Chapter 188: The Past of a Youth
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At the end of the morning, above the Shili Bridge Yedu Wharf outside the east city of Hangzhou, Lin Jue was looking around blankly with a large package. It was already dawn, but there was no one around. According to the agreement, he and Gao Muqing and others will meet here.
But at this moment, in the drizzle, there was no one in the four places. Lin Jue stood on the shore and looked at the surging Qiantang River in a daze, when suddenly a bamboo flute sounded, and in just an instant, more than 100 figures poured out from all directions, surrounding Lin Jue.
Lin Jue was not surprised, because he saw Gao Muqing's figure. He greeted him.
"Take this man and tie him up." Gao Muqing shouted in a deep voice.
More than a dozen big men rushed forward, pinched their shoulders, and quickly tied Lin Jue tightly with ropes. Lin Jue was puzzled, and was about to ask a question, but was stopped by Gao Muqing with his eyes.
"Get on board!" Gao Muqing waved his hand and shouted.
A group of people quickly went down to the bottom of the wharf, three bamboo flutes blew, and soon a big boat quickly sailed along the turbid and churning river, and after approaching the wharf, everyone boarded the ship, and then quickly sailed east from the shore.
Lin Jue was left in a cabin, and he seemed to understand why Gao Muqing did this. Soon after, Gao Muqing arrived, and after retreating the guards, he smiled and apologized: "I'm really sorry, I had to tie you up." โ
Lin Jue smiled: "Let me guess, are you afraid of leaking the news?" โ
"Clever, it's a day's and a night's journey to the beach. The closer you get to the sea, the more eyeliner the pirates have. Originally, I planned to tie you up again when I arrived at the beach, pretending to capture you and sacrifice you to Hai Dongqing, but for the sake of insurance, I thought it would be better to tie you up now. Again...... The men I brought with me were not always loyal, so I didn't tell them the truth. Except for Qiu Ju and more than a dozen of them, the rest of the people didn't know anything, they only knew that they were going with me to see Hai Dongqing and accompany them for protection. You won't be upset, will you? โ
Lin Jue smiled: "Of course not, be careful." The more careful you are at this moment, the less you will reveal your identity, and the more secure you will be. It's just that I've been tied up like this, what should I do if I eat, drink, and Lazar? โ
Gao Muqing said with a smile: "Eat and drink and order someone to feed you, and other things will be untied for you." Bear with it, and I will confess it first. โ
Lin Jue saw her cute demeanor and said with a smile: "Who will feed me?" Are you feeding? โ
Gao Muqing's face turned red and said, "You think it's beautiful." โ
Lin Jue smiled, leaned back on the cabin floor and said, "You are busy, I slept first, I didn't sleep all night last night." Wake me up when it's time to eat. โ
Gao Muqing smiled and said, "I ordered someone to bring you a mat, you can sleep peacefully, and then talk again." โ
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When the big ship of Lin Jue, Gao Muqing and others was traveling along the Qiantang River towards the mouth of the sea, above the East China Sea, in the vast sea 80 miles away from the mainland, an island surrounded by more than a dozen small islands stood in the smoke and rain.
This is the old nest of the bandits, Peach Blossom Island. The island existed from ancient times, and fishermen did not settle on the island until the Sui Dynasty. Because the peach trees on the island are all over the place, and the peach blossoms are in full bloom in March, it is named 'Yanxia Island', and the local people commonly call it Peach Blossom Island. The Tang Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty once became a popular place in the world, and many literati and writers braved the risk of wind and waves to swim on the island, and left countless famous poems.
However, all that changed completely thirty years ago. More than 30 years ago, a group of pirates took over the island, expelled its fishermen, and turned the island into a den of pirates. Because they were located on the way through which the ships of the sea were going out to trade, the pirates were like fish in water, robbing passing ships, collecting money for navigation, and causing a miasma.
In the following decade, the bandits became more and more noisy, but in fact, it did not become much of a climate. Because the number of people is not large, and the harm is not too great, although the imperial court has sent troops and horses to encircle and suppress, but because there are many islands in this area, the pirates are wandering around, and they cannot be completely wiped out, so they will not be able to completely clean up. It wasn't until more than 20 years ago, after Hai Dongqing became the leader of the bandits, that the imperial court discovered that things had reached the point of no control.
Under the leadership of Hai Dongqing, the bandits developed rapidly, and then their ambitions expanded, and they actually began to harass the coastal and inland cities, causing a chaotic situation on the Liangzhejiang Road. The imperial court finally couldn't bear it anymore, and it was at that time that Guo Bing, the king of Liang, came to Hangzhou and began to command soldiers and horses to quell the trouble of bandits on the Liangzhejiang Road. Guo Bing quelled the chaos in the interior and drove the bandits who came ashore into the sea, but this was not the end. The pirates' lair has not been destroyed, but they still have a place to stay.
It's just that after that extermination operation, Hai Dongqing realized that when his strength was insufficient, thinking about going ashore to claim the king and hegemony was tantamount to self-destruction. The only way to do this is to rely on the . The barrier of the sea vigorously develops the power, and the camera moves. After that, there was a period of confrontation between the imperial court and the pirates. Although the imperial court carried out several encirclement and suppression, on the sea, in the waves, even the soldiers and horses of the imperial court failed to obtain benefits, but instead lost their troops and contributed to the prestige of the bandits. The pirates have entered the largest period of development in history, and so far, the number of pirates has reached nearly 40,000, entrenched on more than a dozen islands around Peach Blossom Island, forming a strict hierarchy and regulations, as if it has become an independent kingdom on the sea.
The character who can pinch the unruly and loose pirates together is the second owner of Peach Blossom Island, known as Jiang Ruiyuan, who is known as Haidongqing.
Speaking of this Hai Dongqing, I can't fail to mention this person's experience. This person is a native of Hangzhou, born in poverty, and was originally an inconspicuous child of the common people. His father was a coolie on the docks, and his mother was a cook in a wealthy family. Jiang Ruiyuan never went to private school for a day, and began to look at goods for others at the age of six, and worked as a young man in a store on the street at the age of twelve. With his background and family background, his future is actually predictable. He will be like many other ordinary people's children, and in the future he will just be a coolie on the dock, and then he will beg a stupid woman from an ordinary family, and live a hard life. The fate of his sons and daughters was similar.
However, the wonderful thing about fate is that when you think everything is predictable, the next moment it suddenly turns around, and everything is turned upside down in an instant. When he was fourteen years old, his mother, who worked as a cook in a large family, committed suicide one night while the family was asleep. Hai Dongqing will never forget the scene that morning. In the early morning light, the mother's thin body swayed on the beams, which creaked. The father sat on the ground with his head in his hands, pulling his hair and crying.
Later, Hai Dongqing learned the truth. When my mother's cook was raped by her drunken and promiscuous master, it would have been fine if she had only been raped, but when she was seen by others, she was insulted, saying that she was restless and seducing her master, and fired her, and threatened to publicize the matter and ruin her reputation. After returning home, her mother, who was hesitant and ashamed, chose to commit suicide by hanging a beam.
Hai Dongqing's father went to the owner of the family to theorize, but instead of admitting it, they threw out his father who beat him violently. When my father went to make trouble again, the family reported to the police, and my father was taken into his cell. A few months later, my father died in his cell.
In just a few months, the original life was difficult but peaceful, and the fourteen-year-old boy became an orphan all of a sudden, and his father and mother were all gone. From then on, the cruelty and bloodiness in Hai Dongqing's blood were stimulated, and he suddenly realized how cruel and unfair the world was. The rich and powerful can do whatever they want, and the lives of the poor are as cheap as pigs and dogs.
Hai Dongqing's blood is actually cruel genes, when he was very young, when he was playing alone, he caught snakes, insects, toads, birds and the like, he liked to torture them to death slowly. He loved to watch the wingless bird roll around on the ground, and watch the snake writhing on the ground with only half of its body left. He would wrap the toad tightly in mud and roast it on the fire, so that it would suffocate to death. He would even cut off the tentacles of the ants on the ground and watch them look overwhelmed. In short, Hai Dongqing has an almost perverted cruel trait, and at this time, the cruelty in his blood was completely stimulated.
On a moonlit night, the boy pulls off the head of a gecko and makes up his mind to kill his enemies to avenge his parents. The government is unreliable, they will only shield the rich, and everything is still on their own.
Hai Dongqing first tried to sneak into that house to find an opportunity. But what he didn't expect was that when he entered that house, he was identified before he could find a chance to get close to the enemy. Then he was beaten half to death and thrown out, almost giving him his life.
A month later, Hai Dongqing recovered from his injuries and regrouped. He knew that he could not be caught again, and he needed to be extra careful and patient, because the next time he was caught, he would probably die in a cell like his father's fate. So he spent all his money to curry favor with a yard sweeper in the family's back garden. The handyman finally helped bring him into the mansion and stayed in the back garden as a handyman. Hai Dongqing disguised himself every day, watering flowers and carrying soil in the back garden, picking up dung and doing heavy work, but other than that, there was no word. That handyman has almost become a master since Hai Dongqing came, he doesn't do anything, he directs Hai Dongqing to do this and that every day, and he becomes a master with his feet crossed.
Hai Dongqing endured, he had only one goal, and that was to kill the enemy. That person has also come to the back garden many times, but Hai Dongqing has never had a chance to make a move, because the enemy is always accompanied by a few martial artists, and Hai Dongqing will never do it in this situation. Besides, when the master's family came to the back garden, he, a little handyman in the back garden, didn't even have the possibility of getting close. What Hai Dongqing wanted was to squat next to the thatched house, so he secretly dug a small pit next to the manure tank of the thatched house, covered with a plank and mud. When the owner came to the backyard to play, he hid in the small pit and endured the violent stench and waited for the rabbit.
Who could have imagined that situation, crouching in the foul-smelling mud pit next to the manure tank, silently waiting for the arrival of the prey. He had seen almost everyone's privacy, even the white ass of the housemother, but he still didn't do anything. His target was just that man. He was like a beast that had been eyeing his prey, no matter how many prey passed by him and disturbed his mind, he would not care, he only wanted to kill the culprit who insulted his mother and killed his father.