Fenglin Tianxia – Queen with a Thousand Pets

Update time 2014-12-1418:41:38 Words: 5596

"Girl, have you chosen a sailor?" Zheng Xi couldn't help asking after walking silently for a while.

"No." Ling Qingyu replied very simply, turning his head to smile at Zheng Xi, and said: "So tomorrow we will go to the street to find someone."

"Go to the street to find?" Zheng Xi was a little dazed, although there are sailors walking on Quanzhou Street, is the eldest lady going to arrest people? Catch one?

"When I went to the shipyard a few days ago, I saw a lot of people on the Yongding Bridge looking for work."

"Yongding Bridge? Is that a place to find part-time workers? Not a sailor?"

"Didn't you say that you only need to be strong and obedient? We pay wages instead of part-time jobs?"

Early the next morning, Ling Qingyu and Zheng Xi arrived at Yongding Bridge.

The summer in Quanzhou is very hot. Most of the people gathered on the bridge are dressed casually on their shoulders, and some are simply shirtless. Some of these people live on part-time jobs, but most of them come from the north. For the refugees, the area around Henan Road in the north has been drought for three consecutive years. In some places, there was no harvest, and a large number of people fled. It's just that the Fujian Road area was originally full of mountains and land, and could not accommodate so many people, so most of them became refugees.

When Ling Qingyu arrived at the shipyard, he saw that Wu Dayou hired many woodworkers from the north. They were cheap and able to bear hardships. He had long thought of these cheap labor.

"My boss, do you want a part-time job? I have enough strength to choose me! As long as twenty writings a day."

"The boss chose me. You see that I am much stronger than him. I was right."

"As the owner, I know how to make crafts. Do you want a plasterer?"

Seeing someone coming, people who were lying together or gathering together by leisure, they rushed up, and tried their best to recommend themselves to the people, so that they can get a job that can protect the family for a day.

"Don't worry, don't worry," Zheng Xi blocked all the hands that crawled on him. He is not a woman, and being crowded by so many men to grab the left and right is really not his good, I can't stop him. So he yelled: "Stop it all! Our boss wants a lot of people this time, 20 strong laborers, 100 cents a day, to be a sailor on a sea-going ship!"

The ridicule suddenly quieted down, and then various whispers sounded again.

"It's going to sea, it's a lifetime of nine deaths, maybe you can't come back."

"I have a family and a mouth, and it's over when I die."

"But a hundred essays a day, come there to find such a good thing?"

"We don't know how to swim at all, isn't this just a death to board?"

Ling Qingyu listened to the fine voices in the crowd, but no one stood up and said to go, beckoning Zheng Xi to come over, and whispered something in his ear.

Zheng Xi nodded, shook his clothes, walked to the stone in the middle, and said: "The owner said, this time going to sea will take more than three months. If you are willing to sign, you will be given a lump sum of gold and ten taels of silver. Okay, after you come back, you can double your wages. After you pass this village, there will be no shops. There are only twenty people, and they need to be healthy and strong enough."

The discussion in the crowd became louder, and Ling Qingyu was not in a hurry, so he simply found a big tree next to him and sat down on the rock under the tree.

At the end of the Yongding Bridge, there is a bridge hole in the past. You can't see the inside from the outside, but you can see the movement outside.

There were several big men sitting in twos and threes in the cave, headed by one person, naked, leaning against the rock wall with roots in his mouth, and looking at Zheng Xi who was standing on the middle stone, his eyes turned to the old god. Sitting under the tree, looking at the scenery from the left and watching the drama with a leisurely attitude, only a woman pretending to be a man without a cup of tea. The woman was dressed in a cyan men's gown, her hair was in a bun on top of her head, a wooden hairpin was inserted, a big pie face, and there were a lot of freckles and pimples on her face. Her figure was not like a normal girl, but tall and strong. If it weren't for the slight bumps on the chest under the summer blue shirt, it would be really not so easy to judge whether it was a male or a female.

"The ship that Lao Shan and the others went to repair during this time seems to be a female owner?" Gu Sui spit out thatch and asked Zhang Dahu next to him.

"Yes, I heard that it was the only daughter of a Haishang named Lin who died at sea earlier. She set up a female household by herself and changed her surname to Ling. Lao Shan and they came back last night and said that they had led the ship to sea. Boss Ding was tricked by someone and broke his leg. Most of the sailors were afraid and withdrew. They didn't know if the ship could go out. Fortunately, the owner was kind and the money was settled every day, and they gave it well. Saved some money." Zhang Dahu said.

"I listened to the old single, that boat is good?"

"That's, the old single keeps saying that although he has never built a ship, whether it is made of materials or workmanship, it is a top-quality ship. It is big and he is not afraid of waves, no matter how big the waves are. I can’t turn it over. It’s okay if I don’t know how to swim. If it’s not for Boss Ding and the others, they already have their own sailors, and the old singles want to go to sea with them. Hey, boss, what do you mean?"

Gu Sui stood up, lowered his head and walked out of the bridge hole, patted the dirt on his body, thinking about it, he should put on the shirt that was almost rotten into cloth strips and walked towards Ling Qingyu.

"Master Ling?"

Ling Qingyu was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that he was shouting. When he turned around, he saw only a pair of mud legs, trouser legs rolled onto his knees, and a pair of old straw sandals on his muddy feet. Then I looked up, and then looked up again. I only felt that my neck was twisted a bit before I saw a face. Because Gu Sui was lowering his head, the sun was shining diagonally from the top of his head, and his face was hidden in the shadows. In this way, the sharp and masculine face still made Ling Qingyu blind.

Ling Qingyu stood up unconsciously, but after standing up, he realized that he was still going to raise his head and his neck was sore. Isn't this man 1.9 meters? !

Seeing Ling Qingyu raising his head up like a cockfight about to end, Gu Sui laughed and said, "What happened to Master Ling?"

Ling Qingyu coughed and said in his heart, Ling Qingyu, you are not a little girl, you are already the aunt of Ben Si, who has never seen a man, it is not the same if you take off your clothes! Thinking of undressing, his eyes flashed on the unclothed body of the man in front of him. The man was tall and of good figure. There was no trace of fat in the exposed area, and the beautiful stripes of muscles bulged under the brown skin. Ling Qingyu didn't realize that he was famous. Roman statue tossers.

"Sit," Ling Qingyu calmed his mind and sat down on the rock again, patted the rock next to him at the same time, beckoning him to sit down.

Gu Sui did not sit on the rock, but directly sat on the ground.

Well, Ling Qingyu gave a secret compliment in his heart, expressing satisfaction that the two of them can finally look straight now, and smiled: "I don't know how many people this big brother can take on board?"

"There are nine brothers in total, and three of them are repairing your ship at the shipyard. However, we are on the ship, hoping to earn six taels of silver for one month’s wages, and give a deposit of twenty taels of silver before boarding.” Gu Sui said, casually. With the uprooted thatch in her mouth, this woman surnamed Ling looks young, but she seems to be a smart person. It is easier to do things with smart people. After seeing Ling Qingyu looking at herself, she looked at the brothers scattered around again. The look in his eyes was actually correct, and the smile deepened.

Ling Qingyu touched his chin. This big man, and the others around him, are all tall and strong. They seem to have good strength, but their complexion is not very good. They are probably malnourished, although they are all shabby with clothes. But they still have a kind of aura, these people are not ordinary people. When going to sea in the future, whether these people will produce some moths, she is really not sure to control them, but based on the current situation, these people are the best shakers, strong, and seem to be trained.

"Yes, big brother, if I want to, I want to hire you as the team leader. In addition to the wages, you can also get dividends after the ship returns, eh," Ling Qingyu took out three hundred taels of silver notes from his purse and handed them to Gu Sui. Said: "In addition to the deposit, this one hundred tael, count as I lent you, you can buy some goods by yourself and take them overseas for sale."

Gu Sui was taken aback for a moment, holding the silver ticket in her hand, and smiling slightly, "Does the Ling master's family be afraid that I will run away with the silver ticket?"

"You are not this kind of person," Ling Qingyu said, staring at him, then shrugged, and said: "If you run away, it's because I don't know people well and I don't have any eyesight, so I have to recognize it."

"Hahaha," Gu Sui laughed and said, "The little girl is good, okay, I will write a contract for you, Gu Sui."

Zheng Xi came with a ready-made contract, but when he heard Gu Sui's salary, he looked at Ling Qingyu unconsciously, but saw that no one else came up except Gu Sui and this group. People seem to be tall and big, and one is worth two, so I had to reluctantly change the wages on the deed, and then ask Gu Sui and others to put their fingerprints on, and this person would be hired.

"Master Ling," Gu Sui wiped the ink pad from his hand, and handed a hundred taels of silver notes to Ling Qingyu: "Gu Sui is a rough person, and he doesn't know what goods to make money. It's better for Master Ling to help me buy it together. Right."

Ling Qingyu was very speechless. A hundred taels of silver goods, after a turnaround, came back with a thousand taels of silver. This is a great advantage for the sailor. Besides, she had borrowed the silver from him. I didn’t expect. Do you even have to do it yourself? Isn't this too much of a fool? However, after glancing over Gu Sui and the others, Ling Qingyu was silent again. This world is the most inferior to people. In their capacity, this way, even if you take the money to buy, people are afraid that it will be the source of the money. unknown.

"Okay," Ling Qingyu took the bank note and said again; "I asked Zheng Xi to exchange it for you with a small bank note or cash?"

"Then trouble Master Ling." Gu Sui gave a formal salute.

Ling Qingyu saw his polite gesture and manners, smiled lightly, and left with Zheng Xi.

"Big Brother Gu," a young girl hurried over, seeing the contract book Gu Sui was holding, she said in a hurry: "Big Brother Gu, I'm going to pay it back soon. How can you go to sea? How can you do such a dangerous thing without answering, if something happens to you, what do you ask my mother and me to do?."

"Miss Mei," Gu Sui stopped her, holding her hand and blocking the girl's body, and said lightly: "This time our brother's deposit will be enough for you and the old man after paying the balance of the yard. For people’s needs in life, I think Brother Mei should be able to find him in some time, and then your family will naturally be reunited."

After Gu Sui finished speaking, he left on his own.

Mei Hong wanted to catch up and persuade again, but was blocked by Zhang Dahu.

Zhang Dahu smiled and said, "Miss Mei, please come back, it's too dirty here, don't stain your eyes."

Mei Hong stomped her feet and said, "I'll talk to my mother."

When Mei Hong's figure ran away, Zhang Dahu took a sip and said, "Who is it!"

"Three hundred taels!" Zheng Xi was heartbroken and muttered: "Girl, you are also generous, even if they are strong enough, they can't really top two by one. Then you have improved the cabin, now only Thirty seats, but there are always thirty people, isn’t it? This budget is cut off most of the time, what about twenty-one people?"

Ling Qingyu stopped suddenly and asked Zheng Xi not to check it. He ran into him and said hurriedly, "Girl, are you okay?"

Ling Qingyu glared at him. I'm wearing men's clothes. What is the matter with a girl, but there is no time to care about him. He pointed to the front and said, "Who are those people?"

The Yongding Bridge was not far from the seawall. At this time, under the dam, in twos and threes, there were people with shackles and mud, all of them yellow and thin. If Gu Sui's group of people are malnourished, then these people seem to be the only ones left. The skeleton was removed, and all of them were covered with scars. Looking at it suddenly, they thought it was a pile of corpses.

Zheng Xi frowned and said in deep thought, "I'm afraid it's a prisoner. It's been heard that a group of felons have been sent to Quanzhou City. Because of the shortage of manpower to build the seawall this year, they were transferred."

When Ling Qingyu heard this, he lowered his head and walked quickly with Zheng Xi, but he glanced at him unconsciously, and saw that there were two young people inside. Xin said, at such a young age, what felony can he commit?

Two yamen came to face each other, holding a knife in one hand and picking their teeth in the other, and said as they walked: "Finally, the dam has been repaired, and now it can be considered as a deal."

"What about that group of prisoners, there are only more than twenty dead."

"Hurry up into the sea. If you keep it, you have to take care of your food and shelter. I don't know that this group of people offended the adult above, and the above said that you shouldn't leave a living."

Zheng Xi heard that the two government officials said that, the secret way was not good, and she saw that his girl stopped and leaned in front of the two government officials with an innocent smile, and said: "Good day, two officials. "

The two government officials were taken aback, and when they saw the silver coin that Ling Qingyu had stuffed, their complexion suddenly improved, and he smiled and said, "This little brother, what's the matter?"

"The villain first arrived in Quanzhou, and heard that Quanzhou shipping is making money, so he also rented a small boat with others. Only a few people are short on the boat. The villain wants to buy something usable, as long as he can shake the scull. Is there any good introduction?" Ling Qingyu bent down slightly, and said with a humble attitude, pleased with a smile.

"Oh? Brother also wants to sail by sea?" The government officer looked Ling Qingyu up and down, weighed a heavy weight of silver ingots, and smiled: "This shipping is not so easy to run. It's a life of nine deaths, brother, you can have a good boat. sailor?"

"It's also the first time for the villain. I first found some people who ran through the boat. I don't know why. Later, I said that the Xie family fleet was going, so the villain couldn't get it anymore. Last time, there were huge profits." Ling Qingyu bent his waist lower, said.

The two yamen looked at each other, and most of them understood that this is a novice silly bird. I heard that the second master of the Xie family wanted to monopolize the Quanzhou shipping. Yesterday they also got rid of the Ding Budong gang. Now this little brother is only afraid of a skilled No sailors can be found, there are no skilled sailors on the ship, and accidents will happen to the reliable ship, either lost or dying in the wind and waves. It's just that this little brother is also tired of interests, so he still thinks about going to sea. Only in Quanzhou city, I am afraid that no one will get on his boat. It is no wonder that these dying prisoners are hungry for food. Death, it is better to make yourself some money.

"There are twenty people here, brother, if you want it, take a hundred taels of silver with you." The yavier waved his hand and said proudly.

"These prisoners, can I buy them?" Ling Qingyu asked in confusion while slowly pulling out the money bill from his purse.

"Hehe, these are migrant prisoners who can do the death contract, but they have to go to the Yamen to do the next formalities. It's just," The Yaye paused and looked at Ling Qingyu with your eyes.

Ling Qingyu nodded repeatedly, handed in the bank note, and then said to Zheng Xi: "You follow the official to complete the formalities. You can't miss the money that should be given to the Yamen."

Zheng Xi's face was bitter, and he glanced at Ling Qingyu with the faintly resentful look of what you did, and then followed one of the yamen to look at the yamen.

And the other one said to Ling Qingyu: "If you can come back safely this time, you will definitely be rich. Congratulations first."

Ling Qingyu bent over and nodded again: "Grant official's auspicious words, it's not as good as the villain this time, count one hundred taels as the official, and when the villain comes back, we will settle the settlement with the official."

The servant laughed, and said to his heart, this little brother looked young, but he was a sensible person. It was just that they could not come back when they went on the boat, but they didn’t say anything but said: “Thank you so much, brother, I’m here. The subordinate of Quanzhou Zhizhou, named Zhou Zhou, you have come to the yamen to find Zhou's second child. How are you going to arrange these people? I suggest that you don't untie the fetters and don't let them get full. Just starve to death. These people are Defensive people, if you want them to be obedient, you can't be soft. Well, this is for your brother." As he said, he drew a long whip from the back of the waist, and a barb with dark blood stains hung on the whip.

Seeing the whip, Ling Qingyu didn't feel a cold war, it was really oozing.

Seeing her, Zhou Zhou laughed, flicked his hand, slammed the whip, and struck a man next to him, leaving a dazzling bloodstain.

When the whip rang, the people on the ground trembled unconsciously, and then some struggled to get up.

Ling Qingyu resisted the shaking of her hands, and took the whip that Zhou Zhou repeatedly handed over. The whip was very heavy. She didn't realize her hand sank when she took it, and almost fell off, causing Zhou Zhou to laugh again.

Seeing that Ling Qingyu's face was pale, Zhou Zhou waved his hand and said, "Brother, let's go back first, let your servant pull someone." He gave the whip, but didn't mention the key to the fetters.

Ling Qingyu kept saying good, dragging the whip, and heading towards his yard.