Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 835: Rebellion Again and Again

"Do you have an idea?" Fu Puxin was surprised and happy. He never expected that Geng Datou would have such a clever plan.

Now the Ming army was chasing closely, and even Chen Zuyi's method of cutting off the gecko's tail was not very effective. Fu Puxin was really helpless in the face of such an emergency. Hearing that Geng Datou had a solution, he was as surprised as a drowning man who suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Tell me quickly, what's the solution?" Fu Puxin hurriedly grabbed Geng Datou's arm, his eyes full of hope, but Geng Datou's eyes were gloomy and difficult to understand. He lowered his head and said, "Don't panic, shopkeeper, my solution is..."

"What is it?" Fu Puxin asked anxiously.

"Yes..." Geng Datou's voice seemed a little hesitant. Fu Puxin immediately became impatient. He shouted, "Brother Geng, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. Everyone present here is a brother who burns the same incense stick. Is it okay to be polite?"

"...What the shopkeeper said is..." Geng Datou gritted his teeth, as if he had made up his mind. "It's easy to get the Ming army to stop pursuing us, but...I want to borrow something from you, shopkeeper?"

"Borrow something from me?" Fu Puxin was stunned. "What is it?"

Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden gust of wind behind his ears, and two large swords suddenly came towards his head without warning. Fu Puxin reacted very quickly, and when he realized it, he suddenly ducked and dodged the fatal blow of the two swords. When he glanced at it, he saw that the attackers were two foreign believers who were lured from Dawan Island to join the religion. He couldn't help but feel shocked and angry: "How dare you betray the religion! Brother Geng, come with me to kill these two apostates..."

Before he could finish his words, Fu Puxin felt a pain in his chest. A dagger had pierced his heart.

"You..." Fu Pushin turned back in surprise, his eyes full of disbelief. Then he remembered something and said, "I, I actually forgot that these foreigners are all, you..."

"Shopkeeper." The person who stabbed the dagger into Fu Puxin's mouth was Geng Datou. In his eyes, there was a mixture of ferocity and regret, which eventually turned into complete ferocity: "I can't do anything, I can't do anything..."

"If you want us to live, you have no choice but to die... You and Chen Zuyi must die!"

"..." Fu Puxin seemed to want to say something, but the rusty blood had already filled his mouth and he couldn't utter a word.

The last scene he saw was a fight between the White Lotus followers who were loyal to him and the foreign followers under Geng Datou's command...

……

As the head of the White Lotus Sect, Fu Puxin naturally thought that these foreign followers respected and obeyed him as if he were the incarnation of the Ming King. However, he forgot that these foreign people were deceived and "conquered" by Geng Datou and his men from the beginning to the end.

As the descendant of the "master", Geng Datou was good at using his magic to deceive fools into joining the sect. The barbarians were ignorant, and seeing Geng Datou's endless "immortal magic" illusions, they naturally followed Geng Datou's lead. How could they worship Fu Puxin?

No matter how senior Fu Puxin was in the White Lotus Sect, how wise and brave he was, or how brave and fearless he was in battle, the people didn't care. They only cared about the "miracles" brought to them by the White Lotus Sect and Geng Datou, who triggered the "divine skills". When it comes to controlling the lower-level believers, the "generals" are always inferior to the "masters".

When Fu Puxin's followers saw the shopkeeper being killed by Geng Datou, they could not help but burst into tears. With red eyes, they wanted to seek revenge on Geng Datou. However, although these followers who came from the White Lotus Generals were brave, their numbers were far less than the barbarians. Moreover, many other followers had stood on Geng Datou's side without knowing when, and these Fu Puxin's followers were quickly suppressed.

Afterwards, Geng Datou stopped the ship and raised the white flag, allowing the Ming army's warships to surround the ship.

"Young Master, Geng Er, a member of the White Lotus Sect, has come to surrender with the heads of Fu Puxin and Chen Zuyi... How should we deal with him?" Li Gui asked Li Jinglong on the treasure ship.

Li Jinglong was also a little hesitant. According to the court's practice, the White Lotus sect leaders were to be killed, but there was no statement that ordinary believers should not be spared... After all, there were many common people among the White Lotus sect members, and even among the many bureaucrats and nobles who founded the Ming Dynasty, there were many who had unclear ties with the White Lotus sect. If they were all killed without any distinction, wouldn't the Ming Dynasty be in chaos immediately?

What's more, Geng Er actually killed Chen Zuyi and Fu Puxin in one go, which can be regarded as a great achievement... After hesitating for a long time, he finally decided to call Geng Er: "Ask him to board the treasure ship, I want to ask him something."

After a while, Geng Er was pulled onto the deck of the treasure ship in a small boat by the Ming army's hanging basket. When he saw Li Jinglong sitting at the top, Geng Er immediately knelt down from a distance, knocked his big head heavily on the deck, and shouted in fear and trepidation: "I am the guilty Geng Er, I kowtow to the great general of the Ming army!"

His inappropriate address caused many Ming navy officers and soldiers to chuckle. Seeing that Li Jinglong was also smiling, Li Gui quickly reminded him, "Young Master, don't take it lightly."

"This man has killed two great bandits, Chen Zuyi and Fu Puxin, so how can he be just an ordinary person... And he is an inferior who defeats the superior, so don't take it lightly."

"...Yeah." After Li Gui's reminder, Li Jinglong finally perked up and stopped looking down on Geng Datou. Instead, his eyes were filled with vigilance.

He thought for a moment and said, "Geng Er, although you killed Chen Zuyi and Fu Puxin... you are a leader of the White Lotus Sect after all, so I cannot trust you."

"And how can we know if you are pretending to surrender and being submissive because my army is advancing too far and you see that there is no way out?"

"This... General! It's unfair! I am innocent!" Geng Datou was shocked when he heard this, and immediately cried out that he was wronged. "Although the criminal said he was from Bailian... but he didn't have the slightest intention of causing trouble!"

"The criminal was originally from Hangzhou, had a family and a business, and was Fu Puxin..."

Then, Geng Datou talked about his experience in Hangzhou Port. It turned out that although he was still a member of the White Lotus Sect in Hangzhou, because the White Lotus Sect was in hiding, in fact, except for the incense he offered to the Mother of No Life and the King of Light every month, he had no connection with the White Lotus Sect's cause.

After all, he was the descendant of the "Master". At a time when the White Lotus Sect was severely cracked down by the imperial court, if he dared to pretend to be a god and recruit believers, he would be investigated by the imperial court. And at that time when the White Lotus Sect was lurking, naturally there was no one who could work hard to be more useful.

Moreover, Geng Datou had actually already started a family in Hangzhou Port. Not only did he have a wife who came from a weaving family, but his wife had even just given birth to a big fat boy... Therefore, although Fu Puxin had been instilling in him words like "A real man will never have trouble finding a wife," he was never determined to rebel against the court.

(End of this chapter)