Chapter 63 Show Goodness

"The villagers inside heard that my surname is Yu, and they gave me the nickname of sea wolf! This time, Yu is not malicious to you. He just wants to ask you something. You don't have to be afraid!

But you are so ignorant of current affairs, not polite at all, and treat us as nothing. This is your fault! My patience is limited. I will give you a piece of incense. If no one of you comes out to answer, then I will ask myself to someone that I am not a good person. At that time, I will invite you out in my way!

Don't blame us for being rude at that time. Now start timing and light incense!"

Someone immediately threw it over, inserted a piece of incense on the ground outside the village, then lit it with a fire fold, turned around and ran back.

Everyone quietly watched the column of incense burning slowly. Yu Xiaotian opened his legs, stood steadily outside the village, closed his eyes slightly, and silently waited for the column of incense to burn.

More than 100 soldiers were also neatly arranged outside the village, and no one moved. The long guns and knives, including the shiny birds, were shining in the sunlight.

The mouth of the two tiger squat gun quietly pointed to the village. The sailors ran back and forth, sent two boxes of ammunition and placed them next to the tiger squat gun.

A group of sailors were assigned to take an axe nearby, began to cut down trees and make wooden ladders on the spot.

There is a murderous atmosphere outside the whole village, which makes people feel very nervous and depressed at the same time.

The incense is still burning slowly. Before the incense burns halfway, someone on the wall of the village shouted, "A good man, spare his life..."

A shriveled old man knelt in front of Xiaotian, trembling like half a sieve. Although he tried his best to calm himself down, his trembling beard exposed his inner fear.

When Yu Xiaotian saw that his goal had been achieved, he waved his subordinates to retreat and rest on the beach. If he had nothing to do, he could send someone to fight a few wild animals to improve his life.

And he ordered the old man to pick up, give him a pony to sit opposite him, and sent the old man a glass of water, comforted the old man a few words, and even handed the old man a cigarette of his own. The old man somehow smoked, learned from Yu Xiaotian, and coughed repeatedly.

"This is called a cigarette. It's a little rush. Slow down when you smoke!" Yu Xiaotian took one out of the iron box and took two puffs proudly. It was quite comfortable to swallow the clouds and spit out the fog.

He had already found that tobacco had appeared in China, and people began to grow it in the north and south, but at present, smoking this is not popular, and only a few people began to try to smoke this with dry tobacco bags.

Originally, Yu Xiaotian also tried to make a pipe for him, but he was not used to smoking. He still liked the feeling of cigarettes, so he asked someone to get him some tobacco leaves. After coming back, he tried to ferment some, bake it, then rolled it up with a small gull knife and cut it into strips, and made a small handmade cigarette. Things.

He chose more than a dozen papers and tried to roll some. After trying, he finally determined a kind of paper for special cigarettes.

However, he doesn't understand the formula and process of cigarettes. The tobacco leaves are not handled properly, and the taste is far less than any kind of cigarettes in later generations. However, in this era, he can smoke long-lost "cigarettes", and there is nothing to be picky.

He is not addicted to smoking. At first, he smoked just to remember his past life, but he took the lead, and now many of his subordinates have learned to smoke.

Nowadays, a lot of smokers have gradually emerged in the small circle of the sea wolves on Nanri Island, which makes him ready to turn back and arrange some people to make this kind of cigarettes for the people and supply them to smoke first. If possible, the next step will also be promoted as a commodity on Nanri Island.

Today, the old man in this village is the first outsider to try handmade cigarettes like him, but it seems that the old man is a little uncomfortable with this taste. He is choked and burst into tears. He has no choice but to enjoy this thing by himself.

"Don't be afraid, father-in-law! We are not here to plunder your village, but to pass by and ask you something. Please help me!

Please rest assured, father-in-law, although we are also pirates, we sea wolves are chivalrous thieves. What we do is robbing the rich and helping the poor. We have nothing wrong with people like you!

You can turn your head and have a look. We have no one to spoil your fields, and we don't even touch the two cows you left behind. Can't you rest assured?" Yu Xiaotian said to the old man while swallowing the fog.

The old man turned his head and quickly turned his head. He thanked Xiaotian repeatedly, and the expression on his face was still fearful. Obviously, he did not believe Yu Xiaotian's words very much. Thieves in this world are thieves. Can there be thieves who do not harm civilians?

Yu Xiaotian didn't care whether he believed it or not and asked the old man, "What's your father-in-law's name? Guigeng this year? What's the name of your village? When did you come here to build this village?

The old man bowed and sat on the pony and replied respectfully, "I dare not do it, I dare not do it. The good man is too polite. If you return to the good man, the little old man will avoid your surname Cao and call him Cao Ma! ......”

Yu Xiaotian was almost choked to death by smoke. He immediately coughed and laughed loudly. Cao Ma, I'm dizzy. Why not call it a grass mud horse? It's so uneducated!

The old man was shocked and quickly continued, "The little old man is exactly sixty-five this year. He should have been grounded long ago, but the little old man is lucky and has ruined food for many years! In our village, there are all families surnamed Cao. In the past, our family was in Zhangpu, Zhangzhou. We have been farmers for generations. A few years ago, there was a great drought in our family. As a last resort, the children and grandchildren left home to escape, floated here by boat, and settled here!

Later, when the people in the clan learned that we came here to settle down, they also followed us, which led to this Cao family village! Our Caojia village has been here for five or six years!

There are many good men today. I hope that the good men will not be angry. We are self-woven here. We can't produce many good things, but we can more or less send some fish, game and leather sheets to all the good men. The little old man has already prepared things for the good men and will be sent out to the good men in a moment!"

Yu Xiaotian immediately shook his head and said, "What is this? As I have said, we are not here to blackmail you, let alone harass you. We are not short of things, and you don't give me any gifts!

I just want to ask about the situation here. How is the situation of the natives in your area? How much is the relationship between you and the natives? In addition, are there other villages that have migrated from land near here? Father-in-law, don't be afraid. To tell the truth, if you can be honest, I will not only not harm you, but also have generous gifts!"

After hearing this, the old man did not dare to hide it from Xiaotian, because he knew that the pirates he met today were so powerful that they could not resist. As long as they annoyed the other party, if they turned against each other, they could easily flatten their Cao's village and kill all the people in their village, and crush a group of ants. Generally easy.

So the old man answered truthfully and told Yu Xiaotian everything he knew.

Originally, it was not very peaceful here. There are many native tribes in their area. There are about two or three hundred large tribes and dozens of small tribes. These natives are not good at farming, but they are hunting masters and are not friendly to these outsiders.

In general, the natives do not come to harass these villages that migrated from the mainland, but sometimes there will be some conflicts, especially when hunting. In order to get more meat, immigrants will also hunt, and sometimes there will be conflicts because of hunting.

Both sides have killed each other's people, so they have a grudge. The natives like the food planted by these immigrants, but also like the cloth and ironware of the immigrants, so they occasionally come to rob and rob. In order to protect the fruits of their labor, immigrants will naturally not do it and will fight against them.

So living here, it is impossible to gain a foothold here without building a wall. In recent years, the people of Caojia Village have continued to build a wall and surround the whole village, basically ensuring the safety of their families. In addition to resisting the attacks of local natives, they sometimes face the attack of passing pirates. Disturbing.

However, pirates also know that such a small immigrant village has little oil and water, and it is not easy for them to attack villages with wall, so they rely on this wall and are often disturbed by Shanghai thieves, throwing out some local goods, and future pirates will send them away.

If it hadn't been for Yu Xiaotian's posture of attacking the village today, Caojia Village would have wanted to send them away in the old way.

In addition, according to the old man, there are indeed some villages where immigrants from the mainland have settled in some places around the mainland. Within a hundred miles of what he knows, there are at least a dozen villages like them. The larger villages are about 200 people, and the smaller villages are only dozens of people.

Sometimes a riverside village more than 20 miles in the mouth of the freshwater estuary becomes a commodity distribution center of the surrounding villages. Occasionally, small land merchants will drive boats to bring some daily necessities from the land and sell them there. Villages in need will go there to exchange local products with them, such as If the fruit yield is large, it can also be exchanged for money or silver.

Although there are many mosquitoes here, and there will be epidemics from time to time, because it is a no-man's land, the land is their own, and no one will strip them. In addition, the rain here is relatively sufficient, the land is also very fertile, and life is better than on land.

So they would rather endure mosquitoes here than return to land.

After listening to the old man's words, Yu Xiaotian nodded and then asked the old man, "by the way, father-in-law, since you have been here for so long, can you draw a map? Can you give me a copy? I'm willing to buy it with a lot of money!"

The old man's head shook like a rattle: "No, no! Please forgive me! There are only some big people who can't read in the village. How can they draw any map? That's something that only readers can understand. We usually remember the road in our minds. If a good man asks us to show you the way, it's okay, but if you want a map, the little old man really doesn't have it!"

Yu Xiaotian didn't seem to be talking nonsense, so he had to give up. After thinking about it, he turned his head and ordered, and sent people to the ship to get 20 pieces of linen, ten pieces of coarse cotton cloth, ten catties of tea, and ten axes, ten machetes, three iron saws, five hammers, and two iron pots and some Daily porcelain was placed in front of the old man.

(Fever diary, today is the 16th day of continuous low fever. I had a lung CT yesterday and found no problem! But the blood image is very high, so stop taking medicine and change to water transfusion! I hope the fever will subside soon, otherwise it will be muddle-headed every day! I can't even code the words!)