Seeing the other party clasping his fists and leaving, Lei Jiaming, the second shopkeeper of the Lei family, frowned.

The Lei family’s children next to them cheered:

"Great, the secret on the Wave Treader has been solved. Our Lei's Company has an extra trump card starting today!"

"What's the trump card? Without culture, this is called a trump card! A trump card!"

"Yes, with the wave-rider as our flagship, we can pull together a caravan to go to the East for the best business."

Lei Jiaming frowned and shook his head.

Lei Shaoyang next to him asked: "Second uncle, you seem unhappy? What's wrong? Is there some hidden worry?"

The careless Lei Shaotu said: "Brother, you guessed wrong. My second uncle is crying with joy! It was my second uncle who advocated the purchase of the Wave Treader. Now that the secret of the Wave Treader has been solved, he must be the happiest!"

Lei Jiaming waved his hands and made a majestic gesture on his face: "It's not as simple as you think. The problem of this ship may not have been solved."

Lei Shaotu asked in shock: "Didn't someone sleep on it all night last night? They are safe and sound. What else could be wrong with this ship?"

Lei Qing, who is taciturn but thoughtful, said: "I eavesdropped here in the morning. The boss among them asked their people if there were any problems last night. Their response was 'no problems but they didn't have sweet dreams'..."

"Does this 'sweet dream' have a unique meaning? Or do they really want to have sweet dreams while staying on such a ghost ship? Isn't this a joke?" Lei Shaoyang couldn't help but say.

Lei Shaotu smiled and said: "It's a good thing that they didn't die here! Do they still want to dream? What are they dreaming about? Dreaming about being surrounded by beauties, hugging each other?"

Lei Jiaming glared at his nephew and said, "Don't talk nonsense! How old you are, but you are still so clueless in what you say and do."

Lei Shaotu was quite afraid of the second-in-command of the family. After he was scolded, he sneered and said: "Second uncle, I'm just too happy. What, what is this? Too happy and talking nonsense?"

"I'm overjoyed," Lei Qing said.

Lei Shaotu nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, I am ecstatic, ecstatic."

Lei Jiaming said: "Be careful when extreme happiness leads to sadness!"

When Lei Shaoyang heard this, he asked cautiously: "Second uncle, what do you mean by this? Do you think there is still something wrong with this ship?"

Lei Jiaming was the first to board the ship.

A messy scene where the inner hull was scratched appeared before them.

Lei Jiaming stretched out his hand to touch the ship's plank and said, "You two may have to be on guard."

"First, do these people have any magic weapon or know some secret method? They were able to sleep peacefully on the boat last night because of this magic weapon or secret method. Therefore, it is not that the sneakiness on the boat has been solved."

"Second, they only temporarily suppressed the sneakiness on the ship. In fact, the sneakiness is still there, and problems will arise in the future."

Lei Shaoyang asked: "Is it because they were sent away too easily, so the second uncle suspected them?"

Lei Jiaming nodded heavily: "Yes, we all know the value of the Wave Treader. For such a big ship, we just spent 800 silver dollars to make them stay away? This is not normal."

Lei Qing said: "If something goes wrong, there will be a monster!"

Lei Shaoyang said: "But this ship does belong to our Lei family! Maybe they are indeed reasonable people? They found that the owner came to ask for the ship and had no choice but to return it, otherwise this would be an illegal and criminal act!"

A Lei family nurse said: "What the eldest young master said is absolutely true, but there is another situation that the second master may not have noticed."

"The reason why they chose to reconcile with us is because Pavilion Master Liu is here. Maybe they misunderstood what Master Liu meant and thought he was here to help us?"

Lei Shaotu asked blankly: "Yes, what is Hall Master Liu doing here?"

Another person boarded the boat and said, "I asked him, and he said he came to watch the excitement."

The new person who appeared was a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a beard, who bore a vague resemblance to Lei Jiaming.

Seeing his appearance, Lei Shaoyang and others happily shouted: "Fourth uncle, you are here too."

Lei Jiaming muttered: "Be careful, this ship is too evil."

Lei's fourth child said: "It doesn't matter. Let's get a group of beggars on board tonight to test the waters."

Lei Shaoyang immediately said: "This is not good..."

Lei Jiaming said: "This is not feasible. Are there any beggars in Yongcheng who don't know about the situation of the wave-riding boat? They will not take risks."

"What's more," he frowned even more when he said this, "the situation of beggars in the city is mixed, and we don't know which ones belong to the rich begging families. If we harm the people of the rich begging families, I'm afraid the whole family will be affected!"

Lei Qing said: "You must not mess with the Imperial Family!"

Lei's fourth son smiled slyly and said: "Of course I know this, but wasn't there a chaos in Guizhou a few days ago, with melees breaking out in many provinces in central and southern China? Some refugees have entered our Yongcheng city in the past two days, but they don't know about this ship The condition of the ship!”

Lei Shaoyang looked uncertain.

Lei's fourth son said earnestly: "Brother, you have to remember that these days are an era of cannibalism. If you don't eat others, they will eat you!"

"If you are too petty, you are not a gentleman; if you are not poisonous, you are not a husband!"

"The Wave Treader is so important to our Lei family. With this ship, our business can expand to the East, and we can take the fleet to the East and even Southeast Asia!"

Lei Shaotu shook his head and said: "That's impossible. We only have a wave-riding boat that can run far into the sea. Other boats don't dare to run..."

"Idiot." Lei Jiaming glared at him, "The Wave Treader is a sea-dwelling divine ship that can be used as a flagship. With it in hand, we can build a fleet..."

Lei Shaotu quickly sneered and said: "Yes, yes, then I understand, it's a waste of money!"

Lei's fourth son led someone to trick the beggar into spending the night in the boat.

Lei Jiaming took several talented people from the younger generation on board to continue research.

His years of prudence in business taught him that he should be careful in everything!

But he walked around the boat many times and didn't feel there was any problem.

This is indeed different from before.

In the past, even entering the cabin during the day would make people feel depressed and uncomfortable.

He stood on the bow of the boat and looked toward the sea.

The sea is stormy.

The Fortune Boat is huge and solid. Stepping on it makes people instinctively feel at ease. This is a feeling that their ordinary boats cannot give.

He stroked the hard guardrail of the bow and murmured: "I can't bear to give up such a good ship! I also dream of letting our Lei family own it completely!"

Just as he was staring at the sea and thinking sadly, a strange feeling appeared in his heart:

There seemed to be something squatting in front of him, grinning sinisterly and peering at him!

This feeling was so bad that he couldn't help but shudder and quickly came to his senses.

But when he came back to his senses and looked again, he found that everything was normal.

He was now at the bow of the ship, with nothing but an empty sea in front of him, and the only part of the ship he could see was the collision angle of the ship.

The angle of collision is also normal.

Large ships such as Fuchuan are often used as warships, so the ship has collision angles both front and rear. This is a powerful weapon when encountering pirates at sea in close combat.

The ramming horn of the wave rider is carved from a whole tree trunk. I don’t know what material it is made of. It is covered with copper and inlaid with spiral blades. It looks murderous.

The day ends quickly.

It's already winter, and the daylight hours are very short now.

When night was about to fall, the fourth son of the Lei family arrived with a group of beggars. When they arrived at the pier, for some unknown reason, these beggars suddenly learned about the problem of the wave-riding boat.

Then they mutinied!

These people started shouting in foreign languages ​​and refused to go to the dock again, let alone get on the ship.

Lei Shaotu, who was in charge of leading the people, was very angry. He wanted to seduce the beggars with food, but someone said something sarcastic: "You have to live to enjoy the delicious food and wine."

The beggars were so angry that they refused to get on the boat no matter what.

Lei Shaotu was not a good-tempered person. Finally he couldn't bear it anymore and was about to use force, but he heard a beggar shouting:

"I am the brother of Li Xiatou, the kidnapper at the entrance of the Jiushan Hall of the Zhumen. You are killing me today. If someone seeks justice for me tomorrow, I will not be afraid!"

Hearing this, Lei's fourth child glared at Lei Shaotu: "I asked you to investigate their backgrounds. What kind of chicken necks did you find?"

Lei Shaotu said aggrievedly: "Fourth uncle, how are we going to check this? Our Lei family is not a royal family. How can we find anyone to help us check the background of some refugees who have no origins in one day?"

The beggars fled, bumping into two nurses carrying food boxes and staggering.

Lei's fourth son said angrily: "What are we going to do now? Who will stay on the boat tonight?"

Lei Shaotu said nonchalantly: "Let's just go up there. The foreigners last night were fine up there, and then we will be in trouble? How is that possible?"

Another Lei family member said: "Yes, even if there are sneaks on the ship, then we just jump off the ship in time. If we can't offend them, can't we hide from them?"

Lei's fourth child snorted.

To be on the safe side, he asked one of his juniors to go home and shake people, and he sent more than 20 people to the nursing home to strengthen their courage.

For safety reasons, he also asked people to bring a few black wolf dogs on board. Dogs can deter sneakiness and can detect sneakiness more sensitively than humans.

After boarding the ship, Lei Shaotu opened the food box and said, "Everyone, eat and drink first - I'm sorry, where are the meat and wine inside?"

A similar fourth child came over and recalled the behavior of the beggars when they were escaping. He suddenly became furious:

"Damn it, Xipi, we have been tricked. Those stinky beggars knew about the problem of the wave-riding boat. They were among us just to steal the food in the food box!"

Fortunately, there was a dinner stall at the pier, so they bought a few large dishes and brought a jar of bad wine, and just made ends meet to eat and drink.
To be continued...