After Yu Xiaotian got on the boat, the weather on the sea has been good in the past few days, the weather at sea has been relatively clear, the wind on the sea is relatively stable, there is no strong wind, and there are no special situations along the way, neither the pirates, nor the official ships patrolling on the sea, just a few small fishing boats that go out to sea to fish, so the people on board are relatively relaxed.

When Yu Xiaotian heard Liu Chuandong say that the front was Dongshan, he roughly figured out where they were now, it turned out that this area had reached the area of Dongshan Island in Fujian, and it was almost to Nanao Island before that, and he couldn't help but sigh that the boat was really slow enough, it could be said that it was moving at a turtle speed, and it didn't go far at all in a few days.

The reason why the ship goes so slowly is also related to the fact that their ship is full of cargo, the draft of the ship is relatively large, and the bottom of the ship is overgrown with a thick layer of barnacles and other sea creatures because of the neglect to clean up for a long time, which increases the weight of the ship on the one hand, and at the same time greatly increases the resistance of the hull to advance in the sea, plus they sail south, and in this season it is against the wind, which slows down their ship.

Through eavesdropping on the small talk of the people on the ship, Yu Xiaotian learned that the cargo pulled by Liu Chuandong this time was to go to the area of Macao and trade with the Francois entrenched in Macao, and the Francois Yu Xiaotian certainly knew the way, referring to the Portuguese or the Spaniards, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, after the Westerners opened up the sea passage between Europe and Asia, those Europeans began to come to China by boat, opening up a maritime trade route connecting Eurasia.

For this period of history, Yu Xiaotian still knows a little, the first to come to China should be the Portuguese, they tricked the place of Macao from the hands of the Ming government, as a bridgehead for them to trade with China, and then the Spaniards, the Dutch also came to the coast of China, and even the British also came to the coast of China, all trying to occupy a place along the coast of China, as a bridgehead for their trade with China.

However, due to the precautions of the Ming Dynasty, they have not been able to obtain a place like Macao, so that the Dutch will make a big move on the coast and have repeated naval conflicts with the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, these things are not something that Yu Xiaotian has to think about now, what he is most concerned about at the moment is when he can get ashore and find an opportunity to sneak ashore, and one day these people in the province will find out that he is not dumb and throw him into the sea again.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Yu Xiaotian was a little hesitant about whether he should sneak ashore immediately, because although he knew some about the history of the Ming Dynasty, he was not very clear about this history, whether it was his appearance (especially the short hair on his head), his living habits, his way of speaking, and even his way of thinking, which was very different from the people of this era.

Once his eyes are blackened and he slips ashore like this, God knows what trouble will happen to Lu Dao! And he has nothing on his body at this time, not even a big son, the tinkle of poverty, is it possible to go ashore to ask for food?

What's more, he doesn't know much about the situation during the Great Ming Apocalypse, and the thing he knows the most about this history is only that he knows that Emperor Tianqi is a good carpenter, and he especially favors the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian around him, so that Wei Zhongxian, the great eunuch, is rampant in the government and the opposition, known as nine thousand years old, and he is negligent in government affairs, and he is only obsessed with fiddling with carpenter's skills in the palace all day long, and he is very happy.

In addition, he also roughly knew that at this time, the Jiannu Tartars outside the pass under the leadership of the wild boar Pinurhachi, have grown to a considerable extent, the Ming Dynasty seems to have experienced a battle of Sarhu, and the whole line turned to the defensive, and most of the entire Liaodong has basically been occupied by the wild boar skin, and the Jiannu army has also become the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, it seems that this period should be the Xiaoice River period in China, which led to an unusually cold climate in northern China, especially in the north, which caused disasters and famines, and the Ming court in order to resist the invasion of Jiannu, constantly increased taxes and increased salaries in various places, resulting in the people in Shaanxi and other places making a difficult living, and began to set off a large-scale peasant uprising.

In short, after the Ming Dynasty entered this period, it had turned from prosperity to decline extremely, and began to sway, but although these things were not something he needed to consider for the time being, Yu Xiaotian felt a little chilled when he thought of the name of Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian, an old eunuch, according to Yu Xiaotian's understanding of him, after the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, he has risen to prominence and has become the most powerful person in the government and the opposition.

Although Yu Xiaotian was a little skeptical that he was exaggerating the action of the factory guard, in the old time and space where he lived, he capitalized and close-up this period of history, making everyone think that the factory guard was omnipotent.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian is also a little afraid of the factory guards, if his virtue is mixed with the land, he can't be careful, he will be caught by the government or the Dongchang spies or the Jinyiwei as pirate spies, once it falls into their hands, then they really can't survive, they can't die!

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian couldn't help but get goosebumps, and shook his head secretly again and again, feeling that it was not necessarily a good idea to run to land immediately.

Since he can't land right away, he can only spend some time on this ship first, at least learn more about the folk customs and human customs of this era, and his hair should be longer, so that he doesn't look so different!

However, staying on the ship does not necessarily mean that everything will be fine, he is currently in a low position on the ship, his life is not comfortable, and he is repeatedly bullied by the boatmen on the ship, with his temperament, he will never want to be so sent to the fence to be angry.

His origin is unknown, and the people on the ship now think that he is stupid and dumb, so they will take him in, but once he speaks one day, and shows his fists and feet, God knows what the owners and boatmen of this ship will do to him!

For this reason, Yu Xiaotian pretended to pack up the broken fishing nets piled here at the bow of the ship, and at the same time was full of entanglement thinking about the future way out.

At this time, someone patted him on the shoulder and whispered to him, "Dumb! Don't do any of this work! The more you do, the less they treat you as a human being and the more they don't treat you as a human being anymore! ”

Yu Xiaotian turned his head and saw a dark and thin old man walking behind him, squatting down, and talking to him in a low voice.

The old man who spoke was called Liu Laoliu, and he was the helmsman on the ship and the oldest person on the ship, but to say that he was an old man was a bit condescending to him, because after staying on the ship for three days, Yu Xiaotian knew that Liu Laoliu was actually not too old.

Liu Laoliu is only forty-six or seventeen years old, but because he is dark and thin, slightly hunchbacked, and his face is full of wrinkles, probably because he is at sea all the year round, the wind and the sun are exposed, so he looks much older than he actually is, and he looks like a bad old man in his sixties, but his body is quite tough.

After seeing Liu Laoliu, Yu Xiaotian showed a sincere smile, because on this boat, Liu Laoliu was probably the only one who was more friendly to him!

He didn't know that he was on the second day of the boat, in fact, when the people on the boat saw him floating on the sea, the people on the boat didn't plan to pick him up, it was this Liu Lao Liu who insisted, on the grounds that seeing death and not saving him would anger Mazu and bring bad luck to the ship, the people along the coast basically believed in Mazu, so they relied on the past to fish him out of the sea, and it was Liu Lao Liu who also brought water to feed him, which saved him.

Later, Ma Biao on the ship proposed to throw him back into the sea on the grounds that he was unknown and might be a pirate, and it was this Liu Lao Liu who interceded for Liu Shipowner on his behalf, which made Liu Shipowner finally decide to leave him on the ship.

And in the three or four days after he got on the boat, Liu Lao Liu could also help him a little, never teased him, and occasionally gave Yu Xiaotian a small piece of salted fish and salted meat in his bowl during meals, so that Yu Xiaotian could recover his strength faster.

Liu Laoliu inadvertently did these things, so that Yu Xiaotian felt a rare trace of human warmth on this boat, at this time he can be said to be lonely, and in a completely unfamiliar environment, what he needs most is someone to care for and help him, and Liu Laoliu gave him this warmth at this time.

This made Yu Xiaotian very grateful to Liu Laoliu, and his father told him when he was very young that he would be rewarded by the grace of a drop of water!

Liu Laoliu seems to have inadvertently provided these help to Yu Xiaotian, but in Xiaotian's eyes, it is not just as simple as a drop of water, so in the past two days, since he recovered his physical strength, he has often followed Liu Laoliu's side, trying to help Liu Laoliu do a little rough work, in order to express his gratitude to Liu Laoliu.

Obviously, Liu Laoliu also saw Yu Xiaotian's intentions, and tried his best to take care of Yu Xiaotian on the ship, and with the advantage of his relatively high status on the ship, he often persuaded those immoral things on the ship to play less tricks on Yu Xiaotian.

At this time, there was another helmsman taking care of the rudder, Liu Lao Liu was fine, and saw Yu Xiaotian struggling to clean up these broken fishing nets at the bow of the boat, so Liu Lao Liu quietly walked over and reminded Yu Xiaotiandao.

Yu Xiaotian was sincerely grateful to Liu Laoliu for this, so he nodded, pointed to the fishing net again, patted his chest, and said that it was okay, he had strength.

Liu Lao Liu saw that there was no one on the bow of the boat at this time, so he sat next to Yu Xiaotian, took out a small bottle from his arms, brought it to his lips and drank a small sip of the wine inside, and then plugged the bottle tightly with a wooden stopper, and carefully stuffed it back into his arms.

"Dumb! I know that you are not a bad person, and you are honest, at least you know how good you are! Let's be honest! In fact, Liu Chuandong left you, but he just fell in love with your figure and wanted to pick up a cheap house slave for nothing! If you look for work on this ship, there will be endless work! The more diligent you are, the more you will be called by donkeys! Otherwise, I will remind you that you should do less work that the owner does not instruct! Otherwise, it will exhaust you to death!

You must know that I can't work long on this boat, and after I go back after this trip, I took my salary and went home to buy a few acres of land and retire! If you don't go on the boat, there will be no one to take care of you, you have to take care of yourself!

I look at you pitiful, homeless and dumb! I don't want to see you being trampled by those people! Today, Ma Biao will do it with you, fortunately, you are still clever, which makes that guy suffer, which makes people happy! But you don't know how to work hard, it's better to provoke that guy less in the future, that guy is not a good thing, once he stares at you, he will keep making trouble for you! Liu Lao Liu looked at the people on the boat and whispered to Xiaotian.

Yu Xiaotian was even more grateful to him in his heart, and nodded again and again to indicate that he remembered it, but when he heard that Liu Lao Liu had returned after this trip, he stopped doing it, and his heart couldn't help but move slightly.

He is racking his brains for the way out in the future, Liu Lao Liu said this, but let him see an opportunity, Liu Lao Liu is good, he is also very good to him, if Liu Lao Liu does not do it, he will definitely go back to his home on the land, in that case, can he follow Liu Lao Liu to the land? At least you can get Liu Laoliu to take care of you for a period of time, and get a legal identity to stay on the land.

But at this time, Yu Xiaotian was suffering from the fact that he was pretending to be dumb and couldn't speak, so he could only use his hand to gesture to Liu Laoliu and try to communicate with Liu Laoliu.

Liu Lao Liu looked at Yu Xiaotian and compared with him, obviously he didn't understand what Yu Xiaotian wanted to say, he misunderstood Yu Xiaotian's meaning a little, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid of dumbness!" It's good to have a while! It's going to be a few days before I'm gone! When I go ashore, explain to the people on the boat, so that they don't tease you anymore! ……”

Yu Xiaotian was a little disappointed, and was about to continue to communicate with Liu Laoliu, when Liu Chuandong shouted to them at the stern: "Liu, dumb, are you idle and panicked?" Didn't you look at it and be busy? Why don't you come and carry something! ”

(These days for the holidays, the temporary update is relatively slow, and my wife is pregnant, and her health is not good, so I want to take time to accompany my wife more, I hope you will forgive me!) I hope you can continue to help with the new book that fights the cold wind! Thank you very much! ）