Three or four miles east of Jiangkou Town, there is the shipyard of Li Feng Jian.

Yang Huairen and his entourage came over in civilian clothes, and no one stopped them when they walked into the shipyard, and they found that the huge shipyard was empty, and there was not a single figure.

Yang Huairen was puzzled, "Even if the shipyard of Li Feng Jian is not used now, how can such a large shipyard not have a single guard?" ”

Cen Xiaonian smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that Li Feng Jian had nothing to do with his city, and it was always inappropriate to ask him an outsider this kind of question.

However, he still found a reason for Li Feng Supervisor, "There should be someone left, and it may not be in the shipyard at this time." ”

Yang Huairen didn't want to say anything, a good shipyard was very abandoned, and he felt a pity in his heart, he looked at those docks along the riverside, which were actually not dilapidated, and one large, four, and five docks seemed to be still usable.

When he walked to the last dock, Yang Huairen saw a person, an old man wearing a shabby straw hat, shirtless and wearing only a pair of calf-nosed pants, fishing in the dock.

When the old man saw Yang Huairen and them, he just glanced at them very rudely, but he didn't pay attention to them and continued to catch his fish.

Yang Huairen was not angry, and looked along the road, looking over a low forest, there was a village in front of him, the village looked very large, but there were also not many people.

There were only a few old men and old ladies tending to the vegetable patch, and a flock of geese were swimming and frolicking in the pool at the edge of the vegetable patch, and from time to time they made some quacks.

Originally, it was a beautiful picture of a leisurely village, but Yang Huairen smiled unnaturally, this may be a person going to Zhuangkong.

If the shipbuilders in Zhuangzi are really clean, then his trip will be in vain, just having an abandoned shipyard but no shipbuilders, and having vegetables and stoves but no cooks is a truth.

Yang Huairen was hesitating to go to the village to ask, when he suddenly found that several children in the village were leading a person dressed as a shopkeeper to come over here.

The children are male and female, but they are not too old, from four or five years old to ten years old, the only thing that is the same is that the children have no clothes or shoes, and they just run around with their bare butts, as if they are all used to it, and no one thinks it is inappropriate.

The man who followed them looked to be less than forty years old, and he was very decent-looking, with a square face and big ears, and he looked rich and noble, holding a handkerchief in his hand and blocking his nose, as if he was not very accustomed to the smell of water by the river.

Yang Huairen thought that he had finally met a normal person, and he wanted to go up to say hello to him and ask about the situation here, but when the person saw him, he seemed to show some hostility, and waved his hand with disgust to express his unwillingness to talk nonsense.

One of the leading children led the man directly behind the old man who was fishing, and the middle-aged man took out a few coppers and threw them to the child who led the way.

Then he said to the back of the old man who was fishing, "Old Daitou, you don't have to sell Guanzi, hurry up and give a sentence, do you want to come to our Peng family's shipyard to work?" ”

The old fisherman was still fishing with his eyes closed, as if he hadn't heard anyone talking to him.

Yang Huairen was also very curious about what was going on between them, so he stopped and became a melon eater.

The middle-aged man seemed a little angry when he saw the old man ignoring him, but he thought about it for a while, and said in a gentle tone, "Old Daitou, I don't know what you think."

The Li & Fung Shipyard is over, and everyone is almost gone, what do you say you are still doing with such a mess?

Why don't you listen to me, go to our Pengjia shipyard to be the head of the shipyard, and you don't need to work in person, just command those craftsmen to work, and get five yuan a month for nothing, where can you find such a good thing? ”

The old man reacted a little, but he shook his head, as if he had rejected the middle-aged man's invitation.

Shopkeeper Peng wiped the sweat oozing from his head, and continued to say bitterly, "I know you are reluctant to have such a big shipyard, but now it's different from the past, the shipyard is like this, and even the imperial court doesn't care, what kind of heart do you say an old man?"

It is said that your favorite thing in life is shipbuilding, and everyone in the industry calls you a ship idiot, but you guard such a large abandoned shipyard and there is no ship to build, what is going on?

Is your ability buried in this pile of rags? Don't you feel sorry for me, my old Peng is sorry for you. ”

The old man suddenly sneered and smiled, "Old Peng, you say I'm worried?" I think you're fooling around, right? I used to like shipbuilding, but now I like fishing, what, can't I? ”

Shopkeeper Peng was stunned, "Aren't you afraid that your Dai family's craftsmanship will be buried in your hands?" ”

Old man Dai smiled again, "Does this have anything to do with you?" ”

"It's okay!"

Shopkeeper Peng resorted to agitation, "But you're not afraid that your Dai family ancestor will scold you?" ”

"Don't be afraid!" Old man Dai said with a smile, "I have also taught a lot of apprentices, and the skills will be passed on, as for how much they can pass on, it is not up to me as an old man to manage it." ”

The shopkeeper Peng pondered again, "Your four sons are all gone, they are all good outside, and they are all craftsmen in various shipyards, and your eldest son is in our Peng family's shipyard."

Let me tell you another good news, your eldest daughter-in-law is pregnant, and she will be able to add you a big fat grandson in half a year, so don't you plan to go and see it?

As long as you come to our Pengjia shipyard, you are always the leader, take the money five times a month, usually drink water and watch the craftsmen under you work, you can still get grandchildren after work, this day is a good day, you don't want to live this kind of life? ”

Lao Daitou suddenly froze, sat in place in a daze, and was indifferent to even a fish that was hooked, and let the fish flutter for a long time to break free from the hook and swim away without any reaction.

Shopkeeper Peng felt that he might use the matter of his children and grandchildren to move Lao Daitou, and then said, "That's right, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about your son and grandson."

In the future, as long as your Dai family works well in our Peng family, I, Peng Yuhe, will ensure that the three generations of your family have no worries about food and clothing! ”

The children next to him did not leave, and they didn't care about what the shopkeeper Peng came to say to Lao Daitou, and there were many people who usually looked like Shopkeeper Peng, but no one ever said that Lao Daitou left.

But today seems a little different, an older kid who was still playing with a copper coin realizes that something might be changing.

He walked up to the old fisherman and asked, "Father-in-law Dai, do you want to go to their shipyard with this shopkeeper Peng and leave our village?" ”

Lao Dai Tou came back at this time, turned his head and smiled lovingly at the bare-bottomed child, "Nonsense, who said I was leaving you?" ”