The third hidden line of the island country was set up by Zhao Xin for Liji two years ago. He didn't have any conspiracy, but the two-legged stools never stood firm, and three were only stable. Liu Zheng was in the island country and the peace was too dark, but his darkness was also limited, so Zhao Xin asked Liji to arrange a third wave of people.

There were not many secret agents in this group, with only a dozen of them, and they were not affiliated with Liu Zheng. There were the Koga Ninjas who had sent from the shogunate to surrender to the security police because of the influence; there were the samurai warriors from the Aoba Camp who returned to the Sendai vassal after their service period, and they served the Ida family on the surface, but in fact they had secretly naturalized in the town of Beihai. In addition, the poor people who joined the Beihai Army turned into small businessmen after returning.

Four days after Zhao Xin issued the order, five sailboats carrying more than 2,000 island workers sailed into the dock of Shijuan Port. Those island farmers who went to Beihai Town to work basically came back at this time of year. At present, these ships are only the second batch, and there are the third and fourth batches behind them.

You should know that when winter comes from the northeast, it is often minus 30 degrees Celsius or 40 degrees Celsius, and most projects have to be stopped. Instead of letting these workers crouch in the cellar and endure hard, it is better to let them go back to their hometown to see their families.

Beihai Town does not treat these people badly. As long as they are willing to endure hardships, even if their salary is peeled off by the Beihai Practitioner and the vassal lords, they can always save more than a dozen Beihai silver dollars. One Beihai Yuan is equivalent to two for four days, and more than a dozen is four or fifty taels of bean silver. This is already amazing for the peasant families in the island country!

Because the first Matsu Pingding, the shogunate's first old junior high school, issued the "Frugal Dealing Order", and the "Abandonment Order" issued the previous year, the Zacha merchants went bankrupt on a large scale, resulting in the high prices of the island country, so workers usually buy food, cloth, tobacco and other items in advance at the Whale Port, so as not to be exploited by the acting official after returning to their hometown with a large amount of money. For Beihai Town, this is also a rotten meat in the pot.

A large number of returning tourists disembarked from Ishimatsu Port. For a time, the crowds of people in various taverns and shops in the town increased significantly. People wearing felt velvet hats and dark blue upper and lower labor cotton clothes could be seen everywhere on the streets, which also made Ishimatsu Town more lively before the Spring Festival.

Quan San and his companions, who were also wearing labor uniforms, got off the boat and walked into a paper umbrella store called "Xiaomiao". After talking to the boss, they handed an envelope to each other. Then, the two changed their clothes in the backyard of the store. When they came out and walked on the street, they were no different from ordinary island civilians.

The mission of transmitting information has been completed. Next, General Quan San and his companions made an appointment with each other ten days later and came back to meet, and then parted ways, intending to go back to his hometown to take a look.

Quan San has been away from the island country for five years. He was beaten by a bully that year, and if he hadn't met Thunder God, he would have eaten up all the bones and scum. After arriving in Beihai Town, he had been in the hospital for several months before he could get into the ground. Because he couldn't read a big word, he was alone. He first worked as a road repairman for more than a year, and then worked at the oil mine on Kuye Island for a year. Then he became naturalized and renamed "Quan Baocai".

Because he had always wanted to return home to take revenge, Kyoto, who had become a naturalized person, naturally signed up for the army; the North Navy even dared to beat the Edo Shogunate and Satsuma vassal, and in his heart this was the most powerful backer.

However, as soon as the training of the recruits was over, he was sent to the Heilongjiang City and endured for two years. When the North Navy Intelligence Bureau was formed to select people, Quan Baocai was already a squad leader. After being picked for no reason, he had another six months of intense training. In a blink of an eye, it was the end of 1791.

Quan Baocai's hometown is Niudu Village in Nakamura's Bunye County, and belongs to the Ma family, the retainer of Tokugawa Shogunate. During the famine in dawn, more than 10,000 people were starved to death, which was also considered a severely affected area.

It is not far from Ishimatsu Town to Niudu Village, and the land route is only more than 200 miles, so it is actually faster if you take a sea boat. However, Quan Baocai asked a circle of people on the dock, and the fastest boat would take the genius to set off. He didn't want to wait for a minute, so he casually found a restaurant in the town to fill his stomach, bought a few rice dumplings, and then set off with a heavy bag on his back.

In the Edo period, civilians were not qualified to ride horses because they had to restrict the movement of the people. It was not until the Meiji period that the ban was lifted. Moreover, in this year, except for the samurai who conveyed urgent reports, they could ride horses, and other horse riders must have followers to lead the horses and must not hold the reins themselves, otherwise they would be rude.

In addition, in the Edo period, horse rental was calculated based on mileage, which was very expensive, and ordinary samurai could not afford to rent it. On average, one mile was charged at 200 cents, and fifty miles was a stone of rice, which was comparable to the island national economy taxi in another time and space.

Although civilians were restricted from running around, living people would not be suffocated to death by urine, and leading people to sneak around the checkpoints became a business. So Quan Bao spent fifty cents to sneak from the Sendai vassal to the Sakama vassal.

The closer he is to his hometown, the more thrilling Quan Baocai's heart is. How his parents have been doing over the years and whether Abin is still here makes him worry about it.

He had already thought about it. No matter what, he would have to take his parents back to Beihai Town this time. If Abin could find him, it would be even better! Although Abin might have been a prostitute, he would not dislike her. He wanted to redeem Abin and take her back to Beihai Town for a beautiful wedding.

As for the boss of the brothel and the bully of the village... Quan Bao decided to settle the accounts with him. The pistol hidden in his waist was not a vegetarian!

Three days later, when Quan Bao saw the boundary marker in Niudu Village, he thought to himself that he had finally arrived home! He came to the Buddha silhouette opposite the boundary marker, and sighed at the statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva inside, saying, "I'm back!"

He wiped away the dust from the stone statue head with his sleeve, clasped his hands together and bowed, then walked towards his own position with great strides.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Niudu Village is still the same, the villagers' houses are low and dilapidated, and the straw on the roofs rusts in the north wind. On the not-so-wide road, the uncooked snow mixed with soil, and it is often trampled and crushed, making it look like a large mud pond.

What made Kwon Bao strange was that there was no one on the street, and there was no sound in the houses on the roadside. It was deserted and there was no atmosphere of the New Year. You should know that from the 24th day of the 12th lunar month, every family had to clean their houses and shrines. If you have money or not, you would hang pine trees at the door, hoping that the "God of the New Year" could stay for a while when you pass by and wish your own blessings.

When he was about to get home, he saw an old man standing under a crooked tree on the side of the road, tremblingly stretching his head into the rope sleeve hanging on the tree. Quan Bao was shocked and hurriedly stepped forward. Just as the old man kicked the barrel down, he grabbed the other person's leg.

The old man was also startled. His neck had just been strangled by a rope. Before he could feel pain, he suddenly lightened his body and was lifted up. Then he stood on the ground. When he turned around and looked carefully, he felt that the strong man in front of him had a familiar face, but he couldn't remember who it was.

Although Quan Baocai has been away from home for many years, the scenery of his hometown has been engraved in his heart. He looked at the old man in front of him with wrinkles and dressed in a torn manner, and soon recognized the other person. So he asked with concern: "Dad, what are you doing?!"

Seeing that the other party knew him, Yu Zuo wiped the corners of his eyes with his dirty sleeves, looked at the strong man in front of him carefully, and suddenly stared at the boss, and said in surprise: "Quan San? You are not dead?! You are still alive!"

"I'm standing in front of you. What's wrong with you? Is there anything I can't figure it out? My house is right in front, let's go home and talk."

Yuzuo lowered his head, his lips squirmed twice, and grinned and cried, "Quansan, your parents are gone...I can't survive anymore! Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo

"What!" Quan Bao's head buzzed, staggered a few steps, reached out to hold Yuzu's shoulder, and asked loudly, "Why is it gone? Explain it clearly to me!"

"They took Agui away and said they wanted her to be a prostitute to pay off her debts. I am just such a granddaughter. How can I live without her..."

Quan Bao interrupted the old man's cry and said anxiously: "Tell me quickly with Daddy! What's going on with my parents?"

"That year, everyone in the village thought you were dead, and I followed your parents to the beach to find the body for several days. In the second year, your family could not afford the rent, and the boss of Muzengwu forced him to pay off the debt, and your father hung up in anger. Later, they took away everything you could with your family, saying that they wanted to pay off the debt, and your mother fell ill. Two days later, people in the village went to see her, and the person had left... Your house was crushed by snow last year, and no one lived in it, so the house was broken quickly..."

Quan Baocai's eyes were so bitter that he asked, "Where have people buried?!"

"On the small hill to the west, our village..."

"With Daddy, go home and wait for me first! I will help you if you have any questions!"

Before Yu Zuo finished talking, Quan Bao quickly ran to the west. Yu Zuo looked at the other person's back as hesitated, looked up at the rope hanging on the tree, and hesitated for a moment before picking up the wooden barrel and heading towards his home.

After about an hour, Yu Zuo, who was sitting next to the floor stove, heard footsteps coming from outside. He got up and went out to see that Quan San had come back. The other party's eyes were red and swollen, and his body and headscarf were covered with soil and weeds.

When Quan Bao was sitting down in front of the ground stove and took off his headscarf, Yu Zuo looked at the other party's short hair that was about a long position and said in surprise: "Quan San, have you become a monk?"

After a while, Quan Bao shook his head slightly and said in a hoarse voice after crying: "Dad, what's wrong with the village? You just told me about Agui, she is fourteen this year, right?"

Yu Zuo sighed and then told the other party about the past. Quan Bao's face turned blue after hearing this, which was almost the same as when he was beaten back then.

During the famine at dawn, one-third of the people in Niudu Village died, and only his granddaughter, Agui, was left with Zuo's family. The old man was reluctant to let his granddaughter be a servant, so he took her to farm at home.

Most of the farmers in this year were tenant farmers. After harvesting grain every year, they had to hand over half of the harvest to the landlords, and the family expected the remaining grain to survive.

I had a share of five acres of land with the landlord. In the past two years, I could make up at most sixteen straw bags of rice, seven and a half bags of rice for rented grain, and the remaining rice was the food for the grandfather and grandson for a year. Farmers in the island country could not afford rice, so they usually went to the "rice house" to exchange for wheat or millet, and then mixed with radish leaves, soybean leaves and mountain vegetables to barely fill their stomachs.

The problem is that in addition to eating, you also have to eat salt and change to some daily necessities. If you catch up with the bad harvest, rent will not be missing at all. After all, landlords also have to pay tribute to the vassal community as much as possible. In this way, borrowing from landlords or usury merchants becomes inevitable.

Every year as the twelfth month enters the twelfth month, the usury merchants are harvesting. Faced with the debts that are profitable and cannot be paid back, tenants besides begging to repay the debts with the harvest of the next year, they can either only let beautiful girls become prostitutes; when will the usury money be paid off to become good?

Having said that, most people can’t finish it. You should know that in addition to what they have accumulated before, there will be new loans. What’s more, being a prostitute will cause illness, even their families will hate it, and they will eventually die in a sad way...

The north wind was howling outside the house, and the dry branches in the floor stove inside the house were burning and crackling. Yu Zuo wiped his tears and said, "Last year, the harvest of my five acres of land was not good, but the boss of Muzawa said that it would not be possible to pay back the money, so they took Agui away and said that she would go to a brothel to work and pay off her debts."

Quan Baocai felt aroused and immediately asked, "Dad, how are Abin... okay?"

"Abin?" Yu Zuo sighed, "I heard that she is already the top brand in the brothel and has become the money tree of Tiger San."

"Tiger Three!" Quan Baocai clenched his fists, his teeth creaked.

When Yu Zuo saw it, he quickly advised: "Quan San, Hu three have many powerful people, and there are only seven or eight thugs under his command. Don't touch the stone with eggs!"

Quan Bao nodded after hearing this. He was no longer the naughty man he had back then. It was easy to rush in and kill people, but if the government alarmed, if he wanted to take Abin to Shijuan Port, he would cause a lot of trouble. His identity was a secret and he could not be easily exposed. It would be better to understand the situation first before taking action.

"Dad, how much do you owe Kisoya?"

"I was sick the previous year, and Agui borrowed two taels to ask the doctor to buy medicine... Now, the interest rate is 8 taels and 37 cents in total."

Quan Bao opened the bag beside him, took out a roe deer-skinned wallet from it, took a few bean-pan silver exchanged in Ishimatsu Town, and handed it to him and said, "This is ten taels, you go and redeem Agui."

Yu Zuo stared at the dark silver in the other party's hands in disbelief and said excitedly: "Quansan, you are getting rich!"

"I have gone to Beihai Town to work in the past few years and earned some money. I originally wanted to respect my parents..."
Chapter completed!