In just over a month, the merchant ship encountered two monstrous hurricanes in the sea heading north.

Brother Lin sighed that this year is not good, and he needs to be careful in everything.

In addition to delaying our return, the hurricane also took a heavy toll on the merchant ships themselves.

As the saying goes, the first time a hurricane escaped by chance was due to the sturdiness of the merchant ship itself.

Although his life hangs by a thread for the second time, he can finally get out of the sea of suffering, all thanks to the compassion of the Buddha and the protection of his ancestors.

Now the entire hull has long been riddled with holes, and if we do not carry out a thorough overhaul and rush on the road, if a hurricane hits us again, all the people and things on the ship will be ruined, and we will definitely not have the luck of the first two times.

After finding fresh water for drinking at the top of the hill, Brother Lin led the group to dig a simple dock on the beach where the merchant ships docked for three days.

Dozens of ancient palm trees were cut down to make supports, and the early tide was used to steadily introduce merchant ships into the dock.

Then a ring of dams was built with stones and trees around the perimeter to drain the seawater from the dock, but when I saw that the huge hull had suspended on a half-man-high wooden frame, all the wounds on the hull were clear at a glance.

Qin Chong and I, the three Han people from the Western Regions, sincerely admire Brother Lin and them, the maritime merchants of the Great Jin Dynasty.

But to lift this hill-like merchant ship onto a wooden frame by manpower is really worse than climbing to the sky and shipwreck!

"Brother Xian! We can't go back this year! The bow and tail pillars of my ship were broken, the main keel and side keels were broken by a total of ten, and the side plates and bottom plates were also damaged. Xinghai has never encountered such a powerful hurricane for decades, and it is a fluke that we can survive to this day! ”

After entering the dock, Brother Lin led us around the inside and outside of the hull to check the damage to the entire merchant ship, and the old man couldn't help frowning and sighing.

He looked at Brother Lin's direction, but saw that a few keel squares with the thickness of the bowl had been broken by the waves, and the side panels were scattered and embarrassed like open flesh.

The seawater that had seeped into the previous cabin must have entered through these openings.

Although the inside has been nailed with wooden planks and sealed with gum, it is a temporary emergency treatment.

The most important part is the main keel on the bottom plate, which is made of thick logs, which is the backbone of the entire merchant ship, although there are also a few cracks in the white forest.

All the spectators present couldn't help but take a deep breath.

The whole ship of us really walked in the ghost gate, and it is a great luck that the merchant ship did not disintegrate and sink on the way.

"The damage to the sea ship is so unexpected for my brother! Tinkering is useless, and it may take at least half a year to disassemble and rebuild, which delays the return of the three virtuous brothers, and I am ashamed of my brother! ”

After that, Brother Lin bowed to us, and his regret was overflowing.

"Merchants

Walking the rivers and lakes, the return date is originally unknown, and the eldest brother doesn't need to care! Although the providence makes people, it is not in vain to be able to go east to chase the sunrise like my Chinese ancestors, hehe! ”

I hurriedly bowed to Brother Lin and returned the salute, which mountains and seas we want to walk through in this life are determined by heaven, and what to do with Brother Lin.

"What do you mean by this?"

Brother Lin was in a trance, and he didn't understand the meaning of the second half of the sentence.

"In ancient times, Kuafu chased the sun, from the coast of the East China Sea in the east to the Kunlun Mountain in the sunrise in the west! The coast of the East China Sea is on the east shore of this vicissitudes of the sea, and it should not be far from this isolated island under our feet, hahaha! ”

Brother Lin's questioning made me pause in my heart to talk.

"Hahaha! As far as my brother knows, the ancient god Kuafu took the land route, when did he come to this sea? ”

Brother Lin saw that we didn't care about the delay in returning, so he relaxed and returned to his former heroic nature.

"But there is no doubt that the place of sunrise is on the east shore of this sea, can it be that you can reach the east shore of the sea by departing by land?"

As soon as this remark came out, I was also surprised.

If you can really reach the sunrise on the east coast of the Canghai Sea, where is the sea country?

"Walking to the east is really involuntary, virtuous brother must remember that we can only chase the sunset to the west in the same way as chasing the sun! Only in this way can we return to our hometown as soon as possible! ”

Brother Lin raised his head and looked at the red sun in the west, and said to me earnestly.

Now on this isolated island in the sea, you can only rely on the red sun in the sky to discern the direction.

And outside the Kunlun Mountain, where the sun sets, is where my Khotanese National Park is located.

Now that I am at the end of the world, it is heartbreaking to think about!

Brother Lin and his men are all first-class shipbuilders, and it is said that these merchant ships that can ride the wind and waves in the sea are all built by their own families.

Therefore, disassembling the keel, ribs, and upper and lower plates of the hull is a matter of hand-to-hand for them.

After two or three days of clanging and banging, the huge hull of the ship had been dismantled and scattered.

All the planks, iron nails, and log keels that can also be used are clearly and orderly.

The help of Qin Chong and Guo Helmet will only add to the chaos, so I will take on the cooking work of the whole team for three meals a day.

I was surprised that this wild island was lonely and that there was not a single four-hoofed animal to be found on the entire island.

Wild game such as elk, wild boar, cunning rabbit, and rock sheep were common in the trade road, and they were hunted to open the intestines, light a bonfire, prepare some pond salt spices, and prepare a hearty lunch or dinner.

The three of us, armed with bows and quivers, walked through the dense forests and mountains of the island, but found nothing.

Fortunately, there are many seabirds here, and you can catch a few alive at will, and you don't return empty-handed, otherwise it would be too embarrassing

Finish.

These seabirds are as big as geese, and the taste of barbecue is not the same as that of farmhouse chickens and ducks.

There is an indescribable strange smell, which is just satisfying.

After going out hunting for three or four days in a row, the prey he brought back was the same, and Brother Lin, who was accustomed to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Three brothers, let's change the taste tomorrow, the best is the boar barbecue! Elk is also fine, and the venison tastes the most fat this season! Hahaha! ”

Brother Lin gnawed on the leg meat of the gull bird, while fighting with me and the others haha.

"His grandmother's! There is no four-legged walk in this bird place! I can't stay anymore! ”

Qin Chong ruthlessly threw the barbecue meat in his hand into the fire, there was no delicious wild animal to hunt, which was simply an insult to him, a master of arrows.

"Within a radius of more than 100 miles, there is not a single native family! From the middle of the barren grass and the hillside near the sea, there are huge stone statues, which look very grotesque. Young master, Lin Dongjia, aren't we all dead? Now they are all on the way to Huangquan! It's not the same place we're in! ”

The pot helmet was a little frightened, I felt the weirdness he said on the first day.

There is not a single living aboriginal in the open wilderness, and all the encounters are huge stone figures, which makes people suddenly have a lot of terrifying reverie.

"Strange! Really? ”

Brother Lin turned to me for confirmation, and the other guys also stopped eating and drinking and gathered around.

In the past few days, they have been busy dismantling ships and have not gone anywhere, and what we say sounds strange to them.

There are huge stone statues everywhere on an isolated island without people, could it be that the natives have been hit by some kind of magic and turned into stone statues?

Thinking of this, everyone shuddered.

If there really is a worldly master who is here to make demons, we exotic merchants who have landed on the island will not escape the doom.

"Indeed, there is not a wild people, not a four-hoofed beast, no five grains of rice and wheat, but all stone statues and seabirds all over the land!"

I bowed my head and confirmed what Qin Chong said.

"Tomorrow we will stop working for a day, and let's go and see what is going on! Sleep lightly at night! ”

Brother Lin Zhengse said, these indigenous wild people of the South China Sea Islands are good at primitive witchcraft, and the uninhabited island is weird, so it is better to be careful.

"Oops! Qin Chong! Why are you kicking me, you bastard! ”

I don't know why, Qin Chong kicked the pot helmet hard, and the old man howled in pain, his face full of murderous anger and ready to fight back.

"Brother! Sorry, sorry! Hahaha! If you know the pain, then we are all alive! Not on Huangquan Road! ”

Qin Chong hugged his brother first, and apologized repeatedly, and the onlookers also laughed heartily.

The originally weird and gloomy aura under the night suddenly dissipated in the laughter of everyone.

(End of chapter)

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