Chapter 4 Homecoming, Isolated Island
A whole white shark was quickly disposed of with the assistance of several sailors.
Shark meat is not delicious, and in the past, when this white shark was hunted, it was common to only take shark fins, shark skin, and a few parts of the meat, and then discard the rest of the parts.
But not anymore.
Since the sudden cold wave came more than ten years ago, there will be news of famine almost every year in Dacang.
The area around the southeast road where the Angry Whales are located is slightly better because of its southerly location.
It is said that in the past ten years, there have been more than one million people in the Northern Wilderness, including the Northeast and Northwest Provinces, who have died tragically due to various natural and man-made disasters.
Affected by the famine in the northern part of the country, grain prices in the southern region are also rising year after year.
Although the Angry Whale Gang once accumulated a lot of money when they were pirates, after several years of consumption, they are now empty.
This year's cold wave directly crossed the Nanjiang River and invaded the area of Southeast Province, which not only caused a sharp reduction in grain production in the southeast Province, but also caused local grain merchants to sit on the ground and raise prices, directly doubling the price of grain again.
So this year, even the Angry Whales, a big gang that enjoys prestige throughout the Southeast Province, are in the midst of a food crisis.
This may sound a bit ridiculous.
After all, whether it is all kinds of rumors or novels, the heroes described in it seem that they have never been short of money, even if they just live in a casual inn, and the consumption starts with ten taels of silver.
But alas, this is the reality.
No matter how big the sect is, it costs money, and no matter how powerful the master is, he has to eat, and even the higher the martial arts, the more he eats, the more expensive he is.
Especially the Angry Whales today.
Although the Angry Whale Gang has only been established for a few years, because its original identity is a group of pirates who have been galloping in the southeast sea for more than 20 years, even if their reputation is not very good, they have accumulated a considerable amount of heritage.
So as soon as it was formed, the Angry Whale Gang quickly accumulated a large gang with a total number of more than 5,000 people.
These populations naturally brought great power to the Angry Whales in the beginning, but now these large populations have gradually become a huge burden.
"It's time to go back!"
After the sailor disassembled the whole white shark onto the ship, Scarface looked at the sky in the distance and said, "It's been almost half a month since we went to sea, and the fresh water reserves on the ship are almost exhausted, and I think something is wrong with the sky, so this time it can only end here." ”
Hearing Scarface's voice, the sailors who had just made a mess of the kayaks on the 100-mile trip quickly fell silent.
This trip to the sea.
They caught almost nothing but the white shark.
Asking them to return to the ship now is obviously very unwilling. But the sailors on this ship are also old men who have been at sea for many years, so they naturally know that what Scarface said is true.
Fresh water is a far more important resource than food when sailing the seas.
If you don't have food, you can still find a way to get it from the sea, but if you don't have fresh water, you're really left with a dead end.
"Then let's go back!"
Lan Ruoshui tightened the lapid gold spear in her hand, although she didn't want to return to the sea with nothing on this trip, but she also knew that the scarface beside her was an expert at sea.
Baili Xing naturally couldn't understand what they were saying, but after a while, after seeing this group of people set sail, he also guessed that the other party might be going back.
This suddenly made Baili Xing a little excited.
After all, he'd never seen the land of this world before!
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The return trip is naturally much faster than when it came.
Baili Xing took a sailboat, but it took three days to see a huge isolated island slowly come into view.
As soon as the sailboat docked and stopped, Baili Xing saw a group of fierce and vicious people surrounding him, and said around Scarface: "Hall Master, how did you get from this trip?" ”
Scarface shook his head slightly at the crowd, and then waved at the sailor behind him, asking everyone to move out the white shark that had been simply processed and preserved.
Seeing that the harvest of this trip was only this white shark, the faces of the people who surrounded him could not hide their disappointment.
"Come with me!"
While the others were busy dealing with the white shark, Lan Ruoshui waved his hand towards Baili Xing, signaling him to follow.
Regarding how to deal with Baili Xing, Lan Ruoshui and Scarface had already discussed it once when they sailed before.
If only the two had just met.
Scarface will most likely drop Baili Xing a random place after returning to the land, and let it fend for itself.
After all, he said that he wanted to 'get a good relationship', but in fact, whether it was Scarface or Lan Ruoshui, he didn't really take Bailixing, the guy who was shipwrecked at sea, seriously.
But the problem is that after the three days of return, the two sides got along for a while.
Scarface suddenly found that he and Bailixing were very close to each other, and even in the end, Bailixing simply gave him his kayak.
This time.
Scarface obviously can't just find a place to throw away Bailixing.
Since it can't be lost, no matter what you want to do with Baili Xing next, there is only one thing to do.
That is, you have to teach him to read and write.
The Angry Whale Gang was born in Haikou, and although there are many people in the gang, at least ninety out of five of the 5,000 people are big bosses and coarse, and they don't know a single big character.
And the rest of the people who know how to read are now also holding large and small positions in the gang, and obviously have no time to teach Baili Xing, a 'refugee'.
Think about it.
Now there is probably only one person in the entire Angry Whale Gang who meets the requirements.
The size of this isolated island is not small, and although the Angry Whales occupy it as a gang stronghold, it is clear that the area has not yet been fully developed.
Bailixing followed behind Lan Ruoshui, and after passing through the primitive dense forests, wilderness, and Gobi Desert, he finally entered the interior of the isolated island.
There is a basin in the middle of the island.
Hundreds of houses have been scattered around the basin, clustered into a small village.
There are several places in and around the village that are guarded, but they don't seem to be very tight.
When Lan Ruoshui entered the village, the guard at the gate just glanced at it and let him go directly. As for the hundred miles behind him, he didn't even look at it.
Lan Ruoshui didn't care, and after leading Baili Xing into the village, he went straight to the largest manor in the middle of the village, and then went straight to the backyard.
As soon as he entered the backyard, Baili Xing was stunned.
Because in his eyes, another "blue water" suddenly appeared.
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