and get the boat ashore upside down on the shore, so as to flatten the bottom of the ship."

"But I'm afraid the manpower on our island can't do this work......... Besides, it takes a lot of wood to repair a ship, and you have also seen our island, the mountains are full of small trees, and there is not enough wood to build a house, so where is it enough for you to repair the ship? ”

"In my opinion, this ship repair matter can be put aside for a while, and only after we have given these goods on the ship can we pull out our hands to get this matter, don't you think?"

Feng Jin was very polite to Li Moyi, although he refused Li Moyi's request, but he still agreed, as long as he sold the ship, and had silver as the background, he would help Li Moyi and clean up the ship.

Li Mo was not discouraged after hearing this, at least now he has no problem returning to the north in the name of justice, but he originally thought that he would not have to move the goods on board this boat, and he could save some effort.

Feng Jin's gang didn't plan to help him at the moment, and the boat was nominally in his name, so Feng Jin's old guys didn't care much about renovating the ship.

Wang Lao Wu also walked slowly at this time, after a few days of rest on the island, the wound on his right arm has basically healed, and his short walk is no longer a big problem, plus the children are in front of him at this time, his mood is really good, he is happy all day long, and the wrinkles on his old face seem to be more vivid because he laughs too much.

"I said Feng Jin!! This is your fault, how many fish can you catch when your small fishing boat goes to sea, look at this boat, originally the Wang family was built according to the style of the fishing boat in order to cover people's eyes and ears, it is much stronger than your small broken boat, but this boat is used by the Wang family to run the sea, if we take this boat to pick up and pick up, it is ten times stronger to go to sea to fish than you are now using this small broken boat!! ”

“……… What's more, your little broken boat only needs four or five people to go to sea, and a dozen young people on the island are idle, and those dozens of acres of sweet potato and potato fields don't need to be served, wouldn't it be better to leave some people for Brother Li to help repair the boat? ”

"You said that there is not much wood on this island, this is also easy to do, you can fool Brother Li, but you can't fool me Wang Lao Wu!! Don't think I don't know, there is indeed not much wood on this placeless island, but there are many trees on the adjacent island to the east, and the island is also a borderless place, no one lives on it, it is a good place to repair ships!! ”

"Originally, this ship was a bit dazzling on this small island without a place, and from time to time the surrounding pirates would come to scan it, and if it was not good, it would be seen by those pirates, and it would be easy to hide the trees on the small island in the east, so it was better for the ship to hide there first........."

"And there are a lot of goods on this ship, and they are worth a lot of money, in case they are broken during the move, who will pay for the silver?"

"Brother Li is well-informed, he wants to repair this ship, so naturally he has the means to go to the land to help us sell this ship........."

"When the time comes, with this cargo of silver, will you guys still go out to fish every day to make a living? You can't push this matter, otherwise I won't recognize you as the owner of the island, what do you say? ”

After listening to Wang Lao Wu's words, Feng Jin's face changed slightly, and after a dry smile, he said, "I said Lao Wu!" You're embarrassed, you're not on the island before, and you don't know anything about this place........."

“……… There are many trees on the island to the east, and it is not bad for the ship to be hidden there, but recently a group of pirates have gathered around the island, and they often haunt the sea in this area, and from time to time they will go to the island to the east to settle down. I'm afraid that those who go will have to worry about their lives!! ”

"So it's not that I don't help my brother today, this matter still has to be considered in the long run."

After listening to Feng Jin's words, Wang Lao Wu stretched out his hand to support his chin, looked east and thought about it, then nodded and said, "What you said is also reasonable, this matter really needs to be discussed in the long run, so be it......... You should arrange for someone to go out to sea to fish, just make arrangements, and when we go to sea tomorrow, Brother Li and I will also go out by boat and go around the small island to the east. ”

"The island to the east is very large, and there are many bays, so it is not difficult to find a place where you can hide ships and repair them, although pirates will dock on the island to the east, but they also mostly land on the east and south sides of the island, and as far as I know, few people go .........to the west and north."

After listening to Wang Lao Wu's words, Feng Jin hurriedly nodded and said, "This matter is decided, and it will be done according to what your fifth brother said!!"

Hearing that the ship was repaired and returned to the north, Li Moyi also felt very satisfied, and nodded again and again.

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There are not many women on the island, and there are only Xiao Mu among the young and unmarried girls, so Xiao Mu's treatment on the island is quite good, basically no one asks her to do any heavy work, at most, let her help Feng Jin and Chang Mazi's daughter-in-law do some washing and washing work, or be responsible for collecting some sea vegetables on the beach to supplement the life of the people on the island.

Probably because of Li Moyi's abrupt behavior on the first day, Xiao Mu seemed to be a little scared of Li Moyi, often avoiding Li Moyi, and when he saw Li Moyi, he would seem a little helpless, and even a trace of crimson flashed on his little face, and then hurriedly lowered his head and dodged away from Li Moyi.

In this regard, Li Moyi also smiled indifferently, he naturally had a flat heart for such a little female doll, but he felt that in Xiao Mu, there was a natural simplicity that was difficult to see, so he looked at Xiao Mu from the perspective of pure appreciation.

It was because of Wang Lao Wu that he regarded Xiao Mu more as a little sister, and after he came into contact with Xiao Mu when he landed on the island that day, he never had anything to do with Xiao Mu again.

After Wang Lao Wu arrived on the island, he became a celebrity in the eyes of everyone on the island, probably because of Xiao Mu, many young people on the island seemed to want to marry Xiao Mu as a wife, after Wang Lao Wu came to the island, these young people began to move, on the one hand, they were courteous in front of Wang Lao Wu, and on the other hand, they were wandering around in front of Feng Jin and others, wanting to invite Feng Jin and their elders to propose marriage to Wang Lao Wu for them.

However, it is obvious that Wang Lao Wu does not seem to be in a hurry to marry Xiao Mu, and during the meal, Feng Jin and a few of their old guys also opened their mouths to test it, but Wang Lao Wu immediately prevaricated that Xiao Mu was still young and was not in a hurry to talk about this matter, so that a group of young people on the island were depressed after hearing it.

Li Moyi thought that Wang Laowu, an old man, must want to live in strange goods and want to find a good home for Xiao Mu, but he didn't think much about it, just laughed.

After living on the island for two more days, Li Moyi's schedule began to be full, after experiencing the incident of distress at sea, he has realized that it is not easy for him to survive in this world, in addition to being vigilant at all times, the strength of the body and the strength of the force are also one of the essential conditions, fortunately, he is also a person with a heart, Sanhe Village Yiyi, let him steal a few good practical moves, these days on the island has been practicing diligently, It also made his moves more flexible and free, and he could barely parry ordinary martial arts masters, which gave Li Mo an extra layer of protection.

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Every day before dawn, he would get up and go out of the house, first jogging to the south of the island, and then running up the hill on the north side of the island as fast as possible, and then on a flat rock on the top of the hill, he would practice his fists and feet in the fresh sea breeze until he sweated profusely, and the sun was rising from the sea level, spreading the sun to the entire sea, Li Moyi would run back to the house from the top of the hill again.

His habit undoubtedly made everyone on the island a little sideways, and even felt that Li Moyi felt a little full and had nothing to do, it was simply a waste of food and physical strength, and it was more appropriate to sleep a little more or do some farm work in the field, but because of Li Moyi's special identity, no one mentioned it to him, and gradually got used to his approach.

But what Li Mo didn't expect was that one morning ten days after he came to the island, he ran up to the top of the hill as usual and started the morning exercise of the day, but a figure appeared on the top of the hill.

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