Chapter Forty-Seven: The Evil Wind Lingdao Island Wants to Destroy

Ding Gong Ai held the short knife in his mouth, twitched his nose vigorously, and then yawned.

It's been four years since I escaped from the hanging island. In the past four years, he has gone around in the South China Sea, Jinguo, Daliao, and Goryeo, but when he comes back, he is no longer alone. Looking at the dozens of men crowded behind him, his mouth twitched, revealing a hideous smile.

He's here for revenge, and he's also here to find a place to stay.

"Big brother, I heard that this neighborhood is the territory of the coastal control army, let's come here to make a living, I'm afraid of danger." The thin man beside him said to him in a slumber voice.

Although Ding Gongai is unpleasant among honest people, in the eyes of those wanderers, he is generous and righteous, and he is ruthless enough, so wherever he goes, he can always gather a group of like-minded comrades. After four years of hard work, he has several big ships, more than 20 henchmen, and nearly 200 sailors from the Kingdom of Jin and Goryeo. It's just that some time ago, he lost his hand in Goryeo, and lost nearly half of his manpower, and the wind tightened, so he fled to the Great Song Dynasty again. He wanted to find a foothold overseas in this Qingyuan Mansion, and then turned to Quanzhou, and the first thing that came to mind was the hanging island where he had stayed for more than two months.

Although there are coastal guards patrolling every three or five days, this island is larger, and the coastal navy is just turning around, and at most it is only stopping at the cause, Ding Gongai is a very bold person, and he feels that it is safer to put his home under the nose of the coastal system.

However, I don't know if the shipyard on the hanging island is still there, and if those who built the shipyard are still staying, they will take the opportunity to kill and take revenge. Also, even if you arrive at Qingyuan Mansion, Shaoxing Mansion has to go once, and the child in Huojiazhuang must also be killed.

At this moment, he also looked at the boat driven by Hu You and others.

"This boat is interesting, get on it and take it!" Seeing the boat that was moving extremely fast with the wind, although it was not big, Ding Gong Ai was still greedy.

These pirates, when they had nothing to do, shook their swords in their hands, and the cold light reflected in the sun, and they were looked at by Hu You from afar. A group of people with swords who were not dressed as the Great Song Forbidden Army were naturally pirates, so Hu You raised the alarm as soon as possible.

Although the two sides are still far apart at this time, it is not so easy for the sailboat to turn around at sea. According to Ding Gong Ai's thoughts, the other party found out that he was a pirate, and he should first drop the sail, then turn around, and then raise the sail to escape, and by that time, he had already leaned in. To his surprise, however, the boat was so nimble that it made a beautiful arc on the surface of the sea, and when the sail slanted over, it was blown up again by the wind.

"Headwind...... Sailing against the wind? ”

At this time, the north wind was blowing, and the small sailboat turned around and sailed to the northwest, which can be regarded as sailing against the wind, but because the small sail was hung with a movable spinnaker, instead of the immovable sail of the ordinary Chinese sea vessels, the sail could still push the ship forward through the waves with a slight crosswind.

The sail was not a mat woven from reeds, nor was it ordinary linen, but a cloth made of cotton and linen, coated with a layer of eucommia gum. At the beginning, Zhao and Ju made hot air balloons, not only to deter Xiao Bolang, but more importantly, to find the best sails.

"Paddle, paddle, catch up, this boat is good, I'm going to decide!" Ding Gong Ai licked his lips and ordered his subordinates.

The pirates know how precious a sailing ship that can sail against the wind will be to people like them who make a living at sea! Therefore, there was no need for Ding Gong Aiduo to urge, they rowed with all their might, trying to catch up with Hu You and the four.

But to their disappointment, no matter how hard they tried, the distance between them and the sailing ship never shrank.

At first, Hu You and the others were still a little flustered, after all, this was the first time they had encountered this incident, and when they saw that the other party couldn't catch up, the young man's naughty heart was on again.

"Row quickly, don't be lazy!" It was Hu You shouting.

"It's a pity that I didn't bring gunpowder, otherwise I would have thrown a thunderbolt over and told them to eat a mouthful of lime! (Note 1)" Li Yilao said with great regret.

Meng Xisheng's face turned pale, but he didn't say a word, he was the least bold among the people, so he was a little afraid. However, at this time, everyone's attention was on the pirate ship, and no one noticed.

Li Ye was the most naughty, and when he saw that the pirates were still in hot pursuit, he unbuttoned his pants and peed on the pirate ship: "And let your damn pirate eat grandpa's urine!" ”

Seeing him like this, Hu You laughed, he is not a peaceful master, otherwise he would not dare to go to the Mao family's shipyard alone to make trouble, so he also untied his pants and peed in the direction of the pirates. It was Meng Xisheng, seeing that the three of them were like this, not to be outdone, he took a soak of urine.

The pirates' eyes were so sharp that they could almost get out of their heads when they looked at the boys who were only four and a half the size of the sailboat, and at the brazen peeing on them. Ding Gong Ai is extremely good at water, and he pushed away the pirate at the helm with his hand, and steered it himself, and finally took advantage of the current of the water, and the speed of the ship increased.

"They're near, they're near!" Meng Xisheng exclaimed.

"It's okay, it's still far away." Li Ye is a big look, and he is not afraid at all. Li Yilao silently searched for a knife, placed it in the position of the passenger, and squinted at the pirates.

With the help of the current, the distance between the pirate ship and the sailing ship became closer and closer, and Meng Xisheng lay on the plank, his heart becoming more and more anxious. Hu You was also a little flustered, the four of them were full of skills, and they couldn't stop the two ships of pirates. Seeing that the pirates were getting closer and closer, not only the foul language in their mouths could be heard clearly, but also their eyebrows, eyes and beards could be seen clearly, Hu Ghost moved, quickly turned the sail, and shouted to Meng Xisheng, who was in charge of the helm: "Turn, turn!" ”

Meng Xisheng was stunned at first, turning the rudder and adjusting the sails at this time, wouldn't he throw himself into the net, but he immediately understood what Hu You meant. He was extremely uneasy in his heart, and felt that it was too risky, so he didn't make a move, Li Ye saw the hurry, hurriedly grabbed the rudder, and desperately turned the rudder of the ship.

The sailboat turned around, turning from northwest to due south, the big ship of the pirates was only a few feet away from them at this time, and some of them were already on the side of the ship and ready to jump, at this time, Hu You adjusted the sails, the north wind blew the sails full, and the sailboat shot out like arrows off the string.

"Damn it!"

Ding Gong Ai scolded, and the delicacy in his mouth slipped away like this. Their ship was much larger, and it was not so easy to turn, and besides, he had caught up with it by a current, and if he had turned away from it, they would not have been able to catch up with the small sailing ship with full sails, with the speed of their ship.

The four teenagers on the sailboat were all covered in stinky sweat, and at that moment, it really frightened them. No matter how Zhao and Ju trained them, they were still teenagers after all, and it was already good to have such a reaction in the face of this situation.

"Xisheng, what's wrong with you!" Hu You angrily reprimanded: "Almost killed us!" ”

"Don't blame him, don't blame him, just now that situation, everyone will be afraid." It was Li Ye who spoke for Meng Xisheng, and he also felt that his body was sticky and wet: "Besides, turning at that time, it was really risky!" ”

Hu You sneered, knowing that he had just scolded Meng Xisheng a little too much, he turned his head and glared at the two pirate ships that were getting farther and farther away: "These thieves are also bold, and the coastal control envoys are here, and they dare to come......"

At this point, he suddenly closed his mouth and glanced at Li Ye, who also pursed his lips, his face was extremely ugly.

Although the coastal control envoy is here, it is the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau that is closer to this sea area. No matter how desperate these pirates are, they will not look for the moldy head of the coastal control envoy, but the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau...... If the pirates are coming for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, then what about them?

"Go around the bend and hurry back to report the news, our ship is fast, maybe we can catch up!" Li Yi said.

"Even if you can't catch up, you have to go back!" Li Ye clenched his fists: "Da Lang...... Dalang is on the hanging island! ”

Zhao and Ju were indeed hanging on the island at this time.

He is already twelve years old, and because of nutrition and exercise, he is almost the same size as an ordinary fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy. The childishness on his face was almost completely gone, replaced by the liveliness peculiar to a teenager, who, though he was an extremely calm man, could not change his physical characteristics.

His eyebrows are slender, his eyes are deep, the bridge of his nose is straight, and his lips are pursed. He doesn't care about this himself, he squirms around in the mirror all day long, how can he be a man!

In the past four years, he has been unknown in Shanyin County, except for the two points of raising more servants and opening a righteous school, he is almost no different from ordinary rich children. On the contrary, Huo Chongcheng is famous, his reward for avenging his father has been increased to 40,000 yuan, the family village has expanded several times, and the martial arts head and thug gang have fifty or sixty idle feet, and they have colluded with the officials of the government, which is more majestic than when his father was alive. Naturally, Zhao and Ju's on-demand is indispensable behind this, and he also knows that Zhao and Ju are using him to cover themselves, although he doesn't know why Zhao and Ju are, but thinking about the friendship between the two, and it is not harmful to him, he is also happy.

Because he is already twelve years old, he is much freer than before, and his mother sees that he has been running the family business very steadily for several years, and now she almost doesn't care about him, even his younger brother and Rui, since they have entered the righteous school with the children of the family, they are no longer as sticky to him as before.

This time to hang the island, for the weaving mill, Xu Changlong's raw silk can make money, but if it can be woven into brocade silk and then take out to sell it would be better, and he received the news from Hu Ke in the shipyard, saying that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can already manufacture sea ships, he wants to build another weaving workshop on the island. With the experience of reeling and the technical reserves of the past four years, it was not difficult for him to make a spinning wheel that was far more advanced than this era, and Chamberlain Shaw and Ou Bama had already made drawings under his guidance.

"Although this place is flat, it is not behind the cliff, if a typhoon hits, I am afraid that the loss will be huge, and the weaving mill cannot be placed here."

Standing on the top of the hilltop lighthouse, Zhao and Ju rejected Fang Youcai's suggestion, and he looked around, and the suitable place near the dock was either occupied by the quarter-hour workshop and the boat yard, or occupied by the houses where they lived, and there was indeed not enough space to squeeze out.

Moreover, in the case of a weaving workshop, women workers should be mainly employed, and whether from the point of view of safety or other reasons, the living and working areas of female workers must be separated from these men.

He was hesitating, Fang Youcai pointed to the distance and said, "Da Lang, that's a little wrong. ”

Fang Youcai was born as a carpenter, and his eyesight was excellent, Zhao and Ju followed what he was looking for, but saw that the small sailboat built by his own shipyard made a big bend and turned from the north, between the small sailing boat and the hanging mountain, there were two larger ships, for some reason, the small sailing boat never docked. Zhao Youju didn't understand navigation very well, so he asked Fang Youcai: "What's wrong?" ”

Fang Youcai has been in the hanging port for a long time, and he has taken a lot of boats, and he is a person who can say two words when he sees a wooden stake, but he also has some experience in navigation, and he intends to show off in front of Zhao and Ju, so he pointed to the boat and said: "They came after those two ships, but they bypassed those two ships far away, as if they were afraid of approaching those two ships." ”

Zhao Youju frowned, he knew that Hu You and the others were on that sailboat, why would they avoid those two big ships?

Suddenly, a bright light flashed on the canvas on the little sailboat, and then the canvas burst into flames.

In this case, it doesn't look like a fire, but rather a deliberate ignition. Why did these boys set the canvas on fire?

Zhao Youju pursed his mouth tightly, since Huo Zuoyu was killed, his vigilance has increased greatly, although four years have passed, this has not changed. He stepped forward and ran down the hill, shouting at the same time, "Fang Youcai, ring the bell!" ”

In order to warn, there is also a bell on the lighthouse on the top of this hill, and if there is an emergency, the person who looks from the lighthouse will ring the bell. After getting the orders of Zhao and Ju, he looked at the hand and did not wait for Fang Youcai to do it, so he pushed the hammer with all his might, and slammed it on the iron bell, although the sound of the iron bell was turbid, but it could be transmitted far away, whether it was the shipyard or the people in the quarter hour workshop, they were stunned, and they stopped their hands to watch.

In order to guard against pirates, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has more than 20 guards in addition to stone walls and corner towers. They are the children of the navy who can't learn the skills of craftsmen, so they only have the strength of their subordinates. They also realized that there might be something wrong with the two boats in the distance, and immediately rehearsed according to their usual routines, and evacuated everyone in the dock and the boat yard into the wall.

According to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, the people are forbidden to hold weapons other than swords, and violators will serve a year and a half of hard labor, but on the hanging island are the children of the navy, the navy and the army clash, the bow and arrow first, although they can't get the crossbow, there are five pairs of bows and arrows, and they are all taken to the corner tower.

At this time, the canvas on the small sailboat had already burned out, fortunately, in order to avoid accidents, the ship carried a spare sail, Hu You and others hurriedly raised the spare sail, and the pirates on the two ships saw that the island was on guard, and they were not in a hurry to land, and dropped anchor to watch from afar.

"What shall we do?" Hu You breathed a sigh of relief and asked everyone.

"Wait outside, if the pirates attack the island, let's find an opportunity to kill it!" Li Ye's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said.

Note 1: At this time, although the Song and Jin dynasties were equipped with a large number of gunpowder weapons, their greatest role was not to kill and injure the enemy, but to interfere, set fire, and intimidate the enemy. In the famous Battle of Quarry Rock, the Song army's thunderbolt cannon relied on the lime to burn the eyes of the Jin army.