Dongsha Islands is located two to three hundred kilometers east of Guangnan East Road, and is precisely in the middle of the Liuqiu and Leizhou waterways.

Some of them fled to the Xisha Islands south of Qiongzhou, or sneaked back to the land to live incognito, while the vast majority of them went to the Dongsha Islands, which could still plague the Guangnan East Road, and continued to be pirates.

As a result, the pirates of the Dongsha Islands can be roughly divided into two distinct forces, that is, local pirates and Leizhou pirates.

Native pirates occupy the main island of the Dongsha Islands, the crescent-shaped island. The Leizhou pirates, on the other hand, occupy two islands to the east that are not very elliptical in shape.

The two groups of people don't like each other, but neither can help the other. The local pirates are familiar with the terrain, but because Leizhou has no way out, it is even more rare for Tuan Ze to hold his arms and unite with the outside world.

Every day, not to mention the people who died on merchant ships and passenger ships. Even if there are two gangs of pirates, I am afraid that there will be more than a dozen corpses sunk to the island to feed the fish.

After watching Zhao Dongting and the five of them get into the cargo hold, Lao Wu Tou ran to the deck with the Pu knife in his hand.

Dozens of small boats were getting closer and closer to their ship, suddenly jumping out of the fog, and now less than two hundred meters away from the ship flying the flag of the Sea Dragons.

All the thugs were solemn, and some of the sailors even trembled with their legs.

"His grandmother's!"

Old Wu Tou suddenly spat angrily again, "It's from the South Roundabout!" Brothers, polish all the tricks for Lao Tzu, don't become a pirate's arrow. ”

One by one, the thugs swallowed their saliva.

Among the Dongsha Islands, the island occupied by local pirates is called Crescent Island, and the other two occupied by Leizhou pirates are the North Ring Island and the South Ring Island.

The old oilmen who often run to Leizhou and seek this waterway all know that the pirates of the South Ring Island are the most difficult to deal with. The appetite is the greatest, and the means are the most ferocious.

This is due to the fact that the South Ring Island is the smallest and has the lowest pirate strength on the island. They could not compete for the people of Crescent Island and Beihuan Island in the waters of Fujian, so they could only slaughter the passing merchant ships to the death, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that the geese had plucked their feathers. The unwritten rule of the two islands of Crescent Moon and North Ring is to receive 20% of the money for the goods, while the South Roundabout is as much as 40%.

The price is clearly marked, and the pirate ship will also carry a palm eye with eyes that read more than a treasure connoisseur. How much the cargo on board is worth can be calculated at a glance, and it can't be avoided.

Old Wu's eyes were very poisonous, and he could see from a subtle point that it was the ship of the South Roundabout, and after explaining to his brothers, he hurriedly ran towards the cabin.

Opening the cabin, he threw a piece of clothing down, "Zhao Gongzi, I'm afraid I have to bother you to change into our clothes." It's the people who come from the South Roundabout, and it's not easy to deal with. ”

"Okay."

Zhao Dongting's somewhat muffled response came from inside.

Old Wu Tou secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glad that Zhao Dongting was not the kind of boy who was not good at talking, so he hurriedly ran outside again.

With his eyesight, he could see that Zhao Dongting and the five were not laymen. Although I can't see the specific depth, I can also feel that I am definitely far from being an opponent.

Otherwise, how could he really be so polite to Zhao Dongting just because Zhao Dongting was rich?

If you have money but no strength, you will only be slaughtered if you end up on the boat.

Wealth touches people's hearts, and it reaches the sea. The black ship may not only be a business for sending people to Liuqiu, and it may not be sent to the underworld.

In the cargo hold, the little boy who was less than four years old shrunk timidly into his mother's arms, "Mother, is it a pirate?" ”

There is no one in Leizhou who does not know about pirates, and when piracy is rampant, these two words can stop children from crying. Just say you're crying again and let the pirates catch you is much more useful than parents bluffing people with the word police today.

The cargo hold was dimly lit, with only two faint rays of sunlight shining in. Everywhere you look, you can see dust filling the air.

There is a faint fishy smell that lingers all the time.

The lady who hugged the little boy did not answer, but just patted the little bean sprouts on the head and turned away a little shyly.

There was also a little lady, and a little girl in the prime of her life.

The little girl didn't forget to hum softly, but it was not obvious.

This is because Zhao Dongting changed his clothes directly in the cabin. In this day and age, such a move is undoubtedly very rude.

"I'm sorry."

Zhao Dongting heard the little girl snort coldly, and said with a chuckle: "There are pirates outside, it is inconvenient for me to go out, so I am forced to have no choice, and I ask for your forgiveness." ”

Neither of the two little ladies spoke.

The little girl snorted again, "I'm not ashamed. ”

"Peach!"

A man sitting next to her who couldn't see his real face said, "Don't be rude to your son." ”

The girl who was called Peaches snorted twice again and stopped talking.

Although the man is from the countryside, he is quite polite, and he bowed his hand to Zhao Dongting: "My sister is used to being willful at home, please forgive me." ”

Zhao Dongting had a good impression of this man, put the coarse cloth clothes thrown down by Lao Wu's head outside, and asked casually: "Listening to the eldest brother's accent, it should be a native of Leizhou, and now the livelihood of Leizhou should be good, why do you want to take the whole family to Liuqiu?" ”

He had already seen that neither of these two families rented a black boat to go to the flow to run a business.

First of all, they don't even have enough money to charter a boat, let alone the capital.

Secondly, doing business really shouldn't drag one's family and talk about it.

The man's voice was gloomy, "If you can continue to stay in Leizhou, who would have thought that Liuqiu would be a rootless Hakka?" I don't even know if I can live, but if I stay in Leizhou, life is better than death. ”

"Why?"

Zhao Dongting asked curiously.

The man is quite talkative, and he is not wary of Zhao Dongting. Probably like those who have four walls of the family don't care if they are remembered by thieves.

Some things are always unpleasant in my heart, so I confide in Zhao Dongting in one go.

Zhao Dongting didn't know until this time that the two small families were still from the same village. Living not far away, knowing each other, and going together is also deliberate.

Both families have the surname Zhang.

The man who spoke was the brother of the little girl who was called Peach, and the other little lady in their family was the man's wife. There is also a young man, who is the younger brother of the man.

Their parents have died, and they live in the same family.

The Ling family is an old woman, and a couple have small bean sprouts.

All of them fled Leizhou with their families, wanting to go to Liuqiu to make a living.

After Zhao Dongting heard this, he didn't have much heart to think about how pitiful the two families were, but instantly became angry, and his chest was occupied by raging anger.

The nobles of Leizhou even have hundred-legged insects that are dead but not stiff.

That's how it happened.

These two families were originally tenants of the aristocratic family, and later the court divided the land, and they also got a share of the land that originally belonged to that nobleman. Even the nobleman pretended to lend them money and grain, so that they could cross the pass before the autumn harvest. But I didn't think it was a trap at all.

With Tian, I just felt that the days would get better and better, and it was only the autumn harvest that the evil servants of the nobles who demanded debts came to the door.

The small amount of money that they had borrowed was rolled over in an astonishing way to the point where they could not afford to pay it back even if they sold all the food.

went to report to the official, and there was the noble person watching at the door of the palace. If you don't wait to get closer, you will be beaten home with a stick, and you will have to suffer a little.

In this way, the people of the entire Zhangjia Village became slaves of the nobles again, and it was the same as when there was no land division before, and it was even worse.

After two years, the debt is getting more and more, and there is no hope that it will be paid off in the rest of his life. The rest of the families in Zhangjia Village have accepted their fate, but they will continue to be slaves and servants to the nobles in this life, but the two of them have to leave their hometowns. Because the little ladies in their family are quite beautiful, the nobleman has already released words to pull these two rich and white little ladies to pay off the debt.

If this is really arrested, when they come out of the noble mansion, how will the two ladies live?

So the two men got together like this, left home at night, and took the whole family to Leizhou Port.

It was also fortunate that I met Zhao Dongting. Otherwise, with their scraps of money, I'm afraid that in the end, they will only have to slip back.

In the cargo hold, the temperature seems to have dropped a few points.

Zhao Dongting didn't speak, but the murderous aura flashed at this moment.

This nobleman, he just knew, was the former Zhang Guangyao, who was very able to see the wind and rudder. It turned out that behind his knowledge, he was secretly doing such a thing.