After Sha Lao Liu left, in addition to King Qi's family, Xu Shishi also had twenty people in his hands.

He left thirteen men behind to guard the four hundred ships.

They were also required to line up four shifts every night, every two for an hour, in case someone attacked and robbed the ship.

When on duty at night, one person is the bright shift and the other is the secret sentry, and the position must be changed frequently.

He took Lao Xu Tou, Li Chonghou, and two fellow villagers, plus two Ming soldiers, a total of seven people to escort the family of King Qi, and at the same time took away two dogs, leaving one behind.

Each dog on the boat was named, and they were named Wangcai and Datou after Xu Shishi.

Because the person who leads Wangcai is called Li Wangcai, and the person who leads the big head is called Lu Dashan.

Lu Dashan is very big, and everyone calls him nicknamed Datou.

The big head was born in the Guangdong Health Institute, and he followed Li Yuan to surrender to Zhu Gaoxu very early.

According to him, the use of dogs in places such as Dayuan and Jiaozhi was still thought up by His Majesty.

Xu Shishi didn't understand what the use of this dog was at first, but later found that it was really useful, especially in an unfamiliar place.

"Wangwang"

Wangcai and Datou are two male dogs, which will run happily in front.

Li Wangcai and Lu Dashan talked while walking, looking up at the two dogs from time to time, and whenever they saw that the two dogs were about to run away, they would bark, and the two dogs would immediately run back.

In July, it was relatively hot in the west of Tai O, and Xu Shishi was sweating profusely.

They went east from where the ship docked, and all of them brought food and supplies for five days, and Xu Shishi's plan was to walk in one direction for two days, and if they couldn't find it, they would return the same way, and then take the food and go in other directions.

The amount of food he could consume on land was a month, so he was not destined to go far.

They still had a good view of the sea, but when they walked inside, they found that a large number of jungles and hills began to appear in front of them.

Xu Shi kept marking on the road.

The road he took should be the path where Zhu Di and them migrated, because things thrown by the Ming army could be seen from time to time on the road.

After walking and stopping for about two hours that morning, I came to a large forest.

Xu Shishi saw that everyone was sweating profusely, and hurriedly ordered to go to the forest to replenish water and eat and rest.

At noon at this time, the sun was particularly strong, and several sailors and they were all in the subtropics all year round, and they couldn't stand it.

And the Qi Wang family who came from Jingshi couldn't stand it even more.

The wife of Zhu Xianxuan, the eldest son of King Qi, vomited as soon as she entered the woods, and Xu Shishi hurriedly asked her to replenish more water and asked Lu Dashan to hand over some incense powder.

This is a spice unique to the Old Port, and when applied to the temples, it has a relieving effect on the symptoms caused by the heat.

But Zhu Xianhong's wife was in a very bad state, and she still lay down and refused to get up after drinking water, her face was pale and ugly.

After a while, three or four Ming soldiers surrounded him, all staring at Zhu Xianxuan's woman.

The princess of King Qi looks good, and she is not very old, because she sweats in the hot weather, her gauze skirt is tightly attached to her body, revealing the delicate curves of her body.

"Mother's." Xu Shishi scolded secretly, thinking that he should find Zhu Di as soon as possible, otherwise something might happen.

It's only the first day.

After the rest, a concubine of the fourth son, Zhu Xianjiong, and the same young beautiful woman shouted that she refused to leave, saying that she was tired and hot, and it was better to wait until the early hours of tomorrow morning, when the weather was cooler.

King Qi and his entourage all said yes.

Xu Shishi's face was gloomy: "There are a lot of beasts here, as well as wolves, if you can't find a suitable place before dark, you will be attacked, and then we won't be able to take care of you." ”

When the Qi Wang family heard this, they could only stubbornly continue to move forward.

They decided to cross the jungle because it was sheltered from the sun, it was more shaded, and pools of water were often encountered in the forest.

The forest was quite large, and the group walked for another hour before they came out of the jungle.

A creek was in front of you.

Everyone sat down by the stream to rest again, and Xu Shiling refilled the fresh water.

The opposite side of the creek looks like a hill, and the terrain is undulating.

Xu Shishi subconsciously thought that Zhu Di would not build a city in such a place, and he still had to continue to look east.

"Xu Baihu." That's when someone called him.

Xu Shishi walked over and found that it was Li Chonghou on a fruit tree he didn't recognize.

There were some finger-sized fruits on it.

Li Chonghou seemed to climb up on the shoulders of the old Xu head, and when Xu Shi walked over, he happened to pick a fruit and stuff it into his mouth.

"Beware of poison." Before Xu Shishi finished speaking, Li Chonghou had already bitten down.

"Hiss" his face quickly changed: "It's so sour-—— it's delicious-—— it's delicious-"

He first said that it was sour and then delicious, and then picked several in a row, swished, and threw it to Xu Shishi.

Xu Shishi picked two from the ground, but he didn't dare to eat them.

Others came one after another, and some picked them up and ate them.

"Wait, wait, eat." Xu Shi was afraid of poison and asked everyone to wait.

But there are still a few children in King Qi's family, basically all of them are seven or eight years old and above, and two of the children are cold in their mouths, and then they vomit out sourly, and there is a burst of laughter all around.

Xu Shi waited for half an hour, and felt that no one looked like he was poisoned, so he dared to eat it.

When you bite into it, you will feel a sour taste at first, and then you can feel a faint sweetness.

"It's not ripe yet." Xu Shishi said immediately.

Most of the fruit was green, but in a few places it was already yellow.

Xu Shi thinks that it is not ripe yet, so it is very sour.

He certainly didn't know that this was the endemic fruit of Tai O, the finger orange (finger lemon), which was later known as the caviar of fruits, which was not only an excellent tonic for pregnant women, but also a valuable medicine commonly used by the indigenous people of Tai O, who used it as an antibacterial agent to treat sores.

found that this thing could be eaten, although it was raw, but it tasted good, and the Ming army and the family of King Qi began to pick it.

Li Wangcai also found a large area dozens of steps away, and the fruit trees were backed by a pond, and there were more than 100 trees densely scattered nearby.

The Ming army and the family members of the king of Qi rushed away and picked them one after another.

Most of the fruit trees are relatively low, some are taller, and the tall fruit trees usually mature earlier.

Li Chonghou picked half of the yellow one for Xu Shishi, and it tasted a lot sweeter.

"It's a good place, if there is so much fruit along the way, you don't need to bring so much food supplies." Lu Dashan was squatting on a tree at this time, and said excitedly to Xu Shi under the tree.

Xu Shishi nodded, but he didn't dare to guarantee that he would encounter fruits in every direction, so he could only say: "It still depends on luck, it seems that we are lucky." ”

"Hahaha." There was laughter all around.

The crowd was laughing, suddenly.

"Wangwang"

"Wangwang"

Wangcai and Datou barked wildly.

Before Xu Shishi could react, Li Wangcai's face changed greatly: "Be careful, someone may be coming." ”

"Come here, come here." Xu Shi hurriedly summoned the family of King Qi.

The family of the king of Qi, including women and children, was scattered everywhere.

The other sergeants gathered on Xu Shishi's side.

Li Wangcai had just jumped off a tree.

Boom, an arrow flew from the east and landed on the tree.

Buzzing, the arrow trembled a few times, and Xu Shishi and they looked at it, and it was actually the arrow of the Ming army.

"Is it a subordinate of King Yan?" Xu Shishi thought about it, so he had to shout King Yan, in fact, the title of King Yan had been deprived by Zhu Gaoxu, and there was no new seal, so he could only be called King Yan.

But in response, whoosh, another arrow flew over.

Flutter, in the middle of a woman from the family of King Qi.

"Ah," the woman screamed, and fell to the ground.

Grass, the seven Ming soldiers on the scene scolded.

This will Xu Shiqin Chu see the direction of the arrow and quickly turn around.

"Wangwang," Wangcai shouted.

"Over there." Old Xu pointed in one direction and shouted.

Whoosh, there was a dense sound of footsteps ahead, and after a while, a large wave of people appeared in front of them.

"Mother's." Xu Shi was dumbfounded.

The people who came were all black, with almost no clothes on their bodies, all wrapped in wide leaves or animal skins, and the few who had clothes were all clothes dropped by the Ming army.

Many people wear collars made of bone around their necks, not indigenous people.

There were about 100 natives in number, frantically gathering from all directions and rushing towards them.

One of the natives had a Ming bow in his hand, which was supposed to have been taken by them.

Most of the natives did not have iron weapons in their hands, either wood or bone.

Seeing them, the natives looked fierce, and waved their hands vigorously with bows, and the natives shouted even more happily.

"Woo woo woo" rushed madly from east to west.

"Meet the enemy." Xu Shi shouted, Zheng, and pulled out the long knife from the ground.

Lao Xu Tou and Li Chonghou came to him at the same time, one with a crossbow and the other with a bow.

"Kill the one with the bow first." Xu Shi shouted with a knife.

Although there were only seven people on the Ming army's side, there were two bows and two crossbows.

All four men raised their bows and crossbows almost simultaneously.

The leader of the natives who had the bow on the other side also raised his bow.

"Crash."

The two sides fired at each other almost simultaneously.

Xu Shishi was using his spare eyes to see if the Qi Wang family had run over, but he didn't expect it to suddenly be dark in front of him.

Holding the grass, he screamed in his heart, pounced, and made a soft sound, and he clearly felt a tremor in his chest.

An arrow shot him in the chest.

He was half frightened to death, and then he noticed that the arrow was falling limply downward.

Because the distance was relatively close, the opponent shot an arrow into his armor, but it was not transparent.

The native was obviously not good at archery, and he didn't use his strength to the strongest.

Xu Shishi secretly screamed that he was lucky, and when he looked up again, the opposite side was also screaming.

The Ming army shot two arrows at the native man with the bow, and the native immediately fell to the ground.

The rest of the natives were even more angry and accelerated forward.

At this time, some of the family members of King Qi were far away from Xu Shishi.

The two beautiful women were crying and running this way, and the two natives rushed over, picked them up, turned around and ran.

More natives continued to rush forward.

At this time, Xu Shishi estimated that the person who had just taken the bow was not the leader of the natives.

"Kill." He did not hesitate to give the order.

Zheng, Zheng, Zheng, the Ming army's arrows and crossbows fired in unison.

There was a scream on the other side, and many people fell to the ground.

He rushed forward with a long knife, and was confronted by two natives with weapons in hand.

The weapon of a native was a wooden stick, the front of which was sharpened a little sharp, and he stabbed Xu Shi in the chest.

Another native was holding an axe made of stone, and when he was about to rush in front of Xu Shishi, he suddenly shook his hand.

Whoosh, the stone axe was thrown straight over.

Fortunately, Xu Shishi is experienced and knows that this trick is often used when the rebel army fights, so he hurriedly flashed to the right.

The stone axe grazed his shoulder, and it had little effect.

He swung his long knife and swooped, cutting down the native with the wooden spear to the ground.

Another native rushed forward, took out a bone hammer from his back, slammed it, and slammed it on his armor, unscathed.

Xu Shishi turned around and took half a step back, and cut the throat of the native with a clean knife.

(End of chapter)