Time Travel: A Fisherwoman Goes to the Sea to Raise a Baby

There were more than a dozen people from Guling Village who followed, all of them strong laborers.

The six who came back, including the one before, all died.

Fang Zhiyi guessed that the remaining ones were most likely gone.

"What does the merchant look like? What's his name? What's the ship's name? Are there any special markings on the ship?"

Nowadays, merchant ships have strict requirements for going out to sea. They must have official permission documents, cargo lists and trade certificates. Merchant ships must also have a business flag or the emblem of the ship owner's family.

Just like the several merchant ships in Qingshan, they all have the flags of Ruichang Trading Company on them and are registered with the government.

As long as that person is truly a businessman, he cannot escape the clutches of the government.

"We didn't see what the merchant looked like. He was on the boat the entire time. The chief steward who was with us was the one who negotiated with us. His surname might have been Jia, so that's why there's this word on it. There are no other special markings."

The woman in the lead looked at Fang Zhiyi with hope in her eyes, but saw that his face darkened.

Jia Tong was a fake. There was no information about this business in the government office at all, and the ship owner never showed up from beginning to end.

Maybe this is a scam, specifically designed to deceive these people.

"My Lord, you must make the decision for us!"

Several women insisted on kneeling on the ground and crying about their grievances.

After hearing this, the little hope in my uncle's heart disappeared in an instant.

"Master Fang, there are also several men from our island who have gone there."

My uncle's lips trembled slightly, and he looked a little bit unacceptable.

Xu Yiyi finally understood why her great-uncle was acting so abnormally. It turned out that someone in the clan was also caught up in it.

Just as the women from Guling Village said, the merchant ship looked nothing special, with the company's flag flying high. No one would have thought that someone would be so bold.

When my uncle found out that some villagers had left on the merchant ship, he cursed a few times.

After all, if someone dares to follow someone without knowing their origin, it means that he is simply blinded by money and is a fucking idiot.

He originally thought that he would just be doing some hard labor and nothing would happen.

Unexpectedly, the complexity of things here has exceeded his imagination.

There are still several corpses lying on the beach. Will the next corpse that appears be that of the island’s inhabitants?

"Sir, these bodies are relatively intact except for the heads. Could it be that the people who captured them are in the nearby waters, or that they were specially sent back?

Fang Zhiyi nodded imperceptibly.

Although there are many islands nearby, not many are habitable.

Xu Yiyi raised her hand to block the dazzling sunlight. Her jet-black hair was tied into a ponytail, a little messy in the sea breeze.

I saw her stretch out her handkerchief and feel it carefully.

Recalling the situation when I first saw the body, the water was flowing towards the southeast and the wind was from the northeast, but the body did not drift completely in the direction of the wind, which shows that the water flow played a more important role in the movement of the body.

And through Xu Yiyi's understanding of this sea area after traveling through time, he found that there is a complex ocean current system in this area.

Normally, the cold current from the northwest meets the warm current from the south, forming a unique circulation.

The body appeared at the edge of the circulation area.

According to the laws of water flow, the body was most likely floated from the upper reaches of the circulation, that is, the sea area in the southwest direction.

She mentioned this guess to Fang Zhiyi, which surprised Fang Zhiyi a little.

But then I thought that Xu Yiyi grew up by the sea, so it was normal for him to be able to judge the wind direction and water currents.

Based on the coroner's autopsy results, Fang Zhiyi immediately sent people to investigate in the southwest direction.

After this incident, Uncle Great-grandfather was in no mood to watch over the baby in the river, so he asked Xu Yiyi to send him back home to rest.

"Is there something wrong on Big Sister Island?"

Er'er watched the government officials hurried onto the island, followed closely by several crying women.

Something doesn't look right.

"I know!"

Li Xiuying floated on the water with a somewhat smug tone.

Several little girls nearby rushed over and asked curiously, which made Li Xiuying even more excited.

"The people on our island must have encountered a dead body again. Didn't you see it? One of the yamen runners was a coroner. I recognized him immediately."

As soon as he finished speaking, the little girls around him exclaimed.

"Sister Xiuying, you're amazing! You actually recognized that person as a coroner."

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"Yes, yes, how did you do that? Can you teach me?"

Li Xiuying couldn't play with these little girls on the island on weekdays, and now being praised by others greatly satisfied her vanity.

"That's what I mean by ignorant. Didn't you see that the yamen runners avoided the coroner when they came ashore? They must have thought it was bad luck! Dealing with the dead is not a good sign, how could I not see that?"

Xu Yiyi was listening on the side, even though what Li Xiuying said was too absolute.

But she actually guessed it right.

But the other yamen runners avoided the coroner not because they thought it was unlucky, but because it was such a hot day and the coroner had caught a cold.

If it weren't for the urgent matter here, the coroner would not come out easily.

As a result, he took the initiative to avoid other people, fearing that others would be infected.

Li Xiuying raised her chin and looked at Xu Yiyi proudly.

When Er'er heard that there was another corpse, he didn't dare to ask any more questions and just splashed in the water nearby.

When the little boy Sihai saw that his uncle didn't come back with him, he lay on Sanchuan and didn't want to move.

Xu Yiyi didn't stay long before taking her brother and sister-in-law home.

As soon as I got back to the door, I saw a woman squatting in front of it, looking a little down and out.

"Yi Yi, you guys are back? If you don't come back soon, I'll go look for you."

Zhan Jilan put on an attentive smile and stood in front of Sihai, wanting to touch his head, but was pulled away by Sanchuan.

Her hand fell empty.

Seeing Sanchuan's vigilant look, Zhan Jilan withdrew her hand somewhat embarrassedly and turned to look at the small cradle in Xu Yiyi's hand.

"This is Wu Yuan! He's grown so big now, let mommy give him a hug."

As soon as Zhan Jilan stretched out her hand, Xu Yiyi pushed her away.

"Are you old enough for me to remind you that we're no longer related?"

Xu Yiyi opened the door and sent the children back, then closed it again before Zhan Jilan entered.

"The documents severing ties are still there. You have no relationship with these children now. I don't want you to come back and offend them. You were the one who abandoned the children and left."

Xu Yiyi looked at Zhan Jilan coldly, without a trace of emotion in her eyes.

In fact, it is quite normal for a woman to remarry after her husband dies.

If Zhan Jilan had settled the child before leaving, if she came back now, maybe they could still visit each other as relatives.

It's a pity that she seems to love herself more.

He was so cruel at first that he almost sold Wu Yuan when he left. Later he even planned to sell Er Er to a brothel.

Just one of these things could drive the child away from her.

"I was wrong. I will never do this again. I will change. Can you let me come back and take care of the children? They are young and they definitely can't live without me."

Zhan Jilan wiped her tears, with regret in her eyes.