Release that Witch

The temporary shipyard next to the Chishui River is full of people.

Everyone knows that a strange ship is being built in this wooden shed. Its outer shell is like a huge bath. It is made of gray cement and once it has solidified, it is no different from the stone and is thrown into the water. Except for a bang, even a shadow will not be seen.

The craftsmen who came to this work gave it an appropriate name: the bath boat.

Today is the day when the first two sample ships are launched.

The crowds onlookers are broadly divided into two categories. One is the residents who have joined the border town. They are curious about the news, or they are unbelievable. Look at the fresh before the skeptical attitude. Many of them come from the east and the south. Fishermen and sailors. The first class is local residents. They have long been accustomed to the miracles created by His Royal Highness. They also heard about the former "Small Town" and braved the snow to gather here, just to see the prince they worshipped. Your Highness.

Kakusim is the former.

When His Highness posted the news and the new recruitment order on the square bulletin board, he said that he would come here to see it anyway. Vader had no choice but to ask the Carter to take a vacation, accompany him to come here to be unfamiliar, and with the heavy snow, he really did not trust the other person to go to the place where the crowd gathered, if accidentally If you push a fall, it is almost unhealable for the elderly.

"You are too young to look at me, child," the old man waved his hand and motioned that he would not have to be with him. "I have also experienced great winds and waves. Although I am older, my body is not much worse than you."

"Yes," Vader didn't take it for granted. "I have already asked for it anyway. You said that you are late. I just don't quite understand why you must come to see this stuff. Isn't it a ship?"

"But you said it was made of gray stone," Kakussim shook his head. "Will the stone as big as the bath in this year float on the water?"

They all blame themselves for their mouths, and Vader thought, when he chatted with him, he did not know how to talk about the announcement of the square. "Maybe the Highness is just exaggerating the rhetoric. Is there a part of a wooden ship made of cement?" ”

"That would be even more impossible," the old man insisted. "Do you think about when this wooden shed was built?"

"It seems to be... more than a month ago."

"Yes, it’s earlier than when you were recruited as a policeman. When we moved into the inner city of the town, it was still an open space!" His beard shook. "It took a month to build a shed. That is not to say that your highness. It took only half a month to build the first ship?"

"Hey, what's wrong?" Vader didn't understand.

"Of course not!" Kakussim picked up. "In the name of Poseidon! I have never seen a ship that can be built in only half a month. It has nothing to do with size. It’s just a sailboat, just processing the ribs. It takes more than a month, it needs to wait for the wood to be completely air-dried and then steamed, which is extremely troublesome and impossible to complete in a short time."

Vader said differently, "How do you know about shipbuilding... so familiar?"

"I used to be a captain, child," the old man spit out. "When I was young, I used to carry a lot of goods, walking through the sea breeze and the clear water port, and went to the morning sun and the fjord islands. Later Because some things... have fallen to this point."

"You never told me about this before." He widened his eyes.

"You never asked, child." Kakusim shrugged.

"Well," Vader turned his gaze to the shipyard. "So what you really curious about is that the next half a month will make a sailboat technology."

"No captain will not be curious," he said with a beard. "If your Highness does not lie, do you know what it means? In just one or two years, he will let the river in the Grey Fort run up to him." fleet."

Vader moved, "Don't you plan..."

The old man smiled. "I can't always eat your porridge all the time."

"Of course the Prince will not lie," someone said suddenly. "And it is not a sailboat."

Vader turned back, the speaker was a young man, and the accent was like a local resident of the West. "Not a sailboat?"

“Yes, it doesn’t require sails to sail, and it’s faster than any sailboat,” the other said proudly. “I’ve seen a steam engine with white fog in the mine? It’s easy to drag a basket of ore. The kind of cement caves, these cement boats are powered by it, according to His Royal Highness, they are all steam boats!"

“You can sail without a sail?” Kakusim questioned, “Boy, what are you talking about? If a ship does not have a sail, it can only be swiped by a paddler. This speed cannot be comparable to other Sailing. Besides, they haven't gotten into the water yet. You haven't even seen it before, how do you know that they can move?"

"Of course I have seen it," the young man whispered. "You are a newcomer to the new world. I don't know if it is normal. In the summer, I have transformed a steamship for the caravan opposite the Straits. But that The ships are still made of wood, not as durable as these stone boats."

Vader still wants to say something, the other person's eyes suddenly light up, pointing to the direction of the shipyard, "Look there, the prince is out!"

There was a cheer in the crowd, and everyone raised their hands and paid tribute to their lords.

Prince Roland boarded the wooden platform temporarily built by the shipyard. After a few words of congratulations, he announced that the new ship was launched.

In the slogan of the slogan, the workers dismantled the side of the wooden shed facing the Chishui River. A gray hull with a length of forty meters was sliding down the riverbank along the snow and planted into the cold river.

Vader raised it, he almost thought that this thing would sink directly to the bottom of the water, but did not expect the remaining part of the water into the water, the bow of the ship was tilted up, and even with a large number of water flowers.

Enthusiastic applause broke out again in the crowd.

"Scorpio, it really floated up," Kakusim stunned for a moment. "But, is that really made of stone?"

Vader also had the same question. The surface of the bathing boat looked so smooth, like a finely polished granite slab, but it could not find a patchwork of the body and the whole hull. The cabin without the deck is very shallow, it is impossible to sleep, and the bottom is very flat. It is impossible to fix the mast. As everyone said, this is a bathtub.

But no matter what, His Royal Highness really made the ship in half a month.

He looked at Kakusim and found the brilliance of the other party's eyes.

"I want to apply for the position of the captain," the old man said.

(To be continued.)