Chapter 229 Coincidence? Tracking?

Coastline, this is a fascinating and erratic word. Especially after a long voyage, a long coastline suddenly appeared in the eyes, and the excited look was always exciting.

Captain Adams told everyone that it was the famous Baltimore port area. Baltimore is an important seaport city on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is located on the west side of the top of the Chesapeke Bay, only more than 60 kilometers from Washington, the capital of the United States, and the port area is near the estuary of the Patapasco River.

Ellie asked the captain curiously, "Captain, is there anything interesting in Baltimore?"

Captain Adams smiled and said to Ellie, "You don't know that Baltimore has an irreplaceable position in the minds of our Americans. Our national anthem "Star-Spangled Banner" was born in this city."

Seeing several people are very curious, Adams tells a legendary story:

Fort McHenry, built on a small peninsula in the southeast of Baltimore, is a five-pointed fortress that enters the harbor.

During the Second American-British War, he fought against the British army as an outpost. In 1814, the British fleet went straight to Fort McHenry and bombarded it day and night.

At that time, an American lawyer named Francis Scott Key took a ship to the British ship to negotiate the release of detained American civilians. He was worried and witnessed the tragic scene of the British shelling of Fort McHenry and the heroic resistance of the U.S. military.

In the early morning of September 13, 1814, Francis Scott Key saw an American flag still fluttering in the wind on the castle through the smoke of gunfire. He was deeply moved by the scene and wrote a few lines of poems on the back of a letter. Later, he gave the manuscript of the poem to Judge Nicholson, which was greatly appreciated, and suggested using "ToAnacreoninHeaven" composed by John Stafford Smith, a very popular song at that time, as a supporting song, and named it the song. The StarSpangled Banner.

This song was deeply loved by the American people and soon spread all over the country. In 1931, the U.S. Congress officially designated the Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem of the United States of America. Today, Fort McHenry in Baltimore has been turned into a national monument and historic site.

In the center of the fortress, on the high flagpole, there is still a star-striped flag that will never fall.

After listening to the captain's story, Ellie aroused a strong interest and must go to the fortress. It happens that the yacht also needs to be supplemented. It will be moored in Baltimore tonight and set sail the next day.

After turning the corner, Ellie found another interesting phenomenon. The inner port of Baltimore is full of crab sculptures. Captain Adams said that Baltimore is a place where crabs are produced, and the locals are proud of it. For example, as soon as you enter the port area, the crab in front of the warship (which has now become a permanent naval museum) is a big American crab with a national flag; the crab next to the construction site looks like a blue-collar worker; the crab in front of the Science and Technology Museum is a chemical element table.

After landing, Zhang Ping invited Captain Adams to go down and play together. Adams refused his kindness with a smile, saying that the sailors were used to living on the yacht, and this was also a place where they often came. Just let Zhang Ping and others play to their heart's content.

Zhang Ping found a restaurant, and there was also a vivid big crab standing at the door. Naturally, their staple food today is crabs, haha

This crab in Baltimore is called BLUECRAB. The crab shell is like our common shuttle crab, but the crab feet are beautiful blue. When it is lively, this kind of crab is extremely fierce. As soon as they were put into the sink, they fought with each other. In a minute, a poor bug lost a big clam. Ellie was curious to point the camera at them to take pictures. It was about the light that shocked them. A crab immediately entered a state of war and erected a pair of crabs to fight with her.

Polikova put the spoon handle into the sink, and it immediately came up, holding the invading enemy tightly. The reason why he emphasized the lively is that Zhang Ping found that the cooked crabs are the same red. When the crab shell is opened, the crab meat inside tastes exactly the same as the shuttle crab.

So, regardless of skin color and variety, regardless of temper, cooked crabs of the same color and taste, why do you have to advertise that crabs are superior to the first class before you are alive? You have to distinguish so many categories, mainstream bias, different opinions, and so many kinds of them.

Unexpectedly, Polikova is not very good at eating crabs. Looking at Zhang Ping and Ellie gently peeling the shell and eating meat, Polykova was even more anxious. The shell of the big crab was rattling in her mouth, which made Zhang Ping and Ellie laugh secretly. Finally, under the teachings of Elie's Dunton, Polykova finally ate a crab completely. After eating, she danced, as if she was happier than being the king of gambling.

Zhang Ping broke the shell. After eating the paste yellow, he exposed a conical film. He carefully cut it along the bottom of the cone with a knife, took it out and then turned it over, so that the inside turned out. He took this and said to Eli and Polikova, "Look, what is this?"

Elie and Polikova watched curiously, "Well, this looks like a monk. You see, here is the head and face, and the body. Haha, this is a sitting little monk." Ellie laughed and was proud of her discovery. After her reminder, Polikova looked more and more like her.

Zhang Ping smiled and said, "Eli, do you know who this monk is? Why hide in the crab shell?

Ellie was stunned and didn't know why. Zhang Ping said with a smile, "This monk, called the crab monk, is the Fahai monk. Ha ha, Ellie, you should have heard of the Legend of the White Snake, right?

"I've seen it, I've seen it. Is this the monk Fahai? Ha ha, why did you come here? Tell me about it quickly?" Eli asked curiously that Polykova next to her didn't know what they were talking about. She only guessed that it should be a Chinese folklore story.

Zhang Ping simply told Polikova about the Legend of the White Snake, and then said, "That beautiful white lady came to a golden mountain in order to return her husband from Fahai. Monk Fahai had no choice but to suppress the White Lady in the Leifeng Tower. People around Suzhou and Hangzhou complained about the White Lady one after another. The news reached the Jade Emperor, and he quickly sent the Platinum Star down to investigate.

Taibai Jinxing led the heavenly soldiers and generals and went down to the earth to catch the monk Fahai. When the monk Fahai quickly slipped away and fled to Yangcheng Lake, he found that he had no way to go. In a hurry, I saw a crab molting between the cracks in the rocks of the beach, and its body became soft and had no resistance. He seized the opportunity and immediately drilled through the cracks in the crab shell and hid in the crab shell without moving.

However, Fahai's every move did not hide the eyes of the platinum star. He saw clearly in the clouds and said to Fahai, who was hiding in the crab shell, "You have become a murderer, and the world is intoable. I should have beaten you to death with a Thunderbolt. Seeing that you have repentance, I will give you a way to live today. From now on, you must take it easy and sit in the crab shell to practice the right fruit!"

Fahai, who was hiding in the crab shell, cried secretly. But what else can he do? From then on, he could only sit in the crab shell and meditate cross-legged all day long, respecting the purpose of practice.

Elie smiled and leaned forward and backward, and she couldn't close her mouth. But Polikova frowned and said to Zhang Ping, "This monk is so pitiful. It's just for his faith, but he ends up like this. I haven't been able to come out yet."

Elie smiled and said, "Polly, this is just a story. It makes you sentimental. There are no immortals in the world. If there are any, I'm afraid they are all white bearded grandfathers.

Zhang Ping gently pinched her nose and said seriously, "Who said that there are no immortals? It's just that we haven't seen it. How could there be so many myths?"

Ellie was very unconvinced and retorted, "That's just people's imagination. If you have the ability, can you change one for me?"

Zhang Ping was speechless, and Ellie was complacent. Polikova saw the two of them fighting and found it very funny.

After visiting the fortress, three people walked on the streets of Baltimore. Zhang Ping and Yili were comparing the similarities and differences between the national anthems of the two countries. Polikova suddenly changed her face and pulled them into the next store and looked out carefully.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Ping asked with concern.

"Shh, I seem to have seen Ivanov's men just now. Look, the three people in black suits opposite." Polikova looked very nervous.

"Isn't it just three people? Don't worry, it's a big deal to clean it up, three to three, it's a small thing. Ellie said carelessly.

"No, those three people are not simple. Maybe it's a master, Polly. What's their way?" Zhang Ping observed for a while and asked Polykova.

"The three are all masters of the Ivanov family, two of whom are Russian free fighting champions, and the other is said to have some special functions." Polikova seemed to have seen the kung fu of these three people. When she said it, her body couldn't help trembling and she was obviously afraid of these three people.

"Special function? Do you know what it is?" Zhang Ping is not worried about the two champions, but he attaches great importance to the special functions.

"I don't know either. I just see that those two people are respectful to him, and their status must be not low." Polikova saw that Zhang Ping's tone was very flat and regained some confidence.

Seeing the three people slowly go away, Zhang Ping said to the two women, "Although they are not necessarily coming for us, we still have to be careful. Now let's get out of here and go."

He hurried back to the yacht and told Captain Adams to sail immediately. Adams saw that they were in a hurry and knew what might happen. Without asking much, he ordered the sailors to be in their separate positions. The yacht left Baltimore and drove downstream.

Zhang Ping sat on the deck, looking at the sea and sky line in the distance, thinking about what might happen.

Polikova will definitely not recognize the wrong person, so what does the appearance of these three people mean? If it's just a coincidence, it's nothing. But if they are really tracked, it must be a loophole in which link. Is it this yacht?

Zhang Ping quickly walked to the captain's room and found Captain Adams. He did not hide it. He directly said that Polykova had offended a gangster. Now the yacht may be followed. Is it a problem of the yacht itself?

After listening to it, Captain Adams pondered for a moment and understood that there would be no problem in telling Zhang Ping's yacht itself. In other words, if the other party could locate the specific direction of the yacht, it should have used water tools to chase and kill them long ago. After all, this yacht is used to play, walking and stopping, and not speeding at all.

So, in addition to the problem of the yacht itself, there is only one suspicious direction left. Zhang Ping and the three of them must have no problem, and the captain will naturally have no problem. Is there something wrong with those three sailors? These three sailors are all old people on the original yacht. They have been working on the yacht since they went to sea, and they should also be trustworthy. Moreover, there were no abnormalities along the way.

Finally, Zhang Ping had to put this problem on hold for the time being and secretly made arrangements with the captain to monitor the three sailors. Whether there was any problem or not, as a member of his yacht, he also wanted to ensure that it was foolproof. If it is confirmed that there is no problem, Zhang Ping has decided to improve their treatment again.

After discussing with the captain, Zhang Ping returned to his room. On the yacht, I finally don't have to sleep on the floor anymore. And Polykova had long been used to the special situation of him and Eli, and even felt a little secretly happy in her heart.

After lying down for two minutes, the door was pushed open. On the yacht, there is only one person who enters without warning. Naturally, it is Miss Ellie. Of course, it's the same for Zhang Ping to go in and out of Ellie's room, hehe.

Seeing that Zhang Ping was already lying **, Eli didn't mind. She sat directly at the head of the bed and whispered to Zhang Ping, "I think there is something wrong with Polikova!"

Oh, Zhang Ping was refreshed and sat up to listen to Eli's explanation.

"Look, when Polikova was gambling on the boat, there was absolutely no problem if she wanted to slip away, but she depended on us. Along the way, listening to her talk and skills, is it difficult to slip out of the United States? I'm afraid it's easy for her, but why do we have to take her on the road? In addition, don't forget that she is a gambler invited by Ivanov. Why did she suddenly leave? The reason has never been said. With so many doubts, do you think she has a problem?