"Daddy! Take Lang'er to see the cannon, okay! Good no good! Lin Lang pulled Lin Ruhai's sleeve and walked out.

Lin Ruhai and Jia Min looked at each other and smiled, and said, "Do you want to go and see Min'er, under the cabin, it's a little dim and damp!" ”

"Let's go, let's take a look, I'm also curious about that cannon!" Jia Min smiled and followed Lin Ruhai and his son out of the hatch.

The three of them reached the deck first, and then the old shadow lifted a thick three-foot square plank, revealing a wooden staircase that descended downward. The old shadow went down with Lin Lang first, and Lin Ruhai helped Jia Min to follow. The bottom of the cabin was indeed damp, and there was even some seawater pouring in from the portholes on the floor. There was a cannon installed under the portholes on both sides, and Lin Ruhai walked over and opened the tarpaulin covered on it, revealing the cannon body. The cannon body is about ** feet long, and there is a hand-cranked mechanism underneath, which can adjust the height of the cannon body and hit the enemy ship more accurately. In a large wooden box, some cannonballs the size of a baby's head were also wrapped in oilcloth.

Lin Lang looked curiously around the cannon, touching it here, touching it, and kept asking questions to the old shadow, and the old shadow was very patient to answer him one by one.

"I can't believe that such a small shell can have such a big power!" Jia Min was amazed by the weapons she saw.

"These are improvised cannons that were made specifically for sea navigation. There is also a cannon ten times larger than this on our island, and with that big guy here, the enemy's ships can't get close to Linjia Island at all. Lin Ruhai has been following Jia Min's side and explaining to Jia Min.

"That's amazing! That's really a one-man affair! ”

"When the time comes, I'll take Min'er to see it, and Min'er will know how powerful it is!"

"Wouldn't it take a lot of fine iron to make all these cannons and shells?"

"That's right! But fortunately, there is a big island to the east of us, which is rich in iron ore, and we bought two of them there, which can supply us! ”

"Listening to my husband talk about Linjiadao along the way made me yearn for Linjiadao even more, I was thinking, what if I got there, I couldn't think about it?"

"If Min'er is willing, we can retire there in the future! See Uncle Shadow? They have been on Linjia Island for so many years, not only have they not aged, but their bodies have become more and more healthy, they have all had dark injuries for many years, but after staying on the island for a few years, the dark injuries have slowly improved. It's those secret guards in my grandfather's time, they are all seventy or eighty years old, and they are in the same state as when they were in their prime, and most of those secret guards on the island can live past 100 years old. The oldest of the current generations, Tai Fifty Ye, is one hundred and five years old this year, and he is the only remaining secret guard from his great-grandfather's time, and now he is in charge of teaching the orphans I am looking for Lang'er. Lin Ruhai's words shocked Jia Min even more.

"Is it possible that this Lin Family Island is a blessed land of the Immortal Family?" Jia Min exclaimed.

When the old shadow heard Jia Min's words, he smiled and said, "It's not as the master mother thinks!" The aborigines who work on other islands on our side do not live as long as our people, most of them are about forty years old. ”

"That's weird, isn't that the secret of our people?" Jia Min asked with a frown.

"There's a secret! Our people are accustomed to drinking tea, so they brought tea seeds from Daming to the island and planted them on a high mountain, and then their subordinates drank their own tea, and over time their bodies changed, only to know that drinking those teas can prolong life! ”

"Then why doesn't the husband let people send us some tea from the island every year?"

"It's useless! Strange to say, only by making those teas with the spring water from the mountains over there can you prolong life, and tea and water are indispensable. Lin Ruhai explained.

"That's amazing! Probably this is also God's compensation for those secret guards who have paid a lot for the Lin family! ”

"The master's words are serious! Although the subordinates worked hard in the first half of their lives, the master found such a good place for his subordinates to retire, we are a member of the Lin family, and it is the duty of the subordinates to do things for the Lin family. If you want to talk about compensation, it is also right, so that the subordinates can live longer and do more for the Lin family. ”

Jia Min didn't have the slightest hint of hypocrisy when he saw the old shadow saying these words, and he admired the imperial skills of the Lin family's ancestors even more! "Uncle Shadow, no matter what, you are all the heroes of the Lin family, without you always being so loyal to guarding the Lin family island and supporting a back road for the Lin family, we will not have so much confidence, as the main mother of the Lin family's generation, I still want to thank you for your loyalty to the Lin family!"

The old shadow didn't say anything more, just smiled and said to Lin Ruhai: "The master's vision is so good!" ”

Lin Ruhai also smiled and nodded, "I think so too!" ”

Jia Min blushed at Lin Ruhai's words, glared at him coquettishly, and then turned around and grabbed the stairs and went to the deck.

After another four or five days, Jia Min and his ship were about to arrive at Linjia Island. In the afternoon of this day, Jia Min was packing the luggage of their family of three, when he heard Lin Lang shouting loudly outside: "Mother! Mother! Come out and see! Lang'er has seen Linjia Island! ”

Jia Min put down the things in his hand, got up and walked out of the cabin, and walked to Lin Ruhai and their father and son to stand still. Looking at Lin Lang's little hand, Jia Min saw the place that she longed for very much. As the ship approached, she saw a snow-like beach, and the afternoon sun shone on the beach, shining with a little light, and from a distance it made people feel like they had strayed into a fairyland. Behind the beach is a dense wood, and some houses can be faintly seen in the woods.

At the end of the boat ride to the white beach, there is a cliff about 100 feet high, and below the cliff is a brown reef that flickers and flickers with the waves. Their boat sailed into a canyon flanked by towering cliffs with nests of seabirds.

"Does Min'er know what's up there?" Lin Ruhai asked.

"It's a nest of seabirds!"

Lin Ruhai smiled and said, "Min'er eats that thing every day!" ”

"That's bird's nest? So that's it! Is the bird's nest I ate from our island? ”

"No, the blood swallows that Min'er eats on weekdays are not here, they are all bought from Malaysia by the Lin family's merchant ships!"

When the boat reached the end of the canyon, it suddenly became clear that this was a small bay where the pier of Linjia Island was built. The pier is built on the hill, a long wooden plank road leads to the top of the hill, and there are already three large ships and several small boats docked on the pier, and a dozen people in white clothes are standing on the pier and waving to them.