Chapter 11: The Land of Life and Death

The two-ox wheeled cart came slowly wrapped in clouds, looking slow but actually extremely fast, faintly visible on the platform behind the driver's seat, the military dog Weilong was anxiously looking forward, but it could not see the majestic Sun Moon Fort and the human beings screaming under the awning on the top of the ramp. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The ox cart did not reach the flat roof of the station, but silently entered the top ramp through the large sun-shaped hole on the side. The cloud rushed onto the platform with inertia, drowning the many officers and sergeants above, and the strong smell of homeland rushed into everyone's nostrils.

Zhu Cizhuo rode down from his horse amid the crying and laughter of everyone, he frowned and thought, he didn't know if there would be news of the Jianzhou slaves being taken into captivity in the autumn of twelve years.

The era in which Riyue Island is located is just after the Spring Festival in February 1625, which is the period of the dictatorship of the carpenter emperor Wei Zhongxian, and it is also the end of the Ming army's resistance against the Japanese. Unlike Zheng Cizhuo, the Netherlands failed to land on Taiwan last year, and the next naval battle on Riyue Island may have to deal with multinational pirate forces, including the Netherlands and Spain.

Because there is still a time gap of 12 years between Sun Moon Island and 1638, Jin Qiaoyun's day in that era is equivalent to about 1.5 years in this era, so Jin Qiaoyun was able to calmly come over this time to participate in Zhu Cizhuo's pro-government ceremony.

Since Zheng Zhi was born, this is the third time that Jin Qiaoyun has come to Sun Moon Island, and she has come here once every three days, but in seven days, the lord of Zheng Bao here is already twelve years old.

When Zhu Cizhuo rode down, the ox cart had landed smoothly, and after the top platform of the slope was completed, the corridor behind the ox cart had a special string ladder as a "time and space passage", and there was no need to walk through the narrow special passage in the rear carriage.

Seeing that the fire dragon had come out of the passage, he stood on the platform and waited for Jin Qiaoyun with his head and tail. Zhu Cizhuo shouted excitedly: "Fire Dragon, the castle and Sun Moon Island are all completed, the master will take you out for a walk first." He jumped off his horse briskly as he spoke.

The fire dragon heard the call, and pounced on Zhu Cizhuo excitedly, and it quickly understood that the master had "returned". Zhu Cizhuo smiled and hugged the fire dragon, and said with a smile: "That old ghost will leave the master for ten years...... Sister Qiaoyun! And bring so many things? ”

After Jin Qiaoyun came out, the string ladder was removed, and there were two baskets on the platform in front of the car, and there were obviously several more in the door. The last time Jin Qiaoyun came over was six years ago, and when he got out of the car, he saw Zhu Cizhuo and the fire dragon hugging each other and making love.

Hearing Zhu Cizhuo call her like this, she immediately pounced, and cried after being surprised: "Master, are you Cizhuo?" It must be yours, Ming...... He won't come to pick up his sister! ”

Zhu Cizhuo said excitedly: "Sister Qiaoyun, Cizhuo is going to be in power, you will stay for a few months this time before leaving!" Let's take you outside first, Sun Moon Island has been built, and Cizhuo has never gone out! ”

"Well, it's easier to go out and talk!" Although Jin Qiaoyun has been a witch for more than ten years, because Zhu Cizhuo's body is occupied by King Ming, he has always regarded this place as a ghost island like Zhu Cizhuo.

A group of people followed, not daring to enter outside the staircase, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to look when they came in to pick up baskets, but they watched the ox cart from the outside and everything was normal. The two cowherds stood at the door of the car and handed the baskets and poles to the crowd, so that these mortals could not see the huge space inside.

Zhu Cizhuo turned to look at the attendants, smiled hesitantly, and said, "Let's disperse first!" This car is an out-of-this-world thing, and it will have the opportunity to take you back to your homeland in the future, but this is 1,500 years after you. ”

After a period of chaos, everyone knelt down and bowed down together: "Thank you for the grace of rebirth!" "Kneeling in front of them were twelve eunuchs.

In fact, they read since childhood, and when they were born, they knew that they had come to another world, and they also knew about the time difference after about a thousand years. In the last 20 years or so, they have naturally gained a deeper understanding of foreign exchanges, and now they have only received confirmation from the benefactor.

There is another one that is exactly the same as this ox cart, plus the one that Zheng Zhi originally used and made by King Ming's own god, there are a total of five cars that can travel between time and space, but this secret realm has been changed to hang under the carriage made by King Ming's own god.

Zhu Cizhuo occupied this special car because he had personal supplies, and the two magazines of the pistol in it were used up by King Ming, and they were not loaded with bullets. Now that King Ming is temporarily leaving, Zhu Cizhuo can of course put bullets on the empty magazine, and scolded proudly in his heart, "The gods are also very stupid." ”

The temperature difference between the two places was more than ten degrees, Jin Qiaoyun changed into a pale green shirt, came out of the back room with a boiling kettle and a peeled melon and asked with a smile: "Master, how old are you now?" The relationship between heaven and year is too different, and Jin Qiaoyun remembered this problem when she changed her clothes.

"Don't ask about age, I can't even figure it out myself. This King Ming seems to be making bad ......" Twelve years old looks like he is less than ten years old, Zhu Cizhuo thought that King Ming had done something to God, and asked, "How old is Sister Qiaoyun looking at me?" "Actually, the god of the Ming King did something, but this is not the main reason.

"It's like eight or nine years old, but it's quite tall." Jin Qiaoyun put the melon pot on top of it, and asked again, "Is there a stream or pond in this forest?" It's so hot inside and outside the car, find a shady place to talk to the stream. ”

Zhu Cizhuo looked at the lovely Jin Qiaoyun and asked, "Sister Qiaoyun can swim in the water?" We were supposed to go to a good place for a cool drink. He put down the pistol and stood up, he liked to drink good tea peculiar to China, and of course cigarettes that had not been touched for a long time.

"No, let's talk!" Jin Qiaoyun washed the tea set on a few tables, and asked again, "Where is King Ming, will he still be on you in the future?" "King Dawei Deming and Jin Qiaoyun are masters and servants, although they have some small favors to Jin Qiaoyun, but the two have resentment with each other because of Zhu Cizhuo.

"He wants to prepare for his marriage, and he also said that he will help me find some female ghost wives to come over, and if I don't look for him in ten years, he won't come to me often." Zhu Cizhuo came back with a box of cigarettes, sat on the Nanmu recliner, and asked again while dismantling, "What about Zheng Shuang?" I wonder if I should change it with him? "In a few years, you may be able to exchange it at about the same age, this is just the idea that Zhu Cizhuo just thought of.

"Oh...... What the hell is going on here? Jin Qiaoyun has always been puzzled by this place.

Zhu Cizhuo has lived here for more than ten years, so he can naturally see some mysteries, light a cigarette and take a puff and said: "In the ghost domain, the people who can't give birth are all resurrected after death, and some seem to be young, but they are actually hundreds of thousands of years old...... Of course, this does not refer to the original aborigines, but the builders of the palace city and most of the service personnel on the top of this mountain, and those who are reincarnated with memories are not included in it.

There are more than 4,000 newly formed troops on Riyue Island, including 3,600 "foreign soldiers", they are all people who deserve to die but have not died, and the lord of Zheng Bao is their savior. These people began to recruit the army before eleven years ago, and they were all part of the immigrants who were willing to serve the dead.

Among them, more than 3,000 people want to live forever, so they sacrifice fertility as a means of exchange, and at the same time, they need to meet the requirement of "fighting bravely and not dying". Most of the more than 3,000 people are old veterans, so they hope to live forever. The Great Mighty King then cast a spell to restore their youth, and when they reached their early forties, it was difficult to distinguish their age.

In addition to his own marriage, another important task for King Ming to leave this realm is to carry out the second recruitment plan and the second phase of immigration to Mingyue Island. This is an increase in strength over the next 10 years, with an additional force of 15,000 men to be built in six years' time. The annual recruitment age is still controlled at 14 to 16 years old, and it is estimated that more than 10,000 of them will be such immortal rejuvenators.

In the territory of Sun Moon Island, the ox cart did not need the cowherd to drive again, but Zhu Cizhuo wanted to go to the residence of mortal immortals such as the cowherd, so he still used the two of them to drive on the compound road. The whole palace island is dozens of meters higher than the original Yingyou Xiandao, and after being processed by Wang Wei Deming Wang, it forms a gentle slope to the south, which is convenient for the use of the mines and heavy industry areas at the bottom of the mountain on the north side, and the artificial island forest covers an area of more than 13 square kilometers.

Zhu Cizhuo did not take Jin Qiao to the sky pavilion on the other side of the palace island, but went to a separate garden set up by King Ming in the forest, a place outside the world that was completely isolated from the outside world. This will be the newlywed place of King Dawei Deming, the place where he will go to live on the island after returning to the future and the cemetery where his beloved wife will stay alone in the old age, or the place where Zhu Cizhuo will be imprisoned in the future.

There are no decent passages to walk here, there are mountains and forests outside, and it is not easy to go out and enter without permission, and there are a hundred and twenty mortal monks over the age of 100 who are the same as the cowherds. This is a completely artificially piled hillside platform, surrounded by forest rocks and dark creeks and deep ravines, and half of the platform of more than 4 hectares is an artificial deep lake, which is also the auxiliary reservoir of the port area fort city.

The other half is a homestead ready to be built, which is neatly transplanted with more than a dozen precious tree species, in fact, the thousand-year-old trees in the entire forest are carefully selected high-straight and good timber. The whole platform is large and square, and after the inner excavation, the slope is steep on three sides, covered with ancient vines and shrubs; The outer three sides are made of high and low artificial cliffs, and the reservoir is surrounded by wide or narrow dam cliffs.

The platform in the mountain is two zhang (six meters) higher than the square platform, the reservoir and the homestead are separated by 12 zhang, there is an artificial slope ridge of 30 zhang long on the back side, there is a spring pool built at the top of the platform six zhang, and the artificial waterfall of five elevations is embedded in it.

There is a canal three zhang wide and thirty-six zhang long along the waterfall at the bottom of the slope, which is the water source of the proposed palace fort, and is built next to the reservoir.

The only building in the entire platform area is a wooden house built at the beginning of the canal, which is actually a summer house after the expansion of the water supply sluice house.

In addition to the 36-meter reservoir barrier, the width of the homestead land and the reservoir is about 330 meters, and half the length of the homestead land without a slope has been expanded to the edge of the reservoir. There is a stone fence on the shore of the reservoir, and the long canal and the reservoir are two and a half feet of flat road. The road surface extends to the end of the platform, and the part of the embankment without a reservoir on the side of the platform is separated by a stone wall, and the five-meter-wide stone pavement is lined with fragrant fruit trees and flowers, which is the only finished product that can be found on the entire mountain platform.

"Oh, is the master saying that the two drivers who seem to be in their forties are already thousand-year-olds?" Jin Qiaoyun was amazed when she heard this, and said with a smile, "How good it would be for Sister Qiaoyun to be like this!" ”