Before dawn the next day, the Li family provided Yu Xiaotian with all the goods on the ship, and Yu Xiaotian also returned to the ship with the goods.

Looking at the white belly of the fish gradually appearing in the sky, and the sea breeze blowing the black scarf on Yu Xiaotian's head, Zhao Mazi walked behind Yu Xiaotian, coughed lightly and said: "Boss, the sixth child asked me to come over and ask, whether we are going back to Treasure Island or somewhere else!" ”

Yu Xiaotian took advantage of this time before dawn, standing at the bow of the boat enjoying the fresh sea breeze, was standing at the bow of the boat secretly thinking about things, when he heard Zhao Mazi's words, turned around and walked to the stern, and said to Liu Laoliu, who was teaching Liu Wang to steer: "Let's go north, go to the mouth of the Aojiang River!" ”

Zhao Mazi and Liu Laoliu were both startled, and hurriedly asked, "Go to Aojiangkou?" ”

"That's right! It's to go to the mouth of the Ao River! Yu Xiaotian nodded and replied affirmatively.

"Big boss, didn't you drink too much last night! How can we go to the mouth of the Ao River? You have to know where there are officers and soldiers stationed in Ludao, and there is also a water village, isn't it asking for trouble where we go? Zhao Mazi was anxious when he heard this, and hurriedly said.

Liu Lao Liu also frowned, although he did not say anything against it, but he also showed a look of incomprehension.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "Do you think I drank too much?" Not bad! There are indeed officers and soldiers stationed at the mouth of the Ao River, and there are also water villages, but we still have to go somewhere! ”

Zhao Mazi didn't understand, frowned tightly and asked in a low voice: "Why did the big boss suddenly think of going to Aojiangkou?" It's not like it's going to do anything! ”

Yu Xiaotian took the two of them to sit at the stern of the boat, and whispered to them: "Last night, the two of you went down to rest early, and Steward Li and I chatted in the hall for a while!"

Steward Li told me that there is a Dongping village in the north of the mouth of the Aojiang River, and recently the yamen of Lianjiang County arrested a group of people who were robbing grain stores in the county seat and sent them to Dongping Village to build roads! In addition, there are several blacksmith shops in Dongping Village, which are quite famous in the Lianjiang area, and now I think about it carefully, we are too short of manpower, and we can't do much big things by relying on our manpower alone! So I'm going to Dongping Village to recruit some people to come back!

This matter cannot be delayed any longer! So take advantage of the opportunity of our visit to Dalian Island this time, and simply take this matter by the way! ”

Hearing Yu Xiaotian say that the two of them rested early last night, Zhao Mazi and Liu Laoliu's old faces were red, after the two old guys were full of wine and food last night, they saw Yu Xiaotian and that Li Steward talking very happily, so they couldn't wait to go to sleep under the pretext of not being able to drink, saying that they were sleeping, but in fact, they went to the two women who were arranged by Steward Li to accompany them, if it wasn't for Yu Xiaotian calling them in the morning, the two of them would not have been willing to get up at all, and now both of them are still yawning, making it clear that they didn't sleep well last night, So both old guys are a little ashamed of it.

"But I heard that there is a Fuzhou official army water village at the mouth of the Ao River, and there are still officers and soldiers stationed in Dinghai City, where can we go? What if I run into a government patrol ship? Liu Lao Liu finally couldn't help but ask at this time.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said: "You don't have to worry about this, let's go to the mouth of the Aojiang River this time, go over after dark, and leave before dawn!" Steward Li said that the government's patrol ships will not come out at night, and there are only two or three boats in the Aojiangkou Water Village, although Dinghai City is a thousand-household office, responsible for guarding the Aojiang Estuary, but at the moment there are less than 200 officers and soldiers, and they can protect themselves, but if they want to let them go out of the city overnight to chase and suppress us, these people have no courage!

So you don't have to worry, the Li family has often loaded and unloaded goods in the Aojiangkou area in recent years, and they are very familiar with the situation where, although the Li family said that they would not help us, but they did not hide anything from me in this regard!

I think Steward Li told me these things, they just wanted to see if we had the guts, if we didn't dare to go, they would look down on them! So it's worth taking a risk this time! We can't let the Li family look down on us! ”

After hearing this, Liu Lao Liu thought about it and nodded: "This is also true, if we pass after dark and leave before dawn, the official mansion will not be able to help us!" I've been to the area, and the situation on the water surface is quite clear, so be careful! ”

When Zhao Mazi heard this, although he was still a little worried, he couldn't say anything more, so he went to wake up Meng Maniac, who was still snoring and sleeping, and told Meng Maniac about Yu Xiaotian's decision.

Meng Madman was excited when he heard it, this old guy is an individual who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, he is bold, and he does things recklessly, as soon as he heard that he was going to Aojiangkou, he became happy, and he laughed strangely, and agreed repeatedly, as if he was afraid that Yu Xiaotian would change his mind again.

After dawn, the ship turned its rudder to the north, taking advantage of the wind, and even if they encountered a few merchant ships or fishing boats along the way, they did not commit robbery, let alone raise their sea wolf flag, but disguised themselves as a merchant ship, and sailed towards the mouth of the Ao River in a big way.

There was a small episode on the way, they actually accidentally ran into a small pirate ship, the pirates used a sloop fishing boat, a total of only a dozen people, after seeing Yu Xiaotian's boat, they immediately posted it, as if they wanted to be unfavorable to Xiaotian and their boat.

But when they saw the gang on Yu Xiaotian's boat clearly, they didn't say a word, they immediately turned the bow of the boat and fled, if it wasn't for their ship being a little faster, Yu Xiaotian almost ordered them to be killed.

As a result, everyone on the boat couldn't help but laugh when they looked at the small boat that fled in embarrassment, and the feeling of grievance that they had been bullied by Zhang Hu's men before suddenly disappeared at this point.

This can't help but make Yu Xiaotian sigh, the sea is such a law of survival, the strong is king, the big fish eat the small fish in a world of the world, don't talk about anything if you don't have the strength, only someone in your hand has a boat, and there are guys, you can go sideways! This made him even more determined to go to Dongping Village this time.

Because it was a tailwind, and they almost walked in a straight line, went straight to the mouth of the Ao River, did not make any stops along the way, so they walked very fast, after noon they sailed through the mouth of the Min River, before it got dark, they basically arrived at the sea surface of the mouth of the Ao River, where a small number of fishing boats can be seen in the distance, on the sea surface is raising sails and collecting nets, Yu Xiaotian ordered to lower half of the sail, slowing down the speed of the boat.

Their presence did not attract the undue attention of the fishing boats on the sea, and after seeing that they had no ill intentions, the fishing boats went on with them, and after collecting their nets, before it was dark, the few fishing boats on the sea began to sail towards the shore.

"Where is Dongping Village, Sixth Uncle, do you know Lu Dao?" Yu Xiaotian looked at the gradually falling sun and asked Liu Laoliu.

After Liu Lao Liu carefully looked at the north shore, he shook his head and said, "I don't know, but didn't you say it today?" Is Dongping Village about five miles west of Dinghai City? Of course, Dinghai City knows the way, as long as after nightfall, look at the lights on the wall of Dinghai City, and walk west along the coast to find Dongping Village! ”

Yu Xiaotian was relieved now, he was going to come to Dongping Village today, what he was most worried about was not that he couldn't do anything, but that he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to find a place after dark, and after all, Dongping Village was too close to Dinghai to guard the city of thousands of households, and it was impossible to say that he didn't have a little worry.

Although during this time, he often followed Liu Lao Liu to learn to see the sky, but this line of work can not be learned in a while and a half, he can at most at night to roughly distinguish the south, south, north, west, and north, as for finding the channel at night, to ensure that the ship will not deviate, this ability is far from being learned, or to say, at the moment he is most inseparable from Liu Laoliu, the old sea wolf, there is such a treasure, is the foundation of his activities at sea.

As the sky gradually darkened, Yu Xiaotian ordered the sails to be hoisted again, and ordered the ship not to raise the lantern, so as not to be discovered from afar, and then they relied on Liu Laoliu's night observation of the sky to grasp the course.

Liu Lao Liu squinted on the boat for a while during the day, and his spirit was much better at this time, and he was full of energy, commanding everyone on the boat to adjust the sails and slowly sail towards the north bank of the Ao River estuary.

Gradually, in the night, everyone saw a point on the coast from a distance, and after getting closer, they could see a row of lanterns in a line, and they determined that it was Dinghai City.

In fact, Dinghai City was not called Dinghai City before, but was called Tingjiao Shoubu Thousand Households, it was one of the five guards and twelve thousand households set up in Fujian by the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period, it was an important place for the official to defend Fuzhou outside the mouth of the Ao River, in the early years, it was the main place to defend against the Japanese plague, and there were officers and soldiers stationed all the year round, and it was said that there were more than 2,000 officers and soldiers stationed here at the most.

But by this time, the plague was gradually no longer a threat to the Ming Dynasty, and the number of officers and soldiers stationed here became smaller and smaller, so that there were only more than 200 people left.

If it weren't for this, even if Yu Xiaotian had the courage to wrap his body, he wouldn't dare to bring so many dozen people here to find trouble.

The reason why he dared to come was that he was anxious to expand his strength, and secondly, because the Li family told him the details of this area, although there were officers and soldiers stationed in Dinghai City, but over the years, the southern military strength had been slackened, and the Qi family army, which was the most capable of fighting in the early years, was transferred to Liaodong, and other officers and soldiers, especially those from military households, had been completely rotten to the home, otherwise there would not have been the famous 53 Japanese robbers in history who traveled more than 1,000 miles in the Ming Dynasty, plundered more than 20 prefectures and counties, and approached the city of Nanjing.

Now he asked himself that the more than 20 people under his command were definitely not as powerful as the more than 50 Japanese at that time, but he also believed that the officers and soldiers in the Fujian area were not much stronger at this time, otherwise he would not dare to easily wade into danger and bring people here to do things.

With Dinghai City as their navigation mark, it was much easier to find Dongping Village next, Liu Laoliu operated the boat along the coast all the way to the west, and after half an hour of careful sailing, he left Dinghai City behind, and gradually approached the coast.

(From today, two updates will be resumed, basically guaranteeing 6,000 to 7,000 word updates!) That's a lot of pressure! Hehe! I hope the brethren can use the red ticket to stand up, don't make me too ugly! Thank you, brethren! In addition, I would like to thank Tie Shou for the reward of my brother.,The recent reward is not strong.,It seems that I'm going to work hard! ）