Huang Chen opened his eyes early in the morning. He was no longer sixteen years old, but now seventeen years old. Don't underestimate the one-year difference. Huang Chen gave 100% or even 100% to be the master of the ship.
Two hundred efforts, but no matter how much he does and how well he does, the crew members will always feel weird. It has nothing to do with ability, it is simply a matter of age. Although a seventeen-year-old captain is also a rare thing, it is not like a sixteen-year-old captain.
It's astonishing to be one year old. Being one year older means that Huang Chen's control over his subordinates has further strengthened. Perhaps this problem will disappear completely only when Huang Chen turns eighteen next year.
There is no doubt that Huang Chen was the last one to wake up in the family and went to the front hall to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. Zhang. Huang Chen now owns two big ships and has a net worth of at least five or six hundred taels, but this does not prevent him from paying tribute to Mr. Zhang.
Mrs. Zhang asked for a red envelope. Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but give him a look, and while stuffing him a red envelope, she said, "The money in the red envelope is what you gave me yesterday. Why are you here to join in the fun?"
Huang Chen stuffed the red envelope into his arms with a smile and said: "You can't say that, the red envelope given by grandma is worth a hundred gold."
Zhang couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Jin, your mouth is getting better and better at talking."
Huang Chen said with an innocent face: "I didn't lie to grandma, I was sincere."
"Okay, okay, sincerely, sincerely..." Mrs. Zhang responded with a smile, then looked at Huang Chen carefully, and couldn't help but sigh: "My son is seventeen! You have grown so fast in the past few years, and you are like this again.
If it goes up, I might not even be able to touch your head."
"If grandma wants to touch my head, just say something and I will bend down." Huang Chen deliberately approached Mr. Zhang and said. When he first inherited the body, he was about 1.65 or 66 meters tall. In the past six months,
As long as he has the conditions, he will never treat himself badly. He regards fish and meat as ordinary things. It is not strange to be tall, but it is strange not to be tall. His current height is about 1.7 meters. How tall will his body eventually grow? He is 1.8 meters tall.
Dare to think about it, but it would have to grow to at least 1.76 meters. This was his height in his previous life, and he couldn't be inferior to him in every life.
"You..." Mrs. Zhang pointed her finger at Huang Chen's forehead.
The mother and son were chatting and laughing. After a while, the mute girl walked in. She was wearing a brand new lake green silk dress today, which made her look particularly beautiful. Huang Chen praised her emphatically, and used flattering words to even those on the side.
Mrs. Zhang couldn't stand listening anymore, and the mute girl was happy and ashamed, with a pair of clean and flawless deer eyes that seemed to have arcs of light flowing. After the rejection of marriage, the two were once estranged. Huang Chen was worried, but fortunately he taught her how to read and write on weekdays and created a new world.
There were many opportunities to be alone together, and after two or three months of constant hard work, the mute girl finally smiled, which was a big problem in his mind. But for some unknown reason, the mute girl never spoke, but Huang Chen often said
She is worried about her aphasia, fearing that she will become truly mute in the future.
After breakfast, Huang Chen set off to Hu Er's hometown to pay New Year greetings. New Year greetings are not as simple as handing over someone's hand. There is a strict set of procedures. According to the etiquette, Huang Chen was required to kneel down and kowtow to Hu Er. He knelt down willingly to his mother, but it was another matter for others. Huang Chen endured
He kowtowed awkwardly and chatted with the other leaders to Hu Erlao. Hu Yin was particularly active today and frequently joked with everyone. There was only one reason. Hu Erlao fulfilled his promise and gave him a seven-foot bird boat. From then on, he was also a member of the same boat.
Master, the sixteen-year-old captain. Huang Chen secretly smiled and said: "Is it easy to be a young captain? It's your turn to taste all the hardships I have suffered..."
Not long after sitting there, Mr. Hu took a few people to Yimu's hometown, kowtowing and talking without talking. Huang Chen came out of Yimu's hometown and went with Wang Fengwu to his house to pay New Year's greetings to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother was not only his elder but also his noble person.
, usually treated him very well, but this time Huang Chen didn't resist in his heart. He kowtowed a few times respectfully and said auspicious words. After the Queen Mother finished her salute, she immediately pulled him up and gave him a bag with a smile on her face.
The extra-large red envelope of twenty taels of silver is more than what you would give to your own grandson…
Wang Fengwu asked his wife to prepare some snacks, and took Huang Chen to have a drink and chat. They were both leaders of the party now, and there were hundreds of people paying New Year's greetings to them. It was not advisable to drink deeply to avoid getting into trouble. Soon someone came to visit Wang Fengwu, and Huang Chen
It was estimated that people were coming to his house soon, so he stood up to say goodbye. Wang Fengwu walked him to the gate and made an appointment with him for the next drinking day before letting him leave.
When Huang Chen returned home, he saw Zhao Hongyi, Zhang Xing, Hu Tai and others gathered in the hall. He sat at the main seat and accepted the New Year greetings from his subordinates with a smile. He had kowtowed all morning and was dizzy. There was no reason for him to kowtow to others.
Damn, this is called equality thinking.
The festive atmosphere would not dissipate until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but Huang Chen ordered his men to resume training on the fifth day of the first lunar month, and even alarmed Mr. Yimu and Mr. Hu. Both of them said that the crew had worked hard for a year and should not be pushed too hard. They should be allowed to
Take some more rest. Huang Chen couldn't bear to refute the two of them, so he postponed it to the tenth day of the lunar month.
Five days passed by in a flash. The crew had been accustomed to eating, drinking and having fun for more than ten days, and they inevitably became a bit lazy. The quality of training was appalling. Huang Chen finally couldn't bear it anymore and brandished a big stick to teach each of them a lesson, beating them to the point where everyone was crying and howling. His level immediately soared, and he recovered.
As before, Huang Chen cursed his subordinates in his heart! He didn't want to use force on the festive day, but they forced him to use force.
The first lunar month is the end of the northeast monsoon. At the end of the first lunar month, the last dozens of Fujian ships have returned one by one. In February, the sea area of Dachen Mountain was completely silent. It was hard to find a board or a sail. Nature replaced humans and became the dominant force on the sea.
Protagonist, this situation will last until the end of May and the beginning of June. Pirates are the most leisurely during this time of the year. However, they make a living by looting and extortion. Leisure equals no income. They would rather fight in blood every day than
I want to do nothing all day long.
Huang Chen also had nothing to do about this. He couldn't imitate that idiot Lin Qilao and attack the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty? Even if he wanted to, he wouldn't have the strength.
The pirates tightened their belts and counted February and March day by day with difficulty.
On the first day of April, Huang Chen's birthday, the Huang family, which had been quiet for a long time, suddenly became lively. In ancient times, people used birthdays to express gratitude to their parents for giving birth to children, but there was no such thing as hosting a banquet to entertain guests to congratulate themselves. However, the Ming Dynasty is the most important period in Chinese history.
In the period of drastic changes of "violating rituals and disorderly entertainment", everything became possible in the Ming Dynasty. Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, birthday celebrations have become increasingly popular.
According to Huang Chen's original intention, there was no need to hold a banquet to celebrate the age of seventeen, so just have a good meal at home, but Mrs. Zhang insisted on having it, and it had to be grand. Her intention was very clear, and she took the opportunity to receive the gift money.
Huang Chen didn't pay much attention to money, but Zhang had to pay attention to it. The family had no income for several months, so it was not an option to just sit back and make money. They needed some income.
The so-called child's birthday was a bitter day for the mother. Huang Chen couldn't bear to refuse Zhang and reluctantly nodded in agreement. It must be said that this matter was not very authentic. For this reason, he was ridiculed by Wang Fengwu and others. But ridicule is ridicule.
The gift money was still delivered in full. It was similar to the amount he received for the last housewarming ceremony, about fifty taels. Huang Chen saw Mr. Zhang lighting an oil lamp at night and counting the money with a smile on his face. He couldn't stop laughing bitterly.
He won't blame her, she will only put the reputation of being greedy on his head.
After the birthday, everything was as usual, as ordinary as water.
One day, explosive news came out one after another on the sea. First, Lin Qilao proclaimed himself king, nicknamed Sanpan King. Shangdachen Island is also called Sanpan Mountain, so he took Sanpan as his nickname. Lin Qilao was not the only one who went to Shangdachen.
In his territory, there are many forces in the north of the island, some of which are either in vain or have no contact with him until old age and death. This time, Lin Qilao became king and they supported him in an uncharacteristic way. There is too much for people to imagine. But compared to the latter piece of news
, becoming king is nothing. Lin Qilao was unwilling to be defeated at the hands of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers last year, and once again led thousands of men and dozens of boats to invade the prefectures along the coast of Zhejiang.
Everyone who heard this was dumbfounded, saying that Lin Qilao was crazy? The good Xiaoyao overlord of Dachen Mountain was not in good shape, but he chose to make trouble with the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Is the Ming Dynasty easy to mess with? Zhejiang Province alone has large and small ships
Thousands of warships, with sixty or seventy thousand troops, even in Taizhou Prefecture, there are more than a hundred warships, and there are nearly ten thousand people on the waterway. Isn't this Lin Qilao trying to kill a stone with an egg?
Yimu Lao and Hu Erlao looked at each other after learning about it, and laughed suddenly. While sending out sentries, they prepared the ship for battle. Lin Qilao died on the coast of the Ming Dynasty. It was most satisfactory for him. If he was lucky enough to escape, they would have to fight with him.