Volume 1 Rise to the Rivers Chapter 1 This is piracy
"Ahem! Cough! Cough! Lapel mother! Who steals..."
A young man of about twenty years old, with dark skin and big ears, jumped up from the ground, and his whole body looked extremely strong, and he cursed with a swear in his mouth. I don't know which thing lacks morality, stole the manhole cover, and I almost fell crippled this time!
Random and didn't feel right, looking around, when he saw that there were more than 100 people crowded in the dim cabin, there was a burst of stench from the end of his nose, his breath was suffocated, and he looked at him in a daze, looking like a ghost!
"Righteous boy! You're awake! At this time, a strong young man stood next to him, he was a little shorter, and his face was loyal. At this moment, his face was full of surprise, and he grabbed the boy.
"Full?" Chen Zuyi involuntarily called out this person's name, it was his brother in the same village, Chen Manchu. Then a wave of Mo Sheng's familiar memories came to his mind like a flood.
In the seventh year of Hongwu, he was born in a small fishing village called Hailangtou in Chaozhou Prefecture. Because the Ming Dynasty continued to promulgate the ban on the sea, until this year is also the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, the park in 1394, fishermen are not allowed to enter the sea and order, completely cut off their livelihood.
In order not to starve to death, the fishermen played mouse and cat tricks with the officers and soldiers of the Daming Coastal Defense Station. Always secretly went out to sea to fish at night, and at first it was peaceful, but after a long time, it showed its feet. The officers and men of the coastal defense do not show any affection, and to catch the Diao people who dare to go to the sea is to cut off their heads. Chen Zuyi and Chen Mancang's parents were killed by the official army at this time.
When both of them were teenagers and impulsive, they were ruthless, touched a hundred households, and prepared to kill one or two lone officers and soldiers to vent their anger. Count their luck, they actually chopped up one of the trial hundred households and two drunk general flags inside!
Because of the first killing, the two were very nervous, and they didn't carefully search for anyone else in the guard, so they took a dozen taels of silver from the three killed people and ran away.
This can be regarded as a hornet's nest, and the Chaoshan Mansion and the Haiphong Thousand Households Office dispatched all the horses to search, vowing to break the two into pieces! The two had no choice but to spend money to catch the smuggler who smuggled into the South Seas and get on the boat to the South Seas. They don't know exactly where they want to go to the South Seas, but the ship will always go to the South Seas anyway.
His name in this life is still Chen Zuyi, and his name has not changed, but he always feels weird. Daming Hongwu plus Chen Zuyi, he is still a person from Chaozhou Mansion, this TMD won't be the future pirate king, right?!
If you want to say that he is a modern blind stream, how do you know that Daming Hongwu has a guy with the same name and surname who became a pirate king. It's fantastical, people like him never read novels. But once I saw a push on my mobile phone, a documentary novel called "Daming Pirates", and the protagonist in it is called Chen Zuyi. He also used to envy for a while, and he dreamed of being this kind of hero!
"Haha~ Twenty-seven years of Hongwu! Lao Tzu's name is Chen Zuyi? ”
"Hmmm! That's right! Yi Zai, what's wrong with you? ”
The honest Chen Mancang looked at the clan brother in front of him with some worry, wasn't he suffocated? They had been in the ship for four days, drinking only a little water a day and eating the dry rations they had brought with them. and pee are all solved here, there are more than 200 people in a cabin, and the smell in the cabin is really unpleasant. Fortunately, someone cleans these dung buckets and urine buckets every day, so that the feces and urine will not flow sideways!
Chen Zuyi fainted under such circumstances, and Chen Mancang couldn't wake him up no matter what. If he hadn't tried his best to protect them, these black-hearted sailors would have thrown people into the sea long ago. Unexpectedly, after a day and a night, this kid came back to life!
"What can Lao Tzu do?! Very good! In the future, I will eat fragrant and drink spicy with my brother! Chen Zuyi slapped his chest with a bang, looking like Lao Tzu was the best in the world.
"You know, I can't eat spicy..."Chen Mancang said with a twisted expression.
Chen Zuyi maintained the action of patting his chest, turned his head mechanically, and looked at this product in surprise, judging whether he got it on purpose or on purpose?
Chen Zuyi suddenly felt bored, like a deflated ball, slumped on the thick cabin, feeling the waves lift the boat up and down again. With the sound and shaking of the waves, Chen Zuyi finally fell asleep and fell asleep with his honest cousin.
I don't know how long it took, a frightened scream woke up the sleeping Chen Zuyi and Chen Manchu, look at the sunlight coming in through the hatch, the sky has been bright, it should be about three o'clock in the morning (8:40 in the morning).
"Hurry up and hoist the sails! Pirates, it's the Black Shark Pirates! Get off the oar! Fast! The ship's boss hissed and roared, his voice filled with fear and anxiety. Due to the rough wind and waves last night, the boat boss asked the man to lower the sails.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! A group of people shouted trumpets and hurriedly hoisted the mainsail little by little.
"Turn the rudder to the southeast! Fast! ”
The ship's boss was still roaring, his voice had changed tone. The mainsail had been raised, and the thick oars had reached out from both sides of the stern, with a total of eight oars, slowly beginning to row. All of a sudden, the speed of the ship increased. The sailors were still busy hoisting two undersails.
It seems that he can pass through several large ships of the pirates, but the other party has lowered many clippers from the large ships. A boat of about ten people, with knives and guns, quickly took over the big ship. When they got closer, the captain of the boat was shocked to find that the other party was still carrying a bow.
"Fire! Fire! Loose children! Blow him up a! ”
Their ships were equipped with several squatting artillery used by the Ming army to defend the city, and the firing range was only two or three hundred meters, and the accuracy at sea was also poor. This is still a vintage product bought at a large price from the Chaozhou Coastal Defense Office.
A few of the cannons were hit in the water, shooting up a cluster of water columns. Seeing more and more small boats on the other side approaching, it was like a dense ant smelling honey.
"Keep it up! Hurry up and scratch it for me! It's up to you whether you live or not! Ready to beat the bat! ”
The voice of the captain of the ship made everyone in the cabin frightened to hear.
After a while, the sound of "boom boom" was heard, which was the sound of bows and arrows from the other side piercing the ship's board, mixed with the screams of sailors, and the sound of slapping rods overturning small sampans and pirates falling overboard. After a little more tea, the "boom" sound became denser, and the screams on the deck became less and less.
"The pirates are coming! I'm going to have to fight with his mother! ”
This voice is no longer the boss of the ship. Then came the sound of weapons clashing, roaring, screaming before death. These guys are also tough, not a single one of them ran to the cabin to hide, and they all resisted desperately on the deck.
After a meal, there was no sound of fighting, only a strange shouting in a strange tone. Then a burly figure appeared at the mouth of the ladder in the cabin, apparently he had not yet adapted to the darkness in the cabin, standing on the ladder without moving, his hands kept fanning his nose, and he said to himself: "What a fucking smell!" Is this a cabin of manure? ”
When he cleared the situation in the cabin, he was startled, and hurriedly climbed onto the deck, shouting, "Come out for Lao Tzu!" Otherwise, a fire will burn you! ”
When the other pirates heard this, they immediately gathered around the hatch, and it took a while for you to ask about the situation in the cabin. One of the old pirates said:
"Oh, I said these guys are so fierce, it's a smuggling boat!"
"These are called human stones, ballast, and are a means for those guys to make extra money. This bilge should be a person who goes to Nanyang to beg for a living, there is no threat! ”
Then the pirate who came down first shouted to the cabin, "Bah! The cabin, let grandpa come out, if you don't come out, we're welcome! ”
"Ladies and gentlemen, spare your lives, this is out, this is out!" An old man's voice sounded in the cabin, "Everyone go up, whether you live or die today depends on the number of people's lives!" Alas! After saying that, he climbed up the stairs first.
By the time everyone had climbed onto the deck, there were about two hundred people in total.
"There are quite a few people!" The pirate who spoke was a bearded Han man, "I said everyone, you have also seen, we are just doing business at sea, let's take out something valuable!" Otherwise..."
Many people were trembling in the crowd, and no one was moving.
"Hey~hey~ It seems that you can only do it yourself!" The bearded man sneered, drew the long knife at his waist, and pointed at one of them, about to speak.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Wait! Chen Zuyi ran out of the crowd with a smile and said with a flattering face: "How can you work all the heroes!" I'll help you complete this kind of chores! ”
Chen Zuyi turned his head, changed his face, all the flattering smiles just now disappeared, and shouted to everyone with a cold face: "Now start handing over your belongings, and if you don't accept it, throw it into the sea!" ”
After speaking, he didn't forget to turn around and didn't speak not far away, a pirate who looked like a leader smiled flatteringly, and with his eyesight, he could see at a glance which leader it was. The pirates looked at the guy who had suddenly escaped with disdain, and they hated being spineless.
"Good! It's up to you to collect it! You help this fight! After the leader finished speaking, he went to the second floor cabin to look at the cargo.
The fierce bearded man spat on the ground, turned and followed the leader into the cabin.
Chen Zuyi bent down to see the leader away like a flattering man, called out Chen Mancang with a forced face, and the two of them pulled out one by one to search their bodies. Amid the curses, even the silver they had hidden in their crotches was found.
"Yizai, this is not good! There will be retribution. Chen Mancang whispered to Chen Zuyi.
"Humph! It's better than dying! Just listen to me! ”
Finally, when the leader came out of the second cabin, Chen Zuyi said respectfully, "Boss, all the belongings have been searched!" ”
"Well, it's pretty neat!" The leader stroked his messy beard, "Ask if there is anyone who is willing to do business with the masters, and if there is, stand aside and pick out all the big girls and little daughters-in-law to stand on the other side." ”
Chen Zuyi's heart tightened when he heard this, and he had a bad premonition. Still with a smile on his face, he turned to the man, withdrew his throat and shouted, "You all hear clearly! Taijun... Oh, the big boss said, if you want to take refuge in us, stand on the right, and the eldest daughter-in-law and the little girl will stand on the left. ”
Seeing that no one was moving at the scene, Chen Zuyi slowed down his voice and said:
"Everyone goes to Nanyang to beg for food, as long as there is something to eat, where is not to do it? Do you think that's the case? ”
This sentence hit the nail on the head, many people here have sold everything in their homes and want to rush to Nanyang to make a living. And being a pirate is a living! So a few young students stood in the disdainful eyes of everyone, and never dared to look up at everyone.
After several more persuasions, twenty-five people came out one after another, but no one moved. Chen Zuyi pointed to these people who came out and ordered:
"Go and pull out the little lady and the big girl. Too small and old don't! ”
The pirate leader looked at Chen Zuyi's actions and didn't make a sound, his eyes flashed with approval. The robbers around who were guarding these people with weapons saw that the boss was silent, and they didn't move, smiling and laughing at the jokes, but looking at him with more and more disdain.
The dozen or so young men who stood up just looked at each other, but none of them moved.
"Flutter Collar Mother! Stunned to do what! Don't think about building a torii if you're a! If you don't want to do it, throw yourself into the sea! ”
The young men looked at each other, and two of them walked forward with the angry and disdainful gazes of the crowd, and forcibly pulled out a little daughter-in-law in the crowd. As soon as the rest of the people saw that someone had done it, they rushed into the crowd and kept pulling out one woman after another.
When someone resisted, a pirate on the side immediately slashed a man to death on the deck, and after five or six of them had been hacked to death, the people had no desire to resist. Just looked at Chen Zuyi, their eyes became more and more hateful.
Chen Zuyi looked at the corners of his eyes, TMD, these killers, are really the masters who kill people without blinking. I think back then, when Lao Tzu was in the rivers and lakes, he had never encountered such a ferocious one! Be careful in the future! Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that his cousin was about to step forward, and immediately grabbed this scourge, for fear of being chopped up by someone else!