The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 622

[622. Chapter 602 Camp Change]

That night, the wind was high.

Xu Jing was too sleepy and fell asleep early.

But at midnight, suddenly, there was a harsh noise outside.

Xu Jing stood up suddenly in shock. He only had time to put on his clothes and shoes when he saw a group of sailors rushing into the tent!

Obviously something was wrong at this time, Xu Jing glared at them fiercely.

The sailors seemed to be afraid, and they all looked at Xu Jing in fear, and some even looked ashamed.

“Ambassador…” All the sailors fell to their knees.

“What’s the matter!” Xu Jing said sternly, showing his majesty.

“Ambassador… we… we want to go home!” Someone said with difficulty: “We… we can’t move on. If we move forward, when will we be able to go home? In this vast ocean, humble people are living every day. If you can’t stand it anymore, please ask the envoy to order the fleet to return for the sake of our hard work.”

“I beg you,”

“Yes, envoy…”

Camp change!

An idea came to Xu Jing’s mind.

He knew very well that if it weren’t for the fact that he shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, these soldiers admired him, and they would have killed him with a knife.

Xu Jing’s face turned pale. Even so, this was unacceptable to him. He shouted, “Whose idea was it?”

Everyone was silent.

Xu Jing asked: “Is it Yang Xiong?”

Everyone shook their heads: “Commander Yang didn’t know about it.”

Xu Jing sneered: “You want to go back to your hometown, why don’t I want to go back to my hometown? But after reaching this point, can I still go back? Everyone

said: “All it takes is an order from the ambassador!”

Xu Jing said fiercely: “I would rather die than give this order!”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, everyone hesitated.

The emotion of returning home has driven them crazy. They can’t hold on for a day on this sea!

So some people beat their chests and wailed, and some gritted their teeth and said: “Ambassador, we are also human beings. We came here with the ambassador and have not failed the court. Which one of us is not a half-life? Which one is not suffering a lot?” The ambassador said that we are looking for the kingdom of God for the sake of our family and country, but who cares about us? Are we destined to die for the sake of our family and country? Ambassador, have you forgotten that you are thinking of the imperial court? We care about the common people, but why are we not common people? We want to live, even if we die, we don’t want to die thousands of miles away. Our bones should be buried next to our ancestors, not here. “

The man burst into tears and continued: “We all admire the ambassador. The ambassador is a good person. If we are the people of the Ming Dynasty and see Ambassador Yang Fan going to sea, we also know that the ambassador is for the welfare of the people. But we are different. We are not like the ambassador. We only wanted food and clothing, a father and mother, a wife and children, and barely enough food to survive. We endured the hardships we deserved. One of the two fellow villagers who came with me died. There is another one who still has a high fever. The ambassador said that he wants to find the Kingdom of God, but we all know that we will not reach the Kingdom of God in a year and a half. We are not cattle and horses, we are also human beings. Please have mercy on him.”

These words made Xu Jing speechless for a moment.

He even dared not look at these people who rushed into the tent and cried loudly. They were just like him, sallow and skinny, and they were like walking zombies.

After a long silence, Xu Jing clenched his fists and said: “Life like this is very hard, but we have come this far, come this far… come this far…” In his eyes Tears burst out, and he continued: “My mentor ordered me to benefit the common people, and I have tried my best to do it. Now that I have reached this point, can it… just return in vain? Then our previous voyage, our previous voyage What’s the point of all the hardships we’ve endured?”

He banged a makeshift stone table in the tent, making his hands bleed.

The sailors just prostrated on the ground and cried together.

“Let’s hold on for a while, and hold on for a while longer. You should believe in me. You should believe in me. I am Xu Jing…I am Xu Jing…”

Xu Jing’s hair was disheveled. Under the slowly burning candlelight, his face was ferocious and scary: “I Xu Jing will take you home, he will definitely take you home, Tuesday, what do you think?”

The sailor named Tuesday just lay on the ground and cried bitterly, not daring to agree.

“Liu Hu, you are the helmsman. You are different from others. Come and tell them how I took you back.”

However, there was no response. Xu Jing retreated unconsciously, and he became desperate. His face was full of exhaustion.

He suddenly wanted to pull out his sword, chop off a few heads at the emperor’s command, and then read out the ambassador’s order to continue southward.

But…how can he bear it? These people have come to share the joys and sorrows with him.

What’s more, even so, will the rest of the people really be willing to obey? Are you willing to accompany yourself to the ends of the earth?

His lips pursed and his body trembled. He thought of his mentor and his earnest teachings. He didn’t dare to forget a single word of his words, “Xiangxi, Xiangxi…”

Suddenly, he sat down on the ground slumped and said with difficulty. : “Pass my order…”

“Who dares to take a step back!”

But at this moment, outside the big tent, a group of people came out, holding open fire. The leader was holding a steel knife in his hand, full of murderous intent. .

The leader was Zhou La.

The Zhang brothers cleverly stood behind Zhou La.

They originally secretly roasted mice in the middle of the night, but halfway through the meal, they heard that the camp had changed. The Zhang brothers went crazy with worry, so they hurried over with a group of close servants.

“Who are you?”

Zhang Heling saw that there was no danger, so he pulled Zhou La behind him. He looked at the people in the tent with contempt and said, “Imperial decree!”

Imperial decree…

Xu Jing and others were all shocked.

“Everyone kneel down to receive the order. This is His Majesty’s secret order. I am Shouning Hou Zhang Heling. With the secret order in mind, I have privately boarded the ‘Xiao Zhu Xiucai Bad Guy’. Anyone who dares to do anything wrong will be dealt with immediately!”

Sailors said individually .

Such a fear, they never expected that such a change would happen.

But then, they found that Zhang Heling didn’t bring many people, so they felt relieved.

Zhang Heling quickly read out the decree, and then said fiercely: “Do you understand? Your Majesty ordered the fleet to go to the Golden Continent. Anyone who dares to retreat will be executed.”

So the sailors looked at Zhang Heling hesitantly one by one.

“Of course.” Zhang Heling clasped his hands behind his back, took two steps, and then said: “I am a relative of the emperor, the emperor, and my brother-in-law, but a few of us are hiding secretly on the ship. Do you think I am just urging you to go to Huanghuangzhou? With our precious bodies, who wants to stay with dirty and smelly guys like you?”

“Heh…” someone among the sailors sneered: “This place is thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, and I am here. I don’t care, I don’t care what they do… Kill them, I’ll think of a solution later…”

Zhang Yanling was startled, holding her head, and wanted to run away, but she was immediately grabbed by Zhang Heling and pulled back. .

Zhang Heling looked at this useless brother and really wanted to kick him to death. Then he looked at these sailors coldly and bared his teeth and said: “Okay, come and try to kill me, but you idiots, at this time, Still want to go back? “

Go back? “

Even if Zhang Heling died here, he would not go back.

Come on, how hard have you endured in the past six months?

Of course, in fact, this bit of hardship is nothing. After all, on this ship, everything you eat and drink is provided by the imperial court. The food is a little hard to swallow. It doesn’t taste as good as porridge, and it doesn’t taste like potatoes. Zhang Heling is even thinner, but in his heart Still hopeful.

Yes, hope!

He shouted: “Before coming, Your Majesty has given instructions that if you cannot find the kingdom of God, your parents, wives and children will be killed. In other words, even if you go back now, you will be dead, and your family will be troubled. Haha , You can’t think of it, right?”

The sailors looked at Zhang Heling in fear, showing disbelief.

Zhang Heling squinted his eyes and said coldly: “You don’t believe it? If you don’t believe it, let’s see if this imperial edict is true or false.”

Then he threw the imperial edict on a military attaché, who was busy holding the imperial edict and looked at it carefully. Look, but I can’t see a clue.

Zhang Heling looked at them contemptuously and said: “I am a majestic relative of the country, the emperor’s brother-in-law, and the edicted Marquis of Shouning. I have traveled thousands of miles and have a sacred mandate to ride the wind and waves with you here. Do you think I am here to eat something? ?”

Everyone looked up, confused.

Zhang Heling slapped Zhang Yanling on the shoulder and said sternly: “I have a secret mission to find the legendary treasure! Jinshan, have any of you heard of Jinshan?”

The frightened sailors had already turned pale. , when I heard that if I could not find the kingdom of God, I would be dead, and all the people would be executed, but I saw this man coming with an imperial edict. After all, ordinary people, who would dare to forge an imperial edict? Although everyone does not recognize Shouninghou, But this person’s posture and tone all carried the aura of being superior and superior to them.

Everyone listened uneasily to the word “Jinshan”.

Finally someone asked: “Please tell me!”

If Zhang Heling hadn’t been hungry for two days and hadn’t eaten the freshly roasted mouse yet, with his usual fiery temper, he would have kicked the damn sailor away!

Zhang Heling mentioned Jinshan again, but his eyes shone: “Jinshan is a land of gold. The mountains there are made of gold. It is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Who can get there? Just tell me.” Well, starting from you, your descendants, and even thousands of generations, there will be endless glory and wealth. If you eat a hundred bowls of porridge for one meal, you can eat it for five thousand years!”

Sailors !

My mind is a little confused, porridge… seems to be a bit troublesome when used as a unit of measurement!

A hundred bowls per meal, three meals a day is three hundred, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, one hundred thousand bowls a year, five thousand years…

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cold is not completely gone yet, last night was too hot I was too tired and sleepy, so I fell asleep. Thank you all for your understanding of Tiger these days. Well, I will continue to ask for votes. Is there any more?

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