Chapter 173: The sound of chains dragging in the cabin
This passenger ship is huge, it is a three-story building ship, with the ability to attack in wartime, this kind of ship will be incorporated into the ranks of warships in the army, and Chang'an Wharf can have a status that has been demonstrated.
Driving on the sparkling Jinghe River, the water and sky meet in front of you, and the sun sinks into the sea.
In the evening, the evening wind rose, and the snow fell heavier and heavier as they got on board, falling down to sea.
The coldest winter in Daye has passed, and the weather will gradually warm up after the snow falls in late winter and early spring.
Huo Yijun crouched on the guardrail of the boat, the evening breeze ruffled her hair, and unsurprisingly, she was still seasick.
She didn't expect to be seasick in her previous life, but now she is still dizzy after being reborn, she is really speechless.
Jiang Xie came out of the cabin and came over with a teacup and an orange.
"Tea and oranges, pick one."
Huo Yijun turned his head to look at Jiang Xie, his eyes fell on the things in his hand, and subconsciously took the orange, picked up half of the flower-like orange peel and half of the orange back into his hand.
Jiang Xie looked down at the orange peel in his hand and was distracted.
"Xiao Yi, you know that I am seasick and take me to the lake, you are really ill-intentioned."
"Seasickness is easy to do, tea or oranges, which do you want?"
"Of course it's oranges, I'll only eat half of them, and you can take care of the rest of the oranges and peels, I'll eat them when I get off the boat, don't lose them."
"You peel your skin like a flower, and you only eat half of the oranges, what's wrong with it......"
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Jiang Xie came back to his senses and looked up at Huo Yijun, the sea breeze was blowing, and his eyes were a little moist: "Is Lord Huo seasick?" β
"I may have been a little uncomfortable with the first time I was on a boat."
"Just breathe and eat half an orange."
"Thank you for your concern."
Jiang Xie held half an orange and orange peel in his hand and stared at Huo Yijun for a long time.
Huo Yijun eased up, breathed a sigh of relief, and saw him staring at him, so he quickly changed the topic: "Lord Jiang, will someone rob the ship of the transfer envoy?" Will there be pirates or bandits on this sea? β
"There are pirates, but they don't dare to rob official ships, this is to rob passing merchant ships and passenger ships, a few years ago, the imperial court sent troops to clear the waterways, and the bandits on both sides of the strait were basically subdued, and there was no danger."
"That means that there is no risk of robbery now, how can the official ship of the transshipment envoy be missing for so long, and where are they?"
Jiang Xie looked at the seagulls in the distance and said in a deep voice: "Either you get lost, or you sink, or you defect." β
Huo Yijun, who could listen to these three possibilities, suddenly became nervous.
"The trek may be able to be recovered, how can it be possible to defect after sinking, the quality of the official ship, and there are Daye officials on board, how can it be ......?"
"Nothing impossible, it's too cold here, let's go back to the cabin and rest." Jiang Xie walked away, Huo Yijun took a deep breath and followed him back, and saw Wang He on the way.
Huo Yijun pulled Wang He to chat in the aisle: "Lord Wang, just now Jiang Sizheng said that there are still defectors from the official ship, is this possible?" β
"Yes, especially the official ship that pulls the purple lazuli is the easiest to defect, and will sail out of the border of Daye and sell it to the enemy at a high price, so every time the official ship transporting the purple lazuli disappears, the household department will send someone out to look for it, and all the ships sent are warships, and they will be directly sunk on the spot when they encounter treason."
When Huo Yijun heard this, he understood why he just went out to find a ship and went to sea on such a third-floor warship.
Jiang Xie poked his head out of the cabin and looked at the two people in the aisle with a sudden realization: "So that's the case." β
Wang He looked at him suspiciously: "Lord Jiang knows the household so well, and he is still friends with Lord Shen Li, isn't this kind of thing clear?" β
"Shen Li wouldn't tell me such a thing even if he knew." Jiang Xie dodged into the cabin, completely uninterested in what the people outside were going to say next.
At the end of the dinner they were eaten on the boat for a fish feast.
The chef on board made a good hand of the fish, and the fish was caught from the sea and tasted delicious.
Huo Yijun was addicted to eating fish, and he didn't listen to Jiang Xie and Wang He chatting on the side.
Until there was a knock on the door outside.
"My lord, a ship was found on the sea in the distance, I wonder if it is the missing official ship, should we speed up and take a look?"
Wang He put down his chopsticks and left the table directly and went outside.
Jiang Xie and Huo Yijun followed closely behind and went to the deck together, where Wang He was using a telescope to look at the dark shadow on the sea in the distance.
Huo Yijun actually didn't see clearly what was in the distance, but he just listened to the description of the person who reported it and looked like a ship.
"Speed up and catch up with the ship!"
The hull of the ship clearly felt like it was moving forward.
Soon, they soon caught up with the ship that was floating on the surface of the sea like a leaf, and when they got closer, after Wang He's identification, they found that the ship was the same style and construction as the missing ship.
"We seem to have found the ship."
The ship was in a position parallel to the ship.
The crew set up a gangplank between the two boats, and then Wang He and Jiang Xie walked ahead, Huo Yijun followed behind them tremblingly, his steps were heavy, and his body was shaking uncontrollably.
Jiang Xie turned around and grabbed her hand: "Don't look down, look at me, follow me, I'm here." β
Although the distance between the two ships is not far, under the springboard is a hundred meters of sea, and if you fall down, you will choke half to death, not to mention that Huo Yijun's water cleaning skills are not very good.
Huo Yijun mustered up the courage to drag Jiang Xie's hand and walked across the gangplank and got on the official ship that had been missing for more than half a month.
The ship was empty, and the sails were mostly raised, and it seemed that it had experienced wind and waves before.
According to Wang He's introduction, there will be at least more than 100 people on this official ship to escort the ship, but now it is found that there is no one.
"Something is wrongβ"
Jiang Xie quickly sensed the uneasiness, pulled out the mountain and river thorn and held it in his hand, vigilant around.
In the darkness, from the cabin of the ship, there was a terrifying sound of chains dragging and pulling......