In the early morning of the next day, a big stone and a sack were missing on the wharf outside Suzhou, and someone heard the sound of a heavy object falling into the river. Immediately afterwards, I heard that the young master's third concubine returned to his hometown Quanzhou Province, and he didn't know when he would come back, and the return date was undecided.

In the same gray morning mist, far away on an island in the sea outside Quanzhou City, taking advantage of the cover of the eve of dawn, many ferocious bird-eating gulls rushed down from the stratus clouds, landed on the island, densely covered the entire ground, these skuas greedily lowered their heads, with the tip of their bloody beaks kept pecking at something, because the number of birds is too much, so it is particularly violent to grab food, from time to time there are gulls and birds in order to grab the territory of eating and bite up, for a while, the birds on the dim island feathers fly wildly, blood and flesh splash。

Instead of the chicks and turtle eggs that Rì likes to eat, they eat ...... Human corpses.

The whole island was covered with corpses at this time! The pungent smell of blood rose to the sky, fortunately, it was not too fishy and rotten at the beginning, so there was no too fishy smell of decay, but Rao was like this, so many corpses still provoked the skuas within a radius of hundreds of miles.

What a feast.

The dock-like buildings could be seen on the island, but at this time there was no trace of them, and the dead people were unable to move with frightened eyes open, white eyes, and a layer of mucous membranes formed after death, as if they could not imagine that someone would touch the island and kill themselves.

With a snort, a skua pecked at the corpse's eyes with great accuracy, holding a bloody eyeball, twisting its neck proudly, and then lowered its head, as if afraid that a companion would snatch food from it, spread its wings, moved a place, hid under the reef and began to eat, but found that the food was a little hard, grabbed its neck, and giggled in a hurry.

The island is full of corpses, flesh and bones are flying, organs are pecked out, blood, death, flying, fighting birds, the breath of death and fear permeates the sea.

............ With one hand, with some difficulty and weakness, he peeled off the corpse above, carefully driving away the damned skuas around him. A pair of eyes looked nervously out from the gap to confirm that the group of officers and soldiers who had gone to the island had left by boat, and the island pirate who had not died was able to crawl out of the corpses of his companions with trepidation.

This man was stabbed in the shoulder, his flesh and blood were blurred, if it weren't for his identity, he sensed the murderous aura carried by those officers and soldiers very quickly, pretended to be dead first, and covered himself with the corpses of his companions, maybe he would have died a long time ago.

Those officers and soldiers who came to the island should have been the companions of these pirates, but suddenly they were fierce, and the ruthlessness of the attack was really indescribable, until all the people on the island were dead, and the leader of the pirates would think that the Ming family was here to exterminate the mouth.

The person who escaped by luck had a swarthy face, and at first glance he looked like he had lived at sea all the year round, with an ordinary face, a resolute expression, and slightly narrowed eyes. After such a catastrophe, he did not seem to panic, gasped and sat among the corpses of his companions, forcibly calmed his mind, tore off the clothes of his companions, bandaged his wounds tightly, and then began to get up and look for water and food on the island.

When the officers and soldiers left, they thought that all the people were dead, so they did not destroy the water and food, so they gave him a chance to live.

After the restoration of the jīng god, the sky will also be bright.

............ Facing the rising sun of the sea, the man sat slowly on the dock, looking at the flocks of birds flying and falling not far away, looking at the miserable appearance of those companions who had been with him for many years, his lips began to turn white, but he held back his disgusting feelings, took a pot of water with his backhand, and poured it into his dry mouth.

The dead people are all his partners, but he will not bury these people, because there are too many dead people, and it is impossible for him to bury so many corpses alone. Second, if a pirate cannot be buried in the sea after death, it will not necessarily end badly if he is taken to the sky by these skuas. Thirdly, these pirates have done a lot of evil in peacetime, and murder often happens, and now they are killed first, and then eaten by birds, which can be regarded as retribution.

His name is Qing Wa'er, a native of Quanzhou, with an ordinary family background, ordinary ability, and has been a sailor at sea all the year round, sometime last year, the big ship he was on was robbed by pirates, I don't know what method he used, he survived by luck, and he also joined the pirates, and began to become partners with the pirates, doing those very ugly things on the turbulent sea outside Quanzhou.

The pirates on this island are the largest group at sea, but strangely enough, they don't do much business, and the leader seems to be deliberately hiding the whereabouts of this group. After staying on the island for half a year, Qingwa finally discovered that the main business on the island was the cargo ship that robbed the Ming family to deliver goods to the West.

Every time a ship is hijacked, there is no room for survival, especially the court officials who are responsible for escorting them on board.

In just half a year, Qingwa was appreciated by the leader because of her calmness and cold-bloodedness, and became a small leader among the pirates, and began to gradually learn more details, and began to have the opportunity to contact some very important things, which is a pity...... At this time, on this night, a group of powerful sailors found the island and slaughtered all the people on the island in great blood.

The morning sun was blowing, but it was not refreshing, because there were dead bodies and flesh all around her, and the green baby's throat rumbled twice, and she recognized that the pirate who was pecking at the flesh of her thigh by the birds not far ahead was the talented boy who lived in the same cave as her.

Qingwa's eyes blinked weakly, she stood up with some difficulty, walked to the corpse of Caizai, drove away those gulls with the wooden stick in her hand, looked at Caizai's corpse, was speechless for a while, and finally said slowly: "If I go back alive, your parents, I will take care of it." ”

With that, he resolutely threw down the corpse of his companion and walked in the other direction along the hidden path under the docks, where all the boats on the island had sunk, but there was a back hand left by the pirate leader, and I don't know if the wooden boats were still there.

Qingwa walked unfast, but was extra resolute. He had to hurry back to land, because although he survived, the next few messages were not sent, and Lord Tisi must have begun to be anxious.

He wiped his tears as he walked, and forcibly did not look back, although the pirates behind him had a way to die, but after getting along for half a year, even if he was hard-hearted, he couldn't help but have some feelings.

At this time, a flame called anger rose in Qing Wa'er's chest. Now that you can get evidence of the Ming family's collusion with pirates...... The combat effectiveness of the army last night was extremely strong, but what kind of people were the people? Since they had come to the island to destroy the mouth, it must have been a certain military boss who could mobilize a powerful naval division along the coast...... Could it be the Ye family? However, he had no qualifications to make a judgment, and only hoped that he could send this information back to Suzhou as soon as possible.

Yes, the crying Qingwa'er is one of the five crows in Group B of the Outer Patrol Division of the Supervision Yuan stationed in Quanzhou, and he is the secret agent who once reported to Fan Xianyu that the Ming family was connected to pirates.

――――――――――――――――――――――― outside the city of Suzhou, south of the Yangtze River, far away from this Bird's Island, in the beautiful Ming Garden, which seems to be unwilling to be contaminated with a trace of worldly atmosphere, Ming Qingda, the owner of the contemporary Ming family, is standing respectfully in front of a chair, replying to the questions of the people in the chair.

The person in the chair was a woman, an old woman.

Even in front of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, there was no need for Ming Qingda to be so restrained and polite, but in front of this old woman, he had to bow his head, because this old woman was the real and most powerful person in the Ming family...... Taejun, his biological mother.

A few years ago, if it weren't for the ruthlessness of this old woman, who poisoned the most favored outer room, and after the old lady died, she chased the old seven out of the house, the Ming family's favorite property, I am afraid that it has already fallen into the hands of that person, how can Ming Qingda have any share?

Every time Ming Qingda looked at his elderly mother, he always couldn't think of the four words of old and virtuous, but thought: Old and not dead is a thief...... The corpse of the seventh brother has probably turned into white bones somewhere, right? He thought like this, although he was at ease, he was also a little cold, as long as this old woman lived for a day, he could not be regarded as the real principal in the Ming family.

"You're moving too slowly. The old lady of the Ming family looked at her son, and said coldly without mercy: "If you want to wash yourself clean, then you should start doing it two years ago." ”

Ming Qing Dashi is called smart, otherwise it would be impossible to control such a big industry of the Ming family, but in front of his mother, he was criticized, his face was hot, and he frowned and said, "Why two years ago?"

"Because two years ago, the palace decided to let Fan Xian marry Lin Wan'er!" the old woman said with a cold glint in her eyes.

Ming Qingda's face was respectful, but he had other thoughts in his heart, thinking that even if he guessed that Fan Xian would go down to Jiangnan to take charge of the inner treasury at that time, who knew that he was the emperor's illegitimate son at that time? Who knew that he was the descendant of the Ye family? Who knew that he would lead the Supervision Yuan in the future? This old woman seemed to be really confused.

The old woman scolded: "If it weren't for the old body asking the military for help this time, if the Supervision Yuan had found out about that island, how would Fan Xian deal with you?"

Ming Qingda sneered in his heart, and replied respectfully: "It's really unfilial to let my mother worry." ”