The East China Sea has always been like this.

The endless sea, when the weather is good, is like a girl asleep, so quiet that people want to fall into her arms. Seabirds hover over the surface of the sea, occasionally plunging into the water, often coming out of the water with a large struggling fish in their mouths.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, this is the way of survival of the people of the East China Sea for generations. Even the most prosperous Imperial Port, the most noble one in the capital, if you want to eat the best fish, you have to say hello to the East China Sea in advance.

The ports of the East China Sea are extremely developed, and countless merchant ships of all sizes come and go every day, some sailing to the imperial capital, and some going further overseas to exchange for some rare and exotic goods that have never been seen before.

No one in the East China Sea knows how to swim in the ocean, even babies who have not yet been born. On the night of Hai Qin's birth, an unprecedented storm fell in the East China Sea, and the girl seemed to be angry and roared unrelentingly in the heavy rain. For the people of the East China Sea, it is a good thing to be born with rain, which means that the sea is not enough for newborns to gallop on the sea, so the water can only be tolerated by rain to make the water surface rise. So the heavier the rain on the day of birth, the higher the child's status in the future.

Hai Qin had only been to the mysterious foreign country once, and he had heard too many sailors boasting in the tavern before he resolutely followed them out to sea. The voyage along the way was naturally full of difficulties and obstacles, but this not only did not weaken Hai Qin's interest in the sea in the slightest, but made his dream change from going to the imperial capital to become a big official to becoming the captain of a big ship.

The moment the sailors drove the ship into the port, Hai Qin felt an inexplicable sense of pride in his heart, as if the goddess of the sea who could only look up was conquered by himself. This feeling made Hai Qin forget his curiosity about foreign countries for a short time.

When his feet stepped on the ground, Haiqin's mood calmed down, admiring the prosperity of foreign port cities.

"Play if you want," said the captain, a bearded man, whose wrinkles and swarthy skin showed his sophistication, "If you want a taste of the tin shepherds, go with the sailors." ”

"Xi Mu?" Hai Qin asked.

"That's the name of this place, it's full of fruit...... And beautiful women!" The captain laughed out loud when he said this, "Hai Qin, I can't see it, I didn't let you get on the boat because I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to stand the suffering on the ship." I didn't expect that you belong to the sea. After speaking, the captain patted Hai Qin's shoulder with satisfaction.

"Go, the sailor is out of sight. If the weather is good, we will leave tomorrow morning, and you can not come back to the ship tonight. The captain couldn't hide a look of "everyone understands" in his eyes, and he could see that Hai Qin's cheeks were hot.

said goodbye to the captain, and of course Hai Qin did not follow those sailors to "find women". The market of Ximu is very prosperous, and many fruits have never been seen before. Hai Qin walked to the front of a fruit stand, looked at all kinds of strange-shaped fruits, picked up a red fruit and sniffed it, the fruity aroma penetrated into Hai Qin's nose, soothing his fatigue on the boat.

"How much does this cost?" asked Hai Qin holding the fruit.

The merchant looked at Hai Qin and muttered a word, but Hai Qin didn't understand it at all. Only then did he realize that after half a month of sailing, the people here were not the same as what he said. Hai Qin took out a few copper coins from his pocket and put them in front of the merchant.

The merchant smiled and stretched out three fingers, meaning that three copper coins could be exchanged for one fruit.

Hai Qin frowned, and said in his heart that the three copper plates could be exchanged for a big fish in the East China Sea. He took out two copper coins and handed them to the merchant, who gave Hai Qin a stupid look, but didn't say anything.

After Hai Qin handed the copper plate to the merchant, he did not take it back in a hurry, but under the merchant's gaze, he pointed to the fruit and stretched out two more fingers.

This time, it was the merchant's turn to get angry, so he picked up a red fruit and smashed it towards Haiqin. Hai Qin caught the fruit steadily, and said in his own words, "Thank you." ”

The fruit is sweet in the mouth, and the aroma lingers in the mouth for a long time, which is indeed a good thing. No wonder the captain said that the fruit wine here was good, just to eat the fruit, he wanted Hai Qin to find a tavern to drink a glass of Ximu's wine.

The captain explained that he would set sail tomorrow, so Hai Qin was not in a hurry at all. There is a big difference between the image of the tin herdsmen and the East China Sea, and they dye their hair in a variety of colors, and they feel like they are in the middle of a flower when they walk down the street. Haiqin admired the style of tin herding, and somehow, walked into a small alley.

The alley seems to be isolated from the world, and has nothing to do with the bustle outside. There was only a dilapidated tavern, the door of which was ajar, and I didn't want the loud voices of people talking and the undisguised laughter of women coming from the taverns on the streets.

What Hai Qin wants is this kind of quiet place. He walked into the tavern, where there was only a man at the bar covered in a black robe, his hood covering his face, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman. Because of the language barrier, Hai Qin took out a silver coin from his pocket and placed it on the seat.

The man in the black robe moved, stretched out a corpse-like hand, and carefully rubbed the silver coin. With the other hand, he took out a glass of wine from under the bar, and without getting closer, the aroma of the wine naturally drilled into Hai Qin's nose.

Hai Qin took the wine and took a sip, it was very sweet. It wasn't that he hadn't drunk this kind of wine before, and his father gave him a small glass on that occasion. Hai Qin drank the glass of fruit wine as juice, but it didn't take long for him to get drunk and unconscious.

"You shouldn't have come here......" The man under the hood spoke, and Hai Qin couldn't even hear the men and women all of a sudden, only felt that it was a creepy sound, as if it was from the eighteenth layer of hell.

"Do you speak the words of the East China Sea?" Hai Qin had been walking around the market for hours, and he had not met anyone who could speak the East China Sea dialect. And to his surprise, he never spoke, but the black-robed man was able to communicate with him accurately in his language.

"Leave now, or give me a drop of your blood......" The black-robed man didn't care about Hai Qin's question at all, he just took out a dagger from his sleeve and put it to the side of the wine glass: "Take another sip, it can help you relieve the impending pain." ”

The black-robed man's tone was firm, as if he knew that Hai Qin would definitely give him a drop of his own blood.

Hai Qin swallowed a mouthful of saliva and took another sip of the fruit wine in the cup before picking up the knife and stabbing the tip of his index finger.

"Come here, I can't reach it. The black-robed man was bewitched.

I should have taken another sip of wine, Hai Qin thought and stretched his finger over.

The black-robed man opened his mouth, there were no teeth in his mouth, and he sucked Hai Qin's fingertips carefully for a full minute before he let go.

Hai Qin hurriedly withdrew his hand, and he keenly noticed that the wound on his finger had healed.

The black-robed man let out a whimpering sound, and Hai Qin swallowed another mouthful of saliva, beginning to regret why he had entered this tavern......