Chapter 104: Stunning Pirates (End of Volume 2)
In the corner of the pier, on a small, slightly dilapidated ship, a group of men were clamoring for the best view and better seats.
There are also people who are constantly urging the shippers to set sail quickly so that they can catch up with the big ship that has already left the port in front of them.
"Hurry, hurry, the merchants are on the deck of the ship, let's get closer, maybe we can see the heroic posture of the merchants."
"Oh, what's the hurry, I haven't sat down yet, hey, this ship is too difficult to hire these days, and it's not easy to find this one."
"You, you, go over a little bit, give way. Don't let? Then let me ask you, how many years have you been chasing businessmen? Only three years? Do you know I've been chasing him for a few years? Decade! How much money did you spend for him? Haven't spent it? Do you know how much silver I spent? One hundred taels! How many articles have you written for him? Just one? Aha, do you know how many I've written? I sue you, if it weren't for my wonderful pen, it's hard to say whether you have achieved today! Idiot, go away! ”
"Tsk, it's blowing again, hundreds of years ago, in order to chase the businessman, everyone spent a few taels of silver, and now it is said that why don't you say that in the past few years, you have earned a few hundred taels by writing the words that everyone has to say? I haven't seen him share the businessmen he loves for a penny! ”
"What's wrong with him, we can't rank in the alliance. Quick, arrange for the chief writer Lao Qiu and the preacher Lao Liu to come over, sit here, the view here is good! Let's sail! I didn't see the ship go far away! ”
"Wait a minute, there's still a group of people who haven't boarded the boat!"
"Wait, who are those people? It doesn't seem to be someone from our alliance. Didn't you say that we chartered this boat? ”
The boatman rolled his eyes, "You guys will pay eighty taels to charter the whole boat?" Do you know how much silver our ship usually costs to go to sea for more than three days? I am reluctant to spend money, so I will shut up if I get on the boat. If you roll down again, grandpa won't wait! ”
"Obviously, you said that eighty taels is enough!"
"That's the old market! It's gone up these days! One hundred and sixteen! ”
As he spoke, a group of people came to the boat along the pedals, and a particularly tall and tough man at the beginning couldn't help frowning when he glanced at the sour people on the boat.
"What's going on?" He raised his hand and called the boatman, "We said that we have three hundred taels of this boat, where are these idle people waiting for?" ”
The boatman had a completely different attitude towards this tall man, nodded and smiled at those sour people just now, "That's the case, guest officer, the big ship has been nervous these days, these scholars have been looking for me by the dock for several days, begging me here, it's really pitiful......"
"No need." Qing Lingling's voice came, and a man in green clothes turned out from behind the tall man, as soon as he appeared, the people on the boat all looked over, and they all subconsciously squinted, and they didn't know whether they were stabbed by today's extraordinarily bright sunshine, or by the fierce temperament of the person.
The boatman could barely speak in his entirety in front of the indifferent tall man, but when he looked at the man like a stone under the water, he immediately stammered when he spoke, and he didn't dare to find a reason," ...... If you don't like it, I'll get them off the ship!" ”
"Then get out. You boatman want to collect money at both ends, and you want to fool us? The tall man sneered.
"Rangier."
The tall man immediately relented and stepped aside.
The man walked up, his posture particularly straight, reminiscent of a sword that was unsheathed at all times.
"In this case, it is just a matter of not interfering with each other."
"Hey, what are you talking about?" The scholars over there vaguely felt that something was wrong, and they all stood up, and someone frowned and looked over, "We have chartered this boat, and we don't accept idle people!" Get out of here! ”
"Let's go, don't anger the master, don't anger the master, send you the county government of Zhangxian County to speak!"
The man didn't hear it, and walked up to the bow of the boat step by step, and the group of sour people were furious, and immediately someone opened their hands to stop them, but somehow, as soon as they saw a flower in front of them, they lost the trace of the man, and when they turned back, they saw that he was already on the deck.
Now it was the tall man facing them, this man had a pale golden complexion, a pair of thin black eyes, and when he looked at people, his eyes were as thin as a needle, which made people feel like they were being targeted by a python with vertical pupils.
The person who stopped the person, after all, was a broken literati who was in the rivers and lakes, and he couldn't help but tremble when he smelled the faint smell of iron and blood and rust on this person's body, and the murderous aura that seemed to linger countless times in the realm of life and death.
I wanted to retreat, but it was too late.
As soon as the tall man raised his hand, there was a double click, and the pain hit, and he screamed miserably, and saw his two arms hanging limply.
The screams silenced the gossipy.
The tall man's faint voice came at this time.
"The hand is broken in the hand, the leg is in the leg and the leg is broken, and the mouth is in the mouth."
A boatload of scholars was as quiet as quail in an instant.
A moment later.
All the scholars huddled in the cabins on the ground floor, looking up at the tall man who was drinking in the wind above and dared not speak in anger.
After a while, the quails, at the request of the tall man, began to tell the story of today's distinguished guests.
The content of the story is designated by the distinguished guest, and it is the proud work of one of the scholars. This scholar relied on this plot ups and downs and fragrant and exciting story, and became a new god among this group of writers, and the pen fee doubled instantly, and its main content is to describe how the businessmen pursued a woman who already had a fiancé, and finally succeeded in winning the heart after countless displays of wisdom and charm.
On the big boat, the man listened to the story with a frown, and listened patiently with a constipated expression, as if expecting some twist of surprise.
Beside him, the tall guard also frowned, thinking that the master had heard such a story all the way recently, did he hear his experience?
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A large black ship was slow to be the last, because of the weight of the ship, the whole ship was painted black, wrapped in sharp iron horns, and it looked murderous at a glance. At first glance it looks like a pirate ship.
The tall man on the boat used a foreign thousand miles to look at the various big ships that were rarely gathered on the sea, sneered, and ordered without looking back: "Big brother, go and give an order to the helmsman, let me go faster." ”
A slightly shorter man responded to the call, the rudder of the big ship was on the top level, the man seemed to be a little afraid of heights, looked at the high place, frowned and said to a small servant on the side: "You go up and order the rudder, faster." ”
The little guy buried his head in arranging the cable, his butt was facing him, and he lazily half turned his head and said: "Oh, Da Shao, I'm busy here, and the fourth young man explained that he should clean and dry the deck first." ”
The man was silent for a while, climbed up by himself, and after a while, the rough voice of the boss of the chief helmsman came from above, "Oh, Sishao, don't be embarrassed if you don't understand the ship, okay?" This ship has a lot of armor, a heavy draft, and there are reefs in this area, we have to drive carefully, we can't be fast!"
The man cautiously came down, returned to the tall man who was still looking into the distance, and said, "Huaiqing, the boat boss said that this ship can't be too fast......"
"It's all a bunch of rubbish!" Before he finished speaking, Ji Huaiqing had already scolded rudely, and he didn't know who he was scolding. After scolding, he squinted at the man and said, "Big brother, I'm not scolding you, don't be careful, I'm just like this." ”
The man waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay......" The voice became lower and lower.
Ji Huaiqing looked at him and sneered, "The eldest brother's temperament has been getting better and better recently, and the ruthlessness of fighting for military merit back then is so gone, I think it's really right for grandpa to let you cultivate your mind." ”
The man laughed dryly, turned his head and left. As soon as he took a step, he was stopped by Ji Huaiqing.
"That thing in Zhangxian failed. The phoenix robe didn't have time to deal with it, Tang Xianzhi came too quickly, the eldest brother still thought about it, how to explain it to his grandfather when he went back after this incident. ”
The man looked back in amazement and said in a lost voice: "Aren't you responsible for this matter, I said something inappropriate......
Ji Huaiqing frowned and said in surprise: "What do you mean by this?" Obviously, it was your advice, and I already said it in my letter to my grandfather. You can't do it if it's done, you have to show credit, and if you fail, you shirk it, right? ”
The man stood on the ground, looking at Ji Huaiqing's malicious and cold smile, and then looking at the people around him doing their own things, busy and indifferent, he stood there, as if the infinite world was slowly shrinking, until he shrunk into a mustard seed that could not breathe.
He finally made no further attempt to defend himself, turned around, and walked down the deck with heavy steps, his cabin at the bottom, in a row with the people, only slightly larger, with a window in the first room.
His personal servant stood at the door a little cringe, seeing him show a little flattering smile, just when the boat was bumpy, the little servant reached out to help him, and said, "Young master, be careful......"
The man shook his hand away, shook the little guy away, entered the cabin without saying a word, and slammed the hatch shut.
The little guy was almost squeezed into his nose by the door panel, and he couldn't help but snort and pouted, "The broken family who has long fallen out of favor still thinks that he is a young man!" He turned around and walked away.
The hatch was just a thin board, and naturally the sound outside could be heard, and the man sat silently against the wall, looking at the palm-sized sea outside, and suddenly punched himself on the knee.
They are all children of the Ji family, and they all have martial arts, but the stomachs that crawl out are different, and their lives are very different!
He Ji Huaiyuan obviously won the Yunnan barbarians in Shinan Pass, leveled the demons of Sanzhai, and made meritorious deeds, but as a result, Ji Huaiqing stretched out his hand to rob, and he was about to rob, and he must overshadow him, there are no bandits, so he will burn and kill the people of Sanzhai, and use thousands of innocent heads as bloody weights for him to fight for power and profit!
The family doesn't care about right and wrong, whether it's true or not, regardless of the means, the huge gate valve is a giant boat on the sea, where it passes, ignoring living beings, what is the life of the ant people? What is truth and righteousness? What is the blood of a tiger wolf? Whoever can stabilize the rudder of this giant ship and plunder more power and resources will be the future master of this huge ship.
Ji Huaiqing's mother is the youngest daughter of the Grand Sikong Single Order, the Single Order is upright, although she is also a big family, but she has never been a friend or a friend, she is a pure minister, but the young daughter is inevitably pampered, and as a result, she took a fancy to the people of the Ji family. No matter how pure the minister is, it is inevitable to be biased in ethics and human feelings, because Ji Huaiqing's status in the family is becoming more and more extraordinary, starting from the season, from all rooms and elders of all ethnic groups, they all intend to cultivate him as an heir, such as Ji Huaiyuan, the son of a rootless and baseless aunt, it is really difficult to compete for Ji Huaiqing.
Ji Huaiyuan sat silently in the cabin for a while, his fisted palms crumpled his pants, and it took a long time to slowly calm down, and when he heard Ji Huaiqing shouting to himself, he tightened his cheeks and stood up.
When he stood up, he felt something wrong, and Huo Ran turned his head.
Then his eyes widened.
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Within the four seas, there are brothers.
On this heavy armored ship, there are a pair of Ji family brothers, brothers-in-law and brothers-in-law. On the other boat, there is also a pair of brothers-in-law and brothers-in-law.
The younger brother timidly said to the cousin: "Brother, can we not go to Wuhai to drink Tang Xianzhi's happy wine?" ”
Sikong Yu turned his head, his eyes were like this deep sea, "Why don't you go?" The posts have been given to you, how can you, as the son of the world, represent the Sikong family? ”
"But I'm afraid to meet Miss Tang Liu......" Sikong Fan's face became even more bitter.
"Didn't Miss Tang Liu say that she went back to northern Sichuan?"
"But I'm afraid that she will suddenly appear again, now that the dog is gone, and she doesn't agree to the marriage contract, I'm afraid that if the Tang family still wants her to marry, and she doesn't like me and slaughters me......"
Sikong Yu glanced at his unlucky brother again, and had to admit that this worry was not entirely unreasonable.
"Tang Muzhi shouldn't go," he said with relief, "After all, it shouldn't feel good to watch your rival become your sister-in-law." ”
Sikong Fan's face wrinkled into a rag.
Oops, big brother.
Watching his fiancée chase someone else, and his fiancée's rival becomes his fiancée's sister-in-law, and his fiancée may be angry with herself, it feels even worse!
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Zhangxian wealthy foresters started in the silk business, made a fortune early, had strong financial resources, and a ship under his name looked calm and thick, which was quite similar to the owner.
The calm and thick master is entertaining his parents at the moment. Zhangxian Yao County.
Yao Taiwei's nephew, Yao Xiancheng, who had just escaped from the hands of Xiuniang, and his wife found the forester yesterday, expressing their admiration for the businessmen, hoping to take a boat to the sea to open their eyes. The parents opened their mouths, and there was naturally no reason for the forester not to agree.
Looking at the vast sea on the deck for a while, talking about poetry, books, piano and chess, and finally sending off the overly enthusiastic master, Yao Xiancheng's smile faded, and he silently looked at the countless ships in front of him without saying a word.
His wife, obediently on the side, did not say a word.
After a while, Yao Xian Cheng retracted his gaze and sighed: "On the sea, the heroes are competing, and thinking about it makes people's blood boil......"
"Husband." Mrs. Yao said timidly, "You talked with the naval master General Liu of the imperial court all night, and today you hurried out to sea, and the affairs in the yali are ......."
"How can the affairs of the Yali be important today? The Tang family wants to be a group of heroes on this sea for a while, counting the vast sea that the imperial court can't control, but they don't know that the shore of the land is not the king's land, and no one will look at him when he runs to the sea? ”
Mrs. Yao shook her head, "Husband, the women don't understand this, but they just think that there are so many people, many of them are still martial artists, and the husband is a scholar, and he has no power to tie the chicken." It's going to be like last time......"
Yao Xiancheng's face sank, and Mrs. Yao didn't dare to say any more, so she lowered her head.
Yao Xiancheng thought for a while, but smiled again, took Mrs. Yao's hand, and said with a smile, "The real game requires swords, guns and martial arts. The key is wisdom. Who said that scholars are useless? As long as you have enough intelligence, you will eventually be useful. Madam, you watch, this dragon fight, there will be deaths and injuries, but your husband and I will definitely survive to the end. ”
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On the west side of the wharf, there is also a building boat, which is the most eye-catching boat in addition to the building boat that Wen Zhen and Tang Xianzhi are riding.
It is said that it is the Jianzhou Thorn History, the Don't Drive, the Long History, and the ladies of the families of the daughters of the county guards of Qiaojun who accompany the officials at all levels in Jianzhou, and it is said that there are also noble daughters from Tianjing, and the mighty business drunken cicada support group, almost all the young ladies of the high-level officials of Jianzhou are wiped out.
In fact, for young ladies, chasing stars is one thing, and it is an important reason to have a rare opportunity to relax, so the talents come very neatly.
These ladies and their maids and maids plus the bodyguards are a very large number, so they also chartered the largest three-story boat on the dock.
The ladies got on board gracefully, and according to custom, those of high status naturally had to go to the highest floor.
The ladies went up to the third floor, and then they all froze.
On the three-story platform, a few exquisitely crafted reclining chairs have already been placed, with splendid mattresses, and a small table is arranged next to it, and the tea table is full of tea melons and fruits. Lying on the recliner, facing the blue sea and blue sky, the breeze and the sun, it is really a human enjoyment.
The recliner in the middle is naturally for the daughter of Thorn Shi or the noble daughter of Tianjing, but now, on that recliner, there is already a person lying down.
The man was reclining on a chaise longue, one hand hanging down, holding a grape, and from the perspective of the crowd only one of his hands and a strand of long hair that fell down.
All eyes fell on that hand.
The man's hands were thin and slender, the bones were distinct, the roots were like jade, the nails were round and clean, and they were also shining with a crystal glimmer like pearls and jade.
Looking up along the hand, the wrist bones were faintly delicate, and a strand of black hair was wrapped around the forearm, shining black in the sun, like satin and silk.
I can't see the face, but just these two details will make people feel that this person must be extremely beautiful.
It's just that this extremely beautiful man of the wind god does something strange - he picks the grapes but does not eat them, only one by one neatly, symmetrical in pairs, and the symmetrical two grapes are basically the same size and shape.
There was also a person who looked like a guard beside him, who was holding a pair of scissors to cut the corolla of a pot of ornamental plants on the coffee table, with a very focused expression, as if cutting the flower into a straight line was his more important task than protecting his master.
Zhou Yuanzhi, the daughter of Zhou Qian, the assassin of Jianzhou, originally invited the distinguished guests to go to sea to relax, and by the way to observe the master's demeanor, the middle position, as the host, was naturally arranged for the distinguished guests. Seeing such a situation at this time, I couldn't help frowning.
She was also confused by the beauty of this person at first sight, but everyone has been upbringing for a long time, and it is impossible for a man to lose his temper and forget everything in an instant, and she almost immediately thought about how this person came up? This is going to make the county lord of Zhaoming misunderstand, thinking that she still has a foreign man in private, will she have no face in the future?
If it's just her and the young ladies today, maybe for the sake of the other party is a beautiful man, a little reprimand is enough, anyway, she is the biggest in the Jianzhou girlhood, and no one dares to chew her tongue. But not today.
Zhou Yuanzhi raised her eyebrows and said sharply: "Where did you come from! Dare to enter my beautiful building ship and occupy the position of my master! Bodyguard! Bodyguard! Throw this man off the boat! ”
While drinking, he glanced at the Zhaoming county lord next to him - this is the young daughter of the former king, the king of Duan is the third brother of the current emperor, he did not participate in the battle for succession back then, and he is still a supporter of the emperor, and he has helped the emperor several times, but this person's life is not good, and he died of illness before the emperor ascended the throne, leaving only an orphan girl, who lived in the palace for a few years, and left the palace after the palace, and has always been taken care of by the royal family, but after all, there is no father and no brother, and the county lord rarely goes to the palace after leaving the palace, and does not want to participate in royal affairs, This girl has always admired Yan Shixin's idle clouds and wild cranes, and she often goes out of Beijing to play around, and recently she happened to be near Zhangxian County, Zhou Yuanzhi heard about it and deliberately climbed to make friends, and it was easy to invite people today, for fear that this matter would anger the guests, so she left.
At a glance, he was stunned.
The county lord of Zhaoming had a complicated face, stared closely at the hand that placed the grapes, and then looked at the guard who cut the flat flower branches, pursed his lips tightly, and looked a little nervous.
Zhou Yuanzhi was a little surprised, remembering that she vaguely heard that the county lord of Zhaoming was obsessed with the eldest son of the Sikong family, and now she looked different, could this be the son of the Sikong family?
couldn't help but whisper to ask, who knew that as soon as she asked, the county lord of Zhaoming looked even more flustered, shook his head again and again to deny it, Zhou Yuanzhi saw that her expression was ugly, and she actually wanted to leave, and she was sure that she was not from the Sikong family, so she suddenly became angry, pointed to the chaise longue, and screamed to the guards who rushed up: "Throw it down, immediately!" ”
Before the guards could rush up, the man on the recliner suddenly got up.
As soon as he stood up and turned around, everyone was dizzy, and their hearts shook as if the heaven and earth were spread out with a roll of brocade, beautiful and elegant, brilliant and brilliant, and the glow on the horizon seemed to be inferior.
The crowd was so overwhelmed by the countenance that they almost forgot to breathe. In a trance, I seemed to hear a few pops, and then I found that the guards who rushed up were gone.
And under the ship, there was a huge splash.
There was only one guard left, standing alone in the middle, not knowing why he had slipped through the net.
It's just because there were thirteen people rushing up.
The beauty stood on the deck, her clothes fluttering, her posture was light, and her expression was disgusted.
The young ladies present looked at it with disgust, and everyone who came into contact with his gaze was nervous and empty.
Zhou Yuanzhi was at a loss for a while, thinking that she had met a pirate?
Met a pirate before you even went to sea?
turned his head and wanted the county lord of Zhaoming to avoid it, but he found that he didn't know when, the county lord of Zhaoming had disappeared.
Zhou Yuanzhi: "......"
Then she heard the stunning pirate lazily waving his hand at the guard, and the guard put down the scissors, stepped forward, and said calmly: "From this day on, the third floor of your ship is requisitioned by my master. Remember a few rules. After a pause, he said, "If you forget or remember wrongly, please strip naked and swim back to the sea by yourself." ”
"Everyone immediately went backwards and wiped the road they had walked."
"When everyone goes down, they take off their rings and are not allowed to wear any jewelry that makes a sound."
"In addition to not wearing jewelry, it is also forbidden to use any scented hair grease powder or other substances, so as not to be blown up by the wind."
"Everyone is allowed to move below the second floor, but they are not allowed to make noise, they are not allowed to make any louder sound than a cat meow, and they are not allowed to laugh or laugh out of place."
"The daily meal can only be made after the menu is confirmed, and there must be sweets every day."
"All the items on the third floor, if they are not even numbered or asymmetrical, are to be disposed of by themselves. If, after an hour, I see such a mess and find the same, I throw one down. ”
"Finally, you guys hold on and start making some banners now. My master is useful...... Well, if it is bigger, it will be enough to circle the bow of the ship, and the size of the word will be ...... It's almost as good as you can see from three miles away...... What's the content...... Well, Wen Zhen will win, Wen Zhen will win, Wen Zhen you are my electricity, my light, my heart hurts...... It's just the same as the disgusting words you chase after Shang Drunken Cicada. ”
Zhou Yuanzhi: "......"
Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing??
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The sea is crossing, hundreds of boats are racing, and the sail shadow of the giant boat covers the sky.
On this day, there are young men with thousands of faces looking at the blue sky with a smile, there are cold men listening to the long wind with wine, there are loose princes waving their sleeves and scattering fat powder, and there are unruly generals who come in a hurry.
There is no Shuangtang Tang, changeable, hurricane season, unintentional, scheming Yao, lonely forest, fluttering commonplace.
There are fluttering swallows, flying over the blue sea of 3,000 coral bushes.
……
End of Volume II
------Off topic------
Strictly speaking, it is the end of the volume. Volume 2 is automatically divided into volumes after Xiaoxiang adds V for easy reading. In fact, the sub-volumes, volume 1 and volume 2 are to be combined into one volume.
Three volumes, 600,000 words each, like this.
Get on the boat and get married, give a monthly ticket, get married or not, I will satisfy you.