I haven't seen her for more than a year, but the little girl has not only grown a lot taller, but also missing a few teeth, which looks cute and funny.

"Gongsun Hao!"

The little girl trotted into the courtyard, waving at him as she ran, smiling happily, revealing her now jagged teeth, and with great enthusiasm.

Gongsun Hao had never seen a little girl smile like this at this sensitive time, watching her dress up as a boy, and while stepping forward, he quipped:

"If you change into men's clothes, don't you really think of yourself as a boy?"

Xu Yue laughed, knowing that he was making fun of his teeth, shrugged his shoulders, and said generously: "No way, this is the growing pain, I still wish it would fall out soon, and let me grow good teeth again." ”

The original body is malnourished all year round, and there is no awareness of oral hygiene, and the teeth are actually quite unhealthy.

Now that she has changed it, she will be able to have a healthy tooth after the change.

Gongsun Hao saw that she was not embarrassed at all, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "She is worthy of being a woman of the Xu family, just like your father, don't be cheeky." ”

"What, how did my dad offend you?" Xu Yue crossed her arms and stared at the middle-aged man in front of her with a dangerous gaze, looking like a calf protector.

Gongsun Hao was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand, no longer joking, and pointed to the bag in the pavilion and said:

"The time is too short, the rice seeds in the south can only be collected for the time being, if you want it in the future, I will ask someone to bring it for you."

Xu Yue looked at the bulging burlap bag, hurriedly ran over, glanced at Gongsun Hao first, saw him bowed, and immediately opened the bag.

The rice seeds collected from all over the country were divided into small bags and packed in burlap bags, Xu Yue poured them out and counted them, there were eleven small packets.

Gongsun Hao explained: "I don't know if it's the same rice seed, but it's all harvested from different places, so there should be some differences. ”

"That's right." He pointed to the fenced vegetable patch in the corner of the yard, "What's growing there?" ”

"I don't know." Xu Yue opened her eyes and said nonsense, "It's just a seed that I bought, and I don't know what it is until it grows up." ”

How could Gongsun Hao not see her perfunctory? The sensible one didn't ask any more.

"Okay, put aside the rice seeds in advance, and say, what do you want to do?"

Gongsun Hao lifted his robe and knelt down on the cushion, followed by Wang and Xu Yue glanced at each other, and the mother and daughter also sat down opposite him.

Wang has never liked to waste time talking nonsense, so he asked:

"Can your ship go to sea?"

Sea?

Gongsun Hao looked serious, "First Qi, the first emperor ordered craftsmen to build a big ship that could go to sea, but it was only from the East China Sea to Liuli Island, and then what happened to this big ship, but no one knows anymore."

"So far, for hundreds of years, the boats built by the boatmen have been faster and stronger than the previous dynasty, but the farthest distance is only from Xuzhou into the Yangtze River to Jingzhou.

Therefore, although their boat takes the sea route, it can only go from Yuyang to the Bohai Sea.

No matter how far away it is, firstly, there is no shipping route, and secondly, if it encounters a storm at sea, the hull cannot resist it at all, and the risk of death is too high.

"I thought about taking the sea route from Youzhou to Jiangdong generation, so that more goods could be transported and the speed was faster, but no one could guess the risks at sea, and the ship built by the shipwright could not go against the wind, so it was shelved." Gongsun Hao said regretfully.

Xu Yue asked, "What if there is such a ship?" ”

Gongsun Hao shook his head, looking like you were still too young after all, and explained: "You can't just identify the direction. ”

"The sea is not like the land, there are guiding inscriptions or markers to identify the direction, in the vast sea, looking around is full of seawater, you can't distinguish the direction at all, this is a dead end!"

Xu Yue and A-Niang glanced at each other, Wang hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled shallowly, and suddenly took out a palm-sized round object from his sleeve, with a pointer on it, and some strange symbols marked on the dial.

"What is this?" Gongsun Hao asked curiously.

Wang put the compass in front of Gongsun Hao, did not rush to explain, but asked Gongsun Hao to look at the red arrow on the compass, and then turned the dial.

But I saw that the red arrow, no matter what direction the dial turned, it would point to the north.

Looking at Gongsun Hao's surprised look, Xu Yue thought of the surprised look that when A-Niang took the compass in front of her, she looked surprised that she had never seen the world.

That appearance is not exactly the same as Gongsun Hao's current expression, but it is also eight points similar.

But the difference is that she was surprised that A-Niang actually made a compass, while Gongsun Hao was surprised that there was such a thing in this world.

Originally, Xu Yue also planned to exchange the energy fruit for a compass, but after A-Niang found out, she said that she could do this thing, so that she wouldn't waste the energy fruit.

Thus, this compass appeared.

The magnet is very difficult to find, but fortunately, with Xu Dazai, relying on his current identity, as long as the news is released, there are more family gentry who want to tie up to help him send what he wants.

There are very few people who know how good the magnet is, and most of them get it by accident, and take it as a rare ornament, and take it out to show off with friends when they have the opportunity, and they don't care what kind of role it can play.

But because of this, the number is pitiful, the whole Youzhou is so big, Xu Da got back two small pieces.

However, for Wang, two small pieces are completely sufficient.

Thus, the compass was born.

After Wang explained the usage of the compass to Gongsun Hao, Gongsun Hao was silent, he had already guessed that the Xu family must have something unusual to say when they invited him over.

Or envelop him and let him support Gongsun Zhan.

Or want him to abandon business and return to the military for the use of Gongsun Zhan.

In short, Gongsun Hao thought of many possibilities, but in fact, he guessed all wrong.

The mother and daughter in front of him are very different from Xu, they don't want to assist Gongsun Zhan.

Gongsun Hao was a little confused, Xu Da and the mother and daughter were a family, right?

Why does it seem that the mother and daughter and Xu Da are not on the same position?

The mother and daughter are so well prepared, I'm afraid that even the drawings of the sea ship are ready, what are they going to do?

This man, who has traveled south and north and fought for half his life, is rarely confused.

Xu Yue and A-Niang glanced at each other, looked at the confused middle-aged man in front of them, silently took out the sailboat drawings again, and pushed them in front of Gongsun Hao with the compass.

"The first five-year plan, shipbuilding, taking ports, taking the state, opening up the wasteland and growing grain! Gongsun Hao, are you going to get on the boat? ”

Gongsun Hao flipped through the drawings of the sailboat, shocked and bitter.

Does he still have the option of getting off the boat now?

Where does this family want to assist Gongsun Zhan and be a very popular minister?

He suspected that what they wanted was the world!