Gongshan is not a lonely mountain, but a mountain range that extends from west to east, extends for more than 300 miles and goes straight into the East China Sea.

It is located in the northeast of Chu State, bordering Lu State, and has its origins from Zhao State and flows through Yan State. The Xiushui of Lu turns here and goes straight into the East China Sea, directly separating the land from the fief of Jiang's family to the west.

It cannot expand on all three sides, and the mountain is a stone mountain with sparse vegetation. In the eyes of the world, all the hopes of this land can only be placed on the small plain alluvial of beautiful water in the southeast.

Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the terrain, even if this small plain is carefully counting all the corners and corners, it can only cultivate hundreds of acres of thin land.

Not only is this land very saline-alkali, it also often suffers from floods. Even if it is carefully cultivated throughout the year, the yield per mu is only a few dozen kilograms. If it is only produced by this land, it is probably impossible to support even fifty people.

The scenery here is beautiful, with dangerous peaks, strange stones and fog. It is like Penglai Fairy Mountain. If it is in modern times, it will be a 5A-level scenic spot. You can get rich by just taking tourists to climb mountains and rushing to the sea. Unfortunately, the transportation here is inconvenient. Except for the few rich and leisurely strangers who will travel to such places where birds do not lay eggs, they are rare to see a new face all year round.

So as soon as Gongzi Bai's messenger stepped onto this land, someone stopped him.

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People on this land have always lived a very hard life, but Shuyu lives here with a good taste.

It’s not because he is rich or likes to exploit the poor, but because this is not what people imagined to be useless, especially Ren Xiu is a Zheng person, and his understanding of this place comes from classics and servants’ narratives, so it is inevitable that he is biased. Gong Shuyu just took the land into his pocket just by applying a little trick.

"Master, it's probably going to rain this day, so why not go back!"

The waves are getting faster and faster, and light gray clouds are floating on the gray-blue sea. Although the heavy rain will not fall immediately, looking at the sky, it will rain sooner or later today.

In the eyes of the servants, such weather should be in the house.

Gongshuyu, however, wore a gray-blue linen (shù) brown, and a big straw hat, sat on the high reef fishing. He heard people's urging and turned a deaf ear.

He was only twenty-six years old, but he had been working hard for more than ten years. He enjoyed and cherished such leisurely days.

In the past, my brother was incompetent and weak, so I had to rely on him for everything. In the future, my nephew would have to rely on him for help sooner or later. Such leisurely days would not last long.

He knew his nephew very well, was smart and calm, had an instinctive desire for power, and he could never tolerate the queen's interference in politics for a long time. His uncle came from Mi's family, and even if he was not happy for nothing, he would treat him as his own.

Gong Shuyu firmly believes in this.

Because the people on this land have been doing this for generations.

The bloodline is destined to be their own people forever. When they are alive, they must support each other and when they die, they must be buried in the same cemetery. They are a community of interests. Only by working together can the Mi family pass on this land.

Unlike people from small families, they have received such family education since childhood. This is their bottom line. No matter how much they make a fuss, they will never cross this line.

Compared with him, even if he is a biological mother, Ren Xiu will be regarded as an outsider because of his different surnames. He cannot enter the ancestral hall and cannot participate in the sacrifices of his own clan. Therefore, it is a wise choice for him to temporarily avoid the queen's edge.

The long bamboo pole was inserted obliquely into the crack of the stone, fixed by his feet, and the float sank down. He picked up the fishing pole with his hands and feet and pulled it up skillfully.

He is very strong, it seems to be a big fish!

This is a single-stranded wire made of artificially pulling the silk paste in the body of the cocoon silkworm. It is smooth, transparent, flexible and has great strength. As long as the technology is passed, ordinary big fish will continue to pull.

Constantly relaxing and tightening, the fish on the hook gradually exhausted. While pulling, you can see its bright white belly and the dark spots on its blue-gray back - this is a bass, which is not small.

Uncle Yu loves to eat fish. Since he came to Gongshan, he has never stopped fishing and shrimps in daily life. He was originally thin, but now his pale skin has become a healthy wheat color. When he saw the fish coming out of the water, he was instantly taken to the net from the person. Uncle Yu finally laughed "haha"!

He actually loves these things more than the punishment of the case.

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The south of Gongshan is facing the sun, facing Xiushuiyuan, and there is a gentle slope with slightly fewer rocks. Shuyu's villa is built on a platform halfway up the mountain.

This villa was built seven or eight years ago. He had already been prepared to be enfeoffed here. The poor Queen was still proud, as if she had taken advantage of it.

Shuyu shook his head and took the tray from the servant's hand.

In the tray, there is a large bowl of rough rice, a can of clean water, and a piece of roasted fish that is wide in the palm.

He has not married yet and has no children. He can't finish such a big fish in one meal and gets divided into several sections. For the sake of freshness, the first thing he eats is always the most plump part on his stomach.

The roasted fish with thick oil and red sauce was sprinkled with chopped wild onions, which seemed to make people feel appetite strong, but Gong Shuyu frowned and told the follower: "Let the kitchen put less oil next time!"

People think that if you don’t have enough food, you can’t eat it anymore. Thinking about the fact that the master is a person who cares about eating more pickles, he nodded and said that he would definitely give instructions. The fishermen at the foot of the mountain like to steam the fish. In addition to not resisting hunger, it is not bad to add some onion and ginger to suppress the smell.

Gong Shuyu then quietly enjoyed his lunch - because he was going to fish in the morning, he used rice dumplings with pickles in the morning. At noon, he couldn't bear the hunger and had to have another meal.

At first, he was unhappy and thought that he would eat an extra meal, and he would have to eat hundreds of kilograms of rice in a year. Later, the minister who managed the family wealth told him that this year, because he didn't have to cook salt secretly, some salt workers figured out how to dry salt, and their income increased by at least five times compared to previous years. Then he agreed.

Halfway through the meal, it started to rain in the sky.

The rain in Gongshan is not as gentle as Phoenix Platform. Every time I come, it is fierce and brittle when I leave. It is said to be heavy rain. In just half a meal, the sky clears when the servant takes over the rice bowl.

I was walking in the corridor with my hands behind my back, thinking about whether to wait until the tide is gone, and I went to the beach to pick up some shellfish and come back to dry them into dry goods. Fortunately, I was sent to Phoenix Terrace at the end of the year to serve as taxes for the fiefdom, and saw the retainers bringing merchants selling salt in there.

It was already very hot in May, so Uncle Yu simply met them on the terrace where you can watch the sea.

Because my uncle was frugal, he could not lay mats on the terrace. Although the retainers were not used to it, they still took the mats handed over by the servant and sat down carefully.

The merchant was lowly and knelt on the wooden floor. No one cared about his comfort. He didn't mind. Seeing his master looking at him, he hurriedly kowtowed and replied: "Master, the young master should be about to arrive in Yangcheng now. When Nu Nu came back, he heard that they were parked in Jiayuguan, and it seemed that the young master was sick."

"Um."

Gong Shuyu nodded, but did not ask more questions, only asked about the sales of sea salt and the news that the merchants found.

He sent someone to the young master, and he might not know about the things that were too secret. He still knew about the big things like this when the young master was sick.

I heard that the young master was dissatisfied with the marriage that the Queen had set for him, so he didn't take it seriously and did not intend to take it seriously.

He could not marry his wife because he disliked those ladies from aristocratic families who lived a luxurious life and were too expensive to raise, so he never got married, but this eldest nephew was not good.

Unlike him, the eldest nephew is responsible for inheriting the Chu State. It is necessary to marry a wife and have children earlier. As for whether his wife likes it or not? As long as his status is noble enough, the child will not be shamed.

In this regard, he not only did not think Ren Xiu was too much, but instead felt that she was very responsible and did a good job.
Chapter completed!