Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

After folding the paper boat, Li Xu heard a knock on the door, and knew that He Zun had brought him, "Please come in."

The person who came to deliver the letter was Kou Xiao's personal guard, the one who was told by Li Xu at the beginning, when he entered the door, he was holding a jar in his hand, saying that it was the sample that Manager Liu asked him to bring back.

What Liu Shu asked people to bring back was naturally salt. Li Xu opened it and took a look, only to see that the jar was filled with a jar of snow-white refined salt, weighing about twenty catties. He pinched a few and put them in his mouth. It's the same as the one in it, much better than the salt you eat now.

Seeing that he was standing still, Li Xu asked, "Do they have anything else they want you to bring to me?"

The personal guard immediately replied with a smile: "Director Liu asked the subordinate to ask you whether the sun-dried salt should be transported back to Fujian Province? If so, he can hire someone nearby to transport it."

Li Xu was a little hesitant. If they were all transported back to Fujian Province, it would be too much noise, and it would take a lot of manpower. What's more, things like salt get wet when they come into contact with water, and the journey will definitely take a lot of damage.

Several large ships have been built at the shipyard, but they haven't been tested in the water yet, and Li Xu hasn't visited them either. It is estimated that long-distance voyages will be difficult, but there should be no problem in transporting supplies at short distances.

"Go back and tell him to store it in the warehouse first and do a good job of preventing moisture. When the time comes, where and how much should be transported, the king will send someone to tell him."

"No." The guard hesitated for a while, and then said: "The general ordered his subordinates to get your reply letter before going back. Besides, the general said that he didn't bring any thin clothes as the weather was getting hotter. He wanted to ask you for some sets of clothes." Wear, and, he wants to eat the brown sugar steamed buns you made."

The corners of Li Xu's mouth twitched when he heard this, this bastard, who do you think he is? He pointed to the Kou Mansion next door and said, "Clothes and food are bought at the Kou Mansion, has General Kou forgotten his last name?"

The personal guard also knew that his general's request was unreasonable, so he lowered his head and dared not speak, Li Xu just made up his mind to deal with Kou Xiao coldly, if he didn't respond, he would naturally ignore his request.

However, he still let Wu enter Kou's mansion, asked Mrs. Kou how many sets of Kou Xiao's summer clothes, and asked Aunt Xu to make him a bag of brown sugar steamed buns, and then sent the messenger away. If it's bad, then he doesn't care.

"Then reply?" The guard recalled his general's hopeful expression, and couldn't bear to see him disappointed.

"Tell him something for this king, just say that this king is busy with official duties and doesn't have time to write back to him, so let him concentrate on training as a naval officer." After hesitating for a while, Li Xu added another sentence: "Take care of your health and come back as soon as possible. .”

The guard felt that such an answer was fine, so he saluted and bid farewell. Before leaving, he specially thanked Li Xu: "I heard that the demolition was ordered by the prince, and my family has also benefited. Thank you on behalf of my family. Lord."

When he came home in the afternoon, he saw that the original second-entry house had become a first-entry house, and a large road was paved in front of his house. He thought that the government demolished his house for road construction. The government built a new yard for him, and his parents gave him the new yard directly. As his future residence, the two of them still lived in the old house.

He also took a special look at the new house, red bricks and blue tiles, although the area is small, but each room is very bright, just like the house built at the navy base, it is obviously the work of the prince.

"This is a normal process, so you don't have to thank me." In fact, according to the modern demolition compensation, Li Xu's conditions are not high. The house is replaced by a house, and the original owner has to personally participate in the construction. It is enough for them to find a temporary residence to solve their food and clothing, but that's it, in the eyes of the South Vietnamese people, it is already an extremely favorable policy.

If you can exchange your broken house for a clean and bright new one, you don't have to pay for it yourself, only some labor, so why not do it.

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At night, Kou Xiao folded paper boats under the moonlight, and there were already a dozen broken paper boats scattered around him, so he gave the one to Li Xu, it was already the best one he folded so far.

"I don't know if the lord saw the words in the paper boat." Kou Xiao hoped that Li Xu could see it, but he was also afraid that he would see it. If he saw it, he might not have a good face next time he saw him.

He didn't know why he suddenly had a fever and wrote that sentence. It might be because he had been separated for too long, and his longing had accumulated over time, which made him understand that he was not just infatuated with King Shun for a while, but a real love for King Shun.

Jia Ping sat on the side drinking tea. The tea leaves were sent by Li Xu when he sent a letter last time. It was the first time he drank this kind of tea, and he was not used to it at first. After drinking it a few times, he felt that it was not bad.

Seeing that Kou Xiao had ruined another one, Jia Ping couldn't stand it any longer. He grabbed a piece of paper and folded a paper boat in front of him. If you want to send a boat, it is better to send an exquisite wooden boat model."

Kou Xiao threw everything he made before into the fire, clapped his hands and said: "This is the general's wish, how can I send it to someone else." He also sensed that Li Xu was in a bad mood, so he wanted to give him something Well, Liu Shu sent salt over there, so he naturally wanted to give over what Li Xu wanted.

And he knew that what Li Xu wanted most now might be a large sea boat, he couldn't give it to him, but the paper boat he folded by himself was also very kind, so he learned this thing, only to find that he was handicapped, so he learned it for a few days I can't learn well either.

Jia Ping put the folded paper boat in front of him, looked at him and asked, "Is the general a pleasing prince?"

"So what?" Kou Xiao stood up, kicked the beautiful paper boat into the fire, and looked down at Jia Ping, "I know what you want to stay in Nanyue, but do you think it's useful? Even if the prince likes men, he will choose me."

Jia Ping said calmly: "Who can say for sure about feelings, and I'm not as ambitious as the general. It's enough to protect him and make contributions for him."

He stood up and walked back, leaving Kou Xiao with a determined back.

Kou Xiao sneered, he is not that great, he has understood since he was a child that he has to fight for what he wants, and get rid of enemies as soon as possible. Since he likes Li Xu, how can he just be obedient by his side in obscurity? What about subordinates?

Even if things don't work out, he still has to leave an indelible mark on Li Xu, even if everything is destroyed.

After standing in the dark for a long time, Kou Xiao blew his whistle, and a personal guard came out from the dark place, and he ordered: "You go back to Minzhou immediately, let Cao Ji come to take over this general to continue training, and tell him that it is urgent and must be done within three days." arrival."

As soon as the personal guard heard the time, he hurried to lead the horse. It took him day and night to do this back and forth.

When Kou Xiao returned to the camp, a patrolling soldier came to report: "General, a ship has been spotted at sea."

"Only one?"

"Yes, only one has been found so far."

Kou Xiao frowned. It is impossible for fishermen to appear in the nearby waters at this time, but if it is pirates, it is impossible for only one boat to go ashore. Could it be that they are playing the vanguard?

"Immediately gather people and go to the port to wait, and then inform Director Liu to ask the salt workers to take up weapons and guard the salt fields. The rest of the people are all hiding in the house and are not allowed to go out for half a step."

"promise."

Soon, the 1000-member navy team was assembled. There were their boats at the port, but they were all requisitioned fishing boats, which could not go out to the open sea. They were used for daily training by the navy. Lined up at the pier, quietly waiting for the arrival of the other party.

Kou Xiao is standing at the bow of the boat. The moon is very round and bright tonight, and the sea water is shimmering. After watching for a long time, he seems to be sucking people into the sea. The boat has not yet appeared in his vision, so he can only give The soldiers on the watchtower signaled, and the other party quickly replied that the ship was not far away from them.

After waiting for a while, a black dot appeared in the distance. When it was only a thousand meters away, Kou Xiao ordered people to beat the drums and wave the flag. If it was a pirate, he would definitely turn around and run away when he saw their huge formation .

But the other party did not leave, but continued to move forward, Kou Xiao clenched the gun in his hand, and ordered the boatman to row the boat forward for a mile.

When the two sides were about to meet, he shouted with enough breath: "Who is coming? Tell me your name."

After a long time, a man with disheveled hair appeared at the bow of the ship and shouted loudly: "Are there South Vietnamese soldiers ahead? I am Ye Changqing from the Habayashi Army. Please do not do anything."

Kou Xiao was stunned. Of course Ye Changqing knew. The Yulin Army knew about his disappearance when he was there. Later, Li Xu also asked him to help find the person. He thought that this person died in the sea, but he did not expect to Come back alive.

He hurriedly called Jia Ping, but the other party was far away, he didn't hear Ye Changqing's shout, but Kou Xiao said that Ye Changqing was on that boat, and he couldn't wait to let the boatman sail to meet him.

"Beware of deceit." Kou Xiao reminded him, and then stood aside as nothing to do with himself.

He thought to himself: It would be great if this person surnamed Ye came back a few days earlier. Li Xu would be very happy to send him to Fujian Province, it would be more useful than folding a thousand paper boats.

Thinking of this, Kou Xiao felt unbalanced, and when he saw Jia Ping coming with someone on his back, he asked in a low voice, "Is it him?"

Jia Ping nodded, put Ye Changqing flat on the deck, and then sent a soldier back to the shore to bring a doctor over, and explained to Kou Xiao: "He is very weak, and his legs seem to be injured."

Ye Changqing was panting heavily, his face was unkempt, his hair covered his face like weeds, his clothes were extremely messy, and his exposed skin was full of scars, no one knew what happened to him.

Jia Ping took water and fed him in small sips. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, Ye Changqing regained his breath and said in a distressed voice, "I thought I would never come back. What a fate."

Kou Xiao squatted down, scanned his whole body, frowned and asked, "Where did you get hurt? Who are the people who came back with you?"

The boat on the opposite side was already under the control of the navy, and Jia Ping didn't know anyone on board except Ye Changqing, so he let people watch him and didn't move.

"It doesn't matter if it's all skin injuries. The people on the ship escaped with me. Some of them were pirates before, and I instigated them. I hope General Kou will forgive them for their previous sins."

Seeing that his voice was getting lower and lower, and his panting sound was getting louder, Kou Xiao couldn't continue to ask questions, so he had to take people back first and then question them one by one.

Jia Ping asked someone to carry the stretcher and carried Ye Changqing onto it. The other party held his hand tightly and said pitifully, "Jia Ping, I'm hungry and want to eat meat."

Normally, Jia Ping would have stabbed him a few words, but now seeing his pitiful appearance, his heart was surprisingly soft, he shook his hand and said, "Got it, I'll have something to eat as soon as I get back."

When everyone went ashore, Kou Xiao sent someone to inform Liu Shu to lift the alarm, what to do, and took the people back to the camp.

Ye Changqing washed three buckets of water before washing his body, put on Jia Ping's clothes, lay still on the bed, and let the doctor apply medicine to him. When the medicine was ready, he looked at the ceiling and muttered: "What is this house built with? Why is it so strange?"

Jia Ping came in with hot porridge, put it on the tea table beside the bed, helped him up, and said, "It was invented by the prince, who fixed the red bricks together with cement. Now there are houses like this in this camp."

"Is your lord okay?" Ye Changqing only asked this question, and he couldn't wait to pick up the bowl to drink the porridge. After the warm porridge drank, he curled up comfortably.

After drinking two bowls of gruel, Jia Ping refused to let him continue to eat, causing the other party's dissatisfaction. "It's fine if there's no meat, why don't people get full even with porridge?"

"Are you stupid or don't want to die? How can you eat too much at once after being hungry for so long? You still want to eat meat. You are so beautiful." Jia Ping asked someone to take out the bowl, and it happened that Kou Xiao had arranged something and came over , and asked: "Tell me, what have you encountered these days?"

Ye Changqing sighed, starting from going out to sea, and explained his experience in the past few months, "When I led people to track down the place where the pirates landed, I wanted to go out to sea to find their lair, so I hired a boat The boat goes out to sea."

Kou Xiao interrupted him and asked: "Why are you looking for the other party's lair? Xu Chang is dead, and all the pirates he brought were killed. Even if there are still pirates in the lair, they are just a bunch of mobs. Besides, who would want to?" Hire you to go to sea? The fishermen on the seaside are not so courageous."

Ye Changqing showed a strange smile, his face was extremely dark, and the originally fair and handsome young man turned into a dark and thin bamboo pole. If Jia Ping didn't know him too well, he wouldn't dare to recognize him.

"I lied to the boatman that I wanted to go out to sea to find a kind of fish. My master loved to eat that kind of fish. I promised that I would only go out to sea for three days, and return if I didn't find it. When we got to sea, we would naturally go wherever we wanted. At first, the weather was constant. Yes, I thought about going further, but I forgot that it is not easy to tell the direction on the sea, so I can only go east in the direction of the sunrise.

Half a month later, we rested on an island for three days, avoided a storm, and then continued eastward. The boatman kept asking us to return, but for some reason, I felt that clues would be found soon, so I refused.After a few more days, we met three pirate ships at sea. I lied to them that I was an exiled criminal, and the two Habayashi soldiers around me were my brothers. I spent the rest of my life on a deserted island, but I didn't expect to meet them. "

"They believed it?" Kou Xiao didn't know Ye Changqing well, so he didn't know that he didn't change his expression when he lied.

"At that time, we had been wandering on the sea for more than half a month. We had nothing to eat, no clothes to change, and we were very tired. With the testimony of the boatman, the other party naturally believed it, so they didn't kill us, but put us Take their island with them."

Kou Xiao sat up straight and listened with a solemn expression. Ye Changqing asked Jia Ping to bring him a bowl of water, and after drinking it slowly, he continued: "That island is very big, and there are many people on the island, including old and weak, women and children. It’s even like a small country, where the leader of the island is called the island master, it’s a sinful place where there are no laws, there is no punishment for murder, no punishment for adultery, and everyone lives a life of life and death.”

"Are they from Dayan? But criminals who escaped from Lingnan?"

Ye Changqing shook his head, "I have never met the owner of the island. I don't know where he is from. I only heard that he is not young. He brought people to settle on the island 20 years ago, and later accepted many passers-by. Fugitives, including lost crew members, and women and children who were plundered from the shore, once they enter the island, they cannot leave without permission."

"Then how do they survive?"

"Rice can be grown on the island, and there are also fruits. They also eat bananas as a staple food. If they don't have enough food, they go to sea to fish, or come to Dayan for trade, but most of the time they go to Lingnan."

When Ye Changqing said this, he grinned, showing his white teeth. His face was too dark, and he looked a bit ugly when he smiled like this. "The reason why I got hurt was because I discovered a big secret on the island."

Kou Xiao and Jia Ping unconsciously approached him, waiting to hear what to say, Ye Changqing glanced at them, then his eyes fell on Kou Xiao, "General Kou, I'm tired, can I tell you after I sleep first?"

Kou Xiao knew that he didn't want to tell him the secret, so he raised his legs and said disdainfully: "With the relationship between this general and the prince, even if you don't tell me today, I will know."

Ye Changqing's eyes widened, "What's your relationship with the prince?" He looked at Jia Ping again, waiting for his answer, only to see Jia Ping's indignant expression, which was surprising.

"Of course I won't tell you." Kou Xiao stood up with his hands behind his back, "Don't bother Captain Ye to rest, I'll come see you tomorrow." After finishing speaking, he left.

Ye Changqing pulled Jia Ping's clothes and looked at him fiercely, "Quickly tell me, what is the relationship between him and the prince?"

Jia Ping pulled back the hem of his clothes, and asked calmly: "Why are you so anxious? They have nothing to do with it, but the prince is in control, and General Kou listens to the prince very much."

"Has he handed over his military power?"

"It's not true, but the prince trusts him very much." He stared at Ye Changqing, "Can you tell your secret? You can't say that I will send someone to send you back to Fujian tomorrow."

Ye Changqing snorted, "What is the relationship between us, there is nothing we can't say, I'm just guarding against that surnamed Kou." How did he know that the prince subdued Kou Xiao in just a few months.

"I found a gold mine on that island."

"Gold mine?" Jia Ping turned pale with shock, "Do they know it's true?"

"Of course, they are still digging, so the people on that island are unwilling to leave. They can live a life of intoxication and dreaming on the island, without worrying about food and clothing. If the place is not too dirty, I don't want to come back either. "

Jia Ping punched him on the chest, "Commander Lin should really listen to these words, and I will surely break your legs."

"I'm just talking casually. Since the discovery of the gold mine, we have been looking for opportunities to check it closely every day. Once Tang He was accidentally discovered and we were locked up. Xiaoyu and Tang He couldn't stand the punishment and committed suicide. Ye Changqing shed a stream of tears, bit his lip and said, "I know I can't wait any longer, the longer I'm locked up, the more serious my injuries will be, and it's even more impossible to escape, so more than a dozen people from the joint prison escaped together .

During the time I was on the island, I made a few friends. They also showed loyalty and helped to steal a boat. We left the island by boat. The other party still chased us at first, but after a few days, they stopped for some reason. After chasing, we drifted aimlessly on the sea, catching fish when we were hungry, drinking rainwater when we were thirsty, and that’s how we met you. "

"It's fate." Jia Ping didn't know what to say about him, and he didn't know how much virtue he had accumulated in his previous life if he came back alive.

"That's right." Ye Changqing himself was also terrified, but he chased the sea with feverish brains, how could he know the danger of the sea, after all, it was his first time to go to sea.

"By the way, there is someone on the island who knows the pirate leader named Xu Chang. He said that he has business dealings with the island all year round. It seems that he has a good relationship with the island owner. Some people have seen the island owner receive a group of people in black. Later Xu Chang also Here, I suspect that the third prince's people went to the island first."

"How did they know there was an island there, and how did they find it?" Jia Ping couldn't figure it out, and Ye Changqing didn't know the answer. He was tired after talking for a long time, so he lay flat on the bed and asked Jia Ping to tell him. thing of the month.

Jia Ping picked out some things that the prince did and told him, including the sailors who were training here. While talking, he realized that the guy was making a steady snoring sound and was already fast asleep.Jia Ping gave up the bed to Ye Changqing, wrote a letter to Li Xu, and then guarded Ye Changqing in case he woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't find someone to serve him.

On the other hand, Kou Xiao also wrote a letter to Li Xu, and sent someone back to Minzhou overnight. He must tell Li Xu about finding Ye Changqing before Jia Ping, and volunteered to escort Ye Changqing back to Fujian. It was Ye Changqing who provoked a terrific enemy, and it was safer to have him escort him.

In this way, his return to Fujian Province will be a matter of course, and Ye Changqing's return is too timely.

For this reason, Kou Xiao's attitude towards Ye Changqing suddenly improved, he sent someone to seek medical advice, and he gave him a separate cook to cook for him, and served Ye Changqing comfortably. After a few days, Kou Xiao carried him away. The carriage back to Minzhou.

It is a good thing to be able to go back to see the prince, Ye Changqing only thought that Kou Xiao wanted to go back to announce the good news as soon as possible, and was very moved by his meticulous care, but when his injury improved, the other party changed his face.

"Since you can't die anymore, let's raise it by ourselves." Kou Xiao is not familiar with Ye Changqing, so he doesn't know if his purpose of staying in Nanyue is the same as that of Jia Ping. If so, he didn't throw him into the sea to feed the fish Even if it's all right, naturally she won't have a good face.

If it weren't for the fear that he would die on the way, he wouldn't even have this kind of favor.

As for the few people who came back with Ye Changqing, after learning of Kou Xiao's identity, they have been silent, as quiet as a chicken, wishing to hide in a dark corner every day so as not to be seen, which also saved Kou Xiao a lot of trouble.

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small theater:

General Kou: "Don't compete with this general, look at your faces, look at your figures, look at your identities, can you compete with this general?"

Li Xu: "You have such a big face."

General Kou: "No, no, my face is very small, take a closer look."