Then he chose some of the remaining women who were lucky to fetch water and cook, and the rest simply formed a group and arranged for them to carry things.

Seeing that these people had been arranged to leave, there were annoyance and envy among the remaining widows, but they really settled down. Because they can also see that these Ming people really have no intention of killing.

And the Ming army has more than a thousand people joining here, and the action is naturally speeding up. The pirates were only responsible for searching for supplies and loading ships, and the process of carrying them in between was all undertaken by these widows, and the whole process became smoother.

By the time the evening came, Tojiro, who was covered in sweat, was already feeling a throbbing pain in his abdomen! I've done a lot of work today, and I haven't eaten all the time, so I'm so hungry! But he didn't dare to stop what he was doing. It can only be carried with the efforts of nine people.

As soon as he returned to the city from the dock, he heard a pirate shouting: "Whoever is that, that, it's you, go to the front to eat, and hurry up and work after eating!" ”

Surprised, Tojiro looked along the pirate's hand and saw a large group of Japanese women carrying a burden not far away. And vaguely, he seemed to see the figure of his mother-in-law. So he hurriedly led people to catch up, and sure enough, he saw that his mother-in-law had just put down the burden on her shoulders.

Tojiro was overjoyed and shouted, "Branch, branch!" ”

When his mother-in-law looked back and saw that it was him, she immediately smiled in surprise and waved to him again and again. By the time Tojiro approached in a few steps, the branches had already opened the white cloth that had been laid on the basket. He took out a few washed bamboo leaves and put them in Tojiro's hands, then turned around and took out two rice balls from the basket and put them on top of the bamboo leaves, and then said, "Eat quickly, these adults of the Ming Kingdom are very generous!" ”

Tojiro was already stunned when he saw the rice ball in his hand! It's actually two rice balls, and it's white rice balls! The top of each rice ball is dotted with three pickled green plums, which not only look good, but also smell amazing! How generous is this, it's simply too generous! Even samurai-sama can't eat such good white rice balls on weekdays!

Seeing the white rice balls in his hand, the nine people around him also became agitated, and they all rushed forward to get the rice balls. So Zhizi gave everyone bamboo leaves, and then rice balls, and sure enough, everyone was two white rice balls.

Tojiro held the rice balls and asked, "Zhizi, are these white rice balls really sent by those Ming masters?" ”

Zhizi smiled and nodded again and again: "Don't worry, it's really issued by the master of the Ming Kingdom." Those Ming Guo masters said that these white rice also had to be transported away, so that we could save the place on the ship by eating a little. ”

Tojiro was much more relieved when he heard this, but then he said eagerly, "What about my daughter?" ”

Zhizi kept handing out rice balls to others, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the rice balls from the children are the first to be delivered, and they are also white rice balls, and they are also given according to the number of people." ”

At this time, Tojiro was completely relieved. The nine people who shouted to him walked to the side and took the rice balls and ate them slowly. When they were eating, there were women who rushed over with a burden, and the burden was filled with bamboo tubes filled with water, and one was given to each person, which made Tojiro feel that the master of Mingguo was more generous than his own lord, which strengthened their idea of following the master of Mingguo to leave here!

By the time they had finished eating, it was getting dark. Torches were then brought by soldiers. All the people who led the team were responsible for carrying the torches, and the rest were responsible for carrying them, and all the work continued. The men of the Wu'an Army completely broke away from this work and went to a distant place to set up defenses in case the Japanese raided at night.

Everyone worked like this until the middle of the month before they had a complete break. Moreover, the Japanese received two rice balls as supper, which was naturally thunderous! Hearing their cheers, the hungry and tired people in the city walls were envious, but no one dared to make any move.

After dawn, Tojiro and the others received rice balls again. Naturally, it was harder to work harder, and finally all the ships were full by noon. Just when they thought they could take a break, they were ordered to gather together, and their families were sent over.

Tojiro panicked in his heart at this time, pulling this kind of anxious look at the big boat by the sea, wondering if he could follow the boat?

Now he suddenly didn't want to be able to get the land, and he just wanted to follow these Ming Kingdom masters out of here. If he stays here, when the Shimazu family comes back, I'm afraid that his whole family will die!

At this time, the pirates set up a long table near the dock, and many literate soldiers of the Wu'an Army sat behind the table as clerks, and the pirates who knew the Japanese language stood next to the table and began to summon the Japanese people to come forward in batches.

Seeing this, Tojiro immediately commanded nine people under his command and rushed with his wife and children. Then they walked over to a table led by a pirate and lined up. Then the pirate asked, "What's your name?" ”

Tojiro bowed and said, "The villain's name is Tojiro. ”

The pirate shouted at him, and also to the whole team, "If you go with us today, you will no longer be a Japanese person, but a Han Chinese!" Since you are a Han person, you must have a Han surname, called a Han name, you all understand, right? ”

The men, women, and children of Tojiro's group let out an exclamation almost neatly when they heard this, and then all of them showed joy, and some even knelt directly on the ground and kowtowed. Because at this time, the ordinary people in the Japanese only have Miao characters and no surnames, just like savages! Only those with status have a surname.

In fact, the word Zai Guo Miao is not equal to a surname, but it has the role of a surname. And the Miao character originated from the ancient clans of the Wa Kingdom. From the Heian period onwards, the original clans gradually divided into a number of clans, which were called by names such as night watch, official position of residence, etc., and these titles were called the Hmong character. But Miao is not a surname.

Now there is basically no difference between Japanese surnames and Miao characters, and they can be uniformly regarded as Japanese surnames, but in ancient Japan, surnames were unique to Japanese ministers and nobles, and civilians only had Miao characters. In the 8th century, Japan imitated the Tang Dynasty to establish a household registration system, and civilians could use Miao characters in their household registration.

At that time, the clans given by the emperor were representative of Gengen, Taira, Fujiwara, and Tachibana, while the Miao characters of the commoners were mostly related to occupations and residences, such as Yamagami, Yamashita, and Inukai. In the late Heian period, lower-ranking nobles who could not become high-ranking officials went to the local area to become lords, such as the descendants of the Genji and Fujiwara clans, and began to form samurai regiments to defend their own domains.