Everyone rushed over. Xu Caizhi and Lin Silang held up Zhao Deji on the left and right, and jumped out of the boat. Lin Zhijie was also supported by his son-in-law to follow. As soon as the boat started, King Qin pulled Hua Rong and jumped out quickly. , the boat swayed, and several sharp arrows fell into the water.
The warships were operated by the two brothers Friday and Zhou Qi. Hua Rong and Yue Pengju had stolen this kind of drive ship suitable for water battles when they escaped. However, this ship was at least 10 times larger than the ship they escaped from back then.
By this time, it was almost dark and the wind was blowing.
Everyone ignored the danger and accelerated as hard as they could. Behind them, the Jin Army was already chasing them.
The wind became stronger and stronger, and the boat gradually lost control of its direction. A wave came and the boat almost overturned. Zhao Deji and others were so shocked that their faces turned pale and they were already soaked to the skin.
I tried my best to sail the boat on July and Friday, but I don’t know how far it sailed. Although the Jin army’s warship disappeared, we had also lost our way.
Although the pursuers were gone, King Qin did not dare to relax at all. He ran away like this and had already left the intended outlet. This small boat alone would not be able to sustain it for too long.
Everyone walked to the deck and looked at the vast sea under the night, lifeless, like a huge prison.
Hua Rong suddenly said: "There is a small island in front..."
King Qin said: "It is a volcanic island. There is no grass growing on it, so you cannot land on it. Moreover, once you go up there, you are afraid that the Jin army will catch up. It will be like catching a turtle in a urn."
After experiencing this fierce battle, he has undoubtedly become the backbone of everyone. Everyone is looking at him. When it comes to escaping at sea, there is no one here who has more experience than him.
Hua Rong fought hard all day. He was tired, hungry and scared, and his voice was very dry: "King Qin, what should we do?"
The questions she wants to ask are also the questions everyone wants to ask.
King Qin pondered for a long time: "Fortunately, the storm has stopped. There is still some water and food on the ship, which can last for two days. Now, I can only watch while walking."
Zhao Deji sat slumped in the cabin, and everyone was even more confused. Mr. Lin Zhijie, even though he was as calm as Mr. Lin, could no longer say any words of comfort.
"God is really going to kill me!"
Xu Caizhi heard his sad voice, full of despair, knelt down and cried: "The officials must not be discouraged."
He said not to be discouraged, but he burst into tears first. Lin Zhijie, Lin Silang and others couldn't help crying. Suddenly, there was a cry on the boat. Under the night, it even showed the sadness of being at the end of the road.
Hua Rong leaned on the side of the ship, staring at the calm sea, watching the moonlight poke out her head and cast down layers of ripples. She suddenly remembered that from now on, she would never see Yue Pengju again, and would die on this vast sea. , couldn’t help but burst into tears.
Seeing the cries, King Qin became impatient and shouted: "What are you doing? You are all good, but you are not going to die soon. What do you look like?"
After all, Zhao Deji was the emperor. When he roared like this, he was suddenly frightened and immediately wiped away his tears: "Okay, King Qin said it well. Since we have escaped, God will bless us and our ancestors will bless us. My dear friends, let's work together." Work hard and you must escape. As long as you go to sea, you will be greeted by the imperial navy... "
Everyone knelt down in unison: "I obey."
But King Qin stood aside, like an iron tower, personally steering the direction of the boat. When he saw everyone stopped crying, he said: "On Friday, give everyone dry food and water."
"yes."
There was not much dry food reserves, and there were still 22 people who escaped. No matter how much they saved, they could not survive for less than two days.
There were two small cabins on the ship, one of which had a small bed. King Qin said loudly: "Girl, you go and have a rest first."
With the emperor here, King Qin actually asked Hua Rong to rest. Everyone felt strange, but no one dared to say anything.
Hua Rong said hurriedly: "Guan family, you go and have a rest."
Despair made Zhao Deji even more depressed than everyone else on the boat. He was exhausted and could not be polite at this time, so he was helped in by Xu Caizhi to rest.
King Qin was very unhappy: "Girl, you go to another room to rest."
Hua Rong saw Mr. Lin on the side and shook his head: "Old sir, you better go ahead."
Lin Zhijie and others saw that King Qin didn't even pay attention to Zhao Deji, so how could they dare to go? He immediately said: "Girl, you better go."
"No, you go. It doesn't matter to me."
After saying that, she turned around and went to the bow of the ship. Lin Zhijie was old and exhausted, so he had to go in to rest.
King Qin was extremely anxious and could not care less about such trivial matters. He only looked up at the sky from time to time to identify the wind direction and weather, for fear that there would be another wind and rain and everyone would really be buried in the belly of a fish.
He walked outside and saw Hua Rong sitting cross-legged on the bow of the boat, holding onto the fixed iron railing with one hand and shaking his shoulders slightly.
He was very depressed and said angrily: "Girl, I told you to go to rest, but you didn't go. How does it feel to be blown by the cold wind here?"
She didn't answer.
Through the moonlight, he actually saw her face covered with tears.
"Girl, are you scared?"
She remained silent. She knew in her heart that she would never see Yue Pengju again.
King Qin sighed, took off his clothes and put them on her: "Girl, go stay in the cabin, it's too cold outside."
She was silent for a while and then suddenly said: "We have no way out and there are soldiers chasing us behind us. What should we do?"
"Jin Wushu and others must be stationed on that coast. If we want to escape, the only way to escape is by surprise."
How to take things by surprise
King Qin's voice was very low: "It's a pity that this area is too far away from my hometown. Otherwise, if we gather the brothers, we can still fight against the Jin army..."
Hua Rong knew that in order to preserve his strength, he did not dispatch the direct pirates from the camp.
"I didn't expect the Jin Army to be so powerful. However, before leaving, I had already sent people back to mobilize the troops..."
She suddenly felt a little energetic. So it turned out that King Qin still had some extraordinary troops
"I don't know if they can pass Jin Wushu's blockade. Han Chang is very powerful, and Wang Erqi is familiar with the terrain. Besides, they still have four days to travel, so we have to ask God to bless us and stay on the ship for four days... "
In despair, he always longs for miracles. Hua Rong couldn't help but said: "Oh, it would be great if Pengju came. Pengju is also proficient in water warfare. He once wiped out water pirates. If he can join up with other King Qin's armies..."
King Qin heard that she actually mentioned Yue Pengju at this time, and said angrily: "How can that little bastard come here? He doesn't have three heads and six arms!"
Hua Rong didn't want to argue with him, so she stood up silently, returned to the cabin, and leaned against a row of seats with her eyes closed. When King Qin saw this, he had no choice but to angrily go to the wheelhouse to discuss matters with Zhou Qi and others.
Fortunately, everything was calm that night. At dawn, everyone discovered that the ship had docked, but the island - under the early morning sunlight, was completely a barren land with jagged rocks.
One sailor couldn't help but jump down. As soon as his feet hit the ground, he screamed. He was still wearing boots, as if the soles of his boots had melted. He jumped up, and another man pulled him before getting on the boat: "It's so hot." ,can’t go down…”
"This is a volcanic island, not a blade of grass grows on it."
Sure enough, everyone saw not only a trace of green, but also animals and even no living creatures in the surrounding seawater, not even fish, shrimp, seaweed, etc.
Zhao Deji was even more desperate. He was so frightened all the way that he seemed to have lost his will and became extremely thin.
"Could it be that innocence is going to kill me?"
Lin Zhijie burst into tears: "Your Majesty, please don't lose heart. You will surely turn your misfortune into good fortune."
He shook his head and returned to the cabin. He never left the cabin again that day.
The boat could not move forward or backward. Fortunately, King Qin said that there would be no big storms in the past few days, so the boat reluctantly stopped at the island.
Although dry food and water were saved again and again, they were all used up by the second day. By the third day, even the little dry food that Xu Caizhi and others had saved for Zhao Deji had been eaten. By evening, Zhao Deji was the emperor. He didn't eat even two meals and was starving to death. He didn't leave the hatch either, lying in the small bed all day long, waiting for the final bad luck to come.
At this time, the huge empire, the civil servants and generals of the court were all like floating clouds. He was alone - he thought, he was completely alone.
The moon shines all over the sea, as calm as a smooth mirror.
Zhao Deji looked at the moonlight outside through the small open window. He had hardly spoken a word that day. No matter how much he wanted to cheer up, he really couldn't do it under the threat of hunger.
Seeing that the night was getting late, Xu Caizhi whispered: "Guan family, let's rest."
Using the moonlight, he picked up a small water bag placed on the simple bedside table. The bag was already shriveled. He dropped the last drop of water to his lips and greedily pursed his tongue. He understood that once the bag of water was gone, he would be dead as well. .
From then on, the Ninth Five-Year Plan, the King of Song Dynasty, was also a ghost wandering on the sea.
The night was already deep, the moonlight shone down coldly, and hunger made these people drowsy. It seemed that only falling asleep could alleviate the pain a little.
In the cabin, there was thunderous snoring.
King Qin walked out of the cabin door and saw Hua Rong sitting cross-legged on the side of the ship, leaning on the railing, as before, not knowing whether he was awake or asleep.
She had not eaten or drank for a whole day.
King Qin quietly sat down next to her, slowly took her hand and handed something into her hand. She held it and was surprised to find that it was a fruit. She didn't know when he hid it in his arms. .
"Girl, you ate."
His voice was very low, almost a whisper, and under the moonlight, you could even see the cracks on his lips.
King Qin, how often has he become such a petty man? Even a small fruit has to be sneaky. She smiled slightly, her eyes a little moist.
She quietly put the fruit to his mouth: "You can eat it, I'm not hungry."
Her hand was right next to her lips, and he couldn't help but kiss her suddenly.
She quickly retracted her hand.
His voice was even lower, full of joy: "Girl, I can still hold on, you can eat. I will definitely find a way out, and we will all survive..."
"Um."
"Your Majesty, look at the direction of the wind..."
When Wu Wu's cry rang out, King Qin immediately stood up and walked into the cabin, closing the door as if she didn't want anyone to find out that she was stealing something.
When Hua Rong heard his footsteps disappear, she stood up and quietly opened the door and walked into the cabin. She knocked lightly on Zhao Deji's door. The door was naturally unlocked. She pushed it and went in.
Zhao Deji sat up from the simple bed, and Xu Caizhi was waiting beside him with his sword.
The bright moonlight shines in through the window, like daylight.
Zhao Deji had completely lost his spirit, not only because of hunger, but also because of despair. He was more haggard than anyone else on the ship. His face was like a ghost, and his voice was hoarse: "Rong'er, is something wrong?"
She quietly stretched out her hand and handed the fruit to him: "Guanjia, here you go."
Zhao Deji's eyes lit up, as if his hunger was instantly relieved: "Rong'er..."
She shook her head and said nothing, just handed the fruit to his hand, turned around and went out.
Zhao Deji held the half-dried fruit in his hands, tears streaming down his face, sobbing, and ate it with big mouthfuls...