"Tang Ping, are you okay? You won't die so soon, right?"
Tang Ping looked at Zhen Yougan holding up the big fish in his hand and chose to destroy it.
As soon as he threw away the stick in his hand, he lay down directly on his back on the beach.
It has to be said that everyone has their own unique talents. For example, Zhen Youqian never expected that this guy's talent point was actually focused on foraging.
From the moment he screamed when he was frightened by a snake, in less than half a month, he could already use a sharpened wooden stick to accurately insert fish from the shallows of the island.
In the beginning, Tang Ping and he were evenly matched, but now, there was no hope of winning at all.
This also made Zhen Youqian particularly shy in front of Tang Ping.
"Okay, Prince, you are so awesome, will you come for today's lunch?"
"Uh..." After hearing Tang Ping's words, Zhen Youqian immediately put on a smile: "Ping Guogong, didn't you say that? This island does not support idlers. You see, I caught so many fish, so today's It’s up to you to have lunch.”
It's not that he really wanted to give in, but he also tried to get food once, and the result was that both of them were hungry that night.
As he spoke, he came to Tang Ping's side and stretched out a hand.
Tang Ping took his hand and stood up. Within a few days, the skin of both of them began to turn dark, and they had long lost their former charm.
But they are pretty lucky. There is a shoal near the island. After the tide rises, a lot of fish and sea creatures will swim here, so the two of them have no shortage of food now, plus there are two more in the past few days. It rained a little, allowing them to save some fresh water.
The two people, who had no worries about food and drink, had gone from being eager to leave at the beginning to becoming somewhat content with the situation.
Anyway, both of them knew that their men would definitely find them, so as long as they didn't die on a desert island, it would only be a matter of time before they were found.
Tang Ping tore the mushrooms he found after the rain into strips and put them into a simple stone pot.
I don’t know how this stone grew. There was a big pit in the middle. Tang Ping polished it with another stone, and it became the current stone pot. Although it is not very easy to use, it can at least be used for cooking. .
Zhen Yougan has also become proficient in using a knife sharpened from a shell to disembowel the fish and carefully place the internal organs. These things can be used to lure some sea creatures over.
The two prepared fish were put into the stone pot and cooked with mushrooms. This was their lunch today.
While waiting, the two played a game of backgammon with branches on one side.
Go is a kind of torture for Zhen Youqian, but this simple backgammon makes him like it very much.
In addition, Tang Ping and he were at the same level, so the two of them could always go back and forth.
"Hey, this step doesn't count, it doesn't count!" Tang Ping found that Zhen Youqian had doubled three by accident. He picked up the branch and was about to erase the step he had just drawn an x on.
"Ahem, Duke Ping, who said yesterday that you won't regret your mistakes?" Zhen You stood in front of him with a branch.
"Tch... I just didn't notice it for a moment. Okay, the fish is almost done, I have learned the dialect." After saying that, Tang Ping stood up and stretched his legs, which completely messed up the chess game between the two.
Zhen Youqian didn't care, since both of them knew that he won this round.
Tang Ping carefully opened the lid on a coconut. Inside was salt boiled over the past few days. He reached in, twisted some, and sprinkled it directly into the pot.
The two of them didn't care about anything now. They stirred the pot twice, then each of them clamped one piece on the leaves and started eating.
"It's not going to rain again this afternoon, is it?"
"Who can predict this day?" Tang Ping looked up at the gloomy weather. It was because there was no sun today that the two of them went out to catch fish in the morning, otherwise a layer of their skin would be burned off.
For example, the sun was too strong yesterday, so the two of them had smoked fish for lunch. Tang Ping smoked the extra fish when he was boiling salt.
"Hey, I never thought fish was delicious before, but I didn't expect that I still don't get tired of it after eating it for so many days."
"That's because you have never eaten delicious food. The fish cooked by my little cook Xiao Luo is delicious. Whether it is Tai'an fish, squirrel fish or boiled fish, they are all top-notch delicious. Next time..." said Tang Ping has a meal here.
"Okay, next time I go to Chang'an, ask your little cook to prepare a table for me." Zhen Yougan said as if he didn't know anything.
"okay!"
After eating the fish, Zhen Yougan used shells to get a large bowl of fish soup. After drinking it, he lay comfortably by the tree.
"Hey, you said I was like a waste before, and I was almost the same on this island, but why do you think it's more interesting here now?"
"Hypocritical!" Tang Ping ignored him, washed the tableware with sea water, then came back and got into his shack.
"I'm taking a nap, don't disturb me, or I'll beat you up!"
The two of them now have a small shack of their own. Zhen Yougan was so dishonest when sleeping. Tang Ping was almost kicked out by him on the first night, and the first shack was almost destroyed.
In Zhen Youqian's words, it turns out that the bed he slept on was at least three or four meters wide. How had he ever slept in such a small place?
So the next day Tang Ping set about building a small shack for himself.
"Why do you sleep so much throughout the day?" Contrary to Tang Ping, Zhen Youqian was full of energy. Tang Ping was about to take a nap, and he became bored again alone.
"Hey, what's my name?"
"Tang Ping!"
"That's right. You see, my name is already mentioned. My name is Lieping. Of course I have to lie down. This person is already lying down. Why don't you sleep?"
After Tang Ping finished speaking, he ignored him and turned to sleep. Zhen Yougan pulled a few grass blades, kneaded them into small grass balls, and threw them to Tang Ping.
Although it accurately hit Tang Ping's shack, because it was made of grass, it bounced off again quietly.
As if he had discovered a new world, Zhen Yougan pulled up all the grass around him, then formed small grass balls and began to pretend to attack Tang Ping.
The sound of the system suddenly appeared in Tang Ping's mind while he was sleeping: "Signal source detected."
Tang Ping sat up suddenly because he didn't get out of his little shack first and even damaged the shack.
Zhen Yougan was startled, and the hand holding the straw ball subconsciously hid behind his back: "I...I didn't bother you!"
Tang Ping glanced at him with complicated eyes and said quietly: "My people are here."
Zhen Yougan's eyes narrowed, he stood up and looked outside the island, and saw several large ships appearing in the field of vision in the distance, but the flags of the Wei Kingdom were hung on them.
"Haha, what a coincidence, my Great Wei Navy is here too."
Both of them fell into silence, and suddenly Zhen Yougan grabbed the wooden stick he used to fish.
The sharpened tip was pressed against Tang Ping's throat, and the dark red fish blood left behind entered Tang Ping's nose with a fishy smell.
Tang Ping didn't speak, just took a step to the side, but Zhen Yougan's wooden tip was still pointing at Tang Ping's throat.
"Ping Guo Gong, I said that when I can kill you, I will spare your life. Now I have fulfilled my promise."
After saying that, Zhen Yougan took back the wooden stick in his hand: "But you and I can never live in peace, so next time, I won't be merciful."
"To each other, I will spare your life now! We are even."
"Hey, this is boring for you, Tang Ping." Zhen Youqian said with some dissatisfaction: "It was clearly your life in my hands just now, why did you let me live?"
"Oh, when you pointed your broken stick at me just now, if I hadn't taken a step to block you, you would have been killed by my men."
As he spoke, Tang Ping raised his hand and made a shooting motion at a coconut next to him.
Before Zhen Yougan could figure out what it meant, he heard a popping sound, and the coconut and branches that Tang Ping pointed at exploded.
The wood chips and the coconut juice in them exploded in the air, flying everywhere.
Then Zhen Yougan heard a thunderous sound coming from far behind Tang Ping.
When Zhen Yougan took action just now, if Tang Ping hadn't blocked him, Xue Rengui would have definitely killed Zhen Yougan when he saw him making such a dangerous move.
In just a moment, the boats on both sides were very close to the desert island, but there was no dock on the desert island, and the big ships could not reach the shore.
Zhen Yougan's people were in the east direction, and Tang Ping's people were just in the west direction. They both put down several small boats and began to row towards this side desperately.
After a while, Zhen Youqian's men and Wang Qingluan ran over with Lao Cui, Lao Du, Qian, Lao San and Luo Si.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, are you okay?" The navy general was about to cry.
Although Zhen Youqian was not very popular in the court, he was still the prince. If the prince was lost at sea, his only way out would be to lose his head.
As for whether his family can survive, it all depends on Zhen Xiong's mood.
Now that he could find Zhen Youqian, he really felt that the Poseidon had opened his eyes.
He didn't even have time to pay attention to the people on Tang Ping's side.
The fastest runner on Tang Ping's side was Wang Qingluan. He rushed forward and staggered Tang Ping.
He started crying before he even started talking.
Tang Ping held her head and comforted her: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm fine, nothing's wrong at all."
After finally calming down Wang Qingluan, Tang Ping turned around and saw that the people on his side were holding firecrackers facing the other side.
The Wei navy on the opposite side also drew its long sword with a vigilant look. They may not know Tang Ping, but they all heard Tang Ping call Qingluan just now.
So I also guessed that the person who was on this isolated island with his prince should be Duke Ping of the Tang Dynasty. Next to him was the former King Zheng of Dongyue and the later Princess Qingluan.
Tang Ping looked at Zhen Youqian and then said: "Your Highness, why don't we say goodbye today and let each of us rely on our own abilities in the future!"
"Okay!" Zhen Yougan did not hesitate: "I will go back to apologize to my father, and then wait for you with the Wei navy!"
This is the best result now. Tang Ping and his East China Sea Fleet are not here. They are no match for the Wei navy.
But now, people like Zhen Yougan are no match for the Tang army who holds a blunderbuss in their hands.
Tang Ping is negotiating with Zhen Yougan. Now that he is letting Zhen Yougan go, Zhen Yougan will have to let them go today.
"Then please ask His Highness to rest on this island for a while?"
"Okay, I just haven't finished the smoked fish yet, so I asked them to pack it up before leaving."
After saying that, Zhen Yougan sat down directly, and then asked his men to surround him.
This was because Tang Ping was afraid that the Wei navy would attack directly after they returned to the ship, so he asked Zhen Youqian to stay on the island, and Zhen Youqian agreed.
Because even though I didn't know how the coconut was broken just now, it already shows that Tang Ping's people can hit the target on the desert island here even if they are on a boat so far away.
After the identity of the two changed, the harmonious relationship they had on the island in the past half month disappeared. Fortunately, there was still a little tacit understanding left.
Soon Tang Ping took the people on the boat and left. The Wei naval general looked at the several Tang Ping's boats leaving and asked carefully: "Prince, are you going to let them leave like this?"
"Yes, what else? If we don't let them go, then they are dead, but I probably won't survive either. So that's it!"
"Here!" The general held up his hand, and then asked with some uncertainty: "Are you really going to take these smoked fish away?"
"Take it away. This prince fished this out of the sea himself. You can't take advantage of the wild birds on the island!"
