(Since writing this book for more than half a year, a total of more than 780,000 words, only 3.12 yuan in silver was obtained.) Then he broke off for more than half a month, and was alone and sad. ）

After nearly three days of travel, Yi Dan and the three finally came to the port near the sea in Xuwen County, the southernmost part of Leizhou.

This Xuwen port, although not as busy as Guangzhou, does not have as many ships as Guangzhou. But the people gathered here are more simple and welcoming. People go south and north, and the goods they sell are no longer the silk, porcelain, tea, etc., which are seen in Guangzhou, and are sold overseas. Rather, it is some daily food, ingredients, etc.

Yi Dan couldn't help but ask Xu Gui: "Mr. Xu, why is the cargo loaded by the merchant ship of Xuwen Port so different from that of Guangzhou Port?"

Xu Gui replied: "The port of Guangzhou is full of overseas merchants, selling goods from the east to the western countries for sale. Most of the merchants in Xuwengang are people from Yazhou and Leizhou, and they just sell what they don't have on the island, and sell the rice and other crops that are abundant on the island. ”

Yi Dan looked at the boats in the harbor and asked, "Are those boats full of rice?"

"yes, most of it is rice. Xu Gui said.

"How can there be so much rice in Yazhou?" Yi Dan asked.

Youming also asked in wonder, "Yes, how big is this Qiongya Island, why is there so much rice that can't be eaten?"

Xu Gui laughed and said, "I see that you two are from the north. Northerners eat pasta, while southerners eat rice. The further south you go, the more you find hot areas with a lot of rain, and rice prefers rain and hot climates. Therefore, on Qiongya Island, rice can be grown all year round. In the southernmost part of Zhenzhou (now Sanya, Hainan), rice can be grown in four seasons a year. ”

You Ming asked puzzledly, "It's incredible to grow rice all year round?" ”

"yes, but they usually only grow two or three crops. Xu Gui said.

"They can grow four seasons, why do they only plant two or three seasons?" asked Youming puzzled as he fanned his fan.

At this time, Yi Dan on the side gently knocked on Youming's head and said, "You are stupid, you can't eat rice every meal, right? ”

"Oh, yes, yes, Senior Sister is right. Youming touched his head and smirked: "It seems that this Qiongya Island must be very interesting, I can't wait, I'm going to go to the island to have a look." The three of them took their horses, boarded a large passenger boat, and gradually sailed into the Qiongzhou Strait. Xu Wengang behind him became farther and farther away, and gradually disappeared into the sky.

Yi Dan stood at the bow of the boat, looked at the sea in the distance, and said where it met the sky: "Senior brother, you see, how vast this sea is, compared to it, we are so small. ”

"Yes, Senior Sister, I didn't expect the great harm to be so extensive and vast. Youming couldn't help but admire.

"That's right, many people may only walk around within a radius of two miles in their lifetime, like a frog at the bottom of a well, who has no idea how high the sky is and how big the sea is. If you come out for a walk, maybe your mind will be broader. Yi Dan couldn't help but admire.

Xu Gui on the side heard Yi Dan's words, and hurriedly answered: "Miss Yi, are you talking about me?"

Yi Dan hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, I didn't mean Mr. Xu." I'm talking about those foolish people who fight over the big things of sesame mung beans. ”

Xu Gui said, "Really, what did you see?"

"I saw the vast sea, and the wide heaven and earth, and the wind blowing from the sea, which made people feel refreshed and fascinated. Yi Dan said emotionally in the sea breeze.

The three of them were chatting at the bow of the ship, when they saw a large cargo ship coming on, loaded with layers of sacks. A tall and swarthy man in his twenties stood at the bow of the boat, looking from afar, holding a stick more than a foot long and standing on the bow of the boat. The stick was thick at both ends, and it looked like a stick used to make rice.

The man held a stick in one hand and put the other on his head, blocking out the midday sun, but he kept looking west.

At this time, on the sea not far to the west, there were two large ships, which were sailing violently with the west wind. Looking at the distance, there were at most two miles of water, and they were about to crash into the man's cargo ship, but the big ships, with no intention of slowing down, seemed to be about to stop and ram the two cargo ships full of sacks.

After a while, the two ships got closer and closer. At this time, Yi Dan saw clearly that the bows of the two big ships were armed with a large very sharp pointed iron rivet. The rivet looked huge and sharp, and it looked like a warship used in battle.

Seeing the two ships colliding straight over, Xu Gui felt bad in his instincts, so he said, "It's not good, someone may want to hijack the ship." ”

Yi Dan's eyes widened and he asked, "What should we do then?" ”

"It depends, just be flexible. Xu Gui said.

The boat on which the Yi Dan people were traveling, as if they knew what was going to happen, slowly stopped.

In front of the right, the two galleons coming from the west rushed straight towards the large cargo ship in front.

Seeing this, Xu Gui said: "It shouldn't be for our ship, you see that the two sailing ships are both heading towards the big cargo ship in front." ”

Yi Dan asked, "What do the two galleons want to do?"

Xu Guidao: "I don't know, maybe I want to rob the things in that cargo ship." ”

You Ming said in surprise: "Ah? Isn't that a pirate? This is worth it? In broad daylight, Lang Lang Lang Qiankun, just such a blatant robbery?"

Xu Guidao: "Isn't it? In recent years, this kind of thing has happened from time to time at sea in this area. Let's not act rashly, and leave it alone if we don't care about it. ”

Seeing that the two big ships were about to collide with the cargo ship, Yi Dan said anxiously: "How can this be done? Mr. Xu, look, those two galleons are about to hit the cargo ship, let's find a way to go over and help." ”

As he spoke, Yi Dan hurriedly waved his hand at the man at the bow of the boat in front of him, and shouted loudly, "Hey... Feed... The big brother in front..."

The man with the stick in the bow of the boat looked in the direction of Yi Dan's waving hand. Yi Dan saw the man turn in his direction, and knew that he heard his own shout, so he said loudly: "Big brother in front, be careful, there are pirates." ”

At this time, the other passengers on the Yidan ship hurriedly stepped forward to stop them. One of the passengers, man A, said, "Girl, don't shout, if you bring in pirates in a moment, we'll be in trouble." ”

"yes, these pirates can do anything. If we provoke them, we won't survive, and if you call them again, we'll throw you off the ship." The other passenger, Man B, said angrily.

When You Ming heard this, he was very angry and said: "How can this be true, it is because you are all afraid of those pirates, so they can loot unscrupulously. If everyone had been united, they would never have dared to be so rampant. ”

"Senior brother, you're right, the big deal is to fight with them. These wicked people must not be allowed to succeed. Yi Dan said.

Passenger man A said: "You can say it easily, those are habitual thieves on this part of the sea, killing people and goods, and doing all kinds of evil. We're all ordinary people, so how can we fight those murderous pirates? Don't scream anymore, or we'll all die ugly if you recruit pirates. ”

Man B said, "Yes, you'd better stop screaming, or we'll throw you into the sea to feed the fish." ”

At this moment, Yi Dan deeply realized why the wicked can be so rampant in this world, that is, people's bottomless tolerance, indifferent attitude towards not caring about themselves, and selfishness to protect themselves. Only then did those wicked people have no fear.

But once I also knew that as an ordinary person who didn't know martial arts, in order to protect myself, I could only turn a blind eye to the evil that happened in front of me. But as a jealous and hateful martial arts warrior, how could she turn a blind eye to the injustices that happened in front of her? She finally couldn't help but step forward and shouted to the man on the cargo ship: "Big brother, be careful, those two pirate ships are coming." ”

The man heard Yi Dan's shout, looked sideways at the two galleons, and replied loudly: "Thank you girl for reminding you!" After that, he commanded the two men who drove the boat, turned the bow of the boat, and the hull of the ship went in the east-west direction, so that the hull of the ship was much narrower, and the chance of being hit was much smaller.

In order to avoid the pirate ship, the cargo ship sailed eastward downwind. But the two galleons sailed at full speed in the west wind.

The cargo ship did not have time to escape, and the two sailing ships that rushed over saw that the cargo ship had turned around. He no longer planned to crash into it, but surrounded it on the left and right, and the two sails caught the cargo ship from the north and south directions, leaving only the opening on the west side.

This was supposed to be the purpose of the two galleons, who wanted to hijack the cargo ship to the west. But the man on the cargo ship was not fooled, he simply stopped the ship, clenched the thick iron rod in his hand, and looked at the two big ships viciously.

Soon, on two galleons, a dozen hemp ropes were thrown off.

Dozens of tall, fierce, knife-and-axe pirates jumped down the hemp rope from the cargo ship.

The man at the bow of the ship picked up the stick in his hand and struck at the pirate who jumped out of the cargo ship first.

Before the pirate could gain a foothold on the ship, the man threw him into the sea.

One by one, the pirates jumped off the sailboat. The men on the cargo ship struggled with the pirates. After a while, I saw him pick up the stick with both hands, and used a move to "sweep the tiger's head with a stick" and "fight the tiger to the sky"

Xu Gui, who was standing on the passenger ship, saw that this person actually knew his father's mastery - "Southern Shaolin Fighting Tiger Stick", so he paid more attention to this person.

There were many pirates, and although the man was outnumbered with a thick iron rod, the pirates on the two sailing ships jumped off the cargo ship one after another.

At that moment, several pirates pounced on the man from the air. The man knocked down the axes from their hands with his stick, and then slammed his palm into the chest of a pirate. The pirate was so beaten by the man's palm that he rushed out of the cabin and flew on the surface of the sea for a long time before falling into the water.

Waves of pirates entered the ship, and the man began to struggle a little.

At this time, Yi Dan, who was standing on the bow of the passenger ship, saw that the situation was urgent, and finally couldn't bear the chivalrous heart of seeing the unevenness of the road. She drew her sword with swiftness, kicked her feet, stepped on the surface of the water, and flew towards the cargo ship.

Yi Dan flew behind the pirates and picked off the knives and axes in the hands of a dozen pirates at an unexpected speed.

The pirates were caught off guard by Yi Dan's sudden attack. Yi Dan was good at fighting on ships, and when he landed in the cabin, his body began to shake with the ship.

Several pirates took advantage of this opportunity to rush up, and Yi Dan drew a nine-section whip and waved it lightly up and down, left and right, and then knocked several pirates into the sea.

At this time, on two sails, about thirty archers and pirates drew their bows and arrows on the side of the ship, and aimed them at Yi Dan and the men on the cargo ship.

"Senior sister, be careful, they're about to release arrows. Youming stood on the passenger ship not far away, shouting in horror to remind Yi Dan.

Yi Dan flew up to the man, and faced the pirates on the two sailing ships with the man back to back.

The man opened his mouth and said to Yi Dan, "Girl, thank you for your help!

"It's not polite, it's the responsibility of my sons and daughters to help each other when the road is uneven. Under the surname Yi Ming Dan, I don't know what you call big brother?" Yi Dan asked the man while observing the situation in front of him.

The man said a little stupidly: "My name is Gu Xiaofeng, I am from Gujia Town, Wenchang County, Qiongya Island, and I am nineteen years old this year. My mother and the people in the village call me Xiaofeng, and you can call me that way. ”

"I didn't expect Gu Feng, Daxia, you are so young, you have such a powerful stick technique, I really admire it. It's a real pleasure to be able to fight side by side with you today," Yi Dan said.

Gu Xiaofeng said: "Miss Yi is polite, you saw that the road was uneven and pulled out a knife to help, it should be me to thank you!"

Yi Dan glanced at the archers on the sailboat and said, "However, it seems that this is a bad battle, we all have to be careful." ”

At this time, a man on the sailboat on the left ordered: "Release the arrows"

At one time, dozens of random arrows were shot down from the two ships.

"Girl be careful"

Seeing this, Yi Dan quickly swung the sword in his hand and blocked the sword that shot at him.

And Gu Xiaofeng, who was behind him, also used his brute strength, waved the stick in his hand, and shot out the arrows as well.

At this time, Youming, who was standing on the passenger ship not far away, looked at the scene of the fierce battle between his senior sister Yi Dan and the pirates, and felt very anxious. He also wanted to go over and help. But he still owes the heat for his light work. I couldn't fly over the sea half a mile away. Besides, Youming, who grew up inland, is not very good at water, and if he accidentally falls into the sea, he will be salted to death by the sea if he is not drowned. So he could only stand on the bow of the boat and shout anxiously: "Senior sister, be careful." ”

Yi Dan grabbed the three arrows that were shot at him, threw them back with great force, and stuck them in the chests of the three pirates, and fell into the sea one after another.

The pirate leader standing on the sailboat, seeing Yi Dan's help, made it impossible for him to attack the cargo ship. A pirate asked a man on the deck who was dressed in armor, three or seven or eight years old, "General Yang, the martial arts of these two people are too powerful, we can't attack them, what should we do?"

General Yang said: "I said a long time ago, when you come out to rob grain, you can't call me general, don't you hear?"

The pirate bowed his head and said, "Understood." Qiqi Hall Master Yang, the enemy is too powerful to attack, what should we do?"

The Yang Hall Master said, "No matter what, we must take this ship today." Quick, send someone to dive under the water and scuttle the planks of their boats. ”

The pirate said suspiciously, "But this ship is full of grain, and now we are preparing for a battle with the city of Champa in the south." This is enough food for our brothers for a long time. Wouldn't it be a pity if we sank to the bottom of the sea like this?"

The hall master said: "What we can't get, we can't easily cheapen the Southern Han court." The order went down, and the boat was scuttled by diving. ”

The pirate dared to ask, "There is a sentence below, I don't know if I should say it?"

Hall Master Yang asked, "What words?"

The pirate man said, "General, since we are fighting with Champa, why don't we go and seize the grain of Champa? We've been floating on the sea for so long, robbing our Tang people of their own food, I'm afraid it's a little..."

Lord Yang said: "Shut up, do you think the rice in Zhancheng is easy to grab? They are all heavily guarded. Besides, it is precisely because we are all Tang people that the Southern Han Dynasty neglected to take precautions, so that we have this opportunity, otherwise, the soldiers and horses will go first before the grain and grass are moved, where can we find food? Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and give the order to go down and scuttle the boat. ”

The subordinate said helplessly: "Yes, the subordinate receives the order." ”

At this time, Yi Dan saw seven or eight strong pirates, armed with chisels and hammers, jumping from the galleon into the sea. Faintly from the clear blue water, I could see seven or eight people swimming towards the bottom of the boat.

Suddenly, the ship began to shake with a thud.

Yi Dan asked a little flustered, "Are they scuttling the ship? What should I do?

Gu Xiaofeng said: "It's okay, look at me." ”

After that, Gu Xiaofeng picked up two sacks from the two wooden barrels filled with water in the cabin. He unhurriedly untied the rope at the mouth of the sack, and then carried the bottom of the sack and poured out many sea snakes from the sack.

The sea serpent followed the water below the boat and dived to the bottom of the boat. After a while the hull of the ship was silent, and seven or eight pirates emerged from the water and fled in confusion into the distance.

Yi Dan laughed and asked, "Gu Daxia, you have too many methods." How did you know to use this trick against them?"

"Oh, it's nothing, we often encounter pirates at sea, and we know that they will use the trick of diving to scuttle ships, so we came up with this way to deal with them. ”

"Okay, how about we kill him today without leaving a piece of armor?" Yi Dan said.

Gu Xiaofeng said: "Okay, today we will completely destroy these pirates, so that they can no longer harm the fishermen and the people on both sides of the strait." ”

Yi Dan thought for a while and said, "Okay, since they want to scuttle our ship, how about we treat them in the same way as others?"

When Gu Xiaofeng heard Yi Dan's words, he didn't understand what he meant, so he asked, "What way, what body?"

Clever and clever Yi Dan. instantly understood that the stupid Gu Xiaofeng in front of him should be an honest man who didn't read much. So he said, "That's how they deal with us, let's deal with them in the same way." Let's scuttle their ship too, what do you say?"

Gu Xiaofeng said: "Okay, girl, do you have any way to sink their big ship?"

Yi Dan smiled slightly and put down the sword in his hand. Raising his hands, the true qi slowly pressed down the dantian, stabilized the true qi, circled the Shenque acupoint three times, and then pushed the qi up to the middle navel acupoint, and after stabilizing the middle navel acupoint, then continued to push up to the Tanzhong acupoint.

Gu Xiaofeng on the side saw that Yi Dan was lucky to drop the sword, and he didn't know what she meant. So he asked curiously, "Miss Yi, what are you doing here?"

Yi Dan didn't speak, concentrating on controlling all the true qi.

At this time, the pirate on the galleon drew his bow and arrows again, ready to shoot at Yi Dan and the others.

"Senior sister, be careful, they are going to release arrows again. Youming shouted from the passenger ship not far away.

The pirate in front shot two more arrows, and Gu Xiaofeng used the stick in his hand to knock the arrows into the sea.

At this time, Yi Dan's true qi quickly fell back to the dantian, and then directly rushed through the middle and tanzhong to the Shaohai acupoint in both arms, then rushed down to the Shenmen, and finally rushed to the back stream, Qiangu and Shaoze in the palm of his hand. Then she connected this abundant true qi in Houxi, Qiangu and Shaoze.

"Ahh

"Bang" only listened to the wood of the hull, and there was a cracking sound in an instant. On the side of this big ship, Yi Dan's blade palm cut two deep knife marks. And the sea water also slowly seeped into the ship along the knife marks.

Gu Xiaofeng saw Yi Dan's palm wind and cut the hull of the ship. Shocked and very happy, he said, "Girl." What a kung fu. Okay, now it's up to me. ”

After that, Gu Xiaofeng took a big iron rod and rushed forward. He raised his stick and slammed it into the hull of the ship.

"Click" the position that was broken just now, and Gu Xiaofeng's big iron rod made a hole much larger than the basket.

The sea rushed into the cabin like the Yellow River bursting its banks.

After the big ship in the north entered the water, it quickly began to sink, and the dozens of pirates on board panicked for a while, jumped into the sea one after another, and swam to another galleon.

Soon the sailboat to the north sank without a trace, leaving only some bubbles tumbling on the surface of the sea.

At this time, the Yang Hall Master pulled out the war knife in his hand and prepared to jump off the cargo ship and compete with Yi Dan and the others.

One of his subordinates grabbed his hand and said, "Hall Master, they are strong in martial arts, and now we have lost another boat, don't fight for the strong." Why don't we wait for us to go to Danzhou for a short rest, and then think about it in the long run?"

As soon as the hall master heard this, he said, "Okay, pass the order, let's prepare to withdraw." ”

After a while, the men on the large sailing boat started paddling and began to abscond.

They rowed the boat with great difficulty and began to drive westward.

Yi Dan said: "It's not good, they want to escape, let's chase it quickly." ”

Gu Xiaofeng said: "Forget it, our boat doesn't have big oars, so we can't catch up." ”

After driving a section of the waterway, the pirates on the galleon suddenly threw dozens of torches and threw them at Yi Dan and Gu Xiaofeng's cargo ships.

Seeing dozens of torches falling from the sky and falling towards the boat like a rain of fire, Gu Xiaofeng panicked for a moment and shouted: "Son of a, you want to burn Lao Tzu's boat?"

Yi Dan looked at the torches in the sky and smiled coldly: "Don't be afraid, let's return all the torches to them." ”

With that, Yi Dan took out the nine-section whip from her bosom, and with lightning speed, she threw the whip into the air, wrapped around a few torches, and threw the torches back into the defeated galleon.

After repeating this torch throwing action several times, Yi Dan quickly threw all the torches back on the galleon.

Gu Xiaofeng also picked up the stick in his hand and beat some torches back to the galleon and the sea.

Eventually, all the torches were extinguished, and not a single one fell on the cargo ship. And the sailing ship that fled was burned into the sky by the torches released by itself. Most of the pirates on board jumped into the sea and swam and fled.

While the galleon was on fire, it insisted on driving some distance west. After a while, it couldn't be carried anymore, and a small wooden boat was released from the galleon. The so-called Yang Hall Master jumped off the burning galleon.

At this moment, a group of pirates swam from the sea in all directions, trying to get into the boat. That Yang Hall Master knew that the boat was too small to carry so many people. Fearing that the boat would be squeezed by the pirates, he pulled out his knife and hacked to death those pirates who wanted to get on the boat. Ordered the other two pawns to flee west in a small boat, and disappeared into the sky of the West Sea in embarrassment.

At this time, the people on the passenger ship not far away were cheering, and the passenger ship continued to drive in the direction of the cargo ship and stopped next to the cargo ship. (To be continued.) )