Chapter 40: The Wise Man
The maintenance of the treasure ship on the Twenty-Seven Islands was quickly over, and the journey was smooth, with almost no bad weather, and almost no loss of support, that is, the maintenance was completed after the creatures at the bottom of the ship were removed.
When cleaning up the creatures at the bottom of the ship, Liu Yifeng also took Ni Kantu and they took most of the cleaned up things from the shipwrights in the name of the Maritime Safety Bureau.
"Master, this thing can really be eaten!?"
Ao Bai looked at the large and hideous barnacles at the bottom of the boat, and felt that he was uncomfortable all over his body, as if something was about to emerge from his skin.
He's guilty of intensive phobia.
Among the people brought by Liu Yifeng, several of them had the same dense phobia as Aobai, their faces were pale and uncomfortable, and they stood in place and swayed.
They all grew up inland, and barnacles, a creature that grows in a dense vehicular manner, are a little too scary for them. Especially when looking at the large barnacles at the bottom of the boat, it is really weak.
When Liu Yifeng was about to take away 1 large barrel of barnacles, the workers of the shipyard all gave him a praising look, which was an affirmation for those who knew the goods.
"It's all cleaned for me, and I'll eat mud and sand for a while, don't blame me for not reminding you."
Commanding Ao Bai and Jin Chengyou, they brushed the barnacles with borrowed brushes, Liu Yifeng and Lao Wang boiled water, and then put the cleaned barnacles into the steamer.
Barnacles were known as hellish delicacies in later generations.
Hell is naturally due to its hideous appearance and dense growth characteristics, which makes it easy to suffer from dense phobia.
And the food has to mention the fleshy texture and sweet taste of barnacles.
The obturator muscle of barnacles is very resilient because it controls the outer shell made of limestone. But for humans, this toughness is delicate Q-bomb, which is a rare taste of terrestrial creatures.
The sweetness of the barnacle comes from its ovaries. Barnacles are hermaphroditic creatures, and their ovaries are very large, taking up to 60% of the body's weight. The nutrients in the ovaries were called barnacle paste by later generations of foodies, and for some reason, the taste of barnacle paste makes people feel sweet.
It can be said that one of the criteria for distinguishing whether a foodie who grew up by the sea can really eat is to see whether he eats barnacles or not.
"Liu Yifeng, can you really eat this thing?"
Feng Shuo didn't have a phobia of density, but the barnacle's panicked appearance made him a little scared.
Liu Yifeng didn't bother to explain, he took out a steamed large barnacle from the steamer, skillfully knocked it twice on the back of the kitchen knife, broke open the shell of the barnacle limestone, held the barnacle's vine foot with his hand, put the barnacle's white and tender body that was still dripping soup into his mouth, bit off the muscles connected with the vine foot, closed his eyes and chewed slowly, and felt the Q elastic of the adductor muscle and the rich sweetness of barnacle paste after melting in the mouth.
"Hmmm~~~~~~ that's amazing!"
Liu Yifeng's intoxicated expression didn't look like pretending, Feng Shuo was bold, took a steamed barnacle, knocked it open like Liu Yifeng, grabbed the vine foot and hesitated for a few seconds, closed his eyes and put it in his mouth.
After chewing a few times, he opened his eyes violently and yelled at the Jianzhou slaves under his command: "You guys, go wash the barnacles for me!" ”
Barnacles are so delicious that they don't even need to be cooked too much, just boiled or steamed. Liu Yifeng didn't choose the faster boiling of water because he felt that these clumsy Jianzhou slaves and Dongyi slaves could not wash the mud and sand in the cracks of the limestone shell.
He has to walk a whole 1 large bucket, each bucket needs two people to move, Liu Yifeng It would be good if they could finish eating a bucket, everyone had something to eat.
It's just that the process of letting these Jianzhou slaves and Dongyi slaves eat barnacles can be summed up by one law, that is: the law of true fragrance.
"Aobai, you can taste it, it's really delicious."
"Master! Master! Ao Bai is wrong, Ao Bai is really wrong! ”
"Why are you wrong?"
"If the master wants to punish Aobai, it must be the wrong Aobai! Master, you just have to worship Aobai, please don't let Aobai eat that thing! ”
Liu Yifeng was speechless, Ao Bai was so afraid of barnacles that he felt that letting him eat was actually punishing him, so he knelt down and kowtowed.
"Feng Shuo, Ni Kantu, catch him."
"Master, master, don't you, master! Host...... Woo! ”
After 3 seconds, Ao Bai no longer needed Liu Yifeng to hold his chin to help him chew, and Feng Shuo and Ni Kantu also let go of him.
This scene was constantly staged between the Jianzhou slaves and the Dongyi slaves, but in the end, they became staring at the barnacles that had not yet come out of the pot with red eyes, waiting to grab food.
Feng Shuo was still a little unsatisfied, but he was pulled away by Liu Yifeng.
"I'll go to sea tomorrow, and I'm ready to test Kim Seung-woo." Then he told his plan.
Feng Shuo listened, a fierce light appeared in his eyes, and asked, "Then what if he chooses to go to the snitch?" ”
Liu Yifeng was silent.
His plan was to create a coincidence after going to sea, so that Kim Seung-woo could find the handcuffs alone, and then they would hide and observe Kim Seung-woo's actions. If he doesn't go to the snitch, it means that the person can use it, and if not, he can't use it.
But the problem is that if he chooses to inform, it is ineffective to intimidate him alone, and the safest way is to kill him!
The dead are the ones who keep secrets the most.
The fierce light in Feng Shuo's eyes was even worse: "In this way, I'll throw him off the boat, I promise no one will know!" ”
This is the reason why Liu Yifeng is silent.
Killing, even if it was not done by him, was also directed by him, which was a challenge to his moral values. But Liu Yifeng is not the self who just crossed that meeting, after Feng Shuo said that he would deal with it, he was silent for a few seconds, patted Feng Shuo's shoulder, and said, "I'll leave it to you." ”
The plan was soon launched, and on the first night after leaving Twenty-Seven Islands, Liu Yifeng found an excuse to take everyone out of the bilge, and then pushed Jin Chengyou back to the bilge to help him get a cotton coat.
When Jin Chengyou returned to the bottom cabin to help Liu Yifeng take his coat, he suddenly found that Liu Yifeng had leaked several wooden boxes under their bed, and the lid of one of the wooden boxes was still half-open.
If it was just that, he might have looked away at a glance, but he didn't know who had lit several candles in the bilge, and the metal reflection of the handcuff spring wheel completely attracted his gaze, and he couldn't take it off for a long time.
Among the Jianzhou slaves of this ship, the birth of Jurchen and Dongyi slaves, there may be many people who have never seen the fire gun before boarding the ship, but after the captain smuggled the fire gun was discovered, the people talked about the fire gun for a long time together, and everyone knew that the fire gun was a very powerful weapon of the Ming army.
Then there was the Twenty-Seven Islands, where there was the armed forces of the Maritime Administration, and in addition to the sword and shield men and spearmen, some of their patrols were musketeers.
Now everyone knows what the firebolt looks like.
Kim Seung-woo is one of the few Goryeo people among Dongyi slaves who have seen what kind of Goryeo looks like a firebolt before they get on the ship. In several key battles during the invasion of the Japanese people, the Bird Gun Corps established by the Japanese people with the strength of the whole country played a key role.
Jin Chengyou is very aware of the power of the firecracker, and he also understands that the Ming Dynasty's management of the firearm is very strict in the captain's smuggling case some time ago.
Although he didn't know where Liu Yifeng got the firecracker, he understood the meaning behind this incident.
Two pairs of eyes outside the door stared at him, Liu Yifeng wiped the sweat from his palms on his trouser legs, and waited with Feng Shuo for Jin Chengyou's next move.
Jin Chengyou didn't let him wait any longer, walked to the wooden box, covered the lid, re-laid the futon that had been lifted, and then took the clothes that Liu Yifeng asked him to take and walked to the cabin door.
Liu Yifeng and Feng Shuo had already hidden, and continued to observe whether the Korean man was going to tell the truth or acting as if nothing had happened.
Kim Seung-woo's brain is running at high speed right now.
He did consider going over to snitch, but the thought only passed in his mind and then vanished.
It's too difficult to snitch.
The only person on the ship who can freely communicate with the crew and the Maritime Safety Bureau is Liu Yifeng. There are only two possibilities for these people to be on deck: one is that the ship arrives at the port, and the crew is lazy and asks the people to move things or the people from the Maritime Safety Bureau ask them to get off the ship, and the other is that Liu Yifeng won to bring more than 20 people to the deck each time to take turns to go on the deck to breathe.
Other times, they simply did not dare and could not leave the bilge and the second cabin that belonged to the people.
If he wants to tell the truth, he can only wait for Liu Yifeng to get the time to ventilate for them, but at that time, as a person who has already taken refuge in Liu Yifeng, he must have followed Liu Yifeng the whole time, and it was like this before. If he suddenly broke away from Liu Yifeng's team to find the crew or someone from the Maritime Safety Bureau, it is estimated that he would be discovered by Liu Yifeng before he had time to act.
What happens when you find out?
Kim Seung-woo swallowed, he couldn't swim. Even if it were, the sea water was so cold that it was estimated that it would freeze to death before it could swim to the shore.
Moreover, Kim Seung-woo is not stupid, the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that there is a problem.
In the bilge, Liu Yifeng and Feng Shuo's Jianzhou slaves slept in one position, which was the position of the original Japanese female slaves, and Jin Chengyou and his 12 compatriots slept in another position.
Before, he thought it was nothing, but now he understands that this is hiding the secret of the firecracker.
Then how did this secret suddenly reveal itself so directly?
Is this a temptation?
Thinking of this, Kim Seung-woo is like an initiation, the more he thinks about it, the more he thinks that it should be a temptation, so just pretend that nothing has happened.
No! Wrong!
I shouldn't have pretended that nothing happened, I should have taken the initiative to find Liu Yifeng and tell him that I had helped him hide the firecracker!
This is a statement!
This is the opportunity I have been waiting for to get the recognition of Liu Yifeng's team!
So he decisively found Liu Yifeng, whispered that he had accidentally found the firebolt, and then stared at himself under the pressure of Feng Shuo blocking his retreat, and expressed his loyalty to keep it secret for Liu Yifeng.
"Why don't you snitch?"
Jin Chengyou was silent for a few seconds, and made up an incomparably fleshy sycophant words in his mind to show his loyalty, but when he looked up, he saw Liu Yifeng's poker face without any temperature, and finally decided to tell the truth:
"Big Boss, I'm Goryeo... Dongyinu, it won't do me any good to go and snitch. Only by following you can I display my talents, I believe that you understand what I mean, I want to be your person! ”
Liu Yifeng doesn't hate smart people, and smart people don't hate smart people. It should be said that smart people don't hate smart people or stupid people, because both kinds of people are actually very easy to control. Smart people hate people who are always a little smart, self-righteous, and can't see themselves clearly.
The effect of Kim Seung-woo choosing to tell the truth is definitely more than the effect of him pretending to be confused and patting on the back.
"Okay, Lao Feng, don't worry, I said he is trustworthy."
"Hmph."
Kim Seung-woo breathed a sigh of relief, and his back finally stopped sweating.