4.
"Then do you agree?"
In Hongliu Port in the evening, the most lively place is the blind tavern. The boss here used to be a sailor. After he was blinded in one eye in a fire, he stopped going to sea and concentrated on selling wine. As long as you are a regular visitor here, you can taste good wines from all over the world.
But today, Hai Lian didn't order their signature dragon's breath spirit, but took a bottle and put it on the table.
"Try it," he said.
O'Brien took a sip, and couldn't help but be amazed. When the wine entered the mouth, it looked like a bunch of flowers, but after swallowing it, it was as clear as a peony cut open by an ice edge. Even the most rude people who don't understand wine should understand this. A bottle is definitely worth the money. The man let out a contented sigh from his throat: "Good wine. Could this be the fourteen jars of Dongzhou wine that Ake said you suppressed?"
Hailian nodded: "That's right."
"Does it have a name?"
"..." Hai Lian opened his mouth, but swallowed back the words he was about to say, "I forgot what was suppressed."
O'Brien didn't bother about this issue too much, he took another two sips and changed the subject: "Have you not said that you finally agreed?"
"Agreed to what?"
"Follow the princess to Taiyan."
"I said I'd think about it. Anyway, they only set off in September, and it's only summer now, so it's early." Hailian leaned back on the seat, listening to the drunken sailors bragging about their last adventure loudly in the distance, "I don't know what they think, as if this job should fall on my head."
"Because you are from Dongzhou?"
"I don't think I'm from Dongzhou," Hailian took a sip himself, "I don't think I'm from anywhere. If I really have to ask, I should also be from Yunhai."
O'Brien laughed loudly: "Well said! To you, the king of the sea!"
The two bumped into their cups, as if they were back in the time when they drank the sour ale like shabu-shabu water in the mud area. The old friend hadn't seen each other for a year, so naturally he had a lot to say. Hailian heard him talk about the experience of this trip, and heard him scold the audience who didn't appreciate it. In the end, the topic turned around to remember the past. Lian Cai noticed that the other party seemed to be a little drunk.
Is it so easy for Hua Zuochun to get on top? Hailian clicked her tongue and took the wine glass away from the other party, while O'Brien was still muttering: "... I really thought your cousin was a good person back then, really."
"I didn't think he was a good person from the beginning." Hailian felt helpless towards a man who was drunk, "And how many times have I said that he is not my relative."
O'Brien continued to yell: "He also lent me money to pay the rent!"
"That little money is nothing to him." He replied indifferently.
It's really nothing. Now who in the four wastelands does not know that the Chi Jin Fang family has formed an alliance with the Luohe United Chamber of Commerce to rule over the world to sell gold, and those Penglai merchants and Bolang merchants who travel all over the country, even if there is no Fang family's pattern on their cloaks, there is always one or two of them. Now even in Jiumeng City, the tobacco, silk and spices all have traces of the Fang family.
Even this glass of wine.
Now that the old man was brought up, the writer gradually started talking through the alcohol: "Speaking of which, you don't want to go to Dongzhou... Actually you don't want to meet him, do you?"
"no."
"Really?"
"Of course." Hai Lian frowned, "And I remember that I told you after I came back from Yun Hai that I broke up with him and have nothing to do with him."
"You didn't say that." The drunkard would hit the nail on the head, "I only know that you drove the Lady in the Clouds to chase his ship. I thought you would never return, but..." He was vague, But the memory is clear, he will never remember the ghostly pale face of his friend when he came back from the boat four years ago.
Even if he knew that Hailian's temper might give him a punch, the writer couldn't help but want to ask: "What happened to you guys in Yunhai?"
"It was just a quarrel," Hailian said coldly, "and then I came back."
"No." O'Brien shook his head, "It shouldn't be like this."
"What do you mean you shouldn't..."
"Because you are not such a person, and neither is Fang Tinglan. I have been your bystander since he came to Jiumeng City, and I can see it very clearly." The writer leaned forward suddenly, his eyes sparkling, his voice Determined, "You and him are both legends, so the breakup will not be just a quarrel."
The sailors in the Blind Tavern drank to the climax. They all sang boat songs, sang stormy waves, and lingering lovers. Hailian in the corner looked at the writer's drunken face with a smug smile during the singing.
"That night, you will definitely fight and use artillery fire."
In the middle of the night, the Yunhai sea was full of flames, the sides of the ship collided, and the huge sails fluttered in the strong wind.
"With knives and guns."
The dagger hung half an inch from the side of his neck, and the muzzle of the gun reached his forehead.
"With your fingers, with your teeth, with every part of your body."
There was blood in the kiss, the knuckles of the fingers were white, and the pleasure of being entered was like a catastrophe.
boom!
The wine glass in the young man's hand fell to the ground with a crisp sound, which became the only dissonant sound in the singing of the tavern. Hai Lianteng stood up with a loud sound: "I think you must have drunk too much."
He almost ran for the door.
The scent of flowers and spring remains in the throat, and the fragrance of gardenias in early summer is sent into the cool evening breeze. The heat on the cheeks has faded a lot, but the earlobes are still hot, as if someone's burning breath is still close at hand. He stood motionless outside the tavern door, as if he could stand forever.
After a long time, Hai Lian finally let out a long breath. Just as he was about to go back to see if O'Brien had passed out drunk on the table, he saw a person rushing from the front. It was Faluko's eyeliner planted in Hongliu Port.
The other party hurriedly saluted him: "Baron, the boat over there has moved."
Hai Lian rubbed his face vigorously, and when he opened his eyes again, his pupils had returned to calmness, and he nodded: "Get ready to go, this time we will drive the Black Shark."
5.
Unlike the extremely gorgeous Lady in the Clouds, the Black Shark had an unattractive appearance, no different from the marauding ships of the pirates roaming the high seas, and even looked more shabby. But everyone who lives on the top of Yunyun Sea understands a truth-it is better to mess with a navy than to encounter the Black Shark.
It is the fastest ship on the allowed sea, and also the most vicious.
When Hailian boarded the boat, the other party had already driven nearly twenty nautical miles. He took a look at the binoculars handed over by the sailors: "Have you checked the firepower on the other side?"
"I've checked, and the ammunition is at the level of ration of ordinary smuggling ships. There are eight heavy ammunition and one bow gun. I don't see the mortar port." One of the survivors, who has been with Hailian for three years, "The only thing to be careful about is not being able to find out how many firecrackers they have in their hands."
"Okay." Hai Lian nodded, "Follow from a distance first, don't let them notice."
This kind of thing has been done to the Black Shark too many times. When to speed up and when to use the waves to avoid the other party's sight, everyone is already familiar with it. After the first officer gave the order, he asked, "When shall we do it?"
"We'll talk about it when we get to the high seas."
Hailian took off the baron's jacket woven with golden thread sky, and put on a half-worn pirate attire. He tied up his hair again and tightened his belt. The black shark's anchor was slowly pulled up from the bottom of the sea, and the long sail was unfurling on a moonlit night. The moment he holds the helm, he is the king of the sea.