Wang Hou was swept up by the wind, like a dead leaf rolling in the air, as if he was swept up by a tornado in Chaohu Lake in April last year, but compared to the last time, this time it is more than a thousand times more powerful! Wang Hou kicked his hands and feet, sat up suddenly, and found that it was just a nightmare. The surroundings were quiet, and the sound of Liu Hanyan and others laughing came from next door.

Leaning on the head of the bed, recalling the situation in the dream, Wang Hou secretly wondered in his heart: "I have never been on a treasure ship, why do the waves crash against the hull of the ship and make a loud sound, but it feels so familiar?" ...... the power of the 'Four Connected Forms' is good, but how can it be compared to the power of the monstrous waves? Zheng Zongbing said that this trip is full of disasters, and if I really want to encounter the dream realm, how should I deal with it? ……”

Seeing that it was getting late, Wang Hou thought for a long time, but after all, he couldn't figure it out, sighed, and got out of bed. Everyone had already packed up, hastily ate dinner, rushed to the port, and arrived at the treasure ship of the "Tianzhu", and the five people of the Desperate Gang said goodbye to the seven sons of Wudang, the lily fairy, the Zhou helm lord and the Fan helm lord.

The lily fairy has been with the five of them for nearly a month, and she is a little reluctant to separate at this time. Liu Hanyan took the hand of the Lily Fairy and said, "Fairy, if Mo Qixia dares to bully you, tell us, and we will help you take revenge." This sentence made everyone laugh out loud, and the eldest Song Tian said with a smile: "Elder Liu, please rest assured, if the fairy doesn't bully the seventh junior brother, we will thank God." ”

Mo Gong sneered: "The fairy is the life-saving benefactor below, even if he bullies me, I can only endure it." The lily fairy looked at him and said, "What a life-saving benefactor, it is hard to hear death." ”

Zhou Qingzhu held the bonsai and stood aside to urge: "Fairy, I'll go see you when I'm free...... Brother Wang, let's get on the boat first. Then everyone said goodbye again. Liu Hanyan walked in the front, Zhou Qingzhu, Jin Minhui, and Li Zhixian inspected the pass in turn, Wang Hou showed his waist card, and the officers and soldiers bowed and saluted, and hurriedly let them go.

Zhuang Zhaoxue had already cleaned up the room, Sect Leader Liu was alone, Liu Zhaohui and Wang Hou lived in the same room, Liu Hanyan, Zhou Qingzhu, Li Zhixian, Jin Minhui, and Zhuang Zhaoxue arranged two rooms, but they were willing to leave the one empty, and the five of them lived in one room, but fortunately, the room was larger, but it did not seem crowded. Each room has a porthole more than half a person high, and when the curtains are opened, you can see the scenery outside, and Zhou Qingzhu shouted excitedly.

After the arrangements were made, Wang Hou remembered that he should go to visit the two of them, so he came over to call Liu Hanyan. Zhou Qingzhu asked, "Brother Wang, where are you going?" "We are going to visit two people, one is Master Haimo, the abbot of Putuo Mountain, who was treated by Dao Feng at the end of last year, which caused him a lot of trouble; The other is the helmsman Li of the Xi'an branch of the Yan Gang, who is my sister-in-law's uncle. ”

Zhou Qingzhu shouted loudly: "Then I will go too." "You don't know these two people, what are you running for?" "Sister Ah Yan doesn't know each other? …… Oh, she knows the abbot of Mount Putuo...... I haven't seen that Li Helmsman. Sister Yan, if you don't want to take me there, I'll tell Senior Sister Zhuang about what happened to you this morning. ”

Liu Hanyan glanced indoors, and the bonsai was placed in Wang Hou's room next door, and immediately said evilly: "You remember it for me, watch out for your Zizhu...... Nerd, let's take Sister Azhu. Wang Hou had no choice but to answer, "It's okay", and looked at the other three: "Don't go with you, I'm a general now, I must pay attention to the image and influence......" Before he finished speaking, he was dragged out of the door by Liu Hanyan's ears lightly.

Jin Minhui looked at Li Zhixian, then at Zhuang Zhaoxue, and said angrily: "What did Brother Wang mean by what he said just now?" Think we don't look good, and we are embarrassed to follow him? Hmph, I don't want to be disguised, Sister Li, you say, isn't that so? …… Senior Sister Zhuang is so beautiful, why can't she bring it? ”

Zhuang Zhaoxue hurriedly said: "Wang Gongzi is a great general, and he is surrounded by women, what kind of words." Besides, I don't know the abbot and the helmsman well, so it's not uncommon to join in this fun. ”

Li Zhixian echoed: "Senior Sister Zhuang is right, I don't rarely join in this fun, we're fine now anyway, Senior Sister Zhuang, can you teach us the disguise technique?" When Jin Minhui heard this, she immediately came to her senses: "Yes, yes, Senior Sister Zhuang, you teach us the disguise technique, and we can disguise ourselves into men, and we can follow Brother Wang." ”

Zhuang Zhaoxue said with a smile: "The day before yesterday, I wanted to disguise you as men, but considering that we will live in the same room in the future, I have to disguise the two of you like this." As he spoke, he took out a large number of bottles and cans from his baggage, and explained the role of each contained medicine one by one.

Lee Ji-hyun and Kim Min-hui listened to it very curiously and tried to do it themselves. Jin Minhui saw that there was a bead the size of a dragon's eye in the baggage, shining brightly, and said strangely: "Hey, what is this?" Zhuang Zhaoxue responded: "This is Wang Gongzi's thing, and it is precisely because of this Suizhu that we met him......" Zhuang Zhaoxue said that in Wuhu in April last year, because the prince noticed that there was a strange thing on Wang Hou's body, the two sides met from this.

After listening to the story, Jin Minhui sighed with emotion: "I don't know where Brother Wang's Night Pearl came from, it sounds like providence, it's really touching." ”

Zhuang Zhaoxue said with a smile: "Miss Jin, if you talk about the will of heaven, isn't it also the will of heaven that we met you in Tianjinwei?" You were originally girls from the Korean country, but you met us several times and eventually became inseparable friends...... Many things seem to be doomed in the dark. ”

But I heard someone outside the door ask, "What is already doomed?" "It turned out that Wang Hou and the three of them came back. The prince in Liu Hanyan's arms saw the night pearl on the table, and immediately stared intently. Jin Minhui said: "We are talking about the acquaintance of Brother Wang and Sister Liu, and it turned out that Mingzhu was the matchmaker this night." ”

Li Zhixian stretched out his hand and hugged the prince: "Sister Jin, you are wrong, the real matchmaker is here." Wang Hou reacted, remembered the situation in Wuhu in April last year, and clapped his palms to the prince: "Come, I'll hug this big matchmaker too...... Ouch, smoke, what are you doing? ”

Everyone didn't know that thanks to this night pearl, otherwise Wang Hou would not be able to escape the catastrophe not long after, this is a later story.

"There is no wind and thousands of miles to smooth the jade, and there are thousands of waves of broken gold in the moon." On February 13, 19th year of Yongle (March 16, 1421), Taiping Port, Changle County, the weather was unusually fine, the spring sun was sprinkled on the river, sparkling, floating and golden, and the treasure ships were moored on the river in turn.

On the riverbank, colorful flags are displayed, dragons and lions dance, and the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums resounded in the sky. Compared with three days ago, today is even more crowded, in addition to many local officials who came here to see them off, there are also relatives and friends who have just been called up to see off 2,000 sailors, some cheering and quietly wiping tears, and many people who came to see the excitement.

All the personnel on board were ready to go, and on the main deck, the bow and stern decks stood rows of officers and men, the jewels on the scabbards around their waists, shining in the sun. The giant banner of the word "and", which is more than two feet high on the bow of the ship, was blown by the wind. At the end of the day, the orders came one after another, and the sailors and officers and men on one ship all struggled to lift the anchor, and the iron anchor weighing several thousand catties was slowly pulled to the ship.

Another order, more than a thousand cloud sails gradually opened, and then I heard a fifty-year-old man in his fifties, wearing a three-mountain hat and a red robe, on a treasure ship at the front, and said loudly: "Let's go!" The sound was sent out with internal force, stirring up a series of "Go!" on the surface of the river. "Let's go!" The sound has been heard for miles.

Suddenly, the drums and horns on the boat and on the shore sounded in unison, and everyone shouted and cheered, raised their arms and applauded. Hundreds of people on board shook the oars together, and the huge fleet was like a giant dragon, sailing away from Taiping Port and rushing straight into the vast sea.

Wang Hou stood on the main deck of the "Tianzhu", looking at all this in front of him, and suddenly gave birth to a kind of pride of "there will be a time when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds will sail into the sea": whether it is the requirements of Liu Chu's predecessors to "sail the rivers and lakes and promote morality", or Zheng He's mission of "making friends with Fanbang and stabilizing southern Xinjiang", life is only a hundred years, and it should be so happy to ride the wind and waves and move forward bravely like this!

Thinking of this, the dream of yesterday afternoon once again surfaced, I don't know whether the omen is good or bad, what will happen to such a big ship if it encounters strong winds and waves? …… This is the sixth time I've been to the West, and the first five times have been safe, so I don't think there will be much danger this time, right?

It's just that yesterday morning, Zheng Zongbing said that before he left Nanjing, he had visited a monk, and this trip will go through many calamities, I don't know if my dream will be one of the calamities? Because I haven't experienced it myself, I don't know how to deal with it once there is a situation where there are really waves and huge waves like mountains? …… Thinking about it, Wang Hou couldn't help but frown and fell into deep thought.

Liu Hanyan, who was beside him, saw that he hadn't moved for a long time, turned his head curiously, saw that he was silent in thought, and asked, "Nerd, what are you thinking?" "I'm thinking about things." "What's the matter?" "Think...... Big fat boy. "Phew!"

Li Zhixian, who was on the side, asked with a smile: "Is Brother Wang thinking about the fairy?" "What do you want her to do?" …… Let's go, yesterday when we visited the Li helmsman of the Xi'an rudder of the Yan Gang, they were playing a kind of card, and after watching it for a while, they felt that it was a little interesting and very easy to learn. Master Li also gave me a deck of cards, and we went back to the room to play together. ”

Liu Hanyan and Zhou Qingzhu also watched it for a while yesterday and knew the rules, and when they heard that they were going to play, they happily followed behind Wang Hou's ass, and Jin Minhui and Li Zhixian also followed.

Wang Hou took the cards and poured them on the small square table, all small pieces of wood, and some numbers were engraved on them. It is said that when Zheng He first went to the West, a general surnamed Ma saw that everyone was lonely on the boat, and invented the way to play: with more than 100 pieces of small wooden chips, according to the formation of the fleet, carved one to nine, according to the barrel of fresh water on the ship, carved one to nine barrels, carved one to nine barrels according to the money, and finally according to the wind direction, engraved the 'east, west, north and south' wind.

This kind of mahjong tiles soon became popular on the ship, and later became popular in various places, mainly simple and easy to learn, regardless of men and women, young and old, can not be literate, a teaching will; And there is no fixed number of wins and losses, novices can win, veterans will lose, and the variables are large, so it is very easy to become addicted.

Liu Hanyan, Zhou Qingzhu, Li Zhixian, and Jin Minhui sat down in the four directions of the table.