Chapter 157: Returning Home
When he saw Yu Xiaotian's boat returning, Liu Laoliu and the remaining troops on Treasure Island happily welcomed them out of the village and gathered on the beach to welcome them to the shore.
Ma Xiao looked at Treasure Island dumbfounded, a little unable to believe his eyes, he had been here before, it was just a desert island where birds did not lay eggs, except for a little fresh water, which could be replenished by passing ships, this was basically a place that no one could see.
But he didn't expect that after not coming here for more than half a year, Yu Xiaotian actually built a stockade on this island, and he actually gathered so many subordinates.
Looking at the shy chests and bellies on the shore and lined up in a neat line to greet Yu Xiaotian's subordinates, it made Ma Xiao feel ashamed of himself.
This is no better than not knowing the way, in comparison, it is really better than people to die, goods should be thrown away, he came out to mix much earlier than Yu Xiaotian, but after mixing it for so long, compared with Yu Xiaotian, I didn't expect it to be so far behind!
What kind of virtues are his subordinates, he knows it himself, when he saw Yu Xiaotian, he still wanted to talk to Yu Xiaotian about Zhou Cheng and find trouble with Yu Xiaotian.
When I arrived at Treasure Island today, I realized how stupid he was at the beginning, fortunately he didn't have a grudge against Yu Xiaotian, otherwise, he brought someone here, and he could only take a look, turn around and leave, if he didn't mess with Yu Xiaotian, it would not be difficult to kill him directly!
No wonder Zhou Chenglai touched his nose and even lost his life here, just these two days on the Xiaotian boat, look at the performance of his subordinates, and look at Yu Xiaotian's so many subordinates left on the island, even if he pulls two helpers over, he is not necessarily Yu Xiaotian's opponent.
This time he was able to suppress Ma Xiao, and stood on the boat with his men, not daring to let go of a fart one by one, so he could only watch Yu Xiaotian take them down to the trestle of Treasure Island.
"Subordinates, see the helm handle! The little ones welcome the triumphant return of the helmsmen! A group of people greeted the pier, except for a few old people, the rest of the young sea wolves all knelt down on one knee and respectfully saluted Xiaotian.
Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "No courtesy, get up!" What's going on on the island these days when I'm away? ”
Liu Lao Liu stepped forward and said to Xiaotian: "You have been gone for a few days, there is nothing on the island, so don't worry about the helm handle!" ”
At this time, everyone saw Ma Xiao and the others behind Yu Xiaotian, and Liu Lao Liu then asked: "Helmsman, what are these people doing?" It's not the boss's new brother! ”
Yu Xiaotian hurriedly shook his head and said, "No! Come! Sixth Uncle, Uncle Zhao...... Let's come and meet, this is the master of the horse, and we are also walking together! I was lucky enough to meet this time, so I came back together!
Brother Ma, these are the uncles who are below, they helped me to make me who I am today! This is ......"
Saying that, Yu Xiaotian let Ma Xiao go to the front and introduced Liu Laoliu and others.
Ma Xiao didn't dare to make a mistake, so he hurriedly gave Liu Lao Liu and them a salute one by one, and Ma Xiao was very grateful to Yu Xiaotian for saving face for him, but he just said that he would come back with him, but he didn't tell his subordinates that his situation at this time, it can be said that Yu Xiaotian saved him enough face.
As soon as I heard that they were also peers, they came back with Yu Xiaotian, so they were naturally friends, so Liu Laoliu and Zhao Mazi hurriedly let Ma Xiao go into the village.
Ma Xiao looked at this Treasure Island stockade, and couldn't help but feel even more emotional, although this stockade is not tall and strong, but for them and the pirates, it is still very rare.
On his island, up to now, he has not set up a stockade, not that he doesn't want to, but he doesn't have the ability, he has also calculated, to set up such a stockade, how much manpower and material resources will be spent, after calculating, he himself has no energy, a small group of pirates like them, few people can have the strength to build a stockade by themselves, but he didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian came to this area with less than half a year's work, and built such a stockade.
What surprised him even more was that he saw the slipway outside the stockade and the bird boat on the slipway that was being repaired, which surprised the horse owl even more.
As a horse owl who lives at sea all the year round and is still a pirate, he knows very well the difficulty of repairing ships, especially pirates like them, who are basically unlikely to repair ships by themselves, under normal circumstances, they can only do very simple plugging of leaks in their own ships, at most they clean up the bottom of the ship, and even then, it also requires a lot of manpower.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, they have to disguise themselves as ordinary merchant ships through various ways and send them to a shipyard on land for repair, not to mention the big cost, but also take a certain risk, once they are found out by the government, the consequence may be that even people and ships may be lost on land.
This kind of thing is not impossible to happen, there was a group of pirates in this area before, and the mix was quite good, but accidentally offended the government, and the government sent someone to check that he once again sent the ship to a shipyard for repairs, so he sent troops to raid the ship, and as a result, his ship was gone, not to mention, the people who took the ship to repair were also caught and killed by the government, so that they were devastated from then on, and were soon annexed by other pirates.
But what he didn't expect was that Yu Xiaotian only relied on such a small number of manpower and such a short time to build a slipway on Treasure Island, although it looks very simple, but he has to admit that this is indeed a slipway, which can carry ships ashore and repair the ship inside and out.
He looked a little familiar with this boat, and after taking a closer look, he found that this boat was Zhou Cheng's boat at the beginning, and now it has become Yu Xiaotian's trophy.
So Ma Xiao couldn't help it, so he walked towards the slipway, and Yu Xiaotian didn't stop him, let him approach the slipway and look at the boat carefully.
Zhou Cheng's boat originally looked relatively old, but after this period of repair, all kinds of sea creatures outside the hull have been completely removed, revealing the planks below, and the planks have now been planed by the shipwrights of Treasure Island, revealing the true color of wood.
Some parts of the ship's planks can be clearly seen on the hull, which have been dismantled and replaced with new ones, and part of the planks at the bow have been removed, and new planks are being replaced, including the mast above, which have now also been dismantled, laid flat on the beach shelves, all planed, and several iron hoops have been put on them, and the mast has been reinforced.
The only difference is that the conditions here are too simple, and only the hull sheet can be replaced, and the keel and ribs cannot be replaced, only reinforced.
After seeing the boat that was being repaired on the slipway, Ma Xiao was really a little speechless, silently turned around and followed Yu Xiaotian into the stockade, and ordered his men to rest outside the stockade.
Yu Xiaotian showed favor and asked them to stew a big pot of whale meat for their gang to entertain them, but as a result, these people almost swallowed their tongues one by one.
Ma Xiao went to the village and visited it again, looking at the village that was clean and tidy everywhere, and the houses were neatly arranged, he had nothing to say, so he could only nod his head again and again to admire, admire! The expression was rather gloomy.
Originally, Yu Xiaotian also kept Ma Xiao to stay on Treasure Island for two more days before returning to his island, but for some reason, after Ma Xiao saw Treasure Island, he became depressed and insisted on not staying here, and asked Yu Xiaotian to send him and his men back to his island as soon as possible.
Yu Xiaotian had no choice but to ask Liu Laoliu to bring some people to send Ma Xiao onto the boat, and let Liu Lao Liu send Ma Xiao back to his island on his behalf.
Looking at Ma Xiao's lonely expression, Yu Xiaotian comforted him a few words, and when he was about to break up, Yu Xiaotian took Ma Xiao's hand and said: "You and I have a relationship, although there is a bit of mustard in front, but now it is like a familiar at first sight, since Brother Ma insists on leaving, then I will not force you to stay, Brother Ma take care, if there is something in the future, you can come to find your brother, don't be polite to my brother!" Remember! ”
Ma Xiao nodded and sighed: "Don't thank you for your kindness, my brother has written it down!" Although Ma lost the ship this time, he was fortunate to make friends with Brother Yu, which can be regarded as Ma's luck! Ma is not the kind of hypocritical person, not to mention anything else, when if Brother Yu can use my Ma, you can send someone to say hello, Ma will not hesitate even if he goes to the soup! Farewell! ”
Looking at the Walrus in the distance, Yu Xiaotian turned around and walked towards the Seal that was being repaired, but suddenly saw a person standing next to the slipway, not wearing a short indigo coat that was not uniform among the Sea Wolf Tribe, but wearing a shabby boy's shirt, pointing at Guo Fu and others who were working on the boat.
Chapter 2 is here, brothers, check it out! Thanks, what about the red ticket?