Chapter 37 Sailing Back

There is no one on the island, so naturally no one can help them. Everyone can't say what the specific location is at this time. Only Liu Laoliu has been on the sea for the longest time. It is roughly guessed that the island should be in the northeast of Xiaohuangdao, but it is more specific.

After Meng Biao was bitten by a snake, everyone found many traces of snakes on the island. They couldn't help but be in danger. They were afraid that it would be their turn next time. So they discussed it overnight and decided to leave the island and return to the land. But after dawn, everyone carefully checked the ship again. After that, they found that their idea of leaving as soon as possible was unrealistic at all.

Because in the previous hurricane, the ship suffered relatively large damage at sea. Many seams on the hull of the boat began to leak due to too much force, and the leakage was relatively serious. After that night passed, a lot of seawater penetrated into the cabin.

And they have lost their mast in the hurricane. Although they have saved the sail, they can no longer use the broken sail on the ship. If they only rely on the patchwork of the boat, even if they leave the desert island, it will be difficult to successfully return to the land or return to the Little Yellow Island. If the ship will soon be For the sake of leaking and sinking on the sea, even if they insist, once they suffer a little more storm, the ship will certainly not be able to save it. In that case, they insist on leaving here, which is almost the same as looking for death.

In the end, everyone had to change their minds and decided to simply repair the boat here first, mend the seams of the boat as much as possible, and deal with the problem of water leakage. In addition, they should find a way to make do with a mast, at least raise the sail and leave here to ensure that they can find land or return directly to Xiaohuang. On the island.

Meng Biao's snake bite is not as serious as people think. It may be because the snake that bit him is not a highly poisonous snake, or it may be because Yu Xiaotian treats his wounds in time and effectively sucks out most of the snake venom. In addition, the herbs collected by Liu Laoliu to treat snake wounds may also be effective, so although However, his leg was a little swollen after being bitten, and the wound was a little blue and black, and he was a little dizzy. However, after a night's rest, his injury did not develop in a more serious direction, and after a good night's sleep, his spirit was not bad.

After tying his legs, Yu Xiaotian loosened the rope every half an hour to an hour or two to ensure blood circulation in his legs, so as not to cause necrosis in his legs due to serious obstruction of blood circulation.

After dawn, Liu Laoliu found two kinds of herbs on the island. After smashing, half of it was applied to his wound, and the other half was boiled into soup medicine for him to take. The situation of Meng Biao's snake injury was effectively curbed. He did not continue to develop in a bad direction, and his spirit was better, and this guy was more skinned and resistant. The strength was quite good. Unexpectedly, after taking the medicine, he began to be able to eat and drink again, so the madman Meng was relieved. On the one hand, he was blessed by Xie, and on the other hand, he thanked Yu Xiaotian and Liu Laoliu again.

For the next few days in a row, the people kept working on the island, taking advantage of everything available at hand and starting to repair their damaged boats.

There is limestone on the island, which burns on the fire and turns it into lime. In addition, there are limited broken hemp ropes and smashed and dried bark fibers. In addition, some grass and wood ash, together with their temporary fish glue made of fish swimster and pine resin scraped from the mountain are used to fill The leaking seam of the ship was pounded with a wooden wedge, which basically solved the problem of water leakage of the ship.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian found a straight pine tree on the island with a black head. After cutting it down, he dragged it to the seaside. Liu Laoliu, the horse face and Meng madman only used limited tools to find ways to stand the wood on the ship, served as a temporary mast, cut some wooden nails, and reinforced the damaged hull, although However, the mast is not as strong and durable as before, and the height is not enough, but at least half of the sail can be raised. It is much more labor-saving than they leaning against the rocking, which provides a strong guarantee for them to leave this desert island.

As for the rudder, they repaired and reinforced it again. After trying it, it was quite useful. Although it was very crude, the ship still restored its basic navigation ability. As for the ship to completely repair the ship, with their current resources, there is no need to think about it for the time being, and everything can only wait. Let's talk about it after returning to Little Yellow Island.

Because there are many snakes on the island, they must move on the island. In order to prevent someone from being bitten by poisonous snakes again, everyone found arag and tied their legs, wrapped their calves tightly at once, and moved as few grassy places as possible. There is also a wooden stick in their hands from time to time. Knocking in the grass to scare the snake and drive the snake away. After moving so carefully on the island, no one was bitten by the snake.

As for the problem of food and fresh water, they are not worried. There is accumulated rainwater in the small caves on the island, which is enough for them to drink. Although there is no food on the ship, there are many birds on the desert island. Countless seabirds live and breed here, and they can pick up enough eggs. After evening, It is also very easy to catch seabirds.

In addition, there are also many snakes on the island. They kill a few at will. After chop off the snake's head, peel off the skin and remove the internal organs, and you can make a pot of quite rich snake soup. Sometimes seabirds and snakes are stewed together, and people laugh bitterly and call it dragon and phoenix soup.

In addition, there are a large number of shellfish crabs on the beaches around the desert island. They can occasionally catch some sea fish trapped in the depression at low tide at sea, so after Yu Xiaotian's group landed on the island, they did not worry about eating.

And in order to reserve food for the next step, these people will also catch birds, snakes, fish, bird eggs and other things that can't be eaten for a while, either marinate them with salt, or smoke them with pine branches to dry and store them, and they are ready for everything.

Although there were two more heavy rains during this period, everyone hid in the small cave and did not suffer much. In addition, they also collected a lot of fresh water and filled the boat's small water tank with fresh water.

Under their busy work, that is, in the blink of an eye, they stayed on the island for * days. With their joint efforts, the ship was gradually repaired. On the morning of the tenth day after landing on the island, after the final careful inspection and confirmation that there was no big problem, they once again put the ship Pushing back into the sea, he first drove the boat away from the beach, then raised his sails and drove to the southeast by the sea breeze, leaving the small desert island behind.

When watching the wind-eaten sails driving the ship to start sailing, the people on the ship, regardless of age or young, couldn't help cheering. Even Meng Biao, who had been lying down and didn't work because of being bitten by snakes these days, regained his spirit at this time. He sat up without living in the cabin and watched the sea screaming. The snake wound seemed to be much better in an instant. As a result, he was scolded by the Meng madman and was seriously despised by the blackhead and another descendant.

With the sail, the ship sailed much more smoothly. Liu Laoliu, Ma Qian and others carefully observed the sky when they went to sea and concluded that the typhoon that almost killed them had completely passed. There should be no strong wind on the sea in a short time, so they began Yang Fan to head east. Drive in the south direction.

After more than a day's voyage, the people on the ship saw the land from afar, and the people cheered again. After careful observation, Liu Laoliu and Maface Meng Madman and others immediately determined their location.

"Haha! Horse face! See? Do you remember where this is?" Liu Laoliu patted the side of the ship and asked the horse's face while laughing.

The horse's face stared at the land in the distance, and his long smile became much shorter now. He replied with a smile, "Of course, I'm not blind. Isn't this the place where we went to sea back then? Haha! That's good! If it goes on like this, if it goes well, we can go back to Xiaohuangdao one day and one night at most! Adjust the sails, adjust the sails! Meng madman, turn the rudder and get here horizontally. We don't have to dock anymore. Let's just go straight back to the island!

I guess the people on the island haven't seen us back for such a long time. I don't know what should be in a hurry. Maybe they have burned paper for us!"

After seeing the land, Yu Xiaotian was also very excited. After suffering for so many days, he finally survived again. Although he didn't know what the place was, from the words of Liu Laoliu and Ma Face, he could basically guess that it was not far from their Little Yellow Island. Fortunately, he We cut off the mast early, otherwise God knew whether they would be blown to Java.

The next voyage can be said to be smooth sailing. Although the mast is low, so that all the sails cannot be raised and the sails are not strong, but this makes the speed of the ship a little slower than before. It is more troublesome when adjusting the sails. The steering board is temporarily pieced together, which sometimes makes it easy to run off when operating the ship, but there is Meng Feng Old sea wolves like Zi and Horse Face are controlling the rudder and will not veer too much.

On the way, they also bypassed the Shuangfeng Island, where pirates were often inhabited, and even saw two unidentified ships appearing outside Shuangfeng Island from afar. As Liu Laoliu said, the two ships must have been pirates' ships, and the other party must have seen their small broken boat, but it was obvious that the pirates were against them. The small broken boat was not interested at all, so they let them sail across Shuangfeng Island and entered the sea channel outside the Dongchong Peninsula.

In a word, compared with Liu Laoliu's original expected time, they saw Xiaohuangdao a little later. When they saw Xiaohuangdao appear in front of them, everyone was excited again. This time, they went to sea and encountered a typhoon. It was too sudden that almost killed all the people on the ship. Now after so many twists and turns, They finally returned to the island where they lived, including Yu Xiaotian, who was newcomer, couldn't help but be a little excited. They stood far away from the boat and shouted at the Little Yellow Island.

When they approached the Little Yellow Island, the people on the island also saw their boats. After a while, some people ran to the beach, jumping and jumping, and some people actually cried, as if they were welcoming their return.

Yu Xiaotian glanced at the island and inadvertently swept to the south of the island. He wanted to see the boat that belonged to him hidden in the small bay in the south of the island, but he did not see the main mast that exposed the bay at a glance, so he was slightly shocked and quickly looked carefully, but no matter how hard he tried , I couldn't see the mast that should have been in Xiaoshuiwan, and my heart sank at once.

It's not that Xiaotian was not too worried. After all, after more than ten days of losing news when they went to sea, the people on the island will inevitably worry about them. Maybe the people on the island will go to sea to find them, so after thinking about this, he is more or less relieved.

(I can't sit down today. Tomorrow, three chapters will break out for everyone! Next week is the last week of this book on the new book list. If you can't sit firmly in the top three, it's really sad! I hope my friends can concentrate on helping me up tomorrow and leave me the red ticket! Thank you very much! In addition, I would also like to thank He Taiji and Brother Shixiao for their uncisting rewards! Thank you for your support!)