A knife in love

Chapter 1105

When Li Qiufeng listened to the boatman's words, his voice was sad and slightly trembling. Knowing that he was extremely afraid, he had no choice but to comfort him and said: "Don't worry about it, uncle. You are invited by me, so you walked away at night. If something unexpected happens I will also protect Uncle well."

When he said this, he paused for a while, and then said, "According to uncle, how far are these ships from us?"

The boatman said to Li Qiufeng, "Please borrow the lantern from my uncle."

Li Qiufeng smiled and said: "Uncle is too polite, this lantern was originally on the boat, why borrow it?"

As he spoke, he handed the lantern to the boatman.After the boatman took the lantern, he walked quickly to the port side, leaned the lantern out of the hull, and watched the river carefully.After a while, he walked to the starboard side again and took a closer look with a lantern.Finally, he returned to the bow of the boat and said to Li Qiufeng: "Judging from the traces on the water surface, the three boats in front are only thirty feet away from us..."

Li Qiufeng felt relieved when he heard the word "more than [-] zhang", and said: "We are so far away, even if the boat in front of us misses something, we can dodge it in time if we want to, why is uncle so nervous? "

Seeing Li Qiufeng speak like this, the boatman sighed, and said: "Master, we traveled from Jingzhou to Chongqing Mansion. You are generous and have an extraordinary manner. At that time, I thought you were a rich man who was away from home. It's just that you jumped into the house just now." It is the first time I have seen this ability from the stern to the bow in one leap. Only then did I realize that I was mistaken, you must be a person with great ability."

Li Qiufeng felt quite uneasy when he heard him praise himself, and was thinking of a few words of humility, but he heard the boatman continue to say: "However, I am afraid that the uncle does not know much about sailing. The distance of more than thirty feet is far away. It doesn't seem close, but it's on land. Now our boat is in the middle of the river, and it's going against the current. If the lunatics on the boats in front made a mistake, their boats collided from the upstream thirty feet away. Come here, it's just a blink of an eye to come to our place."

The more the boatman spoke, the more frightened he became, and finally his voice trembled so badly that he couldn't continue.

This boatman has never practiced martial arts, but he has been sailing on the Yangtze River for decades, and he is very familiar with the water conditions in various parts of the Yangtze River and the handling of boats.So he heard a strange sound from the river, and immediately knew that there were ships nearby.And when you see the water mark of diversion in the river water at the bow of the ship, you know that there is a ship driving ahead, and you can judge the distance of the ship.This kind of kung fu is the insight gained from fighting on the big river every day for decades.No matter how good Li Qiufeng's martial arts are, when it comes to sailing, not to mention the boatman in front of him, even those two young boatmen are a hundred times better than him.Therefore, although Li Qiufeng's inner strength is profound, what reaches his ears is the sound of the cold wind whistling on the river and the sound of the surging river flowing, and he doesn't even hear any ships appearing or disappearing nearby.

Li Qiufeng thought to himself, these ship gods appeared in the vicinity without anyone noticing, and nine out of ten were masters sent by Dongchang.It's just that why these people didn't immediately intercept and kill them, but instead went upstream with their own boats, this is really strange.He thought for a while, and said to the boatman: "On this big river, I don't know when the sky will be bright. Although there are lanterns on the boat, but the water is full, and the lights can't be seen a few feet away. If the sky is bright, The ships will find us, and there will be no danger."

The boatman nodded, and said: "We are on the big river, and we can't hear the sound of clappers. But according to my calculation, if we want to wait until the sun is bright, we have to wait for an hour. After this hour In the process, we are like wandering outside the gate of hell, one mistake will be a catastrophe of shipwreck and human death."

Li Qiufeng said: "If we slow down and stay far away from the ships in front, we don't have to worry about colliding with them or turning around and going down the river. Wouldn't it be great to go north to Leshan afterward?"

The boatman shook his head and said: "We are going upstream, and the speed of the boat has dropped to the slowest. The boats in front of us are also driving northward under the pressure of the current. If we slow down again, the boat will move forward. If we cannot withstand the impact of the current, we will definitely smash across the river, and nine out of ten will capsize and sink. If we want to turn around and turn back to Erlang Town, I am afraid that there will be boats behind us. When the lights are dark, we must not turn around."

Hearing what the boatman said, Li Qiufeng felt ashamed in his heart, thinking that this boatman has been sailing on the river for decades, if he really slowed down the speed of the boat to escape this difficulty, why didn't he slow down immediately?I don't know the means of sailing, but pointing fingers here, I can only make fun of it.It's better to shut up as soon as possible, so as not to make the boatman even more uneasy.

The boatman held the lantern in front of him, his expression was extremely tense, and his eyes could not stay on the water.The boatman who was originally standing at the bow had already run under the mast, grabbed the canvas rope with both hands, and pulled it from side to side from time to time, making the big boat always sail northward against the current.After more than half an hour like this, the boatman took back the lantern, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his right sleeve, turned his head and said to Li Qiufeng: "In more than half an hour, the sky will be bright. At that time, we can Breathe a sigh of relief. Damn it, when I catch up with the boats in front, I have to scold these lunatics."

Li Qiufeng thought to himself, the boats in front of them are most likely taken by the masters of Dongchang.Thank goodness they won't bother you by then.

While he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw a flame flickering in front of him.It's just that the fire was fleeting, and I didn't see clearly what it looked like.Li Qiufeng was stunned, and said to the boatman: "There seems to be a flash of fire ahead, as if someone is waving a torch."

But the boatman didn't see any flames. Hearing what Li Qiufeng said, he stared forward with wide eyes. As far as he could see, there was only darkness, and there were no torches flickering.He turned his head to Li Qiufeng and said, "Why didn't I see the fire? The water vapor on the river is extremely heavy, otherwise we wouldn't miss the boats in front..."

Before he finished speaking, his face changed drastically, and he turned his head and yelled at the boatman under the mast, "Lower the sails! Lower the sails!"

The boatman didn't know what happened, but he always obeyed the boatman's orders, so although he was puzzled, his hands involuntarily let go of the sail rope.There was only a sound of "crash", and the sail had fallen from the height of the mast.When the sail fell to the center of the mast, the boatman shouted again: "Stop! Stop the sail there!"

The boatman pulled the sail rope as promised.Only in this way, the wind on the sails was reduced by half, and the speed of the big ship suddenly slowed down a lot.The river water hit the bow and the port and starboard sides, causing the big ship to tremble suddenly.

Li Qiufeng was totally unprepared, staggered and almost fell into the water.Fortunately, he saw the opportunity very quickly, and stepped hard on the board with his right foot.Hearing a "hiss", his feet rubbed against the board of the ship for half a step, and most of his body was out of the side of the ship, and then he stabilized his figure.

The boatman was prepared for a long time, not only stood still, but when he saw Li Qiufeng fall to the bow, he stretched out his hand to hold Li Qiufeng's back shirt, and helped Li Qiufeng stand firm.

Li Qiufeng groaned inwardly ashamed, turned to the boatman and said, "Uncle, what happened ahead?"

The boatman looked nervous, still staring straight ahead, and said in a trembling voice: "Damn, what a lunatic! The water marks separating the water flow are narrowing, and this is because the boat in front is slowing down! If we still don't care Walk forward, you have to bump into it!"

Only then did Li Qiufeng understand why he asked the boatman to lower the sails. He thought to himself that the Dongchang boat had slowed down, so it was natural to besiege it.With Master around, no matter how powerful the enemy is, there is nothing to fear.It's just that the boatman and the two boatmen don't know martial arts. If they fight against Dongchang's masters later, they have to think of a proper way to prevent these three people from being injured by Dongchang's fanzi.

At this moment, one could already see a flash of fire not far ahead, and later, there were dots of fire in front of his eyes, less than ten feet away from the big boat that Li Qiufeng and others were on.

The boatman was extremely astonished, and while cursing in his mouth, he ran back under the mast.He stuffed the lantern into the hands of the boatman, reached out to take the sail rope, and kept shaking the half-down sail left and right.With every shake he made, the ship tipped slightly to left or right.Li Qiufeng saw that although the boatman had never practiced martial arts, he was standing on the big boat that was bumping up and down and shaking from side to side, although his body could not help shaking up and down with the boat, but his feet were extremely stable, he secretly admired him.

(End of this chapter)