The two sisters were so immersed in the joy of the dolphin that they completely forgot what they came from. At this time, Pi Kai also waded over from the water and shouted to the two: "Miss Yi, Yuan Shaoxia, you all seem to like dolphins very much." ”

Yi Dan turned around and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, Brother Pi, I almost forgot to get down to business." We're going to look for Mr. Zheng. ”

Pi Kaiyuan said: "It's okay, since you like dolphins, let's watch them for a while, after all, you are inland, and there are not many opportunities like this." ”

Embarrassed, Yi Dan put the bucket back on the table, and when the bucket hit the ground, she found a lot of black powder on the ground. It looks like the kind of gunpowder that Pi Kaiyuan gave to Xu Gui before. So Yu Dan said: "Brother Pi, look at this ground, is it gunpowder?"

Pi Kaiyuan squatted down and looked at the ground, reached out and wiped a little, put it on his nose and sniffed it, and said, "Well, that's right, this is indeed gunpowder." ”

Yi Dan turned around and asked the man, "Uncle, may I ask why there is so much gunpowder on this ground?"

The man said, "Oh, this is where I developed explosives, so it's not surprising that some gunpowder is there." ”

Yi Dan looked at the forty-year-old uncle in front of him in amazement and asked, "What? Uncle, you said you were developing gunpowder here?"

The man pointed to the various tools on the table and said, "Yes, this thing is easy to catch fire, so I built such a platform on the water." Even if it catches fire, it won't burn the house on the shore. ”

Yi Dan said: "I finally understand, you use the gunpowder you developed to catch fish, but you can't eat so many fish, so you use it to feed dolphins, uncle?"

The man said, "Yes, girl, you are so smart, this question can be associated with you." ”

Yi Dan asked, "Uncle Fei, are you the Mr. Zheng that Mu Daxia said?"

The man said: "That's right, my surname is Zheng, and my single name is a 'Xuan' character." I don't know who the girl is talking about?"

Yi Dan said: "It's the head of the Tianya faction of Haijiao Villa, Mu Yongxiao's hero." He asked me to say hello to you on his behalf. ”

Zheng Xuan asked, "Mu Yongxiao, the head of the Tianya faction?"

"That's right, it's Mu Daxia. Yi Dan replied.

Zheng Xuan thought for a while and said, "Many years ago, I went to Haijiao Villa to look for him, but he didn't see me. Strange, why did he send you to me now?"

Yi Dan hurriedly explained for Mu Yongxiao: "Mr. Zheng, in fact, you misunderstood Mu Daxia. He can't be blamed for what happened back then. He also has a lot of things that he can't tell you clearly. ”

Zheng Xuan asked, "By the way, you haven't asked the girl yet, are you?"

Yi Dan said: "In Xia Yi Dan, from the Central Plains." Next to him is the big apprentice of Mu Daxia, Pi Kaiyuan"

Pi Kaiyuan hurriedly bowed his hand respectfully to Zheng Xuan: "Pi Kaiyuan has seen Mr. Zheng. ”

Yi Dan pointed to his junior brother Youming and said, "This is my junior brother, Youming." ”

"In Xia Yuan Youming, I have seen Mr. Zheng. Youming also responded politely.

Zheng Xuan nodded and asked, "I don't know what happened to the mighty Qiongya Island Wood Hero who sent the three of you to find Zheng?"

Pi Kaiyuan said: "The family teacher encountered difficulties this time, Haijiao Villa was taken away by Ruan Zhilong, a fishing tyrant in the West Sea, and the senior sister and sister also became hostages. In order to save them, the master was also unfortunately injured by the bow and crossbow. So I came to ask Mr. Zheng to help regardless of his previous suspicions. Great kindness, grateful. ”

Zheng Xuan asked: "This is strange, I, Zheng Xuan, have low martial arts, what can I do to help that master of the wood who is famous in martial arts?"

Pi Kaiyuan said: "The family teacher said, you don't need Mr. Zheng's martial arts to help." As long as Mr. Zheng agrees, he can use the method of gunpowder to help. ”

Zheng Xuan said: "It's not that I don't want to help, it's just that I went to Mu Daxia and wanted to work with him to develop a new weapon, but after he learned about it, he categorically rejected me." Frankly, I've always been on the back of my mind. He was so arrogant at the beginning, but he didn't expect that now there is a time when he will lose Maicheng?"

Speaking of which, Zheng Xuan's words also revealed a little pride in Yi. At this time, Yi Dan hurriedly asked: "I don't know why Mr. Zheng wanted to work with Mu Daxia to develop weapons in the first place?"

Zheng Xuan said: "Actually, I won't hide it from you, I was originally from Runan (now Runan County, Henan Province), and my ancestors were originally alchemy Taoists. The brothers in the family are also proficient in studying the method of sulfur and nitrate. ”

Yi Dan interjected: "I heard early in the morning that the method of gunpowder was originally discovered by chance of Taoist alchemy, but because it was too easy to cause fire, the people who made alchemy abandoned it. ”

Zheng Xuan said: "That's right. In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil and the people were suffering. My eldest brother Zheng Fan, seeing that the Tang Dynasty was corrupt and hopeless, wanted to do his part for the people of the world, so he took me, who was only a few years old at the time, to join the remnants of the Huangchao Army and Qin Zongquan. With his gunpowder technique, he became a pyrotechnic general. This Qin Zongquan was originally the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, but because he was defeated by Huangchao, he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and defected to him. He was brutal and unkind, indiscriminately killed innocents, used the flesh of the people as military rations, and had no position in the twilight of the Qin Dynasty, and all his life only wanted to make a fortune for his own interests in the troubled times, and did not care about the life and death of the people at all. ”

"That's right, Qin Zongquan is the same as Huang Chao, brutal and indiscriminately killing innocents. This account, Shi Bi Danshu will one day calculate it for them. Youming said.

Zheng Xuan continued: "Hey, later my eldest brother knew that he was with the wrong person, so he was absent-minded all day long, and did not help Qin Zongquan continue to do nonsense, but used indulgence in alcohol to slack off the military. Soon after, the Qin Zongquan was killed by Zhu Wen who returned to the imperial court, and after Zhu Wen pacified the Huangchao Rebellion, he was autocratic and arrogant. My eldest brother Zheng Fan, although he doesn't like Qin Zongquan, he also can't get used to Zhu Wen who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the world. So he switched to the secret tent of King Wu and Yang Xing, who opposed Zhu Wen. ”

"That's right, compared to Zhu Wen and the two, they are also better. Yi Dan said.

"It seems that girl, you also have a lot of insights into the general trend of the world. Zheng Xuan said.

"I'm ashamed, I'm just talking about what I think in my heart, if there is anything wrong, I hope Mr. Zheng Haihan. Yi Dan hurriedly said politely.

"There's nothing wrong with that, you're saying it well. It was precisely because they were not good people that my eldest brother switched to Yang Xing's secret account. In the battle of helping Yang Xingmi attack Yuzhang, he used a stone thrower, threw gunpowder, burned Longshamen, and made a lot of contributions. Since then, my eldest brother Zheng Fan has become famous and spread in China. But Zhu Wen was angry and killed our mother and people in Runan. ”

(According to the "History of the New Five Dynasties": Zheng Fan.) The general of the Wu State of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Runan people's clan. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Qin Zongquan was the first thing, and then Yang Xingmi. Due to his merits, he was repeatedly moved to Situ, the assassin envoy of Raozhou (now Poyang County, Jiangxi Province), the deputy envoy of the Zhennan Army, and the deputy envoy of the Jinling (now Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province). In 904 AD, Zheng Fan attacked Yuzhang (now Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province) "with the headquarters of the fire and burned Longshamen." Lead the strong man to break through the fire and enter the city first, scorching the body. "This battle was the beginning of the use of gunpowder in ancient Chinese military affairs. ）

Yi Dan asked in surprise, "It turns out that Mr. Zheng's mother and clansmen were also killed by Zhu Wen's brute?"

Zheng Xuan said: "Yes, later I wanted my eldest brother to join me to avenge my mother and the clansmen." But he said that he was under the tent of King Wu, and everything had to be arranged by King Wu, and he could not act without authorization. He said that as long as he followed King Wu, he would kill Zhu Wen one day. But he didn't wait to kill Zhu Wen. , Wu Wang Yang Xingmi has returned to the sky. I was angry, and I left my eldest brother. Not long after I left Yuzhang, I heard that Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty. Yang Xingmi's two indisputable sons have successively paid tribute to Zhu Wen, and they have no ability to levy Zhu Wen anymore. And my eldest brother is also accustomed to a life of glory and wealth, and has long forgotten the hatred of his mother and his clansmen. I was resentful, but I couldn't do anything about it. He came south to the coast of the South China Sea and devoted himself to the development of the ancestral gunpowder method, hoping that one day he could kill Liang and kill Zhu and avenge his mother. Hey, I just sigh that I am weak and incapable. Now he is wasting his life on this desert island, but he can't do anything. Speaking of this, Zheng Xuan looked at the sky with a sad face.

Yi Dan suddenly realized: "I see, so Mr. Zheng, after you came to Yaxian, I heard that the wooden heroes of Haijiao Villa have ten thousand arrows and crossbows. So I wanted to go and discuss with him and use gunpowder to transform his repeater into a more lethal weapon, hoping that one day, I could use this powerful weapon to destroy Zhu Liang in one fell swoop, am I right, Mr. Zheng?"

Zheng Xuan said: "That's right, that's exactly what I thought at the beginning. It's a pity that it's wishful thinking, and the wood hero has no interest in my proposal at all. Maybe he just wanted to be a reclusive master, and a cynical and hateful person like me was probably just a joke in his eyes, right? I'm alone, fiddling with these bottles and cans, with dolphins as my company, and I'm here for the rest of my life. Well, I've reached this age, and I may never be able to fulfill my wish to avenge my mother and my people in this life. Speaking of this, Zheng Xuan's eyes were a little sad and helpless.

When Yi Dan heard these words, he couldn't help but think of the hatred he was carrying. But she is kind and chivalrous, she naturally understands the truth of putting others before herself, she didn't care about telling her own story, but hurriedly defended Mu Yongxiao: "Hey, Mr. Zheng, it seems that you really misunderstood Mu Daxia." He's not the kind of insensitive person you say, but he really has unspeakable hardships. ”

Zheng Xuan asked, "What kind of hardship does he have, can't he tell him in person?"

Yi Dan said: "Mu Daxia told me that his ancestor was Li Mi, the leader of the Wagangzhai Righteous Army in the last years of the Sui Dynasty. ”

Zheng Xuan's eyes lit up, and after thinking about it, he asked: "Li Mi? is that the disloyal and unrighteous Li Mi of Wagangzhai who killed Zhai Rang who gave him the Zen position, and then defected to the Tang Dynasty and then rebelled against the Tang Dynasty?"

Yi Dan said embarrassedly: "Yes, it's that Wagangzhai Li Mi." ”

Zheng Xuan nodded suddenly and said, "Oh, no wonder Haijiao Mountain Villa is as solid as a city wall, and there are ten thousand arrows and crossbows, which were originally passed down from Li Mi?"

Yi Dan said: "That's right, Li Mi betrayed the Tang Dynasty at the beginning, was disloyal and unjust, and after being killed by the Tang Dynasty, he also harmed his descendants. His descendants were afraid of being hunted down and killed by the imperial court, so they took the martial arts and city building maps left by Li Mi, went all the way south, fled to Yaxian, and changed Li's surname to 'Mu' from then on, and lived an incognito life. Back then, you went to him to conspire to kill Zhu Wen and help the Tang Dynasty. First, he was afraid that Datang would settle old accounts, and secondly, because of his ancestors, his old hatred for Datang would be difficult to eliminate, so he ignored you, hoping that you could understand his difficulties. ”

Zheng Xuan suddenly realized and said: "I see, why didn't he say it earlier? I didn't necessarily let him kill Zhu Wen, and he had to help Datang." Besides, the decay in the last years of the Tang Dynasty is also a well-known thing, and it has long been a matter of no way to return to the sky, and it will collapse. Having said that, as long as it is not Zhu Wen who is the disaster to the country and the people, I will approve of whoever is the emperor. ”

Yi Dan said: "Although Li Mi was a disloyal and unrighteous person back then, Mu Daxia was a chivalrous hero. The Tianya faction he mastered has done a lot for the peace of Qiongya Island. However, he was just afraid that people in the martial arts would make fun of his ancestors, so after the Tang Dynasty was destroyed, he still lived in seclusion here, not wanting to set foot in the rivers and lakes. I also asked Mr. Zheng to understand Mu Daxia's difficulties, and to reach out to help regardless of previous suspicions. ”

Zheng Xuan said: "I, Zheng Xuan, am not an unreasonable person, since you have explained the reason, girl, I naturally understand it." I know what he's struggling with, and I don't blame him. But now, the world is falling apart, and the people are suffering, but there is no one to administer justice. My eldest brother Zheng Fan, who has just made a history of Raozhou in Wu State, is glorious and rich, with fine clothes and food. I have long forgotten our family's great enmity. Now that his Zhu family sits in the Central Plains, it seems that I will not be able to realize my wish in this life. Hey, you can't be filial in life, and you can't take revenge in death. How can I have a face in the future, to see the wronged old mother under the nine springs. "Speaking of which, Zheng Xuan.

Hearing this, Yi Dan suddenly had a feeling of "being a fallen person at the end of the world" in his heart for Zheng Xuan. She "pounced" and knelt in front of Zheng Xuan with her legs.

Zheng Xuan was taken aback, and didn't know why Yi Dan did this, so he asked, "Girl, why are you doing this?" Get up quickly, I promise you to save people." ”

Yi Dan said with a sad look: "Mr. Zheng, you don't know, in fact, I have the same life experience as Mr. Zheng. ”

Zheng Xuan asked, "What's going on at this time? What's wrong with you, girl? ”

Yi Dan said: "No, please listen to Mr. Zheng finish my words on my knees." ”

"If the girl has anything, just say it, and there is no need to make such a big gift. Zheng Xuan said.

"Under the father's surname is changed to Fang, and the chivalrous guest You Bailin with the same name is full of rivers and lakes, and he assassinated Zhu Wen, who was still the king of Liang at the time. Who knew that he was framed by a traitor and the assassination failed. The Yi family was killed by Zhu Wen, more than 120 people, and in the end, I was the only one, and I survived. ”

Zheng Xuan listened to Yi Dan's words, his eyes lit up, he lowered his head again, looked carefully at the young woman kneeling in front of him, and asked, "It turns out that your father was the chivalrous man who assassinated Zhu Wen with You Bailin back then?"

Yi Dan said: "That's right, although my father failed to assassinate them back then, it was also a chivalrous act for the people. ”

Zheng Xuan said: "You Bailin's failure to assassinate Zhu Wen shocked the entire martial arts. At that time, I was also in Chang'an, and I witnessed the scene of Zhu Wen's execution of the ranger, and my mood was also extremely sad. ”

Yi Dan said: "Well, in my life, I am determined to visit all the martial arts in the world, look for like-minded capable warriors, and work together to overthrow the tyrannical beam." Not only to avenge his parents and clansmen, but also to eliminate harm for the people of the world, this is the story below. ”

Zheng Xuan was surprised and moved, and hurriedly helped Yi Dan up and said, "Girl, please get up quickly." If you have such will and ability, even if I, Zheng Xuan, am broken, I will work with you to realize our common wish. ”

Yi Dan said with tears in his eyes: "That's great, Mr. Zheng, we can rely on each other in the future." One more person, one more strength. I believe that as long as people with lofty ideals in the world can unite as one, they will definitely be able to overthrow tyranny and restore long-term peace in the world. ”

Zheng Xuan was overjoyed and said, "Okay, good ambition." However, I wonder how much strength the girl has accumulated now?"

Yi Dan said: "The little woman is not talented, with her humble martial arts and her three-inch incorruptible tongue, she has now won the promise of several heroes to help." Of course, the little woman is still running around the rivers and lakes, and she will continue to work hard for this. I believe that in the near future, we will be able to realize this wish. ”

Zheng Xuan said happily: "Great, it's really a god general, God helps me." The old man thought that there was no chance of revenge in this life. I didn't expect that in the year of not being confused, I would be able to meet someone like you, Miss Yi, who shares my hatred and sympathy. It seems that God really sent you to help me. ”

Yi Dan said: "Mr. Zheng is the one sent by God to help me." Oh no, it should be said that it was our encounter, that God was destined to destroy the tyrannical beam. ”

Zheng Xuan said: "That's right, good and evil will be rewarded in the end." Everything in the world has long been predestined. ”

Yi Dan said: "As long as we unite and don't fight like in Wagangzhai back then, we will definitely be able to realize our common aspirations." ”

Zheng Xuan said: "That's right, it's really a godsend, great." You're right, as long as we work together, we will definitely be able to overthrow the tyrannical beam and revive the world. ”

Yi Dan: "Well, yes, I don't have any interest in power. It is enough to only want to avenge his parents and be a happy and vengeful child. ”

Zheng Xuan smiled: "Haha, haha, you are very similar to me in this regard." I also hate the tricks of power, which are all insidious and cunning, intrigues, and I really don't want to agree with them. ”

When the two of them said this, they both laughed, and they both had a feeling of hating each other. (To be continued.) )