The day before, they sent everyone out by boat and called seventy or eighty people from the Guzhu tribe to intercept timber in the river near their village.
Simply drive piles in the river section, intercept the timber and lift it ashore.
In order to prevent lumber from slipping down the river if the interception was not in place, another interception was made in the lower section of the river, and people were sent to guard it.
Everything is ready, only the wood is left.
Each piece of wood was slowly put into the water one by one, either in a double hug, or in a single hug, or smaller pieces, half floating and half sinking, slowly drifting down the current. Everyone was very excited.
"Okay, okay, move, move!"
"Hey, this is a great idea!"
"Yes, yes, it saves a lot of trouble."
After all the wood was put into the water, Zhao Liya and the others took a boat and slowly followed them.
There is no problem in this section of the river at the beginning, because the speed of putting down the wood is relatively slow. Five or six pieces of wood are put down one after another, which is counted as one batch. After this batch has drifted at least ten or twenty meters away, another one will be put in.
batch, and so on.
This way it will appear orderly, and all the wood will not be crowded into a pile. You trip me, I trip you, and no one can get out.
However, stumbling will definitely occur during the entire process of placing logs. For example, in some bends of the river, many logs will slow down due to the bends. Before you have time to move, the ones behind you will have already caught up. If you are not careful, you will get tripped.
stuck with each other.
When reaching this kind of river section, seven or eight people must be left standing in the water to deal with it specifically, pulling out and pushing out the stuck wood one by one.
Zhao Liya and Zhou Hansheng took a boat to cover an entire section of the river, leaving people at five places to handle it manually.
The two finally arrived near the Guzhu tribe and went ashore to join the Guzhu tribesmen who intercepted the timber.
Wet logs of various sizes were carried to the shore and piled up on the river bank in an orderly manner. Each piece of wood was filled with money.
Zhao Liya smiled and said: "Finally we have reached this point, it is not easy!"
Zhou Hansheng also smiled and nodded, "This batch is quite large. If we get another batch, we can ship it back. Let's go back then. Zhong Jing should also go back. Leave this to Zhong Ming. Zhao Nan and the others will be there soon."
Can."
Zhao Liya nodded. These two are Zhong Jing and Zhou Hansheng's right-hand men. They are capable. Things have been straightened out and they can handle everything else.
They've been out for so long, it's time to go back.
Spring plowing will begin soon.
This trip has gone smoothly, and it's not even a month yet! It's much better than they expected.
Zhao Liya was thinking in her heart that when Zhong Jing comes next time, she will come again to bring Li Ying and the others.
It took two days of laying the wood before all the wood was removed.
Zhao Nan also followed, and Dangjiang organized manpower, hired ox carts, and donkey carts to transport the wood to the port of Wanning Town for loading.
Although it is only thirty or forty miles away, the wood is heavy and heavy, and it is not easy to get it to the port for shipment. You must start early to avoid missing time.
Zhao Liya and Zhou Hansheng once again lamented their good luck: Fortunately, the Guzhu tribe they met were all good people! Otherwise, how could they be busy with the dozens of people they brought?
You can't spend a year in the deep mountains and old forests.
Unlike now, there are as many people as you want.
Salary? That’s not a problem at all!
After making arrangements for transporting the wood, Zhao Liya and Zhou Hansheng returned to the mountains.
Zhong Jing still arranged for everyone to cut wood.
This large area of huanghuali trees is at least several thousand acres. Don't worry about cutting it all down. I'm afraid they won't be able to cut it all down in a year.
Besides, there are more huanghuali trees on the island than just this place. There are many other mountains, forests and valleys in Yanluo Mountain, but they just didn't find them.
They cut down only the trees that were ready for timber, leaving the small ones untouched.
Zhao Liya walked around for a while and tied a red rope to some particularly tall, straight and gracefully shaped trees, asking everyone not to cut them down but to keep them.
It is not easy for big trees to grow up to now, so some trees must be left behind.
They will never cut them down anyway. As for whether these big trees can be preserved for future generations, that is not something they can guarantee.
I hope it lasts forever, as long as possible.
Ten days later, the big ship at Wanning Town Port was fully loaded with lumber and was ready to sail back.
Zhao Liya, Hu Ling, the reluctant Yu Xiaofang, Zhou Hansheng, and Zhong Jing left with the ship with thirty sergeants.
Li Zhu and the others were reluctant to leave.
Especially Liying, who held Zhao Liya's hand tightly, her eyes were red when she opened her mouth: "Sister Xiaoya must come again, I also want to learn cooking from you!"
Zhao Liya was reluctant to give up and wanted to laugh at the same time. When will her poor cooking skills be able to become a teacher? What a joy and congratulation!
"Don't worry, I will definitely come again. I will bring you good things then, just wait for me!"
"Yes!" Liying nodded vigorously, and then she felt a little better in her heart. She burst into tears and smiled: "I will definitely wait for you. Sister Xiaoya must come."
"of course!"
On the morning of the sailing, Li Zhu, Li Ying and the others took dozens of tribesmen to see each other off at the port, waved goodbye, and reassured them that they would continue to do a good job in logging.
The big ship leaves the port and floats on the sea for a day and a night. It will arrive at Guangzhan Port at noon tomorrow.
At that time, Zhong Jing can only arrange for the sergeants in the military camp to unload and transport the goods.
Distribution is of course Zhou Hansheng's business. He has connections in Jiangnan, and Zuo Xiang will help him handle everything.
Before leaving and boarding the ship, Zhou Hansheng specially sent someone to buy four baskets of seafood from the fishermen who had just docked at the pier. He smiled at Zhao Liya and said, "I was in such a hurry this time that I didn't really eat the seafood. I happened to take advantage of the slow pace of boarding the ship.
Take your time and taste it, let’s come back when we have the opportunity to go, um, catch the sea together, okay?”
Zhao Liya was startled. Although she had arrived at Hainan Island this time, she was busy with business. Zhao Liya didn't get to eat any of the seafood that she was so obsessed with. Not to mention rushing to the sea that she was so obsessed with, she didn't even get to eat it once.
She said it with a regretful smile, but she didn't expect Brother Zhou to remember it.
These large baskets of seafood include sea crabs, shrimps, hairtail, abalone, scallops, oysters, Eastern spotted groupers, squid, and other types of sea fish of all sizes that cannot be named. The baskets are full of them, full of them.
You can taste it slowly on the boat.
In this way, the fresh seafood that has just been caught does not need too much seasoning, boiling, steaming and adding a little salt, Jiang's will do it. The original freshness of the seafood will make people praise it and remember it for half a lifetime.
"Yeah, brother Zhou, just say yes, that's all. Brother Zhou has his heart!"
At any rate, this trip was not a loss, and Zhao Liya felt sweet and happy.
Brother Zhou is too attentive!
Zhou Hansheng smiled, his eyes soft where she didn't notice.