697 About the Assassin
Fortunately, most of the citizens of Macau still have some psychological adaptability to all kinds of magical things of Australians, and most people don't seem to think that it is the eyes of the dragon king looking at you, or some kind of god and ghost thing such as the sea god's eye.
After all, many Macao citizens have long seen the thing fixed on the top deck of the Pride, and the big black thing is very conspicuous, usually fixed to the fence of the main mast lookout, but before the lights are turned on, no one knows what it is for.
So despite all the exclamations and discussions in the crowd, it didn't cause much commotion.
Of course, when people are stunned to look at the "little sun" that is still shaking from time to time, they will occasionally subconsciously dodge and run, because the searchlight is not fixed and only illuminates one place, it often changes the direction of illumination, so whenever the light column of the searchlight sweeps the night sky, or sweeps over the place where there is a crowd, it will still cause some chaos---- it is no wonder that in this era, the brightest and most dazzling thing people have seen at night is the lantern or fireworks, for this brighter than the moon, No one has ever seen the so-called lamp, which is more dazzling than daylight, and the most important thing is that it can be seen at night with this level of brightness, and it really can't make people calm down for a while.
The loading and unloading of the Pride was finally completed at 11 o'clock in the evening, and when the searchlights went out, the city gradually returned to calm.
It is conceivable that in the streets and alleys of tomorrow, there will be all kinds of discussions about Australians......
Early the next morning, Li and Zhu handed over all the business to the acting duo at the scene to take care of, because some of the procurement business took two or three days to complete, so the Pride took advantage of this gap to temporarily leave the South Wharf and set sail to the south, and the target port was the East Beach Wharf on Xiaowanshan Island.
By the time the Pride's whistle sounded across the sea outside the East Beach Pier, it was already three poles of the sun.
The people on Xiaowanshan Island heard the whistle of the Pride horn on the sea, and the originally calm East Beach Pier immediately became lively.
At this moment, only the Assassin was quietly leaning against the pier, there were only a few sailors on duty, most of the men and women on the island were busy with their work, the men were sweating and working on the newly cultivated land, the women were tending to the poultry and livestock in the breeding area, and a small number of men were building roads on the island under the leadership of two young village leaders.
The only ones who are more idle are the sailors of the Assassin, because they just did a two-day non-stop sailing training around the island yesterday, Xiao Ai decided to take a day off today to let everyone rest in the stilt house, and he also took this opportunity to sleep naturally and wake up naturally.
Obviously, the Pride's sudden visit immediately ruined the Assassin's sailors and Xiao Ai's vacation.
Meng Baoming, who heard the whistle, trotted all the way into the bedroom and woke up the sleeping Elush, looking at the sleepy-eyed uncle, the old Zhuang said apologetically, please aunt hurry up and change clothes and wash it, there is a big ship on the sea, it is an Australian big iron ship!
Xiao Ai, who was sleeping in a daze, immediately woke up more than half of the time when he heard this, he immediately got up from the tiger skin mattress spread on the bamboo mat, rubbed his face, and looked for clothes and trousers everywhere on the bed, at this time Meng Baoming hurriedly turned around and waved his hand outside the door, only to see the two little maids one holding a copper basin of hot water, the other with a towel hanging on his arm, holding a toothbrush and a fat house in his hand and walked in lightly.
Seeing this, Xiao Ai was not polite, so he naturally reached out and took a towel and dipped it in hot water, washed his face briefly, then took a toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, got out of bed, got on his shoes, and walked to a pool outside the house.
Xiao Ai has a unique cleanliness habit: he hardly uses any containers when washing, he always feels that the containers are not clean, and when he was in the Red Mansion, he didn't even want to stay in the bathtub to wash, but used the shower.
As for washing his face and brushing his teeth, he never uses a container such as a basin and a tea jar, let alone a tea jar to rinse his mouth and wash his toothbrush, but directly to the faucet or water connection directly with live water, because he always feels that the container is a place to hide dirt and dirt, whether it is taking a bath or washing his face, washing his hair and brushing his teeth, he will directly rinse with live water.
Therefore, it is usually never used to use a basin or anything like that, and now it is actually a last resort to use a copper basin to connect hot water to wash your face, because there is no condition here for the time being to make the kind of water heater that can produce hot water by turning on the faucet.
But Xiao Ai has already decided, after a while, he will build himself a set of hot showers and hot water supply systems, even if he goes to Macau City to ask a blacksmith and carpenter to build it for himself, he will completely solve this problem.
In short, in the eyes of everyone on the island, this is more or less a different kind of cleanliness.
When Xiao Ai hurried from the residential area a few hundred meters away to the East Beach Pier, the Pride had just slowly approached the pier trestle.
Xiao Ai trotted all the way, watching the iron anchor on the bow of the Pride rattling into the water from a distance, and the busy and familiar figures on the deck, and couldn't help but get excited.
At this time, on the front deck, Hu Xiaolin and Peng Qiang and their brothers were putting a board on the trestle, and when they looked up, they saw Xiao Ai running over from a distance, and the brothers began to greet each other from afar, and the shouts on the deck and the beach rose one after another.
Seeing Xiao Ai running over, the sailors on duty on the Assassin also hurriedly disembarked to greet the host, and another group of people were on the trestle to help pick up the cables thrown from the deck of the Pride, and bolted the cables as they greeted.
When everyone had done this, Xiao Ai had already arrived at the trestle, and he turned around and instructed the sailors to quickly call the other sailors over, today's holiday was canceled, and everyone had work to do.
As soon as he finished the order here, Xiao Ai saw Li Sanduo, Zhu Beiguo, Hu Xiaolin, Peng Qiang and others walking off the board with a smile, and the last to appear was Huang Lei and Huang Dafu, but he was mixed by Liu Yishuang and Tian Jiali.
Seeing Dr. Huang's face, Xiao Ai knew that Dr. Huang's trip to Macau must have been very hard.
The brothers reunited after a long absence, and when they met, they were naturally enthusiastic, and the meeting ceremony was very hot, except for the kiss, there were others, and this time the surrounding Assassin sailors were dumbfounded, and they didn't know how to think that this group of people had the good of Longyang.
Next, all the traversers on the Pride took turns to visit the Assassin under the leadership of Xiao Ai, after all, this was the first time that everyone had a close contact with this famous ship called the Lao Lock Boat, and they were full of curiosity about anything on board.
Under the guidance of the handlebar type and the two heads, the crew visited the wheelhouse, the watertight compartment, the galley and the sailor's cabin, because the language communication was not very fluent, so everyone was very curious, but they did not ask any more questions, everyone was just impressed by the courtesy of the handlebar and the head.
Everyone also knows that this is because of Xiao Ai, this group of sailors are all selected by the Qiao family, and it is said that they are basically the slaves of the Qiao family.
In other words, Xiao Ai, as the son-in-law of the second granddaughter of Qiao's family, is both the owner and the owner.
The size of the Assassin was only about half the size of the Pride, and everyone quickly visited it and came to a consensus: the ship had many advantages, first of all, it was very strong, and secondly, judging by the hull and sails, the steering and speed of the ship should be better than that of ordinary Cantonese hard sailing ships, and it was obvious that this was a good sea ship.
Of course, the disadvantages are obvious: the seakeeping may not be as good as the Pride, that is, when the ship encounters wind and waves, it may be more turbulent than the Pride!
Another point that is not very satisfactory is that the payload of this ship is not large, about 300 tons of cargo at a time, it will be over, and it is a small and medium-sized ship.
In addition, the group also raised another question---- this search ship is not currently armed, not even a bronze cannon, if you encounter pirates or other situations need to fight, I am afraid you can only rely on its nimble steering and relatively high speed to run away from it.