Hearing this, Sima Rulan's heart moved again, if what Hua Bushi said was true, she was at least one of the people the eldest young master could be closest to, otherwise how could he be honest with the biggest ideal in his heart.

After being silent for a long time, Sima Rulan said: "Okay, I can promise to lend this scripture to Mr. Hua for transcription, but there is a quid pro quo, you must agree." ”

Hua Bushi said: "I have already said that I will agree to any conditions." ”

Sima Rulan suddenly smiled and said, "Mr. Hua said that he would agree to any conditions, if Lan'er wants you to kill people and set fires, or ask for your life, will you also agree?"

Hua Bushi said: "Miss Lan'er is kind-hearted, and she is even more kind to Hua Bushi, and she will definitely not put forward those conditions that make me embarrassed, right?"

Sima Rulan pursed her lips again, and said, "Mr. Hua is deliberately bullying Lan'er, so he will say this, hmph! I want to put forward the conditions that make you embarrassed, see if you are willing to agree!"

Hua Bushi said with a bitter face: "If Miss Lan'er really wants Hua Bushi's life, since I said yes, I will not regret it." ”

Looking at Hua Bushi's sad expression, Sima Rulan instantly remembered the situation when she met him for the first time.

At the beginning, in order to beg her to help Vedic Tianlou deal with the blackmail of the "Bright Moon Society", the eldest young master not only hugged her on the street, but was chased and killed by a large group of "heroes" who acted bravely all over the street, and later pretended to be a poor little businessman to complain to her, and the expression on his face was exactly the same as now.

She had only known Hua Bushi for more than half a year, but the situation at that time seemed to be just yesterday, and it seemed that she had experienced many years.

Sima Rulan's thoughts were chaotic, and she was in a daze, and it took a long time before she suddenly came back to her senses and handed the oil paper bag in her hand to Hua Bushi.

Hua Bushi was surprised and delighted, took the paper bag with both hands, and said, "Miss Lan'er is willing to borrow the 'Yijin Sutra'! I don't know what the conditions are?"

Sima Rulan said: "The scriptures are temporarily borrowed from you." As for the conditions, Lan'er hasn't thought about it yet, I'll tell you when I think about it, anyway, you said that you have to agree to anything, and you are not allowed to go back on it in the future, right?"

Hua Bushi stood up, bowed respectfully to Sima Rulan, and said: "Thank you Miss Lan'er for borrowing the grace of the scriptures! Hua Bushi will never dare to go back on the conditions owed, Miss Lan'er can put forward whenever she thinks about it in the future, and Hua Bushi will definitely obey it." ”

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ rested in the cave for a long time, Xiong Bailing's broken arm injury had stabilized and stopped bleeding. Sima Rulan found the gunpowder mechanism on the rock wall, lit the fuse and blew up a passage, and the four of them finally got out of the secret cave.

During this time, Xiong Tiannan also woke up, and sure enough, there was no big problem.

Earlier, the group had escaped from the snake's den, and he accidentally slipped down the stone steps and fell into the rocks by the lake.

The great prince of the bear was lucky, and the place where he fell was stuck between several natural stalagmites and stone pillars, and the head and body of the giant snake were too thick to reach into the stones and bite him. And the rocks on this island are extremely hard, and the serpent is extremely powerful, but for a time there is nothing to be done about him.

It's just that Xiong Tiannan's courage is really not big, the giant snake jumped closer, and the blood-red snake letter Tian pointed at his head and face, and he was so frightened that he immediately fainted.

After Xiong Tiannan woke up, he listened to Xiong Bailing tell the story of the three people who went into the cave to save him, and saw that his father had lost an arm, and the eldest son of Xiong cried and felt guilty.

Xiong Bailing made it clear to his son that in the future, the Xiong family swore to be loyal to the "Wanjintang" in order to atone for the previous betrayal of the sect.

Coming out of the blasted rock wall is the seaside below the rocky mountain of Whale Swallowing Island.

On the top of the mountain, there are also the Qian Twin Demons and dozens of "Black Dragon Palace" pirates, and the rock wall explodes, and they will definitely hear the movement. Now Xiong Bailing was seriously injured, and Hua Bushi, who didn't know martial arts, also needed protection, so it was really not suitable to fight the pirates, so the four of them came out of the hole without stopping, and immediately ran along the coast and headed towards the tail of the big whale.

Sima Rulan carried Hua Bushi, and Xiong Tiannan supported his father Xiong Bailing, and they all ran with all their strength, and it only took half an hour to come to the foot of the Whale Tail Stone Mountain. Sima Rulan found the sampan that he had taken on the island before, and the four of them sat on the sampan and left the island.

Sima Rulan paddled and sailed, and soon crossed the reefs around the island and returned to the "Golden Swallow".

It had been more than half a day since Sima Rulan and Hua Bushi drove the boat to the island, and Fu Ao on the "Golden Swallow" was already waiting anxiously, and then he heard the sound of an explosion coming from the island, so he was even more worried that the two had an accident, and he was about to take someone to the island to find it. At this time, seeing that the little sampan had returned from the island, and the eldest lady of the city lord was safe and sound, Fu Ao was greatly relieved.

At that moment, the "Golden Swallow" pulled anchor and set sail and returned to Okura Island.

This time, the Ryugong tribe plotted to swallow the Whale Island, which was presided over by Ma Wude, and two large loach ships were also sent to come, and in order not to startle the grass and snakes, they were all anchored in the sea far away from the island. Ma Wude thought that it would be foolproof to ambush Sima Rulan on the island, but he didn't expect that the result would be to lose his wife and lose his army, and even he himself died.

Xiong Bailing knew the location of the two big ships, and asked the "Golden Swallow" to avoid their location and detour away. Although the Qian brothers on the island sent out a fireworks signal and ordered the loach ship to stop the pursuit, with the "Golden Swallow" sailing at a much faster speed than ordinary sailing ships, it was extremely easy to get rid of the pirate ship.

In the early morning of the next day, the "Golden Swallow" had already returned to Okura Island.

Entering the city, Sima Rulan told Chai Lin and Yao Yuanxiao about the return of the Xiong family's father and son, but the two elders of the "Wanjin Hall" were all suspicious, especially when they heard that the Xiong family had surrendered to the "Black Dragon Palace" and betrayed the secret of the Whale Swallowing Island, they even more thought that Xiong Bailing could no longer be used.

After Xiong Bailing entered the city, he only recuperated for three days, and proposed to Sima Rulan that he would take his son Xiong Tiannan to sail to sea again.

It turned out that although Xiong Bailing took refuge in the "Black Dragon Palace", the Xiong family's family Zhuang Ding and hundreds of people from the Da Zhen Department did not go to Black Dragon Island, but settled on a small island called "Chisha Island" a hundred miles away from Okura Island. Of course, this was because of the tension in the war outside Okura Island earlier, and there was no time to take care of it, but also because the "Black Dragon Palace" did not trust Xiong Bailing very much.

In fact, Xiong Bailing has taken refuge in the "Black Dragon Palace" for more than a few months, and he has not even seen the face of the Black Dragon King, and among the people of the Dragon Palace he has seen, the person in charge with the highest status is only Qiao Shuangchou.

So now Xiong Bailing is anxious to go to "Chishayu" to bring back the Xiong family's family members and his disciples Zhuang Ding, if it is too late, he is afraid of being harmed by the "Black Dragon Palace".

Xiong Bailing's father and son had just entered the city and were about to leave, Chai Lin and Yao Yuanxiao thought that he must be trying to find an excuse to escape back to the "Black Dragon Palace", and advocated that Xiong Bailing and his son should be detained and punished for betraying the sect according to the rules of the "Wanjintang". Sima Rulan resolutely refused, not only ordered them to leave, but also transferred the "Golden Swallow" and dozens of sailors on board to Xiong Bailing for use.

Now it is this Lan'er eldest lady who is in charge of the "Wanjintang", even if Chai Lin and Yao Yuanxiao have doubts in their hearts, they can't go against her will.

Facts have proved that Sima Rulan did not mistakenly believe in "Uncle Xiong". Ten days later, Xiong Bailing returned to Okura Port on the "Golden Swallow", and brought back three big ships and hundreds of Xiong family disciples.

After several months of siege battles, the loss of the ships and manpower of the "Wanjintang" is not small, and now the return of Xiong Bailing and the most elite war department in the original city has restored the vitality of the sect a lot, at least for the time being, there is no need to worry about the comeback of the "Black Dragon Palace" will be fully defended.

When Sima Rulan proposed to let Xiong Bailing be reinstated as the deputy hall master of the "Wanjin Hall", Xiong Bailing insisted on refusing. He only said that he had committed the great crime of betraying the sect before, and he had no shame to meet the brothers in the sect again, but fortunately he was forgiven by the eldest lady, and he could no longer serve in an important position in the sect due to his sinful body, so he only wanted to be an ordinary helper, as long as he could serve the "Wanjintang".

Although Sima Rulan repeatedly requested, Xiong Bailing's refusal to return to office was very resolute, and she had no choice but to give up.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ returned to Okura Castle from Whale Swallowing Island, Hua Bushi had no time to pay attention to the affairs of the "Wanjintang" sect, but plunged into the study of the Bark Sky Tower, and did not come out for five or six days.

Transcribing the "Yijin Sutra" is the first thing for this eldest young master. After spending two days transcribing the internal strength method, he began to study the detailed shipbuilding drawings of the dragon slaying ship.

The shipbuilding of the dragon slayer is not a single map, but hundreds of drawings large and small, as well as more than 30 textual instructions on how to build a ship. It's no wonder that what Ma Wude took out of the stone house before would be a heavy burden. At that time, Sima Zhufeng spent a lot of money to invite many of the top shipbuilders in the West to design this ship, and it took five years, and these hundreds of drawings and explanatory texts condensed the painstaking efforts and wisdom of those masters.

Hua Bushi didn't know much about the art of navigation and shipbuilding, and after he spent three days studying all these drawings and materials, he understood one thing, that is, it was much more difficult to build a dragon slaying ship than he had originally expected.

When Hua Bushi was in the back garden of the City Lord's Mansion, when he heard Sima Rulan talk about the Dragon Slaying Ship, he thought that the biggest difficulty in building this ship was only the fine iron material. The "Evil Dog Gate" has refined iron veins and smelting workshops in Wuyang City, as long as tens of thousands of catties of refined iron are transported, shipbuilding will probably be a matter of course.

However, after looking at the detailed drawings, he realized that things were by no means that simple, and he fully understood why it had been several years since the design of the Dragon Slaying Ship, but Sima Zhufeng had not started building ships for a long time.