The captain of the ship cautiously traveled day and night for seven days, until he left the Runan boundary and arrived in Jiangxia, and the passenger ship did not encounter a single hijacking. This made Ma Yue can't help but let his guard down.

The weather is gradually getting hotter, it has been more than a month since starting from Luoyang, and the speed of the boat is much slower than that of the horses on the road, and the river advances along the way, although it takes time to be happy in Ma Yue's opinion.

He had time with Cai Yan.

The noon sun was scorching, and while Cai Yan was reading in the cabin, Ma Yue took off his clothes and only wore a pair of pants and sat on the edge of the ship with a few sailors, chatting with them about Yangzhou scenery.

They are not southerners, but they know more about water than northwesterners like Ma Yue.

"Heh, Lang Jun looks at your scar, it looks like the flower carved on your body, I have heard that those foreigners outside the gate are tattooed and have broken hair, is it true?"

Ma Yue put down the wine jug and smiled, although the southern rice wine is not as refreshing as the Liangzhou spirits, it tastes different at this time, and he smiled and untied the belt on the back of his head and let his hair fall apart, opened the scar on his left forehead and said: "I only know that they have some customs to have tattoos, as for broken hair...... I got a knife on the head, I can't help you keep it, haha! ”

The scar on the left forehead on Ma Yue's head has not yet grown hair, so Ma Yue has always been accustomed to braiding the left sideburn under the scar into a strand to cover the scar, otherwise a scalp will be exposed.

After more than a month of travel, the approachability of Ma Yue on weekdays makes these sailors feel the estrangement, not to mention that Ma Yue is also white now, so he speaks very casually. The shirtless sailor sitting next to Ma Yue patted the tendon on Ma Yue's arm and smiled: "Just Chong Langjun, you are a soldier, if you don't be a soldier in the army, you will be condescended." ”

The navy army usually has a song and a one-floor boat, and they often beg for a living by the water, and they see that the highest commander in the army is a soldier of 600 stones, which is a great compliment in the eyes of these people.

Ma Yue smiled and nodded, the army didn't just look at the body, thinking about Ma Yue smiling at the fishing net hanging at the stern of the boat: "Shall we adjust the fish soup today?" ”

The sailor who patted Ma Yue just now poked his head and looked at the fishing net, "hey" laughed, pushed the boat with both hands, and a fierce son plunged into the river, and then his body swam like a koi, swam to the stern of the boat and dived for a long time before resurfacing again, reaching out to wipe the drinking water on the face and pulling his hair back, laughing at the throat: "Haha, Lang Jun eats fish soup at noon today, and eats fish at night!" Someone will bring up the net! ”

"Fish belly?" Ma Yue had heard of fish and shrimp, but he had never eaten it, and there were fish and shrimp in Liangzhou, but he hadn't eaten them.

In this era, there are almost few people who don't eat fish chest, in Liangzhou because the family is very poor, coarse tea and light rice all year round, and there are few opportunities to eat pigs and sheep all year round, until the age of thirteen or fourteen, they have the opportunity to follow Cheng Yin's tribal chiefs to rub roast sheep to eat, not to mention the rare thing in Liangzhou, such as fish.

When he arrived in Luoyang, he was busy all year round, and he didn't have much opportunity to find good things to eat, he didn't even participate in the banquet at his friend's house, and Liang Hu rarely ate at home, and the cook at home was not the kind of capable person who ate both north and south.

It can be said that his material conditions have reached the level of the rich, but his living standard still stops at the level of wealthy households.

Compared with Ma Yue's curiosity and indifference, several sailors on the ship were happy, and one sailor shouted: "Brother, take out your miso and see if there are any shrimps, and in the afternoon you have mashed the dipping fish belly." ”

The other sailor ran to rummage through the bow crate, and the other two hurriedly picked up the full nets.

The nets were toppled on the deck, and for a time twenty or thirty fish were jumping on the deck, reflecting the midday sun.

A few sailors picked and chose on it, found a dozen fat big fish, released the rest of the lucky ones again, and then began to descale and de-thorn, several sailors are good hands, and in half an hour, more than ten fish were cleanly sliced and spread on the deck to dry, and then four fish were picked out and boiled up in fish soup.

At this time, Ma Yue was not idle, and cooking was not his business, so he jumped into the river and swam up.

These days, he not only learned to swim, but also learned to catch nets, and he is proficient in throwing, and he is also very quick to catch fish with a harpoon......

The ability to survive in the wild has been greatly improved, Ma Yue smiled self-deprecatingly.

Jianghuai area, two fields for thousands of miles. The sailors on the same ship said that they were envious of the life of the tenants here.

Ma Yue asked them, "Are you willing to be a tenant here?" It even has its own dozens of acres of thin fields.

Last summer, the Yangtze River burst in the Jiujiang section, thousands of acres of fertile land on the south bank were flooded, and the year's harvest was all gone, and many people had nothing at once. The ground was washed away, the fields were washed away, and the houses were washed down.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion caused more than half of the incumbent officials to die, and there was no one to control the water, and the people who participated in the uprising received the punishment of death and had no place to bury, and lived in the deep mountains and rivers. But the people who did not participate in the uprising were also punished, and a flood lost everything.

Sometimes, natural disasters are not man-made disasters?

Once the matter is moved, the sword soldiers cannot be stopped, and starting an army is a bad thing for anyone.

In July, the group passed through Jiangxia County by water, and Ma Yue witnessed a ** raid with his own eyes.

The night before, the captain of the ship docked the ship to the shore to rest, and in the early morning, Ma Yue was moving on the shore, and he saw four small boats sailing in the distance, and the speed was like arrows surrounding a medium-sized merchant ship.

There was no collision between the two sides, the merchant ship was armed with arrows and crossbows, and the boats returned fire with bows and arrows, and the merchant ships hurried forward, and a violent collision ensued.

The small boat forced the big boat to the crash angle buried in the river in advance, and then the thief sailor on the small boat neatly nailed the rope to the big boat, and a group of ** fish jumped on the big boat.

In a white-knuckle battle, the goods were emptied, the dead guards of the merchants were thrown into the river, and the small boats of ** returned far and wide.

When the boat boss set off again, Ma Yue was in a heavy mood, those ** killing people and goods were extremely skilled, if the next thing to meet ** was himself, were you sure that he would be able to retreat in the vast river?

Ma Yue didn't know. Even if you are surrounded by more than 50 people on the ground, I am afraid that you will not be able to escape, let alone in the river.

In the next waterway, the boat boss and Ma Yue were more cautious, and Ma Yue no longer felt that the boat boss was too sensitive.

Many times, when others show fear, you can't just ridicule them, in fact, everyone is well-informed enough in their own field.