The two of them went out of the Feng family's mansion together, and at this time, the children of the Feng family who were doing farm work came back one after another, and they were packing up farm tools in the threshing floor in front of the house, Feng Zicai coughed, touched his stomach, and said majestically, "I'll go out, a few of you, pick up my banner and prepare to recruit!" ”

Feng Zicai is an old man, the eldest son is now less than thirty years old, very young, his skin is as dark as his father, he lowered his hand and said yes, but he hesitated slightly, "Daddy, but I don't know if Ah Niang knows?" ”

"I don't need her approval to do things!" Feng Zicai blew his beard and said angrily, "You are ready to recruit soldiers, and you don't have to worry about other things, just here," Feng Zicai pointed to the threshing floor, "Put up a big banner, just say that you want to go out to fight devils, and the right people will have it, the more the merrier." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"But we don't have any money, Daddy," Feng Zicai's second son said hesitantly, "If you recruit soldiers by yourself, you can't pay the settling-in allowance, and you can't recruit soldiers." ”

"Don't worry about this," Feng Zicai was full of interest, "I'll take Lord Futai to borrow money now!" ”

Gao Xinkui changed into civilian clothes, and the two of them arrived at the coast, there was a pier on the edge of the sea pond, Feng Zicai was obviously used to the boat, and jumped on a sailboat, "Hurry up, hurry up," Feng Zicai urged the boat boss, "We're in a hurry." ”

"Grandpa Feng don't worry," the boat boss smiled at Feng Zicai, Guangxi customs, calling the elders "grandpa", "The west wind is blowing today, this past is smooth, I guarantee that I can have dinner in time!" ”

The waves on the sea were not alarmed, and the sails rode the wind and waves to move forward quickly, "Lord Feng, is this Qinzhou sea area still safe now?" Gao Xinkui was a little seasick, firmly grasped the handrail, and asked with nausea.

"These days are safe, but I don't know what the future holds," Feng Zicai pointed towards the sails coming and going on the sea, "There are no ships here in Suri, these days, many ships doing business on the Vietnamese side have fled to Qinzhou here, this is to transport coal, this is to do grain business, everyone says that the French warships are arrogant, and the Chinese are not allowed to do business in Vietnam, and everyone who sees the Chinese face will sink without discussion, this money is still important, so the big guys are hiding here." ”

Gao Xinkui shook his head, "The French warships are powerful, but I don't know if our sailors can resist." ”

"This grandfather, he will definitely be able to!" The ship's boss, who was listening to the two men talking, suddenly interjected.

Feng Zicai scolded with a smile, "You ship boss, what's the matter, how do you know if the sailor is okay?" The major events of the imperial court, how do you know. ”

"Grandpa Feng, although the villain lives on the ship, the children in the family are scholars, and they often take newspapers to read the news to me," the boat boss held the rudder and said with a smile, "I heard that this silver spent a lot of money to buy warships and build sailors, it can't be compared to foreigners, right?" We have heard in the past that people can be stoned to death by smashing with silver, and the imperial court can naturally use silver to smash French devils to death. ”

Feng Zicai said with a smile, "Although what you said doesn't make sense, it is a bit decent in the end, and there is some truth." It's just that when the time comes, I'm afraid that there will be another war in Qinzhou Bay, are you afraid? ”

"I'm afraid, I'm naturally afraid, but didn't the court say it," the boat boss said honestly, "The big guy knows that this Vietnam is the son of our Qing Dynasty, and this son has been bullied. This is a natural thing, living at sea, still afraid of the ghost ship of foreigners, not afraid, when the time comes, it will be good to hide in which inlet, be bolder, and drive this boat to catch a few foreign devils in exchange for money. ”

"You know a lot!" Feng Zicai hurriedly said, "But this is not a foreign devil who is a soldier, can you kill it, do you know if you don't pull it?" If you want to kill, you can only kill devil soldiers. ”

"Grandpa doesn't know, my eldest baby is a soldier in the Fujian Navy Division, I know a little bit, as the saying goes, father and son soldiers, if he goes back to Qinzhou to fight devils, I should be the first to follow him and do it with him."

Feng Zicai nodded, "No wonder you said that you have confidence in the water master, it seems that this declaration of war is a good thing to tell the world." Feng Zicai said to Gao Xinkui.

"In this way, we can unite and hate the same enemy."

A few people talked and laughed, the road was not very tired, after more than an hour, to a quiet bay, here there are many horizontal and vertical bamboos on the sea, the sea surface is separated into many squares, as far as the eye can see, the whole bay is covered, there are many fishing nets hanging on the bamboo, the star-like workers are operating on it, it seems to be a very large scale farm, the sails are slowly moving towards the waterway, to the shore, there are already some people waiting there, see Feng Zicai, a few people bowed, He said with a wry smile, "Lord Admiral is here to fight the autumn wind again." ”

"Fight the autumn breeze and find the local tyrants," Feng Zicai didn't blush at all, and said triumphantly, "I don't have any money, if I don't look for you local tyrants here, who else are I looking for?" What about your family? Hurry up, I have a distinguished guest brought over today, tell him to prepare a big meal, a seafood dinner! ”

"Your Excellency is in the hall," said the greeter, "let's go prepare our meal, and you will meet your lord yourself," he said, a little evasively, "we have something to do here." ”

Feng Zicai was obviously familiar with this place, got on the dock, crossed the hill where many shells were piled up, and arrived in front of a dilapidated house, stretched out his legs, kicked hard, and kicked the door to both sides, and the dilapidated door shook around, "Lord An! My old man is here again! ”

There was a man in the atrium who was carrying the gate on his back, writing something on the stone table, and when he heard the movement outside, he didn't look back, but continued to write something, and said, "If you tear down my gate, then don't think about taking the silver from me again, say, how much silver do you want this time?" Is it to give a pension to the families of soldiers who died in battle, or to build some school, Yizhuang? I'm here in Lianzhou Mansion, and I'm not the prefect of Qinzhou, I said, you retired old man who eats at home and waits for death, what are you doing with this," this person's voice was very sharp, but it was a bit like a female voice, he dried what he wrote and put it aside, "I only have two hundred taels here, if you want to take it, it's too little, let's pull it down!" ”

He finally turned around and looked at the two people at the door, his appearance was good, but there were some wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his sideburns were also a little weathered, he saw Gao Xinkui, Gao Xinkui looked at this person with a smile, "Father-in-law, I haven't seen you for many years, don't come unharmed?" (To be continued.) )