Chapter 339: Night Voyage

Wei Xiao barely walked a few steps, the bow of the boat was blown by a gust of wind, the smell of wine surged, and he was suddenly a little dizzy, he held his forehead with one hand, and forced himself to keep the Lingtai Qingming, walked to the door, knocked on it, and the door opened immediately.

Bai Qianyu stood behind the door and said, "Why did it take so long to return to ......?"

Before the words were finished, Wei Xiao's body was crooked and bumped into her, Bai Qianyu was caught off guard, his hands subconsciously hugged him, and he took a few steps back, but he retreated to the side of the bed, Wei Xiao's body pressed against her body, and the two of them fell to the bed.

Bai Qianyu lay down on the bed, his body was heavily pressed by Wei Xiao, his two hands held her hands and wrists, his lips touched her lips lightly, the tip of his nose was facing the tip of her nose, his eyes were looking at her eyes, and her shadow was clearly reflected in his clear eyes like water.

Her ears could hear his gasps clearly.

The faint fragrance of wine mixed with the smell of wine on his body suddenly became strong at this moment.

Bai Qianyu suddenly felt a little hot in his body, and his heart beat hard.

Wei Xiao looked at her without blinking, her head slowly leaned down, and her lips pressed against hers.

On a chair beside the bed, a little fox squatted, a clover sitting, and two kissing people huddled together.

"Don't look at the little ones!" Clover stretched out a palm to block the little fox's eyes.

However, the curious little fox moved his eyes down and looked over.

Clover hurriedly put his palm down.

The little fox moved his eyes up again.

A fluffy fox's tail swayed from side to side.

Shamrock looked at the bed along the little fox's eyes, and couldn't help covering her eyes with two palms, and screamed: "Oh, shame on you!"

Wei Xiao's head was slowly falling towards Bai Qianyu's lips.

Then his head tilted and fell to Bai Qianyu's side, his chin rested on her shoulder socket, and an even snort sounded,—— he actually fell asleep.

Bai Qianyu was stunned, unable to tell whether he was looking forward to or disappointed, slowly sat up from the bed, stretched out two hands, and it took a lot of effort to pull his body onto the bed and cover the quilt for him.

The drunken man is very heavy, like a wooden man, completely disobedient to the call.

Bai Qianyu finished doing all this, her body was already sweating slightly, she sat on the side, looking at Wei Xiao who was sleeping, her fingers gently stroked his forehead, eyelashes, nose, lips, and chin, he even looked so good when he was sleeping, she couldn't help but smile slightly.

The starlight shines through the window, shining on them, quiet and gentle.

When did she start fantasizing about a lifetime?

Even though I know that it is impossible for people who live in two worlds.

She listened to the sound of the waves outside the window, and her heart was bitter and sweet.

Then she leaned on the head of the bed, her body slowly fell down, lay beside Wei Xiao, and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, she suddenly felt cold, and unconsciously leaned closer to Wei Xiao's side, covering the quilt tightly.

But I still feel cold on my body, it is the kind of special cold, so cold that it is like falling into an ice cellar, shivering all over my body, and it is cold to the bone.

Bai Qianyu opened his eyes, and saw a star or two stars of white light floating in outside the window, like glowing fireflies, more and more of those white lights, floating in from the window, and once he entered the house, he disappeared again, as if he melted into the darkness.

Bai Qianyu thought in a daze, is this a snowflake?

She looked at the head of the bed, and the little fox was still curled up in its furry fox's tail, sleeping soundly, and the clover was lying next to it, and the stem of its body was hanging down along the head of the bed.

She reached out and touched the little fox, only to feel that its fur was so cold as if it had been soaked in water, and then went to touch the clover, both of them were cold and cold, Bai Qianyu was startled, and hurriedly pushed Wei Xiao: "Wei Xiao, Wei Xiao! Wake up! Ah Huo and Burn have frozen to death!"

She pushed, but Wei Xiao slept motionlessly, completely unresponsive.

Even Wei Xiao's body was cold.

Bai Qianyu was so frightened that he suddenly woke up and sat up from the bed.

Outside the window was a faint starlight, the little fox, the clover and Wei Xiao were sleeping in Zhengxiang, everything just now turned out to be just a dream.

She patted her chest, and was about to get up and go down to the ground to get a glass of water to drink, but suddenly she sneezed violently, and a chill came to her bones.

It seemed to be terribly cold in the air.

- What's going on?

Bai Qianyu got up in his clothes, quietly walked to the door, stroked the nine ring rings on the ring finger of his right hand with his left hand, and the fairy ring sensed the master's intentions, and immediately conjured a thick white fox fur to wrap her up and down.

There was no snow outside, but it was colder than inside, with an icy chill.

Under the eaves, a row of red lanterns was hung, shining faintly red in the deep and boundless night, fluttering with the hull of the ship, illuminating the sleepless people at sea.

Bai Qianyu walked to the bow of the boat against the cold wind, and a little dim red light shone from it.

"Uncle Turtle!" she put her hands to her mouth in the shape of a trumpet, and shouted upward.

The helmsman replied sullenly: "He went to the stern on the first floor, something happened!"

Bai Qianyu's heart jumped: "What's wrong?"

The helmsman replied: "I don't know!"

The voice came from the clear air of the night, and for some reason it always made Bai Qianyu feel a sense of foreboding.

Bai Qianyu turned around and walked towards the stern escalator, his heart jumped suddenly along the way, on the sea in the middle of the night, a boatload of drunk and sleeping people, most of the things that happened during the night voyage would not be a trivial matter, and now, the boat is still awake, I am afraid that only she and Jiang Laojiao, Mo Guiyun, Zhenzhen, Ning Wuxi, and a few sailors on duty.

She went downstairs along the escalator, and saw a few lanterns lit up at the stern of the boat, and in a trance it was a few sailors, and Jiang Lao Turtle was also among them.

I only heard one of the young sailors report: "The rudder blades of this stern rudder have been smashed in half, I think it was swept by the tail of the red shark yesterday, but the part of its water surface is still intact, but the underwater rudder blades are all broken, and we didn't find it when we cleaned it up yesterday!"

Another older-sounding sailor spoke with anxiety: "This is troublesome! This stern rudder has the title of 'Lingbo Treasure', this sea voyage is inseparable from it, it is used to stabilize and change the course of the ship, and now the rudder blades are broken, from yesterday to tonight, about a day or two of the journey has been taken, but I am afraid that it will deviate far from our scheduled course!"

"Besides, I don't know what's going on in this colder and colder weather! aren't we sailing to the Arctic Sea?" another sailor interjected worriedly.

In the night, Jiang Lao Turtle did not respond, and several sailors fell silent, only to see a little fiery red light on Jiang Lao Turtle's cigarette stick, up and down in the dark, flickering and disappearing.

Apparently, the owner of the cigarette stick is also in trouble and is struggling to figure out how to solve it.

After a long time, I suddenly heard Jiang Lao Turtle say in a dry voice: "Go and call Ah Tao in the needle room to test, how far are we from the normal course!"

One of the sailors replied, "Ah Tao broke his legs and feet from the mast that the shark swept off, and he is still unconscious!"

Jiang Lao Turtle was stunned and asked, "Who else on the boat will watch the needle road now?"

Several sailors looked at each other and shook their heads.

At this moment, a man suddenly heard in the dark night: "I will." ”

Two words are faint, but they are indescribably clear and elegant.

And it came from behind Bai Qianyu.

Several sailors and Jiang Laojiao looked over to the place where Bai Qianyu was standing.

Before Bai Qianyu could turn around, the white clothes on her side moved, and a person had already passed behind her, walked over to those people, and saluted: "I still know a little about acupuncture when I ask myself, so it's better to go to the needle room first." ”

Those people to his young Sven, and a weak son's appearance, are not very convinced, you must know that this sea compass floating needle is also called the water compass, must have experience in the sea to operate, "the responsibility is heavy, how can you be negligent", so the person in charge of the compass is called the fire chief, also called the boat master, under normal circumstances, the needle room general personnel are not allowed to enter casually.

Mo Guiyun said: "Although the tail rudder is lost now, but you can't stay at sea at night, first look at the stars, in addition to this compass needs to measure how much the direction deviates, it is best to measure the flow speed, to see how far our ship is from the predetermined channel." ”

Jiang Lao Turtle nodded and said, "Reasonable." ”

Command a sailor: "Go and take a piece of wood to the bow of the ship, throw it into the sea, and run from the bow to the stern, and I will burn incense here and count more." ”

Jiang Laojiao said that this is an ancient method of speed and range at sea, dividing a day and a night into ten watches, and calculating the time with the number of branches of incense burning, and the distance measured is accurate only when people and wood chips arrive at the same time. If people arrive first and can't call for more, wood chips come first and call for more, and one is a 30-kilometer voyage.

The sailor picked up a piece of wood from the deck and was about to go, but Mo Guiyun stopped him with one hand and said, "Don't be so troublesome. ”

Taking out a fan-shaped wooden board from his sleeve, there was a tough and unbreakable swimming line wrapped around the wooden board, Mo Guiyun led everyone to the bow of the boat, stood on the bow armor, tied it to the bow, and threw the other end of the fan-shaped wooden board into the sea, and the line was dragged longer and longer, and after a while, the sailor at the stern of the ship shouted that the wooden board had floated to the same level as the stern, and Mo Guiyun looked at the scale of the ink mark on the line and tied a knot.

He held an hourglass in his left hand, and began to time it when the fan-shaped plank was thrown into the sea, so that the hourglass was reversed several times in succession, and he looked at the scale on the swimming line, and for a moment he was silent, and immediately said: "The ship travels about 1,800 kilometers." ”

"It's so far away?" said a sailor.

Jiang Laojiao nodded: "The wind has been good these days, and the sea water is flowing fast, according to the usual experience, it is estimated that it should be this mile." ”

The eyes of several sailors began to look at Mo Guiyun with admiration.

A sailor put away the swimming line, rolled it up, and stepped forward to return it to Mo Guiyun, but Mo Guiyun waved his hand: "This odometry, if you still use it in the future, you can keep it!"

The sailor was overjoyed, thanked him, and quickly put it away.

Jiang Lao Turtle said: "The stern rudder has been repaired, and a new pair will be made overnight, and I will take people to turn around and sail in the northeast direction, and the matter of the needle room will be handed over to Mo Gongzi!"

Mo Guiyun said: "Uncle Turtle in this matter, but relax, I will go immediately!"

Looking up at the Northern Starlight: "We have deviated from the course to the south, we must slow down the ship and slowly turn north." ”

Bai Qianyu couldn't hold back anymore at this time, and said, "Since we have been heading south before, why do we feel colder and colder now?"