Time-traveling island

There was also a man in his early forties named Zhao Fugui, who was a servant in the Wang family.

The last two were Zhou Duwei's subordinates, one surnamed Song and the other surnamed Zhang, both around thirty years old.

They were all very thin, and they were all dressed in tattered coarse cloth clothes, which showed that when they were really desperate, they had sold their original clothes to buy food.

As Lin An sized them up, the Su sisters also looked on curiously, but did not take the initiative to approach and talk to them.

Let me introduce you.

Lin An introduced them to each other, and the Su sisters then stepped forward to greet each other. Wang Haiqing, Zhou Yong, and the others returned the greeting, and they had met.

After glancing at Wang Wanxiu's face, Lin An asked her with a smile, "Did you eat well when you got home yesterday?"

Wang Wanxiu was a little embarrassed and replied, "Thank you for your concern, young master. Last night I ate only half full as you suggested, and this morning I drank a big bowl of rice porridge. Now I don't feel hungry, and my hands and feet have regained their strength."

Lin An noticed that her complexion was much better than last night, and said, "Yesterday we only gave you rice. This morning I'll see if I can find you some meat and oil. Only meat can fill you up."

Wang Wanxiu was deeply moved. Su Zhenzhen looked back at the island and said, "You can't hunt here."

Su Zhuoyao tugged at her sleeve.

Wang Wanxiu volunteered, "After returning yesterday, I exchanged the grain that the young master gave me with the prefect in the city for coarse rice, so that the disaster victims could all have a bowl of rice porridge."

"Exchanged for brown rice? I didn't expect that. How much brown rice was exchanged in total?"

"One bushel was exchanged for ten bushels."

Wang Haiqing hurriedly replied, and Zhou Yong, who was standing next to him, also said: "After the rice was exchanged, Magistrate Wang and I distributed the rice to more than 100,000 disaster victims, and each person received about eight or nine ounces of rice."

Lin An was somewhat surprised, "They distributed rice to over 100,000 people in just one night?"

Distributing food to 100,000 people is not something that can be accomplished simply by talking, especially when distributing food to a group of starving disaster victims. If things go wrong, chaos could break out due to people fighting over the rice.

Zhou Yong smiled and said, "Magistrate Wang is known for his good governance. Although we are fleeing and come from all over the country, we are still organized despite the chaos. Magistrate Wang is good at recognizing and appointing capable people to distribute food, gather firewood, build stoves, and distribute porridge. Everything is done in an orderly manner."

Lin An nodded in approval and said to Wang Wanxiu, "Your father was more than capable of being a general or prime minister, but unfortunately he was framed by a eunuch and demoted to the frontier. The emperor of Shunguo buried your father and Commandant Zhou, two talented men, and I think it was only natural that they perished."

The group from Shun Kingdom did not do anything when they heard these treasonous words.

Zhou Yong sighed and cupped his hands, saying, "Young Master Lin is too kind; I am unworthy of such praise."

He then asked, "I heard that you intend to recruit some people? I wonder if you intend to enlist them in the army or register them as civilians. If you wish to build an army, there are four or five thousand able-bodied men available among the 100,000 disaster victims."

Everyone looked over. The Su sisters had been listening in the background, holding hands and occasionally whispering to each other. When they laughed, they left everyone speechless.

Lin An smiled and said, "Commander Zhou is a general. I heard that the Shun Kingdom is in chaos. Don't you and Magistrate Wang have any ideas about recruiting local militia to achieve great things?"

Zhou Yong shook his head and said, "Recruiting local militia requires money and provisions, and I have no such ambition." He paused, then cupped his hands in a salute and said, "If Young Master Lin has any intention of making a name for himself, I am willing to serve you!"

Wang Wanxiu's brother, who was standing to the side, and the two subordinates that Zhou Yong brought also bowed and greeted him.

They have no money or food now, and all they ask for is a place that can take them in and give them a meal. It's not that Lin An is showing off any domineering power.

"I have no intention of becoming emperor."

Lin An denied it, and continued, "I recruited people because I wanted to hire people to build this island."

Zhou Yong and the others looked up and saw that the island was barren, without a single blade of grass, and filled with the stench of seafood, making it unsuitable for cultivation.

Wang Haiqing also expressed his opinion: "The land on this island of Young Master Lin may not be suitable for growing crops, and it may not be easy to reclaim the land."

"You'll find out later."

Lin An didn't explain much.

Wang Wanxiu asked him, "How many workers do you want to hire, young master? My father told me that as long as the disaster victims have three bowls of porridge a day, they can be at your disposal. However, they can't fight. The disaster victims are all civilians and have never practiced military formations before, so they can't go to the battlefield."

Three bowls of porridge a day are enough to attract someone to work for him.

"Hire me!"

Just as Lin An was about to speak, Su Zhenzhen pointed to herself and volunteered, "I only need three bowls of porridge a day! I've never had porridge or rice in my entire life... Ah!"

Before she could finish speaking, her sister grabbed her ear and pulled her back to the beginning.

Su Zhuoyao smiled and said, "Young master, please don't pay any attention to her." Seeing that Wang Haiqing, Zhou Yong and the others were looking at her strangely, she had no choice but to say, "She has practiced breathing techniques since she was a child, absorbing the wind and dew, and the essence of the sun and moon. She doesn't eat much grains."

Su Zhenzhen muttered, "There's no rice or wheat in the mountains..."

Zhou Yong and the others fell silent.

They were refugees fleeing from disaster, but these two stunningly beautiful women were celestial maidens who did not eat grains.

Wang Haiqing was secretly amazed. Young Master Lin knew these two people; they must indeed be gods.

Wang Wanxiu whispered, "There's rice porridge..."

She dared not speak loudly, because the rice porridge she brought was meant for Young Master Lin.

"Yesterday was rushed, and today..."

Lin An was about to speak when he was interrupted once again.

On the sea, the sound of churning waves could be heard. Everyone turned to look and saw a huge tentacle monster emerging from the seabed.

"!!!"

Zhou Yong and his companions were instantly terrified, their hair standing on end.

The enormous sea monster emerged from the sea, opened its eyes, and after seeing the people standing on the shore, it immediately waved its tentacles and let out a joyful roar.

This frightened Wang Wanxiu's maid, Zhishu, so much that she trembled and instinctively clung tightly to her mistress's arm.

"Wow, they're sea monsters!"

Su Zhenzhen exclaimed in surprise, and Lin An explained with a smile, "I know this giant octopus. Don't worry, it can understand human speech and generally won't hurt people."

As they spoke, the giant octopus's tentacles curled up, tossing a large amount of fish, shrimp, and shellfish onto the shore. Its enormous body slowly approached the shore, lay down on the beach, and howled at Lin An, seemingly asking if he wanted to eat.

Seeing that he wasn't eating, the giant octopus slowly used its tentacles to scoop up fish and shrimp from the shore and eat them.

Su Zhenzhen scurried over to it, patted its tentacles with her paws, and tried to talk to it. Somehow, the giant octopus quickly went back into the sea, and Su Zhenzhen jumped onto its head. The two of them played wildly together in the sea.

Su Zhuoyao's face flushed, and she smiled shyly, saying, "This is my little sister's first time seeing the sea, and she's having so much fun that she's forgotten all about it. I'll go and bring her back."

Having said that, she flashed to the surface of the sea, soaring through the air like a fairy in flowing robes, and gently landed on the giant octopus's head.

"this……"

Wang Haiqing and the others were stunned.

He truly is an immortal!