Chapter 84: The Fortune Boat That Makes People Collapse
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Walking into Guangming Harbor, I saw several black-covered river boats moored under the Guangming Bridge, and there were some small fishing boats not far away. ”
"Here, Master Su, you're here." Bowing his head from the cabin and quickly walking out of a boatman, he took out a pedal from the board of the boat and put it on the trestle, and also wanted to help Su Minyou, Su Minyou shook off his hand, in front of Huangshi he didn't want to leave an old impression.
Huang Shi and the others followed Su Minyou off the boat, and when they saw that everyone had already boarded the boat, Su Minyou ordered the boatman to drive the boat, and the boatman and his Hun family pulled out the front penny and the other pulled out the back penny, Fu Buji knocked on the bridge stone, clicked the boat away, and after retreating a few feet, his Hun family was a little bit behind, and the boat stepped forward and went out of the bridge.
Su Min invited Huang Shi to sit in the cabin, but Huang Shi lost interest when he saw the low and dim cabin, and he preferred to stay with Su Min in the bow of the boat to blow the river wind.
"When will this ship arrive at Nanqi Island?" Huang Shi looked at the two groups of people gathered in the middle and stern of the boat, the two groups of people were distinct, one was Huang Shizhao's family, and the other group was the original buddies of the Four Seas, and now they were all his people, Huang Shi's original subordinates were all wearing new and uniform blue short brown, and they were just talking and laughing in a low voice over there, while the guys from the Four Seas were wearing various shabby clothes, talking and laughing loudly at the stern, and occasionally one or two guys were talking meat to the boat lady.
"Sir, if it's smooth, it will only take 1 hour to arrive, and it is estimated that it will take 10 o'clock to arrive." Su Min took out the old-fashioned pocket watch given by Huangshi, and he was a little uncomfortable with the numbers on it, and after looking at it for a while, he came to such a conclusion, because not only the number was Taixi's, but also the hour on this watch was only half an hour, so it had to be converted for a while to know the way.
"Well, that's good, after we get to Langqi, we'll go to the Lin steward you said after dinner, and then we'll go to Dongluo Island in the afternoon." After Huang Shi finished speaking, he looked at the group of guys from all over the world whose hair was coiled like messy grass and asked Su Minyou, "Why do you original guys look so poor?" "Huang Shi's subordinates all know that he likes to be neat, and that clothes are changed every three or four days, but the guys from all over the world are obviously not like this, and those clothes don't know how many days Lu Dao hasn't washed.
"Mr. Jean smiled, these brothers didn't start a family, and after they had some money, they were also Hu Hua, and there was no woman in the family to help clean up, so they were naturally so sloppy." Su Minyou's face was also a little impressive after making a comparison.
After the boat traveled for a while, it went out of Guangming Harbor, and Fu Fuji set up two oars, one for each of his Hun family, because there were more than a dozen people on the boat, and the boat was a little difficult, and those guys also laughed and stepped forward to help, so one person and one mile, everyone talked and laughed, and the boat was sandwiched with the sound of gurgling bow rushing water, and in the river with white sails on the left and right, it flew like a radial march towards Langqi Island.
After nearly a while, they arrived at Langqi, where the seafood is very famous in modern times, so Huang Shi asked Qiu Da to go and talk to Na Fu Fuji, borrow the pot stove on their boat, and let them catch a few sea fish to make a fresh soup.
When Qiu Da's dry rice was almost finished, Fu Fuji came back with a few sea fish, the size is quite large, but the number is pitiful, Huangshi is a little strange, but after seeing the fishing nets they use, they have some understanding, it turns out that their fishing nets are only made of coarse cloth, and some old clothes that are not worn, plus some rough and cheap flax together to be rolled up to make a simple fishing net, the hole is also a very large size.
Fang Lao Liu, a guy from all over the world, took the big porcelain bowl of rice in his hand, and then looked at the bowl of fresh fish soup on the other side, and said that this new owner Huang Lao Ye is really generous, when Master Chen was in charge, he was also a generous person, but they can generally only eat two bowls of shredded potato rice plus a piece of salted fish or salted meat.
There is like now that Master Huang actually gave them more than a dozen people to eat white rice, and even the two boatmen also served it, and when Qiu Da was serving the meal just now, he also told them that if they didn't eat enough, they could cook it again, but Fang Lao Liu muttered a little in his heart, looking at the few loads of rice brought by Qiu Da and the others, can they eat so openly.
After eating, found the sea ship that Steward Li moored on the top of the king, Qiu Da is now temporarily acting as Huangshi's housekeeper, he gave the Fu Fuji family two taels of silver, in their thousand thanks, Huang Shi and others boarded the sailboat, and found that this ship is very different from those Chinese sailing ships seen on the river in modern times, this bow is particularly square and wide, not only the shape of the ship has changed, but the length has also nearly doubled, at least more than 20 meters, four or five meters wide, and the displacement is estimated to be thirty or forty tons.
Huang Shi remembered that when he was a child, he saw the sailboat on the side of the Min River shuttling on the river, he was particularly envious, and he imagined that he could ride such a boat when he grew up, but today he saw this lucky boat, and he felt a little disappointed.
From beginning to end, Steward Li's ship was in some old appearance, the large and small patches on the bamboo slivers on the sails, the sail ropes made of hemp rope were also very old, the winch used to raise the sails was also made of wood, the two thick masts stood on the bow and the middle deck, and the stern was a stern cabin with three floors, and in the bow there was only a rusty anchor, and the other may have been sunk into the water.
Su Minyou accompanied Huangshi to turn around on both sides of this string, and then asked Huangshi to sit in the cabin with a tail, and when he arrived at the hatch, he smelled a burst of foul noise, "Your ship won't be like this!" Yellowstone couldn't stand the smell and stopped in front of the hatch, and if there were fleas and rats inside, it would be even more uncomfortable, so he simply said, "Let's stand here for a while." ”
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After the man in charge of Li got off the boat, Su Minyou shouted to the guys to make a cameo appearance as the boatman of the ship, first six men came to the wheel and shouted that the trumpet raised the middle sail, some seagulls also flew to cheer up, and the yellow and patched sail was raised, like a piece of rusty iron sheet being slowly straightened.
Huang Shi stood on the stern tower and watched those people like a tug-of-war, shouting the trumpet and slowly pulling up the anchor rope, and finally under the blowing of the sea breeze, the sea boat slowly left the coastline of Dawangding and sailed into the sea.
The wind and waves on the sea are just suitable for long-distance sailing, and as far as the eye can see, it is blue, and the ups and downs under the feet are not big, and people don't feel uncomfortable, but Huang Shi saw that the faces of the people in Qiujiazhuang were obviously a little pale, so he opened his mouth and said to them, "Why don't you go to the cabin to rest?" ”
Na Qiu shook his head and said, "Master, there are a lot of rats scurrying around in that cabin, and they stink like a pig's nest, and I don't know how those boatmen can stand it." ”
"Hehe", Huang Shi also laughed when he heard this, it seems that this is not his feeling alone, he just asked Su Minyou, the original sea ship of the Four Seas is a little bigger than this, but the sanitary situation is not much better than this.
It seems that the sea ships of this era do not pay much attention to the hygiene of the ship, and there is usually no person to take care of the parasites attached to the hull, so this kind of ship will move slower and slower until it is overhauled.
Seeing that the guys from all over the world were busy, and he and the others couldn't help, and the cabin was not easy to enter, Huang Shi took out a few plastic stools from the light door and handed them to everyone, "Come, everyone sit down and rest, it will be very uncomfortable when the wind and waves are strong." Originally, Huang Shi wanted to prepare some seasickness medicine, but then he saw that he had to take it two hours before going on the boat, and this medicine still had certain side effects, so he had to dispel his idea.
Fortunately, when Huangshi went to buy food last night, he went to the bulk snack area to buy a few large bags of plums, and it seemed that this could also cure some dizziness, so he took out a small bag of them and handed them to Qiu Da, "Come, you are all landlubbers, everyone take a plum in their mouths, and it may be better." ”
"Wow, sir, what kind of plum is this so delicious?" Qiu Xiaoniu smiled, it was the first time he had eaten this kind of snack when he was so big, it was sweet and sour, and it was really an endless aftertaste.
"Little rabbit, the master's things are naturally first-class and delicious, and you dare to reach out and ask for it." It turned out that Qiu Xiaoniu was eating in his mouth, and he wanted to reach out and take out the bag of words in Qiu Da's hand, but he was beaten back by Qiu Da at once, and then in Qiu Xiaoniu's greedy gaze, Qiu Da handed the words back to Huangshi.
Huang Shi didn't take it, "Qiu Da, you go and give this bag of plums to Lao Su and a few of them to taste." "The number of these plums has almost been estimated, according to every 20 subcontracts, so I am not afraid of not enough people, now he is the owner of the entire Four Seas, and his subordinates will naturally start to treat them equally.
After Qiu Da came back from a circle, he returned the remaining bag of plums to Huang Shi, "You don't have to return it to me, you take it first, and if someone is dizzy and nauseous, you can give him another pill." ”
"Ugh." Qiu Da stuffed the bag of plums into his arms, and then sat down, "Master, how long will our ship sail." ”
"I think it'll take at least four hours." Huang Shi actually had no spectrum in his heart, he just calculated the distance according to the straight line on the map. Because this ancient fortune ship appears short and fat, the length-to-width ratio is relatively large, so even in the case of full sails downwind, this speed is not optimistic, that is, 4 or 5 knots, and looking at the data Huangshi learned that the fastest speed of modern Western-style sailing ships can reach 20 knots.
Maybe there is no good positioning tool or other reasons, the ship commanded by Su Min sailed all the way south along the winding coastline, and sometimes because of the change of wind direction, the ship in order to get the drive of the wind, but also constantly let the helmsman adjust the course, walking in a zigzag shape on the sea, which greatly slowed down the speed of sailing, this kind of walking for most of the day but found that it did not go far away, it was really a little collapsed, Huangshi was eager to install a 24 hp diesel engine for it, It's a pity that now people have a light gate on the ship, which can't come in handy.