Chapter 4 Provocation

The mentality determines everything. This sentence is very reasonable. After Xiaotian figured out the current situation, he was only stunned for a while. After all, when he woke up, he was already quite prepared, so when he thoroughly understood his situation, Yu Xiaotian did not suffer much from it. Troubled, but began to actively plan for the next step.

Yu Xiaotian has a natural optimistic spirit, and can even be said to have a little Ah Q spirit. Such a situation did not defeat him, but cheered him up again.

Isn't it just a time traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty? It's no big deal! If a person in this era can survive, is it possible that such a person as him, who has hundreds of years of advanced knowledge and is healthy and strong, can't live? When no one paid attention to him, this guy actually raised his middle finger to the sky and secretly greeted God.

On this ship, Yu Xiaotian's temporary life is absolutely not comfortable. Although the owner surnamed Liu left him, it does not mean that he completely trusts him, including some people on the ship, who have a distrustful attitude towards him.

So in the past two or three days, Liu Chuandong has secretly arranged people to stare at Yu Xiaotian, and Yu Xiaotian is not allowed to easily enter the cabin. Even at night, as long as it does not rain, Yu Xiaotian can only find a place to sleep on the deck.

As for the heavy work and even dirty work on the ship, the boatman on the ship likes to ask Yu Xiaotian to help, and even Li Jianzi, who cooks on the ship, always wants to play tricks on Yu Xiaotian.

But these things have not bothered Yu Xiaotian. For him, it is normal for a stranger to be more or less resistant to a group. As long as time goes by, he believes that he can be accepted by these people. Days can't always be like this. He will always stand out.

As for not letting him go to the cabin to sleep, it is also in line with Xiaotian's intention. After two or three days of observation, he found that the owner of the boat and the boatman on the ship obviously did not pay much attention to the sanitation of the ship. In fact, the ship was not as dilapidated as he initially felt, but no one took care of it on weekdays, so the hull The dirtiness inside and outside make the ship much older than its actual age. It is also because no one pays attention to the sanitation of the ship that the garbage and dirt on the ship are everywhere, the cabin is full of fleas and mosquitoes, and there are mice from time to time, emitting a smell everywhere.

Yu Xiaotian can't stand this environment at all. He can't figure it out. How can these people endure such an environment when they have been on the sea for a long time, not to mention that they are comfortable and uncomfortable. Such an environment alone can easily cause diseases. It is difficult for these people to live in this environment and jump around!

When Yu Xiaotian was idle, he even thought about it. If the ship was him, the first thing he must do was to order all the boatman to clean the whole ship, clean the ship thoroughly, and clean up the bottom of the hull and remove the barnacles and sea attached to the hull. Oes, sea rainbow and other messy things.

This is more like a saying. At least it can not only ensure the health of the people on board, but also effectively improve the speed of the ship, but at this time, Yu Xiaotian is not interested in doing this. After all, this ship is not his. God knows how long he can stay on this ship. If he can't get to the shore, he will slip away, so Do whatever you like!

Don't let him sleep in the cabin. He is just happy and clean. The air on the deck is fresh, and there are not many small things such as mosquitoes and fleas. At night, he doesn't need to listen to the sound of purring and farting in the cabin, smell the smell in the cabin, and can quietly look at the stars. , use this time to think more about his next way out.

So he didn't have much opinion about the unfair treatment he received, and he didn't care too much about the boatmen, but temporarily put all his energy on this ship.

Although this ship looks like a fishing boat on the surface, it has actually undergone a certain degree of modification, and the cabin on the ship has been enlarged so that the ship can load more cargo.

Through observation, Yu Xiaotian found that the ship was neither a standard lucky boat type nor a standard wide ship, but a bit like the shape of an ancient sailboat called a bird boat he had seen before.

The bow of the ship is sharp and beak-like. The captain is about 20 meters, and the width of the ship is four or five meters. The displacement of the ship is about dozens of tons at most. There are two masts on the ship, one main mast in the middle of the ship, the other mast is in the front of the ship, and there is a low stern at the tail of the ship. The position of the helmsman operating the rudder is also the cabin where the shipowner rests, while the crew rests in the cabin.

Because of materials or design, most of the sea ships in ancient China and even the ancient world have a large aspect ratio and look short and fat, so even if this kind of ship is full of sails, the speed is not much.

For Yu Xiaotian, who has been on the freighter for a few days, the sailing speed of this ship is really a little broken. In addition, during this period, the wind direction is mostly southeast wind. The ship sails south and is in a state of headwind. In order to get wind drive, the ship has to constantly adjust its course and walk on the sea. The shape route slows down the speed of navigation.

In two or three days, although Yu Xiaotian did not know the route of the voyage, it was estimated that the ship was actually not far away.

However, although Chinese sailboats have such shortcomings, the hard sails of Chinese sails have commendable benefits, that is, Chinese hard sails can make better use of wind direction and wind power than Western soft sails. Sails of the same area will also be more efficient in wind utilization, the most important thing is because of the use of Chinese sailboats. The hard sail effectively reduces the number of people operating the sail and can reduce the manpower cost of the ship.

Yu Xiaotian knows these things because he is a boat model enthusiast in the old time and space. Since he was a teenager, he likes to make boat models when he has nothing to do, and his interest is also very unique. His favorite boat models are still ancient Chinese and Western sailboat models, so he is for ancient China. I still have a good understanding of Western sailing.

Just because of the limited conditions, in the old time and space he lived, the sailboats along the coast of China have basically disappeared. Even if there are still some machine sailboats, they are difficult to access, let alone ride this ancient sailboat in person. If there were such ancient sailboats in the old time and space, it would have been regarded as ancient times. Dong has collected it, and it must be difficult to actually come into contact with such an ancient sailboat.

Therefore, before Xiaotian, the operation technology of the sailboat only stayed on the model and did not know how to operate such a sailboat.

Now God threw him into this time and space and happened to be caught on this boat. Naturally, Yu Xiaotian would not give up such a good opportunity, so when he recovered a little, he began to get up and turn around the boat, looked around, and personally reached out to help the boatmen do some work, taking the opportunity to get familiar with learning. How to operate such a sailboat.

Unfortunately, he is still pretending to be mute and can't ask, so he can't learn much at present. He can only help the boatmen, help him and do some chores.

It's nothing more than Xiaotian's performance of wandering around on the ship, but in the eyes of the rest of the ship, he became this dumb and diligent, not a lazy man, and he didn't know how to operate the boat at all, so the people on the ship gradually dispelled some doubts about him. Pirates could not operate the boat, which was simply a joke. Looking at Yu Xiaotian, he knew that he had never touched the ship and said that he was a pirate. Few people would believe it anymore.

So gradually the people on the boat relaxed their vigilance against Xiaotian and stopped being so hostile to him, which made Yu Xiaotian's life a little better.

However, his status is still very low. The people on the ship saw that the people he gave birth to were tall and seemed to have a lot of strength, so they liked to shout at him and instructed him to do this and that. After his body recovered, they were basically handed over all the responsibility for him.

Although the people on the ship gradually gave up their hostility to Xiaotian, few people on the ship were kind-hearted, because Yu Xiaotian was dumb and behaved a little stupid. They were curious about everything. For people like him who were dumb and stupid, these people would naturally not give up looking for some fun on the lonely sea.

So when many people on the ship were full and had nothing to do, they tried to play tricks on Xiaotian and took it as a pleasure, the most important of which was Ma Biao.

After getting familiar with it, Yu Xiaotian gradually figured out the division of labor and identity of the personnel on the ship. There were more than a dozen people including Liu ship owner, including two helmsmen, who were responsible for steering, six hand-hands, who were responsible for operating sails, and two other handkers, among which Li Yanzi also worked part-time to cook. Another slugger cooperates with a bucket, which is mainly responsible for climbing up the mast for observation and observation.

In addition to these people, there are four people on the ship who have nothing to do, but their work is also very important, because they are all specially hired by the shipowners. To put it bluntly, they are full-time bodyguards on the ship, responsible for protecting the safety of the ship at sea.

At the beginning, Yu Xiaotian was caught and was misunderstood as a pirate, which shows that there is a great risk of sailing at sea in this era. Pirates must have been at sea for a long time, so there will be such a full-time escort on the ship to protect the safety of ships.

Ma Biao is the head of the four boat guards. This guy is rough, short and thick, and his muscles are relatively strong. Obviously, he has some fists and feet. Relying on his skills, he is also the bow guard invited by the shipowner, so he is a little arrogant on the ship.