Chapter 126: A Little Try
"Wipe the glass clean, do you hear it, Zhao Teng." With Zhao Weiji's command, Zhao Teng kept snorting on the glass of the captain's room door with a small bench, and then wiped it clean with a rag, and his small body was constantly exerting force, which made people feel a little distressed when they looked at it.
The reason why Zhao Teng was instructed by Zhao Weiji to clean the glass was because Zhao Weiji assigned Zhao Teng a task to punish the bear child, that is, he would clean the captain's room every day.
And the other bear child, Zhao Ling'er, actually didn't run away, don't look at Zhao Weiji is a daughter, and he didn't let his daughter do any physical work, but the mental work didn't let Zhao Ling'er do less.
Now Zhao Ling'er was sitting at the desk in the captain's room, and in front of her lay several large stacks of books, which she had to read before the ship sailed to Baghdad.
The key is that these books are not story books, but many academic books, which look extremely boring, and they are simply killing Zhao Ling'er.
In fact, Zhao Weiji did this not only to punish these two bear children, but also out of other considerations. Zhao Linger is the smartest of his three children, but she is a little lazy and usually reluctant to study, because she learns everything quickly, so she is not willing to spend time on studying.
And Zhao Teng is different, Zhao Teng likes to read very much, but he lacks exercise, a boy is weak, which makes Zhao Weiji a little worried.
So Zhao Weiji took the opportunity of this punishment to let Zhao Linger read more books, and let Zhao Teng do some manual labor, so as to achieve the training of the two children.
"Ling'er, you read the book carefully here, I'll go out to find your Uncle Huanzhang. Teng'er, you can clean the glass for me, and then mop the floor after wiping the glass, and the water used for mopping the floor is on the deck, and you can take a bucket to carry it. ”
"Oh~~." Although the two children agreed, their reluctance could be heard from their tone, but Zhao Weiji didn't care so much, and left the captain's room after giving instructions to the two children.
"Sister, let's change it, shall we?" After Zhao Weiji left, Zhao Teng stopped working, and after stopping, he sat on the small bench just now and kept panting.
"Go, go, go, exchange with you? You think my dad won't ask me what I'm reading today, because if I can't type, I'll die. You're just doing some cleaning, aren't you? Who told you to do nothing at home? ”
It can be heard from Zhao Ling'er's words that Zhao Teng usually doesn't do any housework at home, although there are subordinates in the palace, but many times some simple housework Chai Yu will still do it by herself, which is also required by Zhao Weiji, not to be a person who completely depends on others.
However, there is an exception, that is, Zhao Teng, because this kid is the only son in the family, so Chai Yu and Li Nian are very ** kids, which also leads to a lot of housework that should be done by this kid There are people to do it instead of him.
Usually because of the protection of his two wives, Zhao Weiji didn't have a trick to take this kid, but now that this kid has fallen into his hands, then he can be rectified well.
Asking Zhao Teng to do housework, instead of simple physical exercise, is also for this reason.
Seeing that the old lady didn't change with herself, Zhao Teng didn't make a move, so he could only mumble, picked up a wooden barrel in the corner of the room, and walked out of the captain's room to fetch water with an unhappy face.
The water that Zhao Weiji said that can be used to mop the floor is not the drinking water on the boat, nor is it seawater, but distilled water made from seawater.
Seawater contains a lot of salt, so it cannot be used for cleaning. However, due to the abundant sunshine on the sea, it is possible to make distilled water from seawater and get some salt at the same time, so you can get the best of both worlds.
Distilled water, on the other hand, is drinkable, but if you drink it for a long time, it will poison the water, so there is also drinking water on board.
However, although distilled water cannot be drunk for a long time, it is suitable for domestic water, so every day the crew will draw a large amount of seawater from the sea to make distilled water and use it as domestic water on board.
"Young master, come out to fetch water again." In the past few days at sea, the crew on the ship has become familiar with Zhao Teng's sister and brother. Zhao Weiji is not opposed to his children reaching out to civilians, on the contrary, he is very much in favor of it.
In addition, he himself is usually very approachable, so when he is on this ship, everyone is basically no big or small.
"Yes, this is not called by the old man as a child laborer again, my life is miserable." While saying that, Zhao Teng also pretended to be miserable and choked up, which made the surrounding sailors laugh.
"Come on, young master." A sailor quipped: "You have never seen a real child laborer, look at Lao Xing over there, he is really a child laborer, young master, at your age, he has been a pirate at sea for more than a year." ”
Lao Xing in this person's mouth immediately answered: "Don't listen to his nonsense, young master, what kind of pirate am I, I am just a little kid who wipes the knife for our captain." After speaking, he reached out and took the wooden bucket in Zhao Teng's hand, and then went to the distilled water pool to bring a bucket of water, and then handed it to Zhao Teng.
After Zhao Teng took the bucket, he put it on the ground. Because Zhao Teng was still young, he didn't want to lift a bucket of water at all, so Zhao Weiji pressed two wheels on the bucket floor, and when the bucket was full, he could drag it away.
After Zhao Teng adjusted, he said to Lao Xing: "Thank you, Uncle Xing, tell us the story of your time as a pirate another day." ”
"Okay, young master, as long as you and Miss don't be disappointed."
After finishing speaking, Zhao Teng waved his hand at Lao Xing and the others, and then dragged the bucket towards the captain's room.
At the same time, Zhao Weiji ran to Wang Dayuan's room, because he wanted to discuss with Wang Dayuan where their first stop would be.
"Lord Wang, the islanders here are not friendly to outsiders, have you really thought about it clearly?"
The island in Wang Dayuan's mouth is the island of New Guinea in the later generations, because the ships are still sailing along the ocean current, so they can just stop on this island, but as Wang Dayuan said, the residents of this island are very repulsive to outsiders, so generally he will not choose to stop on this island to replenish fresh water when he passes here.
"Huanzhang, we are not sailing merchant ships now, we are pirates, pirates do you know, have you ever seen pirates afraid of any natives, if you provoke Lao Tzu, see that Lao Tzu does not destroy them, Lao Tzu has guns." Zhao Weiji acted as if he was really a pirate.
Regarding Zhao Weiji's performance, Wang Dayuan had no choice but to roll his eyes and say that he was speechless.
However, as Zhao Weiji said, they have guns, and if they really have a conflict with the natives, they will not be able to suffer.
And the reason why he wanted to use this island as his first stop was not only for the purpose of replenishing fresh water, but also for another purpose, that is, to see the legendary cannibals on this island.
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"Gross~~. Wait until I'll spit up first. "When Zhao Weiji really arrived on this island, he regretted it, he had nothing to look at cannibals.
The reason why Zhao Weiji regretted it and vomited couldn't stop was because when they found the cannibal tribe on this big island, they happened to encounter a mysterious ritual being carried out in the tribe.
This ritual is that the tribal shaman cuts off the head of a living person, then makes a hole in the door of the brain, pours out the marrow of the person's brain, and then drinks it.
Zhao Weiji They happened to see this scene, although most of them had been on the battlefield, or had done some murder and arson, but no one had done such a cruel and inhumane act, so I didn't know if it was Zhao Weiji, most of the people on the island couldn't help but start vomiting.
"Gash ~~~. Lord Wang, fortunately, you were wise enough not to bring the young master and the young lady to the island, but to leave them on the boat", Wang Dayuan, who was also vomiting, wiped his mouth after vomiting, and then said.
"I'm a wise fart, I regret going to the island now, why didn't you tell me they had this custom. Vomit~~~~. ”
"I don't know, I've never been to this island, but I've heard from the old-timers who used to run boats that the natives on this island are very unfriendly to outsiders, and even cannibalism."
At this moment, a sailor who had just vomited looked up and suddenly saw a group of natives rushing towards them. It turned out that Zhao Weiji's team was hiding in the woods and secretly approaching the tribe, but just as they were about to approach the tribe, they suddenly saw the scene just now.
This caused most of the people to start vomiting, so everyone forgot about what they had to hide, so they exposed their location.
Seeing this group of cannibalistic natives rushing over, Zhao Weiji and the others didn't plan to come forward to communicate, because such a barbaric race probably couldn't communicate.
Since they are rushing towards them with their weapons, then don't be soft and shoot.
So Zhao Weiji ordered all the sailors to load, raise their guns, and shoot.
After a burst of gunfire, the first row of natives who rushed to the front fell down, while the other natives could not adapt to this sudden change for a while.
For they could not figure out why, after a sound, their compatriots fell to the ground, and then there was a hole in their bodies, and there was blood bubbling in the hole.
Frightened by this phenomenon, the natives forgot to flee and sat down in place, screaming loudly.
After seeing this scene in front of him, Zhao Weiji naturally didn't have any idea of wanting to kill them all, so he ordered all the sailors to put away their guns, and then everyone left this place to find fresh water.
However, although he did not kill the killer, Zhao Weiji was still very satisfied with the ** show of the Mauser gun unit this time, and this time he went to sea to be a pirate for another purpose, that is, to train a group of troops who can skillfully use guns, and this force will be the core of his return to the Central Plains to fight against the Khitan in the future.