Chapter 289: The Giant Ship

If the first three days of the "White Oriole" at sea were quite relaxed and comfortable. After an encounter with the "Blue Shark" pirate ship on the night of the third day, the rest of the trip became extremely boring.

This is especially true for sea red beads.

Not only because the novelty of boarding the ship has disappeared, but also because the comfortable and luxurious cabins of the "Whitebird" have all been lost, and the delicious food and food, including the stored wine, have all been thrown into the sea to escape the pursuit of the pirate ship.

Now there was only one thing left on the boat to eat, only salty and hard smoked fish and smoked meat, and dry dough cakes that looked like dust in the mouth.

Hai Hongzhu did not participate in the surprise attack of the pirate ship by the masters, as early as the third day, she had to lie in bed due to seasickness, and now even the bed is gone, and she can only lie on the wooden floor of the cabin wrapped in a sheet if she wants to sleep.

Not only did this make her seasickness and headache worse, but because she couldn't swallow the food, she had no food in her stomach, and she couldn't even vomit.

Although Hai Hongzhu is not from a rich lady, she has been pampered since she was a child, and she has never suffered such a sin, which also makes her mood easy to soothe and start to become bad again.

It's all because that evil young master is not good, so that she will fall into such a pitiful situation!

Sometimes it's easy and logical to blame someone else for all the bad things that happen to you.

But that evil young master didn't admit his mistakes at all, and was willing to be a scapegoat, and he was either chatting with Cao Duyun, Nangong Qi and others on the deck all day long, or hiding in the room mysteriously, not knowing what he was doing. Hai Hongzhu went to look for him in the cabin, but the evil young master was also perfunctory and refused to let her stay for a long time, which really made her a little angry.

Even if it is a nominal couple, he should at least be considerate and gentle, and should not be so indifferent and ruthless, not to mention that Hai Hongzhu is sick now and needs to be taken care of and comforted by others.

If it was ten days ago, Hai Hongzhu would definitely not think like this, at that time she regarded him as an enemy, and she was ten times more cold to this evil young master than Hua Bushi was to her now. It's just that after the turmoil in Nanquan Village, Hai Hongzhu's perception of this evil young master has become subtle and peculiar, and in any case, he brought himself on the boat, so he should take care of her.

Hua Bushi obviously didn't have a similar view to Hai Hongzhu, and he didn't pay attention to speculating on Hai Hongzhu's subtle thoughts of this little girl. In his opinion, Hai Hongzhu's seasickness headache is just a normal physical reaction that is not used to riding a boat, and it can't even be called sick. If he was on land, he could have prescribed a prescription and went to the pharmacy to grab some herbs for her to decoction, and he would have been able to cure the disease immediately, but unfortunately now that he was sailing on the sea, there was nowhere to buy medicine, so he had no good way.

And in the past few days on the "White Bird", Hua Bushi in addition to chatting with Cao Duan, Yunnan Gongqi, to learn some details of the last Wanyi Conference, is to hide in the room, holding the "Panlong Jue" to study and inspect carefully, trying to find a little treasure from it.

This jade pendant that he almost lost his life to obtain, Hua Bushi certainly didn't want it to be left empty in his hands, and he didn't know the secret at all.

It's a pity that this is just in vain, although he has checked repeatedly, he has not made any progress.

Thankfully, the journey didn't last long.

The attack on the White Bird at sea was on the evening of the third day of departure from Nanao Port, and because it changed direction and deviated from its original course when escaping, the sailing ship made some detours, making the original five-day voyage become seven days.

In the early morning of the 23rd day of the first lunar month, a black spot appeared on the sea level in front of the "White Bird". As the sailboat approached, the black dot in the distance gradually grew larger, becoming a blue-gray island.

The destination of this trip, the legendary Bangi Island, has finally arrived!

Two hours later, at noon, the "White Oriole" sailed close to the front of Bangi Island. Although it initially appears to be a small black dot at sea level, when you get closer, you will see that the island is by no means small.

On the front of the island is a huge blue-black stone cliff, several miles long and hundreds of feet high, and there are many reefs scattered under the cliff, protruding above the sea like dog's teeth.

Instead of heading for the reefs, the Whitebird turned its bow and circled east along the coast, and after several miles it had reached the eastern side of the island. From this position, behind the boulder cliffs, you can see a mountain with lush bushes and meadows.

At the bottom of the hill is a bay with several buoys on the sea, and near the shore is a row of docks, and in the distance there is a lighthouse in front of the hill.

In the bay, there are more than a dozen ships docked, each of which is no smaller than the "White Bird".

These ships must be the ships sent by "Wanyimen" to fifteen seaports and wharves along the coast of Daming. And so many ships have been parked here, indicating that most of the guests attending the "Wanyi Conference" must have arrived, and the "White Bird" will only be late because it has encountered pirates and has been delayed at sea.

The Whitebird lowered its mainsail, lowered its speed, and slowly sailed into the harbor ahead. Everyone on the ship had already come to the deck, looking at the island and the pier in front of them.

Nangong Qi sighed: "If you don't see it with your own eyes, you really can't believe that there is such a place on the isolated island in the South China Sea!"

Cao Duyun said: "Yes, the dock on this island alone is afraid that it is twice as large as the dock in Nanao Town." ”

While speaking, the "White Bird" slowly stopped at a berth on the dock, and the ship's master, Luo Zhong, shouted the order to anchor. The wharf was apparently designed to moor ocean-going ships with high decks, such as the "White Oriole", and the wooden bridge built on the water was more than two feet above the water, not the kind of low and low wooden bridge on the port of Nanao, which could only be used for mooring and unloading offshore boats.

I only heard Song Sichen say loudly: "Young Master Cao, Young Master Hua, Zhengde Immortal, Mr. Nangong, this is 'Wanyi Island', please follow me to get off the boat and go ashore and go to 'Wanyi Manor' together!"

Some sailors put up a longboard between the side of the "White Oriole" and the wooden bridge of the pier, and everyone stepped on the wooden planks and walked up to the pier.

Although the pier is tall, it is quite deserted, not as lively as the pier in Nanao Town. There were only a few strong guards on the wooden bridge, all of whom were wearing short silk cloth clothes in sky blue, and wore light-colored scarves on their heads, with the word "Yi" embroidered on their foreheads, and their weapons were all long swords of a unified standard.

This person is obviously a member of the "Wanyi Gate".

From the outside, these "Wanyimen" people are the same as the sailors and crew members on the "White Bird", all of them have dark skin, which must have been formed by years of wind and sun exposure at sea.

Everyone followed Song Sichen out of the wharf, but saw that in front of the wharf was a bluestone road, leading directly to the back of the mountain, and there were more than ten pavilions of soft sedan chairs parked on the side of the road.

Song Sichen said: "There are still five miles away from Wanyi Manor, if you don't want to walk, you can take the soft sedan chair of this door to go." ”

Xue Yuan frowned and said: "It's okay for the female dependents to take a sedan chair, we can't get used to this kind of sedan chair, isn't there a horse to ride on your island?"

Song Sichen said: "The climate on the island is different from that of the mainland, and ordinary horses can't adapt to it, because the island has never fed horses, and I ask Xue Ye to forgive me." But fortunately, it is not too far to get to the manor, even on foot. ”

It is not a miracle that there are no horses on the island, and hearing Song Sichen's explanation, Xue Yuan has nothing to say.

Cao Duyun and Nangong Qi are reluctant to take a sedan chair, Zhengde Daoist is a monk, and there is no reason to sit in a sedan chair, Zuihou only has the two female dependents of Hai Hongzhu and Chu Yiyi of the "Evil Dog Gate" to take the two pavilion soft sedan chairs, and Hua Bushi also walked with everyone, led by Song Guanshi, and walked along the bluestone road.

The road is not too wide, and the twists and turns lead to meadows and bushes on the slopes on either side of the road, and a few low trees in the distance, which are very sparsely distributed. Hua Bushi walked forward, looking around at the plant scenery on the island, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

As Song Sichen said, "Wanyi Manor" is really not far, everyone walked two or three miles, and then turned a hillside, and a village courtyard appeared in front of them.

This village courtyard is built on a slope, and the courtyards are stacked on top of each other, and there are about hundreds of entrances. The outer wall of the village courtyard is made of stone, a bluestone gate in front of it, quite imposing, in front of the door stands a big banner of three zhang high, waving in the wind, it is made of sky blue satin, and the big characters of two pens walking dragons and snakes are embroidered with gold thread: "Wanyi".

It seems that this is the most mysterious sect in the world, where the general altar of "Wanyi Gate" is located.

And what attracts everyone's attention the most is neither the bluestone gate of the Zhuangyuan, nor the "Wanyi" banner at the gate of the courtyard, but a behemoth on the side of the Zhuangyuan, leaning on a stone rock hill.

It was a huge ship!

If he hadn't seen this ship, Hua Bushi would have believed that there would be such a big boat on this shijie, and this boat was actually not in the water, but on land!

This ship is forty zhang long, eighteen zhang wide, the height of the deck is more than eight zhang, even the rudder blade at the stern is two zhang high, the "White Oriole" that everyone took before is also a very rare ocean-going ship, but if compared with this ship, it is much worse, it is like the difference between a hippopotamus and a giant elephant!

The giant ship reclined on the rocky mountain. The nine masts on the ship are each six or seven feet long and five or six feet thick, and it is difficult for a person to hug them with their arms together, and the masts point obliquely to the sky, which is quite spectacular. Although there are no sails on the giant ship, the red paint on the outside of the hull is as new, and there is a dragon carving on the bow, engraved with the word "treasure".