Soon, Hei Niu and his men salvaged the sunken wood. This one was much thicker than the previous one.
"Hahaha, this one is even thicker than Hei Teng's. We are even luckier than them. This time Hei Teng and his men will envy us. Hahaha, of course other people will envy us even more."
Hei Niu's eyes were full of golden light. He patted the sunken wood he had fished out excitedly, and his saliva was almost flowing.
"Hei Niu, it's too early for you to be proud of yourself." A Japanese pirate on the same ship took a look and shook his head regretfully.
"Fuck, you fake scholar, what do you mean by that? Don't you have eyes? It's so thick and so long, can't you see?!"
When Hei Niu heard this, he immediately became unhappy. He glared with his big eyes and started to argue with him in a bad mood.
"What do you know? To tell whether a piece of sunken wood is valuable, you can't just look at its thickness, length or width..."
The Japanese pirate nicknamed the Fake Scholar shook his head and said.
"If not the thickness, length, or width, then what are you looking at?" Hei Niu glared at the fake scholar and interrupted him.
"It depends on the material. The one that Heiteng and his men salvaged was ebony, and ours is just willow. Besides, it has been sinking to the bottom of the water for no more than ten years. This one is not worth more than a few dozen taels of silver."
The fake scholar sighed and said with regret.
"Fuck, fake scholar, don't pretend to know something you don't. Don't think that just because they call you scholar, you really are a scholar. If your last name wasn't Fake, we wouldn't call you scholar. You just read a few more books than us. You couldn't even pass the exam to become a student..." Hei Niu said unwillingly when he heard the fake scholar say that the sunken wood they fished up was worthless.
"Can't you tell the difference between ebony and willow?!" The fake scholar fought back with a dark face after his true colors were exposed.
Hei Niu lowered his head and looked again, then his face fell and he cursed, "Damn it, it's really Liu Mu!"
"Hahaha... ... "
The other Japanese pirates on the ship couldn't help but burst into laughter when they saw Hei Niu's grief-stricken look.
Hei Niu and his crew were delayed for at least ten minutes in salvaging the willow sunken wood. Because of their delay, all the boats behind them were also delayed.
The Japanese pirate fleet had just turned around the river mouth, and due to the delay of Hei Niu and his men, the Japanese pirate fleet was blocked here, like dumplings, densely packed, blocking the river that had just turned.
Soon, other Japanese pirate ships that turned around one after another also heard the news that Hei Niu and his pilot ship had fished up another sunken wood. Fortunately, it was just a willow sunken wood and was not worth much silver, otherwise they would have been envious and jealous.
"Haha, these idiots, do they really think that black wood is so easy to come by? If it is really so easy to come by, it wouldn't be so valuable." After hearing the news, Chen Dong shook his head and laughed and cursed.
"What a bunch of idiots!" Ma Ye also laughed and cursed, "When I heard the noise outside, I thought we were lucky enough to have encountered another black sunken wood, which could be used to promote a good omen and boost morale. I didn't expect it to be just a willow sunken wood, and a very young one at that. How boring."
“Haha, actually willow sunken wood is not too bad. Although it is worth less money, it is a rare sunken wood after all. It can also be promoted as a good omen.” Chen Dong smiled and said, “Something is better than nothing.”
"Something's wrong. The new pilot boat also encountered sunken wood?! Why do I feel something is wrong? We just salvaged one piece of sunken wood, how come we encountered another one?! Normally, we might not encounter a single piece of sunken wood in ten days or half a month, but we encountered two in one day?!" Xu Hai touched his chin, squinted his eyes, and said with a look of doubt.
"Haha, if I came across another piece of black sunken wood, it would indeed be a bit strange. But this time it was just a piece of willow sunken wood that is not very valuable. It was just a coincidence." Chen Dong said disapprovingly.
"No, I still feel something is wrong. Even if it's Shenmu, I've encountered too many of them. There must be something fishy going on..." Xu Hai shook his head, feeling that something was a little unusual, so he stood up and shouted outside the cabin, "Someone's coming! Someone's coming!"
"Leader." Several Japanese pirates who were waiting for orders outside the cabin came in in response.
"Pass the order down immediately, all ships should be on high alert. Also, send two more groups of people to investigate on both sides until the fleet reaches the estuary." Xu Hai gave the order with a serious face.
"Brother Xu, it's not necessary. The Ming cities around here have long been scared out of their wits by us. How could they dare to harass our fleet? On the contrary, they are probably praying to God, praying that we don't attack and rob them along the way." Ma Ye felt that Xu Hai was making a fuss over nothing and said disapprovingly.
Although Chen Dong didn't say anything, there was a look of surprise on his face. He felt that Xu Hai didn't need to be like this.
"You can never be too careful," Xu Hai explained to the two.
"Yeah, that makes sense." Chen Dong and Ma Ye were convinced by Xu Hai's words. Yes, it is never too careful.
The Japanese pirates took the order and conveyed Xu Hai's order.
Just as the Japanese pirates left the cabin of Xu Hai's flagship, before Xu Hai's order was passed on, they heard a panicked sound coming from outside.
"What's wrong? Damn it!" Xu Hai heard the panicked voices outside, and his heart skipped a beat. He realized that something was wrong, and rushed out of the cabin, grabbed a Japanese pirate and asked with gritted teeth, "What's wrong? What are you making such a fuss about?!"
Chen Dong and Ma Ye immediately realized that something had happened outside, and rushed out of the cabin following Xu Hai.
"Behind, behind!" The Japanese pirate caught by Xu Hai pointed behind him and shouted loudly in panic.
"What happened behind?" Xu Hai, Chen Dong and Ma Ye turned their heads almost at the same time in the direction pointed by the Japanese pirates.
Then, their expressions changed drastically.
At the intersection of the river behind, dozens of rafts appeared at some point, and they were filled with hay, firewood, sulfur and other things.
A smell of grease could be smelled from a distance. Needless to say, kerosene must have been poured on the hay and firewood on the raft.
There were three Zhejiang soldiers on each raft. One of them held a long pole and poked the river bottom hard to push the raft, while the other two were paddling and driving the rafts rapidly towards the Japanese pirate fleet.
Behind these rafts filled with dry firewood and straw, there were a dozen larger rafts. These rafts had no dry firewood or straw on them and were obviously supporting rafts.
"Hahaha, little Japanese pirates, we are here to give you gifts. This is a great gift that we adults have carefully prepared for you. Please accept it."
"Hahaha, little Japanese pirates, please accept the gifts quickly. Don't let down our grandfathers' kindness."
The Ming soldiers on the rafts filled with dry firewood and straw laughed and shouted as they rapidly approached the Japanese pirate fleet.
"Damn it! They are going to use fire attack! Shoot arrows, shoot arrows, don't let them get close to the fleet! The fleet rushes forward quickly and shakes them off!" Xu Hai reacted immediately, his hair stood up, his face turned pale instantly, and he shouted in panic.