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442 Sister is here (I)

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At the end of the fifth year of Chongzhen, there were disturbances on the Central Plains continent, and chaos was everywhere, but on Hainan Island, which was first occupied by shorthair, it was a lively and prosperous scene. Especially in the vicinity of Baisha Port in Qiongzhou Prefecture, after the development of the past two years, it has become a hundred merchants and a large number of residents, and its prosperity is no less than that of Guangzhou, Yuegang and other century-old commercial ports on the mainland on the other side. In terms of the functional partition layout of the port, service management, as well as the completeness of street lights, pulley assembly and unloading machinery, transportation and other application facilities, it is even more advanced than those naturally formed old ports.

As a result, there are a lot of all kinds of ships moored here every day, and Guangzhou, Yuegang and other places are mainly engaged in east-west trade, and there are different off-season and peak seasons according to the monsoon climate every year, Baisha Port has almost no idle time here, and there are merchant ships coming and going all year round - because the commodities here are not only exported to the West, but also the demand for Qiongzhou goods on the mainland across the sea is also huge. And then there was Annam, which was next door, and the Nguyen and Trung clans, who were fighting a civil war, regarded Qiongzhou iron as an important source of arms to support their victory, and both sides sent people to exchange large quantities of gold and silver supplies for iron tools, and sometimes even two envoys met in the same shop - but they did not dare to be here, and those who dared to do so before were all driven out of the port by the managers of the trading company, and their share of the iron purchases was reduced, which would directly lead them to give their lives when they returned... … So now they are all honest, even if they run into the enemy of the other party, at most they just look at each other angrily, but they don't dare to do it again.

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Most of the ships that appear on the docks are cargo ships, but occasionally they carry some drop-bys. At this moment, a new guest is boarding the dock, looking around with curiosity at the harbor - the glass street lamps with reflective mirrors, the crane-beak pulley crane, and the occasional Arab merchant in a turban, and the dwarthy Vietnamese boatman...... All of these are obviously incomparably new to people who have never been to Hainan before.

While looking around, people were also quietly paying attention to her - yes, this distant passenger who appeared alone on the dock of Hainan Island was actually a woman. And she is not very old, she looks like she is only seventeen or eighteen years old. Seeing that she was carrying a floral cloth package on her back, carrying a jujube stick in her hand, and carrying a short knife at her waist, it didn't seem like she was separated from her family, she should be a single guest who came out alone.

In these years, there were many soldiers, and most of the merchants had to go out in groups, and there were very few travelers who dared to run outside alone, let alone a young girl. Although looking at the posture of this girl carrying a knife and a stick, she must have a lot of kung fu under her hands. But how complicated it is on the rivers and lakes, even if a young girl has a unique skill, there are too many tricks that can make her lose her resistance, this little girl is really bold...... No matter where she came from, it was extraordinary to be able to get here alone.

Several groups of people passing by on the dock were looking at the girl with rather surprised eyes, but the girl was not surprised, obviously used to this kind of gaze. She was even ready to be questioned by the official officials, but no one came after waiting for a long time, which made the girl a little confused.

After another moment, I saw a group of patrol officers and soldiers wearing Ming army uniforms coming over in front of me - this is the characteristic of Baisha Port, which specially retains the patrolmen of the Ming army, including the Ming flag hanging at the highest part of the wharf, which can make newcomers feel that this side is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The girl's eyes lit up when she saw them, and she stepped forward to stop them. The Ming army here is not entirely a clothes rack, they are also responsible for managing the order of the dock. Chinese people have always been afraid of officers and soldiers, and it is rare for ordinary people to see them walking around, and those who dare to take the initiative to block the road.

However, these people have all been trained by Shorthair, and they don't have the bad temper of the general Ming army, and they are not angry when they are blocked, but they just look at each other a little strangely.

"Is there something wrong with this girl?"

"I'm looking for someone."

The girl opened her mouth, full of Shaanxi accent, and spoke very straight, and the group of officers and soldiers laughed when they heard it:

"Little girl, there are not 10,000 but 8,000 people passing by on this dock every day, who knows which one you are looking for."

"I'm looking for my brother, his name is Zhang Ling, Zhang Ruheng, I heard that he is here in Qiongzhou Mansion, Hainan, and serves as the commander of thousands of households."

After the girl's words, the eyes of the group of Ming soldiers immediately straightened:

"Zhang Qianhu's sister-in-law? …… Uh, please wait, we'll report right away. ”

-- Zhang Lingke is the top boss of these dock Ming Army, and the girl asked them if they really found the right person. I heard that it was the boss's sister-in-law who came all the way from Shaanxi to look for relatives, and the Ming army stopped patrolling, so I hurriedly invited people to the duty post, served fragrant tea and snacks, and served this aunt and grandmother well.

After a while, the inexplicable Zhang Ling followed the messenger to the outpost, first with a face full of unhappiness and thought that someone was joking with him, and after seeing the girl's face, he was also stupid:

"Little sister? It's really you! ”

Instinctively, he looked around, but there was no one present except for his hippie-smiling men.

"Why are you alone? You didn't come alone, did you? Coming all the way from Baoji to this side? ”

After asking if it was true that his sister was the only one, Zhang Ling was also dumbfounded - he came to Hainan Island alone from his hometown of Baoji County, Fengxiang Prefecture! You don't have to think about it to know how many difficulties and dangers you will encounter along the way. A few days ago, there was a member of the short-haired group who insisted on going to Shaanxi, and the group of companions took great pains to arrange more than 30 armed guards for him, not to mention, but also asked two Shaanxi locals to take from their side as guides, and brought him a cannon! But his little sister is good, and she actually came over alone, she thought it was a visit to a neighboring village?

"Are you crazy...... You! ”

Zhang Ling, the eldest brother, is probably very dignified at home, and he raised a hand to teach her a lesson. But then he remembered that there were many outsiders next to him, and it was not good to have a seizure on the spot, so he had to pull his sister to leave first.

The barracks dormitory could not bring outsiders in, Zhang Ling found a hostel on the street and opened a room, pulled the girl in and began to interrogate:

"How dare you run so far alone? The family must not know, right, what is it for this time? ”

Zhang Ling knows his sister, although she is a daughter, her personality and temper are no different from that of a man. And because he is the youngest child in the family, he has been spoiled since he was a child, and he has always acted in a hurry, doing what he wants, and he has no scruples.

And she also has a bad problem: she likes to run outside when she gets into trouble. Since she was three or five years old, she always let her brothers and sisters in the family, and the servants of the subordinates find her legs, and then she simply didn't bother to pay attention to her. Anyway, among the children of the Zhang family, except for Zhang Ling, who is the eldest son and originally wanted to inherit his father's military attache title in the future, this little sister at the bottom of the list has the best family kung fu learning, and she can't suffer a loss when she goes out. Every time I go out to play for three or five days, I will naturally go home when I get tired of it...... But this time it's really too much, and I actually came to Hainan! Even if she has a lot of "experience" in this area, it is too much!

Faced with the eldest brother's questioning, Zhang Xiaomei just spread her hands and gave him the most vulgar reason:

"Running away from marriage - you know, that nerd boy from Uncle Beard's family, obviously from the same martial arts as us, but he knows how to read the Four Books and Five Classics all day long, and his body is as weak as a paper lantern, and he will fall when the wind blows, I don't want to marry him!"

Zhang Ling sighed, he has always been not optimistic about the doll kiss that his sister has set since childhood, not that he dislikes the poor and loves the rich, but the two parties look at each other very unpleasantly. It's not a fight between ordinary young men and women, but a complete contempt for each other, how can such a marriage be happy?

In the past few years in Hainan, he has imperceptibly accepted a lot of short-haired thoughts, and can also understand the short-haired people, especially the high-profile advocacy of women, "marital autonomy". The actions of her own sister are a big rebellion in her hometown, but if she is known by the eldest sister of the Women's Federation, maybe she will be set up as a typical benchmark for women's independence and praise......

Thinking of this, Zhang Ling's whole body trembled-no! You must not let your little sister mix with those short-haired girls, this girl is crazy enough, and if you have to accept the strange ideas of those people, God knows what she will become!

It's just that if you want to let the girl go back to Shaanxi by herself, Zhang Ling definitely didn't think about it. Not to mention that she herself definitely doesn't want to, even if she wants to go back, she can't agree. It's thank God that a girl's family can come from Shaanxi safe and sound, who would dare to let her go a second time?

There is a way that the eldest brother is like a father, and since the sister is here, he must have the responsibility to take care of her...... Well, I have to write a letter to find someone to bring back, and tell the little sister in the family to be safe and sound, otherwise God knows what will happen at home...... It is estimated that most of them have been turned upside down by now.

Thinking of writing a letter home, Zhang Ling's face suddenly darkened. His little sister has always been the most smart and good at observing words and feelings, otherwise she would not be the most favored at home, and when she saw Zhang Ling's face, she knew what the eldest brother was thinking.

"What? Big brother is worried that after I run out, no one at home will write you back? ”

Suddenly being told the central matter, Zhang Ling sighed again - since the stubborn old father in the family recognized him as a "bending knee thief", he was completely disappointed in this eldest son who had given high hopes, and even announced that he would be expelled from the family and no longer recognized as the heir of the Zhang family in Baoji. No matter how Zhang Ling explained in his letter home, he ignored it.

In the past, only Xiaomei secretly wrote back to him to tell him some of the situation at home, but now even this little work has come to Hainan, and no one at home can help him ventilate and report the news. Over the years, Zhang Ling has been in Hainan, and his feelings of missing his relatives at home can only be alleviated through a letter, if this road is broken, the future will not be easy.

In the face of her brother's depression, Zhang Xiaomei looked confident, grabbed his eldest brother's arm and grinned:

"Don't worry, before I came out, I told the old Wang Tou, who was guarding the door, that the letters sent home by my brother in the future would be quietly sent to Uncle Wang's house, and let my sister-in-law reply on my behalf...... Hee-hee, is that a good idea? It also saves you from having to pass the word through guò me in the middle. ”

- Like his sister-in-law, Zhang Ling himself also carries a doll on his back, which was set by his old father and former colleagues. However, Zhang Ling is very satisfied with this family business, and the same is true for the woman, and it is very suitable for the two childhood sweethearts to use on them.

At Zhang Ling's age, he should have done his family affairs before he came to Qiongzhou to take up his post, but he was young and vigorous at the time, and he always felt that with his own ability, he could achieve greater achievements and make the marriage more and more beautiful. As a result, Hainan was defeated, and he couldn't even go home, and his father informed his in-laws that he wanted to dissolve the marriage contract, but the woman refused, so he delayed it.

In the past few years, he has relied on his little sister-in-law to pass books and deliver letters, but he has also reconnected with his fiancée. Although the woman promised to wait for him all the time, Zhang Ling felt very ashamed - he had made the woman wait for her for three or four years. Women have been married early these days, although the other party has never complained anything in the letter, Zhang Lingchai can also guess how much pressure she will be under at home.

Fortunately, with the Qiong Navy accepting the imperial court's recruitment, and this time they made great contributions in Shandong. His identity can finally be whitewashed, and when the time comes, he will find an opportunity to bring people to Hainan or go back to his hometown to get married, and there will probably not be much resistance.

Putting these thoughts aside, Zhang Ling straightened his posture and asked respectfully:

"Daddy, are they all right? Everything is as usual at home? ”

This is the etiquette that must be fulfilled by the Son of Man, and he must abide by it even though the father no longer recognizes him as a son. Even though the same Zhang Xiaomei can be coquettish and naughty in front of him, she must respond honestly with a correct posture at this moment:

"It's all good, but in recent years, the thieves have become more and more noisy. It is often tens of thousands of people's dreadlocks, and once it surrounded the county seat, but fortunately my father led people to defend it, otherwise I really don't know what it would be. ”

Zhang Ling's face was a little pale, he had more contact with Shorthair, and he had heard a lot of prophecies from them that were a bit like "Heavenly Machine". What Chongzhen has only been in the world for seventeen years has long spread throughout the officialdom of Nanyue, and there is no need to say more. And they treat all the soldiers and horses in the world as dung in their usual conversations, but the importance of Jiannu outside the Guanhai and Shaanxi Liukou Cheng Dù is unprecedented, and once someone even lost his mouth to say something like Li Zicheng's invasion of Beijing, although he found that he was present and quickly closed his mouth, but Zhang Ling was puzzled.

Li Zicheng knew it, but he was just a rider under King Gao Yingxiang. Gao Yingxiang's troops he had defeated, and it wasn't good, what ability did the surnamed Li have to make Shorthair pay so much attention?

But Shorthair's solemn attitude was by no means fake, otherwise he would not have been so nervous because one of their members insisted on going to Shaanxi, and even the artillery would have to be pulled over...... Combined with today's little sister's narrative, Zhang Ling's heart is getting heavier and heavier, maybe he should write back and let the family move out of Shaanxi? But as soon as the thought was born, he knew that this idea was purely wishful thinking, unless he inherited the family business and became the patriarch.

Shaking his head and driving these distracting thoughts out of his mind, Zhang Ling smiled at his little sister who he had always loved the most:

"I'm tired from taking the boat, let's rest here for a while, and I'll take you to the streets in the afternoon."

"Hah! No, no, I'm in good spirits, let's go shopping now! ”

When the little girl was brought over just now, she was already dazzled by the wonders of the street all the way, and when she heard that she had the opportunity to go to the street where she was willing to rest, she immediately pulled her brother's sleeve and was coquettish. Zhang Ling also scratched his head - his own girl is really wonderful. Growing up in Shaanxi, he was an authentic landlubber, and he didn't get dizzy at all when he got off the sea boat -- you know, he had a headache for two days when he crossed the Qiongzhou Strait by boat.

Seeing this girl's eyes rolling, even if she didn't take her with her, she would definitely slip out alone--this is her forte. So Zhang Ling had to smile bitterly and pointed to the door:

"There's a common bathroom at the end of the hallway, so why don't you go wash your face and comb your hair before you go out. Now that he has reached the ground, it may not be like a person who is going to the rivers and lakes to sell solutions. ”

Zhang Xiaomei grimaced at him, took out a hand towel from the package, picked up the basin on the shelf and ran out. But after a while, from the bathroom came the girl's scream:

"Brother! Brother, there's no well here! ”

Zhang Ling shook his head helplessly, walked over to teach her how to turn on and off the faucet on the sink, and brought the little sister to the toilet door to teach her to recognize the male and female signs on it, so as not to run to the wrong door and make a big joke.

On the way, a few male guests occasionally passed by, and they all cast surprised glances at their brothers and sisters - even if they stayed in the inn, most of the female guests would not show their heads to do chores such as fetching water, unless they were servants and the like, most of them were men who went out to wash in the house. Not to mention the use of public toilets - all solved in the house with toilets. Zhang Xiaomei's appearance here made the businessmen who came to scrub their bodies shirtless very embarrassed, and they were busy avoiding it.

However, Zhang Ling knew that his sister would definitely not care about these, and if she could come all the way, these "small" problems would naturally be solved early. Sure enough, when I saw her generously, she wiped her face a few times with the faucet water, revealing a rather good face. I was very interested in twisting and stinking in front of the glass mirror in the bathroom for a long time, and then I was pulled by Zhang Ling and left unwillingly.

"Wait, brother! I haven't finished it yet, I've never seen such a clear mirror......"

"It's not uncommon on the island, it's available in the big market. I'll buy you a side back, and I love to take it for as long as I want! ”

Zhang Ling said impatiently, and Zhang Xiaomei's eyes lit up immediately when she heard it:

"Really? Brother don't lie to me! ”

"Of course, when will I, Zhang Ruheng, stop talking?"

The brother and sister walked out of the hostel while shouting and walked towards the street of Baisha Port under the control of the Qiong Haijun......

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