The wooden boat, caught between the waves, swayed and approached the iron ship that was beyond common sense.

The closer he got, the more Ye Yuchang couldn't believe what he saw through his eyes.

"Actually, unexpectedly—so high!"

Counting from the apprenticeship on the ship, Ye Yuchang has been running business on the sea with the ship for ten years, and has been to all the important towns in the northwest and southwest of the mainland, among which the city wall of his hometown Lezhou Port is the most majestic he has ever seen, he has stood in front of the city gate and carefully looked at the blue-gray body, it is like a sacred mountain, covering half of the view of the sky and the earth.

And the city wall of Lezhou Port should also be one end shorter than the big ship in front of you!

Ye Yuchang approached the iron ship with the Yun Pai, slowly looked up, and looked over the wide side of the ship, trying to see the upper deck, but the side of the ship and the huge hull were like a wall between the waves, blocking all Ye Yuchang's efforts.

Beyond the side of the castle wall, there are rows of square "palaces" and slender towers filled with the heaviness of metal, and the outer walls of the "palaces" are filled with windows that are not covered with window paper, but sealed with something like crystal.

The rest of the place is a huge iron box stacked on top of each other.

The waves that were shaking the Yunpai collided with the iron ship as if it were on a dam, and immediately dispersed and sank into the sea, leaving only a little white foam near the waterline of the hull.

"Less, less owner, look!"

A crew member staggered over to him and pointed to a spot on the side of the iron ship.

This crew member is none other than Tang Kecheng.

"Ah, Kecheng, can you get up already? ”

Ye Yuchang greeted Tang Kecheng with a greeting and gave favors, and looked at him along his fingertips.

Tang Kecheng pointed to the side of the tip of the outer plate of the large iron ship, which was close to the tip of the bow.

Countless characters are painted in white paint on the black shell.

Ye Yuchang didn't recognize most of the characters engraved on them, and he couldn't understand which one of them looked like the same as the tadpole in appearance.

Among them, he only understood a string of words, although it was not a complete fit, but he felt that if he compared the words of Changwen, it should be - Xuanwu 巖號.

"The Basalt, the name of the ship?"

Ye Yuchang muttered in a low voice, while Tang Kecheng lowered his hand and looked suspiciously at a certain dark part of the ship.

Ye Yuchang stared at the majestic body of this giant ship, the desire to explore gradually took over his heart, he thought for a while, and instructed Tang Kecheng beside him: "Kecheng, let people go to the bilge to find out the thick rope dart for hunting mackerel, that can be used as a climbing rope, I will lead a few people on this boat to see." ”

After the words were finished, Tang Kecheng didn't move, Ye Yuchang thought that he was injured and dragged down and was a little stunned, stared at his face for a while, and saw that he was just looking straight at the big boat, and was about to get angry, only to see Tang Kecheng stretch out his finger again.

His fingers trembled more than before, and Ye Yuchang felt that this crew member was still lazy after recovering from his injuries for many days after getting an essence, so he kicked him to the ground directly.

"Don't you understand Lao Tzu's words? Alas, you are injured, I won't force you to go to this ship with you, you stay and ......."

Ye Yuchang's words stopped as he spoke.

After Tang Kecheng was kicked to the ground by him, his trembling fingers stubbornly pointed somewhere, and his fingertips were still moving, as if-

It was as if he was pointing at some living thing.

Ye Yuchang swallowed his saliva and looked at Tang Kecheng again.

Neither a horse traction nor part of a carriage, what appeared there were three separate huge metal wheels.

Glowing with a cold glow in the sunlight, without any force, he ran from the stern of the ship to the middle of the outer plate of the ship's side, getting closer and closer to the cloud row.

The three wheels ran vertically on one side of the ship as if they were running on flat ground, as if their wheels were not parallel to the sea.

Ye Yuchang felt a chill in his chest and abdomen, and an ominous sense of crisis washed away the desire to explore in his heart, and he urgently ordered the crew of the Yunpai to sail the ship away from the Basalt.

The man who didn't need to take care of the sail tree faced this stunned enemy, and one by one he pulled out the lancet at his waist.

A wheel drove through the middle of the Basalt, bouncing horizontally, like a huge dart, directly bombarding the bow of the Yunpai, which was receding.

Almost all the crew, including Ye Yuchang, grabbed the copper handle on the deck in time, and when the bow of the ship tilted the whole ship to the other side under the huge impact, not a single person fell or threw off the deck due to the instantaneous momentum.

The lower half of his body experienced a moment off the ground, and Ye Yuchang, who was holding on to the handle, waited for his feet to fall back to the deck, and shouted loudly: "Quick! The wheel is over, hurry up and shake the oar! The wheel can't catch up with the sea!"

Before the words fell, Ye Yuchang saw that the wheel did not sink into the sea as he thought, but broke through the waves and galloped on the surface of the sea like walking on the ground.

In addition to the wheel that directly hit the Yun Pai just now, the other two giant ships also fell from the side of the Basalt, followed by bursts of white foam, rushing on the surface of the sea.

Four long oars stretched out on the left and right sides of the lower deck, a total of eight long oars, pushing and pulling the sea water with all their might, leading all the members of the Yun Pai to escape.

The sails on the two masts of the Yunpai were blown by today's southeast wind like two fierce horses, and the "Ye" flag swayed in the wind.

Ye Yuchang stood at the stern of the boat holding on to the plank, and looked at the three giant ships that were chasing the Yunpai with his temporarily improved eyesight.

Three wheels, one in front and two in the back, form a line shaped like a cluster of arrows.

The spinning wheels galloped across the sea, breaking through the waves they encountered along the way, stirring up splashes, like three wolves, chasing the antelope they found.

Ye Yu estimated that the wheel at the front was about six zhang away from the stern, and his heart was immediately relieved.

In order to boost morale,

The captain of the Yunpai encouraged the crew and said: "Okay! That's it! Today we have a good wind, keep working hard! This wheel will not be able to catch up with us no matter how much it runs!"

A big wave came over,

The Yunpai easily broke through the waves, and a wooden plank cracked and fell off from the bow of the ship that had been injured before, and fell into the sea, and the effect of the wave was instantly reduced by forty percent, and the resistance suddenly increased.

The wheels at the front of the "arrow cluster" immediately approached three zhang, and there were only three zhang left from the stern.

"Don't panic, everyone, it's only three ...... closer."

Seeing that Ye Yuchang was about to open his mouth again, the crew and Tang Kecheng felt that if they didn't let the captain close his poisonous mouth, they would have to die in the belly of the fish today.

Tang Kecheng took advantage of Ye Yu's long words as soon as he opened his mouth, dragged his body that had just recovered from a serious injury and ran to the stern of the boat, waved the scabbard to knock the captain to the ground, and pulled a rag with his hand, blocking the mouth of this "old general on the stage".

At that moment, there was a soft "click" inside one of the wheels that landed behind, and small gaps opened in each of the spokes of the wheel, and ghostly purple smoke spilled out of the gaps in the spokes.

The sea water at the bottom of the wheel exploded out of thin air, like a whale spraying water, and the wheel took advantage of the momentum, leaped over the distance of ten zhang, crossed the two masts of the Yunpai, and landed two zhang away from the bow of the Yunpai.

The wheels surrounded by purple smoke stood on the surface of the sea, and the wheels were horizontal, like a small wall, with a posture of "this road is impassable", blocking the place where the cloud row was pushed by the southeast wind.

One round in the front, two rounds in the back.

"I'm covered!"

An exclamation came from the inner compartment of the Cloud Row.

And Jiang Niansheng, who exclaimed, could only do nothing in the wooden cage where the talisman armor was applied.

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Xu Shuoguang sat alone on a chair and stared blankly at the empty square.

There were only two empty rows in front of him and on his side, and those present and those standing had already left

Long.

He couldn't stop panting, his left hand clutching his thigh, his right hand propped up on the arm of the chair, as if he would fall to the ground as soon as his right hand was released.

No one chose Xu Changsheng or Xu Minzhi.

"Jane, it's just ...... It doesn't make sense......"

As he asked himself, his eyes wandered aimlessly over the empty ancestral hall square.

"Huang Zhang, and Xu Song and Xu Xiao!

Halfway through the words, his throat seemed to be stuck by an invisible log, and he said no more.

The inability to continue the words was not all because of the confusion and anger caused by the defeat of the eldest son, but even more because he had swept his eyes across the square a moment ago.

If his eyes were lowered as before, he would definitely be able to scold 'Dare to mistake me, a bunch of rats' angrily.

But the eye accidentally saw an old man with a small old face fiddling with potted plants in the northwest corner of the square.

Xu Shuoguang looked at the old man in a daze, looked at it for a long time, and after being sure that this was not an illusion, his throat was finally able to move, and he said in a low voice: "Old, old lord...... When are you?"

The old man half-squatted with his back to the head of the Xu family, and said while playing with the potted plants: "I've always been there, but for some reason, you don't look at me." ”

It's always been there.

In other words, he was present at the entire council that decided the next head of the family.

Xu Shuoguang roared, half of his tone was sober after a sudden realization, and half of it was annoyed.

"He—they've all seen you, that's why—"

Lao Shangjun turned around, and the angry waves of the Xu family's head of language stopped abruptly in an instant.

The old gentleman's expression was very kind, or a kind of pity for a stupid child who had no ability at home.

"You can catch a glimpse of me because I want you to see it. ”

The implication is that if you are there, if you don't want to show up, no one will know.

"That, that......"

"In order to leave a way back for the cursed Sheng'er, you withheld the military affairs that should have required Zhi'er to be familiar with and the right to communicate with the court, but no matter what, Zhi'er still dispatched the Xu family's wealth for three years, I have to say that his skills in cargo cultivation are really good, he vigorously supported the little-known Lezhou Port, right? ”

"It's just a small way, that kid is not good at poetry and books, the etiquette and music are unknown, Zhou Wu doesn't learn, he is afraid of the battle array, he is intoxicated with copper-smelling things, how can the Xu family operate by money alone, Lao Shangjun! You are confused, you will only pave the road with money, and you will lose your way because of money!"

Lao Shangjun's face was full of smiles, and after Xu Shuoguang finished speaking, he said leisurely: "These words of yours, if they are said in the Xu family's mansion, someone will write a secret letter and send it to the Zhi'er Mansion in less than half an hour. ”

Seeing Xu Shuoguang's face full of inexplicability, he was then shocked.

Xu Heng put away his smile and said solemnly: "Zhi'er relies on the ability to manipulate money, in you, in the invisible place of Sheng'er and Minzhi, you have already established contact with the powerful big people and all kinds of small people within the Xu family, and they are already the same party and feathers, this kind of thing is far more difficult to shake than the so-called fame, and its momentum has been achieved, if you don't need me, he will probably be able to master the Xu family." ”

Xu Heng looked at the potted plants that were well organized and could stand slowly in the face of strong wind and rain, and felt relieved.

Walking out of the square, he chatted boredly: "Two or three things about life and death, one is the way to live, the second is money and goods, and the third is luck, and the talents and the like are all vassals." ”

Xu Shuoguang's voice came from behind him, the voice was very long, and the sound quality was very scattered.

"Old Lord, please stay!"

"I'm leaving, I'm afraid I'll never come back, I don't care what you want to do, it's just! Give you a piece of advice, it's not impossible for you to carry Sheng'er or Minzhi up, you have to think about what will happen to them after losing to Zhi'er, as a father, do you want to see it." ”

After explaining, Xu Heng immediately sped up.

Xu Heng looked at the faintly shining Yangchun essence in his hand, and ecstasy filled his body and mind.

A word in the depths of my memory suddenly came to my heart,

'Daddy, you can't be considered alive for a long time, and every day that a person who can't die can only be regarded as surviving, not living, after all, he will decay in the days and nights when he can't die, and become a half-dead rot. ’

"I don't need your son, who has been there for more than a hundred years, to remind me, I know it very well. ”

Walking out of the square and down the mountain road, Xu Heng was thinking about the rest of his life.

"Ah...... I heard that there is an interesting story in Xihai, yes, yes......"