Lan Ruochan

Chapter 349
The mainmast of the ship is broken,
Fortunately, the mast was not completely broken, but was caught between the two secondary masts, just in the middle.

However, the two sub-masts were also deflected because of this, and there were obviously cracks.

Sanji looked up with his dark circles open, and spat heavily,
"The sail can't be hoisted!
There is no way to repair it now, so I need to find a place to go to the shore to find some materials.

It seems that we are going to float to Qingzhou with bare poles.

It must be a few days later than the original plan. "

Sauron walked over dejectedly,
"A few days later? I'm afraid I won't be able to drift to Qingzhou!

The connecting rod of the main rudder is broken, and the direction cannot be controlled.

Let it be fate. "

Luffy drooped his head and said nothing.

On his first long journey, the maiden voyage of a new ship that fell into the water, such a situation unexpectedly appeared.

In the vast sea, drifting with the waves, whether you can touch the shore alive or not depends on God's arrangement.

But he can't panic, he is the master of the ship, the boss in the eyes of his brothers, and the backbone of the fleet!

No matter what situation arises, he must carry it.

Only when he carries it first, can the brothers hope to share the burden together.

"Zoro, how much food and water did we bring when we set off?"

"Boss, there was enough food for 20 days when we left Hong Kong. The water in the cistern was also enough to drink.

But last night the cabin was flooded with seawater, and it was all polluted.

Just counted, the available food can last about five days, drinking water... hard to say..."

Luffy nodded,

"In the past few days, everyone has been given a fixed amount of food, which is [-]% according to the usual standard.

All living creatures are killed today to reduce consumption and the possibility of infection.

Seal all the meat and catch some fish, so the food should last at least ten days, right? "

Sauron couldn't help nodding,

"It's okay to last for fifteen days. Fish sticks are delicious, and you won't get tired of eating three meals a day, hahaha~"

His laughter was quite bitter, and after a moment of dry laughter, several sailors also laughed.

In the end, everyone laughed loudly, as if they had heard some good news...

Sanji wiped the corners of his eyes secretly, but didn't say much.

Luffy continued to make arrangements,

"Everyone minimizes activity and organizes into three groups.

Two groups rest every day, one group goes fishing and gazes at the stars.

Now our key problem is the water source, and we must find a way to solve it. "

"Maybe I have a way."

Qingyun stood up at this moment.

"Do you have a solution?"

Luffy could hardly believe his ears.

Although it was his first time to go to sea, since he was a child, he lived on the water for a living, and he did not know how many times he had traveled to Haikou, so he still had a lot of sailing experience.

Ke Qingyun is a real landlubber. It was the first time he saw what the sea looked like, and he actually had a way?

"That's right, I've heard of a method that Wei Di used to purify spirits.

It should also be possible to borrow to filter out the salt in the water. "

There is not enough fuel on board, and there is no professional distillation device like Quan Shen Yi, but it can still be distilled and purified by exposing the pottery urn to the method of making white fall wine.

The most indispensable thing at sea is sun exposure, as long as the weather is fine, the sun is more poisonous than fire.

Qingyun asked Sauron to fetch bamboo pipes from earthen pots, filled the earthen pots with domestic water polluted by seawater, sealed all the outlets, and led only one bamboo pipe into the cabin, and connected it with a large urn.

"Can this work?"

Luffy asked curiously.

"It's definitely feasible, but I don't know how fast it is, whether it's enough for the people on board."

"Sauron, go and get all the earthen pots that can be used on the boat. I'll see how much fresh water can be produced today."

The sky is also beautiful, and the sun is shining every day.

The water in the small jar is filled when it is empty, and the water in the large urn is filled when it is full.

The fresh water obtained this day is basically enough for the crew to use for two or three days.

But this method cannot be used at night, and it cannot be used on cloudy days. It is purely relying on God to reward food.

So Luffy ordered a group of sailors to collect water on sunny days to ensure the water supply.

In this way, it seems that the supply problem has been temporarily resolved.

It depends on where God wants to abduct them.

Coincidentally, exactly [-] days later, the watchman on the deck caught a black line on the sea level and shouted excitedly!
Sanji was alarmed, he climbed up the mast with two long legs, unexpectedly, the monkey-like Luffy was faster than him, and jumped directly onto the tallest secondary mast.

"Land! It's really land! Sauron, put down the traction raft and pilot it manually!"

Sauron immediately brought his team to fetch two bamboo rafts and threw them into the sea.

Forty sailors jumped into the sea one after another, tied the raft to the broken rudder, and then began to paddle vigorously, pulling the entire giant ship to guide it.

Pulling the huge ship with a flat boat is like pulling an elephant with a dog. All the sailors exhausted all their strength, chanted, and moved the oars like flying, but the huge ship just shook its body and deflected slightly.

Just like this, the rhythm of Sauron's team's shouting was obviously full after a stick of incense.

"Sanji, replace it." Luffy ordered.

Sanji's team immediately got ready and jumped into the water.

Another stick of incense passed, and Luffy led the others to jump down.

The vast sea is ruthless, and several crew members collapsed from exhaustion, cramped in the sea, and disappeared after a wave.

The sailors seemed to be used to this kind of thing, their expressions were all numb, but the tears on their faces were already wet...

The mournful ballads sounded in unison,

That is the battle song that the sailors sang to the sea and sky!
You are strong and you are strong, I am neither humble nor arrogant, neither happy nor sad!
Witnessing Haitian's ruthlessness, Qingyun's emotions were drawn, and he sang along with the crowd.

Although the words and music are mixed with Korean local accents, he can't fully understand them, but as long as he opens his voice to follow the rhythm, he can express his ideas naturally.

The three groups of people alternated like this for seven or eight rounds, and finally the land was no longer a thin line on the horizon, and the shadows of sand, stones and trees gradually became clear.

Sanji set up a pergola and stared, only to see a high mountain with clouds, the top of which seemed to occupy the center of the field of vision.

He sighed, and said to Luffy beside him,
"It looks like an island formed by a volcano. Although the island is not small, it is much larger than the city of Pyongyang by visual inspection.

But it is difficult to determine whether there are residents and sufficient supplies on the island. "

Sanji has gone out to sea, and Luffy believes in his judgment, but there is no other way but to go to the island.

At least they had to find suitable wood and repair the rudder and mainmast before they could hope to cross the vast sea.

The boat was getting closer to the island, and Qingyun's eyesight was stronger than the others, so he was the first to scream,
"Someone! There is someone on the island!

so many people!They are all watching us! "

When Luffy heard about it, he quickly climbed up to the mast to distinguish carefully,
"There are people! There are people on the island! We are saved!"

When everyone heard the good news, they immediately regained their strength, and the speed of the boat seemed to speed up a bit.

The distant mountains are getting higher and higher, the islands are getting closer, and the figures are getting clearer and clearer.

Luffy stood at the bow of the ship and shouted in Goryeo.

The crowd on the island erupted, and then someone called out to respond.

"The accent still has a Japanese taste."

Sanji commented.

Sauron didn't think so,
"Hey~ Baekje people speak with a Japanese accent. Our ancestors all spoke Wuyue language. There is nothing to argue about."

"""""Knock on the blackboard time"""""

Many sea creatures appear in this section.

There was a popular saying on the Internet from the media that there were very few studies on marine life in ancient China, and there were almost no related monographs, mainly because the ancient Chinese were not a seafaring nation...

Shut up!

People who think that the ancients knew little about marine life are mainly because their knowledge of classical Chinese is really poor.Just like "Qi Min Yao Shu", there are hundreds of kinds of vegetables clearly recorded, but it is precisely because people today do not know them and cannot correspond them one-to-one with modern crops.It’s like we cited many Chinese characters next to the leather characters in “Erya” as examples when we traced the origin of the harness. Many ancient characters have no authoritative correspondence in the current Chinese language.You think that the ancients knew little about marine life because you didn't understand it at all.

After the vernacular became popular in modern China, all species were renamed.Especially marine fishes are all transliterated according to the Western taxonomy.And does the ancient nomenclature still exist?Of course, there are still relatively complete reservations in Japan, a maritime neighbor.In Japanese, there are many kanji next to roe.These characters are already rare characters in modern Chinese, but they are authentic ancient characters from the Central Plains, which were gradually introduced to Japan.

Let’s take the most common example first. Sushi (すし) has three Chinese characters written in Japanese—sushi, 鮨, and 鲊. Why?If you ask your Japanese teacher about this, they can't tell you, because they don't understand it either.Who can tell you about this?Books of ancient Chinese characters.Sushi, "Shuowen" fish sauce also. "Erya" fish is called scorpion, which belongs to the genus of bream.In other words, 鮨 is a fish meat topping, which is the same thing as bream.Fish is pickled fish.

When did such a thing as sushi appear?Su Shi of the Song Dynasty said in "Chou Chi's Notes Panyou Fangu Dong Geng": People in the south of the Yangtze River are good at making panyou rice, and there are all kinds of preserved fish, which are buried in the rice.That is to say, people in the south of the Yangtze River like to bury the fish meat cover in the rice and eat it. You fight hard and taste it carefully.

The whale of the whale, the eel of the eel, these are also Chinese characters.

And tuna, that is, tuna, many people think that this is the name defined by the Japanese, of course not. "Shuowen": Tuna is shaped like a squid and black.The head is small and pointed.Like an iron pocket.The mouth is also under the jaw.Its armor can be rubbed with ginger.That is to say, tuna is blue and black, with a small and pointed head, like an iron helmet, with a mouth under the chin, and hard skin, which can be used as a ginger rubbing board.The biggest commonality between this fish and tuna is the head iron.In addition, "Shuowen" also gives the classification of tuna. The largest one is called king tuna, which is a sea fish that haunts Donglai and Liaodong, and is also called Weiyu.The meat of this type of fish is usually not as tasty as that of bream.

What kind of fish is a scorpion?There is no such word in Japanese, but if you want to know the exact explanation, you can only consult ancient Chinese books. "Lu Ji" says: "Snake comes out of the river and sea, and comes up from the bottom of the river in the middle of March. It looks like a dragon, with a sharp head, a mouth under the chin, and armor on the back and abdomen."Today, it is taken from the moraine in the east of Mengjin. The big one is more than a thousand catties, and it can be steamed into meat.This kind of fish is obviously sharp-billed hairtail.The ancients classified sea fish very meticulously.

Another example is that the small mullet fish is called 鰡 in Japanese, and this word first appeared in "Guangyun". "Short Notes on Yizhou Fangwu": raw Kuma Seto, shaped like a scorpion, no more than five inches in size, delicious, and cherished by Shu people.It can be seen that in ancient times, 鰡 also referred to a small fish.

Many people believe that the names of fish species that are not included in the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" are Chinese characters created by Japan.This is too injustice, where is the "Modern Chinese Dictionary"?The vernacular killed many proper nouns in ancient times.

There are many characters whose ancient meanings are similar to Japanese modern meanings.

For example, 鯯, also known as 鰶, is the current herring. "Erya": It is called tasting 魬.According to Song's "Ji Xue Ji Wen", this fish is used for bibimbap in the southeast coast.

Scorpio, first seen in "Baopuzi", "Guang Yun" and "Ji Yun" called it a sea fish, shaped like a whip.Today smoke pipe fish.Also used with and to refer to octopus.

Eel, "Tiaoxi Yuyin Cong Hua" eel eel, also known as sweet fish.Sweet eel too.

鯱, the auspicious beast in the sea that appeared in "Historical Records": So the dragon and the red chi, the 鲠鰽螹失, the cloak, the bighead, and the Yuyu 鱋, with fins and tails, scales and wings, dive in deep rocks.

鮏, today it is fishy, ​​and "Shuowen" also smells like fish.

Catfish, now known as catfish, this way of writing is still used in Japan.

Sea bream, "Shuowen" and "Erya" are all included. This fish is native to the coastal waters of China.

Tai, published in "Guangyun" and "Jade Pian", is a legendary fish, and the real fish species are lost in both China and Japan.

鱆, out of "Zihuibu", another way of writing octopus.

鰙, the ancient books of the Song Dynasty "Xihu Laoren Fanshenglu" and "Menglianglu" collectively call 鰙鲞, which belongs to the category of 鲞.It is a flounder.Modern Japan has inherited this appellation.

鮗, this word comes from "Zi Zhi Tong Jian Zhu", which is a long white fish with a headband named after it.

Gum, also published in "Zizhi Tongjian Notes" with gangrene, is a kind of mangy fish.

鯠, 顡, 鱓... are included in "Shuowen" and "Erya",...there are too many such examples to list them all.

The above-mentioned characters include many mainstream freshwater and seawater fish. These characters were clearly named in ancient China. How can it be said that ancient China did not understand marine life?
Japan is a big aquatic country, do they have their own Chinese characters?There are, but not many, to give a few examples.

Bonito, this character is an ancient Chinese character, but its use in modern Japanese is different from that recorded in calligraphy.The Japanese borrowed the meaning of firm to describe the hardest food in the world...dried bonito, which is very appropriate.But this nomenclature is still inseparable from the philosophy of Chinese characters.

Another example is 鯲, the word was created in Japan, and it is used to refer to loach.

Things like 鱩, 鰰, and thunder god fish involve cultural traditions.But we can all understand the created characters.

However, there are many fish characters in ancient China, but not in modern Japanese.For example, we mentioned "鲠鰽螹失, 鰤鰽鱋魠, Yuyu鱋魶" in the "鯱" note. There are also a large number of rare words next to the word "fish" in "Erya·Shiyu".

What kind of fish these words refer to, sorry, I don’t know, and no modern expert dares to jump out and say that he can be right because of lack of evidence.But this at least shows that the ancients' research on fish was not blank, but it was impossible to accurately make modern counterparts.

Anything with pictures is easy to talk about.The first atlas of marine life in my country is the "Atlas of Sea Cuo" in the Qing Dynasty, which explains marine life with both pictures and texts.Many people take this book as the origin of Chinese marine life cognition, which is actually incorrect.Because when the interpretation of fish was passed down to the Qing Dynasty, there were not many left.Many Chinese rulers came from the grasslands (as mentioned above, except for the Song and Ming Dynasties, the royal lineage was not very pure after the Five Chaos of China), the Wuyue people were gradually marginalized, and the marine culture was indeed showing a retrogressive trend.If the judge doesn't believe it, let's talk about dolphins.

The "Atlas" mentioned a creature called the lazy fish, which can basically match the current dolphins.The saying of lazy fish has existed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Ren Shentong's "Shu Yi Ji" said: There is a lazy fish in Huainan. The common saying is that Yang's housewife was angered by her aunt. She drowned and died as a fish. Its fat is flammable Candles.Lazy fish is used to describe a big fish that is thick and fat, and it is originally from the river.In the eyes of the author of "Atlas", the lazy fish is a kind of aquatic creature similar to pigs, so it is also called dolphin.Similar to puffer fish.

But there is a big problem with the quotations. The puffer fish is famous not because it looks like a pig.Puffer fish, originally written puffer fish, its name is 鯸. "Bo Ya": 鯸, pufferfish also. "Lei Pian": The back is blue and the abdomen is white, and it is angry when touched, and its liver kills people.The ancients have highly summarized the habits and poisonous parts of puffer fish.At that time, only a few southerners ate this food, and most people dared not eat it.According to "Kongshu": the humble beast is a dolphin.Fugu cannot be eaten, so it is called dolphin.People's big name is 鯸. "Shuowen": 鯸, both fish, mackerel fish vulgar word.According to "Erya", mackerel is also a sea fish. "Shuowen" mackerel, a sea fish, is now the puffer fish.Taken together, what they are trying to convey is that mackerel is a fish of the genus Dolphin in the sea, that is, a dolphin.This article says that the male dolphin is called mackerel arowana and the female is called slut fish, which is the reason.According to ancient records, mackerel has a bowed back, so people are ninety and have a backed mackerel (hunchback "Er Ya Shi Ming"), which is also in line with the image of dolphins.It shows that the ancients knew about dolphins.

In the same way, sharks were called sharks in ancient times.The ancients knew for a long time that shark skin is waterproof, and the shark skin (shark skin) is used to separate water.Later, some people woven silk fabrics densely in an attempt to imitate the luster of shark skin, and at the same time, the water resistance was improved because of the fine stitches. This shark-skin-like fabric is called shark skin.The so-called "tears are red and silky through the shark" in Li Yu's words is true.

Dolphins, known as the Teddy in the sea, hate the sky and the earth.It is not impossible to attack the white shark.Female dolphins are also good at art, and some people even...um, cough, no, I can't write.If you write again, we will accept it here.

(End of this chapter)