Chapter 14: Caught in a Storm

The sailboat rode the wind and waves and went out of the Pearl River estuary into the Lingding Ocean. The white sails dotted on the wide and vast sea looked so small and helpless from a distance. The blue water held them up, as if there were no blemishes, like white gems set in the waves. At this time, Deng Zixuan stood at the bow of the boat, letting the sea breeze blow his forehead, and a feeling of vicissitudes arose spontaneously while admiring it.

"Fortunately, once you have encountered it, you have fallen into the stars around you, the mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, the life experience is ups and downs, the rain is beating, the beachhead is panicked, and the zero Ding Yang sighs and the zero Ding, who has not died in life since ancient times, and left Dan to take care of the sweat!" "Deng Gongzi! Is this the poem you recited, it's very imposing! Chen Jintang couldn't help but admire when he heard this.

Deng Zixuan smiled and said: "I just saw this scene when I saw these two moments, and I couldn't help but think of Wen Tianxiang's poem of Ding Yang, and recited it casually!" "Who is Wen Tianxiang?" Deng Zixuan sighed and said: "Wen Tianxiang was a national hero in the late Southern Song Dynasty. After the Mongol army broke the Southern Song Dynasty, he was unfortunately captured. In the face of the coercion of the Mongols and the lure of high-ranking officials. Wen Tianxiang would rather die unyielding and heroically take justice. Crossing the zero Ding Yang is the poem he left behind. ”

"Wen Tianxiang is really our role model, respectable!" Chen Jintang admired. Someone once said that there will be no China after Yashan, although this sentence is a bit biased, but the history of humiliation is unforgettable. Brother Chen! My ambition is to restore the dignity of my Han nation! Chen Jintang looked at Deng Zixuan's firm face, and secretly made up his mind to follow Deng Gongzi to do something earth-shattering, and this life is enough.

The sailing ship sailed all the way east along the coastline, passing Shantou and entering the Taiwan Strait, which means entering the waters of Fujian. At present, the imperial court's sea ban has formed a momentum with the opening of the country's gates, so the commercial traffic of sea transportation has begun to be busy, but sea transportation is limited to the offshore waters. And the exchange of the Nanyang Islands was already an ocean-going voyage for the Qing Dynasty.

The sailboat entered the entrance of the Taiwan Strait, and Deng Zixuan was reading a book in the cabin on this day, when Chen Fugui walked in in a little panic and said: "Owner, I have doubts about observing the sea situation, and according to my experience, it may change the sky!" Deng Zixuan immediately thought of the typhoon and immediately walked out of the cabin, saw the calm appearance of the sea and said: "Brother Chen, can you be sure that the sky will change!" "You see, sir, the sea has changed color, and according to my experience, it must have changed the sky."

As he spoke, the wind suddenly picked up, and the sky began to darken. Deng Zixuan knew how powerful the typhoon was, and hurriedly shouted: "Dock immediately!" Chen Fugui immediately ordered the sailors to lower the sails, and then rowed towards the shore. The wind and waves are getting bigger and bigger, and Deng Zixuan didn't expect the sea to change so quickly. With the roar of the wind and waves, the coastline suddenly became blurred, and soon lost its sense of direction.

The big ship was tossed in the waves, and the sailors held the rudder, but they couldn't see the shore. In fact, everyone had the illusion that the sailboat was not heading towards the shore, but in the opposite direction. It was completely dark, the wind was stronger, and the waves were stronger. Suddenly, a heavy downpour fell from the sky, and Deng Zixuan hurriedly got into the cabin with his brothers. Chen Fugui and the sailors may have seen a lot of wind and waves, and they are not very flustered.

The big boat shook violently up and down, and the internal organs seemed to be torn apart, and everyone's expressions were painful. At this time, Deng Zixuan closed his eyes and silently thought in his heart: Damn, it's over, do you really want to die in the sea? Could it be that the law of crossing is at work? He remembers seeing the law of crossing analyzed on the Internet. The moment the ghost head knife fell, and the body and head were separated, the person was crossed. A bullet was shot into the heart, and at the end of his life, the man was crossed. Could it be that he just lived for an extra period of time, and he couldn't escape such a fate.

Thinking of this, Deng Zixuan's panicked mood calmed down, looking at the pained faces of the brothers, Deng Zixuan suddenly realized that if it weren't for his own sake, they might be dead, and it seemed that everyone couldn't escape, was it really fatalistic? "! It seems that we all have to die in the sea to feed the king! Wan Chuan scolded.

"In this way, when I was in Guangzhou, I should have visited the brothel and become a merry ghost when I died!" The long-legged Wu Bao also muttered. Chen Jintang said with a tiger face: "Are we afraid of the days when the knife licks blood, why are we pretending to be a bear now." Look at Deng Gongzi, so fearless. With Deng Gongzi pressing the formation, we will definitely be able to avoid this catastrophe. The people were silent.

Deng Zixuan closed his eyes, and now any language was pale and powerless. Perhaps Chen Jintang's words made Deng Zixuan pluck up the courage and accept the arrangement of fate calmly and silently. I don't know how long it took, Deng Zixuan was awake in a state of confusion, and there was still a roaring wind and roaring waves outside. But he suddenly felt that the boat was obviously rocking lightly, and it was in a state of stopping, what was going on, Deng Zixuan sat up in confusion.

This kung fu Chen Fugui walked in wet and extremely tired: "Deng Gongzi, fortunately we are safe!" With the voice, Chen Gensheng and the five sailors walked into the cabin in embarrassment, and after coming in, they staggered and lay on the board. Chen Jintang immediately instructed the brothers to boil ginger soup to warm their bodies. Deng Zixuan walked out of the cabin curiously, the wind was still roaring outside, the rain was pouring in, and the chaos between the sky and the earth was rolling.

Perhaps after the test of life and death, Deng Zixuan didn't seem to be afraid at all. He looked closely, and it turned out to be an island, and the big ship was parked at the bottom of a cliff, just as the cliff was blocking the momentum of the wind. It seems that the ship was blown to this island by a strong wind, and it really shouldn't have died. Deng Zixuan immediately came to his senses, and a wave of pride gushed out.

Looking at the fierce sea, Deng Zixuan felt ashamed, and began to admire Chen Fugui's uncle and nephew in his heart. Na Cheng wanted to be so strong and brave in the face of the threat of death at such a critical moment, which shows how malleable people are, and as long as they have the courage to challenge in the face of life and death, any miracle in the world will be created. At this moment, Deng Zixuan strengthened his courage to move forward.

"Deng Gongzi, look at you are drenched all over, let's go into the cabin!" Chen Jintang didn't feel at ease to come out to check. "Brother Chen! There is a saying that if you don't die, you will have a blessing, and we have God's blessing in the dark! God bless me! Deng Zixuan shouted loudly. The typhoon blew for three days in a row, and on the fourth morning, everyone woke up and ran out of the cabin, and the bright sun was very dazzling. The blue waters ripple gently, and the sea regains its graceful and docile appearance.

"Look there's a boat over there!" I don't know who shouted. Everyone's eyes invariably looked at Xiangyou's side, and sure enough, they looked forward along the cliff, and there was indeed a ship seventy or eighty meters away, and the ship was much smaller than their own. "It's a clipper ship, eighty percent of it is a pirate ship, and there are pirates in this area all the time." Chen Fugui said a little nervously.

I took a telescope and bought a monocular in Guangzhou. Deng Zixuan opened the binoculars and inspected: "There seems to be no one on the ship, there is an earthen cannon on the bow of the ship!" Deng Zixuan put down the binoculars and said decisively: "Chen Gensheng, you take two sailors to swim over and row the boat over!" I saw Chen Gensheng wave his hand knowingly, and led the two sailors to jump into the sea and swim forward. Seeing Chen Gensheng boarding the ship, there was still no human figure.

The eldest family let out a sigh of relief, and Deng Zixuan said: "Brother Chen, Gensheng will come back in a while, you will anchor and wait around the west side of the island, I suspect that this nameless island is the old cave of the bandits, and I will wait here to go ashore." "Mr. Deng, the pirates are all outlaws, and we have too few manpower!" Chen Fugui said worriedly: "Don't worry! No problem! ”

Seeing Deng Zixuan and a few people climbing up the cliff along the stone wall, Chen Fugui retracted his gaze. Chen Gensheng rowed the boat back, and the boat was at least a lot shorter than his own big ship. Chen Fugui jumped down quickly, carefully inspected it, and said: "It must be the ship of the bandits, and the number of bandits on the island will not exceed 20!" Chen Fugui ordered the small boat to be tied to the big boat, and then the anchor was lifted.

Deng Zixuan was tired enough to climb the stone cliff, and when he saw his brothers, he said as if they were nothing: "Hey! Brothers, rest for a while! "Deng Gongzi, what if the pirates find out about us?" Zhang Mancang said nervously. "You have a guy in your hand, you don't know how powerful the revolver is?" Chen Jintang glared at him. "! With a pistol in hand, I have no problem dealing with three or five by myself. "That's it, before the pirates got close, they were knocked down by us!" Bai Sheng and Leng Yifei clasped their hands on their shoulders and disdained.

Deng Zixuan said with a smile: "The pirates are at best a group of rabble, they may be dragons in the sea, but they may be sheep on land. At most, the pirates have weapons such as broadswords and spears, so you have to have absolute confidence in yourself. "Look at the smoke on that side!" Wan Chuan's sharp eyes couldn't help but shout. Everyone looked forward, and sure enough, there was curling smoke behind a rocky mountain.

Deng Zixuan waved his hand decisively, and everyone got up to act. If it weren't for Deng Zixuan's slow movement, the brothers would have run in front of him a long time ago. Ten minutes later, the group bypassed the stone mountain from the east side, and found a cave in front of the left, and there was a pergola at the entrance of the cave. Inside the pergola there is a stove and a cauldron, and it is from the stove that the smoke rises. The pergola was staggered, apparently blown by the wind.

Deng Zixuan judged that these bandits obviously did not eat breakfast. One stove and one pot, the dishes and chopsticks next to the stove are clear at a glance. Deng Zixuan put down the binoculars, then pulled out his revolver and said, "The number of pirates is not much, no more than 20 people. Don't shoot without my orders for a while! The brethren drew their pistols and went up to the cave......