Chapter 649 Arrival at Deep Blue Bay (Please vote and subscribe)
The sun slowly sets in the west, and the flagship of the pioneer group floating on the open sea has dropped its sails and anchored. There are several bamboo-tied paper lanterns hanging on the mast, but they have not been lit yet.
The sky in the distance is full of red clouds, and the entire flagship is surrounded by a strong fishy smell. The sailors are still working hard to kill and marinate fish, and several part-time chefs are studying what to do with these seafood.
On the open deck on the top floor of the cabin, Youfu and Shaoshao looked at the sky in the distance side by side, chatting from time to time.
"Tomorrow will be a good day." Shaoshao said affirmatively, looking at the red clouds in the sky.
"Why do you say that?" Youfu was puzzled. What did this kid rely on to make such a judgment?
"There is an old saying in our tribe: if the sky is red at dusk, the quilts and food are lifted out, and the clouds
are red in the morning, you dare not go out of the city gate to work. This means that if there are red clouds in the sky before nightfall, the next day will definitely be sunny, so hurry up and prepare the quilts and food to dry. If you see such red clouds in the morning, it will rain that day, so you can't run too far." Spoon explained nonchalantly. This is not a secret in their tribe. It has become an "old saying", so everyone must know it.
"Oh? Really? So you know this, then what other old sayings are there in your tribe? Tell me about them?" You Fu thought it was interesting and wanted to ask more.
But at this moment, a cook who was fanning the stove and lighting the fire suddenly shouted while looking at the sea not far away.
"Look, what monster is that over there?!"
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction he pointed, but they only saw a few small whirlpools and waves on the sea, nothing else. Just when they wanted to tease the cook if he was dazzled, before they turned their eyes, they found that a white water column up to eight or nine meters high suddenly surged from the sea surface. In just a few breaths, the gushing water column fell again and disappeared in the waves on the sea surface.
This sudden scene scared everyone. What's going on? Why is there water spraying on the sea surface?
"Hey, hey, hey, what did you see just now? What monster?" A person next to him touched the cook with his arm and asked quickly, but his eyes were still staring at the sea surface just now.
"I saw a very large monster under the water, and the water column just now was spit out by it." The cook explained quickly.
"What, what, what the hell, I tell you it's nonsense, it's going to be dark soon, don't scare yourself." Someone on the side criticized without belief, as if he was looking for an excuse to comfort himself.
But the cook was very serious, and insisted, "I'm not talking nonsense, there is really a huge monster in the water, it looks like a big fish, look, that thing is out again."
Sure enough, this time everyone looked over and saw an abnormal huge wave suddenly surged in the sea in the distance, like a small hill made of water, and then a huge fish monster showed its head, and a stream of water suddenly spurted out from the pore on the top of its head. The huge pressure sprayed the sea water to a height of eight or nine meters, and then fell back to the sea again. The whole scene was exactly the same as what everyone had just seen.
No one on the whole boat spoke anymore, and everyone naturally held their breath, as if they were afraid of attracting the attention of the sea monster, leaving only two eyes staring at the sea monster not far away.
Ah Ah————
Hum Hum————
After the big fish in the distance finished spraying water, it put its head into the water again. Then its back gradually emerged from the sea surface, and finally it stretched out two huge tails. Unlike other fish, the tail of this big fish is horizontal and long, and the way it swims is also swinging up and down, which is very different from other fish that swing left and right.
The big fish also made ethereal calls from time to time when swimming. Sometimes it sounded like the echo of a strong wind rushing into the valley, and sometimes it sounded like an old cow in the field crying. But each sound can hit people's hearts directly, making people feel a sense of vastness, as if they were in the boundless deep sea.
"This, this can't be a monster in the sea?" One person suddenly broke the silence on the boat and couldn't help muttering.
"What monster? I think it's just a fish, just a little bigger. Besides, the sea is so big and so deep, isn't it normal to have a few big fish?" One person retorted.
"Hush! Don't say anything, that thing is coming!" You Fu, who was standing on the top open deck, could see the farthest. When he saw the huge black shadow in the sea swimming towards the boat from afar, he hurriedly whispered to everyone to be quiet.
At this moment, the big fish in the sea also rolled all the way to the sailboat. The crew had just caught a lot of fish, and then they sat directly on the side of the boat and started to slaughter them. Many of the fish gills and internal organs that were dug out were thrown directly into the sea, attracting a lot of fish, and the big fish in the water seemed to be heading for these fish.
The big fish opened its mouth wider than the boat, and when it swam to the side of the boat, it sucked a mouthful of seawater in its mouth, and swallowed countless small fish and shrimps into its mouth. The sailboat on the sea was actually shaken by the suction generated by its mouth. The big fish, which had eaten a mouthful of seawater, swam from under the boat to the other side of the boat, and surfaced again to spray out the seawater in its mouth, leaving countless fish and shrimps to swallow into its stomach.
The people of the Han tribe on the boat hugged the mast and railings tightly, their legs shaking like sieves, and they dared not make any sound. They stared at the big fish underwater with their eyes as wide as cowbells. When the big fish turned around and swam past the boat, everyone's eyes almost popped out of their own eyes. The 20-meter-long two-masted sailboat was only half the length of the big fish, and the width of the boat was more than 6 meters, which was not as wide as the mouth of the big fish.
"Oh my God, how could there be such a monster in the sea? I'm afraid that so many of us are not enough to fill its teeth!"
It was not until the big fish went away that the people on the boat breathed a sigh of relief. When they were so close to the big fish just now, no one on the boat proposed to hunt this big fish. You can imagine the shock this sea monster brought to everyone.
"That may not be the case." You Fu, who was standing on the top deck, immediately retorted. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, You Fu began to explain.
"The fish just now was indeed big enough, twice as big as our sailboat. If it were on land, I'm afraid that only the giant elephants of our leader could catch up with it.
But the fish was really too big, estimated to be at least thirty or forty meters long, and it swam so slowly, eating small fish and shrimps, and it didn't look like a very flexible animal. So don't underestimate such a fish because it's big, maybe it's not aggressive, on the contrary, those half-grown ones bite more fiercely than dogs."
Everyone thought about it and it was indeed true. The largest animal everyone had seen on land was the Deinonychus, but don't be fooled by its scary appearance, in fact, the Deinonychus was a vegetarian, and animals like wolves and leopards were the most ferocious beasts.
After seeing such a big sea beast, everyone calmed down from the joy of the harvest, and suddenly felt a sense of awe for the sea. It seems that although the sea is extremely rich, there are also things they cannot afford to offend.
However, Youfu and Shaoshao, who were standing on the top deck, had their own thoughts. Youfu thought of their leader Luo Chong. Why did the leader repeatedly emphasize that they should build big ships when sailing in the future? They had already built a 40-meter-long giant ship, but it was not big enough. They claimed that they would work hard to build 60-meter and 100-meter sea ships in the future. If they were on a 100-meter-long giant ship today, would they still be afraid of the sea beast just now?
Shaoshao was even more shocked. From the beginning of coveting the countless fish in the sea to the fear now, the Han tribe had the ability to build such a big wooden boat, but they were still scared in front of the sea beast and dared not move. If it was their own tribe, wouldn't it be even more doomed?
However, it was not Spoon's character to watch others eat meat while he could not even drink the soup. After seeing the multifaceted nature of the sea, Spoon became more determined to go to the sea. But how to go to the sea? It had to be the wooden boat of the Han tribe. So after coming to his senses, Spoon found his goal.
"Take a good look at this boat, observe carefully, how the boat of the Han tribe is made, if you can see something, you can learn to imitate it when you go back. By then, I will be the only one in the Tang tribe who knows how to build a ship, so I will not be afraid of having no status in the tribe.
If I can build a big ship with my tribe and get countless meat from the sea, maybe the next leader will abdicate to me?!" As
soon as this idea came out, Spoon could no longer hold back. He suppressed his excitement and pretended to be calm and started to mix in the ranks of making dinner, wanting to get along well with the people of the Han tribe and strive to learn more useful things from them.
Due to the problem of fresh water and fuel, it was impossible to cook a lot of food on the ship, but on such a good day, everyone was very happy. Youfu was also straightforward and asked the cooks to cook a few more dishes.
The rice was still the original rice, but today's dishes were more abundant. Each person had a fried knife fish, and there was also a dish of fried squid and lobster. After eating these, there was also a fish soup stewed with yellow croaker to drink. It was so comfortable that everyone had a delicious meal. Even Shao was fascinated by the unique food of the Han tribe, or the deliciousness of these seafood.
The weather on the second day was as clear as Spoon said, with a slight fishy sea breeze blowing on the face. The sea conditions were very good, and the supplies on the ship were also sufficient. In the morning, everyone ate a bowl of seafood porridge before setting sail. The meat on the ship was also unlimited, and whoever wanted to eat could eat it. A cooking stove was used as a barbecue stove, burning charcoal all day long. From time to time, everyone would pick some sea fish they wanted to eat and grill them. A dozen people drove the sailboat along the coast all the way west, just like having a barbecue party on a yacht.
However, the good times did not last long. After eating for a few days, even the delicious lobsters and abalones would get tired of eating. At this time, everyone remembered the fruits and bacon on the ship. The flagship also ran a long distance in the sea breeze these days, but still did not find new land from the left.
It was like this until June 28, the eighth day of the sailboat going out to sea. It seemed that because it was approaching July, or because of the high tide at the end of the month, the weather at sea began to become bad.
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the sea was getting higher and higher. The flat-bottomed two-masted sailboat originally designed for inland river transportation began to show its shortcomings. First of all, the bottom of the boat was too flat and the draft was too shallow, which made the sailboat bump violently in the not-so-big waves. It was often lifted up by the waves and then hit hard in the sea.
In addition, the side of the boat was relatively low. The side less than two meters high could not stop the invasion of the waves. From time to time, a wave would directly pass over the side and hit the deck, causing serious water inflow in the cabin. Fortunately, the boat was not old and the hull was relatively strong, so there was no tragedy of bottom leakage.
However, everyone still did not dare to be careless. Except for the helmsman and a few sail controllers, everyone else joined the ranks of drainage, using various containers to scoop water out of the cabin, but in the end they could not save all the charcoal from being soaked.
On the night of the 28th, the wind and waves subsided for a while. The exhausted people could not even drink a mouthful of hot water because they had lost the dry charcoal, and could only barely fill their stomachs with dry food.
The next day was still a gloomy day. The sky was as dark as the bottom of a pot in the morning, so everyone naturally gave up the plan to dry the charcoal and could only continue to prepare to survive with cold water and dry biscuits.
In the morning, the heavy rain finally fell. You Fu ordered to lower the sails and anchor. After everyone tied up all the things on the boat with ropes, they all went into the cabin on the deck to avoid the rain. The wind and waves on the sea were still as scary as yesterday. The heavy rain washed the deck of the flagship like a bucket.
Everyone was like riding a roller coaster on the bumpy sailboat. They were cold, hungry, tired and sleepy, but they didn't dare to sleep, for fear that if they were confused for a while, the wind and waves would overturn the boat, and they would not be able to react in time to escape. They were hungry, but they couldn't eat the food on the boat. They were all cold and hard dry biscuits. In addition, they were severely seasick, so they had no appetite at all. They just drank some cold water and hurriedly finished.
On the evening of June 29th, the violent storm that had raged for two days and one night finally dissipated, and the sky was once again filled with bright stars, as if the rain of the past two days had washed the sky. When everyone was lying on the deck and looking at the stars, they all felt that they were brighter than before. This is probably because only when you lose something will you feel it is precious.
On June 30th, the last day of this month, after delaying the journey for a day, You Fu once again issued the order to set sail. The sailboat accelerated and sprinted towards the west again. People who had nothing to do also took the opportunity to take advantage of such good weather to dry things that were wet by the sea water.
Finally, in the afternoon of that day, a lookout who climbed on the top of the mast shouted excitedly.
"Look, there is a bay ahead, with mountains on both sides. We may have found Takeshima."
(End of this chapter)
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