The wharf was bustling with people coming and going, including those soliciting customers and those doing business directly. Xu Ling was dazzled by what he saw.
Many merchants travel on their own boats. After all, it is quite a long distance from Quanzhou to Yazhou. They want to do business and do not have a plug-in like Xu Ling, so they naturally need manpower and loading tools.
However, there are also some people like Xu Ling who only carry their luggage and take a boat to look for business opportunities and discuss business.
Xu Ling got on a large ship, and there were a few very special people traveling with him.
They were two official servants escorting an exiled prisoner.
The prisoner's hands and feet were shackled, and his hair was messy, but he was not as miserable as what was written on TV in his previous life. He was wearing clean prison clothes. When he was being pushed around by the police, he still had a good temper and said: "Be gentle, if you hurt me, My father won’t give you money!”
"Mr. Lin, you'd better hurry up. We've fulfilled your wish and taken the boat to Yazhou. What else do you want?"
"That said, isn't it just for you that I'm taking the boat? Don't you know that Yazhou is a vast and sparsely populated place, a real barren land, and the forest is full of wild beasts and miasma. If we go by land, we'll probably still be there. You can’t do it until you get to Yazhou.”
"Young master, I am in good physical condition. I am still very active after walking such a long distance in the winter. Alas, I don't know if the ladies in Wangchun Garden miss me. Unlike you, weren't you sick a few days ago?"
Xu Ling's attention was easily attracted by these people. He happened to be walking behind these three people, listening to the chatter of the young man named "Mr. Lin", and his mind made a noise.
Why does this man look like Tang Seng?
"Okay, okay, take the boat, just take the boat, hurry up! Oops! The New Year is coming soon, and we two brothers still want to go home to celebrate the New Year!"
"Celebrate the New Year? Oh, I really envy you that you can still go home to celebrate the New Year with your wife and children on the warm bed..."
Finally climbing onto the boat, Xu Ling took two quick steps and cast a curious glance at the young man as he passed by.
What a handsome man!
Even though he had been a human being in two lives, especially in his previous life, he was a ruthless machine for appreciating handsome men. When he saw the man in front of him, he still sighed in his heart.
Good guy, he's great because he's handsome. Even if he's wearing a prison uniform, he's still the down-and-out Takeshi Kaneshiro and the beggar Daniel Wu.
The man happened to look over, and their eyes met. The next second, Xu Ling pretended to look around and left the deck calmly.
Coincidentally, the two cadres who escorted the prisoners lived next door to Xu Ling's room. He did not go out all day on the ship, and worked hard in space to open up wasteland and cultivate land every day.
Now the family has accumulated ten acres of land.
One and a half acres of the land were used to grow precious Chinese medicinal materials. Most of the seeds bought from Dr. Chai of Lingbao Town survived. Some were sown densely, and Xu Ling even specially raised the seedlings to pull out some.
The two plots of land next to the Chinese herbal medicines were used to plant some of the fruit trees he encountered during his business trip, such as the jujube tree outside the village, the pear tree at Mrs. Li's house, and the peach tree branches, plums, and figs he asked for when passing by other people's homes. They all came alive and were planted neatly in the space by him.
Next door, there is about five acres of vegetable land. Chinese cabbage is the most planted, and other vegetables are relatively small. However, vine vegetables such as beans and cucumbers are put up on shelves, and the yield is particularly high.
There are still two acres of land. Xu Ling has established a paddy field and a dry land to grow rice and wheat respectively.
The two grain plots have just been planted for the first time and have not yet been ear-filled. However, based on Xu Ling's planting experience with half a bucket of water, the yield per acre will be higher than outside.
There were elder cabbages in the space before. After Xu Ling collected the seeds, he sowed the cabbages again. He found that the second-generation cabbages grown from the seeds produced in the space were uniformly larger and tasted better.
Xu Ling had a guess in his mind at that time, so he opened two experimental fields to confirm it.
The seeds brought into the space from the outside are called the first generation "XX". The seeds produced after the first generation XX matures are the second generation "XX". If the yield per acre increases a lot after the second generation seeds mature, will there be any changes if they are planted outside? ?
Xu Ling had no experience and could only experiment step by step.
This process will be long, but there is room, and he is much happier than some of the experimenters in his previous life.
Xu Ling planned what he wanted to do in an orderly manner.
He went to Yazhou this time, firstly for the tropical crops there, secondly for the spices there, to quickly accumulate wealth so that he could go home for the New Year before the end of the year, and thirdly because the out-of-season vegetables in the grocery store were too much. It was so eye-catching that he had to find a justifiable reason.
It took seven days to go back and forth from Quanzhou to Yazhou. Xu Ling spent three days bored in his room, planting and harvesting vegetables to cook for himself.
Occasionally, when he came out of the space, he could clearly feel the temperature outside rising. He took off his cotton-padded clothes and took out the autumn clothes he had prepared long ago.
On the day of disembarkation, the weather in Yazhou was sunny and cloudless. Seagulls were chirping in the sky. The islands not far away were covered with jungles, but faint traces of human habitation could be seen.
"Master Lin, we will send you here. You have to be careful in the future!"
When Xu Ling went out, two officers next door were talking to the prisoner.
As long as the prisoners are handed over to the local government, they can go home.
Lin Lezhi sighed, "I have regarded you as friends for more than a month. Now that I am asked to be separated from you, I am really reluctant to part with you."
An official also said: "Master Lin, although the two of us have made some mistakes along the way, we still admire you from the bottom of our hearts. Although Yazhou is a barren land, Master Lin has already asked someone to take care of it. You Life will not be so difficult."
Xu Ling leaned behind the door, waiting for the three people to finish speaking, so as not to attract attention.
I don’t know what mistake this person made to be exiled here. This is not a tourist attraction in the previous life. The language barrier, being away from home, and the miasma of ferocious beasts in this place should be a little better than being exiled to Ninggu Pagoda.
But rich people say otherwise.
This man can even buy his way into exile, and his family is probably not short of money.
Xu Ling sighed inwardly, why are other people's lives so good?
After the three people finished speaking, the shackles on Lin Lezhi's hands and feet were released.
Except that he cannot leave Yazhou, his personal freedom is not restricted at all.
After all, he was also a prodigy in the imperial court, and he became the magistrate of a local state at a young age. If not...he wouldn't be where he is now.
With a wry smile, Lin Lezhi straightened his prison uniform, straightened his back, raised his head and strode outside.
"Look up to the sky and go out laughing. How can I be a Penghao person?"
"You two, see you again if we are destined!"
The three people next door parted, and there was no other sound outside. Xu Ling opened the door, followed from a distance, and got into the crowd, got off the boat together, and arrived at Yazhou.
