Zhelin Town, Chaozhou Prefecture, faces each other across the sea from Nanao, and Huanggang and Dacheng are cornered, which is an important place for coastal defense. In the past, when the Japanese were most rampant, the Japanese and pirates often used the capture of this place as the basis for coming and going to Guangdong and Fujian, and Zhelin had almost lost several times. In the forty-third year of Jiajing, there was a mutiny here that shocked Tiannan, and in the end, with the help of the Portuguese cannons, it was finally quelled. This is also the place where the smuggling trade between Teochew merchants and boats is most rampant, and in the early years, merchant ships from Siam used to fill the Haihe River, and the ban continued.

There is a water village in Zhelin, and there is a big city guarding thousands of households. Among them, the big city with a radius of less than two miles has been repeatedly warned and repaired, the height of the city wall is two feet and seven feet, there are city towers on all sides, and there are more than 1,000 garrisons. The highest official rank is no more than a district commander. Walking here, the sergeants and civilians in military uniforms were evenly divided, and all kinds of goods were available, and it was clear that these were not only for the military households in the city, but also for other ways to transport them overseas. But if you want to do that business, you have to open up the way in the army, which is a competition for the background strength and means of each family.

At this moment, a merchant who walked the streets and alleys came to the back door of a house, shouted twice, and a half-aged's servant woman came out of the back door. With some disgust, he picked through his load of goods, and finally lowered his face and said, "Lu Shisan, who do you think the old lady is?" With this kind of needle and thread, you want to send me away, dreaming! ”

Seeing that the servant woman dropped her things and turned around and walked into the door, and finally slammed the back door shut, about thirty years old, the good-looking merchant couldn't help but spat hard, but his face was gloomy.

This aunt is becoming more and more insatiable, just giving money is not enough, and she also takes a fancy to his people. Isn't it just that the master of the family is the real power commander in Zhelin Village? He's not one of those Qinglou sisters. If you sell yourself in order to eat for a living, you will be a shame!

Just as he picked up his burden and came out of the alley, and was about to pass through the alley, he only heard a deep voice: "I want to be called a fire wolf whose sex is like a fire and kills like a wolf." Is he so willing to be a merchant now? ”

Lu Shisan's whole body tensed all of a sudden, his feet suddenly stopped, and his right hand couldn't help but clench the flat burden on his shoulder, but soon, he regained his attitude of walking with his head buried in his head and ignoring it, but his eyes hidden under the hat glanced in the direction where the words came from. When it became clear that the other party was also a person with his back to the wall and wearing a hat, his breathing was slightly rapid. But it didn't stop again. Seeing that he had left the other party behind him for more than ten paces, he heard this hoarse official voice again.

"When the Zhelin soldiers were in turmoil, you were only eighteen years old, you were a military surplus, but you made great contributions, and when you beat Wu Pingzeng, you made meritorious contributions, but because you offended your boss, you were not in the army. Wipe out your credit, and you'll be a solo smuggler ever since. I'm not wrong, right? ”

"Who are you?" Lu Shisan stopped all of a sudden, and casually unloaded the burden on his shoulders, hooked his toes, and gently and skillfully copied the pointed flat burden in his hand. With his explosiveness and speed, he has enough confidence as long as the other party has the slightest abnormal movement. The pointed end of the flat pole will immediately pierce the other party! But under his fire-breathing gaze, the other party was still leaning lazily like that, and his voice was still as slow and annoying as it was at the beginning.

"The general can't be a general, and now it's difficult to be a smuggler who works alone, so do you want to be with thieves next?"

"Hide-and-hide guy. Show me my original form! With this low shout, Lu Shisan finally picked up his flat shoulder and rushed forward. However, he finally cared about the risk of killing people all of a sudden, and the sudden stab avoided the other party's vital point a little, but he still intended to make people suffer a lot. But when he suddenly rushed forward, the other party almost spun around, followed by a smile, and fought back unceremoniously. For a while, the two fought back and forth, until Lu Shisan finally saw an opportunity and overturned the opponent's straw hat, but his movements slowed down all of a sudden, ignoring the other party's punch that went straight to his face.

Sure enough, the punch grazed his face and hit him directly into the air.

"I don't know if I get serious about fighting, what if I go crazy today and really want your life?" It was the person who was angry that he had just been provoking Lu Shisan. After the hat was gone, it was a young man with a round face, but at this moment the usual lazy smile on the round face was gone, replaced by anger and annoyance.

"I know it's you little pomegranate, how can I not keep my hand? I haven't settled accounts with you yet, as soon as we meet, I'll turn over my old imperial calendars, in case I get angry and beat you up, if I really hurt you, your sister has to complain to death! Knowing that it was the brother-in-law who made this kind of joke with himself, Lu Shisan was angry, but after all, he was too lazy to care about the little guy in general, so he copied the flat shoulder and went back to pick up the burden without looking back. But just as he was about to beckon someone home to eat together, he didn't expect a hand on his shoulder.

"Brother-in-law, my name is Shi Lu, don't call me Little Sixteen, Little Pomegranate is even worse!"

Emphasizing his name again, seeing Lu Shisan sneering and ignoring him, Shi Lu stomped his foot in annoyance, muttered for a while, and finally caught up with Lu Shisan, and whispered all the way: "Brother-in-law, I went out for so long before, and finally saw some of the world." Don't look at smuggling, some people can make a lot of money, but as long as you just do it alone, it's just a livelihood. You're good at martial arts, since you haven't met anyone you appreciate, why don't you find another place? Qi Dashuai is not in Jizhen Town, Liaodong Li Dashuai is also very capable when I hear it......"

"Whether it is Liaodong Li Dashuai or Jizhen Qi Dashuai, if you want to talk about military strategy and ability, compared to Zhelin's rice buckets, it is naturally a world of difference, but the essence is the same. What they want is a mountain of military orders, even if it is a wrong military order, it is not allowed to be disobeyed at all, an order, even if it is for you to die, do you dare not go? Besides, in addition to them, I think that Yu Dayou and Yu Dashuai at the beginning are really not as good as these two? It's just that he can't be an official. I have long seen through it, with my temperament, no matter where I go, it is either the life of cannon fodder, or just like Yu Dashuai back then. Others receive the credit, but the sin is their own. ”

Shi Lu suddenly choked when he heard his brother-in-law say such a thing plainly. He is not yet twenty, and he has some youthful temperament, but after all, he really doesn't know that the world is sinister. He unnaturally diverted the topic and began to talk about what he had seen and heard in the southeast of his trip. Especially in the new things such as the dart game and the Yinzhuang ticket number that are blooming everywhere in the southeast, he said that the stars flew wildly, and finally suddenly slapped his face and said: "Brother-in-law, if you want me to say, isn't this dart game just about fighting and killing?" We can actually open one too! ”

"Where do the manpower come from?"

"Brother-in-law, what kind of prestige did you have among the military households, and many people didn't admire you and were willing to follow you? Now there are not many military surpluses, and they can't even get food and clothing after working hard all day long. ”

"Prestige? Can prestige be eaten? I've recruited people, so I'm going to have to pay them to start work. Where does the business come from? The most important thing is that out of Zhelin Town, who knows who your brother-in-law and I are? ”

Three questions in a row made the brother-in-law speechless, and Lu Shisan said angrily: "Seriously." When you went out before, I asked you to visit Lu Gongzi in Xinchang, did you go? ”

"Go, go, of course! But I didn't see it, saying that Lu Gongzi was just going out. "Shi Lu's Xinchang Lu Gongzi mentioned by Lu Shisan. It was extremely curious, after following the Fujian businessman to Zhejiang. He deliberately took a few days off to go to Xinchang, but who knew that he was in vain. Seeing Lu Shisan's face full of confusion, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Brother-in-law, the one I fought with you last time was really the same Lu Gongzi who helped Hu Butang fight against the Japanese in the southeast back then?" He won't lie to you by casual talk? ”

"I'm a smuggler. What do people have to deceive me, besides, apart from the famous Lu Gongzi back then, who else can beat me to the ground with his bare hands? In the few days when I entertained people, I used some money. But afterwards, Lu Gongzi quietly left ten taels of silver ingots, I don't know how to thank him, to trick me into using this? ”

Thinking of the few days of learning at that time, Lu Shisan was fascinated and regretful, and secretly thought that if he had met a real master like Lu Guangwu earlier, he would not have taken a detour. In the year after Lu Guangwu left, he tried his best to make up for the flaws and negligence in his moves pointed out by Lu Guangwu, as well as the future troubles that he would leave in the future regardless of his self-cultivation.

However, even a person like Lu Guangwu has never sought an official position in the court, let alone him?

Shi Lu had never seen Lu Guangwu in the end, and when he saw Lu Shisan's distracted appearance all the way, he thought about the old things about the fire wolf he heard when he was a child, and felt worthless for his brother-in-law, and he couldn't help but think about a certain news he heard before. It is said that the Nanyang countries are full of gold, and the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and there is no tax at all, unlike here, not to mention the officials, even a small official can make the people jump and jump, it is better to learn from those pirates to fight and give it a try!

Uncle Lang and his uncle each thought about their own, and when they came to the gate of the Lu family, Shi Lu, who had very sharp ears, heard someone talking inside. He thought that his sister had learned the news of his return, so he left Lu Shisan and rushed into the door, but he didn't expect to see his sister Shi standing in the courtyard talking to a few people. Among them, the young man at the head looked to be in his early twenties at most, dressed rather plainly, but he was wearing a sword, which suddenly made him look at it with envy. After all, most of the people who wore swords in the army in those years were officers, while among the people, only scholars with meritorious names could wear swords.

What made him even more unexpected was that his sister just smiled when she saw his younger brother, and then shouted behind him.

"Thirteen Lang, you're back, this son said that he heard that Xinchang Lu Gongzi mentioned you, so he came to visit!"

"Ahh

Lu Shisan and Shi Lu let out an exclamation almost at the same time, and Lu Shisan even threw down his burden and rushed to the young man, and asked excitedly, "Is this son familiar with Lu Gongzi?" ”

"I just saw it a while ago." Wang Fulin replied with a smile, and his eyes quickly looked at Lu Shisan's body.

On Lu Guangwu's notes, there are dozens of characters mentioned in the ten mansions of Guangzhou, but some are just a hasty brushstroke, and some are not stingy, among them, Lu Shisan, who seems to be in his prime, occupies the first place in Chaozhou Mansion, especially the nickname of the fire wolf, which makes him very interested. If it was according to his previous plan, of course, it would be to send other people to secretly contact one by one according to the list in the future, but now the plan can't catch up with the changes, and he just needs people to do this mess in his hands, so he can only make up his mind now.

Lu Shisan didn't notice so much, and he didn't even have time to ask the origin of the other party's surname, so he hurriedly asked, "Is Lu Gongzi in Guangdong now?" ”

"It should still be there." Wang Fulin saw that the other party's eyes were bright, and the young man of the same age as himself on the side was a little suspicious, he saw a few entourages quietly retreating outside the door, and the sharp-eyed Liu Bo made a gesture that there was no situation outside the door, he knew that there was no one else in the room except for the Shi family, so he said lightly, "Lu Gongzi has gone to sea with a few pirates, trying to appease the two largest of them. ”

"What?"

This time, Lu Shisan and Shi Lu shouted at the same time again, and even when they started to entertain Wang Fulin, they felt that the Shi family, who was kind and kind to the son with his entourage, couldn't help but gasp. In an instant, Lu Shisan came back to his senses, grabbed Wang Fulin and hurriedly entered the house, and did not react until he entered the door, turned around and shouted at his wife: "Lady, look outside, don't let people in!" ”

But with these words, he found that his brother-in-law Shi Lu had already rushed into the house before him, and he looked like he wouldn't leave if you drove me away, so he was in the house. So, he had to ignore this kid, and after cheering himself up, he didn't let go, just looked at Wang Fulin and said, "This son, can you make it clear?" ”

"In short, Lu Gongzi learned that many pirates in Guangdong and Fujian were hoping to be appeased, so he and another Mr. Zheng from Kunshan went deep into the enemy camp to investigate, and tried to appease these people."

Lu Shisan finally changed his color, and shouted in a lost voice for a while: "Don't he know that Lin Daoqian, Lin Afeng, the two big pirate leaders, have also sneaked back now, and now they are nesting in Waiping, and several subordinates are recruiting troops in Chaozhou Mansion?" Even if he has the courage to go to sea, he relies on strong ships and cannons, and if those pirates turn their faces and don't recognize people, it will be bad! No, little pomegranate, you hurry up and find someone for me, find a boat! ”

"I said I don't call me Little Pomegranate!" Shi Lu stomped his foot angrily, but then he didn't move half a step, but stared at Wang Fulin and asked, "We don't know who you are, why do we believe you?" Who are you Gongzi of Xinchang Lu, how could he tell you such an important matter? ”

Seeing that Lu Shisan also reacted, his eyes staring at him, Wang Fulin smiled slightly, and then said lightly: "I call him Senior Brother on weekdays." And the reason why he went to appease those pirates was because he was entrusted by me. (To be continued.) )