Hearing these words, Sima Rulan's heart moved again. If what Hua Bushi said was true, she was at least one of the closest people to the young master. Otherwise, how could he put his greatest ideal in his heart?
Be honest and honest.
After a long silence, Sima Rulan said: "Okay, I can agree to lend this sutra to Mr. Hua for copying, but there is an exchange condition. You must agree."
Hua Bushi said: "I have already said that I will agree to any conditions."
Sima Rulan suddenly smiled brightly and said: "Mr. Hua said that he would agree to any conditions. If Lan'er wants you to kill people, set fire to people, or take your life, will you agree too?"
Hua Bushi said: "Miss Lan'er is kind-hearted and treats Hua Bushi very well. She will definitely not put forward conditions that would make things difficult for me, right?"
But Sima Rulan pouted again and said, "Mr. Hua is deliberately bullying Lan'er, that's why he said this, hum! I have to put forward conditions that will make things difficult for you, see if you are willing to agree!"
Hua Bushi said with a bitter face: "If Miss Lan'er really wants Hua Bushi's life, since I said yes, I will not go back on it."
Seeing Hua Bushi's frowning expression, Sima Rulan instantly remembered the scene when she first met him.
In order to ask her to help Wei Tianlou deal with the blackmail of the "Ming Yue Society", the young master not only hugged her in the street, but was chased and killed by a large group of "heroes" who were brave enough to do justice. Later, he pretended to be a pitiful small businessman and asked her
She complained, the look on her face was exactly the same as now.
She had only known Hua Bushi for more than half a year, but the situation at that time seemed like just yesterday, and it seemed that many years had passed.
Sima Rulan's thoughts were confused and she was in a daze. It took a long time before she suddenly came to her senses and handed the oil paper bag in her hand to Hua Bushi.
Hua Bushi was surprised and happy. He took the paper bag with both hands and said, "Miss Lan'er is willing to lend me the Yi Jin Jing! I don't know what the conditions are?"
Sima Rulan said: "I will lend you the scriptures temporarily. As for the conditions, Lan'er has not thought about it yet. I will tell you when I think about it. Anyway, you have to agree to anything you said, and you are not allowed to go back on it in the future. Right
wrong?"
Hua Bushi stood up, bowed respectfully to Sima Rulan, and said, "Thank you so much, Miss Lan'er, for borrowing the scriptures! Hua Bushi will never dare to go back on the terms he owed. When will Miss Lan'er make up her mind in the future?"
Everyone can make suggestions, and Hua Bushi will definitely comply."
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After resting in the cave for half a day, the injury of Xiong Bailing's broken arm had stabilized and stopped bleeding. Sima Rulan found the gunpowder mechanism on the rock wall, lit the fuse and blasted a passage, and the four of them finally escaped from the secret cave.
In the meantime, Xiong Tiannan also woke up, and it turned out to be nothing serious.
When everyone escaped from the snake's den, he accidentally slipped down the stone steps and fell into the rocks by the lake.
This Mr. Xiong was very lucky. The position where he fell was stuck between several natural stalagmites and stone pillars. The head and body of the giant snake were too thick to reach into the stones and bite him. And this
The rocks on the island were extremely hard, so the giant snake was extremely powerful, but for a while it was helpless against him.
But Xiong Tiannan didn't have much courage. The giant snake jumped forward, spit out blood-red snakes and licked his head and face. He was so frightened that he fainted immediately.
After Xiong Tiannan regained consciousness, he listened to Xiong Bailing's account of how three people went into the cave to rescue him, and saw that his father had lost an arm. The young master Xiong burst into tears and felt guilty.
Xiong Bailing made it clear to his son that from now on, the Xiong family would swear to be loyal to "Wanjin Hall" to atone for their previous sin of betraying the sect. Xiong Tiannan also vowed that he would follow his father to serve "Wanjin Hall" and would never dare to treat Sima Rulan again.
Keep the thought of wrongdoing.
Coming out of the exploded rock wall is the seaside below the stone mountain of Tunjing Island.
There are two Qian demons and dozens of "Black Dragon Palace" pirates on the top of the mountain. If the rock wall explodes, they will definitely hear the sound. Now that Xiong Bailing is seriously injured, Hua Bushi, who does not know martial arts, also needs protection, which is not appropriate.
Fighting against the pirates, the four of them came out of the cave without stopping, and immediately ran along the coast towards the tail of the big whale.
Sima Rulan carried Hua Bushi, and Xiong Tiannan supported his father Xiong Bailing. They both used Qinggong and ran with all their strength. It only took half an hour to arrive at the foot of Whale Tail Rock Mountain. Sima Rulan found the sampan he had taken to the island.
The four of them got on the sampan and left the island.
Sima Rulan paddled and sailed the boat, and soon passed through the reefs around the island and returned to the "Golden Swallow".
It had been more than half a day since Sima Rulan and Hua Bushi sailed to the island. Fu Ao on the "Golden Swallow" was already waiting anxiously. Later, he heard the sound of explosions coming from the island, and he became even more anxious.
Worried that something had happened to the two of them, Fu Ao was about to take people to the island to look for them. At this moment, when he saw the small sampan returning from the island and the eldest lady of the city lord safe and sound, Fu Ao breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the "Golden Swallow" pulled anchor and set sail, returning to Okura Island.
This time, the Dragon Palace tribe planned to swallow the whale island. Ma Wude was in charge and sent two large loach boats. In order not to alert the snake, they anchored on the sea far away from the island. Ma Wude
I wish I had thought that ambushing Sima Rulan on the island would be a sure thing, but I didn't expect that he would end up losing his wife, losing his troops, and even himself would die unexpectedly.
Xiong Bailing knew the location of the two large ships and asked the "Jinyan" to avoid their location and make a detour. Although the Qian brothers on the island sent out fireworks signals and ordered the loach boat to intercept and pursue them, the "Jinyan"
The sailing speed is much faster than that of ordinary sailing ships, making it extremely easy to escape from pirate ships.
In the early morning of the next day, the "Golden Swallow" had returned to Okura Island.
Entering the city, Sima Rulan told Chai Lin and Yao Yuanxiao about the return of the Xiong family and his son, but the two elders of "Wanjintang" were all suspicious, especially when they heard that the Xiong family had once surrendered.
"Black Dragon Palace" betrayed the secret of Whale Swallowing Island, and they believed that Xiong Bailing could no longer be used.
After Xiong Bailing entered the city, he only recovered from his injuries for three days before he proposed to Sima Rulan that he would take his son Xiong Tiannan on another boat trip to sea.
It turns out that although Xiong Bailing took refuge in the "Black Dragon Palace", the Xiong family members Zhuang Ding and hundreds of people from the Dazhu tribe did not go to the Black Dragon Island. Instead, they settled on a place called "Red Sand Island" a hundred miles away from Dacang Island.
"On the small island. This is of course because the war outside Okura Island was tense earlier and there was no time to take care of it. It is also because the "Black Dragon Palace" does not fully trust Xiong Bailing.
In fact, Xiong Bailing had taken refuge in the "Black Dragon Palace" for more than a few months and had not even seen the Black Dragon King. Among the members of the Dragon Palace he had seen, the only person in charge with the highest status was Qiao Shuangchou.
So now Xiong Bailing is anxious to go to "Red Sand Island" to bring back the Xiong family members and his Zhuang Ding disciples. If he is late, he may be harmed by the "Black Dragon Palace".
Xiong Bailing and his son had just entered the city and were about to leave again. Chai Lin and Yao Yuanxiao thought that he must be looking for an excuse to escape back to the "Black Dragon Palace", and advocated that Xiong Bailing and his son be detained and charged with betrayal of the sect according to the rules of the "Wanjin Hall"
However, Sima Rulan resolutely refused. Not only did he send an order for them to leave, but he also transferred the "Golden Swallow" and dozens of sailors on board to Xiong Bailing.
The person in charge of "Wanjintang" now is Miss Lan'er. Even if Chai Lin and Yao Yuanxiao have doubts in their hearts, they cannot go against her will.
Facts have proved that Sima Rulan did not mistrust "Uncle Xiong". Ten days later, Xiong Bailing drove the "Golden Swallow" back to Dacang Port, bringing back three large ships and hundreds of Xiong family disciples.
After several months of siege, "Wanjintang" suffered considerable losses in ships and manpower. Now, the return of Xiong Bailing and the original most elite war department in the city, the Dazhong Department, has restored a lot of the sect's vitality.
, at least for the time being, there is no need to worry about the "Black Dragon Palace" coming back and fully defending itself.
When Sima Rulan proposed that Xiong Bailing should be reinstated as the deputy head of the "Wanjin Hall", Xiong Bailing refused. He only said that he had committed a serious crime of betraying the sect before, and he had no face to see the sect again.
Brother, fortunately, he has been forgiven by the eldest lady. He can no longer hold an important position in the sect because of his sins, so he only wants to be an ordinary accomplice, as long as he can serve the "Wanjin Hall".
Although Sima Rulan repeatedly requested, Xiong Bailing was very determined not to return to his post, so she had no choice but to give up.
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After returning to Okura City from Tunwhale Island, Hua Bushi had no time to pay attention to the affairs within the "Wanjintang" sect. Instead, he plunged into the study of Weitian Tower and did not come out for five or six days.
Copying the "Yi Jin Jing" was a top priority for this young master. After spending two days copying the internal energy and mental methods, he began to study the detailed shipbuilding plans of the Dragon-Slaying Ship.
The shipbuilding process of the Dragon-Slaying Ship was not just one picture, but hundreds of pictures, large and small, and more than thirty text instructions recording how to build the ship. No wonder what Ma Wude took out from the stone house earlier was a
A heavy burden. At that time, Sima Zhufeng spent a lot of money to hire many top shipbuilders in Western countries to design this ship. It took a full five years. Among these hundreds of drawings and explanatory texts, it was condensed
The hard work and wisdom of those masters.
Hua Bushi didn't know much about the art of navigation and shipbuilding. After spending three days studying all these drawings and materials, he understood one thing, that is, he wanted to build a dragon-slaying ship.
It was much more difficult than he originally expected.
When Hua Bushi listened to Sima Rulan talk about the Dragon-Slaying Ship in the back garden of the City Lord's Mansion, he thought that the biggest difficulty in building this ship was just the refined iron material. "Evil Dog Gate" owned refined iron ore in Wuyang City.
As long as tens of thousands of kilograms of refined iron are transported to the Maihe smelting workshop, the shipbuilding project will probably be a success.
However, after looking at the detailed drawings, he realized that things were by no means that simple, and he fully understood why Sima Zhufeng had still not started building the ship even though it had been several years since the Dragon-Slaying Ship was designed.