Without waiting for the boat to come to the shore, Meng Madman jumped into waist-deep water, staggered to the shore, waved his hands and shouted at everyone on the shore: "Things are not good! Just now I was testing the water at sea with people, and suddenly I saw smoke rising from the sky on the side of Xiaohuangdao, so I leaned over a little, and found that our previous village in Xiaohuangdao was on fire at this time, and the smoke was billowing out!

Don't think about it, the government must have sent troops to chase us down and set fire to our village on Xiaohuangdao first! Helmster, what do you think we should do? ”

Yu Xiaotian also felt a tightness in his heart after hearing this, and only then did he realize that it was a risky decision for them to choose Dahuangdao as a temporary place to stay.

Xiaohuangdao is only a dozen nautical miles away from Dahuangdao, such a distance can be said to be close to the vastness of the sea, and they chose to hide on Dahuangdao.

In this case, with their current level of manpower and force, if they want to confront the officers and soldiers who come to encircle and suppress them, it can basically be said that they are looking for death, as long as there are one or twenty professional soldiers, they can easily kill them all.

So Yu Xiaotian also suddenly became nervous, and wanted to take people out to sea to avoid it now, but he turned his head to look at the brig whose mast had just been removed by them, and he was immediately deflated.

It's a little easier to remove the mast, but it's not easy to press it right away! It is impossible for them to take a boat out to escape at this time, and relying on that small boat alone will not be able to accommodate their thirty-odd people.

Just when the gang became nervous, a few bright lights suddenly flashed on the mountain, and everyone became even more alarmed, because since they returned to Dahuang Island, as soon as Yu Xiaotian took over the control, he immediately began to arrange a lookout post on the top of a hill on the coast in shifts in the name of safety.

Standing on the top of this hill, you can clearly see the sea surface in several directions on the periphery of Dahuang Island, as long as there are ships entering the vicinity of Dahuang Island, the people on duty on the top of the mountain can quickly spot these ships with the naked eye, providing a certain amount of preparation time for the island.

If the sentry man still has a telescope in his hand, he can see farther and provide an earlier warning time for the island.

This time, it was obvious that Yu Xiaotian's arrangement had played a role, and the lookout post on the top of the mountain must have spotted a ship approaching Dahuangdao, so he used a small bronze mirror to reflect the sunlight to warn them.

"What can I do? It must be the warships of the officers and soldiers! What can I do? Ma Yan rubbed his hands anxiously, and asked Xiaotian one after another.

At this time, the gap between people is revealed, although it cannot be said that they have not seen the world, but their psychological quality is obviously not good, in addition, these people living in this era, have a natural fear of the government and the official army, under normal circumstances, they are not afraid to go against the official army, so in addition to the horse face, the rest of the many people are also a little panicked.

"Why don't we hurry up and get on the boat and get out of the boat to avoid the limelight!" Li Gouzi said with a panicked face.

As soon as Yu Xiaotian heard this, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Absolutely not!" Now that the mast of the big ship has been dismantled, and the ballast stone has been removed, it is impossible to go to sea for a while, and this small boat alone can only hold a dozen people, is it possible to leave all the women on the island? Don't say anything like that again! The big guy is now one, when life and death are together!

Don't panic! Pull the boat to the deepest part of the bay and hide it, and the rest of the people will hide in the cave! Uncle Ma, Heitou, Uncle Meng, you are ready guys! If the officers and soldiers land on the island and find us, it will be a big deal to fight with them today! Don't delay, let's do it together! ”

As the people on the island were busy with their work at the orders of Yu Xiaotian, both boats were dragged by everyone in unison to a hidden shallow bay in the bay, and if you look inside from the mouth of the bay, it is really not easy to find them after the mast of the brig is removed.

As for more hiding, they didn't have time to do it, and the two juniors on duty on the top of the mountain were holding the small bronze mirror at this time, and began to flash down one after another, which meant that they saw that a ship was rapidly approaching Dahuangdao.

After simply cleaning up the beach and dragging some bits and pieces on the beach to the forest on the island to hide, Yu Xiaotian quickly withdrew with everyone to a cave halfway up the mountain and began to prepare nervously.

The location of this cave is a hiding place that Yu Xiaotian and they chose in advance, which is relatively hidden, and can overlook the sea outside the bay, and the most important thing is that there is only one road to this cave, the terrain is relatively dangerous, it is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, and it is more conducive to holding.

So after Yu Xiaotian returned to the island, he used this place as their temporary lair, judging from the traces left here, this cave had also been used before, and there were a lot of sundries discarded in the cave, obviously someone had lived here, and it was probably the place where the pirates had settled in the past, but now it is the lair of their sea wolves.

A large bowl of guns was carried out of the cave with great effort, and the mouth of the bowl was fixed to the path leading to the cave, and the bowstrings of the bows were hung up, and bundles of arrows were also placed at the entrance of the cave, including a limited number of muskets and three-eyed guns, which were also invited out by them and began to load gunpowder.

Yu Xiaotian looked down at the outside of the bay below, from here you can see the boats hidden in the bay, but because of the angle, the boats are hidden there, even if they stand on the top of the mountain, it is not easy to find, so the small bay that Zhao Mazi led people to find is indeed a better hiding place.

Yu Xiaotian turned his head to look at the subordinates around him again, now he has no confidence in these subordinates, although they have now embarked on this road, but this group of people does not have a strong sense of obedience, Yu Xiaotian does not have time to train them, so once the officers and soldiers find them, let him take this group of people to fight with the officers and soldiers below, he can guarantee that they will not last three minutes, and they will immediately collapse.

So at present, they can only use the advantages of the terrain first to estimate that they can have a fight.

Looking at the chaotic group of subordinates, one by one jumped up and down and didn't know what they should do, no one told them, they first messed up their own formation, Yu Xiaotian was quite helpless about this, so he could only work hard and arrange them, someone was responsible for holding the bow, someone was responsible for the firecracker, someone was responsible for taking care of the bowl, and the rest of the people were ready for spears and short knives, ready for hand-to-hand combat.

In short, it took a lot of work to stabilize these people, and they stayed in their positions one by one.

And Yu Xiaotian turned around and entered the cave, walked to the deepest part, came to Lan'er who was lying on a small bed, and squatted down.

Since Erya returned to the island, after asking Liu Laoliu, the name was officially changed to Ruolan, for this name given to her by Yu Xiaotian, Erya likes it very much, after coming back these days, no matter who it is, you have to call him Lan'er or Ruolan, and no one is allowed to call her Erya again!

Now everyone on the island has been clearly told by Liu Lao Liu that he has married Erya to Yu Xiaotian, although it has greatly disappointed those descendants who are secretly in love with Erya, but after these guys weigh it in their hearts, they can only be greatly discouraged, and acquiesce in this fact, who let them no matter what they talk about, they can't compare to their helmsman? So no one has any objection to this, after all, in this era, marriage is still the order of the parents, the matchmaker's words, Liu Laoliu, the father has the right to choose a son-in-law, and no one can say that it can't be done.

And after Lan'er (Erya) returned to the island, Yu Xiaotian handed her over to Ma Mian and Li Gouzi's wife to take care of, and after the two looked at Lan'er's injuries, they found that the wounds on Lan'er's body had been carefully cleaned, and they were medicated, and they were bandaged.

At the beginning, they were still a little puzzled, many of the injuries like Lan'er were in very secret places on their bodies, it stands to reason that the people who went to save Lan'er this time were a group of big men, there were no women on the ship at all, who could treat these wounds so well for Lan'er?

So they cautiously asked Lan'er, Lan'er was so ashamed that she wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and she refused to answer, but she still faintly revealed her intentions, which made the two old women guess that Lan'er's injury should have been dealt with by Yu Xiaotian himself.

After Lan'er's injury returned to the island, it did not get better as soon as Yu Xiaotian imagined, although Ma Yan and Li Gouzi's wife also took good care of her, and according to what Yu Xiaotian said, she carefully cleared the wound medicine for Lan'er, but for some reason, Lan'er's injury was not good, and as a last resort, they could only turn to Yu Xiaotian for help, anyway, now Lan'er is also Yu Xiaotian's wife who has not passed the door, and it is not a big deal to let Yu Xiaotian see her body!

Although the Ming Dynasty's science and religion have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, for the ordinary people in the coastal areas, they are not as important as those in the upper echelons of society.

Yu Xiaotian went to take care of Lan'er when he was free in the past few days, and after retiring everyone, he personally debrided Lan'er, which is strange to say, Lan'er's injury did not improve under the care of the two aunts, but once Yu Xiaotian's hands were in the hands, it was immediately light, but once it was handed over to her two aunts to take care of, it would be repeated immediately, and as a result, her two aunts could only let go, and the matter of changing the dressing for Lan'er was completely handed over to Yu Xiaotian to deal with, and Lan'er's injury was only better day by day.

In the past two days, Lan'er has basically been able to move on the ground, and her face has become much better.

How could Yu Xiaotian not guess Lan'er's intentions, in fact, by changing the dressing for Lan'er, he had already seen that Lan'er was not because the two aunts changed the dressing for her, which caused the injury to recur, but she was making excuses to let Yu Xiaotian accompany her more, the little girl's mind was actually so simple, after Yu Xiaotian laughed secretly, he simply didn't say anything, and took some time every day to accompany Lan'er, anyway, facing those stinky guys every day, he could find an excuse to stay with Erya in private for a while, It's also a nice relaxation for him.