Chapter 159 Pirates Attack
At the coast of Beihai, Lu Yuan and a group of soldiers were fetching sea water.

At this time, several small boats were approaching on the sea.

From a distance, they look like small black dots and are not very real.

"Sir, a ship is coming!"

The soldier in charge of reconnaissance immediately ran towards Lu Yuan and said to him.

"Who is coming?"

Lu Yuan put down the work in his hands and asked with a frown.

"My Lord, it looks like they are pirates."

"Pirates?"

Hearing this, Lu Yuan's eyes changed.

He immediately turned his head and looked at the coast not far away. He saw more than ten black boats heading towards the shore at a very fast speed. The people on the boats raised their bows and arrows, staring at this side fiercely, and then, there was a sound of arrows breaking through the air...

Puff...Puff...Puff...

Dense arrows fell from the sky, splashing into the sea, and several soldiers who were unable to dodge were shot to death.

"what……"

Seeing the terrible rain of arrows, the officers and soldiers around Lu Yuan turned pale with fright.

"Quick, get on the shield."

Lu Yuan shouted hurriedly, drawing his long sword at the same time.

Soon, a wooden defensive shield was placed in front of the officers and soldiers to block arrows and flying stones.

Lu Yuan knew that the pirates came prepared.

Lu Yuan ordered his personal soldiers: "Go and ask Niu County Lieutenant to lead the troops to suppress the bandits."

"Yes!"

Upon hearing the order, a personal soldier left immediately.

At this moment, Lu Yuan held his long sword tightly and stood at the front to resist the pirates coming ashore.

Not long after, a man who looked like a general came hurriedly. He was the local garrison commander Niu Xianwei.

"I will finally pay my respects to you, sir!"

"County Lieutenant Niu, I will make sure these pirates never come back."

Then, Niu County Lieutenant nodded and said, "I understand."

After saying that, the two teams of officers and soldiers immediately rushed forward with shields to fight with the pirates.

The two sides fought each other, and Lu Yuan also joined in.

"Ding ding ding..."

The weapons of both sides collided, making crisp sounds.

Lu Yuan smashed a scimitar swung by a pirate with one move, and then kicked the pirate over.

At this moment, another pirate's sharp knife stabbed at him. Lu Yuan immediately dodged sideways, grabbed the knife handle with his backhand and pulled it outwards. The pirate was immediately pulled to the ground by Lu Yuan. At the same time, his other hand quickly grabbed the pirate's wrist holding the knife and twisted it hard.

With a snap, the pirate cried out in pain, and Lu Yuan took the opportunity to draw the sword from his waist.

Swish... a cold light flashed, and a long knife was already stuck in the pirate's neck.

Lu Yuan held a long knife and slowly walked towards the other pirates. Wherever he went, blood flowed.

In a short while, the area in front of Lu Yuan was filled with corpses and the smell of blood was everywhere.

"Your Excellency is truly a fierce man. I admire you."

At this time, County Lieutenant Niu came to Lu Yuan and couldn't help but admire him.

He had long noticed Lu Yuan's skills, and now seeing him, he was even more frightened. This was simply a Shura on the battlefield.

Lu Yuan put away his sword and said calmly: "You guys deal with the battlefield first! The dead soldiers will be buried with a monument and given a generous pension. If there are any disabled ones, they will all be promoted to site managers."

Hearing this, Niu County Lieutenant was slightly stunned for a moment, but immediately replied respectfully: "I obey your command."

Lu Yuan looked at the wooden boat drifting away with regret.

He didn't expect that someone would escape this time.

Half of Niu County Magistrate's men are not good at naval warfare.

He is also not good at water fighting.

If we let only half of the people go, we might not catch the person and end up losing our own people.

I could only watch the pirates escape.

Only then did Lu Yuan understand Liu Qun's soft knife.

When Liu Qun was assigning people, he did it on purpose. I'm afraid he assigned all the people in the barracks who couldn't swim here.

Just because this is by the North Sea, basically everyone can swim.

It is not easy to find this half.

Moreover, Lu Yuan discovered that the bottoms of all the government ships had been broken into.

This pirate attack was not a coincidence. But it was a pity.

Although Lu Yuan killed many pirates.

But the pirate leader still let the other party escape.

However, the matter of sinking the ship must be investigated thoroughly.

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Xu Qiuyue heard about the pirate attack.

However, Xu Qiuyue believed in Lu Yuan's strength very much, because Xu Qiuyue was very confident in her alchemy skills.

After all, Lu Yuan had consumed a lot of Xu Qiuyue's pills.

Xu Qiuyue was actually still cooking on the construction site.

Sea fish are already being used on construction sites today.

The north city is close to the sea.

There is a lot of seafood in the North Sea.

Another thing is that eating braised pork every day will make you sick of it.

This dish tastes good only if you eat it in different ways.

The braised sea fish tastes delicious.

There are also seaweeds such as kelp.

This contains enough oil, and it is also very filling when eaten with white rice.

The food was just as delicious.

Now, half a month has passed.

Basically everyone who works here can get their wages.

More and more children are working on this construction site.

Although Xu Qiuyue felt reluctant.

But she knew that these adults were just trying to feed their children.

For many families, it is not easy to have a full meal.

As for eating meat, we can only do so during the Chinese New Year.

Especially girls, everyone thinks that girls who are too strong are ugly.

Plus, there’s not enough food at home.

So generally.

They will not let women eat enough.

At home, they were also taught to give the delicious food to boys.

But working on this construction site is different.

Xu Qiuyue didn't allow these people to steal other people's food, but she couldn't stop some people from giving it to her voluntarily.

Xu Qiuyue could only tell everyone on the construction site again and again that if they were not full, they should work harder and do more work, so that they could eat more. But any man could not eat his sister's food.

There are rules on the construction site.

Good job, you can have more food.

In the past, there was never enough food to eat, and if you were slow with your chopsticks, there would be nothing to eat.

But now, basically everyone can eat enough.

As long as you work hard, you can not only eat enough, but also eat well.

Therefore, these men don't want to be looked down upon.

Even the children worked hard.

As long as you work hard, you can eat more.

And there is more meat now, no longer the two pieces as before. Basically, as long as you are not lazy, you can eat three pieces of meat.

Moreover, Xu Qiuyue also took out some silver money herself.

Children do not receive monthly allowance.

Xu Qiuyue would give a few copper coins a day to those children who worked hard.

Now there are some food stalls near the construction site.

After work.

The children would use their wages to buy a candy figure of their favorite food.

Basically all children can get copper coin rewards.

They also know that they will not be paid for working here.

You can secretly spend any of this extra copper coin without anyone knowing.

But they know they will not spend it all. They will only spend half and give the rest to adults.