At this time, in Cape Villa. Ruan Zhilong and the pirates were enjoying a big lobster meal, and one of the pirates said: "Ruan Daxia, this time we also got it in the villa, and we drove that Mu Yongxiao away yesterday, so why don't you reward Mu Yongxiao's daughter to my brother and have a good pastime?"

Ruan Zhilong spit out the lobster in his mouth and said, "Phew, Lao Tzu hasn't had a pastime yet, when will it be your turn?"

The pirate said: "Ruan Daxia, a few of our brothers, who were originally the people of Hall Master Yang, we will help you take this villa, should you express it?"

Ruan Zhilong said: "Lao Tzu tells you that Lao Tzu wants to play with that girl more than you, but Mu Yongxiao will definitely not give up, let's clean up the surname Mu, and then sit back and enjoy yourself." ”

Pirate: "Well, Ruan Daxia is right, how can we completely take down the man surnamed Mu?" I see that he was injured by a crossbow shot yesterday, why don't we invite Hall Master Yang and destroy them in one fell swoop?"

Ruan Zhilong said: "No, Lao Tzu tells you, if you want to live a peaceful life in the future, follow me, I will never treat you badly." In this mountain villa, there is food and drink, and there are thousands of fishermen outside, who are our stable leeks, and they can be cut casually. It's better than following Yang Tingyi and licking blood on the tip of the knife, right?"

The pirate said: "But Ruan Daxia, didn't you promise Hall Master Yang that after he helped you take the Cape Villa, you would join forces with him to disturb Qiongya Island, so that the Southern Han Dynasty would not have a peaceful life?

Ruan Zhilong said: "That's a lie to him Yang Tingyi, Lao Tzu wants to live a comfortable life here, let the surrounding fishermen pay tribute and pay the New Year's coin." Guarding this Cape Villa, isn't it also the same as being a soil emperor? It is much happier than him Qu Chengmei and Yang Tingyi. ”

The pirate said: "But, how are we going to explain to Hall Master Yang when we go back? You are so treacherous, I must go and tell Hall Master Yang that you have destroyed the plan of Jiaowu Hall, and even more so the plan of Lord Qu of Jiedu." Ruan Zhilong was afraid that the matter would be revealed, so he picked up the big scissors on the side and cut off the pirate's neck. The other pirate was so frightened that he didn't dare say anything more.

At this time, Mu Yongxiao's daughter Hui'er, who was locked in the room, asked her mother: "Mother, I don't know how my father's injuries are?"

Mother said: "Yes, I am also worried about your father's injury, he didn't dare to let go and fight with that thief, because he took care of the safety of our mother and daughter, and it was really embarrassing for him." ”

Hui'er: "Yes, if you fight alone, that thief is not my father's opponent at all." ”

Mother: "Now we can only beg God to hope that your father is safe." Hui'er, I don't want to drag down your father, if it weren't for you, my mother would have committed suicide by hanging herself. ”

Hui'er said: "Mother, don't think like this, my father is so desperate, just to protect the safety of our mother and daughter." If you have three strengths and two weaknesses, then won't Dad's efforts all be in vain?"

The mother said: "Hey, I didn't expect things to be like this, I don't know how your father and them are doing now." ”

Under the leadership of Deng Xiang, several people came to the wellhead. When they looked up, they saw that the well was a narrow straight canal, and the secret passage led directly to the side three feet high below the wellhead.

When the stone cave of the secret passage reaches the mouth of the well wall, there is no way, and there is only a way to go up through the grotto ladder in the narrow well wall. Several people poked their heads out to see a faint light peeking through the cracks in the stones.

Deng Xiang pointed to the big stone at the top of his head and said, "Mr. Zheng, look, this is here, and above is the wellhead that is sealed by the big stone." ”

In the dim light, Zheng Xuan looked up in the direction of Deng Xiang's finger. It was found that a round opening on the top of the head was completely blocked by a stone.

There is a problem in front of everyone, because everyone is located in the cliff of the well wall, and no one knows how deep the bottom of the well is, so the potential danger is also very large.

Yi Dan picked up a small pebble and threw it at the bottom of the well under the cliff. After a long while, I heard the echo of a "bang" falling water.

"This well is so deep. Yi Dan said.

Deng Xiang said: "That's right, there is a chisel on the stone wall, and you can climb up to the top along the chisel ladder." ”

Yi Dan said: "This is still very dangerous. ”

Deng Xiang said: "It's okay, I'll just climb." ”

Zheng Xuan said: "It's better for me to come, you don't know how to install this gunpowder." ”

Yi Dan said: "Mr. Zheng, this is too dangerous. ”

Zheng Xuan didn't forget to quip: "It's okay, it's a big deal, why don't you just fish me up again?"

Yi Dan knew that it was important to save people, so he could only tell Zheng Xuan to be careful. So Zheng Xuan followed the evenly chiseled ladder on the wall of the well and slowly climbed to the top of the wellhead.

When he came to the mouth of the well, he found that there were some small cracks in the place where the mouth of the well was blocked by large stones. And these gaps can be used to stuff those iron cylinder explosives. So he pedaled on both sides of the narrow wellhead, took out eleven iron cylinders in four baggage, and when he opened the oiled paper, he did not dip into a drop of seawater. So he shoved the ten iron cylinders, one by one, through the cracks around the wellhead, leaving only one on his back.

The entire circle of the wellhead was basically filled with iron barrel gunpowder, and only the fuses were exposed.

After placing the gunpowder, Zheng Xuan tied the fuse that hung down together, then took out the sealed gourd from his arms, and carefully dragged out a slender fuse from the big gourd, and he connected the fuse in the gourd to the fuse of the bundle of gunpowder. Then he slowly dragged the gourd and began to retreat down the well.

Yi Dan stepped forward to support Zheng Xuan and dragged him back to the cave halfway through the well.

Zheng Xuan returned safely to the secret passage in the middle of the well wall, and Yi Dan's hanging heart could be regarded as temporarily landing. Zheng Xuan handed the last iron cylinder to Yi Dan and said, "You take this first." ”

Yi Dan took the iron cylinder and asked, "Why is there another useless one?" Is there something wrong?"

Zheng Xuan said: "This is something I deliberately left, and it will be useful for a while." ”

At this time, Zheng Xuan dragged the big gourd with one hand and patted the dust on his body with the other.

Yi Dan asked, "Mr. Zheng, what is this thread in your gourd for?"

"You'll know in a moment, let's go down. With that, Zheng Xuan carefully withdrew the fuse from the big gourd, and slowly retreated to the bottom of the cave with everyone.

After about three zigzag ladders. The fuse in the gourd was also completely pulled. At this time, Zheng Xuan said to everyone: "I'm going to ignite the gunpowder, you should quickly retreat, the farther you retreat, the better." ”

After listening to Zheng Xuan's words, everyone hurriedly retreated down the zigzag stone staircase.

Zheng Xuan took out two flints from his arms and rubbed them a few times, ignited the fuse, and then ran quickly towards the stone ladder.

At the bottom of the cave where everyone was retreating, they suddenly heard: "Bang bang bang..." Everyone stood at the bottom of the cave near the sea, swaying from side to side, unable to stand firm at all.

At this time, at the mouth of the well, ten iron cylinder explosives blew the huge stone to pieces. Small stones flew all over the sky, and the broken large stones tumbled down the hillside and smashed into the beach and water at the bottom of the mountain, splashing the sea water more than ten feet high.

At this time, Ruan Zhilong and the pirates, who were enjoying the big fish and prawns in Haijiao Village, suddenly heard these earth-shattering noises, and the wine glasses on the table were all knocked to the ground.

"What's going on?" asked Ruan Zhilong in a panic.

Another pirate said, "This formation is too big, it can't be that the ground is moving."

Ruan Zhilong said: "Let's go, hurry up and go out and have a look." ”

The pirates guarding the castle tower of Cape Villa were also stunned when they heard the loud noise. When everyone looked back, they saw many large and small stones flying up in the sky, and several people were stunned.

"What's going on?" asked Pirate A.

"How do I know? Pirate B said.

And at the foot of the hill outside the gate, Mu Yongxiao heard a few loud noises behind the villa, and said to the other people: "Great, they succeeded." ”

At this time, Xu Gui handed Mu Yongxiao a tinder. Mu Yongxiao took the fire, lit the fuse of the iron cylinder in his hand, and then threw it towards the gate of the villa.

Several people covered their ears and hid under the cliff. And the two pirates guarding the city wall have not yet recovered from the few loud noises just now. Suddenly, I heard a sparkling object being thrown outside the gate under the castle tower.

"What's that?" asked Pirate Armor, looking down at the powder cartridge.

"I don't know, it seems to be a torch, it seems that someone wants to burn our gate, hehe, our door is made of stone, and it can't be burned. ”

The pirate B was triumphant, and as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a thunderous roar of 'bang'. Several people's ears were so shocked that they couldn't hear any sound at all.

After the loud bang, a man stuck his head out and tried to check the city gates.

I saw that the gate of the city tower was blown open with a huge hole.

The pirate shouted, "Oh no, the gate is broken." ”

The others couldn't hear what he was saying, and he could only point to the door downstairs.

The other pirates stuck their heads out and saw that the gate had been blown up, so they hurriedly ran to report to Nguyen Chi Long, the fishing tyrant of the West Sea.

At this time, Mu Yongxiao and the others, who were hiding under the hillside, slowly poked their heads out after the loud noise. After seeing that the city gate was blown out of a big hole, Mu Yongxiao shouted: "It's successful, the gate is blown open, let's rush over." ”

Mu Yongxiao and the others rushed forward with iron shields, and the pirates guarding the city wall hurriedly fired a rain of arrows. The rain-like arrows did not have any effect on the iron shield in the hands of Mu Yongxiao and others. After a while, they rushed to the gate, and through the big hole that had been blown open, they rushed straight in.

At this time, Ruan Zhilong was walking out of the door of the room when he ran into a pirate who came to report it.

Ruan Zhilong took the initiative to ask, "What's the matter? Aren't you guarding the gate?"

The pirate's ears rang loudly, and he couldn't hear what Ruan Zhilong said, but shouted loudly: "Oh no, Ruan Daxia, someone has destroyed the gate, and they have already killed it." ”

Ruan Zhilong thought for a while and said, "It seems that we can't live a happy life here." Let's go, follow me to the firewood room. ”

So Nguyen Chi Long came to the door of the firewood house with a few pirates. And Mu Yongxiao's wife and daughter are all in this firewood room. (To be continued.) )