Chapter 476 Development

Qiongzhou at the end of July is like an oven, the sun is scorching hot, but standing on the beach, with the sea breeze blowing, and wearing a hat, it doesn't seem to be particularly hot in an instant.

Li Baolu wore a veiled hat, and walked forward barefoot on the waterline. The waves surged up and down, and soon wet the corners of her skirt.

Gu Jingyun stood beside her, holding her hand and walked slowly forward, carefully avoiding the waves, but sometimes when the wind was strong and the waves were rough, his shoes and trousers were wetted at once.

Gu Jingyun was silent for a moment, then squatted down and took off his shoes, and rolled up his trousers.

Li Baolu looked at it and laughed, "I told you to take off your shoes, but you didn't listen. It's more comfortable to step on the sand with bare feet."

Gu Jingyun frowned and said, "The sand is hot."

"Just stand where it gets wet."

Gu Jingyun glanced at the shoes in disgust, then looked at the sand under his feet, raised his toes, and finally threw the shoes away and walked forward together with Baolu.

Li Baolu glanced back at the shoes he had thrown aside, and asked, "Do you want the shoes?"

Gu Jingyun said calmly, "Let's talk about it after it dries."

Li Baolu stepped on the water and played for a long time, finally found a fairly flat rock and sat down, her feet were immersed in the sea water, feeling the coolness coming from the water.

Looking at the endless sea, she pointed in one direction and said, "It is said that my parents went fishing in that direction."

Gu Jingyun sat beside her, looked in the direction she pointed, and remained silent. Although the Qin family has never gone fishing, he has lived among fishermen since he was a child, and he is no stranger to fishing.

The same goes for Li Baolu.

"There was a new county magistrate in Qiongzhou that year. No one knew what his character was, but in order to have more capital, my grandfather went with my parents when they were going fishing. It was really a harvest season, and two consecutive For months, the people who went to sea gained a lot, and the weather was calm. Before they left, they worshiped the God of the Sea. Grandma said that they had brought three days' rations, and they planned to go farther..."

"As a result, they traveled a long distance and encountered a big storm before they could come back. If it was on land, I could still collect their bones, but in the sea..."

In this vast sea, and no matter where she didn't know where they were buried, even if she knew, it would be difficult to salvage their bones.

And apart from her, apart from people of their generation, who will remember the three people who came here to fear their deaths?

Seeing that Baolu's eyes were blank and filled with grief, Gu Jingyun couldn't help hugging her and said, "When we have children, let them come here to meet their great-grandparents and grandparents, okay?"

Li Baolu suppressed her tears and nodded slightly.

The two of them walked home slowly, changed their clothes and walked around the courtyard. After looking at the rooms and things she used to live in, the sun also started to set. It was finally not so hot.

The servants of Li's family started to cook and cook.

Li Baolu rolled up her sleeves and cooked a stewed chicken herself. She was going to pay homage to her grandparents and parents.

The tombs of the four people are not far from the village, they are only in the forest on the edge, and they can be reached within a quarter of an hour, and both Gu Jingyun and Li Jun followed.

There are four tombs, but only one is occupied.

Li Baolu knelt in front and burned paper money with the four of them, and finally knelt in front of her grandmother's grave and said in a low voice, "Grandma, I will fulfill all your wishes for you, just wait, my granddaughter will come with Cousin Jun in a few days." Take you back home."

The setting sun also gradually disappeared, the sky began to darken, and the sea breeze brought a little bit of coolness.

Gu Jingyun stepped forward to help Baolu up and said, "It's getting late, let's go back."

Li Jun silently picked up the basket and followed behind them.

"Second sister, do you want to invite the Fu family to watch the ceremony?"

Li Baolu stopped in her tracks and asked in surprise, "The Fu family?"

Li Jun nodded, "I'm afraid you don't remember when you are young. Your mother's surname is Fu, and she is from the third village of Sin Village. They are my aunt's family."

Li Baolu was in a daze. Of course she remembered that her mother's surname was Fu, and she also knew her mother's nickname, Xiu Niang. Occasionally when she was awake, she heard her father call her "Xiu Niang, Xiu Niang", and her mother always blushed from time to time.

As for her grandfather's family, she really doesn't remember it, she has no memory of her grandfather's family in her limited memory, and her father and mother rarely mention it, at least in her memory.

After all, she was asleep most of the time before she was three years old, and she was rarely awake. Maybe she was unlucky, and she was not awake when they mentioned it?

Because she has no memory, she seldom thinks that she should still have a grandparent's family. In addition, she has never seen their family appear in the past many years. She subconsciously thinks that the Fu family no longer exists.

Li Baolu hesitated, "Who else is there in the Fu family?"

"There is only one Fu Dalang, and that is your cousin." Li Jun paused, but said truthfully: "I asked someone after I came back, and in fact, your cousin's generation can move out of Sin Village and live in Xiangshan Village, but He is still in the third village of Sin Village, if you want to invite him, I will send someone to inform him tomorrow."

Li Baolu pondered for a moment: "No need, I will handle this matter myself."

She still doesn't know how her mother's relationship with her natal family is, and she hasn't had any contact with her for many years, so she always has to ask first.

Gu Jingyun patted her hand and said: "Zhang Yiyan will definitely come to see me tomorrow, just ask him then."

"Hey, did you call someone to notify him?"

The corner of Gu Jingyun's mouth twitched slightly: "Fool, how can he not know that our carriage with two horses and one mule came in? If someone enters the sin village, he doesn't know who it is, and the position of the chief shopkeeper should be replaced."

The sin village is now much more open than before, but it is still closed compared to the outside, because in the eyes of good people, the people in the sin village are still criminals and bad people.

They came here in such a closed place, and Zhang Yiyan, the current actual controller of the sin village, wouldn't he know?

Zhang Yiyan naturally knew about it, he received the news almost as soon as Gu Jingyun and the others got out of the car, and he wanted to meet people at that time.

But thinking about the fact that the other party had just got off the boat and got off the car, he must rest, not to mention that Gu Jingyun is still a sick child, so he was very considerate and didn't bother him, but prepared the souvenirs, account books, various plans, research data, etc. that he would bring tomorrow. .

Zhang Yiyan set off before dawn the next day. He is still a sinner and cannot buy horses, and he is reluctant to spend the money, so he still rides in a mule cart.

The speed was very fast, and he arrived at Sancun not long after the sun jumped out of the sea level. At that time, Gu Jingyun had just opened his eyes and was vigorously pressing Li Baolu this way...

When the two of them washed up and appeared in the main room, Zhang Yiyan had been waiting for nearly an hour.

The servants respectfully brought breakfast to the two of them, Gu Jingyun pressed his hand indifferently and said: "Sit down, I have something to talk about after breakfast."

Li Baolu looked up and down Zhang Yiyan who was standing with his hands folded, and said with a smile, "Brother Yiyan has grown up so much."

Zhang Yiyan couldn't help laughing, "I'm already older than you, and the son and wife are both so old, so I will naturally be bigger."

Zhang Yiyan took the right step back then, and has been following Gu Jingyun closely ever since. Up to now, no one dares to underestimate him, even if he is still a sinner.

But he never dared to feel rebellious, because he was a sinner, and this identity had natural restrictions on him. He couldn't leave Qiongzhou, and he had to rely on Gu Jingyun in Qiongzhou.

Those people respected and feared him, half because of his ability, and half because of Gu Jingyun standing behind him.

Zhang Yiyan has always been sober, so even though Gu Jingyun was not in Qiongzhou in the past two years, he rarely cared about Qiongzhou's affairs, and he didn't dare to do anything.

Qiongzhou is Gu Jingyun's backing, his eternal retreat, and Gu Jingyun also wants to repay this "hometown", so the first question he asks is, "How is the tea planted?"

"The effect is good. We fried it and gave it to many people to taste. The taste is mild, but the fragrance is far away. If the price is right, many companies are willing to buy it."

"Try to see if we can catch up with the foreigners in Guangzhou. They offer higher prices. They don't understand tea. The price doesn't have to be lowered. It's best to match the price of tea from other places." Gu Jingyun paused and said: "Tea plantation It is not allowed to occupy fertile and cultivated land, making money is important, but food is still the top priority."

"The county magistrate also said the same thing. This spring, he asked me to tell me that both mulberry and hemp tea can be planted, but they must not occupy fertile land and cultivated land. Now only mulberry hemp is widely planted, and only people in our village are trying the tea. It has not yet been expanded, and it will be rolled out after the order quantity is roughly determined, and I will reiterate it with the people from the county government at that time."

He doesn't know the good people outside, but within the scope of Sin Village and Xiangshan Village, no one dares to disobey him and the county government's orders, because their life and death are in the hands of the Yamen, most of them rely on his care, dare not obey ?

Gu Jingyun nodded slightly, "It's good that you know."

He flipped through the plan and data brought by Zhang Yiyan, nodded slightly and said: "You've done a good job, I'll stay here for a while and I'll see, there is one thing I want to entrust you with."

Zhang Yiyan got up immediately and said, "Say it."

"I want you to help me investigate the Fu family in the third village of the criminal investigation village."

Zhang Yiyan looked at Li Baolu almost immediately, and asked, "Is it Madam's grandfather Fu's family?"

Gu Jingyun looked at him with a smile, "You know him?"

Zhang Yiyan felt a chill down his spine and his hair stood on end. He worked hard and said with an impermanent expression: "Young Master once ordered to collect information about the sin village. Once when I went to the third village of sin village for business, I occasionally heard people talking about the Fu family and the Fu family's aunt. Married to the fifth village of Sin Village, and died in a shipwreck with her husband, leaving only a daughter. And the girl was sent to a village by her grandmother to be a child bride, and became a good citizen instead. Everyone said that the girl was lucky. I think this The story is familiar, so I listened to it more, and later I realized it was my wife. So I paid more attention to the Fu family, so I know something."

Li Baolu is the only child bride in Sin Village, let alone the child bride of a good citizen. He is the only one in the world, so when they say Zhang Yiyan, they know that they are talking about Li Baolu. Whether it is a fellow villager, a friend or a subordinate, he will pay attention. It's just that he never took the initiative to talk about it.

Who knows if there is any enmity between them that he doesn't know about, what if they do bad things with good intentions?