With the relocation here, coupled with the Chinese New Year, most of the people have gone back, making the streets of the entire three forks extremely deserted, and occasionally some wild cats and wild dogs flash on the street, but make the three forks appear more deserted.

The ragged Qi Yanming staggered down the road, only to feel that his stomach was so hot, the familiar hunger was scorching his nerves like a fire, tormenting him all the time, this feeling was even worse than death, and even sometimes Qi Yanming regretted that he didn't die early on the battlefield in Bazhou, or die under the city of Jinan, so that he didn't have to suffer such a crime again.

Speaking of Qi Yanming is really fateful, after he failed to choose Bazhou, he chose with Yang Hu in Shandong, the result was the defeat of Jinan, everyone was scattered, Qi Yanming saw that Yang Hu was gone, and immediately and decisively threw down the army and fled by himself, and in order to prevent the pursuit of officers and soldiers, he fled all the way east to Weihaiwei, and was ready to flee overseas by boat, after all, he already knew very well that this time the Ming court would definitely pursue him harder, if he stayed in the Ming Dynasty, God knows that one day he will be recognized by others, and then he will be dead, so it is safer to be overseas.

However, when Qi Yanming fled to Weihaiwei, he found that it was not easy to go to sea, because those sea ships were temporarily docked in Weihai, and they would leave after the supplies, and they were not willing to let people take it at all. In addition, Qi Yanming didn't have much money on him, so it was even more impossible to convince those mercenary maritime merchants to agree to get on their ship.

It is precisely because of this that Qi Yanming wandered in the port of Weihaiwei for several days. But he has never been able to find a maritime merchant who is willing to let him ride. At this time, Weihaiwei also appeared on the list of wanted him. Although Qi Yanming shaved his beard at this time and put on makeup on his appearance, he didn't know if Lu Dao would still be recognized, so he made a bold decision at the end, that is, to smuggle onto the boat.

First of all, Qi Yanming found a large ship with relatively loose defenses, and then secretly swam out of the water when it was dark, and then climbed onto the boat to find the location of the cargo hold and hid it. He did so at great risk, in case he was discovered by the shipowner. Most likely, he will be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.

However, it can be regarded as Qi Yanming's good luck, after he hid on the ship, he was never discovered, but the only miscalculation of Qi Yanming was that he did not expect that the ship would sail at sea for nearly half a month, and he prepared a lot of drinking water when he got on the ship, but he didn't bring much dry food, and there was no food in the goods pulled on the ship, and he didn't dare to risk stealing the food on the ship, so Qi Yanming had to save again and again. He even gritted his teeth and endured hunger, and the last day was until the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. It was not easy to reach Shuangyu Port.

Fortunately, it was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve that it arrived at Shuangyu Port, and when the ship just docked, the owner immediately took the guys to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and there was no time to unload the ship, so that Qi Yanming hidden in the cargo hold was not found, otherwise when it was time to unload, Qi Yanming was probably nowhere to hide, and even if he was caught by the cargo owner after the most was caught, even if he did not kill him, I am afraid that he would inevitably be beaten.

Qi Yanming heard that most of the people on the boat had disembarked, and after the sky outside had darkened, he sneaked off the boat, but at this time he had been hungry on the boat for so many days, and his body had been seriously overdrawn, and the whole person only felt hungry and thirsty, but he did not have half a penny on him, and even if he had money, no one would sell him food on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

It is precisely because of this that after Qi Yanming got off the ship, he found that he was hungry and thirsty, and he was likely to die in this Spring Festival. However, as the so-called endless road, when a well-wisher who went out saw Qi Yanming, who was hungry and thin on the port, he stepped forward to inquire with concern, and Qi Yanming made up that he had fled from Shandong and wanted to find a living, but he was not familiar with the life here, and now he has not eaten for a few days.

Qi Yanming's hometown of Bazhou is not far from Shandong, and he has been in Shandong for so long, so his Shandong dialect is also very standard, and the kind-hearted person did not doubt it, and he saw Qi Yanming pitiful, just when he knew that Zhu Jiu was a group of Shandong coolies, he immediately pointed out Qi Yanming to Sanchakou and told him where Zhu Jiu lived, as long as he could find him, for the sake of his fellow villagers, he would give him food anyway.

Qi Yanming didn't expect that there were so many Shandong people in a place like Shuangyu Port, and after thanking the other party at the moment, he immediately found the three-way crossing according to the other party's instructions, but his physical strength was already seriously overdrawn, and now he has walked for such a long time, so when Qi Yanming entered the three-way port, he already felt dizzy, and he couldn't wait to lie down and rest immediately.

Qi Yanming had also been hungry before, and the more he knew that Dao was at this time, the more he couldn't lie down, otherwise he would probably never get up again, so after entering the three forks, he kept gritting his teeth and holding up, and even moved step by step to the outside of the courtyard where Zhu Jiu and the others lived.

When Qi Yanming leaned his body against the cold door, he couldn't help but feel a joy in his heart, then gritted his teeth and raised his arm, grabbed the door knocker and knocked it with his greatest strength.

"Knock knock~" The empty knock on the door came out very well on Chinese New Year's Eve, although the hall was very noisy, but Zhu Jiu and the others still heard the knock outside, which made them all stunned, and then Zhu Jiu personally stood up and let everyone continue to drink, he took a few people outside to see who was knocking?

When Qi Yanming, who was leaning against the door outside, heard the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer inside, a smile finally appeared on his emaciated face, and as the door was opened, he tried his best to spit out two words "help" in standard Shandong dialect, and then fell to the ground like a piece of wood.

Zhu Jiu was also stunned when he saw this person who fell in front of the door, but the standard Shandong dialect he heard just now immediately made him wake up, and he hurriedly ordered: "It's our fellow countryman, quickly carry him in and see what's wrong with him!" ”

The few people who came out with Zhu Jiu also came to their senses, and immediately carried Qi Yanming into the room, and at this time, Zhu Jiu shouted at a relatively thin young man in the room: "Lu Xiucai, come and see what's wrong with this fellow, as soon as we opened the door, he said a word for help and fell." ”

The young man known as "Lu Xiucai" is not really a Xiucai, in fact, he is a coolie who fled from Shandong, because he used to work in a pharmacy for a while, not only knows some medical science, but also knows a few words, which is already very remarkable among ordinary poor people, so he was called Lu Xiucai by Zhu Jiu and others.

"Let it go, don't surround it!" Lu Xiucai lined up the crowd of onlookers, looked at Qi Yanming on the chair, and saw that he first reached out and pressed the other party's neck, and found that the other party was not dead, and his breathing was also very stable, and then he looked at the other party's yellow muscle skinny appearance, which made him immediately understand what was going on, and immediately turned around and shouted, "Bring the sweet soup on the table, he is faint from hunger, and he can't die!" ”

Hearing that this person was just fainting from hunger, Zhu Jiu and the others were relieved, and soon someone brought the sweet soup prepared on the table, and Lu Xiucai personally fed Qi Yanming a few mouthfuls, and as a result, a few spoonfuls of hot and sweet soup went down to his stomach, which immediately made Qi Yanming wake up from his coma, only to see him snatch the sweet soup, raise his head and drink it in a big gulp.

After a while, a large bowl of sweet soup was drunk by Qi Yanming, but he was really hungry, and when he saw the large bowl of meat and wine on the table, his eyes immediately burst out with a look of longing, and he wanted to pounce on the table and eat a big meal when he stood up from the chair.

Seeing Qi Yanming's reaction, Lu Xiucai was startled, hurriedly hugged Qi Yanming, and pressed him back into the chair and said: "This brother, it is estimated that you have been hungry for a long time, and your stomach is already extremely weak, so those big fish and meat things must not be eaten, if you still feel hungry, I will ask the brothers to make you some more noodle soup to drink." ”

"Brother, Lu Xiucai is right, we had a brother who fled from his hometown, but he didn't starve to death on the road, but he ate too much after meeting us and survived to death!" At this time, Zhu Jiu also stepped forward and spoke.

Hearing Zhu Jiu's words, Qi Yanming regained a little bit of his senses, and at the same time looked at the people around him, and then he said very gratefully: "Thank you brothers for your kindness, there will be a good reward in the future!" ”

After Qi Yanming was wanted, he didn't dare to use his real name at all, and even his surname was changed to Wen Wu, Wen took the upper part of the word Qi, and five was Liu Wu's five, he and Liu Wu were the best friends, and when he was arrested, it was Liu Wuyi who advocated robbing the prison, which rescued him.

"Ha Lu Ha~, it turned out to be the five Wen brothers, we are all fellow villagers in Shandong, and we naturally have to take care of each other outside, so don't say anything about repaying or not!" At this time, Zhu Jiu was also very happy. Qi Yanming spoke with a standard Shandong accent, and although he was thin, he was very tall, and he looked like a standard Shandong man.

After Zhu Jiu finished speaking, he introduced everyone in the hall to Qi Yanming, and after everyone had seen it, Zhu Jiu arranged Qi Yanming to a separate room to recuperate. Qi Yanming also heard a lot about Shuangyu Port through Zhu Jiu and others, and when he learned that this place did not belong to the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, there was no Ming government here in Shuangyu Port, and he no longer had to worry about being hunted down.

However, Qi Yanming was not happy for long, because he soon heard about Zhou Zhong and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, which made his heart sink, he never thought that the small Shuangyu Port actually had a governor from all over the world, and there was a Jinyi guard on the port, which was definitely not good news for him. (To be continued......)