Great Song Pirate

Chapter 85 Nine Dead Lives

The mood on the return voyage was naturally much different from when we came here. The brothers on the ship were in a good mood looking at the full load of cargo, and they were marching with full sail and singing all the way, wishing they could step back to the island and take a good rest.

Although they all came from boats, life at sea is still far inferior to life on an island. Although there are fish and meat at sea, they cannot eat fresh vegetables. After a long time, they will inevitably get bored. The cook tried his best, but Xu Yi felt that his mouth was full of bad taste in the past two days, and he always wanted to eat something light. Now it is no different from living in a thousand years. There is a refrigerator on the ship to store vegetables. Other than fish, there are only some pickled pickles. The time is short, but if the time is long, people will inevitably lack vitamins and the like, and feel weak in hands and feet.

Xu Yi actually thought of a way. There were soybeans in the grain stored on the ship. A few days earlier, he had arranged for the cook to soak the beans in fresh water. The bean sprouts had sprouted in the past two days. , the appetite has increased a lot, and the bean sprouts are rich in vitamins, which can just make up for the lack of long-term sailing. Although such a thing is small, it still solves a considerable problem for long-term sea sailing. Xu Yi misses the past very much. I eat potatoes, but think about it. Columbus has not discovered the New World. Potatoes are originally produced in the American continent. It will take at least 400 years for them to spread to China, let alone peppers. That will be hundreds of years later. When he was doing nothing, Xu Yi couldn't help thinking that if he could get a few Zheng He's treasure ships now, traveling all the way east, maybe it wasn't that Columbus who discovered the New World, but now this idea can only be thought about. Their current ships can only go to the South China Sea or cross the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea at best, and they can go around the Ryukyu and Japan areas. If they want to cross the Pacific Ocean, it is probably similar to courting death. There is no sufficient preparation. Give him a Don't even dare to do such a thing!After all, he was living a good life now, so there was no need to take that risk.

Two days after the boat sailed, as Liu Laoliu said, the wind direction on the sea began to change, and the sea breeze from the north could already feel the obvious coolness. The intensity of the hurricane was far less fierce than the hurricane encountered on the island a while ago, but it was quite a test for ships like them. hit their boats, and their boats were bumping like leaves on the top of the wind and waves, and were suddenly lifted to the top of the waves, and then thrown into the valley, the hull was creaked by the huge waves, listening The hearts of the people were frightened, except for the women, everyone was desperately on the deck, furling and adjusting the sails was extremely busy, uneasy emotions began to spread on all the ships, and the smiling faces of the people in the past two days were no longer seen now. Not anymore.

Such violent turbulence caused many people to become seasick, even Xu Yi was not spared, lying on the side of the boat and vomited so much that he almost spit out all the bile, Li Bo's condition was not much better than him Go, followed him with a livid face, but he was just restraining himself. Someone advised Xu Yi to go down to the cabin to have a rest, but Xu Yi refused.

At this time, what the fleet needs most is morale. Once he, the strategist, gets down, the others will inevitably follow. If they are not careful, they may lose their lives in the vast ocean Although Xu Yi was dying of pain, he still insisted on standing on the deck without disembarking from the cabin, and together with everyone against the furious God, his actions also mobilized the morale of other people on board, and those who were seasick also insisted On the deck, struggling to fight the big wind and waves to the death.

Under such weather, it was impossible for the fleet to maintain their formation. Xu Yi had no choice but to issue an order to disband the fleet and return to their respective voyages. The fleet was finally disbanded half a day later, and they headed towards Dulong Island despite the wind and waves. go.

Everyone on Dulong Island looked at the sky worriedly. In this weather, all the ships had returned, only the fleet that Xu Yi brought to Fusang hadn't returned yet. He regretted his decision. If he had known that there would be such a big storm, he would never have encouraged Xu Yi to take a boat to Fusang to hunt for food. He asked Xu Yi to lead the team to the sea at the beginning, but the purpose was to let him experience more. Some, fortunately, let him take over his position as the head of the family in the future, but I didn't expect that Xu Yi has been away for almost a month and hasn't come back. How can he, the father-in-law, feel at ease?

This time Yingchun didn't complain about him anymore, but climbed up the archery tower on Hukou Cliff early every day, standing there like a stone man, staring into the distance without saying a word, until the sky was so dark that nothing could be done at night. After she couldn't see it, she went back to their small courtyard alone. The food that was sent to her was not even touched. It has been five days, and the originally vigorous body has lost weight like a willow leaf, and the rosy face is even more pale, which makes people frightened. Jin Huo can't wait to take the boat out to sea to find Xu Yi, but he is stopped by everyone Well, going out in such weather, not to mention picking up Xu Yi's fleet, I'm afraid he might not even be able to keep his own boat, Jin Huo can only stay on the pier all day and sigh.

The heavy wind and rain lasted for five days before it gradually cleared up. As soon as the storm stopped, more than a dozen boats on the island were dispatched together and headed towards Fusang in the northeast to search for Xu Yi and the others separately. Yingchun still climbed early. Going up to the archery tower on Hukou Cliff, everyone can see that she has reached her limit, and everyone on the island prays to God, praying that God will not let their military adviser have any accidents, otherwise, I'm afraid The eldest lady can't survive.

Yingchun herself doesn't know why, since she got to know Xu Yi, her heart has been quietly tied to this person, she is always secretly grateful to God for allowing her to meet Xu Yi, so that she doesn't have to worry about it. To marry a man she doesn't like. After marrying him, Xu Yi became her everything. She didn't know what would happen to her if Xu Yi didn't return, but she knew that as long as Xu Yi didn't come back for a day If she comes back, she will not leave this arrow tower.

Yingchun tried her best to look to the northeast, but she didn't notice that there were several broken sail shadows from the southwest that were slowly bypassing Dulong Island and heading towards the channel to enter the port.

(End of this chapter)