"Everyone has a time when the tiger falls in peace." Lin Fu, Fu Qinghe, and Su Mei walked into the thatched shed. The walls of the thatched shed were full of holes. Although it was impossible to light a fire, the light was not dim in the dusk. Lin Fu looked at the people sitting there.
On the ground, a thin-faced man with a beard, his hands tied behind his back, and a fake smile on his face, asked, "You two just accept your fate, do you have anything to say to us?" He was about to squat down and ask Ninghai Town in detail.
He suddenly became suspicious when he saw that the bearded man next to him had a strange look on his face. He put the tip of a knife to the thin-faced man's throat and shouted: "Get down!"
The thin-faced man had no doubt that if he hesitated even a little, the knife would pierce his throat. With his hands tied behind his back, he had no choice but to throw his upper body and lie there on the muddy ground.
Lin Fu saw that the belt tied with his hands almost broke due to his force. He thought that this guy was very strong, so he slapped him hard on the back of the head with a knife and said, "Looking for death!"
The bearded man looked at us and shouted: "Kill us if you have the guts. What kind of bullying is this?"
Lin Fu glanced at him sideways, smiled, and ignored him. He looked at the thin-faced man and said, "You can also say this to me." He then slapped him on the back of the head, which hit the thin-faced man.
There were stars in his eyes, he was in pain but didn't say a word; he had a beard and his eyes were about to burst, and he knew that any heroic words would only add to the humiliation.
Fu Qinghe grabbed Beard's injured shoulder and checked his bindings. Beard was hit by an arrow under his ribs and in the shoulder socket. He lost a lot of blood and had no strength to struggle. He just didn't expect that the thin-faced man would still have such great strength after being hit by an arrow.
, if he hadn't been wounded by an arrow and captured him, a fierce battle would have been inevitable. His honesty just now was all a lie. Fu Qinghe was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat: If the thin-faced man was allowed to escape into the woods, they wouldn't have a boat to leave immediately.
On a deserted island, when the officers and soldiers of Ning Haijun Town return to the island, they will be doomed.
Lin Fuxin found a belt and tied the thin-faced man back up, and said to the boy next to him: "Do you know how to tie it more firmly?"
The boys around him all shook their heads.
"Dry cloth has no force; when it is wet, it becomes tough," Lin Fu said. Seeing Hu Qiaozhong going out to find water, he called out to him, "It doesn't have to be water to make it wet. Besides, no matter how strong the binding is, it is not as good as letting it get wet."
He doesn't have the strength to struggle safely... How can we make him have no strength to struggle?" He took out his waist knife, used the tip of the knife to cut a gash on each arm of the thin-faced man, and directed the blood to flow to the belt binding his wrists, "Let him go.
The blood naturally left him with no strength..."
Su Mei and Xiaoman had never seen such a bloody scene. Lin Fu taught while talking, just like an old man in a school who patiently teaches students how to practice calligraphy with a nonchalant look on his face. If you only looked at his face,
They absolutely could not imagine that he was using a knife to cut two incisions on the thin-faced man's arms and let out blood. They saw that their scalps were numb and their backs were cold. They couldn't bear to watch, so they walked aside and turned away. Ten teenagers in the thatched shed.
, some of them couldn't bear to see it and wanted to avoid it. Lin Fu shouted in a deep voice: "Look carefully, they don't deserve your sympathy..." Seeing that the thin-faced man was almost tortured, he pulled his head and made him kneel and stand.
He stood up and turned around and said word by word to the teenagers in front of him, "I'm not teaching you to be cruel, but you must learn to protect yourself, your friends and your family..."
Su Mei trembled when she heard this, thinking that Mr. Lin ignored his own life for them, hid in the water at the stern of the ship for hundreds of miles, followed them here, and rescued them from pirates, officers and soldiers, how could he be considered cruel?
Speaking of cruelty, these pirates, the officers and soldiers are even more cruel and inhumane. If you were kind to them, how could Mr. Lin successfully rescue them? Maybe for himself, for his friends and family, this is necessary.
Su Mei turned her head and glanced at Lin Fu. Lin Fu frowned and looked at the teenagers around her. She didn't notice the change in her expression, but she felt a little ashamed of her behavior just now. She thought that although she had not treated him lightly before,
But I always feel that his character, talent and learning are much different. It turns out that he is also a person worthy of respect.
Xiaoman hated these officers and soldiers so much that he was naturally happy that Lin Fu vented his anger for them, so he didn't think Lin Fu was cruel. It's just that little girls are naturally afraid of blood. When he heard Lin Fu's words, he thought to himself: Does he regard her as a friend?
?Seeing the lady staring at Lin Fu, she felt confused: He did this for the lady, I am just a personal maid.
Fu Qinghe knew a little about Lin Fu's intention, so he admired his actions very much. He stood aside with his hands folded, thinking to himself: When the Marquis commented on the people in the temple, the government and the public when he was still alive, he said that there were few people in the world who could achieve "the ability to govern the world".
I don’t know what the Marquis would think of the young man in front of him.”
Lin Fu didn't know what Su Mei and Xiaoman were thinking. He looked at the young men in front of him and sighed for their future fate. He saw Chen Enze biting his lip, tears in his eyes, and the look on his face.
With incomparable perseverance, he asked, "Do you know your current situation?"
"They are officers and soldiers from Ninghai Town. They were supposed to kill the pirates to save us, but instead they killed the pirates and hijacked us here. They wanted to pretend to be pirates and extort ransom money from our families..." Chen Enze said.
"..." Lin Fu raised his hand and asked him to stop talking for the time being. Although these young men have not experienced any storms, they are not ignorant. He turned around and patted the thin-faced man on the face with a knife.
Cheek, asked: "Who is the leader? You don't have to hide it from us. We already know that he is one of the main generals of Ninghai Town. Chen Qianhu and a man named Bai Ming are his confidants like you. As long as we go ashore, we will immediately
We can find out his identity..."
"Bah, so what if you know that my general Xiao Taoyuan wants to use these 30,000 taels of silver to ransom his body? With more than ten or twenty merchants in Chongzhou, do the wealthy locals still want to overthrow my general?" The thin-faced man was at this point.
Knowing that he was going to die, he didn't want to kneel anymore. He spat and struggled to stand up, but Lin Fu kicked him in the heart and fell to the ground hard. He stopped pretending to be a bear and sat down on the ground.
He said in a stern voice, "Don't talk about killing thirty or fifty people and robbing three to fifty thousand taels of silver. Jin Anshe's family has been raising troops for seven years, and what can the court do? At the end of the day, why don't we have to make marquises, cede lands, and appease them?"
"Xiao Taoyuan?" Lin Fu turned back and glanced at Fu Qinghe. He was not familiar with the Lieutenant General of Ninghai Zhenjun. After all, he was just a scholar who never left home.
Fu Qinghe explained: "Xiao Taoyuan is the second general of Ninghai Town, the deputy cavalry captain, and the commander of the Ninghai Sixth Battalion Navy...I didn't expect that the She family had already negotiated terms with the court."
Lin Fu nodded. Even if the person in front of him was not a senior general in the Ning Navy, he was also a close confidant of Xiao Taoyuan. They should know the news earlier than ordinary people. He turned back and glanced at Su Mei. She probably knew that she would temporarily ask the She family for help.
There is no hope of getting justice.
Lin Fu didn't want the thin-faced man to continue to be so arrogant before he died. When he saw that he was still talking, he slapped his face with a knife and broke two teeth. He turned to Chen Enze, Hu Qiaoguan and Hu Qiaozhong and said: "
Do you think you can let them go back?"
"No." Chen Enze said decisively, "They took the ransom money, but they also want to kill us to silence us, so they don't have to worry about the news leaking out. If we let them go back to report the news, my family and I will be in danger."
"Why can't you report to the official?" Hu Qiaoguan asked.
"They can pretend to be pirates today, and they can take the flag to sea and become pirates tomorrow," Hu Qiaozhong said. "If we report to the official, they will definitely retaliate against us and loot Chongzhou before going to sea..."
"Apply to the official? You kids are really weak-minded. You really think that the imperial court will defend the grievances of a few merchants and local rich people in Chongzhou and force them to rebel against the general! Even if there are people in the imperial court to redress your grievances, what can you do to my general? You want to think about your family.
It's safe, it's better to just surrender..." The thin-faced man said fiercely, but before he could finish his words, he hit Lin Fu with a knife on his left cheek again: "That's a lot of nonsense!" Along with Fu Qinghe, Su Mei, Chen Enze and other teenagers
He said, "Let's go out and talk." He left the thin-faced man with the beard in the thatched shed.
"The reporting officer is definitely not good. Although that one looks ferocious, what he said seems to make sense... If they want to turn into bandits, they will definitely rob Chongzhou first. There are only seventy or eighty sword archers in Chongzhou County, and even pirates can't stop them.
,How can we stop them?"
"How can we wait until we report it to the officials? If we escape, they will know that the matter has been exposed when they send people to the island. These officers and soldiers are so bold. Will they sit there and wait for death if they know that the matter has been exposed?"
"What should we do?"
"Perhaps we really can only save our families by being captured; as long as our families are not implicated, what if we are dead now?"
After walking out of the thatched shed, Chen Enze and other young men were at a loss as to what to do.
A crescent moon rose from the west between the sea and the sky. Lin Fu looked at these young people. Most of them were fourteen or fifteen years old. The ten or so younger ones were all arranged to rest in another thatched shed. Although they were pampered before,
They have never experienced twists and turns, but they have reached the age where they can understand things and know right from wrong. This time they encountered a disaster and were robbed by pirates. The officers and soldiers successively hijacked them and used them as meat tickets. They were panic-stricken. At this time, they had to worry about the safety of their families. It was really embarrassing for them.
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Fu Qinghe frowned and was thinking about other things; Su Mei and Xiaoman were also worried about the fate of these teenagers and their families. They had already experienced the arrogance and boldness of the town army this time. If these teenagers return to Chongzhou to report to the official, even if justice is served,
To uphold justice, how could Xiao Taoyuan and his subordinates be captured without help? Ning Haijun Town has jurisdiction over the military defense of Weiyang, Hailing, Pingjiang and other prefectures, and the navy in Ninghai Town is the only naval force in the Yangtze River downstream from Jiangning. Xiao
If Tao Yuan led a group of people to go to sea to become pirates, not to mention Chongzhou County, Weiyang, Hailing, and Pingjiang would all suffer great disaster. The greater possibility is that the court turned a deaf ear to the matter in order to appease Xiao Taoyuan, and no one would stand up to take charge.
To be fair, Chongzhou County is located in the defense area of Ninghai Town. The fate of these teenagers and their families can be imagined.
"Brother Lin, Mr. Lin, please think of a way to help them quickly..." Xiaoman looked at Lin Fu eagerly.
"Master Lin..." Su Mei couldn't help but plead.
"What do you think, Master Fu?" Lin Fu couldn't bear that these young men were too hesitant, so he respectfully asked Fu Qinghe for his opinion first.
"It's more difficult," Fu Qinghe frowned. Originally, he only wanted to rescue Su Mei and the two Xiaoman girls, but now he couldn't bear to do nothing to these young people. The key point was that he knew that he could not persuade Su Mei to do nothing to these young people.
He didn't care about his hands, but he knew that Lin Fu was much stronger than Ji Zhi in front of him, so he said, "Master Lin, if you have any suitable strategies, Fu is willing to serve as an emissary..."
"Master Fu, just call me Lin Fu." Lin Fu emphasized again, showing his respect for Fu Qinghe. Fu Qinghe is over fifty years old, so it is natural for him to call Fu Qinghe "Master Fu". He thinks that he has calculated well and is only worthy of his age.
, it is really awkward for an old man in his fifties to call him "Master".
"Brother Lin, please save our family!" Chen Enze was rescued by Lin Fu and Fu Qinghe, so he naturally relied on their abilities. Knowing that he was young and ignorant, Chen Enze must not be as thoughtful as them in thinking, so he immediately turned over and knelt down.
He fell to the ground and begged Lin Fu; Hu Qiaozhong tugged Hu Qiaoguan's sleeve, and he and seven or eight other boys also knelt on the ground and begged.
"Stand up and speak," Lin Fu couldn't stand the habit of kneeling down to beg. He said solemnly, "Is it possible that if you kneel down, I can think of a solution? Is it possible that if you don't kneel down, I will stand by and watch? Everybody stand.
Get up and speak."
Chen Enze, Hu Qiaoguan, and Hu Qiaozhong all stood up and looked at Lin Fu expectantly, pinning all their hopes on him.
"Being a pirate is always harder than being a general. Xiao Taoyuan is the second general of Ninghai Town, the lieutenant of the cavalry and the commander of the Sixth Battalion of Navy. It can be said that he has a high position of power. How could he be willing to lose it before the last step?
With their current wealth and wealth, they can go to sea and become pirates? I can’t think of any last resort, they won’t fall into bandits.” Lin Fu glanced at Fu Qinghe and asked, “Master Fu, what do you think?”
"Yes, the East Pirates who died in Xiao Taoyuan's hands did not have one thousand or eight hundred. Even if he pulled all the navymen in Ninghai Town out to sea to become pirates, how could the East Pirates and the She family behind the East Pirates tolerate him?
Is it easy to establish a foothold in the East China Sea? Xiao Taoyuan has only enemies and no foundation at sea. It is very difficult to fall into the sea and become a bandit. Besides, how many men can he have the confidence to recruit from his navy to become pirates? He will never become a pirate easily.
" Fu Qinghe said.
"Do you know what to do?" Lin Fu turned to look at Chen Enze and other young men, "We disguised ourselves as another group of pirates and kidnapped you, leaving behind some specious clues. For Xiao Taoyuan, who is worried that the matter will be exposed, first
We will send someone to keep an eye on your family secretly instead of rushing out to sea to become a bandit. However, you cannot return to Chongzhou before Xiao Tao is overthrown by others or transferred away from Ning Haijun Town - you cannot reveal any flaws for them to notice.
, until Xiao Taoyuan relaxes his vigilance, you can't even contact your family."
Only then did Su Mei know why Lin Fu wanted to teach these teenagers "cruel" methods. These teenagers could not return to Chongzhou, contact their families, or even let others know that they were still alive in the world. Once the news leaked out, they would probably be killed.
It has brought catastrophe to their families. Without some "cruel" means, how can they survive in the future?
The oldest among them is only fifteen or sixteen years old. He has been pampered since he was a child. It is really pitiful to suddenly suffer such a disaster.
Chen Enze looked up at Lin Fu. There was not much frustration on his childish face. They were clueless than they were just now. There was at least one way to go. He asked: "As long as we never show up, our family will be safe."
Will it be okay?”
"Everything in the world is unpredictable, and there is no foolproof plan." Lin Fu would naturally not forget the bullet that was shot in from the window. He did not regret the choices he made in his previous life. He frowned at the clear jade-like brow moon in the west, and a feeling arose in his heart.
With a sense of pride, he patted Chen Enze on the shoulder and said, "You know, the most important thing is that we work hard for ourselves, our family and friends; sometimes even if we are not satisfied, we have no regrets."
Fu Qinghe let out a long sigh, turned around and left, obviously because of the central point of Lin Fu's words.