Daming pirates

Yu Xiaotian raised his eyebrows and turned around and asked, "What? What did you say?"

"Zhou, don't push yourself too far! We have agreed, are you going to regret it?" Liu Laoliu couldn't hold back such a good temper, and pointed at Zhou Xian and asked.

Crazy Meng next to him jumped up and shouted: "Damn it, if the tiger doesn't show off its power, why do we think we are sick cats? Helmsman, copy these guys, let's see how capable they are!"

Zhou Xian hurriedly waved his hands and said: "All heroes, please calm down first. Calm down your anger! It's not too late to listen to the next words before you get angry!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and waved his hands to stop the noisy men, and asked Madman Meng to retreat first. Madman Meng had no choice but to shut his mouth and stand behind him angrily.

Yu Xiaotian frowned and said to Zhou Xian: "Okay, I will give you another chance to explain clearly. If you are not sincere and want to drag it out, then don't blame Yu for being rude to you!"

Zhou Xian then wiped his cold sweat, thanked him again and again, and said: "Master Yu, it's not that we don't agree. After I got back, I already talked to the other two shipowners, and they all agreed to the negotiated price, but we still have to pay for it."

Please forgive us for our difficulties!

It’s actually not easy for those of us who travel on the sea. It costs money to buy a boat, it also costs money to maintain a boat, and it costs even more money to hire a boatman. When it comes out, it also costs money to hire someone to guard the boat, and it goes back and forth.

The expenses are not small.

However, sometimes things don’t go smoothly when you go out to run a boat. If you don’t, you will lose money. To be honest, this time we went to Guangdong and God took care of us. We made some money, but not a lot.

After deducting the one hundred and fifty taels of silver I gave you, there is not much profit left from this trip!

I’m afraid some of you have done this business before. You should know the difficulty of doing this business. Not every owner who runs the sea is a wealthy businessman. Several of us ship owners are actually small businesses. This ship

I bought it by scraping together money from everywhere, and now I still owe a lot of debt.

Haishan is in front of us. Master Yu also knows that there are many people doing your job in Haishan area. It’s okay to run into you. At least we can live a good life after we go back. But if we run into you again, these few of us will

Even if the boat survives, it will still shed its skin after returning home. If we can't repay some debts years ago, I'm afraid we will even have to buy the boat to pay off the debt, and our whole family will really hang ourselves!

That's why we made such an unkind request after we discussed it. We hope that the master will take pity on us and we will give you the money, but we also hope that the master can escort us for a ride!"

Having said this, Zhou Xian's eyes became red and moist. He slowly knelt in front of Yu Xiaotian and kowtowed heavily to Xiaotian and the people behind him.

Yu Xiaotian looked silently at Zhou Xian and the older man following him. They both knelt down and kowtowed vigorously.

The sea wolves who were angry just now couldn't help but feel sympathy at this moment. Most of them are actually not cruel people in nature. They all have their own indescribable difficulties in taking this path.

Nowadays, seeing Zhou Xian and others pleading like this, there are really not many people who are not soft-hearted.

Especially for people like Liu Laoliu who spent a lot of time at sea in their early years, their anger disappeared when they saw this, the expression on their faces softened, and they looked at Zhou Xian silently.

Even Madman Meng couldn't help but turn around and stopped whining.

Yu Xiaotian's mind kept spinning. Today he encountered a new problem. After negotiating the conditions, the ship owner Zhou Xianhe brought over once again made a new request, that is, each of their

The ship can give him one hundred and fifty taels of silver, but a new condition is added, which is to ask Yu Xiaotian to escort their three ships across the sea area of ​​​​Haishan to prevent them from being encountered by other pirates in the waters of Haishan, that is, Haitan Island.

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Originally, Yu Xiaotian could have flatly refused, and used this opportunity to control Zhou Xian and another ship owner, forcing them to hand over their belongings, and then leave here.

But Yu Xiaotian has his own moral code. In his opinion, even if he becomes a pirate now, he must maintain the minimum moral bottom line. The two sides are still negotiating and the two countries are at war.

Taking this opportunity to win over these two negotiators is really unjustifiable.

In addition, during this period, he also learned that in fact, those who run ships on the sea are not necessarily wealthy businessmen and bullies. There are also many maritime merchants who do not have strong financial resources and only take risks to get rich.

Their affordability is not very high, and sometimes they may lose everything just because of a robbery.

Now it seems that Zhou Xian and the owners of the other two ships generally belong to this type of maritime merchants who are not very strong. Otherwise, they would not beg so hard and come over repeatedly to negotiate terms.

But the condition they proposed today makes Yu Xiaotian a little embarrassed, because they are thieves, pirates who specialize in robbing at sea, not a bodyguard, and robbing ships is their duty, but now they ask themselves to protect them.

Boat, give them a ride, this is a bit contrary to their duty in this profession.

So Yu Xiaotian was a little embarrassed about this. After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly made up his mind and nodded: "Okay! Shopkeeper Zhou! Today Yu will agree to your terms, regardless of whether we, Sea Wolf, are in this business."

, but we are not born bad people, business is business, morality is morality!

It's not easy for Yu to see you this time, so I agreed to your conditions, and I thought it was to help you. However, Yu must make it clear that I can escort you across the sea and mountains, but we can only send you to Dalian Island.

North, if you go further north, it depends on your own luck!"

After Zhou Xian and the older man who came with him heard what Yu Xiaotian said, they were overjoyed and nodded in agreement, saying that it was absolutely okay.

So not long after, the owners of the three ships sent their respective silvers over. A total of four hundred and fifty taels of silver were presented in front of Yu Xiaotian.

After Madman Meng waved away the others, he muttered to Xiaotian in a low voice: "Helmsman, this deal is not a good deal! If we escort them to the north of Dalian Island, the round trip will take at least four days.

Didn't you also promise Wang Hong before the festival that he would go to Nanri Island? If so, I'm afraid it will be delayed!"

Yu Xiaotian shook his head and said: "Uncle Meng, don't worry. I actually didn't expect that they would put forward such a condition, but what we pay attention to is that thieves are also ethical, and we can't just focus on money. This time, we are forcing them to ask for one hundred and fifty from each family."

Ten taels of silver is not too little for shipowners like them.

What they said is true. They have suffered enough after meeting us this time. If they meet us again, even if they save their lives and return to the ship, they will almost lose everything. The whole family will not hang themselves, but they will definitely not be able to do this.

That’s it!

In this business, we can’t catch all the money, which is why, under normal circumstances, our business doesn’t easily rob the boat. So in this case, we just treat it as buy one, get one free, and give them a ride again.

What can be done?

I've calculated the time. Although I didn't earn much after this trip, it's enough for us to celebrate the festival. In addition, on the way back, we can also take a trip to Dalian Island and buy something for us on the island to celebrate the festival.

If you are quick, go to Nanri Island before the end of the year and visit Zhang Hu’s dock. There is enough time, so you don’t have to worry!”

Liu Laoliu agreed very much with Xiaotian's statement that thieves have their own ways and fish in the best of the lake. He nodded repeatedly and said: "Although what we do is not in line with the rules, it is not without precedent. In fact, there are colleagues in Guangdong who do the same.

, after hijacking a ship and taking the property, if the people on the hijacked ship are obedient, they will sometimes escort them for a while, so we do not break the rules!"

Yu Xiaotian glanced at the bay, waved his hand and said: "Since I have agreed, let's do this for this trip! They have already raised the anchor and sail, let's move too! The rain has stopped and the wind has stopped.

It’s too young, send an order to Xianbin, let him take the boat back first! Their boat speed is slow, and following them will waste more time!”

(Today I would like to express my special thanks to my old friend Yizuiren for the tip. It’s been a long time! Haha!)