Although Zhang Biao didn't have a good impression of Ma Zhishan and others, he knew that they were very particular about the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, and Ma Zhishan led the surrendered pirates to settle in Yuzhenzhou, and never caused any trouble to the government, especially when they heard that they were in a predicament and took the initiative to ask Ying for help, which really moved Zhang Biao. [Full text reading. 】

After figuring out the intention of the governor Pang Shangpeng, and also understanding why Liu's Mansion became Shen's Mansion, Zhang Biao knew that he had done something wrong with Liu Qian, and he knew very well in his heart that Tian Youcai would definitely not speak for himself this time, and Zhai Yin would definitely not let him go, and even fall into the ground. But he didn't have the courage to kill people, and now, Western merchants and Shen Qi have become hot potatoes.

According to Ma Zhishan's idea, he came forward to explain to Pang Shangpeng, and put all the blame on these Westerners, saying that they were suspected of disrupting the commercial order of Yuegang and suspected of fraud, but it was also reasonable, not to mention that Pang Shangpeng himself had unspeakable secrets, even if the Westerners did not admit their guilt, Pang Shangpeng would not punish himself for this, I believe that Tian Youcai will not fall into the well and embarrass the governor, and maybe he will be able to turn big things into small things and small things.

Although this idea is good, there is also a drawback, everyone can tacitly sacrifice Westerners to resolve the current crisis, Zhang Biao understands very clearly, in this way, his future is over, maybe he will be demoted and fined, transferred out of the Yuegang Health Institute, and there will be no future in the future.

After thinking about it, Zhang Biao thought that Jia Wang's idea was better, he could also buy it in front of the governor, and he could make all the merchants grateful, and at the same time, he could also take the opportunity to eradicate the pirates who were stranded in Moon Harbor, so as to relieve the worries of the future, wouldn't it be another great achievement?

The reason why Ma Zhishan took the initiative to help Zhang Biao is also his own unspeakable suffering, although he is over the age of six, he has no children and no daughters under his knees, he has been an Australian owner for many years, and there are still some henchmen under him, who have been with him for many years, these people are filial to the old man than their own children, some people have followed him back, and some are still following Lin Feng in Luzon, and are being rounded up and hunted by Westerners.

Knowing that his days are numbered, people are dying, and his words are good, Ma Zhishan sincerely wants to help Zhang Biao, hoping to get Zhang Biao in return, just when he and Zhang Biao were chatting hotly, a few officers and soldiers suddenly broke in and brought Li Dan.

After Zhang Biao left, only Li Dan and Ma Zhishan were left in the house, and the old man still hated this spineless young man very much.

Li Dan understood the mind of Ma Zhishan, the owner of the second Australia, and didn't explain much, he peeked out through the crack in the door, only Zhang Biao was whispering with a group of officers and soldiers, and after a while, they all left in a daze, thinking of Jia Wang's conversation with Felipe in Spanish, the smart and clever Li Dan had already guessed their Y scheme, and he must be trying to blame Ma Zhishan and others, who were born pirates, through these Western merchants.

Although Ma Zhishan never waited to see him, Li Dan couldn't help but come over and bow down, but Ma Zhishan pretended not to see it and sat there with his eyes closed.

Li Dan observed in the crack of the door for a while, and found that the officers and soldiers in the courtyard were packing up, and someone had brought Felipe and Shen Qi and others out, and there seemed to be signs of preparing to evacuate, so he hurriedly turned around, knelt down at Ma Zhishan's feet with a plop, and begged: "Second Lord, let's run for our lives too, it's not a good thing!" ”

Ma Zhishan had a very speculative conversation with Zhang Biao just now, mistakenly thinking that Zhang Biao would do what he wanted, so he glanced at Li Dan in disgust, pouted his gray beard, and raised his head.

Seeing that this little old man was unrelenting, Li Dan was also a little angry, stood up and grabbed Ma Zhishan, and said in his ear: "Erao Lord, whether you believe it or not, through the dialogue between the translator Jia Wang and Felipe, I probably guessed their attempt, the crime of robbing merchant ships and taking hostages, I am afraid that it will be pressed on your heads, not only can these dog officials and thieves be rewarded for their meritorious service, but also relieve their worries." ”

Ma Zhishan's eyes widened immediately, pushed Li Dan away, and turned around to go out, but was dragged by Li Dan.

Li Dan was worried that the officers and soldiers would be unfavorable to him. Chased after him and asked in a low voice: "Second Ao, and slow panic, may I ask if there is no way for you to let me escape first?" ”

Originally, Ma Zhishan was suspicious, but when he heard Li Dan ask this, he suspected that this kid had no good intentions, and looked through the crack in the door, only to see that those officers and soldiers were very polite to Western merchants and Shen Qi and others, and saw that they left the courtyard gate in a hurry, but left two soldiers to guard here.

Seeing this situation, Ma Zhishan was dumbfounded, if Zhang Biao listened to his own idea, then at this time, he should send someone to send him to Zhangzhou Mansion to see Pang Shangpeng, accusing Western merchants of disrupting the commercial order of Yuegang and suspected of fraud.

It seems that he must have been betrayed by Zhang Biao, the bastard, Ma Zhishan was suddenly furious, and just wanted to open the door, but was pulled by Li Dan and almost fell to the ground.

"Second Lord, how many people are available to you here?" Li Dan continued to ask.

Ma Zhishan had already given up the idea of confronting the government, sat back in his chair, and sighed helplessly: "Alas, it's all my fault for being confused for a while." There are quite a few people who follow me on the Jade Pillow Continent, although many of them are disabled, but all of them can fight habitually, and it is not a problem to deal with these dozen officers and soldiers. However, everyone finally escaped for their lives, how could the old man watch them go to death? ”

"Second Lord, with just these dozen officers and soldiers, I'm afraid they won't dare to rashly attack you. My guess is that they will send the Westerners away first, and then bring reinforcements from the guard post to surround the village, and if the Westerners follow Jawang's idea and accuse you of hijacking the Manila galleon, the officers and soldiers will dare to set fire to the village and kill you all as pirates. Li Dan replied.

Ma Zhishan couldn't sit still anymore, got up and wandered around the house, opened the door, Li Dan didn't stop him anymore, but rushed to him, and just took half a step out of the threshold, he was held by the officers and soldiers on both sides with spears against his throat.

"Hurry up and ask your chief Zhang Biao to come and speak! What do you want to do? Ma Zhishan asked angrily.

Li Dan hurriedly withdrew to the house again, and the two officers and soldiers put their spears against Ma Zhishan's chest, and then they locked the house.

At this time, Ma Zhishan found that Li Dan was sitting cross-legged, folded his hands, closed his eyes and prayed, so he asked disdainfully: "What are you talking about?" Can the Lord of the Westerners bless you? ”

After Li Dan finished praying, he opened his eyes and replied: "Lord Erao, I am praying for Mr. Felipe, praying that he will not fail the Lord's favor, and I hope that the Lord will bless him to keep his conscience and not lie!" ”

"Don't lie?" Ma Zhishan seemed a little incredulous.

"That's right! As long as Mr. Felipe doesn't lie, I believe that Zhang Biao and others won't dare to do anything to you easily; Even if they dare to do it, we will rise up and resist, and we will not be guilty! Li Dan replied decisively.

Ma Zhishan also believed in Mazu Bodhisattva, but Mazu Bodhisattva never seemed to favor him, he has been the second Australian lord for half his life, and he has a mother who has milk, and he has already thrown his faith out of the clouds, and even made up a bad idea with his conscience, fabricated lies to frame Western merchants, and now, he wants to pray that Western merchants will not lie, which makes this little old man quite embarrassed.

Li Dan couldn't judge whether Felipe, Shen Qi and the others would lie, so he had to keep drawing crosses on his chest and continue to pray silently.

Finding that Li Dan was very pious and seemed to be infected by him, Ma Zhishan couldn't help but pray: "I hope those red-haired ghosts don't lie, and the little old man will burn incense and make offerings every day in the future, praying for the blessing of the Buddha." Then, starting with the Buddha Shakya, he prayed to the gods such as Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Mazu Bodhisattva, Taishang Laojun, Jade Emperor, Huang Daxian and so on, until his ancestors of the eight generations, all of them begged again, hoping that the gods would bless the ghost-like Westerners, but never, don't lie.

Zhang Biao sent a few soldiers to Jia Wang, sent Felipe and Shen Qi and others to the wharf at the mouth of the Jiulong River, and when they boarded the boat, he quietly sent a henchman to let him go back to the guard post to move troops, and he returned to the village with his entourage, waiting for Jia Wang's good news.

The official ships of the Jinyi Guard Office went up the river along the Jiulong River, Jia Wang chatted with Felipe and others in Western, describing to them the prospect of doing business and making a fortune in Yuegang in the future, and he also chatted with Shen Qi from time to time, persuading Shen Qi to obey his own arrangements and put this crisis on the pirate leader Ma Zhishan, so as to relieve the siege of the governor and the prefect, and repeatedly emphasized to Shen Qi that there must be no mention of Liu Qian and Liu Daguan......

There are more than 30 soldiers under Lin Feng living in the village, they were seriously injured in the defense of Tortoiseshell Harbor, and they came with Li Chenghuai, and now most of their bodies have recovered, and they can still take care of themselves, these people have been pirates for half their lives, and they have nowhere to go after they come back, and they are unwilling to accept the labor of the government, so they all defected to Ma Zhishan.

How can Ma Zhishan have the ability to feed these people? After more than a month, they emptied Ma Zhishan, * he tried every means to find a way out for everyone, and finally got into Zhang Biao's relationship, but he didn't expect it to be self-defeating, and was sold by the officers and soldiers as fools.

Sent away Jia Wang and others, Zhang Biao took the officers and soldiers around the village, did not find any abnormal movements, and was ecstatic in his heart, as long as Jia Wang's plan succeeded, he could put all the responsibility on these surrendered pirates, and when the reinforcements arrived at the guard, they would be wiped out.

When Zhang Biao was wandering around, he met Li Chenghuai, who was limping, he heard that the translator Jia Wang had left with Western merchants, and he went to the dock to take a look, but he didn't see Ma Zhishan on the official ship, so he wanted to go to Ma Zhishan's house to have a look, but the officers and soldiers guarding the door did not let him in.

Li Cheng was suspicious of Dou Congsheng, and hurriedly asked, "General Zhang, since those red-haired ghosts are gone, why do you still send people to guard my brother's door?" ”

Zhang Biao knew that as long as he gave an order from this lame man, those pirates who had surrendered would be able to throw themselves into the sea to feed the fish, and now that the reinforcements had not arrived, they had to be stabilized first.

"Ahh It turned out to be the Lord of Seven Ao. Zhang Biao pretended to be in awe and hurriedly bowed back.

"In the future, please don't mention any more Australian owners, the grass man Li just wants to live a good life, please take care of Master Zhang." Saying that, Li Chenghuai asked quite casually: "Lord Zhang, I don't know where my old brother is now?" ”

"Hehe, the Lord of Qiao doesn't have to be polite, this official is also from the mixed rivers and lakes." At this time, Zhang Biao found that Li Chenghuai's expression was extremely serious, hesitated for a moment, and explained: "You should know that this bad thing in front of you actually alarmed the governor master, and I won't tell you that this official has just taken the Western devil away according to the old man's idea and sent it to the prefect's yamen, but we must have a plaintiff, and now Mr. Ma is writing the letter according to the official's meaning." ”

When Li Chenghuai heard this, he already knew that Zhang Biao was lying, because Ma Zhishan couldn't recognize a few words, and it was impossible for him to write a statement by himself, and there must be something strange in it. ”

Zhang Biao waved his hand and replied with a smile: "Everything is in the control of this official, Lord Qiao, go home and wait!" ”

"The little one has prepared a thin wine at home, and has been looking forward to the arrival of adults in the cold house for several days, taking this opportunity, I want to toast adults today, please enjoy your face." Li Chenghuai preached diligently.

Zhang Biao thought that the reinforcements were coming soon, and Li Chenghuai was still disabled, so in order to stabilize them, he agreed.

As soon as I entered the thatched house with ruins and broken walls, I saw a Bodhisattva pasted on the wall, an incense burner in front of it, a dilapidated table in the house, a few large bowls of sea bowls on it, and a large barrel of rice wine next to it, exuding a fragrant fragrance, and there were several benches next to the table.

However, there are no outsiders here, Zhang Biao and others are much more down-to-earth, and they sit on the bench and prepare to drink.

Li Chenghuai brought clean water, washed the big bowls, picked up the wine jar, and poured wine for everyone, and then, he rummaged through several jars, bowls and cauldrons at home, but couldn't find anything to eat, so he smiled embarrassedly: "We just came back from overseas, and the family is surrounded by walls, so that the adults can laugh, and the small ones will go and get some dishes to drink." ”

Zhang Biao was also not polite, took a sip of rice wine, and shouted loudly: "Good wine!" A few sea bass, a duck and some foie gras are enough. ”

"Please wait a moment, Lord Zhang." Li Chenghuai said that, and hurried out.

Zhang Biao and the others drank two bowls of rice wine, waiting for Li Chenghuai's appetizers, after eating and drinking, his reinforcements should arrive, and when the time comes, kill all the guys who were born in pirates, I believe that no matter Zhai Yin, Tian Youcai, and Pang Shangpeng, no one can say anything, and they will definitely have to praise themselves.

When he was whimsical, he suddenly heard a movement at the door, and thought that Li Chenghuai was back, Zhang Biao shouted loudly: "Lord Qiao, you don't seem to have oil at home." ”

Someone kicked the door open, and seven or eight strong men rushed in with lightning speed, and put a bright steel knife on the neck of Zhang Biao and others......

At this time, Li Chenghuai limped in, threw a sauce duck on the table, and said: "General Zhang, don't think about stir-frying, when you finish eating this duck, if you can't see my old brother, let you bury this duck!" ”

(End of chapter)