"You're not big either, are you? Hahahaha......"

The sixth master looked up and saw that Li Tao on the big boat was also a lot smaller.

The sixth master's boat is small when it leans on the side of the big ship, the height is only one-third of the big ship, and the length is one-fifth of the big ship.

The person who is called Lao Liu, formerly known as Zheng Hao, is 29 years old this year, and his ancestral home is Penglai County, Shandong Province.

In the early years, their family only did freight transportation to and from a few coastal provinces, and later the family was not satisfied with the status quo, so they took the ship to the sea to look for business opportunities, and so on many times, and finally found a way to make a fortune in the exploration of several generations.

Their family has docks and shops in several coastal provinces, undertaking all kinds of freight business, and also taking over the business of buying goods at sea.

Now the Zheng family has a total of five houses, most of the ancestral industry is in the hands of the long house, and the property that is distributed to other houses is less than one-third of the ancestral property.

Zheng Hao is not the most face-saving one in the Zheng family, he is the eldest son of the Zheng family's five rooms, in charge of half of the family business of the five rooms, and the other half of the family business.

He also had only one sea boat in his hands.

One of the ships that was robbed by the pirates this time was borrowed from his eldest brother, and Zheng Hao pressed 50,000 taels of silver from his eldest brother before lending it.

Zheng Hao got on the big boat and hugged Li Tao and Lu Han, "I miss you guys!" ”

Lu Han asked people to set up tables and chairs on the deck, and asked people to bring a few jars of good wine brought from the capital, chicken, duck and fish to set up a table, and he wanted to get drunk and sleep with Zheng Hao.

Although Li Tao cared about his goods, he didn't ask him at this time, and the three of them drank while talking about all kinds of interesting things inside and outside the capital, laughing and drinking from the sunny afternoon to the starry night.

The breeze blows from the northwest with the salty smell of the sea, carrying the sound of laughter and laughter into the deep distance.

"Happy!" Lu Han said, picked up the wine bowl and drank it clean.

Zheng Hao took the wine and drank it all in one go, threw the wine bowl to the ground, the wine bowl broke in response, and he laughed and talked about taking the boat to sea.

His ship left Quanzhou on the first day of December last year, and the journey went smoothly along the monsoon, and on the third day of the first month of January he arrived in the country of Mapolia, where he met with some local merchants, talked for five or six days, and finally bought a large quantity of spices and jewels from the locals.

"Two days later, another ship of a merchant from the Western Omle Kingdom arrived there, and it was also our brother's luck that he actually met a big deal!" Zheng Hao raised his hand and slapped it heavily on the table, and said, "Do you know what goods they have on board?" Jewels and jade are nothing! ”

Zheng Hao's face was mysterious, he stopped talking, sat crooked in the chair and squinted at Li Tao and Lu Han, waiting for them to guess.

Seeing that he didn't say anything about selling Guanzi, Li Tao raised his arm and punched Zheng Hao's shoulder, "Don't sell Guanzi, hurry up." He said.

Zheng Hao was not annoyed by the punch, the thief smiled, and said: "A boatload of people, both men and women, the men are as strong as cows, and the women are like the goblins mentioned in the book,......"

"It's not all one nose and two eyes, it's no different from us." Li Tao picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, raising his eyes to look at Zheng Hao.

Lu Han took a peanut and pinched it, took out a kernel and threw it into his mouth, chewing it slowly to see what Zheng Hao said.

Zheng Hao sat up and changed his position, crooked into the chair again, took out a leopard bone toothpick from the purse on his waist, held it in his mouth and picked his teeth, "It's different, their hair is colored, and their eyes are also colored, similar to the leopard raised by Brother Lu's family, the man's arms are as thick as my thighs, and his feet are locked with such thick chains,......。 He said vaguely, ? He also used his hand to make a two-inch thick gesture.

Lu Han put the teacup on the table, leaned back in the chair, raised his eyes to look at the starry sky, and said leisurely: "I heard my father say that when he used to fight the northwest, he also saw the kind of person he said. Red-haired and blue-eyed, tall and burly, as powerful as an ox, one person can rival dozens of people. ”

"They're not here to fight, are they?" Li Tao asked what he thought, if that boatload of people came to fight, then wouldn't the country of Mapolia be in danger.

Lu Han heard his question, retracted his gaze, and looked at Zheng Hao with a serious face, he didn't think about it in this regard, and now he couldn't help frowning.

"Where do you want to go?" Zheng Hao laughed, "It's not what you think, I heard that those people are slaves in their country, and there are some poor people who have no food, and they came here to sell them and find him a place to eat." ”

"Oh, that's funny!"

"How many taels of silver per person?"

Zheng Hao looked at Li Tao with disdain, and said, "Do you think that they are all like your family, and you can buy a big living person for a few taels of silver!" It's not like that, they have to bid to bring people out, and only those who bid higher can take people away. ”

"Do any of those men want them?" Lu Han asked.

"Yes, quite a few." Zheng Hao turned his head and spit out a mouthful of vegetable residue on the ground, "There are still a lot of people who buy it, I heard that they are all bought back for guards, and the highest bid is more than 800 taels of silver, which is more valuable than jewelry!" He said.

Li Tao teased him with a smile and said, "You didn't buy one back?" ”

Zheng Hao laughed, "No, if you want to buy those women, that look, that skin...... Tsk, it's a pity! ”

He snorted twice, with a look of regret.

Li Tao and Lu Han didn't ask him, knowing that he was going to sell Guanzi again, they didn't answer his words, picked up the wine glass, touched the two of them, took a sip each, and waited for Zheng Hao to continue.

Zheng Hao glared at the two friends, why couldn't these two cooperate, and asked him what was a pity! I'm really angry with him.

He and Lu Han knew each other earlier, that is, when he was a teenager, at that time, Lu Han served in Qingdao with his father, one day General Lu took Lu Han to inspect the coastal defense army, Zheng Hao was on a fishing boat in his own house, holding a stick to drive two big sea crabs to fight, when he got carried away, Lu Han took a attendant on his boat.

Lu Han was two years younger than Zheng Hao, and he was very funny when he saw him teasing two crabs fighting, so he asked Zheng Hao to come and play.

Zheng Hao had seen him come with the general a long time ago, and knew that he was a member of the general's family, so he didn't dare to provoke him, so he gave Lu Han the stick and sea crab, and let him have a good time.

Since then, Lu Han and Zheng Hao have become good friends, Zheng Hao can often find fun for Lu Han in his own fishing boat, Lu Han also handed over the martial arts to Zheng Hao, the two can be said to be like brothers, and the deep friendship is like brothers.

Lu Han never cared about Zheng Hao calling him big brother, and Zheng Hao never called him brother, he called each other by his name, so it was natural.

Zheng Hao looked at Li Tao who put down the wine cup to eat, he and Li Tao met through Lu Han, the two of them had a few drinks together, but they didn't have a deep friendship, that is, the friends of friends are their friends.

This time the sea ship was robbed, Zheng Hao felt a little sorry for Li Tao, he used to often brag about how profitable the maritime merchants were, but he didn't expect to bring more silver and buy more goods this time, but he didn't expect to be robbed by pirates.

Lu Han saw Zheng Hao looking at Li Tao opposite, and didn't continue, so he asked, "What's a pity?" Haven't you robbed someone? ”

"That can't be!" Zheng Hao laughed and said, "I bought a few women from the Western Omlai country, with blond hair, sapphire eyes, and ...... skin Tsk......"

Seeing the eyes of the two people who were about to kill, Zheng Hao hurriedly sat up straighter, looked at the two people and said, "You have all seen the milk tofu made in the palace, right?" The skin of the woman of the country of Simle is whiter and more tender than that, and it is really beautiful......"

Zheng Hao let out a long sigh, "It's a pity that they were all robbed by the fucking pirates!" He said and fell back into his chair with a look of pity on his face.

"A few women, look at your heartache." Lu Han slapped him heavily.

Zheng Hao gritted his teeth and looked pained, "Do you know how much money those women spent?" and four women thirty-seven thousand taels of silver. ”

Lu Han gasped, "You're crazy!" ”

"Am I not crazy! I thought about coming back, one of our brothers, and the old man who gave it to the household,......" Zheng Hao wanted to say something more, and when he saw Lu Han glaring at him, he was busy talking about it.

Li Tao frowned, thinking that he didn't know where his 500,000 taels of silver was, and suddenly realized that both of them were looking at him, and said with a smile: "You can keep that alien for yourself, I don't want it." ”

Zheng Hao smiled a little, and then talked about the affairs of the sea, he stayed in the country of Mapolia for twenty days, and set sail on the nineteenth day of the first month.

The ship had been on the sea for ten days without going well, and on the fourteenth day there were five pirate ships with black turban flags, which surrounded two of their ships.

They fought fiercely with the pirates for four hours, and in the middle of the night, they couldn't resist it, so Zheng Hao took six or seven people and escaped in a small boat.

"I'm sorry for the prince! I was not able to bring the goods back smoothly. Zheng Hao arched his hand at Li Tao.

"It's not your fault either." Li Tao returned the salute.

"Tell me about pirates?" Lu Han interrupted the politeness of the two people and asked the key question.

Zheng Hao coughed dryly, his expression became serious, he waved his hand to let the table be cleaned up, and borrowed the chart from Lu Han and spread it on the table.

The three of them stood around the table, watching Zheng Hao pointing on the chart, "This is where we are now, this is the pirate's nest, the two islands on both sides are their dens, and there are about 700 pirates on these three islands." ”

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