【Chapter 33】Evil Animals
This is a real pig.
Fat head and big ears, short legs and convex belly, pink and white hair, black eyes, can eat and sleep.
The only thing that doesn't look like a pig is that it's so active.
That's why the sailors couldn't hide it. Feilu was extremely stable when it opened up, and it was rare to shake a few times, almost all because the pig ran on the deck.
The fact that the pig has been able to roll around the ship until now is a chance that it has earned itself.
When the steward found it, he was talking to Yu Moji. The pig suddenly ran out of the cabin that he didn't know, and personally interpreted the four words "pig sudden".
Then it suddenly stopped beside Yu Moji, and very boldly gently arched the corner of the man's clothes. The small black eyes were a little cunning, and his eyes swept back and forth on the steward's body.
Yu Moji was completely ignored by it, and could only slander: it is really worthy of the Wei family's merchant ship, and even a pig can be so mercenary.
Yu Mojin couldn't cry or laugh, but the sailors who chased him out were frightened, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing vigorously, but he didn't forget to reach out and pull a piece of rope behind the pig's writhing big fat buttocks. The pig immediately turned his head and stretched out his little hooves to stomp on the sailor.
The end of the rope looked broken, and the few strands of thin rope at the broken point had been broken up, and flew behind the pig, so that it was not elegant.
The steward stared dumbfounded for a long time, and finally burst out laughing.
It may be that the bookkeeper has just counted out the accounts that day, or it may be that the steward has just eaten a meal of fresh vegetable food brought back by the sailors. Anyway, by chance, the old face of the steward who was about to dry out was rarely pulled to the same length as a horse. He was very generous and promised to leave the pig alive for the time being, and when he arrived at the last stop at Gyeonggi Port, he would kill it and drink to celebrate his success.
Although the sailors were pardoned, they did not dare to make another attempt. They tied several more ropes to the pig, and even sent someone to take care of it in shifts, lest the ghost spirit in the pig leave the galley on the other side of the bilge half a step away.
The pig, though restrained and free, was not happy, and rolled his eyes and hummed for several days.
However, after all, there was plenty of food in the kitchen, and the sailors fed the pig with good food and drink, and its belly became more and more round, and its originally cunning eyes were confused, and the action of struggling to escape was gradually just a façade.
The people and the pigs got along happily for a long time, until the day finally came when Feilu sailed into Gyeonggi Port.
Along the way, the remaining voyage was already very short, and the trade had been almost done, and only a batch of goods was left in the cabin to be delivered to the imperial capital. The craftsmen and sailors are also much more idle, and everyone is looking forward to eating a pig-killing dish to celebrate their achievements.
In the end, they simply began to prepare from the evening, and one by one they were preparing for the plan of killing the pigs and drinking.
There were not many tools at hand on the ship, but he could still make a whole pair of sharp-tipped iron hooks and wooden ladder machetes necessary for killing pigs; Many of these things were temporarily replaced by anchors and other things, but at least in terms of appearance, they would not be lost to the butcher shop of Yu Moji's old home.
The sailors are veterans of the ship, although they have not slaughtered livestock with their own hands for a long time, after all, they have also fought countless storms and waves, and they have strength all over their bodies, and each of them is very confident.
It's just that most things in the world can't be done with a set of tools and brute force.
Yu Mochen hadn't used a stove for many years, he wasn't good at cooking, and he wasn't very interested in the kitchen. Especially for the vivid life of birds and beasts, Yu Moji is to see their life, and they can't bear to see their death; Hearing its voice, I can't bear to eat its flesh. She was barely a gentleman, and she had avoided the kitchen in the morning.
The most important thing is that Yu Moji knows that the day of disembarkation is not far away, and there are fewer and fewer opportunities to observe and learn the ingenious Yanji in the "Dragon Heart", and he must step up his use of it every moment. Yi Xiaocheng obviously also understood that there was probably no possibility of seeing each other in the future, and tried her best to tell Yu Mochen about her brother's ingenuity and her own opinions.
At this moment, while the big guys were all going to watch the big event of killing pigs, Yu Moji followed Yi Xiaoji and hid in the "Dragon Heart", and studied those precious opportunities without distraction.
The "Dragon's Heart" is deep under the bilge, and for the sake of secrecy, it has been blocked by heavy mechanisms, and there is a boiler next to it around the clock, and the air is very dirty, and people will be dizzy if they stay in it for a long time. It's even more uncomfortable for people who can't stop turning their brains when they see it.
After all, Yi Xiaocheng grew up on a river boat, and he is already very accustomed to this situation; Yu Moji has survived until now with a love for the study of Yanjia.
Now it's different: there's no one on the periphery; Although there are still a few guys who are easier to bully on weekdays are forced to stay and watch the boiler, on the one hand, they have to take care of the affairs of several people, and they are all very busy, and on the other hand, they all know the degree of secrecy of the "Dragon Heart", and they will not approach easily.
Yu Moji can usually endure it, but now that he has discovered this rare opportunity, he is really itchy and unwilling to let it go.
She was embarrassed to say to Yi Xiaocheng, but after thinking about it, she still found an opportunity to open the trick of "Dragon Heart" a little, leaving a slit, and more or less had a ventilated thought, which could barely be comforted. She didn't want to cause trouble to Yi Xiaojiao, so she deliberately covered it up so that others could not see the movement inside from the outside.
I don't know if this gap really worked or was an illusion, Yu Moji immediately felt that his breathing was much smoother, and his mind gradually became clearer. Yi Xiaoji also seemed to notice Yu Moji's small movements, she glanced at the leaky gap several times, and didn't say anything, which was considered a tacit approval.
Yu Moji didn't expect that even if people wouldn't come in, there would be other living creatures on this huge flying house.
When the pig broke in, Yi Xiaoji was talking with his eyebrows fluttering, and Yu Moji was listening intently. In particular, in order to avoid people's eyes, Yu Moji sat behind the trick, and he was caught off guard, and he was hit by the pig that rushed in and turned over with a chair.
Yu Moji fell so hard that he was about to get up, and his feet slipped again. As soon as she looked down, she found that the palms of her gripping the deck were stained with blood.
She looked up in horror, and saw that a sharp knife had been poked into the pig's neck, and while spurting blood, she fled in a frenzy, and in a panic, she rushed straight towards the steaming, rumbling seven-pin golden cauldron.
Yi Xiaocheng could not allow this evil beast to knock over her brother's masterpiece under any circumstances. In desperation, she actually flew over, and spread her slender arms to block the front of the seven-pin golden cauldron.
That pig is more than 300 catties, and the momentum of rushing over is fierce, where can Yi Xiaojiao's petite body be able to stop it?
Before Yu Moji could react, he saw a person and a pig, which could be grazed by the edge of the seven-pin gold cauldron and flew towards the inside of the "Dragon Heart".
There was a terrible loud noise. The most important seven-pin cauldron in the "Dragon Heart" was saved, but under this collision, I don't know how many pry bars collapsed from their original positions, how many gears flew off, and how many hinges stopped running. Although the Feilu Wind Trail was still floating in the water, the speed of its movement was obviously abnormal.
Yu Moji didn't care about this, her mind was blank, and she relied on her body's reaction, first kicking the chair next to her into the trick and getting stuck, so as not to lock back into place after the mechanism was damaged and could not be opened again; Then she ran as fast as she could.
The blood, still warm, mixed with all kinds of fragments and ointments, and even a little chitose gold, flowed all over the ground.
The pig had been stabbed in the neck before, and rushed here with a desire to survive. Now, this last burst of power has finally run out. Its massive body rolled on the deck, trembling violently for a moment, and then stopped moving.
The situation of Yi Xiaowei is not much better.
She had been hit so hard that she probably didn't have a single intact bone left in her body, and her whole body fell to the ground like a broken bellows. She must have been in pain, tears welling up in her eyes, and her blood-stained chest rose and fell limply with her lips.
A broken wooden wedge stabbed her through the back of the small boat.
"Yi Xiaojiao!" This was the first time Yu Moji had called her name. She shouted so loudly that she paid no attention to the sailors who were chasing the pigs and standing by the door like a wooden chicken. "Yi Xiaojiao!"
Yu Moji didn't know what to say. She wanted to say that the "dragon heart" of this ship was destroyed, and without you, the ship guard, you might not be able to find a way to land safely; She wants to say that your brother's masterpieces have been smashed, and only you have the ability to restore them; She also wanted to say, Yi Xiaojiao, you used to be a female ghost on the Jiangshan boat who claimed to feed pigs for a living, and now you were hit to death by a pig, isn't it a joke......
But the only thing Yu Moji could do was keep calling Yi Xiaoji's name.
She was desperate to find that no amount of responsibility, the past, or the unfinished business could bring back the life that was passing away; Whether a person should continue to live or not is not determined by what she should or should not do.
Yu Mozhen had thought countless times before about sending this female ghost back to hell, but now, she just wanted Yi Xiaoji to live.
"Ship...... The boat ran out of power...... Won't sink yet...... But you...... You go quickly...... Leaving this ship......" Yi Xiaocheng opened a pair of teary eyes blankly, and said intermittently, "please...... You...... Remember ......"
"What did you say?" Yu Moji was so anxious that he put his ear close to Yi Xiao's increasingly weak mouth.
"Remember...... ...... live," Yi Xiao's voice gradually weakened, "my ...... Brother, his name is ...... It's called ......"
Yu Moji was silent, very careful to listen to this vague thought.
"Yi Langao."
The last three words of Yi Xiaojiao's life were said unusually clearly.
Her mouth was still in its last shape, but the light in her eyes had rapidly dimmed.
She's dead.