The group of four arrived safely at the port of Busan, North Korea, and it was already dusk, and they quickly left the dock while Ronzo Konishi unloaded the cargo from the ship.

Busan is a bustling natural harbor designated by the King of Korea as a trading port with Japan and allowed Japanese merchants to settle here, so it is impossible to distinguish between Japanese and Koreans.

Convinced that they were not being followed, the four of them entered Busan Fortress, found an inn to stay, and the next morning, bought four horses at the morning market, and hurried out of Busan, and entered Jeolla Province along the way.

After Chungcheong-do, Gyeonggi-do, arrived at the ancient Korean royal city of Kaesong at noon, at this time, it was already hungry and tired, Xu Ling'er took into account the physical strength of the two old people, ready to find a place to eat, and then continued to rush in the afternoon, stayed in Pyongyang at night, set off early the next morning, and arrived in Dandong on the same day.

* (Also known as "Kaegyeong", the former capital of the Goryeo Dynasty, the Yi Dynasty originally built its capital here, and moved its capital to Seoul in 1395 AD; In 1398, after the rebellion of the princes, the capital was moved to Kaesong again; In 1400 A.D., after the Second Prince's Rebellion, the capital was finally set in Seoul).

The four men led the horses and walked slowly on the streets of Kaesong, discussing what to eat, when suddenly, a woman's voice came from behind them:

"Are these guest officers from the south of the Daming River?"

Xu Ling'er turned around and saw a middle-aged woman wearing a leaky milky white dress, with neat hair, no heavy makeup like a Japanese woman, looking delicate, and bowing her head with a smile.

Hearing that she could speak the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Ling'er felt very cordial, so she replied: "Sister-in-law, we are merchants from the south of the Ming Dynasty, and we want to find a restaurant to eat hometown food." ”

The woman looked at their outfits, as well as the luggage and blades she was carrying, suddenly showed a nervous expression, and asked cautiously: "Listening to the accent, you are from Jiangnan, but I look at your outfit, it looks like you came back from Japan, you can't be pirates, right?" ”

Xu Ling'er smiled and replied, "Where are the pirates in broad daylight?" This sister-in-law will really find fun. ”

"The guest officer doesn't know, there are many Jiangnan people who came from Japan, they have all been pirates who colluded with the Japanese pirates, and now the Japanese pirates along the coast of the mainland have been exterminated, so they came to us to open restaurants and hotels, specializing in robbing passing merchants, you must be more careful!"

"Sister-in-law, may I ask who you are?"

"Hehe, this is the ancient king-kyung of North Korea, most of our locals are descendants of the king of Goryeo, as a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, we can speak the official language of the court since we were young."

After walking and chatting through several streets, this woman was always by their side, and Xu Ling'er couldn't help but be suspicious, and she was ready to find a restaurant to eat in.

In front of a very pompous restaurant, a guy was shouting to receive guests, Zhu Hui ran into the restaurant quickly, Xu Linger took the luggage from the horse, and was about to hand over the horse to the guy in front of the door, at this time, he suddenly found that the panicked Zhu Hui ran out and almost knocked his father down.

"Zhu Hui, what's going on?" Zhu Junwang asked.

So, Zhu Hui hurriedly pulled everyone aside and whispered: "Let's go quickly, it seems that the sister-in-law is right, the shopkeeper of this restaurant is actually Hu Jiuguan from Qiumupu." ”

The two old men were shocked when they heard this, and put their heavy luggage on their horses again, and the four of them hurried out of the street.

After a moment's respite, the woman came to their side again and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, why haven't you gone to eat yet?" ”

Looking at the restaurants in the streets and alleys, Xu Ling'er really didn't know who else she would meet, but she was suspicious of this woman, I don't know what she was always following her for?

After hesitating for a moment, Xu Ling'er asked, "Sister-in-law, does your family open a restaurant or hotel?" ”

"Hehe," replied the woman with a smile on her face, "we Koreans have been overwhelmed by pirates from Japan, and if you do not dislike it, go and try my food, and if you are satisfied, you will often come to my house to sit down." ”

Sure enough, it was soliciting, Ling'er relaxed her vigilance, turned around and asked, "Daddy, Uncle Zhu, we might as well go and try Korean food, right?" ”

The two old men were also worried that if they wandered around the streets again, they might still run into those familiar pirates, and in case of trouble, it would be better to go to the North Korean sister-in-law's house for a meal, so they nodded silently.

The woman smiled and bowed deeply to the people, and said, "The merchants who come and go are our food and clothing, and today I will only count the food for you, and the feed for the horses will be counted as the food I have given you. ”

Xu Ling'er hurriedly returned the salute and replied: "Thank you so much for being so generous!" ”

The woman took the reins of the horse from Xu Yihou's hand, led the horse for the old man, and led them to another street, where they came to a Korean restaurant.

It was lunchtime, when the restaurant was full of customers, and the four horses were handed over to the shopkeeper, and the woman said loudly: "Use good feed, feed the horses, and don't count the money." "You can see that she is the proprietress here.

The shopkeeper also greeted them, and invited them to the restaurant very enthusiastically, and the guys immediately brought kimchi, dog meat sauce, cold noodles, miso soup, fried rice cakes, gimbap, ginseng chicken soup, roast beef, and grilled eel.

When they had almost eaten, the shopkeeper brought a pot of wine and greeted, "Ladies and gentlemen, come and try my home-brewed soju, and you don't need to count the food money." ”

"Thank you, shopkeeper, we don't drink." Xu Yi replied.

"The business of the small shop depends on the merchants from Daming, it doesn't hurt to taste it, of course, if the guest officer doesn't drink, don't force it, I'll ...... it."

Before the shopkeeper finished speaking, a guy hurriedly ran in, came to Xu Yihou, and said breathlessly: "Grandfather, it's not good, yours, your horse is frightened, jumping around in the stable, kicking and injuring several of us, and now no one can clean it up, you go and take a look." ”

The shopkeeper gave the man a hard punch and scolded: "You fools, why can't you even serve a horse? Please eat slowly, don't worry, I'll go and see first. ”

Zhu Junwang hurriedly stood up and said: "These horses were just bought from Busan, and they were all fine all the way, maybe they were not adapted to the water and soil, and these beasts also kicked and injured people, so we can't ignore them." ”

Xu Ling'er and Zhu Hui also wanted to help, and Xu Yi gave the two of them a look, meaning that they should take care of their luggage and not act rashly.

Seeing that the two old men went out with the shopkeeper, Xu Ling'er shouted: "Daddy, Uncle Zhu, you all be careful, simply, kill the four horses that were given to the shopkeeper, if you hurt someone, we will pay some silver." ”

"Don't worry, please eat slowly, I'll take care of it." The shopkeeper smiled at them.

Xu Ling'er and Zhu Hui waited for half an hour, and the customers in the restaurant were almost gone, and they didn't see Xu Yihou and Zhu Junwang come back.

"Shopkeeper, why hasn't my father come back yet? What happened to the horses? Xu Ling'er asked anxiously

"Your horses are all dead, those two old men go out to buy horses, you can wait a little longer." The shopkeeper said that, and hurriedly walked away.

Xu Ling'er suddenly felt that something was wrong, even if the two old men went out to buy horses, they would not fail to say hello, and just about to stand up, they saw Zhu Hui yawn several times and fell on the dining table; At this time, she also felt that the world was spinning, and she was about to take the sword in her bag, and as soon as she stretched out her hand, she felt a wave of dizziness and fell to the ground.

In the afternoon, next to the official road leading from Kaesong to Gyeonggi Province, there was a small village, and a young man was reading "The Art of War" in a farmhouse.

Walking through a small forest outside the village, the young man suddenly noticed that there were two horses on the official road, and they walked unhurriedly, and on the back of the horse in front of them was a middle-aged woman, and in front of her, there was an unconscious young girl; The man on the horse behind looked like a guy from a restaurant, but he was holding a long knife in his hand, and he was carrying several bags of luggage behind his back.

The young man stopped to take a closer look, and when he saw the girl on horseback with her hands tied behind her back, he realized that he had encountered a human trafficker, and he was furious, picked up his hoe, and chased after her.

Running in front of the two horses, the young man grabbed the reins of the horses and asked sharply, "Why is this girl with her hands tied?" Who are you? ”

The woman replied, "You peasant, don't be nosy! The guy in the back didn't say a word, and slashed at the young man with a swing of his knife.

The young man, knowing that he had met a pirate or a pirate, dodged the man's sword, and rushed forward with his hoe, and frightened the woman so that she jumped off her horse and ran, and her horse was frightened, and the sleeping girl fell to the ground.

The gangsters caught up with him, fought with the young man for a while, and found that he was really powerful, so he hurriedly turned his horse and ran. So the young man threw out his hoe, heard the neighing of the horse, and fled with the gangster.

The young man chased after him for a few steps, but could not catch up, and turned back to save the girl.

It was Xu Ling'er who was lying on the ground, the young man touched her pulse, felt that the pulse was a little slow, put his hand on her nostrils, breathing very evenly, guessing that she might have been poisoned, it should be fine, so he took her home, put her on a small bed, let her sleep well first, and then stopped doing farm work, picked up the book "The Art of War", and began to study it carefully.

At dusk, Xu Ling'er opened her eyes and silently said in her heart: "Where have I been?" Where did Daddy go? Why did the Zhu family's father and son disappear? ”

Wanting to sit up, Xu Ling'er felt sore all over, rubbed her eyes, as if she felt that she had arrived in the underworld, and involuntarily shouted: "Mother, mother, where are you, my daughter is looking for you, mother, mother......"

After screaming several times, Xu Linger realized that she was not dead, but had an accident while eating, looking at the mark on her wrist that was strangled by the rope, she should have been kidnapped here, and now, someone untied the rope for her.

What the hell is this place? Xu Ling'er sat up and looked around, although it was a little dim, she could see clearly the portraits of generals hanging on the wall.

"Sun Bin, Bai Qi, Li Mu, Han Xin, Wei Qing, Guan Yunchang, Li Jing, Guo Ziyi, Yue Fei, Qi Jiguang, ah, this is Lord Li Chengliang......"

Then he looked at it again, and was taken aback, Xu Linger couldn't help but ask: "The person in the painting, why is there Brother Rusong?" ”

Hearing the exclamations of the house, the young man pushed the door open and came in, and whispered, "This girl, you have woken up at last." ”

Xu Ling'er looked at the young man in front of her, not knowing whether he was a robber or if he saved himself, so he continued to stare at the portrait on the wall and asked again: "The person in the painting, why is there Brother Rusong?" ”

"What do you say? Li Rusong is your brother? The young man asked, surprised.

Xu Ling'er rubbed her eyes and looked carefully, afraid that she was wrong, and then asked, "Isn't this Li Rusong?" ”

The young man hurriedly bowed down, lowered his head and replied, "It turned out to be the sister of Lord Li Rusong, the daughter of Lord Li Zongbing's family, Miss, let you be wronged."

Xu Ling'er found that this young man was very polite, and guessed that he should not be a robber, so she smiled and asked, "May I ask where this is?" Who are you? Where are my father and the Zhu family now? ”

After hearing this series of interrogations, the young man was suddenly shocked, quickly knelt on the ground, and asked, "Could it be that Lord Li Chengliang was kidnapped by the Japanese invaders?" ”

Xu Ling'er reacted at this time, got up and got out of bed, bowed and saluted, and replied: "Xu Ling'er thanks Gongzi for saving his life, please don't misunderstand, I am the righteous daughter of Lord Li Chengliang." ”

"I see, it scares me to death! Forgive those would-be robbers who didn't have the courage to go to Liaodong to kidnap Lord Li Chengliang! ”

"What kind of place is this?"

"Miss, this is Jeolla Province in North Korea."

Why did this North Korean put a portrait of Li Rusong? Xu Ling'er was so surprised, and then asked: "Childe, I can understand these famous generals you painted, why is there a portrait of Brother Rusong?" Do you know him? ”

The young man smiled slightly, cleared his throat, and replied respectfully: "Master Li Rusong is a role model for the next, and he can be said to be a treasure for his deeds, and I also hope that like him, he will become a generation of famous generals to serve the country in the future." ”

Looking at his serious attitude, Xu Ling'er couldn't help but ask: "Then tell me, what great achievements does Rusong have?" ”

"Li Ying, the great-grandfather of Lord Li Rusong, attached to the Ming Dynasty from Korea, served as the commander of Tielingwei; His father, Li Chengliang, was heroic and strong, first a general of Xianshan, and now a deputy general of Liaodong, assisting in the defense of Liaoyang; Lord Li Rusong in Jiajing forty-three years, participated in the martial arts and won the first place, at the beginning of the commander of the same knowledge, in Liaodong made great achievements, moved to the governor of the office, now the right deputy general of the Shenji battalion, stationed in Datong, Shanxi, Jiajing forty-four years, married his wife Ma, Jiajing forty-five years, Na Wu wife for the side room ......"

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Ling'er's face suddenly changed suddenly, and she asked in surprise: "Is this true?" ”

"I have always been rigorous in my studies, and Master Li Rusong is my lifelong role model, how can it be fake!"

So, Xu Ling'er tightened her lips, tears flowed down, pushed the young man away, covered her face and ran out of the farmhouse......