fifteen

Ma He saw that Gulu Mei's face was displeased: "What are you talking about again?"

Gulu Mei finally couldn't stand the two Leng Touqing, and quickly caught Shimazu and his personal guard onto the first ship, then turned around and smiled at Ma He and beckoned. Ma He couldn't help but take two steps, she raised her handkerchief, and Ma He was stunned before she could say you. The Zhongshan princess sighed: "You don't look at how well-behaved the young master of the Shimazu family is, tell him to get on the boat, he will definitely not jump into the water." You're so disobedient, wouldn't it be much better to go to sleep?'

Li Jian saw from afar that the senior brother suddenly fell, and then was carried onto the boat and left, he couldn't help but get up and shout and rush over, Gulumei saw him in the moonlight, waved her hand and said that the little handsome brother is okay, I will play with your senior brother! Li Jian knew that there was an indescribable relationship between the princess and her senior brother, and he didn't know whether to draw his sword and rush to the boat to save people. Gulu Mei took a boat and slowly descended the river: "Worship the commander for me, saying that it is the horse and the hairpin that damaged the people's hairpin and deliberately did not pay compensation, I will take him back to Naha in the Ryukyu Kingdom to work as a long-term worker for ten years to pay off the debt!" Li Jian stood on the shore dumbfounded, and he didn't understand, and looked at Gulumei in embarrassment standing at the stern of the boat and waved away.

The water of the Siem Reap River is not turbulent, although the water surface is narrow, it is a pleasure to row in the night moonlight, after a while, the horse and Zai sat up in the boat, looked around, a dry black man is silently paddling, the surroundings are silent, only the same sound of wooden oars entering the water. The lazy voice of Gulu Mei behind her came: "I'm just waiting for how long you can pretend to be faint?" Ma He smiled bitterly and said, "It's inconvenient for me to confess this matter to my junior brother, thank you princess for cooperating in this play." Gulumei approached from behind and whispered in Ma He's ear, "Then how do you thank me?" The horse and his ears itched, and he sat up and replied, "But at the command of the princess." She grinned and said, "Then I'll have a hundred handcuffs and gunpowder." Ma He was taken aback and looked back: "This is a military heavy weapon, each of which has a casting number and a book control, how can you get it when you are idle, and what do you want to do?"

Gu Lu Mei put her hands on her forehead, and said lightly: "Zhongshan National Primary School is outnumbered, in case of an enemy attack, how to protect yourself? Even if the Ming Dynasty is willing to come to help, if I come back and forth, I Zhongshan will have been dead for a long time. With a team of 100 handcuffs and a thousand archers, who can sail a ship into Naha Harbor?' After speaking, he looked in the direction of Shimazu Hisatoyo, who was obediently staying in the previous boat. Ma He pondered for a while, coughed and said, "If the Buddha's head is successfully brought back to Beiping this time, the handcuff matter is not feasible at all." Gulu Mei was overjoyed and said softly, "People finally didn't misunderstand you, even if they were deceived by you, they were willing."

Saying that, Li Jian watched Gulu Mei stand on the bow of the boat, dancing happily like a flower with a smile, and the deer in his heart involuntarily jumped up, remembering the senior brother who had always been gentle and supportive to him, he couldn't help but slap his mouth twice, beat his chest calmly, and turned his head sharply and ran back to the south city gate, where the Zhenla people had become a mess. Li Jian saw that he couldn't help it, so he had to bypass the wall from a distance and go to the master for help. rushed all the way back to the prince's mansion, and the news had been transmitted back to Gonglie Zhaopingya, but this was a domestic affair of Zhenla, and the prince would not say much, and he had gone to deal with it on his own. Li Jian hurriedly went to Li Hongyuan to explain what he had seen, and wanted to skip the question of the senior brother's exclamation, but remembered that in the end, the senior brother was suddenly put down by Princess Zhongshan, and he still said it in 1510. Li Hongyuan looked at the second disciple who was still honest, his eyes darkened, and he taught casually: "The turmoil in the rivers and lakes is unpredictable, and the affairs in the court are even more sinister. After a pause, he sighed, "After all, what should come will come!" Then he hurriedly left a letter to Bi Jin, saying that the major matter here had been successfully resolved, and there were important matters that needed to be dealt with in the Shenying Gate, so he had to take his apprentice back to China first, and then he would meet again if he had the fate to meet again. Of course, Li Jian didn't dare to ask more, full of suspicions, and quietly left Angkor Thoong with his master and went to Champong.

The master and apprentice had no intention of the scenery on the road, and the Ryukyuan people seemed to be prepared, and if they also changed to sea ships in Buddha Village, they could intercept them locally with fast horses. When I arrived at the boat stop in the back river bay of Defo Village, there was no trace of it, and I hurriedly woke up the village chief and asked the guards at the entrance of the village, but I was at a loss. When I asked Ah Xian if he had returned to the village, there was no news. Li Hongyuan was rarely irritable and said what was going on when he went out this time, he accepted two apprentices and dropped two more, Li Jian didn't know how to comfort him, so he had to keep silent. The two asked for two horses to transfer along the road in Fo Village, and rushed to Xinzhou Port four days later.

Xinzhou Port is still lively and tight, and there are many people in costumes from all over the world, Li Hongyuan thought to himself that this Gulu sister should also go to Zhancheng to change ships and wait for the south wind to rise and return to the north. So he still asked Li Jian to contact Sheyang to help contact and inquire. But this Gulu sister and Ma He seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no trace for several months. Before the summer wind blows, the shipowners who stayed in the port of Xinzhou naturally tried to fill their boats as much as possible, and if there was still room for such a large Buddha statue on that ship, it would naturally not be hidden. On this day, a ship came down from the north, Li Jian stepped forward to inquire about the news, but he didn't want to meet the father and daughter of the Shi family, and the eldest sister Shi was as generous as she was, with a smile on her face. Li Jian was very happy to suddenly meet someone he knew in a strange country, so he took the initiative to invite the father and daughter of the Shi family to the old building where the master stayed with him to catch up. Last time, Li Hongyuan had to go to catch up with Zhu Yuanzhang's secret appointment, and he felt embarrassed that he couldn't entertain Shi Jinqing well, so he happily made the east that night and invited the Shi family's father and daughter to a night banquet. During the banquet, he talked about the fact that although he met Zheng Yi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, in Nanjing, the old port was not officially established as a country, and there was no national certificate, so he could not get the canonization at all and enter the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty. And Zheng Shangshu also said that the Great Tomorrow is big enough, and there is no intention to expand the territory in the East, not to mention that the more than 1,000 Chinese families in the old port left the Ming Dynasty for various reasons, and it is not easy to persuade everyone to agree to the annexation.

Li Hongyuan nodded and said, "The old emperor has no interest in doing business at sea and opening up new territories, and he has been exhausted in the past thirty years in running the great Ming Dynasty's two capitals and thirteen political envoys. Zheng Shangshu is not willing to discuss the old port, and it is not surprising." Shi Jinqing arched his hand and said, "Li Daxia's chivalrous reputation is far and wide, and I have heard a lot in the East and West. I don't dare to say that you can give advice to the thousands of people in my old port, but please mention a little more." Li Hongyuan excused himself and said, "It's just a cloth cloth below, so dare to casually point out the country and give advice?" Sister Shi said in a loud voice, "Dad, we thousands of people may not necessarily be dependent on Daming. In the past few decades, I have been doing business with past merchant ships, and my life has not survived. Chen Zuyi's gang of outlaws at sea also asked for money, and he went too far that day, so let's copy the guy and fight him." Shi Jinqing smiled bitterly and said, "You said it easily, this is all human life!" Li Hongyuan was surprised: "Chen Zuyi? Is this man still there?'

Li Hongyuan and Chen Zuyi did that period of the past, people who begged for a living in the ports of the East and West Oceans naturally heard about it, and the story was passed on later, of course, it was added to the vinegar, and it became that Jinshi abandoned his pen and drew his sword, and beat the sea thieves to kneel and beg for mercy. Shi Jinqing secretly said the name of Chen Zuyi, a thief, through the mouth of Sister Shi, to see if he could provoke Li Hongyuan to be willing to make another move, and even if it didn't work, he would be happy.

However, Li Hongyuan's desire to fight for fame and victory has long been very light, and now he is a figure in the rivers and lakes who travels between Jiangnan and overseas, and how to find the apprentices who inherit martial arts is still much more important, so he didn't answer Shi Jinqing's words at the moment. Following the re-export asked about the old port, which places are currently mostly doing business, Shi Jinqing was a little disappointed, and cheered up that it was mainly to trade with passing ship dealers, but after coming out and seeing it this time, it was still necessary to establish his own fleet and so on. Li Jian inquired if they had seen the Ryukyuan ship, and Sister Shi said that they had no contact with the Ryukyu merchants, and they had not particularly noticed it. Shi Jinqing asked about the situation, and then said after a long time: "If you can't find anyone in Xinzhou Port, and the Ryukyuan people won't sail against the wind, aren't you afraid that someone will chase you, so go south to that port to take refuge, and then return north next year?" Li Hongyuan patted his forehead, wanting to say why he didn't expect this trick. Busy asking if this is the case, the most likely will be that port, Shi Jinqing replied that this is difficult, the sea is vast, if the other party finds an island to hide, as long as the supplies are prepared, how can they find it? If it is certain that the Ryukyuan people will do it, although it is not certain which sea route they will take, they will have to return to the north, and it is the best choice to go to Naha Port first after the south wind blows. Li Hongyuan's sea travel has relied on the long-term sea to make a living, there is no good countermeasure at this time, Shi Jinqing's method is reasonable, and remembered that the three apprentices have not found anyone, or wrote a trustee to send to the Buddha Village to ask for news, so he and Li Jian temporarily lived in Zhancheng, Sheyang should have found a house for the master and apprentice to live, to the south wind when there is still nearly half a year, Li Hongyuan asked to practice martial arts day and night, just hurry up the time to pull Li Jian up quickly. Li Jian knew that the master was good to him, although he didn't like to read articles, he started to memorize the thousand-character text, but fortunately, his brain was not bad, and he had been grinding and grinding for half a year, which could be regarded as a rough writing and ink.

Li Jian's talent for practicing martial arts has been greatly exerted during this time, not only has he refined his martial arts again, but his Tianyu true qi has also gone from subtle and ethereal, and has truly entered the realm of the first grade, so as to drive the thirteen styles of the gods, and it is difficult to find opponents among the younger generation. Li Hongyuan looked at it in his eyes, thinking that this kid was really born to practice the material of the martial arts of the Divine Martial Arts, and he strictly supervised it.

Sister Shi came to Li Jian every day under the pretext of asking questions, although she was generous, Li Jian was ignorant, and she was asked what to answer. Shi Jinqing naturally understands her daughter's thoughts, and Sister Shi is arrogant, and she has given orders on behalf of her father when she was in the old port, and it is difficult for an idle man to enter the eyes of the law. The last time I saw him for the first time outside Quanzhou Port, Li Jian was still a hairy boy in the market, and this time I saw it for the second time, he was already a character with rough martial arts and a big scene. On this day, Shi Jinqing made an appointment with Li Hongyuan and said that he had something to discuss, and there was nothing to do during this waiting period, so he happily went to the appointment, the location was in the Gangbian Restaurant, Shi Jinqing sat down and talked nonsense.

Li Hongyuan couldn't bear it anymore and said, "Although we are new acquaintances"

, Brother Shi and the righteousness of helping the subordinates, what can't you say directly?"

"Is there really something but I don't know how to say it?" Shi Jinqing smiled awkwardly.

"Brother Shi, this is really out of sight, but it's okay!"

"How does Li Daxia think of my girl?" Shi Jinqing asked eagerly.

"It's definitely no problem to get out of the hall, but I haven't tasted the cooking." Li Hongyuan said a little jokingly.

"Alas, it's all my fault for this old man, a good girl who wanders overseas with me, and the town is constantly dealing with big and small affairs, and occasionally has to use knives to punch and kick, of course, it is not as beautiful as the average lady..."

Li Hongyuan thought of his second apprentice Li Jian, came back to his senses suddenly, and laughed: "This is not a coincidence, my second apprentice has never been engaged, and he is still learning art in the master at the moment, and he will also break into the world in the future." This trip to the east and west to open your eyes, maybe you will have to live in this piece of heaven in the future? If Brother Shi doesn't dislike it, let's go back and ask the young people what they mean, if they still look at each other, how about being in-laws?" Shi Jinqing didn't expect the other party to be so cheerful, and said happily: "The wild girl in our family must be willing, I don't know if Ling Gaozu can take a fancy to our daughter."

At the moment, after the two of them drank and had a good time, they pushed the lamp and got up, and each went back to explore the junior's thoughts.

When Sister Shi heard what her father said, her ears turned red, and she said that she wouldn't discuss it with others first, in case Li Jian refused, it would be a shame to die, and there would be room for peace in the future. Shi Jinqing Zhengse said that the children of the rivers and lakes come and go, and if they don't seize the opportunity, after that, they will not see each other, and it will be a problem, daughter, you have to seize the fate. Sister Shi knew that her father was right, so she lowered her head and went back to her room diligently.

Li Jian didn't dare to mention the young man's heart to others at all, and Ah Xian didn't know where to go, so he could only burn wood in his heart. Li Hongyuan came back and asked Li Jian what he thought of Sister Shi's character? Li Jian didn't think much about it and said that she was very good and easy to get along with. This master thought that the apprentice liked the other party, so he said that you have no elders, and the master will help you decide the major events of your life. The master spoke warmly, and the smile of Gulu Mei flashed in front of her eyes, looking back at the heroic appearance of the senior brother, and her heart ached, and she didn't think much about it, but she responded to herself.

The next day, the two families met, Li Hongyuan and Shi Jinqing happily got married, Li Hongyuan explained that he had not been a disciple for a long time, and he had to go back to Yunnan to complete the entrance ceremony, Shi Jinqing even said that this is natural, but Kunming is inland, the two discussed the meeting, and said that it is better to meet relatives in Shi Jinqing's hometown in Guangzhou on the Mid-Autumn Festival in the 32nd year of Hongwu, so as not to let the little couple run on the sea and land for a long time. After agreeing at the moment, Li Hongyuan took out a pair of mandarin duck daggers and gave them to the two as a token of engagement, and Sister Shi took the dagger and knife handed over by her father with a blushing face, and wrapped it in a handkerchief.

[It's hard to live overseas! 】