Chapter 35: The Blue Sea Tide is Born
Oh, where is this? A dazed Zhining woke up from the sampan. Looking at the blue sky reflected by the sea, it took her a long time to realize that she was still at sea. This...... How many days is it?
Damn Zhao Xi, he knew that there was today, it was better to secretly help him seize the boat and escape, who would have thought that the few boats that had been almost taken away by Zhao Xi in Mushan's handwriting a few nights ago were actually selected by himself A wrecked boat with only one oar. At least Zhi Ningquan, who was happy when he first boarded the ship and fled, did not find that the other oar wood of this ship was actually half cracked, Xu was crushed by his body when Zhao Xi and the others who were panicked at the beginning fought with Qing Ren, although they had seen blood stains on the hull of the ship at that time, but they ...... Alas...... It's that I'm too anxious. Zhi Ning regretted it at the moment, and the eagerness of rocking the oars as soon as he boarded the boat had disappeared with the break of the oar in his left hand. Fortunately, I still have enough food, but unfortunately the stored clean water is a little insufficient. Can we only follow this slow-flowing wave? Or split the remaining oars in two? Zhining, who couldn't make up his mind and couldn't do anything, really hoped that someone could give him an idea at this moment.
But the heavens seem to be deliberately mocking, and the person in the hope of Ning did not appear at this moment, but the sea surface that was originally quite calm after a stick of incense suddenly began to show subtle fluctuations, and the waves that swirled small swirls seemed to be stirred by the huge oars falling from the sky, and gradually turned into big waves, and the strong wind that blew at the same time as the big waves gradually became stronger, that is, the color of the sky in the sky was suddenly dyed with haze between breaths, is it a high tide? No. Is it a storm coming?
On the endless sea level, there was only a long gray-blue line left at this moment, and the lonely boat that Zhi Ning was riding rose and fell helplessly on the vast sea. The boat, which had no oars to control its direction, was now drifting southeast with the rough waves, and it seemed that the next big wave might overturn the boat. Regardless of stabilizing the boat first, in desperation, Zhi Ning used all his strength to break the still intact oars into two, and intersected his left and right hands to insert the half-heel oars into the water to stabilize the hull. So that the ship finally stopped spinning in the waves.
A feeling of powerlessness came from himself, and only at this moment did Zhi Ning suddenly feel the vastness of heaven and earth, and he really responded to that sentence on the turbulent sea. But Eleven's revenge has not been avenged, how can I be trapped here. Thinking of this, she suddenly had some strength on her weak lotus root, and struggled to row the boat on the way it should go, but how can people fight with the sky in this predicament. The tide began to rise half a zhang high, and gradually rose to one zhang, and the air became more humid. The roar of thunder sounded like thunder, and lightning lit up the entire sea. Zhi Ning, who had been splashed on his face by the surging waves, could barely open his eyes, and at this moment he wanted to buckle the boat over and put it on his head. Is this rain taking pity on me? The autumn rain, which showed no signs of gradualization, was like a large drop of beans poured from a bamboo tube, and even a little bit of the interval from thinning to dense was not evenly distributed. At this moment, Zhi Ning's arms, which were slightly thicker than the girl next door because of his martial arts, gradually could not support the beating of the waves, and the blood in his whole body seemed to have hit his arms, and these arms seemed to have lost consciousness. Hold on a little longer, and the downpour should pass without warning. I will avenge Eleven's great revenge.
In the end, the cold and soreness of the whole body made this girl who had experienced the danger of ordinary people in her life began to be a little unbearable, it was already the weather in September, although the weather in the south of Chongming Island was still warm at the moment, but the cold sea water, rain and dew couldn't stop pounce on the body, and the soaked Zhining's teeth began to stumble involuntarily. This tinkling crunch sound became louder and louder, and then the whole body began to tremble. Oh ~ Oh oh it's so cold, ha~ It's been raining for almost an hour, and people are about to lose hope, why is it still falling. The cool breeze blew through Zhi Ning, and he felt as if he was about to form thin ice. The small canopy on her head was no longer enough to shelter her from the elements. At this moment, her body that was about to cool down relied on her fiery heart full of longing for Shen Shiyi and then supplied heat to her whole body.
More than half of the water is already in the half-deep cabin at the moment, and if this continues, will the whole ship be pressed into the water? It's time to scoop the water out. Maybe this is also an excuse for the exhaustion in the body that is about to be unbearable, Zhi Ning's mind has not yet reacted, but the body immediately lifted the arms that were half inserted in the water and were about to soak out of the sea without hesitation, and suddenly the whole person felt light, Oh, my dry food has to be hung on this roof, otherwise this sea really has to eat some raw fish and meat like those Dongying people. Zhining, who had a sudden thought, put the oar wood in his hand under his feet and stepped on it, and hung the remaining dry food on the eaves from his side. Lick your lips that are a little bitter and astringent, this sea water really makes you thirsty, and you can't care so much at the moment, let's drink some water to relieve this urgent need. Zhi Ning, who lifted the water cylinder, just took two sips, only to hear the thunder in his ears, as if his eyes were about to be unable to open his eyes due to the lightning on the sea, and then a monstrous wave nearly two feet high came towards him. Not good, this ......
But his body, which had been frozen by the cold, was a little sluggish at the moment. It turned out that these legs were so cold that they couldn't lift them up, ah, the giant waves were coming, and in desperation, Zhi Ning suddenly held the Xinglan Sword at his waist tightly in his hand, and his right hand was just about to stretch out underwater. I only felt a huge pressure on the skin of my face. The blue color that was in front of me had now turned gray and black. Suddenly there was a feeling in my body as if I was going to be cut in two, not my dry food. This was the last impression in her mind before she was stunned by the waves......
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The crimson sunset reflected on the sea, and more than 100 moving "sea beasts" formed a formation and slowly sailed on the sea surface.
When I looked closely, I saw that on one of the central boats, which was connected with several huge ships on the left and right, two men stood with their backs facing north, and looked at their hands with their hands in hand.
I only heard one of the men standing behind him in a half-length position: "Eunuch, I didn't expect that this time the return of the sea voyage would bring so many envoys from the Nagong country, if Your Majesty sees it, you will be happy, but it is indispensable to want to come to the Marquis to seek the title, and it happens that the beautiful scenery here is pleasant, and the subordinates take advantage of this good scenery to congratulate you first." ”
"I didn't expect you, a rough man, Zhou Bao to sail with me on the sea for many years, but I also learned to slip on the beard and shoot the horse, so as to be concerned. That's it, and yours will be indispensable when this reward is reported. In addition to the envoys of the sixteen countries such as Kurumus, who were returned by Hongman, I did not expect that there would be the kings of Siam and other countries who also returned with the fleet. It's a pity that the brothers who died on the voyage should remember to return their belongings to their families, and give them some more bereavement. Another man in a crimson tiger and leopard suit with gray temples sighed.
"Rest assured, the eunuch, I have already arranged this matter, if it weren't for the fact that the Ryukyu Kingdom was unwilling to hand over those alchemy monks to us, and wanted to do what the Ceylon Kingdom had done at the beginning, how could hundreds of brothers be sacrificed."
"Alas...... It's a pity, I don't know how His Majesty's heroism has changed so much over the years, and he has become obsessed with the way of Huang Lao and the art of pills like the first emperor. In my opinion, the genus of the immortals is still slim in the end. But our ......"
"Ahem...... Eunuch, you still need to pay attention to what you say, after all, he is an old man, and it is normal for him to seek immortality for this and this. The man dressed as a military general who was called Zhou Bao heard the eunuch speak, and hurriedly coughed to interrupt his speech, cautiously looked left and right to see that there was no one around, and then answered.
Even on this sea, you still need to speak so carefully, and the identity of the infiltrating person who is pervasive and needs to be guarded against is self-evident, and he is the famous Jinyi Guard. And the person dressed in this crimson tiger and leopard costume is Zheng He, the national surname who was sent to carry out the sixth naval voyage two years ago.
"Alas...... HNA has been almost unknown for many years, and at this moment it suddenly came to the point that our eloquent king had begun to grow old, and alas, Ma Bao was not old. ”
After a sigh of emotion in the atmosphere on the boat, the two people who were originally in high spirits suddenly fell silent, and Zheng He, who was looking at the sea from afar, seemed to be thinking about something. He was about to speak, when the lieutenant who was called Zhou Bao suddenly slapped his head, as if he had just remembered something, and said: "Eunuch, I almost forgot that just now the Sumatra envoy sent someone to tell him that the king wanted to invite the eunuch over to the banquet. ”
"They came to me just to talk about helping them to conquer the kingdom of Sri Buddha and the orphans. The palm-sized small domain thinks about crooked things all day long. Two days ago, Sri Buddha had also come to the prison for a banquet, but all he had asked for had been pushed away by the prison. In the future, there is no need to trouble me about these trivial matters, this eunuch is not their courtier, and these little princes still want to borrow the power of this marquis to dominate. ”
"Yes, Eunuch. So when returning to the ship, is it still a detour from the chicken coop (Taiwan) and then back to the old capital? ”
"Nonsense, it's not the first time you've traveled with this prisoner, why did you ask about it again?"
"Yes, yes, the small one is mouthy, and the small one is just for stability on the road, and he doesn't have any other intentions."
"The road is safe, nothing else? You don't hear any gossip from other people, do you? Zheng He's originally soft eyes suddenly flashed a hint of coldness.
"Oh? What do you hear? I don't know what adults think small people should hear? ”
"Listen to what should be heard, ...... shouldn't be heard" Zheng He was talking, when he suddenly felt that the hull of the boat driving under his feet suddenly paused, and even the whole person was pounced forward, but fortunately he was supported by Zhou Bao, who was close by, so he did not fall.
"Go see what's going on?"
Hearing this, Zhou Bao hurriedly got up and walked towards the lookout. Before he could walk down the steps, he saw a guard running from the front in a hurry.
Zhou Bao stepped forward and grabbed the little soldier and asked, "Hey, what happened just now?" ”
"Ah, General, General Qiyu, General Qiyu. Just now, because the outer chain of the ship was too dark, it seemed to have sunk a small boat, and when the subordinates had just sent a water ghost who was familiar with the nature of the water to go down to see, a little girl who had fallen into the water was about ten years old. ”
"Woman in the water? It's a vast sea, and a teenage girl can row here. Could it be that the maid brought by the envoy of another country accidentally fell into the water, that is not right, there is obviously a wreck. It's weird. ”
"Strange? It's true that what the general said is extremely right, it's really strange, that little girl...... The general's subordinates talked a lot, "Some honest soldiers scratched their heads, not knowing that they had said the wrong thing.
"What's the little girl?" Zheng He, who heard the conversation between the two in the distance, asked.
"It's the eunuch, the little girl, the little girl found that she was unconscious, but she had a sword in her hand, and a rusty sword with a galaxy pattern carved on its scabbard. A few of his subordinates wanted to take the sword down first. Who knew that although the little girl was unconscious, she held her hands to death. It's weird. ”。
"A rusty sword with a galaxy pattern? It's really interesting, take this supervisor to see it. This prisoner was a little interested in what you kid said," Zheng He said jokingly.