Pingtan belonged to Min County, Jian'an County in the Sui Dynasty. Also called Lan Island, Qilin Island, commonly known as Haitan, located in the east of Fujian, is the shortest distance between the mainland and Taiwan Island, composed of 126 islands dominated by Haitan Island, the main island Haitan Island is the largest island in Fujian, and it is also a famous fishing base. Pingtan is known as the "Thousand Reefs Island County", the wide sea area is connected to the open ocean, and many islands and reefs are dotted in between, so that the island naturally has a beautiful and charming sea scenery. Due to the influence of geological structure and seawater erosion, many strange and spectacular sea erosion landforms have developed, including flat and wide coastal beaches and countless strange pictographic rocks. Lake, sea, sand and stone contrast with each other, strange, secluded, dangerous, and pretty, constituting a unique island landscape, which has won the admiration of Xia Xue and Li Jing and his party.

After some investigation in Pingtan County, Xia Xue found that the terrain in Pingtan County is low and flat, the central part is slightly high, the terrain is dominated by sedimentary plains, there are lonely hills in the north and south, and the coast is tortuous and meandering. There is a large freshwater lake called Thirty-six Foot Lake, which is said to be the largest natural freshwater lake in Fujian. The main mineral resources are granite, quartz sand, alum, pyrite, copper, kaolin mine, etc. It is really a natural excellent base connecting the mainland of Fujian and the island of Taiwan.

Xia Xue thought that Pingtan could be used as a good springboard to enter Yizhou (later Taiwan) in the future.

In the following ten days, six people successively visited Minzhou (later Fuzhou), Jianzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Yongan, Longyan and other places in Fujian, and basically knew what to do in their hearts.

After Xia Xue and his entourage visited Funing, Fujian, they found that the people here were very poor. Fujian is mountainous and has little arable land, and has always been relatively poor in ancient times, and is often called a place with poor mountains and bad water by the government. However, after arriving in Funing, Fujian, Xia Xue and his entourage felt that it was poorer than other places in Fujian. Many of the villagers here lack food and clothing, have vegetables, are emaciated and malnourished.

Xia Xue wondered, in later generations, Funing was still a relatively wealthy place, why was the Sui Dynasty so poor. Funing, Fujian, in later generations, has the reputation of the hometown of Chinese big yellow croaker, known as "the sea of Tianhu, the immortal capital of Buddhism, the gallery of 100 miles", located in the northeast coastal area of Fujian, the east of Fujian, east of the East China Sea, and Yizhou (Taiwan in later generations) across the sea, with a world-class natural deep-water port Sanduao. The terrain is mainly hilly and mountainous, and the coast is a small plain, which belongs to the central subtropical oceanic monsoon climate. The conditions in the field are not very bad, why are the villagers here so poor?

After a few days of investigation in Funing, Fujian, Xia Xue and his entourage found that the people here were seriously short of food first. Although it is close to the sea, most of the villagers lack fishing nets and find it difficult to use the fishery to supplement their nutrition.

It was dark that day, and there was no house to be seen.

Ouyang Yong muttered, "It seems that I am going to sleep in the wild tonight." ”

Xia Xue stood on a nearby high ground and looked at the distance, as if there was some fire, so she said: "There seems to be a fire ahead, it is estimated that there are people, let's rush over." ”

As soon as he heard that there was someone, Ouyang Yong immediately came to the spirit, and everyone hurried all the way, although it was dark and the road was rugged and difficult, but it still took less than half an hour to rush to the firelight.

When they got closer, they were surprised to find that it was a gang of bandits who were burning and looting a village. The flames were everywhere, and the sound of cries, screams, scolding, laughter, beeps of burning houses, and the sound of knives and guns penetrating flesh ...... resounded throughout the night.

The small village is a terrible sight, shocking and terrifying.

The fire was dying in some places, and in a few places it was raging, and many haystacks and houses were burning. Cows, pigs, burned piece by piece, squeaked with oil bubbles, and emitted a pungent bitterness and a foul smell.

Whoa, whoa! Some of the houses had collapsed, and tongues of fire with stars stretched out, caught in the smoke, spiraled and rose into the air.

The pigs and dogs that were not burned and died were screaming strangely.

On the threshing floor at the entrance of the village, the bodies of more than a dozen victims were lying in a mess, including old men, children, men and women. Some were legs, some were waists, some were chests, mutilated, and each body had no head.

Among them was a young woman, cloaked and naked, with her belly torn open and her entrails dragged out a dozen paces away. Thirty paces away from her lay the body of a baby, without arrow wounds or knife wounds. Apparently he was thrown to death.

Xia Xue's brain exploded like an explosion, and her whole body was as stiff and cold as a piece of iron.

The people in the troubled times are really pitiful, they are oppressed by the government, the rebels, and now they are still being oppressed by bandits.

Xia Xue was filled with righteous indignation, rode an oolong horse, took the lead, and rushed into the burning village as if flying. Li Jing, the bearded guest, the red-haired girl, and the Ouyang brothers and sisters also followed closely and rushed into the messy village.

As soon as they entered the village, they found a bandit crawling on top of a stripped woman and raping her, the woman cried loudly, and not far from the woman, a male villager fell in a pool of blood, presumably the woman's husband.

Xia Xue's eyes were about to split, and she rushed to the back of the bandit like a whirlwind, and slashed the guy's head with a knife, and before the guy's body fell, she had already galloped to the next house.

A thief was snatching an old man's small half bag of grain, which was estimated to be the old man's life food, so the old man would not let go, the thief was furious, pulled out a steel knife and was about to kill the old man, when suddenly a knife was cold, and his head had already flown into the sky.

When the old man looked up, he was gone, and only the sound of horses' hooves was heard.

In the next family, there are three young men who are holding hoes and other farm tools and three thieves to fight, but unfortunately their farm tools were quickly cut off by the waist knife of the bandits, and at the moment of crisis, I saw a fairy-like woman riding a big black horse, as if the gods descended, and the cold light passed, and the three thieves were already in different places.

"It must be Mazu Niangniang who came down to save us!" The youngest young man in the grade shouted in surprise.

Before he could finish his call, the little fairy was gone.

Xia Xue rode an oolong horse, like a black whirlwind, and everywhere she passed, blood splattered, and one by one the fierce bandits were sent to hell by the sharp Tang knife.

The corpses of the slain villagers were lying everywhere on the road, and Shura was hellish and miserable. Beside these massacre corpses, the body of an old lady, half of which had fallen into the fire, and below her belly, had been burned with the coals of fire, leaving only half of her chest and her gray head stained with black blood clots, as if she had been thrown alive in the fire and burned to death. Look closely at a toddler next to him, charred ashes, emitting the last wisps of green smoke, and a half leg stretched out outside the fire. Judging by the size of his feet, the child was no more than five or six years old.

Xia Xue gritted her silver teeth with hatred, "Dog-damn thief!" ”