The sun has risen high, the blue sky and white clouds, this Korean port is not big, the buildings not far away are very low, the sea water is quite clear, the deck is dilapidated, the harbor workers are lined up to pull the wrist-thick twisted cables, bend their waists lower than 90 degrees, shout trumpets, and step on the deck barefoot, because of the force, the thumb and index finger on the feet are very separated, and the soles of the feet have naturally evolved calluses to prevent slippage. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The slender Zhang Meixi stood not far from the open-air simple ticket counter on the pier, wearing a very ordinary Korean-style long skirt with a belt tied to her chest, draped in a black tweed cloak, straddled a cloth hug, and spread a simple map on a large notebook.

In addition to the steward called by a conductor, there were several people around her. It looks like a gang on the dock, wearing an undershirt of unknown color, and barefoot. Her skin was tanned by the sea breeze, her mouth was cracked and she laughed, and everyone had a mouthful of broken black teeth.

Zhang Meixi calmly observed the surrounding situation, seeing that the size of the freighters that came and went was only a few dozen tons at most, which was actually enough. Skilled fishermen can even use the most traditional fishing boats to float hundreds of kilometers to catch fish.

After confirming that she could no longer communicate, Zhang Meixi took out a piece of paper written in English and Chinese from her notebook and showed it to the steward.

The steward had a serious look on his face:

"It's a foreign word, I can take you to the chief to see it."

He took Zhang Meixi to the very tall lighthouse and lookout built not far away, where several officers and soldiers were stationed.

Looking at the costumes, maybe it was a Japanese soldier, Zhang Meixi stopped with some resistance.

The dock steward looked back at her, and for the sake of a silver plate he had just received, he did his best, waving his arm to explain to her.

Zhang Meixi still resisted, turned around and walked in another direction. There were merchants and goods, and the dock workers carried them on their shoulders and wheelbarrows, even if they were high-end tool users.

Zhang Meixi chose a neatly dressed and kind-looking steward who was doing command, and handed him the map and note.

The man frowned and stared at the note and map for a while, then raised his eyes to look her up and down, but his mouth was an authentic Tianjin dialect:

"Girl, the boats here are all pre-booked, and very few tickets are sold. If you're willing to pay, I can introduce you directly to the owner of the ship. ”

Zhang Meixi didn't care about pretending to be deaf, so she nodded quickly. The steward took him to ask a few boat owners, but he couldn't get it, and at last he met a boat owner who was stumbling and seemed to be particularly greedy for the ten silver plates she had taken out.

"My ship is big, usually don't say add you one, it's easy to add ten or eight, but now the ship has been chartered by a Chinese cloth business owner. The ship is about to leave. ”

The steward of Tianjin dialect saw that he was speaking loosely, and immediately translated it to help him say a few words. This time, the owner of the ship agreed to ask the merchant who chartered the ship. After a while, he beckoned to her from afar:

"Come on, let's sail."

Zhang Meixi hurriedly glanced at the Tianjin steward, remembered the appearance, hurriedly saluted, and ran to the boat.

This is a big sail-powered boat, Zhang Meixi doesn't care that the boss may have taken her money, and just casually told the charter merchant or didn't tell it at all. It is very convenient for her to be tired of such a boatman. She rejected the suggestion to stay in the gloomy cabin, sitting alone in the corner of the ship's deck.

The captain saw that she was thin and small, and he couldn't understand human speech, so he didn't bother to care about her anymore. The sea breeze is strong enough, and it takes nearly a day and a night for the ship to arrive in Qingdao, and when it freezes in the middle of the night, it will naturally know how to go down.

Zhang Meixi sat for a while, walked back and forth to relax her body, and after about three or two hours, her spirit was still good enough. Suddenly, a strong incense wind hit.

A young woman in a splendid cloak, with two girls, also went to the deck to blow the sea breeze.

The smell of the aroma was a little weird, mixed with the smell of nutmeg and cinnamon and fragrant cakes. Zhang Meixi was shocked, hurriedly ran to the upwind, and covered her nose and mouth with her cuffs, and vigilantly grabbed the canvas bag in her hand.

I also thought to myself:

"I just escaped with chemical gases, so I won't fall into someone else's chemical trap right away. The medicine in the cloth bag is enough to stage a big coma on the whole ship again, but now that it is on the vast sea, I can't drive the ship. ”

Between the lightning and the fire. saw that a little girl among the three people had already scolded in Chinese:

"We said it was a chartered boat, what the hell is this black thing, I want to scare people to death."

The owner of the ship hurriedly ran over, pretending to be sincerely frightened, and kept muttering explanations in Korean. In the end, it was the young lady who was like a super chemical gas emitter, and stopped the little girl in Chinese and said:

"That little girl can't speak easily, probably because she hasn't seen much of the world. Don't care. ”

It's about the boss who has already told them that Zhang Meixi is deaf and mute.

The two little girls who followed still looked uneven, their faces were full of hatred, and they almost wanted to eat Zhang Meixi raw. The young lady chose to stand downwind, regardless of whether she could understand it or not, and explained to Zhang Meixi in a kind voice:

"It's because I'm sick and I've always had a bad smell on my body, so I use too many spices, I hope you don't mind."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Meixi nodded immediately, tore down a piece of paper, wrote a line and handed it over:

"This is a misunderstanding, I didn't think about it that much at all."

Miss Xiang saw the note handed over by Zhang Meixi, and immediately became happy:

"So you can write, and you are also Chinese?"

Zhang Meixi nodded, took two steps closer, and decided to remove one of the disabilities of her deaf and mute, and it was too convenient not to be able to hear others.

The faces of the two little girls were also a little kinder, they just misunderstood that Zhang Meixi disliked their young lady and stinked.

So a couple of little girls, a mute lady and a perfume girl, stood on the deck and began to communicate with each other. Soon mingled. Get acquainted with each other.

Miss Perfume's father is a big cloth merchant, she spends most of her time in South Korea, and this time she chartered a cargo ship alone because she had something to do with her return to China and didn't want to affect others.

Miss Perfume was very happy that someone communicated with her, and after a while, she invited Zhang Meixi to dine together. She smiled and said:

"We'll eat on deck, it's too closed in the cabin, I'm afraid you won't be able to stand the smell."

Zhang Meixi nodded:

"Thank you!"

The sailboat went all the way west, and it seemed that in another twenty or so hours, it would be possible to reach Qingdao, if nothing else.

…… (To be continued.) )