Zhang Heng returned to the captain's room on the Jackdaw and wiped the rain on his head with a towel, while Anne on the other side also changed her clothes neatly.

Zhang Heng poured a glass of rum for the red-haired girl to warm up the latter's body, and then he drank a glass himself, this kind of wine is considered the standard for sailors, but the taste is actually not very good, although it is made of sugarcane juice, but it is a little bitter, far less good than the taste of wine and brandy, but it is better than the low price, and the shelf life is longer than that of fresh water.

Normally, the bottled water on the ship becomes unpalatable after a month, and it will also breed all kinds of plankton, but rum can be left out for a year or two, which is a must-have on board.

After a cup of belly, Zhang Heng's stomach immediately rose with a warmth, and at this time, there was a knock on the door.

Billy walked in with a somewhat cramped young man.

"This is Mr. Vincent," said the helmsman, making a brief introduction, "I showed the crew of the ship the notebook you gave me, and we were fortunate that Mr. Vincent knew the words on it. ”

Zhang Heng also recognized the other party, he was the ship doctor who only got on the ship this time, recruited by Billy himself, but he himself seemed to prefer botany, and was hijacked by a group of pirates on the way to study on the boat, and was forced to become the other party's ship doctor, and a year later the group of pirates disbanded and merged into another pirate group, Vincent regained his freedom, but because he was afraid that his pirate experience would be turned out, he had to stay on the island.

He lives next door to Billy, and usually earns money by keeping accounts for places like taverns and houses, and finally decides to go to sea again with the Jackdaw.

"It's a list of goods, but in Dutch, and it records the goods that a ship carries on each voyage, and it's pretty common, like cotton, wool, or wood." It was the first time for the young ship doctor to talk to the captain, and he looked a little nervous, worried that Zhang Heng would not believe his words and explained, "My father is Scottish, but my mother is Dutch, and I lived in the Netherlands for a while when I was a child, so I can also speak some Dutch.

"And what about these?" Zhang Heng also took the other two notebooks to Vincent.

Anne was about to leave, but she stopped at this point, she was curious about the mysterious disappearance of the ship's crew members, and wanted to know what had happened to them.

The young ship doctor took the notes, opened one of them, looked at the two pages and said with some uncertainty, "This should be...... A book of poetry. ”

"A collection of poems?"

"yes, and it's a love poem." Vincent flipped a few more pages, "Most of them are written to a woman named Betty, but not at a very good level, and this is the first time I've seen someone describe their lover as a storm, and most of the descriptions are not ...... It's explicit. ”

The young ship doctor blushed first.

"Can you read one to us?"

"Oh, good...... Ok no problem. Vincent secretly glanced at Anne on the side, and the red-haired girl didn't react to it at all,

The young ship doctor flipped through the pages and found one that looked pretty good, and cleared his throat, "Betty my lover \ I praise you \ I adore you \ You are the storm \ My lord \ Your chest is like the fruit of a bent branch \ Your ...... Uh, your legs are like valleys flowing with honey\......" Reading this, Vincent's forehead also oozed sweat, he couldn't help but loosen his collar, looked up and asked Zhang Heng, "Do I still want to read?" ”

"Now that you've read this......"

"Well," continued the young ship doctor, touching the base of his somewhat hot ear, "you wrap me in your body \ whisper in my ear \ let me fly \ I love you so much \ desperately \ more than my soul \ I want to be with you all the rest of my life...... There is no more in the back. Vincent said, "If you like Dutch poetry, I can find much better than this." ”

After the young doctor finished speaking, he found that all three people in the room were looking at him, so he obediently picked up the third notebook, and said after a while, "This one looks like a record of their supplies in various ports, with the name of the port, the date, and the statistics of supplies. ”

"So there's no captain's log here?"

"I don't think I've seen anything like it." Vincent shook his head.

"Could it be that you forgot to take it?" Anne asked.

"It's unlikely, in that room, I checked all the books that fell on the floor, and there were no handwritten except for these three, they were all printed."

Zhang Heng asked the young ship doctor again, "Is the handwriting of these three notebooks the same?" ”

"There are two books that are similar, the list of goods and the record of supplies, and the love poems are not quite the same." Vincent flipped through it again, and then affirmed, "Yes, these three notes should have come from two people. ”

"The first two are generally bookkeepers' jobs, but unfortunately we can't find the captain's logbook and it's hard to know what happened on that ship. ”

As soon as his words fell, Vincent suddenly said, "Wait, there's something strange here. ”

The young ship doctor still held the last supply record in his hand, and his face showed a look of doubt, "I know these two ports, they are quite far away, it took me almost a month when my brother and I took the ship, how could it be that the time between their two replenishments was less than fifteen days, this speed should be more than nine knots, was there such a fast cargo ship in that era?" ”

"With the state of that ship, full sail should be almost achievable." "But in reality it's not possible, and for fifteen days the wind is exactly at the same level, not breaking the mast and just enough to provide the maximum speed needed to sail, and the odds of such a thing happening are about the same as a thousand gold coins falling right in front of you." ”

"But it seems that the captain of that ship didn't think so."

Vincent pointed to the line above and recorded, "They only replenished the first port with fresh water and food for about sixteen days' voyages, and they were only a day and a half short of the last voyage. ”

"Hah, no wonder they had an accident at the end."

"But when we got on board, they were well supplied, and the ship was clearly not in trouble because of the captain's arrogance." Zhang Heng said, and then said to Billy, "I remember that there is a more complete navigation chart on the ship, find it out, let Vincent see if he can mark the ports it stops at along the way, and calculate its average speed, so that we can know if his previous sailing time is an accident." ”

Derpy said

Sorry, I'm going to change it today