The envoy Quan Saburo sent by Deng Bichuan to Kotani Castle was the same Japanese who had escaped from Pinghaiwei.

Quan Saburo was born in a samurai family, only because of his father's defeat and lost the territory, their family drifted on the sea to do the Japanese Kou, in the heyday occupied the Pinghai Acropolis for half a year, General Qi Jiguang broke the Pinghaiwei, Quan Saburo's father died in battle, he fled back and had no way to make a living, so he was exiled to Iki Island, followed Deng Bichuan to continue to be a pirate.

In Quan Saburo's heart, he never forgot to restore the family's samurai status, and this time he was sent by Deng Bichuan to Omi Kotani Castle to secretly investigate the identities of Xu Yihou and Zhu Junwang, so that he saw an opportunity to befriend Asai Nagamasa.

On this day, Omi Kotani Castle was lit up everywhere, and there was a joyful atmosphere, and the whole city was rushing to send congratulatory gifts to the lord of the castle.

As soon as Quan Saburo inquired, he learned that Asai Nagamasa was holding a full moon for his eldest daughter and was feasting guests in the house.

According to Xu Yihou and Zhu Junwang, Asai Nagamasa and his wife sent them to North Korea to purchase medicinal materials because they could not conceive a child.

Just as he was trying to figure out his words, Mrs. Ah Shi left the governor's mansion with the baby in her arms, followed by a group of maids, who stood outside the door smiling to greet the guests......

So, Quan Saburo followed the crowd to Mrs. Ashi and stared at the baby in her arms.

Mrs. Ashi smiled and nodded at him, and said, "Thank you, sir, for your great come, for your hard work." ”

Quan Saburo's hands were empty, and he was looking at Cha Cha Cha who had just completed the moon in a daze, and after listening to Mrs. Ashi's words, he replied loudly: "Congratulations to Lord Asai and Mrs. Asai!" His voice scared the baby into tears.

A maid took the child from Mrs. Ashi's arms and said softly, "Cha Cha is good, don't cry, don't cry." Then the maids entertained the children with all sorts of toys.

At this time, Quan Saburo was very embarrassed and stammered and asked, "Cha Cha, Cha Cha, this, this name is so good, who gave it to you?" ”

A maid replied, "As soon as I heard it, I knew that you were not a local, and I didn't even know the allusions to Cha Cha." ”

Mrs. Ashi beckoned, "My husband is entertaining guests at home for tea, sir, please come in quickly." So he went inside with the guests who had come to congratulate him.

Suddenly, I only heard Mrs. Ashi sigh: "If there is no Doctor Xu, there will be no tea, I don't know if I can look forward to Doctor Xu today." ”

"Madam, I heard that his daughter came to Xiaogu City a few days ago, maybe wait a few more days, and Doctor Xu should come back."

"Doctor Xu should really come to see this child."

"Yes, Master Asai sent someone to search for Sakai Town for several months, but he couldn't find it; Later, I heard from the monks of Ishiyama Honganji Temple that Dr. Xu had returned to Daming. ”

Quan Saburo, who had just stepped into the mansion, heard the conversation of the maids, and immediately turned back, wanting to ask who the Xu Divine Doctor they were talking about was, and at this time, he heard the trance-like Mrs. Ashi mutter: "Divine Doctor Xu promised me back then, and when he arrived in Liqiu, he would come back......"

"Madam, the master wants to have a few more children, the medicine prescribed by Dr. Xu has already been eaten, I hope he can come back in the beginning of autumn this year."

Quan Saburo couldn't hold back any longer, came to Mrs. Ashi's approach, bowed down, and asked, "May I ask Madam, this Doctor Xu you are talking about, but is the old Mr. Xu Yihou?" ”

Mrs. Ashi nodded silently.

A maid asked, "Do you know Doctor Xu?" If you can get him back, the lord and the lady will be rewarded! ”

Quan Saburo was so excited that he trembled all over, and before he had time to say hello to Mrs. Aichi, he flew away, hurried out of Kotani Castle, returned to Hirado without stopping, and then crossed the sea to Iki Island, and reported what he had learned to Deng Bichuan.

As soon as the two of them combined, they felt that they could take the opportunity to make friends with Asai Nagamasa, so they continued to put the two old men under house arrest, and at the same time sent people to step up the search for Xu Ling'er and Zhu Hui, relieved these worries, and then went to contact Mrs. Ashi.

Xu Yihou and Zhu Junwang were under house arrest for more than ten days, during which they did not get any news from Xu Linger and Zhu Hui, and Deng Bichuan had been hiding from them, at this moment, the news of Lin Yiguan's death in Ryukyu Island reached Iki Island, some people said that the news was fake, some people said that Lin Yiguan cheated to death, and some people even said that Jinyiwei's next target was Deng Bichuan, which made the people on the island panic.

There were many kidnapped merchants living here, and when they heard that the imperial court had lifted the ban on the sea, opened business ports on the coast of the mainland, and allowed them to sell the east and the west, the people's hearts began to dissipate.

Just when Deng Bichuan didn't know what to do, he suddenly heard that a luxury merchant ship came to the Xuanjietan Wharf, and asked him to go to greet him in person, mistakenly thinking that this was the imperial court sending someone to recruit him, so he didn't dare to slack off, and after dressing up, he brought a large group of minions to the wharf.

There is a luxurious Ningbo ship moored on the wharf, the stern is tall, the bow has a foremast, the mainmast is backward, the stern is warped, and the wide hull can carry at least 100 merchants.

Suddenly, more than a dozen big men came down from the boat and stopped Deng Bichuan's minions, and they only allowed Deng Bichuan to board the boat alone.

At this moment, Deng Bichuan found that there were no merchants on this ship, and there were no goods, and a big ship like this rarely came to Yiqi Island, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart: Could it be that the government sent someone to arrest me?

Deng Bichuan didn't dare to board the ship easily, and his subordinates were not vegetarians, seeing that the two sides were about to fight, at this time, Zhang Gou'er suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Old helmsman, what are you hesitating about?" Zhang Gou'er asked with a smile.

Looking at Zhang Gou'er's smug expression, Deng Bichuan swept away the gloom in his heart, patted him on the shoulder and replied, "Needless to say, it must be Lord Lin Daao's arrival." ”

Zhang Gou'er immediately signaled him to shut up and pulled him aboard the merchant ship.

Came to the chess shed in the stern, only to see Lin Yiguan and Luo Amin sitting side by side, Deng Bichuan hurriedly stepped forward to salute, greeting: "I don't know Lord Yiguan, ah, no, it should be Lin Daao's main driver, and my Deng Bichuan is far away to welcome ......."

Lin Yiguan laughed, stood up and replied, "Lord Deng, please don't be polite. ”

"There is a legend on Iki Island that Ikikan has sailed west, and I almost believe it......"

Before he finished speaking, Lin Yiguan motioned for him to sit down and speak, and grabbed the conversation and said: "Brother, the news you heard is right, Lin Yiguan, a prisoner of the Ming Dynasty, is dead, and he died in the Lin family shochu shop outside Shuri Castle in the Ryukyus, with the letter of King Shangyong of the Ryukyus as evidence, please don't question it." ”

Deng Bichuan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "May I ask where Lord Lin Daao came from?" ”

"Old helmsman, there will be no Lin Yiguan and Lin Wenjun in this world in the future, my brother's name is Lin Feng, I came from Ningbo Port to give gifts to the old helmsman." Lin Feng replied.

Deng Bichuan was also not polite to him, and asked with a smile: "I don't know what kind of gift my brother brought?" ”

Lin Feng happily replied, "A big fish!" ”

"A big fish?"

Finding Deng Bichuan looking dazed, Lin Feng clapped his hands, Zhang Gou'er whistled, and a group of big men pulled out a person from the bilge and put him still on the deck, this person was Xu Kun.

Along the way, Xu Kun was tortured to the point that he was almost invisible, looked up at Lin Feng and Deng Bichuan, and asked, "Where am I?" ”

Lin Feng motioned to Deng Bichuan to ignore him, and the two of them looked at Xu Kun coldly and did not answer.

Xu Kun didn't dare to make a mistake, and asked cautiously: "Two masters, where am I, where am I?" What about Xu Xi? Did Xu Xi send a letter to my home? How much silver do you want, please just ask, as long as you don't hurt me, the Xu family will never bargain. ”

Lin Feng still didn't pay attention to Xu Kun, and asked in a low voice, "Lord Deng, what do you think of this big fish?" ”

Deng Bichuan also knew that this "big fish" must have an extraordinary origin, and also asked: "Lord Lin, who is this, and what are you going to do with it?" ”

"Amin, tell Deng Daduo about the origin of this person." Lin Feng ordered.

Luo Amin briefly told this bizarre story, and Deng Bichuan was furious with Tang Jing when he heard it.

At this time, Lin Feng laughed loudly and said loudly: "Xu Kun, Xu Xi is not honest, he has been fed to the Dragon King by our sacrifice to the sea, this is the pirate's nest, and it is also the place where your friend Tang Jing stayed, don't you like Tang Jing's wife?" Hehe, he secretly ran back to Nanjing, but he still has a little wife here, if you like it, continue to occupy the magpie's nest. ”

Xu Kun was so frightened that his face turned pale, his head was dizzy, and he fell on the deck.

After Zhang Gou'er and others took Xu Kun away, Deng Bichuan also reported what happened in North Korea to Lin Feng.

I heard that Konishi Ryuzo got Xu Yihou and Zhu Junwang to Iki Island, and their children Xu Ling'er and Zhu Hui are currently missing, and what is even more unexpected is that Xu Yihou is actually the personal doctor of Oda Nobunaga's brother-in-law's family, and Oda Nobunaga's own sister, Mrs. Aichi, treats this Xu Shenyi as a benefactor, these intricate relationships make Lin Feng feel quite tricky.

Deng Bichuan suggested that Xu Yihou and Zhu Junwang continue to be placed under house arrest on Yiqi Island, waiting for leisure, and waiting for Xu Linger and Zhu Hui to be arrested.

Lin Feng agreed, the purpose of his trip was to find a foothold, so he temporarily imprisoned Xu Kun on Iki Island, waiting to blackmail and blackmail his uncle, Xu Jie, the former cabinet first assistant university scholar, and next, he was going to Satsuma to negotiate with Shimazu Yoshihisa, preparing to give them a generous gift, hoping to continue to entrench in the area of Tsubo Town.

Bidding farewell to Deng Bichuan, Lin Feng's big ship left the Xuanjietan wharf and sailed towards the Kanmon Strait in Kitakyushu.

Standing on the bow of the ship, Lin Feng was full of emotion, there were nearly 10 million of his gold and silver treasures hidden off the coast of Kyushu, so he had to come back!

Suddenly, a tall warship came to me, and although I didn't see the emblem of the family crest, judging from the clothes of the soldiers on board, it should be the Satsuma Shimazu family's Ataka ship.

This Anzhai ship and Ningbo merchant ship passed by, Lin Feng couldn't help but gasp, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart......

At the same time, Xu Ling'er, who had gone through some twists and turns, also arrived in Guishan City.

It turned out that Xu Ling'er returned from Busan, North Korea, and mistakenly thought that Ryuzo Konishi had taken the two old men to Sakai Town, but he didn't expect them to be trapped on Iki Island.

With the help of Chen Shen, after many inquiries, it was learned that Xiao Nishilongzuo had not come back at all, and of course he had not heard the news of the two old men, Xu Ling'er judged that they might have gone directly to Owari Province.

So, Xu Ling'er left Sakai Town again and went to Cheongju City to find her father.

Because the monkey made great achievements in Sumamata and skillfully used the seventeen iron horsemen of the Takenaka Hanbei to recruit the three Mino people (Inaba Ittetsu, Ando Morisho, and Clan Buquan), they attacked Inabayama Castle by surprise, drove away Oda Nobunaga's brother-in-law Saito Ryuko, completely conquered Mino, and was named Hashiba Chikuzen Guard, and got Nagahama Castle as a territory.

At this time, Oda Nobunaga was also preparing to move from Cheongju to Inabayama and rename it "Gifu", drawing on the allusion of Zhou Li's defeat of Yin Shang after Qishan, and realizing the great cause of the so-called "world Buwu".

Xu Ling'er searched all over Changbin and Cheongju, and even went to Omi Kotani Castle, but failed to find any news, and by chance, I heard from a passing merchant that someone had seen Konishi Lonzo in Hirado, and at this time, she suddenly realized that Konishi Lonzo was very likely to gang up with Deng Bichuan and other pirates to imprison the two old men on Iki Island.

So, Xu Linger hurried to Guishan City, and as soon as she saw Guo Guoqiang, she told her experience in detail and asked him to help go to Yiqi Island to save people.

Guo Guoqiang sighed when he heard this, comforted Xu Ling'er for a while, and then said: "I borrowed a warship and more than 200 soldiers yesterday and handed them over to Wang Chong and Guo Yi, who had just returned from Ryukyu, and now, Shimazu Yoshihiro is taking them to eradicate Deng Bichuan. ”

Xu Ling'er was so anxious when she heard this, she was so nervous that she couldn't say a word.

So, Guo Guoqiang comforted: "Ling'er, please don't worry, let's quickly find a way to go to Iki Island immediately." ”

"Master Guo, is it too late?" Ling'er asked worriedly.

Guo Guoqiang replied: "It should be in time, in order to avoid the warship of the Matsuura family in Hirado Castle, Shimazu Yoshihiro led the Ataka warship not to go to the sea of Hizen, but to detour through the Kanmon Strait, where the tide turns four times a day, there are many rapids and rapids, they are not so fast, you ride a fast horse and rush to Hirado Castle immediately, from there the ferry to Iki Island, I will immediately send someone to chase the Ataka ship, to inform Wang Chong and Guo Yi, you meet on Iki Island, you must rescue the two old men." ”