"Tomorrow?!" Ji Gang was stunned and said, "Tomorrow is a good day??"
"What do we still believe in the almanac?" Yuan Jiang said in a dull voice: "It's better to choose a day than to hit it. It's a bit late today. Let's hurry up and prepare. I think it will be tomorrow!"
"Okay!" Ji Gang thought the same. Before every action in the past, Master Zhuang would carefully calculate the outcome. Not only would he be ruined and exiled overseas, but he himself would die. "That's it!"
As soon as Yuan Jiang announced Ji Gang's plan, the atmosphere on the island changed. The reason why there was chaos before was nothing more than a broken jar in despair. Now that they see hope, the officers and soldiers are energetic again... Although the so-called
There is still no word on the "Nanhai Jianbang". Even if it is built, it will only be a Yelang Kingdom far away in the world. However, for these people who have no way of living in the country, having this little hope is enough.
Seeing that the faces of the soldiers were getting angry again, Yuan Jiang took advantage of the situation and announced that Ji Gang would hold a wedding tomorrow - marrying Xu Miaojin, the most beautiful woman in the Ming Dynasty! This pushed the atmosphere on the island to the top! Everyone needed a happy event to liven things up.
What's more, Governor Ji is marrying Zhu Di's concubine, which makes everyone feel honored and even more fortunate!
After they were happy, a real problem posed before the eyes of all the soldiers... How could they hold a wedding for Governor Ji on this shabby island that lacked food, clothing, and even a piece of red cloth? Everyone was worried.
While he was worrying, an islander who had been captured to do hard labor passed by carrying a load.
"Hey, old man," Xu Yingxian asked casually when he saw him: "You live on the island, what should you do if you want to drink? Where can you get needles, thread, and brains?"
"Back to the master," the old man replied tremblingly: "Eighty miles east of the sea, there is a mud town. We catch fish and sell them in the town. After selling the money, we can buy whatever we need."
"Oh, it's not far." Xu Yingxian said in a low voice, "Then let people go to the town to buy it!"
"Hahaha!" After hearing Xu Yingxian's words, everyone laughed loudly.
"What, is my idea stupid?" Xu Yingxian asked unhappily.
"That's so stupid!" A Qianhu monster laughed: "Say, Lao Xu, you are so honest! What are we doing now? Why do we need to buy things when we are short of them? Isn't it shameful to throw it away!"
"That's right!" Everyone roared with laughter: "We are not officials now, we are bandits! We have to look like pirates! Burning, killing and looting are our profession!"
"That's right." Xu Yingxian scratched his head and said with a smile: "I haven't turned around yet! I just bought a piece of shit and grabbed it!"
When it was said that they were going to rob, everyone became excited and clamored to go to war! But there was no need for so many people. In the end, lots were drawn to decide whether to stay or go. Half of the winners got on the boat and set off, while the rest prepared for the wedding on the island!
"Let go! We are short of everything!" On the pier, the officers and soldiers left behind shouted to the people on the boat: "Don't grab the money, we don't need it!" "Robbing more women, otherwise we will not be able to survive this day!"
"Got it!" The officers and soldiers on the ship... now should be said to be pirates, laughed and left in response...
Xu Gong Temple was built on the hillside of Xugong Island. It is surrounded by cliffs and the only path below leads to the military camp. It is an excellent place for imprisonment. The families of Xu Miaojin and Wang Xian were imprisoned here. Ji Gang was very fond of
They attached great importance to it and sent more than a hundred men with strong martial arts skills to guard it... Because of Wang Xian, the guards gave Wang Xingye and others a hard time, especially the Hou family, probably because of his annoying face.
He was frequently hit with fists and kicks, and his nose and face were bruised and swollen.
At noon that day, just because she muttered while eating: "It's rice soup again, I'm going to starve to death..." Hou's rice bowl was kicked over, and the guard slapped her to the ground. Wang Gui hurriedly stopped her, and also
Got a fat beating.
When he was tired from beating, the guard went out to bask in the sun. Wang Gui hurriedly got up and checked Hou's injuries, but she pushed her away and cursed angrily: "Stay away from me, I will be ruined for eight lifetimes if I follow you."
Blood mold!"
"Hey..." Wang Gui looked apologetic and was about to comfort Mrs. Hou. The old lady over there quit and sneered: "Wang Gui's wife, you were the one who begged for nothing to get her back! Now she said again
This is it?!”
"I..." Ms. Hou could not raise her head in front of her mother-in-law, and muttered in a low voice: "I mean Wang Xian, it would be unlucky to get involved with him..."
"Why didn't you tell him when you were benefiting from him?!" I became even more angry: "Where did you get all your glory and wealth these years? Not yet? I earned it with my life! Don't think I don't know, those brothers of yours
, you are arrogant and domineering in the city of Hangzhou under the banner of waiter! Pick up the bowl to eat, put down the chopsticks and curse! Who do you think you are!"
"I..." Hou lowered his head to his chest and muttered in a low voice: "I was just talking casually..."
"Okay, okay," Wang Xingye frowned and said, "What time has it been? Let's stop saying a few words." He sighed, looked at the cubicle and said, "Speaking of being implicated, Xu Zhenren is really being blamed.
We are tired..."
"Yes." I said with red eyes; "What a good girl, don't let it get to you..." They had already heard that Ji Gang was going to marry Xu Miaojin tomorrow!
Everyone couldn't help but feel sad. Even the Hou family sighed secretly. If they were to say unlucky, Xu Miaojin was really unlucky...
In the eyes of Ji Gang and others, Xu Miaojin was much nobler than Wang Xian's family, so they locked her up in the main hall of Xu Gong Temple. Zheng Xiuer, as her maid, was also locked up together. At this moment, they had heard Yuan Jiang announce that tomorrow
News that Ji Gang is going to marry Xu Miaojin!
After learning about this bolt from the blue, Zheng Xiuer was filled with grief and anger. When she thought that her fairy-like master would be defiled by wild beasts, Xiaobaicai's tears fell down.
Xu Miaojin, on the other hand, looked as usual, kneeling in front of the mottled clay sculptures of Xu Gong Temple, chanting sutras softly and intently.
"Master..." After Xu Miaojin finished reciting a sutra, Zheng Xiuer couldn't help but said anxiously: "Aren't you anxious?"
"Is there any use in being anxious?" Xu Miaojin's smile can bring spring back to the earth.
"It's useless..." Zheng Xiu'er said with a bitter face: "Is there really no way?"
"No." Xu Miaojin shook his head and said calmly: "It's unreasonable to talk to those bandits. I know this in Tianxiang'an."
"Master..." Zheng Xiu'er recalled that that day at Tianxiang'an, the master's reaction was still very fierce. Compared with the indifference now, some bad thoughts came to her mind. She said hurriedly: "Don't think too hard?!"
"Don't worry, I can think about it." Xu Miaojin said with a self-deprecating smile; "On the way to being escorted, I just thought that in just a few months this year, I fell into the hands of bad people twice. If this is not a fate, what?
What counts?”
"I didn't believe in fate before," Xu Miaojin looked at Zheng Xiu'er and said softly, "I wanted to control my own destiny, so I disobeyed the emperor's will... Little did I know that this was exactly my destiny."
"Master..." Zheng Xiu'er's eyes were blurred with tears. Is there anyone in the world who believes in fate more than she does? How could she have experienced so many tragedies if it wasn't a trick of fate?
"The funny thing is that for the past ten years, I have been obsessed with it, thinking that I was fighting against fate!" Xu Miaojin's face became more and more self-deprecating: "This time I fell into the enemy's hands again, and I realized that I might be wrong...
..." As she spoke, she looked up at the vague clay figure on the altar, and could vaguely see that it was a military general sitting upright with a scroll in his hand. Looking at the old statue of a military general, Xu Miaojin's tears fell: "Until
Being taken to the island and imprisoned in this temple, I completely believed in fate!"
"Master..." Zheng Xiu'er also burst into tears. She knew that the statue on the altar was Xu Miaojin's father whom she had never met!
The statue of Xu Da was in dilapidated condition, but a pair of eyes were intact, looking kindly at the daughter kneeling in front of him... Xu Miaojin also looked at her father longingly, and said with tears in her eyes: "It is fate that has arranged all this, but
I believe this is just a well-intentioned trick! On this island named after my father, with the blessing of my father’s gods, we will definitely be able to turn disaster into good luck!”
"Who will come to save us?" Zheng Xiu'er asked this question, and a name popped into her mind, and she blurted out: "Wang Xian..."
"..." Hearing this name, Xu Miaojin's heart trembled, and he said with firm eyes: "He has saved me once, if he can still do it this time..." Xu Miaojin said, her face turned red like a lantern, and her voice trembled:
"so I……"
Seeing Xu Miaojin's shy look, Zheng Xiuer's heart tightened and she asked with mixed emotions: "Just what?" She was also a person who had been here before, so how could she not see the strange behavior in her master these past few months?
"Just..." Xu Miaojin's face turned red and her lips moved. She tried her best but couldn't express what was in her heart. In the end, she had to mumble: "Accept the arrangement of fate..."
"Oh..." Zheng Xiu'er breathed a sigh of relief, but after finishing the work, she hurt herself and said: 'Hey, what kind of heart do you have? What does it have to do with me...'
The master and apprentice were each thinking about their own thoughts and were silent for a moment. Zheng Xiuer suddenly thought of another possibility and asked in a trembling voice: "Master, what if he can't come?"
"Then I will make a condition for Ji Gang," Xu Miaojin said with a gloomy expression: "If he wants to get me, he must first let you all go!"
"Master, no..." Zheng Xiu'er said with tears in her eyes: "As soon as we leave, you will definitely commit suicide!" She and Xu Miaojin have been getting along day and night for two years, how could she not know that the other person would rather bend than bend? Otherwise, she would not have rebuffed the emperor! This way!
A fierce woman, even if she commits herself to her enemy for some purpose, will take that road sooner or later...
"Haha..." Xu Miaojin didn't expect that Zheng Xiu'er would reveal her plan with just one word. She gently touched her ring. There was a poisonous needle hidden in it. Even if she couldn't kill Ji Gang, she could still end her own life.
After escaping from death last time, she asked Ouchi craftsmen to build it, but she didn't expect that it would be used so quickly.