Chapter 146: Set sail
The land of the Central Plains is vast, divided into Kyushu, and the three counties of Tiannan in the south are cut off by a desperate forest sea that stretches for tens of thousands of miles. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Monsters are rampant in the desperate forest, and some people have seen terrifying beasts as huge as mountains, so no one has ever ventured to try to cross the desperate forest, and the traffic between the Central Plains and the three counties of Nantian is all bypassed by sea.
Starting from Tianhe County, one of the three counties of Nantian, and traveling north along the coastal road, bypassing the desperate forest sea, it takes about a month and a half to reach Zhanzhou on the eastern coast and enter the Central Plains.
At this moment, there is a shuangzelou boat dozens of meters long full of sails, heading north along this maritime trade route and heading towards Zhanzhou.
This huge building ship has a deep blue body, a wide bottom, a high head and tail, and is equipped with double-layer thick wooden guards on both sides to prevent the impact of monsters in the sea. The whole ship is divided into four layers, two below the deck, two above the deck, and the cornices are hung with huge windproof lanterns, which never go out day or night, and the whole giant ship is extraordinary.
"Gasp!"
At this moment, in the noble cabin on the top floor of the ship, Xiao Ni, who was pale, was holding a gilded spittoon, vomiting to death.
Xiang Hong gently patted Xiao Ni's back on the side, frowned and said, "When you went from the Central Plains to the three counties of Nantian, didn't you take a sea boat, why did you get so seasick?" ”
Xiao Ni basically hasn't eaten anything in the past few days, and she really has nothing to vomit, she retched a few times, and then said listlessly: "I was still young back then...... And at that time, I lived in the bilge, and there was no light, so I slept all day long, and I arrived before I knew it. ”
"That seems to be my fault, I shouldn't have asked you to stay in your cabin." Xiang Hong shook his head, handed the towel to Xiao Ni, and then brought the spittoon to the door, "I'll go and talk to the captain, I'll send you to the lowest warehouse tomorrow, and I can save some money on the boat." ”
"No need!" Xiao Ni wiped her mouth, leaned back and collapsed on the recliner, and said weakly: "There are still three or four days to reach the Central Plains, so I can barely make do here......"
Xiang Hong chuckled, Xiao Ni really didn't suffer any loss in his mouth, and the two of them came all the way to fight, but they were not too lonely. He sat on the chair next to him, glanced at Xiao Ni, and said, "The biggest force in Zhanzhou is the Yun family?" ”
"Yes, the Yun family has been engaged in shipping for generations, has accumulated huge wealth and connections, and is one of the largest families in the Central Plains." Xiao Ni recovered a little at the moment, and there was a trace of blood on his face, "The entire four counties of Zhanzhou, all over the Yun family's industries, especially the coastal line, are almost half occupied by the Yun family. ”
Xiang Hong nodded, the big ship they are sitting on now is also owned by the Yun family, which shows that the Yun family is indeed the leader on the sea. He pondered for a moment and asked, "Is this Yun family, like the Qi family, mainly engaged in business?" ”
Xiao Ni shook his head and said: "No, shipping is just a sideline of the Yun family, their main industry in the past dynasties is to go to the open sea to catch sea beasts, although this work is very dangerous, but the benefits are also amazing." ”
"Catch the sea beast ......" Xiang Hong muttered to himself, in the past forty days at sea, he had also seen some sea creatures, but most of them were dolphin turtles, and there was no aggression.
However, according to the sailors, this is due to the fact that they have been driving in the shallow sea area, and once they enter the deep sea area far from the mainland, they will begin to appear all kinds of sea beasts, and their ferocity and cruelty are even more terrifying than the monsters on land.
Xiao Ni looked at Xiang Hong and said: "The Central Plains is vast, and the area of any state in Kyushu is much larger than the three counties of Tiannan. The Qi family clan is in Huazhou, you are going to the Sun and Moon Sect, in the inland of the Central Plains in Yizhou, you can drop me to Huazhou, and then rush to the Yizhou Sun and Moon Sect, if you fly with the wings, you can arrive in about two months. ”
When he first heard Xiao Ni talk about the vastness of the Central Plains and Kyushu, Xiang Hong was a little incredulous.
Judging from the information he collected in the Genesis Yuan, this continent should not be so vast, it is obviously the same world, why is the Central Plains Kyushu described by Xiao Ni in his mouth nearly a hundred times larger than the World Continent of the Genesis Yuan?
This problem can only be experienced by himself after Xiang Hong arrives in the Central Plains.
Xiang Hong nodded and said, "I'll send you to the Qi family clan headquarters in Huazhou first, and I will rely on you to use the Qi family's business connections to help me find the second half of the Eight Desolations Fire Fighting Technique, before I get this half of the exercises, even if I find the Sun Moon Sect's Qiongchi, it will be meaningless to me." ”
Xiao Ni nodded, a worried look appeared on her face, she already knew that Xiang Hong had the Moon Yin Pill toxin left in his body, if he couldn't control the flames in his body within half a year, and at the same time used Qiong Chi to leach out the toxin, there would be only a dead end.
"There are tens of thousands of shops in the Qi family, all over the Central Plains, and it won't take much effort to do just one exercise." Xiao Ni seemed to be cheering Xiang Hong up, and at the same time cheering himself up.
Xiang Hong smiled and said nonchalantly: "You are the No. 1 shopkeeper in Tiannan, I believe in you." ”
Xiao Ni snorted, a smug look flashed on his face, and he said: "What is a small place like Tiannan, before I went to Tiannan alone, the ancestor of the Qi family also gave me a jade pendant for protection. ”
Xiao Ni said and took out a white jade pendant from his neck and shook it in front of Xiang Hong.
"The old ancestor likes me very much, if it weren't for the old men who listened to the Tao Pavilion who had to drive me away, maybe I would have stayed by the old ancestor to serve her."
Xiang Hong looked at Xiao Ni and frowned slightly, a little girl left her hometown alone and went thousands of miles away, which is easy to say, but she must have suffered a lot during this period.
Xiang Hong couldn't help but be a little curious, he opened his mouth and asked, "Isn't your mother in the clan with some status, why was you kicked out of the clan." ”
Thinking of the past, Xiao Ni's face was a little gloomy: "It's all because of my father, who disappeared without even leaving a word, and my mother died depressed, and the elders in the pavilion had to put a bunch of inexplicable sins on my mother, and the ancestors couldn't protect me, so they had to let me go away to Tiannan." ”
Xiao Ni became more and more angry the more he spoke, waved his hand and said impatiently: "Don't say it!" Anyway, you immortal cultivators, none of them are good! ”
Xiang Hong touched his chin, and for a while he couldn't figure out the reason why he was scolded, he smiled bitterly, stood up and walked to the door, and said as he walked: "You have a good rest, I'll go to the deck to have a look." ”
After Xiang Hong walked out of the room, he came to the deck along the corridor, with the salty sea breeze blowing in his face, Xiang Hong couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly, it was noon at this moment, the sun was high above the zenith, the sky was cloudless, the surrounding was thousands of blue waves, and the sea and sky in the distance gradually became one color.
Xiang Hong stretched his waist, he was currently suffering from a strange poison in his body, unable to attract spiritual cultivation, he had nothing to do on this ship for more than a month, and his body was like rust.
Fortunately, this dreary trip is almost coming to an end......
Xiang Hong walked towards the bow of the ship at will, but immediately he found that the sailors on the ship seemed a little flustered, and the sailors who usually performed their duties on the ship flocked to the bow of the ship at this moment, and the expressions of these sailors were obviously a little wrong.
Several sailors hurried past Xiang Hong, and in the whispers of their ear-to-ear, Xiang Hong heard a sentence:
"It's a pirate, a pirate is coming!"