The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1421 The Village by the Sea

"And my son, too. When the pirates came for the second time, he fought against the pirates together with the young and strong in the village. The result was the same. He died under the sword of the pirates." As he spoke, the old man's eyes fell. Cloudy tears.

Apparently, the first time I came here, the people in the village might not have reacted. The pirates robbed the things and left. Only after leaving did the navy come here. The people in the village were disappointed with the speed of the navy. The young and strong in the village planned to unite themselves to resist the pirates, but it was a pity that they were unable to succeed.

Gradually, the people in the village will become numb, and those who can go will leave. The rest, as long as they survive, the pirates will just give them whatever they want to grab, and staying alive is the fundamental .

However, the navy and the government were "late" again and again, which convinced the people in the village that the government and the navy were unreliable.

"Are those pirates from Tang Dynasty?" Xuan Shijing asked this question cautiously.

Obviously there is endless hatred between the old man and the pirates, maybe the old man can answer this question to Xuan Shijing.

The old man shook his head: "Don't ask, it's useless to ask, you are all foreigners, you'd better leave this place as soon as possible."

The old man said so, Xuan Shijing couldn't ask any more questions, so he could only nod his head, and left the old man's yard with the three people behind him. The old man in the yard watched Xuan Shijing leave, but what happened to the tears in his eyes? Can't stop.

Xuan Shijing's arrival reminded him of his dead son.

Leaving the dilapidated small courtyard of the old man's house, Xuan Shijing and three people stood on the street, looking around, the whole village was in depression.

"My lord, look at the situation. It's the same when I go to other people's houses to ask. If we can't find out, what should we do next?" Gao Jun asked.

"Go to other villages, and finally go to the beach." Xuan Shijing said.

"Yes." The three people behind answered, then got into the carriage, and drove the carriage to another village.

Wherever he went, the scene was similar to what he saw in the first village. Xuan Shijing sat in the carriage, even without getting out of the carriage to go to their house to see, he could think of the current situation in their house, nothing more than The house is nothing but the four walls, not to mention the past, in the one and a half years since Chen Zheng took office in Quanzhou, those pirates have come many times, and naturally all that can be searched have been searched away.

"Go to the beach." Xuan Shijing said.

"Grandpa, it's getting late and the sun is about to set, why don't we go to the beach tomorrow." The person sent by Chen Zheng said.

Xuan Shijing looked up at the sky, also, if he went to the beach again, it would probably be dark, and it was already some distance away from the navy camp.

"Okay, let's go back to the camp." Xuan Shijing said.

The two carriages set off towards the navy camp along the way they came.

When they returned to the camp, it was already completely dark, and the sailors and soldiers in the camp also came back and began to bury their pots and cook food. They gathered together in groups of three or four, talking and laughing while eating with sea bowls.

Because the pirates invaded the border, the soldiers in the naval camp were also busy every day. During the day, they basically boarded the ship in shifts and went to the sea to inspect the nearby waters.

It’s just that in the past six months, the results of the day are obvious. Those pirates put their operations in the evening. At night, the navy can’t spare the energy to take care of it. Therefore, the sailors are also exhausted and exhausted physically and mentally. .

When Xuan Shijing's carriage was still some distance away from the camp, Chen Zheng got the news from the commander's tent, so when Xuan Shijing came back with his people, Chen Zheng went out of the commander's tent to greet him in person.

"Mr. Xuan worked hard, but what did you find out?" Chen Zheng asked straight to the point when they met.

Xuan Shijing shook his head: "No, the local people have already been disappointed with the government and the navy, they don't want to trust outsiders anymore, they would rather believe that the pirates won't kill people because of their secrecy."

Chen Zheng sighed when he heard the words, and the light in his eyes dimmed instantly.

"Tomorrow, I plan to take another trip and go directly to the beach to see what's going on at the beach." Xuan Shijing said.

Chen Zheng shook his head: "It's useless. The navy has gone back and forth hundreds of times in the nearby sea area, but they haven't found anything unusual."

Xuan Shijing frowned, could it be that this matter is so stuck here?

"Today, the four of us went to those villages pretending to be merchants, and we didn't reveal our identities." Xuan Shijing said, "So if we continue, we might be able to find out something that day."

After thinking about it, Chen Zheng could only do so.

"I'll talk about tomorrow's affairs later. Mr. Xuan should have dinner first. After a busy day, he must be hungry." Chen Zheng led Xuan Shijing to the handsome tent.

They ate outside at noon. The dry food and water they brought with them in the camp were really not good. In the evening, the food should be better, and the people from the Xuan family also brought food from Quanzhou City.

There was no clue about the pirates, which made Xuan Shijing a little headache. People in those villages refused to say anything when asked. They visited several villages, but they have never seen healthy young adults under the age of 30. They are all Elderly people stay in the village.

That's right, as long as you can move and be able to walk, who wants to live a precarious life in the village over there?

The people of the Tang Dynasty value the local conditions most, and no one would want to leave their hometown unless it was absolutely necessary, but now the fact is in front of them, because of the pirates, they had to leave their hometown and find another way out.

"Master Chen." While eating, Xuan Shijing suddenly put down his chopsticks and raised his head to look at Chen Zheng.

"Xuan Gong, what's the matter?" Chen Zheng asked.

"Many young people in those villages have already left. Have you ever asked where those young people who left have gone?" Xuan Shijing asked.

Chen Zheng pondered for a while, then shook his head: "I really don't know, after all, the navy can't keep watching the village, and when the young and strong in the village left, the navy wasn't there, so where did they go?" , I don’t even know here.”

It's a pity, if you know where those young men have gone, you might be able to inquire about the pirates from them.

However, Xuan Shijing reckoned that those young and strong people should not have traveled too far, they just went to the inland from the sea, and they might even be still in Quanzhou, but even if they knew the news, so what?How to find it?Is it possible to go to the street beating gongs and drums to find someone?

It is absolutely impossible to do this before it is confirmed whether Quanzhou has internal responses to those pirates. If there are internal responses, more lives will be buried in the hands of the pirates, and those pirates will retaliate.

(End of this chapter)