A fierce northwest wind blew from the sea, setting off black stormy waves, and this journey had to go against the wind.

Fishing boats are not suitable for long-distance sailing, and it is already the limit to Shanghai. After discussion, it was decided to secretly land on the outskirts of Shanghai, avoiding the downtown area of Shanghai and the public concession, so as not to provoke the patrol house or the Qing gang who wanted Qin Beiyang and Qi Yuanshan. According to the plan, the two teenagers could not stay for a moment, and they would immediately rush to Beijing by land.

Night sailing boats.

The captains cooked fish head soup, drank soju to dispel the cold, and talked about the young dragon slaying heroes, which was enough to blow to their children and grandchildren for a lifetime.

It was rare for the boy and girl to eat a full meal, and snuggled into Qi Yuanshan's arms and fell asleep.

Fourteen-year-old Ah Yu, looking at the dark night like the bottom of the pot outside the cabin, listened to the story of the sea voyage told by Taiki Haneda. Running a steam ship between China and Japan is the old business of the Haneda family. The Japanese sighed for a long time: "Why is that steamer gone?" ”

It was late in the night, and they all went to sleep.

Transformed into a big dog, he walked alone to the bow of the boat, looking at the rolling waves that had been cut, and whimpered silently.

Qin Beiyang appeared behind it, holding the red mane and asked, "Hey!" Are you missing someone? ”

Nine-colored jaws, eyes blinking and blinking.

"Miss your tomb owner, the little prince of the Tang Dynasty?" The town tomb beast buried its head in Qin Beiyang's arms, like a lost dog, and the jade pendant in his heart warmed up, "I'll help you find him!" "Hey, Count Bodhidharma, what are you doing?"

Ouyang Anna came over and almost frightened Qin Beiyang into the sea. Then there is the detective Ye Kenan. Together, they listened to the sound of the sails and the sound of the robes hunting.

Three people and one beast, gathered at the bow of the boat, Qin Beiyang asked the question that had been held for a day and night: "Inspector Ye, what should I do with the three thousand taels of silver brought out by Dharma Mountain?" ”

"Test you a math problem - the current common Yuan Datou silver dollar, which is worth equivalent to seven coins and two cents of silver. Three thousand taels of silver, which is equivalent to how many silver yuan? ”

Qin Beiyang had a little conversion in his mind, when he was studying in a German school in Tianjin, mathematics was his strong point: "4166 yuan, 6 jiao, 6 minutes, 6 cents...... And I can't get rid of it! ”

"Do you know what my salary is?" Ye Ke tightened his wool scarf, "The monthly salary is one hundred silver yuan." ”

"This huge amount of money is equivalent to your salary for more than three years."

"I am a public official of the Beiyang government, and if I am in the northern countryside, it is enough for a large family to spend for decades."

Ouyang Anna couldn't help but interject: "In Shanghai, you can buy a small Shikumen in the public concession!" Inspector Ye, did you divide this money privately?

"What kind of person do you think of me? Anna, as I said, although the million silver belongs to Qin Beiyang, you are responsible for guarding and protecting it. You know, silver is always silver in a cave, and although it will not depreciate, it may not increase in value. The price of silver in the international market sometimes rises and sometimes falls, and it is elusive for everyone. ”

"Yes, my father also said that it is the best policy to hide silver at home, deposit it in a foreign bank, invest in a factory, buy antiques to appreciate the value, and buy a house and real estate in the Shanghai concession is the best policy."

As soon as she talked about her father, Ouyang Anna lost her voice again.

"Mr. Ouyang is a hero in the world, and he must understand these truths. Beiyang, Anna, if we can regularly take out a part of the one million taels of silver and use it for steady investment, we will continue to generate more income. ”

"Money makes money, and profits roll?"

Ye Kenan smiled and shook his head: "That's usury, we don't do this kind of immoral thing, not to mention that the risk is also big." When I say sound investment, I start with real estate, then gold, antiques, and even the bonds of Britain and the United States. There are also trustworthy entrepreneurs, like Mr. Zhang Jian from Nantong. ”

"But we're not in business." Qin Beiyang scratched his head and said, "I don't know anything about playing with money. ”

"Yes, you two are still young, you can deposit this silver wealth fund in a Swiss private bank and entrust it to be invested. Switzerland has a bank secrecy system, and outsiders will never know how much money is in the account for each money coming in or out. Even after a hundred years, the descendants of Qin Beiyang can withdraw money from the bank as long as they have a withdrawal certificate. By then, the real value may have increased tenfold. ”

"I understand that Shanghai is the financial center of China, and there are branches of Swiss private banks, and my father dealt with them. I would ask the Swiss to take care of this silver fund. "After all the things that have happened these days, Anna seems to have grown up in an instant, and she is no longer a middle school girl in a church school," as for the name of this investment, it is called the Earl of Dharma Hill Fund! ”

The bow of the ship with the north wind howling, and the black hair that came from the curls was darker than the night. She pointed to Qin Beiyang's vague face, only her eyes sparkled, like a fluorescent creature like a deep sea netherworld.

"Me?"

"Qin Beiyang, I am just the manager of this fund, responsible for making one million taels of silver slowly appreciate." Anna grabbed his arm, "When I open a custodian fund account at the bank, I will quietly fill in your name - rest assured, this is the secret of the fund, as long as the three of us don't tell it, the sea will never be leaked." ”

"So, I'm a secret millionaire?" (If converted to the currency value at the beginning of the 21st century, it is definitely a rich man of 300 million yuan.) ）

Ye Kenan patted him on the shoulder and said, "The Taoist priest has shown me the eight characters, and I can't keep my fortune!" Millions of silver are not something that ordinary people can hold. Among us people, only you Qin Beiyang deserve it. ”

"But you know, I don't care about money, I'm a craftsman by nature."

"There are big and small craftsmen, small can be made by heaven, and big can change the sun and the moon."

"I understand the creation of heavenly things, what does it mean to change the sun and the moon?"

Ye Kenan, who was curled up on his feet, asked, "Have you ever watched "Night Sailing Boat"? ”

Qin Beiyang lived in Kuaiyuan for one night in Shaoxing, and felt qualified to answer: "Zhang Dai in the late Ming Dynasty, the first half of his life was full of wind and snow, and the country was ruined in the second half of his life. He said that the world is learned, but the night ship is the most difficult to deal with - there are monks and scholars who sleep on the night boat. The scholar talked loudly, and the monk slept with his fists, and suddenly asked: Is it one or two people who extinguish the Ming Dynasty? The scholar replied to two people. The monk asked again: Is Yao Shun one or two people? The scholar replied to one person! The monk said: Speaking of this, wait for the little monk to stretch his feet! ”

"Shenzhou is vast, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people. You and I don't dare to stretch out our feet easily in this night ship. When you grow up and read more books from all over the world, you will understand. ”

"Go to school again? But I didn't go to middle school, I didn't even graduate from elementary school! Qin Beiyang remembered the meeting between the two eight years ago, "Jingshi University Hall, juvenile class?" ”

"Haha...... You're still thinking of my casual lies. I see you, there is really Huigen who went to study at Peking University. ”

"By next year, I'll be eighteen years old, really?"

Ye Kenan was not afraid of the wind and waves, and told the truth: "Beiyang, although you have a brilliant future and extraordinary intelligence, you have a fatal flaw!" ”

"I want to hear about it."

"Eight years ago, I took you away from the German Concession in Tianjin, and since then you have grown up in the imperial mausoleum, learning craftsman's crafts by your father's side, and have never really come into contact with this complex world."

Qin Beiyang lowered his head and thought, since he was nine years old, he has been locked up in the underground palace, and he only knows how to make tomb beasts, dealing with tombs, stones, wood, and steel, but he lacks the opportunity to contact people. As for his father Qin Customs, he is also a stuffy gourd who has been honest all his life, and he is devoted to studying his craft, and he almost doesn't have a friend around him. His colleagues in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the eunuchs in charge of affairs would bully him.

"Inspector Ye, what do you mean - I don't know the world's ways?"