Chapter 3
Chapter 3
The island was very calm that night. The big guys cooked the stranded big white fish into fish soup, which tasted very delicious. The boiler on the bonfire was steaming hot, and everyone who drank the soup was very satisfied.
In the morning of the second day, apart from the loud "Ou Ou" call of the seagulls, there was only the sound of the ebb and flow of the tide.Jiang Chaosheng opened the window and saw soldiers with bare arms starting to beat and beat from a distance.There is a rising sun at the junction of the sea and the sky, the tide is very gentle, and there are local children barefoot picking up Shanghai goods on the beach at low tide. The young man is relieved. It turns out that he is too sensitive and made a false alarm.
The project of repairing the house is progressing very quickly. After all, the original house was made of solid wood with good aesthetics. Jiang Chaosheng only asked the people from Lou Zhan to build a large bluestone wall outside the house for him. Repair all the places, and most importantly, don't forget to give him two small boats that can sail offshore.
He brought more than [-] people who were not idle, some of them were responsible for cooking for the soldiers who did physical work, some of them pulled weeds, cleaned the house, and moved the servants' things into the repaired and cleaned cabins.
Jiang Chaosheng told his servants early in the morning: "These houses outside will be your residence in the future, and may be your private property in the future." He doesn't care about other people's houses. The servants want to live comfortably, and they will definitely clean their houses carefully.
Lou Zhan's soldiers were very capable. Hundreds of good soldiers went into battle, and after two or three days, the shabby mansion that looked like a ghost house was completely renewed, and all the rotten wood was replaced. The wall was successfully erected, and according to Jiang Chaosheng's request, a reservoir and a septic tank were built, and a few trees were transplanted... The silt in the well was cleaned up, but it had to stand for ten days before it could be used.
Commander Jiang Chaosheng arranged the newly made bamboo and wooden furniture, tried the new ship, turned around inside and out, nodded with satisfaction, and then couldn't wait to send everyone away together.
"When you go back to the capital this time, the general must not forget me, little An Wang." The handsome young man with a melancholy face reluctantly bid farewell on the shore.
Looking at his reluctance, if it weren't for the fact that his mother, wife and children were far away, the soldiers would have stayed for a few more days.Lou Zhan pressed his lips straight, he had thousands of words to say, but in the end he just said, "See you again someday." When parting, he took out a dagger that was as sharp as iron and gave it to Jiang Chaosheng for self-defense.
When the Jade Emperor was out of sight, Jiang Chaosheng's face was full of reluctance. This group of people is really too good to eat. If he stays for a few more days, his food reserves will not be enough, and he can be regarded as successfully sending them away.
Without outsiders, Jiang Chaosheng established a new rule for those bookboys and servants: "From now on, you will live in this circle of rooms outside. What time do you come in to do any work? Without my permission, you can't enter the mansion casually, and go out immediately after finishing your work."
Although Jiang Chao had integrated the memory of the original owner when he was born, it was like watching flowers on horseback, without a particularly deep sense of substitution.After all, he is not Jiang Chaosheng, he doesn't like others to serve him personally, and he doesn't like letting people invade his private space.
The others remained silent, only the little book boy next to him blinked his eyes: "Ting Zhu used to serve His Highness by his side, do you want to live out?"
"Listen well, I will only say all the rules once, and remember them all clearly." Jiang Chaosheng suppressed his smile, and his voice was a little oppressive.He will not underestimate these apparently docile servants, if they are too lenient, they will only be bullied by the slaves.
Jiang Chaosheng glanced at Tingzhu coldly: "From today onwards, you will no longer be my king's book boy, and you will work with Jiang Da in the future." Jiang Da is also a servant of a family, and has always been taciturn. Handy.
"My lord..." Ting Zhu was not very happy. Jiang Da was a rough guy with a tough temper. He worked with Jiang Da, and his delicate skin and tender flesh were ruined in a few days.
The young man's black pupils were full of hostility, and he felt oppressed immediately: "The thing that happened in the cabin that day, I didn't punish you severely in the past, but it doesn't mean that I can tolerate you a second time."
Ting Zhu didn't expect that King An would have woken up at that time, but he didn't care about himself these days, he suddenly felt his eyes scrutinizing himself like thunder, panicked in his heart, his knees softened, and he knelt down uncontrollably: " Listen to bamboo and know it's wrong."
Jiang Chaosheng didn't let him get up either. After the little book boy ran out, he never came back to find his real master.Although it is said that people do not kill for themselves, and that they are the most important in times of danger, but after the other party runs away, they can still pretend that nothing happened, and still act coquettishly and foolishly, which is really a bit cunning.
Jiang Chaosheng reassigned the work of 28 servants. A few female relatives were responsible for the lighter kitchen and cleaning work, and the rest of the strong laborers were ready to be arranged at any time-farming, fishing, and all physical work.
"From today onwards, I hope you will remember one thing clearly. After arriving in the fiefdom, I am no longer the eleventh prince of Lan Kingdom, but King An of Qiongzhou. After today, I will not care about everything in the past. The days of my king To live a good life is indispensable for you to eat well and drink hot food. But if someone is restless, obedient to others, even colluding with outsiders to murder the king..."
Jiang Chaosheng unscrewed the folding fan in his hand, and casually swept the rhizomes of the blooming flowers at his hand: "It's just like this flower." His movements looked agile and elegant, as if the breeze was blowing, and the delicate petals of the flowers only trembled slightly one time.
Ting Zhu, who was looking at the flowers intently, thought to himself, what does the prince mean, if they made a mistake, he would brush their cheeks so gently?
The servants blinked, and the flowers fell off in unison, leaving only a row of bare branches in the huge flower bushes, which were uniform and of the same height.Ting Zhu, who likes to be lazy the most, shivered, and silently hid from the reliable Jiang Da, trying to reduce his sense of existence.He felt that if Wang An looked at him a few more times, his head would be as ruined as these delicate flowers.
The local residents who were secretly watching the excitement in the distance also shivered and shrank their unshielded necks. The new owner of Qiongzhou didn't seem to be easy to provoke.
After beating the servants, Jiang Chaosheng put away the folding fan: "Everyone has worked hard these few days, go back and rest for a day, and don't be lazy from tomorrow on."
The young man held the flowers and smiled. He was handsome and merciful like a Bodhisattva, but no one dared to overestimate King An's tolerance: "Tingzhu, it's a pity to dry the flowers and seal them up."
This is forgiveness for himself. The latter quickly got up and patted his sore knees. This time he didn't dare to act coquettishly, and responded crisply: "Yes!"
Wouldn't that be all right? It's not that I can't do a good job.Jiang Chaosheng directly closed the courtyard door and locked it with a snap.Everyone else can rest, but he can't be idle today. He has to take stock of his property and plan for the future.
To sit and eat, there must be a mountain of gold and silver that can be eaten.Jiang Chaosheng measured his new house. The house has two floors, covering a total area of about [-] square meters, and the yard surrounded by stone walls is another [-] square meters.In the place where he usually lives, two hundred square meters is enough, the living area does not need to be too large, and the rest is used as a warehouse.
In his previous life, Jiang Chaosheng lived an ordinary life for more than a dozen years. Afterwards, when the world went bad, all kinds of strange things appeared. Although people will not become zombies, the good world will also become riddled with holes. .Although the world was changed, there was not so much danger, but there was no food at home, and Jiang Chaosheng panicked.
Counting the gold and silver stocks, there are only 2 taels of silver, and the rest are valuable but not easy to sell.The rest of the items are traces of the original owner's existence, and Jiang Chaosheng intends to seal them up in a box and does not intend to use them.He still has more than [-] mouths to raise, and now he can basically only go out but not in. If he thinks about eating and dying, at least he has to wait until his income is balanced.
During these two or three days, Jiang Chaosheng was not in vain. He learned a lot of daily expressions and asked for a lot of news.
Qiongdao is vast in land and resources, and of course it has more than a hundred people. A young man, A Lang, said sadly: "There used to be a big city in Qiongzhou, but the sea people angered the sea god, and the sea god flooded Qiongzhou city, leaving only the small sea village now. .”
A Lang's surname is Hai, and his first name is Hailang. Everyone in the village has the surname Hai. The little girl who peeped at Jiang Chaosheng is called Haihua. There are fur seals and manatees in the village...
When Jiang Chaosheng heard it, he couldn't help joking: "Are there sea pigs in your village?"
A Lang asked in surprise: "How do you know that Hai Hua's grandma is called Hai Zhu, and Grandma Hai Zhu was a well-known beauty when she was young!"
Jiang Chaosheng looked at the thin old lady with wrinkled face and sparse teeth and remained silent.In short, Qiongzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and there should be some small tribes gathering farther away, but the residents nearby have never seen other people.
It takes a lot of energy to search for a deeper place. Even if Jiang Chaosheng finds other people, or even finds another city, but the sky is high and the emperor is far away, they may turn their faces in public and deny his identity as the new master.Jiang Chaosheng only wanted to be a salted fish, not a stupid fish being monitored and calculated. If that was the case, he might as well go back to the capital to fight the hero.
Jiang Chaosheng moved the abacus nimbly with his fingers, and the gold and jade beads crackled.These lands now belong to him in name, and he has documents and official seals. As long as there are enough people, he can build a leadership team that will work throughout the entire country, but the key is that he is short of things and people. .
During the communication process, Jiang Chaosheng discovered that this group of sea people knew nothing but fishing. He wondered if it was because they were all old and weak, women and children, and their knowledge and skills had also been lost.In so many places, no food is grown.The residents of Haicun have no shortage of food and other needs. They are used to rowing dry goods to the Wangzhou Market across the sea for replacement.The locals don't eat rice either, but a sea crop called black grain and various fish.
It's a pity that before coming here, no one knew about the situation in Qiongzhou. Except for a lot of property and luxury goods, the original owner didn't bring anything.Eating fish every day is too uncomfortable. With so much land, of course we need to open up wasteland and farm!Starting tomorrow, Jiang Chaosheng will go to Wangzhou to find out the truth and buy all the seeds.Eat stock this year and be self-sufficient next year!If you can't finish eating, you can go out and pay back the money.
After finishing the plan, Jiang Chaosheng was hungry.His taste was very different from the original owner's, and his food intake was also very different. In front of outsiders these days, he hadn't even really had enough.
Jiang Chaosheng seasoned it according to the way he remembered, and fried a pot of fish himself. It was a small whitebait that was salvaged by the seamen in the coastal area this morning.Haimin, who is used to eating big fish, is not uncommon to do these things, so he just bought them after seeing them.
These small fish are about the thickness of a finger, and their bodies are transparent. The whitebait in the sea has larger scales than those in fresh water, but they also don’t require sophisticated cooking methods. Simply frying them is delicious in the world.
The small fish fried a big pot, and Jiang Chaosheng drank a glass of wine with this appetizer. He was very restrained and did not drink too much. He only had a drink to help him sleep, which was also a celebration of his move to a new house.
The dried fish was quite salty, so Jiang Chaosheng naturally couldn't finish it all, but he didn't like to share food with others, so he took a clean white porcelain basin to cover it before going to bed, and planned to eat it with noodles tomorrow morning. The water surface is still very good.
In the dead of night, the sea people who had worked hard all day fell asleep, and the hypnotic singing was sent to the shore with the sea breeze. Everyone fell into a deep sleep and showed sweet smiles in their dreams.
After Ji Xuanbing returned that day, he called a meeting of the intelligent aquariums in the sea area, and the aquariums from the nearby rivers that flowed into the sea also came.The Conch Clan and Clam Clan have a tradition of repaying kindness: "Your Majesty can hide in a beautiful shell and be picked up by benefactor! Usually hide in a water tank, and benefactor can come out to repay kindness when he goes out to work."
Ji Xuanbing felt that their idea was good, but as the master of the sea, how could he wait passively? He combined the opinions of the aquarists, observed secretly for several days, carefully selected a beautiful big shell, and delivered it to En Gong's new home overnight. the door.In this way, arrange for seabirds to knock on the door tomorrow morning, and En Gong will find out immediately.
Ji Xuanbing was very disappointed when he didn't see Jiang Chaosheng.At this time, he remembered the experience of repaying gratitude taught by the Conch Clan, and he could get up to do housework when the benefactor was asleep.
"Grandpa, I'm here to repay my favor."
Ji Xuanbing said politely, his voice was extremely low, as if he was afraid of waking someone up to sleep, and naturally there was no response to his words.
"If you don't answer, then I'll come in." The merman hopped vigorously on the big shell outside the door, and jumped into the reservoir with incomparable precision, only splashing a very small water splash, just like the fallen flower quilt wind. Blown off the tree, floated into the water so inconspicuously.The merman hid in the water and spit out a few bubbles like a small fish, but luckily he didn't wake up the sleeping benefactor.
His delicate Qiong nose moved, and he smelled a particularly strong fragrance.By the way, according to Seagull, Engong fried the fish himself!Ji Xuanbing slowly moved to the kitchen, carefully opened the white porcelain basin, and immediately the tip of his nose was filled with the overbearing aroma of fried food. As a fish in the sea, the mermaid basically eats raw meat, and has never eaten fried food.
If he wants to learn how to cook what Engong likes to eat, he has to understand what it tastes like.Ji Xuanbing picked out a small fish from it, carefully put it into his mouth, and with a click, it was crispy and crispy. Engong's craftsmanship is the best in the world!
Another one, another one.When Ji Xuanbing reacted, before he knew it, more than half of the few small fried fish were missing.Too bad, he hurried over the wall and ran away, summoning the aquarium to catch a large number of small whitebait in the sea and lakes overnight, and started frying new small fish.
Ji Xuanbing grabbed the fish and put it into the pot with a serious expression. A large amount of oil and water mixed together, causing the flames in the pot to burst up. Before it burned his hair, the shark subconsciously summoned sea water, and the waves extinguished the flames and washed away the charred fish. Small dried fish.
As the King of Sharks, Ji Xuanbing quickly overcame his instinctive fear of flames, successfully mastered the way of burning fire, and imitated his benefactor to fry fish. The kindness must be repaid in person to be meaningful!
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There are no recreational activities at the beach, and everyone goes to bed early and gets up early.When the next day was bright, Jiang Chaosheng woke up.After washing up, he walked out of the room and suddenly felt something was different.
But walking from the aisle to the kitchen, he didn't find any suspicious traces. The water marks left by the merman had completely dried up yesterday.On the kitchen table, a white porcelain basin was turned upside down.Jiang Chaosheng lifted the porcelain basin, and the golden yellow dried fish inside was so full that it was almost overflowing.
Strange, didn't he eat a lot yesterday and still have so much left?Jiang Chaosheng picked up one, with a delicate expression on his face. After only one night, the small dried fish was still very dry. It did not return to the tide after being placed in the humid coastal area for a night, but the smell of fish was very strong.The point is, he pickled it with salt yesterday, but the dried fish is sweet, as if someone added a handful of sugar to the dried fish.
There seems to be something wrong with this sea area...
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The author has something to say:
Small theater: how the little sugar fish is made
Ji Xuanbing: I poured out a lot of burnt and fried small dried fish overnight, and finally fried them with similar appearance. I don’t remember how much I ate, so I doubled it and piled it back.
The seagull said to sprinkle white and thin things, and then fry it in the oil. The sea salt is very thick, so I used sugar and fish oil. I don’t know how to use it. I’m sorry, it’s the fault of the stupid seagull!
MMB