Volume 8 Chapter 7 Will You Come Back?
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"Mr. Aiden, is there anything else you would like to say? If not, please go to the deck and fulfill our bet!" Xia Zuo smiled at Aiden.
"I ......" Aiden's face turned pale, his whole body was shaking, as if he was not angry, but afraid, he looked at Xia Zuo, and then looked at the steam engine behind him, and suddenly shouted: "You fart, you kid is lying again, how can Garon 3 reach the turn of Garon 4? You are bullshit, the engine will blow up! You are murdering!"
A big hat kept buckling on Xia Zuo's head, Xia Zuo could only sneer, this guy even has such a low-level means of repaying his debts.
"Do you think I'm going to be joking with my life? I'm on this ship, or ...... Do you think your mechanical maintenance skills are better than mine?" Xia Zuo sneered.
"Haha......"
"This guy ......"
"It's cowardly, it's really shameless, I've long seen him unpleasantly!"
"That's it, I think I'm a mechanic, and I drag and drop it every day, haha!"
The sailors at the door burst into laughter, as if they were beating the water dogs, and it was clear that Aiden was not very pleasant on the ship.
"You ......" Aiden's face turned completely red, and he turned back to the group of sailors and shouted, "Are you still laughing? Isn't it funny? When the engine explodes, the whole ship will be blown up, and none of us will be able to leave the whirlpool sea, and we will all die!"
Aiden looked hysterical, and said the same as the real thing, and the sailors at the door stopped laughing for a moment.
Indeed, it is a very dangerous thing to increase the rotation of a steam engine by 40 percent, and no matter how much it is modified, Galleon 3 is still Galleon 3. It is impossible to compete with the more sophisticated number four.
Seeing that there was no talk around him, Aiden's face was happy, and he immediately turned his head to Captain Fern, who had a calm face, and said, "Boss, you have to believe me, this kid is going to kill us!"
"Mr. Aiden. I think there's another thing we need to talk about first!" said Fern with a calm face, and his tone was very strange.
Hearing this kind of voice from his own captain, the sailors at the back door all looked bright, remembering that the last time Fern spoke in this tone, it was to deal with a sailor who was drunk and made trouble with a knife. The sailor, seeing that Fern was making money, was jealous of the commission, and even went to Fern with his sword, and Fern killed him, killing him with his own hands.
Fern was a good guy on the whole, except for his temper. However, this does not mean that he will not kill, the limit of a person's tolerance is limited, and on this sea, almost every old sailor has a human life on his hands, mainly the life of a pirate. Of course, there are other people's lives.
The sea is a place outside the law, and no one knows about killing people, and even if they do, they won't say it, and it is difficult to come up with evidence, and there is no basis for what they say.
"Old ...... Boss, what's the matter?" Aiden was suddenly startled by Fern's tone, he had been on the Freesailor for three years and knew a lot of things.
"Remember the last time we docked, you went to buy spare parts for the engine. There seems to be something called the 'main fan shaft' in the reimbursement list for me, worth seventy gold coins, can you explain to me why Mr. Uta would say that there is no spare on board?" As he spoke, he drew the musket from his side and lowered the muzzle.
Aiden's face suddenly turned pale, he was afraid of this, so he was so noisy just now, and even made a childish act of defaulting on the debt.
Unfortunately, Fern was a very shrewd businessman, and he remembered some things so clearly that he could keep all his expenses and income in his head without even using a ledger.
"Plop!"
Aiden was covered in cold sweat, his body trembled, and he fell to his knees all at once.
"Boss, don't kill me, boss, I can pay you money, I have money, I have money in my family, boss, I know it's wrong......" Aiden cried and begged, in the face of Fern's musket, he no longer cared about what dignity was, what was backbone, now nothing mattered, whoever wants to repair the engine, a hundred bounties will be given to whomever he wants, it has nothing to do with him, he just needs to live.
"You've been on this ship for three years, and I don't think it's the first time you've been greedy for my money, right?" Fern raised his musket and aimed it at Aiden's head.
"Boss, don't ...... I'll give you as much as you want, please don't shoot!" Aiden's entire body froze, his eyes staring at the pitch-black muzzle of the gun that was close at hand, and his whole body looked like he was about to collapse.
Fern took two deep breaths, stared at Aiden, slowly lowered the gun, turned around and waved his hand, "Tie him up for me, lock him up, damn it...... Lao Tzu's money is not floating on the sea, it must be spit out for me!"
Fern knew that Aiden's wife was in France, and his home was also in France, and the mature mechanic was very profitable, and Aiden's family was very rich!
Aiden was kidnapped, and it is estimated that he will spend the rest of his days in confinement until he goes ashore, and he will be sent to court, not only will he spit out his greedy money, but he will also be hanged!
"Hahaha, Mr. Uta, I'm really bothering you, hahaha, I didn't expect that Mr. Uta looks young, but he is so capable!"
After Aiden was kidnapped, Fern's face suddenly changed color, and he laughed heartily, his eyes narrowed into a line, and he took a few steps forward, giving Xia Zuo a big hug, and he didn't have the slightest dislike for the oil stain on Xia Zuo's body.
"Mr. Fern is polite, this is what I should have done, you saved me after all, and if it weren't for you, I would have died on that island. Xia Zuo said with a smile.
Thirty minutes later, the Lady Liberty, the captain's lounge.
Xia Zuo, who had taken a shower and changed into new clothes, sat on a delicate chair and was eating heavily, he hadn't eaten for two days, he had eaten all of them on Bard, and he was indeed a little hungry.
Fern, who sat down across from Xia Zuo, got up and walked to the side of the wine cabinet, picked out a good bottle of vodka from it, took two more glasses, and walked back to the table.
"Come, Mr. Uta, let's have a drink!" Fern said, smiling as he poured a glass of wine for Xia Zuo.
"Well, okay, thank you!" Xia Zuo didn't refuse, and stretched out his hands to take the wine glass.
"Where is Uta from now?" asked Fern.
"North America, the American Empire. Xia Zuo said.
"Oh, I heard there's going to be a war over there, and the British Empire wants to reclaim America. ”
"Is that so? I've been away from home for a long time. Not very clear!"
"Hey, there have been frequent wars in these years, and after the defeat of our emperor, Britain didn't know what trouble to make, and business was not good. Fern sighed.
"Emperor Napoleon defeated?" Xia Zuo looked up. The movement of chewing something in the mouth is a little slower.
"Well, just in June of this year, the Battle of Waterloo was a bizarre defeat, and he was taken away by the British Empire, and I don't know if he is dead or alive now!" Fern said. Feeling out, Foun was a supporter of the French Emperor Napoleon, he was a pure Frenchman, and he spoke English with a strong French accent.
"...... so," Xia Zuo mused, Napoleon was a great legend for him, a great being that people could not look at directly. The characters who affected the world, but they didn't expect to be defeated, lowered their heads and picked up the meat rolls and stuffed them into their mouths, chewed them, Xia Zuo raised his head and pulled away from the topic and said, "When can I go to sea?"
"Come on, the guys are packing up their stuff underneath, and it's probably going to be half an hour ......," Fern said.
"Okay. I'm going to see France with you, I haven't been there yet!" Xia Zuo smiled.
At this time, Fern suddenly put down his knife and fork, looked at Xia Zuo and said solemnly: "Mr. Uta!"
"Huh?" Xia Zuo had some doubts for some unknown reasons.
"Are you really sure the engine will be fine?" Fern asked, Aiden's words affecting him.
"Of course, there will be no problem in half a year, but I will build you to change the steam engine back when you return to France, so that the service life will be five years, at least five years. It's more cost-effective than that, of course...... If you are not at ease, you can send someone to keep an eye on the pressure gauge in the steam power room, as long as the pressure does not cross the cordon. There is no possibility that the engine will explode, after all, it uses steam, not gunpowder. Xia Zuo replied with a smile, and after a pause, he immediately joked again: "I'm also on this ship, I can't joke with my life, right? If I want to die, I don't need to pull you." ”
Listening to Xia Zuo's words, Fern smiled, Xia Zuo didn't seem to be wrong, he just asked casually, Aiden's words at that time were too low-level, and the pressure gauge was not an ornament.
One o'clock in the afternoon.
The Free Sailor squeaked and trembled, and on the beach, dozens of sailors pulled ropes while pushing hard into the water.
Underneath the Free Mariner, the propellers linked to the steam-powered engine were replaced with two huge wheels that hit the sand and began to spin wildly as the steam-powered engine started.
Before the advent of steam-powered engines, it was a very troublesome thing for a sailboat to run aground, because it was too heavy, hundreds or thousands of tons, and it could not be moved directly by manpower, so it could only rely on digging up the sediment under the stranded ship and diverting water to lift the boat, so that the sailing ship could get out of the grounding, or at high tide, good waves would also drive the boat.
The principle is the same, it all depends on the buoyancy of the water.
But now it's different, with steam engines powering ships that can temporarily add wheels to the ship and with the help of manpower, to retreat a stranded ship into the sea.
At 1:20 p.m. that afternoon, the Lady Liberty slowly moved away from the shallows and into the deeper water, where it floated out of the water completely.
"Raise the sails, get out!" said Fern at the bow of the ship, drawing his command knife.
In these days of stranding, Fern sent people to dive to explore, not to explore all areas, but to explore the waterway.
Naturally, the waterway is preserved, otherwise the Bloody Mary would not have come here, and Xia Zuo would not have been abandoned on this nearby desert island.
The Freesailer gradually reached full sails, and Fern took the helm with a makeshift chart in his hand.
On the endless sea, armed merchant ships with somewhat tattered hulls slowly sailed towards the southeast, faster and faster, and gradually complete!
Mysterious Island, North Coast.
Guzana stood alone on the shore, looking at the Free Mariner that was gradually disappearing farther and farther away, pursed the corners of her mouth slightly, and showed a strange smile, as if she was expecting it, but also seemed to be a little afraid.
"Will you come back?" Guzana asked softly, subconsciously raising her hand and gently touching her lower abdomen.
The breeze is blowing, the waves are surging, the sea water is constantly washing the beach, and the woman stands on the shore, her whole body exuding an inexplicable brilliance.