Sea cucumber, dried razor clams, dried shrimp, kelp, dried shrimp, dried scallop meat......

Xu Ling buys a variety of things, and he buys whatever the people in the village sell, because the price is not low, and many people sell everything they have hoarded at home to him in one go.

"These things are all on the seaside, we don't lack them, if you still have cloth and medicinal materials, just ask us to exchange them!"

It was not the same as Xu Ling originally thought, he thought that the weather in Yazhou was suitable, and the cultivated land should be two or even three crops a year, and it was unlikely that there would be a shortage of food.

But when I came here, I realized that most of the cultivated land near the sea was saline-alkali land, which was not suitable for growing grain at all.

As for why the island was not reclaimed, it was naturally because of the harsh living environment, lack of tools, lack of medicine, and lack of manpower.

On the contrary, there are local indigenous people who can enter the jungle, but these outsiders can only live by the sea and eat the sea.

Although it is not starving to death, there is also a sense of disconnection.

Knowing that Xu Ling was a merchant, they were willing to barter for things instead of asking for useless money.

Xu Ling wrote down the requirements of the people in the village, but fortunately he still had stock in the space, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to meet these people.

Xu Ling exchanged hundreds of catties of sun-dried kelp from this village, as well as other dry goods of varying weights.

In addition to these seafood, Xu Ling also wanted to buy some spice wood, but he never knew where to start.

Someone suddenly found him on the way and invited him to his home to do a trade, Xu Ling followed, and the man took Xu Ling to his house, opened a large vat, revealing most of the coarse sea salt.

Xu Ling's eyes widened suddenly.

The man hurriedly said: "These are sea salts, I dried them myself, do you want to collect them?" ”

In addition to seafood, there is no shortage of salt on the seaside.

It's just that the imperial court strictly forbade the smuggling of salt and iron by the people.

But this bit of salt is not a crime for Xu Ling at all.

"What do you want?"

The man was even more nervous than him, and stammered: "I want silver, you see how much silver this salt can give me, I want to marry Cuicui as my daughter-in-law." ”

Xu Ling was dumbfounded, the price of official salt has always fluctuated greatly, sometimes dozens of wen a catty, sometimes between one hundred and fifty and four hundred wen, this half of the pot of salt, at least fifty or sixty catties.

"Fifteen taels of silver, do you sell it or not?"

The man hesitated, "Is this more or less?" In your Quanzhou. ”

"Nothing more, nothing less, about enough for a family's expenses for a year."

"What if we build a house with you? How much does it cost? ”

Xu Ling had a guess in his heart, but he wasn't quite sure. Just said honestly: "It depends on what kind of yard you want to live in, if the environment is better, it will cost seventy or eighty taels to buy it, if you build it yourself in the countryside, do you have an ancestral house?" ”

"I ...... I should have, right? The man bowed his head hesitantly, "Is that enough?" ”

"Not enough."

"Will you come back then?"

"What's your name?"

"Ye Xiaozhou," the man shouldn't be very old, but the long-term sun exposure made him look a little rough, just like Cuicui's father, looking much older than his real age.

A smile appeared at the corner of Xu Ling's mouth: "Cuicui just asked me for two or one pieces of cloth." ”

"What, what?" Ning Xiaozhou raised his head suddenly, his dark eyes full of joy.

"Maybe it's going to make clothes for her father."

Xu Ling watched the surprise in his eyes slowly fade, and there was some grievance on his face.

Only then did he put away his bad taste and answer his question.

"I want as much sea salt as you dried. I will come back. ”

Ning Xiaozhou looked old-fashioned, still a little childish when he smiled, and nodded one after another.

Xu Ling gave him a silver coin and put the salt in a cloth bag, so he asked Bao Li and others to come in and carry the things away.

Xu Ling only went to two villages, and spent all the goods he brought and the only silver money he had left, and replaced them with a full load of goods pulled on the cart and carried by people.

Seeing the sunset gradually disappearing into the sea, Xu Ling ordered: "Let's go back to the ship." ”

A few people returned to the ship and put the cargo in the cabin, which only occupied six cabins.

Small sea ships and large ships can not be compared, the room is relatively small, of course, the price is much cheaper, used to store goods to hide people's eyes and ears.

After Xu Ling finished the deal, he didn't have the heart to continue to stay in Yazhou, so he asked Bao Li and others to go to Yizhuang to move the coffin to the boat, and the group left Yazhou overnight.

It's not that Xu Ling is particularly anxious, it's just that the weather in Yazhou is too hot, and he is afraid that Bao Dazhuang's body will not be easy to store.

It's very pitiful to die in a foreign land, but if you return home and become unrecognizable to your parents, wouldn't it be even more uncomfortable?

That night, Xu Ling arranged for Bao Li and several people to take turns to keep an eye on the ship's course, while he himself entered the cabin to rest.

Xu Ling bolted the door, the lounge space was not large, he sat on the bed, took out a dagger from the space, and the unsheathed blade flashed a silver light in the darkness.

Xu Ling put the dagger at the head of the bed to make sure that he could catch it as soon as possible, and then he lay on the couch with his eyes closed.

Falling asleep in a daze, I don't know how long later, Xu Ling suddenly heard the sound of the door being pried, he suddenly became awake, took the dagger, and lay there motionless.

"What are you doing here!" In the middle of the night, when Bao Li was about to go up, he found that two fellow villagers were prying Xu Ling's door, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and scolded in a low voice.

"Bao Li, you're here just in time, kick this door open!"

"You're crazy!?" Bao Li stepped forward and dragged the two away from the door of Xu Lingfang, "What are you going to do!" ”

In Bao Li's skeptical eyes, the other two stiffened their necks and said, "Don't you want to make more money?" I'm also for the sake of being strong, and he died too badly! ”

"That's it! This person deceived Gu Hong, and also deceived us, and let him take advantage of any advantage! Anyway, he only has one person, there are four of us, kill him, and the cargo on this ship is ours! No one else will know! ”

"Fuck! You guys are really ......" Bao Li's temples were puffed up and his fists were clenched, as if he had just met these two fellow countrymen, "Are you still human?" If he hadn't helped us, we wouldn't even have paid for Da Zhuang's funeral! ”

The two of them flashed with weakness in their eyes, but they still stubbornly said: "We are also for the sake of Da Zhuang......"

"Fuck you! Iron Bull, you pat your chest and say, are you for the big strong or for yourself? ”

Bao Li was heartbroken, when he begged for justice for Da Zhuang today, these two people were silent, but now after Xu Ling solved the matter for them, they actually had such a bad heart!

"What if we do it for our own sake? Could it be that you really want to sell yourself to him and give him no money to be a cow and a horse? ”

"Bao Li, if you don't say it, we won't say it, who knows if he dies on the sea? When the time comes, we will divide the money, and you can also take care of your wife at home! ”

Xu Ling held the dagger in his hand and leaned quietly against the wooden wall, his eyes looking at the void in the darkness. He listened to the faint sound of the quarrel outside, and was not surprised at all.

That's right, in this vast sea, even if a few villains really die, no one will know, right?