"Two masters, you quickly change your clothes, and then take that bright boat!"

Under the arrangement of Yue's cronies, Ebi Lun and Zhuo Naxi hurriedly changed into ordinary Han clothes, blended into a group of ragged Liaodong refugees, and squeezed into the smuggling merchant ship of the Ming Kingdom. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At that time, the smuggling merchant ships of the Ming Kingdom, in addition to smuggling goods to Houjin, would also secretly pull some Liaodong refugees who wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty back, of course, the premise was that these refugees could afford to take the ship.

After all, the space on the ship is limited, and it is not surprising that the boat boss has to charge each person ten taels of silver for boarding the ship.

There are more than 500 homeless people who paid money to board the ship, so that the entire merchant ship can get more than 5,000 taels of silver just to carry the homeless, and the old man of the ship is naturally overjoyed and smiling.

The merchant ship went all the way south and passed peacefully for three days.

The weather in October in Liaodong was already quite cold, the sea breeze was howling, and the Erbi Lun Zhuonahi, dressed in tattered Han costumes, was crowded among the crowd of dove-shaped hipsters and ragged homeless people, all shivering with cold.

Due to the large number of displaced people, the two of them crowded in it are not conspicuous at all, but they also save them a lot of unnecessary trouble.

It's just that no one expected that at dusk three days later, the ship had just bypassed the old Tieshan waterway, and then turned around and went south in the direction of Dengzhou for a short time, and then met the Ming army sailors who came to patrol the private road.

The ship's boss suddenly turned pale, he knew that after being caught by the sailor on his ship's smuggled goods, it would be Ling Chi's fate! So he ordered all the oarsmen to row with all their might, trying to escape while it was getting darker.

However, in the end, he was not lucky to escape, and the merchant ship was caught up by the Ming army's sailors, and the cannon was sunk, and the entire crew fell into the sea.

The crew and the displaced people who fell into the icy sea screamed and cried for help.

The sailors of the Ming army, who sank the merchant ship, seemed to be deaf, and they gathered on the side of the ship with a smile and a smile, and these crowds of people crying and struggling in the icy waters seemed to be enjoying a good show, and then turned around and left without mercy.

"Dzonahi, quick, climb up!"

With quick eyes, his strong hands grabbed a large piece of driftwood from the side of the ship, and then pushed Zhuo Nahi onto the driftwood as hard as he could.

Then he climbed up with him, and then with his hand he made an oar, and paddled the driftwood away from the crowd as best he could.

He knew that this piece of driftwood carried the weight of two people, and it had reached its limit, and if anyone climbed up again, he was afraid that only three people would die.

Thanks to his quick wit and decisiveness, they were lucky enough to escape the tragic fate of drowning in the sea, just like everyone else.

When the moon rose, the crying and struggling voices of the people who fell into the water on the sea gradually disappeared, and the drowning corpses floated on the sea as if they were asleep, and the sea was silent, only the howling sea breeze kept screaming.

The bright moonlight shone silently on the dead waters, smearing the large piece of driftwood floating in the wind on the sea with a layer of mournful silver.

Zhuo Nahi, who was soaked with her hair and clothes by the cold sea, and choked on several mouthfuls of salty water as she struggled in the sea, lay motionless on the driftwood, coughing incessantly, and looked at her forehead with an anxious look on her face, trying to squeeze a bleak smile out of him.

Seeing that her eyes were empty and depressed, Ebi Lun hurriedly said in a trembling voice: "Zhuo Naxi, hold on!" After dawn, there may be fishermen who come to our rescue. ”

Dronahi shook his head slightly, and coughed violently again.

"I, I won't live until dawn, I'm cold, I'm so tired, I'm so sleepy." Dzonahi gasped and said with difficulty.

"Don't! Don't fall asleep, Dzonahi! He knew that in this cold sea, once he fell asleep, he was basically going to die.

He held Dronahi tightly in his arms, trying to use his body temperature to give her some warmth.

And Zhuo Naxi, who was tightly held in his arms, looked up at the sky with dull eyes.

The silver-white moon was like a gentle and amiable smiling face.

Oh, that's the smiling face of my mother, welcoming myself back to her.

A miserable smile welled up on Zhuo Nahi's face, and two lines of tears flowed down again.

Eniang, my daughter is coming to see you, and she is going to leave this world full of sin and murder to be with you, in that eternal pure paradise, we will never be separated, we will always be together.

Zhuo Naxi, who had a faint smile on her face, had a strange sparkle in her eyes, and she murmured, "Cousin, my mother is about to come down from the moon to pick me up, it's good, it's good。。。。。。 ”

Ebi Lun hugged her tightly and cried loudly: "Zhuo Naxi, you won't die, you won't。。。。。。 ”

Zhuo Naxi squeezed out a smile: "Cousin, don't be sad, I'm very happy to have my mother come to pick me up, you can live well." ”

"No, I won't let you die!" Forehead Lun yelled.

Zhuo Naxi's cold fingers brushed his forehead and face, and said laboriously: "Cousin, before I leave, let's sing you a song." It was when I was a child, and it was also such a sunny moonlit night, and my mother sang to me, cough cough, I hope you can live like a human when you arrive in the Ming Kingdom. ”

The ethereal song sounded intermittently, and strings of small notes full of sorrow slowly flowed out of Zhuonahi's mouth and disappeared into the icy sea.

"Yue'er, Yue'er, you fly high,

Fly high,

Flying across the blue night sky,

Flying over thousands of mountains and rivers,

Fly to my dreams。。。。。。 ”

Holding his cousin Zhuo Naxi, who was getting colder and colder in his arms and singing weaker and weaker, he cried loudly.

"Huang Taiji! Hauge! You shameless bastards! Lao Tzu and you are incompatible! ”

The angry voice of the forehead roared in the wind.

In despair, he burst into tears, but there was nothing he could do.

It seemed that after a long time, a faint abnormal sound came to his ears, whose consciousness was also becoming more and more blurred.

Feeling the astonishment, he suddenly woke up, he opened his eyes and looked around, and soon, his originally angry and painful face suddenly appeared with endless ecstasy.

He saw four ships clad in silver-white moonlight, as if emerging from the horizon where the sea and the sky meet, coming from south to north, in his own direction.

The desire to survive immediately surged from Ebilun's heart, and he shouted loudly to Zhuo Naxi, who was almost unconscious in his arms: "Zhuo Naxi, hold on! A ship is coming! We are saved! ”

When he had finished shouting, he put down the fainting Dhonahi, took off his clothes again, and after trying to stand firmly on the driftwood, he waved his clothes vigorously and vigorously to signal for help to the approaching ships.

Soon, the fleet also seemed to spot, in the bright moonlight, struggling to wave his clothes for help, and the lead ship turned sideways, stopped near the driftwood, and lowered a soft ladder.

With great joy in his heart, he hurriedly tied Zhuo Naxi with his clothes, tied it firmly to his back, and then jumped up the soft ladder to climb up.

The men of the boat began to assist him, and several of them struggled to pull the ladder together, and soon the exhausted Ebi Lun climbed onto the side of the ship and fell to the ground at once.

The clothes that bound Dhonahi scattered, and Dhonahi plopped and fell limply on the deck.

A few people who looked like leaders walked quickly towards Forehead.

Walking in the forefront is Li Xiao, the chief soldier of Chifeng.

He was followed by Yuan Anbang, a guerrilla general in Dongjiang Town, and Feng Shi, the head of Li Xiaojun's naval division.

Li Xiao, who went to Phi Island in Dongjiang Town, was lucky to rescue the two of them here.

It turned out that in the past few months, Li Xiao saw that Dongjiang Town had not sent firearms craftsmen, and he was very anxious, so he personally took a group of guards, as well as Feng Shi, the head of the sailor, and went to Phi Island with the ships from Dongjiang Town that came to Chifengwei to buy commercial goods, preparing to personally welcome these craftsmen who were urgently needed by Li Xiaojun.

In fact, Li Xiao went to Phi Island this time, not only to dig up those firearms craftsmen, but he also had a task, that is, to meet Shen Shikui, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, and negotiate with him on the terms, and strive to bring the Ocean Island of Dongjiang Town under his command.

This is a decision made by Li Xiao after careful consideration.

Ocean Island, a subordinate island of Dongjiang Town, is one of the islands of the Changshan Islands, and is the largest but most remote island under the jurisdiction of Dongjiang Town, with an area of 19.3 square kilometers and 76 nautical miles from Lushun. The island is inhabited by a small population, with only about 20 fishermen living here.

And because this island is remote and not a strategic location, it is not very important to Dongjiang Town, and Shen Shikui, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, only sent more than 200 old and weak soldiers to stay here for a long time.

The reason why Li Xiao is so interested in this ocean island is not only because of the large area of this island, but also because there is a natural deep-water harbor called "Taiping Bay" on this ocean island, so the bay opening is narrow, which can block the wind from all sides, and let the waves outside the bay be turbulent, the port is still as horizontal as a mirror, and it is a sheltered harbor for ships and fishing boats, so the local fishermen call it "Taiping Bay".

Such a natural harbor is basically useless in the hands of Dongjiang Town, but if Li Xiao can take it as an existing one, he can develop it into an excellent sailor base.

At present, the land along the coast of Chifengwei, except for the construction of a large commercial port Longkou Bay, most of the rest of the places are tidal flats, and they are basically developed as salt farms, so Li Xiao actually does not have a large harbor that can be used as a sailor station, if he can get this ocean island, it will provide an excellent development base for his own sailors.

Li Xiao plans to build a military port on this ocean island in the future, and also build a large-scale shipyard on it to produce various types of ships by himself. In other parts of the island, it is used for drying salt or producing fishery products.

There is another great advantage of forming a sailor on this remote island, that is, because of the remoteness of this place, Li Xiao can form a sailor on a large scale here, without worrying about attracting the envy of his colleagues, thus reducing a lot of unnecessary trouble for himself.

Li Xiao knew that if according to the historical process, by the tenth year of Chongzhen, Dongjiang Town would be completely finished, and all the islands, including Phi Dao, would be occupied by the Qing army.

Perhaps, Dongjiang Town, which is already surviving, will continue in my hands in the future。。。。。。

With a very vigilant look, he looked at Li Xiao, who was standing proudly in front of him, wearing a silver silk coiled hinged blue crystal jade hair crown, wearing a red military attache uniform with a tiger pattern on his chest and back, a jade belt wrapped with gold lychee flowers around his waist, wearing a beautiful silver and jade medal for the commander's double tiger, wearing black rhino thick-faced straight-seam official boots, wearing a sharp dragon sword at his waist, and a heroic and extraordinary posture.

"Where are you from, what is your name, and how did you end up in the sea?"

Li Xiao's voice was very gentle, but there was an irresistible majesty.

Ebi Lun couldn't understand his Chinese, and his heart was anxious, but he said it in Jurchen language.

", it's a Tartar." Yuan Anbang on the side sneered: "Around such a big bend, but saved a tartar, in my opinion, it is better to slaughter it with a knife." ”

Li Xiao frowned slightly, then summoned Feng Shi next to him and asked, "Feng Shi, you have traded with the Jurchens, you should know some Jurchen words, what is this Tartar talking about?" ”

"Your Excellency, what this person said is that they are the remnants of the Jurchens who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and with the Ming ships going south, they fell into the sea because the ships were damaged, but fortunately the Lord saved them, thank you very much. He said that this woman was his sister and that she was dying, and begged us to save her quickly. ”

Li Xiao sighed, and then said to Feng Shi: "Then you tell him, let the two of them go to the cabin to rest first, and arrange for a doctor to treat the woman." ”

Feng Shi then said Li Xiao's words to Er Bi Lun, and after listening to it, Er Bi Lun looked grateful, and kowtowed to Li Xiao again and again, and after Zhuo Naxi was helped down by the sergeant, he asked Li Xiao again.

"My lord, this tartar said, my lord is so benevolent, dare to ask my lord's surname?"

"Oh, there's something interesting about this guy." Li Xiao laughed: "Then you tell him his official name." ”

After Feng Shi told Li Xiao's name to Ebilun, he didn't expect that Ebilun looked surprised and said something urgently.

"My lord, he is asking, is it the Li Xiao who broke the blue flag in Jinjiazhuang Fort in Xuanfu Town."

Li Xiao's heart was suddenly startled, and he couldn't help but look up and down at the emaciated Jurchen strong man in front of him.

This man knows about his past, but he doesn't know where he came from.

As soon as Li Xiao's mind moved, he ordered Yuan Anbang and other soldiers of Dongjiang Town to leave first, and then ordered Feng Shi to lead Epi Lun to his own separate residence in the boat for a secret conversation.

"Who are you, who are you?" Li Xiao asked in a low voice and sternly.

He looked directly at Li Xiao's sharp eyes, and replied angrily: "I love Xinjueluo." Ebi Lun, the eldest son of the original Blue Banner Lord Mang Gurtai, was persecuted by Huang Taiji, desperate, and now he has a chance to meet Lord Li, and is willing to serve loyally under Lord Li! (To be continued.) )