v2 Chapter 173： Poetry

Zhang Heng returned to the captain's room on the Jackdaw and wiped the rain on his head with a towel, while Annie on the other side changed her clothes neatly.

Zhang Heng poured a glass of rum to warm up the red-haired girl, and then he drank a glass of himself. This wine is standard for sailors, but the taste is not very good, although it is sugar cane. The juice is brewed, but some are bitter. It is not as good as wine and brandy, but it is cheaper and has a longer shelf life than fresh water.

Generally, the barrel water on the boat will become difficult to drink after one month, and various plankton will grow in it, but rum can be stored for one or two years, which is a must-have on the boat.

At the end of a cup, Zhang Heng's stomach immediately raised a warmth, but then there was a knock at the door.

Billy came in with a somewhat cramped young man.

"This is Mr. Vincent," the helmsman gave a brief introduction. "I showed the crew on the note you gave me, and we had good luck. Mr. Vincent knew the one above. Text. "

Zhang Heng also recognized the other party. He was the ship doctor who got on board this time and was recruited by Billy himself, but he seemed to prefer botany. He was hijacked by a group of pirates during the research on the ship and forced to become the other party. The doctor of the ship, a year later, disbanded the pirates and joined another pirate regiment. Vincent recovered his freedom, but had to stay on the island because he was afraid that his pirate experience would be pulled out.

He lives next door to Billy and usually makes money by keeping books in places such as taverns. After Billy's persuasion, he finally decides to follow the Jackdaw again to the sea.

"This is a cargo list, but it is written in Dutch. It records the cargo carried by a ship on each voyage. It is quite common, such as cotton, woolen cloth, or wood." Young This is the first time the ship doctor has spoken to the captain, and he seems a little nervous. He was worried that Zhang Heng did not believe his words and explained, "My father is Scottish, but my mother is Dutch. I lived in the Netherlands for a while, so Some Dutch.

"What about these?" Zhang Heng also gave Vincent two other notes.

Annie was about to leave, but stopped at this time. She was curious about the strange missing crew members on the ship, and wanted to know what happened to them.

The young ship doctor took the notes, opened one of them, and was a little unsure after reading two pages, "This should be ... a collection of poems."

"Poems?"

"Yeah, and it's a love poem." Vincent turned a few more pages. "Most of them were written to a woman named Betty, but the level was not good. I still saw someone use storm to describe myself for the first time. Lover, and most of them are described ... very explicit. "

The young ship doctor blushed after speaking.

"Can you read one for us?"

"Oh, okay ... okay, no problem." Vincent glanced at Annie aside, the red-haired girl didn't respond at all,

The young boat doctor turned it over and found one that looked good and cleared his throat. "Betty, my lover, I praise you, I adore you, you are the storm, you are my master, you His chest is like the fruit of a crooked branch \\ Your ... well, your legs are like a valley flowing with honey \\ ...... "When you read here, Vincent's forehead also sweated, he Can not help but loosen his collar, looked up and asked Zhang Heng, "Should I read on?"

"Now that you have read here ..."

"Okay," the young boat doctor touched the hot ears, and continued, "wrap me with your own body, whisper in my ear, whisper, let me fly, and I'm so in love You're desperate, better than your own soul. I'm willing to be with you all my life ... I'm not behind. "Vincent said," If you like Dutch poetry, I can find much better than that. "

The young doctor finished talking but found that all three people in the room looked at himself, so he obediently picked up the third note, and after a while, said, "This one looks like a record of their supply in various ports. Above, Port names, dates, supply statistics. "

"So there is no captain's log in it?"

"I don't think I've seen anything like this." Vincent shook his head.

"Did you forget to take it?" Annie asked.

"It's unlikely. I checked all the books in the room, including the books that fell to the floor. Except for the three books, which were not handwritten, they were all prints."

Zhang Heng asked the young boat doctor again, "Are these three notes handwritten?"

"There are two copies that are similar. The inventory and supply records are different. The love poems are not the same." Vincent rummaged again and then affirmed, "Yes, these three notes should come from two people."

Billy said, "The first two are generally the bookkeeper's job. Unfortunately, we can't find out what the captain's log is about on that ship."

As soon as his words fell, he heard Vincent suddenly say, "Wait, it's a little strange here."

The young ship doctor still had the last supply record in his hand, and a look of doubt appeared on his face. "I know these two ports, they are quite far away. It took me a month to spend a month with my brother. Time ~ www.novelhall.com ~ How could the time between their two replenishments be less than fifteen days apart? This should be faster than nine knots. Was there such a fast cargo ship in that era? "

"In the state of that ship, sailing at full speed should be almost achieved." Billy said, "But in reality, this is impossible at all. The wind is just at the same level for fifteen days. It doesn't break the mast and it just provides the maximum speed required for sailing. It's almost as likely as a thousand gold coins to fall in front of you. "

"But it seems that the captain of that ship did not think so."

Vincent pointed to the above line and wrote, "They only replenished fresh water and food for about sixteen days at the first port, and they were only one and a half minutes behind the last."

"Ha, no wonder they had an accident in the end."

"But when we got on board, their supplies were still abundant. Obviously, the ship was not caused by the captain's arrogance." Zhang Hengdao, then contrasted with Lee, "I remember Zhang Gengquan's navigation chart on the ship. Let's find it out, let Vincent see if he can mark the ports it calls along the way and calculate its average speed so that we know if his previous sailing time was unexpected. "