The early morning in Honolulu is beautiful, and although many heavy factories have been built, the sea breeze can sweep away the smoke that remains over the island, leaving no trace of pollution in the sky.

Located on the hillside behind the Castle Peak Villa, a large vegetable garden has been reclaimed, and a water diversion pipe is drawn to the fence of the vegetable garden, and the clear water rolls down drop by drop, along the dug ditch, moistening the colorful vegetables in the yard.

This may be the tradition of Chinese farmers, no matter where they go, growing vegetables is the first choice, mainly related to eating habits, after all, foreigners' butter bread is not everyone is used to eating.

With the connivance of Young Master Li, there is no longer anyone in the Kingdom of Hawaii who has not been forcibly expelled, but because Hawaii and Yue Ben are at war, they have left here in a panic, and most of them are going to the United States.

On the contrary, as the fame of the Chinese world in Hawaii grew, the number of Chinese in the United States began to decline rapidly, and the Chinese who struggled under the Chinese Exclusion Act flocked to Hawaii to settle down, which minimized the impact of the sudden decline in labor force after the deportation.

Today, the total number of Chinese living on the islands of Hawaii has exceeded 250,000, surpassing the local natives to become the largest ethnic group worthy of the name.

However, as the total number of Chinese surpassed the locals in one fell swoop, it also brought pressure to the native Hawaiians, but fortunately, Li Mo handled this very well, strictly implemented the policy of ethnic equality, and the factories and plantations also recruited local workers according to the proportion, and at the same time took the initiative to let the Government Council issue loans to help some qualified locals to do business and set up factories.

With the help of this policy, the local people also began to open up some large-scale plantations on Maui, Big Island and Molokai, which have relatively good planting conditions, and even some uninhabited islands with conditions for planting, and also reclaimed large areas of wasteland. While maintaining their own national characteristics, they also slowly accepted the eating habits of the Chinese, gradually moved closer to the Chinese, and even appeared indigenous merchants who specialized in growing vegetables and selling them.

However, in today's Oahu, where every inch of land is valuable, there is only Master Li who can have such a large private vegetable garden. Only Chen Ping, who knows the inside story, is full of big bags, and the emotional young master said in Chile that he would change the flower garden into a vegetable garden, which is really not a joke!

In the vegetable garden in the early morning, there was no figure, except for Li Mo, only Fu Hai, who managed the garden in Pingyueli, carried a small vegetable basket, and followed behind the young master with great interest, I don't understand why the young master came to the vegetable garden early in the morning, is it because the food is not fresh enough recently?

In fact, Li Mo has no choice, in order to sell new medicines, the Scottish beauty abducted her two foot warmers, and Master Li, who was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, had to get up early every morning to kill the heat in his stomach.

With his head down, his fingers gently flicked over the bright red peppers, and he expertly plucked the peppers and put them in the basket. Whether in the past life or in the present life, Master Li likes to eat chili peppers very much, and these spicy varieties were specially sent to Mexico to select and transplant them, and now they have become the most precious treasures in this vegetable garden.

These days are ripe times, so after he heard about it yesterday, he had to go down to the ground to pick a few to satisfy his hunger when he had nothing to do. In fact, what people covet is not the sense of accomplishment at that moment.

"It's just that eating a natural aphrodisiac that is red and glamorous and spicy, will it make the fire that has just been suppressed rise again?" Young Master Li was holding the chili pepper and thinking wildly, Fu Hai had already called over there.

"Young Master, Fubo, they're here."

After putting the picked peppers into the vegetable basket, Li Mo raised his head and saw Fu Bo and Du Dazhuang walking into the vegetable garden with Li Xiufeng's brothers and Fuhai's son Fugen, talking about something as they walked.

Before Fu Bo walked in, Fu Hai, who was accompanying him, had already greeted him. Fuhai father and son are also Li Mo's old family, when they fled, the Li family in Liaodong was scattered, and the subordinates were also dismissed, until recently after Nighthawk returned to Liaodong, Fu Bo began to look for those old family members who were separated through the hands of Lin Yongxiang and Duan Fei.

After the family was dismissed by the imperial court, most of them had an unsatisfactory life, so after hearing that the young master had created a family business overseas, many of them defected to him, and Fuhai was one of them.

Originally, according to Fu Bo's idea, he was going to arrange Fuhai to go to the gold mine to take charge, after all, the old man was not at ease about such an important industry in the hands of others, but seeing that Fuhai was now a handful of years, it was not suitable to go to that bitter cold place, so he had to continue to let the gold mine be monitored by Duan Fei, and let Fuhai accompany him here to live for a long time.

It's Fugen, now he is twenty-seven or eighteen, although he doesn't know a few words in Douda, but now the young master's family has a big business, and it's not good to be idle like this, so Fuhai discussed with Fu Bo whether to find him an errand, and it happened that Li Xiufeng also wanted to go out and break through, so they came together.

Seeing the young master, Li Xiufeng and Fu Gen hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Li Mo dropped the vegetable basket, smiled and signaled the three of them not to see each other so much, before smiling to Fu Hai and said, "Uncle Fu Hai, Fu Bo, have you thought about it?" ”

Fu Hai glanced at the son beside Li Xiufeng, a flash of reluctance flashed in his cloudy old eyes, and nodded vigorously: "Think about it, they are all big babies, and it's time to share the burden for you, young master." ”

"Dad, don't worry, I will definitely be able to make a name for myself when I go out this time, and I will never lose the face of the young master." Seeing that the old father was still a little reluctant, Fugen, who had long been eager to try to go out, hurriedly slapped his chest with a red neck and assured that his straightforward appearance caused everyone to laugh.

It was Li Xiufeng, although he was only one year older than Li Mo, but after hearing and seeing over the years and Fu Bo's careful training, he seemed more mature, and said: "Young master, please rest assured, my father-in-law has already taken care of Xiufeng, and I will definitely take care of Brother Fugen." After speaking, he turned his head to Fu Bo and Fu Hai and continued: "Godfather, Uncle Fu Hai, don't worry, Brother Fu Gen and I will take care of each other, besides, aren't there so many ships coming and going now?" We will come back to see you often. ”

Li Xiufeng was young and old, and he was able to sell himself for his younger brother back then, which shows his character, which is also the biggest reason why Li Fu accepted the two brothers as his sons, and has always regarded the two brothers as his own, not only sent the two to the best school to study, but also often brought them to listen to the young master give lectures to everyone, so they are still very respectful and filial to Li Fu.

Li Fu came to have a son, and when he saw Li Xiufeng's answer, he touched his beard happily and squinted and smiled. And he also knew Li Xiufeng's thoughts, but he was not as reluctant as Fu Hai, he said: "The baby is older, it's time to go out for a walk, you can rest assured that you can do a good job for the young master, isn't there still Yan'er at home?" ”

"Yes. Brother, don't worry, I will take care of my father-in-law and Uncle Fuhai, and when I grow up, I will go to you! Li Xiuyan also raised his head and raised his small fist.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Li Mo hurriedly said to Du Dazhuang: "Go to the study and bring the box and the letter on my desk." Du Dazhuang hurriedly turned around and ran towards the villa.

Looking at Li Xiufeng and Fugen, Li Mo continued to take care of him: "Xiufeng, Fugen, although you all call me young master, I have never regarded you as a person, I am alone now, so all of you are my brothers and family, and now that your career is starting, many places need to employ people, so don't think about anything else when you go out this time, the main thing is to listen more, watch more, learn more, and lay the foundation for doing great things in the future." ”

"Yes, young master." Seeing what Li Mo said solemnly, Li Xiufeng also nodded hurriedly. Only Fugen scratched his head, and seemed to be a little confused about the big business that Li Mo said, and asked, "Young master, the bird poop you said is really so profitable?" ”

"Dog baby, the young master said that there can be a fake to make money!" Before Li Mo could explain to the two, hearing that Fugen was still suspicious of this, Fuhai hurriedly reprimanded.

"Uncle Fuhai, don't be angry." Li Mo smiled, stretched out his hand to stop Fu Hai, and explained: "Nauru is located on the equator, the terrain is dry, and the guano accumulated over thousands of years is ten meters thick. So in Europe, guano is the same as Chilean saltpeter, it's a big deal! ”

Of course, there is one more thing that Li Mo did not say, Nauru is located in the Micronesian islands in the western South Pacific, and it is a gateway to Papua New Guinea and Australia, and its geographical location is very important! For him, who has always insisted on putting the economy first, if he can take the opportunity of excavating guano and where to gain a foothold, it will undoubtedly be very beneficial to future actions!

What's more, guano is really a big business, Peru made a fortune because of guano, although Nauru is small, but the amount of guano is about the same, it is completely a treasure land for development, and the profit will definitely not be less than saltpeter. You must know that in later generations, it was because of the sale of guano that Nauru's per capita income reached nearly 10,000 US dollars.

Although Fugen didn't understand why guano was also bought, when he heard that it was the same big deal as Chilean saltpeter, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he wished to fly to that small island immediately and dig three feet into the ground.

At this time, Du Dazhuang had already taken the box and the letter back, Li Mo took the letter first, and handed it to Li Xiufeng: "Lin Yongxiang will take you to Guam first, where can you go to find a Spaniard named Snow." He used to be my teacher, and now he is the owner of our Nanyang Trading Company, and this is my letter to him, and I have asked him to complete the formalities for you to travel to Nauru. ”

"Also. If you go out this time, I'm afraid you'll encounter danger if you're not familiar with life, so take this to defend yourself. If you encounter something that you can't solve, you can also immediately order someone to go to Guam or Australia for help, and Duan Fei arranged someone there! After Li Mo finished speaking, he asked Du Dazhuang to open the box. As soon as the box was opened, let alone Fugen, even Li Xiufeng's eyes lit up, only to see two new Black Star pistols in the box, and a few magazines full of yellow, orange and orange bullets next to them.

Seeing that the two of them grabbed the pistol and looked like they couldn't put it down, Li Mo laughed: "Hehe, let's go!" I've got five big ships ready for you at the docks, and now they're under your command!" That's all I can do, and what you can do in the future depends on you! ”

"yes, it's getting late, it's time to go." Fu Hai and Fu Bo also hurriedly waved their hands, and mist rose in the old eyes.

"Young master, father, Uncle Fuhai (Fu Bo), you should also take care, we will come back to see you often." Li Xiufeng and Fugen quickly put away their guns, and after saying goodbye to everyone, they reluctantly walked to the dock under the farewell of Fubo and Fuhai.

Li Mo just wanted to see off the two of them with everyone, but was suddenly pulled by Du Dazhuang: "Young master, Mrs. Ge is here and wants to see you." ”

"Mrs. Ge!" Li Mo frowned, since Fang Boqian's family took the lead in returning to Hawaii, to be honest, he really hasn't seen anyone, although the knot in his heart has been untied, but after he came back, he was too busy, and it was a car, and he was arranging purchases, a lot of things, plus the pressure brought by his large-scale ship building, he didn't have the heart to think about those things for a while.

I didn't expect that now that people have come to the door, it should be an explanation for others.

"Da Zhuang, you and Uncle Fuhai will send them for me." Li Mo sighed in his heart, what should come is always to be faced, and ordered: "Fu Bo, you and I should go with you to meet Mrs. Ge." ”——

In the living room, Li Mo looked at the two beauties in front of him, and felt a little helpless for the first time.

The eldest seems to be twenty-four or five years old, with eyebrows and phoenix eyes, holding her hair in a bun, her temples are neatly combed, Tsing Yi is often dressed, and she is generous with her gestures, she is worthy of being the daughter of Hangzhou Tai Sui, everyone is full of style, no wonder she can be married to Mrs. Ru by her father-in-law.

As for the one standing beside her, the wind bun shows her sideburns, her eyebrows are lightly swept, her jade cheeks are pink, her skin is as delicate as warm jade, her cherry mouth is red and delicate, and her cheeks are gently brushed with the wind, adding a bit of seductive style, and her eyes are bright and sweep herself from time to time. Dressed in a light green long skirt, the waist is not full of hands, revealing the feeling of pity at first sight.

Li Mo really didn't expect her to come, and after seeing her at this moment, she couldn't help but feel a little dry. He didn't expect that this Fang Boqian's eldest daughter, that is, his daughter-in-law who had never passed through the door, would be born so beautiful, no less beautiful than Xiaoxiao and Yue'er. It's just that when they meet suddenly on this occasion, even if Young Master Li has practiced his cheeky magic skills to the point that the armor of the battleship is still thick, he can't help but feel a little cramped.

"Li Mo has seen Madame, and he has seen the eldest lady."

After being stunned for a long time, Li Mo remembered that he hadn't seen the salute yet, and hurriedly got up and bowed with Ai Ai's hand. The blind date, from the princes and nobles to the commoners' pawns, is estimated to behave similarly. Of course, those shameless people who take bullying men and women as their daily pleasure cannot be counted.

Young Master Li now has a big family, and he hasn't had time to do the things of bullying men and women, so he is naturally a little in a hurry, and after greeting him, he doesn't know whether to continue to sit down, or to stand and listen to his mother-in-law's teachings, so he has to turn his head pitifully and ask the old housekeeper behind him for help.

"Poof."

Seeing Li Mo's embarrassment, Mrs. Ge covered her mouth and chuckled, and immediately broke the strange atmosphere in the hall, worthy of being a person who came over, seeing the eldest young master's helpless appearance, she smiled slightly: "Xianqi, I haven't seen your brother Li yet." ”

Hearing her aunt's instructions, Fang Xianqi's face became more and more red, and she hurriedly took a few steps forward, and Shi Li said lightly: "Xianqi has seen the young master." ”

"What young master, you want to call Brother Li!" Mrs. Ge smiled and corrected her mistake.

"I've seen Brother Li." Fang Xianqi hurriedly called again, and then hid behind her aunt.

Seeing that the young master and his mother-in-law had finally finished greeting, Fu Bo sighed, and while secretly scolding himself that the young master was a little wooden in this regard, he hurriedly greeted: "Madam, young lady, please take a seat, the old man really didn't expect the two of them to come today, and the hospitality was not good, so I will go and ask someone to get some snacks." ”

"Fu Bo don't bother, I said that the concubine came here today, just to take Xianqi to recognize the door, and by the way, come to see my uncle and chat." Mrs. Ge said, her eyes slipped around Li Mo's body, wanting to see the reaction.

Li Mo smiled bitterly in his heart, it is worthy of Mrs. Ge, who can be respected by the whole of Beiyang in later generations, and shouts grievances for Fang Boqian, and blocked herself to a dead end in one sentence, obviously asking him to express his stance that the family affair set by Li Guotai back then is still counted.

glanced at Fang Xianqi, who was already blushing, but still raised her head and looked at herself nervously, only to see that the girl was tall and long, her face was delicate, and an elegant lady's temperament came to her face, standing there, like a peony.

"it!" Young Master Li swallowed in his heart: "Lord Wei's seven wives still had to steal incense and jade, and the young master is only three now!" Not excessive, right? "Young Master Li has already pulled all the women around him into the bowl.

Hurriedly said: "It's all because the little nephew is not good, I didn't go to see Mrs. and Miss earlier, so I caused the two to come in person, and I hope Mrs. and Miss will forgive their sins." ”

Although Li Mo didn't say it explicitly, Mrs. Ge is also a master of the seven tricks and exquisite hearts, hearing that there was no word denying in his words, he didn't understand what it meant, the corners of his mouth immediately curved up, Ying Ying smiled: "Uncle is a person who does big things, naturally he is not as idle as ordinary people, and there will be complaints about the concubine, and besides, this is the blessing that my family Xianqi has cultivated for several lifetimes, so that I can meet a character like my uncle, how can I be dissatisfied." ”

After Mrs. Ge finished speaking with a smile, she turned her head to look at Fang Xianqi beside her, and said, "If my uncle is willing, call me my aunt the same as Xianqi, Mrs. Ge, it sounds too outward." ”

"Yes, auntie." Li Mo sighed, facing this woman, it was even more of a headache than facing Emperor Yuben, he was not good at behaving Young Master Li at this moment, he felt like the gray wolf who was forced into the fire pit step by step by the Pleasant Goats.

Helpless!

Fortunately, at this time, the next person brought tea and snacks, which gave Young Master Li a chance to breathe.

Seeing Li Mo inhaling desperately on the side, looking nervous, Fang Xianqi, who was peeking out of the corner of her eye, suddenly covered her small mouth and almost laughed, she didn't expect that this young man, who is now in charge of a large area of the sea and is powerful in the eyes of others, actually has such a cute side.

Embarrassment! It was seen as miserable.

Young Master Li's eyes were the same as that of Miss Fang, one corner of his mouth suddenly bent down, but the other corner of his mouth curled up slightly. Suddenly, the curved red lips made Master Li angry and up, thinking, "If this little mouth ...... for himself." ”

"Wow Ka Ka Ka! It's wicked! The more Young Master Li thought about it, the more excited he became, and his eyes straightened.

Looking at where the little couple were flirting, Mrs. Ge suddenly giggled, her eyes rolled, and she hit the railroad while it was hot: "Uncle, in addition to Xianqi's matter, there is another matter that I want to discuss with you." ”

"Auntie still calls me Li Mo, that ...... I don't get used to it. There is something serious, Li Mo hurriedly withdrew his eyes and continued: "If there is something my aunt commands, just do it." ”

"Actually, it's nothing, it's mainly ......." Mrs. Ge looked at Li Mo for a long time, put away her smile, and bit her silver teeth before saying: "The concubine wants to ask you to see if you can arrange an errand for your father-in-law, the concubine sees that he has been sighing and depressed recently, and her heart is really uncomfortable, so she comes to beg you with a thick face, even if it is to let him go to the shipyard as a worker, do things and relax." ”

Fang Boqian's recent situation Li Mo also knows that since he told the secret in his heart, he seems to have completely changed his person, often mourning and complaining to himself, not at all like a ship's pipe belt that has stayed abroad and drunk foreign ink.

But to arrange an errand, it made it difficult for Li Mo, it is said that the best errand must be to go to the navy, but with Fang Boqian's desertion record, even if the soldiers don't say anything about Li Mo's face, I am afraid that they will look down on this former Beiyang captain in their hearts.

The rest is the Government Affairs Yuan, Li Enfu is indeed short of manpower, but Fang Boqian is not a management talent, not only can he not give full play to his expertise, but he will also be idle and wait for death, I am afraid it will only make the cheap "father-in-law" even more disappointed.

Where to go?

Li Mo frowned, Mrs. Ge and Fang Xianqi next to him also looked at him a little nervously, after seeing such a scene, the old housekeeper was exquisite, and hurriedly suggested: "Young master, it is better to arrange for your father-in-law to go to the shipyard." ”

"Shipyard?" Li Mo hesitated.

"Young master, have you forgotten? Didn't you allocate funds to build a warship last year? Now that the warship is almost completed, although Chen Ping also arranged for someone to check the quality there earlier, but this time, they were all transferred away, and now there is no full-time person in charge. Fu Bo continued to explain: "Although the old Futou doesn't know much about shipbuilding, Tang Xiao also told me not long ago that building a ship and using a ship are two different things, and it is best to have an experienced old man in the navy to check it, so as to ensure that the production equipment is out of touch, otherwise there will be a situation where the construction does not meet the needs."

But now the navy is expanding, urgently need to employ people, most of the experienced are busy on the ship, I think my father-in-law has also had experience on the ship, and I have fought with myself, I know what the officers and soldiers need, it is better to arrange a full-time inspector, not only to check the quality, but also to let the shipyard craftsmen, understand what the navy officers and soldiers want. ”

After Li Mo listened, his eyes lit up. At the beginning of last year, at the instigation of McKinson, in order to test the shipyard's capabilities, train its own ship designers, and test new ship types and various new equipment, the experimental ship that was specially allocated separately was indeed the last critical moment.

And Fauber is right, warships are not freighters, they must be built to meet the actual needs of the navy, and they must be checked by naval professionals.

Thinking of this, Li Mo immediately nodded and said, "Okay!" Fu Bo, you will go to Tang Xiao and Chen Ping in a while, and ask them to take out some manpower and set up a special team, in addition to being responsible for the supervision of naval orders, they can also check the quality of the shipyard, and let Fang ....... Li Mo paused, looked at Mrs. Ge, who was happy, and hurriedly changed his words: "Let my father-in-law be in charge of this matter." ”

"That's great, thank you for my lord." Seeing that Li Mo had made arrangements, Mrs. Ge's eyes turned a little red. To tell the truth, these people watched Fang Boqian grow haggard, she hadn't slept a peaceful night, and after hearing it at this moment, she naturally thanked her excitedly.

"Girl, don't thank you Brother Li." Mrs. Ge thanked herself, and did not forget to push Fang Xianqi beside her. Seeing that his father had landed, there was no need to sigh every time, Fang Xianqi was also very happy, and hurriedly got up to give a salute: "Xianqi is my father, thank you, Brother Li." ”

"It should be, it should be." Young Master Li touched his head, and was a little at a loss, so he hurriedly asked Fu Bo to entertain the two, got up and ran upstairs by himself, and walked down with two sets of brocade boxes soon after.

"A little bit of a gift, I hope my aunt and young lady like it."

"Giggle......." I thought that Li Mo was hiding in embarrassment, but when she saw the gift box, Mrs. Ge returned to her appearance just now, and said with a smile: "This is too polite, but it looks like a concubine specially brought a girl to the door to fight the autumn breeze." ”

"How so, my aunt laughed."

Seeing Fang Xianqi blushing and taking the gift box, Mrs. Ge's heart moved, and she hurriedly smiled: "Girl, don't open it yet, let's see what your brother Li has given you." ”

Fang Xianqi nodded hurriedly and lifted the lid of the box with a blushing face.

As the gift box opened, several people present opened their mouths wide, only to see a string of red blood coral bracelets lying quietly on the flannel at the bottom of the box, and each of the eighteen round and jade coral beads was the size of a thumb, emitting a faint red light in the light.

Mrs. Ge was born, and she knew that this bracelet was worth a lot of money at a glance, and the smile on the corner of her mouth became stronger, and she said: "Girl, do you know!" The heavier this gift, the heavier the person, don't let down your big brother Li's hard work. ”

When Fang Xianqi saw the bracelet, she was also slightly stunned, she didn't expect Li Mo to make such a valuable move, so frightened that she was ready to refuse politely, but when she heard her aunt's words, the rejection on her lips stopped, and her heart was sweet.

Unexpectedly, this Young Master Li still valued herself very much, so she hurriedly took out a pair of silk handkerchiefs that had already been prepared, and said shyly: "Brother Li, this is embroidered by the little sister herself, please don't dislike it." ”

"Oooh." Young Master Li hurriedly accepted the silk handkerchief like a goose, and suddenly a fragrance permeated from the silk handkerchief.

Seeing this scene, Fu Bo and Mrs. Ge next to them glanced at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.

This matter is finally settled! ……

(To be continued)