The mountains and rivers of this island are already well known to Brother Lin.

So following his escape route, a group of seven of us safely escaped this sudden natural disaster.

The joy of the aftermath of the catastrophe made everyone crazy, shouting at the wind and rain tearing their throats, or clasping their palms in worship in the direction of the Fire God Mountain.

There are also two brothers of Brother Lin, calling their fathers and crying to their homeland in the north.

For businessmen who walk the sea, life and death are sometimes only between the lines, and the most frightened are the parents and relatives in their hometown.

Qin Chong and Liu Zhen'er and I did not return to Qingfengze Homeland with the caravan this time, and my mother, Mrs. Khotan, my wife Kurina, and my little sister Duo'er, I don't know how many painful thoughts and long waits they have to go through.

For generations of businessmen, such a worrying parting of sorrow and hatred is something that outsiders can't understand.

After running all the way, there is no way to find the path in this boundless rainforest.

It is only known that the beach where merchant ships anchored is located in the northwest of the Earth Fire God Mountain.

Using the lone peak of Mount Kinabalu as a reference, we decided to walk along a shallow stream heading north.

All the island's rivers end in the sea on all sides, and we don't have to go far from our camp to the sea.

Hundreds of beasts that escaped from the southwestern rainforest have fled from time to time by our side.

The birds in the sky fly together like black clouds in the sky, heading to the mainland on the northern shore of the strait in search of a paradise to live in.

After the rainstorm, the water rose a lot, and the hot air was steaming and the smell of sulfur was full.

We waded through the waist-deep river and staggered ahead.

Walking like this is very strenuous, so I suggested making a simple wooden raft to go down the river, which can save a lot of physical strength.

The river is lined with rainforest as far as the eye can see, and vines and plants crisscross the river like long brown snakes.

The group agreed with my proposal and said that they would do it, and after a few slashes with long knives and sharp swords, the wooden raft that could accommodate six or seven people to sit on it was already formed.

On the long river of the Daliluo River, I once learned the skills of driving and platoon with Uncle Baililang of the caravan for half a day, which will be just the right place.

A guy named Brother Chun and I tapped the penny one after the other.

Like a crocodile in a river, the wooden raft runs lightly along the flowing water.

Then from the creek into the big river, and then from the big river into the sea, all the way down the river.

Finally, on the morning of the second day when the fire broke out on the island, I came to the shore where Brother Lin's merchant ship anchored.

The merchant ship that had been moored in the water had come ashore at some point, standing alone on the sand of the beach.

"Sir! You're back! The old servant thinks he will never see you again in this life! Woooooo ”

Seeing everyone returning from afar, Brother Lin's old Uncle Tian, who stayed on the boat, led the other guys to stumble towards us, picked up Brother Lin's shoulders and raised his head and cried.

"Tian Bomo wants to be sad, aren't we good! Hahaha! What's going on with this ship? Can't you have long legs? ”

Brother Lin Jinxiang patted Tian Bo's shoulder and said happily.

"Hey! Stop it! Yesterday, Lao Suo was dining with Lin Qing on the boat, and suddenly the mountain shook! Looking at the black clouds of the sacred mountain on the island and the raging mountain fire, I thought to myself, then you are worshipping the mountain on the top of the peak! Hehe, we hurriedly went ashore with tools to rescue you, but we never thought that there was another accident on the beach! The originally calm sea sudden

Then the huge waves emptied and rushed towards the shore, and in a word, our merchant ship was already hanging on the treetops of the beachhead, which was really scary! After the tide, it became what it is today! ”

Tian Bo smiled helplessly, although he didn't know what was happening on this side of the coast, but judging from all the scenery within a radius of one mile around the beach, it was all unrecognizable.

This is evident in the high waves of the sea.

"Uncle Tian, I'm frightening you! There is no major event except life and death, and everyone has no worries about their lives, God bless me! Hahaha! ”

Brother Lin patted Uncle Tian on the shoulder, looked around at everyone and smiled happily.

We are also relieved, the cold heart that has been hanging has finally been let go, and now we are most concerned about this stranded sea ship, which is related to whether we can reach the Han Kingdom in the east as scheduled.

"Lin Dongjia, this merchant ship is too big! With our strength, it is estimated that it will be a little difficult to return it to the sea! ”

What Qin Chong said was true, Brother Lin's merchant ship was about ten zhang long and three zhang wide, and it was clearly a majestic hill and mountain.

Everyone circled the ship, and except for a slight damage to the bow, there was basically no major problem.

Qin Chong and I, and Guo Helmet all grew up on horseback in the Northland, and we have never seen such a posture.

"It's simple, dig a dock next to the hull of the ship, and after introducing seawater, with a little effort, our merchant ships will return to the sea!"

Brother Lin crossed his arms and looked at the bow of the boat, and explained very lightly.

In his opinion, the most important thing at present is to cut down the mountain wood to strengthen the hull of the ship, and prepare for the next voyage to the north.

Tinkering is a necessary skill for everyone who goes to sea, and almost everyone on board has a set of tools such as chainsaws, axes, copper chisels, and rulers.

So after returning to the boat for a short rest, Brother Lin led us around to cut wood for the purpose of repairing the boat.

There is a tree species that is widely distributed on the island, and the gum liquid is milky and sticky, like cow's milk, giving off a pungent smell.

After mixing with the ash of coconut wood, this kind of gum is also a good material to fill the void in the hull, and its effect is not inferior to the tung oil and lacquer oil in the mountains of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The men brought several oak barrels, and after a few days of wandering through the forest, the white gum was almost ready.

The overhaul of the hull and the construction of the dock excavation began, and the ten masters and servants on Brother Lin's ship, plus me, Qin Chong, and the three of them, worked sweatily for more than half a month before our ship returned to the sea.

The country is in the middle of summer all year round, with abundant rain throughout the year, and the growth of green plants in the mountains and fields is changing with each passing day.

In addition, the wild people and aborigines on the island are sparsely populated, have no accumulation of goods and goods, and have no farming, mulberry fields, and live by wandering fishing and hunting all year round.

Therefore, such a natural disaster of landslides and earth cracks did not bring much harm at all.

In less than a month, all the island's scenery was restored as if nothing had happened.

The days that followed were long and boring, and we didn't dare to move around anymore after the lesson of the earth's fire.

Every morning and evening, we go to the vicinity of Haikou to check the buoys laid in advance, which has become a compulsory course for us.

"Big brother! Can the flow of this sea really start the cycle of the four seasons? Water goes low, birds fly high, is the eternal natural law! I've never seen a great river on land flowing upside down! ”

Day after day, the buoy is still facing southwest, which means that the currents in the strait have not changed, and I can't help but be a little worried.

"Brother Xian doesn't know, we sail

People who travel in the sea come to the long wind as a letter! The currents and wind direction are all time-dependent and do not seem to have much to do with the topography of the sea. ”

One afternoon, Brother Lin and I were walking side by side on the beach, but we saw a Persian merchant ship coming from the north in the depths of the strait, slowly lowering its cloud sails and preparing to dock and rest.

The tide coming from the east in Sinhala has stopped it from continuing westward.

"Liu Xiang said in the Han Dynasty that fish multiply the water, birds multiply the wind, and plants and trees multiply the time! Big brother, you and other businessmen who sail on the sea, not only to follow the water potential, but also to follow the wind direction, but also to follow the weather! The benefits of fish, birds, plants and trees, all three are indispensable, difficult! Oh no! Hehe! ”

Listening to Brother Lin's words, I couldn't help but sigh that only we businessmen know the difficulty of doing business.

"Brother Xian's exit is Huazhang, hahaha! Why do you need to take this business journey, come to my Eastern Jin Dynasty to be an official, you can benefit Sangzi and display your life's ambitions! ”

Brother Lin grew up on merchant ships in the ocean since he was a child, and he was a heroic and chivalrous man, but he knew very little about the hundred schools of thought and the Han and Jin dynasties.

"The eldest brother doesn't know that the eldest son in the clan must stick to the ancestral business of business, which is an ancestral motto that has been passed down from generation to generation in our Longxi Yi clan for hundreds of years. Besides, Jincheng is uninhibited by nature, how can he tolerate me if he is like a prisoner! The body of a businessman is not disobedient to the trust of my ancestors, but also in harmony with my nature, and I can also swim the rivers and seas with my eldest brother, wouldn't this life be happy! ”

"What the virtuous brother said is very true! If the virtuous brother really wants to enter the court as an official and enter the ranks of the scholar clan in the future, the two of us will be different from each other, and we will not even be able to be brothers! Hahaha! ”

Talking about life and life with Brother Lin Jinxiang, without the slightest pretentiousness, you can talk if you want to, and laugh when you want to laugh, it is really like a spring breeze.

According to the practice of previous years, the southeast and southwest trade winds will only become popular in February of the next spring, so it is still early to return to the north.

After the aftermath of the eruption had subsided a little, Brother Lin led us across the entire island country of Yevati.

He then crossed the nameless strait in a local aboriginal canoe to a volcanic island in the northeast of the country.

Brother Lin told me that the island is the origin of cardamom and chicken coop incense in the world, and most of the cardamom incense is sold to Tianzhu Buddha Country as the main raw material of Wheel Buddha incense.

And the buyers of chicken coop incense are mainly the Eastern Han Kingdom in the northern continent.

It is said that this fragrance is like a chicken tongue, so it has this flower name, fragrant and rich, incomparable.

After being exposed to the sun and drying, it can eliminate the bad breath of the elderly people in the mouth, and it has become a must-have for hundreds of officials in the court since the Han Dynasty.

There is a record in the Han book "Han Guanyi" that Shang Shulang contains chicken tongue incense and plays things.

Between the markets of Chang'an and Luoyang, there has been a beautiful talk of Shang Shulang Huaixiang holding orchid and tending to Danqi.

The volcanic island hangs alone in the southeast sea, and it is unknown to the world without a name or surname.

It is precisely because of the maritime businessmen like Brother Lin who have been trading in the middle of the house by word of mouth from generation to generation, that these two flavors hidden in the boudoir have since moved the world.

Everyone lingered on this fragrant island for more than a month, and every day with fragrant flowers and fragrant girls as companions, happy fairies, has long been happy!

By the time Brother Lin had collected the supply of chicken tongue incense and led us back to the country of Yevati, the buoys on the beach had already turned to the northeast.

The southwest trade winds on the Tianzhu Sea came like this, and our merchant ships put away their iron anchors and set sail.

The next destination is the famous choke point, the Puluozhong Islands in the northeast cape.

(End of chapter)

Shang and Buddha