47.
The Banshee is a big ship.
The word "big" is not only reflected in its tonnage and the nearly 200 crew members on board, but also in the forty black and heavy cannons. A ship of this size is also sufficient to serve as the main force in the navies of various countries. position of the ship. When it was at Sand Ghost Cove, it was Fecona's outpost and castle, and when it was at sea, the Banshee was an indestructible mobile fortress.
Hai Lian followed the captain up and down the Banshee, standing in the captain's room in the heart of the fortress, feeling a little emotional in his heart, the captain saw his emotion, and said with a smile: "You have never seen such a Big boat?"
The young man on the opposite side did not directly answer the captain's words, but said: "When I was twelve or thirteen years old, my family had no food, so I went to Tisu's shipyard to hang rope nails on the mast. This job can only be done lightly. If the children come to do it, firstly, the wages are cheap, six copper coins a day, and secondly, if they fall off the top of the pole and die, they won’t be able to pay a lot of money, and the corpses are easy to clean up.” Hailian walked around the captain’s cabin, Grabbing a string of pearls in the gem box in the corner, rolling them in the palm of the hand, the white brilliance dyed the rough and old wounds on the palms less hideously, "I climbed over the tallest mast, which was eight feet high, and I swayed on it , just a small gust of wind can blow you down."
"It is indeed a big ship." The captain raised his eyebrows. "A merchant ship or a war ship? Maybe my Banshee has fought against it."
"Neither." Hailian shook his head and smiled, "That ship was a coming-of-age gift from the old king to his daughter Longrong. It was completed in 2000. The ship used the best steel and wood, but it never went to sea once, and now it is said that it has been parked in Port Royal, as a beautiful decoration."
After hearing this, the captain shouted regretfully: "Keeping a good ship out of the sea is no different from locking a peerless beauty in a high tower! Damn these royal nobles, their military pay is withheld every day, but they are willing to waste money on it... "
Hearing the captain's mumbled curses, Hai Lian suddenly had a thought: "I heard that you came from Tisu's army before, have you never heard of this?"
The captain shook his head: "I wasn't from the capital before. What can I see by staying in Wanlin City in the west?"
Those who would be pirates were mostly unhappy on the shore, and Hailian didn't ask about the captain's past, he put down the string of pearls and returned to the topic: "You said before that you don't want to bow to those Moyi people, what are you going to do?"
"I originally wanted to wait for our boss to come back at Sand Ghost Bay, but judging from the current situation, I'm afraid that we hard bones will be thrown into the sea by soft bones to feed sharks when he comes back. Lao Tzu's Banshee is a lion. The other pirates in Sand Ghost Bay are sheep cubs, but a lion is troublesome enough for a group of sheep cubs," the captain sucked his thumb, "it's better to take the initiative to go out to sea, join the lions, and then come back and throw Mo Yi people out Feed the sharks."
"You're not here, and no one is watching at Shagui Bay, so you're giving up this place to Mo Yiren." Hai Lian reminded.
"It's okay." The captain turned his head and shouted, "Ake!"
A boy came in from the outside. The boy had short hair in a mess, and his skin had a healthy luster after being exposed to the sun. He was too young, his limbs hadn't grown yet, and his whole body was poked at the door like a short bamboo pole. The boy patted his turban as a greeting: "Boss, what do you want from me?"
"His name is Ake, and he will stay in Sand Ghost Bay to help us keep an eye on those restless people." The captain introduced, "This is Hailian, my newly recruited sailor."
"I've heard of you, the ace of the Venomous Bee!" Ake screamed and jumped in front of Hailian, "Sea killer, my idol. They told me that you like to string human bones into necklaces and wear them on your neck." Around the neck, why didn't you wear it today?"
Hai Lian got a little headache from the boy's bluffing: "If you bought this rumor with money, you can get the money back. I don't have that kind of hobby."
"Then can you be invisible on a full moon night? Otherwise, how did you sneak into the green-eyed general's lair and kill him silently?"
"What a mess, I squatted on the island for half a month and figured out the rules of that guy before I did it. And you are all deceived, there is no treasure in the place where he is stationed, it is all worthless things, Paperwork, letters...whatever."
"What happened to those things?" interposed the captain.
Hailian pouted: "I used it as fuel for grilling fish. I was really hungry at the time."
"You punched Yellow Fang at dinner tonight. It's always true, isn't it?"
"Well, it's true." Seeing that Ake still wanted to ask something, Hai Lian rubbed his head: "Don't ask, I'm just an ordinary person, at most... at most I'm better than you guys .”
"It's so much better!" The boy smiled and finally expressed his wish, "Can you teach me?"
"I don't accept apprentices."
"I will work very hard. Now we are still on the same boat. Look, I can grow strong in the future." As if to prove his own words immediately, Ake rolled up his sleeves and pointed to Hailian The pitiful muscles in his arms.
"I won't be on the same boat soon, little guy," the captain saw that he was getting more and more lost, he dragged Ake to the other side by the collar, and took out a roll of paper from the drawer, "I call you It's not for you to harass your idol. Take this down, you know who to give it to."
Ake's brows drooped immediately, and he didn't want to take the note in dejection, but he ate the captain's chestnut, and the little guy let out a pained cry, and then honestly put the note into his arms.
He didn't take two steps out of the door, and suddenly half his head popped out from the door frame and shouted: "If you don't want to be a teacher, can you give me some advice!"
Hai Lian waved at him: "One move."
The boy made a face.
"Are all your subordinates so noisy?"
"He's too young." The captain said helplessly, but there was a touch of fatherly love in his eyes when he looked at the door.
"Then you still leave a child alone in Sand Ghost Bay?"
"Ake is no ordinary kid." The captain turned back.
"how?"
"He and his sister were rescued by me from our companions, when he was hanged upside down on the sea with blood on his face-the bastards took him to fish for purple tooth sharks; her sister was in the cabin, and the other two The bastard just got off her."
"I thought those who worked under Fecona should be used to seeing these things."
"Maybe I had an outburst of kindness that day?" The captain laughed, "He and his sister have no family on the shore, so I took him in."
"What about his sister?" Hailian remembered that he didn't see a woman on the Banshee.
"At Kunji's."
Kunji was originally a fisher girl in a small village. When she was sixteen years old, she followed the then pirate leader Dumb Dragon. After Dumb Dragon died, those pirates who followed Dumb Dragon not only did not rebel, but collectively supported Kunji as their new leader. Fifteen years have passed since the cardamom girl left her hometown. The 31-year-old Kunji is not only a famous beauty in Yunhai, but also the leader of a party in Shaguiwan, a land of tigers and wolves.
"I heard that there are many orphans under Kunji's command. Her sister is over there, so it's not a bad place to go." Hai Lian nodded.
"Not only that," the captain hooked his fingers toward the sea, and lowered his voice, "Let me tell you one more thing, Kunji apparently wants to surrender to Mo Yiren."
Hai Lian was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, and now he understood why the captain dared to leave Sand Ghost Bay with confidence - if Kunji and Fecna were secret allies, they should cooperate internally and externally, and they would not be afraid of anyone. Even... Hailian lowered his eyes.
You can also take this opportunity to wipe out all the dissidents in Sand Ghost Bay.
"In Sand Ghost Bay, the only ones who know about the relationship between Ake's sister and brother are Fecna, Kunji, me, and now you are added." The captain spread his hands towards Hailian, "Now I share a big secret with you. Helian."
"What do you want me to exchange for secrets?" Hai Lian still remembered his current identity and asked with a smile.
"I hope..." the old officer thought for a while, "You used to be the trump card of the poisonous bee, but now you can become the trump card of my Banshee."
48.
After finishing this conversation, Hai Lian stayed on Sand Ghost Bay for two days because the captain still had some things to prepare. During this period, he ran into Huang Fang again. The other person's face was still swollen, but he still made an extremely obscene gesture towards him without fear of death.
On the third day, the sea blew northwest, and the Banshee took advantage of the wind to sail. When this behemoth was started, it also ran into the Owl that was about to leave. Hai Lian stood on the side of the deck and met the surprised gaze of the captain of the opposite black ship. The young man gave him a friendly farewell salute: "Get off!" Where is the first stop?"
"Going back to Beimo! My daughter will miss me." The captain patted his chubby stomach. "Young man, do you have anything to take with you? See you next year, and I'll give you a discount!"
"Bring me a short-fire gun." Hai Lian recalled Fang Tinglan's gun, "It's so big, with a gold border around the barrel, and a silver wolf engraved on the handle."
The captain exclaimed: "That is the icon of the Huo'a family. His family used to make weapons only for the king Khan on the grassland. A firecracker is not cheap!"
"Just remember it." Hailian waved at him, and the Banshee roared and slowly circled the Owl, and once again came to the stage where it had fought countless times.
Hai Lian didn't ask the captain how to find Fecna in the vast sea, he is a newcomer after all, even if he is the newcomer that the captain likes, don't talk too much. During the first five days of the voyage, Hai Lian was no different from any newly boarded pirates. Apart from conscientiously watching and pulling the sails during shifts, he usually drank and played cards with the other guys on the ship, and even learned a song by him. The boat song that he hadn’t learned on the Venomous Bee before, until the Banshee collided with a warship of Mo Yiguo on the sixth day, he finally showed everyone that he would indeed become the ace of the Banshee— The young man not only single-handedly eliminated the opponent's general in the boarding battle, but also rescued two crew members of the Banshee, including the captain, who almost fell into the sea from the deck.
The man wiped the mixture of seawater and blood on his face, looked at the calm young man and sighed: "I used to... thought your rumors were all false."
"It is indeed false, and you have heard me and Ake explain it."
"No, no, no," the captain took out a silver jug from his chest, and poured two gulps of gin into his mouth, "You have another rumor. Some say that you are blessed by the sea god."
Not only was Hailian not happy when he heard the compliment from the captain, but his eyes were staggered as if he was stung. He looked at the surrendered navy not far away, and the sailors who were carrying their ammunition to the Banshee for a long while. , the young man whispered: "... This sentence is even more false. I have had many unfortunate things in my life, and the first one happened at sea."
He turned his head and showed a sad smile to the other party: "I lost my mother at sea."