The eighty-first spring tour of the brocade sailboat
Li Zisheng's college life began to get on track, attending classes during the day and practicing qigong at night. His relationship with his classmates was also very harmonious, and he became the leader of Taoist students, especially the first-year freshmen.
Like his father, the young man's talent in talismans was gradually revealed. In addition to the Qingfeng Talisman, he also learned two other talisman methods, the dust-avoiding Talisman and the small fire Talisman. This speed is even better than Li Zhaochang.
However, in contrast, his performance in the other three subjects was a little weaker. Fortunately, the weapon refining was just right, but he was not talented at all in alchemy. In other words, the doctor in the cold white clothes turned a blind eye to his homework because he was an "investor".
By the end of February, the boy had already opened half of the acupoints on the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, and this progress jumped from medium to medium level.
Li Zisheng, the magical power of the earth-controlling magic, is a little successful. As long as it is in the land within his sight... he can create shallow pits or earthen buns. Except for the Yin Ren on the football field, the boy has not yet figured out what other effects this magical power has, but it has also achieved the title of a land-making expert.
The current young master Li is worth a little. With those two "money remuneration" and "patent fees", his personal property has exceeded 130 square Yuan stones!
Therefore, this little rich man inevitably slacked off in his "media career".
In addition to his two reasons, he is a little young and busy with cultivation and has no time, his competitor Jingnan Express has come from behind with his strong financial resources and well-informed business information, and now he has occupied the leading leader of Jingnan's media industry.
The merchants in Tieshan City, even the Li family in Xinyishuntang, almost everyone has one.
This also made his Pioneer News completely transform from a "financial comprehensive" into a "literary and leisure" publication, and his audience changed from a business elite to a wealthy class with leisure and wealth.
It is worth mentioning that President Li equipped his four distribution specialists who were "formally compiled" each with a simple version of the bicycle, and riding this bike out to sell newspapers attracted a lot of attention. However, he still paid for the money to hire Daosheng, a herringbone class, to work and study.
In addition to the serialized novels of "The Three Young Master of Li Family" and "Mu Tao" (Liu Wuxia's pen name: "Mu Tao" and "Qiong Yao"). The sales of the newspaper are not bad. There are even enthusiastic readers who send letters to discuss the plot, which makes the two children feel a little proud.
Unfortunately, what they wrote is not the chicken soup for the soul and the "philosophy" of life, but popular novels. Therefore, now this publication can only be called "Pioneer Literature" or... "Pioneer Story Club".
As the Tie Baifeng ran around, he also recruited some teahouses, restaurants, rouge and dough shops, bookstores and garment shops... and even brothel advertising business, which at least one-third of the Tie brothers were paid off.
The Pioneer Newspaper now has a slight surplus after paying for the printing costs and personnel expenses. The young man who is not short of money and is not stingy simply gave all the salaries of the newspaper's young employees. Even the part-time "supervisors" benefited from it. In addition to secretly stuffing Tiejin's subsidies, other "managements" also ate and drank for free several times. At least the Tie brothers don't have to worry about interest.
Later, I don’t know what memories Li Zisheng evoked, what kind of spirit or... nerves he carried forward, and asked each of these children to tie a red sweat towel around his neck and named the team...
The readers must have guessed it.
That's right, it's the Young Pioneer!
On the day of five or ten, the "Young Pioneer" with only single-digit members currently has red scarves, riding bicycles, singing newspaper songs, and becoming a scene of iron mountain!
March 5th is already late spring, and it is also the Qingming Festival, and it is a good time for an outing.
A group of young people came up from the dock of Flying Star Lake in Xicheng. They neither walked nor took a car, but came here on "two-wheeled bikes" that were sitting in the back seats of others. Behind them were a group of servants, book boys and maids in carriages.
This group of teenagers was Li Zisheng's group. In addition to the five classmates, there were also brothers, Tie Baiqiang and Tie Baihu and... sisters of the Hua family.
It turned out that today Xiao Jiaqi invited his classmates to visit his private pleasure boat. Now the Tie brothers who are familiar with Li Zisheng and others have followed eagerly.
Since becoming Tie Qianjiao's adopted son and the brother of the Hua family, the two families moved more enthusiastically and frequently. The boy did not forget the twin "sisters" and asked Hu Yunhong to make two small bicycles decorated with metal floral decorations and give them.
From then on, as long as the rest day, the sisters rode small bicycles, followed a group of people and carriages to the entrance of the college to wait for the righteous brother to play football together.
He and his friends, including Liu Wuxia, were also used to it, and now they have all become football enthusiasts.
"Look, this is my cruise ship!" Xiao Jiaqi raised his hand and said proudly.
Xicheng was originally a place for wealthy families, and there were many gorgeous cruise ships parked at this pier. If it were the hot summer days, these nobles would have driven to the lake to escape the heat. Now it is a bit late spring cold, and there is no one except these children who are very interested.
These yachts are more quasi-magic tools than ships.
This is because the power of these ships does not rely solely on manpower and wind power, but uses talisman arrays as "engines" and Yuanshi as "oil".
Some people engrave talisman arrays on the bottom of the ship, and once they are driven with Yuanshi, they can drive forward by themselves. The advantage is that they are flexible in driving and easy to operate; the disadvantage is that they cannot use wind power and cannot increase their speed. Therefore, these are small yachts with simple shapes or pleasure boats that do not seek speed, so they will not consume too much Yuanshi.
Some use sails that draw wind-catching talisman arrays, which can not only utilize wind power, but can also drive at high speed even in windless weather. However, this requires professional boatmen to control sails and cables, and more maintenance is required to keep the talisman array running. This is a bit of a loss when used on small ships.
There are also two, each with its strengths. However, the expenses will naturally increase. Only wealthy and powerful families have the leisure to create such a cruise ship.
The Xiao family's brocade sailboat belongs to the second type, but it can be regarded as a sight among these gorgeous or elegant cruise ships.
This boat is more than five feet long and two feet wide at the widest point. There are two sails on the boat, one large and one small, arranged in front and back, and talisman arrays are drawn on it. Not to mention the others, the value of the Fujin sails that can draw talisman arrays is amazing.
The whole ship is made of teak, and after being polished and painted, it is bright and shiny, shining brightly under the illumination of spring.
Especially the main cabin on the ship, although there are no carved beams and painted buildings, the shape is elegant. The top is covered with glazed tiles and the windows are made of rare large pieces of glass, just like a clay made of crystal.
The friends couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief... except for the sisters of the Hua family.
Hua Qiaoqiao said with a small mouth and said, "This boat is not half as big as my house, and it looks so shabby. Do we really want to take this 'small' boat to travel?"
Hua Xianxian was quite sensible and pulled her sister's sleeves and whispered: "My mother said that my cousin's family is very poor, so let's not say that to make him sad."
Although the sisters were not loud, the other children were all cultivators who had learned the innate Little Zhoutian, and their eyes were far beyond ordinary people, and they all heard this.
The smile that Mr. Xiao, who had become a "poor man" in one sentence, suddenly condensed on his face. Others wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. When the atmosphere was a little awkward, Li Zi rose to smooth things out.
He smiled at the sky and said to Xiao Jiaqi: "Old Xiao, my family only has grain boats. I have never been on such a grand cruise ship! Let's take me on the boat to experience it."
Tie Baiqiang, whose brain was spinning faster, coughed and echoed: "Yes, it's noon, and I'm still trying hard to sell newspapers for President Li Da in the morning. Fortunately, my brother's stomach has been screaming a few times. Let's get on the boat and use some snacks."
As he said that, he bent his elbow to hit Tie Baihu's weakness. His brother understood and said in a muffled voice: "Oh, your brother Hu has already opened a temple in his stomach. Let the young people prepare their meals seriously."
After their gags, the atmosphere became more and more relaxed. Everyone got on the boat with a joke. After the boatman shouted, he opened the anchor and untied the cables and set sail, and drove smoothly into the lake.
Boatmen are driving sails and cables to catch fish, and servants are adding tea and water to buy food.
These young masters and ladies entered the main cabin, drinking fragrant tea and eating more details, talking about the interesting stories of the academy, football games, novel serials and anecdotes in the city in recent days, and were so happy to write freehand.
Li Zisheng walked to the front deck alone and stood in the wind, admiring the spring lake light, feeling relaxed and happy. The continuous study and practice these days also made him feel a little bored. He was really exhausted when he was blown by the lake wind with water.
The boy was looking into the distance, and Liu Wuxia also walked out of the cabin to his side, and asked in a low voice: "Senior Brother Li, what are you looking at?"
"Junior Sister Liu, nothing, I'm... Hey, what is that?"
He was about to talk to Junior Sister Liu beside him when suddenly several strange boats appeared in his sight.
They were said to be strange because the boats could not carry a few people were dragging a few simple rafts behind. The people on the boat had no nets, poles, and ospreys, but people were exposed from time to time in the water. They threw their waist pockets into the boat with difficulty. The pockets fell on the bottom of the boat and made a "bump" sound, and even the boys in the distance could hear it clearly. This was really important.
Liu Wuxia followed his gaze and she was not unfamiliar with this, who had lived in Tieshan City for several years. She answered the young man's doubts: "Oh, this is an iron fisherman, I'm going to the water to catch iron."
"Oh. So this is the iron fisherman!" The young man suddenly realized.
As the situation in Tieshan City settled, the secret contest between the Tie family and the Jingnan Grain Association came to an end, and the grain price naturally fell.
The surrounding victims gathered in the city, and the broken iron fish cave also regained their vitality. The original owners of the shed fled to death, and later the poor lived in after repairing it.
They also solved the "labor shortage" in the city, and at least there are more iron fishermen who do not require technical content.
In fact, Li Zisheng had learned the news through his reporters, but the young man who had been slated for the past few days really didn't have the time to deal with the matter.
"Lei Gong, what are you doing, Mr. Liu? We are going to compete for fishing, so we're waiting for you two!"
"Okay, we're here."
Chapter completed!