Cowardly Stepmother Dressed As the Hero

Around the summer solstice, Cao Mi received a letter from Lizhou.

After four or five months of trekking, Changsun Ling finally took Beisi and his party and found a place to take root in Lizhou.

After they spent half a month settling down, they wrote a letter to Cao Mi, who was still in Cannes, not only reporting safety, but also describing the situation in Lizhou.

It was different from the team that the eldest Sun Ling went to when Hao Hao Tang Tang went, this letter, which was not too thick, took half a month to deliver to Cao Mi on the way.

After Cao Mi Zhanxin read it, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, she began to calculate in her mind the time to send Liu Ge and the others.

The twins were originally studying the glass sent by Yu Jing, and when they saw Cao Mi holding the letter thoughtfully, they approached and asked, “Mother, who sent the letter?”

Cao Mi was distracted and answered them, “It’s from Lizhou.”

“Lizhou?” Qi Ran blinked curiously.

Qi An pushed his silly younger brother in disgust, and asked directly, “They have already arrived at the North Temple? Did the journey go smoothly?”

Cao Mi didn’t tell the three children about sending people to Lizhou, but he didn’t hide it from them either.

And as meticulous as Qi An, he will not forget this important thing.

Cao Mi smiled and nodded with him: “Well, they arrived a month ago, um… It seems to be going well.”

Qi Rui looked at the books recommended by Master Lin, thought for a while, and then asked, “Where did they settle down?”

“Near Luo Village.” Cao Mi replied in one breath: “Luo Village is a small fishing village near the sea, very poor. But the surrounding land is cheap.

“Beishi and others have set up a Zhuangzi over there and are taking care of it.”

Qi Rui nodded when he heard the words.

After recalling for a moment, he said: “Lizhou has strong folk customs, and the climate is quite different from that of Beidi. Most of the North Temple and his party are able-bodied adult men, and there are also doctors accompanying them, so they are not afraid of getting sick.

“In this way, as long as they find a way to make the local people accept them as much as possible, there will be no big problem.”

Cao Mi looked at him with a smile, and said “um”, “Yes, my mother thinks so too.

“Also, with your father’s subordinate — Changsun Ling.

“Zhang Sun Ling is from the south. The two of them are together, and everyone can discuss what to do. I think… the problem should not be big.”

Qi Rui nodded.

He turned his eyes back to the book again, and stopped talking.

And Beisi, which has won Cao Mi’s trust, is leading people to open up wasteland at this time.

It is midsummer, if it is placed in Liaozhou and planted on arable land at this time, I am afraid that even a single seed will not be planted.

But he is located in Lizhou, where the climate is warm and humid, so he planted in summer just in time for this year’s autumn harvest.

It has been less than a month since he came to Lizhou, and there are not many people working in the fields with him at this time.

“When will General Changsun be back?” Dahai, who was following the North Temple, had just finished digging a piece of land, and complained during the break.

Dahai is actually a native of Liaozhou. When Beisi was selecting people at the time, he took a fancy to his name that is very related to Lizhou, and selected him into the team that came to Lizhou.

Coincidentally, Dahai also really wanted to see the real Dahai with his own eyes. After knowing that he was selected, he was so happy that he couldn’t sleep for several days.

But at this time they had settled down for more than 20 days, and the sea slowly calmed down after the initial excitement.

And the heavy work that followed, almost didn’t make him exhausted.

Due to the recent shortage of manpower, the workload shared on everyone is indeed a bit too much. Beisi was on the side, and when he heard his question, he replied with a good temper: “It’s only two days, you wait.

“When General Changsun buys the slaves back, and the manpower is sufficient, I will let you rest for two days.”

He raised his voice deliberately when he said this, and the surrounding farmers who heard the promise smiled.

Dahai also nodded again and again and said, “Thank you for the steward! Thank you for the steward!”

“Thank you for what? It should be.” Beisi smiled, “You can rest for a while. It’s really hard to turn over such a large piece of land in the morning.”

The people who can be selected this time are those who are flexible in their minds, and who are hardworking and enduring hardships. Hearing Beisi’s compliment, Dahai felt that he was full of strength, and hurriedly said, “I’m not tired, I’m out of breath, so I’ll go to open another new field.”

Beisi patted him on the shoulder: “Well, remember to eat a few more bowls of rice at noon.”

The sea grinned and nodded.

The two were chatting one after another, and a tall and strong man came running from the outside.

He trotted all the way to the North Temple, and reported: “Beijing Temple steward, there seems to be something wrong in Luo Village. Our people found that there was a noise over there, and there seemed to be a conflict in the village.”

“Luo Village? Conflict?” Beisi was a little surprised, “The nearby villages are far away, who can they have a conflict with?

“Is it civil unrest?”

The big man shook his head: “I don’t know. But it’s definitely not an ordinary petty fight. Blood has already been seen.”

Beisi was stunned when he heard the words.

This big man was actually an adjutant under Changsun Ling.

Recently, Changsun Ling took people to the nearest city of Haining to buy. He left an adjutant to protect the people from Beisi.

In order to hide their identities, these soldiers changed their clothes into peasant dresses similar to those of Beisi and others, but they were not involved in farming. Besides helping out in their spare time, their main job was to patrol and guard nearby.

Beisi thought for a while, and said, “People in Luocun have always been afraid of us. It’s been almost a month since we settled in the neighborhood. I visited the door in person several times, but they were turned away.

“If we go there rashly now, will the people in Luo Village think that we are looking for trouble?”

Beisi and his party integrated into local affairs, and the progress was not as smooth as Cao Mi imagined.

After buying a large piece of land south of Luo Village, Beisi found that strangers often came to peep at them.

During that time, Beisi and Zhangsunling also tried to visit directly, trying to establish a good relationship with the neighbor of Luocun, but they brought gifts to the village chief’s house, and they were driven out without taking a sip of water.

And not only Luo Village, but several nearby villages have similar attitudes towards them.

Since then, although Beisi has not given up trying to have a good relationship with Luocun, the two sides have become a situation where well water does not violate river water.

Hearing that Luocun seemed to be in trouble at this time, Beisi was a little unsure whether he should go directly to help.

But the sea was next to him, and he also heard the adjutant’s words. At this time, seeing the hesitation of Beisi, he said anxiously: “Beijing steward, why are you hesitating? Naturally, you have to go and help!

“This, this… Saving people is like putting out a fire! No matter if something really happened to Luo Village, we have to be worthy of our conscience!”

He hadn’t read any books, and his thoughts were not as meticulous as Bei Si, but at this time, he awakened Bei Si with his own simplicity.

Beisi nodded: “Yes!”

After thinking for a while, he said to the adjutant in front of him: “Adjutant Luo, please order 50 people, let’s go and see!”

Adjutant Luo nodded when he heard the words: “It’s ready, the steward comes with me.”

Beisi gave Hai a “don’t worry” look, and ran directly with Adjutant Luo, rushing in the direction of Luo Village.

When they arrived, the conflict in the snail village had come to an end.

Beisi came to the main road outside Luo Village, and was bumping into a group of people who were holding grain and dried fish and dressed in weird clothes.

Beisi was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously shouted, “Robber?”

To his surprise, the group of people on the opposite side also started shouting, but the words they said were words that Bei Si couldn’t understand.

Beisi didn’t feel anything at this time – there are too many dialects in Lizhou, and most people can’t speak the Mandarin of Sheng Dynasty at all. Most of the time, they actually have no way to communicate with the people in Luo Village.

When Beisi was still in a daze, this group of people had already seen the gap between themselves and the group of Beisi, and immediately began to flee.

Their actions directly exposed their guilty conscience, and Beisi hurriedly shouted: “Adjutant Luo, don’t let them run away, arrest them first.”

Adjutant Luo nodded, and followed up with the soldiers.

Although they lost the first chance, Adjutant Luo’s group of people are real soldiers!

They can be selected into the ranks of Qi You’s personal soldiers, and each of them can be placed in the ordinary crowd, and they can be a dozen of them.

Soon, the scattered people were subdued by them one by one and brought back again.

Beisi asked the soldiers to tie up these people, picked up the rice and dried fish that had been thrown to the ground, and walked into the snail village.

The people in Luocun were resigning themselves to clean up the mess, when they saw a large group of people walking in, they were all startled, thinking it was the original group of people who had gone and returned.

When they saw the appearance of Beisi and his party, they all whispered in surprise.

Bei Si was very relieved that he was not driven away as soon as they met.

Carrying three dried fish, he reluctantly found a somewhat familiar face among a group of strangers nearby, came to him, and asked, “Are these things yours?”

The man scratched his head, obviously not understanding what he was saying.

But soon, a young man next to him came out: “Yes, things are ours.”

He responded to Beisi with a very strange Sheng Dynasty official dialect.

Beiji nodded.

He gave an order back, and the people under Adjutant Luo put all the things they brought back to the side. When the people in Luo Village saw this, they stepped forward at the fastest speed and took everything back.

When Beisi saw this, he was not surprised.

He pointed to the people captured by Adjutant Luo and the others, and asked again, “Are they robbers? If so, I’ll take them to the officials.”

The young man who replied to Beisi before paused.

After a while, he shook his head: “The government won’t care.”

“Huh?” Beisi frowned.

The young man said again: “They… are not robbers. These people are pirates.”

Beisi frowned in confusion.

The man looked at the pirates behind them, and suddenly invited, “You, come with me.”

Bei Si was not afraid, and took Adjutant Luo directly into a room next to him.

After some exchanges, Beisi learned about the origins of these pirates.

Adjutant Luo slapped the table in anger: “What kind of Japanese pirates are not Japanese pirates, they are clearly the Rong tribe at sea! They don’t do production, they will only do some looting in our prosperous country!”

He originally followed the eldest Sun Ling to defend against the Rong tribe in Liaozhou, and he was far more impressed with these things than Beisi.

Beisi was about to persuade him, but the young man in Naluo Village opened his mouth again.

He asked, “You… bought that place, didn’t you? It’s where you live now, south.”

Beisi nodded: “Is there any problem?”

“There is a reef in the south, have you been there?” The young man pursed his lips and stared at the North Temple without blinking, “There is the stronghold of those Japanese pirates.

“In summer or autumn, after they landed, they would stay there.”

Beisi was stunned when he heard the words.

Adjutant Luo laughed coldly, and his right hand uncontrollably touched the weapon on his waist.

After thinking for a while, Beisi said to the youth, “You didn’t want to communicate with us before, did you think we were Japanese pirates?”

The youth of Luocun paused for a while, then shook his head for a while.

Beisi twitched the corners of his mouth.

He didn’t ask any more questions, but only asked about the Japanese pirates, and left a sentence: “We are from the Sheng Dynasty, just like you.

“If you Luocun encounter these Japanese pirates in the future, if you can’t deal with them, you can come and ask us for help.”

Then, under the exploratory gaze of the young man, he generously led Adjutant Luo out of the house.

They came outside, bet on the group of pirates, and returned directly to their own territory.

Two days later, Changsun Ling came back with someone.

When Beisi came to the courtyard where he stayed, he saw him carrying two documents and showed off to him: “Look, I have obtained the permission to produce and sell salt, and I didn’t use the relationship of the prince at all, hehe!”

He touched the two pieces of paper cherishingly, and seemed to have seen the large amount of gold and silver in the account after the salt was made by drying the salt.

But Beisi didn’t have the energy to talk about this with him.

He seized the time and briefly explained to the eldest Sun Ling what happened in Luo Village a few days ago.

“Japanese pirates?” The eldest Sun Ling frowned and confirmed: “The reef group next to us was still their stronghold before?”

Beisi nodded: “Yes.

“In the past two days, I also sent people to other nearby villages to inquire about it, and the person from Luo Village didn’t lie.”

He looked at Changsun Ling: “Perhaps the matter of drying the salt should be put aside. General Changsun, we must find a way to drive away the possible Japanese pirates first.”

“Heh.” Changsun Ling sneered.

He said proudly, “No.

“It’s just a small matter, where we need to disrupt our original plan. Whether it’s land reclamation or salt drying, you can lead the slaves you bought to do it yourself.

“For the Japanese pirates, you don’t have to worry, I have my own way to lead them to the shore…

“One! Net! Hit! All!”

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