"Two masters, you can change your clothes quickly and take that boat to go!"

Under the arrangement of Yue Tuo's confidants, Ebilun and Zhuo Naxi quickly changed into ordinary Han clothes, mixed into a group of ragged Liaodong refugees, and squeezed onto the Ming smuggling merchant ship.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty smuggled merchant ships, in addition to smuggling goods from the Hou Jin, would also secretly bring back some Liaodong refugees who wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the prerequisite was that these refugees could afford the price of taking a boat.

After all, the space on the ship is limited, so it is no wonder that the boss of the ship wants to charge each person ten taels of silver for the boarding price.

There were more than 500 refugees who paid the money to board the ship. In this way, the entire merchant ship could get more than 5,000 taels of silver by carrying the refugees. The boss of the ship was naturally overjoyed and smiled.

The merchant ship headed south all the way and passed by three days in peace.

The weather in October in Liaodong was quite cold, with the sea breeze whistling and cold. Ebilunzhuo Naxi, dressed in tattered Han folk costumes, squeezed among the piles of dove-shaped ragged refugees, all of whom were trembling with cold.

Due to the large number of refugees, the two of them were not conspicuous at all, but they also saved them a lot of unnecessary trouble.

But no one expected that at dusk three days later, the ship had just bypassed the Laotie Mountain Waterway and turned around and walked south to Dengzhou for a short distance, and met the Ming army navy who came to patrol.

The boss of the ship suddenly looked like a mortal face. He knew that after the navy caught the smuggled items on his ship, it would be the fate of Ling Chi to be executed! So he ordered all the oarsmen to row with all their might, trying to escape while the darker and darker sky was getting away.

However, he was not lucky enough to escape in the end. The merchant ship was caught by the Ming navy and sank the cannon. All the crew fell into the sea.

The crew members and refugees who fell into the cold sea screamed and called for help.

The Ming navy, who had sunk the merchant ship, seemed to be deaf. They gathered at the side of the ship with a smile and watched. The crowds of people crying and struggling in the cold sea water were as if they were enjoying a good show, and then turned around without pity.

"Zhuo Naxi, hurry up, climb up!"

Ebilun had quick eyes and quick hands. His strong hands grabbed a large piece of the blown-down driftwood with his strong hands, and then tried his best to push Zhuo Naxi to the driftwood.

Then he climbed up himself, then used his hand paddle to cut the driftwood away from the crowd.

He knew that this driftwood carried the weight of two people and had reached its limit. If someone climbed up, it would be possible for all three of them to die.

Because of his urgent wisdom and decisiveness, they were lucky enough to escape the tragic fate of eventually drowning in the sea like others.

When the moon rose, the crying and struggling sounds of people falling into the water on the sea gradually disappeared. E Bilun looked around and saw the drowned bodies floating on the sea in a mess, as if they were asleep. The sea was silent, and only the howling sea breeze kept crying.

The bright moonlight quietly shines on this dead water, smearing a layer of sad silver on the sea with a large piece of driftwood floating in the wind.

Zhuo Naxi, who was soaked in the cold sea water, and choked several mouthfuls of salty sea water while struggling in the sea, lay motionless on the driftwood, coughing constantly, looked at her squatting in front of her, looking at her Ebilun who was looking anxiously, trying to squeeze out a dismal smile to him.

Seeing that her eyes were empty and depressed, Ebilun hurriedly said, "Zhuo Naxi, hold on! After dawn, fishermen may come to save us."

Zhuo Naxi shook his head gently and coughed violently with another sound.

"I, I won't live until dawn. I feel chills all over, so tired and sleepy." Zhuo Naxi said with difficulty, panting.

"No! Zhuo Naxi, don't fall asleep!" Ebilun roared. He knew that once he fell asleep on this cold sea, he would basically die.

He hugged Zhuo Naxi tightly in his arms, trying his best to give her some warmth.

Zhuo Naxi, who was hugged tightly in his arms, looked up at the sky with dull eyes.

That silver-white moon was like a gentle and friendly smiling face.

Oh, that was the smile of my mother Mangguji, who was welcoming herself to return to her side.

A smirk surged from Zhuo Naxi's face, and two lines of tears fell again.

Mother, my daughter is coming to see you, and she is leaving this world full of sin and murder, and going to be with you. In that ever-clear land of happiness, we will never be separated and be together forever.

Zhuo Naxi, who had a faint smile on his face, had a strange light in his eyes. She murmured: "Cousin, my mother is about to come down from the moon to pick me up. It's great, it's great..."

Ebilun hugged her tightly and cried loudly: "Zhuo Naxi, you won't die, you won't..."

Zhuo Naxi squeezed out a smile: "Cousin, don't be sad. I'm very happy if my mother comes to pick me up. You can live well."

"No, I won't let you die!" E Bilun yelled.

Zhuo Naxi's cold fingers brushed his Ebilun's face and said with great effort: "Cousin, let me sing a song for you before I leave. It was a child, and it was like this sunny moonlit night. My mother sang it to me. Cough, I hope you can live a human-like life in Ming Dynasty."

The ethereal song sounded intermittently, and a series of small notes filled with sadness slowly flowed out of Zhuo Naxi's mouth and disappeared on the cold sea.

"Moon, Moon, you fly high,

Flying high,

Flying through the blue night sky,

Flying through thousands of mountains and rivers,

Flying into my dream..."

Her cousin Zhuo Naxi, who was hugging her arms, became colder and colder and singing became weaker, and Ebilun burst into tears.

"Huang Taiji! Haoge! You shameless bastards! I am incompatible with you!"

E Bilun's angry voice roared in the breeze.

He was in despair and burst into tears, but he could no longer do anything about it.

It seemed as if after a long time, a faint sound came into his ears, which were also becoming more and more confused.

Ebilun suddenly woke up in surprise. He looked around. Soon, endless ecstasy appeared on his originally angry and painful face.

He saw four ships covered in silver-white moonlight as if they were coming out from the horizon between the sea and the sky, and were sailing from south to north, towards their own direction.

The desire to survive immediately rose from Ebilun's heart. He shouted at Zhuo Naxi who was almost unconscious in his arms: "Zhuo Naxi, hold on! A boat is coming! We are saved!"

After he finished shouting, he put down Zhuo Naxi, who had fainted, took off his clothes, and after struggling to stand firm on the driftwood, he waved his clothes vigorously and signaled to the ship coming closer and closer to ask for help.

Soon, the fleet seemed to have discovered that under the bright moonlight, Ebilun, who was struggling to waving his clothes for help, the leading ship came over, stopped near the driftwood, and then lowered a soft ladder.

E Bilun, who was overjoyed, quickly tied Zhuo Naxi with his clothes, tied it firmly to his back, and then jumped onto the soft ladder and climbed upwards.

The people on the boat began to assist him, and several of them worked hard to pull the ladder together. Soon, exhausted Ebilun rolled onto the side of the boat and fell to the ground.

The clothes that bound Zhuo Naxi dispersed, Zhuo Naxi plopped and fell softly on the deck.

Several people who looked like leaders walked quickly towards Ebilun.

The one who walked in the front was General Chifeng Li Xiao.

Following him were the guerrilla general Yuan Anbang of Dongjiang Town, and Feng Shi, the chief of the Navy of Li Xiaojun.

Li Xiao, who went to Pi Island in Dongjiang Town, was lucky enough to rescue Ebi Lunzhuo and Naxi here.

It turned out that in the past few months, Li Xiao saw that Dongjiang Town had not sent firearm craftsmen. He was very anxious, so he personally brought a group of guards and the navy chief Feng Shi, along with the Dongjiang Town ships that came to Chifengwei to buy merchant goods, and went to Pidao to personally invite these craftsmen that Li Xiaojun was in urgent need.

In fact, when Li Xiao went to Pi Island this time, he not only wanted to dig up the firearm craftsmen, but also had a task, which was to meet Shen Shikui, the general of Dongjiang Town, and negotiate with him to try to take the marine island of Dongjiang Town to his own command.

This is the decision made by Li Xiao after careful consideration.

The sub-island of Dongjiang Town, Marine Island, belongs to one of the Changshan Islands. It is the largest but most remote island under Dongjiang Town. The entire island covers an area of ​​19.3 square kilometers and is 76 nautical miles away from Lushun. On this island, the population is small, and only more than 20 fishermen often live here.

Because this island is remote and remote, it is not a strategic location and is not very important to Dongjiang Town. Shen Shikui, the general of Dongjiang Town, sent only more than 200 old and weak soldiers to garrison here for a long time.

The reason why Li Xiao was so interested in this ocean island was not only because the island was very large, but because there was a natural deep-water harbor called "Taiping Bay" on this ocean island. Therefore, the opening of the bay was narrow and could block the wind on all sides. Without the turbulent waves outside the bay, the harbor was still as horizontal as a mirror, and it was a shelter for ships and fishing boats. Therefore, local fishermen called it "Taiping Bay".

Such a natural good harbor is basically of no use in the hands of Dongjiang Town, where you live a life of living. However, if Li Xiao could take it as his existing one, he could develop it into an excellent navy base.

Now, except for the large commercial port Longkou Bay, the land along Chifengwei coast, most of the rest are tidal flats and are basically developed as salt fields. Therefore, Li Xiao actually did not have a large harbor for the navy to station. If he could obtain this ocean island, it would provide his navy with an excellent development base.

Li Xiao planned to build a military port in the future, in addition to building a large shipyard on it, and produce various types of ships themselves. Other parts of the island are used to dry salt or produce fishing products.

There is another great benefit to forming a navy on this remote island, that is, because this place is remote, Li Xiao can form a navy here on a large scale, but there is no need to worry about attracting the jealousy of his colleagues, thereby reducing a lot of unnecessary trouble for himself.

Li Xiao knew that according to the historical process, by the tenth year of Chongzhen, Dongjiang Town would be completely destroyed, and all islands, including Pi Island, would be occupied by the Qing army. If he could own this ocean island and manage it perfectly, he would undoubtedly have a very deep hidden nail inserted into the lower abdomen of the Later Jin Dynasty.

Perhaps, Dongjiang Town is already surviving, its future will continue in my hands...

E Bilun looked with a very vigilant look and looked at him standing in front of him, wearing a silver wire plate and green crystal jade hair crown, wearing a big red chest and back with a tiger pattern, a third-grade military officer uniform, a golden lychee and lollipop wrapped in jade belt, a beautiful commander's double silver jade plaque, a black rhinoceros thick-faced straight-slit official boot, a sharp dragon roar sword on his waist, a heroic and upright, and a very powerful Li Xiaoshi's mind was blank for a moment.

"Where are you, and whose surname is yours, how could you fall into the sea?"

Li Xiao's voice was very gentle, but he had an irresistible majesty.

E Bilun couldn't understand his Chinese language, but he felt anxious, but he spoke it in a series of Jurchen words.

"Fuck, it turns out to be a Tartar." Yuan Anbang sneered: "I'm going around such a big bend, but I saved a Tartar. In my opinion, it's better to kill it with one knife."

Li Xiao frowned slightly, then called Feng Shi next to him and asked, "Feng Shi, you have traded with the Jurchens, you should understand some Jurchens, what is this Tartar saying?"

"Sir, what this person said is that they are the Jurchen survivors loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Following the Ming ships south, they fell into the sea because of the ships being damaged. Fortunately, the master saved them. I am very grateful. I said that this woman is his sister and is in danger of life. I ask us to save her quickly."

Li Xiao said oh, and said to Feng Shi: "Then tell him, let them go to the cabin to rest first and arrange for the doctor to treat the woman."

Feng Shi then said Li Xiao's words to Ebilun. After Ebilun listened, he looked grateful and kowtowed to Li Xiao continuously. After Zhuo Naxi was helped down by the soldiers, he asked Li Xiao aloud again.

"Sir, the Tartar said, "Sir, you are so kind, how dare you ask for your noble surname?"

"Oh, this person is a little interesting." Li Xiao smiled: "Then tell him the name of this official."

After Feng Shi told Ebilun the name of Li Xiao, she unexpectedly said something anxiously.

"Sir, he is asking if it's the Li Xiao who broke the Zhenglan Banner in Jinjiazhuang Fort in Xuanfu Town."

Li Xiao was suddenly shocked. He was about to leave, and he couldn't help but look up and down. The haggard and down Jurchen strong man in front of him.

This person actually knew what happened like this, but he didn't know where it came from?

Li Xiao's thoughts moved and ordered Yuan Anbang and other soldiers from Dongjiang Town to leave first, and asked Feng Shi to lead E Bilun to his own separate residence on the ship for a secret talk.

"Come on the truth, who are you?" Li Xiao asked in a low and stern voice.
Chapter completed!