Chapter XXIII. Not a machine
This trip can be far enough, starting from Phi Island, to the east and even to the sea near Jeju Island in South Korea in the later generations, the Ming Dynasty is really wide, from the direction of Kyushu Island in the Japanese country to the Japanese invaders have to be attacked by Dongjiang Town, the important task of maintaining world peace is good, but Mao Jue always feels that Liaodong is lost, and the back of his house is on fire, and he has to carry a bucket to protect the haystack of his neighbor's North Korean family, is it a bit too bad and a good person?
A trip took ten days, and the battle was not encountered, but Mao Jue, who was a soldier, had seen it again, and it was really as Wu Pu said, eating fish until he vomited, even if it was the freshest sea fish, every day the sea fish sticky yellow rice was boiled, and people couldn't stand it, Mao Jue suspected that he was about to eat all over his body full of scales.
And even if it is a hard sail, the operation is simple, but there are many doorways in it, the first is to operate the sail by the wind, with the schooner borrowed from the eight sides of the wind is not so easy, and the maintenance of the ship, when encountering the wind and waves, these are all knowledge, before only knowing how to build these ancient sailing boats, now how to operate, he also learned a small half, when a sailor is estimated not to starve to death.
Seafarers don't have the romance they imagined, cleaning the deck, raising and lowering the sails, keeping the ship watertight in the storm, and having to distinguish the stars at night and the sun during the day, especially the ten iron cannons on the deck that need to be cleaned and maintained.
However, looking at this master, Shen Baihu and the broad-faced soldier couldn't help but show an expression mixed with pain and appreciation.
Needless to say, the pain is to go once in ten days, and this time it will take at least ten days to repair the ship, and then it will have to be three days of military training in the Thousand Households, or interspersed, if you want to take the goods, you have to wait for next month, and next month I don't know if this Thousand Households Lord will be nervous, and then follow him to the Bohai Sea to find guilt.
This possibility is quite large, which is also the reason why the two of them are in awe, ten days of cruise, Mao Jue except for the first day, completely regarded himself as a small soldier, under his hands the Ming army pulled the sail, he went to pull the sail, the Ming army broke down, he went to anchor, and even those miscellaneous soldiers wiped the deck, he also followed the wipe of the deck, absolutely not lazy, to say pretending to be a gesture, Corporal Lixian, he also did too much, these days, eighty-six sergeants, more than half of them are familiar with this thousand households, this kung fu, Shen Baihu asked himself that he couldn't do it.
"Master, what should I do next month?"
Watching Mao Jue staggering farther and farther, the broad-faced soldiers cried with a sad face, and asked Shen Baihu sadly.
"What else can I do? Go back and prepare the money! This time, Vice General Chen is estimated to be unable to get over it, alas, ......, this month is sad! What the fuck it is! ”
Also standing on the port and looking at it, Shen Baihu also shook his head with an ugly face, whining and mourning.
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"Young master, don't worry, eat slowly!"
A large table of dishes, what eggs and fried leeks, what stir-fried kidney flowers, what mutton stewed eucommia, in short, are all raw on land, and have nothing to do with a dime in the sea.
The package was thrown into the small courtyard where he lived, this time Mao Jue didn't sit on his buttocks, called a carriage and ran back to Mao's mansion directly, and asked Su Yi to prepare a table of meals, which really responded to Wu Pu's words, or the poultry eggs and grain on the land, the chopsticks were made by Mao Jue like a whirlwind, and the plug that couldn't be stuffed in his mouth was about to squirt out.
Looking at Mao Jue's appearance of a starving ghost, Su Yi was angry and funny, holding a water cup to fill Mao Jue on the side, and at the same time persuading.
"You don't know! In the past two days, eating fish, your young master is about to become a fish, and I will clip another piece of that egg, yes, feed it to my mouth! ”
"Yes, young master!"
It's really too much, Mao Jue has a big mouth, and an egg full of leeks is stuffed into it by the little hand of the plain clothes, just a month ago, he only had to watch the class flower feed the boyfriend of the school basketball team to be shown, and now, even if there is no audience, this wave of love is still shown by him.
"Has there been peace in the house these two days? Has the lord ever returned? ”
After swallowing the sweet and greasy egg, and more than half of the dishes on the table, Mao Jue exhaled comfortably, drank the tea poured by the plain clothes, and asked.
"If you go back to the young master, the master hasn't come back in the past few days, but according to the previous practice, it will take at least a month for the master to go to Ningyuan on business."
"What about Mrs. Shen? Didn't embarrass you anymore, did you? ”
"After Shen Qian died, Mrs. Shen was like losing her soul, and she didn't take care of housework very much, but in the past two days, Master Shen Shikui and Master Shen have come to the mansion twice."
"Shen Shikui!"
Mao Jue's eyelids couldn't help jumping when he heard this name.
Before Dongjiang Town was formed by Mao Wenlong to integrate the defeated soldiers such as Shenyang Kaitie and the fleeing Han people, which inevitably incorporated a lot of old military systems, and the Dengzhou reinforcements under Shen Shikui were one of the most important ones, and these forces were formed by Mao Wenlong to achieve today's Dongjiang Town.
And Shen Shikui is still Mao Wenlong's father-in-law, the two families are good in-laws, it seems that Shen Shikui should be Mao Wenlong's hardcore confidant, it is estimated that whoever betrays Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang will not.
However, this is the opinion of the authorities, but Mao Jue is a bystander from more than 400 years later, you must know that Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, only about 100 personal soldiers entered Phi Island, and after holding Shang Fang's sword for a while, he killed the Dongjiang marshal in front of the generals of Dongjiang Town.
If Shen Shikui was really loyal and had thousands of soldiers and horses, would he stand by and watch? And judging from the fact that after Mao Wenlong's death, the biggest benefit of several mutinies, Shen Shikui could not escape the conspiracy.
A few days ago, I had a secret conversation with Mao Wenlong, it seemed that Mao Wenlong had a heavy tone, and he also expressed his concern and dissatisfaction with Shen Shikui's increasingly blazing power in the Dongjiang River.
But he was suspicious for a moment, he suddenly shook his head again, it's useless to think too much now, don't look at Mao Wenlong to give him a thousand households now, I'm afraid he can't even adjust the dozen or so soldiers of the huge sea, flattery and flattery are okay, when there is really a life and death stake, no one will really give him a hard time, even if he is in a hurry, he still has to eat one bite at a time.
"It's okay!"
After taking another sip of tea and rubbing his stomach, Mao Jue stood up on the table, turned his head and asked, "How was the glass workshop when I was away?" Wen Meng, He Siyong, they didn't mess up, right? ”
"Don't mention them!"
Speaking of which, Su Yi's little nose was tendoned, and she followed Mao Jue angrily.
"The glassware sells very well, the newly opened shop, the merchants in the customs look fresh, a total of more than 40 pieces have been taken away in the past few days, and more than 50 taels of silver have been sold, but that Wen Meng, another bad gambler, went to gamble, and lost all the silver that the young master rewarded him, and when he turned around, he wanted to ask for silver in plain clothes, so I scolded him back."
"Young master, this Wen Meng must be taken care of! If you let him go on like this, not to mention the revival of the Wen family, the grocery store that you have finally pulled up will have to let him lose everything! ”
"This guy ......"
Listening to Su Yi's complaints, Mao Jue was speechless, he was also Mao Wenlong's in-laws, looking at the Shen family, Shen Shikui, and Shen Zhixiang were all good characters in Dongjiang Town, and then looking at his mother's Wen family, the only one who could handle the 100 Wenmeng, and his mother was a bad gambler, which really gave Mao Jue a headache.
But what Su Yi said is right, this uncle Wen Meng must also be managed, and he still has more than a dozen brothers under his hands who were killed together in the bloody battle of Liaoyang, which can be regarded as loyal, and now he is short of manpower, not even a personal soldier, they can be regarded as a force that can be used, thinking, Mao Jue snapped his fingers handsomely.
"My Suyi is right, look for him!"
"Huh? Young master, really go! ”
Su Yi's little face immediately showed reluctance, and he twitched tightly.
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No wonder this girl is unwilling, it is still the small gambling house last time, and the air is still filled with hot sweat and stench, not to mention the little girl in plain clothes, even Mao Jue is unwilling to go in.
However, if you don't go in, you can see it when you stand at the door, the one wearing the cotton armor of the Ming Army and shouting the loudest, isn't Wen Meng or which one?
"Hurry up and bet quickly, buy and leave! Master Wen, are you betting or not! ”
The dealer is still the strong man with pockmarked faces, but the gambler who used his daughter as a bet has long disappeared at this time, God knows if he gambled himself in, cut off his hands and feet, and no longer in the rough waves of Phi Island, became a wisp of grievance.
But these days, human life is as cheap as grass, and no one cares about such a bad gambler.
The gamblers have changed a lot, but what hasn't changed at this time is Wen Meng's gambling luck, which is stronger than last time, and he doesn't need to bet on knives, but there is only a foundation left in front of him, and he is swaying there with the last small piece of broken silver.
"Bet! Bet! Bet! Bet again, you still have a little bit of interest! ”
With the support of the young master, this girl in plain clothes is very spicy now, just when Wen Meng was sweating profusely and tangled left and right, the girl who covered her nose broke in first, grabbed his ears, and the man who was more than one meter eight in pain bared his teeth and shouted angrily.
"Suyi, dead girl, you give me a go, Master Jun, I just play two, you dead girl, what kind of family, hey, young master, you, why did you come back?"
"Hey, Master Wen Jun, let a little girl add a little girl with a little hair that hasn't grown together, and I'll train you?"
Seeing Wen Meng deflated, the dealer suddenly gloated and sneered on the side.
"Otherwise, you kneel first, we will open it first, a small business, don't waste time!"
It is said that big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, everyone has a nemesis, Wen Meng is definitely a bastard, but his sister's child, in front of Mao Jue, just can't get mixed up, it's really like a primary school student who was caught in an Internet café, drooping his head and squeaking, and he didn't pay attention to this guy at all.
However, the big dog still has to look at the owner, not to mention that Wen Meng is his own brother-in-law, much more advanced than the dog, seeing the banker's mocking face and pockmarks muttering together, Mao Jue's heart also came up in one breath, snatched the broken silver in Wen Meng's hand, and threw it on the big one.
The brows of the eyes were smoothed, with a sense of ridicule, this pockmarked shook the dice tube again, and more than a dozen gamblers shook it with hot sweat for a long time, and then smashed it on the gambling table.
"Hey, three-three-one, small! Guys, I'm sorry to ......, hey, what the fuck are you doing? ”
As he spoke, the dealer's wrist was clasped by Mao Jue like a pit viper, and he had been fighting for three years in the League of Legends to cross the fire system, Mao Jue's hand speed was really not covered, and before he finished screaming, the other hand pulled out a piece of black forest from his sleeve, and even the red rope tied to Mao Jue's hand.
"What is this?"
Looking at Mao Jue's gloomy gaze, the dealer obviously flashed a wave of panic and ferocity in his eyes, and shouted forcefully.
"This is the fortune charm that Lao Tzu asked for in the Taoist temple, you fucking ...... Oops~"
Before he finished speaking, Mao Jue slashed the bridge of his nose with a straight fist, this is the most vulnerable position of people, even if this guy is five big and three thick, he still took a few steps back, covering his nose with bitterness and sweetness.
In the shouts of those gamblers, Mao Jue suspended the ore of Hesse Sen above the dice, and in the stunned eyes of more than 20 moves, the dice that were originally motionless actually had life, and turned three times towards the dice, revealing a red four, five or six.
"How fucking you dare to cheat!"
was dumbfounded, and there was silence for more than a second, and Wen Meng exploded......