More than 500 years ago, the Ming Dynasty eunuch Zhang Zhenghe led the world's most powerful fleet across the eastern Indian Ocean and into the waters of Madagascar. A sudden storm blows the fleet's flagship to an unfamiliar island, where Zheng He encounters the island forces of the pirate queen Hannah.

The two sides fought a big battle on the beach, and the Ming soldiers were brave and well-armed. Especially the dozens of brocade guards wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring knives, that is a combat power that makes pirates fearful. Each of these brocade guards has a kung fu and a unique skill, how can they be the enemy of ordinary pirates? In this way, although the pirates have an advantage in numbers, they can't gnaw this hard bone in the face of the Ming army led by Zheng He. The two sides fought for a day and a night, throwing corpses on the ground and beating drums to withdraw their troops.

Early the next morning, Hannah showed up to negotiate with Zheng He. The two began negotiations on the battlefield where the two armies faced each other. The party with more bargaining chips will inevitably take the initiative and have an advantage in the negotiations. Zheng He's ships were strong and his soldiers used their lives, and he didn't pay attention to this group of pirates at all. What's more, he had already sent dinghy to find his fleet, and once his fleet was found, Hannah's pirate gang would be no problem at all. So during the negotiations, he was very tough and didn't take the pirate queen seriously at all.

The pirate queen Hannah bluntly said that she wanted the gold, silver, porcelain, and silk on the flagship of the Ming army, and also named her to learn the martial arts of those brocade guards. More importantly, she also wants the weapons of the Ming army and the shipbuilding technology of the Ming army.

At that time, the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty was the first in the world, and the weapons were also the most advanced, as a pirate queen, it was normal for her to have such a request. If she had acquired the weapons of the Ming army, shipbuilding skills, and martial arts from the ancient East, her pirate armament would undoubtedly develop into a powerful pirate empire that no one could match.

Such negotiations will not be fruitful, for the simple reason that Zheng He does not take the pirate group with a temporary advantage in numbers in mind, and his willingness to negotiate with Hannah is actually buying time for his fleet. However, it wasn't until Hannah made a condition that Zheng He agreed to all of Hannah's requests and followed Hannah to Pirate Canyon in Madagascar.

"That condition ......" When Katosha's story was told at this point, Ling Feng couldn't help but interrupt her words and interjected, "Is that condition to let Zheng He get the ability to have children?" ”

Gatosha nodded, "Yes, it was this condition that impressed Zheng He and allowed him to complete the deal with Hannah. ”

Ling Feng looked straight at Gatosha, "How did you know this?" ”

"My ancestors were one of Queen Hannah's subordinates, and my father used to tell me stories about his pirate ancestors when I was a child, and I loved to hear them. ”

This is a story, it is impossible to determine what happened more than four hundred years ago, and it is not certain that Katasha's ancestor was one of Hannah's subordinates, but as far as what Gadosha said, it coincided with some of the information that Ling Feng had.

All the information that Ling Feng had about Zheng He and Hannah was obtained from Ma Longyi, and Ma Longyi was Zheng He's descendant. Ma Longyi has an oil painting from 1425, and that oil painting is a portrait of Zheng He, in which Zheng He is wearing the yin and yang ring he is now wearing. Therefore, he fully believed that Zheng He had met with Hannah and reached some kind of deal. Looking at the story told by Katasha at this moment from this perspective, he believed it.

"What happened next?" Ling Feng asked again. He had a hunch in his heart that Katosha would soon talk about the Yin and Yang Rings.

A smile appeared on the corner of Katatha's mouth, "I know what you care about most, and that's exactly what I'm going to sue you." After a pause, she continued......

Zheng He followed Hannah to the Pirate Canyon in Madagascar, where he and his entourage lived in the Pirate Canyon for half a month. In just one month, a miracle happened to him. What he had lost before entering the palace has regrown, and he has the same abilities as a normal man.

In the second half of that month, Hannah had several young girls in the Pirate Canyon serve Zheng He, and Zheng He tasted the true joy of being a man in the Pirate Canyon. It was during that time that the deal was completed, and Hannah got the shipbuilding skills she wanted, weapons from the Ming Dynasty and martial arts from Jinyiwei. Zheng He also got what he wanted, and he became a real man again.

A month later, Zheng He left Pirate Canyon with his retinue to join his fleet. Before leaving, Hannah presented Zheng He with a ring and agreed to meet again.

Her ambitions were great, she wanted Zheng He to give this ring to the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and she wanted to make a bigger deal with the Yongle Emperor. She wanted to get an army from the hands of the most powerful Eastern Empire in the world today, with enough troops to rule the Indian Ocean and the South Asian subcontinent. And the chips she exchanged for were the magic drugs that could give Emperor Yongle a long life.

Zheng He returned to the Ming Dynasty with the ring Hannah had given him, but the bigger deal Hannah had hoped for did not happen.

Hannah's ring to Zheng He was not called a yin and yang ring at that time, but "tinder".

"Tinder?" Ling Feng was surprised when he heard this name, "Why is it such a strange name?" ”

Gatosha shook her head, "I don't know, I only know that it's called Tinder, and you call it the Yin and Yang Ring, which is probably after it arrived in the Ming Dynasty." I don't know why Hannah's deal with Emperor Yongle wasn't completed. This ring disappeared after entering the Eastern Empire, and later Zheng He also died, and I don't know what happened during this period. ”

Ling Feng's mind was enlivened by this, and his mind seemed to have returned to the Ming Dynasty more than five hundred years ago.

What is certain is that if Emperor Yongle knew that there was a medicine that would give him a long life, he would definitely meet all of Hannah's requests, exchanging his army and ships for the medicine of immortality. In fact, since Qin Shi Huang, the emperors of China have been keen to find the elixir of immortality, so that they can always sit on the throne of the emperor, rule the country, and enjoy themselves forever in the wine and beauty. So why hasn't this deal been done?

The answer is not complicated.

In the Ming Dynasty, the crime of bullying the monarch was a serious crime that was enough to kill the head and rob the family, Zheng He, a eunuch, was reborn, which was not only the crime of bullying the king, but also involved the reputation of the royal family and the innocence of the harem. With such a secret that was enough to send him to hell, how could he dare to report it to Emperor Yongle?

To report is death, and even the nine clans with blood roots will be destroyed, and Zheng He made a decision on the way back to the Ming Dynasty with the fleet. All the entourage that knew was killed by him, and then he took the secret and unwitting subordinates back to the Ming Dynasty. He married a wife and had children among the people, continuing the incense of his Zheng family. At the same time, he is also preparing for his next trip to the West.

"Perhaps, at that time, Zheng He had a bolder idea, that is, he would lobby the Yongle Emperor to send him more warships and troops, and then he himself would trade with Hannah to obtain the kind of elixir that could make people immortal." Ling Feng used this inference to put an end to this matter.

More than 500 years ago, what Zheng He thought and how he did it has been buried by the dust of history. Later generations can only make some inferences based on some clues, and there is no absolutely correct certainty. The deceased was gone, the past was gone, and it didn't make much sense to dig up the story between Zheng He and Emperor Yongle now, such an inference was enough for Ling Feng to satisfy his curiosity.

Ling Feng's focus had always been on the secrets of the Immortal Clan and the Yin Yang Ring, and after getting this inference, he spoke again: "So, what do you know about the ring you call the Tinder?" ”

"I don't know much, but I know how to take it off. ”

"How?" Ling Feng's mood was already uncontrollably excited.

"Cut off the skin that came into contact with your finger, then put your ring-wearing finger on the fire and burn it, and when it's red, you can take it off." Gatosha said.

Ling Feng, "......"

What is the difference between such a method and cutting off a finger with a single cut? The latter is a bit more straightforward.

Katosha had a serious expression, "What I said is true. When Queen Hannah gave this tinder ring to Zheng He and gave it to Emperor Yongle, my ancestors were beside her. He asked to hear Queen Hannah tell Zheng He like this. This story has been passed down through the generations in our family. ”

"Isn't there any story about the origin of this ring in your family's story? For example, who built it, what does it mean, etc.? Ling Feng was not satisfied with her explanation.

Gatosha smiled bitterly, "That ancestor of mine is just one of Queen Hannah's subordinates, and he is lucky enough to be able to participate in the ceremony of giving the ring, do you still expect Queen Hannah to tell him the secret of this ring?" ”

"You don't know, then Hannah must know that she's still alive, maybe right here somewhere on this earth reading a book or sipping a cup of tea." Ling Feng said excitedly, "You said that you could find Hannah, where is she?" ”

"I don't know where she is, and when I say I can help you find her, I don't mean I know where she is, and I don't say I'll find her. I just know some clues, I just have some certainty. ”

"What clues?"

"When I was young, I saw her, and she hugged me and gave me a lot of delicious sweets." Gatosha's mind seemed to return to her childhood, and her eyes were full of joy, "At that time, she called me Xiaodian, and I called her Aunt Hannah. ”

Hannah had been to India, and Ling Feng knew this, as the diary and skin book left by Father John Borg were evidence of this. John Borg's grandfather also once rescued Hannah, who was in a very "weak" physical condition, and received his own leather book. Well, at some point in the decades that followed, it was normal for Katosha to meet Hannah who was staying in India.

Gatosha's words also gave Ling Feng a piece of information, that is, Hannah had stayed in India for a long time, at least half a century. So, what has she been doing in India for half a century?

"I know some of her hobbies, and I've seen what she looks like, so when I see her again, I'm sure I'll recognize her." Katosha said, "This is what I know, and I have told you everything." If we're lucky, we'll find her. ”

Finding Hannah does require good luck, hundreds of countries around the world, billions of people, to find a woman who has lived for hundreds of years, the difficulty is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

"You can try to remove the ring from your hand now, if you have to." Gatosha said.

Ling Feng thought for a moment before saying, "Your method of suing me is too extreme, I have to think about it." ”

"Okay, it's time to sue sù and you all sù sù." Gatosha said, "I heard you say in front of Metridlan that I am your bodyguard. Well, I do need an identity to stay with you as well. I have no objection to being your bodyguard, but I must be paid twice as much as Vivien, £200,000 a month. With my ability, this salary is actually quite low. ”

Ling Feng, "......"