Previously, they had been having conversations with Heijiro Matsushita as the intermediary translator, but now that there is no Heijiro Matsushita, the two of them can only talk about you, and I talk about mine, like a chicken talking to a duck.
"If there are other partners, I will definitely kill her as soon as possible!" Zhang Xiaowu secretly swore in his heart that he was not letting the girl go, but in this case, killing the other party would be detrimental to himself. Keep her.
His fate was not due to Zhang Xiaowu's lust, but because he was not familiar with the sea. It was better to leave her and let her accompany him to help him. Then, he looked at the sea, the boundless and endless sea, and the sea and sky were the same color.
The blue is not full of romance, but full of fear.
If he wanted to find land, he couldn't rely only on an oar. He had to use a sail. But the mast of the boat was broken. He looked carefully at the broken place and roughly understood that the ship must be too old and the mast was broken.
There was serious corrosion everywhere, and the strong wind caused the mast to break. But fortunately, the entire hull of the transport ship, which was about seven meters long and one and a half meters wide, was not damaged, especially the sails were not damaged. They only needed to replace the hard sails.
Just hang it on the new mast.
Mast!
God damn mast!
The most difficult thing now is that in this vast sea, there is no new wood for him to make a mast. He looked at everything on the boat, a three-foot-long oar, a scoop, a complete sail, and the canopy.
There was also a hemp rope and two clay pots. The mast that fell into the boat was broken into two pieces, each section was only four feet long, and now it can only be used as two pieces of wooden sticks that can be used to hit people.
Zhang Xiaowu was helpless. He felt like he had a headache. No! It wasn't that he had a headache, but that his head really hurt.
Aji saw him squatting down and rubbing his head, so he tiptoed over.
Zhang Xiaowu suddenly raised his head, stared at her and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Aji asked him in broken Chinese: "Can I help you?"
Zhang Xiaowu saw that she had escaped from the handkerchief and nodded: "Thank you."
So Aji used the handkerchief in his hand to first clean the wounds around his temples, and finally used the handkerchief as a tourniquet to bandage his head. Although it was useless, this action made Zhang Xiaowu feel warm. But Zhang Xiaowu looked back and thought
, isn’t all this caused by you?
At this time, the two people's stomachs suddenly rumbled at the same time. The embarrassing sound made the two people couldn't help but look at each other, and then they couldn't help laughing at the same time.
There was no food in the boat, except for a sea fish that was still jumping alive. The two people saw the fish at the same time and thought of eating it at the same time.
Zhang Xiaowu walked over and cut off the fish's head with a knife to prevent it from continuing to beat. Then he began to lift the meat from the fish. He took out about half a catty of meat and gave it to Aji.
After Aji happily took the fish, she ate it as a snack. Fuso people have a tradition of eating raw fish. Her little tiger teeth were extremely sharp, and she could easily tear open the large piece of fish like a civet cat.
Zhang Xiaowu offered another pound of fish and sat in the canopy of the boat to eat. Aji saw this and hid in the canopy, laughing while eating. Zhang Xiaowu also laughed. It was not that the two of them had put down their guard against each other, but
Nothing makes people happier than having a big meal for the rest of their lives.
Aji finished the fish first, and Zhang Xiaowu motioned for her to handle the remaining fish and handed her the dagger. Aji took the dagger in surprise, looked at him in disbelief, and said in his heart, I deceived you and harmed you, you
Do you still trust me so much?
Zhang Xiaowu saw the shock in her eyes, smiled faintly, and then looked at the two clay pots in the boat canopy. He opened one clay pot, which contained water, a jar full of fresh water, and he opened the other pottery pot.
After the can, a bigger surprise came. There were actually cassava strands inside. However, cassava is poisonous when eaten raw, and fire cannot be made on the ship. This is equivalent to starving to death while looking at the food. Zhang Xiaowu held the cassava and helplessly
Shaked his head.
Aji also covered her mouth, but she turned her head to handle the fish. She put the fish aside and threw the internal organs into the sea. Then she returned to Zhang Xiaowu and looked at the cassava in a daze.
"This thing cannot be eaten directly, otherwise it will be poisoned." Zhang Xiaowu explained, "Poisoned! Do you know? Poisoned!" He made the gesture of eating cassava, and then fell down in the cabin, acting as if his whole body was cramping. Aji laughed so hard
She leaned forward and backward, nodded and said: "Poisoned! Who can ask Riku! I understand." She held the dagger to Zhang Xiaowu with both hands, and Zhang Xiaowu took the dagger nonchalantly and inserted it into the scabbard.
There was still wind on the sea, and the boat was blown away by the wind, but the speed was too slow. If you want to find land as soon as possible, you must repair the mast and hang up the sails. The sails of the Fuso ship are the same as the sails of the Shenghan ships.
It is a longitudinal sail supported by multiple beams. It is operated by complex sail ropes and can make full use of wind power to generate efficient thrust. The biggest difference between hard sails and soft sails is that they are more maneuverable, but the disadvantage is that they go downwind.
The speed is not as good as that of a soft sail.
However, the biggest problem now is that there is no mast. He looked at the sail again. The area of the ship's sail is about seven square meters. It is still very large when it is fully supported. But now the tallest object on the ship may be himself.
, he is 1.82 meters tall, about 8 feet according to the Han system, which is taller than the so-called seven-foot man (1.7 meters tall). But the sail is very heavy, and the weight of his beams and canvas makes it impossible for him to regard himself as a man.
mast.
He tried to stand up, using himself as a mast, but after a while, his body became too exhausted and the huge waves almost blew him into the sea. He could only fold up the sail and sit back on the canopy.
After all, the sun outside is too poisonous.
Aji's big eyes were always on Zhang Xiaowu, curiously watching him busy around. Since she couldn't communicate effectively with language, she could only be anxious. Seeing Zhang Xiaowu sitting down in the canopy dejectedly, she stepped aside and gave way.
, and gave Zhang Xiaowu some water with a ladle.
"Thank you." Zhang Xiaowu drank the whole drink and returned the gourd to her. He added, "If you hadn't harmed me, maybe we would be friends, but now, we are just partners. If you behave better, I can consider it."
If I don’t kill you, I’m really a kind person.”
The sea was damp and hot, and the sea breeze was very uncomfortable and made people sleepy. Zhang Xiaowu lay on the wooden board in the canopy, planning to take a rest. Aji walked out of the canopy and looked at the sea, wondering what he was thinking in his heart.
Suddenly, Aji screamed and Zhang
Xiaowu woke up immediately and asked: "What's wrong? What's wrong?" He ran to Aji's side, and along Aji's arm, he saw three fins - they were sharks. They smelled what Aji had just thrown.
The smell of fish offal in the water caught up with me.
