There was already a candidate in Shangxin's heart. Although it seemed that the third prince chose the candidate, in fact it was His Majesty's intention. Ming Shoufu knew it well, so he decisively stopped King Min.

When King Min heard this, his face was ashen, and his jealous face was distorted, and he said gloomily: "Father is partial to that bastard."

After hearing the disapproval, Ming Shoufu said, "Your Highness, don't worry too much."

Ming Shoufu disapproved of King Min's emotional exposure and being so easily influenced by external factors.

Because King Min is the eldest son today, when he was young and had no other princes, he was favored by the emperor. After the third prince was born, everything changed. The emperor no longer had other sons in his eyes. It was unacceptable to King Min, who was once the most favored. Therefore, among these princes, King Min disliked the Third Prince the most, but he usually concealed it the most, and few people knew it.

Ming Shoufu was one of the few people who knew the truth, so he also reminded him to pay attention to his words and deeds and not to show his feet.

It's not that he doesn't know what the emperor means, but the matter has come to this point, they have to earn it.

Now, although their odds of winning are slim and they will die if they fail, but if they don't earn, they will definitely die. Therefore, they have no way out, and they must earn a chance for that chance of survival.

After seeing off King Min, Ming Shoufu sat alone behind the desk, the expression on his face was unpredictable, and finally turned into a faint sigh.

To this day, he doesn't regret what he did back then, but regrets that he was soft-hearted at the time and didn't kill that little boy together, which is why he ended up in such a situation.

After thinking about this, his eyes became firmer and gloomy, and his heart became harder. The Yu clan was unrighteous to him, so let him be unkind. Now he has no way out, he was forced by the Yu clan. have to.

……

Shi Jingchen was wearing a cloak, standing on the bow of the boat, looking at the vast sea ahead. At this time, they had been out at sea for ten days. Driving on the sea surface, they could still see some sporadic small islands in the first few days, but now they can only see The endless sea.

Although I used to do training every day and go out to patrol the sea before, but I haven't been out to sea for such a long time. The soldiers have passed the initial excitement stage, and now they are starting to faint.

The hairy monkey leaned over to Liu Zhuang who was on duty, and complained in a low voice: "I haven't seen the land for several days, when will it be the end?"

Liu Zhuang glanced at him, and said contemptuously: "Who was the one who insisted on getting on the boat, and it's only been a few days and I can't stand it anymore."

The hairy monkey retorted in embarrassment at what he said: "Everyone can't stand it anymore, it just feels like it's the sea, and it makes them dizzy."

Liu Zhuang ignored his excuse, stretched out his hand and pushed him aside, "Go aside, don't delay my duty." After speaking, he stood guard seriously and ignored the monkey.

Seeing him like this, the hairy monkey didn't want to pester him any more, so he left resentfully.

Shi Jingchen was standing at the bow of the boat at this time, feeling a little irritable. They prepared a month's worth of dry food for this trip. Although they planned to return in 20 days, but now they are halfway through the journey, but there is nothing but the endless sea. Discovery, let alone a pirate.

Even the islands did not see a few.

As time passed, Shi Jingchen also began to feel irritable, but as the leader of the fleet, he couldn't mess up and could only suppress himself.

At this moment, Lin Ruan, who was sent by Ji Xiuran to help draw the sea chart, walked up to Shi Jingchen, and said, "My lord, the sea chart of the sea area we have passed has been drawn, please take a look at it."

After Shi Jingchen heard this, he turned around and took it, held it in his hand and looked carefully, and found that there was nothing wrong, so he nodded and handed it back.

Lin Ruan took it over and asked, "Sir, do you want to go on?"

After hearing his question, Shi Jingchen turned his head and looked at him suspiciously. Lin Ruan watched him look over and saluted respectfully, "I didn't come across an island on this journey, why not turn the course so that I can see the nearby sea area once again. When the time comes It’s also easy to turn around.”

After Shi Jingchen heard this, he knew that he wanted them to carry out a horizontal inspection, but he also had this intention, but how many angles to change would have to be considered again.

Shi Jingchen found the crew leader at the helm, questioned him carefully, and made course adjustments based on his advice.

Now the sea breeze is just right, and after turning, the driving speed has increased a lot in an instant.

After staying for a day, I saw a shadow in the distance, and finally saw the land.

Ten miles away, I stopped and sent a small boat to investigate. He said that the forest in the middle of the island is lush and it is not easy to get in and out, but the beach is safe, so we can go to the shore and have a rest.

Shi Jingchen ordered to dock and take a rest.

There is still a distance from the beach to the woods, and there are no traces of human activities on the entire beach.

Shi Jingchen asked the crew to disembark in turn to rest, the situation was special, and there was no condition to build a stove to boil water, so he let everyone eat dry food, and then rested for a while. They are all on board.

Most of the people who took away were those who followed him before. These people are used to walking on mountain roads, and their skills and experience in exploring forests are higher than others. Shi Jingchen took this into consideration, so he chose these people, and the others returned to the boat. .

Although the island as a whole is not very big, covering an area of ​​more than a thousand acres, it is not so easy to walk around when measuring it with feet, and the forest is lush, vines are overgrown, and there is no road. time, we have to drive while walking

This time it was just a general investigation, so Shi Jingchen did not allow the plants he saw to be collected. After the safety of the island was confirmed, it would not be too late to inspect them in detail.

When they were walking, there were rustling sounds in the grass from time to time, which should be the sound of some snakes and insects crawling.

Everyone raised their vigilance and moved forward cautiously, paying attention to the surrounding trees every step they took.

Suddenly Liu Zhuang raised his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow at the hairy monkey. The arrow brushed the hairy monkey's eyelashes and stuck it into the nearby tree trunk with a "swish".

The hairy monkey's eyes widened, staring blankly at the trembling tail feathers, but it didn't react for a while. After seeing the beautiful little snake with a triangular head nailed to the tree trunk, it understood what happened.

He turned his head and glanced at Liu Zhuang, but he couldn't say the thank you when he thought of the panic feeling when the arrow brushed his eyelashes just now.

In the end, I had no choice but to turn my head and muttered softly: "Can't I warn you before shooting the arrow? I thought I was going to die."

Hearing his muttering, Liu Zhuang debunked him mercilessly: "I remind you, by the time you realize it, you will have been bitten by a snake long ago. Be more careful when walking in the woods. This is different from being in the sea. There are snake bites everywhere. Danger."

After hearing his words, the hairy monkey knew he was wrong, touched his nose and stopped talking, and was always very cautious on the journey afterwards.

The few other inexperienced people also encountered some problems of one kind or another, but they quickly adjusted.

It didn't hold back either.

It took them two days to walk to the other side of the island. This side was the entire cliff, and there was no beach. The waves crashed on the cliff, and there was a huge sound of waves.

Shi Jingchen stood on the edge of the cliff and looked into the distance. The terrain here is a bit dangerous, and there are many rocks below, so it is not easy to reach the shore.

I looked up and glanced around, chose a direction, and continued to walk along the coast.

After walking a few hundred meters, Shi Jingchen happened to turn around a protruding mountain wall. Shi Jingchen noticed something was wrong, and immediately signaled everyone to hide. After taking cover at the hidden point, Shi Jingchen carefully looked at the sea.

Maybe it's blocked by this protruding mountain wall, the sea here is much calmer, and there are three modified medium-sized fishing boats and five small fishing boats anchored on the sea.

Although I can't see the specific situation, it is unusual for so many fishing boats to gather here.

And looking at those ships, they are very similar in shape to the pirate ships they encountered before.

Shi Jingchen signaled everyone to hide and move forward.

If there is a boat, there must be someone there, but they don't know where these people are hiding now, they have to move forward carefully and check their hiding place.

When they cautiously walked forward to a closer place, Liu Zhuang lowered his voice and said to Shi Jingchen, "Head, there seems to be a hole in the cliff."

Shi Jingchen looked at the place he pointed, and indeed saw a hole, it seems that these people entered from here.

It's just that they don't know the specific situation, so they can't rush forward.

Shi Jingchen immediately ordered to retreat, they had too few manpower, in the past they were sent to death, now they retreat to the ship, they have a long-term plan.

Chapter 129

Fortunately, they went ashore from the other side, and there were no traces of human activities there. It seems that these people have not yet controlled the entire island.Judging from the current situation, they haven't found anyone ashore yet, which is in their favor.

After everyone returned to the ship, Shi Jingchen summoned the officers on the ship and explained his findings.

Everyone discussed it, and finally decided not to startle the snake.Retreat now, wait until you go back to recruit troops, and then wipe them all out.

Shi Jingchen nodded in response. Although he also wanted to have a good fight with these pirates, although they came out to patrol this time, although they were driving a large warship, although they had the power to fight against these pirates, they were not completely sure. Guaranteed to eliminate them all at once.

And when they came out, they didn't intend to go to war, so they didn't consider the issue of personnel allocation, and there was a lack of equipment preparation. The most important point was that they were running out of food and fresh water reserves. Considering these factors, they finally decided to return.

Fortunately, they have found their lair, so they are not in a hurry.

A team was left to monitor the situation of the pirates, and then they returned immediately.

After traveling for more than ten days, I finally returned without success.


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