Sky Island (5)
"Could it be that their ship is better than ours?"
It was obviously not only Guan He who didn't know what was going on, Xiao Hai also asked on the side.
Although, the question is not very much on the point.
Listening to his words, the star lord who was called Shu Jin by the master of the Shang Hall touched Xiao Hai's head and replied:
"Maybe it's not as good as our warship, but it's far better than others, the other party should have a good shipmaster, don't you know your grandfather's hobbies? How could he die without studying the ship? ”
When she said this, her tone was gentle, if she changed to an old appearance, she would definitely be a very kind grandmother, but she really looked younger, and when she looked at her with Xiaohai, she didn't look like a grandchild.
"Do you want to leave their ship behind? That's easy. We're here to help, too! "Little Wind is eager to try.
Shu Jin asked:
"Did you practice hard when I wasn't there?"
"Well, come with me this time."
"Oh!" The little brothers cheered. Then follow her to look at the island owner Jiang Duanyu who smiled at them.
"Go ahead, we're here here." Ebata Jade Road.
Shu Jin nodded, took Xiaofeng Xiaohai and Shang Qiang off the deck, and went from the gangplank to the boat where Guan He and the others were on before.
After that, the gangplank was withdrawn, and the ship took anchor and slowly sailed out.
"Come with me."
Guan He was looking at the distant figure of the boat with a little worry, and heard someone say to him in his ear.
As soon as he turned around, he was facing Shangjiang Duanyu's dark eyes.
"Huh? Yes, Owner. ”
Guan He hurriedly agreed and followed him to the next floor.
Before Guan He came to the island, he had hardly ever done a boat, and his understanding of boats only began after he came to the island. But the hull of this "Starfire" is very high, and the floor below the deck is even the height of an ordinary warship, and the room he came to with Jiang Duanyu should be a study.
"Don't worry, Shu Jin is following. The two of them will not be in danger. Besides, among these children, they are the ones who are most like Shu Jin, don't underestimate them. It was as if he was worried. Jiang Duanyu comforted, and then said, "Xiaofeng Xiaohai has mentioned you a lot in his letter for a while, how about it." Are you still used to living on the island? ”
"Thank you for your concern, I'm used to it."
"Hehe, don't be so restrained, you are like Xiaofeng and them, just call me grandpa."
"Uh......" He was still a little nervous, and besides, in front of his young face, he really couldn't say this grandfather.
"Hehe, I, the owner of the island, was still personally sealed by Emperor Yingzong, and I just happened to stand that year. Now, I am close to my old age, and your grandfather can still afford it. As if he could see what he was thinking, Jiang Duanyu said,
"You must think it's weird, don't you? Decades have passed in a blink of an eye, and the big show has changed several times, and my grandmother and Xiaofeng have changed very little in their appearance over the years, that is because we have a secret method, but it is not for outsiders for the time being.
In these years, we often used the pretext of going to sea and rarely showed up on the island. What you see of us today. Don't mention it to outsiders at will, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble. ”
Although there was a command in the words, the tone was gentle and did not make people feel tough at all. There is a persuasive power of its own, which makes people can't help but want to listen to him. So Guan He hurriedly agreed:
"Yes, I'm not going out to talk nonsense!"
Jiang Duanyu nodded, and then picked up something and beckoned to him:
"I see that you and Xiaofeng have a good relationship, so let's take a look at the situation over there."
How do you see it when it's so far away?
Guan He thought so in his heart. But he was still very obedient and stepped forward, took the thing handed over by Jiang Duanyu, and followed his example, and put the thing close to his eyes.
When he saw the scene in front of him, he was immediately startled, took it down and looked into the distance, and then lifted the thing up again, looking into the distance through it.
It's amazing! It's a thing that is very far away, but from the inside of this thing it looks like it's in front of you!
"It's a telescope, an indispensable treasure when sailing. However, this thing is not available on ships outside the island. Jiang Duanyu explained on the side, and suddenly said, "Well, they started." ”
Here we go? Is the war beginting?
When Guan He heard this, he hurriedly raised the telescope again and looked into the distance.
Where normal vision is hard to reach, you can see clearly through a telescope. Huge waves had already risen on the sea, and the enemy's warship was now tossed and turned like a helpless leaf. Not far from them was the ship where Xiao Feng Xiaohai and the others were, and they were all in the same sea area, but the sea surface under their own warship was not affected in the slightest! Watching the other side keep people being flipped off the deck into the sea, while his side is calm, this scene is really weird.
In the sky above the enemy ships, the sea breeze swept dark clouds, and lightning appeared and disappeared in the clouds, as if a torrential rain was brewing for the enemy ships.
Guan He looked at it for a long time and pointed his binoculars at the deck of the warship here.
Is it Xiaofeng and Xiaohai on it? Because the distance is too far, even with a telescope, you can't see their facial features clearly, but judging from the body shape, it should be that they are right. I saw the two brothers staring directly at each other's warships, spreading their arms widely, waving from time to time, and every time they saw them waving their arms, it seemed that the waves around them would be more ferocious......
Guan He took off the telescope in a bit of confusion and looked into the distance blankly.
It can't be what he thinks, right?
When he turned his head to look at Jiang Duanyu, he found that he was holding a telescope and looking into the distance, while he began to write and sketch patterns on the paper.
"This is, boat drawing?" Guan He couldn't help but take a closer look at him curiously, and then asked.
"Do you see that?" Jiang Duanyu was a little surprised, knowing that he was not sketching the shape of the ship, but the structure of the speculated ship. I didn't expect such a picture to be seen by Guan He at a glance.
I haven't heard Xiao Feng mention that his brother Xiao He can draw a boat map.
Jiang Duanyu thought about it, then went to the table next to him and took a picture over, and said to Guan He:
"You come and take a look at this, maybe you can see how it's different from the one you just saw?"
When Guan He heard this, he walked over and took a closer look. Although he had never been exposed to this kind of thing before, since someone asked, he would read it carefully and answer, which was also due to his personality.
"It seems like here, and here and here, different?"
I watched it for a long time. He said.
When he looked up, he saw a glint flashing in Jiang Duanyu's eyes, but he didn't see it clearly.
"Look at these two again." Jiang Duanyu took two more and came over.
"Well, this one is not the same...... Hey? Seeing that Guan He suddenly had a realization.
"How?" Ebata asked.
"This, this seems to be ......"
"What is it?" Jiang Duanyu asked with a smile.
He has always believed that some people are gifted. For example, he has six children with Shu Jin, but only the grandchildren of Xiaofeng Xiaohai have inherited Shu Jin's ability. And the kid in front of him is born to understand the boat diagram! If he was not mistaken, this kid must have been a natural shipbuilder!
Ebata himself began to learn shipbuilding at a young age. After resigning, with Shu Jin drifting across the sea, he was immersed in studying this way, and now after decades, he has already become one of the best shipbuilders in the world.
But if you want to improve, it's hard because of talent.
And none of the children he and Shu Jin have any special talent in this area.
Although it is not necessary to find someone to pass on his mantle, when watching several children inherit Shu Jin's industry, her cooking skills and even her abilities have been inherited, but no one has come to learn her own shipbuilding. He still has some regrets in his heart.
Unexpectedly, this time when he returned to the island, he would meet Guan He, a child, and an idea gradually formed in his heart.
"It's like the big ship we just got on." Guan He was a little overwhelmed by Jiang Duanyu's scorching gaze, but he still said the truth.
"Have you seen this kind of picture in the past?"
"Nope!" Guan He shook his head honestly.
Really!
"This is the boat diagram. All the boats on the island are made of a piece of paper like guò. Jiang Duanyu said, "If you really have never seen this thing before, but you can see so many things, it means that you are very talented."
What do you think? Do you want to learn shipbuilding? ”
"Learn to build a ship?"
Guan He was a little dizzy, looked at the drawings, and recalled the feeling when he first went to sea on a big boat, and suddenly felt. Some are excited. I heard Jiang Duanyu say again:
"There is a lot of knowledge in shipbuilding, and it doesn't mean that you can just draw a picture. The mast is a few feet high, and the length of the board is a few feet. I want my boat to run farther than others, fast and steady. That would be to innovate on the basis of existing ships. ”
"See the Starfire?"
"Uh, I saw ......" Guan He thought of the mighty appearance of the big ship under his feet, and he was a little fascinated.
"It's the biggest, fastest and most stable ship in the world right now, but I'm always looking for ways to make it even better. Do you want to become a shipmaster and change it together? ”
"This ship. Did you make it, the owner of the island? ”
Jiang Duanyu smiled and nodded.
When Guan He heard this, he knelt down with his knees bent:
"Grandpa the islander! I want to learn! I'm going to be a shipbuilder too! ”
"Good! Good boy! Get up, and from now on, learn from me. ”
……
So when Shu Jin came back with Xiaofeng Xiaohai, what he saw was the scene of Jiang Duanyu and Guan He, the old and the young, lying head-to-head on the desk to study the boat diagram.
"Hmph, I'm getting demented." Seeing this, Shang Qiang snorted coldly and sneered. Instead, I went to Ah Wu for a drink.
Shu Jin smiled good-naturedly, Jiang Duanyu's shipbuilding skills were succeeded later, which was also a good thing.
Xiaofeng Xiaohai was still excited, and the two chattered for a long time, and finally couldn't help but start looking for Guan He to show off, which made Jiang Duanyu and the others stop studying.
Back on the island, Guan He deeply realized what the Star Lord Island Lord meant to the people of the Sky Island: he was a person who was more respected than the emperor!
In the eyes of the people of Sky Island, they are fairy-like beings.
"Whisper to you!" Xiaohai said to Guan He mysteriously, "Grandparents are really eighty years old!" Lord Xiangtang, have you heard of it? It's my grandma! ”
"At that time, the emperor was suspicious of our family, and my grandmother made an agreement with Emperor Yingzong at that time that in the future, my grandfather of the Jiang family would no longer be an official in the court, and the emperor promised not to interfere with my grandmother's business in the big performance. So after my grandfather resigned, I worked with my grandmother to help the big show open up overseas business routes. One voyage stumbled upon an island, which is now the Sky Island.
Let me tell you, the emperor or something, he loves to go back on his word, and his grandparents opened up the sea route back then, how much credit? But he wanted to take back my grandfather's military power and kill my grandparents completely!
Fortunately, there was this island to live on at that time, and when my grandmother came back from going to sea to trade and encountered a storm, she took people to hide on the empty island, so that the people of Xinghuo could be saved.
Later, in the name of annihilating pirates, the emperor also sent troops to attack the empty island, but unfortunately, the people he sent did not even come to the storm circle, so they returned with a feather.
Later, grandma also took back a lot of big performances, grandma said, this is called, called, what's the matter? ”
"Economic sanctions!"
"Oh! That's right, economic sanctions! Later, Emperor Dayan was afraid, so he made his grandfather the owner of the island, and sent people to the island to persuade him, and since then he has not dared to embarrass Xinghuo's business. ”
Xiaofeng Xiaohai's eyebrows fluttered, Guan He listened to it like a storyteller, he never thought that the legendary owner of the empty island was actually the son of the Protector Mansion decades ago, and the first commander of the Great Naval Division, General Jiang Shang! And the star lord in people's mouths is the former Xiangtang County Lord! Most of the personnel in Sky Island come from her organization, Starfire.
Jiang Duanyu and Shu Jin only stayed on the island for a month, and after that, the Starfire set sail again.
This time, Shang Qiang, Xiaofeng Xiaohai, and Guan He all went to sea with the ship.
When the big ship sails out of the storm circle, it is officially out of the confines of the empty island.
"This storm circle is really strange, how did grandparents find out about this place back then?" Guan He looked back at the storm circle and muttered. He has also changed his words now, and he calls Shu Jinjiang Duanyu like Xiaofeng Xiaohai.
"It's so easy! Because when I found the empty island, there was still no zài in the storm circle? Xiaofeng stretched.
"Huh? Didn't exist at that time? So where did this storm circle come from? ”
"Want to know?" Xiao Hai leaned in and asked. Guan He nodded.
Xiaofeng and Xiaohai glanced at each other, and Guan He saw a mischievous light flashing in the eyes of the two of them at the same time, which made him have a bad premonition. Before he could speak, the brothers suddenly shouted:
"That's how it came about!"
Then, both children stretched out their arms at the same time!
The wind turned on in an instant, the waves were surging, the Starfire was blown by the wind and pushed by the waves, and the speed rose another notch in an instant.
"Hahahaha!"
The two boys laughed arrogantly, because the instantaneous acceleration made Guan He stand unsteadily, and sat directly on the board.
"You two little imps! It's ticklish, isn't it? Soon, Shu Jin's voice came, choking the two brothers who were still laughing wildly just now.
"Is that how the ability works! You two, come over to me! ”
As he spoke, Shu Jinren had already appeared at the door.
"Ahh Grandma, I was wrong! I really knew I was wrong! ”
"Now I know my mistake, it's too late!"
“……”
Looking at Xiao Feng Xiaohai, who was being chased by Shu Jin, Guan He was in a daze.
A wind blade flew past Guan He's cheek, leaving a deep notch on the table leg beside him. Shu Jin said that she was not allowed to use her abilities indiscriminately, didn't she use the wind blade to tease her two grandsons? Seeing the three of them playing with a power he couldn't understand at all, Guan He thought, this trip will definitely be very interesting......
Outer Sky Island Chapter (End) (To be continued.) )xh:.74.240.212