Zheng Haizhu raised his right hand and led Chongming County Cheng back, and said apologetically: "Let the second master listen to these terrible things." are all Liao people who have been soaked in bitter water for a long time, please take care of the second master. ”

Chongming County's face is full of justice and awe-inspiring.

"Where is Mrs. Zheng! Aren't the original intentions of our scholars to go to school and become officials to share worries for long life and make a life for the people? There is a difficulty in turning back, and the lady comes to the official. ”

As he spoke, his pace quickened a little.

He thought to himself, these Liao people are bitter, but after listening to a few words, he felt some happiness in the rich Jiangnan, and it was enough, where impatience really became the object of the mud legs' complaints.

Fortunately, this woman surnamed Zheng had good eyes and knew how to stop the noise of the Liao people, and sent him out respectfully.

After the county Cheng left, Wu Bangde, who went to give ginseng and mink to the homes of several parents in Chongming, also returned.

Zheng Haizhu asked him to gather the Liao people in front of the largest grass hut.

More than 100 Liao people, and the number of people in the two classes of the middle school in the later generations, stood in front of them, far from the pomp of "black pressure on a large area".

But a spark can start a prairie fire.

Zheng Haizhu went from Wusongkou to Chongming, listening to Wu Bangde's report and observing during the voyage.

She was generally satisfied with the personnel structure of Liaomin.

Shan Ding is the majority, just like the big brother who was moved and cried at the beginning. After all, in a miserable and masochistic environment, it is more difficult for the elderly, children, women and children to survive and escape, and even if possible, the family will have the belief to stay rooted and leave the hope of life to the youngest and strongest men.

But in this first batch of "sparks", Wu Bond also recruited ten families with female rolls and dolls. According to Zheng Haizhu's explanation to him, when fleeing, the men who can bring out the women and children are not only men with conscience, but also have survival skills and mental level, which are often better than those of the same sex, and can be used as key training objects.

Moreover, this group of immigrants is different from the group of slender men three years ago, they arrived at Chongming Island to reclaim, and it is not as prosperous and mature as Songjiang. Only by having women in the immigrant group can a decent community be managed in a short period of time, with a sense of security to the outside world, it is easier to attract local poor women to marry in.

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu walked up to a Liao family.

The offspring is not tall or strong, but looking at the hardened stubble and the protruding Adam's apple, Zheng Haizhu estimated that he would always be seventeen or eighteen years old. The girl next to her is about twelve or thirteen years old, and her facial features are very similar to those of her descendants.

"The two of them are brother and sister, both of them escaped from Huajiatun outside Kuandian Pass, the elder brother is called Hua Da, and the younger sister is called Hua Er." Wu Bangde said to Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu nodded, glanced at something like a wooden handle in the girl's hand, and asked curiously, "What is this?" ”

The skinny flower is two, but the eyes are bright and bright.

As soon as she opened her mouth, her words were clear.

"Back to Madame, this is the drum of grafting."

Zheng Haizhu smiled kindly: "Oh, I said how familiar, it's the handle that shakes the cotton gin, and we all graft cotton here in Songjiang." Child, you are traveling for a long time, why are you carrying this? ”

"This is for my mother, I keep this, I feel that my mother is still there, and I am teaching me hand in hand."

Zheng Haizhu's heart was sudden, but Hua Er didn't howl like the Liao compatriot just now, but looked around, pointed to a young man and said, "He still has a kite crutch, his father can make kites." ”

The young man didn't rush to behave, he just looked at Hua Er innocently, and on the hemp rope around his waist, there was indeed a wooden pole wrapped around the kite string.

Zheng Haizhu Chonghua said: "Turn back and the textile machine is transported from Songjiang, you just load your mother's roller, it must be easy." ”

Hua Er nodded vigorously.

Zheng Haizhu walked back to the front of the crowd and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, I used to stay in Liaodong, and the big iron cannon that Fushun beat the Tartars was transported by us. Of course, I know the hardships that my people have endured in the hands of the Tartars. Now, I don't have the ability to take Houjin's lair, so I can only discuss with Mr. Wu and pull more villagers out of the fire pit. Let's live a good life here and continue the incense. ”

All the Liao people bowed their hands and thanked them, and words like "the great grace of the female bodhisattva" came and went.

Zheng Haizhu did not have the slightest fluttering feeling of being called by the mountains.

She swept her gaze over those faces, and once again made sure that the eyes of most of the middle-aged men looking at her were different from the eyes they had when they saw Huang Zunsu in official robes at the dock before.

Historically, the peasants who have not been cornered are still afraid of officials and soldiers, and will not be afraid of a woman who is just giving life to her.

But the purpose of recruiting people to Chongming is not to stay at the level of charity. While he sincerely sympathizes with the Liao people, he wants to establish authority in front of them.

Zheng Haizhu knows very well that to win the trust of scholars and doctors like Zhang Quan, Shang Zhouzuo, and the Zhang brothers, he relies on the insight from God's perspective; Shen friends Yan Siqi and Ma Xianglin are heroes of the rivers and seas, and they are warriors on the battlefield, and they are rubbing the opportunity of Bai Yueguang's dividends or bandits' nests; Zheng Zhilong, Wu Bangde and others maintain a degree of adhesion with themselves because of the experience of starting a business together.

But for these peasants from the lowest level of the world, all of the above is useless.

The more Zheng Haizhu can't be as powerful as Qin Liangyu and can lead them into battle to kill, the more she must emphasize her official identity, otherwise, the more Liao people she recruits, the more she can't suppress it.

Zheng Haizhu then made a gesture, asked everyone to be silent, and continued: "Don't forget, folks, you can come here to Tuntian because the imperial court treats me in the name of a meritorious hero and gives me a six-grade edict. The general judge of Songjiang Mansion, as well as the eldest and second masters in the county here, you have all seen how well they are settled today. Even so, I also want to take the big guys to protect the peace of this place. It's February now, which coincides with the spring plowing season in the south of the Yangtze River. After this period of busyness, each household will send people to participate in the drill. Here near the sea, the bandits are noisy, no softer than the Tartars. ”

"Cheng, Cheng, we all listen to the female Bodhisattva." A Liao Min in the front row, who looked quite old, responded.

Zheng Haizhu stared at him: "Don't call me a female bodhisattva, those rich and noble families in Songjiang City who come out to give porridge are female bodhisattvas." Call me Mrs. Zheng. ”

"Oh...... Madame, no wonder, no wonder. The Liao people touched their brains and sneered.

In the crowd, the girl Hua Er and her brother murmured: "I have said that there is an official grade, how can I still call a female Bodhisattva." ”

Hua Da looked at his sister and said ignorantly: "Why can't you shout?" Those old men in official uniforms, don't we also shout Qingtian? ”

Hua Er no longer explained to his brother, just rubbed the wooden crank in his hand, and silently spoke to his heavenly mother: "Mother, my brother and I have survived to this ...... What's this called, oh, it's called Chongming Island. ”

……

"Dad, Mom, are you alright?"

At dusk, Zheng Haizhu sat on the stone in front of the thatched hut, raising her eyes to look at the magnificent sunset on the sea in the distance, thinking of her parents in another time and space.

Since the forty-second year of Wanli, it has been six years since my soul penetrated into this world.

Eight years after graduating from the History and Geography Institute of 985 College, with a deposit of 8,000, he was unmarried at an older age, his career was unstable, he made a living by receiving manuscripts irregularly, and he was once able to get a settlement price of 308 per thousand words, and finally died suddenly due to an all-night rush, enjoying Chinese New Year's Eve three years and three months and eight days.

It is said that if a woman is afraid of being scolded by an old woman after the age of thirty, she will die, because in this case, people around her will comment: "Look at that person, who is only in his thirties, he died at a young age." ”

Zheng Haizhu can imagine that in the context of being a representative of sudden death in modern society, I am afraid that she has been burned to ashes for several weeks, and there are still people who will analyze this woman's failed life from all angles and sigh for a long time.

But this kind of imagination is nothing more than fleeting self-deprecation. The only thing that can keep a daughter awake at night is the concern for her elderly parents.

Mom and Dad have never put pressure on themselves by worldly standards of success. The most common thing they say is: "Eat less takeout and sleep more." ”

I don't know how they have survived in the past six years.

Zheng Haizhu turned her gaze to the south side of the beach. She remembers that in the afterlife, there would be many homestays. Once, she met a kind company, took an extra 1,000 yuan in manuscript fees, and took her parents to Chongming Island to live in a homestay for two days.

"What's wrong?"

Wu Bangde walked over, handed Zheng Haizhu porridge and steamed buns, and asked while looking at her face.

Zheng Haizhu rubbed his eyes, then took the porridge bowl and wrote lightly: "It's nothing, the island is windy and sandy." ”

He asked again: "How much rice did you use to make porridge today?" ”

Wu Bangde sat down, took a bite of the steamed bun and said: "These days, they are all on a boat, they don't work, their physical strength is not much, and they have steamed buns with them, so this porridge is enough for half a stone." ”

Zheng Haizhu estimated: "Later, the farmers are busy going to the field, and a hundred men and twenty or thirty female dolls will get three taels of silver a day, and they will get a hundred taels of dry rice for a month." ”

Wu Bangde said: "The land has not been completed yet, and it should be better by the end of the year." By the way, when I followed the errand officer to give gifts today, I saw that there was a rice shop next to the county office, and when I asked, it was indeed opened by a relative of the county order. Each stone is more expensive than Matsue for a penny of silver. ”

"Buy, you have to buy it for two dollars," Zheng Haizhu said without hesitation, "and salt." When you go back, you say hello to the second master, and say that we will try to boil some salt by ourselves, after all, it is close to the sea. But it will never be shipped to the county to sell, and it will not rob the old man's business. ”

Wu Bangde knew this, and he would determine the leader of Liaomin's team, ask instructors from Zhenjiang Qijiajun for drills, and select a few clever ones to enter the intelligence station system, and discuss all other matters with Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu said sincerely: "An official went to Japan to marry a daughter-in-law, Shoukuan was in charge of the Zhenjiang Trading Company, and he was going to start a family after a while. You, you have to help me in Chongming for two years. ”

Wu Bangde still had a peaceful expression: "I will." ”

As he spoke, he handed over a red and blue velvet sweat towel: "Clean, it's from the Han family's handkerchief that you sent to the county officials today." ”

Zheng Haizhu was a little embarrassed.

She was not a sloppy person, but she had been running around a lot all these years, and some of the subtleties were not as good as men, such as having a veil stuffed on her body at all times.

It is estimated that when I ate two meals today, I wiped my mouth with my sleeve several times, and the careful Wu Bureau seat of the Intelligence Bureau really couldn't stand it.

Zheng Haizhu Yangzuo calmly took the sweat towel, wiped his mouth, and said with a smile: "I'm ashamed, it's not as good as you." ”

When she said the word "exquisite", she suddenly realized that Wu Bangde's clothes today seemed to have a faint smell of fresh pancreas.

How did you do it after taking a boat for more than ten days?

In fact, this smell is not unfamiliar. Zheng Haizhu remembers that when she first dealt with Ma Xianglin in the bandits' den, she smelled this kind of soapy water mixed with masculine smell.

In the days that followed, if you want to say that the man who is often close to him in terms of distance, it is really Wu Bangde.

Zheng Haizhu does not shy away from examining the erotic part of her modern soul.

Crossing over here, she asked herself if she had no love, but it was impossible for her desire to disappear.

After all, even at the end of the Ming Dynasty in this world, the gradually civilized atmosphere will give birth to many literary works that dare to express their desires.

When Wu Bangde showed that he sacrificed his lover to heaven by not marrying, Zheng Haizhu did not have the idea of taking the other party as his partner in simple desire. Anyway, everyone is ready to be celibate for a lifetime.

But the other party is an ancient man after all, don't scare him, it's a pity to lose such a powerful arm in his career.

When Zheng Haizhu was a little confused, Wu Bangde continued to say in a calm tone: "Zhenjiang Station, Liaodong, and the trading company in Yanzhou, our intelligence officers are all staked, and they will not be wasted. Needless to say, Li Daniu has never been stupid again. In the month of Layue, King Lu and His Royal Highness went to sacrifice Kong, and the incense sect wanted to take revenge by assassination, which was the first to be discovered by jujube flowers. ”

"Oh? How was it discovered? Zheng Haizhu rolled up the handkerchief and asked.

She saw that the candles had become much thicker than usual, and she saw one of the principals of the Confucian Mansion and walked to the backyard. Do you think, the steward of the Yansheng Mansion, like the long history of the palace, at this time, they are all rushing to the front to show their faces, why are they still hiding? As a result, there was gunpowder in the candle, and the principal wanted to run away after changing the candle. ”

Zheng Haizhu said admittedly: "No one is perfect, jujube flowers are indeed useful, her wit and decisiveness, what she didn't say, can be calmer than before, it's good." ”

Wu Bangde's tone suddenly softened: "Miss Zheng, there are some things that I can't talk to Zaohua as a rough man, so you have to take the time to ask her if you want to marry." She passed twenty last year, and if she wants to get married, we will give her a dowry and let the matchmaker find a good family. ”

Zheng Haizhu said in his heart, who do you want to marry, haven't you counted?

Even if the prince has a noble stomach, in her eyes, I'm afraid that it is not worthy of your Wu Gongzi's shoes.

But she finally swallowed what she wanted to say, and responded: "Okay, when Chongming's stall is settled, I will go to Yanzhou, visit His Royal Highness, see the people you transport to the coal mine, and ask Zaohua about this matter by the way." ”

After Zheng Haizhu drank the porridge, he was about to get up to see how the Liao people were settled, but he saw a mule cart parked not far away.

Barely enough to stop the car when a woman in a homespun shirt jumped out of the car and rushed over.