Chapter Thirty-Seven: Set Sail and Return

There are no people on the island, naturally no one can help them, what is the specific location here, everyone can't say it at this time, only Liu Laoliu has been running on the sea for the longest time, roughly guessing that this island should be in the northeast of Xiaohuang Island, but it is impossible to tell if it is more specific.

After Meng Biao was bitten by a snake, everyone found a lot of snake traces on the island, and they couldn't help but be a little self-assured, for fear that the next one would be their turn, so everyone discussed it overnight and decided to leave the island as soon as possible and return to land, but after dawn, after everyone carefully checked the ship again, they found that their idea of leaving as soon as possible was not realistic at all.

Because in the previous hurricane, the ship suffered relatively large damage at sea, and many seams on the hull of the small boat began to leak because of the excessive force, and the leakage was relatively serious, and after the night passed, a lot of seawater seeped into the cabin.

And they have lost their mast in the hurricane, although they have saved the sails, but they can no longer use the broken sails on the ship, if they only rely on the patchwork broken oars on the ship, even if they leave this desert island, it will be difficult to successfully return to land or return to Xiaohuang Island, if they don't make it, the ship will soon sink at sea because of water leakage, even if they barely insist, once a little more wind and waves, the ship will definitely not be able to save, in that case they insist on leaving here, it is similar to looking for death.

In desperation, everyone had no choice but to change their minds and decide to simply repair the boat here, mend the seams as much as possible, deal with the water leakage, and find a way to make do with the mast, at least to raise the sails and leave here, so that they can find land or return directly to Xiaohuang Island.

Meng Biao's snake bite was not as bad as everyone imagined, probably because the snake that bit him was not a highly venomous snake, or because Yu Xiaotian treated his wound in time relatively quickly, effectively sucking out most of the snake venom, plus the herbs collected by Liu Laoliu to treat snake bites may also be effective, so although his leg was a little swollen after being bitten, the wound was a little blue and black, and he was a little dizzy, but after a night's rest, his injury did not develop in a more serious direction. And after a good night's sleep, the spirit is not bad.

After Yu Xiaotian tied his legs, he released the rope for a minute or two every half an hour to an hour to ensure the blood circulation in his legs, so as not to cause necrosis in his legs due to serious obstruction of blood circulation.

After dawn, Liu Laoliu found two herbs on the island, mashed half of them and put them on his wounds, and the other half was boiled into a decoction for him to take internally, Meng Biao's snake wound was effectively contained, and he did not continue to develop in a bad direction, and his spirit was better, and this guy was more solid, and his resistance was quite good, and he actually began to be able to eat and drink again after taking the medicine, so Meng Maniac was relieved, on the one hand, Xie Laotian blessed, and on the other hand, he thanked Yu Xiaotian and Liu Laoliu again and again.

For the next few days, the people were busy on the island, using everything they could find at their disposal to begin repairing their broken boat.

There was limestone on the island, which was burned on the fire and made into lime, plus a limited amount of broken hemp rope and smashed and dried bark fibers, and some plant ash, plus fish glue made from fish maw and pine resin scraped from the pine on the mountain, which were used to fill the leaking seams of the ship, and tamped with wooden wedges, which basically solved the problem of water leakage of the ship.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian took the black head to find a pine tree on the island that was still straight, and dragged it to the beach after felling it, Liu Laoliu, Ma Mian, and Meng Maniac only used limited tools to find ways to stand this wood on the ship, acting as a temporary mast, and sharpened some wooden nails to reinforce the damaged hull, although it was not as strong and durable as the previous mast, and the height was insufficient, but at least it could be regarded as a half-sail that could be raised, which was much less labor-saving than they were close to the rocking oar. This provided a strong guarantee for them to leave this desert island.

As for the rudder, they once again repaired and reinforced, and after trying it, it was okay to use, although it was very crude, but in this way, the ship still recovered its basic navigation ability, as for wanting to completely repair the ship, with their current resources, they don't have to think about it for the time being, and everything can only be said after returning to Xiaohuangdao.

Because there are a lot of snakes on the island, they must move on the island, in order to prevent people from being bitten by poisonous snakes again, everyone found rags for themselves to tie leggings, and wrapped their calves tightly, and as little as possible to go to the grassy place to move, and always have a wooden stick in their hands, from time to time in the surrounding grass to beat, in order to beat the grass and scare the snakes, to drive the snakes away, so carefully on the island, finally no one was bitten by the snake.

As for the problem of food and fresh water, they are not worried, there is enough rainwater in the small cave on the island, enough for them to drink, although there is no food on the ship, but there are many birds on the desert island, there are countless seabirds inhabiting and breeding here, you can pick up enough eggs at will, and after the evening, you can easily catch seabirds.

In addition, there are a lot of snakes on the island, kill a few casually, after chopping off the snake's head, peel the skin and remove the internal organs, you can boil a pot of quite rich snake soup, sometimes the seabirds and snakes are stewed together, everyone also laughs bitterly and says that this is the dragon and phoenix soup.

In addition, there are a large number of shellfish and crabs on the beaches around the desert island, and occasionally some marine fish trapped in puddles at low tide can be caught on the beach, so after Yu Xiaotian and his gang landed on the island, they never had to worry about food.

Moreover, in order to stock up on food for the next voyage, the gang will also catch birds, snakes, fish, and bird eggs that cannot be eaten for a while, and either boil them with salt and pickle, or smoke them with pine branches to dry them and store them, and make all preparations.

Although there were two heavy rains during this period, everyone hid in a small cave and did not suffer too much, and by the way, they collected a lot of fresh water and filled the small water tank on the ship.

On the morning of the tenth day after they landed on the island, after the most careful inspection, and after confirming that there was no major problem, they pushed the boat back into the sea, first rocking the boat away from the beach, then raising the sails, and sailing southeast by the sea breeze, leaving the little desert island behind.

Looking at the sails that ate the wind and drove the boat to start moving, the gang of people on the boat, whether old or young, couldn't help cheering, even Meng Biao, who had been lying down and not working because of being bitten by a snake these days, couldn't help but sit up in the cabin, watching the sea scream loudly, the snake wound seemed to be healed more in an instant, and was scolded by Meng Maniac, and at the same time was seriously despised by the black head and another descendant.

After having sails, the ship sailed much more smoothly on the sea, Liu Laoliu and Ma Mian and others carefully observed the sky for a while when they went out to sea, and concluded that the typhoon that almost killed them had completely passed at this time, and there should be no more strong winds at sea in a short time, so they began to sail towards the southeast.

After more than a day of sailing, everyone on the boat saw the land from a distance, and everyone cheered again.

"Ha Lu Ha! Horse face! Do you see it? Do you remember where this is? Liu Lao Liu patted the side of the boat and asked the horse face while smiling.

The horse's face stared at the land in the distance, and the smile on his long face became much shorter at this time, and he replied with a smile: "Of course, I'm not blind, wasn't this the place where we went to the sea back then?" Ha Lu Ha! Now it's good! If it goes on like this, if it goes well, we will be able to return to Xiaohuangdao for another day and night at most! Adjust the sails, adjust the sails! Meng Maniac, turn the rudder, horizontal and vertical here, we don't have to fucking dock anymore, just go back to the island directly!

It is estimated that the people on the island have not seen us go back for so long, and they don't know what to do in a hurry, and maybe they have burned paper for us! ”

After Yu Xiaotian saw the land, he was also very excited, after suffering for so many days, he finally survived again, although he didn't know what place this was, but from Liu Laoliu and Ma Face's words, he could basically guess that this place was actually not far from their Xiaohuangdao, fortunately they cut the mast early, otherwise God knows if they would be blown to Java.

The next voyage can be said to be smooth sailing, although the mast is low, so that the sails can not be fully raised, the sails are not strong, but this is to make the speed of the ship a little slower than before, when adjusting the sails is more troublesome, the rudder is temporarily patchworked, so that the ship is sometimes easy to deviate when operating, but there are old sea wolves like Meng Maniac and Ma Face who are controlling the rudder, but they will not deviate too much.

On the way, they also bypassed the Twin Peaks Island, where pirates are often entrenched, and even saw two unidentified ships appear outside the Twin Peaks Island from a distance, according to Liu Laoliu, those two ships must be pirate ships, and the other party must have seen their small broken ship, but it was obvious that the pirates were not interested in their small broken ship at all, so they let them sail across Twin Peaks Island and enter the outer sea channel of the Dongchong Peninsula.

In short, compared to Liu Laoliu's original expected time, they saw the little yellow island a little later, when they saw the little yellow island appear in front of them, everyone was excited again, this time they went to sea and encountered a typhoon, it came too suddenly, almost took the lives of their whole boat, and now after so many twists and turns, they finally returned to the small island that they relied on to survive, including Yu Xiaotian, who had just arrived, couldn't help but be a little excited, standing on the boat far away and yelling towards the small yellow island.

As they approached Little Yellow Island, the people of the island also saw their boats, and in a short time some of them ran to the beach, jumping and jumping, and some of them actually cried, as if to welcome their return.

Yu Xiaotian glanced at the island, and the corner of his eye inadvertently swept to the south of the island, wanting to take a look at the boat that belonged to him hidden in the small bay in the south of the island, but he didn't see the main mast that exposed the bay at a glance, so he was slightly shocked in his heart, and quickly took a closer look, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see the mast that should be in the small bay, and his heart sank suddenly.

However, Yu Xiaotian was not too worried, after all, after they went to sea and lost the news for more than ten days, the people on the island would inevitably worry about them, and it was not possible for the people on the island to sail to find them, so after he thought of this, he was somewhat relieved.

(I can't sit down and code words if I have something to do today, and tomorrow I honestly break out three chapters to the big guy!) Next week is the week after the book is the most popular on the new book list, and if you can't sit in the top three, then it's really sad! I hope that tomorrow my friends can concentrate their firepower to help me stand up and leave me the red ticket! Thank you very much! In addition, I would like to give special thanks to the two brothers, He Taiji and Ge Shi Xiaobai, for their generous rewards! Thank you for your support! )