"Hit the ship?" I was taken aback by the ridiculer's suggestion, and subconsciously shook my head: "No, this is a lose-lose game, and if we crash the Victory, we will all have to be finished!" ”

"Trust me!" The sarcasm said to me firmly, "No matter what kind of ship it is, the bow is the hardest part, and the middle of the hull is the weakest. Their boat is in front of us, and now it's like hitting them in the stomach with our heads, and we're not going to lose! And our ship is bigger and newer, it's definitely okay! ”

"Can our ship really withstand it?" I'm still worried.

"No problem, I also participated in the design of the Victory, so I promise that I won't hurt it!"

The sarcastic ghost does know the structure of a ship better than I do, and since it says so, it certainly doesn't lie. So, I gritted my teeth and nodded: "Then listen to you and hit it!" ”

"The sailors on the deck are all on my orders, and they all go down to the second deck to paddle forward!" The sarcaster got my consent and immediately ordered.

"Yes!"

The ghost sailors replied aloud, and quickly got into the cabin, and each found a handful of wood pulp, which stretched out from the oars on either side of the ship, and began to paddle hard. This is also Wang Shou's transformation, which greatly increases the number of crew members who paddle at the same time. In normal times, the Victory mainly relies on wind and current, but it can also travel by oars in times of emergency, and the speed is not slow.

When the water thieves on the big ship in front saw that the Victory had actually taken such a way of fighting, they screamed in fright. Since their boat is across the river, they will not be able to turn for a while, and it is almost inevitable that they will collide with us. The thieves simply abandoned the boat and jumped into the water to escape.

"Boom!"

After a loud bang, the enemy ship ahead was broken in two by the sharp bow of the Victory, and it sank instantly. And the Victory, as the sarcasm said, only suffered a violent shock, but the entire hull was unharmed.

"Raise the mainsail! Burn the wind! The sarcasm wasted no time in ordering again. The Victory broke through the encirclement of the water thieves before they could react and continued to accelerate their escape.

However, the few remaining boats of the pirates were light and fast enough to follow closely behind. In less than a quarter of an hour, it looks like it's about to catch up.

"Shoot them with a crossbow!" Liu Han stood at the stern of the boat and shouted anxiously at the mocking ghost.

"The giant crossbows are mounted on both sides of the ship, and they can't shoot at the back!" The sarcastic ghost replied helplessly.

"Then let them paddle a little faster!"

"No! Our boat is too heavy to run fast, and they have done their best! ”

"Then throw some things away and throw them at the pirate ship!"

Liu Han shouted so wildly, but he woke me up and the sarcastic ghost at once. We both shouted in unison, "Yes! Throw rice! ”

"Throw rice? What a waste! Liu Han was confused by the two of us and muttered.

"Oops, there's no way around it! The heaviest cargo on this ship is the hundreds of bags of rice, which can be used as deep-water fried eggs! The sarcastic ghost quickly explained.

I also agreed very much, and immediately gave an order: "All people and ghosts who do not need to be on duty at combat posts should go to the cargo hold and carry the rice!" ”

In order to strengthen everyone's confidence and dispel everyone's concerns, I was the first to jump out of the cargo hold and carry a bag of 50 catties of rice onto the deck. Then I ran to the stern of the boat, spotted my target, and threw the bag of rice towards the nearest pirate speedboat.

"Boom!"

The heavy bag of rice hit the bow of the pirate speedboat accurately. The speedboat was only about four or five meters long, and there were a few fluttering ghosts sitting on it, and where it could withstand such a heavy blow, it was immediately smashed to the stern of the boat, and the boat capsized immediately.

"It worked! Just smash them like that! I exclaimed happily, not in the slightest bit of heartache for the lost bag of rice. As long as they can successfully escape the pursuit of the water thieves, this part of the loss is completely acceptable.

The powerful ghost sailor also threw the rice bag to the stern of the boat in the same way as I did, and even if it was not as accurate as I did, the heavy rice bag would make a huge splash when it fell into the water, effectively slowing down the speed of the water thief speedboat.

But in a panic, the sailors carrying the rice bags then got stuck in traffic at the narrow cargo door, and the people entering and leaving each other blocked each other.

"Don't push, line up, and pass the rice!" It's still the ridiculous ghost's brain that spins fast, and temporarily divides the labor for them.

So, from the hold to the stern, the sailors formed a line and relayed the bags of rice to the stern. And Tietou and I were specifically responsible for throwing "rice fried eggs" and accurately smashing several pirate speedboats.

At the same time, the rice that was constantly being discarded also greatly reduced the weight of the Victory, and it was able to continue to increase its speed, and finally successfully escaped the pursuit of the water thieves in the rear.

The other big boat that the leader of the water thieves was riding on also caught up, but it was blocked by the speedboat of the capsized boat, and the speed could not get up. It could only stand at the bow of the ship from a distance and roar angrily, shouting: "I remember your ship, I must avenge this revenge next time!" ”

It's no wonder that it was so angry, and wanted to slaughter a "fat cow", but it didn't expect that this was a "stubborn cow" that would top people. In this water battle, the Water Wolf Gang sank at least one big ship and five or six speedboats, in addition to being wiped out by us seventy or eighty water thieves, and the losses were not unbearable!

On the Victory's side, apart from a slight damage to the bow, the hull was largely undamaged, and only four sailors were killed. However, the hundreds of bags of rice that were discarded during the escape were also a pity.

After that, the voyage was uneventful. As the Victory passed through the town of Estuary, I sold the rest of the cloth on board, and I was able to recover a little bit of my losses. Fortunately, after listening to Liu Han's words at that time, only half of the goods were purchased, otherwise the loss would have been even greater!

After returning to the fishing village, I asked Wang Shou again to help repair the boat. He was amazed at how we were able to repel a gang of pirates with a single ship, and at the same time pleased with the excellent performance of the Victory, which he had designed and built, so he agreed.

Repelling the water thieves in actual combat gave me and my sailors confidence in the Victory's combat capabilities and morale was high. From then on, I would sail regularly as long as I had enough cargo in the fishing village. The Victory boldly sailed between the major Yin Cities, fearless of the threat of water thieves, and rose to fame.

Although we encountered a few more small groups of water thieves after that, they did not dare to come up to attack us as long as they saw the "victory" flag fluttering on the mast of the Victory from a distance. Obviously, they have been scared!

However, according to the gossip I received from other caravans, my Victory has been remembered by the bandit leader. The Water Wolf Gang is very powerful in the nearby waterways, and its bandit leader is also a top-level ink ghost, with hundreds of ships and thousands of water thieves under his command. The Victory has no problem dealing with a small group of water thieves, but it is still necessary to avoid encountering the main force of the Water Wolf Gang, otherwise I am afraid that we will not be able to deal with it with the strength of one of our ships.

But no matter what, relying on the strong combat effectiveness of the Victory, my business gradually became bigger and bigger, and my business also completely expanded to the three Great Yin Cities within a hundred miles nearby. Among them, the Giant Waterfall City is the one I run the most often. Commerce is thriving there, and there is a great demand for a variety of foreign specialties.

I found Xue Da again, and through his connections, I established business contacts with Giant Waterfall City, and regularly sold the purchased seafood and ghost-eating forest specialties to Giant Waterfall City, and really made a lot of money. In less than a year, I earned back the principal of tens of thousands of Yin Yuan that I had invested before.

Of course, I have to pay attention to my personal safety when I am often running around outside. After all, I still have a wanted warrant on my back!

When I went to Giant Waterfall City, Thousand Island City and Snake Bay to do business, I saw many portraits of me and Lu Zhidao and others posted on the streets, and I also saw local city guards stopping pedestrians on the street for checks. This shows that even in the underworld at such a distance, the underworld still has considerable influence.

Fortunately, on that portrait, I still look like a little fresh meat, my face is white and clean, my hair is also cut short, clean and neat, I look like a handsome young man with a lot of spirit. Every time I see "him", I can't help but want to give a big thumbs up to the artist who painted this portrait!

It's a pity that in order to avoid being recognized, I had to completely give up this handsome little fresh meat image, and instead worked hard in the opposite direction. I grew a big beard and my hair was long, and it was scattered over my head to cover my forehead and both cheeks. In this way, I have completely changed from a white and pure little fresh meat to a rough and deep mature man.

With such a huge change, even if I were standing next to that bounty portrait, I'm afraid no one would connect the two. Therefore, when I went to the other Yin City to do business, no one ever doubted me, and no one ever troubled me. With my current appearance, I would not be recognized unless I was an old acquaintance.

But. Liu Han is very satisfied with this change in my image.

Her favorite thing to do now is to stroke the beard on my chin with her hand and say to me unabashedly: "I just like mature men, you used to be too much like a little white face, and you didn't have any manliness at all." You will never be allowed to shave again! ”

I always laughed: "I knew that I didn't have to go to the underworld so hard to find you, just keep my beard on when I was in Zuoqiu City!" ”

"Cut! Do you think I'm the kind of little girl who only looks at her face and doesn't look at the connotation? ”

"Of course not, but I'm the kind of man who has both face and substance!"

"Boasting, not ashamed?"

"Hahaha! A man who is easily embarrassed can't get a wife! ”