After the end of the chapter, Lu Sheng was still proud, and he was about to pester Xia Ziteng to continue, but he smelled a burst of food from the stern of the boat.

"Their hands and feet are quite nimble." When Lu Sheng thought so, he found that the sound of Su Youlai Yanbei and the boatman faintly came from the stern.

Su You is just cooking, and the boatman has become a fan of him.

No way, who called Su You's cooking skills unparalleled in the world?

When Lu Sheng saw that Xia Ziteng couldn't get up, he was about to get up and look at Su You at the stern of the boat, but he saw that Su You had already entered the cabin with a meal with the help of Lai Yanbei.

Lu Sheng glanced at the plate of braised fish with full color and flavor, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva secretly.

"Come, you guys, sit down and try my handiwork?" Su You was anti-guest, and hurriedly pressed Lu Sheng, who was about to get up.

Lu Sheng didn't follow, just smiled and said, "Mr. is really talented, I can't imagine that he can write well and cook well" He wanted to praise Su You, but this cooking skill doesn't seem to have anything to boast about, after all, "a gentleman is far away from cooking" is an ancient admonition.

Su You nodded silently, naturally knowing what he was thinking, but he didn't deliberately avoid the consciousness of such a lowly servant.

The two were humbling each other when they noticed that the boat had stopped.

Lu Sheng didn't seem to know what was going on, and finally broke free from Su You, "I'll go out and have a look." ”

"I'll go out with you." Wang Bodang also stood up at the right time and said loudly.

"Bodang, let's eat." Su You naturally knew what Uncle Wang was thinking, but he shook his head and said.

Wang Bodang nodded, and then moved to the small table in the cabin with Xia Ziteng's brothers and sisters, and when everyone was about to get down the chopsticks to eat, they felt that the boat sank slightly, and then returned to its original state.

"Someone got on board." When Su You thought so, he saw a lean old man bow his head and step into the cabin.

The old man entered the cabin, glanced at Su You and the others, and then said coldly, "You are the ones who took refuge on the ship just now, right?" When you're done eating, get off the boat, and I'll let people dock later. ”

Su You didn't see the old man's face clearly, but he still nodded at his cold words, but Wang Bodang felt insulted, and immediately stood up, but fortunately, Su You saw the opportunity quickly and grabbed him.

Lu Sheng obviously didn't expect things to be so stiff all of a sudden, he hurriedly called "Dad" in protest, but he still couldn't stop the old man from finishing his words.

After the old man said this, he turned around and left, and Lu Sheng naturally chased after him; Su You and the others were at a loss, and several people felt that the food was tasteless, which was really wronged by Su You's craftsmanship.

Wang Bodang watched Lu Sheng's father and son leave, and couldn't help but say angrily, "This old man is too unkind." ”

"He should have done so, we would have caused them trouble by taking refuge in their ship; It's okay, they sent us ashore. Su You put himself in his shoes and thought about it, if he and others continued to pester others to take them in after they had escaped, it would really be a bit like the wolf that Mr. Dongguo saved.

"Sir, I" Uncle Wang's face flushed, he didn't stand in the position of the captain of the ship and think about his people coming to the ship to take refuge.

Su You waved his hand to stop his explanation, and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter, instead of sleeping in this small boat for the night, it is better to go ashore and find a family to stay and eat quickly." ”

Everyone nodded, thinking that if they spent the night in this small boat tonight, they would indeed be a little aggrieved, so they let go of their minds, and suddenly felt that the food tasted a little better.

When Su You was the last to put down his chopsticks, the old man got into the cabin again.

Su You hurriedly got up and saluted, "I've finished eating, and I also ask Engong to order the boat to dock, as for this rescue grace, Su You will repay it one day." ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, but said with some embarrassment, "This is not in the village and there is no store in the back, how can I bear to put you down from here?" I just listened to Xiao Er talk about the book written by Mr., Xiao Lao'er didn't feel that his eyes lit up, please come to my cabin to talk about it, how about it? ”

The first few words said by the old man made Su You and the others forgive him for his powerlessness just now, but when he said the latter words, he couldn't help but make people feel vigilant.

"Transverse Waves"

"Mister"

The brothers and sisters of Xia Ziwei and Wang Bodang who came to Yanbei spoke one after another, they were obviously unwilling to let Su You personally take risks when they were not sure whether the old man was friend or foe.

"It's okay, it's rare for the old-timers to look up to it so much, so it's bothering." After Su You said this, he walked out of the cabin, and Wang Bodang and others who came to Yanbei got up one after another, Su You waved his hand, and only got off the sampan with the old man and transferred to the big boat in front of the fleet.

At this time, it was already night, and the ships of the fleet were slapped away, and they slowly moved south by the natural current.

The small sampan quickly caught up with the leader of the fleet under the control of the old man himself.

The ship did not look very large, at most five or six zhang long, and only more than one zhang high; For people like Su You who have seen a 10,000-ton cruise ship, this ship is nothing, but when he followed the old man into the cabin, he actually felt like a world away.

In Su You's cognition, the watertight cabin technology was not finally perfected until the Song Dynasty, and the earliest ship with a watertight cabin found in archaeology should be a Tang Dynasty ship unearthed in Shiqiao Town, Suzhou, which was eighteen meters long and four meters wide, and was made of nanmu; The most strange thing is that there are nine watertight cabins on the Shiqiao ship

The small boat that had just been cooking had two decks in the bow and stern, and I didn't expect that the big ship was covered with decks, and below the deck were watertight cabins that did not seem to belong to this era.

-- Su You remembered the statement about starvation and freezing on the ship just now, and he was a little surprised for a while.

When he arrived at the captain's independent cabin, the host and guest sat down, and the old man poured tea for Su You to come to Yanbei, and Su You came back to his senses from the surprise of discovering the ship, and couldn't help but say, "In Xia Su You, I haven't asked the old man for his name." ”

The old man took a sip of tea and said in a deep voice, "The old man's surname is Lu, and they call me Boss Lu, but in fact, I don't live up to my name." ”

Su You nodded, but in his heart he inevitably complained that he was talking nonsense, from the relationship between Lu Sheng and him, who still didn't know his surname Lu? However, for the sake of his age, he didn't seem to complain about calling him "boss", so he said, "Boss Lu is too humble, the boss has such a large fleet, and he really doesn't want to be the boss." ”

"There are only more than ten ships in this fleet, and there are only forty or fifty people, I think back then, how could I do all this useless, I wanted to ask you what was going on. By the way, I was going to ask you why you had a grudge with Plum Blossom Gate. Boss Lu chattered a few words, and finally patted his head and said.

"Plum Blossom Gate?" Su You obviously heard this name for the first time, but now that he thought about it, it seemed that those people who were desperately trying to kill him in the evening seemed to have black plum blossom patterns on their arms, and he thought that these people were for his dead brother Dai Xiao.

Su You immediately said that he stayed in Xingyang County, and then Meihuamen saw that he was interested in getting rich, and he couldn't steal the horse but was killed by them.

"Meihuamen is a famous gang in Xingyang, there are nearly 100 gangs, although the old man has never dealt with them, but I still know their boss, of course they also know that this fleet is mine." Boss Lu sighed and said.

Su You didn't expect that this plum blossom gate would be involved, although these hundred and ten gangs didn't care about it, but if they were implicated in the people who saved them, it would be what they didn't want.

Su You discussed, "Otherwise, let's get off the boat earlier, even if they ask about Engong in the future, Engong can say that even if we get off the boat." ”

Lu Lao naturally guessed that Su You's words were a little untrue, but when he heard the fact that they had not had an accident for a day after killing people in the inn in Xingyang, he could also roughly guess Su You's energy, so he said with a smile, "It's just a plum blossom gate, and the old decay is not on the body." ”

Su You echoed, "Meihuamen is indeed just a young man, I think Boss Lu is a person who does big things." ”

Boss Lu listened to Su You's flattery, and smiled silently.

Su You asked with a greedy face, "Su You is on a boat for the first time today, and it is also the first time to see such a thing below the deck of this ship, is it the same for all the boats on the canal now?" I'm referring to these separate cabins. ”

Speaking of boats, Boss Lu became excited for a while, and said proudly, "I don't know how many ships are like this, but I thought it was my originality, and I designed these ships based on bamboo joints." ”

"You built this ship yourself?" Su You listened to his words, and his joy was overflowing, this is a talent!

"Yes, I've loved water activities since I was a child, this is natural, and later" Boss Lu wanted to speak and stopped, obviously the past was unbearable.

Su You didn't want to inquire into his privacy, he just heard him talk about the boat and felt a little interesting, he never knew that there were so many ways just in the name of the ship, such as "the royal family is called a boat", for example, "the official is called a boat", for example, "a square ship is called a sail", for example, "a big ship is called a boat", for example, "a cargo ship is called Cao" and so on

Boss Lu was completely caught in his memories, "In March of the first year of the Great Cause, the fleet of the Son of Heaven had 5,191 ships, which was the most luxurious fleet I have ever seen."

When Yang Guang went down to Yangzhou, Su You was in Qi County, so it was a pity to miss such a big scene, but after listening to Boss Lu's description, the focus he saw was obviously not the prosperity of this world, so he asked with anticipation, "How big is the largest ship ever built by my predecessors, and can I build a 100-ton ship?" ”

Boss Lu nodded, "Hundred tons? No problem at all! The five-tooth battleship I built back then could accommodate a thousand people. ”

"Five-tooth battleship?" Su You felt that such a name was a little familiar, but he was thinking about what kind of ship this was?