The two armies were divided into three or four strongholds, and entered a dull period of confrontation. They all hope that the other party will move first, hoping to find flaws in the opponent's actions, and then break the enemy in one battle and deal a fatal blow to the other party.

Nan'ao Island, Dongshan Island, Guang'ao Bay, and Jinxia Sea are all silent. The passing ships all flew by with their tails between their legs, and both sides turned a blind eye to these ships, and fell into a state of war on the Western Front.

At least, on the surface.

But what about the facts?

The sea breeze blew across the winter sea, shaking the ships moored on the sea and blowing a cold air into the barracks.

In the prisoner camp, there is no trace of the end of the year, the emergency is withering, and it is the melancholy of being a prisoner.

If it weren't for the tight doors in the prisoner camp and the fact that they couldn't go out at will, it almost made these more than 1,000 Zheng army prisoners happy, oh, it seems that most of these guys are from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and they are separated from Sichuan by 108,000 miles!

In the same camp tent as the Nanyue Army, everyone was given thick winter cotton clothes and bedding, and a dozen people were afraid of the cold in a tent for more than a dozen people, and they were also equipped with a honeycomb coal stove, and a certain amount of coal could be collected every day.

"Every day, we only care about good food and good food, and if we continue to raise it like this, we will grow a few pounds of fat!" A few veterans of the Zheng family have just finished lunch, marinated meat and salted fish stewed Chinese cabbage, you can also see a lot of tofu in it, a pork kidney's lunch box is full of sharp rice, chopsticks are strung with four white steamed buns the size of a sand bowl, and they are sucking and drinking hot clam egg soup in their mouths. The heads of the people who ate it were steaming hot.

"What? Is it not good to keep good food and good food? The people of the Nanyue Army are not cannibals, can it be said that if we are fattened, we will kill and eat meat? ”

Several veterans were joking with each other, but they were actually reassuring themselves.

Since he was captured, the wounded were healed, the sick were treated, and those who were not sick or plagued were gathered together in one place to eat and drink. It's okay for two days a day, but it's been seven or eight days in a row, and it's all like this, and people can't help but feel suspicious.

"Come out and assemble!"

After the meal, they cleaned up the eating guys, washed all the utensils and returned them to the room (for safety). Prisoners were forbidden to possess chopsticks, spoons, and other objects that could be processed into sharp objects. Everyone was about to take advantage of the state of being sleepy after eating to talk to Zhou Gong. Unexpectedly, a sharp whistle sounded in the prisoner camp.

"It's finally here!" Several veteran oils glanced at each other, and a wry smile appeared on their faces.

"I don't know how we will die? Escorted to the sea and slashed one by one, and kicked the corpse into the sea with one kick? Or was he directly tied up and thrown into the open sea? Or a knife and a shot. Poke a clear hole? ”

People are speculating. He staggered out of his tent.

"Go back and get your stools! Go to Tanah Lot to see a play! A few vicious guards stared at the dead creatures. Don't fight in one place.

In front of Tanah Lot Temple, hundreds of villagers from Guangao Bay have already gathered here, and more than 200 soldiers of the Nanyue Army are scattered around to serve as a guard and suppress order.

The sound of gongs and drums sounded. Someone erected a water sign on the entrance of the stage, and a literate person whispered it, "Ode to Coral? "This play sounds like a popular Gaojia opera tune in southern Fujian, but I don't seem to have heard of Gaojia opera having this play?

A few veterans were still worried, the stage was already full of people, and in the sound of gongs and drums, the show began.

After a few words of singing, the prisoners who originally planned to whistle on the stage and tease Xiao Dan and Hua Dan while the guards and the surrounding soldiers were not paying attention suddenly became quiet, staring at the performance on the stage without blinking.

Because it's something they're familiar with.

Hu Mei, the daughter of Coral Island, is the daughter of a small merchant and sailor, and has a lover Ah Qing, who is also a sailor. In desperation, Lao Shunde had to go with A-Qing to Coral Island, Longtou Mountain, Lao Niu Island, the fisherman and the shipowner's seventh aunt's grandmother's boat as a sailor, trying to pay off the debt owed to the donkey rolling, and to redeem the Hu Mei who was sent to the seventh aunt's house as a maid because of the arrears.

However, sailors on ships, like small businessmen who run gangs, do not make much money because of the cruel oppression and exploitation of the shipowners. By the way, Lao Shunde was monopolized by the Zheng family on trade routes and trade, and had to take the risk of going to sea on a stormy day, trying to grab a time difference and earn some money and capsized and went bankrupt.

And this old Shunde, who once fought with the seventh aunt and grandmother when he was young, because of the competition for the fishing grounds, will naturally not be very comfortable on the boat of the seventh aunt's grandmother's house. Because, today's seventh aunt and grandmother joined the Zheng family because they climbed into the Zheng family, and now it is not what it used to be.

"The three islands of the town occupy the four seas and dominate the coral, and they are not as rich as the owner of Zheng. Although Emperor Zhu sat in the world, the seventh grandmother was not inferior to him on the island! ”

"The bitter sea is vast and cloudy, the poor fisherman's family is suffering, Brother Aqing is forced to hide on the mainland, it has been half a year since winter and spring, the ocean and the sea are soundproofed, which year and month will he return to his hometown? The owner of the fishing tyrant is forbidden to go to sea, the tax is forced to be tightened like a string, the family is cut off from food, the father is sick, and the door is like frying the heart, when will the dark clouds disperse, when will the fisherman see the sun? Looking forward to seeing through a thousand waves, I only hope that there will be a sunny day?! ”

"The lonely lamp reflects the cold night weather, and hates the infinite prison and is trapped in the prison. The deep mansion of the fisherman is like the palace of the king of Hades, and the tears and blood of the fisherman are reflected in the twilight. The bull head and horse stood on both sides, miserable, miserable, miserable and miserable to cut off the world. The sound of drums is slow, listening to the waves under the beach and lapping on the south bank, looking out the window at the east mountain on the moon, the heart is like a tide rolling and surging, hating the wingless flying dragon mountain. Oh daddy...... You cross the sea to take the fisherman's heart, hit the waves and sail the sails, I hope that the savior will be rectified quickly, and the flying boat will break into Hutou Beach as soon as possible. ”

In addition to these singing passages that flow into the hearts of the captives like a stream, so that they can hum casually, this performance team from Hue and trained by Le Muhua back then, I don't know whether Lu Dao was intentional or unintentional. In the process of the whole story, it is shameless to implant countless used and even indispensable Nanzhong products that people have seen.

"Look, this good Nanzhong rice originally cost one or two silver and one stone, but the owner was very merciful and felt that it was not easy for you, so he sold it to you for five dollars of silver!" The harlequin who played the housekeeper of the seventh aunt's grandmother's house on the stage recited the white on the stage. Turning his head to the audience is an inner monologue! "Actually, it's only two coins of silver from Nanzhong! These poor ghosts! ”

The same product placement and skin-picking behaviors are, "Eh! Take a look, on the good Nanzhong fine salt. Vegetable oil. There are also dyed cotton cloth and calico, which are all bargains given to everyone by the owner, so don't make everyone's money. As long as everyone uses it, they will be grateful for the kindness of the owner! ”

The same. The harlequin who plays the butler will turn his head to face the audience. "Not making money? If you don't make money, how can you be worthy of my hard work on this trip to Nanzhong? If I don't earn him twice as much as our own pockets, I'm sorry for myself! ”

The audience began to slowly stir a little, this kind of trick. Behavior is not uncommon among the Zheng Group, the owners of large and small ships have paid military salaries on the front foot, and they have brought out all kinds of daily necessities of various colors and varieties on the back foot, claiming to sell them to sailors and soldiers at cost price, but it turns out that the secret is here!

Who doesn't have a girl in the family who hides in the bottom of her heart, intent on marrying her into the family, so she ventures to the sea to be a sailor, enduring harsh conditions, unpalatable diet, and high-intensity manual labor? However, the cruel reality is far more heart-rending than in the play. When they had saved up their meager income and were planning to return to their hometown to marry the girl of their hearts, they would often hear that the girl had been taken as a concubine by the owner of the ship or a relative of the owner.

When the stage was staged, the atmosphere finally broke out when the seventh aunt and grandmother planned to promise the Hu Mei who was sold to the mansion to her right-hand man as the wife of the ninth aunt.

"I heard that the ship's owner wanted me to marry, and my heart was hard to peace, you lost your conscience and inhumanity, you hid a knife in your smile, even if there is a mountain of gold and silver, you can't buy my daughter's heart."

"Huh! Sister Hu, you have to think clearly, Grandma Seventh has found this family business for you, but how much effort did it take? Married into the owner's family, you eat oil and wear silk, and you wear gold and silver yourself, you see! Your father's medicine, people sent sixty payments at one time! ”

The harlequin who plays the butler looks disgusting with the tofu cubes outlined on his face.

"Actually, this medicine is not worth much, but it is just a few cents of silver! However, they can't stand this group of poor ghosts, and they don't know how to say this ......" When the harlequin was introducing the old medicinal materials that can cure Hu Mei's father Lao Shunde to the audience, the captives in the audience viciously picked up their bamboo stools and smashed them towards the harlequin and the seventh aunt like a lead ball, "I'm Pony Amu! A tiger pounced in front of the stage, and was about to pounce on the stage, but behind him there were several captives who shouted and cursed and rushed up with him, and there was a great disorder in the square.

When the play is like this, naturally there is no way to continue the performance, not to mention that the harlequin who played the housekeeper was smashed on the head, and even the Danjiao who played the seventh aunt was beaten by an old punch and his nose and face were swollen. Although the prisoners who made trouble were escorted up by the soldiers who rushed up immediately and sent to the confinement room to be locked up in a small black room, this scene could not be sung anymore.

"It's time to fight!" Several veterans snorted and walked back with the bench between them, and along the way the prisoners were discussing the drama they saw.

"I'm just a little farther away from the stage, or I'll jump up and beat those two bastards! Damn it! It's worth the hungry food in the small black house! Say a bad breath first! ”

Along the way, more than 1,000 people cursed the street and returned to the prisoner camp, but unexpectedly, something unexpected was waiting for them in the camp.

"Chen Chaotian!"

A veteran soldier had just walked to his tent, and his eyes couldn't help but light up. Standing in front of his tent, carrying a few bamboo baskets in his hands, and a smile full of unbeaten, isn't it a fellow villager who shares a house with him?

"Yellow paparazzi! Not me? ”

Two guys who came out of the same village and grew up with bare butts met in the captive camp.

Looking at his childhood friend, the yellow paparazzi patted Chen Chaotian's muslin robe and found that it was not a padded jacket, but a fox fur robe, which immediately surprised him.

"Good mix! Got a leather robe? ”

"Hey! Fool! Come, bring food and drink for the brothers! ”

Chen Chaotian casually handed a few bamboo baskets in his hand to the yellow paparazzi and a few veteran oils beside him. The same scene was played out in different forms in various places in the prisoner camps. The yellow paparazzi couldn't have imagined. The arrival of Chen Chaotian and others is also part of the entire plan.

Relying on the strict population management and household registration system, after Huang Paparazzi and others were captured, after registering their hometowns, there were people who searched in the Nanyue Army according to the location of their relatives in their hometowns, and if nothing else, they could find their fellow villagers!

From a Quanzhou Mansion and Zhangzhou Mansion, it was gradually searched for under the Luxia, implemented to the prefecture, county and township, and then found the village. It's a very simple job, and it's very untechnical. But. In the era when there is no cloud computing and cloud data central computer, being able to find such a person is tantamount to a moon landing project.

However, the Southern Yue Army did it. And it was done in ten days. Not only did they find the people who needed them. These people were also gathered for a short training, and then sent to Guang Ao Bay by boat!

Purely from this ability to organize and mobilize. Coupled with the huge material base and industrial production capacity. Zheng Zhilong had already lost this battle before the start of the fight.

However, Chen Chaotian and Huang Paparazzi are the most ordinary sailor soldiers. But I don't think about it in the slightest. The yellow paparazzi looked up and down, left and right, at the childhood friend in front of him.

After a long time, the yellow paparazzi let out a heartfelt admiration, "Wearing a muslin robe, your face is full of red, you guys are doing well!" Where to make your fortune now? ”

"What a fortune! Coffin! I'm just a boatswain in the boat shop of Mrs. Hu's house, and I still work for people! ”

"Look at your outfit, you also make a lot of money, right?"

Several people sat down around a small bamboo square table in the tent, and Chen Chaotian opened the oil paper bags and meat porcelain jars from the bamboo basket, and the room was filled with the smell of meat. People can't help but fan their noses for a while, greedily breathing in the tempting smell.

"And say you didn't make any money? These wines and meats are not cheap! ”

The strong smell of shochu, spilling out of the open ceramic flask, mixed with a heavy aroma of meat, created an enticing aroma of sake and meat in the tent.

The dozen or so people in the tent smelled this smell and couldn't help but swallow a few times instinctively. During the days of being captive, although the food was good, there was never a sip of wine in his mouth, in the words of the yellow paparazzi and others, "The bird faded out of his mouth!" ”

Chen Chaotian greeted him a few words, and everyone did not shirk, picked up the lid of the lunch box that could be used as a soup bowl and water cup, and drank loudly.

"This meal of wine and meat, copper coins, our brothers remember! In the future, if something happens to you, as long as our brothers can get out of this cage, go in the water, go in the fire! None of them! ”

After a few sips of soju, people began to get excited, the yellow paparazzi patted Chen Chaotian's shoulder, his eyes were red, and the people around him echoed his words. For a while, the atmosphere in the room was very warm!

"Huh! What's welcome! They are all brothers of a village, what is a meal of wine? No need to take such a heavy oath! Chen Chaotian was funny in his heart, but he was still polite in his mouth.

"A drink?" A veteran's eyes were red with alcohol, and he pointed to the wine and meat on the square table with oil.

"A pot of two catties of soju costs five dollars of silver, and a meat porcelain jar is at least two dollars, as well as these cooked meats! If you buy these things in Xiamen, you will need at least five silver dollars! What's more, you can come to see our class prisoners, this friendship, we have to keep it in our hearts! ”

"This brother, if you want to remember, remember this love! What money is not money, it is nothing! What's more, these things are really not worth much! ”

In order to prove that he was telling the truth, Chen Chaotian pulled out a very beautifully printed notice from the bamboo basket, which was densely filled with the names and prices of various commodities.

"See for yourselves! This is the uniform price list that Long prevails for! Prices are similar everywhere! ”

The captives crowded together, and after listening to the brothers, who knew a few words from the guys, read the names, specifications, and prices of all kinds of goods needed by almost ordinary sailors to shipowners, they could not help but curse in unison: "Pony Am! ”

Only then did they realize that the things sung in the original drama were so consistent with those in real life! Whatever is sold to them is at least several times more profitable by the shipowners! Alas! So what's the solution? I am a poor sailor who eats by hard work, and I can't say that one day I will throw this more than 100 catties of meat into the sea, and the more expensive things are, the more expensive they are! Anyway, sailors don't have the blessing to marry wives and have children!

"Copper Money! You are working in the Nanyue Army, according to what you said, things are cheap, no wonder you are so well dressed! I think I'm going to have a good life! ”

These words caused Chen Chaotian to vomit bitterness!

"What a word! When I was this boatswain, I had dozens of silver dollars in a month, but there were so many places to spend money that I couldn't afford it?! Listen to me do the math for you! ”

According to Chen Chaotian, a large part of his boatswain's salary income must pay personal income tax, and he also has to pay a pension, which is a favor given to these sailors by the general.

"If you remove these two items, you have to support your family, and now you have to save money to build a new house, otherwise there will be not enough children and wives in the family! In the future, when these children grow up one by one, I have to plan for them to marry a daughter-in-law and make a dowry. In the future, if Fujian is also under the control of the Lord, I still want to repair the ancestral house in my hometown. Then scrape together some money to Siam or Tianzhu to buy hundreds of acres or thousands of acres of wasteland to open up wasteland, and let's also taste the taste of being a landlord! ”

"So, brothers, don't look at me dressed decently, in fact, it's just like a money shortage!"

The yellow paparazzi listened for a long time, in addition to being surprised, envious, and jealous, they couldn't help but have such a thought in their hearts at the same time: "This thief bird came to see us, but why do I always want to beat him?!" (To be continued......)