Chapter 132 The brothers are here

In November of the sixteenth year of Jiading in the Great Song Dynasty, the weather was sunny in Tamsui, the huge sun hung in mid-air, although it was already cold and windy on land, but Freshwater was still warm as spring. Having never seen snow since moving here has been a bit uncomfortable for some newcomers, the climate is extremely pleasant for those who have lived there for more than six years.

Riding the warship "Zhangyu", Li Yilao stood majestically in the bow of the ship, this warship was a new type of warship specially built by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau for naval warfare, according to Zhao Youju's instructions, it got the name of the "Zhangyu" that was wrecked due to grounding. The Liuqiu Coast Guard—now officially divided into three parts: the Coast Guard, the Territorial Guard, and the Artillery Guard—some members of the team are whispering that the name is extremely unsuitable for use at sea, but because of the insistence of the higher-ups, this latest warship is still named Zhangyu.

"Be careful, you thief, be careful when you get in place, Hugh has broken my big explosion!"

Watching the workers at the docks hoist the cannon onto the "Zhangyu", Li Yilao cursed, his bald head shining in the sun, oozing fine sweat, as if he had grown countless flesh-colored short hair.

"I'm afraid this won't work...... "Strictly speaking, the one who was scolded by him was not a dock worker, but Wu Fang, who had been withdrawn from Tamna Island to rest, he still muttered with a sad face, but his hands were more careful: "Where will this iron lump be broken, but don't break the ship......"

"Shut up and get to work!" Wu Fang is considered an old subordinate of Li Yilao, so he scolded mercilessly, but Wu Fang was also scolded by him, and muttered again indifferently: "This can't be done, we have never allowed anyone to speak under the non-wartime system......

Li Yilao touched his big bald head, scolded and kicked Wu Fang's buttocks, Wu Fang shut up and shut up, and then the surrounding comrades laughed at him: "But it's looking for a beating, you won't be itchy if you don't get kicked by Team Li for a day, right?" ”

Wu Fang also laughed, and when Li Yilao turned around, he jumped up quickly and touched Li Yilao's bald head. Li Yilao was furious, turned to chase him, and when the two were fighting, suddenly the big bronze bell rang at the dock.

The two of them immediately stopped, this kind of playfulness is okay when they are free, if there is something, it will not work.

After years of construction, the large bronze bell of Tamsui Wharf is no longer simply in the middle of the square, but moved to the north, and a high platform was built for the bronze bell, and the ancestor worship ceremony was completed under this high platform during the Qingming Dynasty. On top of the bronze bell, there is an iron flagpole raised by a tree, and on the iron flagpole, a red flag is rising.

"I don't know what." Wu Fang said curiously.

Li Yilao scolded in a low voice, grabbed Wu Fang's collar and said, "You led your people to guard here, I'll go to the fort to have a look!" ”

The red flag means vigilance, and raising the red flag means that the warships of the Tamsui Coast Guard should lift anchor and raise their sails and leave the port on alert, and the members of the artillery team at the battery should also be in place within three minutes to keep the artillery in a state that can be fired.

Li Yilao hurriedly ran to the fort, grabbed the clairvoyant mirror and looked out of the port, these days, some things like this have happened, mostly when some Great Song Dynasty merchants who are not familiar with the rules of the flow came, but Tamsui did not slack off because it was a false alarm.

The position of the fort is not as high as that at the lighthouse, and the alarm signal occurs first by the lookout at the lighthouse, and then transmitted to the bell tower with a flag, and the bell tower rings the bell to notify the people near the pier. After more than ten minutes, Li Yilao saw a ship staggering from the northeast.

"It seems that the ship we are begging, what kind of warning is being sent......" Li Yilao snorted, and then looked at the ship, as the ship gradually approached, he saw that there were many obvious traces of repair on the sails, and the hull was also a little abnormal, definitely not as well maintained as the ship of Liuqiu.

Then he saw a flag raised on the ship with a big "Hu" written on it.

"Hu Ziqi, we don't have a captain surnamed Hu Lai......" Li Yilao just said to himself, and then his eyes widened: "Hu You, Hu You!" ”

There are not many people who generally think that the person who comes is Hu You, the bronze bell of the dock rang again and again, and more and more people rushed towards the dock, and the sound of the crowd almost covered the sound of the 1,800-pound big bronze bell.

"They're back, they're back!"

Different dialects, different voices, different genders, different ages, mixed together, but they became a general resonance, and people rushed to tell each other, and the only thing they said to each other was "they are back".

In the Tamsui Palace, Yang Miaozhen threw down the letter sent to her by Zhao Heju, and walked quickly to the balcony, her face was full of surprise, she couldn't wait to go downstairs, and jumped down directly from the balcony.

At the Tamsui school field, Li Ye pulled the rider who came from the summons off his horse, took his mount and whipped his horse quickly.

In the big housekeeper's lounge in the Tamsui Office, Fang Youcai, who was taking a bath, ripped off his clothes at random and ran barefoot.

In Tamsui Primary School, Chen Zicheng, who was teaching students in the classroom, threw down the chalk and said "holiday" in a trembling voice.

People poured out from all directions, and even during the Qingming Festival, they had never seen so many heads. Several large Song Sea ships that were originally on the dock waiting to be loaded onto the goods were surprised to see that the whole freshwater was like a pot of porridge that had been boiled.

Li Yilao was also ecstatic in his heart, he stared at the approaching ship, this was the "Gan Ying", and then he saw the damaged "Zhang Qian", and the "Fa Xian" with a deeper draft.

Another "Gan Ying" has never been seen.

"It's really back...... Two and a half years...... It's really back! Although there was a boat missing, Li Yilao did not feel sad in his heart, on the contrary, the ecstasy made him fall into a certain state of dizziness.

Li Rui, dressed in the uniform of an escort, pursed his lips and raised his chin high, stood straight in front of the dock.

He was now the deputy commissioner of the Tamsui Dock Customs, responsible for dealing with the restless Song sailors, and his years of study in Tamsui had made him extremely proud and conceited, and he wore the latest guard uniform decorated with cotton, brass buckles and belts. This neat uniform, which is also said to have been designed by the owner, is perfect for the escort team who need to train all day long.

When he came, he remembered glancing twice at the mirror set in the wall and straightening his collar.

"Lao Zhu must have come back with the ship, I must ask him to see, in the past two years, I have made a big difference!" He suppressed the excitement in his heart, and the expression on his face became even colder.

This kind of look was exactly what he had seen in the righteous boy, the mixture of confidence, pride and bravery, he used to envy this kind of look very much, and now, he finally has it.

The only thing that made him a little regretful was that he had never met the island owner, and with his current status, he could not know the exact identity of the island owner, but he could also hear from the faint rumors that the identity of the island owner was extremely unusual.

When the bottom of the leather boots hit the concrete floor, there was a clattering sound, Li Rui looked back, it was Li Ye carrying a horsewhip in his hand, the same outfit as him, but the epaulettes on the shoulders were embroidered with a star and a bar.

Li Ruili saluted, but Li Ye's mind was not on him, he just nodded casually, and then looked at the sea.

"One less ship......" he frowned and muttered.

Although the sound was not loud and the surroundings were very noisy, for some reason, these four words still came into Li Rui's ears, Li Rui was slightly stunned, he only wanted to let Ah Zhu see his current appearance, but he didn't notice that there were only three ships. He looked out to sea, and when he realized that the missing thing was the "Ban Chao", his heart jumped suddenly.

It seems that when he left Liuqiu, Yu Zhu worked on the Ban Chao......

The boat was getting closer and closer, and Li Yue swallowed his saliva and felt his heart beat hard. The more this happened, the less he dared to show his inner uneasiness, so he stood more and more straight with his chin held high.

The pilot ship had already been greeted by a pilot ship, which was its own ship, so naturally it was not so careful, and after a while, the "Gan Ying" was introduced into the port. As soon as the ship landed, the crowd that had arrived to greet them roared forward like a thunderclap.

Li Yunrui had already prepared, he transferred the escort team of the brigade to the dock to maintain order, and with the efforts of hundreds of escorts, the crowd that greeted them did not break through the pass and was isolated from the wooden horse.

People can be isolated, but voices cannot be isolated, and the cries, laughter, tears of joy, and lively conversations mingle together. Although nearly a third of the people who greeted them had only moved in the past two years, and had not seen the expedition depart, and there were no relatives or friends in the expedition, the warm atmosphere was really infectious, and the smiles that greeted the eyes were like fire, and the faces of everyone were flushed.

"It's just three ships entering the port, why are you Tamsui so excited?" A great Song maritime merchant asked the customs officer who accompanied him in confusion.

"You know what, they left here, two years and five months!" The customs officer's face was also full of excitement, and when he heard this, he didn't bother with him, but replied hastily, and then cast his eager gaze on the bow of the Gan Ying.

The first to appear in everyone's sight was a figure whom no one knew, but eight or nine years old, who timidly poked his head out and looked down at it, and when he saw so many people here, he immediately retracted his head again. Then, he poked his head out a little bit, his eyes a little frightened and a little excited.

"How can there be children?" Li Ye muttered again.

Then the boy lunged forward, as if he had been pushed by someone, and he turned back and smiled, and then Duncan Polo, with his bearded hair dishevelled and disheveled, appeared on the gangway. He wore a tattered broad-brimmed hat on his head, rested one hand on the child's shoulder, took it off with the other, and waved it to the crowd.

"Duncan!" Seeing his triumphant appearance, the barefoot Fang Youcai habitually wanted to scold, but when it came to his mouth, he was blocked by the tears shining in his eyes.

More than he wept was Duncan's native wife, who shouted Duncan's name hoarsely, and the two children beside her tugged at her shirt and looked timidly at the boat. They hadn't seen their father for more than two years, and they had forgotten about their father.

And the young child who was held in the arms of Duncan's native wife looked around curiously, wondering why so many people were together.

Duncan's eyes wandered through the crowd, and when he saw his wife and children, he didn't bother to set up the gangway and jumped off the boat. Because of the high bow of the boat, he fell in this jump, but no one laughed at him, and when he hugged his wife and children in his arms, he was surrounded by the most old-fashioned immigrants, and no one felt that it was wrong.

This is the expression of affection and sexuality, and it should not be subject to any restraint in the first place!

The third one who appeared in everyone's eyes was Hu You, two and a half years have passed, there is no childishness on his face, the sea breeze has blown his face purple-red, and there is a long scar on his right eyebrow. He is also half a righteous boy, and he has a good relationship with Li Ye, Li Yilao, etc., seeing him, Li Ye only felt that his hanging heart was put down, and laughed: "Hu You, Hu You!" ”

The voice was boiling, and his voice was loud, but it couldn't reach Hu You's ears. Hu You took the hand of the first child to come out, took him off the board, and pounced on Li Ye and hugged him.

"Boy, you're back!" Looking at the scar on Hu You's face, Li Ye patted his shoulder: "Not bad, yes, there is color on his face, is this kid a cub under you and the natives of Dongshengzhou, he grows up quite fast!" ”

"Li Hanfan, you still have such a bad mouth!" Hu You laughed.

One by one, the sailors disembarked from the ship, and their families, relatives and friends recognized them and chanted their names. The huge sound was like a wave, causing everyone to stagger, and Yang Miaozhen was surrounded by several people to protect him, but he was still unsteady. At this moment, she felt as if Zhao and Ju were about to get off these boats.

Li Rui looked over nervously, and the sailors of the "Gan Ying" came down, but they still didn't see Yu Zhu.

"If you don't tighten, if you don't tighten, you'll be fine...... he comforted himself in his heart, and eagerly set his eyes on the second "Zhang Qian" that docked at the port.

Lin Xi came out, and many immigrants who came earlier recognized him, so some people cheered him, his expression was resolute, his eyes were firm, and this voyage made him more tenacious. Behind him, when Qiu Shuang appeared, the cheers were the loudest, because almost all the immigrants who came two and a half years ago had seen him carrying a medicine box to see people.

On the "Zhang Qian", Li Rui saw Ouyang Yingfeng's pirate, this guy was proud, but he still didn't see Yu Zhu.

He was anxious like a dream, he couldn't wait for the "Fa Xian" to dock at the port, and he didn't care about maintaining his cold and serious appearance, so he grabbed a sailor who was talking warmly with relatives and friends and asked, "What about the super number?" ”

"Ban Chao? Stranded in New Island. The sailor said with a somewhat gloomy expression when he heard this question.