Suzaku Fury

Three days later—

"Boom - boom - boom - boom - boom -"

The fifth watch drum has been beaten, and dawn has already broken in the sky.

As the sun rose, the blood-colored morning light quietly dyed the sea level from dark black to dark red.

However, long before dawn, fishermen on the South China Sea rolled up their trouser legs and cast their nets to catch fish.

Fishermen regard the sea as their home and their boats as their houses. They have long been accustomed to such a life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset, but today, they seem to get up earlier than usual.

But for a moment, the sun rising from the sea illuminated the entire sea area.

Fishermen who got up early crowded the wharf in the early morning, making the whole Fuxu Harbor full of people and bustling.They were shoulder to shoulder, carrying the first net of seafood that had just been salvaged from the sea, and slowly moved in one direction.

Suddenly, there was a chaotic sound of horseshoes in the opposite direction of the fishermen's advance.The man on the horse was wearing an official uniform, and was whipping the horse's butt vigorously with a whip, causing the horse to rush towards the crowd at the fastest speed.

"Master Shibo is here!"

"The common people get out of the way!"

"The city boat envoys come! The common people stay away!"

The fishermen who had been moving forward hurriedly retreated to both sides when they heard the sound, making room for a wide avenue for the officials.

The vanguard guards with swords galloped wildly and came to the edge of the crowd in a short while.A group of people and horses behind him also followed closely, riding on their horses and stepping on the dust.

This team of men and horses in official uniforms ran wildly along the avenue out of the way of the crowd, and didn't stop until a temple near the sea was full of incense.

The guard who had just been in the vanguard jumped off his horse, ran quickly to a horse with white hair and black mane, knelt down on one knee, clasped his fists and said respectfully: "Please dismount Shi Boshi and enter the temple to preside over the ceremony. "

The man in fine clothes on the white horse held the reins in his hand, and responded lightly with his nose.He wears a black gauze on his head, his black eyebrows almost fall into the temples, his narrow eyes are raised, his face looks like powder, and his crimson lips are needless.She has the appearance of a girl, but she has the symbol of a man; she has the appearance of a young man, but under the black gauze is a silver hair.

He rolled over from the horse, his movements were swift and without hesitation.

A follower came up from behind and said in a low voice, "Master Cui, those common people who came from the pier all want...to enter the temple to worship King Guangli..."

Cui Qianpei stopped, and squinted at the fishermen crowded in front of the temple.He only paid a sneer, and said with a strange tone: "It's just to worship outside the temple. If you miss the entire Tang Dynasty's sea transportation, the lives of thousands of fishermen in this area can't afford it." After finishing speaking, he took a small step Go into the temple.

The entourage got the order, turned around and ordered to the guard with the knife in front of the door: "Look closely at all of them, don't let any one in! If I miss a big deal, Master Cui will blame me, I can't afford it." After the confession Immediately followed Cui Qianpei into the temple.

The official ships and merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty sailing from the South China Sea across the Poison Ocean to Dashi must have to go from Fuxu Port to Tuen Mun Port before leaving Tuen Mun to enter the South China Sea and then go out of the country.Therefore, Guangfu, where Fuxu Port is located, was an important place for shipping in the Tang Dynasty, and most of the residents were fishermen.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea.

The situation on the sea is unpredictable, and fishermen go to sea, and they almost die just to make a living under the shelter of the sea god.

In order to ensure safe access and abundant seafood, the fishermen of Guangfu will make a unified preparation before the beginning of summer every year, and rush to the Nanhai Temple near Fuxu Harbor day and night to worship.

The Nanhai Temple is dedicated to Zhurong, the god of the South China Sea. Zhurong was originally the god of fire, but the south belongs to fire, and the origin of fire is water. Zhurong became the god of water and fire, and he was named Guangli King.The temple is located at the mouth of Fuxu, in the bay of Huangmu, facing the Fuxu River, facing the Shizi Ocean on the back, and is the starting port of Fuxu Port, and flows down the river straight out of the Pearl River.Therefore, whenever a Yuanyang merchant ship leaves the port, it must first go to the temple to worship and pray for the sea god to bless the voyage and sail smoothly.

The temple is full of incense, and there are many pilgrims who come to pray for safety, but among the mid-year sacrifices, the people of Guangfu especially pay attention to offering sacrifices to the Sea God.

Today, the sky is clear and the sea is calm. The slightly salty sea breeze blows from the back of the temple, blowing away the white smoke above the altar.

A bronze censer is placed on the white stone square altar in the middle of the inner courtyard of the temple. In the censer, three incense sticks as thick as a baby's arms are blown off by the sea breeze, revealing an orange-red flame.

Cui Qianpei and others stood under the altar and waited silently.

Seeing that it was about the same time, a follower with a knife reminded in a low voice: "Master Cui, do you want to start the ceremony?"

Hearing this, Cui Qianpei slowly opened his eyes, walked forward a few steps, and said to the shirtless burly man, "Get up too prison."

Two burly men listened to the order, one in front and the other behind, carried Tai Lao with a yellow ox on their shoulders with a pole.

Cui Qianpei rolled his eyes and looked to the other side: "Ten beans each, set up; bronze large gui, ox-head zu, sheep-head zu each ten, set up; three buckets of fine wine, set up."

The wrestlers who carried the corresponding sacrificial vessels listened to the order and stood up from the ground carrying the offerings.

Cui Qianpei saw that everything was ready, so he took a small vat of fine wine and boarded the altar, knelt down in front of the bronze censer, and raised the vat over his head: "The god of the South China Sea, King Guangli, is here, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are here, and it is time for the ceremony. On this occasion, I offer sacrifices and serve rice wine, and I hope that the Tang Dynasty will have a smooth weather and a good harvest." After saying this, he poured out the wine tank in his hand and poured it all on the altar.After the ceremony, he raised his hand again and said, "Beat the drums and offer an offering!"

With an order, the two big drums placed under the stone tablet of the temple taught two burly men to beat the drumsticks. With the offerings on their shoulders, they left the South China Sea Temple in an orderly manner.

Cui Qianpei watched the warriors leave from the altar, jumped down from the altar, and said to the followers behind him, "Follow."

A group of people decorated with lanterns and festoons marched mightily towards the port of Fuxu.

At this time, Fuxu Port was already empty except for small fishing boats in twos and threes, and the worship team beat gongs and drums all the way, and the loud sound of gongs and drums spread from far away to the quiet and deserted port.

"Stop." Cui Qianpei and the others came to the port, tightened the reins and stopped the horse: "Present confession, drum up."

One person walked quickly to the bank of Fuxu River and shouted, "Bong Tailao!"

Immediately, the two warriors who carried the prison stepped forward, walked to the riverside, and threw the still-struggling scalper into the river.

"Jiandou, come forward with the big gui, and place the twenty zu utensils by the riverside, get up!"

"Feed with rice."

Two strong men stepped forward and carried the big bronze gui to the riverside, and then poured the cooked glutinous rice into the river. On the other side, three strong men with big wine jars followed closely behind, waiting for those who carried the big gui After retreating, he immediately stepped forward and poured all the fine wine in the wine tank into the river.

Cui Qianpei and the others rode on their horses, staring at their men with bated breath as they made offerings to the God of the South Sea.

"My lord!" Suddenly someone called out.

Cui Qianpei frowned displeasedly, and looked at the impolite man: "What's the noise during the offering?"

"Look, my lord!" The guard with the knife pointed at the sea and shouted, "Why is there a boat today?"

When Cui Qianpei heard the words, he turned his head to look at the sea, and found that there was indeed a ship sailing towards Fuxu Port at the end of the sea level.

The entourage behind said anxiously: "Sea God Ceremony, don't be disturbed by boats, what should we do now?"

Cui Qianpei nodded slightly, and said displeasedly: "Why make such a fuss? How can there be a certain number of boats on the sea? Now it will come if it doesn't come, can you not pick it up? Besides, it is still far away, wait until I finish the sacrifice. It's not too late to pick up the boat." After speaking, he said to the people present: "Continue with the ceremony."

Although the people below were worried, they dared not disobey Cui Qianpei's orders.

After the offering was completed, the officials and musicians were changed to dance and play music by the river.The fishermen who came back from worshiping at the South China Sea Temple also gradually gathered at the riverside to see the style of worshiping at the riverside. For a while, Fuxu Port became lively again.

Everyone thought that it would be some time before the uninvited ship entered the port, but they didn't know that in just a moment, the ship entered the Lion Ocean and headed straight for Fuxu Port.

Seeing this, the entourage behind Cui Qianpei said again: "Lord Cui, today is going smoothly, why don't you...beat the drums to stop it first?"

Cui Qianpei thought about it, then nodded in agreement.

The accompanying drummer took the lead and immediately changed the drum beat to the tune of stopping the boat.

In an instant, Fuxu Harbor was immediately covered by deafening drumbeats.As usual, ships entering the port should drop anchor immediately when they hear the sound of the drum, and stay where they are until the release drum sounds.But this strange ship didn't respond to the drumbeat. Instead of slowing down, it went faster and faster, and it was about to enter the port.

The attendant said anxiously: "My lord..."

Cui Qianpei raised his hand to stop him from continuing to speak, but narrowed his eyes slightly, staring closely at the big ship that was fast approaching Fuxu Harbor.

The official performers and musicians who were singing and dancing by the river stopped their work, Qiqi looked at the city boat envoy on horseback, seeing that he didn't say a word, he could only look at each other in blank dismay, although he was shocked but dared not speak.

The originally bustling Fuxu Port did not know when there was only the sound of drums. Except for the drummer who kept beating the drums, almost everyone was watching the big white-sailed ship heading for Fuxu Port with breathless concentration.

"My lord, the situation is not right..." the follower trembled.

Cui Qianpei smiled instead of being surprised, and only heard him say: "It's just a big merchant ship, what's so scary?"

"Ah!!" Before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly heard a scream from a dancer.

Cui Qianpei stopped talking and looked back, and found that something was really wrong—the big food merchant ship, which was indifferent to the sound of drums, even entered the port without furling its sails and slowing down, and now it was heading straight towards the pier!

Seeing this, the people on the pier were all in a panic, and they didn't care about the Sea God ceremony, they ran away from the riverside screaming in a panic.

"My lord!" The entourage behind him shouted together with the guards with swords.

Different from their panic, Cui Qianpei showed no panic on his face, just staring at the big ship that was about to crash into the pier.

The entourage and guards with knives behind him were so anxious that their palms were sweating. When they looked up, they found that the big ship had arrived in front of them in an instant. Between pennies!

"Drive!" The entourage and the guards turned pale with fright, and even though Cui Qianpei didn't give the order to retreat, they frantically whipped the horse's whip to make the horse gallop in the opposite direction of the pier.

"Boom—" Almost at the same time as those guards galloped wildly, there was a loud noise from the port.The hull of the out-of-control ship tilted, and hit a smaller wooden boat that was moored in the port first. The hull of the small wooden boat turned over, and the mast got stuck on the mainsail of the big food merchant ship.

The two ships were about to capsize on the shore, and the entire Fuxu port was about to be smashed by two out-of-control wooden boats!

The white horse under Cui Qianpei's crotch had already been agitated by the movement, but he still didn't change his face at this time, he slapped the horse's back hard and flew up from the mount, then tapped the horse's neck with his toes, and spun into the air, With a wave of his hand, he grabbed a rope that was flying towards him, and with the inertia of the shaking of the two ships, he let the rope tied to the mast throw him onto the boat.

He just stood still on the mainsail mast of the big food merchant ship, and immediately wrapped the hemp rope in his hand around his arms a few times, and then quickly jumped to the small wooden boat that was almost crushed, and finally borrowed his strength again. Kicking off, pulling the rope on his arm, he jumped onto another big boat moored on the shore.

The big food merchant ship had crushed the small wooden boat and was about to hit the ferry.

Cui Qianpei threw the hemp rope that was getting tighter and tighter on his arm onto the mast of the big ship, and quickly tied a knot, but just as he let go and fell back on the deck, the whole ship was crushed by the overturned big food merchant ship. Pulled to one side.

The hull of the big food merchant ship was pierced with a big hole by the small wooden boat that had turned into a plank, and sea water continued to pour into the ship, causing the ship to sink more quickly.

Cui Qianpei saw that a ship could no longer hold the big food merchant ship, so he repeated the same trick, pulling the hemp rope on the mast of this ship and quickly jumped onto the side of the ship, then kicked hard, and jumped to another big merchant ship. on board.

I saw that the huge waves caused by the overturned big food merchant ship had rushed to the shore, and all the sacrificial vessels that had been placed on the shore were washed into the river by the huge waves. Seeing the fisherman, he quickly ran away screaming.

"A bunch of trash!" Cui Qianpei snorted coldly, and tied the hemp rope on the mast tightly.Turning back to look at the port, I saw the three big ships connected by hemp rope trembling together, and then stopped rolling over after a while, only floating and sinking with the waves, making a "ga-ga-ga-" sound from time to time sound.

Seeing that there was little movement, Cui Qianpei stood on the bow of the boat, jumped onto the shore, and walked towards the subordinates who came riding.

The entourage who ran ahead just now saw him coming, and hurriedly fell off the horse and complimented him with a smile: "My lord, my lord is wise and powerful, with great strength..." Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Cui Qianpei slammed him from the waist He was hit by the long whip that was pulled out suddenly, and before he even realized what was going on, his face was ripped apart.

"Ah! Ah!" The entourage screamed a few times, and crawled back like hell, "My lord, spare my life, my lord, spare my life!"

"Trash, you dirty my whip." Cui Qianpei raised his hand, took the whip back, and turned to look at the guard with the knife who was trembling with fright: "You..."

Before he could say a word, the guards over there knelt down in shock, bowed their heads and begged for mercy.

"You bastards are really embarrassing to me." Cui Qianpei took two steps forward, "It's such a trivial matter that you are so frightened and run away like this. These fishermen think that there is no one in our city's shipping department."

"Lord Cui, Lord Cui, please forgive me, the situation just now is really, it is really in danger, life is hanging by a thread!"

Cui Qianpei sneered, raised his chin with a whip, and said eccentrically, "Then you think the current situation is safe?"

"Big, my lord..."

Cui Qianpei's complexion changed, he straightened up and kicked him: "Why don't you hurry up and do something now?" As he spoke, he pointed at the attendant who had passed shock with the whip in his hand: "Drag this trash down, Get some wrestlers to come to the port and pull the fibers."

He paused for a moment, then turned to look at the half-sunken big food merchant ship, with a sly light in his slender eyes: "...I want to board the ship."

In just one cup of tea time, the fighters who were frightened and fled in all directions were summoned again by the river, and the half-sunken Dashi Merchant Ship was quickly dragged out of the sea by them and fixed on the shore with hemp rope side.

Seeing that he was almost ready, Cui Qianpei stood still, grabbed the hemp rope that was in the air, and climbed directly onto the boat.

There are many dense arrow holes on the deck and sides of the entire merchant ship, and there are some black blood stains in some places. If you look closely, there are also dense arrow holes on the mainsail.

"My lord, there is not a single person alive on this boat." The guard with a knife who had been threatened just now stepped forward to report and investigate, only to see that his face was pale and his lips were still trembling.

Hearing this, Cui Qianpei withdrew his gaze from the arrow hole, looked at him slightly and said, "There are no living people? Then how did this ship enter the port?"

The guard was silent, but fear was written on his face.

Cui Qianpei rolled his eyes and asked again: "So, is there any goods?"

The guard shook his head and said, "I must have encountered a pirate. The pirates of the Buddha killed people and robbed them. They did all sorts of crimes, and they were extremely fierce. Their evil deeds make people frightened."

Cui Qianpei's thin lips parted slightly, and he said clearly: "That's strange, this boat... would actually float from Buddha to Fuxu Harbor by itself?"

The guard didn't dare to speak anymore, Cui Qianpei saw that it was useless to ask more questions, so he simply waved him away, planning to go down to the cabin to inspect by himself.Unexpectedly, just as he was about to leave, he heard someone shouting from under the boat: "Master Cui, the Lingnan Jiedu envoy, Master Zhang, send a message!"

When Cui Qianpei heard this, he pondered for a moment, then raised his head and walked to the bow of the boat, and blew the flute in his hand in a certain direction, and the horse with white hair and black mane galloped from that direction just now.

Cui Qianpei stepped on the bow of the boat, flew down, and sat on Baiju's back.Holding the reins in his hand, he glanced at the messenger who came to inform: "Lead the way."

After a stick of incense, Cui Qianpei was already sitting on the sandalwood chair in Zhang Yun's mansion, the Lingnan Jiedu envoy, sipping tea.

"Cui Qianpei, what do you think we should do?" Zhang Yun was wearing an official uniform, pacing back and forth in the room eagerly.

Cui Qianpei put the lid of the cup in his hand, and said with a smile: "Why should you panic, my lord?"

Zhang Yun paused, rushed to him and said, "Can I not be in a hurry? I never expected that the imperial court would call for these offerings in a hurry! It's all because I was obsessed with money and believed your nonsense!"

"Master Zhang, this statement is wrong." Cui Qianpei put the teacup away casually, stood up and said, "Your Excellency did not say this when reselling the offerings."

Zhang Yun raised his hand to look at him, with an expression of daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

"If it wasn't for my subordinate's wrong guess, there should be some Tubo offerings privately hidden in the Sir's house, and they should be used to make up for it."

Zhang Yun's face was flushed with anger, but he didn't dare to vent his anger, so he could only flick his long sleeves angrily: "The offering is written as Linyi agarwood, how can those Tubo musks make up for it?"

Cui Qianpei knew that he was reluctant to part with the fine Tubo musk, so he stroked the whip stuffed around his waist, and said with a smile: "My lord, I don't want my child to be tied to a wolf. Besides, mountains of gold and silver are not as valuable as your life." Woolen cloth?"

"you!"

Cui Qianpei turned around and walked back to Zhang Yun, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, my lord, the list of offerings is only handled by you and me. If you and I don't say it, the emperor can't ask the envoys from Tubo and Linyi, right?"

After Zhang Yun heard this, although his face was still flushed with anger, he had calmed down a lot.

"Then I will escort the offerings to Beijing according to the order." Zhang Yunji said from the bottom of his heart, "But I want you to accompany me. If things are revealed, neither you nor I can escape."

Cui Qianpei smiled, bowed his head and clasped his fists and said, "This is the official order."

"Hmph!" Zhang Yun glared at him angrily, then walked away.

After Zhang Yun walked away, Cui Qianpei slowly let go of his bowed hands, then turned around, looked at Zhang Yun's angrily back, and pursed his lips into a smile.

The author has something to say:

... Everyone read it right, it is indeed a colleague of the Dragon King of the God Capital... But, I just used the characters in it, and I didn't intend to use the story in it to derive anything... Sorry everyone, my brain is a bit big, After this chapter, I will continue the interaction with Di Shafin, because if I don’t say these things, I can’t write any more later, QAQ, please forgive me (cup fist)

【Complete 2013.10.22】

Note: In the Tang Dynasty, most of the ship envoys were eunuchs.

PS: The next chapter will continue with Di Renjie and Mrs. Yuchi~

Di Renjie gazed at Mrs. Sharkfin affectionately with the scumbag technology: