Zuo Feng stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the neatly moored ships at the pier. He was about to ask Su Yan how they could find a place to dock their ship in such a crowded place, when he suddenly saw something out of the corner of his eye.
A flag was waving rapidly.
Zuo Feng subconsciously looked in the direction of the waving flag, and found a tall and slender tower built on the edge of the pier. This tall tower was only about two feet square, but it was six to seven feet tall.
There is a middle-aged man on top of the tower, who is quickly waving a dark blue pennant in his hand.
Zuo Feng saw that the flag in the man's hand on the tower was sometimes swinging up and down, and sometimes swaying from side to side. The man would look towards the pier below from time to time, but most of the time his eyes were focused on the top of the ship on Zuo Feng's side.
Zuo Feng followed the man's gaze and found that among the dense crowd at the pier, there was also a man holding a blue flag in his hand. Then Zuo Feng looked at the top of his ship, where
There was a young man staring closely at the man on the top of the tower. He also had a flag in his hand, but the flag was light blue.
On the dock, there were three people on the top of the boat on the tower, as if they were competing with flags. The left wind felt novel and fun. But after a while, the man on the top of the boat told the people below to turn the helm to the southeast and enter the ground.
The word Pier 5.
At this time, Zuo Feng finally understood that the three of them communicated with each other through the waving of flags. It seemed that this kind of mutual communication was quite troublesome, but in fact, it was the most practical one on this noisy dock.
A means of communication.
After the young man on the top of the boat ordered to turn the helm, several young men with low cultivation levels on the boat began to move. Zuo Feng saw that they were as comfortable walking on the bumpy boat as if they were walking on flat ground, and he couldn't help but take a few more glances.
.
"These are not warriors from the Kang family, but sailors who are specifically responsible for the Kang family's water transportation. Although they are not very advanced, they have all lived on the water since childhood, and they are accustomed to big winds and waves."
Zuo Feng nodded slightly, and he could tell it without makeup. These people moved quickly, some to untie the cables, some to adjust the position of the sails, and some to slowly lower the huge anchor behind the ship.
Entering the water, the boat's speed also slowly decreased at this time.
"They can communicate through flags during the day, but don't ships need to enter the port at night?"
Zuo Feng watched the big ship slowly sailing into the port and couldn't help but ask casually. Su Yan glanced at Zuo Feng in surprise, and then said: "We use lights as signals at night to convey messages to each other. How can you do such a simple thing?"
don't know."
Zuo Feng nodded, but didn't say much, but secretly muttered in his heart, "I have lived in the mountains since I was a child, and this is my first time taking a boat. How did I know you have so many rules for taking a boat?"
'
It was naturally difficult for Zuo Feng to say these words to his face, so Suya turned her head when she saw Zuo Feng was silent. Some of the questions Zuo Feng raised before were very sharp, and only a child from a family like Su Yan could put them into words.
As soon as the answer came out, anyone else would have been immediately silenced by the question, so when Zuo Feng asked such a simple question, Su Yan laughed at him instead.
Suyan felt that she had gone too far, coughed a few times, and continued: "This Xinjun pier is divided into three areas, namely heaven, earth, and people. The Tianzihao pier usually only berths imperial ships, or other
Large ships from the empire, because Tianzi Pier is the deepest underwater and can accommodate five-masted ships to berth.
And the three-masted ships of a big family like ours usually berth at the Dizihao wharfs. The herringbone wharves are mostly used for small cargo ships and passenger ships, or short-distance transport boats."
After listening to Suyan's introduction, Zuo Feng's eyes scanned the pier. Sure enough, as Suyan said, the pier to the north is docked with five-masted ships, while the pier to the south is the longest, and all docked are
There were all kinds of small boats and boats. And where they were, there were all kinds of three-masted ships moored, as well as some large ships that obviously looked like cargo ships.
There are crowds of people on the dock, but most of them are busy loading and unloading goods. It seems that some goods are transferred here, and some goods are completed here.
Zuo Feng looked towards the outside of the pier and found that there were relatively spacious shops, several shops for buying and selling medicinal materials, and a few shops that looked like they were used to refine weapons. Zuo Feng curiously scanned between the shops.
, suddenly saw a huge shop, there was no plaque on it, but there were dozens of big men in the bone refining stage sitting there drinking water and chatting.
Seeing that Zuo Feng was very interested in the shop without a plaque, Su Yan said with a smile: "That's not a shop for buying and selling, but a shop that specializes in providing manpower.
Generally, cargo ships carry very few people. After all, if there are more people, a lot of food must be prepared for them. Therefore, many cargo ships simply have seven or eight sailors. When they arrive at Xinjun Wharf, they can hire some people to carry them. This saves money.
A lot of money."
During the introduction without makeup, I saw a short, fat middle-aged man walking into the shop without a plaque, and then negotiated with a big man inside. Finally, the middle-aged man took out several silver cakes
After passing it over, the big man weighed the silver cake and turned around to give some instructions. Then ten strong men followed the short, fat middle-aged man and walked out.
Zuo Feng nodded lightly and said, "Needless to say, this must be the way to make money that Xinjun Maoji came up with."
Su Yan smiled slightly and replied, "You're smart," and then turned her attention to the dock. At this moment, the ship's hull shook, as if it hit something, but there was no huge sound. Zuo Feng lowered his head.
When I looked over, I found a lot of inflated skin bags at the dock. The big ship just hit these skin bags.
'You really don't have to worry about damaging the hull if you stop the boat like this. It's probably that Mao Jie who came up with it again.' Zuo Feng thought to himself, but this time he didn't ask Su Yan again.
Seeing that the boat had stopped, Su Yan slowly turned around and said casually: "I'm just going to go to the city for a walk, so let me, a knowledgeable old horse, lead the way for Mr. Shen and show you this special place.
The county town."
After saying that, he walked towards the side of the ship first. Zuo Feng didn't say anything else, but quickly followed behind Suyan. A sailor from the Kang family had already put down the gangplank, and Suyan stepped onto the gangplank generously.
, stepped off the springboard in a few steps and stepped onto the pier made of boulders.
Zuo Feng saw that the springboard was shaking slightly, but Su Yan was walking extremely smoothly. He couldn't help but think that Su Yan's voice was extremely soft when walking. He thought that Su Yan's skills must be more feminine, and she must have some special skills in body and martial arts.
Uniqueness.
Thinking like this, Zuo Feng stepped on the springboard. The moment he stepped on the springboard, Zuo Feng felt his whole body sinking slightly. When he stepped on the springboard with both feet at the same time, he felt his whole body falling suddenly.
As he walked, he was still swaying from side to side. Zuo Feng couldn't help but think of how steady he was walking without makeup before. If he didn't pay attention and fell into the water, he would be really embarrassed and thrown into the house.
At this time, Suyan also noticed that Zuo Feng was not standing steadily, and put out her hand to swallow and snickered. When she stepped off the springboard, she deliberately stepped on it to make it wobble. Zuo Feng followed closely and walked onto the springboard, and it turned out as she expected.
Embarrassed.
But just as she was snickering without makeup, she suddenly stared behind Zuo Feng, and the expression on her face changed slightly. She wanted to warn Zuo Feng, but she was too late, and her kick was already as fast as a meteor.
Sweeping towards the back of Zuo Feng's head, he took the gap where Zuo Feng was unstable on the springboard.
At this time, Su Yan felt very regretful about why she had to tease Zuo Feng. If this kick was really real, even if Zuo Feng was not injured, he would probably be seriously injured, and his life might even be in danger.
But what surprised Suyan was that Zuo Feng's body, which was supposed to be bounced up by the springboard, suddenly fell down again. Normally, when Zuo Feng was bounced off the springboard, he would have sent his head up to receive the kick.
However, such a sudden downward fall greatly exceeded the expectations of the person who made the move.
This kick swept directly over Zuo Feng's head. Zuo Feng seemed to have no idea what was happening, and still walked towards the bottom of the pedal with his body shaking a little.
The person who made a sneak attack on Zuo Feng used too much force. His kick swept across the whole person and he rushed sideways for several steps. The people around him who almost screamed when they saw this scene were all stopped by this person at this moment.
His embarrassment made him laugh uncontrollably.
At this time, Zuo Feng was still walking slowly down the gangplank without even turning his head, but his eyes looking down at the gangplank flashed with a cold light.
'You don't know good from evil. I don't want to have a head-on conflict with you, not because I'm really afraid of you. It's just that my injuries haven't healed yet, and I don't want the Third Elder to be alert. But you'd better not mess with me, otherwise
I will definitely let you know what it feels like to be my enemy.'
Zuo Feng was thinking secretly in his heart, but suddenly he heard Su Yan on the pier under the gangplank and said sternly: "Kang Qi, what on earth do you want to do? Don't you even care about the young master?"
It turned out that the person who had just attacked Zuo Feng was Kang Qi. Zuo Feng staggered off the gangplank, pretending to look at Su Yan with a puzzled face, and then looked at Kang Qi who was looking at him with shame and anger on the boat.
The innocent look of "what the hell happened".
Kang Qi's face turned red and white, because he could still feel the subtle ridicule around him. Although he had a high status in the Kang family, he did not dare to make a fuss because his sneak attack on Zuo Feng failed, so he could only
Hatefully make a secret note of those who laugh at you.
After hesitating for a moment, Kang Qi said to Suyan on the dock: "Xiaoyan, don't you understand that I have been feeling my heart for you for so long? I am a direct descendant of the Kang family. A boy from the mountains is nothing. As long as
If you refuse, the young master will not force you."
Before Kang Qi could finish speaking, Su Yan took Zuo Feng's hand and said coldly, "Ignore him, let's go." Zuo Feng was led by Su Yan and left the dock.