Lord of the House

After Lin Fu inspected the cell, he took Ao Canghai and the guards back to the mouth of the river by boat.

Back at the thatched cottage, they saw Zhao Hu's mother waiting for him in the cottage. It was past midnight. The accompanying Liu Yue'er and Xiao Man were relieved when they saw Lin Fu coming back. They couldn't help but yawn.

Lin Bie took off the waist knife and handed it to Liu Yue'er to take it to the inner room. When she saw Zhenniang bringing tea, she pointed at Ao Canghai and instructed Zhenniang, "This is Master Ao, go and tell your family, if you see Go to Master Hei and ask Master Hei to come over. Then ask your family to prepare a quiet room for Master Ao in the outer house; in the future, if Master Ao has any orders in the outer house, you must do all of them..."

Zhenniang responded, put down the tea cup and backed out. Zhenniang was originally a female prisoner on the island, but she was released after serving her sentence, but was abandoned by her family, and she could not return to her family. Lin Fu made her promise to Wang Mazi, who used to be the head of the prison. Now that there are many things in the thatched cottage, Lin Fu officially took Wang Mazi and his wife in the thatched cottage to help Liu Yueer do some chores.

Lin Fu sat down and asked Zhao Hu his mother, "It's so late, what's the matter with my aunt coming here?"

"It's not a big deal. Sitting and talking with Madam and Little Man, I forgot the time." Zhao Hu his mother looked at Ao Canghai, although Lin Fu almost turned against She Feihu for Ao Canghai's sake, but Hekou There were only a handful of people here who knew about Ao Canghai's existence. Zhao Hu's mother had only been to Hekou for ten days, and she had never been to Prison Island, so she naturally didn't recognize him.

"It's not a serious matter, just give me a surprise," Lin Fu said with a smile, "Zhao Hu left me on the island, and it's rare to come back. My aunt is going to do something in the river mouth, and I can't find me, so I'll go with Qiqi. Madam said it was inconvenient, so she directly ordered Yue’er and Xiaoman to do the same.”

Lin Jingzhong and Zhao Hu's family moved to Hekou this time. The new house has not yet been built, so they were temporarily housed in the surrounding room. Lin Jingzhong's parents and Zhao Hu's father were honest people. Zhao Hu's mother was by the seventh lady's side, Gu Yingxiu. I have been doing things for many years, I have a lot of knowledge, and I do things quickly. When I come to Hekou, I continue to work with the seventh lady, Gu Yingxiu.

"It's still about Qingshan," Zhao Hu's mother said. "He did something wrong today, so he should reprimand the family... I heard that the third lady is going to drive all foreigners out of the village camp. Qingshan has a future. He is the one who introduced Hu Zi into the village camp, and he is safer than Hu Zi. It would be a pity if he was really kicked out of the village camp.”

Lin Fu thought that the angry words that the third lady said in the courtyard of the new house had finally spread. The Lin family had experienced so many things in a short period of time. No wonder Zhao Qingshan felt uneasy and asked Zhao Hu's mother to guard him in the cottage until late at night.

"That was just an angry remark from the third lady, and I didn't see the third lady mention it later. You don't need to take this kind of words seriously, and you don't know who spread it out. Auntie, tell Brother Qingshan, don't worry about it, even if the three Madam wants to chase people away, doesn't she want Sister Yingxiu to be in the new house?" Lin Fu said, "And if Brother Qingshan has anything to do in the future, you can come directly to me to discuss it, I really don't need to trouble Aunt Zhao, you can sit until late at night. ."

Zhao Qingshan and Zhao Hu are distant cousins, and Zhao Hu's mother is his aunt. Today, the village brave gathered a crowd to make a commotion. Although Zhao Qingshan failed to control the situation, he did not make the situation worse. There is nothing wrong with handling it; Those people in this family were frightened by the many things that happened in a row during this period of time, and became frightened birds.

Although Lin Fu has the heart to win over Zhao Qingshan, he will not directly pull him over for the time being. It is also beneficial to let him continue to work for the family.

Today, there are more than 400 people on the river mouth and prison island.

In addition to the more than 50 elites of the Dongyang ship, which are led by Ge Cunxin, the loach master, and the 60 military soldiers on duty are led by Yang Shi, there are 300 new military soldiers and military guards. Lin Fu has the ability to personally control them. . Zhou Pu is in charge of training all matters. When the time comes, he will temporarily assign the commander, and will not appoint a fixed commander for the time being.

Lin Fu thought for a while, thinking that since Zhao Qingshan had the intention of joining in, maybe it would be better for Hekou to participate in the training of Min Yong.

The guards and military guards are both standing forces and specializing in combat readiness. However, organizing the youth of the Hekou in a wider range, using spare time or setting aside three or five days a month to conduct a certain degree of military training, can not only strengthen the Hekou’s strength. The defense force can also be used as a backup force for the guards and military guards.

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Lin Fu sent Zhao Hu's mother back to the surrounding house and back to the cottage. Halfway through, the crow Wu Qi flashed out of the shadows and said, "The Dongyang is back!" He asked Ao Canghai again, "Master Ao wants to understand?"

When Ao Canghai and other assassins attacked the She family warriors at the southern foot of Sheshan, it was Wu Qi who took the risk and rescued them.

"In the future, I will ask Master Wu to take more care of him," Ao Canghai said.

"I just hope that you will come on the pirate ship," Wu Qi said with a smile. "There are many people in Jiangning City who want to be unfavorable to the estuary. If you can get Lord Ao's help, everyone will feel a lot easier..."

Ao Canghai smiled, and it meant that everything was hidden.

When Ao Canghai assassinated the flying tiger for the first time, Lin Fu and others happened to meet, and they managed to escape by taking advantage of the mountain terrain. After that, while Ao Canghai was planning to assassinate again, he would naturally inquire about Lin Fu's situation. When Ao Canghai rescued Wu Qi for the second time, he knew that they hadn't been able to get rid of the She family's tail. Although Ao Canghai still didn't know how Lin Fu dealt with the extravagant tiger, he knew that Lin Fu and the others were hiding a lot of secrets, and it was not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

Ao Canghai has been recovering from his injuries on the prison island for more than a month. Except for the training camp and the prison cell in the island's east beach, he has not been grounded in other places on the prison island. Ao Canghai has seen many things in his eyes. Besides, since Lin Fu can He was not afraid to let the She family know about taking him in. All these things prompted Ao Canghai to make up his mind to temporarily let go of his family feud and follow Lin Fu.

Lin Fu wanted to open up the situation as soon as possible in Jiangning, and there were many people who offended him. Although Gu Wuchen was his backer, he was not afraid of revenge from others, but these forces were not good men and women. Wu Qi, Cao Zi'ang and others were afraid that they would send assassins.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Lin Fu is just a disciple of Gu Wuchen, but Wu Qi, Cao Zi'ang, Zhou Pu and others only see Lin Fu but not Gu Wuchen. The situation in Changshan Island-Hekou was not easy to come by. They knew in their hearts that Lin Fu could never be replaced by others, and naturally they were most concerned about Lin Fu's personal safety.

Zhou Pu now spends most of the time on prison island to train new pawns with Zhao Hu. Lin Fu usually has four or five guards with him. When he travels, Wu Qi either guards in secret or sends other secret posts to accompany him. But after all, there are few people, even if the other party can't send more assassins, as long as twenty or thirty people ambushed in the narrow road, they can put Lin Fu in danger of life and death. If this happens, a brave general who is not afraid of life and death is needed to find a way to escape for Lin Fu. This responsibility was originally for Zhou Pu, but now Lin Fu has left Zhou Pu on the prison island, and Ao Canghai can just do it. take this seat.

Wu Qi and others have witnessed Ao Canghai's skill with their own eyes, and they are not under Zhou Pu. Sometimes skill is second, the key is that Ao Canghai has the spirit of fearless life and death.

The so-called heroes cherish each other, Wu Qi did not hesitate to take the risk to save Ao Canghai for nothing else. These days, everyone has been hoping that Lin Fu will be able to bring him into the team, and today it is a taste of what they want.

At this time, Wu Qi reported more specific things to Lin Fu, "I'm afraid you can't think of it, the three tigers also came with the boat."

Old people such as Wu Qi used to call Fu Qinghe the old name.

"Mr. Fu is here?" Lin Fu was pleasantly surprised. He and Fu Qinghe hadn't seen each other since they separated in Qingjiangpu. He wrote several times that he wanted to come to Jiangning, but he didn't expect him to come this time. He asked again, " What about Master Cao?"

"Zi'ang is at the dock, I'll come to find you." Wu Qi said.

Lin Fu, Wu Qi and Ao Canghai immediately passed by Lin Mengde's residence at the mouth of the river, and La Lin Mengde went to the riverbank pier to join Cao Zi'ang, and took a paddle boat directly to the northeast side of Prison Island.

After returning to the estuary from Shanglinli, the Dongyang stayed at the estuary for two days, and then left Jiangning. Of course, Ao Canghai did not know that the Dongyang actually went to Changshan Island these days before returning today.

On the east side of Changshan Island, except for the training camp dock, there is no other place to park the boat. Besides, the training camp dock is too small and the waterway into which it enters is too narrow.

Ao Canghai sat on the paddle boat and watched the Dongyang moored on the water like a giant beast. When he leaned over, he found that there were six small boats docked on the other side of the Dongyang. The Dongyang was unloaded onto a small boat.

"It's salt packets, it's private salt," Lin Fu explained to Ao Canghai, and said with a smile, "This is the first time we've done this kind of business."

"Master Ao probably can't guess how to sell the private salt that we brought in..." Wu Qi said in a condescending manner.

Indeed, Lin Bie offended all the local forces in Jiangning. It was absolutely impossible to offend local forces if he wanted to trade in illicit salt.

Ao Canghai frowned and thought for a moment, then said, "Fish, salted fish."

"Ah..." Wu Qi was quite surprised. He didn't expect Ao Canghai to think of the key point at once, "How did you think of it?"

"My lord has no intention to hide anything from me. I can walk around in many places on the island," Ao Canghai said with a smile, "I have always wondered why there are so many businesses on the island, such as iron workshops and wood workshops, why should I invest so much? The people who go to the river to fish, do pickled salted fish get so much more profit? At first, I couldn’t imagine life or death, but now I understand this~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Cao Ziang nodded secretly, Ao Canghai joined the army in vain, and then A non-confidante, who can be a lieutenant general of the forward battalion of Chen Zhihu's division, will not be a man of intrepidity.

Lin Fu smiled, looked at Fu Qinghe standing on the bow, and said with a smile: "Mr. Fu is finally here, Xiaoman knows, I don't know how happy he will be..."

Fu Qinghe had been watching for more than fifty days, his temples were dyed with cream, but his skills were strong.

The big loach master Ge Cunxin wanted to watch people transport 400 packets of private salt to the island by night. Lin Fu and the others took Fu Qinghe to the training camp first.

The imperial court monopolized the sale of salt and iron and other things, and set up a special salt and iron yamen in Weiyang Prefecture to govern the salt fields and transfer affairs of Hailing, Pingjiang, Huai'an and Jiashan Prefectures. , Yan Ding troops, and even reserved tens of millions of acres of fertile shoals in the prefectures to prohibit land reclamation, just to plant grass to provide enough fuel for frying the sea and boiling salt, so as to ensure that the court can extract up to two million from the Jianghuai salt industry every year. Heavy tax of two silver or more.

In Jiangning, the price of salt is the same as that of meat. People can go without meat for a year, but they cannot go without salt for a day. Further to the hinterland of Jiangxi and Huguang, the price of salt is several times higher than that of meat. In places with severe salt shortages, even a pound of grain can not be exchanged for a pound of salt.

If the 400 packets of illicit salt can be dispersed through the salted fish, the profit will be at least 1,000 taels of silver.

Although Lin Fu and the others were fishing in the murky waters of Luoyang Lake this time up to nearly 100,000 taels of silver, that kind of business can only be done occasionally, and it is far less realistic than the sale of a boatload of private salt to gain 1,000 taels of silver.

Lin Fu's profit alone is enough to support the six or seven hundred elites on both sides of Changshan Island and the mouth of the river.

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