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481. The trauma of war

Escape from Wangjing City, we headed south, gathered the musket team and the special forces who managed the horses, and galloped south at full speed.

Along the way, Jiugui Zhengxiao was a little depressed. I didn't know what happened to him, so I spoke to Xun.

The Nine Ghost Masayoshi was Chen Ou first, and then he told me the reason: "That woman, I mean Kim Ansu-sun, who went in for us to assassinate Shibata Katsukaku, and I promised her to tell her family about her jingling."

I said no, and asked, "Where does she live?"

Jiugui Zhengxiao's eyes showed a hint of unbearableness: "It should be not far ahead. She told me that she lives in Jinjia Village not far ahead."

After saying that, he thought about it and said, "Sir, I want to apply to leave the team, go to Jin Anshun's home and tell her parents the truth."

I smiled and said, "Why do you want to leave the team? You must just say no? This is not a matter of i alone."

Jiugui Masayoshi shook his head and said, "Thank you for understanding, but Kim Anshun went to assassinate Shibata Katsukaku. No matter whether they succeed or fail, they will come to her hometown to find whether there are any accomplices who are causing trouble. So it is not safe to go there. I think... I will go alone. If the situation is wrong, it will be better to hide and hide than to bear the danger together!"

"This is nonsense!" I smiled: "I sent you the mission, there is no reason to let you take risks by yourself. Let's go! Let's go quickly and return!"

What else did Jiugui Zhengxiao want to say? I waved my hand and said, "This is an order! Go quickly and lead the way!"

Jiugui Zhengxiao's eyes turned red, he bit his lip hard, then shook the reins, and the horse whip twitched the horse's back thigh, shouting several times: "Go!Go!Go!"

The horse was in pain and rushed forward at full speed. Seeing this, I realized that he was afraid that everyone would be implicated together and wanted to rush on the road as soon as possible. So I also rushed up and chased with all my might. The team behind immediately followed and stirred up high dust all the way.

The horse was fast, and when the rooster crowed, I finally saw a few wisps of smoke in front of me. Jiugui Zhengxiao and I looked at each other, and he immediately accelerated again and went to the village to ask for directions first.

When we entered the village one after another, dozens of village names stood opposite Jiugui Zhengxiao, all of whom were holding knives and forks and farm tools, and directly facing Jiugui Zhengxiao. It seemed that there was a conflict!

We rushed over and wanted to raise our guns, but I stopped him, but I didn't let him get too close. Instead, I waited for us fifty steps away, ready to take any accidents.

"What's going on?" I walked to the side of Jiugui Zhengxiao and asked in Chinese.

Jiugui Zhengxiao replied helplessly: "They thought we were from the same group as the one who came to rob the girl before, so they were very angry and kept asking us to let us release people! Where should we release them?"

I nodded and said, "I'll say, if they really don't believe it, let's hurry up and hurry up. You have done your best, and you have done your best."

Jiugui Zhengxiao nodded, retreated behind me, and stood quietly. I was about to speak, but an old man opposite him asked, "Sir, are you a reinforcement from the Ming Dynasty?"

He spoke Chinese, although his tone was a bit strange.

I nodded and said, "That's right! I am Sun Qilan, the navy admiral of the Northern Expedition Army of the Ming Dynasty. This time I was ordered to come to investigate the enemy, which disturbed the villagers."

The old man looked excited and said something to the back in the earthly language. Jiugui Zhengxiao whispered: "He is telling these people that we are the reinforcements of the Celestial Empire of the Ming Dynasty."

I remained silent and waited for the old man to speak. Sure enough, after learning that we were not Japanese pirates, but reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty, these people's attitudes improved a lot. Although they were still a little uncertain, their expressions and movements had been much more relaxed.

The old man coughed and said in a hoarse voice: "It's not that old man can trust you. If you are really an official from the Ming Dynasty, can you give us your waist card to see it!"

I thought to myself, this old man is really cautious, but it is understandable. In the war era, if he is cautious, he will still encounter disasters. If he is careless, he is afraid that his life will not be enough to die.

So I took off the gold-inlaid jade waist sign and handed it to the old man.

The old man knew the Chinese characters and immediately read the words on it: "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty was granted the second-rank admiral of the Northern Expedition Navy." My surname was written on the back - Dada's character "Sun".

After finishing reading, the old man immediately shouted to the villagers in local language: "This is a high-ranking official from the second rank of the Ming Dynasty! He is here to help us!"

A burst of shouts immediately broke out among the masses! The crowd was excited and excited.

I quickly pressed my hands towards them, asked for the waist card, and then said to the old man: "Old man, I have something urgent to tell you this time. If it's over, I'm afraid that the village will suffer!"

Seeing that I was talking seriously, the old man immediately asked, "I wonder what the adults are doing here?"

I immediately asked the people behind me, "Can you know a girl named Jin Anshun?"

As soon as I said this, the crowd immediately discussed it again. After a moment, a middle-aged couple helped each other and walked out. The man said to me in broken Chinese: "I am Anshun's father. Have you seen my daughter?"

The woman started crying on the spot, shouting at me in local dialect. The man kept comforting his wife, but couldn't help but shed tears.

Jiugui Zhengxiao was behind me, and his voice was a little choked: "She said that Kim Ansun was going to get married next month, so why didn't he have the life to be an Ansheng woman? Alas!"

I sighed secretly, bowed to Jin Anshun's father, and then said in a deep voice: "Anshun was indeed insulted by the Japanese pirates."

Jin Anshun's father immediately lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "I just pretend that I have never given birth to this daughter! I will not allow her to enter the door for life!"

I shook my head and said, "No, you were wrong! Jin Anshun is not a shame, but the pride of the Jin family!"

Everyone looked at me eagerly, wondering why I said that. I shouted to them: "After Jin Anshun was insulted, she could not bear the humiliation, poisoned the man, and then committed suicide by taking poison! She used her death to be full of chastity, and she deserved to build a high chastity arch!"

"Roar!" The villagers let out a loud roar. While Jin Anshun's parents were in pain, they also smiled under their tears and kept nodding: "Stand the archway! Stand the archway!"

I signaled everyone to quiet again and said the key point of whether I came here: "I came to tell everyone that Anshun is not embarrassed, but the Japanese pirates will definitely not let this go like this. She poisoned the Japanese pirates! So I came to tell everyone, leave quickly, the farther the better, the later it is not too late!"

I thought that after saying these words, the villagers must have been panicked and were about to leave the place urgently, but they were stunned for a moment, and someone immediately shouted: "I won't leave!"

This voice represents the hearts of most people, and more and more of them shouted: "We won't leave!" "We will fight with the Japanese pirates to the end!" "The rebel army is coming, and the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty are also here! We will fight with the Japanese pirates to the end!"

For a moment, the villagers' anger was completely ignited, and Jin Anshun's death festivities inspired them, and they were determined to fight to the death with the Japanese pirates.

My Nine Ghosts Zhengxiao, Mo and others looked at each other, and could only look at the old man who had just spoken.

The old man wiped his tears and said to me: "Official, on behalf of Jinjia Village, I would like to thank you for your great kindness! There are no surrendered men in our Jinjia Village, nor are there women who are afraid of death! Anshun is a good girl, and we elders are not cowards!"

The villagers echoed again, and I was deeply infected, and I felt tears in my eyes, but I still persuaded: "Everyone, I know that you are all righteous men, but the Japanese pirates are powerful, and they are afraid of hitting stones with eggs! As the saying goes, if you keep the green mountains and don't worry about the lack of firewood, why do you have to fight for a while?"

The old man laughed, but tears in his eyes: "Official, you don't know that although our court is incompetent, the people are not afraid of death! Recently, all the rebels withdrawn from Wangjing City are stationed nearby. Don't worry, let's inform them to gather their troops. Even if they die, they will bite off a piece of meat from the Japanese pirates!"

I almost cried, nodded, and said, "I admire your passion, and I must kill the enemy with all my strength to help retreat. But what should the children do? Anshun is gone, what should her sisters do? She once told us to take her sisters away, which is also her last wish."

When everyone heard the word "children", they were silent. Yes, war is the adults' business, what does it have to do with the children?

"Let the child go!" Jin Anshun's mother cried first. She had lost a daughter. If the fight started again, the old Jin family would be defeated!

Many people sighed and said nothing, and finally the old man said, "The children should leave, but they cannot leave all of them. They will leave all of them. When we die of old age, who will collect the body? Do this! If you have a child at home, you will decide whether to leave. If you have two or more children, one will leave. How about it? Do you have any opinions?"

"No objection!" "No objection!" The villagers expressed their positive attitude.

I nodded and silently. Although some things will affect the main things, we are human beings after all, and we cannot stand by death without saving them.

Just treat it as accumulating virtue for yourself!

The villagers were in a state of chaos. The old man suddenly remembered something and took my hand and said, "Officiale! I have a child, please be sure to bring him with me!"

I was very puzzled and asked, "What kid?"

The old man turned around and shouted to the village. After a while, a young man and a half ran out happily.

The old man grabbed the child's hand and pushed it in front of me and said, "It's this child. He is blessed and lucky. He shouldn't stay here to live with us anymore!"

I looked down at the child. At the age of 11 or 2, I had a shiny head and brain, my eyes were shiny, and I was dripping. My little body was not fat, but it was strong and tight. My skin looked like I had been on the sea for a long time, and I was healthy and dark.

I asked him, "Child, what's your name?"

The child was not timid and replied to me loudly: "Official! Are you from the Ming Dynasty? My name is Zheng Shibiao! I am from Nan'an, Fujian!"

I was shocked, Fujianese? How could he be here?

So I asked again: "Zheng Shibiao, you are a good guy. Tell me, how did you come from Goryeo!"

Zheng Shibiao replied in his southern accent: "I went to trade with my father in the sea, and kept going to Goryeo, Japan, and Maluojia! Last time I went to sea, I met Mr. Li Zhongwu fighting Japanese pirates at sea, but our ship ran into the reefs to avoid! I floated here with my father, and Grandpa Jin and others took us in!"

I asked again, "Where is your father?"

"It's gone!" Zheng Shibiao replied: "Tuber tuberculosis, Grandpa Jin and the others have helped me bury my father."

I was silent. It was really not easy for this child, so I said to him: "Do you want to go back to the Ming Dynasty?"

Zheng Shibiao replied, "I think! Official, I heard that you are the admiral of the navy. Can you take me with me? I can drive the sails and take the helm!"

Old Man Jin and I laughed loudly. I touched the child's head and said, "Okay! OK! I will take you to sea, take you back to Fujian, take you to Hangzhou, and take you to Taiwan!"

Speaking of Taiwan, my heart suddenly stumbled, and I suddenly remembered something, so I hurriedly lowered my head and asked again: "Child, you just said...Your name is Zheng Shibiao? Is from Nan'an, Fujian?"

The boy looked up and looked at me in confusion and said, "Yes, official, my name is Zheng Shibiao, from Nan'an, Fujian."

I held his hand and froze because I remembered who he was in history!

Zheng Shibiao has a son named Zheng Zhilong, and his grandson named Zheng Chenggong!
Chapter completed!
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