Chapter 31 Each has his own plan

On the whole, the people on the island are simple and loyal, which is very much in line with the essence of the Chinese people. The old guys don't count. Almost all the young and descendants on the island are very simple and have no crooked eyes. Although they still have a little rejection of newcomers such as Xiaotian in the first two days, it lies in Xiaotian, Liu Tong and others. Under the deliberate friendship, these descendants quickly eliminated the gap with them, which made Yu Xiaotian quite happy. He was secretly glad that he did not abandon Liu Laoliu and jumped into the sea to escape. Otherwise, he really didn't know what the situation would be now.

It's just that Yu Xiaotian is not used to the eating habits here. On this island, people's daily diet is not much better or even worse than when they were on the boat. Moreover, later generations have long been used to three meals a day, but on the island, it is probably due to the lack of food supplies. The islanders still have two meals a day. They have breakfast late in the morning and do not eat at noon. The islanders will not have a dinner until they return to the village in the evening.

Such a eating habit makes Yu Xiaotian quite unhappy, and he always feels difficult to maintain enough physical strength. Although he has the intention to propose to change to three meals a day, because he has said that it is not included for the time being, so he can only be patient for a while.

In addition, although the islanders are mainly engaged in fishing, they do not live a better life than the people on land as Yu Xiaotian imagined and eat more seafood. Their limited catch is not provided for themselves, but mainly sent to the land * for money in exchange for other daily necessities, only It will leave very few catches or worthless catches to dry and pickle them as their supplementary food to improve their lives. Even so, these worthless dried salted fish should be taken out during the Spring Festival to improve their lives. The daily meals are also extremely simple, basically with brown rice and some produced on the island. Sweet potatoes are the main food.

A large load of exercise and labor, coupled with little oil and water in the meals, the islanders here can only obtain nutrition through a small amount of sea vegetables or sweet potatoes, which also makes people eat a lot of food in this era. Generally, it is normal for later generation to eat a catty of brown rice at a meal. , if you eat a large amount of rice, you can't eat enough two catties of brown rice every day.

And Yu Xiaotian is even more so. After getting more or less adapted to the food here, his appetite has also become amazing. It takes almost three catties of brown rice every day to eat half a day. From time to time, he will feel a little hungry in the middle of the night. Horse face and others shake their heads and feel that they really can't stand his way of eating. They are worried about the island. The stored food will soon run out.

For this reason, when he first arrived, it was inconvenient to cause trouble to the people on the island. In order to maintain his health, he had no choice but to use the evening time alone or with the descendants on the island to collect some seafood such as crab shells at the seaside before going to bed, directly set up a pot and boil it. Good seafood is also quite good to be used as a supper, and it also provides them with some nutrition.

For such a life, Yu Xiaotian can only enjoy it.

But life on the island is still that after Xiaotian and Liu Laoliu came here, the situation began to change, because they brought a ship full of goods to the people on the island, which are valuable, at least many times more than what they have fished in the past few years, which makes the island that is afraid of living a hard life. Everyone sees a glimmer of hope for a better life in the future.

So the horse faces are so happy that they can't close their mouths these days. While they are busy greeting Liu Laoliu, Yu Xiaotian and others settle down. On the one hand, they also began to think about how to sell the goods as soon as possible, quickly turn them into silver, and then the big guys share the money to open it for the descendants on the island. I went to the land to marry a daughter-in-law.

Yu Xiaotian doesn't care about this matter, because now even the goods are his. He is asked to find a place to sell them. He has no way. He can't run to the land and shout along the street. In that case, even if his head is kicked by a donkey, so he is all about how to sell the ship's cargo. It was handed over to Liu Laoliu and Ma Face. As for how they can find a way to sell the goods and how much money they can get, Yu Xiaotian doesn't care at all.

And he put all his energy on the ship that belongs to him. Although the boat is not big, it is still very big compared with the small fishing boat they own on the island. With their arrival, the attention of the young descendants on the island was also attracted to the ship, so that even he Our main livelihood fishing has also been put aside.

So after Yu Xiaotian settled down on the island, he asked the people on the island for help and began to carefully inspect the ship. After some inspections inside and outside, Yu Xiaotian found that the ship was really not a broken ship. Liu Laoliu did not lie to him. The ship was indeed built for many years, that is, just three or four years. Over the years, the wood of the hull is also mostly made of strong and durable wood.

There are eight compartments in the whole ship. The whole is a standard style of Chinese sailboat. Each cabin is separated by partitions, which enhances the ship's sink resistance. The watertight compartment is also a unique invention of Chinese ancestors. Even if one or two cabins are flooded, the ship will not easily sink. Therefore, before the Ming Dynasty, even before the Qing Dynasty, wooden sailboats made in China basically adopted this method, and even modern ships adopted this compartment design.

The two masts on the ship are made of a complete fir wood, and there is no interface in the whole body. The strength and toughness of such a mast are good, and it is very conducive to the lifting of hard sails. After inspection, the two masts are still very strong, and there is no moths, only one on the upper part of the foremath appears. The crack made Yu Xiaotian a little worried. He wanted to go back and replace this fore mast to avoid trouble when going to sea.

But after hearing this, Liu Laoliu went to the ship to see the crack and shook his head and said, "This crack is not a big deal. There is no need to replace it. What's more, it takes a lot of manpower to replace this mast, and it has to be specially sent to the land ship's dormitory to spend a lot of money to exchange it. According to me, I think it's better to ask the blacksmith to hit two iron hoop, and it will be fine! It's still very strong!"

So after preliminary inspection, Yu Xiaotian concluded that the ship is still relatively strong and durable, but because the ship is not well maintained, the bottom of the ship is full of a thick layer of sea creatures. In addition, there are also many sea maggots in the wood at the lower part of the hull, which will be a great hidden danger for the strength of the hull. It needs to be solved as soon as possible!

In addition, the hull and cabin are dirty, which is also Yu Xiaotian's most dissatisfied with the ship. He will live on this ship for a long time to come, and rats and mosquitoes and flea on the ship will cause serious health risks to the crew, which is unacceptable to him.

So Yu Xiaotian wanted the descendants of the island to act as his crew, first carry out a large-scale cleanup and repair of the ship, and then consider what to do next.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian's proposal, he shook his head and said, "Brother Yu, it's not that we guys won't help you. Although this ship is really good, it's not easy for you to repair this ship!

You can also see that the manpower on our island is limited. Now that the goods on the ship have not been sold, and the people on the island still have to live. Dozens of people open their mouths to eat. If they all go to help you get the boat, it will become a problem for the people on our island to eat! You have been here for a few days. Our fishing guys have stopped for many days, and the grain storage on the island will soon bottom out, so I'm thinking about going to sea to catch some fish and change some food, so I can't get many people to get that boat for you for the time being!

What's more, if you want to flatten the bottom of this ship, I'm afraid we can't do this job here. I don't know how to do this kind of boat. You know that if you want to shovel the bottom of the ship, the owner will either send it to the boat, pull the ship to the shore to shovel the bottom of the ship, or hire someone to help unload the mast and get the ship ashore. Buckle upside down on the shore and shovel the bottom of the ship.

I'm afraid the manpower on our island can't do it! Besides, a lot of wood is needed to repair the boat. You have also seen our island. There are small trees on the mountain, and there is not even enough wood to build houses. How can it be enough for you to repair the boat?

In my opinion, let go of this ship repair first! After we give our hands to the goods on the ship, we can pull out our hands to do this! Do you think so?"

Ma Face was very polite to Xiaotian. Although he refused Yu Xiaotian's request, he still agreed that as long as the goods of the ship were sold, he would help Yu Xiaotian and clean up the ship.

Yu Xiaotian was a little disappointed after hearing this. At least the horse face group did not plan to help him at present. The ship is nominally under his name, so these old guys don't pay much attention to the renovation of the ship.

Liu Laoliu also came over with lame legs at this time. After a few days of rest after going to the island, the wounds on his buttocks have basically healed, and it is no longer a big problem for him to walk. In addition, in front of his children's filial piety at this time, he is really in a good mood. He is happy all day long. The wrinkles of his old face It seems to be deeper because of laughing too much.

"I said horse face! This is your fault! How many fish can your little fishing boat catch when you go to sea? Look at this boat. Originally, the Liu family was built according to the style of a fishing boat in order to cover people's eyes and ears. It was much better than your small broken boat, but this boat was run by the Liu family. If we picked up this boat well, it would be ten times better than you using this small broken boat now!

What's more, your little broken boat only needs four or five people to go to sea. More than a dozen descendants on the island are also idle, and there is no need to serve those dozens of mu of fields! Wouldn't it be better to leave some manpower for Brother Yu to help repair the boat?

You said that there is no wood on this island, which is easy to do. You can fool Brother Yu, but you can't fool me, Liu Laoliu! Don't think I don't know that this little yellow island is indeed not full of wood, but there are many trees on the big yellow island in the east, and the big yellow island is also a no one living on it, which is a good place to repair boats!

Originally, this ship was hidden on this Little Yellow Island, which was a little eye-catching. From time to time, people will come from land to time. Maybe it will be seen by others. In my opinion, it is better to hide this ship in the Yellow Island first!

Didn't Zhao Mazi go to Luo Yuan to find the shopkeeper Li the day before yesterday? With the financial resources of Li, it's nothing to eat this ship's cargo. I guess I can get this ship's cargo soon!

With the money for this ship's cargo, do you guys still have to go fishing every day? You can't push this matter, or I won't recognize your brother! What do you want to do?"

After listening to Liu Laoliu's words, Ma's face turned slightly red. After a dry smile, he said, "I said Sixth Brother!" You are embarrassing me! You were not on the island before, and you only knew one thing about this place!

The island is occupied by our brothers, but in fact it is still under the control of Jiang Baihu. It's not that you don't know Jiang Baihu. That guy is a hegemony in this area and dominates the fishing business in this area. The reason why he turns a blind eye to us occupy the island. To put it bluntly, let us fish for him and make money for him!

We haven't sent fish to land for so long, so we can't guarantee that Jiang Baihu will come to trouble us! So these two days, I thought that I should go out to catch some fish, deal with my errands, and also inquire about the news of the Liu family!

As for these descendants on the island, you Lao Liu is also an uncle. If you want to use them, who doesn't listen to him? Let me won't break his leg!

There is also Dahuang Island. It's good for the boat to hide there for repair, but recently, a group of pirates on Shuangfeng Island often haunt the sea. From time to time, they will go to Dahuang Island to settle down. Where can we repair the boat? In case they meet, won't this ship be given to them for nothing? I'm afraid that people who go there will still have life to worry about!

So it's not that I don't give help to my brother. This matter still needs to be discussed in the long way!"

After listening to the horse's face, Liu Laoliu reached out and touched the goatee on his jaw. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "What you said makes sense! This matter really needs to be discussed in the long-term! That's it! You should invite people to go fishing, just arrange it. When we go to sea tomorrow, Brother Yu and I will also go out by boat and go around the Great Yellow Island!

The Great Yellow Island is very large, and there are many bays. It is not difficult to find a place that can hide and repair boats. Although pirates will dock on the Great Yellow Island, they also land on the island in the east and north of the island. As far as I know, few people go to the southwest!"

After listening to Liu Laoliu's words, the horse face nodded quickly and said, "That's true! Just do what you said!"

Yu Xiaotian was also very satisfied and even nodded.

(Today, I am very depressed. My grandmother, who has loved me the most since I was a child, was admitted to the hospital due to illness the night before yesterday and suddenly passed away yesterday afternoon. The cold wind has been in the hospital for the past two days. Now I have to help send the elderly! I will try my best to keep the new book update. As for the new book list, please help me up! Now I will come back to get something and update a chapter. I don't think there will be many updates in the next two days. I hope you can forgive me!)