Chapter Forty-Eight: The Whale
In a silent atmosphere, the five of them marched in the direction of the sun, and they didn't know how far they had rowed.
Zhao Lan looked at the boundless water surface around her, and felt a feeling of tightness coming from her chest.
This is the power of nature, and human beings are really there.
"Parasitic mayflies in heaven and earth, a millet in the sea!"
Looking at the smooth mirror-like water surface around him, Zhao Lan subconsciously chanted two lines of poetry.
This poem was written by Su Dongpo when he was demoted to Chibi at night, when he stood on the Yangtze River by boat, saw the mighty river, and suddenly felt.
However, Su Dongpo in this world seems to be still in the capital, it is the time when the spring breeze is proud, there is no opportunity to play in the Yangtze River, and he has not experienced the experience of being degraded, so those classic poems have not yet been released.
Zhao Lan also happened to take it over and plagiarize.
"Brother Zhao is talented."
As soon as the poem was spoken, Li Xing's eyes lit up and he applauded Zhao Lan.
And Le Tao is a ranger, he doesn't know a few big characters, he can't hear the artistic conception in the poems, the little monk only recognizes the Buddhist scriptures, the little Taoist Wuji is still young, and he doesn't know the meaning of the poems, and he can't understand the meaning of Zhao Lan's words.
Li Xing finished applauding, turned sideways to Zhao Lan and asked, "I don't know if Brother Zhao has a meritorious reputation?" ”
Fame?
Zhao Lan was stunned for a moment, and then understood that this guy was asking him if he had participated in the imperial examination.
Shaking his head, Zhao Lan smiled and did not speak.
Just kidding, he is now the prince of the Great Song Dynasty, does he still use to participate in the Nalaoshzi imperial examination to gain fame.
It's just that Li Xing seems to be wrong about what he meant, seeing the smile on Zhao Lan's face, Li Xing subconsciously thought that Zhao Lan was the kind of frustrated candidate who fell into Sun Shan, and suddenly showed an embarrassed look on his face, and arched his hand at Zhao Lan and said, "Brother Zhao, forgive me." ”
Zhao Lan shook her head and continued to row forward.
The sun finally set below the horizon, and the stars began to slowly appear in the dark night sky.
Le Tao looked at the land that still hadn't appeared in the distance, and couldn't help but fall on his back in the cabin, and sighed lamentingly: "Oh my God, how long do we have to row, I'm dying of hunger." ”
As he spoke, his stomach also let out a mournful "cooing" sound.
The little monk also had a tired expression, lying in the cabin with his stomach covered, sweating profusely and looking like he was about to die, and said weakly: "After rowing for a long time, the little porridge I drank in the morning has long been gone, why do I feel so dizzy when I am hungry and take the boat." ”
The little Taoist priest also dropped the oars weakly, lamented and lay on the boat, panting and saying, "I am also tired to death." ”
Zhao Lan didn't speak, looked at the slightly sparse starlight in the sky compared to last night, and couldn't help frowning: "Have you noticed that the sky doesn't seem to be very good tonight?" ”
"Is there one?"
Le Tao opened his eyes, looked at the sky that had darkened, looked at it a few times, and then said: "What's wrong, the stars are not obscured by dark clouds, it means that tonight is a good day, and it is very suitable to find a little lady to spend the moon before and after." ”
Zhao Lan gently stretched out her tongue, feeling the dryness coming from the tip of her tongue, frowned, and said suspiciously: "But why do I feel like the wind is blowing." ”
Then he patted the hull of the boat again, and said with a puzzled expression: "And why does it feel like the hull of the ship is shaking a little now?" ”
"Gott~"
At this moment, the little monk suddenly fell on the side of the boat, retched to the outside of the boat, and then waved his hand and said, "No, help, I'm dizzy to death." ”
When the little Taoist priest saw the monk like this, he immediately ran over and patted him on the back to smooth him. But at this moment, Li Xing suddenly slapped the boat gang and shouted to a few people around him: "Look, what is that?" ”
Zhao Lan looked in the direction he was pointing and looked at it for a long time, only to find the sudden rise of the sky-high water column on the sea not far away by the faint starlight.
But the next moment, a cold sweat suddenly appeared on his head.
Damn, that's a whale.
Or a pod of whales.
"Moonrise Giant Kunkou"
The content of the strip of cloth that he had obtained on the ship of the man in black suddenly came into Zhao Lan's mind, and looking at the water column that was getting closer and closer in the distance, Zhao Lan's face also showed a frightened expression.
"Row quickly, those are big whales, if they rub against the hull of the boat, we'll be finished."
After speaking, Zhao Lan picked up the oars and rowed wildly.
Li Xing saw Zhao Lan's appearance, although he didn't understand why, he also drew it up.
And Le Tao still looked ignorant, looked at Zhao Lan with a crazy face, and asked with a strange smile: "Brother Zhao, what is a whale?" Is it that scary? ”
While rowing, Zhao Lan panted and said to him: "Don't ask, hurry up and row, you just need to know that in the boat under our feet, those whales can swallow three in one bite." ”
Le Tao raised his eyebrows, and gestured to Zhao Lan with a look of disbelief on his face: "Ha, how big does that have to be, how can there be such a big fish in the world......"
"Wait......"
Le Tao was suddenly startled, his lips trembled and he looked at the water columns not far away, and said in a panic: "Brother Zhao, are you talking about Kun......"
As soon as Le Tao's trembling words came out of his mouth, the sea not far away shook violently, accompanied by a loud "bang", a huge whale with a black body and only two white spots in front of its head jumped out of the sea, even in the black night, everyone can see its whole picture.
"Uh~~"
Le Tao was stunned for about two seconds, and immediately picked up the oars with a wild scream, slapping the water frantically, paddling and roaring wildly.
"Help~"
The whale slowly fell into the water, causing a huge splash, and even after a long distance, everyone on the boat still felt a sudden shock to the hull of the boat beneath them.
The oars in everyone's hands swung more quickly, and the speed of the fishing boat was much higher than before.
But at this moment, suddenly a huge wave rushed towards them fiercely, slamming on the sea not far from their right, forming a huge wave towards their ship.
The huge wave instantly threw the ship off the surface of the sea, and everyone only felt a huge pressure instantly lift them up and throw them towards the sky.
The small fishing boat paused in the air for about two or three seconds, and then fell down at a faster speed than it could fly into the sky.
With a muffled sound of "bang", the bottom of the fishing boat collided with the waves fiercely, shaking everyone who fell on the boat with severe pain all over their bodies.
The inertia of the fall instantly threw all five people to the left side of the cabin, causing the fishing boat to tilt to the left for a while.
Le Tao felt the danger of the ship's tilt, covered the back of his head that had just been in close contact with the cabin, and stumbled to pick up the oars that fell beside him, and stood up tremblingly, and pounced on the right side of the cabin, which stabilized the fishing boat and avoided the doom of capsizing.
"Brother Zhao, what should we do?"
As the saying goes, southerners take boats, and northerners ride horses. As a pure-blooded northerner, Le Tao can't avoid bad luck, and when Le Tao, who is completely incompatible with water, encounters such a strong bump, he suddenly panicked, and subconsciously called Zhao Lan.
Rubbing his dizzy head, Zhao Lan blinked vigorously, looking at the water column that was getting closer and closer not far away, and couldn't help laughing miserably.
"What else can I do, let's do it cold."
The oars were thrown to the center of the cabin by Zhao Lan, and sat weakly in the cabin, Zhao Lan sighed, looking at the water column that was less than two hundred meters away from their ship, and was expressionless and in a daze.
I wasn't killed by a bomb, I wasn't bitten by a snake, I wasn't killed.
But he never wanted to die under a pack of whales.
Aggrieved.
When Li Xing and Le Tao saw Zhao Lan's appearance, a look of despair suddenly appeared on their faces.
Finished.
Closing their eyes tightly, the expressions on the faces of Le Tao and the others continued to distort, waiting for the hull of the ship to be knocked over by those whales and drowned in the sea.
But seventy or eighty breaths had passed, and apart from the violent shaking of the ship, they did not feel any sea water spilling up at all.
What's going on.
The two opened their eyes in horror and looked around the ship, only to find that the expected scene of the boat capsizing did not appear at all, and only waves were crashing against each other around them.
Was it all an illusion just now?
The two glanced at each other in disbelief, and then turned their gazes to Zhao Lan, who had a dull face.
Zhao Lan had just kept his eyes open, just like them, he thought he would be killed by these whales. But just when those whales were about to hit Zhao Lan's boat, those whales suddenly twisted their bodies collectively and easily avoided Zhao Lan's fishing boat.
Why is that?
Zhao Lan thought about it for a long time, and then remembered that whales would not attack humans indiscriminately.
"The danger seems to have passed." Turning his head to look at the two people beside him, Zhao Lan sighed lightly, and squeezed out a wry smile on his face: "We ......"
"Boom~"
Before Zhao Lan's words were finished, everyone heard a muffled thunderous roar in their ears, and they glared at each other with surprise on their faces.
The little Taoist priest picked up the monk's soft body, stared at Zhao Lan and the others with a frightened expression and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Zhao Lan stood up tremblingly, looked at the sea not far away, and then leaned over and reached out to touch the sea water next to the boat, feeling the slight warmth coming from the seawater, and said to herself with an uncertain look on her face: "It can't be a tsunami in the distance, right?" ”
As soon as the words fell, on the sea far away on the right side of the hull, an extremely huge column of water suddenly burst into the sky, the water column was very thick, even if Zhao Lan and the others looked at it now, they felt as if they were looking at a mountain made of water.