Everyone trembled and came to the earthen fortress, and saw that although the gate was closed, there was no suspension bridge on the trench, but the road surface was left directly undug, and they all felt wonderful. In fact, because the suspension bridge does not have such a large bearing capacity, the heavy machinery in the camp has to go in and out, and it is troublesome to build the suspension bridge.

At a stone's throw away, everyone stopped and sent someone to call the door. The gate seemed to know that they were coming, and as soon as they shouted, someone agreed to speak. Because Zhang Youfu often deals with pirates from all walks of life, he can speak some official dialect, Guangzhou dialect, and Hokkien dialect. The pirates on the gate of the fortress spoke a strange official dialect that was neither a donkey nor a horse. Fortunately, we can still communicate with each other. Zhang Youfu explained his intentions, and after a while, there was a commotion at the gate of the wall, and the door was opened. More than a dozen people came out.

Zhang Youfu knows that no matter how big the king in the mountains and seas, he often likes to put some jiashi out, so as to scare the people who say the ticket, and extort some money. He had seen a lot of this set of things, but he saw that this group of pirates did not have any pomp, only more than a dozen people came out, all of them were ordinary short-clothed characters in green, carrying bird guns with short swords on their backs. When I saw the leader in the middle, I was surprised: this person was wearing the same dark green shorts and trousers as the other minions, a pair of gray boots on his feet, and a belt around his waist, which was no different from the minions around him. Judging from his appearance, demeanor, speech, and demeanor, he is also very gentle and elegant, without a little reckless heroic appearance.

I didn't expect the leader of this thief to be so simple! Zhang Youfu couldn't help but shout in his stomach.

The visitors were very polite to them, and they said that they were called Xi Ya, but they were not invited into the village. He ordered them to bring out many chairs and benches, and put them on the river beach in front of the gate of the fortress and invited them to sit down. Others brought out many wooden bowls and barrels from the stockade and asked the people to drink.

The things brought to Zhang Youfu made the eyes of these rich people widen: they were all glasses! Although they are on Hainan Island, they still understand the value of the glass: two or three taels of white flowers can only buy a colored glass bowl, let alone such a crystal clear glass.

The contents of the cup are lackluster: it is a small white paper bag, which is carried and floated in the water, slowly dyeing the water light green, smelling it, it seems to taste a little tea, but it is very inferior.

What a show! Zhang Youfu is both happy and worried, happy that the thieves have come out to entertain such high-level things, it should be very sincere, and worried that their pomp is so big, I am afraid that when the price is negotiated, it may not be a small number that can be negotiated.

This Xi Yaya can speak some Cantonese dialect and politely say a few words to each other. Then I heard a roar inside the gate, and a four-wheeled car jolted over, causing a commotion on the river beach - the thieves had a car that could move without oxen and horses, and this miracle had already spread throughout the city, some people said that there was magic in the car, driven by the power of ghosts and gods, and some people said that the thieves had obtained the art of heaven and earth creation, and various theories emerged in endlessly.

Zhang Youfu knew from the spies and Xiang Yong that the people who sat in such a car with a shed were the big leaders of the thieves, so he knew that the people in the car were not small, and they stood up tremblingly.

The few people who got out of the car were dressed in the same clothes as the boss just now, and there was nothing special. I saw several more people coming one after another, and one of them, although he had a shaved head, was wearing local homespun clothes, and he was probably a local captive thief.

Xiong Buyou, who served as the translator, sounded a little strange to Zhang Youfu, but the meaning was very clear. Xi Yaya explained that they are not pirates, they are Chinese businessmen living abroad, they are doing business in business, and this time they are returning to China to start a business--Xiao Zishan laughed in his heart: When will we become "turtles". After arriving in Lingao, there has never been a matter of harassing the people and confronting the government. Then his tone became stern, accusing the local "gentry" of causing them losses by organizing the regimental training of the villagers to attack them for no reason, and that they were forced to defend themselves and retain the freedom to take the next step.

Zhang Youfu was just submissive, praising them for not disturbing the people, and then presented the gift list, which listed one hundred taels of silver, eight horses of red colored satin, twenty horses of variegated silk, twenty horses of Songjiang cotton cloth, a total of ten stones of coarse grain, two pigs, four suckling pigs, one soup deer, and two hundred catties of wine. Xi Yaya took the gift list and read it, and then passed it to the other people sitting in the back. Thinking that everything is useful, he smiled and said:

"We are building a city in this area, and we have harassed the place a lot, so how dare we accept such a heavy gift. But if you don't accept it, you will live up to the elegance of the gentry, and since this is the case, you have to accept it all. It's really disrespectful, and it's deserved. ”

When Zhang Youfu saw the gifts from his subordinates, he took the opportunity to mention several requests from the gentry: first, the autumn harvest was imminent, and he hoped that they would not rob the peasant people who were working; the second is to ransom those who have been captured; The third is to return the bodies of those who died in the last battle to each family so that they can be buried in the funeral.

Then he promised that if he could agree, the gentry of the county would be willing to "help with the food" and not let them suffer in any way. As for the exact number, you can talk about it again.

Xi Yaya just nodded politely and did not answer, the stakes were very high, he inquired and looked at Wen Desi and them in the back, and several people made a look, so they got up together and went to the duty room under the tower to discuss it. Everyone thought that this matter involved the future policy direction, and a few people decided that it was not appropriate. However, since the other party has the intention of easing, it must also give a positive response.

Therefore, when Xi Yaya returned, he directly agreed that each village could send people and cars to dig up the corpse. They will send someone to point out directly where the body will be buried. In order to show their sincerity, they will also release a few disabled prisoners, and as for the other two points, he said that they have to discuss again, and they want Zhang Youfu to come back the next day.

Zhang Youfu didn't plan to negotiate things all at once. Seeing that the other party was very happy, he promised to dig up the corpse, and released a few prisoners, seeing that it was extremely face-saving to him, and most of the rest of the things were not embarrassed, it was nothing more than a matter of high and low prices. He doesn't bother with this, anyway, it is the burden of the gentlemen, and his remuneration will not be less after this negotiation. And he can also get in touch with this group of thieves - he already vaguely feels that this group of pirates is different from the heroes he has seen on the road and down the sea.

Before leaving, Xi Yaya, according to Wen Desi's instructions, gave back to Zhang Youfu a freshwater pearl necklace with an original price of 25 yuan, and gave each porter a reward of 50 yuan, and everyone was satisfied with this group of strange people.

The Wu County Commander and the officials and gentry of the city were anxiously waiting for Zhang Youfu's reply. In the afternoon, when he saw that he had returned with all the people, it was rumored that the thieves were willing to return the corpses and let a few prisoners back. I heard Zhang Youfu say again, and several leaders seem to be calm and simple people, and they don't have the habits of bandits at all. It was all unexpected by everyone.

In the past, even if the bandits were tied up and died, their relatives had to pay a large ransom if they wanted to retrieve the body for burial. This time, he agreed so quickly, so the villages hurriedly went to collect the people's husbands, hurried to make thin-skinned coffins, and prepared to collect the corpses together tomorrow. Wu County ordered that a lot of people died in each village because of tiredness, and also asked the county's good hall to collect the corpses together.

The next day, the people from all the villages set up their carts, carried coffins, reed mats, and many lime bags, and went there together. Someone was arranged here to lead the way, and the cemetery was pointed out, so they quickly retreated. Only people use high-powered telescopes to monitor from afar. The health team measured the direction of the wind and thought that it would not blow the smell, but everyone still wore masks.

Xi Yaya, with a few people, watched from the watchtower, and through the binoculars, he could see the people digging with cloth wrapped around their faces and hands, and from time to time moving dirt-stained objects to the side. Every time a corpse was removed, some women, children and old people rushed up to examine and identify the corpse, some people shouted to the sky and grabbed the ground, some people fainted to the ground, and after watching it for a while, he also felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, fighting and killing people, he never felt that there was anything remarkable, but the tragic scene after the war really made people panic.

"Wasn't it all cremated at the beginning, why are you buried, it looks too miserable." Xi Yaya knew that those corpses had been buried for more than ten days, and they were basically rotten and invisible, except for the clothes when they were dug up.

"It's only when you burn the corpse that people are resented," Xiao Zishan has always refused to put his eyes on the telescope to see, "Isn't this a matter of turning bones into ashes." Now the family can still collect the corpse, and it can feel better to be buried in peace. This can be regarded as buying people's hearts. ”

Originally, how to clean up the corpses after the war, the health team suggested that either a fire should be set up in the field for cremation, or all of them should be transported to Bopu and thrown into the sea. Most people agree with this opinion, but Yu Eshui disagrees, arguing that the ancients attached great importance to the corpses of the dead. "Gathering the bones" has always been an expression of benevolence and righteousness throughout history. If the corpse were to be destroyed like this, the image of the traveler would be greatly damaged - after all, this would be their base in the future.

Therefore, Zuihou still collected the burial and buried it far away from the camp, originally thought that this was the case, but I did not expect the three conditions put forward by the people who came to negotiate in the county, the third is to collect the body, and there were many doubts about the rhetoric of Eshui, which is a bombastic and amazing person, why occupies a seat on the executive committee, and since then it has all disappeared.

After a day of tossing, the corpses were collected and transported away in each village, and some of the dead were sent to death because they were the "waste" of the village, and naturally no one collected them when they died, and the zuihou were all transported away by the county's good hall and buried on the mound.