On a canal boat heading to Huai'an, Yang Ai dressed up in men's clothes and looked like a handsome servant.

It was almost October. The northward, the colder the climate. Yang Ai, who was thin, shivering. Li Guodong asked someone to take a cotton coat and put it on her.

Yang Ai sat on the edge of the boat and looked at Nanfang blankly. She left her hometown in the south alone, and didn't know what kind of fate was waiting for her ahead. Although Mr. Li was a military general, she was still a little literary. She was just a group of vulgar martial artists who spoke loudly, ate meat in big mouthfuls, and drank wine in big bowls, which made her feel bad.

A talented man and beautiful woman should be accompanied by a gentle and loving young man. Although Li Guodong is a little literary, he speaks vulgarly when he is with a bunch of rough people and completely loses his gentle and elegant appearance. The topics they chat about are either fighting and killing, or talking about women blatantly.

"Brother is so merciful. After hearing the little girl's life experience, I bought it for 500 taels of silver!" He Xing felt a little sorry for so much money. You should know that many northern people were spending one tael of silver for a year! Five hundred taels of silver could support 500 poor families for a year.

Han Dashan said: "Don't you want to buy copper? How many kilograms of copper can you buy for 500 taels of silver? Can you buy tens of thousands of kilograms? But I bought a girl, it's too expensive."

"How can the mountain be tens of thousands of pounds? It's only a few thousand pounds, right?" Wu Fugui corrected Han Dashan's mistake.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Brothers, it's actually worth spending this 500 taels of silver. Miss Yang was bought by Zhou Daodeng and sold it back. Xu Fo was also in a difficult situation. I took Miss Yang away and helped Sister Xu a favor. She has a wide connection in Jiangnan, which is good for our future business. Moreover, Miss Yang can sing and dance well. I plan to establish a art troupe in the future, so that Miss Yang can be a female soldier, and can sing and dance, and perform, which can inspire the morale of the brothers."

Female soldier? Yang Ai almost fainted, thinking that he could sing and dance properly or was second-hand, could read the Four Books and Five Classics, write poems and compose music, but he had to be a female soldier. But why did Mr. Li buy him? What did he want to do?

"Ying Lian, when you go to our place in the future, your foot will be untied. Now you can untire it as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late to be completely formed in a few years." Li Guodong said with a glance at Yang Ai's little foot.

"Unlock? Why?" Yang Ai widened her bright eyes and stared at Li Guodong. She looked as pure as water, and had a bit of charm.

"I don't like women's foot binding! Foot binding is a morbid aesthetic of literati and doctors! It's so disgusting to wrap well in such a good foot!" Li Guodong mercilessly expressed his disgust for foot binding.

Yang Ai only felt wronged. When other men saw her feet, they wanted to grab them in their hands and play with them. However, Mr. Li hated her feet very much.

Li Guodong said: "Ying Lian, you believe me. Take off your shoes, take off your foot binding, change into wooden clogs, and return to nature. You will feel that your feet are much more comfortable and more relaxed."

"I'm not called Ying Lian, but Ying Lian." Yang Ai raised her mouth. After all, she is still a girl under fourteen years old. She has to force herself to smile and cater to men every day. She is really tired. At this time, she feels that what Mr. Li said is right, and it will be much easier to return naturally. But she doesn't dare.

Li Guodong suddenly remembered a question. He thought the name Xu Fo was very familiar, so he finally remembered it, so he asked: "Ying Lian, is there a girl named Liu Rushi in your home yard?"

"Liu Rushi?" Yang Ai shook her head with her lips pursed, "No, there is only one slave in the family named Liu."

"Your surname is Liu?" Li Guodong widened his eyes, "What's the name Yang Ai?"

"That's the slave's real name. Since Xu's mother adopted the slave, she changed her surname to Liu and was named Liu Yin."

"Liu Yin?" Li Guodong suddenly thought, wasn't Liu Yin the only one Liu Rushi? Hey, Chen Zilong, Chen Zilong, brothers Wozi, you dare to love but not behave, then Miss Liu had to keep it for the time being. The water was too cold, so don't think about it!

"Well, my name is Liu Yin." Yang Ai nodded.

"Then I will give you a word, it's Rushi! I saw that the green mountains are so charming, and I guess that the green mountains should see me! This word is very suitable for you, so you can call it Liu Rushi." Li Guodong pondered in a low voice.

"Thank you, my son, for giving me the name!" Liu Rushi stood up and blessed her with a blessing.

Seeing that Liu Rushi still refused to untie the foot binding, Li Guodong asked again: "Why didn't Miss Liu untie?"

"Young Master, I can't untie it." Liu Rushi's heart was in a conflict. After all, without foot binding, how would people in this era see themselves?

Li Guodong became angry at once, so he stepped forward, took off Liu Rushi's shoes rudely, pulled the foot binding cloth away, threw it into the river, and asked someone to take a pair of wooden clogs for her to change it.

The foot binding cloth was forcibly untied, and Liu Rushi's face turned red. But after Li Guodong put on her clogs, a gust of wind blew, and she felt that her feet were much more refreshing. Being so close to this handsome man, Liu Rushi heard her heart beating faster.

The boat arrived in Huai'an, and there were three days left before the agreement with Zheng Zhilong. Li Guodong asked his brothers to go to the lakeside village first, leaving only Han Dashan, the loyal bodyguard and the little maid Liu Rushi who served him.

Three days later, Zheng Zhibao was the first to arrive, and brought fifty personal soldiers to Huai'an, and drove two small boats.

"Brother Zheng, why are you the only one here?" Li Guodong asked in confusion when he saw Zheng Zhibao.

"Two hundred and fifty people were dispatched, but there was no tiger talisman from the Ministry of War, how could they dare to dispatch it at will? They could only come in dispersed. On the way, they met the officers and soldiers interrogated and said they were traveling with their servants." Zheng Zhibao replied.

Although Zheng Zhibao later surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Zheng Zhilong, Li Guodong could guarantee that such a thing would not happen in this time and space.

Afterwards, Zheng Zhifeng, Zheng Cai, Shi Daxuan and Hong Xu arrived one after another, bringing a total of ten small boats and 250 elite navy soldiers.

There is no such thing as a servant in the Zheng family, but their personal soldiers are equivalent to those of the Ming army. The difference between the two is that the servants basically sell themselves to generals, which is similar to the servants. They have no personal freedom and are not as good as military registration. However, the personal soldiers in the Zheng family have freedom and are also military registration.

However, the personal soldiers of the Zheng family army also spent a lot of money to raise them, and the treatment was much better than ordinary soldiers. However, Zheng Zhilong did not ask the court for military pay to raise soldiers like other generals of the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Zhilong's own caravan could support an army.

The reason why the generals of the court supported the family was because the military pay was deducted by the superiors one after another, and the lower-class soldiers could not even get basic living security. How could they have combat effectiveness? So the generals and officers simply took empty wages to support the elite servants. However, Zheng Zhilong did not need such servants. After joining the Zheng family army, the military salary was guaranteed. A few of the most elite soldiers were trained by Zheng Zhilong to become personal soldiers around the chief general.

"Are there some fewer ships?" Li Guodong felt a little worried.

"Ten boats are enough. A group of lake bandits, so the elite navy we worked hard in the sea is just a group of native chickens and tile dogs!" Zheng Zhibao was full of confidence.
Chapter completed!