Lingnan has Quanzhou, three bays and twelve ports.

People from ten continents in the market, merchants from all countries on the sea.

Quanzhou Bay, Thornton Port.

Under the drunken sea breeze, the lush harbor is lined with sails, and thousands of sails are competing with each other. On the first port in the East of the Tang Empire, not only the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty were docked, but also the merchant ships of overseas vassal states and countries came to trade with the Tang Dynasty.

Every time the waves are high and the wind is urgent, the sea breeze can go down the wind for dozens of miles, although the brackish sea breeze gradually fades, it can finally turn into a refreshing cool breeze into the south of Quanzhou City.

South of the city, Goldfish Lane.

In a small courtyard shaded by Yarong with blue bricks and red tiles, the little girl in Tsing Yi got up early in the morning at the beginning of the ninth month, and hurriedly ran to the bedroom of the second son, who knew that it was empty again.

"Hey, Erlang actually got up earlier than me today?" Chu Jiu glanced at the empty bed, and muttered to himself with a small face, "Erlang has been like a different person since he woke up the day before yesterday, and he used to sleep until the sun was three poles in the sun before he got up." Another day, I have to give the old housekeeper a letter to seal the family, saying that Erlang really changed his temper after recovering from his serious illness this time. “

After muttering, Chu Jiu walked out of the bedroom to the courtyard and shouted loudly: "Erlang Erlang, where are you, where are you?" ”

"Here, ghost crying wolf, howling you?"

A displeased voice came from the roof, and I saw a young man of eighteen or nineteen, wearing a brown robe with a half-sleeved lapel and a black green hat, sitting on the red roof tiles with his hands and knees crossed.

The young man's face is still a little pale after recovering from a serious illness, but it is still difficult to hide the heroic spirit and handsome facial features between his eyebrows, he is the second lang in the mouth of the young man in Tsing Yi, the second son of the Cui family in Qingyuan County under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou Prefecture - Cui Geng.

After Cui Geng drank the ninth day of the first month, he continued to sit on the roof and looked out at the direction of Thornton Port, the vaguely visible blue waves of the endless sea, and the faint and refreshing sea breeze wafting from dozens of miles away, made him fascinated......

"Oh my God! Erlang, what are you doing climbing on it? ”

Chu Jiu in the courtyard under the eaves heard the sound and looked for it, and found that the second son actually climbed onto the roof, and immediately became anxious: "Erlang, can you climb to the top when you are recovering from a serious illness, in case something happens again, how can I explain to the dead master?" “

As he spoke, Chu Jiu had already found a bamboo ladder from the corner of the courtyard and set it up, and then carefully climbed up.

Stepping on the solid red tiles on the roof, Chu Jiu staggered to Cui Geng's side and sat down, and asked, "Erlang, you are just sick, and your body is weak, go down quickly, in case ......" "How can there be so many in case?" “

Cui Geng withdrew his eyes looking at the sea, and turned his head depressedly to look at the little guy beside him, "Your son-in-law has not yet reached the point of being weak." “

Chu Jiu naturally didn't dare to talk back, so he had to pout and mutter: "When you watched Gongsun dancing with swords on the painting boat in Baiqi Lake three months ago, you said the same thing at the time. But in the end, he was not drunk and vindictive, and he fell into the lake with a stumble. The little one invited the famous Lang Zhong in the city to come to our house, and they all said that there was no doctor for the medicine stone, and he was in a coma for three months. Fortunately, God has mercy, the lord and the old lady bless you under the spring, and you have finally woken up. ”

Although Chu Jiu's voice was very small, it still penetrated into Cui Geng's ears word for word.

As soon as he heard this little guy mention the words Gongsun everyone, Cui Geng's mind instantly appeared a graceful figure dancing in his mind, under the graceful figure, the sword with both hands was like splashing ink, and the low chanting was like a hollow valley orchid, although a gauze scarf covered her face could not see her appearance, but Cui Geng could clearly feel the peerless face behind the gauze scarf.

More than four months ago, in order to trace the traces of Gongsun's family, he came to Quanzhou Mansion from his home in Qingyuan County and lived for a month. Whenever the grandson performs a sword dance on the painting boat, he must be there. And he spends money like dirt, and never spares money.

Until three months ago, during a sword dance on a painting boat, he got drunk and rose up to fight with others, stumbled and fell into the lake, and fell asleep for three months.

In order to heal him, Chu Jiu had already spent all the entanglement they had come to Quanzhou Mansion this time, but fortunately, this small mansion in Goldfish Lane was purchased by Cui Geng's father when he was in Quanzhou Mansion, otherwise their master and servant would have been living on the streets by now.

Cui Geng's mind was full of Gongsun for a while, and then he asked Chu Jiu: "Xiao Jiu'er, the day before yesterday, I asked you to inquire about the traces of Gongsun everyone, have you ever inquired?" ”

Chu Jiuyi heard that his son-in-law still remembered this red-faced woman, and secretly despised Cui Geng, but he still replied: "I heard about it, since you fell into the lake and became unconscious, the painting boat in the lake has also changed owners, as for the grandson, it is said that on the third day, they left Quanzhou Mansion with servants and maids. I heard that I went to Chang'an. ”

"Gone?"

Cui Geng turned his head to look at the north in disappointment, and sighed in a low voice: "I didn't expect that after sleeping for three months, the poop would be wrong." Alas...... A beauty like Gongsun is famous in Chang'an, attracting countless romantic talents, and it is only a matter of time. Chu Jiu, look at how many entanglements we still have, or ......"

"Stop, Erlang, my second master Cui, you can stop!"

Chu Jiu still doesn't know the virtue of his son? He was so anxious that he waved his hands and opened his mouth to stop: "Erlang, don't say that we are now exhausted and have no extra entanglement, even if we have entanglement, we can't go to Chang'an." It's been more than four months since we left home, the old lady passed away early, and the eldest son died of illness the year before last. Now the Cui family's winery in Qingyuan County, hundreds of acres of fertile land are all pointing to you to go back to take care of the mile. According to me, let's go back to Qingyuan earlier. Besides......"

Speaking of this, Chu Jiu glanced at Cui Geng, who was in a trance, and reminded: "Don't worry about Gongsun everyone, she is not a person from you." And when the master was alive, he helped you set a marriage, which was the Cao family in the east of Qingyuan City. Now the Cao family's family background and reputation are richer than our Cui family, if the matter of competing with others in Quanzhou Mansion and being jealous spreads to the Cao family, it will attract the Cao family......"

"Who do you love~~ What can the Cao family do with me?"

Cui Geng suddenly waved his hand to interrupt Chu Jiu's words, and he felt a little inexplicably irritable. Because he was stunned in his mind that there was no shadow of the daughter of the Cao family who had a marriage contract with him, how old was the girl? How does it look? What is the temperament? He wasn't impressed at all.

He couldn't help but secretly wonder, could it be that he had forgotten something after three months of sleep?

On the contrary, he had a lot more in his mind than he had encountered before.

During these three months of sleep, he had many dreams, countless dreams. There are absurd, there are fantastical......

These dreams seemed like a snap of a finger, and they seemed to have gone through centuries, but everything that happened in the dreams was firmly embedded in his mind, lingering, as if he had experienced it himself.

The moment he woke up, he almost thought he wasn't himself.

Zhuang Zhou Mengdie?

Butterfly Dream Village Week?

Cui Geng thought about it, his head began to feel a faint cracking pain again, he grabbed the arm of Chu Jiu next to him, and asked, "Xiao Jiu'er, you said that on the other side of the sea, are there many countries and people who look different from us?" They also have their own emperors, as well as their own courts and official offices? ”

Chu Jiu smiled and nodded: "Of course there is, didn't the second prince forget the merchant ships of the feudal states on the port of Thorntong?" Didn't those Silla people, Tianzhu people, Persians, and great cannibals all have their own courts and emperors? There are still people in Quanzhou Mansion who are selling Kunlun slaves, what about the Silla maid, the second son, have you forgotten? ”

"No, no, no~" Cui Geng shook his head and said, "I mean the other end of the sea is far, far away, very, very far away from our Datang......"

"The other side of the sea is far, far away? How far does that have to go? Is there anything farther away than Silla? ”

Chu Jiu felt that his brain was a little confused, and finally shook his head and said, "I don't know about that little one." ”

Call~

Cui Geng felt that his head was a little more comfortable, took a deep breath, slowly let go of Chu Jiu's arm, slowly stood up and glanced at the sea in the direction of Thornton Port, and secretly swore in his heart that if I have the opportunity, I must drive my own warship, lead the countless merchant ships of the Tang Empire to fight in this endless sea, and walk on this maritime Silk Road......

The Maritime Silk Road? The Belt and Road?

Inexplicably, Cui Geng didn't know why, these words came out of his heart at will.

Bang-bang-bang!

Suddenly, there was a rapid and messy knock on the door of the courtyard, and then someone shouted outside the door: "Chu Jiu, Chu Jiu, open the door quickly, I, I want to see Erlang!" ”

This voice is familiar to Cui Geng, but Chu Jiu is even more familiar.

Suddenly, Chu Jiu stood up suddenly, so anxious that he almost fell from the roof without standing firmly: "Yes, it's the old housekeeper, he, why is he here?" ”

Cui Geng's impression is that the old housekeeper is a slow and rational person, and today he was able to drive Quanzhou Mansion from Qingyuan County, and he was so anxious, secretly guessing, could it be that something happened at home?

Immediately, he arched Gong Chujiu with his hand and ordered: "You hurry up and go down first to open the door to the old butler, and I will come down later." "Hmm!" Chu Jiu answered, and went down the bamboo ladder to the courtyard.

When Cui Geng also came down from above, Chu Jiu had already opened the courtyard door and welcomed the old housekeeper into the courtyard.

The old housekeeper with white temples entered the small courtyard, and when he saw Cui Geng, he instantly burst into tears and fell to his knees with a pop!

"Second son, the old slave is incompetent, the old slave is guilty!"

Cui Geng didn't have time to help, and saw the old housekeeper kowtow three times in a row, and hissed and wailed: "Second son, Sanniang took advantage of the days when you were not in Qingyuan County, and Fang Ming, the account manager in the secret house, occupied the Cui family's family business, and the mansion left by the ancestors was gone, and the wine mill and 300 acres of fertile land saved by the Cui family for three generations were all gone......"

Sanniang?

Cui Gengwen's face changed abruptly, this woman who had been a third concubine before his father's death, and who had always been quiet and had no ideas, actually had such a good intention and good skills?

This book originated from reading books