The dense forest climbs about four or five miles deep, and is their new campsite, a valley on the hillside that is slightly lower than the surrounding area, and the south side of the valley is a gap, and down is the wooded slope that extends directly to the beach; Lin Jian stood on the rock at the mouth of the valley and looked at the sea in the distance without an unobstructed view, and estimated that the position he was standing on was fifteen or sixteen zhang higher than the sea level.

The island mountain / is already low, and they don't expect there to be a Tibetan cave on the island, and fortunately there has been no rain in the past few days, otherwise those few broken grass sheds would not be worth it at all; However, when good luck always runs out, the night Lin Tie entered the forest, it rained heavily.

Lin Jian woke up in his sleep in the middle of the night to the heavy rain, and hid under the dense foliage tree in the high place with everyone to avoid the rain. Seeing that the rain would not stop for a while and a half, and the rain continued to drip down through the dense branches and leaves, Lin Jian took off the leather armor and coat on his body, handed it to Su Mei and Xiaoman, and asked them to put the coat on their bodies and use the leather armor as a shelter.

Su Mei looked at Lin Jian and looked at the thin cardigan left on his body, and wanted to return the coat to him.

"You're clothed. This rain will not stop for a while and a half, the whole island will be watered, and it will be difficult to make a fire to keep warm when the rain stops; If you are sick, there is no one to take care of you. Lin Jian couldn't help but let the second daughter put her coat on her body, he was worried that the second daughter had the weakest physique, and it would be a big trouble to get sick in the rain on a desert island with no medical treatment; In addition, Lin Lian was also worried about Fu Qinghe, Fu Qinghe's injury was not light, the wound had not healed and he had worked hard for several days, in fact, he was already quite tired, seeing that he was about to take off his coat and give it to himself, he stopped: "At the critical moment, I have to rely on Fu Ye, my body can bear it." ”

Standing there until dawn and the rain did not stop, the branches and leaves of the big trees were thicker, and the thin clothes under the forest were also drenched by the rain. In the early autumn of September, it is not cold to say that it is cold, but the muddy water is soaked, which also makes Lin Jian shiver from the cold, and it feels far colder than directly immersed in water.

As soon as the rain stopped, Chen Enze and other teenagers went out to look for dry branches, originally there was little hope, but when the sky was bright, Hu Qiaozhong stumbled back with a teenager, shouting as he walked: "There is a cave ahead......

Lin Jian didn't expect there to be a cave on the island, after all, the island was too short, more than twenty zhang, less than ninety meters high. Fu Qinghe couldn't walk through the terrain of the whole island in just three days, at this time the desert island was drenched in heavy rain, and it was extremely difficult to find a dry place.

It is said to be a cave, but it is better to say that it is a stone cave, at the junction of the slope and the cliff, it is very shallow, and there are grass, vines and shrubs along the road. Hu Qiaozhong originally thought that there would be some dry branches and dry grass on the edge of the cliff that could not be drenched by rain, so he climbed over with his hands and feet, only to find that this stone cave had his palms cut by thorns, and he didn't feel pain.

The stone cave is not big, there are seven or eight zhang deep, like a stone hall, it is not a problem to accommodate thirty or fifty people to shelter from the rain, and there is also a thick layer of dead branches and rotten leaves in the stone gap, which is not wet to the rain. At this time, they didn't care that lighting a fire and raising smoke might attract passing pirates, and most of the people's clothes were drenched in the rain, and they desperately needed to make a fire to keep warm. He lit the dead branches and rotten leaves with a fire sickle, sat around the blazing open fire, boiled hot water and ate dried meat and dried meat, and Lin Bin's body recovered.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, you can see that the small pond that was only two or three acres large last night has accumulated rainwater, and the area is dozens of times larger, and it has become an island lake of hundreds of acres. It's just that the terrain of the valley mouth is sloping downward, and the water can't stop the stagnant water, so you can hear the sound of the water flowing out of the valley, and it doesn't take half a day to think that the lake in front of you will disappear and become a small pond again.

Hearing someone coming behind him, Lin Jian glanced back, saw that it was Su Mei, pointed to the valley mouth and said to her with a smile: "Build a dam there, store the rainwater, and completely solve the water source problem on the island - the implementation is also quite simple, the trees at the mouth of the valley are stout, interspersed and dense, weave a bamboo fence to hook up, fill in the soil and stones, the dam can be built, and the dam can be dug deep at the same time, and the labor time is not too much......

"Ah, Lin Gongzi also knows water conservancy...... Su Mei asked.

"Uh......" Lin Jian also thought that this method of damming and storing water should be regarded as common-sense knowledge, but Su Mei was quite surprised, thinking that at this time, due to the restrictions of the times in the transmission of knowledge, no matter how common sense knowledge is in the future, it is also a university question here. Although water control has a history of thousands of years in this land, there are still very few people who are truly proficient in water conservancy.

"Jiangning students all said that Lin Gongzi's article was reluctant, and it was a fluke to pass the township examination, if they knew that Lin Gongzi's mind of impatience and righteousness and such a worldly talent, they would never say so; Su Mei was also shallow in the past, and specially came to ask Lin Gongzi for guilt. ”

Su Mei said sincerely, what she said was also her true feelings, in the past seven or eight days, Lin Jian has completely subverted the impression she had given her before: where is he a cowardly and incompetent scholar? Obviously an admirable strange man! Lin Jian was ashamed in his heart, and said with a smile: "Miss Su is serious. Miss Su has the righteousness of squandering money to me, and I didn't know what to do before, which made Miss Su troublesome in vain, and it should be me to ask for guilt. ”

Su Mei didn't expect Lin Jian to say the old things bluntly, her pretty face was slightly red, and she said: "You have to blame me too...... and she didn't say why she wanted to blame her, thinking that he said this to expose the old things, thinking of his previous obsession, he would feel a little bored at that time, and at this time he wanted to completely expose it, but he was a little stunned. Su Mei saw Lin Lian's eyes staring at Gukou, as if he was thinking deeply about other things, and retired back, sitting in the corner of the stone cave with Xiaoman, occasionally glancing at the back of Lin Jian at the entrance of the cave, and couldn't help but compare him with Ming Zhe: Alas, how can you have this kind of thought?

Fu Qinghe has been really tired these days, and when he woke up, he also lay on the haystack to recuperate, seeing Lin Lian talking to Su Mei, he pondered Lin Lian's attitude towards Su Mei in the past few days, as if he had suddenly broken through the love barrier in just seven or eight days, and looked at Su Mei's eyes without the previous infatuation, but with a little more appreciation and respect. To be honest, this made Fu Qinghe a little disappointed, and the current Lin Tie was ten thousand times more pleasing to the eye than that Chen Mingzhen in front of his eyes.

Although Chen Mingzhe is known as the No. 1 article in Jiangdong, Fu Qinghe has always looked down on Chen Mingzhe, but Miss He likes his articles.

Fu Qinghe pondered whether to wait for the escape to do some small tricks to promote Miss and Lin Bin, and thought to himself that the article is well written, how can the real cultural and martial arts be written in a few articles?

The heavy rain did not cause much trouble for the people, and they found a temporary resting place.

Although there are no animals on the island, there are abundant fish and bird eggs, and there are many edible forest fruits such as golden cherry seeds and edible wild vegetables such as field grass and endive, and food and water sources are not a problem; At night, they light a fire in a densely forested valley, and they are not afraid that the light of the fire and the smoke will attract passing ships at sea.

During the day, people will be sent to the cliff to watch out, and Lin Jian will also explain some knowledge of jungle survival to the teenagers as much as possible; Fu Qinghe has a strong physical fitness, and after three days of rest, he has been full of energy and has completely recovered, and he can only explain some simple techniques to the teenagers for a while.

On the sixth day of drilling into the dense forest, the cliff lookout saw a ship coming this way, and this was the twelfth day after Lin bound them to the island.

Lin Jian and Fu Qinghe climbed up the cliff to look at it, the ship was a three-masted sea ship, which was very similar to the original pirate ship that robbed people in the Baishui River, but it was too far away to be sure.

Lin Jian immediately asked people to notify the people who picked fruits and wild vegetables to come back. He and Fu Qinghe had already discussed that if there were few officers and soldiers from Ninghai Town, they would kill people and seize ships, and it would be much more convenient for them to leave the desert island if they had boats; If the other side is outnumbered and cannot deal with it, they will hide in the forest and not go out.

Let Su Mei, Xiaoman's second daughter and more than a dozen younger teenagers stay in the valley, Lin Lian, Fu Qinghe, Chen Enze, Hu Qiaozhong, Hu Qiaokou and other sixteen teenagers took weapons and bamboo spears and dived to the edge of the woods. Until now, they had only found that there was only such a hidden trail that could lead to the valley deep in the forest, and they were not worried that the officers and soldiers of Ninghai Town would bypass them and find here.

Dive to the edge of the forest and watch the grass huts stand there quietly, the only traces of which have been washed away by the heavy rain that had occurred at night six days ago, and the wind blew the flying grass in the open space in front of the straw huts. Occasionally, a flock of seabirds perched on the grass trellis and suddenly flew like a rain of arrows into the clear blue sky.

The small bay on the south side of the island is a natural safe haven, and most of the incoming boats will anchor in the notch bay, Lin Jian took Chen Enze and another agile teenager to the cliff head on the west side of the notch bay to observe the enemy's situation, and let Fu Qinghe take Hu Qiaozhong, Hu Qiaoguan and other teenagers to ambush on the inner side of the forest path.

The boat was completely unaware that there were people lying on their stomachs in the grass on the headland, and the people on the boat lowered their sails with their feet and hands, and straightened the bow of the ship with a penny. Lin Jian and the two teenagers lay motionless in the grass, watching the bow of the boat slowly adjust its direction and sail towards the bay; The bow of the ship was four or five feet away from them.

The empty silence in front of the straw shed did not make the people on the boat suspicious, until the bottom of the boat rushed to the shallows and lowered the anchor, and a man with a full face of flesh stepped on the side of the boat and shouted in the direction of the straw shed: "Turtle sons, come out, don't hide, it's your grandfather Chen who is here!" It's like a dog, and he doesn't even show his tail! Why didn't you find out you had this ability before? Two dogs! Have you gotten a stuffy egg on the island? Have you picked a few white and tender ass balls/subs to vent your anger? As he spoke, he laughed with a presumptuous "haha", and the others in the bow also laughed unbridledly. Before the boat could stop, two people slid the rope and jumped into the shallow water......

After a while, no one came out of the grass shed or the woods to respond, so I felt that something was abnormal, put down the rope ladder, and three more people got off the boat, and the five of them walked together with weapons to the grass shed where there was no movement.

"Do you want to take the ship?" Chen Enze was lying on Lin Lian's side and asked in a low voice.

"Wait, be patient, wait for Master Fu to lead those five people into the forest, and we won't be too late to do it."

There were also two men on the boat arranging the sails, barefoot, trousers pulled up to their knees, lean faces, purple red by the sea breeze, and no weapons at hand; As long as the five people who got off the boat first walked away, Lin Jian was confident that he would deal with the two people on the boat. He patiently lay in the grass and waited, watching the five people who got off the boat walk into the grass shed, probably found the clues that Fu Qinghe and they deliberately left behind from the grass shed, stood in front of the grass shed and discussed for a while before walking towards the woods. Seeing the five people disappearing at the edge of the forest, Lin Jian and Chen Enze said to the two teenagers, "Wait for me to come over again." "With his waist knife in hand, he bent down and hid in the waist-high grass, and ran quickly to the inner side of the bay.

When the five of them disembarked, the rope ladder was not closed, and Lin Jian quickly climbed to the bow of the boat along the rope ladder. The two men on the boat were reeling in the stern of the boat, and they were still staring at the edge of the trees on the island, and they did not see anyone climbing up from the boat through the half-lowered sail.

The mainsail was half-lowered and more than one person high, blocking the view on both sides, Lin Lian listened to the voices of the two people at the stern of the boat, and only then did he gesture to Chen Enze and another teenager to let them sneak over.

The fight between the trees suddenly broke out, and the birds perched in the nearby woods fled in terror, shooting like a rain of arrows all over the sky, and the eyes were full of black shadows.

The stern realized that something was wrong and rushed to the bow of the boat, to put away the anchor and get ready. At first glance, the two saw two teenagers standing in the bow of the boat with knives, turned back to the stern of the boat to get weapons, but unexpectedly Lin Tie hid against the main sail, and one of them turned around and hit the edge of the knife that Lin Tie stabbed, and when he reacted to restrain his feet, the tip of the knife had already stabbed out of his back; Lin Lian gave up the knife and put the waist knife against the neck of the other person: "If you want to live, lie down honestly." He took the rope and pressed the man firmly, and threw him out of the cabin and shut him up. It is true that he wants to seize the ship, but if he takes the ship, someone needs to be able to sail, otherwise the vast hundreds of sea routes are enough for them to toss, so they must leave a living mouth who can sail.

The fighting in the forest continued, Chen Enze and another teenager were about to turn over and get off the boat to help in the battle, but Lin Jian stopped them: "Our responsibility is to seize the ship and hold the ship......" He pulled out his knife and held it in his hand, his eyes staring at the direction of the battle in the forest.

Fu Qinghe led the teenagers to ambush in the forest to be prepared for the attack, and the number of people was superior, so it was no problem to deal with five people, but I was afraid that those teenagers would be in a hurry when they first came to the war, and there would be casualties; But it's too late for them to rush over to help now.

At this moment, three men rushed out of the woods, all with colors on their bodies, and one of them had an arrow stuck in his neck, and this man was already at the end of his crossbow, and as soon as he ran out of the woods, he fell to the ground and did not move.

Chen Enze's heart tightened, but he didn't expect that two more people would be able to break out of the woods in the end. Immediately afterwards, I saw Hu Qiaozhong and Hu Qiaoguan swarming out of the forest, and Fu Qinghe followed closely with a bow. What reassured Lin Jian was that only the bamboo spears of the two teenagers were cut off, and there were no casualties.

The remaining two ran to the grass hut only to see Lin Jian and the two teenagers standing at the bow of the boat, and the rope ladder was also put away. When he turned around, one of them fell down with an arrow in the face, and one of them poked a thousand holes in the bamboo spear array—it was also these teenagers who were not proficient in guns, and when Lin Jian and the two teenagers got off the boat, the man was still convulsive and not dead.