After another seven days of waiting, Wallace finally boarded the 3,000-ton five-masted ship Jingwei.

During this time, he had a minor fever and his appetite was not very good.

He remembered what the woman in the green cloth robe had said when he was inoculated on his arm, that if he had a fever or nausea, he should eat more fruit.

As a result, he ate fruit for two days, but didn't eat anything else------ and sure enough, two days later, he was fine, and he ate another meal of braised lamb chops and sweet and sour pork chops to make up for his addiction.

He knew that as soon as he set foot on his way back to his hometown, he would be further and further away from food.

Wallace, led by the boatswain, went to meet the old captain of the Jingwei.

The old captain could look like he was in his fifties, and it was said that he spent more time on the ship than on land.

His skin was as if it had been coated with tung oil, the color of an old sea wolf.

He twitched his nose when he saw Wallace, as if he could sniff out the good and bad guys with his nose.

He asked, "You were a soldier?!" ”

Wallace honestly said, "Yes, I was a white stormtrooper ------"

"Killed the Tatars?"

"Yes."

"Hehe, people who have killed people are more suitable for going to sea------ first be a junior sailor, when I first took over the Liuqiu seagoing ship, I ran all my life at sea, and I was an assistant to others first!"

The old captain's voice was hoarse, and it is said that only those who have been blown by the sea breeze for a long time have such a voice.

Wallace became a junior sailor aboard the Jingwei.

When they set sail, many people came to see them off, and the boatswain said that most of the cargo of this ship was collected by small merchants and sent to the trading stations in the Cairo area.

It seems that many people's dreams of wealth are enshrined on this sea boat.

At this time, the northeast monsoon has just blown, and in fact it is not the best time for long-distance sailing, but the early birds will eat insects, and the early sailing ships will harvest more.

Many small and medium-sized businessmen understand that they can only earn more if they get ahead of the big businessmen.

Especially to catch up with the front of the Great Song Dynasty royal caravan------ those guys are not doing trade, but engaging in dumping, which is too annoying.

While passing through the South China Sea, they suddenly encountered a storm.

At that time, Wallace was leisurely leaning on the side of the ship, looking out to sea in the distance.

This is the famous South China Sea, which is said to be the most fucked up sea in the boatswain------ and the blue sky and the sea in the distance are blended together, and those waves that are more than two meters high are covered with layers of white lines, all of which are beautiful.

He couldn't see where the fuck was, maybe not like the boatswain said, where the wind and waves were the heaviest.

Suddenly, the old captain jumped out of the cabin and shouted, "Everyone obey orders! Drop the sails, drop the sails!! ”

On the ship, the captain's orders were everything, and no one would ask why------ Wallace thought of the military exercises at night, and the first time, he really thought that the Tatars had attacked him.

All the sailors began to move, and they were trained to untie the sails of their own ships, and if the large sails were falling one after another, Wallace was helping a Moorish sailor to swing the halline.

The old captain went straight to the helmsman's area in the stern and helped the helmsman there.

At this moment, another sailor jumped out of the cabin, and he shouted: "Captain, captain, the air pressure is rapidly decreasing, and a storm is coming!" The storm is coming!! ”

The old captain sneered and said, "That barometer is useful------

The boatswain ignored the sailor, and he quickly walked around the deck, ordering the sails to be tied and the debris to be packed.

Wallace considered the exercise a success, and in less than ten minutes, everyone had fulfilled the old captain's request.

At this time, his ponytail was blown away by a gust of wind and lifted from the back of his head to the front of his face!

It was a gust of wind that came as it was said, and it brought with it a black cloud that seemed to emerge from hell!

Oh my God------

He had never seen a storm that came as soon as it was said.

Not only did it suddenly rain on the otherwise calm sea, but it also set off waves nearly 10 meters high!

Thankfully, they were well prepared------

In the midst of the storm, the boatswain laughed, and while he and the helmsman pulled the rudder with all their might, he shouted: "Haha, my God, you have come to play the little one again!" ”

Wallace and the Moorish sailor struggled to tie the last of the flicking sail lines.

At this time, the torrential rain as hard as steel beans hurt in the head!

The ensuing wind turned the smashed steel beans into a sweep in all directions, hitting people's faces, and they couldn't open their eyes!

Wallace struggled to open his eyes in the torrential rain and staggered to the Yanwei Mast, where he wanted to lower the Yanfan------

The boatswain roared, "Don't run around, get into the cabin, or hold on to the mast!" ”

The sound was so loud that it seemed to pierce the storm!

But he also ran to the helmsman, and the three of them held the rudder firmly.

Wallace didn't have time to return to the cabin at this time, he hugged the mast tightly------ the rain seemed to suddenly become smaller, but the wind seemed to increase!

In the wind and rain, the old captain, the boatswain and the helmsman, the three of them stood still in the wind and rain------ but the old captain changed his face, and he shouted: "Mountain waves, watch out for mountain waves!" Turn right rudder, turn right rudder!! ”

Wallace had never seen the rudder of a Ryuku ship, and in fact, he had only heard the word rudder when he was on Ryuku Island.

He had seen a riverboat with a rudder on the inland rivers of the Shandong region before, and my God, he dared to say that it was a treasure given by God to the island of Liuqiu!

At that time, he saw it for the first time, and he thought it was all more magical than the arquebus.

Wallace hugged the mast tightly, and he looked back at the bow of the ship, where he saw that at two o'clock there seemed to be a huge wave twenty meters high!

O my God!

The huge wave was like a huge beast running towards them in the distance------ Wallace suddenly felt powerless, only God in heaven and earth could resist it?!!

The old captain's hoarse voice shouted: "Go to the right rudder, right rudder!" ”

At the stern, which Wallace couldn't see, a trapezoidal hardwood rudder three meters high, with a top bottom of one and a half meters and a bottom of three meters eight, was trying to swing to the right.

The constant rush of water from the right was the greatest resistance to their swing, and the water kept hitting the hardwood rudder, making a huge splash, even overflowing directly above it!

"Right hand drive! Right hand rudder!! ”

Still on deck, Wallace could hear the clatter of gears in the stern.

"Right rudder, right rudder!!"

Wallace felt the bow of the ship begin to swing in the direction of the wave, ah, my God, why is that?!

Now, the huge wave had formed a huge fist, and it swung its fist viciously and struck at the ship------ but the ship was like a nimble little beetle, it did not fight the fist, but struggled to climb up the fist peak along the crack of the fist, and slid down the back of the fist, and then waited for the next punch to come.

When the bow of the ship rose high with the great waves, and then slowly fell again, countless splashes hit the boat, but it was only a salty splash, not a terrible wave------ Wallace understood at once that in this catastrophe that he thought was doomed, the old captain had saved the life of the whole ship.

PS: Thank you for the tip.