No one spoke. No one paid attention to Li Ziqiang, who walked in with Shi Shiran. Li Ziqiang's figure has not changed much in the past twenty years, and of course he can't experience the pain of having a fat body. He thinks hemorrhoids and frozen shoulder are the most unlucky diseases on shijie, and now they are gone, and they are relaxed.

After Wu Dapeng watched the wormhole disappear, he closed his eyes and savored the comfort he had never felt before. His cervical spondylosis was gone, as if the pain of the past was just a dream. He seemed to feel fresh blood flowing through his neck without hindrance, feeding his brain in a steady stream. His brain was cool, his huge belly was gone, and his breathing was brisk. The kidneys feel better, warm, and the cold of the past is gone. The joints of his body constantly transmitted a cool and comfortable feeling to him, and the blood in his whole body seemed to be flowing happily!

Li Ziqiang saw Wu Dapeng's pants fall off, and he didn't seem to realize it, so he hurriedly walked over and helped him lift them.

"Big Bird, are you alright?"

Wu Dapeng opened his eyes and said, "Xiexie, you, Lizi, I feel very good. What's the difference between this crossing and the last time you're on? ”

"There were some fluctuations, very slight. It seems to have something to do with the mass of the matter we carry. ”

Song Shida knelt and silently shed tears. His clothes dangled all over him, and he was as ridiculous as a child stealing the clothes of an adult. He said to Li Ziqiang: "Li Zi, I breathe extremely easily and my body is extremely light now. I feel like I want to fly! The heat in my stomach is gone――――――"

Professor Jian touched Chongxin's thick hair with one hand, as if he was caressing Xu's long-lost lover. The other hand gently touched his knee. "Ambassador, my stomach problem is different from yours, I am a cold disease, and now I am very peaceful, I can't feel its existence, which is good."

Sun Defa stopped the heart of the ocean and slowly reminisced: "I feel very good. I was a little deaf in my left ear, but now it's better. He didn't really feel it to anyone else, he felt that his thing had become strong again, and the kidneys on both sides were full of high-spirited combat power.

It's good to be young! They each howled in front of the mirror in the bathroom.

The originally elegant Professor Jianguo An Jian shouted viciously: "What the fucking era! Whoever the fuck is! From now on, this shijie is ours! ”

"It's our !!" The crowd drank together.

Lucky for them, the Heart of the Ocean is still floating on the surface of the sea. In the distance is the mysterious place, with long sandy beaches, endless woods behind it, and rolling mountains in the distance.

A round of the sun rose in the east.

From head to toe, they changed into American naval camouflage uniforms they brought with them, and turned into a seemingly naval reconnaissance team. It's time to get to work.

"Where is this?"

Sun Defa, Li Ziqiang, and Professor Jian took out the three sextants they brought. Sun Defa shouted: "It's 6 o'clock on May 9 of a certain year. Adjust the movable arm, point the indicator mirror at the sun―――――― observe the level mirror, aim at the horizon, and read the normal data. Plums, is your sextant perpendicular to the ground?! ”

"Ah, don't blame me for the boat dangling."

"Don't talk nonsense, hold on. The data of the differential drum is now read. Well, split the calculation. ”

Li Ziqiang was the first to finish. He sighed and said, "We're 616161616161 in Australia"

Song Shida and Wu Dapeng have been watching their moves. Song Shida said: "Really? What a place! ”

Wu Dapeng was very calm: "I don't believe it. I don't know how to use a sextant, but I can tell it's not the Southern Hemisphere. ”

Sun Defa smiled and said, "We're just familiar with the process. There is no noon sun, no exact date, not even an exact time and month, everything is hypothetical. ”

Song Shida asked strangely:

"Isn't it possible to measure latitude with a sextant at any time?"

"Then you have to know the exact time in the local area, can you be sure that our time is accurate now?"

"Weishenme doesn't install a theodolite? I've heard of this stuff. ”

"Ignorance, huh? That's just for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, and it has nothing to do with latitude and longitude! Li Ziqiang hurriedly replied. In fact, he had asked this question before.

Song Shida lamented: "What's the use of bringing so many advanced instruments? ”

Sun Defa said: "It will be used at noon." Whatever it is, let's walk along the coastline! ”

Sun Defa carefully steered the Heart of the Ocean. The water depth in this area is about 17 meters, and the bottom of the sea is relatively flat. There are no active targets over the sea within twenty nautical miles. Sun Defa is very satisfied with the data on the meter.

"Over there, I saw the wheel prints left by the plums!" Wu Dapeng, who had been observing the coast with a telescope, shouted. “

"Where, where?" People who were observing from several other directions approached. They pointed their binoculars in the direction that Wu Dapeng had pointed out. Sure enough, everyone saw two ruts on the beach, stretching intermittently to the northeast.

"The second crossing of the plum was fifteen days ago, and it seems that there have not been a few rainstorms in this place."

"Big Bird is right, then there must be a river in the northeast that he encountered." After speaking, Professor Jian shouted at Sun De: "Fa Tsai, keep the course, there is a big river in the northeast, be careful of the sandbar!" ”

Sun Defa maintained his current course and speed and increased his vigilance. Li Ziqiang turned on the stereo and chose a heavy metal rock song from the 90s, which he specially downloaded from the Internet and had not listened to it for many years. Suddenly, the whole boat sounded with very rhythmic music. The others were stunned for a moment, then screamed again.

A dog's barking was added, and neither the retired police dog nor the seed changed. It seems that the effect of crossing can only be manifested in people.

The Heart of the Sea sails arrogantly in an arrogant ensemble.

Wang San and Li Si were digging a pit on a deer road. They came from the Han hunters in eastern Guangdong and southern Fujian, and since the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1638), they have been fishing for shambar near the Xiatamsui River (Gaoping River) in Taiwan from October to May of the following year for ten years.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, they first hunted deer in the Huweilong Society north of Longgang (Bengang), and then there were fewer and fewer deer, and the relationship with the local Huweilong people became worse and worse, and Han hunters were often killed by them. But the hunters all paid money to the Dutch to buy permits, and everyone was killed, who dared to come, so after the Dutch sent troops to kill some Huweilang people, the hunters were safer.

The most haode deer hunting method is to lay a trap and dig a trap, not to shoot with arrows, so that the deer skin will have eyes, not to mention the price, if the shot does not hit the vital point, the deer will run away with the arrow, one person can not catch up, only four or five people around. What's the point of four or five people catching a deer in a busy day? It's not enough money. This is how the Huweilang people hunt, so the harvest is not as good as that of the Han hunters.

The Dutch were also shrewd, and the Han deer hunting permit cost 15 liels (one liel is equal to two six dollars and eight cents of silver, the liel is equal to 26 to 28 grams now, and the silver taels are equal to 37.5 grams now), and the Huweilang people cost 1 liel. The difference in costs is so big, they are far less than the silver earned by the Han people - so they are jealous in their hearts, and there is nothing to do on the surface, but secretly the Han hunters have suffered a lot of losses from them.

Later, in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Dutch did not allow Han hunters to hunt deer there. Wang San and Li Si together, let's go to the Tamsui River, where life is harder. So for ten years, they came here every year, without stopping.

It looks easy to trap and dig traps, but you have to be able to find the deer path. The deer road is the road that sambar deer often walk. The sambar deer is a stupid thing, he only takes one way to eat and drink, and he will make a fortune when he finds the deer road. A hundred deerskins can be sold for 15 liels, a deer leg for a liel, and a hundred pounds of venison for 18 liel. Sell it to merchants who come to buy it, and they sell deerskin to Japan and venison to the mainland, both of which are doubling the profits.

Deer antlers, deer whips, and deer water are all good things, at first the Dutch red hair fan only charged taxes on the sale of deer skins and venison, and later saw that deer antlers sold well, and collected taxes on deer antlers. They didn't look down on the deer whip and the water, and they didn't pay attention to the thing.

The year before last, Li Si said to Wang San, let's collect more deer whips ourselves, and take advantage of the fact that the red hair fan still doesn't know its use, don't collect taxes, don't sell it to merchants, and ship it home to sell it ourselves. Although the amount is small and the income is not much, it is also a good livelihood. You don't have to pay that damn tithe yet. Wang San thought so.

The two of them began to accumulate deer whips, not only keeping their own hunts, but also collecting other hunters when they had the opportunity. Sometimes I went to the Tagaryan people and the Suozi people to change, and at first it was okay, in those villages, a pound of meat venison could be exchanged for one, and later other hunters followed suit, and it rose to ten catties of meat, and there was no goods yet.

It stands to reason that 20 catties of meat is also cost-effective, but in Fujian and Guangdong, where there is a military disaster, the price of meat has risen sharply. There are few deer whips, forget it.

The deer is never wasted, washed with river water, and then exposed to the sun with salt brine, whether it is transported back or sold to dealers. Salt is not expensive, 2 riels a load (94 kg).

The trap is dug. There are five in total, one in the front and four in the back are divided into two groups on the left and right. The previous trap was six feet deep, one zhang square, and there were five loopers at the bottom of the trap. The last four are shallower, and five sleeves are also clothed. When the deer pass by the deer road at noon and go to the river to drink, as soon as the sambar deer in front of them falls, the sambar deer behind them panicked and will jump left and right, just jumping into the last four. The sambar will not run straight back when it encounters an accident, unless you attack it from the front. And when the sambar deer found that there was no danger, they would return to the same place to see what had happened. Wang San and Li Si carefully covered the trap and sprinkled salt water on the grass around the trap. When the sambar sambar comes back to see the trap, they are attracted to the salt water and start grazing non-stop. At this time, it happened to be shot with an arrow, and the skin was worthless and there was meat.

The two of them finished the trap and sat down to catch their breath. Wang San restrained the desire to smoke a bag of cigarettes, for fear of leaving the smell of fireworks for the sambar deer to smell.

Wang San said: "I heard that Hongmao Fan is not allowed to dig traps to hunt deer in the future?" ”

Li Si said: "Well, they saw that we hunted more deer than those familiar ones, so they got angry. ”

"Damn, that's so wide."

"Still thinking about moving home?"

Wang San lowered his head and thought for a while: "Fourth brother, move here-"

"You have to think about it, a poll tax of four liels a year, a license fee for hunting, a tenant of their land for farming, fifty percent of the rent, a permit fee for fishing, and a tax of one percent for everything sold!"

"The red-haired fan was originally changed by a vampire, or else the hair could be so red? It's a good thing they don't rob - my village is always a soldier, and I can't live a life if I rob it once and for a while. When I go back this time, my family's ancestral land and ancestral house can be sold, so let's move to Taiwan. ”

Li Si sighed: "My home is far away from Chenghai County, and I have few times to go to the army, and I can still survive." I can't bear the ancestral land - don't mention these troubled things, put down a few more sets on the east side, look at the terrain, the sambar deer can escape there. ”

The two of them set up a few condoms and went to bathe in the lower Tamsui River, and even washed their clothes. Bathing is not for cleanliness, but because when ambushing, the sambar is afraid that the sambar will smell the sweat of people. After a few rubbings of clothes, they were put on a small tree by the river, and the wind slipped away.

Wang San and Li Si squatted on the ground smoking cigarette pouches, and the wind here was strong and they were not afraid of leaving the smell.

"In the past few days, the red-haired fan has not allowed hunting, this ticket is our earnings, and you will have more money after you go back, and it is a big deal to move from the land." Li Si said calmly.

"Fourth brother, you have taken me for so many years-"

"Forget it, don't say it, the fourth brother is not called in vain."

The mosquitoes by the river slowly began to increase, Li Si glanced at the sun, and it was almost the same time, and the work started.

The two of them put on their clothes, and their hands, feet, faces, and necks were coated with smoked mosquito herbal ointment prepared by Li Si himself. This is the ancestral prescription of the Li Si family, and it is not passed on.

They set up an ambush directly behind the traps, ten paces away from several of them, in a shallow bowl in which one could squat and sit, covered with thin branches, so that one could jump suddenly. Both of them had their bows and arrows on the string, but Wang San couldn't shoot accurately, and he liked to use a throwing spear.

I used to leave after digging the trap and come back in a few days. Not this time, this deer road they found late, from May to September every year, it is strictly forbidden to hunt deer, as long as they are caught, they will be fined ten times the amount they receive, or do hard labor. Wang San's elder brother died of exhaustion when he was doing hard labor for Hongmaofan. So they can only wait here carefully, Li Si said, only wait for two days.

The Heart of the Ocean found the mouth of the great river without any problems, and approached it. The emerald green water rushes into the azure sea, and there is a strange beauty at the confluence.

Sun Defa visually measured that the estuary could be a thousand meters wide, the current was relatively calm, and the sounder showed that the estuary was seven meters deep.

The people decided to sail upstream of the river, after all, human civilization began in the river basin.

Li Ziqiang turned off the stereo, and suddenly the world was quiet. Sun Defa slowed down and made his way along the river bank as much as he could. Startled by countless waterfowl, Li Ziqiang shouted excitedly: "Hurry up and get a shotgun." Wu Dapeng immediately said, "Plum, wait a minute." We'll try again when we get ashore. "What a joke to have a raw hand shoot on a rocking yacht, it's too risky. Besides, the important question now is figuring out what this place is.

Everyone carefully used binoculars to look for traces of human activity. Nothing has been found so far. As the boat ascended, the mangrove forest gradually became scarce, and a large number of broad-leaved forests began to appear on the shore. Professor Jian has a considerable understanding of plants.

"This is a typical tropical broad-leaved forest."

"Oh my God, it's a natural camphor forest!"

"Look, there's a forest of acacia over there!"

"Ah, isn't it beech over there?!"

"I can responsibly say that this is typical of southeast Asia. But where it is, I don't know. Hainan Island, southern Taiwan, northern Philippines are all possible. ”

Everyone listened to Professor Jian's comments, and no one could interject. Everyone can recognize the ordinary tree species, and they are dumbfounded if they are a little unusual.

Sun Defa calculated that the upward movement could be more than 10 kilometers, and the river remained at a depth of 3 to 5 meters, and the navigation was good.

Wu Dapeng said: "Come on, let's find a place to go ashore!" ”