No matter how reluctant you are, you still have to separate when it's time to separate.

It wasn't until Xu Shiyang was a little impatient that Xu Shiliu said goodbye to his mother and finally took the two maids on the boat.

"Shiliu, don't take care of playing when you get to Jiangnan, study hard and get famous!"

Xu Shiliu's mother stood on the pier and shouted loudly regardless of her image:

"Don't be yourself! Buy what you want to eat! Let Chunlan and Qiu Ju buy it for you! ”

Chunlan Qiuju is Erniang's maid, they are all twenty-eight years old, slender and delicate beauties, and now they are each holding a big package, standing behind Xu Shiliu with a red face and a bowed head.

Xu Shiyang looked at his younger brother with a helpless face, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, mother and son have a deep relationship." ”

Xu Shiliu didn't answer, just stood at the stern with a wry smile and waved goodbye to his parents.

"Raise the sails! Set sail! ”

Luo Haigou, the captain of the Dengyingzhou, roared loudly:

"Little ones, go down to Jiangnan!"

"Wow!!"

The sailors on board cheered excitedly, but all the New Army soldiers still checked their weapons on the deck with serious faces.

The sailors barked for a while, and found that most of them should not be in harmony, and soon stopped in a hurry.

"It's boring." Luo Haigou sneered and said, "Two young masters, on the sea, if you are always so rigid, you will be suffocated." ”

"When sailing offshore, where will it be boring, if you really can't go ashore and rest for a while?" Xu Shiyang expressed disbelief.

"Huh, offshore?"

Luo Haigou glanced at Xu Shiyang with a layman's gaze, and even Xu Shiliu, who had already been to Jiangnan once, put on a harmless smile.

Xu Shiyang immediately understood that he might have said something stupid.

"If we go to the sea, we will have to be eaten alive by the sea lords from all walks of life."

After all, Xu Shiyang is the boss, and Luo Haigou didn't dare to take Qiao too much, and quickly explained:

"We have to go to the open sea, although we won't go to the Black Water Ocean, but we don't want to see the land in ten days."

"Oh? Can you go to the open sea? Xu Shiyang asked in surprise.

"Of course, ancestral secrets." Luo Haigou tilted his head and said proudly: "How dare you call a sea dog such a name?" ”

"Admire." Xu Shiyang arched his hand and asked curiously: "So, it should be rare to see ships in the open sea, right?" ”

"Not really." Luo Haigou scratched his head and said helplessly: "After all, it is not the Black Water Ocean, and you can often encounter some merchant ships and pirate ships from various countries in the open sea. ”

The people of this era called the open sea in the modern sense the Black Water Ocean, and almost no one dared to go to those places.

The route that does not reach the Black Water Ocean, but cannot see the land, is called the open sea, where the sea is also vast, dozens of ships are sprinkled on the sea, and the possibility of encountering pirates is relatively small, so some brave captains like to take the open sea route, so as to try to avoid all kinds of sea heroes.

It's just that every ship that goes to the open sea is not easy to mess with, and if it does, even if both sides are not pirates, it is common for them to make temporary cameos.

"I see, that's great." Xu Shiyang said with a meaningful smile: "I like the open sea, it's just a dark forest." ”

"What is the Dark Forest?"

"It's nothing, you don't need to know, just control your boat, find the right direction and don't get lost. If you come across another ship, remember to let me know in time. ”

……

The Deng Ying Chau is a brig, and with a smooth wind, it can sail into the open sea with no land in sight in a few hours.

Then Luo Hai Dog found the right direction through the sun and directed the ship to turn around and head south.

Leaving home this time, Xu Shiliu will not come back for a long time, so he seems quite silent.

Xu Shiyang had to comfort him: "You have been to Jiangnan once, you should know that it is much more prosperous than our Qi Province, and you are going to study there, which is a great thing that others can't envy, why bother now?" ”

"It's because it's so prosperous that I'm a little uncomfortable." Xu Shiliu replied: "The whole family is suffering in Jiangbei, and I am the only one who enjoys happiness in Jiangnan, and now there is always a feeling that I am a deserter." ”

"Huh." Xu Shiyang smiled: "Are you enjoying happiness in Jiangnan?" Don't be funny, I support you to go to Jiangnan to study, but it's not for you to be happy. ”

"You have to study hard, be admitted to the Jinshi as soon as possible, be an official in Jiangnan, and be a bigger official until you can grasp a lot of power and give support to your family."

"Support?" Xu Shiliu repeated a sentence.

"That's right, support, all kinds of support, material, reputational, everything we can use." Xu Shiyang said loudly: "Also, look at what kind of garbage our family sells to Jiangnan?" In the past few years, you have not only to study, but also to open up the market in Jiangnan for the family, and to be the family's agent in Jiangnan. ”

"How can you have time to enjoy anything? These things will take up a lot of your time, and your responsibility is no less than ours! ”

"I have to do so much work?" Xu Shiliu's mood was obviously a lot better, and he said with a smile: "Third brother, I have done so many things, what treatment are you going to give me?" ”

"Treatment? You are my brother. Xu Shiyang said meaningfully: "Always." ”

……

Sailing on the seas is really boring most of the time.

In particular, Xu Shiyang was not a crew member, and it was not his turn to do work such as controlling the ship, so he sat near the stern of the ship and wiped his pistol with a small piece of deerskin.

There are currently a total of 6 pistols of this kind, two each of the brothers Xu Shiyang and Xu Shiliu, and the other two were in the Zhiyuan Camp for experimental training and were not brought out.

In the evening, Zhao Lin brought dinner to Xu Shiyang with a plate.

Xu Shiliu has two maids, and this Zhao Lin naturally came with a similar identity.

It's just that unlike the two girls who are weak and weak, Zhao Lin is wearing a short shirt with sleeves on her upper body, a cowhide belt around her waist, and a rib cha seized from the hands of the Japanese Kou hanging on it, a short flintlock rifle on her back, and even her trouser legs are tied with leggings, and the whole person doesn't look like a maid, but like a guard.

"Let's have something to eat." Zhao Lin lightly put the food and tea in front of Xu Shiyang: "I have to take care of you for my sister." ”

"Have you eaten yet?"

"Not yet, there are a little more rules on the ship than on land, and if the captain and the leader don't eat, we can't eat first."

"Then let's sit down and eat together." Xu Shiyang stretched out his hand, took out a vegetarian bun from the bowl and threw it to her: "The two of us don't have to see each other so much." ”

"You saved my life, and I didn't even find a chance to thank you."

"No need, if it weren't for you that time, our sisters would have died, and the death must have been very humiliating."

Zhao Lin held the bun in both hands and nibbled on it in small bites, like a rabbit.

"We saved each other once, and this aspect is actually even."

"Moreover, I also know that if you hadn't let me everywhere, I wouldn't have been able to please my arrogant character in other dock forts."