After Zhong Zhaoju Zhongba was rescued, he led his troops to rest in Jiagu Mountain, and Wang Zuoliang personally led the Ganyu County Garrison to carry out sneak attacks and sieges with the cooperation of the township warriors in various towns and towns. Linyi, Tancheng and Donghai counties were invited, and Wang Zuoliang ordered Wang Yihua to lead a team to help, and all the battles were won, and the prestige was greatly inspired, and it was indispensable.

Wang Zuoliang saw that all the bandits were lurking, so he used various social connections to "pacify": he was not allowed to do bad things in Ganyu without his approval, and he did not ask questions about committing crimes in other places; When there is a small group of crimes, you must first help our county solve the case; Lack of guns and ammunition can be purchased from our county; In the event of a large-scale crackdown on bandits, our county will report to you and let them take refuge; I advise my fellow travelers not to commit crimes in my jurisdiction.

If someone does not abide by the "gentleman's agreement", don't blame me for not talking about friendship. Wang Zuoliang's technique of "using grace and power at the same time" was indeed effective, so that there were no large bandits in the county during his tenure. Hou Zhongba was recruited by him and served as the chief inspector of Huaibei. Song Desen didn't want to be an official, so he secretly returned to the village and became a common man again. Only Meng Zhaoyuan did not "cooperate", was killed as an example of the monkey, and beheaded to show the public.

After Meng Zhaoyuan was killed, Song Desen quietly stayed with his son Song Jiliu, who was a few years old, and buried the hero's body at the risk of his life. His righteous deeds suddenly took deep root in his son's mind and brought great benefits to his future growth.

When Song Jiliu was twelve years old, because his father was forced to go to sea by the three bad breeds of fishermen, he and his mother Song Auntie took three young brothers to live a difficult life. Including Jiliu, there are several members of the family, and their lives are supported by Aunt Song. As the saying goes: "It's hard for a good man to support even his own family" For the livelihood of the family, Aunt Song worked in the rented land during the day, and her waist was tired and bent. At night, they also light soybean oil lamps and play straw sandals in the middle of the night with a faint light.

At that time, there was a spring famine in the county, and most of the poor people could not eat, Jiliu knew that the family was about to run out of food, so he asked his mother to make a few more porridges and cook more with wild vegetables. But for many days, the family still ate fragrant corn rice and sweet and delicious sweet potato dried water, and did not eat a bite of wild vegetables, the difference is that the eldest mother did not eat with them, but persuaded the children to eat more, must be full.

Jiliu brought a bowl and put it on and asked his mother to eat it together, and the eldest mother touched his round head and said, "Good boy, you can take a younger brother to eat first, my stomach is not hungry for the time being, and I will eat it later." ”

Jiliu was eating, while looking at her mother sitting opposite, and suddenly found that she had added a few more wrinkles on her forehead, her face was much thinner, and her spine was hunched down a lot...... This made Song Jiliu, who was only 12 years old, suddenly doubt: Why didn't my mother eat with us?

Although Song Jiliu is still a naughty boy who wears open crotch pants, as the saying goes, "the children of poor families are in charge early", and he is already a very good person.

In order to uncover this mystery as soon as possible, after lunch, he went out with his younger brothers to play for a while, and then came to a "return gun", and saw that his mother was eating in the pot house, so he secretly came behind her when she was not paying attention. At first glance, ah, the bowl is full of local wild vegetables such as "Qiqiya" and "Fuyang", which are specially fed to pigs and sheep, and there is only garlic paste on top...... Jiliu couldn't stand it anymore, and threw herself into her mother's arms with a "wow".

Soon, the rich man Yuba took advantage of the spring famine to rob again, and the three bad seed wells and three or five times came to the door to force debts, and beat Aunt Song to the point that her nose and mouth were bleeding, and she couldn't get out of bed at home. The only little food in the family was robbed, and even the few pancakes that Jiliu had come back from begging outside were also snatched by the dogs. At this time, there was no food to boil in the pot, and my mother's face was white and yellow, which was particularly scary. The little brothers were in a hurry, and the final result of the discussion was that there was only one way to go, "relying on the sea to eat the sea".

It happened to be a rare good weather, Xiao Jiliu used the identity of the eldest brother to assign the third brother to accompany his mother at home, and he took the second and fourth brothers to pick up small nets, big and small net bags, and went to the sea to catch yellow-eyed crabs, small fish and mud snails.

The wide beach is paved with a thin layer of water, in which small shrimps, small sea crabs, small eels, and small mud snails swim and crawl. But in front of these children who grew up in the sea, they could not escape the fishing nets.

However, they were busy for most of the day, but they didn't even get half a small net. There were too few prey here, and the three brothers were very anxious when they thought of their mother who was lying down. They looked at the surging and boundless sea, and they could only sigh with admiration......

"Big brother, look." The second brother suddenly found a small wooden boat and shouted in surprise, "I heard that there are a lot of 'goods' on the west side of Qinshan Island, let's row across this section of the small sea and go to the west of Qinshan Island to catch it!" ”

Song Jiliu suddenly looked up, and the northeast direction was indeed a natural breeding farm for fish, mud snails, oysters and other seafood - Qinshan Island. He learned the tone of an adult and said: "Qinshan Island is commonly known as Grandma Mountain, and it is also known as Qin Mountain because the mountain is shaped like a piano. In the sea of 35 or 6 kilometers northeast of Songzhuang Village, it covers an area of nearly one square kilometer, and there are three peaks in the east, middle and west. The east peak is the main peak, with an elevation of nearly 56 meters. There are good goods there, but there are also small winds and waves, and it is a grain depot in the sea, and there must be danger! ”

Jiliu's second brother, while listening to the eldest brother's "talking", carefully picked up the mud snails. As soon as the eldest brother's words stopped, he rushed to say: "I heard from the adults that there is a sea city on this mountain, and the sea market is magnificent. ”

Jiliu: "Well said! In addition, it is said that Qin Shi Huang once boarded this island to ask for immortals, the sea god gave him a treasure pearl, there is Qin Shi Huang on the island to confer pearls, the northeast mountain has Qin Shi Huang 35 years to set up the east gate tablet, because of the name Qin Mountain. In the old mountain, there are Tianfei Palace, Bixia Palace, purple bamboo, camellia, acacia beans, and the pheasants of 'release' fly all over the mountain, so it is also called the sacred mountain. I think that as long as you get to this sacred mountain, you can't get the orb, and you can catch a lot of fish and shrimp to save our mother! ”

As soon as the second brother saw that the eldest brother finished speaking, he rushed to say: "There is a sea accumulation quartz pebble 'divine road' at the west end, which is a multi-chain 'S' shape winding to the land, nearly nine kilometers long, the tide is like a dragon playing in the water at high tide, the tide is exposed, the red and white line in the blue waves, the fish and shrimp are all over and over again, quite spectacular, and there must be a lot of fish and shrimp there. ”

Jiliu: "However, I heard that there are often dangers near this Qinshan Island, so there are not many people who usually go, and there is a small boat today, to go or not to go?" Fourth brother, there is really danger over there, let's go alone, you stay. ”

Song Xiaosi was anxious when he heard this, and said loudly: "I'm going too, why don't you let me go?" There's no wind today, it doesn't matter, I'll be a good helper! ”

The second son looked up and down, it was indeed a cloudless, calm and good weather, so he helped him tell the eldest brother a favor, so the three naughty boys climbed onto the small wooden boat, set up a small anchor, rowed a wooden oar, and sailed in the direction of Qinshan Island.

As the old saying goes, the sky on the sea, the face of a child, changes when it is said. Suddenly, large dark clouds surged in the sky, a strong wind blew on the sea, a fierce wave rushed in the direction of Qinshan Island, and the boat was like a straw swaying in the waves. The high embankment is gone, the big willow trees on the shore can't see the treetops, Qinshan Island doesn't know which direction it is, even the sun has quietly slipped away, and the waves in all directions are connected with the sky.

Jiliu was unusually calm at this time, he was like an experienced ship boss, standing on the back cabin and looking around, and said firmly: "Don't be afraid, don't cry, it's high tide at this time, the water is flowing to the shore, let's work together and row back along the current, and it will be safe." ”

Jiliu judged the direction again, turned over the bow of the boat, and beckoned everyone to row forward with all their strength along the tide.

"The big ship is coming! The boss's sailboat is here! Suddenly, Song Jiliu found a three-masted boat drifting in the distance, and it was getting closer and closer, and they recognized it as a fish boat that had sailed back. The three brothers laughed and screamed, and rowed desperately towards the big boat, but the big boat remained silent and sailed away. But how did they know that on such a rough sea, their small shouts had long been drowned out by the sound of wind and waves.

Song Xiaoer scolded in disappointment, and hurriedly kicked the bamboo pole in the cabin. reminded Jiliu at these two moments, he hurriedly grabbed the bamboo pole, took off the red vest and tied it to the head of the bamboo pole, and raised it and shook it constantly. A miracle happened, the big ship turned around and headed towards them!

The uncles and uncles on the big boat, with the smell of fish, stretched out their enthusiastic hands and picked up the three naughty boys with great love on the big boat.

"Uncle Wang!" Jiliu screamed in surprise, stretched out his hands, and pounced on a middle-aged fisherman named Wang Zaihe with a large scar on his left cheek.

Jiliu happily asked, "What about me?" Where is he? Why didn't I stay with you? ”

The man smiled and said, "Your father is very good, and he is busy fishing for the three bad species." Their ships are much larger than ours, so there is no problem with them now, so you can rest assured. How did you come to the sea, aren't you afraid? ”

"Don't be afraid!" Jiryu replied loudly. Xiao Er and Xiao Si also followed and said, "You adults are not afraid, and we children are not afraid!" ”

When everyone heard this, they applauded, and a young man brought a hot meal and told the little brothers to eat quickly. Uncle Wang asked the reason why they went to sea, and everyone was very moved after hearing it. An older fisherman offered to give them a little grain, which was immediately approved by the big guys, and the old man brought the ration bags and gave them the remaining half of the bags of dried sweet potato noodles, and the boat boss also picked up five marijuana mackerel and a dozen large prawns and stuffed them into their big net pockets.

The little brothers refused to accept it, and the second child said, "We took all the food, what do you eat?" ”

Uncle Wang said with a smile: "Children, don't worry! There are big fish and prawns in the sea, and I'm afraid we won't be able to eat them! After a pause, he looked at the place where the sea and the sky are connected, and said with confidence, "We poor people will not always be so poor, the sea is always deep, there is a day east of the river, there is a time when he is west of the river, and the day when the poor turn over will not be too long!" ”

The ship entered the port, and the Jiliu brothers took the grain, fish and shrimp given by the ship, bid farewell to the well-wishers on the big ship, and stepped ashore. Remembering that their mother must have been very anxious at home, the little brothers quickened their pace.