Chapter 15 Learning the art of navigation
"Good morning!"
After making up my mind, I slept soundly and felt refreshed.
Tang Jie stepped onto the deck, stretched out in the refreshing sea breeze, and said with a smile to the sailors who were working on the deck.
When William saw him, the sail man, waved his hand from afar: "Good morning, Tang Jie!"
William is a person who does not have a little fancy, and whoever can convince him, he will work for whomever he wants.
For the previous offense, William came to Tang Jie's room with a barrel of rum and said that if he did not forgive him, he would keep drinking to make amends until Tang Jie was willing to forgive him for his previous offense.
After speaking, before Tang Jie could say words of forgiveness, William began to drink the wine barrel, and the strong and mellow rum poured into William's beer belly like a mountain spring pouring down from top to bottom, and a lot of wine leaked out of his mouth and spilled on the ground, making a room full of alcohol.
By the time Tang Jie stopped him dumbfounded, a barrel of rum had already drunk more than half of it, and then Bill, who rushed in, made trouble and shouted, scolding William for pretending to be public and private.
Only then did Tang Jie understand that this guy had come to him to drink openly for this reason.
While smiling bitterly, Tang Jie also knew his temper and character, so naturally he would not worry about him anymore.
Seeing William happily greeting him, Tang Jie also waved his hand.
"Tang Jie, can you get out of bed, are you feeling better?" Skinny Mast Bill rushed out of Tang Jie's side like a groundhog that suddenly emerged from the field, and he smiled obscenely, "In the past few days, Nia has served you comfortably?"
Tang Jie just wanted to speak, but saw Nia coming over, her face was not good, obviously she had heard what she had just said.
Tang Jie made a straight face and told Nia with the most righteous and awe-inspiring body language: I definitely don't know this guy!
But although his face was stiff, Tang Jie secretly glanced at Bill.
There can't be the opposite sex, no humanity, isn't it?
You can't watch your former comrades-in-arms jump into the fire pit!
Bill didn't appreciate it, he rubbed his hands, and giggled at the top of his voice: "For the sake of Tila the god of the sea, tell me how far I have come? Almighty Tira, if you can conquer Nia, everyone on this ship will invite you to drink, she has oppressed us too hard, and now there is finally someone who can subdue her, what an eye-opener for the god of the sea......!
Tang Jie squeezed his eyebrows for a while, but found that Bill was really self-inflicted and couldn't live.
He let out a long sigh and watched as Nia walked behind Bill with a black face, and lifted him up with one hand like a puppy, twisting his face in front of him.
A very bright smile bloomed on Nia's face, "Who were you talking about, Bill?"
Tang Jie shook his head, revealing a miserable expression: I won't watch you jump, I'll close my eyes!
Bill didn't expect that he said that he was being caught, he was startled, and the expression on his face changed from a lewd smile to surprise, from surprise to panic, from panic to fear, and then from fear to a flattering smile, the expression was wonderful!
He ate and said: "Nia, good Nia, beautiful and gentle Niya, your beauty is incomparable, your virtuous and virtuous people are famous all over the world, for the sake of the sea god Tira, for the sake of the life-saving benefactor Tang Jie, you can spare me this time!"
Nia pretended to be surprised: "Spare you, what did you do wrong? Let me spare you?"
Bill looked up to the sky and snorted: "Since I haven't done anything wrong, let me go!
Nia giggled, "yes, but I've got a better place for you!"
After speaking, without waiting for Bill to speak, Nia waved her arms and threw Bill onto a mast more than five meters high.
Bill screamed in the air in fright, danced with his hands, grabbed the rope from the mast and did not let go, and hung like a sloth on the sail.
Nia crossed her waist and threw her head back and shouted, "Bill, today's lookout reconnaissance will be handed over to you!" After speaking, she laughed.
The rest of the sailors on deck stared at her blankly, as if petrified.
Nia glanced at them and exclaimed, "What are you doing in a daze?
The sailors, like frightened ostriches, immediately turned around and buried their heads, not daring to look any more.
Tang Jie looked at Nia's gaze and raised his hands very boldly: "I didn't say anything just now!
Nia approached Tang Jie, as if trying to observe his eyes to see if he was lying.
When she approached, Tang Jie suddenly opened his mouth, exhaled, and smiled: "Don't get too close, I didn't brush my teeth!"
Nia was so angry that she almost fainted, she was so angry that when she came to her senses, she saw that Tang Jie had already laughed and ran away.
She wrinkled her nose in anger and was about to chase after her, but saw a loud shout from the helmsman: "Nia, go find a few people to brush the deck!"
Nia looked at Tang Jie, who was grimacing at her not far away, stomped her feet, and shouted: "Remember to rinse your mouth with seawater in the future, and then use fresh water to clear your mouth!"
Tang Jie smiled and waved his hand at her, indicating that he had heard.
Holding the rudder with one hand, Barr looked at Tang Jie and Nia on the deck with a smile, and he beckoned to Tang Jie: "Child, come up, come to me." ”
Tang Jie walked over, but saw that Barr was still wearing the cuffed leather tricorn hat that symbolized the captain's status, and his brown-red beard trembled gently in the sea breeze, and he stood like an iron tower, and the clothes on his body fluttered in the sea breeze.
Barr watched Tang Jie come and nodded to him with a smile, chic and natural, but with the wisdom and majesty of an elder.
Last night, the reason why Nia said to Tang Jie that he was the best candidate for the Pirate King was that the main reason for this was this bearded man.
When the bearded man was young, his lifelong dream was to become a man like the pirate king Athos, but when he was old, he realized that he was not the material, so he poured his lifelong knowledge and wisdom into his daughter Nia, and then passed on this dream to her, so that she could carry her dream forward.
From the age of five, Nia was constantly trained by Barr, and she developed the tough, competitive, and fierce character she has now, and she has learned everything Barr can learn from him.
However, in the end, whether it was Barr or Nia, they finally discovered and finally realized that Nia was not this piece of material.
Nia, the "old sailor" who has been twelve years old at the age of seventeen, can sail in the waters of Ataq with her eyes closed, as if she were in her own pond, she can become a second-class sword fighter at the age of seventeen, she can be skilled in any position on this ship, she can be brave like a man, and she can always rush to the forefront of the war.
But all this is still not enough after all, she is very smart, and she is also very hardworking.
However, she is at most a general, but she is not a handsome talent who can cover the world.
She lacks the talent to become the Pirate King.
When Nia and Barr saw the first battle of Tang Jie's life, they figured it out.
So, once again, the dream shifted.
Barr looked at Tang Jie's eyes with complicated eyes, including jealousy, envy, admiration, admiration, and even the burning heat of love.
"You're finally able to get out of bed!" Barr smiled.
Tang Jie moved his arm and smiled: "Yes, these days, it's suffocated me." ”
Barr looked Tang Jie up and down: "How is your recovery?"
"It's okay, seven-seven-eighty-eight. Thanks to you, otherwise, my corpse would have been fed to fish in the sea. Tang Jie said with a smile.
Barr waved his hand: "Don't talk about this, if you really want to count it, it should be you who saved our lives!"
Tang Jie smiled: "Okay, just when we cancel each other, how about it?"
The bearded man smiled heartily: "Okay, just cancel each other!"
The two men looked at each other and smiled, and Barr held the rudder, looked at the blue sea, changed the subject, and said, "Son, do you like the sea?"
Tang Jie was stunned for a moment and looked ahead with his gaze.
Occasionally, seabirds chirped and flew in the sky, one into the sea, and then flew out with a fish in their mouths, a touch of waves and ripples, the water splashes and ripples spread layer by layer, gradually dissipated at the end of the sea and the sky, and disappeared with the birds.
The two-masted Flying Fish-class "Hell" took advantage of the sea breeze, like a knife, cutting and walking on this huge sapphire, and when the graceful curved hull skimmed the sea, it stirred up layers of waves, like broken jade flowers, which was very beautiful.
The blue sea and the vast sky seem to be connected, like a huge pure blue gem, quiet and serene, refreshing, Tang Jie stands in this sky and sea, as if he feels that people are much taller, breathing the damp sea breeze's chest, and it seems that because of the scene in front of him, it is wide enough to accommodate all things in the world!
Tang Jie was a little stupid for a while, he didn't expect that there was such a pure, so clear, so shocking blue in this world, its purity seemed to be spotless, and its tranquility seemed to be sleeping.
The sea, the sea of infinite magic.
When he saw her for the first time in this world, Tang Jie found himself on a pirate ship, although the sea was still blue at this time, she exuded a fierce and bloody atmosphere, like an old sailor with a bare bronze chest, looking at him calmly and wisely.
When he saw the sea again at first sight, she suddenly turned her face into a hysterical, furious demon, and she stirred up the waves and toyed with them like a trivial toy.
But when Tang Jie saw the sea again at this time, it became so gentle and quiet, like a shy and smiling virgin, which made people's hearts shake.
It seems that none of the previous impressions are true, and only this side in front of you is the original face of the sea.
"It's incredible, isn't it?" Barr looked at the look on Tang Jie's face, and he smiled, "Why is she sometimes gentle, sometimes violent, sometimes mysterious, sometimes naughty?"
Tang Jie took a deep breath and smiled: "How do you know what I'm thinking?"
Barr laughed: "The first time I went to sea, I had the same expression as you! shock, surprise, trepidation and awe of the sea, but more of it was excitement, fanaticism and madness to conquer her passion!"
Barr tilted his head, as if reminiscing, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then released the rudder, and smiled at Tang Jie: "You come and give it a try?"
Tang Jie pointed at himself in surprise: "Me?"
"Of course, my child!" the bearded Barr smiled.
Tang Jie found that Barr did not only like to call him a child, in fact he preferred to call everyone on the ship a child, and he seemed to regard them as his own children, treating them as flesh and blood, and the strictness of the elders revealed the love of the elders.
He reminds me of my own father.
Tang Jie said to himself secretly in his heart.
Tang Jie walked over, held the rudder wheel that rotated out of thin air with both hands, and immediately felt a strong force transmitted from the rudder to the palm of his hand.
He hurriedly used his arm to grasp the rudder steadily, but he didn't expect this rudder to be extremely flexible, he made a little more force this time, and when he held it hard, the rudder bone turned around and began to turn to the left again.
Tang Jie swayed twice, and obviously felt that the boat under his feet was swaying from side to side, and the amplitude was so large that his body also tilted.
The sailors on deck let out a good-natured laugh when they saw him a little embarrassed on the wheelhouse.
Tang Jie was a little embarrassed and looked at Bar for help.
Barr looked at him with a smile and said, "Don't push too hard, the rudder wheel is like our ankles, it is flexible and slender, and it controls the direction we are going." ”
Tang Jie listened, his arm used a little force, and sure enough, the rudder stopped safely in the palm of his hand, no longer shaking.
This feeling is like the wild horse under the crotch no longer jumping around, meekly running in the direction under his control, Tang Jie is happy.
Seems simple!
Seeing that he was a little complacent, Barr smiled slightly, and glanced at William and the others who were in charge of the sails.
William and the others understood, smiled at each other, and let go of the sail line, letting the sea breeze blow on the sail without adjusting the angle and position of the sail.
The sails were unmanned, and the huge sails swayed and shook under the action of the wind, constantly changing angles, and the whole ship was like a drunken drunkard, swaying and folding one step at a time.
Tang Jie was still secretly thinking in his heart that steering was such a simple thing, but at this time, he was in a hurry.
Because the sail was out of control, the huge wind force from the sail surface directly acted on the helmsman's wheel, Tang Jie only felt that a huge force suddenly came from his hand, pulling him to turn in one direction.
He gritted his teeth, held his breath, his waist was like a jack pendant, his horse was tightly tied to the helmsmandle, his arms muscles were up, and he pulled the rudder to adjust the hull to the original track.
But as soon as he manipulated the hull of the ship to change the direction a little, the angle between the sail and the wind direction changed, and the sail was blown to the other side.
The boat began to run in the other direction again.
The sail of the activity made Tang Jie unable to master the rudder at all, he was brought by the wind for a while with a left full rudder, and at the same time by the wind with a right full rudder, extremely embarrassed.
In fact, the same as driving, if you find that the ship is deviating to the right, you will hit the steering wheel a little to the left, and if you find that it is deviating to the left, you will hit the steering wheel a little to the right.
However, the difference between sailing and driving is that the helmsman on the helmsman must have keen and rich sailing experience, they must know where the sea breeze is blowing, how strong the wind is, no matter what position the sail is in, they should be able to react at the first time, and achieve the purpose of controlling the sail position and controlling the direction of the hull by adjusting the rudder plate.
Tang Jie didn't understand this, because he was so busy at this time that he was covered in a layer of fine sweat, and the Hell walked out of one "zigzag" shape after another on the sea.
When Tang Jie was impatient and anxious, he suddenly saw a hand firmly and forcefully resting on the helmsmand.
Barr smiled at him: "Child, treat her like your own woman, don't use brute force. ”
Barr was in control of the steering wheel, and as soon as the sail changed, his steering wheel would change with it, as if he were a prophet of the future, and he could sense in advance how the wind on the ocean played tricks on the sails.
Tang Jie's eyes widened as he watched Barr turn the rudder lightly, sometimes turning two squares to the left, sometimes three squares to the right, although the angle of the sail was still changing at will, but the hull was always moving smoothly.
"Standing in this position, what your hands are touching is not just this round rudder, what you touch and grasp is the whole boat!" Barr smiled, his eyes fixed on Tang Jie, "You not only have to keep your eyes open to look at the direction of progress, but also open your every pore, use your keen skin to feel the direction and strength of the wind, you have to imagine yourself to be one with this boat, when the wind just blows on the sail, you should always be the first to know!"
"Sailing is not a simple thing. Balwin smiled with encouragement in his eyes, "Want to try again?"
Tang Jie's eyes were full of excitement and curiosity about new things, full of high morale for the unknown future, he geared up and laughed: "As long as you are not afraid of seasickness!"
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