When she knocked out that woman named Jizi just now, her strength was not strong enough. Estimating the time, she was almost ready to wake up.
As expected, in a short while, Jizi walked out crooked and twisted, holding her neck and shouting.
Miantang squinted her eyes, and sure enough, the positions of several secret sentries she had observed during the day quickly brought in people.
They first ran into the house and saw no one, then went around to see no one around the house, and then became panicked. A few quickly dispersed to find someone, while another quickly ran to find Takatsukasa.
When Takatsukasa led the people to enter quickly, Miantang could even hear him angrily curse from the top of the tree, “Bastard, a group of idiots, how can you let her escape?”
In the past few days, Miantang didn’t learn much Japanese from Jizi. What was more was when they were in the yard, they heard the guards driving a group of men and women with ropes and cloth strips on their mouths, shouting and cursing.
So she understood the first half of the sentence spoken by Takatsukasa.
Upon hearing this, a cold smile appeared on the corner of Miantang’s mouth. Do they really consider her to be an inexperienced girl? If she were really the wife of that Japanese man, would he say things like ‘escape’?
Moreover, he said that she had been married to him for three years without seeing her grandfather, which was simply nonsense.
One should know that her grandfather was her closest relative in this world. If she got married, wouldn’t she find a way to contact them long after marriage, and go back and meet her grandfather?
Most importantly, Miantang used to listen to her grandfather’s stories about his wandering in the Jianghu, but he never had a good impression of the Japanese people who often robbed the coast.
Over time, Miantang did not show much respect for these dwarfs.
Although Takatsukasa looks quite pleasing to the eye, every time she hears his tongue-stiffening tone, it reminds Miantang that her ‘husband’ is not him.
Miantang felt that she couldn’t sleep out with a kid who couldn’t even lie well.
In short, since the decision had been made, Miantang held her breath and gazed around.
In recent days, due to the fact that the Japanese people on the island are leaving the island, many suitcases have been used, and even at the entrance of Miantang’s yard, many packaged boxes have been placed.
During the day, due to the hot weather, those people couldn’t move against the sun, so they stopped to rest and waited until nightfall before loading the ship.
So Miantang climbed down the coconut tree while they scattered to search for her. Due to the shadow of houses, this place has become an invisible blind spot around.
They searched the room just now and wouldn’t have expected her to return.
Miantang lightly jumped back down the window and leaned against the door to watch. In a short while, a porter came over, carrying the box in pairs and walking towards the dock where the ship was moored.
Miantang secretly followed behind those two people, and as expected, taking advantage of the night, this gang of porters also showed some laziness.
The two of them only picked an average amount and stopped to rest. One of them even turned into a nearby bush to urinate.
Miantang saw the right moment and quickly approached the Japanese man by the bushes. After knocking him unconscious with nimble hands and feet, she trapped him behind a large stone, with a cloth strip blocking his mouth.
Then she put on his short robe and deliberately learned the customary Japanese habit of covering her eyebrows with a towel. Deliberately lowering her head, under the cover of night, she slightly bent, which was similar to the body shape of the unlucky egg that had been replaced.
Upon hearing the person waiting outside chirping and urging, Miantang lowered her head and lifted the box behind her, followed by a dozen Japanese people, and boarded the cargo ship.
During this period, Japanese people holding swords ran to the dock and chattered, then defended the port, and the remaining Japanese people were not allowed to operate the boxes of luggage anymore. Even if Miantang couldn’t understand, she could probably guess that the words are ‘some woman has escaped… Close the port to prevent people from entering or leaving.’
She quickly dodged into the box pile of the cargo ship and hid it while more than a dozen Japanese people were standing in a place whispering.
After a moment, these loaded cargo ships will start sailing first.
These past two days, Miantang was observing distant ships in the yard and found that some spare small boats were trapped on the side of these cargo ships.
If she steals a small boat on the shore, it was easy to be caught and chased by someone from Takatsukasa.
As the ship sailed out of the harbor, she could take the opportunity to sneak it into the water and row back to the shore bit by bit in the direction of the sun.
Although there must be unknown variables in this plan. But Miantang’s intuition always whispered to her in her heart, “Run away! You must not follow them to Japan!”
So, the group of Japanese people of Takatsukasa was about to set off, and she decided to risk being fed fish at sea to see if she could escape.
Miantang waited in silence for a while, and the ship, which had been loaded early in the morning, slowly departed from the port.
After calculating the time, Miantang skillfully drilled out of the pile of boxes, listened to the footsteps and voices of the sailors on the deck, and estimated their current position. She found the right time and went to the side of the ship’s side. She used a dismantling knife she found from the dock to cut open the rope, and then pulled the rope around a mast, gradually releasing one end of the ship into the water. Draw a gourd according to the same pattern and lower the other end of the boat.
As she watched the boat fall into the water, she felt a sense of relief in her heart. As she was about to jump off the boat, a gust of wind suddenly swept by and a long knife struck.
Miantang quickly dodged and looked back. Takatsukasa was holding a long sword in his hand, staring at her with dim eyes, and slowly said, “I can’t find you all over the island, so I guess you must have been hiding on the ship.”
Miantang watched as the rope of the boat she had finally put down was cut off by Takatsukasa, and the boat gradually drifted away. She turned back and said coldly, “Excuse me, what do you mean by lying to me like this?”
Takatsukasa’s eyes flickered and asked, “Do you… Remember?”
Miantang naturally won’t reveal, she answers it two-way, “What do you think?”
Takatsukasa also felt that he could no longer pretend to be her husband, so he coldly said, “You won’t be able to escape. You’d better obediently follow me back to Japan.”
Liu Miantang smiled at him slightly and said, “Kid, it depends on whether you have the ability!” As she turned her wrist, she grabbed the weapon from a Japanese man beside her and kicked him into the sea with her foot. Then, the knife immediately spread its momentum.
At this moment, the moonlight gradually emerged from the clouds and poured down like water, reflecting on Miantang’s smooth face. Her curved eyelashes stole a shadow from her eyes. When she slightly raised her chin to provoke, it was like a fairy rising from the mist.
Takatsukasa gripped the knife tightly and uncontrollably, and his throat rolled involuntarily. Even if he had sacrificed his life, he would never have returned such a beautiful woman to Prince Huaiyang.
Thinking of this, he suddenly launched a fierce attack and stabbed Liu Miantang diagonally.
When the blades of both sides touched, Liu Miantang knew that Takatsukasa was not just a display of grandeur. She had an old wound on her hand and could not compete with a man in his prime.
Moreover, the other party has a large number of people, and if she fights hard, she won’t be able to do it. So her goal was the leather water bag on the other side of the ship. With them, even if she jumps into the water, she can still use them to fill her lungs and follow the waves.
But just as Miantang was gradually losing her strength, with a loud bang, the ship suddenly shook violently.
Immediately after, around this seagoing ship, there were sparks like stars, and two large ships suddenly appeared in the distant mist.
At the same time, someone shouted, “People on board, listen well. We are the warships of the Great Yan Dynasty, surrender obediently, or else we will throw you all into the sea!”
At this moment, the subordinates of Takatsukasa also panicked and reported, “General, it’s not good. One side of our ship has been opened by gunfire. This is a cargo ship and there are no counterattack guns. It’s better to take a small boat back to the island as soon as possible!”
Takatsukasa suddenly let out a bad cry in its heart! Looking back, there was no longer Liu Miantang’s figure on the deck.
On the other hand, Leader Lu quickly grabbed the water bag and jumped off the ship during the interval when the cargo ship was attacked by artillery. A huge wave suddenly struck her, and the shivering sensation of the cold invasion of her limbs swept through her body again.
She held her breath in the waves and tried to sink, but there always seemed to be a voice in her mind that vaguely called out to her, “Miantang… You’re not being a good girl again.”
At this moment, she felt a sharp pain in her head, almost causing her to open her mouth and let the seawater pour back.
But at this moment, someone suddenly grabbed her ankle and made her open her eyes in shock.
As she struggled to surface, the person who pulled her also surfaced with a surprised look on his face and said, “Leader, I’ve finally found you!”
Miantang fixed her gaze and saw that wasn’t this her trusted subordinate, Lu Yi?
At this moment, two more heads emerged one after another, clearly Lu Zhong and Lu Quan.
Since waking up, Miantang has found that the world has changed like a rotten pot, and things have already changed. In addition, she was trapped among a group of Japanese people who cannot speak, and her heart was extremely lost.
Now, seeing these familiar brothers, she suddenly felt a big stone fall and almost sink into the water.
Upon seeing this, Lu Yi hurriedly said, “Hurry up! Take the leader to the small boat.”
On the night of their disappearance from the Leader, they saw her fall into the water, so they flew over and jumped in with her.
Unfortunately, it was one step too late. Although they drove up by boat afterward, they were unable to approach Kou Island again. In the end, the boat was damaged, and if it weren’t for their brothers coming to pick them up later, they would have been buried in the fish’s belly.
This time, they accompanied the warship of Prince Huaiyang. Because they were too impatient, they found a cargo ship coming from Kou Island and got off the charging boat first. They planned to sneak ahead to see the situation, but they saw their Leader jump off that ship again. Thus, they also jumped into the sea in a hurry and finally saved their Leader.
When the three brothers were about to turn back to the battleship after pulling Miantang onto the ship, Liu Miantang spat out a mouthful of salt water and pointed to the brightly lit battleship, saying, “Whose battleship is this?”
Lu Quan didn’t understand and said, “Who else can it be? Of course it’s from Prince Huaiyang.”
Upon hearing this, Miantang’s eyes immediately widened and she shot at the brain of Lu Quan who was rowing, saying, “Why do you want to row that way when you know it’s Thief Cui’s boat?… Are you guys ready to exchange me for bounty?”
Lu Quan covered his head and opened his mouth wide, choking and saying, “Lea… Leader, what are you talking about? Even if you sell me into the brothel, I can’t sell you off…”
Sam Williams On TYMIMA Chapter 152