unreliable adventure

The starry sky is magnificent, covering the ocean like a brocade woven of silver threads, making it easy to forget time.

Francis also climbed onto the deck at some point, and sat down next to me: "Looking at the stars at night, what do you see? How about helping me calculate my luck?"

I laughed out loud, did Francis' luck count?

After thinking about it for a while, I said, "This ship is sailing south." The constellations are not lucky, but they can easily indicate the direction

"Well, to the south."

"I thought we were going to the North Island."

"Who said that the North Island is just to the north."

Back then, the Knights set fire to the pirate's lair, and the free folk fled to the sea in longships.The Titan heard the plea of ​​the free people and gave the free people a small island in the ocean.The small island is located in the South Ocean of Yongxia. The frightened free folk probably wanted to confuse the knights' pursuers, but they chose the name "Bei Dao".In fact, if you think about it, you should know that the traditional costumes of the freemen are all in the style of exhibitionists. Of course, it is impossible to live in the bitter cold north if you dress like this.This little trick has fooled many scholars. Many books I have read have mistaken the location of the North Island.

"Actually, it's not a lie." Francis explained: There were originally two islands, and Titan gave the larger island in the north to the free people to live in, and the smaller south island is still a forbidden area for Titan.

"It's just being smart," I mocked. "The knights are just coveting the gold and silver hoarded in the pirate's lair. How could they chase them to the island where the birds don't shit?"

"Haha, the islanders don't know about this."

"If it weren't for the poet of the North Island, who wrote the answer chapter to accuse the world, the southerners would probably not know that there is such a remote island." 200 years ago, the desperate witches sang the "Answer" If it weren't for the plague, I might like Bei Dao's poetry very much, and I like his sad and indignant tone.

"There is a saying in the bard guild that Bei Dao is actually a mainlander." Francis always knew many anecdotes: "I grew up on the island, and I have never heard his songs since I was a child. It was in the southern mainland I only found out about such a character when I was on an adventure. It is said that he was afraid of religious persecution, so he published his poems under the guise of a barbarian."

The realm of the poets is really beyond our mortal comprehension.I took the topic and said: "Poet, I know a second-rate poet named Kunlun who wrote a Tibetan acrostic poem expressing love, then cut it into three parts, and anonymously gave it to the officer he admired."

"And then? A scholar meets a soldier. A soldier can't read it, right?"

"Then I heard that the poet killed the officer. I still know that officer. It seems to be Chang Kaishen."

This is a joke I heard in the city army back then, and the two of them laughed for a while.

Francis specifically said to me: "Well, the exact location of North Island, if the Tin Woodman doesn't ask, don't tell him."

I laughed secretly at Francis' fury, and said, "I don't know the exact location."

Francis and I lay under the star river, accompanied by the sound of the waves, chatting about unverifiable anecdotes.Later, Wayne also touched the deck. When Francis saw Wayne coming, he stopped the topic, but canceled Wayne and said, "How about it, Tin Woodman, how many people slept tonight?" Wayne was caught in the cabin earlier. A female man made fun of it, and then got mixed up with the free folk.

Wayne swears that he's never transgressed the rules, he just gets along with the free folk guys.Wayne lay down between Francis and me, and said, "I think I should be a barbarian, well, there are too many rules in the Knights."

Wayne seemed to be really interested in the culture of the free people, and after a while he pestered Francis to ask about the North Island and the South Island.There are many giant structures left by the Titans on the North Island?So where do ordinary people live?What is the population of free people?Is it possible to live on a small island?There is also a South Island that is off-limits to the Titans?Is the South Island completely off-limits, or is it only used for religious purposes?Was there really a titan inhabiting the South Island?

Francis scratched his head embarrassingly: "If other savages don't know something, I don't know either."

Wayne leaned over and begged me again: "Xiao Hei, you can ask him for me, Fran is a cheapskate. I have already found out that he will only open his mouth if you ask."

Francis deliberately interrupted, "Nah, Tin Woodman, there is something I wanted to tell you a long time ago."

"What a big deal, say."

"Don't always call Xiao Hei Xiao Hei, Brother Hei is a senior, no big or small."

"Since he's a senior," Wayne is also good at reasoning: "It's not right to call him brother Hei. He's more than 200 years old, so he has to be called grandpa or ancestor."

"Uh." I was momentarily unable to refute.

"Hmph," Wayne said proudly, "I can't date a grandpa or ancestor, although there's no rule against it—but my Xiao Hei is so handsome, I don't want to call him old."

I agree with the saying that he is handsome, but the more he listens, the more awkward he becomes.

Wayne turned over, put his hands on the deck behind my head, stared at me deeply, and then said: "Didn't Glinda say that after the forgetful dies, the mental age will be fixed. Little Hei was 21 years old when he died in battle, and he has been 21 since then! Well, in this way, I am older than Xiao Hei... how many years older than him, I will protect him!"

What nonsense!Can the fallacies of witches be used as evidence?I wanted to get up to refute, only to realize that I was in an awkward position. Wayne leaned over me with his hands propped up in an extremely indecent posture.Hello!Francis is still there!Wayne has only spent half the night with the free people, and he has learned to behave in public?Really!

I tried to get out, but I couldn't move.Looking up, I saw the outline of Wayne blending with the starlight, which was better than the most vivid dream.And his eyes are like the whirlpool of the reverse current of the sea, even the high-masted fast ship cannot escape.He was wearing a freeman's coat. Under the starlight, his arms and shoulders looked like stonemason's carvings. Under the flesh, there was a smell that made people breathless. No, don't dead people need to breathe?Annoyed, I am also an old monster who has been dead for 200 years, but it really looks like that 21-year-old virgin has possessed me.ah!Don't the faces of dead people really turn red?What should I do now?

Wayne couldn't help laughing and rolled on top of Francis, who kicked him away.

Wayne bent over and moved back with a smile. Fortunately, this time he didn't come to me again, but consciously lay down on Francis' left hand side.

Later, Wayne told several nasty jokes heard in the bilge, and the creation of the free folk was really amazing.It's a pity that it's not easy to repeat here.Well, I want to write a serious book that teaches children to learn well.

Until daylight.The free people with Chinese characters and female men with happy faces walked out of the cargo hold one after another, and Francis and Wayne moved back to the bottom cabin to catch up on sleep.I'm certainly not the kind of dead person who has no emotional intelligence at all, and I know why they both hang out on the deck all night.