First mate is not easy

"..." Lando is seriously thinking about a question now - is it he or Xiaobai who is about to lose his mind.

Otherwise, he really couldn't figure out how Xiaobai could come up with such a shocking idea.The corners of his lips twitched. Based on the way of thinking of "helping relatives but not helping others", he was trying hard to think about how to resist the next series of ridicules from Dill and his hamster mate for Xiaobai. It was found that the whole meeting room was terribly quiet, and everyone looked at Xiaobai with a strange look—that was definitely not the look of a madman.

Lando: "...you don't think there is such a possibility, do you?"

Dill: "..."

First Mate Pad: "..."

"I look like I'm joking now?" Xiaobai asked blankly.

Lando felt that the world was really crazy. The hamster has become a living person, and people can be brought back to life. Now even a destroyed ship has an automatic repair function. From this point of view, the Leviathan is really A terrific boat, at least in terms of maintenance costs, and a stingy Raymond would love a boat that saves money and hassle.

"I still think it's a fantasy that a ship with only the rudder wheel will repair itself." Lando insisted, "If I write this information to Raymond in a letter, will he feel that he is being played? After a while, and then sent his bird to come and peck me in a rage?"

Xiaobai: "In your eyes, Raymond is such an idle person?"

Lando: "He is very busy, but he has an unusual attachment to me, which is enough to make him drop everything he is doing, and torment me just to find a way."

noob:"……"

"I was about to cry when I heard this. Baby boy, your self-deception is really heartbreaking. If that Raymond is really so attached to you, why did you let you fend for yourself on my boat for so long? Dill interjected very well, with a look of disdain as he spoke.

"..." Didn't expect Dill to say such a thing at all, Lando was defenseless and had no choice but to remain silent.

Because he didn't know why there was no news about the Seaz these days. He just heard from a third party that Raymond was looking for him, but after searching for so long, Raymond couldn't find him either. Coming to the door, this had to make Lando wonder if someone was really looking for him, or if he just let out the wind and pretended, in fact, he happily and logically got rid of him, and he became the Sheath the master?

Thinking of this, the expression on Lando's face became a little subtle.He lowered his head and stared at his toes, the expression on his face clearly showed that his fragile heart was a little hurt.At this moment, he heard Xiao Bai who was not far away broke the silence and calmly asked in that hoarse voice: "Master Captain, is it really okay for you to sow discord like this? Don't you think it's a bit despicable?"

"I'm a despicable person, otherwise why would you appear on my boat?" Dill replied calmly, "And it's my little slave and his former master that I'm sowing discord, what's your business here? "

Xiaobai stopped talking.He turned his head, pinched the black-haired young man's jaw and lifted it slightly, forcing him to meet his blue pupils, and then spoke in a slow and slow voice: "What do you think? Do you remember that when you thought you were going to die before, the only last words were for that person, but now you are shaken because of other people's few words?"

shake?Shake what?

Lando's pupils narrowed slightly, and after a while, he seemed to come to his senses, "Aren't we discussing about the Leviathan now?"

Xiaobai said that he would not be affected, and said lightly: "That topic is over, we will go to Sildon immediately, get the 'Aria of the Mermaid' from the queen, and then look for the statue of Leviathan. Controversial. Our point of contention now is..."

"I don't want to answer this question." Lando said in a low voice, "Now I feel a little dizzy, I want to drink some water and eat two pieces of pineapple, Xiaobai, can you take me back to the cabin?"

Xiao Bai was taken aback for a moment, then pursed her thin lips lightly, and the corners of her lips were drawn into an unpleasant straight line.

Behind him, Dill showed a schadenfreude smile—he didn't even know why he was so happy to have won the battle.

……

In the end, Lando was carried back to the cabin by Xiaobai, because he found that even the breath he exhaled was hot right now.I don't know if it was because of being too frightened, or because he was exhausted by Dill's instigation and discord in the end, which caused the whole person's emotions to fall to the bottom. unstable.

Raymond often said that fools don't get colds and fevers, like Lando, who will always be as healthy as a monkey.

But now, Lando was so burned that he almost turned into a real fool.

He lay on Xiaobai's back, the man's back was firm and warm, which gave Lando an inexplicably familiar feeling.

I accidentally remembered a time when I was a child, coughing and coughing in the middle of the night, it was windy and rainy outside, and the doctor refused to come to the house. His father was in a hurry, and it was Raymond who directly took him lying on the bed. He picked it up and threw it on his back, then put on the cloak, carried him directly to the door of the doctor's house, and rang the doorbell of the house, digging the doctor in pajamas out of the bed to make a diagnosis. Lando just saved his life.But afterwards, Raymond, who was always in good health, followed him and lay in bed with a high fever for three days.

That was one of the few good things Raymond had done so far.Although his various bad deeds later made Lando couldn't help wondering whether his memory of that firm and warm back was an illusion produced by his burnt out...

Thinking of this, Lando couldn't help rubbing his face against Xiaobai's shoulder, and called out viscously: "Xiaobai..."

Xiaobai was taken aback when he heard the words.

"Your back is so warm," the black-haired young man said in a daze. "That guy Raymond probably had such a strong, generous, warm and comfortable back before his heart completely went dark..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt the person who had been walking briskly behind him suddenly stop.At this time, the two were on the side of the ship, Lando raised his head slightly, and there was always an illusion that Xiaobai wanted to throw him into the sea along the side of the ship...Of course, he knew that this was all an illusion, because next, behind his back, The people still took steady steps and quickly walked towards the cabin where they were resting.

It wasn't until he was lying down on the bed that he realized that Dill didn't seem to have made any substantive investigations into the fact that he and Xiaobai broke into the captain's cabin in the middle of the night and stirred up chaos inside.He chuckled, turned over on the bed, and yawned, "Xiao Bai, I want to eat pineapple."

And the man who has always been responsive to his requests did not make any response this time.

With his back to Lando, he sat down at the table next to the bed, and took off the bandages around his waist, revealing the strong muscles under the bandages.And at this time, with the moonlight outside the window and the swaying kerosene lamp in the cabin, Lando could clearly see that the original snow-white bandage was dotted with dried blood, and Xiao Bai's back was even more horrible—— Maybe it was when he had hit the shattered bulkhead with his back in the head-to-head confrontation with the first mate, and the sawdust had stuck into his flesh.

Just thinking about it hurts.

And Xiaobai carried these sawdust embedded in his flesh and wounds all the way from the meeting room back to the cabin, without even a single complaint.

Realizing that he seemed to have made a too capricious request just now, Lando took a deep breath, without much hesitation, immediately got up from the bed with his drowsy head, and approached the man from behind.At this time, Xiaobai was turning his hands backwards, trying to take out the sawdust on his back with a little clumsiness. When he felt Lando approaching, he said coldly, "Don't come over."

The black-haired young man who was squatting down to clean his back was taken aback by his tone, "What? I just want to..."

"No need." Xiaobai said bluntly.

Lando was baffled by his cold and vaguely angry tone.Think about it when Xiaobai carried him all the way back just now, he was also talking, and the other party didn't reply a word.At that time, he was still weak, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, he just thought that Xiaobai didn't have the energy to speak up when he was behind his back, but now that he thought about it...

He was simply angry.

The question is, why is he angry?

Lando felt baffled, and wanted to reach out to touch Xiaobai again, but this guy seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, and once again dodged perfectly.

Lando finally couldn't bear it anymore, "What's the matter with you? Your back is full of sawdust now, you can't see your back, it must not be cleaned well, if you don't fix it, it may cause inflammation. We don't know when we will get the sawdust Do you want to get infected because of such a small problem, and then die on the ship without saying a word?"

"The customs clearance documents will be delivered soon."

"how do you know?"

"Anyway, don't touch me, go back to bed and lie down."

"What's wrong with you?"

This time Xiaobai didn't speak. When the whole cabin fell into silence, only the creaking sound of the boat being pushed by the sea could be heard.Along with the shaking of the ship, the kerosene lamps hanging above their heads were also flickering.Without looking back, Xiao Baitou said "Go to bed early", grabbed the medicine bottle on the wooden table and held it in his hand, and then strode out of the cabin.

About 15 minutes later, a pirate walked into Lando's cabin carrying a bowl of diced pineapples with a yawning expression on his face.Lando looked up at him, "Where's the little white man?"

"I don't know...Let's put it this way, 10 minutes ago he arrested me in the bottom deck and asked me to go to the kitchen to get you a pineapple. 5 minutes ago I came out of the kitchen and saw him smoking a cigarette on the side of the boat. 1 minute ago I saw The girl you rescued approached him tiptoely, holding up her skirt, and asked him if he wanted to change the medicine."

"Oh..." Lando's mind was completely out of pineapple at the moment, even though he thought about this sweet and sour thing a second ago, his whole body was agitated.

At this moment, he just stood up and glanced out of the window, but found that the sea fog outside was thick and he couldn't see anything, so he had to look away, turned his head and asked, "What did Xiaobai say?"

"I didn't say anything. But I see that his bandages are full of blood, and there are sawdust behind him. It's always good to have someone to help with the wound! And I heard that women are very careful, she is still a lady, how many Need to learn some fine work?" The pirate shrugged and guessed casually, then yawned again, "Are you all right? I'm going back to sleep..."

Lando grabbed the pirate who was turning to leave, his eyes widened slightly, "He rejected me, and turned around to accept that woman?"

"Are you confused..." The pirate looked impatient, "Rejecting you and accepting a woman, what's so shocking to you?"

Lando: "..."

That's right.

But no matter, he was shocked and a little inexplicably angry.

So he didn't take a rest at this moment, and he pulled himself together and walked to the side of the ship.In his drowsy mind, he couldn't help imagining 1 reasons for sending Flandre away from Xiaobai.

He staggered to the side of the ship, and he heard whispers from a distance, as if a man and a woman were talking in a low voice.Lando's heart tightened, he frowned lightly, and took two steps forward, finally seeing clearly the scene not far away through the sea fog——

Flandre held her face in her hands, and crouched not far from the red-haired man with a frustrated face, silently watching him swallowing his clouds.The latter's face covered under the bandage didn't show any expression, but after taking two puffs of tobacco, he said lightly: "It's late at night, go back to sleep, lonely men and widows are alone, it will be bad for your reputation if it spreads. "

Flandre's face twitched a few times, as if she wanted to say something, but before she could speak, she was attracted by the movement made by a black-haired young man not far away who deliberately stepped hard.She turned her head and watched Lando approaching step by step, her eyes widened in surprise, "Aren't you asleep?"

"You talk too loudly," Lando said shamelessly, "it woke me up."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the man who was leaning against the side of the boat pause slightly, raised his eyelids and glanced at him, as if he felt that his excuse was extremely absurd.However, Lando couldn't control that much anymore, he reached out and took the pipe from Xiao Bai's hand: "Come back with me to get the medicine."

Xiaobai: "No hurry, return the pipe to me."

"I'll pay you back when I come back with me." Lando said, "It's windy here, if it blows like this, you'll catch a cold."

Xiaobai: "The person with fever seems to be you."

Lando: "I also feel a headache now, and it hurts even more from being blown by the wind... Do you want to go back with me, or we'll just stand here all night, and it's up to you if you die."

Flandre: "..."

The girl standing aside with her skirt in her hand opened her mouth slightly, and she realized that she had no room to intervene.

At this moment, she already felt that the content of the conversation between these two people was so weird that it was a bit curious, and then, something even more curious happened.The man who just ignored her from the beginning to the end, and was just smoking there with a cold face paused for a moment, showing a helpless expression for the first time, then raised his hand, and vigorously lifted the jaw standing beside him. , staring stubbornly at the black-haired young man whose hair was messed up, and then said: "Then go back."

Then Xiaobai turned his head, and said to the girl who was completely petrified because of the tenderness he showed in that instant, "Good night."

Flandre: "..."

Watching the backs of the two big men leaving, at this moment, Flandre has only one thought in her mind: Apart from money, there is only the so-called "long live the friendship between men" - the world of pirates is really going to be bad .

……

Lando and Xiaobai returned to the cabin. After a night of tossing around, it was already daylight outside, the pirates who were the first to change their shift had already woken up, and there were movements on the deck.

The two returned to the cabin one after the other, Lando closed the door, thought for a while and said, "Hurry up and take care of your wounds, we will also rest, don't refuse me."

This time Xiaobai didn't say anything, and sat down at the table, and to Lando's relief, the man graciously pointed his back in the direction he was this time, and slightly pulled back the bandage untie.After all his tossing around, some blood oozes from the wound on his back that was already somewhat scabbed, and the sawdust has penetrated even further.

Lando knew that he was a very caring person.He stepped forward, carefully sterilized the silver needles he found out of the cabinet on the candles, then bent down, trying not to let the blurred vision affect his movements, and tried his best to lightly and flexibly insert a needle that was stuck deep in the man. Pick out the sawdust in the flesh.After the sawdust was pulled out, a drop of blood came out, and Lando muttered, "If I had done it earlier, it wouldn't be so deep. What happened to you just now?"

Xiaobai didn't answer, but instead turned his head and glanced at the pineapple which was apparently untouched on the table, "Why didn't you eat it?"

Lando thought for a while, let out a long breath, stretched out his hand and grabbed a piece of pineapple and stuffed it into his mouth.When the sweet and sour juice seeped out in his mouth, he realized how thirsty he really was. He couldn't help but grabbed another piece and stuffed it into his mouth, and then said vaguely: "You just got angry for no reason, which made me nervous." You have to forget what you want to do."

"I'm not mad."

"Then why don't you let me clean the wound for you?" Lando asked.

"I didn't want to do it just now." Xiaobai replied confidently.

Lando: "..."

The dark-haired young man fell silent, expressing his complete admiration.He lowered his head and continued to treat the man's wound with the silver needle in his hand. When all the sawdust was picked out, the sky outside was more than half bright.

Lando stood up and turned off the kerosene lamp, found a clean bandage from the cabinet, sprinkled it with hemostatic medicine, carefully rewound Xiaobai around the wound on his back and waist, and finally tied a beautiful sailor knot.After everything was done, he breathed a sigh of relief and yawned, "Okay, go to bed quickly, and sleep on your stomach for a while, don't press the wound."

Before the words fell, the man who was sitting on the chair suddenly turned around and clasped one of his wrists, pulling towards him, and before the black-haired young man had time to react, his big hand was already on him. On his forehead, he checked the temperature.At first Lando backed away a little, but after realizing that the man was just measuring his temperature, he stopped the tendency to retreat and let him move.

"Why is it still so hot?" Xiaobai asked, "Have you taken the medicine Dill gave?"

"Eat and sleep well."

"Go to sleep."

The man urged the black-haired young man to go to bed. After watching him lie on the bed, he thought for a while, and then turned over on the outside of the bed and fell asleep on his side.Lando was already exhausted, and just now he had to hold on to light the lamp to pick wood chips for Xiaobai, which exhausted all his energy, so almost fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.But when he felt a strong chest on his back, he still couldn't help turning around, opened his heavy eyelids, and muttered: "Didn't I let you sleep on your stomach?"

"The bed is not wide enough." Xiaobai said succinctly, "Then I sleep on the floor?"

"No, then you can sleep on your side."

Lando yawned wearily, maintaining the posture facing Xiaobai's chest, he didn't seem to feel anything wrong, and closed his eyes again.While breathing, he could vaguely smell the mixed smell of bandages, hemostatic powder and sweat. For some reason, this smell made him feel particularly at ease.

For a moment, it was like returning to Xiaobai's back again.

"noob……"

"doing what?"

"You smell a bit like Raymond." Lando said vaguely, "But that guy will never sleep in the same bed as me..."

Hearing this, the man who was sleeping sideways on the outside of the bed with his head propped on one hand, his azure blue pupils darkened slightly.It's just that the black-haired young man closed his eyes at this moment, so he didn't know.

After a while, the man raised his hand, and gently brushed away the hair that was hanging from the forehead of the guy who was about to nest into his arms. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Then I'll ask you a question."

Lando had already entered a semi-sleeping state at this time, and he snorted almost reflexively: "Huh?"

"Me or Raymond, who is better?"

"...There is no comparison."

"..." The man raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is he that bad?"

"No, don't listen to Dill's nonsense..." Xiao Bai reached out and touched the man's chin.

"Don't you agree with what he said?"

"I'm just wondering why he hasn't come to pick me up yet. I'm just a little bit dissatisfied, and I don't agree..."

The black-haired young man clicked his mouth, as if he still had something to say in his throat.But after Xiaobai waited patiently for a while, he didn't wait for the next key words, and instead of the unknown continuation, there was a long, sound sleeping sound from the black-haired young man...

Fell asleep.

Actually fell asleep.

The man who was waiting patiently was slightly stiff. After a while, he lowered his head and took a serious look at Lando, confirming that he had fallen asleep. The strength in his hand tightened slightly, and then he moved lightly Get up out of bed.Amidst the soft sound of the black-haired young man sleeping soundly behind him, the man came to the table with brisk steps, and quickly wrote a scribbled letter on the parchment with ink.Almost at the same time when he finished writing the letter, an extremely beautiful falcon flew in from the window. It flapped its wings and landed on the man's shoulder, and opened its mouth as if it was about to make a cry. At this time, the man seemed to have expected it. , raised his hand and flicked on its beak, "Shh."

Falcon's black eyeballs turned dissatisfied, and he moved his head to look at the black-haired young man who was sleeping sprawled on the bed behind him—if the bird can also show a disdainful expression, then there is no doubt that it must now With a look of disgust.

The man rolled up the letter and tied it to its leg.

Before the sun rose to completely disperse the morning sea fog, no one noticed a certain window on the upper deck, a beautiful hawk flew in quietly, like a shadow, silently carrying an important letter. leave...

……

Two days later, Lando's fever subsided and he regained his full health.

And on the same day when his fever subsided, he witnessed his family's little white god-like prophecy ability.

During the pleasant breakfast time, the ferocious falcon raised by Raymond landed on Dill's dining table in a high-profile manner, stretched out its beak unceremoniously, drank some water in Dill's cup, and then raised a paw to signal The other party took down the letter on it.

Dill took down the letter and was about to tell his subordinates that they would have an extra meal tonight—a boiled hawk. The hawk had cleverly flapped its wings and flew out of the window. Lando, who was eating breakfast, slapped his wings fiercely on the face.

The black-haired young man was caught off guard by the slap, expressing his innocence, lying down seriously.

Dill looked over the letter from the falcon from cover to cover, then put it down, and looked pleased to announce: "Raymond got us a pass to Port Royal, Silton."

Lando: "...Really?"

Dill turned the letter over in his hand.

Lando looked at it, and then found that it was indeed a pass that allowed the fleet to dock at Port Royal, and there was a big red seal of customs clearance from the Silton Royal Navy on it...

Unbelievable, he actually saw the scene where the Royal Navy of Silton fired a salute to the most notorious pirates in the Babylon Sea in his lifetime-this is definitely an indelible black history in the history of Silton's voyages.

Lando expressed his regret and wondered if there was something wrong with his first mate's brain. He looked at the beaming Dill and said delicately, "Why did you tell Raymond?"

Dill touched his chin with a smile: "To be honest, he must cooperate with me if he wants to find the Leviathan."

Lando nodded and said, "Oh." What a shameless threat...

Dill shook the letter in his hand: "There is also a sentence in the letter, asking me to return his monkey to him after docking at Silton."

Lando: "..."

Dill: "My answer is—not so incidentally."

Lando: "It's useless for you to keep me."

Dill: "Just keep it for fun, I'm happy. Anyway, the customs clearance documents have already been obtained. As a pirate, the principle of honesty and trustworthiness I abide by is limited to cooperating with him to find the Leviathan. As for other additional conditions, whether it is What, as long as it is proposed by him, I will not agree."

Lando: "...you two are true love."

Dill: "Shut up."

Lando: "Oh."

On the fifth day, the sky was bright and clear, the Huifeng was warm, the sea breeze was whistling, and the seagulls were howling.

The pirates are driving the pirate ship, and the pirate flag with the symbol of Mercury is flying in the wind.Amidst the cheerful music played by the band on the pirate ship, the fleet led by the Mora happily approached the Royal Port of Silton.On the Mora at the forefront, the young pirate captain Dill was in high spirits. He stepped on the side of the ship, his blond hair was fluttering in the wind, and the smile on his face could not be stopped.

The eighth time he asked the speechless black-haired young man behind him——

"How many salutes do you think your queen will fire to meet us?"

"Firing the salute to meet the pirate's Sildon—oh, this will be the biggest joke in the entire Babylonian seafaring world!"

"Raymond has probably found a place to hide and weep silently."

"Wouldn't it be good to watch the salute during the day? Why don't we dock at night and let your queen set off some fireworks by the way."

Lando: "..."

Lando believes that in Dill's eyes, at this moment, he has conquered the whole world.

Lando began to blame himself deeply. After his lovely first mate Raymond seemed to leave him, a hole suddenly appeared in his head.This self-blame lasted until 5 minutes before the Mora approached the coastal port.

At this time, Lando suddenly discovered that the music on the ship had disappeared inexplicably, and the sounds of the pirates bouncing on the deck had also diminished. The smile on Dill's face froze.

Lando's heart moved, he looked into the distance, and then saw——

The so-called "royal salute", that must be ... not.Yes, just aimed at dozens of heavy cannons on the Mora.

Lando heard Dill, who was standing not far from him, utter a curse word quickly after a long silence, and the main recipient of this curse word was of course Raymond.

At this point, Lando finally understood a truth: on the Babylon Sea, the most shameless people are definitely not these pirates, because at the very least they will hypocritically abide by the so-called "honesty and trustworthiness" principle and maintain the reputation of "gentleman at sea", while Raymond, the greatest mate in the history of the Seaz, will not, he is shameless, shamelessly arrogant, shamelessly frank.