"Kun, go take a look."

Although Grandma Wen's complexion changed, when she instructed her granddaughter, her posture and tone were still calm.

Kun called a guard and hurried to the back of the house.

It was clearly a man's wail, and it sounded intermittently.

Grandma Wen leaned slightly and lowered her eyes to listen.

Leaning slightly, the place seemed to be calm, and she sighed at the guests who were looking at each other at the stone table, and said slowly: "It's my grandson Ah Peng." A few years ago, he had just turned fifteen and was able to go out to sea with the villagers to fish. Unexpectedly, they were not long before they were taken captive by those people with high noses and sunken eyes. I thought I would never see Ah Peng again, but fortunately, with the blessing of the pot god, he actually came back, and I learned that he was arrested and sent to Manraka Island to mine. ”

Manraka is Malacca.

During the reign of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Empire, Zheng He went to the West and led a fleet to Manchuria, and after obtaining the permission of the local sultan, he set up an ocean-going supply station for the Ming Dynasty fleet in Manraka. Since then, the Manraka and the Ming Empire have established close relations, both in diplomacy and in private trade.

Liu Shimin, who is from the court, and Yan Siqi, who is familiar with maritime trade, are naturally no strangers to Manraka.

Zheng Haizhu is more sensitive to this name.

Malacca is located at the junction of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, choking the main trade route from Europe to East Asia through the Indian Ocean. At the beginning, Zheng He relied on the strong national power of the Ming Empire to sweep away all the pirate forces near Malacca, and even stationed troops in the port of Manraka for a time. Far from colonial aggression, it was to ensure the commercial order of this international seaport.

At that time, the Ming Empire should take advantage of such a good situation to take the initiative to establish a maritime trade order from Guangyue to Champong, Siam, and then to the Malacca Islands.

However, after Yongle, the Ming Empire had no interest in participating in maritime trade along the Indian Ocean as a state, except for accepting routine tributes from the countries of the South Seas.

Finally, a hundred years later, the Portuguese took Malacca.

The colonists from the west not only robbed the rich resources of the Nanyang Islands, not only collected heavy taxes from the fleets of ships, including the Daming maritime merchants, but also oppressed and even slaughtered Chinese merchants who had already come to Malacca to do business.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu saw that Grandma Wen did not mean to hide suffering, so she asked inquiringly: "Ah Peng screamed like this, was he injured or frightened?" ”

"Both. When he went home, there was no good place on his body, and he often bumped into his head with his head, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit. I thought about it again today. My daughter and son-in-law left early, and Ah Peng was brought up by his sister since he was a child, so Ah Kun went to appease him. ”

Yan Siqi said with an angry face: "Grandma, the robbers with high noses and concave eyes you are talking about, we Ming people call them Frankies." Among us maritime merchants, we have long heard that they have abducted people in Macao to go to the Nanyang Islands to work as coolies, mine, grow sugarcane, build roads and build ships, but we did not expect that they would have stretched their claws here and directly plundered Dingkou. ”

At this point, Wen Ah Kun returned with a young woman of the same age.

The woman was slender, but her belly was bulging and she was obviously pregnant.

When they got closer, the three outsiders saw clearly that although the woman was also black-haired, the contours of her facial features were neither like Han Chinese nor Siraya.

Zheng Haizhu felt at a glance that it was a mixed face of yellow and white race.

Sure enough, as soon as the woman opened her mouth and said a few words to Grandma Wen, Yan Siqi, who has been in Japan for many years and knows Portuguese, asked her a question in Portuguese with a surprised look.

The woman was stunned for a moment, looked at Yan Siqi in a daze, and didn't know how to respond for a while.

Grandma Wen clasped her palms together and said, "It turns out that Lang Jun can speak her hometown. ”

Yan Siqi was a little embarrassed and said, "Well, what she said is Frankie." ”

Grandma Wen nodded understandingly: "Yes, I know, as soon as my grandson came back, she told me that she was born to the Manraka people, and the Franky people you said, and worked as a maid for the mine owner's family." She fell in love with Ah Peng and followed him, and the two children escaped from the mine and hid in a merchant ship to escape from Manraka. If it weren't for the fact that this girl would have spoken Franky and asked the ship that came to Ben Harbor, how could Ah Peng come back? ”

Bengang is a port in the north of Taiwan Island, and at this time, there are indeed ships from various countries berthing to replenish the water and trade goods.

"She's a brave and affectionate good child, and it doesn't matter if she speaks Franky," Grandma Wen patted the back of the mixed-race woman's hand, asked her to sit down, and pointed at Yan Siqi and said, "Child, you can talk to this Langjun, Grandma still can't understand your words for a while." ”

The woman wiped her tears and glanced at Yan Siqi, but she was a little cramped.

Yan Siqi asked her a few words about Ah Peng's experience in Manraka, which sounded like Coptis chinensis, and she felt sad, and she didn't want to translate it to Grandma Wen, so she only sighed heavily and said, "Fortunately, Ah Peng is going home." ”

Then he said to the woman in Portuguese, "Your husband's house is your house." Look at his family, how much he likes you. ”

The woman nodded frequently and took the initiative to pour tea for the guests.

In front of the humble stone table, in the rich aroma of wild tea, Chinese, Portuguese, and Siraya dialects sounded alternately, and I didn't feel weird for a while.

After taking a sip of tea, Grandma Wen said to Liu Shimin: "Lang Jun, is your ship passing through here to return to Daming, or is it going to Bengang to do business?" ”

Liu Shimin looked at Zheng Haizhu meaningfully, and then looked at Yan Siqi.

Grandma Wen's eyes were like torches, and she immediately followed: "Oh, if there is anything that should not be said, the old body will not ask." People from the old country come to meet each other is fate. You will recuperate in the village for a few days, and if you want to repair the boat, the sons and daughters of the village can also help. ”

……

At night, Zheng Haizhu was arranged to live with Wen Akun.

This young indigenous woman, who gave orders to the villagers during the day, socialized with outsiders, behaved in a majestic or calm manner, and was quite like a grandmother, and was obviously ready to succeed the next tribal chiefess.

But back in his hut, Ah Kun finally recovered a little of the relaxed attitude of his little daughter, and felt that Zheng Haizhu was kind and kind, so he smiled and led her to a simple wooden frame to watch her treasures.

First, an elegant wooden box was opened, and a few wisps of herbal qi immediately wafted out.

But it's not a medicine box, it's a book box.

Kun took out the book and spread it out on the lid of the box.

Zheng Haizhu took advantage of the faint animal oil lamp, and when he looked closely, he couldn't help but feel excited.

Those books are the "Four Books" of the Confucian classics, and a copy of the "Zhuangzi" annotated by the Jin people, which must have been brought by the remnants of the Song dynasty who crossed the sea from the Wen family.

Although the books show signs of wear and tear, the overall quality is still there, which shows how carefully they have been preserved by generations of owners.

Ah Kun saw the surprise in Zheng Haizhu's eyes, but his hand shrunk and didn't dare to move, so he took the initiative to open "Zhuangzi", pointed to the word "Kun" in "Getaway" and said: "Grandma, name, I, big fish." ”

Then he handed the book over.

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly moved the animal oil lamp farther away, and then held the book with awe, sat on the dirt floor in the room, and carefully put the book on his lap.

The words are big and pleasing to the eye, the line is broad, more like calligraphy works than the Ming carved books that can be seen everywhere nowadays, but the page design has a clear and lonely atmosphere, it should be the Song carved book.

It is the Ming Empire in this world, and it is also a Song carved book with one or two golden pages.

But these books in front of me are only limited to the word "valuable".

Dynasties change, rivers change hands, but the inheritance of civilization cannot be broken.

Even if the sea is turbulent, it cannot be separated or stopped.

Zheng Haizhu gently stroked the hard book ridge, and was stunned for a while, and sighed for a while.

A modern person sitting on an island in the Ming Dynasty was so much so that he shed tears for this book of the Song Dynasty.

She hurriedly wiped her eyes with her sleeve, changed her thoughtful look, pointed to the "Peng" in "Getaway", and asked Ah Kun: "Brother?" ”

Kun nodded happily, leaned over to stare at it, pointed to the word "cloud", and crossed his hands on his abdomen to hold the ball.

Zheng Haizhu instantly understood that this aunt wanted to give her future nephew or niece a Han family name.

Seeing Zheng Haizhu smiling and agreeing, Ah Kun was even more interested, and got up to take down a jar from the top layer of the wooden frame.

Zheng Haizhu took it and saw that it was a gray tin can, with a bare appearance and a full shape, and the lid was even carved like a bamboo wither.

Kun's eyes were shining, and he didn't know if he was reflected by the lights or slightly teary.

She patted the jar and said, word by word: "Peng, back." ”

As he spoke, he made a gesture of worshipping the tin can.

Zheng Haizhu understood that this was brought back by her younger brother from Malacca to her sister.

During the day, Grandma Wen said that the Siraya people believe that the gods who protect living beings live in pots, so the people will feel very auspicious when they see pot-shaped items. This is also why when Zheng Haizhu sent the Dehua white porcelain teapot, the warrior in the tribe would immediately eliminate most of the hostility.

Similarly, Ah Peng, who has a deep love for his sister and brother, did not forget to bring this exquisite tin pot with him when he fled from Malacca.

Zheng Haizhu rubbed the tin pot thoughtfully.

Modern time-travelers who do not have a system for the author come to this parallel time and space, and most of the time they can only desperately recall the knowledge accumulated in their previous lives as if they were beaten with chicken blood.

In the late Ming Dynasty, when the whole people had not yet opened their eyes to the world, the illiteracy rate was still very high, and the transmission of information was not smooth, anyone who did business could know the world pattern after the great geographical discoveries, and the military strength and commercial needs of foreign countries in the next ten or twenty years, it could be regarded as a gold-plated finger.

Zheng Haizhu then said softly to Ah Kun: "Tomorrow, take me to see your wild tea, okay?" ”

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