The bright moon is like a wheel, the clear light is like water, the river is sparkling like silver scales, Hu Zhiyong, the owner of the Hu Sugar Workshop in Chongzhou Dongshe, is a middle-aged man with a short beard and a thick beard, and the Hu family has had many disasters and difficulties for most of the year, Hu Zhiyong is worried about fatigue, his cheeks are thin and sunken, but his eyes are very different, and he looks at the full moon in the distance thoughtfully.

It's already past midnight, and it's the second time, when the full moon floats in the river sky, it is unusually orange and red, unusually huge, and the silver-white river waves in the distance seem to be pouring out of the full moon.

"Dad, it's here, it's in the Jiangwanzi in front......"

Hu Zhiyong's eldest son, Hu Qiaoyi, a sturdy young man in a short cardigan, squatted on the bow of the boat, trying to identify the terrain of the north beach of Xisha Island under the moonlit night, pointed to a gap in front of him, and said to his father Hu Zhiyong.

This river bay is not big, Hu Zhiyong still remembers that when he was a child, both sides of this river bay are independent sandbanks, the big sandbar in the west is the main body of Xisha Island today, the small island in the east is also known as Guanyin Island, for decades the river and sea tide have poured sand and sunk into land, Guanyin Island and Xisha Island are connected, leaving such a river bay, Chongzhou is used to call the northeast beach of Xisha Island Guanyin Beach, and call this river bay Guanyin Bay.

The bow of the ship was straightened and was just about to enter the river bay, when two sentinel ships came to intercept it, and Hu Zhiyong bowed to show his identity; A person came on the boat with a lantern and said to Hu Zhiyong very politely: "Mr. Hu came over at night?" I'll show you the way. ”

Hu Zhiyong didn't ask around, let the boatman at the helm obey the command here, and followed the wayside with his eldest son Hu Qiaoyi into the river bay and went ashore.

A few days ago, the heavy rain caused a section of the inner side of the river bay to collapse, and the shore was as steep as a cut, so the forest bound people pulled the Dongyang up to the river beach formed by fine sand and soft mud, so that the ship's side directly leaned against the collapsed river bank, and used a pallet to build a sidewalk, and the tail cabin of the Dongyang was directly used as a disaster relief barracks.

Hu Zhiyong and his followers took a detour to the riverbank and walked to the disaster relief camp, saying that when they left Xisha Island, they gathered the victims on the Guanyin Beach, but they did not expect that after three or four hours, the disaster relief camp would have a scale, and the wind lanterns, torches, and bonfires illuminated the camp brightly.

Ropes are used to pull out the cordon in areas prone to collapse along the coast, and ropes and wooden stakes are also used to pull out the boundaries of disaster relief camps. With the stern cabin of the Dongyang as the center, more than a dozen tents have been set up in the open space near the river bank in front of the ship, and flagpoles have been erected in front of each tent, and simple and clear classification flags such as "medicine", "account", "guard", "service", "funeral" and "library" have been hung, and two porridge fields are set up on both sides, and on the outside of the camp, thousands of people are building shelters for refuge overnight.

Just looking at the eyes, it is hard to imagine that the wind and the inflow of the sea tide drowned nearly half of the displaced people on Xisha Island.

To be a businessman is to pay attention to a clean and neat, quick hands and feet, Hu Zhiyong really can't imagine what kind of sharp means can be used to get such a camp out in just three or four hours, the so-called management of the army, camping can have this level, I'm afraid it's also very rare, right?

"That's my lord......"

Hu Zhiyong looked over, Lin Tie was wearing a short shirt and standing in front of a campfire with his hands rolled up to his elbows and was ordering things, he frowned, as if he was not very satisfied with other people's work, only to see him squat down and pick up a branch, even write and give instructions with gestures, and only ask others if they really understand his intentions before letting people do things.

Lin Jian is much younger than expected; Lin Jian has just passed the age of the weak crown, but his actions and prestige will give others an illusion. Even though he was so young, he was still wearing cloth clothes and straw sandals, but the way he ordered others to listen carefully made him look very prestigious, and seven or eight armored guards made him also majestic.

Hu Zhiyong noticed that someone next to him looked at Lin Tie, hurriedly saluted, reported to his home, and said: "Chongzhou Hu Zhiyong greets your lord......"

"Oh, I thought you could only come here at dawn, are the night winds and waves in the river still calm?" Lin Jian came over, grabbed Hu Zhiyong's arm, and asked him not to make such a big salute.

"The river is calm for the time being, and I don't know if there will be another storm before the autumn passes. Thinking that there is a great shortage of materials here, how dare Zhiyong delay the emergency task of disaster relief for adults? Hu Zhiyong said in his mouth, his eyes looked around, eagerly looking forward to seeing Qiao Zhong's figure.

"Let's go in and talk conveniently......" Lin Jian invited Hu Zhiyong, Hu Qiaoyi and his son into the tent, he didn't think that there was no way to let the meat ticket boy and his family meet in the river so early, but everything should be careful, not to let the slightest possibility of leakage of news, and only after entering the tent did he order someone to find Hu Qiaozhong.

"It's very simple here, and I won't make tea for Mr. Hu, if you are thirsty, there is cold boiled water here," Lin Jian poured a bowl of cold boiled water with a wooden spoon and poured it into his stomach, and said to Hu Zhiyong, "The disaster relief here is urgent, I am not polite to you, what materials you brought with the ship, I will immediately send someone to do the accounting, and the disaster relief materials will be used immediately......"

Hu Zhiyong also felt embarrassed, he knew that Qiao Zhong and Qiao Guan were still alive, and they were sheltered in the Jinchuan Prison Lin Bin, who had recently become famous in Jiangning, he was in a hurry to come over to see Qiao Zhong, or Zhicheng reminded him to come with the ship loaded with some rice grain, firewood and other disaster relief materials, listening to Lin Lian ask, he replied: "Come in a hurry, all the shops in the county have been closed, Zhicheng stayed in the county and knocked on the door from door to door, I will bring all the family savings with the boat, not much, only 3,000 catties of rice, 2,000 catties of firewood, salt, sugar, and oil. Two more live pigs were slaughtered temporarily, and the others will have to wait until tomorrow morning......"

"It's really urgent, we are all still hungry," Lin Jian said to Zhou Pu, "There is no other manpower, Master Zhou, you will go on a trip in person and bring people to bring all the relief materials ashore." Those who do heavy physical work and injuries are given food and vegetables, and everyone else is given vegetable porridge, let the dining room do the same, first get through tonight, and then talk about it, and bring me a bowl of vegetable porridge when the matter is done; The sugar is all handed over to Zhou Langzhong to mix ......"

Zhou Pu quickly walked out to make arrangements.

In order to facilitate the reclamation of wasteland, the displaced people have gathered on Xisha Island to live close to the water, and this time there are almost no people who are not affected by the disaster, and they are all waiting to be fed and waiting for relief, and many people have been starving since the typhoon passed the day before yesterday.

While setting up a disaster relief camp in Guanyin Bay, Lin Jian sent people to various places on the island to inform the victims to gather in Guanyin Bay. Lin Jian had no intention of going to sea this time, it was a scorching summer, and the food prepared on the ship was very limited, but the rations for nearly three hundred people on the ship for three or five days were impossible to take care of everyone, and the disaster victims gathered almost five or six thousand people, and the food was exhausted, just waiting for the big loach master Ge Cunxin and the Hu family to help in an emergency.

At this time, more than 10,000 people gathered in the disaster relief camp, and 3,000 catties of rice could barely make the adults survive tonight; By tomorrow, more victims will gather, and there will be almost 40,000 catties of rice to consume a day. Chongzhou is a medium-sized county town with less than 1,000 households, and it is good that the rice city in the county can have 300,000 or 400,000 catties of grain in stock, not to mention the typhoon disaster, Chongzhou is not just Xisha Island, and a large amount of disaster relief grain still has to be transported from other places......

Lin Jian was thinking about the disaster relief in his heart, raised his head and saw that Hu Zhiyong was still sitting there, and said, "Sit down and talk, I didn't expect you to come over at night, Qiao Zhong took someone to the West Island." There is a river over there, and you have to use a boat to ferry people, and you have to send someone over to replace it, Qiao Zhong will be back soon, you don't have to worry. ”

"Don't worry, don't worry, Qiao Zhong follows adults to learn how to do things, what is there to worry about......" Hu Zhiyong said hesitantly, but he didn't sit down.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Hu Zhiyong's strange expression, Lin Jian asked in surprise.

"The adults have been great favors to the Hu family twice, Zhiyong kowtow to your lordship and thank you......" Hu Zhiyong pulled his eldest son Hu Qiaoyi to kneel on the ground, and he was about to kowtow to Lin Lian.

"What are you doing here?" Lin Jian grabbed Hu Zhiyong's arm and didn't let him kowtow, "If you have anything to say, sit down and say." ”

Hu Zhiyong refused to get up, insisted on kneeling on the ground, and cried: "The Hu family is just a small clan, since Qiao Zhong and Qiao Guan were picked, they have been fragmented, and the operation of the workshop is becoming more and more decadent, barely in debt to maintain." It has been raining heavily for several days, and I know that it will be risky for an old ship to sail on the Yangtze River in this season, but it is because I covet the price of sugar in Danyang Mansion in the rainstorm season to be two percent more expensive than in the past, so I asked Zhicheng and Qiao Cheng to transport sugar to Danyang. Fortunately, he was spared when he met the righteous help of adults, and he was overjoyed to know that Qiao Zhong and Qiao Guan were safe and sound. It's just that the world is impermanent, and if you think about it carefully, the Hu family is like a broken ship in the stormy seas in this world, with today's joy, but it may suddenly capsize and destroy the family at any time. The Hu family did not have the qualifications to ask for the dispatch of the adult, but except for the adult, the Hu family could not find any other way to live, so Zhiyong cheekily begged the adult to protect the Hu family, so that the Hu family would serve the adult as the master for generations......"

Hu Zhiyong broke free from Lin's support and insisted on giving him a big salute with his forehead on the ground.

The Hu family had no choice, Hu Zhicheng went back and analyzed the situation very clearly to his brother, the Hu family's sugar workshop with only a dozen or twenty hired workers was on the verge of bankruptcy, and it was not qualified to fight with the dignified leader of the water camp in Ninghai Town, once the news leaked, Xiao Yuantao casually sent dozens of cronies to pretend to be Liukou pirates to wipe out more than 20 people in the Hu family.

The Hu family is so insignificant, even if they want to seek refuge in the powerful, there is no powerful family who has enough weight to give the Hu family refuge in their eyes. Besides, those high-ranking officials and magnates and Xiao Shouyuan are all the same dogs, and they are not trustworthy at all. Although Lin Jian does not have a good reputation in Qingliu, he is much more trustworthy than those high-ranking officials and magnates because he has shown kindness to the Hu family twice and does not want to repay the disaster on Xisha Island this time. The Hu family took care of his subordinates, at least they didn't have to worry about selling him one day.