Chapter 69: Learn slowly. Dad, Mom, we are back! ...
"Xiaoxi, is there something wrong on the island?"
"It's okay. At least Miaomiao and the others are fine. But the same can't be said for the people who attacked the island." Bai Xi looked at the flag hoisted high on the island and pointed it at his eldest and second brothers. "That's our agreement. As long as the flag is up there, it means the island is safe. But we don't recommend leaving the island right now, otherwise it might delay Miaomiao's plans."
"Is everything really alright? Miaomiao is still so young," Bai Qiao said, looking at the boats to his left and right. "Are those boats without the word 'Bai' on them all the ones attacking the island?"
"Yes," Bai Xi glanced at it and nodded. "All of our ships will be flying a 'white' flag to prevent any casualties when we go out. It also serves as a warning to outsiders, deterring them from approaching easily. Of course, if you need to trade, you can contact any ship flying a 'white' flag."
"Are you guys that powerful now?"
"Once you and your brothers have rested well, you can set off with the fleet. You will know then." Bai Xi said, and began to direct people to collect the boats surrounding the area.
Bai Miao is on the island, so it is not easy for them to go in and affect her plans, but the ships outside the island can be dealt with.
There were still some people left on the boats outside the island, but facing the extremely powerful Bai Xi, they had almost no chance of resistance.
At this time, those who were attacking the island gradually realized that something was wrong. Not only were there fewer and fewer people, but the surrounding environment was also becoming more and more strange. It didn't seem like they were attacking the island, but rather they were trapped in a jar.
It was at this time that more bad news came.
"Someone from outside the island came and captured all our people."
"It must be the second young lady of the Bai family who has returned."
"How could she come back so soon?!"
"What are we going to do now?"
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!!!"
As soon as he finished speaking, people not far away stood up one after another holding torches. Among the torches was a young child, but from the way she was treated like the moon surrounded by stars, it was clear that she was the center of everyone's attention.
"This is the youngest sister of the Bai family. No wonder the second young lady of the Bai family was able to leave at will."
"How can the Bai family produce so many evildoers?"
The people who were surrounded grumbled softly, convinced at this moment that the game was over.
With a shout of "Surrender your weapons and you won't be killed", they all dropped their weapons.
On the other side, Uncle Bai heard that Bai Xi had returned, and immediately took a group of people to the dock. As soon as he arrived at the dock, he saw people holding torches on the boat. Through the light of the torches, he saw the people standing on the boat, and tears instantly fell from his eyes.
"Dad, Mom, we're back!"
“We’re back!!!”
As the boat approached, Bai Qiao and Bai Yang couldn't wait to jump off the boat. Without caring about the water splashing on their feet, they ran over and hugged their elderly parents tightly.
"I'm glad you're okay."
"I'm glad you're all right."
Both sides looked at each other and found that they were still healthy, and spoke out of relief almost at the same time.
Only after I had recovered did I talk about my experiences over the past few years.
Compared to the young Baiqiao and Baiyang, although the uncle and his friends encountered many things because they were found early, they lived a relatively stable life on the island. On the contrary, Baiqiao and Baiyang had been wandering outside for several years and were always worried. They looked old at a young age. At first glance, they looked at least a dozen years older than their normal age.
But they all knew that being able to be reunited as a family was a great fortune.
"I have to thank Xiaoxi and Xiaoyu. If it weren't for them, we would never have had the chance to meet again in this life," the uncle pointed at Baixi, "They have put in a lot of effort over the years to find you."
Bai Qiao and Bai Yang listened and immediately bowed deeply to Bai Xi.
"We are a family, there is no need to be like this," Bai Xi helped them up. "Eldest sister went out this time and she must have heard about Sister He and the others. If we are lucky, she will come back and bring them back, and then our whole family will be reunited."
"Yes, if we can find them back, we will be reunited." The uncle nodded repeatedly, but still looked at his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren who had just returned excitedly.
Bai Xi knew they must have a lot to talk about, so he didn't try to stop them and said, "Let's deal with the island issue for now. We still have a lot to do next. I'm going to find Miaomiao. You guys go back and rest first. But something happened these past few days, and the place we live in still needs to be cleaned up."
"It's okay, it's okay. We can just make do with this for now," the uncle said immediately. "Xiaoxi, go find Miaomiao. She's worked hard these days. If it weren't for her, we wouldn't be able to live in peace. But don't worry, although it took many days to resolve this matter, apart from a few problems at the beginning because we were not prepared, there were no casualties afterwards."
"That's good," Bai Xi nodded and continued, "You guys go and rest, I'm leaving."
After saying that, she immediately went to find Bai Miao.
Bai Miao was also very happy to see her appear, and smiled as he approached her: "Second sister, I have completed the task, and the rest is up to you."
Bai Xi raised his hand and touched her head: "Thank you for your hard work. These people must have deliberately waited for us to be away to attack. They must have their own purpose. But it's late today. We can deal with this matter tomorrow."
"Well, but I roughly know their purpose," Bai Miao told her the general situation. "We have captured many people these days and have locked them up in the dungeon. According to them, their purpose for coming to the island is to store a batch of weapons on the island, the same batch of weapons we shipped out at the beginning. At that time, they colluded with pirates and spread the news to make uninformed pirates think that there was a large amount of silver on other islands, attracting groups of pirates to leave the island. Then they stored some of the weapons near this island and sank them into the deep sea with ropes. In this way, neither pirates nor outsiders would have thought that the weapons were here."
"No wonder these people are trying so hard to occupy the island," Bai Xi suddenly realized. "Tomorrow I will organize a fleet to salvage the weapons. Miaomiao, you should carefully inquire about the origins of these people. We must catch the thief and the leader. Every wrong has its perpetrators. It was their masters who made us wander here in the first place. We must not let them go."
"Um!"
After Bai Xi came back, Bai Miao no longer cared about the trivial matters on the island and left everything to Bai Xi.
Bai Xi quickly arranged the people on the island. Some people continued to patrol, some people cleaned up the mess on the island, and the rest followed her out to sea to salvage weapons.
With someone pointing out the location, they soon found box after box of things in the deep sea not far from the island.
Unexpectedly, these things were not just weapons, but also a large amount of gold and silver.
"Millions of taels of gold and silver are more valuable than these weapons, and more worthy of their risk," Bai Xi frowned slightly as he looked at the box of gold. "But those people are absolutely saying these are weapons. What's their purpose?"
"It's probably to conceal their identity. If it's just weapons, these people definitely wouldn't dare take the risk. But if we directly say there's gold and silver in these boxes, there's bound to be people tempted." Bai Miao weighed the silver in his hand. "I always felt it was wrong before, it didn't feel like weapons. But if it's silver, the amount on our ship makes sense. It's even possible that the things they put on our ship were something they gathered at the last minute."
"So the number of ships prepared at the beginning wasn't enough?" Bai Xi suddenly realized, then became furious after regaining his composure. "Is silver more important than human life? To transport this silver, they disregarded our lives and left us to fend for ourselves at sea. If we didn't have sufficient water survival skills, we would have definitely met with an accident at sea!"
After saying that, Bai Xi slapped the table and said, "Even if nothing happened to us, the eldest and second brothers are so old, and Sister He and the others are missing. They have had a hard time these years. If we were still inland, our lives would definitely not be too bad. Miaomiao, we must not let them go."
"Well, we must not let him go." Bai Miao clenched his fists.
"We'll go back to our country when Big Sister's fleet comes back," Bai Xi looked at Bai Miao. "The man behind these things is so lawless. If he really wins and takes over the entire country, life will definitely not be easy for everyone. We must make him our enemy and support the other side."
Bai Miao nodded immediately: "Yes, this person is our enemy."
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"Brother, what are you thinking about?"
"I just still feel a little dazed. I woke up several times at night and felt like I was still on the boat. Are we really reunited with everyone? Is this not a dream? Are my parents all fine?"
"Of course, you saw it with your own eyes, so why wouldn't you believe it?"
"When you ask this, do you really believe it?"
"I... believe it. I'm happier believing it. Otherwise... Big Brother, to be honest, I used to feel like these past few years were no different from being dead. But for my wife and children, for my family, I've been holding on. Now that I'm suddenly relaxing, I'm really not used to it."
"I feel the same way as you do. I almost couldn't hold on before," Bai Qiao said, looking into the distance. "Xiaoxi has become very bad. Unlike us, our lives have become worse and worse over the years."
"It's not just Xiaoxi, Xiaoyu and Miaomiao are all very capable," Bai Yang said excitedly. "Brother, do you know? Miaomiao can understand what anyone says, so no matter who comes to this island, she can communicate and then teach them to speak our language. Now people on the island can communicate freely, mainly because of Miaomiao. The three of them are now very capable, so brother, we can't fall behind."
"But...but I don't know anything, what can I do?"
"There are fishermen on the island, people who go out to sea to fish. How about we sign up too?" Bai Yang explained his purpose in coming to Bai Qiao. "We can live here now, and slowly learn other skills from everyone else. We can raise chickens and ducks, grow rice and vegetables, and even build houses and pave roads. There are many things to do on the island. Everyone is learning slowly, so we can learn slowly too."
Bai Qiao listened to his words, his dazed eyes gradually became firm, and then he nodded seriously: "Okay, then let's go fishing first."
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