Seeing this, Gu Feng immediately greeted him and asked, "What's wrong with you?" Out of breath? ”

Benzoin also asked, "Why did you run out alone?" ”

Tang Anshu gasped and said, "There is something nearby." ”

As soon as Li Zhaonian and the others heard this, they immediately entered a state of preparedness, and together with Gu Feng, they surrounded Tang Anshu and Benzoin.

Tang Anshu said: "We must leave immediately, Adjutant Gu, can the ship you found before be usable?" ”

"It should be fine." When Gu Feng spoke, he looked at Wang Qingyun, because Wang Qingyun's family is a fourth-generation carpenter, and he worked as a boatman for a period of time before joining the army.

Wang Qingyun hesitated for a moment and said: "It can only be said that it can barely be used, it doesn't matter if there are no strong winds and waves, after all, those ships are hundreds of years old." ”

"I can only gamble." Tang Anshu looked at the camp, "It's better than staying here and dying inexplicably." ”

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Prison of the Prison, Prison of Ding.

The cell door opened, and when Sun San walked in, the sea snake, who was playing with gold coins on the stone bed, rolled over and got up, and asked, "How is it?" Did you find your second sister? ”

Sun San shook his head and sat on the edge of the stone bed: "No, I asked everyone, even the Chamber of Commerce that often sails from this line in the East China Sea, and no one has ever seen her." ”

"The last time I saw her was nearly two years ago." The sea snake looked puzzled, "Later, when I went to Yelong Island to look for her, I found that she had already left, and left with her fleet, I don't know where I went, so I left some old, weak, sick and disabled people on the island, and left a letter to me, saying that if she doesn't come back within five years, Yelong Island will belong to you and me." ”

Sun San smiled bitterly: "The Night Dragon Island was left to him by her man, it was the dragon lair of the Night Dragon King, the pirate emperor of the East China Sea, how could she give it to us?" ”

The sea snake nodded: "Yes, before leaving, she also teased us, you said, she has the largest fleet in the East China Sea, five gunboats, countless gun boats and clippers, in the early years, she could compete with the Qing court, and even before the foreigners' fleets passed by, they had to send people to pay tribute in advance, how could they say that they would disappear if they disappeared?" ”

Sun San asked: "Big brother, you say, will the second sister leave the East China Sea?" ”

"Absolutely impossible." The sea snake shook her head, "Not to mention that there are already lords in other seas, she is also old, the East China Sea is so big enough for her and her brothers to eat and drink, and most importantly, after the death of the Night Dragon King, she vowed never to leave the East China Sea and always guard her man's spirit ship." ”

Sun San nodded: "Yes, the second sister has always said the same." ”

Sea Snake said: "Twenty years ago, the three of us worshipped on Wedge Island, when you were still the Great Sage of the East China Sea, and now? Your second sister and I are still pirates that everyone hates, and you have become the commander of Snake Heart Island, and you can be regarded as an overlord, what are your plans for the future? ”

Sun San shook his head: "There were too many sins in the early years, so I will use it to pay off my debts for the rest of my life." ”

The sea snake nodded, and remembered something: "By the way, how is Yongcheng doing?" ”

"Cai Qianqing, the reinforcement invited by Tang Anshu, has arrived, and he has turned Yongcheng upside down in just a few days, and he has also convinced Fu Guodong, guess how long it took him to quell the Poseidon cult?" When Sun San spoke, his words were full of admiration and admiration for Cai Qianqing.

The sea serpent asked, "How long?" ”

Sun San raised two fingers: "Two days!" ”

The sea snake was stunned: "So powerful? ”

Sun San sighed and said: "It's different from ordinary people, it's much more powerful than those famous places on the rivers and lakes." ”

The sea snake smiled: "The rivers and lakes are like this, although some people have the ability, but the touting component is too big, just like the Rong Pingye next to Fu Guodong, and the Tie Peiwen next to you before, I think they are not as good as Tang Anshu and Cai Qianqing." ”

Sun San asked again: "Big brother, is there any news from Mu Sannong?" ”

"No, Master Zhou has been eating and drinking with him for a few days, hoping that he will spit out the truth after drinking, but unfortunately, he hasn't said a word until now." The sea snake looked at Sun San, "Do you really think Tie Peiwen still has a backup move?" ”

Sun San thought for a while and said: "Big brother, it's not that Tie Peiwen still has a backup move, Tie Peiwen is under Hu Shen's orders, do you think, after Tang Anshu and Gu Feng went down, Zhang Dingfeng escaped from prison, and also got the corpse wind to Yongcheng, killing so many people, Zhang Dingfeng is a chess piece left by Hu Shen, and Rong Pingye tried his best to win over your second master, is it just to replace you?" It's not that simple. ”

The sea snake thought for a moment, and finally shook his head, without saying a word.

Sun San looked around the cell: "Big brother, why do you want to live in Prison Ding?" The play has already been sung. ”

The sea snake sighed: "I did too many sins in my early years, and it is good to be able to live until now, and now being in prison is considered atonement, besides, am I in prison?" Where is there a prison where you can eat and drink every day, order food, and have orderly soldiers to serve you at any time? ”

After the sea snake finished speaking, Sun San couldn't help laughing.

●

Tang Anshu and the others pushed the ship whose mast had been broken and walked in the shallows for a while, and then climbed the rope ladder to get on the boat in turn.

After getting on the boat, Tang Anshu and the others, who were struggling with how to quickly sail the boat away from this area, were surprised to find that the boat was moving smoothly towards the other side of the lake on its own.

"What's going on?" Gu Feng looked around the hull, "How can this boat be walking on its own?" The mast is broken, and there is no sail, which is strange. ”

Wang Qingyun observed at the stern of the boat for a while, then turned around and said, "Sir, it's not surprising, it's caused by the current, and now the boat is moving along the current." ”

Li Zhaonian observed the small sailboat he was on and asked, "Wang Qingyun, what kind of ship is this?" ”

"It's just a normal sand boat." Wang Qingyun explained, "It's just a lot smaller, and it belongs to a small sand boat." ”

Everyone still shook their heads, and Tang Anshu, who observed on the boat, said: "He is right, it is a small sand boat, this kind of ship is the most common in the Ming Dynasty sailors, during the Tang and Song dynasties, there are already sand boats, the biggest advantage of this kind of ship is that rivers, lakes and seas can be navigated, wide, large, flat and shallow are the four characteristics of sand boats, which are very suitable for sailing on the channel with shallow water and many beaches, so it is called a sand boat, and the official name should be called 'anti-sand flat-bottomed boat'." ”

Benzoin looked at Tang Anshu: "Why do you seem to understand everything?" ”

"It looks like it's in the book." Tang Anshu smiled, "The book says that the sand boat uses a flat keel, and there is a watertight compartment underneath, so that the sand boat is vertical and horizontal and not easy to sink, by the way, this ship should also have a peace basket." ”

Tang Hualong hurriedly asked, "What is that?" ”

Tang Anshu explained: "It is a bamboo basket containing heavy objects such as stones, if it encounters strong wind and waves, put it down in the appropriate position on the boat and hang it in the water next to the boat, which can reduce the shaking of the sand boat." ”

When Wang Qingyun heard this, he said in a low voice: "I know a lot." ”

Although Wang Qingyun said this, Li Zhaonian still looked at Tang Anshu with a vigilant gaze.

Gu Feng stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the white smoke in front of him: "I hope everything goes well and I can reach that place safely." ”

Tang Anshu stepped forward and asked, "Adjutant Gu, where is the place where you said that Jinling Jian is hidden?" ”

Benzoin also stepped forward to listen, and Gu Feng recalled: "It is a cave of the heavenly dome, which is divided into countless small holes, and the caves are full of words, and there are many things like stoves and furnaces, and there are many utensils, most of which I can't name, and on the other side, many grottoes filled with wood have been excavated, and the grottoes are filled with medicinal herbs." ”

Benzoin looked wistful: "Sounds like I should like this place." ”

Tang Anshu and Gu Feng both laughed when they heard this, and at this moment, the hull of the ship suddenly shook violently, as if the bottom of the ship had hit something.

Li Zhaonian, Wang Qingyun, and Tang Hualong immediately became vigilant, grabbed the weapons placed next to them, and each looked at the direction they were guarding.

"Tang-An-Shu." A woman's voice came slowly from the smoke.

Everyone was stunned, and Tang Anshu immediately asked, "Did you hear that?" ”

Gu Feng and Benzoin both nodded, and Tang Anshu said: "That's not my auditory hallucination, I also heard this voice calling my name on the shore of the lake before." ”

"Ah Xiang—" The voice shouted again, and then began to shout again, "Adjutant Gu! Report sir! Gu Adjutant! Report sir! ”

When he heard this, Tang Anshu immediately said: "I understand, something is saying what we call each other, so it is imitating our voice and tempting us." ”

Gu Feng frowned and looked in the direction where the voice came from: "Like a parrot?" ”

Tang Anshu nodded and said, "Yes, it's like a parrot." ”

At this time, Wang Qingyun, who was at the helm, remembered something: "Sir, I think of the legend of seamary." ”

Tang Anshu was puzzled: "Seamary? That kind of drug? ”

Benzoin said on the side: "To be precise, seamary is also a poison, made from a type of seaweed. ”

Wang Qingyun said: "I heard my grandfathers say that real seamarys are made from the hair of mermaids. ”

Benzoin disagreed: "That's just a legend, I'll make seamary, it's not mermaid's hair at all, it's just a seaweed that's not easy to find." ”

Wang Qingyun was unrelenting: "When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that there is an unnamed island in the East China Sea, that island is very large, there is a sea lake in the center of the island, and the bottom of the sea lake is connected to the East China Sea, and there is an island in the center, and there are people on that island, and some people have seen it with their own eyes. ”

Li Zhaonian hurriedly asked, "Eh, are all those mermaids women?" And without clothes? ”

"No, there are men and women." Wang Qingyun shook his head solemnly, completely unaware of Li Zhaonian's intention to ask like that.

Li Zhaonian scratched his head suspiciously: "There are men and women?" Didn't you say that mermaids were all women? ”

Benzoin rolled her eyes: "Even if there is only a woman, that mermaid is also hermaphroditic, otherwise how can she give birth to the next generation?" ”

Everyone giggled for a while, but they heard the same laughter coming from the smoke, and it continued without any intention of stopping, and the laughter made the scalps of everyone on the boat tingle.

Tang Hualong pulled the trigger into the smoke with his gun, and after firing two shots, he found that the laughter was still continuing.

"Don't waste bullets." Gu Feng ordered, "Bear with me, when we float out of here, we probably won't be able to hear it." ”