Chapter VI

The fog was so thick that I could only see seven or eight paces away, and the pirate ship in front of me was sailing forward, and it did not slow down in the fog.

The flower windows on both sides are wedged with wooden wedges from the outside to prevent the meat ticket from escaping from the inside by opening the window and jumping into the water; In the thick fog, Lin Jian touched the front, and vaguely saw four pirates lying under the canopy in front of the ship, and only two people were snoring, and there was no way to tell whether the other two pirates were sleeping or not; The fog obscured the difficulty of seeing the aft deck of the pirate ship ahead, but a few pirates could be heard boasting about the women.

Lin Jian was just about to retreat, when he saw a pirate lying under the canopy sit up violently: "Who is there?" ”

Lin Jian was startled, he didn't know how he had been exposed, and he waited for the pirates to search and kill the two of them, and then jumped into the water to escape, and when he heard the front hatch creak, he heard Su Mei's maid Xiaoman say inside: "My girl has a box of books in the tail cabin, and told me to go and get two books, and some other things." ”

"Don't move inside, I'll take a look at you......" said the pirate.

"Let her pick it up herself, are you afraid that she won't be able to escape by jumping into the water? Let's just look at the main owner......" The other pirate curled up and lay comfortable, stretched out his foot and kicked the hatch open, letting Su Mei's maid go to the aft cabin to get the book by herself.

"It's good that the little lady dares to escape, catch it back and satisfy the brothers' hunger, and then kill it with a knife - the lord over there can't blame us for not keeping our promises." A gruff voice came from the compartment on the right.

"You fucking cut your thighs with a knife, why didn't you cut off your eggs? Let you think about the girl, so that the master is very unhappy......" A burst of laughter came.

Lin Lian thought to himself, it turned out that there were still a few injured pirates recuperating in the cabin.

There were several in the tail cabin, Lin Jian first returned to the cargo compartment placed in the bookcase, listened to the light footsteps, waited for Xiaoman to push the door in, and violently grabbed her mouth and nose from behind to prevent her from making a sound, and whispered in her ear: "It's me!" Don't be silent. She waited until she could see her face before she let go of her hand.

Xiaoman opened her eyes in a panic and looked at Lin Bin, she never thought that he would hide on the boat, the fright and grievances of the night seemed to have found an outlet all of a sudden, she couldn't help but make a sound, tightly grabbed the placket of Lin Bin's chest, and didn't let the soft body in his arms fall down, and begged in a low voice: "Lin Gongzi, you want to save me and Miss......" completely forgot that this man was useless in her eyes just last night.

Lin Lian thought to himself that this Nizi was at most a Lori who had just entered junior high school, her soft body was clinging to her arms, her clothes were thin, and she felt the softness of the two apricot and peach sizes on her chest, which did not grow but did not have the taste of growth, seeing her beautiful eyes under her long eyelashes with tears, her delicate little face was pitiful, her eyelids were red and swollen, I don't know how long she cried yesterday, she was pitiful and heartwarming when she saw it, which reminded Lin Tie of the girl in the front seat when she was in junior high school.

Lin Jian pointed to his feet and said to Xiaoman: "Master Fu is ...... below" and told her that Fu Qinghe was in the tail cabin, which was to give her more hope in her heart, so that she would not become a complete burden.

Lin Lian tapped his fingers on the bulkhead three times, and Fu Qinghe came in with the short spear in a while.

Looking at Fu Qinghe without envy, Xiao Man was pleasantly surprised, and his tears finally couldn't help but fall and sobbed softly: "I heard that the thieves outside said that Uncle Fu died, Miss almost fainted from crying, and I thought that there was no hope......" At this time, he seemed to suddenly remember that Lin Lian was just a useless scholar, and shyly struggled to stand up from his arms, pinning all his hopes on Fu Qinghe, "Uncle Fu, go and kill all those thieves......"

Lin Jian scolded secretly: The little girl is really realistic!

"Lin Gongzi saved me," Fu Qinghe said, "There are not many thieves on the boat, Lin Gongzi and I will wait for the opportunity to ......"

Xiao Man glanced at Lin Lian, and the doubts in his surprised eyes were too obvious: How could it be that he saved Uncle Fu?

Lin Jian didn't know what Su Mei thought of her previous self, but in her memory, Su Mei was still able to treat him politely, but this little girl would not hide it, and whatever she thought in her heart was shown in her eyes. Lin Lian was angry, grabbed her hand, and said, "Now is not the time to talk more, you hurry up and take the things back, don't let the thief be suspicious, and let Miss Su relax as well......"

Xiao Man hesitated, the little hand was not withdrawn, and he held it for Lin Tie, surprisingly feeling that the useless scholar who was not eye-catching on weekdays could also make her feel at ease - frightened, almost desperate for a night, anyone who appeared would make her can't help but rely on it, Xiao Nizi didn't know the difference in her heart, thinking that she was willing to hold his hand for him, and then thinking of the embarrassment that had just been attached to him, she felt a little shy in her heart, and she was a little embarrassed to look up at people, and obediently watched him pick out a few books and a few old wooden hairpins, Follow him out of the aft compartment.

Lin Lian leaned to Xiaoman's ear and ordered some things before letting her walk back to the bow of the ship, and watched her enter the front cabin in the dark, and didn't know what Xiaoman had fallen into the eyes of the guarding pirates, only to hear someone complain loudly: "Thief's mother, this work is not done by people, the ship's board is pierced!" I don't know what Boss Zhao thinks, what benefits can be given over there, can they be more refreshing than these two big and small girls in Japan? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, cut your tongue!" Another voice scolded the man in front of him.

Lin Jian was silent for a moment, and he couldn't hear any useful information, so he retreated and told Fu Qinghe in detail what he had seen.

Fu Qinghe frowned and thought about it, and said: "They used a wooden wedge to wedge the window from the outside, to guard against the people inside, they didn't expect that there would be other people on the boat......" He wanted to take advantage of the fog to sneak over, open the window to rescue the two of them first, and then find a chance to go ashore.

Fu Qinghe's method was not very feasible, and Lin Jian did not directly deny it, but only reminded him in a low voice: "Miss Su Mei is locked in front......" Several pirates on this ship were guarding the bow of the ship, and a few injured pirates were in the cabin next door to Su Mei, pulling out the wooden wedge from the outside and opening the window to save people, it was difficult to ensure that there would be no noise; Besides, after quietly rescuing people, in order to avoid pirates from discovering that they need to go into the water immediately - although the fog on the river is convenient for hiding their whereabouts, and the direction of the shore can be roughly judged from the current, but at this time the boat has already entered the Yangtze River from the mouth of the Baishui River, this section is the downstream of the Yangtze River, the river is vast, and the autumn tide has not receded, the river is almost twenty or thirty miles wide, even if the pirates do not chase into the water, Lin Jian does not feel that he is sure to take a person to swim ashore safely. He saw that Fu Qinghe was a little impatient, and said with relief, "There are still dozens of meat tickets on the ship, and this group of pirates will definitely get the ransom money before they can really go to sea to Jin'an......"

The mouth of the Baishui River is less than 300 miles from the mouth of the Yangtze River, and if the pirates do not delay halfway and go down the river, they will be able to go to sea before dusk, and when they go to sea, it will be even more difficult to save people; But this group of pirates left dozens of meat tickets on the ship, thinking that they would finish the deal and leave, then there would be plenty of time left for them, and Lin Jian didn't want Fu Qinghe to be in too much of a hurry.

"......" Fu Qinghe nodded, knowing that he cared about it, but he wondered why Lin Jian could think calmly, thinking that he was so obsessed with Miss, maybe it would be more reasonable to completely mess up his senses.

Lin Jian didn't care what Fu Qinghe was thinking, and continued to analyze: "The pirates want to exchange the meat ticket boy for ransom silver, it is likely that the two ships will go separately, as long as there are less than ten pirates on the painting boat, even if we find out at that time, we will have a chance." ”

"You're right." Fu Qinghe admitted that Lin Bin's analysis was reasonable, and he felt that he was like a poisonous snake hiding in the grass, patiently waiting for the opportunity to kill with one blow, it was really strange how he had looked away from such a character before?

Lin Lian and Fu Qinghe hibernated in the aft deck waiting for a good opportunity, and occasionally two or three pirates walked around the aft deck, but no one came down to the aft deck to check. After resting in the aft cabin for a long time, Fu Qinghe also recovered most of his physical strength, the injury on his body was a trouble, and he could bear it, listening to the fact that there was no one at the stern, he sneaked out with Lin Tie, only to find that the fog on the river had dissipated, the sun was shining on the head, and the grass and trees on both sides of the bank were verdant.

The pirate ship Zhang Fan wanted to take advantage of the wind and move forward in an S shape along the channel in the center of the river, and Lin Jian saw that there was a sand island floating on the river in the middle of the river in the distance of the pole, and the area was very large. At this time, there is a time difference of thousands of years with the afterlife in the dream, and a thousand years of time is enough to make the rivers change lanes and the sand accumulate into islands, thinking that the coastal cities they are familiar with are only afraid that many have not yet become land, calculating the speed and time of the ship, the big island in front of me has not yet left the territory of Weiyang Mansion, and it should not be the Chongming Island in memory; On the other hand, Lin Jian doubted whether Chongming Island had become a land at this time.

Seeing Lin Jian looking at the sand island in front of him, Fu Qinghe said, "The pirates may rest on Xisha Island!" ”

The previous Lin Lian was a standard otaku by the standards of later generations, and he didn't listen to anything outside the window, and he only read the books of sages and sages, but he also had some knowledge in dead reading, but he just lacked flexibility.

The Xisha Island in front of us is still a large sandbar that gradually became a land after the founding of the current dynasty, although the area is large, but it is unstable, and in the past 100 years, it has been rising and slumping with the strength of the tide of the river and the sea to change the shape of the island.

The terrain of the sand island is low and flat, most of the sand islands are shallows, the ability to resist river floods and sea tides is extremely weak, the land fertility is poor, and in recent years, river pirates have been rampant, no one is willing to go to Xisha Island to cultivate, so far it is still an uninhabited desert island. In autumn, the shallows of Xisha Island are floodplain full of white-flowered reeds, and it has also become an ideal foothold and hiding place for the invasion along the river at this time.

There were still dozens of meat tickets on the ship to be exchanged for ransom silver, and the pirates needed to find a place to rest temporarily, just as Fu Qinghe expected, the pirate sailboat dragged the painting boat straight to Xisha Island.

The reed is also known as the flower, which is the pampas mentioned in the Book of Songs; Looking at the gray reeds that were connected to Jiang Tian, Lin Jian thought in his heart that if he could snatch the second daughter out and hide in the reeds by surprise, the possibility of getting out of trouble would be greater......

Listening to the movement of the bow of the boat, Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe discussed the details of saving people in a low voice.

The pirates will definitely divide their men to negotiate with the family of the meat ticket to collect the ransom money and then send the meat ticket ashore - in the early morning, Lin Tie listened for a while outside the flower hall where the meat ticket was held, and there were more than thirty teenagers imprisoned inside, and he didn't know where the pirates had tied up so many meat tickets, and they could confirm that these meat tickets did have oil and water to scrape - this would be the perfect time for them to save people.

The boat entered the reeds from the mouth of the river, and the birds hidden in the reeds shot into the sky like a rain of arrows, the scene was unusually spectacular, Lin Jian looked at the thick layer of guano accumulated in the reeds, and thought that the desert island was a paradise for birds, and I don't know if the two sides of the strait would feel abnormal when they saw the birds under the sky here - the water camp station of Ninghai Haijun Town is on the south bank of the river!

When I entered the reed swing, I found that it was not easy to hide in the depths of the reed swing with the second daughter. In autumn, the river is abundant, and the beach near Xisha Island is flooded*, and the large reeds on both sides of the river are only exposed on the water surface, and they are afraid that people will not be able to expose the water when they go down. In addition, the water and grass are abundant, and it is easy for people to get entangled when they go in, and it is not easier to take two women who do not know how to swim into the depths of the reeds than to swim across the Yangtze River. Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe discussed whether to wait for the pirates to divide their troops, as long as there are less than ten pirates guarding the painting boat, they can even kill people and seize the ship, and then even if there are pirates chasing after him, he and Fu Qinghe are not without the power to fight - it is more likely that the number of pirates is not large, and they have to divide people to guard the ship, and they don't know their details, so they don't dare to pursue easily.

As soon as the boat reached the depths of the reeds, there was a noise in front of it: "Thief damn, the sailor ship of Ninghai Town, two fast oars are going to outflank it, damn, everyone draw knives and prepare to fuck the fuck......"

There is a lookout post on the top of the main mast of the pirate ship, which can overlook the enemy situation from a distance, listen to the noise ahead, Fu Qinghe showed surprise on his face, and the officers and soldiers came to the rescue, which is better than them killing people and seizing the ship. The pirate ship has entered the reeds deeper, and the short waterway, the fast paddle ship is faster than the pirate sailboat, and this group of pirates can escape without breaking their muscles at all except for a hard fight.

Fu Qinghe saw the sailor's fast oars in Ninghai Town, and thought to himself that no matter how incompetent the officers and soldiers were, there were at least eighty or ninety soldiers on the two fast oars, and it should be more than enough to overturn thirty pirates.

Lin Lian's frowning brows did not relax, he had an almost instinctive aversion to the so-called officers and soldiers, and there seemed to be the pain of a bullet in his brain, he and Fu Qinghe hid in the tail cabin first, afraid that the pirates would adjust the ship's defenses and bump into them.

They didn't go to the lower tail cabin, but just watched the situation outside at the door of the tail cabin on the first floor.

The reeds that the pirate ship dragged into the painting boat is a narrow passage, the pirate ship has strong defense and complete combat equipment, so it is natural to adjust the position of the two ships to let the painting boat go inside, and the pirate ship is outside to seal the passage - the pirates all run to the front to defend, the enemy is coming, and there are only two pirates in the painting boat who are injured and seriously affect the combat effectiveness.

"Good timing!" Lin Jian whispered, picked up the short knife, and dived to the bow of the boat with Fu Qinghe. The painting boat was sealed on the inside of the river, and all the pirates were waiting on the sailing boat in front, and the fast oars in Ninghai Town had already approached and began to shoot arrows, and the pirates in front naturally did not pay attention to this side, and the two seriously injured pirates who remained on the painting boat stood on the bow of the boat and were engrossed in watching the battle situation in front of them.

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