The sky had barely left the midday heat, and a few children of eight, nine, and ten years old were already running on the deck. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The mothers called out one after another, and in response they were a lovely giggle.

The red sun slowly sets towards the sea, and the sunset is reflected on the loving faces of the lovers at the bow of the ship, glowing with red colors. A few seabirds skimmed by, flashing white like a few clouds, and the fish jumped lightly, splashing in the water.

It was another calm afternoon.

The captain's heart, however, was tense, as if he hoped that a spire would suddenly rise from the sea ahead. Yes, it's been a few days since the voyage, but the islands on the map have not appeared, and the food in the cabin has run out, how can people not be nervous?

The fleeing people all walked out of the cabin, enjoying the rare calm sea, out of the bloody land, and the new life was ahead. In the crowd, a white-haired old man in a gray linen dress stood in the wind, his body shimmering in the sun, and the children next to him stopped making noise and gathered around. Every now and then, the old man begins to teach the children to learn characters, but the seven countries of the mainland have their own characters, which country should it be today?

Suddenly, a boy shouted, "Look, what a big fish!"

Hearing the voices of the children, the adults also stretched out their heads to take a look, and those who had never been out of the sea were amazed: "This big fish is also too strange, not to mention that there are three white lines on the gray body, but there are six fins!"

"Oni Fish!" a middle-aged man's face almost twitched, and the two words seemed to exhaust all his strength. But people were puzzled, and they didn't know why he was so afraid. A few sailors quickly ran to report to the captain, although it was not yet certain, but the ghost fish in the Bohai Sea was no joke, and how many ships were destroyed here!

When the captain came out to see it, he involuntarily began to tremble—what a ghost! The crazy scene of ten years ago quickly came to mind, and the fear was evident. However, after all, he has been a veteran of sailing for more than ten years, and his fear is only extinguished in an instant. He saw the group of ghost turtles quickly passing the boat, heading straight ahead, knowing that there must be an accident ahead, and the ghost turtles would abandon their broken ship—

"Turn the rudder, due north!"

The sailors behind him immediately ran. Either way, the captain thought to himself, my responsibility is to give the refugees on this boat a good place to live, and the rest is not so much to worry about.

At the bow of the boat, the white-haired old man couldn't help frowning when he noticed that the course was changing, and some men and scholars who were watching the old man not far away showed a slight worry.

"Grandpa Turtle, what's wrong?"

The little girl found out about the old man's strange appearance, you know, the old man has been smiling since he got on the boat.

"Oh, it's okay my turtle granddaughter, it's okay. The old man patted the girl on the head and laughed again. The little girl pursed her lips and said coquettishly: "Grandpa Turtle is making fun of people again, I won't play with you anymore." With that, he ran away, and the boy next to him stared at the petite and lovely back, not moving for a long time. The old man understood, patted him on the shoulder, but deliberately asked, "Grandson turtle, what are you looking at?" The boy immediately blushed and reddened, but he was still stunned.

"Uncle, if you still call it that, don't talk about children, adults will be unhappy, after all, no one wants to be a turtle son or turtle daughter. A stubbled man laughed.

"Hahaha...... Really, really. ”

This man with a gray cloth bag on his back should be a swordsman, with a straight back, strong and powerful arms, and calluses on his hands that can be seen as the result of sword practice. The coarse cloth wrapped in it was his sword, and the old man thought, listening to the qi from the edge of the sword, it was a good sword.

The man felt it, and a breath of air pressing on the sword surprised him slightly. Looking around, there was nothing unusual, he scratched his head, a little puzzled, was it too much? The old man had taught the children to learn Chinese again, it was the Zhongchu script, and he used a knife to carve a "sword" character on the wooden board.

"What is a sword?" asked the dumbfounded boy, who for some reason seemed to have been engraved in his heart. The old man suddenly became interested in the boy: "You seem to be talking a lot today...... Why do you ask?" Why, the boy himself didn't know, but a question mark popped up in his heart.

The old man looked at the boy—

"What's your name?"

"Lin Feng. ”

"Then Lin Feng, grandpa told you that the sword is a thing that can both kill and save people!"

"What's that?" the boy asked, tilting his head, his eyes shining, no longer stupid, but still silly.

"This ......" The old man suddenly stopped, is it too high expectations, how can a child understand?

"A sword is not a thing, a sword is a sword!" said the swordsman next to him suddenly, he reached out and touched the sword on his back, his face was vaguely proud. However, this confused the child even more, and one boy couldn't help asking, "It's not a thing, what is a sword?"

This question made the old man and the swordsman stunned! And the people on the ship couldn't stop laughing.

Night has fallen, the stars are reflected in the calm sea, and the ships seem to sail in the Milky Way. The night is good, people have already gathered in the bow of the boat, forming a circle, in the circle a woman in white cloth and plain clothes holds a pipa, her eyes are closed, only to see a slender hand slowly put on the string, the melodious singing is sung, the air is accompanied by a light and slow pipa sound, people are relaxed physically and mentally, and the mood is peaceful. Here, away from the smoke of war, away from earthly strife.

However, this tranquility is only temporary, and who can really stay away? Nowhere in this world there will be no people? Where there are people, there will be strife!

In the independent cabin, the old man read carefully with a bamboo slip in his hand, but the bamboo slip was not written in any of the seven countries. Suddenly, he noticed a slight movement—

"Don't stand outside the door, come in if you want to. ”

Then the door opened slowly, and it was the boy who had been dumbfounded! The boy walked in lightly, slowly, and as if he was a little afraid. The old man understood at a glance -

"Do you still want to ask the 'sword'?"

Lin Feng didn't answer, just nodded.

"Why do you care so much about it?"

Lin Feng still didn't answer, and he didn't nod and shake his head. The old man saw clearly, and the boy's eyes were full of confusion, why was this the case? The old man covered his scroll and sighed: "Don't think too much, child, you are still young, you won't understand!"

"Kaede...... Kaede ...... Xiao Feng!" came the call of her mother in the hallway, and her voice trembled with worry. The boy turned and ran out of the cabin, shouting, "Mother, I'm here, mother!"

"Tell you not to run around, why are you disobedient?!" The voice was not blame, but caring.

"Mother, the child is wrong!" took his mother's hand and walked forward, but the boy's eyes looked at the cabin behind him, "sword", what is it?

The strings of the lute were still graceful on the boat, but the sky suddenly changed, and the dark clouds quickly drowned out the stars. A thin line of rain began to fall in the sky, and people began to run towards the cabin, but the woman with the lute in her arms was touching something with her hands on the deck. At this time, a teenager ran to help her up, but she insisted on touching it with her hands. The boy shouted, "Xiaoling, what are you doing? It's raining!"

"I'm looking for a jade pendant!"

"What?!" the sea began to roar because of the wind blowing waves. The roar drowned out the voices of the two.

"You gave me the jade pendant!" Xiao Ling shouted, but her voice was still very small.

"Forget it, don't look for it!"

The wind and waves were stronger, and the splashing water soaked the clothes of the two men.

"No, Ah Hai, you gave it to me!" the woman was still stubborn.

Seeing that this situation was in danger, the young man pulled Xiao Ling up forcefully-

"Let's go, I've found the jade pendant!"

Ah Hai just dragged Xiao Ling into the cabin, quickly pulled the hatch, and a big wave hit the deck.

"Jade pendant. Xiao Ling broke away from Ah Hai's hand and spread it out in front of her.

Ah Hai had no choice but to take out the jade pendant from behind him and put it on Xiao Ling's hand, Xiao Ling touched the jade pendant and showed joy. Ah Hai looked at her and sighed: "You can't see with your eyes, why are you so stupid?!"

However, Xiao Ling's face suddenly changed-

"What about yours?"

Ah Hai's whole body stiffened, and his expression was a little flustered: "What...... What?"

"I know!" Xiao Ling stuffed the jade to Ah Hai, turned around and touched the wall panel and walked inside, "It's yours, I don't want it!" It turned out that although this piece of jade was exactly the same as what Xiao Ling was looking for, it was Ah Hai's, and the two of them were originally one by one.

Ah Hai came back to his senses at this time, chased after him, and hurriedly defended: "Xiaoling, listen to me, Xiaoling!"

Xiao Ling ignored it, entered the cabin, turned around and pulled the door. Just hearing the sound of "pop", Ahaidon felt a headache, woman, it's just hard to understand! Only when she was angry, Ahai thought to herself that it was better to sleep first.

In the middle of the night, the torrential rain that had been raging for a long time gradually stopped, and the hearts of the refugees who had been frightened all night calmed down. Everyone had slept, except for the captain, who still had an oil lamp burning, but he had been carefully looking at the charts in his hand, and had no time to pay attention to what was going on around him. A dark shadow swept past the stern of the ship, silently opening the hatch and entering, without alarming anyone. However, the white-haired old man noticed something unusual, but he frowned, but he didn't pay much attention to it, what other conspiracies and tricks could there be in this vast sea?

In the morning, the red sun had just climbed out of the sea, and the slight waves lapped against the lonely boat, as if to arouse the sleepy eyes of some child! In front of everyone, the thick fog and sunlight took on an eerie red color. The sea breeze is gentle, but it can't blow it off! The mood of the refugees at this time is probably shrouded in a layer of haze. Last night's rainstorm made people's hearts throb, and this must have been the most violent rain that could not be escaped. If the wind had been strong last night, the boat would have been overturned! In the face of nature, people are still too small after all!

The white-haired old man slowly walked out of the cabin, and suddenly found that the course had turned back, and his heart was overjoyed, but after a while, he became worried! The captain also noticed the strangeness of the course at this time, so he sharply reprimanded the sailor behind him: "Didn't you ask Xiao Ding to turn the rudder!"

"I mean, boss, Ding did the same!" the sailor panicked, this thing was really strange.

"But why is the ship still on its original course?"

"This ...... Could it be that the wind was strong last night and blew back?"

The captain of the ship calmed down, and it was right to think about it, it was impossible for the group of people he brought out not to know what to do, could it really be the strong wind of last night? The young sailor's face was still a little panicked, and he asked cautiously: "Boss, do you want to call Xiao Ding again?" Before he finished speaking, the captain stretched out his hand to interrupt. He also thought that after reading the navigation chart last night, if he really went north, it would take at least seven days to meet the island, but there was not enough food. However, on second thought, although the original route could barely support Penglai Island, there was a great possibility that it would run into that group of ghost sharks. ——

"It seems that there is only one gamble, tell Xiao Ding, according to the original route, the target is Penglai!"

Seeing that the captain of the ship gave an order, the sailor flew as if he had gone.

The sailors were already busy. In contrast, the people on deck were very relaxed. The old man at the bow of the ship suddenly frowned, and the fog in front of him was mixed with the slightest smell of blood, and it was getting thicker and thicker. The people on the boat also noticed the situation, and when they looked at the water, it was so red that some of the women could not stand it and even vomited.

"Ghost shark! It must be a ghost shark!" and the middle-aged man who shouted in panic yesterday, if it was yesterday, people would definitely make fun of his timid appearance, but today......

The deck was silent, and the wind and waves were already unaware! Everyone was wondering, could it be that they had reached a dead end? In the misty blood mist ahead, there seemed to be a ghost roar from the underworld, which made the refugees who thought that the ship had come out of many disasters tremble!

The captain of the ship stood on the deck, almost frightened refugees in front of him. In such a desperate atmosphere, it is no longer possible to solve it by manpower! He looked at the crowd again, paused, and said slowly: "Everyone, be quiet, listen to me, we only have two ways to go now!"

"Either go forward and find Penglai Island, but we are likely to encounter the pirate 'Oni Shark'. I think everyone has heard more or less about these pirates, and you can imagine how terrible they are. Either go backwards and go back to the mainland, and remove countries other than Youtian and Daqin, but our food may not be able to support us to go back!

"I can't decide privately, this boat belongs to everyone, and it should be up to everyone!"

Everyone was silent when they heard this, yes, how should this be chosen! No matter forward or backward, it is not the same situation?

"Look, look, what a big boat!" a child suddenly shouted, pointing to the right side of the boat and shouting to the woman beside him, "Mother, look, it's so big!" (To be continued. )