"Report, leaders, the pilot ship ahead hit a sunken log, leaving a large hole in the cabin. The ships behind thought they were attacked and stopped urgently. However, since our fleet had just increased its speed and there were so many ships, it was not easy to stop them all, which resulted in some ships colliding."
A Japanese pirate trotted from the deck into the cabin, half-knelt on the ground and reported to Xu Hai and others.
"Useless! What do the people on the pilot boat have to eat? They can't even find such a big sunken log in the river!"
Ma Ye cursed loudly, he was in a very bad mood at the moment.
"Well, well, I heard that the piece of sunken wood was half floating and half sinking in the river. If you don't look carefully, you can't see it."
The Japanese pirate explained in a low voice that there was a Japanese pirate on the pilot ship who had a special relationship with him and they were friends for life and he didn't want him to be implicated.
"You can't see it if you're not careful?! That's because you're not careful enough!" Ma Ye cursed even more fiercely.
"Brother Ma, calm down. Come here, I want to ask you, what kind of sunken wood did the previous ship encounter? Was it newly cut?"
After listening to the report from his Japanese pirates, Xu Hai immediately became alert, stood up and started asking questions.
"Chief, it's not a newly cut tree. It's a black sunken wood that has been sleeping under the water for who knows how many years. For some unknown reason, it just floated up from the bottom of the water in the past two days. It's pitch black." The Japanese pirates shook their heads and answered truthfully.
Hearing that these were not newly cut trees, Xu Hai let down his guard and sat back relaxed.
"Pitch-black bird wood?! Hahaha, that ship was really lucky. I learned this when I was an apprentice to an old carpenter. Ebony is very valuable. One ounce of bird wood is worth about one ounce of silver. A piece of ebony wood that thick must be worth at least a thousand ounces of silver. Haha, although the ship crashed into a hole, it brought us a lot of unexpected wealth. This is a good sign. God is looking after us."
After hearing this, Chen Dong laughed out loud, thinking that this was a good sign and would also boost the low morale.
"Damn, it's a bargain for them."
After hearing what Chen Dong said, Ma Ye curled his lips. He also knew that this was something that could boost morale. It was just like the emperor liked to hear news of auspicious signs. Once he heard the news of auspicious signs, he couldn't wait to announce it to the world.
They suffered a great defeat in this robbery of Suzhou, and the morale of their pirates is low, so they need to continue to boost their morale.
They could never encounter the phoenix or the unicorn, so the black wood worth a thousand taels of silver was a rare good omen for them.
"Well, since Brother Chen and Brother Ma have said so, let them get away with it this time. As the pilot boat, they did not observe the river carefully, which led to the collision of the fleet. I wanted to punish them severely."
Xu Hai nodded and let the Japanese pirates on the pilot ship go. He was really planning to punish them severely.
Using both kindness and severity has always been the best way to control people.
The Suzhou attack failed, and they could no longer show their kindness, so now they could only use their power. They were lucky this time.
Soon, the news that Xu Hai, Chen Dong and Ma Ye were rewarding the lead ship with black sunken wood spread throughout the fleet. When the lead ship received the news, it immediately erupted in earth-shaking cheers. This heavy and thick black sunken wood could earn each of them more than ten taels of silver, so how could they not be happy
During this trip to Suzhou, they lost many comrades, but they gained a lot. This unexpected fortune was a good start.
At least, their gains from the trip to Suzhou were ahead of 99 percent of their fellow Japanese pirates.
The pirates on other Japanese ships were very envious of their luck.
There was a big hole in the cabin of the original pilot boat. It was simply repaired with wooden boards and barely prevented water from entering. However, it was no longer suitable for riding. It had to go back and be properly repaired. Now it could only be tied to other ships with ropes and towed back to Tolin's nest. The crew on the pilot boat was dispersed to other Japanese ships.
As for the important task of navigation, it was given to the Japanese ships.
Soon, the Japanese pirate fleet set sail again.
"Damn, it's really Meimu Heiteng and the others. They actually hit a bad tree. Their luck is so bad. I don't know if we have such bad luck." On the new pilot boat, a burly Japanese pirate Meimu started cursing.
"Haha, Hei Niu, stop dreaming. In this river, it's rare to see a bird-sinking wood once in a hundred years. Do you think you can see one? Do you think black-sinking wood is a common carrot on the street that you can find whenever you want? Stop daydreaming."
The other Japanese pirates on the ship started to laugh and curse, laughing at the Japanese pirate Hei Niu for his wild ideas.
"Damn it, we should always have dreams. What if we get lucky and encounter a piece of black sunken wood? We are all unscrupulous Japanese pirates. No one is nobler than the other. It doesn't make sense that Hei Teng and his bastards can get lucky but we can't?!"
The Japanese pirate named Hei Niu spat into the river, retorted unconvincedly, and stared at the river greedily with his eyes.
The Japanese pirate fleet was moving along the river, and there were many pirates on the boats who were staring and shouting like Hei Niu.
Many Japanese pirates on the boats were staring at the river, hoping to have the same luck as Hei Teng and his men.
However, they were obviously not so lucky, and they did not encounter a second piece of black sunken wood until they reached Kunshan.
The river where the Japanese ships were sailing made a nearly 90-degree turn when it reached Kunshan, heading north. The Japanese pirate leader slowed down and turned first, and the rest of the fleet behind them also slowed down and slowly turned.
Due to the turn, the Japanese pirates' fleet was concentrated at this turn at the moment, causing a bit of a traffic jam.
Hei Niu on the pilot boat was a greedy man. He kept staring at the river ahead without giving up. Suddenly, a black shadow in the river jumped into his eyes, and his adrenaline immediately boiled.
"A bird-sinking wood, another black-sinking wood, look, look ahead, is that a black-sinking wood in front of you?!"
Hei Niu pointed excitedly at the black shadow in front of him and shouted, his eyes shining with greedy golden light.
After Hei Niu's shout, all the other Japanese pirates on the pilot ship were immediately attracted and looked in the direction of Hei Niu's hand.
"Fuck, it looks like it's really a sunken wood, but I don't know if it's black sunken wood." The other pirates on the boat also saw the half-floating and half-sunken wood in the river ahead, and they couldn't help but get excited.
"Hurry up, what are you still standing there for? Hurry up and salvage it and see if it's a bird tree. If it is, we're lucky. Haha, when we get back to our nest, we can find some Japanese girls to spend a few nights with."
Hei Niu was so excited that his saliva was flowing out. The other Japanese pirates on the boat showed their skills one after another, throwing Zhua Jun and others up and salvaging the sunken wood in the river onto the boat.