"What's so rare about this? Let Uncle Lin take you there."
"He doesn't have time, and he can't stay away from the factory for even a day. Originally, he promised to take me on a trip around the island to collect several rare plant specimens." Sonia rolled up her golden curls with her fingers in boredom, "I will participate in the whole trip I went on several expeditions to barbarian mountainous areas, and then took a boat trip to Dongsha Island.”
"Is that called Li District? Don't call others barbarians so casually..."
"Really? I think they are not civilized people from any angle." Sonia didn't care about this, and was not as "politically correct" as her children and grandchildren in another time and space.
"It would be great if the remote exploration team could recruit you." Qian Duoduo said, "But this requires Uncle Lin's consent."
"What is a remote exploration team?"
"They run around in the wild every day, collecting specimens from the Three Realms. It must be in line with your interests."
"Yeah," Sonia said with great interest, "I know, but one of them is a person who does evil things, and working with him..." She didn't go on, probably because she felt that she could make such a comment in her own capacity. A senator is inappropriate.
Lin Ziqi was a little confused as to what "committing sinful things" meant. Qian Duoduo knew that this was Cui Yunhong from the exploration team. He had three or four male secretaries, one of whom was an extremely handsome Caucasian boy that Quark bought from Basra, and he lived a happy life.
"You like science, don't you? He does too. And he has far more natural history knowledge than your master." Qian Duoduo said, "What does it matter if he likes men or women?"
"No, this is something God doesn't like..." Sonia is still very firm in her faith.
The topic fell into silence again, and Lin Ziqi decided to change the topic: "Sonia, you are Portuguese, right?"
"Yes, my hometown is Cascais (asais) on the outskirts of Lisbon. My father is a respectable gentleman, and my family lineage can be traced back to the year 1147, when the Crusaders recovered Lisbon. From the Basques, she was a knight. As for my mother, she was from the English nobility."
Lin Ziqi was not interested in her family background. She asked: "I just find it a bit strange. In my impression, Portuguese and Spanish people all have black hair and black eyes. How can you have blond hair and blue eyes?"
Sonia looked at her strangely: "Dear lady, have you met many people from the Peninsula?"
"I must have seen a few." Lin Ziqi said vaguely. To be honest, her impression came from watching TV. In Lingao, besides Mendoza, there were several Spanish naturalized people.
"Your impression is accurate. But I inherited my hair color from my mother. As I said just now: my mother was born into a British aristocracy. She has beautiful blond hair."
"I see." Lin Ziqi thought that she was quite pitiful. She was kidnapped thousands of miles away and became Uncle Lin's little wife, and she couldn't help but sympathize with her. "Is she okay?"
"She was called by the Lord a long time ago." Sonia said this without any sadness. Human life in this time and space is very fragile, and everyone has been accustomed to death since childhood.
"What about your father?" Lin Ziqi's heart for gossip became very active.
"He is probably running a plantation in a certain general's jurisdiction in Brazil, or he may be on a certain Galen ship crossing the Atlantic." Sonia frowned and made the sign of the cross, "Maybe he has arrived at God's side - we We haven’t seen each other in years. The last time I received a letter from him, he was in Brazil.”
Lin Ziqi's sympathy flared up again: Although this Portuguese lady was reduced to a slave, she talked about her family background with great clarity and an air of arrogance that could not be concealed. However, the family has long been torn apart.
"You said you were captured while on an expedition to the sea. Didn't your father dissuade you? It's too dangerous for a girl to go to sea alone."
"Ah, he doesn't care about this. First of all, I have many brothers and sisters, maybe ten if you don't count my father's illegitimate children." Sonia said nonchalantly, "Secondly, our family has been in the family since the time of His Royal Highness Prince Henry the Navigator. He was a seaman. On our family grave in the church there is an inscription: The sea is our grave."
Lin Ziqi had nothing to say. She really felt that she could not understand people in this time and space: they were so indifferent to death and family affection.
Suddenly, she saw a bicycle approaching slowly on the path in the distance, and the person on the car was Zhang Yunmi.
She rode slowly and leisurely, not in a hurry, as if she was enjoying the sea breeze and sunshine. The white shirt flutters with the sea breeze, and the navy blue skirt lifts up from time to time with the pedals, exposing a little bit of thigh... The bicycle is passing through the coconut grove, with the sea and beach next to it. Looking at it, it looks like a scene in a youth movie.
Lin Ziqi sighed slightly: Although she was a woman, she couldn't help but feel the love welling up in her chest. She quickly stood up and waved at Zhang Yunmi.
Zhang Yunmi also waved to her, stepped hard on her feet a few times, and then drove all the way over. The tires slid briskly across the cinder road, mixed with the squeaking sound of friction between sand grains, and stopped at the moment when the wheels were about to run off the road. She jumped out of the car briskly and walked over holding the faucet.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm late." Zhang Yunmi said with a smile, setting up his bicycle, "This is Sonia!"
Sonia didn't expect the other party to recognize her, so she quickly curtsied and saluted again.
"Don't be so polite, I'm Zhang Yunmi." Zhang Yunmi waved his hand, "Duoduo, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Can we start now?"
"Don't be so anxious, you can have a drink first." Qian Duoduo took out a bottle of kvass, and several girls gathered together and started chattering.
Zhang Yunmi is a very enthusiastic and contagious guy. His appearance is of the fresh type. He is neither tall nor short at 160cm tall. He has a well-proportioned figure and long black hair. In the old time and space, he could be called a beauty.
Judging from her cheerful appearance, she seemed to have no family troubles at all. Could it be that his father was exaggerating? While he was thinking wildly, Qian Duoduo had already started preparing everyone to go into the water.
This kind of small boat itself is very light. In the United States, it is usually mounted directly on the trailer frame. When it reaches the beach, it can be pushed directly into the sea using the slide rail. Loading the truck means dragging it up with a vehicle-mounted winch - if you are strong enough, you can also load the truck manually.
Qian Duoduo's method is similar, with wheels installed under the boat frame. She asked everyone to pull out the surrounding fixed stakes one by one, and took out the anti-slip blocks under the wheels.
"Let's all push hard together." As Qian Duoduo shouted, the five girls pushed hard together, and the boat frame carried the boat and began to roll forward on the cinder road.
Although the wheels are made of wood, the bearings are made of iron and use ball bearings. Qian Duoduo provided sufficient lubrication beforehand. Apart from a slight difficulty when starting, it was effortless to push it.
"Don't use too much force, use it slowly!" Qian Duoduo directed while pushing.
The boat frame rolled steadily and evenly, and soon arrived at the expected launch location: a beach. Qian Duoduo has made preparations here: a wooden platform, two long logs used as chutes and a barrel of tar.
After the boat frame was parked, everyone was busy again, installing the fixing piles and anti-sliding blocks one by one. Lin Ziqi wanted to be lazy and suggested to install the slider, but Qian Duoduo rejected it:
"Safety procedures cannot be changed casually. Otherwise something will happen."
"You are just a little kid." Zhang Yunmi said.
"You said that kid is big!" Qian Duoduo was very dissatisfied, "I'm not a kid!"
"Okay, you look like a leader..."
"How about calling it leadership?"
Following Qian Duoduo's instructions, several people fixed the two chute wooden slants on the ship frame and inserted one end into the shoal. Seeing Qian Duoduo and Zhong Xiaoying running to the beach and then back into the shallow water, busy, Lin Ziqi quickly said: "Let me help." She took off her shoes as she said so. , Sonia also wants to follow.
"Don't be busy. You are dressed so beautifully. If you get tarred, you will be ruined!" Qian Duoduo put his hands on his hips, "We will be fine in a minute."
Zhang Yunmi said: "I'll do it."
Before Qian Duoduo could object, she took off her skirt. Lin Ziqi almost screamed, but fortunately, she was wearing a swimming suit underneath.
"What are you doing with that expression?" Zhang Yunmi smiled slightly, "Don't worry, I'm not that bold." After saying that, she took off her shirt, stuffed it into Lin Ziqi's hands, and ran down to set up the chute. .
After the chute was set up, Qian Duoduo and Zhong Xiaoying smeared tar on it before running up: "Untie the straps! Start from No. 1 in order!"
The boat is fixed to the boat frame with ropes. In order to prevent accidental falls and injuries during transportation and erection of the chute, it is not untied until the last step.
The boat, which had been untied, was still firmly parked on the frame. Qian Duoduo asked everyone to insert crowbars on the sides, one per person, and when they were about to pry hard, Qian Duoduo suddenly remembered something:
"Wait, I forgot!"
"Forgot something?"
"What a naming formula!" As she said this, she ran under the shed and brought coconuts and colored balls. She hung the colored balls on the bow of the boat, then imitated what she read in the book, held up the coconut and said loudly:
"Unclassified sailing yacht Ogura/Started construction on April 1, 1633/Commissioned today/It is hereby named/May 10, 1634/Captain Qian Duoduo."
After saying that, she threw the coconut towards the bow of the boat. The coconut hit the iron-clad bow and broke into several pieces. The fragments flew directly into the hair of Lin Ziqi and others, causing them to scream. screamed.
