A knife in love

Chapter 1171

Seeing Xiao Dong staring at him, Li Qiufeng knew that this person had doubts about him, and hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "It's just a coincidence, I learned some three-legged cat kung fu, where did I worship any martial arts master as a teacher?"

Xiao Dong shook his head, and said in his mouth: "Your internal strength is very good. You are not a master. You will never be able to train such an outstanding apprentice. You have such martial arts, but you are so young. If you think about it, you must be a great master in the world. The great master. We go to sea this time, the relationship is very important, please tell me the origin of the master, so that I can rest assured."

When Li Qiufeng saw Xiao Dong talking, he clenched his hands into fists and stood up straight, ready to violently hurt others at any time.His heart was clear, he knew that he had just slapped the mast with his palm, showing his deep internal strength, Xiao Dong became suspicious, thinking that he had other intentions to hide his martial arts.Li Qiufeng is not afraid of Xiao Dong, but he just doesn't want to make troubles, and conflicts with Xiao Dong, and misses his plan to go to Fusang.So he thought for a while, and then he said: "In the next generation, I will live in Shu and manage Shu brocade for a living. In order to protect myself, my ancestors spent a lot of money to invite a few hermits to teach martial arts to the tribe. I have learned martial arts from my father since I was a child. After some superficial kung fu, but due to the limitation of talent, I didn't get a glimpse of the profound martial arts, but Master Xiao is laughing at me."

Xiao Dong heard that Li Qiufeng said that he was practicing martial arts from his family, he didn't believe it, but he couldn't get to the bottom of it, so he just smiled and said: "So that's the case. I can't think that there are people like you among us. He is a martial arts master. With Your Excellency's help in this trip, why worry about the big things not going to happen?"

At this moment, Zhang Shi had already walked to the bow of the boat, listening to Xiao Dong's strange words, he knew that he was not at ease with Li Qiufeng.Zhang Shisheng was afraid that there would be a conflict between the two, so he hurriedly walked up to Xiao Dong, cupped his hands and said, "Master Xiao, this Brother Zhu is here to help, you two need to get closer."

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard someone tremblingly saying: "I, I will not be able to make it to the underworld..."

Li Qiufeng and others searched for their reputation, but they saw shopkeeper Song crawling out of the cabin, his whole body was dripping wet, and he was looking at everyone blankly.Shopkeeper Yin who was standing next to the cabin hurriedly pulled him up, and said, "Old Song, don't talk nonsense. We have escaped the catastrophe, so let's have some fun, brother."

Qin Laowu tied the sail rope, and said with a gloomy face: "Shopkeeper Yin, we can't say that we have escaped this catastrophe. Whether we can escape or not depends on whether God will let us go."

After he finished speaking, he ordered a few boatmen to inspect the ship, fetched a compass and chart, and watched it carefully with Zhang Shi and shopkeeper Hu.The three of them discussed in low voices for a while, and their expressions were not very good-looking.

Xiao Dong stood aside, seeing the different expressions of the three of them, he couldn't help asking: "Shopkeeper Hu, what's wrong?"

Shopkeeper Hu showed embarrassment, opened his mouth, but said nothing.After a while, he cupped his hands and said, "Master Xiao, we were hit by a big wave just now, we have deviated from the course, and are now drifting northward. The mast of the big ship is broken, and it is impossible to think about sailing eastward to the Fusang country. But turning west, we can only sail to the border of Shandong. If the imperial court’s Beiwa army in Shandong sees us, they have to board a boat and search for us, so they cannot go west to land. If they want to turn back to Ningbo, they don’t know what happened at sea just now. Will there be another big bang? Just now we escaped by chance, and if we encounter it again, we will definitely be unlucky. Therefore, there is only one way to go north at the moment.”

Xiao Dong was startled, and said: "Northward? Doesn't that mean it's getting farther and farther away from Fusang?"

Shopkeeper Hu looked embarrassed, nodded, and said: "That's right. But according to the boss of the ship, we can go all the way north, find a dock in Liaodong, repair the big ship, and then go south along the coast of North Korea, or go to Fusang. If we don’t delay on the way, it won’t be a few days.”

After listening to Shopkeeper Hu's words, Xiao Dong kept silent, with an uncertain expression on his face.Qin Laowu said on the side: "Master Xiao, I have heard from my seniors that it is faster to go to Fusang from Liaodong along the coast of North Korea than from Ningbo to Fusang. Moreover, the Liaodong Sea is restricted, so we can go south boldly without any worries. Hide and hide. In this way, compared with starting from Ningbo, it will not be a few days later."

Xiao Dong pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "Since this is the case, I have no choice but to go to Liaodong first, and then go south."

After everyone agreed, they returned to their respective cabins and changed their clothes.There was a catastrophe just now, although it was extremely thrilling, there were no casualties, and the cabin where the cargo was placed was not flooded.So everyone secretly said it was a fluke, and after changing into clean clothes, they no longer panicked in their hearts.

After that, the big ship sailed all the way north, and after more than ten days, finally saw the place where the sea and the sky meet in the north, and the shadow of the mountains appeared faintly.Everyone gathered at the bow of the ship, seeing the land in sight, they couldn't help cheering loudly.

Qin Laowu and several boatmen steered the big boat and headed straight for the land.It's just that although it seems that the distance is not far, the big ship sailed for five hours before reaching a shallow sea not far from the land.Several small boats were fishing at sea, and the fishermen on board were a little panicked when they saw the big boat approaching.Qin Laowu stood at the bow of the boat and bowed to the fishermen repeatedly, only saying that the big boat encountered a strong wind at sea, deviated from the seaway, and drifted here.The strong wind broke the mast on the ship, and it must be repaired as soon as possible before returning home.It's just that I don't know which prefecture or county is under the jurisdiction of this place, and where there is a pier to park.An old man said: "We are under the jurisdiction of Dongliao County, and there is a pier not far to the east. If you want to repair a boat, you can go to the pier and ask craftsmen for help."

When the old man said this, he paused for a while, looked at Qin Lao Wu carefully, and then said: "However, the Japanese pirates have caused a lot of trouble in the past two years. The counties along the coast of Liaodong have strictly searched the ships coming from the sea. If everyone If you don't bring a guide, you will be arrested by the government as soon as you land, tortured, and beheaded by the yamen army."

Qin Laowu cupped his hands and said: "Thank you for your advice, old man, I am very grateful."

After the fishing boat left, Qin Lao Wu turned around and said to Xiao Dong, shopkeeper Hu and others: "The villain has a guide on his body. I wonder if the adults and shopkeepers have this thing?"

Shopkeeper Hu and others said that they had brought a guide.Xiao Dong let out a "hum", and said in his mouth: "I have the Ministry of Criminal Investigation on my body, which official in the world dares to stop it?"

Qin Laowu heaved a sigh of relief and said, "It's the best. I heard that the people in Liaodong are tough, so we have to be careful."

Two boatmen turned the sails, and the big ship slowly turned eastward.At the beginning, there were only sparse houses on the shore, but after traveling more than ten miles, the number of houses gradually increased.There were more and more fishing boats at sea, but the fishermen on the fishing boats all showed terrified expressions when they saw the big boats that everyone was riding on.

After walking for more than [-] miles, the sky gradually darkened, but there were lights lit up not far away, and it seemed that it was not far from the pier.Everyone gathered at the bow of the boat, and they were quite excited.Since leaving Ningbo, they have drifted on the sea for more than [-] days, seeing the boundless sea every day. At this time, they finally got to anchor at the pier, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The big boat sailed for more than half an hour, and finally entered the pier.This pier is not big, only three or four small wooden boats are parked.There are more than a dozen tall poles standing along the shore, with large lanterns hanging from the top of the poles, illuminating the sea in front of the pier.When the passers-by on the shore saw the big boat coming, they all stood on the shore and pointed. Qin Laowu ordered the boatman to lower the anchor, and the big boat slowly approached the shore and stopped slowly.

Qin Laowu turned around and said to everyone: "I'm going to the shore to find a craftsman to repair the mast. If you have nothing to do, you can rest on the boat."

Just as Qin Laowu finished speaking, he heard shopkeeper Yin say: "We've lived on the boat for more than twenty days, and we've already been bored. If we stay any longer, we're going to go crazy." He turned his head to look at the Looking at Shopkeeper Hu and the others, he continued, "No matter what your plans are, I must go to the shore for a walk."

Shopkeeper Hu and others and Shopkeeper Yin also had the same thoughts, so they nodded one after another.Qin Lao Wu had no choice but to say to the crowd: "Since all shopkeepers want to go ashore, you must be careful and don't go too far. We are here, and we are not familiar with the place. Once troubles arise, we can't get away easily."

Shopkeeper Hu and others quarreled, saying that Qin Laowu was too careful.Xiao Dong was silent, standing aside thoughtful.Qin Laowu ordered a few boatmen to guard the big boat, and then put down the plank of the boat, and then he wanted to take everyone off the boat and ashore.

(End of this chapter)