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A group of people entered the room and sat down, Ji Wanshui sat on the main seat, Ding Si sat on his right side, and everyone else sat in two rows, although this room is a living room, but it is really simple, in fact, it is made of stones, a table of eight immortals in the house is not even painted, and the chairs are also made of trees cut by themselves, Ding Si saw that the table and chair were polished very smooth, and knew that there were several years, and then looked at the people on both sides, all of them looked serious, as if they were facing an extremely important matter. He was not in a hurry, he sat there upright, his eyes were level with the front, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

Ji Wanshui glanced at the people in the house, and said in a loud voice: "This house is our own people, the left military division has repeatedly sent letters, saying that Ding Zhukuai is a refreshing person, and he is also a person who is affectionate and righteous, wise and brave, and our business all falls on Ding Zhukuai, I originally found a time to go to Quanzhou City to visit Ding Zhukuai in person, but I didn't expect that this time it was a coincidence, I was able to invite Ding Zhukuai to our island to go this way, this is really providence, then, I opened the skylight today and said bright words, Explain our details to Ding Catch quickly. ”

A room of people looked at Ding Si with a strange gaze, some were surprised, some were suspicious, some were delighted, under the scrutiny of everyone, Ding Si still sat firmly on the chair, waiting for Ji Wanshui to continue.

Ji Wanshui hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't know where to start for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, he said: "We came to this island from Hui'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture in the twentieth year of Chenghua, and now it has been thirteen years. As soon as he said this, the expressions of everyone on both sides couldn't help but become in a trance, Ding Si looked at the age of these people, the youngest was also in his thirties, and they obviously lived in Hui'an.

Ji Wanshui's face gradually softened: "Hui'an is a good place, Ding Yukuai may not have heard of it, the scenery there is also beautiful, the water and soil are also fertile, it is very easy to grow crops and fish, my family has lived in Jijia Village, Hui'an County for generations." After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Most of the brothers here are from Hui'an County, even if they are not, they are not too far away, and they all know this place." Originally, we went to sea to fish, although the life was not good, but we were finally able to survive, went to sea to fish, went home to smoke a bag of cigarettes, and watched my wife and children revolve around us, and my heart was still very comfortable. But the days are getting more and more unbearable, the fishing tax is getting heavier and heavier, and the fishing salt tax is also rising in a strong way, oh, Ding Yukuai may not understand very well, we sometimes need to marinate the fish into dried fish after fishing, often to use salt, but the official salt is too expensive, and the government is not allowed to use private salt, this day is getting more and more tense day by day, sometimes the wind goes to the waves, and the risk of catching a day of fish, it is not enough to pay taxes to the government, and this day can not be passed. Twenty years of Chenghua, I don't know what happened to God that year, it was windy and rainy every day, there was no way out of the sea, even if I went out, I couldn't catch a few fish, and the crops in this field were drowned, and the situation that year was really bitter. He seemed to remember the past, and he couldn't help but sigh deeply, which made him look somewhat old. He was silent for a while, and then spoke: "That year, Hui'an starved to death many people, Agate's mother also starved to death at that time, I buried Agate's mother, Agate her brother was eight years old, Agate was only five years old that year, the two children were crying to find their mother, while crying and hungry, but at that time, the government came to urge the payment of fishing tax, and it was not slow for a moment, I thought at that time, God really wanted to cut off my plan for Wanshui and the two children, let us go with Agate and her mother, Agate and her mother were just to save a bite of food for the two children to starve to death, If I can't support my two children, how can I have the face to go down to the ground to see Onyx's mother. It happened that at that time, many villagers were forced to have no way out by Wang Peeling, oh, Wang Peeling was the county order at that time, and he was called the nephew of Wang Qinglu, the son of Liang Fang, the eunuch in the court, and even the prefect of Quanzhou Mansion had to look at his face, and he had always bullied men and women, and expropriated violently. We got together in a bunch, thinking that why we worked so hard to go out to fish, but we couldn't even support our wives and children, but you couldn't live forever, why? So, everyone gritted their teeth, killed the servants who came to the door to force them to pay taxes, and went out to sea by boat. ”

After he said this, everyone present was sad and angry, as if what Ji Wanshui said was yesterday, and the living room was solemn.

Ji Wanshui paused for a moment, and said: "At that time, the government also went to sea to catch us a few times, we were short of manpower at that time, and often just settled down on an island, so we had to flee to other islands, so we fled back and forth, how could we have time to go to sea to fish, originally everyone wanted to escape and find a small island, fish by themselves, grow crops by themselves, and finally survive, but in this way, running around all day long, there was no time to fish, so I took my brothers to do a few deals, and robbed a few merchant ships coming and going at sea, But our rule is to only seek money, not to hurt people, we also want to live, and after a long time, we became pirates. His tone was sincere, without any intention of concealment, and it seemed that he had indeed confessed to Ding Si.

Ding Si saw a big sign hanging in the living room in the morning, with a few lines of big characters written on it:

"One said, those who go ashore privately, the first offender will have his ears cut off, and the second offender will die.

Second, eighty percent of the income will be returned to the public, and two percent will be awarded; Whoever takes public property without permission dies.

Third, the ** woman died. ”

When he saw it in his eyes, he thought: Ji Wanshui's words are not bad, it can be seen that they are not a group of indiscriminate and unreasonable people. He was thinking about it here, and heard Ji Wanshui say: "It's been a long time, we are also familiar with the temperament of officers and soldiers, they are a group of guys who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard, if you really fight with him desperately, he will be scared to the point of urine, it just so happens that my brothers are very good at water kung fu, and they have slowly experienced it, and then we also found this island that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and gradually settled down, and it is considered to have a place to stand, and also learn from others to take the name of a gang, called the Shark Gang, which is more magnificent, From time to time, we do a few votes of trading, and the number of people who come here gradually increases, and gradually we have more than a thousand people, and the Uncle Zuo and Zhengdao you have seen were added later, and we are officially pirates. His eyes were like torches, looking at Ding Si's reaction, Ding Si's face was still faint, and he did not show a look of disgust and disgust.

If this was when Ding Si was young, he would never have tolerated pirates, he was black and white at that time, and felt that the government and thieves were incompatible, but after a long time of training, he saw more things, and he also knew that some things were not so simple, and now he listened to Ji Wanshui's situation when he was forced to go to sea, and he also had some sympathy, but he didn't know what Ji Wanshui was going to do, so he didn't say anything about it, and waited for him to say it.

Ji Wanshui saw that Ding Si did not show hostility, his heart was a little more steady, and he said sincerely: "Ding Catch quickly, although we are pirates, but we are not ruthless people, so we have not done anything to hurt the heavens and reason, everything we do is just for the women and children on the island to have something to eat. Speaking of this, he smiled bitterly again: "If you can have a peaceful birthday, who wants to guard this island, here, even if you die, you can't enter the ancestral grave, just a lonely ghost." Therefore, these brothers still want to return to Hui'an, seeing that their children have been born on this small island and have never seen anything, everyone's hearts are still unhappy. In addition, the old emperor has gone up all these years, and the new emperor is a capable one, I heard that this day is gradually going on, and we want to go back even more. ”

When Ding Si heard this, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the thief in the troubled times, the prosperous times and the return of the prosperous times, it can be regarded as Zhu Youji's hard work was not in vain, and the situation when he was high-spirited came to his mind again, and he couldn't help but think: If Zhu Youzhu learned all this, would he be extremely happy?