Huang Ji'an had already grabbed him, and then pulled out a dagger from his arms and pointed it at him. "Today you know our secret. You don't have a choice. Either send us to the island or let us do you. The choice is yours! ”

When the fisherman heard this, his face was as dead as ashes. "Spare your lives, great kings! There is also a high hall mother in the villain's house, please let the villain have a way to live. ”

Huang Ji'an wanted to intimidate him, and Yu Ren waved his hand. "I ask you, why don't you want to send us to the island?"

The fisherman glanced at Yu Ren and saw that he didn't look like a vicious person, so he said tremblingly, "I heard that the people on that island all have blue-faced fangs, and they don't blink when they kill people. It is said that they sometimes eat people. ”

Yu Ren laughed, "You're talking about monsters, not people." We are all frequent visitors to the island, do you see our green fangs? ”

The fisherman looked at the crowd carefully, and then shook his head uncertainly.

Yu Ren stood up, walked up to the fisherman, and patted him lightly on the shoulder. "Don't worry! In fact, most of the people on our island were fishermen in their ancestors, but later they started a business, bought some goods, and sold them overseas. Because he could not bear the exploitation of the shipping department and the tax supervisors and eunuchs, he fled to the island, and everyone gathered in one place, and there was a lot of strength, so he was not afraid that they would come to make things difficult.

So, you can rest assured. We are all business people, how can we kill people casually! The most important thing for businessmen is to be harmonious and make money! ”

After speaking, Yu Ren moved the ten taels of silver forward. "I see that little brother, you are the same age as us. Are you married? ”

The fisherman looked at the silver, then at Yu Ren, and shook his head.

Yu Ren took out a piece of silver of ten taels from his sleeve and put it on the table. "In this case, it is time to take this opportunity to earn a few taels of silver, and then go home and marry a good family.

As the saying goes, wealth and danger are sought. Does the little brother want to put the little rich man who is sent to the door in front of him? ”

The fisherman listened to Yu Ren's words, and he was really a little moved. But he seemed to have something to worry about.

Yu Ren saw through his mind at a glance. "Rest assured. We're all businessmen, and we don't kill people casually. To you, these twenty taels of silver are not a small amount, but in our opinion, they are only a drop in the bucket. ”

The fisherman was completely relieved when he arrived.

So, several people got off the boat, because the fisherman's boat was small and could only carry four people, so Yu Ren only took Huang Ji'an and Shi Bin with him. A few others came with him, and Yu Ren asked them to temporarily find a place to settle in Shaoxing City, ready to stand by at any time. And Uncle Zheng also accompanied them, pretending to collect silk in Shaoxing.

Yu Ren and the others followed the fisherman into the boat, and soon rowed from the canal into a tributary. In order not to attract attention, all three of them hid in the cabin for the time being. Cover it with a fishing net or something. However, although it was hidden under the net, Yu Ren was still unusually careful.

He asked the fisherman to row the boat to their village first, and under the pretext of going to their house to get a few clothes to change, and by the way to find out whether what the fisherman said was true.

When I arrived in the village, I saw the fisherman's mother, who was in her fifties, drying fish at the door.

Huang Ji'an excused himself to not go to the island for the time being, and then found someone in the village to spend the night. Yu Ren naturally understood what he meant, he was worried that the fisherman would carry them into the sea and use some means. After all, some of them will be hidden in the nets, and they will not see the light. It's not hard for this fisherman to try to make trouble. Therefore, Huang Ji'an pretended to stay unwell, which is actually equivalent to telling the fisherman: Don't do anything crooked, your wife can be in my hands!

The fisherman was not stupid, and when he heard that Huang Ji'an was going to stay, his face was ugly, but he did not object, but silently accepted the result.

Yu Ren and Shi Bin got on the boat with confidence.

Small fishing boats turn east and west in the criss-crossed Shaoxing waterway, and finally go to sea. Don't say it, this fisherman is really a local, and from the beginning to the end, they have not encountered a single imperial warship.

However, as soon as he went out to sea, the fisherman turned into another inland river and hid his boat in a reed.

Yu Ren was secretly strange. "Brother Lu, why don't you leave?"

"There are often warships patrolling back and forth in this area. If we go out at this time, it will be easy to run into them. The government has already issued an order that the sea is forbidden during this period, and no ships are allowed to go out to sea, otherwise they will all be regarded as pirates and will not be killed. The fisherman whispered.

"So, when are we leaving?" Yu Ren asked.

"Wait! When it gets dark, the ships will usually go back, and we'll go out again. When we go to sea at night, as long as we don't light the lights, even if we encounter the warships of the officers and soldiers, they will not be discovered. ”

Although Yu Ren was anxious, he wanted to rush to Daqu Island immediately and tell Li Ying the movements of the officers and soldiers. But there was no way but to wait.

It's easy to get into the dark. The fisherman carefully rowed the boat out of the reeds. They also did not dare to light the lamp. Fortunately, the fisherman was very familiar with the waters in this area, and although there was no light, he could still find the direction.

The boat went forward for most of the night, and the fisherman lit the lamp. A small island appears ahead. Yu Ren thought he had arrived at the place, and was happily preparing to get off the boat. But the fisherman stopped him.

"Don't worry. It's just a small reef. We have already passed through the blockade line of officers and soldiers, and we should not encounter warships again. Let's rest here for a while, and then set off until dawn, which is much safer. Boats at night tend to run into reefs. ”

Yu Ren did not object. So he waited on the little island and reef until dawn, and then the fisherman moved his boat forward again. By near noon, the boat had finally landed on Daqushan Island.

Originally, Yu Ren thought that Daqushan Island must be heavily defended at this time, but he didn't expect that they kept sailing the boat into the harbor, but no one stopped them. What made Yu Ren even more puzzled was that there was not a single boat in the harbor.

Yu Ren was a little anxious. "Could it be that the officers and soldiers have already surrounded and suppressed?"

Shi Bin shook his head on the side. "No, it won't. If the officers and soldiers had come, there would have been traces of shelling. Looking at it like this, it shouldn't be. ”

When Yu Ren heard this, he was a little relieved.

Because the two didn't find Li Ying for the time being, they didn't dare to let the fisherman go, so they pulled him along with them. The three of them searched around the island, but they never saw a single figure. The houses that Yu Ren had been to were all empty, and even the things inside had basically been moved.

Yu Ren was even more confused, looking at this look, Li Ying obviously gave up the island.

However, with the five or six thousand people currently assembled by the imperial court in Zhejiang, it is unlikely that they want to attack the island. You must know that if Li Ying gathers all her warships and merchant ships in Zhejiang and Fujian, there will be more than 200 of them. There were no less than five thousand. With all the advantages of geography, people, and people, it is not difficult for Li Ying to win this battle. How could she so easily abandon the island she had carefully managed for five or six years?

Yu Ren couldn't figure it out, but the facts were in front of him, and he didn't believe it.

After looking for a long time in the gathering place of the Li family, there was no one to see. Yu Ren had no choice but to go north again, and came to several aboriginal places on the north side of the island. There are several villages scattered here, and all the villages are inhabited by fishermen. Yu Ren found a few people and asked where the people from the Li family in the south of the island had gone.

None of these fishermen know. It's just that I've been gone for a while. About half a month ago, they all moved out suddenly. As for where to move, no one dared to ask.

Yu Ren knew that although these fishermen occasionally had some contact with the Li family in the south of the island, it was limited to selling some seafood to them. And sometimes, Li Ying will send people to help the poor among them. In the final analysis, the people on both sides can actually be said to live in two completely different worlds, and they naturally don't know the whereabouts of these Li families in the south of the island.

After searching for a long time and not knowing the essentials, Yu Ren decided to go to Chen Qianshan to have a second look. It was the closest one among the other Li family's strongholds. Moreover, this island was brought down by him a few months ago, so it is also the most familiar to him.

The fishing boat sailed until dark, and then it reached Chen Qian Mountain.