Chapter 0173 Placeless Island
Although there is not much water available on the ship, but after the pirate attack on the ship, the number of people on board has also been reduced by half, and the consumption of water has naturally decreased a lot.
Under his instructions, the people on the boat also reduced their consumption of water, and there was no need to talk about washing their faces and feet.
Such days made Li Moyi quite uncomfortable, after a few days, there was an unpleasant smell all over his body, and his body was smelly and slimy, and he couldn't stand it, so he hit the sea water and rinsed it, but the result was a layer of salt frost on his body, which made people feel uncomfortable, and he just wanted to take a cold shower happily, but in order to save water, he could only sigh.
But fortunately, God seemed to sense Li Moyi's request, and on the evening of the third day of their southward journey, a heavy rain finally fell on the sea.
This made Li Moyi very happy, and rushed to the deck first, while beckoning Wang Tong, Wang Huo, and others to hurry up with buckets and wooden basins and other things to come out to catch the rain, while naked, rushed to the rain and began to accept the gifts that fell from the sky.
There is no soap or anything like that can be used in these years, but Wang Huo, the anchor worker, found a few soaphorns brought by the king's shopkeeper on the ship very happily, and sent them to Li Moyi in a hurry, Li Moyi took the soaphorns, stood on the deck and rinsed his whole body a little by the rain, and then used the soaphorns to make a body of foam, and when he was about to flush away the foam on his body, God made a big joke on him again, and the rain only fell for a short half an hour, and then suddenly stopped.
Li Moyi stood calmly on the deck, stretched out his hand and raised his head, looking at the sky, but God never dropped a little rain.
"He's the ......... in the middle"
Li Moyi really felt a little crying but no tears, pointing to the sky and almost couldn't help but scold, he could only be unlucky to the extent that he was unlucky, God couldn't even ask him to take a cold shower with Tianli.
Wang Lao Wu, Wei Er, and Wu Si were injured and couldn't get wet in the rain, so they all hid in the cabin and stretched out their heads to watch, when they saw Li Moyi's head covered in foam, standing calmly on the deck with a crying expression, they couldn't help but laugh, and suddenly laughed out loud.
Fortunately, Wang Tong and the others moved quite fast just now, and they received a little rain, which made Li Mo wipe the foam on his head and put on his clothes again, but the slimy feeling on his body was not solved at all, which made Li Moyi depressed to the extreme, and saw that Wang Huo of the Anchor Worker also snickered, so he found a stubble and scolded the Anchor Worker Wang Huo, so frightened that the Anchor Worker Wang Huo's face turned white, and he immediately didn't dare to say more, Li Mo just gave up.........
Although there is a shortage of water on the ship, and everyone's normal water use must be restricted to ensure the normal drinking water of the people on board, and there will be no water shortage before arriving at the destination, Li Moyi took special care of the three wounded such as Wang Lao Wuwei and Wei Er, in addition to ensuring that they had enough drinking water, he also insisted on wiping the skin around the wound with boiling cool fresh water every day to ensure that the wound was completely clean.
Such a move made Wang Lao Wu and the other three even more grateful to Li Moyi, and Wu Si, who was a little younger, couldn't help but shed tears almost every day when Li Moyi wiped his wounds, and kept thanking Li Mo.
Although the injuries of Wei Er and Wu Si were caused by Li Moyi, but both of them are also sensible people, knowing that this is not to blame Li Moyi, Li Moyi can not behead them is already regarded as a more generous to them, and now he is doing his best to heal their injuries, such kindness makes both of them feel that they can not repay it, so they can only secretly make up their minds that after recovering from their injuries in the future, they will do a good job for Li Moyi.
As for Wang Bentang's distant prince Wang Bentang, since Wang Bentang's death, he seems to have become much more cheerful, and began to take the initiative to talk to Li Moyi and Wang Laowu, and from time to time he also inquired about Li Moyi's past.
Naturally, this stall can't tell the truth, Li Mo doesn't know anything about the other people on this ship, and Wang Lao Wu, the only one who knows a little bit about the details, actually has a grudge against him to take back the land, that is, the Lingying City occupied by Li Mo and his faction before, which is the place where Wang Lao Wu originally planned to settle down and retire......... If you tell the truth, you may have some trouble.
Because of this, Li Moyi began to give full play to his flickering potential at this time, and began to collect some strange things and astronomy and geography that he had heard of, and after making them up, he told them to these people, and they were all dizzy, and they let out emotional voices from time to time.
Li Moyi's unintentional conversation with everyone also created a well-informed impression on these people, especially the two young sea thieves who had just changed careers, admired Li Moyi even more.
In this era, ordinary people, even if they are old sea wolves at sea like Wang Lao Wu, their eyes are extremely limited, their concept of this world is still in a very primitive state, and they don't know that this world will be so big, and they can't help but be a little fascinated by what Li Moyi said about other places and continents.
Under Li Moyi's careful care, he insisted on wiping their wounds twice a day, changing dressings, and constantly changing the bandaged cloth strips that had been disinfected with boiling water for them, so the wounds of Wang Lao Wu and Wei Er were not infected and inflamed, and the wounds gradually began to heal, which made everyone on the boat praise Li Moyi's "medical skills" very much, you must know that in this year, once people like them are injured, let alone at sea, even on land, it is difficult to get treatment from the doctor.
Therefore, ordinary people are injured or sick, many times rely on their own resistance and some earthwork to fight the wound and the patient, the body is strong, if you are lucky, you may survive, but people with poor physique and low resistance are likely to take their lives because of a small wound.
Therefore, Li Moyi's ability to deal with wounds is very important to them, and it is easy to get people's attention and respect, no one dares to guarantee that they will not be accidentally injured, after Li Moyi, the possibility of survival after they are injured will be greatly increased, so several other people did not express any dissatisfaction with Li Moyi's behavior of "wasting" water.
But only Wu Si's wound was not as optimistic as he imagined, after he was injured, the wound was a little infected, and it began to be red, swollen and inflamed, and there were signs of suppuration in the wound, and from time to time he also had a fever and heat, and his body looked very weak.
For Wu Si's situation, under normal circumstances, he would be given up and left to fend for himself, and Wang Huo, the anchor worker, even proposed it many times, just leave him alone, let him die, throw him into the sea and finish the matter, and save the province because he will affect the other people on the ship.
may be because of the connection of the same fate, Wei Er has been begging Li Moyi not to give up on Wu Si just like that, and he also said that he will never let Wu Si drag everyone down, and he will take care of Wu Si.
Li Moyi looked at Wu Si who was less than twenty years old, just a young and strong young man, although he was not very optimistic about Wu Si's injury, but he couldn't help but want to give it a try, so he agreed to Wei Er's request, and said to the others on the boat: "In the future, we are people in the same boat, then we must be in the same boat, you definitely don't want to be abandoned once you are injured, and in the same way, Wu Si definitely doesn't want to be treated like this......... Whether he can recover or not is his luck, but we can't just leave him alone......... In the future, Wang Huo, the worker, you have to mention Wu Si's matter again, the old chef is gone, all you have to do is to replace him, cook well, boil water, and boil clean bandages!! ”
Intimidated by Li Moyi's might, Wang Huo, the anchor worker, had no second opinion of Li Moyi's words, so he could only nod his head again and again, and didn't dare to say anything more, he was very diligent in cooking and boiling water all day long, and provided Li Moyi with clean and detoxified bandages.
And Li Mo's wounds on Wu Si also increased the number of cleaning and dressing changes, and did his best to keep his wounds clean and supplement his nutrition.
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Wu Si is also lucky enough, this time he met Li Moyi, three days later, his wound miraculously began to heal, the pus in the wound gradually disappeared, the redness and swelling around the wound began to gradually subside, and even the high fever that he had had for a few days began to subside, people began to have more energy, and their appetite was much better, this situation made the people on the boat feel very surprised, I thought that Wu Si must be finished this time, but I didn't think that Li Moyi actually staged a "miracle doctor's skill", was stunned to save his little life, so everyone didn't dare to underestimate Li Moyi.
And after Wu Si recovered a little, not to mention his gratitude to Li Moyi, he immediately swore again and again that his life was saved by Li Moyi, and his life would be Li Moyi's in the future.
Although Li Moyi didn't believe that all of these words were true, it was also foreseeable that in a short period of time, Wu Si would become his hardcore supporter, there was no doubt about it.
Wang Lao Wu saw all this in his eyes, and kept nodding secretly in his heart, and with his eyes, he could completely see that Li Moyi had completely taken Wei Er and Wu Si for his own use, and he admired Li Moyi, a young man, a lot.
Since Li Moyi boarded the ship, he couldn't stand this dirty and messy situation on the ship, he could still bear this kind of thing before, after all, the boat was not his Li Moyi's, and he couldn't care if it was dirty or not, but now the situation has changed dramatically, and the owner of the king has suffered......... Now that Li Mo has already regarded this boat as his own, he can no longer tolerate such a dirty mess.........
So, Li Mo ordered the workers Wang Huo and Wang Tong to start cleaning the cabin on the ship when they were idle, and cleaned up the garbage that had accumulated over the years in the cabin and threw it into the sea, including the dry grass full of lice and the clothes of some boatmen who had died.
In addition, the people on the ship are generally not allowed to bring food into the cabin, which cheapens the rats and cockroaches in the cabin, so that after the ship docks, after emptying the cargo in the hold, and then carrying out a thorough cleaning, the hygiene situation in the cabin will be greatly improved.
Although Wang Tong and others had long been accustomed to the mess in the cabin, they didn't understand Li Moyi's request, but Li Moyi still explained to them in detail the importance of ship hygiene, as well as the harm that mosquitoes, rats and other things would bring to the people on the ship, and said that the probability of people on the ship getting sick would be much lower.
After listening to Li Moyi's words, they heard that this was related to their safety, so these people quickly nodded in agreement and began to do what Li Moyi ordered.
Originally, Li Moyi also wanted to let these people scrub the shipboard and keep the shipboard clean, but considering that the manpower on the ship is too tight now, the three able-bodied people took the three wounded to control the whole boat, and the amount of labor was not small, so he gave up for the time being, but he still made up his mind to stay on the shore, and after finding some more people to get on the boat, he must clean up the boat inside and out. He's going to live on this boat.
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Because now they turned around and began to sail south, and the southwest wind was blowing on the sea, which was very favorable for the boat, so after the ship turned south, the speed of sailing was much faster than before, and there was no need to constantly adjust the sails to the wind, so that they could basically maintain the direction of sailing.
In addition, God seems to be more helpful at this time, although the sea winds are more frequent this season, but they have not encountered any strong winds this time, even if there are some wind and rain, they are not big, occasionally a light rain did not cause them too much trouble, on the contrary, they also added a little water to the ship, and the wind and waves at sea were basically in a relatively stable state.
In addition, after they turned around and returned to the sea, Wang Lao Wu considered that there were too few people on the ship at the moment, and once they encountered pirates again, they were afraid that they would not be able to resist, so according to his experience, he deliberately chose a route that was not often taken, and effectively avoided some waters that were often infested by pirates while ensuring that the route would not deviate greatly.
Therefore, under this favorable situation, these people on board were considered to be lucky, and when the ship was at noon on the fourth day, they sailed back to the outer sea of the northern kingdom according to the instructions of Wang Lao Wu.
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Li Moyi naturally doesn't know much about the terrain of the North Outer Sea, but it just so happens that he has a sea map left in his arms, which was provided to him by Zhen Shiyang before, Zhen Shiyang, as a sea thief, is active in the coastal area of the North Country all year round.........
Li Mo opened the map, only to see that the map depicted on the map, there are many islands in the northern outer sea, scattered in the northern outer seas, which is also the reason why there are many pirates in the northern and foreign seas over the years, it is difficult for the power of the northern country to effectively control so many islands in the outer sea, many islands are actually in a state of isolation, and the pirates take advantage of this convenient condition to take the opportunity to control some islands that are difficult for the northern country to effectively monitor, entrenched on these islands, relying on these islands as their lair, Sail out to sea to plunder.
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Under the guidance of Wang Lao Wu, the boat slowly moved along the coastline, and finally saw an island in the distance, Wang Lao Wu excitedly pointed to the island and shouted to Li Moyi: "Brother, look, the island in front is it......... We're finally home!! ”
As soon as Li Mo heard Wang Lao Wu's shout, he immediately strode to the bow of the boat, looking into the distance.
After watching the sea for so many days in a row, the people on the boat have long been tired of their vision, and they have long been familiar with the magnificence of the sea, and now after hearing Wang Laowu's shout, everyone is a little excited, even the reluctant Wang Huo, who is a worker, also seems a little excited, and they have leaned out of the side of the ship, looking in the direction of Wang Laowu's fingers.
A black dot appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and from a distance, it was indeed a small island, which began to enlarge in the eyes of everyone as the ship moved.
When the boat went closer, Li Mo saw that the area of this small island was indeed not large, it was about two or three miles long from east to west, and only about one mile wide from north to south, it was a small island with narrow terrain, the terrain around the island was high, and the terrain in the middle was low, but the highest altitude was only about 100 meters, standing at the highest point could overlook the entire island, and most of the island was covered with shrubs, and there were many seabirds living on the island.
Looking at the island from the boat, from their point of view, probably because of the high ground shelter, they couldn't see any village residents on the island, but it seemed that the area of the island was not much of a problem to feed dozens of people, it was really a rather secluded place, and there was a place to temporarily settle down to replenish supplies, so Li Mo suddenly became happy.
Under the command of Wang Lao Wu, the ship began to turn its sails and turn its rudder, heading towards the island, and it could be seen that Wang Lao Wu must have come to this island often before, and he was familiar with the terrain on the island, and soon commanded the anchor to sail the boat to the island.
Eventually, the ship approached the southwest corner of the island.
Soon, seeing that the ship was about to hit the shore, the people on the boat hurriedly dropped the sails, Wang Tong and Li Moyi both picked up the long pole, stood on both sides of the ship, and from time to time according to Wang Lao Wu's greeting, supported the reef on the shore with a pole, in case the ship ran aground, after a long toss, the ship entered a small inlet, and then turned his head and found that the sea could not be seen from here, it was really a pretty good hiding place, but it was a pity that the trees on the island were relatively low, once someone climbed the high place of the island, It is easy to spot the boats in the small inlet, which is also a fly in the ointment.
However, for Li Moyi, he is already very content to find such a place to settle down temporarily, as for the next thing, he can only take one step at a time, after all, there is turmoil everywhere outside, and he can finally find a stable place to rest, and he can't be too picky.
Wang Lao Wu called this island an island, Li Moyi naturally had never heard of this name of the island, but Li Moyi inquired from Wang Lao Wu along the way, and combined with the map hidden in his arms, he could roughly judge that this should be on a sea surface in the southeast of the northern country, and the distance from the northern land was relatively close, and there should be many islands around, but he really couldn't guess which island on the map was specific to this island.
Just when their boat docked, Li Moyi saw some figures appear on the seashore more than two miles south of the island at the bow of the ship, and then a small sailboat was pushed into the sea by the people on the island and quickly raised its sails.
Wang Lao Wu walked to Li Moyi's side and said with a smile: "There will be pirates in this area from time to time, a few old brothers on the island have a small boat, once they find that a boat is coming, they will quickly go into the water and prepare to hide, they don't know that I am coming at this time, after docking for a while, say hello, they will come."
Just after the boat was stable, Wang Huo threw an anchor into the sea with great difficulty, and then took the initiative to jump off the boat, took the cable that Li Moyi threw at him, dragged it to the sea, and coiled it a raised columnar water reef on the shore, so that the ship was stable on the shore.
A few people on the island had been secretly watching them, and when they saw that there were not many people on their boat, not like pirates, they also pulled back their small sailboats, returned to the shore, and slowly walked towards this small inlet vigilantly, but it could be seen that they still looked nervous, and they all had hoes, harpoons and other things in their hands, obviously to carry out self-defense at any time.
"Feng Jin! Is that you kid? It's me......... I am the fifth king!! Why don't you come over here and help me get off the boat? ”
"That's right......... What about Wang Gu? Why didn't you see that kid? Wang Lao Wu didn't look a little older, but his eyes were quite good, and he recognized a person on the shore from a distance, put his hands next to his mouth, and shouted loudly.
After hearing Wang Lao Wu's shouting, those people on the shore immediately relaxed a lot, and ran towards the boat one after another.
Only then did Li Moyi see clearly that there were more than a dozen people from the island, among whom there were four or five older people, and the rest were about seven or eight younger descendants, all of whom looked a little excited.
With the help of Li Moyi, Wang Tong and the anchor workers, a springboard quickly put down the boat, and Wang Lao Wu walked off the gangplank with the support of Li Moyi and greeted the group of people.
One of the old men with a very long face walked over quickly, hugged Wang Lao Wu and said, "Old Five!" Why are you here at this time? What's the matter with the wound on your hand? Is something wrong? ”
Wang Lao Wu shook his head and smiled bitterly and said, "It's a long story......... In a moment, you will get on the boat first, unload the sails, and tie the boat tightly........."
While speaking, Wang Lao Wu grabbed the person he called Feng Jin and whispered a few words, Feng Jin's face changed slightly, and he immediately waved his hand to the young people who followed him to come over, and whispered a few words to them.
After everyone heard this, they immediately got on the boat to help lower the sails, and then tied the boat to the shore, Li Mo followed Wang Lao Wu, and listened carefully, it turned out that Wang Lao Wu was worried that after they got off the boat, the anchor worker Wang Huo was not honest, and took the opportunity to sail the ship away from here, so he asked Feng Jinxian to let the descendants here control the ship, so that even if the anchor worker Wang Huo had any ideas, he couldn't leave this island.
After seeing that the people on the island had already controlled the boat, Wang Lao Wu took Li Moyi and a few old brothers to a little farther away on the shore, pointed to Li Moyi and introduced them: "This is Brother Li, my newly recognized little brother on the boat.........
"Speaking of which......... If it weren't for this Brother Li's righteousness and saving him with his life, I'm afraid that my little life would have been thrown into the sea this time, and I would never see my brother again........."
When Wang Laowu's old brothers heard this, they looked at Li Moyi's posture again, and they didn't dare to underestimate Li Moyi, and immediately hugged Li Moyi and thanked him, and his attitude was quite good, but looking at Li Moyi's extraordinary bearing and an ordinary cloth shirt, everyone's eyes were still a little puzzled, but it was inconvenient for everyone to ask Li Moyi's origin and identity at this time, but they hurriedly asked Wang Laowu what he had encountered.
Wang Lao Wu continued: "This time I went to Xiling with the ship, our ship met the people of the Shui family in the south of the Linhai Sea, the people of the Shui family caught up with our ship with a boat, the owner was reluctant to cargo, and wanted to fight with the guys, but the owner of the ship was hit by the pirate's fire on the spot, the pirate got on the ship, cut off most of the people on the ship, and planned to kill a few of us, I was going to jump into the sea to escape, but I was hit by an arrow from the pirate in the arm.........
"Fortunately, Brother Li saw that I was injured, and saved a few of us with all his might, and also beat away the island ship of Shui Jiazi, and blasted all the pirates who jumped over, which saved the lives of several of us........."
“……… No, my injury was also treated by Brother Li himself, it only took less than a few days, and the arrow wound on the arm was healed, Brother Li is the life-saving benefactor of my fifth king!! ”
Li Moyi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't dare to be, it's all because the fifth uncle helped me first and extended a helping hand to each other!"
As soon as everyone heard that Li Moyi had actually destroyed most of the Shui family's centaurs, everyone had to be impressed by Li Moyi, and they didn't dare to snub him, so several old brothers of Wang Lao Wu hurriedly gave Li Mo a salute again.
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"Come, Brother Moyi, let me introduce you, the current guy is called Feng Jin......... The one behind him is called Changfu, nicknamed Chang Mazi......... And this is Murong Xing, nicknamed Murong Maniac......... It's all a few old brothers from before me!! When we meet today, they are all our own brothers, and this Brother Li will stay here in recent months........." Wang Lao Wu began to introduce Li Moyi to several of his old brothers.
Li Moyi also followed the etiquette that the other party was familiar with, and hugged his fists one by one to greet these people, and even said that he didn't dare to be brothers, so he had to call them uncles, which made several people very happy, and felt that although Li Moyi, a descendant, had a different appearance and clothes, he didn't look like an ordinary person, and his accent was weird, but at least he was very polite, and he didn't regard himself as Wang Lao Wu's benevolence, and he was also very polite to their five brothers, so this first impression, they all left a very good impression on Li Moyi.
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