Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

"I don't know how many people are involved, but there must be a lot of people!" Pushan smiled bitterly: "If it weren't for the master, maybe I would have participated. Everyone was frightened by the storm a few days ago. Even the old man Sailor, I don’t want to continue anymore!”

Sutuo and Chongjing exchanged glances. Both of them understood that Pushan probably didn't lie. The reason why there has been no rebellion until now is just because the storm and waves in the past few days tortured the sailors too much. Until now, Only then did they gradually recover and have the margin and strength to stage a rebellion.

"Who is the mastermind?" Sutuo asked.

"I don't know exactly who it is yet!" Pu Shan said: "But it should be among the prisoners who boarded the ship later. I will continue to investigate, but they are very careful and it will take time!"

"Yes!" Sutuo nodded: "Be careful! Don't hurt yourself!"

"Don't worry, young master!" Pushan said with a smile: "In their eyes, I am just a half-grown child. It doesn't matter. No one takes me seriously!"

At noon the next day, the fleet's lookout finally saw the shadow of land again. Sutuo ordered to find a way to dock, let the crew rest for a while, find a way to get some fresh food, and repair the ship. After more than an hour of hard work, the tortured flotilla finally anchored next to a lagoon on the seaside. After setting the anchor, the sailors stepped onto the pebbled beach and knelt down to pray to the gods and Buddhas. .

"Take a few people to a higher place to take a look at the surrounding situation! Is there any water or wood nearby? It's best to bring back some fresh food, preferably wild vegetables. It will be very useful to the patients after being cooked into soup!" Sutuo said to a follower. road.

Soon, the pathfinders brought good news. About a mile away from the landing point, there was a small river that merged into the sea. There were large shrubs on both sides of the river. The shrubs had a large number of young leaves for food, which made them even more excited. Sutuo was happy that someone also discovered a dozen sea lions lazily basking in the sun on a beach not far from the lagoon.

"Awesome!" Sutuo clenched his fists in joy: "The liver of sea lions is a good tonic. People who get sick at sea can recover quickly by eating just a few pieces! He Wu, I will take a few people to hunt Sea Lion, I’ll leave the matter here to you!”

After a few days of recuperation, He Wu's condition has improved a lot. Except for the bruises on his face, he has basically recovered: "Sir, be careful, I'll leave everything here!"

Sutuo put on rough espadrilles that were easy to climb, and two of his followers carried horned bows and a large bag of duckbill arrows, and set out carrying iron forks and short spears. The beach where the lagoon and sea lions were located was blocked by a steep rock. It was separated by a wall, so Sutuo and his party planned to go around it. They went upstream along the river. As they entered the interior, the banks of the river changed from grass to shrubs, and from shrubs to woods. The arrival of this group of strangers stirred up a strange bird, which flapped its light green wings rapidly and emitted a shrill chirp, passing over the heads of the three of them.

"Look!" A follower pointed to the bushes on both sides: "There should be no people here, otherwise there wouldn't be so many berries hanging on the branches without anyone picking them!"

"Yes!" Sutuo took a look and saw a lot of purple-black berries in the bushes beside the road. More fell on the ground and piled up into a thick layer. He picked two of them casually. In his mouth, a long-lost sweet and sour taste spread into his tongue, making him feel refreshed.

"It tastes good. Let's pick some and take them back when we come back!"

The group walked through the bushes and then turned towards the beach. After about half a meal, they walked to the edge of the beach. Here they could clearly see a dozen sea lions lying on the beach, enjoying the sun comfortably. . These sea beasts have spindle-shaped smooth bodies, and their limbs have degenerated into fins suitable for life in the sea. They roll awkwardly on the beach and make short calls from time to time. Their leader, the largest male sea lion, was lying on a rock, raising his head warily from time to time and looking around.

"Don't worry! The eyesight of this sea beast is very poor, worse than a wild boar, and better than a blind man!" Sutuo analyzed in a low voice to his companions: "But their sense of smell and hearing are very good, let's wait a while , let’s wait until the wind turns towards the land before we take action!”

"Thank you for the tip, young master!" said the older attendant: "Young Master will just shoot arrows from behind later, and the two of us will do the work!"

"Haha!" Sutuo laughed: "It's up to you! You'll know later that sea lions are nothing but meat once they land on the beach. Even a woman can take them away with a wooden stick!"

The two followers looked at each other and said in unison: "Let the villain do it!"

The three of them hid in the bushes and waited for about half an hour. The sea wind began to turn. Sutuo stretched out his hand to confirm the wind speed and stood up: "Almost!"

The two attendants stood up and walked towards the beach. Sure enough, as Sotuo said, although the sea lion looked left and right, it turned a blind eye to the two large living people seventy or eighty steps away. When the two people saw it, they felt even more comfortable and subconsciously speeded up their pace.

Sutuo picked up his bow and arrow and followed the two of them about six or seven steps away. When the group of people walked about thirty steps away from the male sea lion on guard, the male sea lion finally found the enemy and raised his head. , let out several sharp screams, and the sea lions who were sunbathing on the beach suddenly shook their clumsy bodies in panic and fled towards the sea.

"Hurry up!" As soon as the follower finished his words, he heard a soft sound in the air and saw the male sea lion falling off the reef. An arrow had been hit in his thick neck, but it was shot by Sutuo. Then he Zhang Gong shot down three sea lions in a row, and his followers stepped forward to kill them one by one.

"That's enough!" Sutuo shouted: "Their livers are enough to cure the crew's diseases!"

"What a pity!" A follower laughed and said, "It would be great if we came in a small boat. We could kill a few more prey and bring them back!"

"These sea lions are blind and deaf on the shore, but it's a different story when they get to the sea!" Sutuo laughed: "If we row a boat and stay far away, these beasts will jump into the water and hide! It's a lot of trouble. I can’t even hold on to a hair!”

"Hehe!" Another follower squatted down, skinned the prey skillfully, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that the young master even knows the habits of these sea animals in the north. He is really knowledgeable. Hey! This skin is so soft and thick! What if? It will definitely be of the best quality when made into a coat!”

"You know the goods! This leather is sea dragon skin. If sold to Chang'an, a sea dragon skin coat would be worth at least three to five hundred yuan!"

"Three to five hundred guan, then we are really rich!" The entourage smacked his tongue.

"Have you forgotten? The young master just said it was in Chang'an!" Another entourage said with a smile: "This thing has to be shipped to Chang'an to be worth the price. In Haidong, it would be good if it could be sold for thirty or fifty guan!"

"Thirty or fifty guan? So much difference?" The attendant who was peeling the skin asked disappointedly, and the work at hand had stopped.

"Well!" Sutuo said with a smile: "You just know that rare things are valuable, otherwise I would have asked you to put the rest back just now? Don't stop! Cut off this beast's liver and good meat quickly Come down, we have to get back before dark!" The followers skillfully cut off the liver and the essence of the body from the sea lion, then wrapped it in seal skin and walked back along the way they came. On the way back, the three of them chatted and laughed happily. Compared with their previous life at sea, the hunting trip just now was a relaxing trip!
"Wait a minute!" Xutuo suddenly grabbed his subordinate, his expression solemn.

"What's wrong?" the attendant asked inexplicably.

"Look at the birds in the trees in front! There is an ambush in the trees!" Sutuo knelt down and took out his horn bow and arrows, as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

The followers also reacted. Over the bushes not far away, the green-feathered bird they saw when they passed by flew up and screamed, like an ominous cloud. Obviously, there was something inside the bushes. To disturb these alert creatures, at this juncture, it is most likely that they are aiming at Sotuo.

"Could they be the natives of the island?" a follower asked in a low voice.

"No!" Sutuo shook his head. He was already prepared: "If the natives on the island would not be so clumsy, they would have starved to death long ago!"

"Yes, the young master is right!" Another follower said: "The greatest skill of a good hunter is to approach the prey without anyone noticing. Even we can't deceive you, and you still want to catch the prey?"

"If it's not the natives on the island, then it's one of our own!" The entourage said: "Bullshit, Master, we don't need to fight with them here, just go around and go back to the ship. I don't believe they will also take it on the ship. Down!"

"Yes! The young master is too wealthy to encounter them here!" Another attendant said: "We have nearly forty people on the three boats, all of them are good men who have experienced hundreds of battles. Even if the sailors turn against them, I can push them all down!"

"There should be nothing on the boat!" Xu Tuo shook his head: "He Wu and the others came down from the boat. The blubber on the boat alone can make them rich. Why would they risk losing their heads and rebel? They came to ambush us. It should be a small group of people. As long as they can catch me, others will have to obey their orders! "

"That's right! Then we should rush back to the ship first!" The attendant smiled and said: "As long as you return to the ship, Master, is it just a matter of words to keep them alive or dead?"

"You two just obey my orders!" Sutuo said solemnly.

In the bushes more than a hundred steps away, more than a dozen men looked nervous, holding various weapons in their hands. The leading man nervously looked through the gaps in the bushes to observe the movement in the distance.

"Why don't you come over? Have they discovered us?" someone next to him asked in a low voice.

"Impossible! Can you still see us hiding in the bushes from more than a hundred steps away? Those are humans, not falcons!" the leading man retorted.

"That's not necessarily true. I heard people say that General Wang's eyes are like those of a falcon. Mr. Sutuo is the son of General Wang. Could it be——"

"Shut up!" The leading man's face was as fierce as a ghost: "If you continue to talk nonsense and shake the morale of the army, I will kill you!"

Having said this, he paused for a moment and lowered his voice: "The matter has come to this point, and we have no way to retreat. Mr. Sutuo was obsessed by evil spirits and wanted to take a boat to the far north. Some time ago Everyone has seen the days. What does it feel like to have storms, snow and waves on the sea? Isn’t this the far north? The road ahead will only be more dangerous. Our only way to survive is to capture the young master and seize the ship. The rest of the way. The sky is high and the sea is vast!”

Everyone in the bushes nodded when they heard the leader's voice. It turned out that this group of people were all prisoners who had boarded the ship in Cangzhou Port. They had been frightened by the difficult and dangerous journey before, so Yuanbao's secret agent used this to scare these people. It was the only way to survive. He just wanted to seize the ship and turn back, so he brought a dozen people over to intercept and kill Sotuo halfway.

"Boss, there is movement on the other side!"

"Huh?" The leader quickly turned around, and he caught a glimpse of several blurry shadows on the opposite side fleeing into the distance.

"what happened?"

"They probably discovered that we were ambushing them, and they wanted to take a detour and escape back to the ship!"

"Yes, if the young master wants to return to the ship, we will be dead!"

"Then what should we do? Even if the young master doesn't do anything when he returns to the ship, as long as the ship sets sail, there will be no way for those of us here who have nothing to do but survive!"

"Okay, stop talking nonsense!" The leader was upset and said loudly: "Let's just catch up. There are thirteen of us, and the young master only has three people. How can we take it down! Come with me!" After that! He stood up and was the first to rush forward. In a panic, the others followed, chasing the fleeing figure in the distance.

The leader ran thirty or fifty steps when he suddenly heard a soft sound. He felt his feet weaken and fell to the ground. He opened his mouth to shout, but what came out of his mouth was warm liquid. At this time, he discovered that his chest was He had been shot through by an arrow and fell limply to the ground, unable to move.

"First!"

Sota drew an arrow from the quiver hanging from his belt. Black arrow shafts, gray feathers, and steel arrows shaped like duck tongues. As he put the arrow on the string, he remembered what the archery master Fan said after a certain hunt. "Although the wild boar has tusks and the black bear has claws, the feathers of the falcon are not half as deadly."

Sutuo's archery skills were far from the best among the brothers on the island, but he was still 100% sure at shooting an unarmored target within seventy paces. He calmly cocked the arrow, pulled the bowstring behind his ear, and then Release your thumb, and the arrow leaves the string with a hissing sound. A moment later, there was a muffled groan, and another person fell down. Until now, no one even noticed that they had fallen into prey.

Sutuo pulled the eagle feather to his ear, aimed, shot, then nocked the arrow again, drew the bow, and released. The first arrow shot through the back, the second shot into the throat, and the man fell screaming. (End of chapter)