"The villagers inside listened, my surname is Yu, and they are nicknamed Sea Wolf! This time, Yu Mou has no ill will towards you, he just wants to ask you about something, you don't have to be afraid!

But you are so ignorant of the times, you don't know anything at all, and you treat us as nothing, that's your mistake! There is a limit to my patience, I will give you a stick of incense, if you don't come out to answer, then I am not a good person to ask someone, and then I will use my method to invite you out!

Don't blame us for being rude, start the timer now and light the incense! ”

Someone immediately threw it over, planted a stick of incense on the ground outside the village, lit it with a fire breaker, turned and ran back.

Everyone watched the pillar of incense slowly burning, Yu Xiaotian spread his legs, stood steadily outside the village, closed his eyes slightly, and silently waited for the pillar of incense to finish.

More than 100 soldiers were also neatly lined up outside the village, and none of them moved, and the long spears and short knives, including the polished shiny bird guns, shimmered in the sunlight.

The muzzles of the two tiger squat guns were silently pointed at the village, and the sailors ran back and forth, sent two boxes of ammunition, and placed them next to the tiger squat guns.

A group of sailors, assigned to carry axes to the vicinity, began to cut down trees, and made wooden ladders on the spot.

There was a solemn atmosphere outside the whole village, which made people feel very nervous and depressed at the same time.

The incense was still burning slowly, and before the incense was halfway burned, someone on the wall of the village shouted: "The hero spares his life......

A shriveled old man knelt tremblingly in front of Xiaotian, trembling like half of chaff, although he tried his best to make himself appear calmer, but the trembling beard revealed the fear in his heart.

Yu Xiaotian saw that the goal had been achieved, and waved his hand to order his subordinates to retreat, rest on the beach, and if they were idle, they could send someone to hunt a few wild animals to come back to improve their lives.

And he ordered someone to pick up the old man, gave him a small horse to sit opposite him, and asked the old man to send a glass of water, comforted the old man a few words, and even handed the old man a cigarette he rolled himself, the old man didn't know how to smoke, learned from Yu Xiaotian's appearance, lit it and choked and coughed.

"This is called a cigarette, it's a bit rushed, you have to smoke it slowly!" Yu Xiaotian took one out of the tin box, lit it and took two puffs proudly, swallowing clouds and spitting out fog quite freely.

He had already discovered that tobacco had appeared in China, and people in the north and south began to grow it, but at present, smoking it is not popular, and only fewer people have begun to try to smoke it with dry tobacco bags.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian also tried to let someone make him a pipe, but he was not used to smoking, he still liked the feeling of rolling cigarettes, so he asked people to get him some tobacco leaves, and after coming back, he tried to ferment some of them, roast them, and then roll them up with a small guillotine and cut them into shreds, and made a small thing of hand-rolled cigarettes.

He chose more than a dozen kinds of paper and tried to roll some, and after trying it out, he finally settled on a paper for special cigarette rolling.

However, he doesn't understand the tobacco recipe and process of cigarettes, the tobacco leaves are not processed properly, and the taste is far inferior to any kind of cigarette in later generations, but in this era, he can smoke the long-lost "cigarette", and there is nothing to be picky about.

He didn't have much of a cigarette addiction, and when he first smoked, it was just to remember his past life, but as soon as he took the lead, many of his current leaders also learned to smoke with him.

Now in the small circle of the sea wolf tribe on Nanri Island, there have been a lot of smokers gradually, so that he is ready to turn back and specially arrange some people to make this kind of cigarette for the subordinates, first supply their own people to smoke, and in the next step, if possible, also promote the Lu to be sold as a commodity on Nanri Island.

Today, the old man in this village is the first outsider to try his handmade cigarettes, but it seems that the old man is a little uncomfortable with this taste, and he is choked with old tears, and he has no choice but to enjoy this thing by himself.

"Don't be afraid, old man! We're not here to loot your village, we're just passing by, and we're asking you for some help!

Please rest assured, although we are also pirates, but we sea wolves are chivalrous thieves, doing things like robbing the rich and helping the poor, and we have nothing to do with people like you!

You can turn your head and see that we have no one to spoil your fields, and we have no one to touch even the two cows you have left behind, and we have not been able to reassure you? Yu Xiaotian said to the old man while swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog.

The old man turned his head to look at it, quickly turned his head over, and thanked Xiaotian again and again, the expression on his face was still sincere and fearful, obviously he didn't believe Yu Xiaotian's words very much, thieves in this world are thieves, can there be thieves who don't harm civilians?

Yu Xiaotian didn't care whether he believed it or not, and asked the old man, "What is your surname?" Gui Geng this year? What's the name of your village? When did you come here and build this village? ”

The old man sat uncomfortably on the pony, and replied respectfully: "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, the hero is too polite, back to the hero's words, the little old man is free from your surname Cao, called Cao Ma!" ……”

Yu Xiaotian almost choked to death by the smoke, and immediately laughed loudly while coughing, Cao Ma, I'm dizzy, why don't you call it a grass mud horse? It's so uncultured, isn't it?

The old man was startled, and hurriedly said: "Little Lao'er is just sixty-five this year, and he should have been buried in the ground, but Xiao Lao'er is lucky, and he has wasted a lot of food!" In our village, are the surname Cao's family, the former family in Zhangpu, Zhangzhou, generations of farming, a few years ago the little old man's home drought, as a last resort, the little old man took his children and grandchildren to flee home, floated to this place by boat, and settled here!

Later, the people of the clan learned that we had come to settle here, so they also followed, and this is the Caojia Village! Even if we have been here for five or six years, Caojia Village!

Today, there are many offenses to all the heroes, and I hope that the heroes will not be angry, we are here to cultivate and weave, and there are not many good things, but how much can also send a little fresh fish, game, and skins to all the heroes, and the little old man has already asked people to prepare things, and they will be sent out to the heroes in a while! ”

Yu Xiaotian immediately shook his head and said, "What are these words?" As I have already said, we are not here to blackmail and plunder you, let alone to harass you, we have nothing to do with ourselves, and you should not give me any gifts!

I just wanted to ask about the situation here, what is the situation of the natives in your area? Isn't that much, what is the relationship between you and the natives? Are there any other villages that have migrated from the land? Don't be afraid, to be honest, if you can be honest, not only will I not harm you, but I will also give you a generous gift! ”

After hearing this, the old man didn't dare to hide it from Xiaotian, because he knew that the group of pirates he encountered today was so powerful that they couldn't resist it, as long as they annoyed the other party, if these pirates turned against each other, they could easily level their Caojia Village in one fell swoop, and kill the people of their entire village, which was as easy as crushing a group of ants.

So the old man replied very interestingly and told Yu Xiaotian everything he knew.

It turns out that this place is not very peaceful, there are many indigenous tribes in their area, the large tribe has about two or three hundred people, and the small tribe has dozens of people, these native people are not good at farming, but they are hunting masters, and they are not friendly to these outsiders.

The natives do not usually come to harass these villages from the mainland, but sometimes there are some conflicts, especially when hunting, when the immigrants will hunt in order to get more meat, and sometimes there will be conflicts because of hunting.

Both sides have killed each other's people, so they have made enemies, and the natives like the food grown by these immigrants, and also like the cloth and iron tools of the immigrants, so they will occasionally run to rob and rob, and the immigrants will naturally not do it in order to protect the fruits of their labor, and they will fight against it.

So living here, without building a wall, it is impossible to gain a foothold here, in the past few years, the people of Caojia Village have continued to build a wall, enclosing the entire village, basically ensuring the safety of their own families, in addition to resisting the attacks of the local natives, they sometimes have to face the attack of passing pirates.

However, the pirates also know that such a small immigrant village has little oil and water, and it is not easy for them to attack the village with a wall, so they rely on this wall, and often encounter the invasion of pirates, and they all throw out some local goods, and the pirates in the future will send them away and pull them down.

Today, if it weren't for Yu Xiaotian's posture of attacking the village, this Caojia Village would still want to use the old way to send them away.

In addition, according to the old man, there are indeed some villages settled by immigrants from the mainland in some places in the surrounding areas, and there are at least a dozen villages like them within a radius of 100 miles that he knows, with more than 200 people in the larger villages and only a few dozen people in the smaller villages.

Sometimes, a village near the river in the 20 miles of the Tamsui estuary became a commodity distribution center for the villages around them, and occasionally small merchants on land would bring some daily necessities from the land and sell them there, and the villages in need would go there to exchange local products with them, and if there were many local products, they could also exchange them for money or silver.

Although there are many mosquitoes here, and there are epidemics from time to time, because this is a terra nullius, the land is its own, and no one exploits them, and the rain here is relatively abundant, and the land is very fertile, so life is better than on land.

So they would rather endure a mosquito infestation here than go back to land.

After listening to the old man's words, Yu Xiaotian nodded, and then asked the old man: "By the way, old man, since you have been here for so long, do you have a map to draw?" Can you give me a copy? I'm willing to pay a lot of money! ”

The old man's head shook like a rattle: "No, no! Please forgive your sins! There are only some illiterate people in Xiao Lao'er Village, where can they draw a map! That's something that only people who can read, we people, usually remember the road in our minds, if the hero asks us to show you the way, it's okay, but if you want a map, the little old man really doesn't have it! ”

Yu Xiaotian didn't see that the old man was talking nonsense, so he had no choice but to give up, after thinking about it, he turned his head and ordered, and sent someone to the boat to get twenty horses of linen, ten pieces of cheesecloth, ten catties of tea, and ten axes, ten machetes, three iron saws, five iron hammers, and two iron pots and some daily porcelain, which were placed in front of the old man.

(Fever diary, today is the sixteenth day of continuous low-grade fever, I did a CT of the lungs yesterday, and no problems were found!) But the blood picture is very high, stop taking medicine and change to water transfusion! I hope the fever will go away soon, otherwise I will be in a mess every day! I can't even code the words! ）