Chapter Twenty-Six: The Boat

"It's coming! Here it comes! ”

In a few moments, the righteous merchant finally appeared, and the people who were waiting to be sold in the fence surged, and everyone hoped to be caught in the spot, because if they were redeemed by this merchant, they would not be slaves but free again. Not only are all Chinese very active, but even some of the subject islanders have also used various means to impersonate.

But things were not as easy as everyone thought at the beginning, the righteous merchant was obviously not a fool who spent money casually, the organizer of the slave market first drank and quieted all the people who were waiting to sell the sign at the suggestion of the righteous merchant, and then the righteous merchant led his men to patrol from north to south, if it was Chinese, it would list the left hand, if it was Fujianese, then list the right hand, and the righteous merchant's men questioned one by one face to determine whether the person raising the hand was Chinese or Fujianese.

Dongmen Kei and Sato are located in the southeast district, so the turn is behind, and Sato Hideyoshi is a little worried, afraid that the righteous merchant will run out of budget for redemption before he arrives in this district. But soon a piece of news came: a Japanese slave in the northern district pretended to be a lucky man and was found out, which annoyed the righteous merchant, and decided to cut off all business with the slave owner to whom the Japanese slave belonged, and the slave owner was so angry that he killed the Japanese slave!

When the news came, all the foreigners who intended to pretend to be Chinese were all terrified, and the vast majority of them retreated on the spot, and the slave owners specially ran to tell all those who were to be sold not to impersonate, otherwise the end would be on par with the recognized slave!

Sato Hideyoshi also muttered in his heart, although he can speak Hokkien, and has negotiated with Hokkien people, and knows a lot of Fujian things, but he is not sure that there will be no flaws in it. Moreover, he is also self-aware of his own dignity, and that ugly appearance will arouse suspicion at a glance, and if the other party carefully investigates, he may be difficult to tell a lie.

Dongmen Qing didn't panic at all, he was originally a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, even if he couldn't speak, he was confident that writing a single word was enough to convince people, but Li Chun was a little worried, Dongmen Qing looked at him, smiled and nodded, signaling that he would not leave him.

Seeing that the righteous businessman was gradually approaching under the support of his subordinates, Sato Hideyoshi suddenly said to Dongmen Qing: "Prince Wang, can you do me a favor?" ”

Dongmen Qing gestured to him, and Sato Hideyoshi said, "Can you say that Li Chun and I are both your subordinates and have fallen here together?" Dongmen Qing smiled and wrote on the ground: "It's not good to lie when you meet an old man in another country." ”

Sato Hideyoshi was furious, and he was about to snatch his wooden board full of words to smash it, Dongmen Qing did not show weakness, with a sneer on his lips and ready to meet Sato's provocation, Li Chun even stood in front and looked at him angrily. Sato Hideyoshi thought that he was not Dongmen Qing's opponent, and he didn't dare to force it after all if he was not sure, and at this time, the slave owner had come to ask, so the three of them stopped.

I heard an old man with a Zhangzhou accent shouting: "Are there any fellow villagers from Fujian?" Are there any fellow villagers in Zhangzhou? Dongmen Qing Shi Ran was about to stand up and take the wooden board to redeem him, but before he could stand up straight, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a fat face in the crowd outside the fence wall, and shrank back in fright on the spot, and the wooden board turned upside down to cover his face, curled up in the corner and did not dare to come out.

Sato Hideyoshi and Li Chun were both surprised, I don't know why he reacted like this, the opportunity was really fleeting, because there was no one in this district, so this group of righteous businessmen quickly moved to other districts. After they turned around and left, Sato Hideyoshi suddenly remembered that the fat man in the crowd seemed to be very familiar, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Hong Dizhen! It's Hong Dizhen! ”

It turned out that the righteous businessman who came to redeem his fellow villagers this time was Hong Dizhen, the enemy of Dongmenqing and the sea merchant of Zhangzhou! The reason why Hong Dizhen is called the Dragon Palace Maitreya is not only because of his appearance, but also because he does many good deeds in the East China Sea, but he and Dongmen Qing have a grudge against his brother, Dongmen Qing was betrayed by Liang Fang when he was still on the ship, so Dongmen Qing is very suspicious that Hong Dizhen already knows that "Wang Qing" is "Dongmen Qing", and if he comes out to redeem himself, he is likely to fall into the net.

But what Dongmen Qing was afraid of was exactly what Sato Hideyoshi was looking forward to, he saw that it was Hong Dizhen and hurriedly ran over and shouted: "Boss Hong, there is a ...... you want" The word "person" has not yet been spoken, and he has already been kicked from behind by Dongmen Qing and rolled on the sand, Sato Hideyoshi wanted to shout to sell Dongmen Qing, but he choked his neck, and Li Chun also came to help. When the group of righteous merchants saw the commotion in the fence, they stopped for a moment, called the slave owner to inquire, and lost interest when they learned that this was a group of "Japanese robbers" who had been arrested. He doesn't know how many times he has done this kind of ransom slave purchase, many slaves have tried all kinds of eye-catching means to win his favor in order to be ransomed, this kind of thing Hong Dizhen has also experienced a lot, and at this time he also thought that the two people who were fighting were also like this, so he disdained it, and left before Dongmen Qing and Sato Hideyoshi could fight for a reason.

After Hong Dizhen and the others left, Dongmen Qing and Sato Hideyoshi stopped after losing the goal of the fight, but naturally they were inevitably whipped by the slave master afterwards.

Sato suffered a big loss in the fight, and sneered at Dongmen Qing with a swollen face: "Ridiculous, ridiculous!" Although he writes well, although he meets his fellow villagers, it is useless! I'll tell you the king! You are destined to never return to Daming for the rest of your life! ”

Dongmen Qingtie ignored him with a blue face, and after a while, the middle-aged man who lent Dongmen Qing's pen nearby moved over and asked Dongmen Qing: "This son, why shouldn't he be redeemed just now?" Dongmenqing sighed, shook his head, and didn't write to answer. Sato sneered beside him: "It's his enemy who came to ransom people!" Where would he dare to go? Speaking of this, an idea suddenly came to mind, and he shouted: "There is an enemy of Hong Dizhen Hong Bo Lord here!" Whoever takes him to see the lord of the flood will not only be redeemed, but also get a large bounty! "I called it several times in Daming official dialect, Fujian dialect, Japanese dialect, and Korean dialect, which made Dongmenqing panic.

Many people looked over when they heard that, and the middle-aged man was also a little surprised and asked Dongmenqing: "Really?" ”

Although Dongmen Qing was panicked, his face remained silent, he shook his head with a smile, wiped the words on the board, and wrote: "I am waiting for shrimp and crabs, how can I make a feud with Jiaolong?" He pointed at Sato Hideyoshi and said, "This person is my enemy." ”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he believed it and asked, "If this is the case, why doesn't the little brother go up to redeem it?" ”

Dongmen Qing wrote and asked: "Why didn't Brother Tai come forward to redeem?" ”

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said: "I'm really a Liuqiu person, not a Fujianese, I just know a few words." I wanted to pretend, but I didn't expect them to investigate so strictly, so they didn't dare to come forward to redeem it, lest they lose their lives if they couldn't get out of trouble. ”

Dongmen Qing also smiled wryly and wrote: "Each other." ”

Over there, Sato Hideyoshi kept shouting, and finally attracted the slave owner again, and the slave owner came to scold him twice, and Sato Hideyoshi agitated the reed, saying how important Dongmen Qing was in Hong Dizhen's eyes, and said that there was a "10,000 taels bounty". Sato Hideyoshi's image is extremely poor, so not many people believe what he says, but because the bounty of 10,000 taels is too tempting, the slave owner is a little moved. At this time, the middle-aged man interjected: "If there is such a large bounty, we should have heard about it a long time ago, why didn't everyone get the news, just you, the ronin?" "It turns out that for some reason, Hong Dizhen has not publicly offered a reward to search for Wang Qing at sea these days. Thinking about it, the slave owner thought that Hideyoshi Sato was lying, and beat him twice, tightened the ropes on his hands and feet, and stuffed his mouth.

Dongmenqing was quite grateful to the middle-aged man in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, just smiled faintly, and then exchanged his name with the middle-aged man, knowing that his name was Chen Baifu, and Dongmenqing still called himself Wang Qing. Chen Baifu knew sign language, and when he saw that Dongmen Qing was dumb, he taught him and Li Chun to communicate in sign language.

A few days later, a group of Franco-men came to the island, and this group of people had two boats, both three-masted galleons, one of European style and the other of Chinese style. When the two ships arrived at the five islands, the Chinese-style three-masted galleon was badly damaged, as if it had just fought a tough battle, and both ships were running out of food and water. They took out the rest of the cargo and traded with other fleets in Goto, in addition to buying food and water, they also needed to recruit sailors to fill the shortfall, and Sato Hideyoshi, Chen Baifu and Dongmen Kei were all selected. Dongmen Qing is a mute, they don't care, at this time the slave market is nearing the end, the slave owner in order to get rid of it, so he will sell Li Chun half and give it away, so as not to keep the waste of food. The group got on the Franc machine and did odd jobs under the drive of the ghosts.

Dongmenqing didn't expect that not only could he not go back to China, but instead got on the ship of a group of ghosts, and he couldn't help but secretly complain. When he was in Quanzhou, he also heard some seafarers talk about it, and knew that it was a country 90,000 miles away, and at this time they got on their ship, in case they were going to return to China, then it would be even more slim for them to return to Quanzhou.

But looking at the armed forces of these Franc machine people who are far superior to the Japanese Kou, Dongmen Qing knows that there is no room for resistance by himself.

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On weekends, ask for flowers......

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