A few more days and nights passed after boarding, and the Royal Miles chased the sunset in the west, and finally broke out of the fog.

Did Qi Zuo and Ge Lan have already walked out of this fog?

Cai Zhao asked the snake worm, although it is almost impossible for outsiders to find a specific island in this fog, if they just want to get out of this fog, they just have to drive west—they can't rely on the compass, they can only rely on the sun.

He never thought that as early as when he was still on an isolated island, the snake worm had already received a commission from his eldest brother to let the Royal Wanli stop at Changxing Port for a day and night to carry news for the woman with a lame leg wearing a goose feather knife.

After the captain's room, the father and son of the Zhang family had a very unpleasant quarrel with the snake, the son Zhang was better, and Lao Tzu Zhang Huaitu nested in his cabin for days, except for three meals a day, his face was not revealed.

Zhang wants to tell Cai Zhao that his father is strategizing and planning for the future - how to deal with this gang is one thing, and how to make a comeback after returning to Jinding is the focus of this plan.

“...... The current Emperor Taiwei is just a concubine, and he is stubborn and self-serving, and he is angry and Jia Taifu does not say anything, and he does not accept the good tribute, so he has to toss the princes from all walks of life to enter Beijing four times a year to report on his work, which makes the court centrifugal, and all of them think of the original Prince of Changyang......"

The prince of Changyang in Zhang Yao's mouth, even a young man from the countryside like Cai Zhao who is not familiar with court affairs has heard of it - not to mention that he has aroused the disgust of the first emperor by drilling the camp day and night, and only then did he have the heart of Yi Chu, and the mother family of the prince of Changyang has rebelled; overnight, the imperial forest army beheaded hundreds of people up and down the Sikong Mansion, and the soldiers of Qinzhou Road captured the city of Xiangling; at dawn the next day, the first emperor gave Empress Chang a three-foot white silk and a lame horse to Prince Changyang......

Cai Zhao was in the grassland, and he only heard that the first emperor was virtuous and wasted, and he only heard that when the emperor was a man of great talent, it was difficult to see in a hundred lifetimes, but he had never heard of anyone who thought of the prince of Changyang.

“...... My father is the distant nephew of Queen Chang, and he is already an official doctor, so he has to flee overseas when he hears this. Now that the prince of Changyang has returned, his father wanted to return to China to follow and follow the dogs and horses, but he was captured by pirates on the way...... It's really God who helps me, this captive not only allowed me to get the covenant of the Fandong elders, but also gained an additional brother, you, an unborn martial artist, haha. Zhang wanted to pat Cai Zhao on the shoulder and said with a smile.

The two of them lay side by side on the side of the boat, lazily admiring the sunset in the distance. Zhang Yao's mouth kept talking, and the words went in from Cai Zhao's left ear and came out from his right ear, but he couldn't arouse a reaction.

But Zhang Yao didn't mind himself, it was better to say that he was hoping for this, anyway, he had so many words to shake out, and he couldn't finish speaking, so it didn't matter if he didn't listen to the scene of others' replies.

This strange conversation continued for a while, until the sun was about to set completely over the sea level. At this time, the clouds in the sky were dyed red and yellow, and the sky behind them was light purple. Such splendor is reflected on the surface of the sea, and the sky and the earth are doubled in color.

Cai Zhao could see that he was so excited that even the chatter in his ears stopped, and he looked at the bow of the boat, choking on the superb view in front of him.

"Keep an eye on what you're doing over there, the nice ones are in the back. ”

Suddenly, one of the two hands patted Cai Zhao and Zhang Yao's shoulders respectively. The drunken two shivered in shock and turned around.

Behind him was the snake's exposed chest, and a dragon and a snake snatched a jewel from his right breast. The two of them looked up and met his smug smile. The face swayed in the direction of the stern of the boat, and the man eight or nine feet tall looked like a child sharing secrets.

The two of them looked in the direction he was facing, the sails of the ship bulging in the wind like the bodice of an exotic dancer, and the golden fabric changed color as the sun sank, shaking and shining, plump and moving.

After that, the borders of the Fandong mist were dyed pink by the glow of the sun, like clusters of marshmallows, piled high and spread out for a long time—which human king dared to use pink cotton to demarcate the boundary, and which heavenly god was so arrogant that he thought of using the clouds as a cushion to build himself a floating bed above the sea.

"It's a sight that can only be seen when you step out of that fog," said the snake with emotion, looking at the pink wall, "I've only seen it once, and I'll never quit it for the rest of my life." ”

......

In the cabin, the light gradually dimmed, Zhang Huaitu turned out the fire fold from the drawer, blew at the wick of the oil lamp, the flame burned over, and a small flower was divided on the tip of the wick, which grew larger little by little, until it wrapped the whole wick.

Zhang Huaitu shook out the fire fold in his hand, threw it into the drawer, and closed it with a push. The free hand then removed the stick that was supporting the window above his head, and the window fell with a clatter.

After doing all this, Zhang Huaitu put down the hand protecting the oil lamp, and the thin flame no longer trembled, and concentrated on emitting light.

On the table, there is a red frame of letterhead, on which are written in vertical rows from right to left, with the names of more than a dozen people written. The last stroke of ink was still a little wet, and it stopped in the center of the letter, and the remaining half of the blank was filled in at some point.

This is all the important people from all walks of life that Zhang Huaitu has heard, speculated, and talked about in the past ten years that may help him seek power. Is it possible to add a snake worm and a goose feather knife girl now?

If the big brother of the snake snake can gather all the pirates in Fandong out of the fog, it must be a fleet that should not be underestimated-even if it doesn't come out, it would be good to help me intercept some goods and kill some people from time to time......

No, no, Fandong is still too far away, if you really need sea ships at that time, it is better to count on those pirates than to count on the merchants of Shizhou.

What's more, the attitude of this snake worm the day before yesterday was also very suspicious, I don't know if it really wants to raise the price, or if there are other plans......

As for the woman who wore the Yanling knife, Zhang Huaitu couldn't remember who it was even after scratching his head. He only remembered seeing the knife in the waist of a certain general when he was still in the middle of the court—only the knife could be remembered, but no one could remember it.

Zhang Huaitu instructed his son to knock on the side and knock some news out of Cai Zhao's mouth, but for several days, Zhang wanted to push open the hatch, and there was only one sentence in his mouth, "I don't want to say".

In short, when he left the island, Cai Zhao was also considered to be a favor for the Yanling knife girl - although the original intention was to let him protect the safety of my father and son. The word message has arrived, can it come in handy when the time comes...... Better than nothing.

Thinking of this, Zhang Huaitu shook his head, put down the pen he had already lifted, and picked up the letter paper with both hands, and hung it in front of the oil lamp to bake it up and down.

On the letter paper, which is only half written, the empty half gradually appears to have glyphs, and the original half of the words have faded to ink. After a short while, Zhang Huaitu put down the letter paper and took out an envelope from the drawer on the side.

"120 zhang of Antai red oak, 50 barrels of Qingque grapes, 20 horses of Lenz Ayaluo......"

On the letterhead, half of the name of the goods was written vertically from left to right, and under the influence of Sisi, the merchants of the city wrote from left to right.

Zhang Huaitu folded the letter paper in two, put it in the envelope, and pinched the creases of the seal inch by inch.

On the side of the table were the fire paint and stamps of the Wanli Royal Number, and Zhang Huaitu's eyes swept over, with a rare smile on his face.

He baked the fire paint on the oil lamp, poured it over the mouth of the envelope, and took the poke with his other hand and pressed it on it.

Zhang Huaitu picked up the envelope and blew lightly on the fire paint seal, and the coat of arms of the four-point shield solidified and formed—it really looked like the bill of goods listed by a merchant who often did business with Cexi.

Zhang Huaitu smiled with satisfaction and took the envelope into his arms.

......

At dinner time, the captain and crew of the Wanli Royal and three guests sat around a large long table, with Snake Worm and Zhang Huaitu at the two ends.

There were cured meats and dry bread scattered around the table, and in front of one man was a rough oak glass with rancid water mixed with wine.

In the face of such a meal, the three guests from the Rich Continent naturally did not arouse the slightest interest, but even the Saisi crew, who were accustomed to eating such bad chaff, had a bitter look on their faces when they took a bite of the bread that was harder than a stone and the salted meat that was harder than bread.

But they were fond of the spoily and spicy drink, which they soaked in their mouths to soften the bread and bacon and then flushed down their stomachs so as not to scratch their esophagus.

The three of them had been eating this meal for several days, and at the beginning there were some wild fruits and vegetables picked from the island as appetizers, and on the first day there was even fresh hare meat...... At that time, Cai Zhao still thought that the skills of the ship's cooks were not as good as those pirates who took turns cooking in the camp on the island. Now that I think about it, a roast rabbit with too much salt is better than a salted meat.

Cai Zhao took a long loaf of bread, laboriously broke it into two pieces, then broke it into two pieces, then took one of them and put it into the wine glass, soaked it for a short minute, and finally reluctantly stuffed it into his mouth.

At this time, Zhang Yao on the side suddenly pulled his sleeve under the table, and Cai Zhao had not finished swallowing the wine and bread in his mouth, and turned his head impatiently.

Zhang Yao sneakily glanced behind him, "I just passed by the cabin in the back and heard a rooster croaking. There was a thief smile on his face who did bad things.

Cai Zhao didn't plan to deal with him, but when he heard that there were live chickens hidden in the boat that could be eaten, he was immediately interested.

He swallowed the rest of the bread in his mouth, almost choked, and after a long time of panting, he asked, "Really?"

"It's true. ”

At the table, the two shook hands in agreement.

......

At night, there was a snoring sound in the crew room, and a crack opened in the cabin door on the side, revealing two pairs of thieves' eyes.

Zhang wanted to lead the way, Cai Zhao followed, and the two of them bent on their waists and climbed the stairs lightly to the cabin on the upper floor.

Usually it is a place for daytime activities, with a long table in the center and three meals a day. Although this cabin is large, it is not the whole of this level, and the cabin behind it, the two of them have never entered.

The chapter says that the rooster's crow comes from there—it is not heard from here, but it can be heard from outside.

If they go to see that there is really a live chicken hidden in it now, they plan to kill it tonight and bring it to the kitchen tomorrow morning.

The two quietly approached the door at the end of the dining room, and with a slight touch, the door opened on its own.

The moonlight penetrated through the ventilated wooden lattice on the roof, and although the cabin was large, it was crowded with many iron cages, high and low.

The two largest and most recent cages were swarthy and couldn't see what was inside.

At this moment, the moonlight suddenly shone on the human form in the depths of the cabin.

The man was eight or nine feet tall, and his gray complexion was even more lifeless in the moonlight.

He was holding a chicken in one hand and holding it by the neck, so the chicken was struggling, but it couldn't make a sound.

In the large cages on both sides, four eyes appeared in the darkness. On the left is a yellow-green cat's eye, on the right is a shiny black eyeball, and all four eyes are terrifyingly large.

The man threw the chickens in his hands into the cage on the left and the right.

The four eyes pulled out the streamer and pounced upwards so quickly that the two chickens had already bitten their throats before they could crow.

Through the change of light and shadow, the two of them saw clearly that the four eyes belonged to a black panther and a black bear respectively.