Lu Ming

Chapter 256
Facts have proved that Yu Chengde's thinking is correct.Later that day, Yu Sibao successfully found a crack between the corners of a cabinet.

The next step is the arduous process of prying the door.It took Yu Sibao two full days to pry open the cabinet along the gap between the cabinet boards with the tough and thick steel army thorn.

This mouth is not big, but it is enough for Yu Sibao to reach into his head and arms.

The hard labor finally came to the harvest time: in addition to those paperwork letters that had been turned into mud, a lychee wooden box was dragged out later.

The box is small, but heavy.After Yu Sibao dragged the box to the deck, he first floated up to take a breath.After he dived down again, he stretched out his hand and twisted lightly, breaking the delicate copper lock on the box that was as big as a finger belly.

There are 12 neatly placed gold ingots in the box.

Each of these high-quality gold ingots weighs 10 taels. Even according to Daming's gold and silver exchange rate, the value of 12 gold ingots exceeds 1000 taels of silver.

After Yu Sibao delivered the gold ingots to the ship three times, everyone including his father Yu Chengde went crazy.

When the scene that had been fantasized countless times really appeared in front of him, Yu Chengde, who had experienced accidents, couldn't hold back any longer. He announced a long-standing wish of everyone while laughing: buy a new boat!

For 1000 taels of silver, you can buy a 300 material good boat made of hardwood.And after Yu Chengde announced the news, he would naturally not treat those fellows who had followed him to the sea, endured hardships and fought against pirates for many years.

So he made a public promise, according to the old partnership custom among fishermen, that when the new boat was bought, all the brothers would have a share.

Now all the problems don't exist.The joyful fishermen took out the last bit of brown rice on the boat and served Comrade Yu Sibao - the Herring has been stranded outside for three days, and the others have only eaten fish since yesterday.

After eating the last bit of rice, Yu Sibao dived into the seabed again under the hot sun at noon in September.

In the afternoon, the boy searched the poop of the sunken ship and the nearby seabed.This time the harvest was not so much: a brass telescope, six or seven good axes and javelins, a few pieces of blackened silver, some ordinary china for drinking and eating, and finally There are two iron ball shells. That's all.

After seeing the earthen pot porcelain that his son finally salvaged, Yu Chengde resolutely stopped the salvage work and ordered to return tomorrow morning.

First of all, the supplies on the Herring have been exhausted, and it is unbearable to stay any longer.Secondly, according to Yu Chengde's experience: since my boy did not find a large amount of silver, then this sunken ship must have capsized here shortly after sailing with cargo.

In this case, those valuable goods, such as raw silk and satin, would have been destroyed long ago; and Yu Chengde would not let his boy venture into the dangerous cargo hold.

So, it's time to go back.Herring's voyage to sea had been delayed for several days than usual, and the family's wife and daughter might be worried about it.

So early the next morning, everyone returned to the voyage happily.While the fishermen were grinding away the rust on their knives and axes, they were arguing over the philosophical question of whether the new ship should be called the Herring or the Great Herring.Laughter continued all the way on the bow until the moment they returned to the fishing village pier.

Departing at 6 o'clock, it took only 3 hours for the Herring to complete the route of more than 10 nautical miles.Before 10 a.m., Yu Chengde, who was standing on the bow of the boat, saw the dilapidated small pier in his fishing village from a distance.

Chengwei Village is on the east coast of Putian, facing Nanri Island far away.There are only 11 households and 2 fishing boats in the whole village. It is a barren fishing village that cannot be any smaller.

And when the enthusiastic Yu Chengde saw his own pier, he felt a "thump" in his heart, and secretly said that it was not good-the villagers who used to come out to pick up the boat on the pier seemed to be in a bad mood at the moment.After the boat approached for a further distance, Yu Chengde took a closer look. The person sitting on the pier with loose hair and crying was not his old wife, but who was it?

After the Herring hurried to the pier, before Yu Chengde jumped off the boat to ask questions, his dark, thin, wrinkled old wife rushed over, hugged Yu Chengde's thigh and cried, "Master, you Why did you just come back~ Sanmei was snatched away by that goddamn Wang Fuqi just now!"

".Why is he robbing people?!" After Yu Chengde heard the bad news, his flushed face became more bloodshot.

"Wang Fuqi said that you hadn't returned for many days, and you must have died at sea, so he took the third sister to pay the 13 taels of silver that our family owed him."

Hearing this, Yu Chengde couldn't help feeling dizzy, and then he woke up.He reached behind his waist and pinched the handle of the military thorn, then he turned his head through gritted teeth, and asked a man in his thirties with a simple face and long arms and legs, "Monkey, are you just looking at that man like this?" The bastard took Sanmei away?"

The man named Monkey gave a wry smile when he heard the words, and then pointed to a large bruise on his face: "Wang Fuqi brought 5 people with him, and these are the only old and weak people in the village, so we can't stop them!"

At this moment, a white-haired old man with a walking stick squeezed over.As soon as the old man came, he held onto Yu Chengde's hand tightly and said, "Chengde, hurry up and take the fish on the boat to Wang Fuqi to redeem the third sister. I'm afraid it will be too late. That bastard said that he will sell the third sister to the township tomorrow." The brothel."

At this time, Yu Chengde calmed down instead.He took out a silver ingot from his pocket and shook it: "Grandpa Ba, Chengde has silver now, don't worry."

After seeing Yu Chengde take out the ingot of silver, the doomsday-like scene suddenly became quiet.The poor fishermen suddenly showed smiles on their faces. They knew that with the money, Sanmei would be saved.

And Yu Chengde was already making arrangements at this time.He first took out a piece of silver and threw it to a hunchbacked villager, and bought the only pig in the village from him, and then he took out the silver and bought all the chickens in the village.

Next is the whole village feast.

Yu Chengde didn't know what illness he had today. It seemed that his money was inflated. The whole village, including the fishermen on the boat, was being ordered around by him. Under the slogan "Blessings in exchange for the third sister", everyone started to kill pigs and chickens, wash rice and cook rice with smiles on their faces.

When everyone was busy, Yu Chengde quietly pulled the middle-aged man named Monkey to a place where no one was around, and then he stared into the other person's eyes and asked, "Monkey, the Kunzhou people you mentioned last time, But is there really such a thing?"

(End of this chapter)