Chapter 614
Capture
This is an island isolated in the sea, deep in the sea. Looking around, there are only scattered reefs around. To build such a small town, the wood, stone, tiles and bricks all need to be transported in from outside.
Either way, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
Human and material resources are built up with money.
Li Wenying: "No wonder so many people want to become pirates even if they have to pretend to be Japanese and change their ancestors."
The knights have already rushed in first, shouting and killing.
The Japanese pirates on the island were not completely unprepared. Although they did not expect that the Ming people would rush here, they were prepared for an enemy attack on Wangyue Island.
This battle was extremely difficult. They landed on the island in the morning and stopped in the evening. Most people were exhausted and few could stand without shaking.
What Li Wenying didn't expect was that Xue Shao could actually stand.
He couldn't help but look the other person up and down, and saw that although his clothes were stained with blood, only his arm was bandaged.
He took two quick steps forward, grabbed his wrist, and held it down. After checking his pulse, he let go silently: "Whose internal energy did you learn?"
Xue Shao calmly put down his sleeves and said with a smile, "This is a technique given to me by an uncle in my family."
Li Wenying looked complicated: "Is it Xue Taixu?"
Xue Shao said nothing.
Li Wenying looked at him like a hungry wolf seeing a piece of fresh meat, and wanted to stare him through: "What's the point of being an official? You are just a scumbag, and all you want is fame. You are so talented, you should join my sect."
Xue Shao smiled: "The cultivation of Taoism is about cultivating the mind. No matter where you are or what you do, why should you be bound by the formalities?"
Li Wenying disagreed: "No matter how talented a person is, his energy is limited. You are in the officialdom. How much time can you have in a day, a month, or a year to practice Taoism and explore the nature of heaven and earth? Isn't this a waste of talent?"
Xue Shao did not refute his point of view, but directly said: "I have no intention of joining Longhu Mountain."
Li Wenying: "If you don't want to come to Longhu Mountain, you can go to other Taoist sects..."
"For example, Sanqing Mountain?" Pan Jun popped up and interjected.
"Go away," Li Wenying waved her hand, "Why are you everywhere?"
Pan Yun: "I'm here to report. We found a lot of gold and silver treasures. Do you want to listen? If not, forget it."
"Wait, where is the stuff?"
Pan Yun pointed and saw that there were already quite a few people gathered there.
Pan Yun and his team looted them from every corner of the town.
The best mansion in the town was turned upside down by the knights, and a lot of money was indeed found, but it was not commensurate with its prosperity.
It is very abnormal that more gold, silver and treasures were found in other mansions in the town.
The knights who were proficient in mechanisms went over and searched for a long time but couldn't find anything. In the end, Pan Yun pulled out the captured Japanese pirates and beat them with his fists a few times, and they confessed. It turned out that before they came, they had just launched a ship and transported some things back to their country.
The knights were furious and shouted, "Let's go after them now!"
"It's already a day late. They're almost in Japan. What's the point of chasing them?"
"Of course there is no money. This money belongs to the people of Ming Dynasty. Moreover, we have suffered so many casualties in this anti-bandit campaign. How are we going to pay for their compensation?"
Everyone's eyes fell on the pile of gold and silver treasures in the middle, with sad expressions.
Although arrangements were made, there were still heavy casualties in the attack on Wangyue Island.
The injured need to be treated, and the dead need to be cremated and taken back. You can't just send an urn of ashes to their parents, wife and children. Even if it can't be perfect, at least there should be some money for the parents' pension and the wife and children's support, right?
The pile of gold, silver and jewels on the ground looked like a lot, but the number of their casualties was even greater. Someone remembered and shouted, "Where is the second son of the Chen family? The Chen family promised to give the fallen knights 100 taels of silver."
When the knights heard this, they immediately went to look for the second son of the Chen family.
Pan Yun and Li Wenying looked at each other, Li Wenying smiled, and Pan Yun quietly took two steps back.
Li Wenying stepped forward and said, "I asked Mr. Chen Er to count the medicines. Let's use the ready-made medicines to treat everyone's injuries first. Let's take a short rest. We will count the spoils and return tomorrow."
"Go back? Are we going back now? Aren't we supposed to find and kill the Japanese pirates who massacred the village?"
"We have found them." A knight pushed out three people, "Others died under the sword of our Jinsha Gang."
"Humph, you are good at flattering yourself. Wasn't this man captured by Taoist Sanzhu? Even those people who were hacked to death by you were hacked to death by you after Taoist Sanzhu and her fellow apprentices were seriously injured. You looked so anxious, as if they would die if you were a little later!"
"Stop slandering me. I didn't say that I was the only one who killed him. This was the result of the joint efforts of my Jinsha Gang and Sanqing Mountain. Taoist Sanzhu didn't refute it, so what are you arguing about?"
"Jin Nanhuan, I have tolerated you for a long time. You liked to steal people's bodies on the ship. You killed several of my seriously injured people, but that lame-eyed know-it-all took that as your achievement."
There were many similar disputes, and the knights expressed their dissatisfaction one after another, and the scene suddenly became noisy.
There was no need for me to rack my brains to divert attention, they just started quarreling.
Li Wenying opened her mouth but couldn't speak for a long time.
Pan Yun has already sneaked away.
She went to see Chen Han.
After Wangyue Island was completely taken over, Chen Han was put under guard by people sent by Li Wenying.
At this moment, he was sitting on a big rock by the sea, with his head down and silent. Xue Shao was flipping fish not far away.
Pan Yun walked up to him and looked at him silently.
Xue Shao picked up a fish and threw it onto the beach. After it landed on the ground, it jumped a few times as if it was struggling to survive.
Pan Yun's eyes widened: "Not dead?"
Xue Shao nodded: "Not dead, the tide just now washed up a lot of fish and shrimp. Since the ban on the sea, it has been difficult for us to buy sea fish. This island is in the sea, and I didn't expect that there would be so many fish and shrimp left after the tide came."
Pan Jun also became interested. She rolled up her sleeves and started rummaging in the wet sand with him. They actually found fish and shrimp buried under the sand.
If they were any later, they would have suffocated to death.
Others were simply suffocated to death.
But Pan Yun didn't mind and picked the big and fresh ones to keep.
It just died, I wonder how many times fresher it is than the sea fish in my previous life.
This one can be fried, but since this one is still alive, we’ll use the most primitive cooking method, steaming it.
The sea fish is tender and delicious, and it tastes great just by steaming it.
The two of them were very happy, which made Chen Han, who was sitting on a rock, keep looking at them.
When Pan Yun dug out a prawn from the sand and shouted that he wanted to eat lobster in the evening, he finally couldn't help but say, "Aren't you here to interrogate me?"
Pan Yun smiled and turned back: "Why would Mr. Chen think so? We are still allies now, and the knights are still waiting for the Chen family to pay compensation, so why would they try you?" (End of this chapter)