Jiyang Army (now Sanya, Hainan).

The waves are endless, lapping against the reef at the end of the day. Although the Central Plains has spring, summer, autumn and winter scenery, but there has never been such a magnificent scenery, the boundless sea from this piece of reef, from this piece of silver sand to the distance, boundless.

The dense coconut groves are from the shore of the sea to the rolling mountains in the distance, although it is winter in the south of the Yangtze River and in the Central Plains, but at this time the end of the world is still hot and warm like summer, and the clear sea water tempts people to want to jump directly and think about coolness.

A sea ship appeared in the sky, with only a gentle breeze and waves on the sea, fluttering its snow-white sails, and the huge bow slowly moved forward, plowing a trail on the transparent carpet of sky blue.

"Such a scenery, such a view, it is actually owned by my Great Song Dynasty, which is really emotional." Wang Da leaned on the side of the boat, looking at the scenery, which was different from the Yizhou Island he had arrived before.

The sailors who came and went did not pay any attention to what their commander was feeling, everyone went into battle shirtless, putting away their snow-white sails. The sound of footsteps behind him sounded, Wang Da hurriedly turned around to look, but it was Li Si who came over in person, this middle-aged man who has always been dressed in a gray robe always gives people an unfathomable feeling, but today is different, he only has one shirt no matter what, the sleeves are rolled up high, and fortunately the bottom is simply shorts.

This dress is very cool, so that Wang Da, who thought he was cool enough, suddenly felt that he was still too conservative, they were all a group of big men, what was shy. Wang Da sighed remorsefully and hurriedly said:

"Command, the front is the shore of the Geeyang Army."

Li Si nodded: "This time I didn't come to capture the land, after all, this is still the territory of the Great Song Dynasty in name, and the Jiyang Army is also the state capital under the name of the Great Song Dynasty." ”

The expression on Wang Da's face was a little complicated, the Jiyang Army and even the entire Hainan region, including the Qiongzhou, Nanning Army, and Wan'an Army, basically only a handful of real garrison troops, and there was naturally no regular front-line garrison soldiers. Even the Xiang army of the normal state capital is indebted, and the Southern Song Dynasty only maintains its rule here with some township soldiers who can basically be ignored, and there is not even a decent sailor around, just relying on those few broken boats in Qiongzhou. Wang Da believed that with the sea ship under his feet, it was enough to beat them to cry and cry for their mother.

"The mountains and rivers outline the ups and downs, the sea roars majestic, this is really a natural harbor!" Pointing to the bay in front of him, Li Si said with some regret, now Ye Yingwu is at least the nominal deputy envoy of the Southern Song Dynasty along the river and knows Xingzhou. So this kind of thing of capturing the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty still can't be done, but when I think about it, Yizhou is just getting started, and Li Si can only put away his covetousness.

However, Wang Da didn't care about this, this sea ship had been drifting back and forth along Hainan Island for two or three days, not only did the sailors in Qiongzhou not react in the slightest, but even those rural soldiers in the city did not notice this uninvited guest beside them.

It was as if it were a borderland, and the crimson flags fluttering at the top of the city were some of the decorations. The Great Song Dynasty used this gem-like island in the sea as a place of exile for political opponents in the officialdom. It is a barbaric land, and it is not regarded as the real territory of the Great Song Dynasty at all. It is precisely because of the laissez-faire management style of the Southern Song Dynasty that the Li people on the island can coexist peacefully with the Han people and live and work in peace and contentment.

Through the continuous dispatch of scouts ashore in the past few days, Li Si has a clear understanding of the situation on the entire Hainan Island, and naturally knows where the people he needs to find are. This is an instruction that Ye Yingwu specially sent someone to send a letter to convey, and Li Si naturally took it to heart, but Li Si was also very curious about the characters who could make Ye Yingwu pay so much attention.

What kind of identity is this woman whom Ye Yingwu called "Huang Daopo", and what kind of identity does she have the ability to make Ye Zhijun pay attention?

Through these days. Li Si also vaguely understood some of the experience of this zodiac woman, but she was a child daughter-in-law in Songjiang, Jiaxing Prefecture, who was later persecuted by her mother-in-law and fled all the way to the Jiyang Army. And soon because of the ingenuity and ingenuity of the hospitable indigenous Li people here, and by virtue of the Han textile technology they learned and the Li people's own advanced textile technology fusion, the fusion to create a better cotton textile technology, so that it has a lot of fame in the local area.

Of course, this is only limited to Hainan Island, I am afraid that if I cross the ocean to the south of the Yangtze River, I will not know about this once humble child daughter-in-law, let alone know it. Decades later, it was she who changed the textile of the entire Chinese nation and created the pinnacle of Jiangnan textile technology.

Li Si has heard this name many times these days, and finally found out about the tribe where Huang Daopo is located, just at the end of the bay in front of him, in the undulating green mountains.

Gently inhaled the sea breeze, with a warm breath and a familiar fishy smell, it seems that no one has ever set foot here, primitive and simple, which calmed Li Xi's mind, he didn't know how Ye Yingwu knew that there was such a character on Hainan Island, and he didn't want to know, "If you lose your secret, you will lose the country", Ye Yingwu didn't say, this is not what he should try to explore as a subordinate.

I just need to find this person and send her to Xingzhou, and that's it.

"Let's get off the boat." Li Si said softly, he didn't know why he would personally come to invite such an unknown and even lowly woman, maybe it was the urgency of Ye Yingwu's tone in the letter, maybe it was his curiosity, and maybe they also had a tragic past.

used to be the end of the world, why not meet now.

Wang Da looked around with his eyebrows and nodded slowly.

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Tall coconut trees shade the sky and the sun, stretching into the distance. In addition to coconut trees, there are also betel nut trees and other trees that are quite common on Yizhou Island. The low hills are undulating, and the babbling stream flows through the trees, so clear that you can see every stone at the bottom of the water.

The cloth-clothed woman squatted by the stream, washing a basin of clothes placed on the stone next to her, while several children dressed as Li people climbed skillfully up and down the coconut and betel nut trees nearby, and no other adults watched, as if this was already the most common thing on Hainan Island, and it was not a big deal.

After almost washing, the woman in cloth stood up, her upper body was a black blouse common to the Li nationality with a straight collar, wearing a tube skirt, and the pants inside were also high to the knees. The jacket is short-sleeved, and a thin coat is draped on the outside of the jacket, but this coat is not the clothing of the Li nationality, but the clothes of the Han nationality in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Kids. Go back! The young woman beckoned to the figures running among the trees, and a moment later the children gathered around her quickly, their faces perhaps black from nowhere, their hands black, but each one of them smiling brightly.

An older child stuffed a freshly picked betel nut into his mouth. Then he held the coconut and handed it to the woman with a slightly different accent from theirs: "Sister Huang, look, I picked it off by myself!" ”

The woman smiled and took the coconut: "Okay, Erlang will pick the coconut by himself, he has really grown up." ”

The child, who was called Jiro, smiled embarrassedly and stepped back behind his partner. Without saying anything more, the woman put the coconut in the basin for her clothes, and was about to walk back, but there was a dense sound of footsteps behind her.

The woman subconsciously looked back and was shocked.

Coming out of the dense jungle. But it was a team with swords in hand, but what really shocked the woman was that these people were all dressed in the Han family, and in an instant, the woman had an inexplicable sadness, and she didn't know how long it had been since she left the land with blood and tears.

The team didn't look hostile, the man in front of him was more like a soldier than a general, the two groups suddenly met, behind the man more than a dozen soldiers with swords and shields quickly stepped forward and blocked him, while the other five or six crossbowmen raised their crossbows at the same time!

"Who are you?!" The woman subconsciously protected the frightened children behind her. Barely keep calm.

Looking at the woman in front of her who was wearing the clothes of the Han family, and also heard the obvious Jiangnan flavor in her accent, Li Si squinted his eyes and couldn't help but sigh. It seems that he is really lucky, and at the moment he couldn't help but say that he let the sword and shield hand in front of him get out of the way, and stepped forward and arched his hand: "In Xia Li sighed, I have seen the lady." ”

"In the next" and "Niangzi", these two titles that have been lost for a long time make the woman completely stunned, they are Han. The first time she saw the Han people after so many years of fleeing her hometown, the woman had mixed feelings in her heart, and she didn't know whether to miss or hate that past.

However, at this time, she still kept calm and suppressed the thoughts that were surging in her heart: "Who are you and what are you doing here?" ”

"Dare to ask the lady if her surname is Huang?" Li Si said softly, "In the Great Song Dynasty, the Yizhou garrison under the command of Ye Yuanjun, the deputy envoy along the river, was under control, and I came to invite a little lady surnamed Huang to return to Jiangnan in the name of the envoy. ”

Surname Huang? How does he know? Although I don't know where the so-called "Deputy Envoy Ye Envoy Jun of the Yangtze River System" is, and I don't know what the "Yizhou Garrison Commander" in front of him is, but after all, Huang Daopo is a person who has lived in Jiangnan for more than ten years, and naturally knows that the deputy envoy and the capital commander along the Yangtze River are all figures that they can not hope for, and even on the entire Hainan Island, I am afraid that there is no one who can sit on an equal footing with the deputy envoy of the Yangtze River.

Her hands trembled slightly, and after Huang Daopo was silent for a moment, she nodded solemnly: "The slave's surname is Huang, I'm afraid it's the person the system is looking for." ”

A big stone fell in Li Si's heart, and he really stepped on the iron hooves and had nowhere to go, and it took no effort to get there, and he finally let himself find the right master: "This is not the place to speak, I don't know if Huang Xiaoniang can appreciate the light and let me wait to move?" ”

Huang Daopo looked at the group of people in front of her who were holding weapons but didn't seem to be hostile, and finally nodded, originally her Li tribe was under the control of the Great Song Dynasty, although she hadn't seen the local garrison of the Great Song Dynasty for many years, but the people in the tribe did not have any objections to the nominal leader of the Great Song Dynasty, and in another larger village, there was also the red flag of the Great Song Dynasty.

Huang Daopo's place of residence on Hainan Island is in the dilapidated Taoist temple, this Taoist temple was actually built in the late Tang and early Song dynasties, but because it did not play any role in the surrounding villages, plus this place of exile since ancient times, no Taoist priest was willing to come to this kind of place that is very different from the Central Plains, so it was quickly abandoned, Huang Daopo came and was not used to living in the house of the Li people, so the Li people gave her this useless Taoist temple, and the Taoist temple was close to the Li village. Huang Daopo sorted out a few rooms, but she can also live in them.

Seeing this usually very gentle and studious foreigner come to his village with a team of the same outsiders with weapons in hand, the Li people in the village looked at them very vigilantly, but soon Li Si's calm and unhurried attitude made them breathe a sigh of relief, and they no longer cared about these outsiders who suddenly appeared.

I may not have seen anything else on this Hainan Island, but this kind of gentle and very literate scholar has never been broken for hundreds of years, and the Li people know that these are the rules of the **** Shangguo who don't know what evil sects are sent here, in fact, they are all very cultured and capable people, so the Li people respect them very much.

"The humble house is shabby, please forgive me." Huang Daopo said softly, leading the group into a somewhat dilapidated Taoist temple, one side of the Taoist temple can clearly see the appearance of renovation, and the other side of the broken wall ruins in sharp contrast, and the courtyard is even more spotless, enough to see that the people who live here love to be clean.

There are three rooms on one side, and both rooms are open, in this hot Hainan Island, there is no so-called closed door to protect against the cold, Li Si can clearly see that in one room there is a machine that he has never seen before, and there are a lot of well-made clothes and cloths, and in the other room, there are a few rather simple tables and chairs.

"This room, but?" Li sighed and pointed to the room with tables and chairs.

Several children had already hurried in and put the betel nut in their arms and the coconut they were holding on the table. Huang Daopo smiled softly: "Let the ruler smile, the slave family has read a few books, so teaching these few people here to recognize words can be regarded as helping the villagers to do a good thing, after all, the slave family's ability to weave cloth by hand is taught by the villagers." ”

Li Si nodded: "To be able to persist like this in this barbaric place at the end of the world, the little lady can be regarded as a tenacious person, can she go in and talk?" ”

"Please." Huang Daopo smiled.

Several children had already skillfully drilled holes in the coconut and handed them to Li Si and Wang Da behind him, and the soldiers who followed behind him were also one by one. Li Si looked at the coconut in front of him, smiled at Wang Da, and the two of them touched the coconut shell directly, and it was regarded as clinking glasses.

"It's fun to rule." Huang Daopo walked into the room, "Please sit casually." Erlang, you take your younger brothers and sisters to play first, but don't run away. ”

Jiro nodded, turned around and ran away, looking like a child's head.

Seeing the children walking away, the smile on Huang Daopo's face gradually dissipated, and she looked at Li Si: "The rule has come thousands of miles away, I don't know what I am doing, is it just to let the slave family, the person abandoned in the homeland, go back?" ”

Li sighed and was stunned, and Wang Da was silent.

After a while, Li sighed: "Contemptible people can also guess that there are not very good memories of the little lady in Jiangnan, after all, when I was young, I also had a sad experience, and this kind of pain imprinted in my heart can still be understood." ”

Looking at the grief on Li Si's face, Huang Daopo silently lowered her head: "The slave family has been looking forward to time to make up for the scars, but now it is still painful, so if the system wants the slave family to go back like this, please forgive the slave family for not being able to obey." ”

Li Si stood up and waved his sleeves: "I will never do anything to force people, but I just want to make it clear to Mrs. Huang." (To be continued.) )