Chapter 3: The Storm
Half an hour later, the sun came out of the sea, and the island finally ushered in a two-hour day. In the middle of the island, in a clearing on the mountainside, there are several small wooden buildings.
In one of the wooden houses there is a large log table and many wooden benches. At this moment, the wooden table was already filled with white porridge, cured meat, mustard, barbecue and other foods contained in porcelain bowls, and many people were sitting in the room.
Sitting on the upper seat (to the north) was an old man, flanked by an old woman of great temperament on the left and right, and next to the two women were two handsome men with a look five points similar to the old man.
To the right of the old man sat a young woman with a green hairpin in her bun, while to his left the man with a short beard had two empty stools, and finally a man, a woman, and two children, who sat around the round table and ate porridge. At the door, a young woman with her hair wrapped in a floral bandana stood and looked around into the woods below.
"Cuiyun, don't worry about him, come over and eat first. That kid is going to play crazy outside, and he doesn't know how to come back from eating, so he will be hungry, so that he can have a long memory! The man with the short beard on his mouth swallowed a mouthful of white porridge and turned to the woman at the door.
"Eleven is still a child, don't you move outside, is it better to stay at home all day long? Cuiyun, don't listen to him, I left hot porridge for Eleven to heat in the pot, and I'll give it to him when he gets tired of playing later. The old woman beside the short-bearded man said with some displeasure as soon as the man finished speaking.
Another old woman beside the old man also spoke: "That's right, Cui Yun don't listen to Xie Xie, you can't starve the child!" ”
"Mother, you and Aunt Ruo spoil that kid too much, how can I teach him!" Seeing that the two elders were a little unreasonable towards helping their son, the man obviously had a headache.
The woman with the turban at the door replied, "Yes, mother, aunt, I will call eleven again, and I will come." ”
"Eleven! Came back for dinner! The voice didn't sound loud or sharp, but the whole island echoed softly, "Eleven...... Time to eat...... ...... the meal". And if you are on the island, you will find that even if you stand on the edge of the island, miles away from the mountainside, the words of the young woman just now will reach your ears and your head as clearly as they are in your ears.
This is something that can only be done by a person with deep internal strength, but I don't know who that woman is, and she has such a strong internal force at such a young age.
A moment later, the sound of running came from the forest. The young woman looked at it for a while, but saw no human figure, only two dogs, and frowned, and was about to turn to enter the door, but out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of the letter on the dog.
"Dad, mother, grandpa, grandma, grandma, second uncle, Zhiheng, Xiaoyue, and Dawang, Erwang, goodbye! I'm just going out and looking, I'll be back in a few days, you don't have to worry about me......"
"Xie Lang, it's not good, eleven he ......"
"Dad, I'm going to chase that disobedient son......"
"Brother Wuji, how is this a good ......?"
"Nian Xie, Cuiyun, Min Min and Zhiruo, don't worry......
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After January, the endless ocean, which had been inseparable from the blue sky, was separated by a black line that suddenly appeared. After a while, the black line became thicker and thicker, and when it came to the end, it was still a line, and it was clearly a city!
It sounds unbelievable that a city came from the edge of the sky, separating the sky from the sea, but now, on this sea, it is really happening in front of the eyes of the little boy!
He hadn't drunk water in days, and the food had run out more than ten days earlier. If it weren't for the fact that he grew up near the water since he was a child, and the water nature is super good, if he hadn't followed his grandfather to practice the internal skills taught by his grandfather since he was three years old, making him difficult to invade in the cold and biting water, so that he could persist in swimming in this cold and biting sea water for a long time, plus the luck of catching a few stupid fish blessed by his ancestors, he would definitely not be able to survive now.
But that was the end of it, for the fur sails on his ship had been blown away by the wind four days earlier, and the raft had broken up two days earlier and had become its current canoe, and had been turned over......
Lying on the giant wooden pole, chapped lips, dizzy, weak, and only fifteen-year-old Zhang Shiyi looked at the giant city that suddenly appeared in front of him, and thought in his heart: This is the underworld or the heavenly palace, no, it should be the Dragon Palace on the sea, I am going to die, I am going to the Dragon Palace, I am going to become a shrimp soldier and crab general, I don't know if I can let me go back to see my father, but I haven't heard of it, it is estimated that it will not work...... The little boy thought wildly, and before the "Dragon Palace" could not support it, he fainted first.
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In the majestic fleet of more than 200 ships of various sizes, a burly man stood at the bow of the ship in the middle, which looked like a huge castle tower. The strong wind from the breaking waves made the brocade cloak on his shoulders black and red, but he stood as steady as a stone mountain, not moving at all.
After a while, a man with a knife wearing a dark military general's robe came behind him, bowed down and said: "Lord Qiqi General Soldier, the soldiers of the former battalion picked up a boy in the middle of the river and sea, without drinking water, and only floated in this river and sea with a huge log......
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On the sixth day of the seventh month of the thirteenth year of Yongle (August 10, 1415), one year and nine months had passed since the fifteen-year-old boy named Zhang Shiyi discovered the "Dragon Palace".
The sky is cloudy, and the sea is stormy and coulous. Anyone who lives by the sea understands that a great storm is coming, and no more daring or self-proclaimed experienced boatman will choose to go to sea at this time. But at this time, in the East China Sea, which is about three days away from Ying Tianfu, a huge fleet of ships with four top-level treasure ships as the core is rising and falling with the huge waves on the sea.
"My lord, the sea breeze is too strong, and the other ships except the treasure ship are about to be unable to withstand this strong wind, so they must not lower their sails!"
"Needless to say! The soldiers are fast, go and give orders quickly! ”
"Yes! Yes, sir! ”
"The chief soldier has an order! The whole army lowered its sails to resist the sea breeze, and the flag ordered the officer to quickly beat the flag and order the whole army! ”
Then I saw that the huge sails of the ships, which were blown up by the wind like a hemisphere, suddenly deflated, and fell down faster or slower, and the speed of the whole fleet, which was as fast as flying fish, gradually slowed down.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the black ocean that kept tumbling overhead seemed to be cut through a layer of invisible diaphragm by this "white giant blade" that illuminated the sky, and it smashed down directly. But the "white giant blade" that shone in the sky was only the beginning, and then the "sea city" that had been covered by darkness and water could only see the "white dragons" rolling and raging in the black clouds, and the dazzling white filled every corner of the sea.
At such times, even if a treasure ship is like a high-rise mountain peak, if it still has sails, it can only be swallowed by the power of heaven and earth.
Looking at the earth-shattering phenomenon that was absolutely impossible to see on this land, Zheng Sanbao, who was the chief soldier of the Qin Mission, sighed that the henchman had just given the order. Suddenly, a violent shaking shook his heart: how could such a treasure ship, whose sails had already been lowered, be shaken like this, and the greater winds and waves encountered before had not been like this...... Thinking like this in his heart, his eyes were already looking around.
"What are you doing? The military order has already been handed down, why hasn't the sail on the ship's main mast been lowered yet? Are you looking for death? Seeing the scene behind him, he was full of anger and anger.
But he saw a Xuanfu guard running in front of him, stood still in front of him, knelt down on one knee and arched his hand, and said, "Report to your lordship,
The halyard of the main mast of the treasure ship has long been untied, but the top of the mainmast seems to be cracked, and the rigging is stuck, so the sail on the mainmast has not been lowered, and Captain Qi is trying to solve this matter! ”
"Focused? If he doesn't solve it immediately, he won't have to deal with it by military law, and the whole ship will have to accompany him to die in the belly of the fish! ”
(To be continued)