Chapter 41 Chapter 43: The Coast of the South China Sea

In the early morning of the next day, two teams of people came to the door of the inn.One team is the people sent by Feili to take me out of the city, and the other team is Jun Luobei and his entourage. Jun Luobei returned to his white shirt and hanging hair, and stood quietly beside the carriage, his eyes not only silent but also imperceptibly tired. "Master summoned Li Yang's hidden stake last night and asked a lot about the Xia family that the young master said. It seems that some clues have been found out." Hei Xuan, who just returned to the inn this morning, whispered in my ear Said.

I frowned, is that why he looks a little out of sorts?It seems that there is no need to be in such a hurry... Seeing that I was standing at the door with no intention of going over, he took the initiative to walk over. "You can go on the road with peace of mind. You shouldn't be the person that those people on the boat were supposed to deal with." He said to me, his voice as smooth as silk. I nodded and said, "Xia Yun has nothing to do with this matter, right?" I knew that those men in black would never come to me again when Feili blocked that knife for me. "She doesn't seem to have anything to do with this matter, but her brother Xia Tian is a big suspect."

"Have you checked it out?" Unexpectedly, I guessed it right. "I don't need to investigate the following matters. I think there is one person who is more interested in investigating than I am." He said meaningfully. I understand that what he said is right and wrong. Among the people sent by Feili to see me off, I am very familiar with a person, that is, the little eunuch holding the dragon robe yesterday.I called him to me and asked him to convey the word "Xia" to Feili. I hope that Feili can find out what happened as soon as possible after hearing it, and I also hope that he can get rid of the danger brought by the man in black as soon as possible.

When I was about to get into the carriage, a servant came to me with an exquisite food box. "My lord, this is what my master ordered the servant to bring to you." He said respectfully, holding up the food box with both hands. I took it over and saw that it turned out to be hot jujube flowers. "Where did you buy it?" I asked a little excitedly. After I went south, I almost never ate jujube flowers. Firstly, I was busy on the road, and secondly, I ate local specialties wherever I went. "I didn't buy this, it was just made by the accompanying imperial chef this morning."

I was startled when I heard this, and looked up at Jun Luobei. He was standing at the place where I was talking to me just now. The morning wind blew away his long hair and clothes, and also blew away the silence in his eyes, a ray of tenderness, Flowing in sparkling waves. The past is vivid in my mind, forming a lingering melancholy between my brows, who takes who seriously?Who is the only one?The flowers bloom in front of the court, and the westerly wind blows away in the misty rain on the terrace. Looking back several times, he is still him, and I am still me, but we are so far away from each other.

Outside the carriage, the white shadow gradually fades away; inside the carriage, thoughts are like flowers, and as the shaft turns round and round, the blossoms are in full bloom, releasing a touch of sentimentality, the past is now a vicissitudes of life, since he has already made a decision, why bother? No matter how persistent you are... I have gradually let go of my anger and resentment towards him in the clouds and twilight of my journey to the south. We both lost the marriage between me and him, lost to the ideal of fifteen years, lost to Lan Chao Jiangshan. After leaving Liyang City, everyone and I drove for more than two months, and finally arrived at the shore of the South China Sea.

It is the end of the year and the beginning of the Lunar New Year. The climate on the beautiful and charming Zhudai Island is as warm as spring, and the lights and festoons everywhere are filled with the excitement and festiveness of the New Year. Zhudai Island is actually Hainan Island in my previous life. It belongs to the territory of Fengguo and is a county of Fengguo. It is named after the pearls and tortoise shells produced on the island.The people living on the island are all ethnic minorities, called Luoyue people by the Han people. The folk customs are very simple, mainly based on agriculture, supplemented by handicrafts, fishing and hunting, and commodity production and trade are underdeveloped.

It has been three days since we came to Zhudai Island, because most Li women like to wear many and heavy earrings, with the roots of their ears hanging down to their shoulders, which is called "Dan ears" in history, so we quickly found the Li women. It is a gathering place for people, but there is also a worrying thing. The Li people speak Li language, most of them can't understand Chinese, and the few who can understand can't express Chinese fluently. What needs to be done is technical communication, and it is necessary to find a translator who is proficient in Li and Chinese.

The people under my command have been looking for a suitable translator on the island for the past few days. I am not in a hurry. I have already found the target anyway, and I don’t care about waiting for a few more days. Zhudai Island is so close to the mainland, there must be people who are proficient in Chinese. I took Laixi and walked barefoot on the beach, the sea breeze passed by, bringing the unique smell of sea water, the white waves fluttered and jumped around my feet, the leaves of coconut trees sang in the sun, and the endless Golden sails are dotted on the sea, like golden beads inlaid on jasper, and a few strands of cloud wander lazily in the same color of water and sky, making the scenery more picturesque and poetic.

When I returned to the house of the Li family I was staying with, a translator hired by Uncle Hai was waiting for me to check my qualifications. The interpreter, who was praised by Uncle Hai, is a young girl from the Li nationality. She is 28 years old, tall and tall, with smooth and delicate skin showing a healthy wheat-colored luster, which makes her look full of sunshine. A hairpin made of a cow bone was tied into a bun behind her head, and she was wearing a scarf embroidered with begonia red, which made her originally thick eyebrows a little more charming and charming. The shiny eyeballs seem to be dripping water, the bridge of the nose is high and straight, the lips are slightly thick, and the beautiful lip line looks very sexy.

Inside the unbuttoned akane-colored blouse is a begonia red embroidered bust, revealing a slender and round neck and the bright begonia tattoo on the chest. A big bow is tied, underneath is a non-pleated dark pattern skirt of the same color, and a pair of open-toed clogs are worn. I admired secretly in my heart, what a dazzling woman, with profound facial features, sharp and capable yet graceful, casual and natural attire revealing sexy and lazy yet innocent, that body I have sunbathed countless times in my previous life The wheat-colored skin that can't be expected and the smile that hangs on the corner of her mouth at any time make her more enthusiastic and sunny. "What's your name?" I asked her with a smile. Her appearance gave me an inexplicable affection for her. "My name is Yan Xingsu." She answered me in Chinese, her voice was as sweet as a yellow warbler coming out of the valley. "Your Chinese is very fluent and standard." I praised her with a satisfied nod. "Because my father is from the Lan Dynasty, I have been able to speak Chinese since I was a child." She smiled. "My name is Qin Lan, and I'm also from the Lan Dynasty. I came to Zhudai Island to learn something, but I don't understand the language of your people, so I would like to ask you to help me communicate with your people. Do you think it's okay?" I decided Use her for translation. "Of course, I'm happy to help you." A big smile appeared on her face, as bright as the sun in the sky. So I told her that I wanted to find some good cotton weavers among the Li people, but she immediately told me that her mother is a well-known weaver in the clan, and invited us all to stay at her home. I am very happy So much, I agreed without even thinking about it. The house of Xing Su's family is the same as many buildings around it, with a zigzag roof and walls made of mud and bamboo.Xing Su’s mother had just reached middle age but her hair was already grizzled, and she had some unknown patterns tattooed on her neck. When she knew we came from Lanchao, her eyes lit up with surprise and excitement. , and even nostalgia and sadness, she spoke fluent Chinese and welcomed us warmly into the house, but I didn't see Xing Su's father in the house. Xing Su's mother is named Yan'e. When she heard about my intention, she immediately promised to find some master weavers in the clan to study and improve the cotton spinning wheel tomorrow. I was very happy when I heard that. He helped me actively and enthusiastically, and he was slightly relieved. It seems that the plan is expected to be completed as soon as possible. In the evening, all of us had dinner around the table. Yan'e made the most famous "sticky glutinous rice in bamboo tube" to entertain us. According to Xing Su, the fragrant glutinous rice in bamboo tube is mixed with hunted game and lean meat. Fragrant glutinous rice and a small amount of salt are put into a bamboo tube and fired. It is specially used to entertain distinguished guests. The words clearly imply that her mother attaches great importance to us guests who have come from afar. When we cut open the bamboo tube, bursts of fragrance came out, which made people want to eat.During the banquet, Yan'e also brought out the well-known fine wine "Shanlan", as the name suggests, it is a wine brewed from Shanlan rice. As the saying goes, this wine is also for entertaining distinguished guests. I was a little puzzled in my heart, could Yan'e's all kinds of obvious courteous behaviors be just because of her hospitality? In the days that followed, Yan'e and I, as well as some skilled weavers she found, gathered around Yan'e's loom all day long and played with it. During this period, I thought of the legend about the spinning jenny. It is said that the inventor of the spinning jenny accidentally knocked over the hand spinning wheel on the ground. This inspired him: Since the spindle can still rotate when it is erected, if several vertical spindles are used side by side, can’t several yarns be spun at the same time?After some hard work, he finally made a trial of a new hand spinning machine with 16-18 spindles, and named it "Jenny Machine". But at the same time, I also remembered that Huang Daopo invented the three-spindle pedal spinning wheel. Although the number of spindles is much less than that of the Jenny machine, the hand crank is replaced by a pedal.The cotton spinning wheel currently used by the Li people is a single-spindle pedal, which can only spin one thread at a time. I told Yan'e and the others about the characteristics of these two machines, and vaguely drew a prototype of the textile tools I had seen in my memory, and told them the functions of those parts, hoping that they could learn something from it. Inspired by improving the existing cotton spinning wheel according to the actual situation.I don't know the specific process of weaving, and what I can provide them is only what I have seen and heard in my previous life. Whether I can finally manufacture a cotton spinning wheel that greatly improves the efficiency of weaving depends entirely on their experience and wisdom. They were very interested in what I said and the textile tools I drew, and they showed great enthusiasm, even to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat.Women are no worse than men in doing things. I saw that they communicate with each other to determine the size of new parts every day, and then make real objects for specific experiments. At this time, the role of my followers is revealed. Those carpenters All the work was left to them. They were all martial arts people. They did the things Yan'e and the others asked for quickly and well, which greatly improved their efficiency and time for improving the cotton spinning wheel. One and a half months later, Yan'e and the others finally made an eight-spindle pedal cotton spinning wheel that can greatly improve the weaving efficiency. When we heard the news, all of us cheered and were very excited. Thinking that I will be able to go back to Lanchao soon, that I will see Wujian soon, and that Lanchao's economy will have a qualitative leap in the future, I am so excited that I can't stop wanting to yell. On the day of the celebration banquet, almost all the women of the Li nationality came, and they filled up the open space around Yan'e's house. Countless jars of fine wine were opened one after another, and the mellow aroma of the wine wafted in the air one by one. The Li women who sang and danced sang and danced, expressing their inner joy and pride for their people with laughter and laughter. When everyone dispersed, it was already the middle of the night when the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, but Yan'e was still too excited to go to sleep, so she dragged me to chat non-stop.It may be that she drank too much wine tonight, and she even told me about her past, her young love, and Xing Su's father while chatting. That's when I learned that Yan'e rescued a man caught in a typhoon on the beach 20 years ago. The man was Bai Lin, a native of the Lan Dynasty. In the end, a traditional wedding of the Li people was held and Xing Su was born.Two years later, Bai Lin wanted to bring Yan'e mother and daughter back to live in Lanchao, so he told Yan'e that he would go back to court to report to his parents first, and then bring them back in a sedan chair carrying eight people. did not return. After hearing this, I sighed. I would rather hope that Bai Lin died on the way home than that he was a complete heartless man. Yan'e's gray hair before she turned forty made me feel pity and embarrassment. It's a pity, I really don't want a hardworking and kind woman like her to be treated by Bai Lin. "Miss Qin, I want to take Xing Su to Lanchao with you. I must ask Bai Lin to find out, otherwise I will never be reconciled in my life." Yan'e suddenly grabbed my sleeve and said, her eyes and tone were different. Incomparably firm. Only then did I understand why she helped me so enthusiastically and treated me as a VIP. It turned out that after she knew I was from Lanchao, she decided to follow me back to Lanchao. "If you still don't change your decision to go to Lanchao when you wake up tomorrow, I will definitely take you and Xingsu back to Lanchao." I patted her hand and promised her. Yan'e has helped me so much, if she needs anything, I will definitely help her. Her beloved husband left her without hearing from her for fifteen years, and it would be impossible for any woman to let it go. When Yan'e mentions Bai Lin now, her eyes are still shining with deep love, which shows how much she loves Bai Lin. , so I was not surprised when she asked to go to Lanchao with me.