A crescent moon hangs in the air. On the hot summer day, the night wind on the river is quite cool. The guests on the boat fell asleep either by the sound of waves beside the boat.

Most of the people who take the boat at night are small businessmen. They get on the boat and have a sleep on the boat at night. The next day, they can start their day of work when they get off the boat at dawn.

Today, the boat pulled wool felt from the Kingdom of Bischberg to Milan. When he set out to return to Messina in Bischberg in the evening, he did not find a customer, so the captain decided to pull the customer back.

A horse sniffed, Charles tied the empty forage bucket and then went to the side of the boat to get a bucket of water to drink the horse.

After Mancini took him away as Meazza, the horse and carriage were taken by Artoria to Milan and then stored in a horse shed specially for the caravans to raise horses.

The horse was raised in Milan for a while, and this time it got fatter again when it came out, but it became tired next time, which was more mountainous than the land in the Kingdom of Schberg.

Today, two carriages were on the boat, and in addition to Charles, there was also a young man in his early twenties.

The young man's horse was taller than the one from Charles, but it was not fat.

Their horses had to be tied up at the stern of the captain as required by the captain. At that time, Charles took the opportunity to chat with him.

Charles asked, "Brother, what's your money lately?"

The young man said, "Just sell some sulfur. The price this year is higher than in previous years, so I'll make a little profit now."

Sulfur is also used in the folks in this world to deworm and dispose of external medicines. Before the autumn harvest, it is also used to fumigate the warehouses that prepare to store grain to drive away rats and kill insects. Therefore, it will be very large every summer, and it is normal for the price to rise.

After the horse had finished drinking the water, Charles hung the barrel back on the carriage, climbed onto the slime tarp in the carriage and lay down, then counted the stars and prepared to go to bed.

There are more than two months left in the north to harvest wheat, which is earlier than the Schberg Kingdom. The newly harvested wheat is afraid of being soaked by rain, so farmers will buy tarps just in case.

Similarly, the caravan also needs tarps to cover the supplies. In the place where the caravans in Milan City are constantly running, there are workshops for producing tarps.

This year, Ji Shijun and his team produced two-meter-wide linens. These linens are not only wider than previous linens, but also stronger and more compact.

The workshop workers sewed several pieces of linen side by side with solid twine together, then poured the newly cooked slime glue with extremely high temperature, and then rolled it with a high-temperature roller to allow the slime glue to seep into the linen before cooling.

This kind of slime tarp with a length of 10 meters x 10 meters is very popular. Many farms will buy a batch before the autumn harvest, and some tent workshops will buy these tarptops and process them into tents.

Therefore, when Charles left Milan City this time, he bought a batch of slime tarps and planned to be sold in the Kingdom of Bischberg.

Lying on these tarps is like lying on rubber and plastic insulation cotton, with a little elastic underneath.

Charles lay there looking at the strange starry sky in the sky, identifying the names of the stars.

The boat went upstream with the north wind, and the monotonous sound of water was like a lullaby, which made Charles fall asleep quickly.

Instead of logging into the Dream Platform tonight, he was preparing to have a pure sleep.

I don't know how long it took, but a roar woke Charles up.

The boat was parked in the middle of the river, with no ship lights for other ships in front, back, left and right. Several sailors on the boat stood around with long swords and surrounded the passengers. The captain stood on the stern of the boat with a broad sword in his hand.

The captain yelled: "Take all the money you have on you, and I will put you on the shore, otherwise I will throw him into the water!"

Charles pinched his eyebrows, but he didn't expect to meet a pirate.

He had heard of water thieves before. Some water thieves usually pull customers and cargo. If there were no tough stubborn people on the ship, they would snatch passengers when there was no one around.

These are all said by people with good water nature to escape back, and it is impossible to put them back on the shore. They asked passengers to take out the money but were too lazy to search the bodies.

The guests on the boat today met this condition. Charles was dressed like a small businessman and did not even take out his equipment.

There were about a dozen passengers on the boat and six thieves, which was enough to scare the ordinary merchants to tremble all over.

The surrounding river surface was pitch black, and the originally cool wind suddenly made people feel gloomy.

Charles breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately the pirates stopped the boat, otherwise no one would drive the boat later, and the boat that was drifting with the river would hit the reefs by the river.

Before the Captain of the Pirates could threaten again, Charles in the carriage waved his hands like bee wings, and in an instant, he inserted a flying knife into the pirate's chest.

Before the pirate captain could react, Charles appeared in front of him and punched him in the stomach. Before he could fly backwards, Charles grabbed his ankle and threw him heavily onto the deck of the ship.

From the time when the thief started robbing and Charles tied up the captain, it happened that the guests on the boat did not react at all.

After cleaning up the thief, Charles threw a few fireballs into the sky. The fireballs rose into the air like fireworks and exploded.

He didn't expect that he would have a day of usefulness when he talked to the boatman about distress signals.

Only then did the passengers on the boat react and come to thank Charles one after another.

Charles calmly told everyone not to worry, as if he had just slapped a cockroach to death with slippers, and at the same time he claimed his name.

These businessmen who traveled around the world naturally heard about the "Eight Hundreds of Wilds", and the sound of flattery was endless.

Charles asked everyone to take a break, and he dragged the pirate captain to the stern and asked to see if he could find out the location of their nest.

As a result, the pirate asked, "Will you let me go if I told you?"

Charles looked at him speechlessly and said, "You said I just threw you into the water. Whether you can survive depends on yourself."

So the thief was tricked, and it was not a problem to swim to the shore when he was tied up.

The thief's nest is a tributary on the north bank a few kilometers west of this place. The tributary is only about ten kilometers long, and the source is surrounded by mountains, so no one has discovered the water village there.

After asking about the situation of the water village in detail, Charles grabbed the rope on the water thief and lifted him up, opened the buff, and used all his strength to smash him head down into the water.

In the following time, Charles threw fireballs into the sky every ten minutes or so, and more than half an hour later, a boat sailing downstream discovered them.

The captain of the ship sent several sailors to help drive the ship to the city of Messina in the southeast corner of the Kingdom of Bischberg.

Countries along the river are fighting against pirates, and the captain will get some reward if he has done his best.

At dawn, Charles and his passenger ship docked at the port of Messina, and the city defense forces were quickly called on the ship to deal with the matter.

The officer was quite happy when he saw the five bodies killed by flying knives and a corpse that had been smashed to the water and had their necks broken, thinking that he could get the credit.

However, Charles, who did not hide his identity, shattered the officer's disillusionment. Now someone's status is quite strange in the Kingdom of Bischberg. He is not a nobleman of the kingdom, but he can make many nobles willing to help deal with some problems, including but not limited to killing a little knight who is not open to his eyes.

In the eyes of civilians, the knight master is considered to be respected by people. Sometimes he is only considered high-quality cannon fodder in the aristocratic circle.

It seemed to be to make up for the mistake that implied Charles to sell his credit just now, with the efforts of the little officer, the story of Charles fighting against the water thieves on the ship soon spread throughout Messina.
Chapter completed!