Outside the Pattani Lin Maiden's Temple, this temple to commemorate the sister of the pirate Lin Daoqian, who came to settle here during the Longwan period, is now the spiritual totem of the Chinese in the entire Malay Peninsula.

The spirit of tenacity, kindness, fearlessness, hardship and hard work, and not forgetting her ancestors represented by Miss Lim has always been pursued by the Chinese in the Malay Peninsula and even this Nanyang Chinese.

In recent decades, especially when the Siamese people were suppressed by Burma, the Malay aborigines of Pattani's belief in the Heavenly Sect tried to destroy the temple many times, but were finally stopped by the Chinese led by the Ye family.

For the sake of the Lin Maiu Temple, the Ye family waged a resolute struggle against the Malay natives, and the Ye family's original mission was to protect the Lin Maiden Temple.

So now, there is also a Ye family's martial arts training ground outside Miss Lin's temple, which is where the Ye family's soldiers train.

But today, on this yellowish evening, no one trained on the martial arts field, but steaming smoke, large pieces of beef, oily braised pork, all kinds of food and wine piled up on the table, even the children who were active on weekdays did not run around, everyone stared at the food on the table, and kept swallowing saliva.

In fact, not only children, but also adults have no intention of doing anything else, and it is quite easy to eat well in this place, but it is not often eaten with big fish and meat like today.

Especially for the original and the orphans of the rebels, they have not really eaten meat except for a few small salted fish over the years.

Ye Kai stood in the middle of the martial arts arena, where a small wooden platform was temporarily erected, and under the wooden platform, there stood two rows of forty-two strong men wearing Western-style military uniforms, they were standing straight with brown bass guns, and the bayonets at the head of the guns reflected a strange light under the reflection of the setting sun.

Gradually, the sound of the martial arts arena like a vegetable market began to lower down, and it had been almost an hour since the beginning of cooking, and the person holding the gun in his hand did not move, and a solemn atmosphere began to spread around.

"Go home!" An old man from Ye Kai's grandfather's generation shouted loudly in a bleak tone, sixteen brown bass guns wrapped in red silk cloth were laid flat on a table, and Ah Shan brought the table over with a few domestic servants, these sixteen people were the Ye family's clansmen who died in the First World War in Chiang Rai.

Ye Kai bowed to a woman who was about to collapse on the ground crying, this is the widow of Ye Kai's second cousin Ye Xinwu and Ye Kai's sister-in-law.

Next to the woman, there was a little boy who didn't understand what was going on, and kept looking back at the food on the table, this was Ye Xinwu's son.

"Ah Zhou! Come here! Ye Kai beckoned, the child froze, and ran over a little scared, Ye Kai picked up the brown bass gun with Ye Xinwu's name written on the red silk cloth, and handed him to Xiao Azhou.

A little ignorant Ah Zhou was holding a brown bass gun, this gun with a bayonet was higher than him, and he stumbled when he walked, Ye Kai took Ah Zhou's hand, helped him hold the gun, and walked to the crying woman.

Ye Kai bowed deeply to the woman again, "Sister-in-law, Brother Xinwu fought bravely and killed two Burmese with his own hands, he died for the future of our Ye family, he will not die in vain, this is the foreign gun that Brother Xinwu fought, I will exchange it for you now!" ”

The woman was just crying, and looked at Ah Zhou next to her reluctantly, in this era, a family has lost its pillars, it will definitely not be good, although there is still a family to rely on, but I don't know how many difficulties are waiting for them!

"Ahsan! Bring things up! Ye Kai shouted, and Ah Shan, who was behind him, handed a wooden tray to the woman who was crying bitterly.

Ye Kai gently peeled off the red cloth on the tray, several golden gold coins sparkled in the light of the setting sun, and there were two pieces of white paper full of words.

"Sister-in-law! People can't be resurrected from death, but we can make the living live better, here are five gold coins, worth fifty taels of silver, which is Brother Xinwu's pension, this is the title deed of fifty acres of fertile land by the Tani River, and it is your future food and clothing! ”

There was a buzz around, fifty taels of silver is okay, but fifty acres of fertile land is very enviable for Chinese people who have deep feelings for the land.

The woman who cried a little calmer, although money cannot bring the dead back to life, but it can greatly alleviate the pain, the same in ancient and modern times, not to mention that her tears were almost cried as early as when her husband was buried.

"Uncle! What's the use of you giving us these fifty acres of land, Xinwu has no other brothers, and the family has long since died, leaving us two women and a little baby, and we can't plant the land at all! ”

Ye Kai nodded in agreement, and reached out to take the second piece of white paper full of words, "This is the contract of three Siamese slaves, two women and one man, they are all honest and capable people, in the future, they will do all the farm work of your family, sister-in-law, you will be responsible for bringing Ah Zhou well, Brother Xinwu is a hero, you must train Xiao Ah Zhou to be a hero!" ”

As he spoke, three Siamese slaves, two women and one man, were brought forward, in fact, the slaves given to Ye Kai by Rama I had not yet arrived, these were bought by him in Bangkok.

This is the benefit of knighthood, if Ye Kai does not have a title, it is illegal to own slaves, and with a knighthood, as long as he pays the money, it does not exceed the number of slaves he should have, there is no problem!

'Hum', the crowd finally became restless, just a few women who were full of sympathy for Ye Xinwu's daughter-in-law, their eyes shot with envy, fifty taels of silver, fifty acres of land, three slaves, this time from the bottom of the bitter haha to the wife!

"Salute!" Ye Huan in the crowd shouted, including Ye Kai, all the children of the Ye family standing in military uniforms bowed deeply to Ye Xinwu's widow and Ah Zhou again, and Ye Xinwu's daughter-in-law hurriedly put the tray on the ground, and bowed in a panic in return.

After the salute, Ye Kai walked to the next person who was crying, this was Ye Xingwu's family, he was not married but his parents were still alive, and he had two younger brothers and a younger sister.

The same fifty taels of silver, fifty acres of land, three slaves, Ye Xingwu's second brother touched the slender brown bass spear, and his whole body trembled because of this solemn ceremony and a large reward, "Brother Shu Wu, I also want to be like my brother and follow you to fight the Burmese!" ”

Ye Kai nodded and didn't reply, and after bowing, he walked to the next family, sixteen families, bowed sixteen times, and after each family received the rewards and pensions belonging to their own families, Ye Kai walked back to the wooden platform.

"I heard all the elders and brothers saying that the pension is rich, yes, it is indeed rich, I Ye Shuwu just want everyone to know, if anyone pays for the family, I will never treat him badly!

Many people say that they also want to fight the Burmese with me, and what I want to say is that in the future, we will not only fight the Burmese, but also fight all those who dare to oppose our Nanyang Tang Ye family, and even the Nanyang Tang people.

This is not for me, but for everyone, only when we have guns in our hands, only if we are afraid of them, can our Ye family take root in this land, in order to keep the land that our ancestors have overcome difficulties, and to let our descendants live the life of a noble man, I, Ye Shuwu, am willing to fight with all of you, are you willing? ”

"Yes!" At first, only a few voices recovered, and gradually the voices began to get louder, and finally resounded throughout the entire martial arts arena, Ye Kai waved his hand excitedly, "Open the seat!" ”