"This sea—it's so big!" Xitang looked at the endless sea and sky and sighed like this.
In this situation, I have to mention the sigh of the tea fragrance again.
Xitang is the one who has no ink in his stomach.
He searched his stomach but didn't come up with any literal words, so he could only use the simplest words to point out the subject.
Nazha, who was still wearing a veil, looked at the sea and naturally no one could see her expression, but her eyes were already shining.
Xitang was delighted to see the sea the first time, but what about Naza, who stood side by side with Xitang
Nazha is a fearsome girl, and she has only heard of the sea in their legends of fearsome people.
So that, when the boat is now on the sea, she has a feeling of dreaming.
"Look, birds!" She was very excited and cried out in surprise at the flock of birds that followed their ship.
"Well, birds, so many birds!" Xitang followed.
It's just that when the two of them said this, the guys who were busy on the deck of the ship laughed out loud.
Nazha heard the laughter.
Intuition made her realize that she must have made a mistake, so she was laughing at herself.
Did you make a mistake? Naza thought in confusion, and then she looked at the birds flying with the boat.
The black wings flapped in the air, the white belly pockets were so white, and the pointed mouth yelled "Oh" and "Oh" loudly.
It can fly with wings, yes, it's a bird! But what are people laughing at? Nazha was confused.
No, I have to ask about the bench! Nazha turned and walked into the room on the ship.
It was already the second day before Shang Zhen they boarded this sea-going ship.
The ship has been traveling south along the continental line for these two days.
And the reason why they were able to get on this big ship so quickly was naturally because they once again pretended to be a catcher.
At that time, they just flashed their waist cards and iron rulers to the people on the big boat and said that they wanted to check, and the people on the big boat honestly took a springboard over.
Then, after Shang Zhen, they went to the south from the inspection on board the ship.
What can the boatman say
When Shang Zhen and they boarded the ship, the boatman thought they were in vain, and that was the official post.
But shortly after Shang Zhen and the others got on the ship, Bai Yuchuan ordered them to mix with the other big boats heading south!
The boatman also had countless experiences, so he inferred that Shang Zhen and their arresting identities seemed to be fake, and that they belonged to the underworld again.
But so what? Two people can't afford to provoke them, and those two can't afford to provoke them.
To say that their ship is a big ship is for them who have rarely seen a ship before.
Although they also have a "house" on the boat that can make people stand up straight, but the boatman and the guys on the boat add up to more than a dozen people.
Even if the boatman infers that Shang Zhen and them are the underworld, more than a dozen of them will never risk the death of a partner against others!
Gangsters, desperadoes, gangsters, bandits, etc., they all mean the same thing.
If Shang Zhen they are not trying to kill them for money and not drive them to death, they will not be able to resist.
So even though the boatman had doubts, he just pretended not to know it, and in his heart he only hoped to send the three men and four "little plague gods" safely away.
Nazha entered the room with confusion, and saw Shang Zhen lying on the table studying things.
And there is an old man next to him, the old man's surname is Cheng, who is the boss of this boat.
Although Nazha didn't understand why those guys laughed, he could guess that there was something wrong with him in the end and he refused to show his timidity in front of the old man.
She didn't ask any more, and went to see Shang Zhen.
The thing on the table was flat like a plate with a hollow in the middle.
The side of the plate is very wide and flat, engraved with heavenly stems, earthly branches, and gossip, a total of twenty-four directions.
The depression in the middle is filled with water. There was a needle-like thing in the velvet in the water.
Shang Zhen gently moved the needle with the tip of his finger, and the needle turned on the water in the depression.
After a while, the needle stopped.
Nazha didn't understand either. As the boss of the ship, she was still inconvenient to ask.
It’s just because Shang Zhen told her to listen more and ask less after getting on the boat. If you ask too much, people might see that our arrest is almost a fake!
When Shang Zhen saw that the thin needle in the water had stopped, he stretched out his finger and fiddled with it again, so the needle turned again.
After a while, the needle naturally stopped again.
At this moment, Nazha noticed that as long as the needle stopped and pointed in the same direction, it was pointing north and south.
"Have you ever guessed what this is?" At this moment, the old man asked Shang Zhen with a smile.
"Water compass." Shang Zhen was still looking at the fine needles on the plate.
"Officially, I heard that the official's accent seems to be from the Northwest, and he even knows the water compass!" The old man said with a smile.
"It was originally called Sinan. It was a spoon on a plate. The water compass came later. It was used for pointing directions on the sea,
Rub both ends of the fine needle on the magnet. Or put it in the water and let it float, or hang it in the air with a thin thread, and eventually the needle will point north and south. "Shang Zhen said again.
"The official is really amazing!" This time the old man praised sincerely.
Their ship is a sea-going ship, and they often pull goods from north to south.
Although they always sail along the coastline, the ship will lose its way in a sudden storm, so this water compass is a must-have for sailing.
"This uncle, do you still have magnetic needles?" Shang Zhen asked suddenly, ignoring the old man's praise.
"I don't dare to let you call it that way, Caomin, there is a magnetic needle naturally." The old man answered hurriedly.
The so-called magnetic needle means that the two ends of an iron needle are repeatedly rubbed on a magnet, and the iron needle becomes magnetic.
Although people do not have the term "magnetization" nowadays, knowing the reason does not prevent knowing it.
As long as there are iron needles and magnets, wouldn't there be as many as there are magnets
"Then I will give you money, you sell me one." Shang Zhen smiled.
"Since the official wants a water compass, I will give you one. How dare you bring any money?" the boat boss said hurriedly.
The boss of the boat is an old river and lake, he thought, what can I do if I give you a water compass, if I have a boat, I can give it to you, as long as you leave.
"I don't want a water compass, just have a magnetic needle." Shang Zhen laughed.
"Then you wait here, I'll find it for you." The boss of the ship hurriedly said.
Seeing the boat boss go out, Nazha asked curiously: "Bench, what do you want this thing for?"
"It's easy to get lost at sea, and there are always times when it can be used." Shang Zhen replied.
After nodding his head, he told the story about the guy outside who was laughing at him.
Shang Zhen laughed and said, "Of course you are right to say that it is a bird, but it is a gull bird. I have heard others say that it is called a seagull.
If you just take care of it and call a bird, people will know that you have never been to the beach.
I think we'd better get off the boat early, get some more money, and get our own boat. "
Shang Zhen is usually reticent, but now that he has decided that he can't let Xitang decide on everything, his brains have started to move.
Although it had only been on the ship for a day, Shang Zhen felt that his false identities had been seen through by the ship's boss.
There is no other reason. When they got on the boat, they thought the boat was big, but in fact it was not.
In this square inch of land, after they contacted the ship boss and other people, whether it was him, Xitang Nazha or Bai Yuchuan, their original habits were difficult to change.
The habits he and Xitang developed in the mountains and plains looked more like bandits than officials.
For example, like Nazha now, is there any official who doesn't know seagulls but has to call seagulls birds
Although Bai Yuchuan has a wide range of knowledge, but that guy is a bit inconspicuous, and as soon as he got rid of Jin Yiwei's tracking, he looked like he was not wanted.
Bai Yuchuan didn't bother to stand with Xitang, Xitang Na was stuck in the stern of the boat, and they went to the bow.
Earlier, Shang Zhen went to the bow and saw Bai Yuchuan.
Bai Yuchuan is holding a fan in his left hand and holding a flute in his right. He is standing on a half-person high wine barrel on the bow of the ship and blowing hair.
The guy had a good impression of Shang Zhen. Seeing that Shang Zhen had come, he used himself as a face to let Shang Zhen guess the answer.
He asked nonchalantly, what Shang Zhen could guess.
In the end, Bai Yuchuan said very loudly that the answer was "Yushu Linfeng".
Shang Zhen laughed, neither satire nor compliment.
However, at that time, Shang Zhen said in his heart, you are still in the wind, if Xitang is here to get angry, you may kick you into the sea and become a duck into the water!