The summer nights are short, the sky is already bright, and the dawn here is quiet.

"Go ahead." Shen Mo whispered, "Please." ”

Miss Yin lowered her head and asked in a low voice, "What about you?" ”

"I have to catch up with my eldest son." Shen Mo said in a deep voice: "He can't do it alone, I have to cooperate with him." ”

Miss Yin was silent, she wanted to stop him very much, but she couldn't say it, after a short struggle of thoughts, a trace of determination flashed in her eyes: "You take this box." Then he sent the mahogany box, which he had always regarded as his surname, to him with both hands.

Silently excused himself: "It's far away from the town, so I don't think you need any money." ”

Miss Yin almost didn't drop the box on the ground, and with a little effort, she put the box in his hand, and said with a hint of coquettishness in her tone: "Open it and take a look!" ”

With a suspicious press of the reed, the valuable mahogany box bounced open, and as soon as he saw the contents, he involuntarily shouted: "Musket? ”

I saw that in the watertight box, there were two short spears nearly a foot long lying quietly...... Unlike the one-man tall bird guns that the Ming army was equipped with, these two guns could be held in the hand and fired - that is, the legendary pistols. Moreover, the workmanship of this gun is extremely fine, the barrel is shiny with silver, and the handle and base are inlaid with gold patterns, which has a strong Western flavor at first glance.

Miss Yin took out a short gun, took out a small spoonful of powder of the same color from a black porcelain bottle, and explained softly: "This is firing gunpowder, like I did." As he spoke, he shoved it into the muzzle of the gun, and then used a silver bar as thick as the inner diameter of the muzzle to solidify the gunpowder.

"Put in the bullets." As he spoke, he took out three iron bullets from a deerskin pouch and put them in the muzzle of his gun. He showed the fire fold to Shen Mo again, and said with a serious face: "A little medicine line, and the iron bullet will shoot out." ”

Shen Mo nodded, he didn't ask the girl, 'Why didn't you use this thing yesterday?' I thought it was a sudden change, and I was afraid to forget it for a while. And it's too complicated to load, and it's not suitable for emergencies.

The girl reloaded both guns, put them back in the box, and said, "I hope I can help you." "Actually, she wanted to say, 'Save your life,' but it was too unlucky, so she changed her tune.

Shen Mo took out a handful and said, "You bring one for self-defense." The girl shook her head, took out a blue dagger from her bosom, and said, "I'm here to report the news, and this bloody dagger is enough." "It turns out that people were not defenseless at that time.

She took out two firecracker-like bamboo tubes from the mezzanine of the box, put one away herself, and gave him another one and said: "This is my Yin family's distress bomb, ignited and burst into the air, although it is not clear when it is far away during the day, but the sound is extremely loud." ”

After explaining things to each other, the time has come to go their separate ways.

For the first time in his life, Shen Mo looked at a girl without scruples - although her face was covered by mud, only those big and bright eyes had already made Shen Mo feel the beauty of life.

For the first time in her life, Miss Yin did not evade the gaze of a man - although he was a little thin, he was a real man.

This glance seemed to span thousands of years, but in fact, it was just a moment, and he sighed silently and said, "Let's go, you must hold on!" ”

Miss Yin nodded resolutely, and said word by word: "I will live up to the trust!" So saying, she turned and went on the road, and no one saw that her tears had flowed like beads, and her cheeks were white and black.

After walking out of more than ten zhang, she suddenly heard Shen Mo shouting loudly behind her: "If I can't go back, please tell my father, I love him but I can't be filial anymore, he can marry whoever he wants, and the task of inheriting the family is handed back to him!" ”

Miss Yin burst into tears at first, but when she heard him talk about it, she couldn't stop crying and laughing, and she laughed in her heart: 'Why is this person in tune for a while, and not in tune for a while.' But in the next moment, she suddenly fully realized the complicated state of mind when she said this silently, and when her heart was agitated, she also came back to her senses, put her hands on her lips, and said to him with the greatest strength: "My name is Yin... If... Han ......"

Shen Mo had already turned around and walked away, Wen Yan didn't look back, just waved his hand, signaling that he heard it, and the next moment he disappeared into the vast reeds, not even a trace of his back could be seen.

Shen Mo took off his robe, tied the mahogany box tightly to his back, discerned the direction, and went straight south.

While walking, he thought about the direction of the next step, and the efforts he had worked on in the military in the past six months were finally reflected at this moment. As long as he closed his eyes, the mountains and rivers within a radius of dozens of miles came to his mind, and he wanted to outline a suitable route according to the eldest son's saying that 'go in the opposite direction of Zhoushan Village and avoid people as much as possible'...... However, it didn't take long for him to conclude that this was impossible, because Jiangnan was densely populated, and although 'ten miles and eight towns' was a bit exaggerated, no matter how you walked, you would see farmland and houses, and then follow the vines and find villages and towns.

The eldest son, who was born and grew up, will certainly be aware of this problem. When Shen Mo thought of this, he guessed that he must be in a hurry.

"I've got to let him know I'm here first." Shen Mo naturally muttered to himself, and then ran wildly, crossing the river and crossing the mountains along the way, and refusing to stop a single step. Finally, when the sun rises, he runs down a hillside and gasps for breath on the side of a rugged mountain road, which is the way for the eldest son!

While gasping and carefully observing the road, I saw that the ground was flat with ash and no traces of a large group of people passing. "Great." Silently wiped his sweat with his sleeve, picked up a piece of soil from the ground, and wrote a line of big characters crookedly on the mountain wall by the roadside. When he had finished throwing the clod of dirt, he ran south along the mountain road.

He believed that the eldest son would be able to understand, and he asked him to lead the devil in the direction of Jianhu Town, so he had to go there to report the news first.

He ran five miles more...... Coupled with the previous journey, it has been a total of ten miles by land and water, which is simply an impossible task for a weak scholar. Shen Mo felt like his lungs were on fire, his legs were like being filled with lead, and the heavens and the earth were constantly spinning, but with the support of a force, he insisted on not stopping, and his speed did not slow down...... It wasn't until rice paddies appeared on both sides of the road, and until he met an old farmer with an ox cart that his legs went limp, and he sat on the ground with his buttocks, and he gasped and couldn't say a word.

The old man saw that the clothes of this descendant were dirty, and his face was like a singing, black and gray, and he couldn't see his original appearance, so he said kindly: "Young man, have you been a thief?" Silently pointing to his throat, the old man threw him a water bladder.

Raising his head and muttering, he gasped for breath after silence, and pointed to the way he came...... Wa ......"

"What's wrong with you?" The old man asked with concern.

"The Woko are coming." Shen Mo finally finished speaking.

"Wako?" The old man was startled and said, "Young man, are there really any widows?" ”

"A boatload of people was killed." Silently supported himself to get up, lay on the old man's hay cart, and said in a deep voice: "It will be half an hour at most, take me to see you Lizheng." ”

Although the old man still doesn't believe it, this kind of matter related to the life and death of the whole village should be left to the village chiefs and elders to judge. He whipped his whip and drove the ox cart to the village.

As soon as he arrived at the head of the village, he happened to meet Lizheng, and Lao Khan hurriedly reined in the ox cart and directly threw Shen Zhuoyan, who was lying on his back, out of the car.

The old man was explaining the situation there, and Li Zheng looked at the big lane suspiciously: "Zhou Bahan, you are living in vain, where is there any afterlife?" ”

The old man looked back and said strangely: "Is Fang just still in the car?" ”

Before he finished speaking, he saw a hand stretched out from behind the car body, shaking it and saying, "I'm here...... It is time for your ways to be repaired. ”

The two of them hurriedly ran over and helped Shen Mo, who had fallen to pieces, and asked in a deep voice, "Where are the widows you are talking about?" Shen Mo used very concise sentences to explain what happened.

Li Zheng heard him have a nose and eyes, but he still didn't believe it, and said hesitantly: "You're not fooling us, are you?" ”

Shen Mo knew that the villagers' thinking was quite unique, and it was impossible to make them obedient just by laying out facts and reasoning, and they had to rely on coaxing and deception, so he coughed and said: "Presumptuous, do you dare not believe what the official said?" ”

He was stunned, looked him up and down, and said, "Who are you?" ”

"This official is the new Zhejiang tour Wu Zongxian." He said silently: "I was on the ship at the time of the incident, and my entourage was killed. As he spoke, he glared at each other and said, "Oh, there's it!" When I see this official, I don't kneel! ”

As soon as he was screaming, he knelt on the ground in a daze and said, "Your Excellency forgives your sins, your Excellency forgives your sins." "He had heard of the patrol governor and the patrol inspection, but this tour was the first time he had heard it, and after kneeling down, he muttered in his heart: 'Is there such an official?'

Silent eyes like torches, naturally seeing his hesitation, he untied the robe on his back, put down the mahogany box, pressed the tension spring, took out two beautiful short guns, pinned one to his waist, grasped it in his hand and said: "This official will not retreat again, I am determined to fight the enemy together with you." As he spoke, he glanced at the two guys with his peripheral vision, and sure enough, his eyes were straight...... They had seen the officers and soldiers' birds, which were hulky and heavy as a man, and their appearance was so rough that they were nothing compared to these two beautiful little works of art.

That's when simple values come into play...... Since the gun is higher than the official army, the person with the gun should also be higher than the official army, so the two finally no longer doubted it.

He was still helping Shen Mo explain in his heart: "Since you have checked it and stroked it, can't you allow others to act?" As soon as I thought of this person with the title of Zhejiang, it must be a provincial-level cadre, Li Zheng's attitude was immediately very respectful, and he kowtowed: "What do the adults command, the little ones will go to the soup and go to the fire!" ”

"Let the villagers evacuate to the town." He said in a deep voice.

Li Zheng hurriedly ran to the big elm tree in the courtyard and sounded the alarm bell.

(To be continued)