Lin Shiying sealed his mouth with his hand: "Since I saw you, I have been just your person." ”

They looked at each other, and after a while, they both laughed.

Lin Shiying said angrily: "You bad guy, you know how to bully people." ”

"Faint, how did I bully you."

"No matter, follow me to Ruifuxiang." Lin Shiying grabbed her husband's sleeve, and at this time, she vaguely regained a little bit of her brutal temperament.

"Okay, you think I'm afraid of you." Deng Tianbao gently pinched her face, "Let's squander." ”

At this time, a few lantern boats floated down the upper reaches of the river, and red candles were lit on the lotus petals made of paper. According to the traditional legend of Shouli Castle, lovers make their wishes when they light red candles, and then send the lantern boat into the waterway, and if the boat can float into the sea, the wish will come true.

Deng Tianbao put his arm around his wife's shoulders: "After I go back, I will make you a wooden lantern boat to ensure that you can float into the sea." ”

"And what wish do you want to make?"

"It's a secret, I can't tell you."

They walked with questions and answers, and in a blink of an eye they came to the most prosperous place for Shuli. A few businessmen wrapped in turbans walked over, the eyes on both sides inadvertently collided together, Deng Tianbao was talking to Lin Shiying, after he walked forward for a while, he seemed to notice something, and when he looked back again, those people had disappeared into the flow of people.

"What's wrong?" Lin Shiying asked.

"It's nothing, maybe I'm too suspicious." Deng Tianbao shook his head, he still vividly remembered the situation of the last battle of the Ryukyu Palace.

"Let's go. Gui Yun is still waiting at home. It's been a long time. It's so worrying for her. ”

"Hmm."

In the middle of the night, everything is silent, but there is still a small boat on the sea, which is dimly lit.

Yang Shengjie lit the last lamp, and the corners of the house lit up. Lao Ke slowly rolled up the drawings, his eyes still shining. When he looked at the paper scroll just now, Yang Shengjie felt that Lao Ke's eyes were brighter than the lamp.

"That's the way it is, what's the problem?" Lao Ke put the rolled map in a bamboo tube.

"Is this trip to alcohol forbidden?" Yu Yangshui's face was flushed after drinking. He asked as he put the copper kettle on the table.

"You used to be in the helm, and you don't drink when you go on a mission?"

“…… Forbidden. ”

"Oh, let's not drink it then." Lao Ke tied the bamboo tube to his legs and tied it tightly.

Hong Qiye wiped his knife and didn't speak. Zhang Wanjun saw that everyone was looking at him, so he nodded at everyone. In the end, his eyes fell on Yang Shengjie, and he lowered his head a little embarrassedly: "Do you want to make some preparations?" I'm going to procure ......."

Lao Ke smiled and said, "Xiao Huang, don't be so nervous. ”

"Go to the barn and get some pomegranates, and get a pair of pounding tools." Yu Yangshui said with a grin.

Yang Shengjie said "oh", turned around and left. When he opened the curtain, he heard Lao Ke talking: "Seagod Niangniang, please open your eyes." Guide us, bless us. This trip was a success......"

Including Hong Qiye, all four of them stood up, their arms stretched out diagonally, withdrawn from their elbows, and their thumbs pointed to their chests, which was the military salute of the pirates. Yang Shengjie sighed secretly, he joined the gang late, and there was still a distance between him and these people.

It wasn't until he got out of the hatch and walked on the deck that Yang Shengjie understood what Yu Yangshui meant by letting him go to the warehouse-the camouflaged boat had already left the island and was heading towards the sea through the waves. The helmsman and sailors steered the small steamer, named Seahorse, as if it were on the ground, and flew as if it were on good windy weather.

These people, this time to procure supplies for the pirates, dressed up as merchants, took a ship to Wynne Harbor.

Yang Shengjie and his entourage only landed in Wynne at dawn. The guy from the warehouse had already come to pick him up at the wharf, and after a two-day break at the port, he left a guy with the sailors and changed to a river boat and walked along the canal. But Lao Ke had typhoid fever at night and couldn't move in the inn. I invited several doctors, and when the guys who walked the boat came over, they still didn't get good. In desperation, he bought a house in the west of the city, purchased New Year's goods, and planned to spend the New Year in Shouli City.

This morning, the rooster had just crowed. Yang Shengjie tossed and turned, and finally couldn't sleep, so he walked into the courtyard in his clothes. He was originally a blacksmith in a small village by the sea in Guangdong. Pirates harassed the area for many years, and all three of his older brothers were drafted by the army and died on the battlefield. In March of this year, the conscripted officer came down to collect people again, and Daddy didn't let go of him, but he was kicked in the heart by the officer and died. Yang Shengjie angrily beheaded the officer and fled to avoid trouble, but he was shipwrecked when crossing the sea, and when he woke up, he saw Lao Ke and them. After coming and going, he realized that they were all pirates, that he was a guilty man, and that he was grateful for saving his life, so he fell into the grass. This is the first time I have come out to run errands, and I am always a little apprehensive. He only knew that this trip was to come to Ryukyu to purchase goods, and he had long wanted to repay Lao Ke and them, and he was holding back a fire in his heart, and he was getting more and more anxious when he was old and didn't move.

In the yard, a few dustpans of broad beans were dried under the bare old locust tree. A cyan figure stood on the edge of the dustpan, standing on tiptoe, fluttering like a feather, and the dustpan did not turn over. Yang Shengjie got closer, only to see that it was Zhang Wanjun. This person is usually very kind, probably the only person besides Lao Ke who is willing to talk to Yang Shengjie, but he didn't expect to have such a good technique of indulging.

"Good kung fu!" Yang Shengjie clapped his hands and leaned over.

Zhang Wanjun glanced over, touched his head with a smile, raised his right foot a little, lifted his body in the air and somersaulted to the ground, not stirring up a little dust: "It's just a fool's play." ”

"It's really good. I've never seen anyone so light. ”

"Well, several of us in the club are better than me, it's just that it's harder to see." Zhang Wanjun was afraid of Yang Shengjie's face, and his words were vague. He stretched out his hand and picked a few broad beans in his palm at some point: "How many are there?" ”

Yang Shengjie shook his head: "My heart is stuffy." ”

Zhang Wanjun glanced at him, didn't speak, and threw a bean into his mouth.

"Brother Xiaojun, we've lived here for a long time, we can't stay like this all the time, right?"

"Lao Ke is seriously ill, what can I do?"

"Don't try to hide it from me, Lao Ke is pretending to be sick." Yang Shengjie said in a low voice. "Every time before asking a doctor. Lao Ke took a basin of ice to the room. After a while, there was white air in the house. Although I am from the countryside, there are people in the village who can do tricks. Everyone is mixed up in the road, and this kind of thing can't be hidden from me. ”

Zhang Wanjun raised his head, and after a while, he said, "No wonder Lao Ke said that you are a talent." He smiled, "Well, you want to know better, no problem, let's make a few moves." ”

Yang Shengjie hurriedly waved his hand: "I won't fight you." Can't beat it. ”

Zhang Wanjun laughed: "If I don't fight you, I really want to let the sound of the blade recruit the officers and soldiers, so much hard work will be wasted." ”

"How do you compare that?"

"I still have nine broad beans in my hand, and when I throw them out, you can see them clearly and take the knife. If all the beans fall to the ground and crumble into two pieces, you win. ”

"It's easy." Yang Shengjie patted the scabbard, full of confidence.

Zhang Wanjun finally kept his hand, the beans were thrown very high, and he didn't use dexterity to scatter them everywhere. Yang Shengjie saw the opportunity and stuck the scabbard steadily. Slightly retreat half a step, and just hit the ground with your feet. The knife is unsheathed. The silver snake-like arc of the knife sliced through the morning mist, and it entered the sheath with a soft clang.

Zhang Wanjun squatted down to check, and he asked with a slight surprise: "Four petals?" ”

"Hmm." Yang Shengjie showed his hand, and he regretted it a little, and his face blushed.

"Good knife technique!" Zhang Wanjun applauded, "Which master taught it?" ”

"When I was a child, there was a master from the Tiandi Society in the village who learned from him."

"It's the Heaven and Earth Society, and the skills must be quite good." Zhang Wanjun smiled and looked down, his eyebrows furrowed slightly. Those people in the Heaven and Earth Society are aimed at "opposing the dry and recovering the enemy", and they are not all the way with pirates.

"yes. It's a pity that I only learned a little bit of the surface, I wanted to enter the Heaven and Earth Society, but the master said that I was not suitable for being a Heaven and Earth Society, and then left. Yang Shengjie shook his head and said.

"Why?" Zhang Wanjun stood up and clapped his palms.

"The master said, I don't have a city government, and the real chivalrous warriors compete with their brains."

Zhang Wanjun laughed: "What a monster." There are people in the city who are suffering. He patted Yang Shengjie, "Don't worry, there should be news in the next few days......"

Before he finished speaking, Hong Qiye flashed into the courtyard. He broke in from outside, with night frost and dew in his hair, and ignored Yang Shengjie and the others, and pushed open Lao Ke's door and said, "Let's go!" ”

Within a few moments, the people were gathered in the courtyard. Only then did Yang Shengjie know that everyone had packed their bags and was ready to go. Lao Ke arranged for the people who left the illusion of arrangement, walked up to the other four and said, "Let's go." ”

Everyone immediately got on the horse, but Yang Shengjie was still stunned and couldn't figure out the situation. Zhang Wanjun drove over and poked his waist with a horsewhip: "The Japanese side is fighting, of course our boss is happy, but after the Japanese are gone, the officers and soldiers have come to Ryukyu again, and these people are practicing Western military arts, and they have steam ships and cannons and foreign guns, which are much more powerful than the previous officers and soldiers." More than half of the business trips here are followed by detectives, and we haven't been able to get rid of it along the way, it seems that it is consumed, so Lao Ke pretended to be sick. ”

"Oh." Yang Shengjie suddenly realized, "It turns out that what Brother Hong said 'gone' is that the scouts of the official army are gone." ”

"Wordy." Yu Yangshui walked over and patted him on the head, "Have you brought all the pomegranates?" ”

"Brought it." Yang Shengjie replied, he couldn't help but be surprised when he noticed that everyone seemed to be going to do something big.

"Xiao Yang, you stay and watch the door, and the others will set off." Lao Ke waved his hand and rode out of the yard first. Everyone rode horses and followed, leaving only Yang Shengjie standing there in a daze.

By the time they returned, it was already evening.

"It's really Li Xiangtian!" Yu Yangshui slapped his thigh, "Why didn't I see it?" ”

"Your two eyes were born to look at those girls on the street, not to mention that they are still girls from Middle-earth, which is rare." Zhang Wanjun crossed his legs and smoked a dry cigarette stick while joking.

A white layer of charcoal ash was pulled away, revealing a burning charcoal fire. Yang Shengjie sat against them, fiddling with tongs from time to time. He is clever, and after staying these days, he has a good idea of when to speak. Finely crushed charcoal ash floated up, occasionally sticking to their hair or two. Their hair had been dyed black with pomegranate juice, and with the accent of Middle-earth Mandarin, it was hard to tell.

Lao Ke put his hands in his sleeves and approached the fire, his eyes flickering in the firelight: "For so many years." It really let him run out. ”

"yes. This kid is really capable, too. Zhang Wanjun spat out a puff of cigarette. With such a big living person, he escaped from the net of the Mongolian iron horseman, and now he is still living like a person who has nothing to do, and he has settled down in Ryukyu." He tilted his head and nodded in admiration.

"Alas......" Yu Yangshui sighed, "The small life is nourishing, and it is also a blessing for the war in the northwest." When did the dog court free its hand. How could he be spared......"

"What do you think—" Lao Ke looked at everyone's faces one by one, "how about taking him in?" ”

Zhang Wanjun and Yu Yangshui glanced at each other, and Yu Yangshui stomped his feet: "Lao Ke, you want to protect him from a word?" They are all their own brothers, what is there to say. ”

"Back then, there weren't many people in King Zhong's place that I could admire, and he was one." Zhang Wanjun pondered his words, "But now it's different after all." None of us are believers in God the Father, but He has his own life. ”

"Hmm...... It's a pity. Lao Ke thought for a moment and sighed, "Such a good general." It's just buried in a foreign land. ”

Zhang Wanjun glanced at Lao Ke thoughtfully, and then the door curtain was suddenly lifted. The wind poured in steeply, and everyone shivered. Hong Qiye stepped into the house and spread his two hands in front of the fire to roast them.

"See clearly?" Yu Yangshui looked up and asked.

Hong Qiye nodded: "South of the city, Lao Haishi Lane, the seventh household." ”

"Do you know what you do for a living?" Lao Ke asked.

"Carpenter."

"Carpenter?" Lao Ke let out an "oh" and buried his head without speaking.

Later, Yang Shengjie secretly ran to Zhang Wanjun's room, took out two bottles of Fenjiu from his arms, and smirked.

Zhang Wanjun got up in his clothes, took out a few plates of peanuts and melon seeds from the cupboard, and the two sat on the kang with a fire dragon and drank each other.

"Brother Xiaojun, who are you talking about Li Xiangtian today?" The wine was half-drunk, Yang Shengjie asked.

"An old friend, in the past, everyone was on an errand in the Zhongwang army, Lao Ke, Yu Yangshui, to the sky, I, are all in a big battalion."

"Then why did they separate again?"

"Separated?" Zhang Wanjun was stunned for a moment, the wooden chopsticks stirred in the plate containing peanuts, and said vaguely, "People's thoughts will always change." ”

"Then how could he be in the land of Shourei, the Ryukyuans?"

"The land of the Ryukyuan people? You kid really have a gateway view. In this regard, Xiang Tian is what I admire. He's so much better than you and me. ”

"I'm wrong." Yang Shengjie poured himself full of wine and punished three glasses.

"You ask so much, is it possible that you are in the city at night, and you have noticed it too?"

"Male? The man didn't notice. Yang Shengjie's dark face was flushed, and he didn't know if he was drunk or shy, "The woman took a few looks-it's beautiful!" There are a lot of beautiful girls, but when you compare them with her, they seem to be a big difference. ”

"You kid! The eyes are not bad. Zhang Wanjun smiled and punched Yang Shengjie, and a trace of complicated brilliance slipped through his eyes, "If it weren't for such a 'beautiful' girl, Li Xiangtian would have become a ghost under the knife of the official army now." ”

"Ahh I understand," Yang Shengjie patted his head, "they eloped." ”

"Wrong." Zhang Wanjun bit a peanut and pointed at Yang Shengjie with the tip of his chopsticks, "That's called running for your life." The three battalions of Mongolian iron horsemen of the Mongolian monk and demon king were all dispatched in order to intercept the two of them. ”

"The Mongolian iron horsemen have all come out...... What's the origin of that woman? ”

Zhang Wanjun's mind slid over Fu Peiyao's figure, he smiled bitterly for a moment, and replied, "That woman's background is really not small. She is the youngest daughter of Fu Shanxiang and King Mu, the first daughter of our Heavenly Kingdom, and King Mu's own flesh and blood. ”

Yang Shengjie suddenly walked over and pushed open the window, and the wind blew in, blowing sparks on the charcoal.

"You kid, you're going to freeze me to death." Zhang Wanjun hurriedly got up and tightened his cotton robe.

The heat in the room made Yang Shengjie's face flushed, his two eyes looked at the stars in the sky, and his smile was full of longing.

The night sky of Shouli City was full of stars, and an orange-red meteor suddenly appeared in the extreme distance, drawing a long mark and breaking into the star cluster. It only flickered for a moment, and then disappeared without a trace.

After a long day of exhaustion in elementary school, I started snoring in my bed. Li Xiangtian locked the carpentry room and walked lightly back to the bedroom in the backyard. There was still a candle on the curtains on the curtain, and he hesitated at the door for a long time before quietly pulling up the curtain and pushing the door open.

Pei Yao was lying on her side on the bed, with her back to him, and seemed to be asleep. There was still a copper kettle on top of the stove, and the water was boiling slightly. Li Xiangtian put his hand on the edge of the pot, and kept warm with hot air, and only when the whole pot of water was boiling did he pour the water into a leather water bag and put it at Peiyao's feet. He gently took off his cotton robe, blew out the oil lamp, and carefully slipped into the quilt, for fear of waking his wife. A heavy sleepiness hit, and he was about to go to sleep, when a hot hand suddenly covered his palm. Li Xiangtian was stunned: "You haven't slept yet?" ”

"Xiangtian, let's talk."

"Hmm." After hesitating for a moment, Li Xiangtian knew that he couldn't avoid it after all, so he responded. The shoulders sank, the pungent aroma pressed over, and the warm in his arms seemed to be stuffed. Pei Yao lay in his arms, her head stubbornly raised high, and her two eyes facing his. This reminded him of the scene of the haughty girl in the palace of King Mu, standing in the garden, staring at him fixedly.

In the early morning of the second day, Li Xiangtian got up very early. He hummed a song softly, picked up a few loads of water and went to the melon shed behind the house to serve melons and vegetables. The door of the bedroom was tightly closed, and Fu Peiyao didn't seem to have woken up yet. There was a heavy knock on the door outside the courtyard.

"Who?! It's early in the morning, and I don't let people sleep...... "Ten thousand young apprentices reluctantly put on their clothes and came out.

"Me." A deep male voice. (To be continued......)

PS: Once upon a time, there was a very hard-working sperm who insisted on exercising every day, so he was energetic and strong, able to run and jump, and he was great. A few months have passed in the blink of an eye, and the super sperm has not received the news of the expedition. When he was about to die, he summed up his diligent life with melancholy: but it was useless.

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