"Sir is like this, you transferred the money to this account, and the boatman said, first call 50,000, come back and call 30,000. When the money arrives, he will come and contact you or will ask me to tell you the time and place of departure. You can rest assured. ”

The innkeeper took out a note as he spoke and handed it to Shen Lang.

After the matter was negotiated, Shen Lang's heart breathed a sigh of relief.

As for saying that the boatman and the innkeeper joined forces to deceive him, Shen Lang also considered this issue.

This kind of thing rarely happens in the rivers and lakes, after all, the innkeeper is a long-term resident, and it is impossible for him to finish a lifetime of business after doing business once, which can be assured, not to mention that I, Shen Lang, am not easy to mess with.

After getting out, Shen Lang slipped out onto the street, had dinner, found the bank designated by the boatman, and sent 80,000 yuan over.

In the evening, the innkeeper came to inform him that he should rest early, and that tomorrow he would come to the door at half-past four to get him on the boat.

At four o'clock in the morning the next day, the innkeeper went upstairs to wake up Shen Lang, and the two went downstairs, and a middle-aged man about forty years old was already waiting for him at the door.

The visitor said hello to the innkeeper briefly, and the boatman took Shen Lang along the path.

Shen Lang followed the middle-aged man in front of him and picked up the secluded path to the beach.

A small boat was parked here, and a wooden plank was attached to the boat.

The boatman shook the flashlight in his hand back and forth between the wooden board and the boat a few times, and motioned Shen Lang to step on the wooden board to get on the boat, although the hull of the boat shook with the waves, causing the connected planks to also shake, Shen Lang was not afraid, and stepped into the boat in two steps.

Although the sky was still unknown, it felt that the small boat was not too small, larger than he had imagined before he got on the boat, even if it could accommodate two more people.

After Shen Lang sat down, the boatman untied the cable and threw it, and the end of the rope fell right on the edge of the boat.

The boatman stepped into the middle of the plank in two big steps, jumped forward, and the man reached the middle of the boat, pulled the plank with his right hand, and put it on the stern of the boat with his left hand.

With his right hand, he pulls the end of the rope and collects it as he pulls, and in a few clicks he puts the rope under the plank.

The whole process is very skillful and is completed in just two or three seconds.

The boat kept shaking in the skillful movements of the boatman, and it felt like it was about to capsize, Shen Lang hurriedly grabbed the sides of the boat with both hands, and the shaking of the people was reduced.

But the rocking of the boat did not change, the bow of the boat was also going out of direction, and the boatman copied an oar from the stern of the boat, and with a push to the shore, the boat began to glide into the sea.

As soon as the boat moved, the boatman took out an oar from the stern with his left hand, and rowed the oars in unison, and the boat slowly sailed towards the middle of the sea, and then the boat became stable.

Before dawn, only the sound of the oars was heard, and the boat sailed silently into the vast depths of the sea with the gentle sound of paddling.

The lights on the shore became farther and farther away, weaker and weaker, smaller and smaller, and finally turned into some small bright spots, like little stars in the sky, occasionally winking mischievously at Shen Lang.

Shen Lang's heart was also vast at this time, the sea in front of him was pitch black, and his hope was in this darkness, when would there be light. He closed his eyes and listened to the sound of the water while thinking about the unknown Mahuan Island.

After a long time, he felt a little dazzling, he opened his eyes, the sun had risen more than a foot high in the sky, and the golden sunlight sprinkled on the sparkling sea, which was extremely dazzling.

On the sea, I don't know which fairy in the sky threw down the freshly washed light veil.

Some had just hung down, some had fallen to the surface of the sea, wet, rippling with the waves, and in a short time some of the light veils had dried out, and were taken back to the sky by the mischievous fairies.

The rest was like a fairy wearing on her body, and with the fairy's changing posture fluttering, after a while, all the light veils were taken away, and only the sun was still stubbornly hanging in the sky, as if it would not collect the troops until the sea was dried.

The boatman, speaking in Mandarin that he was not very proficient in, suddenly said:

"Hey, sir, here you go. ”

Shen Lang came back to his senses, a straw hat flew over, Shen Lang reached out and grabbed it, this is the kind of straw hat often worn by coastal fishermen to protect from the wind and rain, the brim is large, the top of the head is pointed, Shen Lang glanced at it and buckled it on his head.

Only then did he notice that the boatman opposite, although he was sitting, could be judged to be not tall, but he was also strong.

With short black hair and a dark face, it is obviously the result of living at sea for a long time, wind, sun, and rain, and wearing a set of cyan jackets, which looks short and concise on the whole.

Looking at the small boat I was on, it was a black iron-hulled boat that could accommodate more than a dozen people, and the hull of the boat was similar to that of an ordinary wooden boat.

But the facilities in the boat are much more complicated than ordinary wooden boats, with several tires tied to the periphery of the ship's side and four or five lifebuoys hung on the inside of the ship's side, two red and three black.

There are also two yellow life jackets under Shen Lang's seat, and the cabin is divided into two compartments, one compartment is full of daily utensils and daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar.

At the boatman's feet lay a sharp harpoon, five or six feet long.

At this time, the boatman who was rowing also seemed to sense that Shen Lang was looking at him, so he withdrew his gaze from afar, quickly glanced at the other party, and grinned unnaturally twice, but it was so light that it was almost inaudible.

At this time, Shen Lang also happened to be looking at the other party, and found that the other party's front tooth was missing, and his smile looked much better than not smiling. In order to eliminate the embarrassing situation of the two, Shen Lang took the initiative to ask:

"Hey, boss, may I ask your last name?"

"Don't call me any boss, you are my boss, you pay, I will contribute. Don't give your surname Ruan, everyone calls me Ah Cheng, you can call me Ah Cheng. Sir, where are you from?

The boatman grinned again.

"I'm from Sichuan. My surname is Shen. ”

Shen Lang didn't want people to know too much about his personal situation, so he simply replied.

"Listen to Lao Wu, is it true that you want to go over there to find medicine?" asked Ah Cheng as he shook the oar.

When Shen Lang heard Ah Cheng's words, he realized that the owner of the inn he stayed in last night was surnamed Wu.

He once told Lao Wu some information, it seems that Lao Wu has already told Ah Cheng what he said, and there is nothing to hide, so it doesn't hurt to tell him some, so Shen Lang replied:

"Yes, my master is sick and needs a special Chinese medicine, it is said that only this side of Mahuan Island can be found, so I came here, and it is still unknown whether the space can be found. ”

"It seems that Mr. Shen is really a kind and righteous person, and such people are rare now. ”

After a while, Ah Cheng came out with a sentence.

Suddenly, Shen Lang felt that there was one thing he didn't understand, from early this morning to now, Ah Cheng has not used a compass, he is rowing by feeling, isn't he afraid of deviating from the direction on the vast sea?

Once he goes in the wrong direction, the consequences are unimaginable, he didn't use a compass, how can he judge the direction?

He couldn't help but ask with curiosity:

"Master Ah Cheng, I want to ask you a question, since the early hours of this morning, you haven't used a compass, aren't you afraid of going in the wrong direction?"