"Brother, so you're really here?"

The tiger girl in the unicorn costume ran up the wooden staircase with a bang on her short legs, and just saw Lin Haoran's figure as soon as she came up, and said in a crisp voice in surprise.

As a result, as soon as the words fell, she was flicked on the forehead by a finger, and she gave a face-saving "oops".

Lin Haoran was also a thief, and immediately preemptively reproached this wild girl: "Tiger girl, where are you running to play again, why can't you see anyone all night?" ”

"Oops! Brother, have you forgotten? I'm going to the north of the city today to help you catch the big bad guy! The tiger girl immediately frowned, and her fleshy face looked very serious.

Lin Haoran took his hand back in a daze, but he remembered this stubble.

A few days ago, this girl helped a village woman find a stolen farming cow in the cattle market in the city, but the cattle dealer claimed to have bought it from Zhao Si of Guantang Village.

Hu Niu looked at Lin Haoran speechless, and in turn accused crisply: "Brother, I haven't said anything about you yet?" Bloody Wuya was poisoned to death in a prison cell, Chen Tuiguan came to our house to report this matter to you, why did you come here? ”

Blood Boundless was poisoned?

Lin Haoran's brows immediately furrowed, but it was beyond his expectations.

Wang Fan personally went to Leizhou City to intercede with Xu Ji for Jiang Yuanwai, and after weighing the pros and cons, he chose to get rid of Xu Ji and release Jiang Yuan, which was regarded as selling Wang Fan a face.

Although he felt that the relationship between Jiang Yuanwai and the Red Flag Gang was not simple, after agreeing to Wang Fang to release Jiang Yuanwai, he did not continue to conduct in-depth interrogation of Xue Wuya, and directly sentenced the criminal Xue Wuya to death, which can be regarded as drawing an end to the whole incident.

It's just that the blood is endless, and he is undoubtedly killed. This made him suddenly realize that Jiang Yuanwai was not only as simple as trading Siamese rice with Bloodless, but also had a deeper relationship.

Hua Yingrong walked over lightly from there, and asked with a solemn face: "Tiger girl, do you know who poisoned it?" ”

"Sister Hua, I don't know yet!" Hu Niu shook her head seriously, looked at Hua Yingrong and said honestly: "Now I just found out that Blood Wuwu was poisoned, and there is some chaos on the other side of the cell, I don't know who poisoned it, and I don't even know when it was poisoned!" ”

Hua Yingrong nodded slightly, but a contemplative look appeared on her face.

Lin Haoran glanced at her in surprise, said hello, and walked directly down the attic.

Blood is boundless and poisoned, this is naturally not a big deal. It's just that he vaguely felt that he seemed to have missed something this time, and it was undoubtedly politically correct to choose to sell Wang Fang or Xu Jie's face, but he let go of a jackal.

Things turned out to be more serious than he thought, and when he asked people to investigate who had poisoned him, a suspected jailer hanged himself in his home, making it a cold case.

Although there are some regrets, life has to go on.

In addition to handling the affairs of the government, Lin Haoran is also steadily promoting the plan to open the sea. While welcoming merchants from all over the world, he also encouraged the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to go out bravely, and at the same time officially put the development of the Nanyang Western Route on the agenda.

To the west of the South Seas is the Southeast Peninsula, and countries such as Annam, Champa, Siam, and Myanmar are all located on the Southeast Peninsula, which can be regarded as mainland countries, all of which are mainly agrarian societies.

To the east of the South China Sea are many islands, such as Ryukyu, Luzon, and Suzhou, which are all island countries, and the territory is composed of large and small islands, all of which are mainly nomadic or fishing societies.

Lin Haoran took a fancy to the fertile land of those islands in Luzon, and planned to rely on the strength of the joint financial merchants and Guangdong financial merchants to turn those fertile wastelands into cotton planting bases for the joint cooperation workshop.

Although Lianhe Workshop has a relatively stable cotton channel, it is thousands of miles away from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Guangdong, which has great hidden dangers. If you want to completely solve this hidden danger and build your own cotton base, it is undoubtedly a good plan.

In order to promote this goal, he first communicated with the members of the United Business Group. After receiving everyone's support, he contacted Huang Dafu and others to persuade them to join the plan.

After listening to Lin Haoran's plan, whether it was Shen Liuye's gang or Huang Dafu's newcomers, they all expressed their support one after another.

First, Guangdong is not far from Luzon, and many situations can be known, and Luzon is indeed a suitable place for growing cotton; Second, the relationship between Luzon and the Ming Dynasty was very good, and even Xu Chalao, a native of Fujian, once served as the governor of Luzon, and oversaw the politics, economy, military, and culture of Luzon for 20 years. Third, Luzon is a vast and sparsely populated country, its national strength is not strong, and its weapons are very poor.

If a cotton base is built in Luzon and becomes a raw material supplier for the joint workshop, it does have extremely high economic value.

It is precisely in this way that, under the leadership of Lin Haoran, the plan to develop the Nanyang East Route was quietly put on the table. But this time, the focus is not on trade, but on building cotton production bases.

The big man has the plan of the big man, and the little man also has the plan of the little man.

Li Jiu is a refugee fleeing famine in Guangxi, and his family has a few thin fields and can barely make ends meet. On weekdays, I will have this meal, and I don't necessarily have a little oil over the years, and the clothes on my body are also tattered.

But living in this era, it is already a very happy thing to be alive. It's just that the flood in the summer came, so he couldn't survive in the village at all, so he fled to Bobai County with his wife and children.

Bobai County simply could not accommodate their group of disaster victims, and after some weighing, he followed a few fellow villagers not to choose to go north to Yulin Prefecture or Wuzhou Prefecture, but went directly to the emerging Leizhou City.

After arriving in Leizhou City, there was a special place to house their victims, and their group of refugees received relief from the Yamen.

Li Jiu and the others not only had a place to live, but also each of them was given a certain amount of cloth, and even ate delicious seafood porridge, and their lives were even better than those in the village.

Then, he didn't want to live separately from his wife and children, so he agreed to use three months' work in exchange for a small single apartment, and the family of four also had a shelter from the wind and rain here in the east of the city.

As the disaster was alleviated, and he helped build houses and his wife to do some manual work in his spare time, the family gradually had some savings, and returning to his hometown was naturally on the agenda.

Last month, he went to Leizhou City to buy grain seeds and some necessary items for next year's spring ploughing, and planned to return to Bobai County with these things.

Today is a very festive day, he has officially completed the three-month contract, and tomorrow he will not have to build a house on the construction site, and he will finally be "restored" to a free person.

It's just that he just left the construction site, but a fellow chased after him from behind and asked: "Dumb nine, you wait for me, how did you think about what you said!" ”

"I'm going home!"

Li Jiu gave a very clear answer, that is, he strode away without hesitation. He had been troubled by this kind of trouble, but it had not changed his determination to return to his hometown.

In his opinion, no matter how good this place is, the village is their hometown. Although he couldn't change the minds of other villagers, he didn't change this, not to mention that his clan uncle had already returned, which was a good example.

"What an elm head!"

The fellow watched Li Jiu walk away, and he also reluctantly accused, and then walked away in frustration.