When Zhuang Shaoyou woke up from his coma, Ink, Zhou Tian and Wu Liang were all around his couch, and they were overjoyed when they saw him wake up.

"General, you're awake!" The crowd asked eagerly

Zhuang Shaoyou struggled to sit up, and found that his whole body was sore, and the muscles in his body were as painful as if they had been broken, and it was estimated that he would not be able to use the sword in a short period of time!

"I'm fine, how's the fleet?"

"The general is blessed with all the heavens, and he can always turn danger into a disaster, and we are also blessed by the general!" Wu Liang said excitedly.

Then everyone reported the loss to Zhuang Shaoyou, it turned out that everyone had been shaking in the storm for nearly a day, and they didn't get out of the danger zone until the afternoon of the next day, and now it was the morning of the third day.

One of the three merchant ships was broken, and after emergency reinforcement, it was unable to sail, and was dragged by Zhuang Shaoyou's ship, and the mast of a merchant ship was broken, and the stern was damaged, but it could still sail, but the speed of the ship was reduced a lot, and many crew members were injured on the three ships, a total of about 100 people, but most of them were slightly injured, and the cargo hold of the merchant ship that was dragged was flooded, and the cargo of one ship was damaged, and the cargo of the other two ships was also slightly damaged, and the cargo was damaged by about three or four percent.

Zhuang Shaoyou suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that he is lucky, he finally saved his subordinates, and if something is broken, you can buy it again, it doesn't matter! So he asked casually: "It's a blessing that there is no loss of manpower, just count the lost things when the time comes, it's not a big deal!" By the way, where are we now? ”

Everyone's originally happy faces suddenly became serious, no one said a word, Zhuang Shaoyou looked at everyone in surprise, and immediately understood, Ink shook his head helplessly: "General, we are lost!" ”

"What! Don't we have Sinan to orient? ”

"It's all shattered! Sinan on the three ships was shaken! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou's head suddenly became dizzy, although he didn't know how to sail, but he also knew what it meant to lose his way in the vast sea, if he was lucky, he could hit the land, and if he was unlucky, he would starve to death and die of thirst at sea.

Oh! Cake sellers! The more than 300 people on the three ships were not overturned by the storm, but they were about to get lost in the sea, and there was silence in the cabin.

After a long time, Zhuang Shaoyou spoke: "What kind of wind is blowing now?" Where does the sun rise? ”

Ink continued: "General, the wind direction yesterday and today are completely different, and not completely opposite!" We can only wait for tomorrow to confirm, after all, the probability of southeast wind is highest this season, followed by southwest wind! It's been cloudy for the past two days because of the kamikaze transit! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was suddenly angry, damn! It's a chicken feather north wind in the summer! There is no sun yet! Do you want people to live?

"So what do we do now?" Zhuang Shaoyou sighed and asked

"Now you can only decide whether to drive against the wind or downwind! The probability of seeing land is half the same, and even if the wind direction is confirmed tomorrow, there is no complete guarantee that it will be right! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou thought about it for a long time in his mind, and finally decided to try the newly learned divination, so he asked someone to take the copper coin, Zhuang Shaoyou held everyone back, dragged the sore body, got up and washed his face and dressed neatly, took out the book of heaven seriously, turned to the chapter of divination and began to experiment with the divination of heaven taught in the book of heaven! But when I found that the book had lost its former luster, I suddenly became nervous, studied for a long time, and didn't figure out what was going on, so I finally decided to ignore it for the time being!

The way of divination is the art of peeking into the heavens, and the diviner will lose his life! The length of life is related to the degree of stake in the matter.

Damn! Divination also has to break life, it's really lacking in virtue! However, I suddenly thought of the death of Mo Hai, the former giant of the Mo family, and remembered what Mo Hai said in his heart that he had taken a hexagram for himself before he died, and suddenly woke up, did Mo Hai die because of peeping into the heavens?

Quite possibly! Zhuang Shaoyou has mixed feelings in his heart, Mo Hai has been fully supporting himself since he saw him, no matter what the reason, he is very grateful to him, and secretly swore in his heart to help him take care of the Mo family no matter what, but he was a little discouraged, it seemed that he had been taking advantage of the Mo family!

An hour later, Zhuang Shaoyou walked out of the cabin tiredly, and found that everyone at the door was standing there waiting, there was no way, the stakes were very high, and no one had the strength to go back to the room to rest.

Zhuang Shaoyou looked at everyone, smiled very confidently, stretched out his hand and pointed, the hexagram showed that the vitality was in that direction!

The fleet moved in the direction of Zhuang Shaoyou's fingers, slightly headwind, but some of the wind could still be captured by adjusting the sails, and the speed was not too slow.

After the convoy traveled for about half a day, suddenly the soldiers on the lookout in front sent a signal that the island was found in front, and the boat was boiling when it boarded, and there was hope for life when the island was found! But I was a little apprehensive in my heart, what if it was that kind of uninhabited island?

Half an hour later, the fleet finally approached the island, and soon the first ship landed on the island, the island was not large, about five miles in radius, there was a small village on the shore of the island, dozens of simple and peculiar cabins, everyone was immediately relieved, at least there were people living here.

Zhuang Shaoyou had a solemn expression, where was he at this time? Why do these people look so dark? It's not like a yellow race! What's going on? You can't just sweep yourself into Africa in a storm, right? That's too much of an exaggeration!

When the fishermen in the village saw a big boat coming, they were curious to come to the shore to watch, and some children waved excitedly to the big boat.

Zhuang Shaoyou breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, luck is good, these people are simple and kind, at least they are not cannibals! Thinking of the cannibals and thinking of Zhou Cang's bloody mouth, I felt a little nostalgic, and I didn't know what happened to them.

After a while, Zhuang Shaoyou left the boat and landed on the shore, and nearly three hundred people came down one after another, all of them were fully armed, and the villagers on the island suddenly became nervous, and they picked up wooden sticks from their homes to stand on guard, and the soldiers around Zhuang Shaoyou also quickly pulled out their swords to protect him.

Zhuang Shaoyou frowned and scolded the soldiers around him: "Put away all the weapons and all stand back!" ”

Everyone hesitated, but they still put away their weapons under the command of Ink and the others, and took a few steps back, and the villagers on the opposite side immediately breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.

Zhuang Shaoyou took a few steps forward and said kindly: "Hello! My fleet was forced to drift here due to a typhoon at sea, what is this place and how far is it from Dahan? ”

The villagers on the opposite side did not squeak, but they all exchanged their heads and ears, and their clothes were at a loss, when an old man with white hair came out of the crowd, took a few steps forward, and said in broken Chinese: "Respectful guest! This is Xiaoyu Island, I have heard of Dahan, it seems to be far, far away from here! I don't know how to get there! ”

Zhuang Shaoyou was relieved to see that someone could finally speak a few words of Chinese, at least this is still in the East Asian Han cultural circle.

Next, Zhuang Shaoyou patiently communicated with the old man, and gradually inquired clearly, it turned out that this is the Ryukyu Islands, this old man is the indigenous of the archipelago, it seems to be called the Austronesian language family, people of this race take the island as their home, and constantly migrate, once the island is overpopulated and the resources on the island cannot be supported, some people will migrate to the open sea islands.

There are two largest islands in the Ryukyu Islands, one is called Kitajima and the other is Minamijima, and there are many other islands of various sizes, but they are much smaller than the two islands in the north and south.

The North Island and the surrounding islets are inhabited by indigenous Austronesian languages; There are three kinds of people living on the South Island: the Qin people, the Han people, and the Heyi people, the Qin people and the Han people are said to have migrated from the west, but the time is different, so they are collectively called the Han people; The Yi migrated from a larger island to the south.

The land of the North Island is barren and mountainous, making it unsuitable for growing crops, but the indigenous people of the Austronesian language group know the sea well and are very proficient in fishing, and they are born darlings of the sea, digging for corals and collecting pearls from the depths.

The southern part of the South Island is still fertile and therefore the Han Chinese sit here to farm, while the northern mountains of the South Island are home to the Yi people, who hunt, grow sumacs, tea leaves, and then make unique lacquerware.

The Han people, on the other hand, were flexible in their minds and were responsible for selling these specialties to the Han Dynasty in the west, Nanyang in the south, and the Wa Kingdom in the north, and then exchanging them back for what they needed on the island, so that the three tribes would be safe and secure when they each took what they needed.

Zhuang Shaoyou listened to the old man's description, and was immediately overjoyed, it turned out that he had come to the Ryukyu Islands in the southeast of the Han Dynasty, and in this era, there was no country in the Ryukyu Islands, but it was divided into three pieces of territory according to race.

The ink who had been listening to it on the side was curious: "Old man, the shipbuilding skills here are really amazing!" It can be transported to Nanyang and Dahan, thousands of miles away! Our ships are barely able to get into the ocean. ”

The old man said proudly: "For thousands of years, our people have lived on islands everywhere, and we naturally have some experience in understanding the sea, and the art of shipbuilding has always been the top priority of our people!" ”

When Zhuang Shaoyou heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Then old man, our ship is broken, can you help me repair it?" ”

The old man shook his head and said: "I went to build a boat when I was young, but I haven't done it for many years, besides, there are so many people on this island, I see that your ships are all huge ships, and you have to go to a special place to repair them, and the place about eighty miles southeast of this island is the North Island, where there is a special place for repairing ships, so let's send someone to go with you and be a guide for you!" ”

When everyone heard this, they were immediately overjoyed and hurriedly thanked them, Zhuang Shaoyou instructed Zhou Tian to go to the boat to get some gifts to give to the villagers, and those villagers were all smiling and kept saluting and thanking them.