Before, there was rain leaking in the house, and the ground was wet, but today when the sun was out, he took a shovel in to shovel out the wet mud, and the four bamboo mats had to be carried to the river to be washed and cleaned, and there was a smell of moisture.

The alley was full of wet mud, people came and went and trampled on it, Haizhu walked out of the door and retreated, and when she caught a glimpse of the old turtle's puddle, she rolled up her trouser leg and said, "I'll go pick up the old turtle and come back, I won't come back to eat at noon, so I don't have to cook my meal." ”

"Sister, I want to go too." Dongzhu chased out the door.

"I want to go too." Feng Ping shouted.

Chaoping puffed out his cheeks and didn't say anything, he was used to his brother and sister going out without him, so he didn't ask.

Haizhu waved his hand, "You can't go, if you want to go out to play, go to Hongshi Village, take Chaoping to play with the younger brother, the food made by the milk is not delicious, you just stay there to eat." ”

Grandma Qi who just came back from the vegetable field: ......

She watched her eldest granddaughter leave, and said to the remaining wilting grandchildren: "Take the money to cut the ribs, I can't stir-fry, the stew will still stew." ”

Dongzhu cheered, and then asked, "Who pays for it?" ”

"Find your third uncle, let him invite us to eat meat today."

Dong Zhu ran into the house with a cigarette, and saw that his third uncle was already opening the money box, she walked over to lie on the table and looked, the box was full of copper coins, and they were about to overflow.

"Is there a silver horn?" She asked, "How many taels is this?" ”

Qi Laosan didn't know either, he took the money back every day and gave half of it to Haizhu first, and threw the rest in the wooden box, and he saved so much over time. He found a washed and faded purse, grabbed two handfuls of copper coins and stuffed them, stuffed them and handed them to Dongzhu, and said, "Take your two younger brothers to buy meat." ”

"Not so much."

"Buy more meat, and you can buy the rest of the candied fruit to eat." Although Qi Laosan doesn't earn much, he doesn't search for money, and he is still very willing to his four nephews and nieces. He remembered Pingsheng, grabbed the copper coin and gave it to Dongzhu, and said, "Buy more of what you like to eat, and I will take you to see Pingsheng in the afternoon." ”

"Oh, good."

*

When the sky clears, the sea is calm, the clouds in the sky are clear, and the gentle sea is clear and you can see the fish swimming underwater. Most of the fishing boats in the bay went out to sea, and the rest broke their planks in the storm. Haizhu walked on her small boat and carefully inspected it, the boat had a heavy draft, and Qi Laosan tied two boulders and pushed them down into the water, but they were not affected by the wind and waves.

Haizhu stood at the bow of the boat and looked under the water, she still had a little cough, it was inconvenient to go into the water to untie the rope, so she had to cut the rope with a knife, and the bottom of the boat suddenly rose up.

The sails were raised, and the ship left the bay.

The guards on the island were familiar faces, and as soon as the boat approached the dock, he sent someone to deliver a message to the major general, and he himself picked up the anchor and smashed it at the bottom of the reef.

"Your turtle is over here, would you like to go and see it?"

"I'm here for it, it hasn't bothered you these days, has it?" Haizhu saw the pit dug in the beach, this sand pit was much bigger than the one in her house, and when she got closer, the pit was not shallow, there was a stone in the water, and the old turtle was lying on the stone, and the turtle shell was out of the water.

"This turtle is very spiritual, and for the first two days, we still caught fish and shrimp to feed it, but the next night there was a heavy rainstorm, and the rain washed down the sand pit, and it escaped and swam into the sea. We thought it had escaped, and even the major general was alarmed, but when the tide receded, it came back. The guard pointed to the wet sand and continued, "The sand pit used to be there, but then it was moved here, and at low tide it crawled out to hunt fish and shrimp on the beach, and it also pushed baby turtles back into the sea, which is quite interesting." ”

Saying that, he glanced at Haizhu and said tentatively, "Are you going to take it back?" ”

Haizhu squinted at the old turtle in the water, if it hadn't been for the fact that it raised its neck to see her as usual when she came, she would have suspected that it was a fake turtle, and her attitude was too cold.

"It may not want to go back with me." Haizhu knelt on the beach on one leg, reached out to touch the old turtle, and saw that it was honestly letting her move, she leaned over to look for a mark on the turtle's neck, and the place where she had been bitten by the cannonball fish before grew new skin, and the new skin with large fingertips was brighter than the old skin, and it was the old turtle.

"What are you doing?" Shen Sui strode over, "Let's go, your second brother is busy, send me to pick you up." ”

Haizhu got up and saw that his clothes were in tatters, and there were blades of grass and wet mud, and she asked what he was doing.

Shen Sui led her along a muddy road to another island, which was the highest of the continuous islands, and there were two teams of soldiers fighting on the island, he raised his chin and said, "I am one of them, the young general is in the pavilion over there, you go directly, I won't go." ”

With that, he picked up the stick on the ground and rushed into the slaughtering pawn.

Haizhu looked at it for a while, and walked towards Han Ji, he turned around when he heard footsteps, and motioned for her to come and watch with him.

There was also a scuffle on the other side of the island, soldiers fighting in the water, the water boiling on the surface of the sea, and from time to time people came out of the water, and from time to time people retreated into it, sneaking up from under the water, fighting on the water.

"Going to war?" Haizhu is aware of the problem.

"Well, the fifth day of the fifth month of May is a fine day, and my father sent me to lead troops to suppress bandits." Han Ji turned his head, he looked at Haizhu and said, "You were sick and couldn't go to Fucheng before, but my father sent a letter urging you." ”

Haizhu frowned, Admiral Han naturally didn't send a letter to urge people to go over because she missed her as a righteous daughter, she thought about it for a while, and waited for Han Ji to continue.

"I didn't know beforehand, and I thought he just wanted you to come over and recognize the door." Han Ji shook his head, it was also a mistake, after a few days of delay, he saw his father's thoughts, "I guess he wants you to use your ability to swim well, he appreciated the sneak attack on the bandits before you and me, and there were no casualties in our army, he should have thought about it." ”

Haizhu nodded, and she thought of this too.

"If you don't want to, don't go, I refuse for you, it's a man's business to exterminate bandits......"

"Fart!" Haizhu interrupted him, "I participated in the previous two sneak attacks on Pirate Island, which man did you lose to?" ”

Han Ji was stunned for a moment, reacted and said: "I'm not erasing your merits, I mean that it is a man's responsibility to defend the family and the country, and it is what a soldier should do, and you can refuse if you don't want to." ”

"If the bandits attack the fishing village, not to mention the women, even the old people and children can kill the enemy with knives." Haizhu glanced at him and criticized: "Don't judge us fishermen near the sea by what you Kyoto people think, we don't have rules and regulations for what men should do and what women should do." ”

Han Ji happily accepted this criticism, the people near the sea are indeed more enlightened than the people of Kyoto, and the people who fight with the sea are not afraid of rumors, they don't care about their reputation, and they don't care about the eyes of outsiders, men can go to sea, women can hold boats, women can cook, and men can do laundry.

"So you mean you're willing to go?" He asked.

"I'll go over and take a look, see how Lord Admiral arranges, as long as I don't send me to the island to cut people with knives, dive into the sea to search for poisonous sea objects to poison or something, I can accept it." Haizhu looked at the soldiers who were fighting the sea and on the island, and said: "If my participation can reduce the casualties of the soldiers, I am very willing, they are all living people, soldiers and sons, husbands and fathers." ”

The island is very busy, Haizhu stayed here and followed the tide of emotions, she felt tired, she didn't plan to eat on the island, and said to the person who was sitting in a daze, she left.

Han Ji watched her figure go away, and it took a long time for her heart to regain her calm.

Chapter 86: Would You Like to Come with Me to Kyoto?

The guards were busy pushing the sailboat from the official boat and going into the sea, and Haizhu squatted on the edge of the sand pit and tried to help the old turtle out, but it slipped off the stone and sank to the bottom of the water with its neck crossed, and the two turtles looked at her with dripping eyes.

"You don't want to go back with me?" Haizhu asked.

The old turtle retracted its neck, closed its eyes and began to pretend to be asleep.

Haizhu tried to reach out and touch the water, but the surface of the water rippled, and the old turtle opened his eyes vigilantly.

Now she is sure, the old turtle is the master! I can't say what I feel, Haizhu squatted and looked at it for a long time, then got up and left.

"Just let it stay with you, it's happy to live on the island, you take care of it." She gave an account to the guards who patrolled the sentry.

"Well, don't worry, no one will fight this turtle if it lives on the island." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the turtle crawl up from the sand pit, and he reminded Haizhu, "Has it changed its mind?" Want to go with you? ”

Haizhu saw that the old turtle was indeed crawling towards her, she asked the guards to help carry it to the boat, Lou Boat dragged the fishing boat away from the island, she muttered to the old turtle guarding the stern: "The golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as our own nest, although our house is a little smaller, but I can accompany you to swim under the sea, you look around, which turtle in the sea has your treatment, they are all swimming in the sea, you have already got on the boat......"

The old turtle craned its neck to look at the sea, and saw that the ship was getting closer and closer to the shore, and it found that this was not the direction of going out to sea. Afraid that Haizhu would cast a net to catch it, it dived directly into the sea, swam far away before resurfaced, and struggled to move in the direction of the island.

Haizhu was dumbfounded, she turned the bow of the boat to follow, and followed it back to the dock on the island after a distance, she saw that Han Ji was also there, and accused: "You kidnapped my turtle, and it won't go home with me now." ”

Han Ji glanced at the old turtle swimming out of the sea, and he saw her boat turn back halfway through the island, and thought she had forgotten something important.

"Then keep it on the island first, and you may not be at home after a while. When you come back and go to sea again, you come and take it away. Han Ji had been to Haizhu's house, and naturally knew the puddle in the corner, and it was difficult for this turtle to lie in and change directions, he said: "Just let it live on the island, you don't have to worry about feeding it, you come to pick it up when you go to sea, and send it back when you come back." ”

The old turtle had already climbed into the sand pit, and Haizhu couldn't help it, so he could only follow its wishes, "Then it stays, and I'll go." ”

"You also stay, eat on the island at noon, today the cook bought a few catties of beef, you and Shen Sui both stayed to eat. It's been a long time since the three of us sat down to eat together. Han Ji warmly said that he was a guest.

Haizhu is on the island again, she hasn't eaten beef yet, there are no cattle on the beach, and there are few people who raise sheep, she has turned over her memory, and the original owner has never eaten beef.

The beef was a cured meat, which was brought by a merchant by a boat, and the cook went late and only bought more than five catties.

When Haizhu went to the kitchen, he was roasting beef with wine, soaking the beef to remove the salt and smearing it with wine, and then roasting it on an iron plate, and then sprinkling wine on it when it was dry.

"Is there any explanation for that?" She asked.

"It's summer, it's hot, and the beef is marinated and has a raw taste, and the wine can remove the flavor." The cook cuts the thick beef with a knife, scoops a spoonful of wine and pours it into the slashed opening, "You see, the heat steam the shredded meat, and the wine flows down the shredded meat into the crevices, but the onion and ginger or pepper do not achieve this effect." ”

Haizhu nodded, indeed.

A lump of beef is repeatedly turned over and grilled, and when the wine is roasted on the surface of the beef, he cuts it into slices with a knife, and repeatedly dries it with wine to roast, and the dark red beef changes color, and then he cuts it into thick pieces one by one, sprinkles it with clear oil and frying it, and then puts it into a jar to simmer for a while, and finally pours in the soup of the stewed chicken and starts to stew.

"This is to make roasted beef soup, the old man's specialty dish, the girl eats more at noon, and the beef is rare in the sea." The cook said.

"Okay, I haven't eaten beef yet." Haizhu sat under the stove to help light the fire, watching the old chef cook, this cook is from the north, accustomed to the practice of thick oil red sauce, the stewed chicken is also fried first and then stewed, the soup is yellowish, not like the thick white of the stew.

There was a sound of talking in the front courtyard, and the cook began to fry the last vegetarian dish, and he asked Haizhu to go out first, "You are a guest, if the second young master knows that I will let you help light the fire, I will be trained." ”

"He's so fierce?" Haizhu laughed, washed her hands and walked out of the stove room.

"Major General and Deputy Staff General Shen are washing, you wait in the dining room for a while." The guy who guarded the door said.

"Oh, good." Haizhu walked around the courtyard, waiting for the door to open the courtyard before she entered.

It is said that the dining room is also a stone house, the front and back windows are opened, and there is a sea breeze passing through, and the house is quite cool.

The cook brought the food to the table, Han Ji and Shen Sui also changed into clean clothes and came in, Shen Sui fought with people for a long time, so hungry that he could swallow half a cow, they were all acquaintances, he was not polite, and he sat down and served a bowl of rice.

"Let's move the chopsticks." Han Ji said, "You can try the beef soup, this is my chef's specialty, and he brought it from the northwest." ”

Haizhu tasted the taste when the roasted beef soup was cooked, and there was still a meat aroma in her mouth, she picked up a piece of beef and stuffed it into her mouth, the thick meat strips were stewed softly, and the juice in her mouth was full of juice when she took a bite, and she was chewier than pork, and she would not feel tired of chewing it in a big gulp.

"It's delicious, the meat in the north still has to be made by the people in the north to taste good." Shen Sui admired, he asked Haizhu if he had gone to steal the teacher, "In the future, my family will have beef for you, and we will eat it when you are ready." ”

"Okay, I'll help you produce meat, and we will get half of the dishes for each of our families."

"Brother Han, will you go to the northwest in the future?" Shen Sui turned around, "If you go to the northwest, send me and Haizhu some more beef, mutton and horse meat." ”

Han Ji took the chopsticks of the vegetables, and when he saw Haizhu, he also looked at it with expectation, he lowered his eyes and took a few green vegetables into the bowl, and said: "It takes a month to travel from the northwest to Kyoto, and it takes more than half a month to go south from Kyoto, and the meat stinks when it is delivered." There is also beef and mutton in Kyoto, so you can take a boat to eat it and go to my house. ”

"No, no, no, I'll stay in Quang Nam." Shen Sui shook his head and was about to shake out the flowers.

"I won't go, I'll just guard the sea for the rest of my life." Haizhu picked up the belly of the fish and said, "The beef is delicious, it's enough to taste it this time." ”

Shen Sui glanced left and right, and called the little guy outside the door to pour tea, "Replace wine with tea, let's meet one, your righteous brother will leave when he leaves, and the sixth brother will cover you." ”

Haizhu took a sip of the tea cup and said to Han Ji: "Don't be discouraged, when you leave, I will ask the merchant ship to send you salted fish and dried sea vegetables, and these two will not be bad if they run on the road for half a year." ”

Shen Sui laughed, all the gifts were worthless rotten things, a salted fish could smoke two houses, and he had never seen Han Ji eat it.

Han Ji was depressed, but he still had to keep smiling, and looked at the two people in front of him with a bad appetite to discuss what to bring him over when he left.

"Second brother, you won't forget us when you go back to Kyoto, right?" Haizhu asked.

"No, it won't." Han Ji's heart was a little messy, he didn't dare to look at her eyes, lowered his eyelids and said: "Eating and eating, don't talk about messy, it's all a shadowless thing, and it's not impossible to settle down in Guangnan in the future." ”

"Well, if you leave, I hope the next Admiral will not be a wine bag and a rice bag." Shen Sui sighed.

"After this crackdown, the bandits on the island will decrease a lot, and the coast will be stable for a few years." Haizhu asked Han Ji, "Really?" ”

Han Ji nodded, his father was worried that he would suddenly come to the Holy Decree and be transferred, so he took the risk of attacking the bandits before the typhoon came, killing a group, and the number of bandits was small, so he didn't dare to go ashore to make trouble.

*

The day for attacking the bandits has been set, and Haizhu also agreed to go to Fucheng, Han Ji did not delay much, and drove to Fucheng with troops the next day.

Fucheng is far away from Yongning Wharf, passing through three wharves on the way, the further east, the more regular the wharf is built, and the town behind the wharf is more prosperous.